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Whatever and come back on a sunday or monday, and its great change of scenery, you can eat good food, live music, all of the things we want to do to get back to normal life after the miserable time in the last year and a half. >> neil: mask requirements will stay through till march, do your customers not like that? and if so, the hassle of flying in general, im sure is a different experience, but you have heard the legendary stories on the rest of the people, they are frazzled? >> i started the ...

Pretty hard to imagine if you come back and start again in january that you get done before february or so. i think youre exactly right. i think it makes it much harder for them to get this done than it would have been six months ago. every day people have a chance to look at this and try to add up the things that dont add up i think theres less public support and every day democrats get closer to the next election, some of them will have to decide do i want to stay in congress or do i want to v...

I dont understand this. this takes effect before he formally leaves. can he do this? >> always great to be on with you, neil. yes, he can. understand the umbrella of public safety and public health, it gives tremendous power to the local government. thats what hes doing here. frankly, the mayor in the final weeks is putting in an extraordinary mandate in place who has been tried not in this expansive scope but several of the lawsuits seeking similar mandates. the nypd tried. they failed in state...

That ran under covid-19. >> neil: why now is the only question. thanks, mercedes. meantime, back to omicron. the variant that has everyone worried. what we discovered is it is indeed very contagious. heres why stocks were racing today. its been deemed not remotely dangerous. are they right? after this. [uplifting music playing] ♪ i had a dream that someday ♪ ♪ i would just fly, fly away ♪

Politics. again, a lot will happen between now and what is that fairly late primary in georgia. well have to see. we thought senator purdue did a good job while we are here. well have to see about georgia republicans. >> neil: senator row blunt, thanks. >> great to be with you. >> neil: remember dave neeleman? hes had a number of successful airlines. breeze airways is getting a lot of attention if nothing, some fares that start as $39. the jet blue founder is here next. so when my windshield cra...

Enterprise? isnt that a little different here? >> well, the one in the federal courts was a private group that brought it under the mandate saying the fact that these vaccine mandates are physically not giving a carve out for religious beliefs. thats problematic. that was defeated in the court of appeals. so yes, theres no doubt there will be im sure some class action, something will be brought to the courts saying businesses like this business that you profiled just moments ago, would this be r...

Totally remake the economy. theyre going to transform american society and its not going to cost anything. so nobody believes that. i think people will begin to look at this more closely. frankly i think time is on the side of the people that would prefer this not pass, that we try to stay with the tax policies and regulatory policies that weve had for the past four years that were producing really good results before covid hit. clearly see the economy heating up and on the way back. maybe heati...

>> well, you know, we circle meeting at airports and serve where people want to go, and all of our flights are nonstop coming dont have to make a connection to a hub. we say lets get there attached half as fast. and 30% of our customers are repeat customers. and we are getting them with the great survey mps course. >> neil: new york, west palm beach, what are some of them that you are focusing on? >> we just announced yesterday, services from no folk and to charleston. and its great city, it see...

Omicron developments instead proving that vaccines dont work. they say the hell with it. what do you say? >> it proves the opposite. vaccines do work. instead of everybody dying from a new variant, were seeing we have some immunity to it. vaccines arent there to make sure that nobody gets sick at all. vaccines are there to prevent severe illness and debilitation. theyre doing their job and doing it quite well. >> neil: doctor, great catching up with use. well see you abreast if other countries b...

By march. people begin to think about the election. they look at the presidents numbers. they look at the inflation numbers. just wonder if they can add one more thing to that that they can explain and have a chance to come back. its certainly likely that we have a republican house and probably a republican senate anyway, but the size of that margin could be affected by how democrats that are currently here decide theyre going to vote on this package after the first of the year. >> neil: what do...