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Alicia: and how concerned are you about these travel bans and to where they could extend, how this could impact the tourist industry and just confidence in general? >> look, not just the tourist industry. i mean, i lived and traded, as we all did, through the last lockdown period. for a lot of those stocks, liquidity the simply dried up. people weren't willing to trade or invest at all, and that's the uncertainty when government starts to get into the picture and literally forcibly closes people's business across the board. companies are are innovative, they come up with ways to deal with the ...

Countries, certainly not into the united states. and so as i said, we should follow the science and i think that travel ban going to effect for south africa at this time is the right move and we should just continue to watch that as things progress. alicia: we do know that the united kingdom did announce its travel ban from south africa and surrounding countries and we know today they have identified two cases of the omicron that they have isolated the folks and are doing the contact tracing. so as dr. fauci pointed out today, it's a little bit of a different message than he had yesterday that...

Ban, are there things that can be done right now to help prevent the supply crisis from getting worse if, indeed, the new variant adds to the misery? congressman: well, there are, and a lot of those things are taking place. the president said this go 24/7 at western ports, la and long beach, they are not yet at 24/7. one to have port operators is operating close to that. we have also seen a 30% reduction in the backlog at those two ports, so it is beginning to thin out, but there's a whole series of just simple operational things that need to take place, take the containers off the chasses and...

President urging americans to get vaccinated and to yet a booster as well in light of this new variant. what do you say? >> i agree with that. i think -- and i wrote in the "wall street journal" this week even before this came to light that everybody should get boosterred, and this is exactly the reason. because you want the best possible protection available to you. if you haven't had covid yet. if you had covid, i kind of count that as one shot, but otherwise boosters, for sure, because you want to be immunized as much as possible. the other thing we need, by way, is an antidote to all the f...

And that was before china joined the world trade organization. so we have seen an enormous change in the way in which the world trade has occurred but we've not updated our regulatory requirements. we need to give the federal maritime commission the power to regulate, to deal with the extraordinary charges that are facing exporters from the united states and also i do know that in my district and in bessie johnson's district the agricultural community has just been slammed by the inability to get empty containers. those containers are going back under the ships headed back to the western pacif...