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A few moments ago? >> actually, jim, somewhere in between. it's helpful if you understand its three major components. first components. we were expecting a delta wave, because we've not done a good enough job vaccinating the country. only 60% have gotten two doses. that means the unvaccinated, we've got a -- we're going to pile into hospitals anyway because of delta. that's point one. point two is we have the omicron variant superimposed. a lot of us were hopeful it would have a four to six-week lag from the time it started up in the uk. unfortunately it's more transmidsible, and it's here in ...

The omicron variant so no question you'll be better off. having said that with the third immunization, data coming out of uk health security agency said about 70% to 75 protection against symptomatic illness so not quite as good as it is against the other variants. that's point up. point two, that level of protection is -- may be the best case scenario because it starts to decline after a few months based on data coming out of germany, so that's why this is going to be so problematic is we will see breakthrough symptomatic illness, hopefully not much in the way of hospitalizations, but it will...

A -- >> mcconnell is already face -- several gop candidates have made voting him out of leadership now part of their platform. chris cillizza has a piece about that on cnn.com. so walk us through how real this morning is that threat for mitch mcconnell, chris? >> sure, erica. let's start with what we definitely know. point one, donald trump does not like mitch mcconnell. he has gone after him many times. point two, donald trump has tried to recruit someone within the senate to challenge mitch mcconnell for that leadership role and so far has been unsuccessful. what is he doing now? well, kelly...

>> who risked his life for our country. >> tell me again why you hate america. >> i don't hate america. i just hate the truth. -- i just hate the troops. >> i'm glad we distinguished that. we made a very important difference. >> you put that out there, oh, my god. >> i don't have full control over anything i do. that's point one. point two, you can lose more time when you turn off all notifications. anyone do this? you turn them off. you look like, okay, it's been enough time you have to see people want to hear from and nobody texted you. >> you leave a little number on the -- the icon. >> it ...

Country. >> tell me again why you hate america. >> i don't hate america. i just hate the truth. -- i just hate the troops. >> i'm glad we distinguished that. we made a very important difference. >> you put that out there, oh, my god. >> i don't have full control over anything i do. that's point one. point two, you can lose more time when you turn off all notifications. anyone do this? you turn them off. you look like, okay, it's been enough time you have to see people want to hear from and nobody texted you. >> you leave a little number on the -- the icon. >> it takes more time to dig yourself...