president biden today marking a january 4th deadline for workers to be vaccinated, for larger companies in america. part of the way the mandate has worked coming from the feds. it is basically if you work somewhere with over 100 employees. there s push back to go after mandates before we get to the federal one, and we reported how they withstood challenges so far and threats of violence by anti-vaxxers. it will effect 84 million workers. a partial mandate that means effectively it is trying to get everyone to be vaccinated to make things safer, but also has a huge exception. it doesn t actually compel anyone to only vaccinate, there s a testing exception, they re not asked to vaccinate. it is a partial mandate. other states are restricted. there s signs and data, each of these mandates work to increase the number of people vaccinated. here s dr. fauci and the cdc director walensky, talking about the issues at a hearing today on the hill. we know that mandates work. if you l
The beat with ari melber starts now. ain t no party like an ari melber party. that kind of party doesn t stop. you heard right. the streets don t lie. thank you to jason as always with the kind of handoff only jason can do. i want to welcome everyone to the beat. a lot going on. breaking news with a newly empaneled grand jury in the trump org case that we ll try to explain with clarity and sobriety with a guest later tonight. i have a report not about trump but about vigilante justice, how it is foe meanted with racial and racist overtones, why it is on trial now in america. i ll explain. and a special thought i want to share about that. that s also later in the program. we begin with this momentous period in the fight against covid in america.