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So yesterday we open the show
with President Biden just
finishing up some his remarks
on his new covid sort of battle
strategy heading into the new
year in the winter.
And we praised partially some
of what he said. We criticized.
Partially some of what he said by the way he got some unexpected praise. From a
source that I was
not betting, would say
something positive were.
I guess supportive of Joe Biden
we’ll tell you about that later
this hour.
But I think part of Biden’s
problem broadly
speaking well. Let’s start with
this as a point that I made
here on the radio yesterday
made it again on got failed
last night a different
variation of it but it’s the
same theme.
And I recognize our interview
with governor Sununu yesterday
he kind of explain partially
why some of this might be the
case. But it still as the
governor said not really an
excuse being almost 2 years.
Into a pandemic
and seeing I mean what
Christine and Dan on our team
here in New York. They saw the
long lines all over Manhattan
today coming into work of
people waiting trying to
get tested. This is playing out
in major cities across the
country. There’s a huge
shortage of tests for covid
which blows my mind.
Did we not I saw Mark Thiessen
just tweeted this earlier do we
not just spend 2 trillion
more dollars on covid
supposedly covid relief stuff.
That was one of
our critiques of the Democrats
covid bill when Biden
came into office he had
trillions of dollars spent on a
bipartisan basis.
The Democrats took over all of
Washington, they want to do
their own so-called covid bill
and what did we say on this
program over and over again we
said the problem with this 1.9
trillion is that a lot of it
has nothing to do with covid.
Or is going to be spent
years from now right there
saying we need this to keep our
schools open.
It’s a huge chunk of the money
for schools was going to be
spent in 2023 and beyond not
related to covid.
If they just spent 2 trillion
dollars on covid relief at the
very beginning of this year,
the very beginning of Biden’s
presidency here we are months
later. And there’s a shortage
of covid testing in multiple
major cities around the
country. How is that possible
where the did all that money
go.
It’s not fair to blame any
president or any leader for
what’s happening with covid
everyone is trying to cope and
figure out what to do. It’s
interesting when it was Trump,
they criticized when it’s Ron
DeSantis they criticize
directly at fall blood on their
hands. Then when the bad news
comes to other places, it’s
sort of like oh what how
unfortunate.
That’s so I guess the
seasonality is heading and we
all have to come together and
unite it’s a very different
tone. But there are
some things as I’ve been
saying.
That the federal government at
least has some control over.
Having sufficient testing would
be one of them.
Having a sufficient plan for
booster shots so people don’t
have to wait weeks to get them.
That would be another one.
We know that
variance arise right new
variant show up people might
get scared there might be a run
on booster shots. From
previously has it and people
all of us and they want to do
it. How is there not a great
plan in place
for people to go out and get
tested on demand for free or
for cheap and you get their
booster shot on demand.
The ball has been dropped on
those things.
We know that there are really
good Therapeutics whether it’s
antibodies to this new pill.
It’s been a slow process.
There’s been an insufficient
amount of those Therapeutics
available.
Where’s the operation warp
speed on that stuff.
We’ve heard how many speeches
from Joe Biden now that
covid speech after speech
demand
after demand. Shame fast after
shame fast wagging his finger
at all these people you got to
do this if you don’t do that
you’re going to be was
suffering and all of it.
Trillions of dollars spent.
And almost 2 years into this
you still can’t get a test and
you can’t easily get a booster
in a lot of places across the
country. How is that not a
failure. How is that not a
failure.
And you’ve got incoherent messaging from people at the very top of this thing,
starting with the president
himself. So
he insisted that the lack of
testing of the testing
shortfalls right now are not
a failure which you know of
course he’s going to say that
because that his failure.
He promised to shut down the
virus. We don’t even have tests
to go around for people who
feel like they might be
symptomatic or needing to go
somewhere and people suddenly
saying oh you know what fine I
am going to get I have to wait
until January 14th or whatever.
While the death toll has exceeded the Trump era death toll.
There’s someone in charge and
he got elected on the promise
to shut down the virus.
He’s saying all these problems
not his fault and part of the
reason he says it’s not his
fault is because no one could
have anticipated any of this.
I don’t think anybody.
This was going to be a rat
spring.
You.
spring. You. >> A common virus spread even
more rapidly than anybody
thought.
>> Okay so they say they’re
caught off guard by a new
variant.
>> Even though.
>> How long have they been
warning us about new variants
now things changing.
How it’s like the flu and
there’s a new flu shot every
like this is not new people
been screaming about new
variants people in screening
that testing capacity,
including the doctors on the
show for months.
As I go who could have seen
this coming well, this is the
problem for Biden. Also
yesterday that sound bite was
from yesterday. Also yesterday
was doctor Rochelle walensky.
Doctor walensky runs the CDC in
the Biden administration.
She was on special report.
And here’s what she said on the
same exact schupp subject and
cut 6.
>> The speed by a crime that
been you know transmitting
has been seen in Meriden many
other countries and so we’ve
been watching this carefully we
anticipated this this is what
we have been preparing for
their been doubling times of
this virus and other countries
that have had the virus
before us and that one and a
half to 3 day range into the
kitchen and she goes on this is
exactly.
>> What
we anticipated. And it is what
we have been preparing for her
quote. That is the CDC
director. There’s a direct
quote we anticipated this.
This is what we have been
preparing for this is exactly
what we anticipated back to
back on the same day with the
president saying I don’t think
anybody anticipated this.
Seems like a problem does it
not.
And then there’s something else
that will as he said in
response to one of the
questions on special report
about masking in schools.
>> And science and data.
A bad answer to a good question
with a new development that
really cornered her.