frequently enough and find out your positive, you wone come to work and you won t infect other people. so it is really somewhat of a compromise there. myself, i would just make it vaccinate or not but he was trying to be prodominant in his announcement. contractors to the federal and employees must get a covid shot as well as health care workers in setting with medicare and medicaid reimbursement and all private companies with more than 100 workers have will have to mandate vaccinations or weekly testing. the president encouraged governors to require shots for all school teachers and staff as well. los angeles, the nation s second largest school district, already requires the vaccine for students 12 and older. we ve been leading the nation with weekly testing and mask mandates and air filtration upgrades and now this vaccination requirement, so that kids could stay in person and that schools could remain open. this hour we do expect to lear from the president as he visi
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. i m jake tapper and we begin today with our health lead and president biden s 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 two-thirds 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 covid-19 vaccine. biden is talking specifically to the roughly 27% of eligible unvaccinated americans who are the ones keeping this pandemic going
well, welcome back. zerlina and mehdi, our loverly colleagues, they re great, but there s only one you. we missed you. welcome back. thanks to you at home for being with us today. happy to have you here. cnn is reporting tonight on what sounds like it may be a dramatic turn in the investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. nbc news has not verified this reporting. i m just citing what cnn has reported. if in fact this is borne out, this would be sort of a big hairy deal. what cnn is reporting tonight is that the january 6th investigation, the select committee investigating the attack, they re about to send requests to cell phone providers, requesting that those cell phone providers preserve records from phone calls and the usage of cell phones by several people linked to the attack, including members of congress. the preservation notices are apparently reportedly due to go to the telecom providers as soon as this week. the committee s chairman, congressm
phone providers, preserve records, from phone calls and the usage of cellphones, by several people linked to the attack. including members of congress. the preservation notices are apparently, reportedly due to go to the telecoms providers as soon as this week. the committee s chairman, congressman benny thompson, has also previously said that he has planned to send out the committee s first subpoenas as of next week. the investigation into the attack on january six is not just about what happened that day during the attack. and why the security arrangements in the capital were insufficient to protect the building from being breached. and members of congress being directly threatened. it s about that, but it s also about how the attack came to be. and who is culpable for arranging or abetting the attack, chairman bennie thompson is confirming tonight that it is hundreds of people, for whom they are going to be seeking cell phone records. but if cnn s reporting is right, and a
reported. if in fact this is borne out, this would be sort of a big hairy deal. what cnn is reporting tonight is that the january 6th investigation, the select committee investigating the attack, they re about to send requests to cell phone providers, requesting that those cell phone providers preserve records from phone calls, and the usage of cell phones by several people linked to the attack, including members of congress. the preservation notices are apparently, reportedly, due to go to the telecom providers as soon as this week. the committee s chairman, congressman bennie thompson, has also previously said that he starts to plans to start sending out the committee s first subpoenas as of next week. the investigation into the attack on january 6th isn t just about what happened that day during the attack and why the security arrangements in the capitol were insufficient to protect the building from being breached and members of congress being directly threatened. it s