let's talk politics coming up to the first anniversary of joe biden's presidency. one big thing he wanted to be judged on was fighting this pandemic. you have the weird situation now where republicans are saying see? see? he failed to control the pandemic. he failed to keep covid under control. meanwhile they're cheering on the supreme court as it knocks down mandates, cheering on governors who stop any kind of mitigation measures. >> yeah. well, i think that is a tall order for anybody and i wrote the week joe biden was elected that expecting just joe biden getting elected and getting donald trump out of the white house doesn't really do much for the virus. the virus doesn't really care who is president, right, it's about public health measures that could mitigate it but as we now know this virus isn't going away ever. and whoever is in the white house can't control what variant we get. the other thing is having talked to republicans on capitol hill, one fairly senior one told me that, you know, he was vaccinated, all the people in his office were vaccinated, but spreading the antivax message in