of travel and everything going up? inflation is a regressive tax that hurts people at the bottom the most. unfortunately, there s not much of an upside to the entire inflation rates. just ask jimmy carter who lost his election to ronald reagan because of high inflation. sandra: jason, is there any way to look at inflation as a good thing for an average american family? inflation is bad thing. i have been consistent in saying that. right now, it is eating up the wages of workers in this country. there are winners and losers for certain people of all you have is a mortgage and you are on social security. you are benefiting now. there are winners and losers. but on balance, it s not a good thing. sandra: buys us out there? why would see and impose that headline? we re hearing it from the white house as well.
the shutdown within the last two hours, they were hell-bent. maybe mitch know something i don t know, but it won t be a long shot down. we shouldn t shutdown at all. it could be a few days. sandra: what are the odds from your view? we will see. frequently, a few days shutdownn that has given us a 31 year high and that demands a vaccine mandate violating constitutional rights, the government shutdown of an administration that does not secure our border when it was secured 11 months ago, i don t know that the american people think it s all that bad or all the dangers of a thing it s just for a couple of days. i don t know if that will happen. nobody wants that to happen. frankly, this of administration is not done anything right. maybe we will have a couple days shutdown. we ll have to wait and see. john: what do you mean of
the chances are very good that the president is going to get this done by christmas. won t. john: he said will santa claus visit chuck schumer? traveling and blank slate may be easier than passing what he wants by christmas. it sounds like he s been using your writer. the outcome and my pin is that mr. joe manchin will show the convictions matter and he will vote no and deny mr. schumer his christmas victory and the democratic left its transmission a moment. joe manchin is not getting what he wants and he also says that the twin concerns of inflation and omicron should be a cause to pause. do you think that they will lose senator joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema? first, you didn t mean it and a first, but for better or worse, i am a writer. i wouldn t blame what i sang anybody else. it s not just senator manchin and senator sinema.
it is how we protect americans as we are seeing with this new variance. america is doing its part and we will do more. this is a global pandemic and everybody needs to fight it together. that includes countries that are not particularly friendly toward us. theiropulations are in tr trouble. to their credit, the scientific community, particularly in south africa, quickly notify the world of the emergence of this new variant. this transparency is encouraged and applauded because it it increases our ability to respon. on the day that it was identified, i took an immediate step to restrict travel from countries in southern africa. while the travel restrictions can slow the spread of omicron, it cannot prevent it. it gives us a little more time to take more precautions at home
nih this month after a truly consequential tenure. good news, really, as dr. collins is going to return to the lab. we look forward to his unmatched ability to unlock possibilities within her reach. doc, the bad news for you is you are not getting rid of me. i m going to keep calling you all the time because there s a lot of things you can do to help me get done. just point me in the direction and i will follow. i received a briefing from dr. collins, dr. fauci, and dr. lawrence tie back as well as dr. julie leger what. i appreciate it. my only regret was it was a short meeting because i was going to come and speak. we would have benefited more if i made my speech short and spent more time with these docs. as i study the omicron variant,