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When all else fades, faith, hope and love. thank you for spending part of your sunday with us, i hope you have a great week ahead, good night in from south carolina and happy new year. plan ♪ ♪ ♪ mike: president biden speaks to fears over the rapid spread of omicron, but his pandemic response faces rising criticism. >> this is not marge, of 2020. we are prepared. we know more. mike: the white house rolls out its plan to get at home at rapid tests into the hands of all americans while many scrambled to get tested for holiday gatherings and travel. >> we have been delayed 120 minutes. mike...

Proposed. now as your previous guest suggested, fully vaccinated naming three shots whereas when they proposed it it meant to shots and that sort of changes the whole atmosphere around the mandate. mike: jason, we saw a major setback last week on the presidents build back better agenda. as you know west virginia democrat joe manchin told us on this program last sunday that he didn't think he could get to yes, we saw the public reaction from lawmakers. you were a member of congress. how big a blow is this to the president's first year? >> it's pretty shocking. i think the democrats acted as if ...

Debated as we are now debating it publicly, once we see the specifics of the bill. mike: senator, democrats expressed interest on moving forward for a vote on bill back better and if democrats scale back the bill at some point even more or to break out some provisions and try to pass them as standalone's, are there any parts of build back better you could see republicans potentially supporting? >> well, i'm sure there would have to be. we have never really seen bill back better, but with a bill that over 10 years if you extend all the programs would spend $4.9 trillion, surely there's somethin...

What we anticipated and what we have been preparing for. mike: dr. ashish jha, does it appear administration officials were taken by surprise and what else accounts for the challenges we have seen in recent weeks to address the omicron surge? >> so, i think there are parts of the administration that have gotten it right. the push on boosters, availability of vaccines has all been terrific and even now you can glad get a vaccine tomorrow and there's plenty of supply. i think both on omicron and delta, the administration did not do enough to get ready with testing and through communication so th...

Think they overreached, they assumed it too much, they went much more progressive and i don't think there's much of a place or person like joe manchin, the old blue dog democrats are gone, they are extinct and there's no room for them in the democratic party of today. mike: catherine, your reaction on the setback to the agenda? >> certainly it's not what the white house expected a week ago on this show. they were taken aback. they were very frustrated, but you have also heard their tone in the past couple of days. they are arguing that they think they can find a way forward. the president has ...