peter baker, talking about the white house who saved christmas. joe biden is santa. whatever happens to that supply chain thing? we keep on having ups trucks and fedex trucks showing up to our place for presents santa is bringing them of course. there is hardly any blimp and two days later numbers came out to confirm that our supply chain is working great. prediction of a great crisis turned out not what it s. a lot of work have been done in order to obvert that. a lot of people putting in a lot of work to get things up to speed. it reminds me of the obama presidency of the oil spill in
[laughter] i haven t bought anything for anybody else yet. and you put together that, you know, the supply chain issues as well as the fact that neil: oh, don t tell them about the supply chain thing. really? you re going there? [laughter] i would use any excuse at all just to save myself, neil. amazon said it wouldn t be delivered in time, so instead here s a gift card neil: and the gift card thing that infuriates any woman. so you re ready for this, but it sounds to me like you ve got to get shopping and fast. i might point out that processed meats and cheeses are the gift that keeps giving. but what are you thinking? where are you looking? i mean, anything at all. you can never go wrong with, like, bed bath and beyond neil: there you go. maybe like an urban outfitters neil: not a gift card. you re going to have to go to nordstrom. by the way, they re not cheap.
we got omicron is a new factor and we got holiday gatherings, we decide to use the preemptive strikes to stop covid and the danger to all of us. we are going to announce our first in the nation measure, a vaccine mandate for private sector, employers across the board. you know willie, i am not really good at christmas presents this year. you got the supply chain thing. that s a real problem. i think we have a present for out going mayor bill de blasio. we need to talk to our friends at the new york post. i think we need to get that cover blown up for him.
that s not important. so he actually wants to maybe get things done and accomplished so he has something of substance to say. did i not for this. john kerry in charge of this? he is a special envoy? did i miss the john kerry announcement. steve: on climate. brian: he is in charge of the docks. ainsley: did you all shop yesterday for cyber monday? i did. i ended up thinking and there were a lot of warnings because of the because of covid. we re not sure if we can get this everything to you on time. ended up having to pay a little more to get it a few days earlier to make sure. and then defeated the purpose of shopping i basically broke even, right? steve: then they are saying if you want to make sure you get it do the two day air. it s an extra $11. whatever you just saved. ainsley: you ended up paying on shipping. steve: what s interesting though when you look at what the walmart guy said the supply chain thing is getting better. you would think the white house would want to do i
the supply chain thing is interestingly related to it because a disproportionate share of, like, truckers and longshoremen are people who are kind of older and closer to retirement and have maybe decided not to show up. so there are massive shortages of workers in the supply chain, especially, you know, truck drivers and people who work at ports. and so on this issue we have been hearing how it affects people, just, you know, when you re grocery shopping. we all feel it. we feel it at the gas pump. how concerned are you babout inflation. larry summers says this may go on for six months or longer. do you agree with that? we have been in agreement about inflation this year. the fact is a lot of it will depend on what happens with legislation this year. because the story of inflation always and everywhere is that if you throw lots of money at