top of a brand new hour. good to be with you. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. as of now there is 72,057 people killed by coronavirus. the president is asking for new vaccine mandates. as of december 4, federal contract workers, employee businesses and health care workers must be fully vaccinated. they are talking about controlling the spread of the virus. what we re really talking about is control, and control has a wide bracket. you could have it under control where you have enough infections in the community where it isn t a pandemic phase but it still is interfering with what we would like to get back to what we used to know as normal. what we hope to get as it s at such a low level, it doesn t have an impact on the wait we live our lives. the president s new man date, we mandate, we know, is facing opposition. kaitlan collins has more for us now. kaitlan, first, the decision to enact this in january, is the white house explaining why? reporter:
Top of a brand new hour. good to be with you. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. as of now there is 72,057 people killed by coronavirus. the president is asking for new vaccine mandates. as of december 4, federal contract workers, employee businesses and health care workers must be fully vaccinated. they are talking about controlling the spread of the virus. what we re really talking about is control, and control has a wide bracket. you could have it under control where you have enough infections in the community where it isn t a pandemic phase but it still is interfering with what we would