sandra. president biden said something on 60 minutes flies in the face of some major initiatives his team has been working on. he said covid is basically a thing of the past. is the pandemic over? the pandemic is over, we still have a problem with covid, we still are doing a lot of work on it. but the pandemic is over. no one is wearing mask, everybody seems to be in pretty good shape and so i think it s changing and i think this is a perfect example of it. peter: problematic from a legal perspective. the pandemic is the reason this white house claims they have legal standing to cancel some student debt. remember this. is this legal? yeah, look, the heroes act, page 637 to be exact, provides, gives me the authority to provide a waiver to ensure that americans are not worse off after an emergency, a national emergency which the pandemic
skrutnized and others aren t. the commander in chief, president biden said the pandemic is over. he s over the state and the city, they need to stop it and it s not working in the best interest for the great people of this great city. kathy is advocating for the vaccine requirements to be lifted. if they are, she would be happy to return to the classroom. for now, sandra, she s out of the new york city school system. sandra: madison, we ll keep watching it. thank you. john. john: wow. border patrol sounding the alarm over rainbow fentanyl as cartels are making the dangerous drug look like candy to try to get young kids hooked. joe adai says democrats are not doing enough to stop it. sandra: the democratic mayor of el paso, texas says he s bussing migrants out because the city is overrun. republican governors are slammed from the far left by doing exactly the same thing s. this
everybody seems to be in pretty good shape, so i think it s changing. sandra: you just heard it from president biden. the pandemic is over and you no longer have to wear a mask. new york city just fired hundreds more teachers and school staff for refusing to get a covid shots. the states are dropping mandates. madison alworth is in new york, how much teachers and school staff were fired for not getting the shot? sandra, additional 850 teachers and school staff were let go because they did not get the covid vaccine. of course this happening at a time we are across the nation experiencing a teacher shortage. and some of these teachers had a wide array of experience, like kathy mcfadden, over 20 years in the classroom, now kicked out. i came out of retirement to help the city of new york, it s a great city. i m a licensed math teacher.
win. so, the idea you know, republicans win the house with 219, 220 seats, it s barely any majority at all. it s better than not winning the house, but it s a really tiny, tiny majority. they get 235, 240, something like that. it s a much more governable majority. sandra: interesting. great to have you on, byron, and great to see you. thank you for joining us. john: thank you, sandra. sandra: john, a lot more coming up on that. john: congressman ro khanna from california will be with us, talking up the economy and downplaying inflation and he s one of the democrats that wants to see him run in 2024? a little bit of a surprise over the weekend when biden said well, not sure i m there yet. sandra: if i could add one thing to that, prepping to speak to him as well and other guests today, i pulled some of these, like a reality check on what americans are living through
he s going to keep it upbeat. president putin knows the state of it though mic the union address. the threat on kyiv with the tank surrounding them, if the momentum changes will that be a dress you think if this turns out bad tomorrow for the american people? will that be addressed tomorrow night? we know according to white house officials that the president has definitely changed some of the speech based on what s been happening with ukraine. three weeks ago, it would have been talking about some of the policies and administration put forward. they want to talk about the supreme court nominee, and the judge obviously that will be mentioned, but were told a big sponge ukraine, this is his first day of the union speech in will discuss democracy of a free country that we live in and some of the issues that are going on