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Embracing. -- that the administration is now only embracing. we talked about the pills today from pfizer and merck. a lot of the effectiveness of those pills is based on getting diagnosed quickly. the testing issue is front and center. they have to tackle it and so much of getting this pandemic under control is dependent on that. >> david, we had aaron sorkin on the show yesterday. when i asked him what he thought about how joe biden was doing and how well he thinks he has handled covid, he said he's not donald trump, and so i'm all good. and all the people said amen, trump was so horrible, so...

There's been no contact between the former president and the current president and their teams but the president is certainly happy to see the former president changing his tunes on vaccinations and being more vocal in hurnlging his supporters to get the shot. >> thanks so much for your reporting. with us now is dr. leana wen, the author of "lifeline," doctor's journey in the fight for the public's health." for the president and the country to get a handle on the virus, a key part. equation is knowing who is infected and that's why the testing issue was focused on and pressed upon saying this ...

Says, but let's get back to the testing issue. between january and august there were really no government orders. the states didn't have orders and production lines closed down. we expected to have a billion test per month by may or june, that's not just us, academic researchers, and we're only to the level right now that we should have been last february or march so there was a lull. it was multi-factorial but there was no problem with technology or availability. it's just the orders weren't there and the infrastructure wasn't there and now we're behind. so, yes, that's the situation we're in...

On that score we are now where we should be. >> i don't think anybody anticipated that this was going to be as rapidly spreading as it did. >> two years in, there is no reason for my patients to have to wait hours to get tested. >> this pace, the speed by which omicron has been, you know, transmitting has been seen and mirrored in many other countries and so we have been watching this carefully. we anticipated this. this is what we have been preparing for. >> bret: so there they were preparing for it or not preparing for it not sure. but the testing issue is a big issue. so are therapeutics. k...

Tough love. he said already this is going to be a severe winter. he said multiple times that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, because the people who are dying and hospitalized, they're disproportionately people who are unvaccinated. the biggest challenge, though, for this white house is that this is a pandemic that is also polarized politically. the people who need to hear most the message of getting vaccinated, of getting boosted, they are people who likely have political differences with the president. you're more likely, of course, to not be vaccinated if you're a republican. so pres...