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That? >> there are about 10 million workers according to the supreme court opinion that are covered by that mandate. some of those hospitals may have trouble filling positions as doctor makary says some of the employees want to get back to work they may have -- not be able to go back to work. thats the problem with the broad mandates about national level as they treat everybody the same. they do not allow any room for governors or local cities, local employees. each individual hospital to make t...

Thats all we cannot be is in policies designed for delta in an era of omicron. david: in europe and israel as well they allow natural immunity to substitute for vaccines. should we be doing that here? >> absolutely. heres why it is not just a philosophical debate. careers are being ruined by the government saying yes you have antibodies that neutralize the virus, but those are antibiotics that we as the government do not recognize. and unfortunately when the cdc says something like that, compani...

The presidential value of a decision like that would have been extraordinary. i think in this white house the progressive democrats have no reluctance whatsoever to try to push federal authority as far as they can on any basis that they can. and the fact the supreme court stopped them here at a time when the american public is becoming more skeptical of federal authority is a very, very good sign for those of us who believe in federalism. >> i believe youre right on that. kim, its also going to ...

>> hasnt that already begun? we have a lot of hospital workers in the state of new york i believe 8000 hospital workers lost their job as they quit as a result of the vaccine mandates. its causing staff shortages at a critical time in our history. >> ironically one of the hospitals in the northwest united states has had such significant staffing shortages they have actually told steph hey, come back even if you have symptoms. now that makes absolutely no sense to fire people who have immunity an...

See a variant and merge that spreads just as quickly as omicron but is more deadly? >> it is a possibility. the virus to mutate in a way is higher and higher. its far more likely will see a variant mutate -- make most mutations are downward mutations over 99%. i do believe we are going to continue to see the virus mutate in the animal kingdom. that animal reservoir spit out new variant in perpetuity. maybe every couple of years or every viral season. but remember theres a host of over dozen viru...

Economic reality that is in front of all of our faces. that reality is, david, the biden administration last year basically made -- tried to make a deal with the inflation devil. and that deal was this. they put through trillions of dollars in stimulus spending last year above and beyond what was already being spent by the federal government. their argument was that because of pandemic, the spending was necessary. the fact is, they injected a lot of money into the economy. and when you do that, ...

>> it is time now for hits and misses of the week, kim first to you. >> david a hit to house minority leader kevin mccarthy and congressman jim jordan for refusing to just roll over to the demands of nancy pelosis generous six committee. i was initially hopeful this committee would give us the facts of the day. but it is increasingly looking very political its increasingly willing to abuse its powers and break institutional norms. if it is going to take the unprecedented step of demanding fellow...

Know what happens when presidents are in denial. this is what happened in the 1970s. they were in charge, they flooded the economy with a lot of money inflation started going up, they blamed everyone, pointed fingers at big business. they blamed supply chain is this all sound familiar? what the democrats really ought to be worried about is the end of that playbook was obviously a voting public that got completely sick of it. electable republicans and ultimately put ronald reagan in office. david...

Band-aids, jawboning meat producers, shipping producers it never works. the inflation they create is real. they are now going to have to deal the political consequences. david: very close to double-digit inflation. that eventually is passed on to retailers which is passed on consumers meeting all of our prices are going higher. but the white house is in denial but listen to the what the president said the day the numbers came out on wednesday per the president put a statement saying we are makin...

Issues the december release stack out to me transportation services and shelter were up more than 4%. your shelter are not stuck in the port of l.a. somewhere trying to get to you. i think theres more coming kevin hassett another economist a guy who worked for president trump so other side of the aisle said hes worried were going to see double-digit inflation in 2022. if we had that going into the november elections i think biden has a huge problem on his hands. >> dan, kyle just alluded to it. ...