layers of mitigation that we know actually work quite well. people need to get vaccinated. if you re fully vaccinated and you re eligible to be boosted, get boosted. rapid testing is another underutilized strategy that should be used especially around the holidays when people want to get together with loved ones. traveling itself is not dangerous. it really is what happened at the end, when you arrive there, and you re socializing. so these are the things that people have to think about, that it s possible to socialize safely, especially in a surge, but making sure you re using all the tools in your toolbox to stay safe. libby, what do you think about the gap there that we know people previously thought more of biden s covid handling? is that a policy assessment of how he s doing? or a reality assessment of the fact that we re going into another covid thanksgiving coming out of a covid
and chief ethics lawer to former president george bush, richard painter returns. he teaches law at the university of minnesota. welcome to you all, michael you re our reality assessment. how big a bombshell is this? well it s big, brian. but it s also part of a pattern. i think what s significant is the way this pattern is coming into clearer focus. look, on the underlying substance of whether there was collusion, whether the russians directly influenced the trump campaign, i think the jury is still out. some democrats are placing hopes in the idea there is a smoking gun. we don t know that yet. where we see mounting and i think quite damning evidence is without knowing what the underlying infraction may have been we are seeing a pattern of or few obfuscation, deception changing and conflicting stories on the part of the president and people at the white house, that sure looks like the behavior of people who are trying to hide something.