reporter: the payroll survey, you re sick, maybe you re caring for someone with covid. there are millions of people like this. if you are not at work because of the omicron variant, you re not going to be counted in the payroll. so bernstein says the underlying economy and the jobs market are strong. he says the administration expects jobs numbers to bounce back quickly as the omicron surge increases. i thought that was interesting. the white house getting out ahead of that and explaining just by the fluke of the calendar, the peak of omicron happened exactly the week they were taking the survey numbers. if you are out of the labor market because you re one of the millions of people side lined by covid, that s going to show up. coming up, when pulling a book off the shelf in a tennessee school district backfires in a big way. and the republican senator who says he s offended by president biden s promise to pick a black woman for the supreme court but he s not offended by the bi