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and to understand the answer to that question means that we have to get multiple data sources to sort of give their data. we have to analyze that carefully. it s not going to be from a single source. so i just want to, you know, caution people it will take a couple weeks at least to get reliable information that will guide us. but the good news, erin, is that we are not powerless in that time in between now and when we have a clear answer. it s very likely that our vaccines will still have some efficacy and protecting against against the virus. particularly, against severe disease and hospitalization and death and that s why we hear everybody urging people out there to get vaccinated if you are not. if you are vaccinated, get boosted. we know that that is your surest pathway right now to protecting yourself against the new variant. all right. so um, you need you need a couple of weeks but let me just ask a couple points here because as you point out, you are only going to know wi
justice department than mr. mueller. neil, thank you so much. good seeing you. turning now to tensions with iran, which really began escalating earlier this month when national security adviser john bolton acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, secretary of state mike pompeo and other members of the trump administration said there were quote indications of a credible athlete by iranian regime forces which prompted them to send major military assets and weapons to the region in part to send a quote message. since then the administration has continued to ramp up its threatening rhetoric with trump even threatening iran s total destruction by a weekend tweet. now, however, in a reversal president trump says there s no indication iran is up to anything nefarious after all. iran, we ll see what happens. but they ve been very hostile. they truly have been the number one provocateur of terror in
world s second biggest economy. so there are huge oil consumer, commodity consumer, and for that reason, you re seeing that worry come back. but these futures, you re seeing the early indications for stocks in the red. futures are pointing to what could be a much worse open for stocks. we ll see how that shakes out in the next few moments. what is the rule 48 expected to do? rule 48 is basically a rule that allows certain participants on the floor of the new york stock exchange, the ones responsible for making prices, markets for some of the stocks to do things differently than they normally do in order to facilitate a more orderly opening and trading of stocks. usually they have to kind of quote prices, quote indications to kind of give people a level. this allows them a little more flexibility to get prices to where they are going to be without having to go through a lot of the formality of setting certain price indications and levels. it s meant to kind of give these participant