getting better any time soon. what do you tell these dairy farmers who need this over now? this is going to take a while. there is a big backlog and the network isn t coping and building new ships and ports and trucks and trains takes a while. we don t have a while. we need fixes now. and we re losing customers globally and we need our exports back. he says many california dairy farmers simply won t be farmers anymore if not. we re back to you. bill: douglas kennedy on that. dana: i m so glad we did that report. dairy farmers are one thing. other farmers especially up in wisconsin in particular are also having a problem. what he says they need their customers back, in the past 20 years, the u.s. dairy back then was only a domestic market.
very structure of our nation in many ways. it is bad stuff. federalizing elections. all this new democratic party wants to do has nothing to do with the party that used to have blue dogs in it that used to be the big tent that used to allow people to individually think. people are pressed and pushed into voting even in ways they don t want to. you see that in the house of representatives all the time. a bad bill that will go through. i ll vote no, other republicans vote no. i talked to more moderate democratic friends over there and said why did you vote for that? i know you well and i know you don t believe it. they basically say we had to. that s not good government. that s not america and not what we believe in. dana: good to get your perspective as joe manchin doesn t know if he will join the conference call if democrats are having tonight. they haven t treated him well. dana: no, they haven t. bill: thank you. a tough christmas for a lot of
you call it is omicron. dana: the president is scheduled to address the nation at 2:30 today as the white house is trying to get in front of the winter surge that s coming and putting the country a bit on edge. bill: here is what we know about the white house response including military aid for hospitals, funding for 500 million free at home tests and includes more testing sites. additional fema response team. dana: the white house trying to ease american s fears and emphasizing the risk of not getting the shot. he will issue a stark warning and make clear unvaccinated individuals will continue to drive hospitalizations and deaths. that s not trying to scare people or maybe it is trying to make clear to people in the country what the risks are of not being vaccinated. bill: we have you covered. jonathan serry at the cdc. dr. marc siegel has analysis and we begin to peter doocy.