delta variant last year and earlier this year. but people here are still very concerned about the possibility that an unvaccinated person is coming into the country and getting some sort of special treatment. that s really upset them at a very anxious time, kristie. angus watson reporting live in sydney for us, thank you so much. the former u.s. tennis player patrick mcenroe, of course the brother of john mcenroe, he calls djokovic s predicament, quote, a world-class debacle that will likely follow djokovic for the rest of the year. earlier, he spoke to cnn s phil matt mattingly. check, check, check, and check. check all the boxes. you ve got to get the green ticked box to get into australia through your visa application. let s start with djokovic. novak djokovic made a decision. it s his right to make the decision not to be vaccinated. when you do that, you re going to run into these types of difficulties, and i predict that
in australia, and when the djokovic issue came up, they re-analyzed her visa, terminated it, she s stuck in the same hotel call it detention center as novak djokovic. i cannot wait to hear this appeal and see how this plays out. but at the end of the day, phil, there s plenty of blame to go around. john mcenroe also said that he doubted that djokovic would be successful in his court challenge. in the last hour, i spoke with david law, co-host of the tennis podcast, and he said details that have emerged so far suggest that djokovic may have been trying to bypass australia s strict vaccine requirements. take a listen. the fact is, that appears to be how he s tried to get around the rules. and get an exemption in order to play the australian open and not be vaccinated. but there are big question marks over whether a previous infection of that sort of date should apply. there was an initially a
too without any republicans support. joining me now with their reporting and insights, phil matt mattingly, brittany shepard of yahoo news and molly ball of time magazine. when saw that 600 words statement in my inbox this morning i was like what s going on? 600 words for president biden is rare or any president is rare. the white house was truly worried that something, maybe this whole thing would blow up in their faces. i think valid reasons to be concerned. this was kind of a 72-hour period where watching the white house operate on this was fascinating. first, they didn t think it was a huge deal. they knew the president went off script and essentially saying he didn t sign the bill as the second measure did not come. and then they had their top