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Extraordinary issues confronting us right now. that is the funding of government, which stops in 36 hours. we've got to do that. we've got the debt limit, which is another stupid thing. the debt limit issue is a phony issue. it should never frankly come up. debt is determined by how much we spend or how much revenue we cut, not by this arbitrary, capricious, and demagoguic issue of the debt limit. but nevertheless, it is there, and if we don't do something, the united states may default on its debt, in which case this country will be at risk of going into recession and the international econom...

It's incomprehensible on a totally unrelated issue a senator or the senate itself would put at risk the operations of the government of the united states over an issue that is ancillary, is a side issue -- senator lee may well think it's an important issue, and i get that. i disagree with his premise, but nevertheless, this is about keeping government operating on behalf of the american people, keeping our defense established and strong and safe and secure, keeping our civilian employees who participate in that on the job. and it's just incomprehensible to me that over a political, totally pol...

You bring up this issue of data. you brought up the numbers we're seeing out of south africa and there's data out from scientists today that say a omicron variant triples the risk of reinfection. listen, i understand, this is not peer reviewed. this is not the data experts want to see. but when you look at this early set of numbers, what does that tell you? >> yeah, so that early data did kind of raise attention to myself and public health colleagues. what was hopeful about that data -- i try to take things away that are hopeful these days. >> okay. >> what is hopeful about that data is reinfe...

Important issue, islamophobia, anti-semitism, racism, are all critically important issues that our country must get over, must oppose and must exercise from our public quality, if you will. and we'll have to -- we'll deal with that, but right now we're dealing with extraordinarily important issues and we need to get those done. >> i would be remiss if i didn't give you a follow-up on that. you say you're having conversations on this boebert issue. do you anticipate a vote on that front? >> i don't anticipate a vote certainly this week or possibly next week. we've got to deal with these issues ...