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Any other country on that front. but if we want to live with it, listening to dr. fauci, he's just telling history. we were able to live with polio and smallpox. people went out, and they got vaccinated. you know, i agree, we need to do everything we can do to have a return to normalcy. hopefully omicron breaks soon. i think it is breaking soon, and we can move that direction. but, elise jordan, i don't really exactly know how to respond to some of my friends when they write me emails and are angry about a new variant. oh, so now they're telling us there's this thing called omicron, acting as ...

This variant, but we knew something could likely come. how would you assess the administration's response? >> that's right. first, it's always good to be with you and always challenging to be talking about yet another winter surge. millions of families out there are frustrated we're back here. the reality is that what they're saying is the result of not having kept ahead of where we were. the thing that public health is about is about prevention. it's about keeping us from getting into circumstances. once we're responding in tough situations, we're already behind. the reality of it is that tho...

Given covid was getting better and you had this huge, you know, artificial boost from stimulus. >> yeah, you ask all the right questions. you look at gdp in normal times, gross domestic product would be the best estimate of the economy. but in this case, we're not in normal times and with this virus, it just changes the economy from month to month. and especially since this gdp is looking back from july through september, so much has changed since then. if we walk down memory lane and think about what was going on during july through september, delta was a prevalent variant that was circulatin...

2.3% rate for the third quarter, it is a deceleration from what we saw because all that stimulus was gone. i think the best way to figure out how the economy really is doing is to take a forward approach, not a backward approach. even that's difficult and you alluded to that with the omicron variant. we don't know how much this variant is going to impact consumer spending and economic growth. throw in the questionable fate of build back better, which taking it out of the economy is already pushing economists to cut their expectations for gdp. there is a lot in question about the health of the ...

In the fight against the new strain of the coronavirus, called omicron. the white house covid response team confirmed still no con frmed cases here in the u.s., at least for now, but they're actively looking for it, they say. as pharmaceutical companies scramble to try to get one step ahead of this variant. dr. fauci says at least 226 cases have been confirmed in at least 20 countries. you see all of them here on your screen. i want to bring in our nbc news team following all of this, gabe gutierrez and stephanie ruhle in new york and sam brock in miami. gabe, let me start with you. the head o...