restrictions that have kept coronavirus under wraps. that s exactly right. you have the governors of both mississippi and texas now defying recent warnings by the cdc, both lifting mask mandates and green lighting businesses to fully reopen. this is a major gamble as we re seeing the recent drop in new covid cases and deaths nationwide level off and new variants threaten to wipe out any of the recent progress we ve seen. let s begin at the white house with jeremy diamond. he joins us with more on the best news that i have seen in months, jeremy. no doubt, poppy. this is going to be a relief for many americans to see that this vaccine timeline is being accelerated. president biden announcing yesterday that the united states will have enough coronavirus vaccine doses to fully vaccinate every american adult by the end of may. moving that up from previous timeline of the end of july. that is being facilitated in part by this new partnership between johnson & johnson, which ha
they re out the door. susan li on what is happening now at one company, just the latest company to say get the shot or get out. that s right, neil. get vaccinated by next week or you will be fired by the end of this month. citi group is the first major bank to implement a strict covid-19 mandate. this applies to all of the 70,000 staff, regardless where they live. so that means that those that live in florida, texas, missouri and kentucky where they don t have a vaccine man tate for big businesses, they will also have to get the job. if you don t live in new york, you have to comply. citi group s vaccine mandate goes a step further than others than goldman sachs, j.p. morgan and bank of america requiring vaccines but only if you go in the office. not all employees are happy about this. many complaining about the huge overreachthat many have felt where there s a federal mandate for workers to get vaccinated. mayo clinic fired 700 staff who had to get their shotspy this monda
of the border still very much out of control and a bipartisan senate deal trying like heck to get it under control, but tom emmer says that a deal is dead on arrival thiess in the house. he s here and so is south carolina governor henry mcmaster on what he and two cousin other republican governors are doing to help texas in its legal border battle with the white house. and peek of legal battles, donald trump vowing to appeal that a whopping $83 million jury verdict the in his defamation trial. does he have a case to reverse it? if we are on it. all over it, actually. good morning, everybody. happy to have you. i m neil cavuto. there s a lot going if on with the border patrol just now announcing that a new record high migrant encounters were noted in december, better than 300,000. president biden saying he is ready to sign a senate bipartisan deal on the border, and the day he does shut down the boarder in so doing. a lot of people aren t convinced that will be the case. lucas
madonna to postpone some of the world to. longtime manager posting that she is now recovering from a serious bacterial infection. so serious that she was in intensive care for days. a source close to madonna tells cnn that she is out of the icu. it s expected to make a full recovery. obviously tonight we are saying our best to her. thank you so much for joining us for this news packed hour tonight. cnn tonight with abby phillip starts right now. thank you caitlin, good evening everyone. i am abby phillips and this is cnn tonight. it is the tale of two tapes. special counsel jack smith s investigation into elected interference in the 2020 election heating up today. investigators interviewing georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. former president donald trump s nemesis called him in january 2021. pressing him to find votes that trump needed to win the state of georgia. a state joe biden won by nearly 12,000 votes. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,78