white house on how the president and company are handling the omicron thing. steve? neil, this is the white house that is focused mostly or at least primarily on getting people vaccinated since their first day last january. now there s new questions about whether or not they were focused enough on testing. why is it that you guys were so unprepared for the need for testing after the holidays? peter i m happy to see you back and well. second, i would say there s been a massive surge in cases as you know and we re a part of in d.c. and new york. there s been an unpredented the president is talking about winter of severe illness and death. while he s saying that publicly, why weren t you guys doing more to prepare for wenter? peter, everybody decides
are suffering under the tariffs, especially soybean farmers and also people who worked in auto and manufacturing, auto jobs, they are in trouble. there is a gm plant that has been idled in northeast ohio, and that affects a whole chain of businesses. last night the opioid crisis was brought up. i know that s an important issue in ohio. is that something that resonated with voters there? laura. i think it resonates with white voters because that s what the opioid crisis has in particular hit. it started out with rural, white ohioans. at one point, we were having 13 people a day were dying from opioid overdoses. the deaths seem to be decreasing, although it still is a problem. we had some more urban voters of color. there is a feeling like, why weren t you guys this concerned during the crack-cocaine epidemic? so, yeah, i think that opioids
not looking at the va and saying, hmm, maybe there s some lessons here. how could you do obamacare? i keep hearing this from republicans, why weren t you guys trying to banish the va? you re always talking about getting what do you mean you? well, not you. okay, so republicans are always saying let s get rid of the education department. why haven t they been saying for the last 20 years let s get rid of the, va? because it s incredibly unpopular now that barack obama s president, it s i m not blaming obama. actually, i m the one right-winger who s not holding obama accountable for the va really. i think it s baked into the cake. huge bureaucracies aren t good at delivering health care. tucker, how can you say that when he s said he s known about the problem for years, but yet today he stands before the american people and says he was unaware of this systemic failure of the hospital system in the va. it s a detail. look, i m not defending obama, i m merely saying i