wanted to speak out. dr. nancy is one of the more prominent voices here. she said she was told to be quiet after she spoke out on february 25 about the risks of the virus. do you want to respond to that oversight report committee? well, i think nancy is a really an an enormous public figure. when she told the truth of what she felt was coming, there were people that were not happy about her comments. as every one knows, her comments were right on. there were decisions after that that limited cdc s ability to communicate effective to the american public. i was disappointed in that. people argued the reason for that is we had a task force now. as you remember, almost every night, the task force did a press conference in the white house press room. people felt that that was adequate. so
the real challenges with prices. that s why we re focused on taking the steps we can, including around the ports and moving things more quickly. neil: i can see what you and the president are saying about coming out of a pandemic where the economy was essentially in par on any sort of activity after that of getting back to normal. you ll see a spike in prices. seems as if the administration was caught off guard as to the seriousness and the widespread nature of this. i don t think that that is fair. i think if you look at supply chains, for example, the president signed an executive order on supply chain resilience february 25 of this past year. he launched a disruptions task force over the summer. we ve been add these issues for some months even as we ve seen very strong economic growth underlying our recovery. we know as you come out of a pandemic, look at the da to a year ago, a year ago, the economy was on its back.