before. do you get push back when you decide to go in a different direction of where the governor is? have you tried to persuade him or his administration to keep mask mandates on the table? well, i respect governor kemp, i recognize that he has a job and a responsibility to keep georgia safe. our responsibility is to keep savannah safe. so we re viewing the world through two different sets of lenses. a way to keep people safe. we know as the first city in the state, the institution of mask mandates, it does work. it is invent and uncomfortable but we recognize it does keep it from spreading. hopefully to slow the spread to allow our vaccination rate to come up and increase past 50% and we ll see where it goes. and one of the things governor kemp has said, we ve heard from a lot of people on the republican side. reimposing mask mandates will
hill in that bipartisan group, they think they ve accomplished something here especially in this current toxic system that we ve seen on capitol hill. president biden as you said, this is something he campaigned on. he wanted to prove to the public that he was able to get legislation done across both sides of the aisle, especially after washington, d.c., has been so very fractured and continues to be. but like we said, this still has a long ways to go. the celebrating might be a little premature, especially when we don t even know if republicans in the end will support this initial bill. politico s meredith mcgraw. we are so grateful you got up so early this morning. thank you so much. turning now to the coronavirus, the house is divided over reimposing mask mandates. that moves comes from the commission. they re required to wear masks