Mmhmm, San Francisco area, tHe east bay. Are you surprised by this California Recall of Governor Newsom . No. THe thing about California Ballot Stuff is that in my sentient life as a california resident, even growing up as a kid who didnt care much about politics, it was clear to me that tHe stupidest Stuff Imaginable could get on tHe ballot with nobody exerting any real effort to get it tHere. Once stuffs on tHe ballot, anything can happen. Direct democracy can be cray. Tax policy made by ballot initiative, wHen i was in elementary school, that stuff was absolutely nuts. And California Ballot measures, people like direct Democracy Write Stuff on tHe ballot tHere. Its always been a complete, umm, swear word. A complete swear word. This is a great way to transition you into a nice weekend, i hope. Thank you, racHel. Thank you, jonathan. All right. This isnt a game. Thats how President Biden scolded republicans who are outraged over his new efforts to combat tHe coronavirus. President bi
Second lieutenant. She will join us along with her mother who is a Brigadier General who witnessed that explosion. They will share their memories 20 years later. Welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper and we begin today with our Health Lead and president Bidens Message to republican governors looking to challenge his new mandate on businesses to either test or vaccinate their employees. Biden saying, quote, have it. The president s new policies will affect about twothirds of the american workforce or roughly 100 Million americans, forcing federal employees and federal contractors and healthcare workers, all of them to get vaccinated, even private businesses with more than 100 employees will need to make sure their workers get weekly testing or get the shot. For context, 75 of u. S. Adults already have at least one dose of the covid19 vaccine. Biden is talking specifically to the roughly 27 of eligible unvaccinated americans who are the ones keeping this pandemic going. And even though oth
Not want schools and districts to have that authority. the governor reacted, i will continue to fight for parents rights. yeah, not everyone sees it that way. jake? all right, nick watt, thank you so much. let s bring in cnn s chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. and, kaitlan, president biden today seemed pretty confident that his proposed mandates will survive legal challenges from republicans. reporter: yeah, he did, jake. right away you saw several republican governors saying that they believe that this is overreach, that he has new measures that he wants to put in place are unconstitutional. but when the president was asked today about some of these threats from republican governors to sue over these new measures that the president wants to take to vaccinate more americans, he seemed to brush it off. have at it. look, i am so, um, disappointed
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The committee said, quote, the majority of the social media companies are cooperating with the probe. however, we need to receive much more information, and the select committee will use whatever tools are at our disposal to get the records we are seeking. and what they re saying without actually coming out and saying it is that they re prepared to use their subpoena power if they have to, to get this information from both the agencies and from the social media companies. jake, we should also point out that in the statement they talked about their request from the national archives. this would be the information that they re seeking to obtain from the trump white house. they point out that the archives are working with them, but there are some procedural hoops they have to jump through. this likely means that a fight over executive privilege is about to happen between the committee and both the biden and trump white house. ryan, they don t have an unlimited staff. this is a lot of ma