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To talk about what sort of amendments, carve-outs, changes could that make to try to get 50 votes. i'm told all options are on the table, schumer has been working on this for month and they do see it as a priority goings into the new year. >> well, between now -- hang on, i've got to get going here. between now and the state of the union it's going to be interesting to see what do they prioritize in the wake of omicron, how much is the child tax credit, what will they try to accomplish before the election season starts? that's an unknown. when we come back, our annual tribute to those we los...

Good news, tens of millions are vaccinated. bad news, omicron means a third shot is more essential. good news, omicron appears to cause less severe disease. bad news, out of the uk, maybe not. the science is not that clear. that makes the job of promoting public health more difficult. jared polis was asked a week ago why he opposed a mandatory mask mandate in his state. >> the emergency is over. you know, public health doesn't get to tell people what to wear. that's just not their job. you don't tell people to wear a jacket when they go out in the winter and force them to. if they get frostbit...

More about that. we're looking forward to the president's speech on tuesday. >> i'm curious, on the issue of boosters, you and i have had a conversation multiple times in the last four months and i've asked you multiple questions on boosters. are we getting ahead of the science? are we behind the science? president biden said, hey, we should probably do it after five months after talking to israeli officials. some thoughts in april it should be eight months. there was confusion about six months. there's been a lot of ambiguity, if you want. now all of a sudden omicron is here and there's no mo...

Age get it. it isn't seen very often in men, almost exclusively in women. so when you put together the two things, the risk of the blood clot and the lesser of an efficacy, when you compare them head to head, that's why the cdc came out clearly that it's preferable to get an mrna. >> is it -- how likely is it that omicron will replace delta, the way delta replaced alpha? or are we really going to have two of these variants circulating simultaneously? >> you know, we don't know yet, chuck, for sure. you have to see how it rolls out. but if you look at what's happening, what happened in south af...

I know you have had -- there's some specific entities you want to see have vaccinated. based on what you've heard, are you going to change those definitions? >> that's certainly where it's headed, chuck. it looks like from everything we know that to significantly reduce the risk of the omicron variant, three doses of the vaccine are needed. by the way, chuck, this is normal with many other vaccines. i have young kids who has the dtap vaccine, three kids with the diphtheria and tetanus. i wish they'd stop talking about it as a booster. it is a three-dose vaccine. every piece of data we're seein...