Ted Cruz & Mandate Madness

Squawk Pod

CNBC

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

While President Biden and leaders across corporate America have been encouraging, incentivizing, and even requiring that employees get vaccinated, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has vocally opposed mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and Covid-19 passports. In a lively interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin and Becky Quick, Senator Cruz defends his stance on masks in schools and weighs in on employer rights to require behaviors from their workers. Plus, CNBC’s Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman shares data from CNBC’s All-America Economic Survey, which reveals American openness to vaccination and vaccination requirements. In a conversation exclusive to Squawk Pod, Liesman explains where most Americans find mandates reasonable, and where they don’t.

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0:00.0	This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our podcast, Mandate Madness.
0:08.8	Businesses, cities, even the federal government requiring COVID vaccinations for workers, some U.S. leadership doesn't
0:15.0	agree, Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
0:17.0	My view is, we should have no COVID mandates.
0:20.4	What does that mean?
0:21.4	That means no mask mandates, no vaccine passports. We shouldn't step
0:26.4	into a regime where the government says show us your papers.
0:29.8	The delta variant has COVID cases and hospitalizations up, particularly among the unvaccinated.
0:36.2	For crews, it's the principal.
0:38.0	How would you feel if the NBC had a series of medical procedures that they demanded you do as a condition of your employment.
0:44.5	It's not your employer's job to be forcing it on you and I think we ought to respect medical privacy.
0:50.5	At the same time we have to respect the idea that we do not want to injure our colleagues or other people in society who have every right to stay healthy and alive.
1:01.0	And the personal politics of vaccination
1:03.2	see NBC Steve Leisman exclusive to this podcast
1:06.1	you know look the struggle between individual freedoms and the collective good
1:10.6	has been something that has been a hallmark of this entire pandemic.
1:15.0	It's Tuesday August 10th, 2021, Squack Pod begins right after this is Squawk Pod from CNBC.
1:27.0	First up on today's pod, the interview heard round the Twitter, Ted Cruz.
1:35.0	A few days ago, the senator gave our TV broadcast about 15 minutes of his morning.
1:40.0	And a clip of that interview lives on on our Twitter.
1:44.0	2,000 people have commented.
1:46.0	1,200 people have shared it.
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