over its own pandemic strategy, cases skyrocketing and impact well beyond americans who are already vaccinated. he is going to give an update to the country on thursday where things stand, and we'll be looking to see if the white house has anything new to say when the briefing gets underway any moment now. sandra. >> sandra: we'll be watching for it. mark meredith, thank you. >> john: jonathan turley, let's get to what you say will be a major political and legal blow in a second. but let me ask you about what happened on friday in the supreme court arguments over whether or not the vaccine mandate was constitutional or not. and justice sotomayor said this about the number of people, specifically children, ill with covid. >> we have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. we have over 100,000 children