It struck fear into the hearts of millions and also killed millions of people every year until a vaccine came along and eradicated it. Antivaxers have been around as long as vaccines themselves. Can you imagine if back then there was a major political party backing them up. Fast forward to 2021 and thats exactly where we are now. Kevin mccarthy, the republican Leader And Colt 45 Groupie Tweeting in all cap rant, no vaccine mandate period. The governor is tHreatening the fine cities and counties that require workers to be vaccinated while passing the mike to antivaxers at his Press Conference. No one should tell you what tO Put in your body. For me, thats a problem. Thats a lot. Thats not true. Wait a minute. What was that part about how No One should tell you how what O Put in your body and about your body. Has the Texas Governor received that message . You think we could agree on this one thing, staying alive. Keeping our children alive, our parents. A large Cdc Report says unvaccinat
Mcgowan is making against governor Newsoms Wife as voters prepare to head to the polls in californias Recall Election. Todd you are watching Fox Friends First on this monday morning. I am todd piro. Jillian im jillian mele. Lets begin with this, the fight against the president s Vaccine Mandate heating up as republican governors vow to challenge the order. Todd Lauren Blanchard live with the backlash as new York City begins enforcing its own mandate. Lauren, good morning. Reporter good morning. The list of governors continues to grow by the day, they say Vaccine Mandates are an attack on personal freedoms and are uncons fusional. This is egregious overreach of Federal Authority and as we see what these rules are, we will be able to know exactly how we will be able to challenge them in courts. Reporter heres what the president announcerred last week, businesses with 100 or more workers must require vaccination or weekly tests. Employees at Medicare Or Medicaid funded Nursing Homes must
Still there in the, quote, thousands. And the nun of unknown, unknown number of afghan allies who helped the u. S. In the War But Havent gotten out yet. Secretary of State Antoni Olympicen telling lawmakers the State Department is working on that last number, trying to estimate it. But experts familiar with the situation put that number in the tens of thousands. Yet, Secretary Blinken insisted today the u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan was an extraordinary success. Blinken was grilled by republicans on the house foreign Affairs Committee this afternoon. That grilling has continued late into the day. Congressional Correspondent Aishah Hasnie starts us off tonight live from Capitol Hill. Good evening, aishah. Bret, good evening to you. Democrats tore into republican Questioning Tonight as republicans tore into blinkens decisionmaking calling for him to resign at one point and even questioning why he didnt show up to this hearing in person. Can you tell us where you are today . Yes, im a
American rust. Thats what you should watch. Jeff daniels. Thank you. Great to see you. We really appreciate it. That does it for us this morning. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. Hi from, i am Stephanie Ruhle from Msnbc Headquarters here in new York City. It is a jam packed monday. A lot going on. We have several new developments in fight against the coronavirus. The united states now surpassing 41 Million cases since the pandemic began. The u. S. Surgeon general says President Biden will announce even more new steps to slow the spread of covid19 later this week. From the beginning, the president and all of us said we have to use every lever we have to fight this pandemic. Thats what you see happening right now. New poll this morning shows more than half sport warnings. At the same time, this was the scene we witnessed over the weekend. Completely packed nfl stadiums with many of them not requiring any proof of vaccination or negative test. Today is the first day of the
Fired newly developed long Range Cruise missiles. They say they have been developing these for a couple of years, significant to say that the North Korean leader kim jongun does not appear to be saying it was one of the more significant Missile Launches weve seen and also it was on page 2 of the local staterun media, rather than on the front page which is what we usually see. It was not a ballistic missile which means it didnt violate any Security Council resolutions. But also, any Missile Launch from North Korea will concern those in the region. Weve already heard from the south korean side. They say that quite often, with these cruise missiles, you do learn about them after the event once they have launched. And they pointed out, that there were a couple of launches earlier this year as well from North Korea which they didnt disclose. They dont always disclose these cruise missiles. So it is a departure from what weve been seeing. The fact that they have not been launching missiles.