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On behalf of the political leaders around the world, marc? >> great entry on this, bill. listen, the fear is the biggest problem as you've already been covering. we're always afraid of the unknown and what we don't know and we always jump to worst-case scenarios. the media and leaders do that. what do we know? we know this seems to spread easily, i'll tell you that. in south africa they went from 2% to 9% in a week testing positive. only 2,000 cases a day but predominantly omicron. which implies it is more easily transmissible than delta. that's pretty clear although we need to see that play o...

Get? >> it can get a lot worse. certainly not getting better the shortage of containers in the right place at the right time. there is a shortage of truck drivers to take it from the port to wherever got to go. the bottom line is it's i objectflationary. because when you have a shortage of goods, demand is strong, the price goes up. you are already seeing inflation running at about 5% rate that could get worse as we approach christmas. by all means, order now. because there are supply chain problems and you might not get what you want come christmas. todd: can biden do anything to stop it firs...

The world's biggest businesses by revenue. however, it's also china's most indebted developer and disclosed financial challenges in recent weeks. north korea has reopened communications with south korea after cutting ties back in 2020. south korea's unification ministry confirms the north responded on a hotline early on monday morning. a communications link between the two countries' militaries has also now been restored. north korean leader kim jong-un vowing to re-establish hotlines with the south during a speech last week. cnn's paula hancocks following developments for us from seoul, joi...

>> so the president followed the advice in executing the withdrawal. as we already established the seeds for our failure in afghanistan were planted many, many years ago. let me ask you one more question, secretary austin. knowing what you know now, if we had stayed in afghanistan for another year, would it have made a fundamental difference? >> again, it depends on what size you remain in at and what your objectives are. there are a range of possibilities but if you stayed there at a force posture of 2500, certainly you would have in a fight with the taliban. and you would have to reinforce y...

Seems to me there would have been a process to convey general miller's recommendation to the president. can you share the process and who conveyed general miller's recommendation and was that recommendation delivered to both president trump at the time and also to president biden? >> there is a process for delivering recommendations from commanders in the field. i was part of that process. while i have been very clear that i won't give you my recommendation i have given you my view i think you can draw your on conclusions from. my view is that 2500 was an appropriate number to remain. if we we...