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Anderson and to our dr. gupta earlier. and he was asked, you know, why not just do the vaccine mandate, instead of allowing weekly testing as an alternative? here is his answer. >> well, i think the president is -- is -- is -- you know, being somewhat moderate in his demand if you want to call it that. in that there are some people who really don't want to get vaccinated but they don't want to lose their job. you have got to give them an off lane and the off lane is if you get tested frequently enough and find out you're positive, you won't come to work and you won't infect other people. so it...

Lane, and the off lane is if you get tested frequently enough and find out you're positive you won't come to work and you won't infect other people. so it really is somewhat of a compromise there. myself, i would make it just vaccinate or not, but he was trying to be moderate in what his pronouncement was. >> so dr. fauci there saying he would not let workers opt out of vaccine requirements with testing. was this biden policy made based on public health or political considerations or both? >> a little bit of both. i agree with dr. fauci. tonight the president removed the testing option from th...

Of the largest tenants of this plan, but it would also mandate vaccines for all federal workers, contractors with no testing option, mandate vaccines for educators in federally funded programs, for workers at facilities that accept medicare, medicaid funding and call on entertainment venues to require proof of vaccination or testing. officials behind the scenes tell cnn that they recognize that large employers could really mount challenges in court because of these new actions. but they hope that this provides businesses with kind of a federal cover to than date vaccines for their employees as...

Must mandate vaccinations or weekly testing. in addition, all federal workers or companies with federal contracts must have their employees vaccinated with no testing option. that includes 17 million health care workers at medicare and medicaid participating facilities. any minute now, the president and first lady will continue that push at a local school in d.c. speaking of schools, overnight, los angeles county, the second largest school district in the nation made it mandatory for students 12 and older, anybody eligible, to be vaccinated to attend in person. joining me, nbc news white house...

Collectively get us out of this pandemic. but as this did not happen, as the delta variant spread, we are seeing these steps from the president. so, again, one of the most significant steps is on these private businesses of 100 or more employees requiring them to have their employees be either vaccinated or submit to regular coronavirus testing. then, of course, there is this mandate for all federal workers and employees of federal contractors to be vaccinated with no longer having that testing option that had been in place for the last couple of months. also vaccine mandate for educators and ...