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Mike: cdc is promoting its strategy test to stay, still more than 800 schools across the us unexpectedly closed this week according to rubio with more than 500 schools closed in the first week of january. dr. ashish jha, are we headed for full-scale remote learning and as a public health matter, closed versus stay open? >> this is unfortunate. here we are almost two years into the pandemic and we know how to keep schools open and safe. this really should not even be on the table and i'm disappointed to see this happening. we know that for kids being in school is the right thing for them, for t...

Aren't able to get tested and they are wondering what took so long to wrap up testing? >> what happened was the omicron virus spread more rapidly than anybody thought. mike: that was then president-elect biden a year ago on his predecessors pandemic response and then this past week defending his administration's actions and it's time now, for sunday group former republican congressman jason chaffetz, katherine lucy who covers white house for the "wall street journal" and charles lane from the "washington post". welcome to all of you. >> thank you. mike: i want to start by taking stock and the ...

Vaccinated, director wilensky said the agency is looking at that now. from your perspective and public health, is this going to be a necessary and inevitable revision? >> i do think we will end up there. look, we have lots of vaccines that are three shot series, polio is a four shot series so i don't think the idea of a three shot covid vaccine series, to be fully vaccinated, is either unprecedented or unusual. "my take" is that it's probably where the science has landed us-- actually that's where the science is landing and i think in the upcoming weeks or months the cdc will revise it to say ...

Dick-- tactics and messaging. >> that's right, mike. i think the public is getting a mixed review right now on covid and i think we see that in the polls with frustration around where things stand and i think we have to think about this that the president ran as someone who was in control and this summer he said the country would declare independence from the virus and and then we had dealt and now he's dealing with the challenges of omicron and you really seen them play out holiday season with long lines at testing centers and travel has been snarled. this isn't the festive moment the preside...

There's more people vaccinated in vaccines are widely available, boosters are available, new therapeutics are being made so they are trying to walk that line, but heading into 22 and a top position and facing tough questions as you noted in particular about the testing shortage. mike: jason, we saw helpful from the kaiser family foundation that gives us an early sense of how vaccinated and unvaccinated adults in the us feel about the risks from omicron, 54% of vaccinated adults say omicron makes them more likely to get a booster, but only 12% of unvaccinated adults say omicron makes them more ...