not want schools and districts to have that authority. the governor reacted, i will continue to fight for parents rights. yeah, not everyone sees it that way. jake? all right, nick watt, thank you so much. let s bring in cnn s chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. and, kaitlan, president biden today seemed pretty confident that his proposed mandates will survive legal challenges from republicans. reporter: yeah, he did, jake. right away you saw several republican governors saying that they believe that this is overreach, that he has new measures that he wants to put in place are unconstitutional. but when the president was asked today about some of these threats from republican governors to sue over these new measures that the president wants to take to vaccinate more americans, he seemed to brush it off. have at it. look, i am so, um, disappointed
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the committee said, quote, the majority of the social media companies are cooperating with the probe. however, we need to receive much more information, and the select committee will use whatever tools are at our disposal to get the records we are seeking. and what they re saying without actually coming out and saying it is that they re prepared to use their subpoena power if they have to, to get this information from both the agencies and from the social media companies. jake, we should also point out that in the statement they talked about their request from the national archives. this would be the information that they re seeking to obtain from the trump white house. they point out that the archives are working with them, but there are some procedural hoops they have to jump through. this likely means that a fight over executive privilege is about to happen between the committee and both the biden and trump white house. ryan, they don t have an unlimited staff. this is a lot of ma
in our world lead right now, contrasting views about a 90-minute phone call between president biden and chinese leader xi jinping. this is the second time the two have spoken since president biden entered the white house. the call was described as candid in tone but not lecturing or condescending, and that human rights and the origin of the coronavirus were among the topics. beijing says president xi told biden that u.s. policy towards china has, quote, caused serious difficulties and relations and runs counter to the best interests of both countries and to the world. the tough talk fits right in with steps president xi has taken recently to assert chinese nationalism at home and abroad. and as cnn s david culver reports for us now, this harkens back to past crackdowns on western influence. reporter: china s ruling
that particularly some republican governors have been so cavalier with the health of these kids, so cavalier with the health of their communities. this is we re playing for real here. this isn t a game. reporter: the press secretary jen psaki said they were expecting a lot of the pushback that they got in response to what the president laid out yesterday, jake. but it s not clear how these lawsuits will move forward if they do actually move forward. because we re still waiting on the labor department to actually issue this rule. and what jen just made clear in our briefing a few moments ago is that a lot of the details of what that rule is going to look like are still influx as they are crafting it, including when it s going to go into effect, who exactly will be paying for the tests if it s a company that decides to have employees who are tested, is it the business, is it the employee? a lot of the details like that are still something we re waiting to see from the labor departmen