meaning this issue it s sort of like yeah. i don t believe the swing vote anymore. i don t. it s so polarizing i don t believe in it. i think the republicans get it. the side that energizes and turns out their vote the most is going to be the side that wins. somebody has to win. the persuadable yeah. it decides five states. i don t know if that s true. and democrats you have to remember while their party is bigger, their base is smaller. if you re doing turn out politics, that means that goes to the republican advantage. millennials are the largest voting block in the united states now, potentially. the largest voting block. when they vote, they vote overwhelm bli. yeah. and, you know, worked for biden and in 2018 and it got barack obama the back to back majorities. this is a conversation that will not end. [ laughter ] thank you. before we go to break, we have important covid developments. the cdc is reiterating its recommendation that americans
the battlefield. that s the only thing that brutal rulers like vladimir putin or xi in china understand is the threat of losses on the battlefield. whether the war is underway or deter them from war. what has brought nato closer together over the last two months is not so much the skilled diplomacy of joe biden but the new perception of a common danger of russia posed the nato members especially the ones on the eastern front with russia. gillian: sounds like these countries are rather they may be rallying around the biden administration but doing so based on their own self-interest embedded inside the conflict. while i have you here i want to ask you about the latest covid developments. mask confusion now when it comes to mask guidance around the country. philly officials are dropping the indoor mask mandate a couple days after they reinstated it. it s been all over the place
40,000. and the idea here is to step up the readiness of the nato response force, both as a signal to putin that nato will do as it always has done, and second of all, as a message to nato allies themselves, that this is a time for nato to stand together and contribute to the nato response force and assure those allies, and particularly those that have a land border with russia. the three baltic states and poland in particular. this is both about a message to poland and an internal message to the alliance itself. ambassador lute and garry kasparov, thank you so much for being with me this morning. still ahead, dr. anthony fauci joins me with the latest covid developments. and after a wild ride on wall street, margar markets are down again. down 680 points.
they greatly decreases hospitalizations and deaths. they could become available in the next coming weeks. so i think we ll have to acknowledge here we are in boxes. we don t want to be in boxes. we hate being in boxes. we resisted being in boxes. we were told to be in a box out of an abundance of caution just to get us through the holidays and hopefully we will be back to normal. when we return from site holiday. greg gutfeld, it is great to see you. your thoughts on the covid developments. i find a heartbreaking, no mike that i be close to harold. the love and the time of the pandemic is destroying us. there is so far away yet i can see him. i can almost touch and, but i won t. you know it s amazing, how far ahead this show has been on a lot of things. for example, we were the first show i think to talk about the travel ban and to talk about
hello and thank you for joining me. i m victor blackwell. allison is off. we re two years in the pandemic and facing another holiday season weighed down by cancellations and restrictions and for a lot of people confusion. right now the delta variant makes up 97% of the cases in the u.s. but dr. fauci said the very contagious omicron variant will become the dominant variant or strain in the country in the coming weeks. here is good news from moderna. encouraging preliminary data suggesting that the covid boost ser effective against the omicron variant. cnn s athena jones has more on the latest covid developments. it is going to be a tough few weeks to months as we get deeper into the winter.