owners to follow this because we think this is the safest wy for number one to keep people safe, number two, i want to keep the economy open, our small businesses and where people gather, they can t take another hit and that is why we thought this was a reasonable accommodation that you either have a mark mandate or a vaccine mandate, trying to be flexible with the business community, because they re getting crushed once again. we don t want to see that happen. you re planning to reassess on january 15th. what would it take for you to get rid of that pmandate? serious decline in the number of cases. we re watching the numbers closely. we did this in anticipation of the spike to prepare people for this. we think this will avert more people getting sick and we do hope that everyone will really comes around and realizes this is a simple very minor institution. and all of the children in the state are wearing masks since the beginning, it is not that big of a deal. it will help save li
treated it as a pmandate to do what he wanted. he actually got a lot done legislatively. he passed comprehensive tax reform by march of that year. no child left behind, the patriot act, sarbanes-oxley. even the campaign finance bill. all came within that first two-year period. so the point is, is that if you re a president, no matter what your poll ratings may be, no matter what people may say about your mandate, if you go in with your agenda, you ll do fine. president trump will have a republican senate and a republican house. george w. bush had a 50/50 senate and ultimately lost the senate in may of 2001, when jim evers switched. he still got significant legislation through. and i think a lot of people will remember that. legislation not so fondly. ben ginsburg and jonathan capehart, thank you both. and coming up, the russian ambassador to turkey is dead