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 where to get a test. you can purchase tests online. later today we ll have details on how 150 million americans that have health insurance can get reimbursed for tests. we ll have more on that later. we just got a d
[shouting questions] lowering gasoline prices. thank you very much. [shouting questions] mr. president. thank you very much. the press conference. jesse: the white house getting called out for putting biden in the presidential witness protection program and things are getting so bad that even the left-wing associated press is knocking biden for falling short on transparency and avoiding important questions. in fact, biden has done fewer news conferences and interviews in the last then the last five presidents and it s not even close. biden is held nine news conferences since taking office compared to trump s 22 and obama s 27. he is outpacing the others with 200 informal q&as. the white house says biden is always eager to talk. he takes questions multiple times a week. his schedule has quite packed. hopefully we ll be able to add local interviews. this president has done 140, maybe 150 short q&as where he takes questions from the press. typically a couple times
It. if you look at a restaurant, 33% is food cost, 30% as labor cost. about 20% as beverage costs. when you put it together, just the costs can run 60% before you pay rent and utilities. it is too tight of a margin to make it work. we really need this relief package. jesse: hello, everybody. i am jesse watters with greg gutfeld, dana perino, katie pavlich, and harold ford jr.. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. the country and utter chaos under joe biden s leadership. the president does not want to answer any of the tough questions. may god protect our troops. thank you all very much.