doctor has characterized it, which is thankfully, unusually mild. yet, when you watch the media, elected officials, they are on hyper drive on the fear index. your response to where we are right now with this now third iteration? >> you know, i think the hysteria gets the better of the media and we need to calm down, take a breath and see what this is. if it turned out to be worse, then we will have to make some decisions. but it looks like and this is what happens a lot of times with viruses, as they mutate they become more transmissible. more easily contagious but a lot of times they become less deadly that's what the reports are, at least the initial reports from south africa are more transmissible but fortunately less deadly. >> senator do you agree or disagree with the decision to institute a travel ban in south africa canned a surrounding countries? remember, joe biden characterized it as utterly racist for black and brown people for donald trump to do so. now they are doing it but it could wait until monday. >> it's incredibly hypocritical for him to have credit i see