now insurance companies are going to start reimbursing americans for the cost of covid tests. but that s two weeks from now, when it seems likelier than not that the waivers omicron will have, you know, sort of circled its way through the globe. isn t that like two weeks or even a month also obsolete? gillian: at this point it seems like everything he saying is, that is something to look forward to eventually. earlier this month, about a month ago now, he said insurance companies are going to cover these rapid at-home tests. all he thought was, how much paperwork will that cost people to go and resubmit? will it help? maybe. we have the treatments that have gotten the emergency authorization, that maybe we are going to have about 200,000 courses by the end of january. the website to get free at-home testing, it maybe by mid-january. if the united states is anything like south africa, we are seeing a rapid uptake of cases because it s such a highly transmissible
the federal government has abdicated their responsibility to secure this border, which they are required to do under the constitution. mike: part of his frustration is likely to effect the vice president has not been to his district, which has about 200 miles of international border. tom homan, we have to leave it there. thank you so much for your time, sir. thanks for having me. mike: gillian, that quote to the new york times caught my eye. it s not often you have a democrat saying about a fellow democrat, i ve given up, she s not interested in the border. gillian: that s true. tom homan just said, it s not often that you see states like texas step up and try and solve national problems, but it s also true that it s not often you see states like texas start throwing money at the problem like they are their own country. i think governor abbott has invested something like $2 billion in this. they recently broke ground on their on border wall. mike: taxpayers are already on
mask, or the k n95? is that right? actually, no. i believe high-quality masks such as the k-n95 or and 95% people should be targeted for high-risk individuals, those who are immunocompromised, older, who have a decreased ability to respond to the vaccine and the booster. i think the far majority of americans at this point should be able to go forward mask lists, especially our younger children, those who are healthy and do not have chronic risk factors. those single layer cloth masks are doing very little, if anything. at this point it is time to accept that the virus is becoming endemic. we have the tools in our arsenal to protect ourselves from severe illness and hospitalization, and other than the higher risk and those who have always gone into respiratory season with high risk, they should have access to high-quality masks. gillian: so the last hour, president biden spoke to the governors association. one of the things he sort of announced, that two weeks from
ahead of the 2022 mid-terms. so how are both sides complaining that they re being set up to lose political power? william la jeunesse is in malibu, california with the answer. hi, william. gillian, this happens every ten years, right? we draw, redraw congressional seats in each state based on the census. whatever party controls that state s legislature usually determines how those lines are drawn. in a red state like texas or a blue state like california, the opposing party will complain of unfairness or setter suppression. right here in california, no surprise, all the democratic incumbent seats are safer. the republicans are more vulnerable to be taken over. in new jersey, same thing. democrats wrote a plan that favors them in 2022. other states, republican complaining about oregon,
to build back better while others in his home state of west virginia say they support him. mike? mike: aishah hasnie, thanks very much. gillian? gillian: the curse we all suffer under. russian president putin says he has no plans to invade ukraine. this after he spent the last several months amassing 100,000 troops along their shared border. up ahead, the new steps that ukrainian civilians are taking to prepare to defend themselves against the potential invasion. mike: plus, the crisis at our southern border as cartels look to move more than dangerous and potentially deadly drugs. getting into human smuggling business. former acting i.c.e. director tom homan will be in next. e. now make another one and turn your equity into cash. with the newday 100 va loan you can take out up to $60,000 or more. veteran homeowners- with home values at all-time highs