ana. >> athena jones. here with us gloria borjer and dr. port h hochlt tee at baylor college of medicine. i'll start with you gloria as we await the president's speech coming up this hour. we expect -- we're two hours now into the pandemic. many people are frustrated by yet another surge. >> right. >> here at the holidays, how hard of is a new challenge author the biden administration. >> it's a very difficult challenge. first of all within majority of the american public, 54% thinks joe biden has done a good job on managing covid. and now comes omicron. and he has to give a speech that talks to two different audiences, as you pointed out earlier. he has to talk to the people who have done the right thing and who have been vaccinated and who have been boosted. and he has to say to them, you know, this isn't going to be as