from positive cases from ten to five is in part due to america's lock down fatigue. >> if you're asymptomatic and you're infected, we want to get people back to the job. >> it had a lot to do with what the we thought people would tolerate. >> the decision on the part of the cdc is really a true and good decision and based on science. >> we may well not be able to or willing to comply with ten days worth of isolation. >> okay. is it science or what people will tolerate? joining me now, former acting director of the cdc, dr. richard besser. great to have you with us, doctor. thanks for being here. i'd like to start, if i may, on this issue of the five-day period and whether or not you need to test negative at the end of those five days. here's dr. fauci this weekend. >> there's been some concern about why we don't ask people at that five-day period to get tested. looking at it again, there may be an option in that that testing could be a part of that. we'll hear more about that in the next day or so from the cdc. >> martha: okay. what is your take on that, sir? >> martha, thanks for having me on first off. clearly a number of factors. clearly how far you out from the start of your symptoms the less likely you are to transmit. there's people five days out that can still spread. one of the things being balanced here is a desire and need that people feel to get back to work to stay in their jobs. and the risk to public health. if there were tests widely available, if anyone wanted them could get a rapid test, i think you would like people to be tested at the end to make sure that they're no longer positive. but right now there's a crunch. i spent several days trying to get tested at local pharmacies and couldn't find them. for someone that doesn't have sick leave, the days mean they're not getting the money that they need to pay rent or put food on the table. >> you touched on something important here. that is the difficulty in getting tests, getting tested. so you know, the american people look at the programs have been passed. you had $35 billion ramped up. the need we need to spend our tax dollars on this, we need more testing. $35 billion in the first round. second round, $47 billion. about 2.6 billion in these relief packages that were to ramp up testing and make them readily available. i realize that you're a former cdc director. but you're a doctor and you look at these things from the big picture. where did that money go? where are the tests? >> you know, i can't comment on where the funds have gone but i can say that we haven't done what we needed to do in terms of tests. part of that i think was last spring where the numbers were going down. looked like we were reaching an end game in terms of this pandemic. so you weren't seeing the same drive for testing. right now we're seeing how critically important testing is, how valuable it would be for children to be able to be tested, to be able to stay in school if they've been exposed, for people in the workplace to be tested if they've been exposed. it's very important. moore is being done. we're a long way from having the amount of testing available freely to people that we need to see. you don't want someone's income to determine if they have access to a test. right now the challenges are incredibly low. >> martha: absolutely. when the american people spend $82 billion to ramp up testing and can't get a test, they have every right to ask what happened to the money, where the money went and why they didn't get a test for their $82 billion. that is the subject that they can continue to try to bear down on here. with regard to masking, listen to this from scott gottlieb, the former fda commissioner. >> this is an airborne illness. a cloth mask won't protect you from a virus that spreads through airborne transmission. could protect better through droplet transmission but not like this coronavirus. >> martha: you know, people have been wearing cloth masks the last two years, doctor. where is the guidance on this and is all of that cloth mask wearing that we've been doing for two years worthless? >> i have a lot of respect for dr. gottlieb but i disagree on this point. clearly n-95 masks will give you the best protections. k-95 masks will provide protections. cloth masks do help. it decreases the aerosol going to another individual. there's some protection. if you're at significant risk and you have access to n-95 masks, that's a good way to go. for other people, it provides some benefit. if you're wearing a mask and the people you're engaging with are wearing masks as well. >> martha: all right. would you describe where we are with covid as the end game? are we getting close to the end of this? we felt we were at the end so many times, doctor. >> you know, i wish i could say with certainty that we are. i think there's the potential that omicron could be our way out of this pandemic. some will depend on whether new variants rise up, some depend on how strongly the global community rallies around and provides vaccines around the globe. as we saw with omicron, new variants can spring up anywhere, this current strain is so contagious, the rise and the number of cases is so great. thankfully the vast majority of these cases have been mild. this could be a way that most of the population gets exposed and had some underlying level of protection against new strains. time will tell. sure would be a wonderful thing if this is our way out of this. the next six weeks will be challenging as children try to get back to school and people try to get back to work. >> martha: we're going to dr. to dr. redfield about the school issue, which is so important. before you go, i need a quick answer. does it make sense for americans to be getting three and four shots when other countries haven't had one or two? >> it makes sense for anyone who hasn't been vaccinated at all to not get vaccinated. it does make sense in terms of a booster shot. if the doses were to go to someone who has no access to vaccine whatsoever around the globe, it would be a more equitable and just society. >> martha: senator burr is asking for answers about what happened to the $82.6 billion that americans approved for that money to ramp up testing. that's a lot of money and people want to know where the tests are. dr. besser, thanks very much. great to speak with you. >> thanks, martha. >> martha: you bet. so new york city's new mayor is not ruling out requiring booster shots for city employees but he says he's not there yet. >> we're going to examine the numbers. if we have to get to the place of making that mandatory, we're going to do that. we're encouraging them to do it now. i took my booster shot. >> martha: that is democrat eric adams. he says his resolution is the city will not be controlled by crisis. he wants to balance safety with keeping new york city open and keeping it safe. it's a refreshing message i think that would like to be heard across 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martha: among the many shootings over the weekend a new york city police officer. he was shot in the head while sleeping in his car between his shifts. it happened just after 6:00 a.m. on new year's day in a precinct parking lot in east harlem. the bullet penetrated his skull but he's expected to recover. police don't know if he was the target. the shot was fired from a significant distance away. it's one of many shootings across this nation paralyzing a lot of our cities. then you have the new mayor, eric adams, has sworn that he will be different in terms of his leadership in this city. we'll see if that percolates across the country. a lot of people hope it does. look at this. at least 17 american cities set new homicide records for 2021. a report that we hope does not get broken in 2022. foxnews.com put together this list based on reports from local police departments. other cities dealing with surges that they haven't seen in years or decades. garrett tenney reporting live from chicago this afternoon. hi, garrett. >> hi, martha. good afternoon. chicago led the nation in homicides last year with nearly 800. that is the highest number that the city has seen in a quarter century. chicago's top cop, he said police cannot solve this crisis alone though. if this next year is going to be any better, folks in the hardest hit communities need to step up. >> we must do more to protect the people of chicago. we will continue to give our all to the people of this city we live so dearly. >> sandra: we ask that everyone joining us in this effort, join us. we can't do it alone. coach, tutor or mentor a young person. everyone has a role to play in our public safety. >> across the country, 17 cities broke homicide records last year. washington d.c. had over 200 murders for the first time since 2003. minneapolis was one homicide away from reaching their record set in 1995. in more than 1400 people were killed in los angeles. the highest since 2007. new york city reached nearly 500 murders for the first time in a decade. the newly sworn in mayor says he's taking steps to prevent that from happening again this year. >> our intervention is immediately having a plain clothes anti-gun unit to do precision policing, going after gangs, targeting them, stopping the flow of guns in our city. >> most expert as agree the pandemic played a role in creating this surge. and as the pandemic continues, there's no quick-fix solution to addressing these root causes that have led to these heart-breaking statistics that we're seeing. >> martha: thanks, garrett. let's bring in theo hardaway. great for coming back. you listened to the superintendent there, david brown, saying people need to get involved, mentor somebody. this is the work of your life trying to fix the violence in your city of chicago. you've been very critical of mayor lightfoot and david brown. you say what they're doing is not working and nobody is saying your city. >> one thing i can say i agree with the superintendent, david brown, saying the police cannot do it alone. he cannot do it at all. every strategy he tried to implement in chicago has failed. mayor lori lightfoot refuses to think out of the box to actually achieve results in chicago, which leads to reduction in shootings and homicides. in 2020, we had almost 800 homicides. the superintendent and the mayor play games with the homicide numbers. as a matter of fact, in chicago, we have experienced over 840 homicides during the year 2021, over 4,400 people shot, 1,645 carjackings in chicago. so once people stop playing games with the numbers and become honest how they're failing in their efforts to reduce shootings and homicides, we can get somewhere in chicago. >> martha: you say you have a radical solution that needs to be tried. can you explain it? >> yeah, first and foremost, the gun violence problems in chicago, memphis, new orleans is more of a cultural issue. what i'm recommending to everybody, we need a semi military solution. what i mean by that, i'm not saying go to the communities with the armies, taking over the corners. we need like a united peace convoy with a united states general to come into these communities and assess the severity of the problem and present new strategies and solutions to dealing with war-torn-type of communities. we're dealing with wartime numbers. something has to be done. some people may be critical because i'm suggesting a semi military solution. until then, the only thing that will work is more like an army of tough love with african american men stepping up addressing their own people. it's more of a cultural issue. people talk a good game. right now we need results. makes no sense, a lot of legislators are passing policy can criminal justice reform instead of talking to the people in the valley. they're making decisions from a mountain time. criminal justice reform is the backfiring on society, especially in chicago. >> martha: you have an interesting exodus is happening of a lot of african americans and hispanics that are leaving cities in the hundreds of thousands from places like detroit and chicago. we'll have to see if they break up the gangs. we'll see. thank you. good to see you. >> thank you. >> martha: all right. this breaking news moments ago. former new york governor andrew cuomo will not face charges with his handling of covid with regard to the nursing home. this was an issue was devastating for him. he's no longer the governor of new york. one of his lawyers says the manhattan d.a. has closed the case and said there were no laws that could be broken. the state attorney general found that the governor's office had underreported the number of deaths in the nursing homes, but today as we said, a former lawyer for cuomo says the d.a. closed the case without any charges. that's the important thing to note here. it's not a question of whether or not there was a dereliction hoff duty. he no longer has his job of governor of new york. 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get to it. i did a little flying this weekend myself. you know, delays everywhere. if you're leaving on point a and get home in the same day, consider yourself lucky at this point. it crossed my mind, so the bagses are 1 1/2 hours delayed or can't get them on the plane. it's 1 1/2 hours delay. what worries me is maintenance and pilots and the stuff that keeps people safe. are we safe right now? >> yeah, i think we are safe. the airlines are very good at managing extreme challenges, particularly the larger airlines have exceptional crews to not only monitor the statistics and trending, but also to prepare an event for these kinds of challenges. there's a global pilot shortage and mechanic shortage that has developed due to the baby boomer's retirement. they have long prepared for this challenge by accelerated training programs, incentives, financial incentives, benefit incentives. so i think it's -- >> martha: there's a big pilot shortage, is there not? haven't you expressed concern in 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sentence of god must be executed against him. >> it wasn't just iran that marked the anniversary. in iraq, they stepped on american and israeli flags as they looked at the car that he was riding in. now tensions increase among rhetoric surrounding the 2015 nuclear deal. iranian proxies are still in lebanon, syria, gaza and yemen. with nuclear talks stalled, further provocations by iran and the proxies are expected. the big question is will israel act unilaterally against iran to stop their program. martha? >> martha: thanks, trey. reporting from jerusalem, let's bring in john ratcliffe, director of national intelligence after the u.s. carried out that drone attack. what is your reaction to this call from the iranian president against the former president, president trump? >> my initial reaction is they wouldn't be doing this if donald trump was still president. they wouldn't be out openly calling for these things or protesting because donald trump was the guy that pulled the trigger so to speak on the most important military exercise after the terrorist nation and network that anyone in the middle east can recall that includes the taking of the life of osama bin laden. because at the time of bin laden's death, he was largely, although very important mission, he did not have operational control. al-quaida was not able to carry out the kind of attacks that qassim soleimani was as the leader of a terrorist nation and the largest terrorist network in the world. so it was a bold move that saved untold american lives. something that president trump should be praised for. the fact that two years later it's still bothers the iranians so much tells you how historic that was and vital to america's national security interest. the world is a safer place and americans are safer because of what happened to qassim soleimani at the order of president donald trump. >> martha: so as we start 2022 and you look at iran and their posture, they're shutting down the computer systems at the jerusalem post with images of blowing up a reactor in israel and then you look at what is going on with vladimir putin and ukraine and you see this sort of diplomacy, this effort coming from president biden with putin and putin making very big demands, how do you assess where we are in terms of these situations and we begin this year? >> well, like most folks, i'm not happy about it because, you know, whether the biden administration admits it or not, 2021 was the worst year for american foreign policy in terms of gains and losses of u.s. national security interest around the world of our lifetimes. look, as a result of joe biden's decisions on foreign policies, russia is stronger because of the biden administration, china is stronger, iran is stronger, radical islamic terrorism, taliban and isis are stronger. every foreign policy decision that this administration has made in less than a year now has proven to be disastrous. our adversaries have gotten stronger and u.s. national security posture has gotten weaker. that is not an opinion. that is what our intelligence is showing us. that's why you are seeing these things in the news. it's not a coincidence that china is more aggressive, that russia is more aggressive, that iran is more aggressive that the taliban is more aggressive. this has to do with leadership in the white house and has to do with joe biden and his foreign policy team that has failed the american people. that's why there's not a great feeling if this much damage can be done to national security in one year what can happen in the next three years? that is something that i get that question more than anything when i'm out in public. people are so concerned about the direction that we're going as our standing slips around the world and this issue with vladimir putin is just the latest in a long litany of these problems. >> martha: you were privy to all of the classified intelligence that was in existence when you were in that post. you have to 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>> well, martha, it's important as you heard us say. we have to keep the schools open. the public interest of k-12 has to go to face-to-face learning. it was never in their interest to go to virtual learning. we've seen the negative consequences. so i think we have to be vigilant about keeping these schools open and giving the kids to opportunity to get the education that they need. >> martha: yeah. i remember the chicago teacher's union doing interpretive dances and things like that to express their feelings about being home. i look at the fact that when you see the learning, the loss of learning, the months of loss of learning in reading and math for united states students based on covid loss is dramatic. i keep wondering why we're not hearing from the department of education about the need for summer school this year or the need for increased house of schooling in order to catch up. it's never a conversation that happens. do you think that is something that we should be looking at? >> well, i think we have to get the kids back on the curve. the problem is for some children, they're never going to get back on the curve without some intensive intervention. the harm that has ben done to them is going to last a lifetime for some of these kids. so yeah, i mean, i have 12 grandchildren, you know. nine of them are in school. it's an important thing that they get face-to-face learning. not to mention the other things that we talk about before. how many kids get their nutrition from school, how many get mental health services from school. the schools are a good source of recognizing if there's child abuse. we've seen the cost of being isolated in terms of mental illness, suicide, drug use. and then you have the other that you and i just talked about. it's the loss of the learning curve. >> martha: it's devastating. >> i hope that the teachers will grab on and reflect on the vocation, with the beautiful gift of vocation as teachers. with that, we need them to teach those children in face-to-face learning. >> martha: we've seen parents that opted out and teaching at home or gone to other schools now. those that have those options have taken advantage of them. in terms of the criticism that the trump administration received about the handling of covid, rich lowrey is reflecting on that. here's what he wrote in the "new york post." joe biden said of trump "anyone that is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president." why then does biden get to stay in office in more people have died of coronavirus in 2021 than in 2020. if you simply look at the progression of cases and deaths, you'd have no idea that a new president took office in january of 2021. do you think that's fair? >> well, you know, martha, the real enemy here is the virus. there's areas that really disappoint me. you mentioned one in the earlier part of your show. there's not been a real push in private and public partnership to give the nation the tests that we need. we need 1 to 2 billion tests a month. we have to embrace knowledge of infection rather than these general mitigation steps that say, well, knowledge of infection, you know, it's not something that we can accomplish. we can look at the cdc's new guidance for isolation in five days. it's really imperative that these people get tested with an antigen test upon release back in to work, et cetera. you heard the reasons that well, they didn't do it. dr. besser said we don't have the tests. the second things that is really a figure in my view is there needs to be an operation warp speed like mindset to developing anti-virals. not just two anti-virals from pfizer and merck but we need a portfolio of anti-virals that can put this pandemic in its place. that's what's going to bring us to what we call the endemic state where we learn to leave with it, when we have the adequate testing, anti-virals combined with continuing to get the american public vaccinated, revaccinated and revaccinated? a great point. we have a couple of them coupling down the pipeline. there's not been an emphasis. is omicron the last burst of this pandemic or is there something else coming behind it? >> yeah, you know, martha, i'm a virologist by training. so i want to just be really clear, i anticipate that this virus will continue to evolve like i mentioned to you months ago. it will continue to involve a variant that is more infectious than delta. that was omicron. we're going to get one more infectious than omicron. it will continue to evolve. it will look for a transmission advantage in the population that it has access to. that population is going to be vaccinated or previously infected. that's what we're seeing with omicron. i don't want people to think omicron is somehow not something of any significance. when i look at the hospitalizations in the state of maryland yesterday in my role as the senior public health adviser, 45% of the people in hospital now are hospitalized with omicron. so this is not a totally benign variant. so i do think we'll get another variant after this. it will be more infectious. that's why we need to put these things in place. we need the testing up to speed, we need the public private partnerships, the operation warp speed approach to anti-virals and we need to continue to live our lives and get these important aspects of life functioning. can't afford kids to be out of school and closing down our economy. we need to move forward. one of the real secrets to doing that is adequate testing. >> martha: thanks, sir. great to see you. we spent $82.6 billion taxpayer dollars and you were told that that money was going to make sure that there would be testing across the board. now people are having a heck of a time trying to get their hands on a test. something is wrong there and people need to ask the hhs, ask the government what is going on with that money and where are those tests that they were promised. dr. robert redfield a sobering message. as always, honest and straight forward. happy new year to you. hopefully 2022 will bring the end of this pandemic. everybody is hoping for that. all right. more of "the story" after this. stay tuned. are rethinking the choices they make like the splash they create the entrance they make, the surprises they initiate. otezla. it's a choice you can make. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines, and if you're pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. i always dreamed of having kids of my own. ♪ ♪ now i'm ready for someone to call me mom. at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. dry eye symptoms driving you crazy? 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