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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