going to honor the request of the former president who wants to invoke executive privilege, so i m not going to talk about things i did in the white house, while he s simultaneously trying to market a book where he discloses things that he did in the white house. so, i don t think he can have it both ways. i don t know if mark meadows is a gambler, but somebody should tell him when you re playing against the house, the odds are against you. he doesn t get to make the rules up here. i think he s going to find himself in deep trouble. he s trying to run out the clock. he s doing a game. he s doing the president s bidding of delay, delay, delay. but ultimately he s not going to win this one. he can t have it both ways. it s a lot and with it comes our great thanks for our starting line on a thursday night. jonathan karl, and frank figliuzzi. appreciate you joining the conversation tonight. a closer look at the biden plan to battle this virus and this quickly spreading new variant. we
to win this one. he can have it both weeks. it s a law and with it comes our great thanks for our starting line on the thursday. night jonathan karl, jacqueline alemany and frank figliuzzi. appreciate you starting off our conversation tonight. coming up for us, a closer look at the biden plan to battle this virus and this quickly spreading new variant. we ll talk with a leading health care expert. and later, the bitter national debate over vaccine mandates move from the streets into the halls of congress today. one of our political observers who standing by to talk to us calls it an opportunity for that democrats. we ll ask him to explain. all of it as the 11th hour is just getting underway on this thursday night. the night of the tree lighting in washington. n. tradition in a cadillac. don t just put on a light show be the light show. make your nights anything but silent. and ride in a sleigh that really slays.
joining me now is dr. vin gupta, criminal care pulmonologists and policy health care expert. we have been down this entire road. i was joking with my team, you have become my tv primary care physician, i feel like we re on tv so much together. we have gone from being in horror from the death toll to watching people beat up journalists and rip masks of their faces over their disbelief that covid is real. how does that hit you? good evening, joy, great to see you. you know, i ll say this. i m hopeful about what full approval of the vaccines, especially pfizer by labor day will mean. domino, joy will fall. it s going to allow the military to more comfortably mandate the vaccine. school districts, colleges, universities, other organizations, however, i m concerned about the winter ahead, and what do i mean by that? will you in certain zip codes, joy, be able to get the care you and your family speaking to all
perform your profession without fear or favor or question. this is how it s written in the current atlantic. quote, this is a doctor in new york who wrote this the best care possible when that oath comes in they are making our job much harder. doctor, how would you express those same sentiments that i assume you agree with wholeheartedly? i think that editorial spot, may be a bit kind even. everyone is able to make choices for themselves, i feel like maybe in the cases where you are affecting others, you should actually consider that and maybe those choices should be limited. but remember, if you are going to refuse but every health care
medical experts say if you were exposed or showing symptoms, it is possible to see a doctor or health care expert in private because sitting in a waiting room for a clinic could expose many more people to a very contagious disease. one kid who s not vaccinated all of the community is relying on herd immunity or that everyone else is vaccinated. because that can transmit infection to other people who are not vaccinated or have compromised immune systems. that medical expert touching on the fact that doctors are urging the best way to avoid this disease and simply give vaccinated. we talk to people here today who say they are choosing not to you and they warn that creates pockets for this disease services and the cdc said this