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Reports lately. we're going to pull back on our bond buying program, hike rates, that's always going to believe a risky maneuver. that's coming in the first quarter. >> i want to talk to you about that in terms of whether you're a central banker and talking monetary policy or a politician talking about fiscal policy, do they still have the tools to deal with this, if this new variant ends up giving us much more adversity than anyonei thi fed to raise rates because of this very thing. you don't want to have no ammo in another crisis. i wish they would have raised them last quarter before we kne...

Treat republicans and democrats equalitily. it is -- equally. it is sound policy. we don't know a lot of about omicron. we know it can transfer over person to person whether vaccinated or not worse than delta variability. i would like to see more data. i think it would be important to making policy decisions related to travel. it is the right decision right now. the policy is the same, they should be treated equally and that's the problem with politics in this country today, they're not. jason: well, but leting look at florida versus michigan. florida has some of the best covid transmission ra...

Treat republicans and democrats equalitily. it is -- equally. it is sound policy. we don't know a lot of about omicron. we know it can transfer over person to person whether vaccinated or not worse than delta variability. i would like to see more data. i think it would be important to making policy decisions related to travel. it is the right decision right now. the policy is the same, they should be treated equally and that's the problem with politics in this country today, they're not. jason: well, but leting look at florida versus michigan. florida has some of the best covid transmission ra...

See lockdowns. i think we have enough of the percentage of people in the country, not enough to crush the outbreak, but i believe enough to not allow us to get into the situation we were in last winter. but things are going to get worse. alicia: so no shutdowns in all likelihood but what does worse look like to you? >> first of all, you're ray -- hurray for him saying no shutdowns. we have the 165 million people fully vaccinated. out of 165 million, only 165,000 hospitalizations. no way we're going back to where we were last winter. i don't know if i agree it's going to get worse. i do think w...

Pockets of unvaccinated people in this country? >> very concerned. what we have here in the united states is two sprait types of pandemics. one, where the vaccinated population, which are largely protected with getting a full does of the covid-19 vaccine. and then you have a separate unvaccinated population that is at risk for infection. so they're essentially playing russian roulette. so either they will get infected with covid-19 naturally and suffer hospitalization and death and long covid. and so it's one of those thing where is we make sure as many people get vaccinated as possible with t...