July 12, 2021: The Gray Lady hits Fox over anti-vax talk

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🗓️ 12 July 2021

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The Uprising’s Hunter Walker scooped that the likely next mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, is headed to the White House today to meet with President Joe Biden, Attorney Garland Merrick Garland and other local leaders to discuss what the White House calls its “comprehensive strategy to reduce gun crimes.” And, another story to keep an eye on this week: the ongoing struggle by the administration to break through vaccine hesitancy among the remaining third or so of American adults who’ve refused the shot. In a story that posted Sunday night, the NYT’s Tiffany Hsu called out Fox News — specifically Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson — for feeding into the problem. We know from our own conversations with White House officials that they see the anti-vax rhetoric as a real problem amid the spread of the Delta variant. Raghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Amazon.
0:03.2	Hey, good morning, playbookers. It's Monday, July 12th. I'm Ragumonavalin, and this is your Politico
0:09.5	Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:16.2	The uprisings, Hunter Walker scooped that Eric Adams, likely the next mayor of New York City,
0:22.2	is headed to the White House today. There, he'll meet with President Joe Biden, Attorney General
0:27.4	Merrick Garland, and other local leaders to discuss what the White House calls its comprehensive
0:32.6	strategy to reduce gun crimes. Now, Adams is an obvious invitee. Like Biden, he's a moderate on criminal justice
0:39.8	issues. And as Walker writes, quote, crime, which surged around the country during the pandemic,
0:45.4	was a central issue in the mayoral race. Adams made the city's crime spike a central issue in his
0:50.7	campaign and leaned on his past experience as an NYPD officer and police
0:55.7	reform advocate. A White House source familiar tells us that the meeting will cover three things.
1:00.7	One, pushing the need to hire more police officers and invest in effective and accountable
1:06.6	community policing. Two, community violence intervention programs and summer employment opportunities.
1:13.6	And three, how stronger gun safety laws, including Biden's executive order on guns earlier this
1:19.0	year, could reduce crime. Here's another story we're keeping an eye on this week, the ongoing struggle by the administration
1:30.6	to break through vaccine hesitancy among the remaining third or so of American adults who've refused to take it.
1:37.4	In a story that posted last night, the New York Times Tiffany Shoe called at Fox News,
1:42.0	specifically Laura Ingram and Tucker Carlson, for feeding into the problem.
1:46.6	We know from our own conversations with White House officials that they see anti-vax rhetoric as a real problem amid the spread of the Delta variant.
1:55.4	Quote, opposition to vaccines was once relegated to the fringes of American politics, and the rhetoric on Fox News
2:02.2	has coincided with efforts by right-wing extremists to bash vaccination efforts. The comments
2:07.7	by the Fox News host and their guests may have also helped submit vaccine skepticism in the
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