disruption. but the reality is, as your previous guest said, the transmission rate although they are far higher than the delta variant, the hospitalisation rate are less than half therefore the sharp decline that we saw in the stock markets and oil in late november and into december, markets are now realising, as bad as the headlines found about height transmission rate, it looks as if we re not going to have the level of restrictions we saw last year. went to the omicron story hit the news in late november and early december, people were looking at it and going, are we going to have harsh conditions as we had, in terms of restrictions, this time last year or injanuary 2021. in our as though it is not going to be
that can make a story, you know, really people passionate about it. one of them is emotion and partisan politics, and this story has both of those things. because, obviously, january 6th has been widelien condemned by widely condemned by most people who aren t super fringe right. but because it was so awful, i think it creates a lot of passion in the democratic party and people are, obviously, really going to be following a story like this. howard: i think what paused a lot of journalists is he had been cooperating, and he wrote a book and then suddenly citing executive privilege and now risking prosecution. executive privilege doesn t extend to mark meadows. we all know that, and donald trump is no longer president. that aside, howie, you said it. we can t even go beyond. he defied a subpoena. i have a jury summons on my desk
report and cover things fairly. sometimes it has to be us, and we did it that way this past week. howard: yeah. and i think that s a fair approach. and we ll show some of what they said later. i get it, fox is fair game, anybody in the media is fair game, but you re right, it can be uncomfortable being the story. and the same thing goes for there s a whole lot of republicans out there who believe donald trump s unproven claims the election was stolen. this news division, we have reported about the claims and whether there s any evidence based on all the investigations and all the lawsuits and all of that. we ve been clear. i mean, there s not been howard: no gray area. yeah. howard: it was breaking news on my show last week when our colleague, chris wallace, announced he s leaving fox after 18 years, and it s a major loss for our network. you worked with chris at debates, on elections nights, but he s not the only person who can host a sunday show.
was on abc today saying he thinks we re going to be wearing masks forever if on airplanes, and i think a lot of the american people are like, come on, we ve been good citizens in terms of wearing our masks, being careful, social distancing, but saying we re going to have to do this for the rest of our lives, really? howard: yeah, that s pretty depressing and leads to criticism of the government. also fauci said on cnn he thinks the normal vaccines will be less effective against omicron, but the new york times has a story saying it will hardly be effective at all. now, it is very difficult to get an at-home virus test or even to go to a clinic because appointments are booked, pharmacies are sold out. i tried to get one yesterday for one of my kids. i don t think it s fair for the media to blame president biden for the fact that about 40% of the country remains unvaccinated, but is it fair for the press to hold the president accountable nearly two years into this pandemic over the lack
headlines rather than waiting and presenting the whole thing in hearings early next year? absolutely. i think that that is not unique to this story. i think that s something that we see with many stories where the media wants, you know, a new hook, more clicks. so, yes, but i don t think that unusual. howard: it certainly has been done before. let me get a break here. up next, three fox news hosts responding to criticism of their january 6th texts to mark meadows which has gotten lost amid all the attacks. i had a dream that someday i would just fly, fly away