qanon conspiracy theories or looking at facebook, wake up. snap yourself out of it. be selfish if that s what it takes. and know that your small business depends on it, your job depends on it, your community stays up, entrepreneurs have an economy where they can create businesses, grow jobs, and again, those jobs will mean you will be better off financially as well. so if you can t do it for the right reasons, you can t do it to protect your children and to protect your neighbors and to protect your communities and protect your friends that you go to church with or go to synagogue with, do it for your bottom line. anyway, president biden was asked on friday about republican critics who plan to challenge his new vaccine mandate in court and how he responded. have at it. look i am so disappointed
to come out for the most part, are being allowed out. right now we re being able to work with qatar to make sure if other americans want to get out, they can do that as well. this afghanistan withdrawal, which, again, i ll say, i was against, but this afghanistan withdrawal, with 75% of americans supported looks a hell of a lot different today than it did three weeks ago. yeah, like you, joe, i didn t support that, the withdrawal, but i never saw it as being a particular danger to biden s domestic standing. not least because it s broadly popular with the american public. some of the pieces that i ve seen in the commentary what i ve seen in the last few weeks. noticeably bret stephens in the times saying his presence is a failure. we ve seen people writing how
joe, the hand on the hot stove like don t put your hand on the hot stove, this could not be more of an example. like the consequences are going to slap right back at these republicans in real-time if they continue to allow this virus to spread in their states. jonathan hemere, the president said have at it. what happens if they do? the president s frustration, you can see it, it s close to the surface, mika. we heard this tone from him in the last handful of weeks and in particular, last handful of days, just real anger at the republican governors who are putting people s lives in jeopardy, the president and his top advisors believe. they think they are on pretty solid footing legally but anticipate that there will be some challenges in the courts coming from these states, coming perhaps from private businesses, conservative owned private businesses in the weeks ahead.
chicken pox. why are those mandates that parents in your state must comply with and do comply with routinely, why is it that they re not so objectionable and such a violation of personal freedom but biden s vaccine mandates are? well, for all those you listed there s a long history parents have had the opportunity to see how those things have been implemented and there s still a lot of people out there who don t know what to trust. it s unbelievable. mika, just absolutely unbelievable that you not only look at the governors and what they ve said in the past and what their policies are, you look at what people like mike pence have said in the past, that it s a great danger to not get these vaccines. and cheryl, here s the deal. we have seen this one work.
tests. though he has been seen recently. appearing during a midnight military parade in pyongyang last week marking the 73rd anniversary of the country s founding, stirring international reaction with its images of north koreans in hazmat suits and a much thinner kill. the united states indo-pacific command issue as statement on the launch overnight saying this activity highlights developing a military program and a threat poses to the neighbors and the international community. north korea has been expanding its nuclear and missile program since the last summit between kim and former president trump failed in 2019 in hanoi. it s not clear whether kim has achieved his goal of having a nuclear warhead. small enough to be carried by this new missile. that remains to be seen, mika, but right now, as well, the administration has a special envoy in tokyo, just been in south korea, talking to the