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Haven't been making. the president continues to insist schools and businesses stay open. we heard the white house telling people they can get together and gather if people are vaccinated. a much different approach in the u.s. than they are taking in europe. you know, i reported on a story today, i talked to a number of public health officials, including former obama administration officials, and said that approach of largely staying the course has lead to a lot of confusion and people like what they are seeing in their everyday lives isn't necessarily matching with the message as people see sc...

Patients are isolated from other patients in the hospital. again, all that have stretches their staff very thin. we were in this country. we have a nationwide nursing shortage prior to the pandemic. what we've seen since the pandemic began is that problem really exacerbated. there are doctors, nurses, health care workers here who are out right now because they themselves have tested positive for covid-19 and have to stay home. then there are a lot of health care workers who throughout the pandemic have just become so burnt out they quit their jobs or they retired early. when it comes to some o...

It. >> shannon, the white house i know they are in kind of a space where they're asking americans to just hold on for a little bit longer and we'll end up living with this. are they looking toward europe and taking any cues? >> it dusht appear that way. there are no indications from our reporting or from the public comments. we're hearing from the white house they are considering anything like another lockdown. the president is continuing to largely stay the course despite this omicron variant. obviously, there's been a lot of response going on behind the scenes with the federal government try...

It's caused a lot of people to call on him to resign, but one thing it has done is made it incredibly difficult for him to impose any restrictions because for the public here, it will smack a frank hypocrisy after revelations of the christmas parties and other parties he enjoyed over the summer with his staff have been coming out drip by drip. he won't want to impose restrictions on this public now. >> we're seeing in spain they're saying we have to move on. there's france and germany saying, listen, it's not the problem of those who have been following the rules. it's problem of those who hav...

The president has at his disposal. his ability to travel in air force 1 to draw huge crowds and make big speeches in important places to try to pressure lawmakers and pressure the public to pressure law makers to make changes. >> that's right. to a lot of his president's critics, critics in his own party, i should add, he wasn't doing it enough. i was with him in philadelphia last summer when he spoke at the national constitution center in somber and severe terms, at times, about the threat posed by the attack on voting rights that democrats see happening throughout state houses around the cou...