prompting the white has to consider asking vaccinated americans to wear masks. but that was not the message president biden sent during that town all last night. speak of those over the age of 12 who are able to get vaccinated, if you are vaccinated you shouldn t wear a mask. sandra: will be checking in with dr. siegel and just a minute, but let s start with jacqui heinrich. she s reporting live from the white house this morning. hi, jacqui. good morning to you guys. top health officials and the biden administration and some white house officials reportedly having talks over whether to reimpose that recommendation for masks despite regardless, rather, of whether you ve had the vaccine or not, because the delta variant is tearing through the country. there is discussion over whether to change the guidance because people have vaccine, it acts as an incentive not to wear a mask, that people who get the vaccine don t need it. it acts as an incentive, they want to keep it th
now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i am stephen sackur. joe biden prepared for his geneva summit with vladimir putin by reassuring his partners in nato that america is back in the saddle, committed to the defence of european allies and determined to leave the alliances response to evolving geographical and technological threats. but how convincing is all of these reassurance? my guess is nato secretary general jens stoltenberg. is rhetoric being used to paper over nato s cracks? jens stoltenberg, at nato headquarters in brussels, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. - welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. mr - so much for having me. mr secretary so much for having me. mr secretary general, the just finished nato summit had plenty of talk about challenges coming from russia but also challenge coming from china. it left some peopl
nursing home death toll. one state assemblyman, a democrat named ron kim, now claims governor cuomo threatened to destroy him if he blew the whistle on cuomo s scheme. dozens of others are now coming forward with similar claims. another democratic new york assembly woman tweeted, my text messages, my dms and my inbox are flooded with cuomo stories, so many people have been bullied, mistreated, or intimidated by him. now, new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is calling for an investigation and let s not lose sight of the worst part of the story. thousands of loved ones are dead because of cuomo s idiotic nursing home policy. but governor andrew cuomo is unapologetic. watch this. i m not going to let you hurt new yorkers by lying about what happened surrounding the death of a loved one. i see that as my job, and i m going to do it aggressively but in truth i was not aggressive enough in fighting back against these crazy political theories, and these crazy polit
nursing home death toll. one state assemblyman, a democrat named ron kim, now claims governor cuomo threatened to destroy him if he blew the whistle on cuomo s scheme. dozens of others are now coming forward with similar claims. another democratic new york assembly woman tweeted, my text messages, my dms and my inbox are flooded with cuomo stories, so many people have been bullied, mistreated, or intimidated by him. now, new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is calling for an investigation and let s not lose sight of thehe worst part of the story. thousands of loved ones are dead because of cuomo s idiotic nursing home policy. but governor andrew cuomo is unapologetic. watch this. i m not going to let you hurt new yorkers by lying about what happened surrounding the death of a loved one. i see that as my job, and i m going to do it aggressively, but in truth i was not aggressive enough in fighting back against these crazy political theories and these crazy pol
nursing home death toll. one state assemblyman, a democrat named ron kim, now claims governor cuomo threatened to destroy him if he blew the whistle on cuomo s scheme. dozens of others are now coming forward with similar claims. another democratic new york assembly woman tweeted, my text messages, my dms and my inbox are flooded with cuomo stories, so many people have been bullied, mistreated, or intimidated by him. now, new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is calling for an investigation and let s not lose sight of the worst part of the story. thousands of loved ones are dead because of cuomo s idiotic nursing home policy. but governor andrew cuomo is unapologetic. watch this. i m not going to let you hurt new yorkers by lying about what happened surrounding the death of a loved one. i see that as my job, and i m going to do it aggressively but in truth i was not aggressive enough in fighting back against these crazy political theories, and these crazy polit