significant. and this call for schools to implement regular testing. talk us through what you re hearing from sources. reporter: hallie, obviously, this is shaping up to be a pretty significant speech from the president after a summer in which he had hoped we would be looking at the downslope of the covid-19 pandemic and focus on other issues, but instead the delta variant changed those plans. white house officials are casting this speech as sort of everything they ve been trying to do, but bigger and bolder. one of those specifically already has to do with something the president himself did a couple of months ago. we talked about in july when the president ordered federal agencies to require a vaccine requirement on their staff or give them an option short of a vaccine of doing regular attestation of their negative status from covid-19. what the president is expected to do today sign an executive order, directing those federal agencies to give up that second option. you have to be
when they come down, it s hard to predict. it s not always clear why they come down. and why they come down as quickly as they sometimes do you. but you are right both in a country that is more vaccinated than us, the uk, we have seen that sharp upslope, and downslope. and in india, a country that is far less vaccinated than we, are we ve seen a similar pattern. that may happen here, but what we know right now chris is that we are on the upsurge. and we are seeing cases increasing significantly each. day in the short term, if you want to reduce that, you have to take mitigation measures. and that includes wearing masks, it s one of the reasons the cdc advised people to really wear their masking practices, including if they are fully vaccinated to help prevent transmission. but in the longer term, and medium term. it s a vaccination that ultimately gets rates to stay down once they come down. that s where this is got to be an all out push. it s encouraging as the last few weeks of, been
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of the united states has declared our very democracy is in peril. yeah. today was a very striking speech. i don t recall and i don t think there s been a case in history a president has been so blunt in a speech about our country s racial warts. i could be wrong. leaned in that aggressively about issue of racial equity in speech like that before. remarkable speech. to your point, with covid, knock on wood, on the downslope, biden does face a real choice here. legislative focus is on the infrastructure bill but prioritization, facing a lot of pressures from different constituencies what he should be getting into. january 6th commission, voting rights happening across the country in response to the laws in different states. notion that democracy itself may be teetering toward autocracy
wood on the downslope there is obviously he s legislative focus right now on infrastructure bill. in terms of prioritization he thinks a lot of pressures from different constituents about what we should be looking into. there is the whole issue of the january 6th commission, voting rights legislation that s happening across the country and response to these restrictive laws in the states. the notion that democracy may be teetering towards autocracy and how he handles that. would he juggles really makes it not just this year of the presidency with a legacy behind, pressure points and one is to you revisit the filibuster to get these past? it doesn t matter if you put kamala harris as vice president in charge of voting legislation so long as there is not going to be legislation that moves to the senate so that s one and then two is the look backwards or do you look forward? this is a question that barack