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Slack.com slash DHQ. Today, Bill DeBlasio announces the first in the nation vaccine mandate

on private businesses. Chris Cuomo is out at CNN and word on the street is, Kamala Harris

is a bully. I don't believe it. Do you? I don't know. We'll get into it and it all starts

right now. Welcome to the News and Why It Matters. I am Sarah Gonzalez. Happy Monday. I

am with fan favorites, Eric July, Blastieby contributor, also host of Four Can and

Shake, which you can find on YouTube. He is young, RIPPA-59 in the flesh. Also, I feel

like it's a bromance. We got to have Yaku Williams, host of the Yaku Williams show, also

Blastieby contributor. You can find him on YouTube as well. Instagram, I mean, go to all

the socials, follow all the people here. But anytime I have you guys on without the

other one, people get very upset. I've told you before. I give up. I walked in here and

said, hey, you've been dissing me. It's like not me, bro. My schedule is just not worked

out. But no, it's good to be with you. We're glad to have you guys here. Also, Yaku

is the only African American at the table. Very true. I just love running out. That is

how secure Eric is. Because if you didn't know.

All right. We've got a lot of interesting stories to cover. Let's start with Bill DeBlasio.

Who is now going to impose the first in the nation vaccine mandate on private companies.

He says that this is a preemptive strike against the Omicron variant and a possible winter

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