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Where cases stay low. it's yet president announced a number of vaccine mandates for companies and federal workers last week, but already this weekend we're seeing what happens when some employees choose to leave their jobs rather than get the covid vaccine and there's growing political opposition to those mandates and we begin tonight with morgan chesky. >> tonight, growing backlash over president biden's vaccine mandate. at least 19 republican governors denouncing the rule, requiring businesses with at least 100 employees to make covid shots mandatory or offer weekly testing. >> the president...

Businesses with more than 100 workers to require vaccination, or -- and this is important -- or they can set up weekly testing, plus give workers paid-time off to get tested. so they actually have a choice. something you didn't hear those republican governors mention when they were thundering away. something we would have asked them about, if one of them -- just one -- would have found the time to come on the program. now, reasonable minds could debate the legal framework behind the president's order or how something so vast will be implemented but let's not kid ourselves here. this is not wha...

Additional point, which is, you know, we keep talking about these as if they're mandates, vaccine mandates, the language that people use when they attack it. but in this isn't even a vaccine requirement. right. you get, the employer has to have a vaccination or they can provide for weekly testing. that's the other option. the law that was upheld in 1905 in massachusetts the smallpox vaccination law, was one where there was a criminal fine associated with not getting vaccinated. it applied to individual, not to employers. so the supreme court has already upheld a much more severe vaccination re...

We've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us. so please do the right thing. >> president biden announced that all unvaccinated employees at private companies with more than 100 workers, they have to do weekly testing. the way to get out of weekly testing, get vaccinated. he's also implementing vaccine mandates for all federal workers and contractors, no option to test out, and for educators and all federally funded programs. mandates also on workers at facilities that accept medicare and medicaid funding. >> president biden also calling out jerks on ...

House felt it would get that many more people vaccinated. just one point on j.d. vance and others. the through line here, jake, the actual mandate, the osha mandate on companies isn't vaccinations. the osha mandate is weekly testing. so what j.d. vance is saying, don't comply with weekly testing? don't force people who are unvaccinated to take a test before they walk in the door? he wants to preserve their right to walk into a place of work with covid? i'm just -- again, if you get down to the basic intellectual through line here, it's hard to follow on that, because that's what the mandate is...