notice, it just happened almost overnight in the last month. so no. it s not a failure but the alarm bell went off. i don t think anybody anticipated that this was going to be as rapid spreading as it did. dana: he says they had no idea but listen to the cdc director. this pace, this speed by which omicron has been transmitting has been seen and mirrored in many other countries and so we ve been watching this carefully. we anticipated this. this is what we have been preparing for. this is exactly what we anticipated. dana: and reince, unlike before when she has made comments she was not speaking in her personal capacity, that was her professional capacity. if you were ron klain, the white house chief of staff and this is your biggest issue and people are waiting for four hours to get a test in cold weather right before the
american? than what happens if every american has one test? how much does that cost and what happens after that? other countries seem to be making them available in greater quantity. todd: not mocking it anymore as the white house admits they should have taken action earlier. there is not a day that goes by that i don t leave this podium and wish i had said something of greater context or more precision or additional information. todd: critics are growing louder slamming the administration for not seeing this coming while officials defend their handling of it. the pace, the speed by which omicron has been transmitting has been seen and mirrored in many other countries so we are watching it carefully. we anticipated this. this is what we have been preparing for. there doubling times of this virus in other countries, this is what we anticipated.
this would spread by a day-to-day basis and it spread by 100% and 200% and 500%. you would have looked at me and said bind, what are you drinking? that s what it did. harris: wow, that tone. he had to save that for commander, the new puppy. op-ed calling biden s claim that omicron was somehow unforeseeable total bull. it reads once omicron was detected in the fourth week of november the world went bananas precisely because it was going to spread rapidly and the president s claim directly contradicted one of his own top covid advisors. here is that. this pace, the speed by which omicron has been transmitting has been seen and mirrored in many other countries. so this is exactly what we anticipated. the
every american? what happens, every american has one test. and what happens after that. others are making them available in greater quantities for less money. reporter: the white house admits they should have taken action earlier. i would say there is not a day that goes by that i don t leave this podium and wish i said something with greater context or more precision or additional information. reporter: credits last the administration for not seeing this coming despite their insistence that they are on top of it. the speed by which omicron has been transmitting has been seen and mirrored in many countries. we anticipated this, this is what we are preparing for. this is exactly what we anticipated. reporter: the president revealed in his remarks he is
you realize, did you know that omicron was going to spread this quickly. obviously you had south africa in november. when did you realize it was going to be this. things are moving quickly i know people have concerned. so maybe we will step back and reiterate. we are now seeing omicron in 73% in our projections of what we have right now. and some areas of the country as you noted the areas are 90% omicron. but this case, this speed by which omicron has been, you know, transmitting has been seen and mirrored in many other countries. so we have been watching this carefully. we anticipated this. this is what we have been preparing for. there have been doubling times of this virus in other countries that have had the virus before us in one and a half to three day range. so this is exactly what we anticipated and it is why the president has been moving forward and today announced a