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>> yeah, testing positive, there is a big fork in the road. are you symptomatic? are you coughing? do you have a soar throat? you have the headache that seems to come with omicron? really you have got to get away -- be away from folks so you dont spread it. you have got to take care of yourself. contact your primary care prior. if you are at high risk there are therapies out there, new therapies emerging for covid, and you have just got to make sure you do whatever you can to prevent the spread ...

Is that we live in a glass house right now. its not just sony. sony is good at defenses. sony has invested in this. they have seen attacks before. the rest of the u.s. corporations have the same vulnerabilities that sony does. we cant just look at the private sector. its going to have to rearchitect. the government has to be involved in defending. then we will have the option of being more offensive. i think until we set up the defenses, being offensive is going to be very challenging. >> should...

Cyber warfare business? >> we already are. but the real challenge we have in terms of using cyber offense is that we live in a glass house right now. its not just sony. sony is good at defenses. sony has invested in this. they have seen attacks before. the rest of the u.s. corporations have the same vulnerabilities that sony does. we cant just look at the private sector. its going to have to rearchitect. the government has to be involved in defending. then we will have the option of being more o...

Obviously, as mike points out, there is a lot less -- there is more we dont know than we do know about their actions here. but based on the information we have, the answer to that is yes. i think mike makes a politically important point. politically for chris christie, chris, which is they really dont want bridget kelly -- they dont want to be -- no one wants to beat her up too much in christie world politically speaking because they dont want a story in which she is sort of looking out for brid...

Development there, something to do with money, something to do with election politics. but the idea that she would just on a dime come up with this idea of screwing the guy with this traffic for a month is what the plan was, four weeks of this, all entirely on her own meant somebody gave her tremendous authority in the name of the governor. the governor, somehow she could speak in the name of the governor. and the question is was the governor involved in any way of shaping the battlefield for th...

Democrats need to be behind this. >> joe manchin is in the halls of the capitol, i believe he just as you were talking was speaking with reporters. i actually dont know if we have his sound or garrett haake live from capitol hill. let me bring you into the conversation, garrett haake our capitol hill correspondette. joe manchin might be talking as we speak. what is he saying on this? as mike points out hes one of the people that democrats will be focusing on as they look to get the big package t...