want. the loser is richard sackler the former boss of purdue pharma who face personal liability in the opioid crisis. bret: i promised we would talk about afghanistan k. but hugh, this it number at 62,000. of afghan allies. some interpreters who worked along side our troops for more than a decade. still on the ground. it is quite a story. it s a scar on americans and on president biden of course. we guaranteed these people return flights to the united states and guaranteed the safety. we broke our word. john, you talked to him about the blood on our hands.
people understand we can t do this forever. we know this will become an endemic disease. most people are learning to live with it. these constant alarms, the lockdowns and the warnings from the white house which seem to be missing reality are grated on people. the biden administration has push back to all of this even things that are important public health measures. bret: you can t get away from the number. 800,000 dead. it s overwhelming and scary. i think the most important fact we will learn in the next month is the ratio between infections and severe or fatal cases of the new omicron variant. if it s a favorable ratio, then i think everything hugh and kim have warned about is going to come to pass. people will resist lockdowns. let s hope it s favorable and we
d.roosevelt but he had a huge majorities want let s bring in our panel. reading what you wrote there, it s amazing to see the stories that say one senator is holding up the biden agenda but it s 51 senators in that republicans and joe manchin and there are probably others on the democratic side as well. yes. it s the president s job to do the math. they should have done that when he first came into office. the problem is they misread their mandate and misjudged those numbers and joe manchin. he s been clear since july exactly where he stood. they could have came to him and got a deal. they decided to ignore him and pushed ahead. this is what you get. bret: hugh, i have senator manchin on fox news sunday this
weekend. how do you think they get out of this cul-de-sac they are in? i think senator manchin, he s been clear the whole time. 1.75-trillion dollars in one time spending and the democrats would not take yes for an answer. the only actions to meet his mark and i am not sure they will do that. that would mean a collapse of the progressive caucus in the house and grinding of teeth. they won t meet him halfway. i agree with hugh s analysis for the future. the recent past. the other thing that happened was inflation. they didn t bargain on that sticking around. it was on the minds of the general public for manchin to resist this bill. bret: here s president biden on omicron variant spreading. it s here now and spreading. it s going to increase.
it s embarrassing. the former interpreter is safe in greece but waiting for his visa to travel to the u.s. and hears from those still desperate inside. i feel helpless. u.s. veterans and charities are helping the state and dense department to get afghans out of the way of taliban and danger. they need all the help they can. bret: up next. charles lain and jim and hugh with the friday ninth round. president biden s week and winners and losers. these are the faces of listerine. the face of millions of germs zapped in seconds. the face of clean. the face of whoa! some are of intensity, others joy. all are of. various: ahhh. listerine. feel the whoa!