people with mild illness, that s great news. if we have cases mild among those younger, but we see the same kind of very serious illness picture that we see with underlying risk factors, then we ve got ourselves a real problem. i think at this point, we have to count on the fact that omicron is going to take over. it has tremendous implications, and everything that you heard earlier today tess white house briefing, please get vaccinated, get your boosters, is exactly what we need to be doing. dr. michael osterholm, thank you for being here. thank you. senator mark warner will join us live to see if lawmakers can get everything on their to-do list done by the end of the year. and the jobs reports, and what it means as wall street gets ready to close out the week. means as wall street gets ready to close out the week
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tell me why you think the president is prioritizing this right now. look, alicia, i think he sees the monthly jobs reports and knows there are gaps for employees who are seeking to re-enter the workforce as well as consumers looking to spend money in this economy. and so i think this is a way for him to start to scratch the surface and undo some of the harms that 40 years of big mergers and acquisitions from corporations have presented to individuals and consumers. and so he s really putting this front and center because he does want to rebuild an economy better than it was before because we know a lot of these challenges existed well before the pandemic. i just think they have more impact now as we re rebuilding an economy after the pandemic or still during the pandemic. juanita a topic and i come back to over and over is this idea of the biden administration and biden himself needing to sell the accomplishments of the administration, actually getting out on the road talking with
they ll raise rates they say in 2023. there are indications they d raise rates as soon as 2022 and that s earlier than expected as you know, the jobs reports came out less than what was predicted, both april and may and in this upcoming month we re seeing slowing down. so, very troublesome for small businesses, troublesome for families trying to get by, you know, coming out of the pandemic, so i think that there s a lot of concern. in terms of timing, all indicators are that there have been some progress. exactly what that means, we still don t know. but here is senator joe manchin to a reporter s question this week. when you release the i think by next week you ll have a complete frame work, whatever you ve been seeing, i saw some things, that s not accurate. the accurate one next week, monday, tuesday, wednesday the latest. if we re looking at a framework, monday, tuesday, wednesday, how big a gap what