complete with a noose, gallows, and countless confederate flags. now while some have had a racial reckoning after george floyd's death in 2020, the insurrection was a glaring warning that a significant portion of our country is threatened by an america no longer powered by white dominance, and one that takes accountability for our history there it is. cue the upwar over critical race theory, which is not taught anywhere, for the record. this is leading to a reality where white parents are trying to ban books about real american history that does not feed a fairy tale. and while we did see some signs of justice this year with george floyd and ahmaud arbery and daunte wright's killers convicted, at the same time, kyle rittenhouse, who killed two people, is being celebrated as the latest hero of the right wing extremists, including those serving in congress. it's part of a larger vitriol we're seeing in american politics. it's gotten so bad that a father thought it was appropriate to tell president biden on christmas eve to essentially go f himself. this was in front of his kid. that's the family values party for you. it should come as no surprise that now he's considering running for office. we've become so divided that people are risking and losing their lives because they don't trust science enough to get a vaccine, prolonging a pandemic where more than 480,000 people have died this year alone. but for those of us who do believe in science, this year wasn't entirely awful. i mean, the vaccine did allow some of us to resume somewhat of our normal lives, with many of us seeing our family members in person for the first time in over a year. and, of course, there was a lot more focus on those moments than on the kids who still, still have not been reunited with their families after our government separated them. that's among the many stories that didn't quite get the media attention they deserved. like, for example, jackson mississippi, still not having clean drinking water, and the hundreds of mass shootings that we're doing absolutely nothing about. or the climate change that fueled several natural disasters this year and will only get worse. stick around. we're going to talk about that later in the show. now while biden's infrastructure bill does have some climate provisions, joe manchin's opposition to build back better might mean that we've lost our chance to tackle any meaningful action, especially with republicans doing everything they can to suppress the vote and make sure democrats no longer have a majority. so, yes, my friends, it was a tough year, and it remained so, even to the last days. but it would have been so much worse without the sacrifices of health care workers, teachers, and many others, and those who took a moment to put on a mask. it was a year that taught us a lot about who we are and what awaits all of us. as much as those anti-crt people think otherwise, history does in fact matter, even our recent history. joining me now is adrienne elrod, tim miller, writer at large for the bulwark and eugene daniels, white house correspondent for politico. thank you, my friends, for being here. what a year, you guys. 2021 has been a lot for all of us. adrienne, you're the woman on the panel. i want to kick it off with you. what was your biggest takeaway for 2021? >> tiffany, first of all, it's great to be with you. my biggest takeaway of 2021 is that science works. not that i didn't know that before. but if we ever needed proof that science works, it's what happened this year. thank god for the mrna vaccination. thank goodness for research and development that goes into creating multitudes of vaccinations. tiffany, you may recall when covid first came on the scene, we wondered if it was going to be two, three, four years until there was a vaccination. but again, thanks to medical research and thanks to science, we got vaccinations much faster than we thought. and of course the biden administration got this implemented and got shots in the arms of over 200 million americans. science works. and question just got to keep harping that. >> you've declared -- you've opened a hornets' nest there, my friend, declaring science works when there are so many anti-science people out there, absolutely. you're right. science works. i wished more people believed in that tim, what about you? what's your biggest takeaway? >> i just want to jump in on that, what adrienne said. it was a miracle. it's not just that science works, this was a miracle drug that a lot of researchers, engineers have been working for years went into. it saved countless lives. so i wrote this morning for the bulwark an article that said 2021 not that bad. and i do think with all due respect to your introhere that of course there are a lot of bad things that happened in 2021. you know we got rid of donald trump that was pretty good. i think it was researchers and the free market and the scientists all working together to create this miracle drug, that was all pretty good. there were good verdicts this year. i think we can still have faith in a court system. you're looking at the news yesterday with maxwell. you looked at chauvin earlier in the year. i think that americans showed this year our willing to be helpful and welcoming to afghan refugees who came back. it's been amazing the selflessness in that and covid. there have been some jerks no doubt this year. but i think it's appropriate to look back and think about some of the positive stuff that happened as well. >> yeah. that's a good point. but eugene, look, for every george floyd and ahmaud arbery, there are so many other acts of injustice where there wasn't a cell phone around. for all these court verdicts, there are hundreds of others that did not produce justice for a family, and obviously justice would be those people still being alive and being with their families. i'm curious your thoughts. what was your biggest takeaway from 2021? >> i think everything everyone said is right, but also as a political reporter on the panel, you know, thinking about how different the parties have become, right, that's been happening for years. but i think this year the insurrection kind of cemented that, right. the republican party as a party geared to the feelings and urges of one man who isn't even in office right now is something we have never seen in american history. it's led to a lot of issues that the republican party has dealt with in the party and has been doing outside of the party toward the democrats and toward american people. that's something that i think that party is going to have to deal with for years to come. whether they do that is one thing. and the democratic party kind of realizing that it's one that needs to attract both a huge swath of voters and support in all folks in congress from bernie sanders and joe manchin, not related. that makes governing difficult. that makes what we've seen over this year. i'm watching for the first time in a long time how difficult it is to govern when talking about governing as opposed to personalities. that's important as we go into the next year. >> i take your point. eugene is saying this is something the party now has to reckon with. i take a bit of an issue with that because this has really been the only republican party i've known. they're saying the quiet part out loud right now. but this didn't begin with trump, and even though trump has gone from the party, trumpism is alive and well and always has been. why do you think there are so many white supremacists and science deniers who always feel so at home in the republican party and that's really expanding as we see what's playing out now in our politics. what's your take on that? >> well, look, tiffany, i think that, you know, certainly there has been this strain in the republican party for a long time. stevens wrote a good book about this called "it was all a lie." there is nothing factual on the mccain platform in 2008 still has immigration reform, the cap and trade to deal with the climate. you can have plenty complaints of the 2008 campaign john mccain ran, but that is very different than what you see in 2020. i think it's true that it's certainly gotten worse over the course of the past decade. i think just looking at this year, the key points, to eugene's point is after january 6, if we all remember back to january 7th, i do remember that there was this moment, kind of a moment of reckoning where it was like even mitch mcconnell was like this is a little too far for me. even john cornyn, even lindsey graham thought things have gotten out of hand. i think at fox you even saw a change in tone for a day or two. maybe an hour or two. but you thought for a moment that maybe there would be this sort of tack back, and the adults would come in and say we cannot be a revanchist party that plays into these extremists and con spiritists. we have to have some responsibility and prudence, to use an old george h.w. word. and that lasted about a day or a week. and i think that is the most telling thing about this year, that wet all saw what the republican party was under trump, but it really solidified i think what it's going to be for the medium term right now because the politicians responded to what their voters wanted. and the voters looked at january 6 and they either said i'm okay with it on balance, or some of them said i want more of that. and other politicians are going along with that. >> look, i take your point. i think the challenge for a lot of folks is the road that it took to get there. donald trump didn't come out of the blue. there is so much that happened that paved the way for him. so we'll see. look, i really hope that there are some sensible republicans to come out and rebuke this stuff. right now it looks like it's become the party of trump, and it's really impacting all of our mental health, which brings me to my next point. mental health. i was really happy to see that this issue took such center stage in 2021. you guys remember when naomi osaka took that break for mental health. simone biles took that break in the olympics when she was supposed to perform and said i need a moment. adrienne, how do you think this is going to impact us? or how do you think this did impact us in 2021? there is something about the mental health discussion being paired with what people call the great resignation. we called october strike tobier because workers were demanding better working conditions. there is something about us being able to breathe and demand a better life. what do you think about that year and how we detail with those issues? >> tiffany, i'm glad you're drawing this connection between what public figures like simone biles and naomi osaka have done, how they feel comfortable coming out and talking about mental health and how that portends to workers in america who are demanding better wages, demanding better working conditions, and how that is more accepted. not that it wasn't accepted by people like it ten years ago. but you look at how far we've come over the past decade. it's become a far more acceptable discussion to have. i applaud the people who are willing to speak out. again, whether it's the line worker who wants a better wage and who wants better working conditions, or whether it's simone biles who says you know what? i may be the best athlete in the world, the best at my craft and what i do, but i need a mental break from this, and i'm going to step back and let some of the other gymnasts take the lead here. i think it's great progress. we still have a lot of work to do. but the fact that we're able to have these conversations in a public-facing manner, you know, a step in the right direction. i think, you know, we're going keep hearing more about people who are willing to come out and speak about mental health. it's going to have a continuous positive impact on society. >> yeah. i completely agree with you. eugene, i know it's kind of a generational divide sometimes because, you know, i'm a gen xor, millennial if anybody asks. but in real life, the way we view our work is sometimes different than younger people. it's really been younger people out on the front lines saying hey, i need a minute here, or, you know, prioritizing their mental health in a way that we just weren't raised to do, quite frankly. what's your take on it? >> no, i think you're right. have i two younger siblings. i'm here with them now at my parents' house. and the difference they're saying you don't have to live that way. you don't have to be exhausted all the time. you don't have to put yourself last or your relationships last is really something that all of us can take to heart. this entire year was a stark reminder, including last year, but especially in year about how much collective -- how much -- if you can't bring your full self, whether you're tired or whatever, how you talk to your family, whether or not you're around them, how you bring them to work that actually matters. how you're treated at work actually matters. i think the pandemic forced us all to sit down and you talk than great resignation. a lot of people aren't going to work outside of being scared of covid-19 is also because well, you're not paying me enough and i'm not enjoying it. that is something that young people have been at the forefront of for years. >> yeah, i agree. and a lot of people are trying to make that argument. oh, the unemployment checks are too much. that means the private sector has to pay people more. so it's been a great year when it comes to at least recognizing the challenges of mental health. but we have way too much to talk about. so adrienne, tim and eugene are sticking around. because up next on "the reidout" how everything that happened in 2021 will shape the political landscape in 2022 as we head into midterms. plus, what we're learning about today's phone call between president biden and vladimir putin about the growing crisis in ukraine. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman joins us. and many are forced to ring in the new year without their champagne toast. that's right. bubbly is in short supply. and the climate crisis is part of the reason. and she became a sensation at the biden inauguration. now poet amanda gorman has a hopeful message for 2022. 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>> that's a tough one. one of my editors or me ends up writing it. i think the thing is going to be with the democratic leaders really listen to their voters and listen to advocate within their party saying things, just like you said, getting rid of the filibuster or figuring out a way to carve out a voting rights exception in the filibuster to get voting rights done, and whether or not joe manchin -- or whether or not other democrats accept what joe manchin is willing to give them on build back better. those are the two things that are going to be able to get done if democrats want them. that is a strong -- that is going to depend on president biden pushing joe manchin and kyrsten sinema on the filibuster. kyrsten sinema right now i think is the staunchest advocate for the fill buster in the democratic party. and then you have how much the members of congress are going to finally get together, figure out what happens with build back better. those are the biggest things that are going to happen for the country for this year, right, whether or not the voting rights acts get done because you have people starting to vote in the primaries coming up just in a few months. and that's going to be something really interesting for folks to watch. >> we'll see. i don't know if democrats can hold the majority with the rampant voter suppression that we've seen. i mean, this is gop-led voter suppression at the state level, which has always been something that has plagued democracy. it's kind of hard to imagine why they don't adjust the rules to make sure that everybody has an access to the ballot. tim, what do you got? what do you think the political headline that we have yet to read will be? maybe you'll write the political headline. who knows. >> well, i'll just answer that question. but really quick on this perspective, i think the democrats' big concern coming up here isn't really voter suppression as much as it is republicans going around the rules to literally try to cheat, as we saw in 2020, in 2024. the republicans tried voter suppression in 2020 and it backfires. what it did is it led to an increased energy and increased interest in voting. this isn't to say it couldn't succeed at a different time. right now the more urgent threat that democrats in congress need to look to is how to prevent in 2024 a redux of what we saw in 2020 which is a republican house or senate trying to overturn a legal and fair results in a state that the democrats won. as far as what the big headline i think for 2022 that hasn't been written yet, i think the democrats are going to end up getting passed a version of bbb that might hopefully be better politically. it might not be as good as policy as every progressive activist wants. but something that is more tangible, more stripped down, whether it's the universal pre-k provision, whether it's parental leave, the prescription drug costs on insulin, a couple of things like that and paying for it with increased taxes on the wealthy, i think they are going to get a deal on that. i would look to the spring and think that there will be something that's a little bit smaller but easier to sell that the democrats can pass in 2022. >> tim, you are quite the optimist on the panel. this evening. and i i don't know -- >> why not? it's new year's. >> i don't know as many people will be excited about a watered down bbb, because you have to wonder, you know, because when it kicks back to the house, will the progressives vote for it, you know? we'll see. we'll keep our eye on it. adrienne, what do you think? what is the big political headline that awaits us in 2022? >> well, i'm going try to compete with tim to be the most optimistic person on the panel tonight. i think the headline that is going to be written in the very near future is democrats passed historic once in a generation legislation. i think that is going to be build back better. tiffany, i completely agree with you. i wish we were looking at a $6 trillion bill, which is what progressives pushed and what many in the party embraced to start off with. but even if we pass something in the $1.4 trillion range, we're still looking at some very historic pieces and provisions of legislation that are going to have a dramatic impact on the lives of american families. hopefully that will include a ten-year extension of the child tax credit. that's still being debated. we'll see what senator manchin comes down on that. some of these climate provisions are going to have dramatic impacts. expanded pre-k so every child in america no matter their socio-economic or purely economic background can get expanded child care -- i'm sorry, pre-k access. expanded child care access so parents can actually go back to work and not worry about who is going the take care of their kid there is a lot of great things in that legislation that i completely agree with you. i hope that we don't let perfect be the enemy of the good and that just ends up getting passed. i think at the end of the day whatever we pass is going to be historic, and it's going to be something we haven't seen passed in congress in several decades, and that's going to be a big thing and a good thing for american people. >> and i agree with you. i feel like a lot of the coverage this year was focused on how much this plan costs. i think that matters to inside the beltway people. but american people across this country are not interested in how much this costs. they have their own household debt to worry about. they want to know what policy is going to impact their lives tomorrow. so we'll see what happens with build back better. should it be quite an interesting thing. i will tell you guys, i am worried a political headline might be about a more contagious infectious highly virulent variant coming along. despite my cough, i promise i am okay. but i think it's, you know, just a really scary thing to navigate this virus. so knock on wood that will not happen. eugene, i have a very serious question for you that i'd like you to address. what role do you think lil nas x will play in the gop's culture wars, battles they like to invent. what's your take? >> i mean, lil nas x is one of those artists who comes around every once in a while that really does rile up conservatives, and he hits a at couple of different things. he is gay. he is black. those are places where they have huge issues dealing in within their own party how they interact with those two groups. i think they'll continue to harp on things like that. one thing that's been clear about lil nas x, for people who don't have his album is he going to continue to push the envelope. as we're talking about young people, he is one of those perfect examples of young people who are just going to live their life. and if the old people don't get with it, then that's too damn bad. that's something that has been really fascinating to watch this year. >> it is. it's really interesting. you know what would really make these conservative right-wing extremists lose their mind? if lil nas x teamed up with cardi b and did a duet about voting rights. >> i want that. i need that in my life. >> and equality. exactly. exactly. well, you know, i am almost 1% certain that cardi b and lil nas x are watching this show right now, because what else would they be doing at the end of the year? and maybe this will happen. we shall see. we shall see. what do you think? i feel like, honestly, when cardi b song, the republicans knew that song better than i did. they're obsessed with her. why do you think that is? >> i don't want to act like i'm dunking the question. i don't have an answer to that one. if lil nas x is watching, definitely call me. and i'm anxious to take a stand. i know eugene spent a lot of time in north of denver, there is a horrible raging fire right now going through my old neck of the woods in denver. i know i've got some friends who are up there and eugene does. i just want to give a shout out to those folks and the firefighters who are out there trying to put that out while i had a chance on the air and say my thoughts are with all my people back in denver, boulder, and my area. >> i'm so glad you did that. thank you. and our thoughts are with those folks as well. all right. i'm going to go down a gallon of water and suck on a throat los citizen. my thanks to eugene daniels and tim miller. don't go anywhere. president biden holds a high stakes call with vladimir putin with escalating tensions between russia and ukraine. can he help keep those tensions from ramping up into a full-blown military conflict? 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what's your take? >> so i think ultimately, i think the discussions around european security and all these assurances that he is looking to extract or guarantees that he is looking to extract either bilaterally from the u.s. or nato, and nato, amount to maybe a bit of a sideshow. frankly, his major objective here is to regain control of ukraine. it's one of those things that a legacy of the collapse of the soviet union in putin's own conception of the biggest tragedy in the 20th century. he is looking to reverse that. he has now gathered sufficient strength. he thought he successfully realized a failed state in ukraine in 2014 when he snatched up 7% of the territory. millions of people isolated in the russian-controlled territories. but that's not enough. it turns out that ukraine is actually consolidated around the national identity, consolidated around this idea of integrating with europe, and now he is looking for an opportunity to do some more damage to pull ukraine back into russia's orbit. recognizing that if he doesn't act now, it's only going to get harder. >> yeah. and you know when zelinsky first started sounding the alarm on this, he said there was a group of russians and ukrainians trying to stage a coup in ukraine, which is interesting why ukrainians would be a part of that. what message did biden need to send today? and do you think -- is it wise for biden to kind of help putin save face and offer him an offramp, or should he double down? >> you know, there are all these ideas of offramps and face-saving measures are appropriate. i think frankly the call today was a little bit puzzling. it came on relatively short notice as far as we can tell from the public perspective, just on a short notice, right before the holidays. and the topic was ukraine. and this is in light of the fact that within about a week or so, a little bit more than a week, the russians and the u.s. are going to start significant consultations headed up by senior diplomats. so the reason for this call isn't entirely clear. i mean, there is an idea here that he's just checking the bloc on continued diplomacy and building the case why putin might need to conduct his offensive in ukraine. he has exhausted all the opportunities, all the options with regards to diplomacy. with regards to what president biden needed to do, he just needed to lay down a significant message of decisive actions in response to russian aggression, and also leave the door open for diplomacy. but i fear that's not going to be enough. i think that taking action after the russians invade, conduct the largest offensive in ukraine since world war ii, that's going to be trying to close the barn door after the cows have left. but i think that we should be doing a lot more now with regards to sending a strong message of what could happen. maybe going so far -- frankly, i'm supportive of arming the ukrainians to make it less palatable for the russians to attack. and in so deterring what could end up being a catastrophe of unknown consequences. >> so since you say arming the ukrainians, because zelinsky, he is a former actor and comedian, as i'm sure you well know. no shade america elected a reality tv to his first job in government in the united states. he is placing people from his old comedy troupe in very senior positions, not people with a lot of foreign policy experience. by putin basically threatening ukraine, he is kind of making the point that they do actually need nato's protection. i mean, is zelinsky in a position to defend ukraine? >> well, let's say that ukraine is in a far better position to defend itself now that it has been than any other point in recent history. over the past 7 1/2 -- actually closer to eight years, they've made significant improvements. but all that has done is closed the gap somewhat between how far ahead the russians were and started on the margins at least to affect the calculus of what kind of damage the ukrainians could do as the russians launched their offensive. this is not going to look anything like what we saw in 2014. this is going to be a combination of syria, ukraine, and things we haven't witnessed in decades. this will be a massive aerial bombardment, cruise missile strikes and targeting what i think are morale targets, crushing the will of the ukrainian population to resist russian aggression. so this is going to be a massive, massive -- this is shaping up right now to be a massive military offensive that is going to draw on european powers, the lithuanians and estonians have already destroyed to arm the ukrainians. i can't imagine the poles and the romanians are going to be too far behind. and we're going to be in this some way or another. so the best we can do now is really send a strong message that this is not what russia wants. severe punishing sanctions, posture changes, more u.s. forces in europe, and really arming the ukrainians are part of the formula of success. >> that's a very frightening picture you just painted, alex. just really quickly, we're out of time. but i'm just curious your thoughts. is any of this relevant to what's happening in the -- in our country domestically? does putin look at what's happening here, and yeah, america's weak, which of course he had a hand in bestowing a lot of discord in this country. we're looking at what's happening with covid, afghanistan, looking at this confluence of things, does he say now the is the time? again, this is his doing, a crisis he created, he requested this phone call. he does look through this lens the u.s. is weakening, now is my time to strike? >> that's exactly right. he is acting on both need, this need to keep ukraine within his sphere of influence, prevent a successful ukraine from materializing that threatens his own regime, and also the opportunity. the opportunity of a company the u.s. having a coup attempt on january 6. i fear that if we had not had that episode, we would probably not be facing these kinds of situations, these kinds of challenges. that's not causality, but there is a link there. i think it's also covid. the russians are actually having a hard time with covid right now. it's only going to get worse. their vaccine is not going to be nearly as effective as our highly advanced vaccines. but there is all sorts of weakness that he perceived. >> yeah. >> here and in europe, as seen between the europeans and the u.s. and the leverage that he is getting with regards to energy. so this is all kind of emboldening him to take action. >> yeah. and you're right. russia has their own problems. they've got slow growing wages and a lot of opposition groups against vladimir putin. so we will definitely keep our eye on it. good job, by the way, your appearance on "curb your enthusiasm." i caught it. one of my favorite shows. so thank you so much for joining us tonight. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. >> that was fun. appreciate it. >> all right. thank you. happy new year to you. and tell your wife i said hello. all right. if you're planning on popping the cork on some old bubbly tomorrow night, you should definitely stick around to hear about how the climate crisis is threatening that entire industry. stay with us. ♪ when you have nausea, ♪ ♪ heartburn, ingestion, upset stomach... ♪ ♪ diarrheaaaa.♪ try pepto bismol with a powerful coating action. for fast and soothing relief. pepto bismol for fast relief when you need it most. you don't get much time for yourself. so when you do, make it count with crest pro-health. it protects the 8 areas dentists check for a healthier mouth. the #1 toothpaste brand in america. crest. all right, everybody. i know we have about 28 hours until the ball drops, but in the words of beyonce, we like to party. sorry for my singing. i can't. but i do want to cheer to the new year, and i imagine like me, many of you will be popping a bottle of bub with your friends and family tomorrow. sadly, some of you will be drinking alone because you're in quarantine or you have to be on air saturday morning like me. whatever the reason, i'm sorry. but even worse, some of you could be popping a bottle of english sparkling wine. i know. the horror. but that's for an entirely different but equally disturbing reason. extreme weather conditions are starting to push good wine out of traditional regions like france, italy, and california into places further north and south like norway, oregon, and the aforementioned england. it's the literal polarization of wine. take for example france. extreme weather has hammered the country, leaving its world class champagne and wine regions hurting. a french government forecast shows the 2021 harvest was the smallest in at least 50 years. now that's a devastating blow to a country whose second largest export industry is actually wine. the threatening effects of the climate crisis on wine are having serious and life-changing consequences. i'm joined now by greg jones, ceo of abacella winery. he is also an at atmospheric scientist and a cultural climatologist. i hope i said that correctly, craig. you'll correct me if i didn't. this is a really interesting story. it's obviously disappointing for champagne lovers. but the bigger challenge is, of course, protecting earth. what's the solution to all of this? and because it's so serious, i'm just going to take a sip of the champagne while you tell us what can be done to preserve our precious cocktails. >> well, first of all, thanks for having me on air today. this is a really big issue. we've been noticing in agriculture in general, but in grape growing specifically, climates have been changing all over the world. the rise of extreme events that have become more and more problematic, whether it be heat extremes and/or hail and/or heavy rain, have really caused some major challenges. in 2021 in champagne, a combination of frost, hail, heavy rain, and quite a bit of mildew led to a very, very difficult vintage. there will be some people that just will not even produce whatsoever. there's hope, though. there's still i think plenty of wine out there. for this coming year. champagne does something that is similar to what opec does with oil, what maple syrup has done within quebec. they do have supplies they keep behind for delivery for a year like this. the challenge is the supply chain may be more difficult than anything. >> the supply chain is certainly a challenge with a lot of industries. you know, hearing you talk about this, i'm curious. if we cannot address this challenge with champagne, what is the responsibility of the consumer? will prices start to go up significantly? should people be buying champagne, buying more champagne? i understand the champagne committee is trying to decrease the carbon footprint of what's happening in these regions. for us at home watching what should we be doing? >> i think the whole industry is trying to look at this as a broader issue. the idea, number one, is to really look at packaging. how does shipping glass bottles all around the world impact our carbon footprint? i think there's going to be some major changes in packaging in the future. but it's consumers. we just need to be aware of where our products are coming from. can we buy more locally? or can we buy more sustainably in terms of how that product has gotten to our door epp snep. >> great advice. especially as so many people will be popping bottles tomorrow night for new year's. because tomorrow night is new year's eve, i'm just curious what you will be drinking tomorrow night when it's time to bring in the new year? >> i have to admit that i do have an oregon sparkling wine on my menu for tomorrow night. there are wonderful sparkling wines made throughout wine regions in the united states. if you cannot, for whatever reason it is, find a champagne on the shelf at the marketplace, look for something else from maybe upstate new york or oregon or washington. there's some really good sparkling wines made by other producers out there. >> that's really sound advice. and 2021 has been a challenging year. 2022 may be another challenging year. please don't take our wine and champagne away from us. thank you so much, greg jones. cheers to you, and happy new year. up next, america's youth poet laureate amanda gorman pens an extraordinary new poem to send us into the new year brimming with hope and inspiration. hope and inspiration. ted cashback match.. only from discover. inner voice (kombucha brewer): i'm dramatically holding this bottle, so the light hits it just right, and people think... wow... ...he knows what he's doing... ...when i'm actually pretty lost with my payroll taxes. intuit quickbooks helps you manage your payroll taxes. cheers. 100% accurate payroll tax calculations guaranteed. real cowboys get customized car insurance with liberty mutual, so we only pay for what we need. -hey tex, -wooo. can someone else get a turn? 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