In an hour, President Biden will announce a new offensive in his fight against coronavirus, a Vaccine Requirement for workers. President biden will order that all federal employees be fully vaccinated or submit to regular testing. He joins a growing call for Vaccine Requirements from public and private sector employers. Theyre balloting the surge in cases driven by unvaccinated people. The cdc says only 1 of the u. S. Population lives in an area now with low virus transmission. The u. S. Is now averaging almost 64,000 new cases a day. Nearly 40,000 people are hospitalized. Both of those are. Major increases from just the week before. But there are some signs that unvaccinated people are being swayed. More than 700,000 Vaccine Doses were administered yesterday. Thats way up from the day before. And the average number of people getting their first shot is the highest its been in three weeks. Lets get to phil mattingly. What should we expect to hear from President Biden about an hour from
With new data that shows Delta Variants only need one second to spread new Mask Mandates from the Nations Capital to your kids classroom, to the Magic Kingdom as a war over masks shapes up in the Sunshine State. Plus, the gold standard, The American who stepped up in simone Biles Absence to grab the gold. Hear her inspiring journey to tokyo coming up. Hey, everyone, welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Any moment now were going to hear a major announcement from President Biden who is looking to shake the nation out of its relative complacency when it comes to vaccinations. Biden is expected to announce new requirements for federal workers requiring everyone in all agencies get a Vaccine Or Show proof of regular negative covid tests. This comes as a slew of major corporations go even one step further taking away the choice from google to netflix, morgan stanley, many more, theyre all now mandating vaccines for all of their employees. The momentum moves away from the Encouragement Period
This national holiday with a deeply personal remembrance, and a passionate defense of democracy. And that is Because this Memorial Day, 2021 comes at such an easy time in our nations biden began modern history. The day with Vice President Kamala Harris Secretary of defense Lloyd Austin, Honoring Those Americans who died on battlefields after laying a wreath of the tomb of the unknown Biden Spoke of his laced Son Beau and reflected on The Fallen veterans who said made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our democracy. Each and every Day Democracy itself is in peril around the world. What we do now, how we honor the memory of The Fallen, determine whether or not democracy will long endure. Democracy thrives on the infrastructure. Democracy is strong. When people have the right to vote, freely and fairly and conveniently on a free and independent press pursues the truth founded on facts and not propaganda. Now why its such an uneasy time in our democracy, the President S very words as sever
Voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy and for that reason i will vote against the for the people act. Furthermore, i will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster. And with that, the various signals that mentions been sending out all along about both of those issues now at a much more definitive tone lets say. One influential House Member warns mentions opposition to the voting Rights Legislation places the future of our democracy at risk. You are talking about destroying democratic principles upon which this country is based. Me and my children and grandchildren today, but let me tell you that if youre hurt this entire country going forward. Republicans in over a dozen states are actively trying to restrict Voting Rights and some senate democrats have been Lobbying Mansion in person with that in mind. We gotta make sure that the people have their voice and their own democracy unfortunately were Living In A Moment in which there is one party
yes, it was just 24 hours ago the world was rocked by an insidious foul-mouth display of incoherent rage. it was the slander-in-chief lashing out at our very own peter doocy simply gathering information for our book report. political liability ahead of the. [indiscernible] what a stupid son of a bitch. in case you missed it, let s do it again in slow-mo. [slurred speech] the original s.o.p. felt old biden strikes again. of course, the target of his rath was the one reporter who asked questions joe can t answer on auto pilot. fox news peter doocy or as we like to see our very own. like we raised him in a plastic bubble. we took a clipping from steve doocy and then let miracle gro do the rest. doocy known for his hair and lengthy rap sheet was noticeably shaken up. someone came up to me in the briefing room a few minutes later and said, did you hear what the president said? and i said, no, what? he called you a cupid s.o.b.? i said, did he say s.o.b.? and the