jake, back to you. raphael and paula, thanks. let s talk more about this from a medical perspective. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joins us now live. how important is this change in terms of signaling a new phase of the pandemic? i think that s what it does in some ways, jake. it does sort of signal this new phase we ve been dealing with off and on travel restrictions for close to two years. more than anything else it shows the faith that they have in the vaccines, as you mentioned. and raphael and paula mentioned. travelers have to be vaccinated coming into the united states. if you take a look at the numbers overall in terms of vaccination rates, in canada, they have the highest of the three countries, 74.2%. mexico, closer to 40%. we re in the middle there. as raffially was talking about, mexico city in some places, as high as 95% vaccination rates over there. this is really about the faith in the vaccines. the white house says these vaccination requirements w
so. now, wait a minute. sean: hang on a second. wait a minute. sean: actual spending dollars has gone up close to 20% across the board under obama. increased were you aware that spending is being cut the fastest it s ever been cut in the country right now, right? no, no, see you. yeah, that s in that congressional budget. sean: the washington calculator. cutting or reducing a projected increase is not a cut. that s not a real cut. i agree with that. sean: okay. so that s not what s happening. over the last 18 months spending as a share of the economy has come down the fastest ever that we ve had on record or at least in the last 50 years that we ve had on record. u.s. debt as a percentage of the gdp is now 74.2%. excuse me, when the president took office, it was close to 38%. i agree we had the worst down turn of our lifetime, sean. of course, tax revenue goes
so. now, wait a minute. sean: hang on a second. wait a minute. sean: actual spending dollars has gone up close to 20% across the board under obama. increased were you aware that spending is being cut the fastest it s ever been cut in the country right now, right? no, no, see you. yeah, that s in that congressional budget. sean: the washington calculator. cutting or reducing a projected increase is not a cut. that s not a real cut. i agree with that. sean: okay. so that s not what s happening. over the last 18 months spending as a share of the economy has come down the fastest ever that we ve had on record or at least in the last 50 years that we ve had on record. u.s. debt as a percentage of the gdp is now 74.2%. excuse me, when the president took office, it was close to 38%. i agree we had the worst down turn of our lifetime, sean. of course, tax revenue goes
sort of dubious to claim those as savings when, i don t know, it s kind of double counting in a way. and then another 800 billion is from the phantom war savings. another issue to keep in mind, too. a lot of this has to do with the measuring stick you are using. the cbo when they measured obama s latest budget they found it would increase the budget pretty significantly. in any case 10 years from now under obama s plan, national debt would be 76.5% of g.d.p. and current little it s 74.2%. there you go. looking at the numbers from the speeches. it s always fun to jump in and now especially when we have this information at our finger tips we can do. this katy o donnell from the national journal, thanks so much for joining us this morning. thank you. still ahead actor chuck norris issuing a dire warning for america. country as we know it may be lost forever. he joins us with the explanation. and we telling you about a georgia school district banning prayers before
he is singing domino, blueberry hill in english in a charity event. yeah, it reminds me of nixon when he used to play. he tickled the ivory playing a traditional song. you can add sick go to putin s rapidly expanding list of extracurricular activities like judo. and shooting tigers hearing does that and trout fishing sans church. julie: shoppers might be putting christmas cheer in the mall. things are looking up. consumer sentiment hitting 74.2 in a preliminary reading in december. that is off of last month. the push for tax cuts adding to that up swing.