just do not understand enough about omicron to say it s mild, put it aside, it s okay. but you re right, katy, this gets to the point now where hopefully, this means that we have so much immunity. the reason i have a silver lining on this is because we have data that shows getting an omicron infection protects you against delta. we re still dealing with delta in much of our country. it s a very important point that scientists have found, omicron infections can protect you, we think, against delta, which means this could be the beginning of the end of this phase of the pandemic. and i say this phase because we now know historically, we go through several phases, the next one is kind of a recovery phase, not totally back to normal but much closer. let s talk about mild infection. we keep hearing that from people, dr. fauci says it. i talk to a lot of doctors on this show who say, listen, we re all going to get this, we re all going to get this, it is that infectious. other doctors sa
i do think the industries can turn this around. it s a reflection of what we re seeing across the country. kids are going back to school next week. i m not a fan of shutting schools down, but i think we re going to see schools in quarantine, in some phases of shutdown because we ll see so many cases, so it s similar. but i want to be positive about saying that we can then recover from this just as quickly because we know what we need to do so that people don t get infected. listen, i have no plans to ever get on a cruise if i can help it. my husband is desperate to go on one at some point, but i do feel bad for the industry, it is a tough situation for them. yeah. let s talk about quarantine and isolation. there are a lot of memes out there making fun of the cdc for the five-day isolation, then five days with a mask. there s one that keeps making me laugh, the cdc says just wear a cute pair of jeans and a top. there s a lot of jokes, yes, but tell me, there s data behind the idea
bunch of bunk, a witch hunt, et cetera. what are you hearing from them in private about this committee and the findings that they might have when they do finish? the same thing. this has been so hyperpoliticized throughout congress, throughout washington. we talk a lot about how there s a lack of trust and a lack of bipartisanship. so much of that stems from january 6th. democrats looking over at their republican counterparts, aghast at the way they have white washed the day of january 6th and the way they have in some ways stood in the way of this committee s work. we re also about to get into a time, though, katy, where the committee at this point has just requested cooperation and documents from two sitting republican lawmakers, perry and jim jordan. both of them are not likely to cooperate here. the committee is now going to have to be in the position in 2022 of figuring out how far they re willing to go and frankly how far they can go in compelling sitting lawmakers to
or so people, how would they handle a relatively modern european state of 40 million? they may be able to take kiev, as richard said, but that doesn t mean they ll be able to hold the country without a lot of cost. the question is what is he trying to get out of it right now. we haven t quite figured that out. it s kind of a manufactured crisis. ukraine wasn t about to join nato. nato wasn t about to expand any further. these demands that he s put on the table aren t things that are at issue anyway, even if the west won t accept them because they don t want to tie their hands on a point of principle. that s the big question, what is putin trying to get out of this. i guess the following question would come up, in regards to europe, if we re talking about the united states still, how reliable does europe see our decisionmaking right now, ali? that s a very good question. i mean, after everything that s happened in the united states, after the pullout in afghanistan, europeans don t
west do this, you in the united states do that. sometimes they had a point. and sometimes they didn t. and of course they distorted things to suit their own needs. but right now, obviously, we are in a harder position to, you know, hold the moral high ground in terms of promoting democracy around the world, when we are, at home, as you say, confronting our own questions about how to run our own government, our own country. and i think that it does give putin an opening. he does watch what s happening here very carefully. he saw what happened with us in afghanistan. he saw therefore a country that was so eager to get out after 20 years, it s not eager to get into other foreign entanglements. he s put that into his calculation of what we re willing to do in his mind. all these things factor in, i think. richard is right, there s a lot of reason to think it would be a bad idea for russia to invade ukraine, because if they couldn t handle chechnya, which was a tiny republic of a million