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Making excuses. welcome to you both. ok, douglas, i'll start with you first. in the warning from the white house they are making the case that a lot of the bad news will be because of the highly transmissible omicron variant. here is jen psaki explaining. >> the month's job report may show losses in large part because workers were out sick from omicron at the point when it was peaking during the week when the data was taken. >> fair explanation or excuse, doug? >> well, clearly preparing for a bad report and correct as far as it goes. but you step back, the larger point is the administration i...

Governors, we want to make sure our testing capacity is there. we want to make sure that we have access to the therapeutics, and that's where the federal government needs to step up. we need to make sure that there is a quick production. they need to rely upon the states for the distribution, and there is a lot of discussions about that. they need to improve that supply chain. let's take advantage of this going down to be better prepared around the corner. >> governor murphy, how do we not run into the testing problem we ran into pre-omicron? >> you have to preempt this clearly and we're now g...

Onto a continued delta variant. no question that we have a testing problem in the united states. we have been talking about testing since march of 2020, and we have not gotten ahead of the curve and that's really not great news at this point in time. um, so people are making up their own rules. we're also -- i live in a part of the country where every step that the public officials take at the state level, our democratic governor has taken to try and put masking protocol in place, put vaccination requirements in place, has been undone by the legislature. so, it's a kind of free for all about w...

No question that we have a testing problem in the united states. we have been talking about testing since march of 2020, and we have not gotten ahead of the curve and that's really not great news at this point in time. um, so people are making up their own rules. we're also -- i live in a part of the country where every step that the public officials take at the state level, our democratic governor has taken to try and put masking protocol in place, put vaccination requirements in place, has been undone by the legislature. so, it's a kind of free for all about what are the rules? what are the ...

Days you need a test before you can end isolation. i don't know if you heard either of them say that or if you have a reaction to that observation? >> i did. we certainly believe that's a good idea. the u.k. reduced the number of quarantine day to seven only after two negative tests. we have a testing problem in this country obviously. that's part of the lodggistical problem in this country. why is it okay to have symptomatic people coming back and being infectious. we got to get through this pandemic fatigue and make good decisions of ending it and not adding to it. >> as i am watching televi...