but joe biden wants the american people to cut him some slack. watch this. we need to scale up testing. so anyone who needs one can get tested. after ten months of the pandemic, we still don t have enough testing. it is a travesty. what is your message to americans are trying to get tested now and who are not able to get tested and are wondering what took so long to ramp up testing? come on, what took so long? i m hearing that from people try to get tested now before the holidays. it didn t take long at all. what happened was the omicron virus spread more rapidly than anybody thought. jason: and major cities across the country, americans are waiting in line for hours just to get a covid-19 test. but don t expect biden to take responsibility. he is not a man of his word, he s a dishonest career politician.
free test, but i showed up at my local drugstore and oh, no, they wanted 30 bucks for this or whatever it was. and i m lucky that they had one. these tests are not readily available. at i can t believe we are this far into it and you can t go get tested as easy as can be. i had the privilege of interviewing president trump in april 2020 and the first thing i m asked when was, where the tests, president? it s the achilles heel of our response in the beginning of the pandemic. anyone who is quick to criticize the trump administration and the lack of testing like myself should also be criticizing the biden administration because here we are, nearly two years later, and we still have a complete lack of ability to efficiently test. and i can tell you, they are creating and making this problem even worse because you have dr. fauci saying that everyone needs to get a test.
$4. they are losing ground fast. the economics, the security of this, people have said no, we gave you a shot, you have dropped the ball, we are done. they acted as if they had some map of left wing mandate and they did not, they never did. we should ve listened to bernie sanders when he said joe biden was going to be the most progressive president ever. senator blackburn, they give for joining us tonight on hannity and merry christmas to you. also tonight, the durham probe into the origins of the russia investigation is still ongoing. we are now learning that the members of hillary clinton s 2016 campaign are not off the hook just yet. joining us now to explain his fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. there is some interesting development in the courts that gave us a little bit of a glimpse this week that flew under the radar for a lot of people. but give us the latest on what s happening with the durham probe.
you said you would absolutely serve eight years if elected. do you plan to run for reelection? yes. but look, i m a great respecter of fate. fate has intervened in my life many, many times. if i am in the health i am now, i m in good health, then i would run again. jason: coming up, congressman ronnie jackson, the former white house physician, will be with us to talk about more about biden s mental and physical health. but first, more on covid-19. a year ago as a candidate, joe biden blasted president trump s handling of covid-19. he called on trump to resign and take full responsibility for the 220,000 americans who died from covid-19. he also called the lack of testing a travesty. 12 months later, more than 800,000 americans have died from covid-19. another variant is now spiking and tests are in short supply.
because if you look at it and you look at what was potentially going to be passed, and i m not saying it won t, maybe he will change his mind. but it would blow this country up with inflation and with other problems. unfortunately, that doesn t mean the white house and far left progressives in congress are ready to let it go. some are even calling on biden to take executive action the key parts of the plan alive. here s what jen psaki said earlier today. are objective and focus now is moving forward. both of our relationship and to have discussions with other members of the democratic caucus and we are going to spend less time looking in the rearview mirror and more about looking forward. jason: biden told abc news tonight that he isn t giving up on build back better. so what will the new year bring? joining us now with reaction as tennessee senator marsha blackburn. senator, thank you so much for joining us tonight on hannity.