and within the vax mandates for everybody from federal workers to health care workers, et cetera in the united states. it is just a double standard and we see this over and over again and it is driving me crazy and i know it drives my constituents crazy too. congressman i know you re a member of the house free caucus and we hoped to talk to you tonight about your hopes to expand what down to the state level perhaps we can bring you on another time to talk about that because it is an interesting effort unfortunately we ve had some breaking news and we re going to have to say good-bye. arizona congressman, republican andy biggs, thank you. thank you. jon: cases of the omicron variant are in nearly 40 countries in about a dozen u.s. states no deaths so far but the world health organization said it could take weeks to determine how infectious the disease is. we ll talk about it with janet,