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thanksgiving. congressman: certainly was and my family enjoyed thanksgiving and as the evening came omicron came in the news. all of us are concerned about this. we are going to do the things that are public health practices, wear your masks, social distancing, get vaccinated and get your boost, those are the things that we can do to protect ourselves and frankly to protect others as well as to protect our economy. griff: congressman, yesterday the president talking about the booster and if you re not vaccinated do so. it s a patriotic duty. some are remembering what the president said in 2020 on the campaign trail as related to the former president and covid deaths, take a quick listen. i want to get your thoughts on that. anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the united states of america. griff: i play that for you to ask you is it time for the white house to maybe retool their messaging as many now are starting to worry about things like
vaccinated and we are boosted, probability of a lockdown or any mandate beyond getting vaccinated is very, very unlikely. we can protect ourselves. this is something that each one of us does have a patriotic duty if you re care about the economy or even yourself, for heaven sake s get vaccinated or get boosted if you ve already been vaccinated. those are the simple things to do and wear a mask along the way. one of the things that the president did say is to waive the proprietary of this vaccination. we do know that delta emerged from india where there was very low vaccination rates. we know that the vaccination rates in south africa are also very, very low so the new variants are emerging from these countries and that are not vaccinated. for heaven sakes let s vaccinate the world. we have the resources, the world
things, 3 ships, all of those, also there are ports, the oakland port where i was just a couple of days ago has space available so those ships could move north to oakland or they could go through the panamá canal and get directly to the east coast. griff: congressman garamendi keep us posted on the ports on the west coast. thank you. alicia: joining us now for reaction from the gop side republican pennsylvania congressman lloyd smocker, he sits on the house ways and means committee. congressman smocker, thank you so much for being here. i want to ask you something about something that congressman garamendi said, he pointed out as the world health organization pointed out the variants are coming from countries that have low vaccination rates. do you believe this puts pressure on red states in the united states to push their vaccination efforts even more? congressman: well, listen, we should be concerned about this
proposition 47 which decriminalized, took it from a felony to a misdemeanor, anything under $950. and you re seeing it also in chicago where you have j.b. pritzker and kim fox, right, eliminating cash bail, not prosecuting the bad guys. so you re not seeing this in a lot of different areas, you re seeing it in the two states that have de facto the decriminalized looting and that sort of activity. and that s what we re seeing now in california and in my great state of illinois. alicia: when we talk about bail reform, it either has been pushback, you know, from folks on the right and folks on the left they re just trying to change it, but now when we see such a tragedy as we did in waukesha, do you think that will calm things a little bit to stop all this talk when they see what can happen when someone is let out on such a low bail? yes. it s exhibit a. it s page 1 in any argument against eliminating bail. and remember, it s not bail reform, it s the elimination of bail, right? and whe