rebuild america s roads and bridges. neil: it is interesting right now because one thing that revealed itself yesterday, was the president aligning himself with the progressives of your party. they wanted these two kind of linked. he d gone back and forth and whether he was going to do that, but he obviously shows where he s coming from and where he will be coming from. does that make the possibility of getting this thing voted on, i m talking about the infrastructure only package, more difficult now? you know, i think what the president was trying to do, i was listening to him. he was trying to play immediate immediate eight mediator, and he says it s not 3.5 i don t have what they had. i ve got 50-50 in the senate
former saracen, maggie alphonsi, on the board. they won promotion back to the premiership last season, after being fined and given a points deduction for breaching salary cap rules in 2019. and saracens are at home to leicester this afternoon. after 15 minutes, they have the upper hand. both sides have won all their opening games. leicester two out of two, saracens have won their games elsewhere. northampton saints are 17-1a elsewhere. northampton saints are 17 1a up against london irish. that is all the support for now. vaccine passports came into effect for the first time in scotland last night. people need proof of vaccination to gain entry to nightclubs or large events. the scheme will be mandatory from the 18th of october. it is being trialled at some football stadiums at scottish premiership matches this afternoon. megan paterson reports.
the pandemic and brexit, too. we will talk the pandemic and brexit, too. 9 will talk about this with the health secretary. he isjoining us at 8:30am. vaccine passports came into effect for the first time in scotland last night. people need proof of vaccination to gain entry to nightclubs or large events, before the scheme becomes mandatory on the 18th of october. ajudge rejected a challenge to the roll out by the nightclub industry, although the launch of the app had been hit by technical problems. we ve ultimately made a decision to respect we ve ultimately made a decision to respect people who don t want to get vaccinated respect people who don t want to get vaccinated. i think that s why it s a little vaccinated. i think that s why it s a little bit vaccinated. i think that s why it s a little bit disappointed, even though a little bit disappointed, even though i a little bit disappointed, even though i myself am double vaccinated. we are seeing effectively, don t come.
specific legislation like the debt ceiling because this is such an important thing, that that is not subject to a filibuster. in other words, take 60 votes off the table and establish a new precedent as to how you deal specifically with the debt ceiling so it cannot be held hostage by a filibuster. neil: that s very interesting. i wonder also how credit markets will respond to that, chad. i mean, it was ten years ago that we were on the brink, we didn t go over the brink, but it was enough to get standard & poor s to lower our aaa credit rating at the time. i d be curious how they d respond to something like this. reporter: yeah, absolutely. i mean, it might be a thing where just so long as congress has passed and the fact that there is precedent for doing this, and they re not changing the senate rules. this is a new [inaudible] both the nuclear option in 2013 and 2017, both of those dealt with senate precedent and, remember, that s the way the senate does much of its business, no
notwithstanding, it is getting better, things are stabilizing, they are that is, the cases and deaths are beginning to reverse. do you think that holds? yes, you re exactly right, neil. we think that looking at the day that the peak of delta transmission occurred probably right at the beginning of september. cases are going down around the country. hospitalizations are starting to go down and, you know, deaths are the lagging indicator, but that is starting to go down too. what we re seeing is that all the southern states, all across the south and midwest, there are, their transmission factors, much lower. we still have a transmission across the northern belt. this is a regional thing, but overall nationally we are going down, and that is great news. neil: you know, admiral, ask you and i have talked about the booster shots and all of that, and it s obviously reserved for people who feel that they might need it, compromised immune systems, elderly, what have you, but already more t