throughout the next two hours, you don t want to miss it. we begin with a stark contrast how president biden and president trump are marking 9/11. not long from now biden is scheduled to make highways to the pentagon after visiting both ground zero and shanksville, pennsylvania, to honor the lives lost that harrowing day. meanwhile, former president trump who is set to offer commentary at a boxing match this evening used the majority of his address marking the anniversary to bash biden over his withdrawal from afghanistan. this is the 20th year of this war and should have been a year of victory and honor and strength. instead, joe biden and his inept administration surrendered in defeat. the former president did make a trip to the nypd s 17th precinct hours ago to honor the sacrifice made by the city s first responders but took time to criticize the president once again over the withdrawal. i want to bring in nbc s mike memoli who has been with us all day and is at the
desantis that wants a ban on masks. the mystery deepens over the shooting of a once w once promi attorney whose wife and son were murdered three mormt evnths ear outfront tonight, president biden facing republican outrage over his covid-19 vaccine policies that will impact up to 100 million americans. what is your message to republicans who are calling your vaccine requirements an over reach who are threatening to challenge it in court? have at it. look, i am so disappointed that particularly some of the republican governors have been so cavalier with the health of these kids, so cavalier with the health of their communities. this is this is we re playing for real here. this isn t a game. he s referring to republican governors because some of them are piling on the outrage. the governor of south carolina henry mcmaster tweeting rest assured we ll fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every south carolinaen and then there is t
next week. and as americans commemorate 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, are we any safer from terrorists than we were on that day when the towers fell and the nation changed forever? we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with president biden pushing back hard at republican critics on his new covid-19 strategy. our chief national affairs correspondent is at the white house for us. jeff, the president appears undaunted by the backlash. the white house does believe it is on solid legal ground here saying it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide a safe workplace and protect workers. now, these actions this week have gone much farther than president biden has gone before. in fact, a reversal from previous pledges not to issue mandates. but he said he never expected the resistance to be so fierce. that s why he s taking these steps and leaving the door ope
in this country are required to start forcing employees to either get the covid vaccine or submit to regular covid tests. my job as president is to protect all americans. so tonight, i m announcing that the department of labor is developing an emergency rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees that together employ over 80 million workers to ensure their workforces are fully vaccinated. or show a negative test at least once a week. jesse: joe biden added that if state governments don t go along with this, he will use my power as president to get them out of the way. what power does the president have to override state governments on this issue exactly? joe biden didn t say. maybe it s the same authority that allowed at the cdc to suspend all evictions in the country. this administration no longer cares about the rules, they will do whatever they want. keep in mind, less than a year ago joe biden told us that vaccines would never be mandatory. he knew he d
start forcing employees to either get the covid vaccine or submit to regular covid tests. my job as president is to protect all americans. so tonight, i m announcing that the department of labor is developing an emergency rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees that together employ over 80 million workers to ensure their workforces are fully vaccinated. or show a negative test at least once a week. jesse: joe biden added that if state governments don t go along with this, he will use my power as president to get them out of the way. on what power does the president have to override state governments on this issue exactly? joe biden didn t say. maybe it s the same authority that allowed at the cdc to suspend all evictions in the country. this administration no longer cares about the rules, they will do whatever they want. keep in mind, less than a year ago joe biden told us that vaccines would never be mandatory. he knew he didn t have the authority to do