protect against this variant. you said that pcr tests, coronavirus tests, should detect cases of this new variant. but what about those that use the at-home rapid tests. could omicron be more widespread than the ability to track it because those tests don t work on omicron? i asked that question just yesterday because i was on a prolonged zoom call with our african south african colleagues. and they said at least some of the rapid antigen tests would pick this up. he couldn t guarantee all of them would but the ones they were using, he didn t specifically say what they were, is that the mutations did not interfere with the ability to recognize the antigen by the antibodies that were used in the rapid test. so that is a good thing. the pcr tests that are used can pick it up. lucky for us that s the case. do you expect that the omicron variant will become the
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of them. why are the house republican leaders so quiet on this? is there no up side? it seems to be no upside because of the republican base. that s the trump effect here. and then, of course, with kevin mccarthy s ambitions to become speaker of the house if republicans do win that majority. they re trying to figure out this balance between making sure the moderates in swing states have the cover they need from these controversial comments but also not alienating the base and the republican members who support and make these comments. one more thing which is that if mccarthy denounced boebert, trump will denounce mccarthy and mccarthy understands that. right. and there is some new reporting in politico saying some democrats, particularly allies of congresswoman omar don t see it as authentic but others worry if they punish a lawmaker who admits a mistake and tries to make amends they ll set themselves up for similar treatment or worse during a future gop majority. this is repor
seemed to not be rather apologetic at all. but there was a moment it looked like lauren boebert was approaching contrition. and it was well phrased. very often in washington they do this. if you were offended or something. she just said, i apologize to muslim americans who i ve offended. it s very often in washington couched in much weaker language than i saw coming out of congresswoman boebert, and good for her. but she seems to be crop firn i fishing that from more extremist wings of her party. i think contrition and acceptance would be a good thing in washington. people say stupid things and if they apologize and they re sincere and don t it again, maybe there are lessons to be learned? it would be good but i think you might be setting the standard a little bit too high. appreciate it. the former secretary of defense under trump is taking the current pentagon to court. secretary mark esper will join us live. stay with us.