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Reported. he had an obligation to tell us, tell us, hey, he tested positive. i would have worn a mask if we knew that. we knew everyone in the room except the president was getting tested every day. we didn't know what the president's testing renl men was. so if mark meadows knew that somebody i was sitting across from for four days had popped the positive test, he as the white house chief of staff -- put aside the president for a second. obviously the president is my friend -- should have looked at me and told me that. that's obvious what is less obvious is mark meadows saved this for his boo...

Properly. is our testing regimen ready for omicron in the united states? >> thanks for having me. a lot happened this past week and a lot to catch up on but one of the critical components in getting in front of outbreaks such as the sars-cov-2 is our testing capability. last year, it was dismal. i would give some kudos to the united states. we have, in the u.s., increased our testing surveillance from about 21% to less than 1% to 10%. however, it's not equally distributed across the country, not reaching all pockets of our country that we need to reach. there's still a lot of blind spots, stil...

Three or four weeks we know that any of the vaccine the longer you space out the doses the better the long-term immune protection. arthel: what is your recommendation about young people getting a third shot. guest: the committees at the fda the cdc were concerned about young people and repeatedly raise that concern and also we don't have good data and young people like we do older people again were talking about the pfizer vaccine. so people have to remember that young people almost intrinsically have one or two doses even without getting vaccinated compared to see an older person over 65, the...

For their own communities. >> were you elected governor tomorrow, if you were governor today, would you require state employees in florida to be vaccinated? >> no. i have the power to do so inside my department of agriculture. so we would not be requiring vaccinations but we would be doing more to encourage, to incentivize to make sure we're having those hard conversations with individuals who are not getting the vaccines to make sure they understand you're putting your colleagues, your friends, your family members in jeopardy by making a what i consider a selfish decision unless you have a me...

Later, where iowa has banned mask mandates for those schools, most grades are not eligible or a lot of kids are not eligible for the vaccine because they're under the age of 12. what should be the testing regimen for these schools? should they start with a baseline of every student being tested? should there be testing every week, every two weeks, month, what do you think? >> yeah, i mean, i think it's too bad that these schools are not requiring masks because they are a really effective layer of protection. we can think about this as if you're going to remove the layer of masking, what can yo...