right? reporter: yeah, that s right. the supreme court is weighing two vaccine mandate cases here. first is the one for employees and larger companies and the second applies to health care workers. justice sonia sotomayor pushed back on the word mandate. she along with justices breyer and kagan made it pretty clear they support the requirement. more and more people are getting sick every day. this is the policy that is most feared most geared to stopping all this. there s nothing else that will perform that function better than incentivizing people strongly to vaccinate themselves. reporter: chief justice john roberts highlighted how these cases will likely determine a level of power that the executive branch holds. i wonder if it s not fair for us to look at the court as a general exercise of power by the
again, this is just the latest firm to, you know, force such a policy. it will not be the last. charlie gasparino with more on that. charlie, this is sort of like an in your face approach in the financial community, but way beyond the financial community to force the issue, isn t it? it is. it s i m not surprised, and i ll tell you why. when the biden administration first came out with its rules that they wanted government contractors, anybody that does business with the government to impose vax mandates on its employees, i spoke with a lot of people on the street, and they thought that was the sort of signal that they could impose very strict vax mandates on their employees. they thought that gave them, essentially, the legal cover to do so. all these companies did business with the federal government to one extent or another. they all want their people to be vaccinated except in rare cases of maybe religious issues or
pattern here as more of these companies take the spike in cases into their own hands, and the response which is fairly blunt, in the case of citigroup, if you are thinking of coming back to work as of january 14th and you re not vaccinated, don t worry about it. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto. we re going to explore the confusion over omicron. the good news is that it is not as dangerous. so while these spikes in cases look alarming, the fact of the matter is overall hospitalizations and certainly deaths are not nearly indicative of that spike as you might think. we re going to explore that in a lot more detail, the administration s handling of all of this. for that, we go to lucas tomlinson in washington. reporter: good morning, neil. some medical experts think the silver lining with omicron variant is an immunity boost. president biden insists things will get better despite a
that s a point i want to raise with you later in the show, guys, what you make of that latest employment report and the backdrop of this which is an economy that s still strong, but it s not generating nearly the number of jobs that we thought. i look forward to chatting about all of that. in the meantime, wrapping up the consumer electronics show in las vegas, some big names did not show up like amazon and apple and a host of others, but some up and coming names did that might very well be the next amazon and apple and companies like that. after this. i always dreamed of having kids of my own. now i m ready for someone to call me mom. at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today.
late 90s. it s crypto, but financing for startups and changing money in regulation, raise it yourself. and there are options worth a fortune on paper or until a few weeks ago and that s sucking so many into wanting to do a start-up from their own house and that economy has been sinking, actually, in recent months, the profitless tech companies and hasn t caught up in the numbers yet. if it continues, i think you re going to see the 3.9% economy and people with riches higher than what your employer will offer you, higher wages and trying to get with bonuses. i think it s underreported, people are focusing on crypto miners, but it s a massive start-up bubble. neil: i wonder how long it s going to last?