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Session now, and if you go to the test side of the cap toll, longs are as long as they have ever been, and you've this quite a few lawmakers test positive, too, in the past few week, even the number three house democrat jim clyburn announced a positive test, and most of these have been among democrats, but, you know, republicans have been curiously silent about the number of positive tests among lawmakers there, and so, you know this, will certainly be a -- a concern for lawmakers heading into next year. >> yeah. it's fascinating that we're back here again, both on the policy side and politica...

You find reasonable given your situation. the hospital or central workers, five days or whatever you believe is appropriate. that is good on the policy side. on the pharmaceutical side, we got medications that cut covid deaths 20, two of them. mark and visors cut covid deaths 20. between the two trials, zero deaths from covid in the treatment arms so that's a significant and to the pandemic in the united states once we can get it disseminated. griff: you touched on a policy issue, i think americans are thinking about it, that's the news, the healthcare workers on the front lines, quarantine fi...

Pause on the student loan payments for an additional 90 days as we look at the pandemic and further our country. there is a lot of concern on capitol hill by democrats that this is going back into place, it is now being extended, and i think it marks a shift of the administration recognizing the reality on the policy side of things but also the political side, kate. >> phil, thank you for that. appreciate it. another move being made by the biden administration launching federal covid testing sites across the country to try to meet the demand brought on by the omicron variant. one of the firs...

Fight in california is in the primary. finally, electric vehicles, you guys know i look at everything from an international perspective, canada and mexico are really hot to trot over this proposed subsidy that biden is putting forth, it would violate usmca which is the free trade agreement that replaced a nafta which president trump negotiated so there's a lot more on this issue that we will have to pay close attention to on the policy side. >> emily: what are your thoughts on that especially the impact on domestic economy here? >> the push to go green is real and the goals to have electric ve...

Demagogue like donald trump. >> maya, i'm curious on your take of all of this. legally, you can talk about culpability, and being misinformed. we have an individual who is dead, others saying they weren't violence. the videos have been shown, fact check, it's false. there was incredible violence there that day. but how does this factor into the policy side of congress trying to figure out what to do, structurally, in protecting democracy going forward. and dealing with what may be a long term problem out in the country? >> i just want to start by saying, having listened to your podcast, ayman,...