In This Episode
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain joins to talk about the President’s new vaccine requirements, Republican politicians have a meltdown over Biden’s announcement, and Donald Trump commemorates 9/11 by skipping the memorial ceremony, hinting that he’s running again in 2024, and doing color commentary at a Pay-Per-View boxing match in Florida.
Show Notes
COVID Mandates, the GOP, & the Media
- Politico: Surgeon general: New vaccine policies neither illegal nor unusual
- NYT: Biden’s Speech on Vaccine Mandates and the Delta Variant: Full Transcript
- Axios: Biden plans COVID vaccine mandate for 80 million private sector employees
- Politico: Biden administration opens investigation into Florida’s school masking policies
- Politico: Biden to call for global summit on Covid response
- NYT: New U.S. vaccine requirements draw praise, skepticism and outrage.
- WaPo: Olivier Know tweet
- AP: Vaccine mandate spawns new fear: finding and keeping workers
- NYT: New U.S. vaccine requirements draw praise, skepticism and outrage.
- NPR: Biden Took A Tougher Stance Against People Resisting The Vaccine In Speech
- Politico Playbook: Joe Biden’s Covid 180
- WSJ: Biden’s Vaccine Command
- NYT: Biden is requiring the vast majority of federal workers to get vaccinated or face disciplinary measures.
- NY Post op-ed: Joe Biden’s incoherent, fear-mongering COVID vaccine speech
- Intelligencer: Why the Media Is Worse for Biden Than Trump
- Jacobin: The Media Was in Love With Joe Biden — Until He Tried to End a War
- Fox: Liberal media embraces Biden’s COVID power grab after rejecting Trump’s threat to override governors last year
- NBC: Republican threats to Biden’s vaccine mandates unlikely to succeed, experts say
- Yahoo: Pence blasts Biden’s vaccine speech: ‘Unlike anything I’d ever heard from an American president’
- Axios: America’s civil war of 2021
- Axios: GOP governors, RNC threaten legal action over Biden’s vaccine mandate
- Fox News: Republicans explode with fury over Biden vaccine mandate: ‘Absolutely unconstitutional’
- Fox: McMaster and the RNC responds to Pres. Biden’s vaccine mandate speech
- CNN: Fox News and right-wing media frame Biden as evil ‘tyrant’ after vaccination speech
- AP: Half of US workers favor employee shot mandate: AP-NORC poll
- CNBC: CNBC poll shows very little will persuade unvaccinated Americans to get Covid shots
- Loudoun Now: McAuliffe Pushes for Vaccine Mandates in Ashburn Visit
- NBC: Democrats make vaccine mandates their closing issue in California recall
- Gallup: Update: American Public Opinion and Vaccination Requirements
- SF Gate: California may wait until after Newsom recall election to enact sweeping COVID-19 vaccine mandate
C BLOCK: Trump & 9/11
- Fox: Trump, on 9/11, teases 2024 run
- NYT: Where’s Trump on 9/11? Not at ground zero.
- Intelligencer: Trump Guest-Hosting a Boxing Match on 9/11 Was a Vision From an Alternate Reality
- CNN: Trump says he wants to box Biden on 9/11
- WaPo: George W. Bush compares ‘violent extremists at home’ to 9/11 terrorists in 20th anniversary speech
- USA Today: How America’s former presidents will commemorate the 9/11 anniversary
- Politico: Prosecutors: Jan. 6 defendants should expect jail time
- USA Today: 6 US Capitol police officers recommended for discipline in Jan. 6 riot ahead of ‘Justice for J6’ rally
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