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Making excuses. welcome to you both. ok, douglas, ill start with you first. in the warning from the white house they are making the case that a lot of the bad news will be because of the highly transmissible omicron variant. here is jen psaki explaining. >> the months job report may show losses in large part because workers were out sick from omicron at the point when it was peaking during the week when the data was taken. >> fair explanation or excuse, doug? >> well, clearly preparing for a bad...

Governors, we want to make sure our testing capacity is there. we want to make sure that we have access to the therapeutics, and thats where the federal government needs to step up. we need to make sure that there is a quick production. they need to rely upon the states for the distribution, and there is a lot of discussions about that. they need to improve that supply chain. lets take advantage of this going down to be better prepared around the corner. >> governor murphy, how do we not run int...

Onto a continued delta variant. no question that we have a testing problem in the united states. we have been talking about testing since march of 2020, and we have not gotten ahead of the curve and thats really not great news at this point in time. um, so people are making up their own rules. were also -- i live in a part of the country where every step that the public officials take at the state level, our democratic governor has taken to try and put masking protocol in place, put vaccination ...

No question that we have a testing problem in the united states. we have been talking about testing since march of 2020, and we have not gotten ahead of the curve and thats really not great news at this point in time. um, so people are making up their own rules. were also -- i live in a part of the country where every step that the public officials take at the state level, our democratic governor has taken to try and put masking protocol in place, put vaccination requirements in place, has been ...

Days you need a test before you can end isolation. i dont know if you heard either of them say that or if you have a reaction to that observation? >> i did. we certainly believe thats a good idea. the u.k. reduced the number of quarantine day to seven only after two negative tests. we have a testing problem in this country obviously. thats part of the lodggistical problem in this country. why is it okay to have symptomatic people coming back and being infectious. we got to get through this pande...

Accurate. most cases yes, theyre not going to be infectious after five days but with omniicron, w dont need many cases to begin to spread. it does require a lot of people wearing n-95 and kn-95 masks constantly for another five days and we know thats not happening very conscientiously in the united states. finally there is no tests. if you can get the results back eight to ten hours at day five and thank you knew you were negative, i would feel confident with that advise. the testing problem mea...

Omicron variant as it spreads across the country. lauren blanchard is live with for. >> today president biden will meet with the nations governors and the covid response team to talk about what comes next. some states are reinstating mask mandates. others are considering shortened quarantine periods to help get people back to work faster. more than anything, the president is likely to be asked where are the tests is last week the president promised 500 million free of charge rapid test kits but ...

Testing surge in october? does the buck stop with you there? with respect to the surge. >> we didnt reject it. >> the administration says it will order 500 million at home tests for americans to request free online. the website isnt up yet and the tests will likely go out next month, well after the holidays. >> we are addressing the testing problem and very soon that that will be corrected 12k3w4r-z speaking to governors today, the president stressed local officials are largely responsible for h...

Legislation has been such an incredible mess. you tried to get answers from the presidents point man on the issue. was he able to give you any? >> he gave us some answers, anderson, but danced around other questions. he said they acknowledged there are problems and said this is not acceptable, people getting booted off et cetera and have people working 24/7 to fix the problems so i followed one this. many argued you had many months to boot it up and perfect it, so why so many problems? >> we wen...

Issue. was he able to give you any? >> he gave us some answers, anderson, but danced around other questions. he said they acknowledged there are problems and said this is not acceptable, people getting booted off et cetera and have people working 24/7 to fix the problems so i followed one this. many argued you had many months to boot it up and perfect it, so why so many problems? >> we went through a testing problem, create a punch list, fix those things and the president said from the beginning...