forward to signing it, which he s expected to do at the white house on friday. also breaking, the president just announced a plan to buy an additional $100 million doses of the single-shot johnson & johnson covid-19 vaccine. that comes as several states are expanding eligibility requirements and allowing more residents to be vaccinated. let s get straight to the white house right now, where our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is joining us. this is a major victory for the new biden administration. that s right, wolf. when president biden addresses the nation in prime time tomorrow night, his first prime time address, he says he s going to talk about what s next, launching the next phase in the coronavirus relief process and a central component of that next phase will be the legislative victory he just secured. help is on the way. reporter: tonight on day 50 for president joe biden, the first mission accomplished. this bill represents an historic, histo
the bishop s conference has endorsed the leading vaccines that are out there in this country if they know it is good public health sense that just for catholics but for americans across the board. for a lot of people of the military or healthcare workers, truck drivers, whatever it is, this administration, unlike many european countries will not entertain the conversation about natural immunity pygmies of americans have had covid and it is easy to test your antibodies and they are free to do that but this is ministration and many of the state and city mandates will not even entertain that in the conversation. certainly the natural immunity issue is one of the reasons the american people are being persuaded to voluntarily go along. here is a protection. when i taught constitutional law and we focused on the first amendment, particularly religious liberties, i explained that ultimately, and if you look at the light of cases, what you see is that the court, sometimes even begrudgingly
more covid mandates before he goes. requiring booster shots for restaurants or concert venues. listen. with all of our approaches to covid we are going to update them because we are dealing with some new challenges at this moment. so we are going to keep updating policies regularly to meet this challenge. brian: our next guest has filed suit against city mandates and displays a sign in her restaurant saying we do not discriminate vaccinated or unvaccinated. joining us the brooklyn restaurant owner rok co- s. what is your reaction to a reaction to a possible booster infringe on our liberties. the mayor is opening store
listen, you look at this ruling here, right, and some of the mandates that have been put in place across this country, healthcare workers, city mandates, state mandates, some of which have really caused an uptick in vaccines across this country. in new york city, for instance, you re looking at teacher mandates, right? 90%, i believe, of teachers now in the city are vaccinated, so are you worried now about this stay on the president s order? well, i am. i mean, the short answer is that i am. doctors fauci and walensky both testified in congress on thursday and very clearly stated that mandates do, in fact, work to increase the number of vaccinations, you know, within businesses and different organizations. you know, i ll leave the legal analysis to maya, but what i will say is that, you know, for those businesses that are, you know, hoping to stay afloat and
good morning, it seems like everyone in government seems to be insulated from the pain that our communities are going through. we are in the middle of a great recession that has been so deep and affecting so many people yet government agencies and elected officials keep pounding on extra costs and burdens and fees, and it is simply too much for our businesses. tell us what the issue is here if store is going to use paper they have to charge the customer ten cent as bag, is that right? yes, our ordinance bans paper, plastic bags completely and establishes a fee that the city mandates, 10 cents for paper for the first two years and then up to 25 cent a bag on top of that but that is not all it requires the stores to keep detailed records of every bag sold and maintain the records for three years and that type of record keeping can be burdensome. and now, that is not the only