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>> my much smarter colleague on this issue, dr. sanjay gupta calls it a original sin of the administration, and it was started in the trump administration, and it is even a disaster under the biden administration, and so we are much more reactionary as proactive in this stage. >> yes, and i agree, we are playing catchup every time. we don't have enough tests available, and we have let the market dictate what happens with the testing, and the reality is when you have a public health crisis what needs to happen is what is happening right now, the government should have ordered free rapid tests a...

It sounds like that's what you're talking about here. here's the problem. it feels like this administration on this issue has been a day late and dollar short all year long. the president misassessed the situation that he made a crucial error in speaking about it last week. now it feels like we're playing catchup. peter's just asking some very simple questions here. if we're pulling people out of this country, what does it mean? would you please tell us what's really going on and what you really think is going to happen? and they just don't have an answer, which is why it's been cleanup for a ...

Sort of offering metrics could be, when they could start to lift guidelines and you've seen that there has been confusion by the lack of those guidelines because a lot of not just republican states but democratic states have started to lift mask mandates for businesses, for indoor spaces, in some states schools have announced a date where schools can lift the mask mandate so this is part of a bit of the cdc playing catchup to what is happening across the country but the agency is looking at looser mask requirements based not only on case rates and vasion vaccination rates and hospitalizations ...

Now find ourselves in. the emphasis was on deterrence. plan b is what would happen if deterrence failed. what we're trying to do now is catch up, to scramble into plan b. the problem is we can't fly things in. you've got to get stuff over to europe, poland or romania from the united states. you have to connect it with ukrainian troops. you have to get the equipment to the soldiers. sometimes the soldiers to the people. you have to train people up in some cases. we are playing catchup, and that's the situation. so you have these duelling timetables. you have the russian siege, which is going mo...

Impeachment because in your new piece as well that is out, you point out that americans simply can't afford to forget the role that volodymyr zelenskyy played in trump's first impeachment. why is that so important to understanding what is actually going on with ukraine today? because we are playing catchup in trying to get the ukrainians weapons they need that president trump exploited to his political advantage back a couple of years ago. >> that first impeachment almost feels like ancient history at this point. >> yeah. >> but it is important to remember some of the details and most notoriou...