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little capacity to mitigate risk. covid-19 in short is a men as in work settings. the proof is all around us. since the disease s on set most american americans have seen workplaces transformed. so the administrative agency charged with ensuring health and safety in work places did what congress commanded it to do. it took action to address covid s continuing threat in those spaces. observera, the occupational safety and health excuse me the occupational safety and health administration issued an emergency temporary standard requiring either vaccination or masking and testing to protect american workers. the standard falls within the core of the agency s mission, to protect employees from grave danger that comes from new hazards or exposure to harmful agents. osha estimates and there is no ground for disputing that the standard they proposed would save more than 6500 lives and prevent over a quarter million hospitalizations just in six months time. yet today the kwor ....
justices elena kagan, sonia sotomayor, and stephen breyer, which did block the osha safety rule for employers requiring workers to be vaccinated or get regularly tested. r now in a separate ruling today, the court did leave in place thp vaccine requirement for people working in a health care setting. but if you don t work in a diin health care setting, if you re stacking i shelves or on the factory floor working in a big open-plan cubicle and your workplace doesn t want to protect you from a covid-rich environment, well, the supreme court just blocked the biden administration from helping you. the supreme court just blocked n the biden administration from being allowed to require that your workplace be made more safe. it s not necessarily an unexpected ruling given how right wing the supreme court is right now and how weird and scientifically uninformed the conservative justices questions were during the oral arguments, but now it is done. we will have more on that ahea ....
joe biden putting it all out there today, making a last ditch push for voting rights, telling the senate it s time to change the filibuster. it s a move against solid gop opposition, not to mention two members of his own party. today, we call on congress to get done what history will judge, pass the freedom to vote act. pass it now! also ahead, the january 6th committee saying it wants information from rudy giuliani at some point, as they release more subpoenas today. and was he lying? whether novak djokovic lied to enter the country. joining me now, jessica dean and john. we will talk about what the president did today, john. president biden making a major push for the two voting rights bills, comparing it to be on the side of dr. king, john lewis, he is putting it on the line now. what happens if it doesn t work? no voting rights? no build back better? well, that certainly could be one result, don. both are difficult. i think the white house is more confident th ....
accepts political violence as a norm? are we going to be a nation where we allow election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people? are we going to be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth but in the shadow of lies? we cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation. the way forward is to recognize the truth and to live by it. starting later this hour, more than a dozen democratic senators will speak about the anniversary on the senate floor. at noon/9:00 pacific, house speaker nancy pelosi will lead a moment of silence, then speak on the house floor. this afternoon, a number of house democrats will give testimonials on what they experienced that day, and this evening there will be a prayer vigil on the stems of the capitol. with me to start off our coverage is capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell and car roll author of i aonly can fix it, donald trump s final year bootry swann, national correspondent for politico an andy ....
help as you always do you can also contribute to any of these organizations on screen. thank you for the privilege of your time. that wraps up my hour. a good wednesday morning to you. craig melvin here. right now we re juggling a number of live events this hour. and the word driving all of them, urgency. first breaking news in the last 30 minutes or so, former police officer derek chauvin pleading guilty to federal civil rights charges related to the murder of george floyd. you will recall chauvin previously pled not guilty. he s changed his employee. more on that in moments. also any second on capitol hill, speaker pelosi will be holding her weekly briefing. there s lots to talk about here. fighting to find mark meadows in contempt of congress. also congress will prevent a debt limit disaster for now. they passed a $2.5 trillion extension. and also in just the last few moments, we ve learned that the president s build back better plan being punted until next y ....