be vaccinated. increase in federal mandate for federal agencies, federal workers and contractors. the president is are large gainment venues to require proof of vaccination. already 157 million people in this country fully vaccinated. the white house says that s not enough to end this pandemic. the president doubling down this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated. we need to do more. this is not about freedom or personal choice. it s about protecting yourself and those around you. some people noted that there was no mention of requiring migrants crossing into the u.s. to get the jab, at least not yet. this as multiple potential 2024 candidates and current sitting governors are reacting to all of this, vowing to take on these new mandates. i don t think it actually helps to get more people to ultimately do it. but i do not believe that people should lose their jobs over this issue. and and we will fight that. so we see what they are doing
in the race including very prominent people and very serious bios that have come and gone like kamala harris that dropped out earlier this month or the mayor of the largest city of america, new york city s bill deblasio hose candidacy barely registered as a blip. there s been two surprise stories. one is the rise of pete buttigieg that won his last election with over 8,500 votes and he s now polling in the top four nationally and is highly competitive in the first two states and the other is andrew yang that few people heard of before he decided to run for president. he has built basically completely from scratch out of nothing a robust campaign operation, attracted a genuinely enthusiastic base of support and has raised lots of money and it s all allowed him to outlast and outpoll numerous sitting governors and senators and propelled him on to the debate
built out of nothing a robust campaign, has raised lots of money and it has all allowed him to outlast and outpolled numerous sitting governors and senators and has repeatedly propelled him on the debate stage even as his bigger name rivals have failed to make the cut. it s a pretty remarkable story, and joining me now is andrew yang, a democratic candidate for president. it s good to have you. chris, great to see you. happy holidays. thank you for having me on. okay, so i want to talk about health care. this has been obviously the subject of a lot of debate. you ve talked about on the debates, on the campaign trail. but i m slightly confused about your position. the first ad your campaign ran with your wife and your son and she said you would fight for medicare for all and it s been the platform. you recently put out some language on your website where you say you spirit the spirit of
to bail him out both on a falling stock market and on the economic effects of a trade war. is that something that the fed is going to do? it s just totally we ve just never been here before. he has just smashed the protocol. privately presidents have cajoled the fed but never like this. the new york fed president bill dudley getting a lot of attention where he says u.s. president trade war with china keeps undermining the confidence of businesses and consumers, worsening the economic outlook. this manufactured disaster in the making presents the fed with a dilemma. should it mitigate the damage by providing yuf setting stimulus by cutting interest rates or should the fed just refuse to play along? he goes on to say if the goal is a healthy economy, the fed should consider not giving the president what he wants, which is lower interest rates right now. is there evidence that folks on the fed, current sitting
governor of florida. scott walker, the sitting governor of wisconsin. mike huckabee, former governor of arkansas. new to politics, ben carson, a neuro surgeon. ted cruz, senator from texas. marco rubio, senator from florida, rand paul from kentucky, and two sitting governors, chris christie of new jersey and john kasich from ohio. and it is that tenth slot that is kind of the upset if you will. because rick perry, the former governor of texas, the longest serving governor in texas history, was very much hoping to be on this debate stage for a whole host of reasons but most recently because he was the guy most adamant and most vocal about taking on donald trump as a cancer on conservatism. he is not going to be on the stage with him now. any surprises? rick perry is the biggest surprise. as up, the longest serving in texas. rick santorum also ran for president in 2012, was the last