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Be. in we are not responsible for omicron but the fact that we weren't ready is a bureaucratic problem. i think that brings us, steve, right to the first issue, and that's kids in school. >> steve: you are absolutely right, brian. you know, you were talking about how the administration was caught flat footed. they were completely unprepared. remember, it was months ago when joe biden said this is going to be the winter of death and severe illness. we didn't even know about omicron at that point but that's when they should have been doing something behind the scenes and they weren't doing anyth...

The capitol? >> let me start with this. my great, great grandmother headed to the north to join the union army to win the freedom of his family in the civil war. not during the civil war did we see what we saw a year ago. a confederate flag being paraded through the u.s. capital. it should never be normalized in our memory, in our thinking. this was a once in a lifetime of a nation event hopefully. now in terms of the capital police, the security for such events, i'm aphrase we see this far too often. they're caught surprised, flat

>> we're hearing that individuals at the state department are calling u.s. citizens in ukraine telling them to leave immediately, not an automated message, fareed, a real person. does this show the concern level here how worried they are this could turn into a mess like happened in afghanistan? >> i think it shows that they are aware that there is a significant possibility that this goes to war. and they wanted to do two things. be sure that nobody says you were caught flat footed. by the way i think the memories of the afghanistan play a part. and genuinely they don't want americans coming in...

>> we're hearing that individuals at the state department are calling u.s. citizens in ukraine telling them to leave immediately, not an automated message, fareed, a real person. does this show the concern level here how worried they are this could turn into a mess like happened in afghanistan? >> i think it shows that they are aware that there is a significant possibility that this goes to war. and they wanted to do two things. be sure that nobody says you were caught flat footed. by the way i think the memories of the afghanistan play a part. and genuinely they don't want americans coming in...

Now, the president of the united states, he tried to manage expectations today, almost like a lawyer talking to their client about what to expect in laying the groundwork, and telling the american people we would not be caught flat footed. but the president of the united states is well aware there are televisions also in russia, and it seems he hopes that vladimir putin was one of those television viewers. >> the united states is prepared no matter what happens. we are ready with diplomacy. we are ready to respond decisively to a russian attack on ukraine, which is still very much a possibilit...