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The holidays. david pressing the president -- >> we're nearly two years into this pandemic, you're a year into the presidency, empty shelves and no test kits in some places three days before christmas, when it's so important. is that good enough? >> no, nothing's been good enough. but look, look where we are. when -- last christmas, we were in a situation where we had significantly fewer vaccinated -- people vaccinated. emergency rooms for filled. you had serious backups in hospitals that were causing great difficulties. we're in a situation now where we have 200 million people fully vaccinate...

Walgreens and CVS previously imposed limits on COVID test kit purchases, both in-store and online, due to increased demand for at-home tests.

All so much. coming up, great news about a new pill to treat covid as omicron hits all 50 states. we'll talk to the experts about this and the nationwide testing shortage. plus rhetoric from sitting members of congress. we're talking about second amendment solutions and our fact check to fox news. no, joe biden not the grinch. we'll explain. stay with us. 'll explai n. stay with us ♪ l u... & doug ♪ ♪ superpowers from a spider bite? i could use some help showing the world how liberty mutual customizes their car insurance so they only pay for what they need. (gasps) ♪ did it work? o...

>> reporter: biden vowing to increase testing sites and send out half 1 million free at home tests but a former member of trump's white house covid response team says biden's plan won't mitigate omicron. he says vaccines and boosters are the best protection at this point. >> everything else is really a drop in the bucket. 500 million tests over how many months. is that going to be done? the only reason we are in such a problem right now is the biden administration did not invest in testing between january and september. >> reporter: he called the testing shortage of failure and greeted the spe...

Effective rate among high-risk patients. that game changer and we are not talking about that enough. todd: continuing the theme of yesterday, the white house being pressed by the mainstream media, the liberal media, here's an m s nb host, andrea mitchell. >> testing shortage of our profound. is the administration behind the curve on shipping 500 when we need them now? >> we are going to hopefully quickly catch up with that curve. todd: that is really good question. why has our federal government been imposing mandates that are taking everyone off when they should have been focusing on testing ...