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Complaints about inflation within the c.a.r.e.s. act, the ppp, massive amount of money going to corporate america. nobody was screaming about inflation. we talk about inflation when these programs are designed to help the people who have the greatest needs. i agree we have to give people something they can feel. people inside the bubble can pat each other on the back and say we've done a good job. until the people who need it the most start to feel it, it doesn't matter. talk about messes, republicans have no standing in talking about creating a mess. >> just to add, i want to point out the fa...

Congressman scott gottheimer, a moderate democrat who needs the s.a.l.t. tax deduction in there. senator sanders and i'm guessing you don't love that. >> one of the things the senators talked about is analyze this and look at if there are families, i think he puts at 400,000 and lower, let's do something about that, but not give tax breaks to the ultra wealthy in this country, the second highest expense in the b to the third power is the s.a.l.t., and as far as paid family and medical leave, we are the united states of america. other industrialized nations can do that, we should do it, too. yo...

Congressman scott gottheimer, a moderate democrat who needs the s.a.l.t. tax deduction in there. senator sanders and i'm guessing you don't love that. >> one of the senators talked about is analyze this and look at if there are families, i think he puts at 400,000 and lower, let's do something about that but not give tax breaks to the ultra wealthy in this country, the second highest expense in the b to the third power is the s.a.l.t., and as far as paid family and medical leave, we are the united states of america. other industrialized nations can do that, we should do it, too. you want to ta...

Do you think omicron is more contagious than delta? >> we don't know whether it can compete with delta. we've had occasions we thought a variant was going to take over in the united states. remember beta, b.1.3.5.1, it never took off because delta was so incredibly effective at spreading that it couldn't compete. we don't know what omicron looks like if it gets to our country. i hope it doesn't but it's fairly likely we'll see cases. will it be able to compete or fizzle? >> do you think it's already here in the united states? >> we have no evidence that it is. we will find out. cdc is looking ...

People with mild illness anyway. we don't know. we think it's more contagious when you look at how rapidly it spread through multiple districts in south africa. it has the earmarks of being likely to spread from one person to another. >> that was one of the things that got everybody so concerned about delta, it was more contagious than the original novel coronavirus. do you think omicron is more contagious than delta? >> we don't know yet. it certainly shows the signs of being able to spread quickly. what we don't know is whether it can compete with delta. we've had occasions we thought a vari...