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Needed. >> neil: thanks, holly, for what you and your colleagues are doing. holly baker from the american red cross. we want to update you on another development out of washington right now. that is this contempt vote that they plan to hold for mark meadows, the former chief of staff for president trump for refusing to come and testify before congress to that january 6 committee. of course, when rioters took over capitol hill. the vote is expected to be close. they will subpoena him and force the issue. could mean jail time if he still refuses and could mean some hefty fines. we'll keep a clos...

Doing to pay more for goods and passing it down to the retail level. that's what hits us. the indications are right now that this inflation will stick around awhile. do you think jerome powell and the federal reserve should hike interest rates now? >> they should start tapering as he talked about. you mentioned the effect of that should be to raise interest rates slightly. but what will happen eventually is with this kind of inflation, we're going to have to do something. raising interest rates is the obvious way to do it and has been successful in the past. you don't want to do it too much. y...

Right wing media, i track it, i watch it. they're saying president biden promised to end covid. he has failed to end covid so they're just focusing on the fact that covid still exists during the era of biden, completely politicizing the realities of how we deal with this pandemic. >> yeah, look, this is a really hard thing to do at this point and i think people are pretty entrenched. i think the best bet we can do right now is try to address people's concerns and fears. sometimes that has to happen at a retail level, person to person. and it's still hard sell sometimes but i think one thing we...

Hard thing to do at this point. i think people are pretty entrenched. i think the best a that we can right now is try to address people's concerns and fears. sometimes that has to happen at a retail level, person to person. and it's still a hard sell sometimes. but i think one thing we have to emphasize, although i agree with everything that dr. gupta said, i do worry about the health care system. ifhe we have a big surge of patients because this variant appears to be more transmissible, that can still overwhelm the health care system. so i think some of theel messagg that we need to put out t...

Matt, you, i know, helped send this letter. have you heard anything back from the white house or the trump administration in response? >> reporter: thanks for having me on. we've not heard anything back from the administration and we're fastly approaching a midnight on sunday morning when these new tariffs will go into effect. your viewers should know we've been paying tariffs on footwear for 90 years. we know all too well what added costs will do for our consumers and that's why we're so concerned about what will take place this weekend. >> no response so far. you sent a previous letter in ma...