July 12, 2021: The Gray Lady hits Fox over anti-vax talk
The Uprising\u2019s 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 \u201ccomprehensive strategy to reduce gun crimes.\u201d\nAnd, 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\u2019ve refused the shot. In a story that posted Sunday night, the NYT\u2019s Tiffany Hsu called out Fox News \u2014 specifically Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson \u2014 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.\xa0\nRaghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio.\xa0Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.