it s kind of against his basic principles, he doesn t really believe in it. shannon: and a statement tonight the hospital says our health care system requires several cdc recommended vaccines including the covid-19 vaccine. and lifestyle behaviors to create the best chance for successful operation and to up the maze the patient survival after transplantation. battles over mandates and in person schooling amid the exhausted pandemic, homelessness and rising crime leaving big cities chaotic and reeling. twin crises hitting seattle particularly hard in the new year. speaking to our man in the pacific northwest, jason rantz for tonight s lightning round, welcome back. i want to start here because we have a target, this target in seattle said we are having shoplifters every 10 minutes. you went there and took your own video i think we re going to
border. welcome to both of you, i want to start with this from the federalist. before he was elected, biden spent months touting policies unraveling the security protections and acting by former president trump. illegal border crossings drastically increased and have reached historic highs. the latest round of numbers out from december show that trend upward continues. it s stunning how big these numbers are and it s just abhorrent that this administration would put out such a welcome mat. they put up the magnet, they attract the people here, then to get there to put them on taxis to airplanes try showing up to an airplane without a driver s license. if you are here illegally, go right ahead to. if have covid, it on that flight, it is absolutely wrong. it is one thing that joe biden and kamala harris promised they
rather, they believe in dick at that tore dictatorial conduct, and they re not going to get passed the congress or signed into la you. jacqui: this has been a pretty tough week for the biden administration, there s been a record setting surge of cases. a muddled on testing, former members of biden s health team adopting a strategy of living can with covid and then the president admitting covid is here to stay in one form other another. how much do you see this impacting the success and how much is the g.o.p. positioning around that? well, the virus is definitely impacting the success of this administration, because credibility plays into success. the biden administration, for that matter before it was the biden administration, during the campaign, made all sorts of promises that could not
because she s more exposed but i feel for willy and the last thing that i want to see happen is our schools shut down. i think it varies for each family and the situation for their children, being high risk but i think our kids need to stay in school. this is where they thrive and this is where they are social development and as a parent it would break my heart to see my children being home and not with classmates and not with their teachers and not running around being kids. we have to take common sense measures but, you know, we still have to live our lives and we have to be smart about it because covid is here, you know, we ve had the flu. we had the basic cold. we have to teach our kids the basic common safety measures. griff: willy, i see you nodding your head yes, what do you think. jacqueline is raising a very important point here. she s talking about the mental impact we saw last year that we could be heading into now.
but two-thirds of critical care nurses have considered quitting. yes, you are absolutely right. and as a nurse practitioners myself i can speak and say from the very beginning of the pandemic we have been there in testing sights and we have in the ed and icu s and we have been seeing patients on the phone and telehealth and this has been going on for two years continuously and shortage and burnout was actually present before we went into the pandemic. now having to work extra and overtime and pick up additional shifts and if you re taking care of covid positive patients, you re doing all of this in ppe and not being able to take breaks. i mean, it is very challenging and so now we are heading into the third year and in many cases the fifth wave and seeing continued hospitalizations so patients are coming in for supplemental oxygen, they are