brian: what s not clear is that president biden say it s okay to put out that massive letter basically calling joe manchin duplicitous and a liar. steve: he signed off on it. brian: she said we are not going to go over the conversation that led to it excuse me, we should just know if the president is behind those statements. carley: i don t even think it s just the letter though. joe manchin said they were so far apart on where they were with build back better, especially with the child tax credit like you mentioned that he said it wasn t going anywhere. although that lettering and putting his family in jeopardy no more. brian: i think it also is the fact that they were doing these numbers on one year instead of the 10 years. so they knew it was a joke. it is not close to 1.7. he probably wanted a legitimate, which is a scary number anyway 1.7. not the phony 1.7 as if all these programs are going go away in a year. here is senator joe manchin picked up a phone and called a
it s the 21st. brian: like nothing we have ever seen before. carley: you think that s on the app. steve: equinox, too. carley: and there is equinox. brian: first thing looked at the calendar formulated it and talk more about that. a couple of things. this the is time of year when you realize you forgot who you got in the grab bag. process of elimination. steve: they stopped doing grab bags with covid. brian: i think they do. a lot of people do. they don t want to buy for everybody. carley: grab bag would have to come with a glove in some circle. my grab bag grab it. brian: i don t do hygiene theater. steve: there you go. theater, speaking of theaters they are all closed because of covid. carley shimkus is in because anxiously is taking the week off. carley: much deserved break. steve: so spoking of covid, one of the things a lot of people are traveling. and a lot of requirements are you have got have a covid test before you can travel on cruises
2021. i remember when i went to get a test last year. city the clinic in the new york city had a way to sign up on phone and come back later in the day. i can t believe that isn t implemented in every clinic. brian: right now. steve: a lot of the restrictions are you have to have it within 24 hours it used to be 72. now people are really panicked. carley: that s right. brian: so far everyone is panicked over a variant that nobody ever says we are looking out. we are being cautious. but, even though the 70% of the cases of the new people testing positive are omicron. we have had one death with somebody 50 years old in texas with underlying conditions. overall for this nation of 330 million. deaths are up 3%. even though cases are up 20%. it s easy to get. it spreads quicker but there is no indication that it s even resulting in hospitalizations. so it s good to be warned but i believe we are looking at a nation overreacting and we are going to see a president who is
a like a chokehold on everything and everybody was going to be needing these products, it seemed like the prices kept going higher and higher and higher, despite despite my, you know, i m looking at my budget and what i have to spend on these things, and it was you know, i was pulling my hair out just trying to find it any resource we could. steve: we understand u.s. foods has since said okay, okay, okay. we will take you back as a customer. but now there are stipulations, right? that s correct. i have a higher number case count, not a piece count, but a case. i could buy one of, you know, let s say a block of cream cheese that doesn t count as a case unless there is a whole box of it. we have increased they have increased that from 15 to about 25 pieces and then there is a pretty hefty $1,500 spend amount on that as well. steve: yeah. i understand. you had to wait 16 weeks for straws. it s been hard for you to get
carley: bronx. steve: wants to move forward not backward like his state sold us out. he wants us all to be like his state west virginia. poor, illiterate and strung out. brian: hard to have a more condescending tone and more bitter statements put down an entire state because you disagree with a senator, the 72 years old, self-made success story former governor of a state? he has won three terms in the senate? one thing, what has bette midler done the last 20 years excepted show up for kennedy award. either her or barbra streisand saying something. carley: she apologized for that tweet. i apologize to the good people of west virginia for my last outburst just seeing red. joe manchin and his whole family are a criminal enterprise? is he really the best west virginia has to offer its own citizens. like one of those apology tweets still really angry.