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Delta wave. does he think the american people are that forgetful or that stupid? carley we spoke about this over the weekend, what we spoke about was a pandemic of positive tests. asymptomatic healthy people out there coming back on the regular with positive coronavirus, you know, test and that is causing a work shortage, a labor shortage in almost every single industry. i know this it's happening in the media industry, it's happening in the airline industry. it's happening in professional sports it's happening everywhere. lawrence points out that who might need to get a test or having trouble...

At the behest of the communist chinese? many of the ingredients we need. should we be in a pinch right now domestically we don't have the capabilities to fill that gap? >> well, luckily before the pandemic hit, we had this program back in 17, 18 and 19 and a lot of manufacturers brought their manufacturing home from china. fda called a lot of medicines contaminated because of the binder or filler in the medications. a lot of people brought that back. we're better off than we were. that is a good day. pete: silver lining. you mentioned work shortage. is manpower part of this too? >> i believe s...

Chain right now. talking about containers floating in the ocean. ships off of docks. can't get unloaded. is it covid? is it union per regulartives. what are the reasons our supply chain is held up. one of the things he is pointing to as head of the association is the vaccine mandates. you already have a work shortage. what about otherwise people healthy are deciding not to take the vaccine. eric hoplin runs the group of wholesalers and how the mandates are affecting the economy. >> tens of thousands of people across the american economy will lose their jobs weeks before christmas, at our indus...

>> you know, i think this is all something to celebrate. we're in such an affluent society today that people can walk away from jobs and not apply for jobs and that's why you have much more listings than people to go to work. i think our country is in a sugar high post-pandemic affluence and something we ought to celebrate. we're in a good spot as a country economically, this will not last for sure, and it go back in time and back to recession, but right now we're in a good place. neil: and alexandria ocasio-cortez put a different spin on what's going on herement i want you to react to this. >...

What can you tell us about the injunctions here that have been filed on both sides so far? and does the mayor have at all the upper hand? >> reporter: well, i can tell you this. i think this is probably a showdown or a stalemate where both sides are looking at each other and most of us kind of agree at this point, they both blinked, but at this point, mayor lightfoot asked and then got a temporary restraining order because the president of the union's rhetoric on tv and youtube was leading to what she called a work shortage. now, as you mentioned, there was concern that as the large number of ...