with us to discuss. doctor of colombians disaster for preparedness. director of pediatrics at the einstein college of medicine. let s start with the good news is omicron peaking, and if so, what is next? yeah well i hope so. stephanie, so many times the moderates and predictors of where this is going, have not actually been all of that accurate. yeah we are looking at the uk. there are good signs that it may be going away. if we are worrywarts here we are thinking about, is there some other variant that is going to follow me on, that could have entirely different behaviors. let s for now think that we are going to have good luck and omicron will go away. if there is a fourth shot, specifically for omicron, but the wave is over, is it worth taking? let me break this down a little bit. because this is a really important question. it starts with, when we first noticed, that we had omicron appearing out of south africa.
dismissed as worrywarts, all they need to do is bring their personality to bear. i think it s very attractive now. i guess i still think that some of our old politics will come back into play and that people will begin looking at experience and actual positions on issues. but we re obviously not at that stage yet. and i think i do remind myself that the iowa caucuses have not produced a winner in the last two presidential cycles. and so we shouldn t get all excited over early results as though that as though they will predetermine who the eventual nominee will be. bob, to you on this. some controversial comments coming from ben carson when he was speaking with my colleague andrea mitchell. he had made comments about gun control as well as the holocaust and the number of jews that may have not died had they been equipped with handguns.
he was falling behind in delegates and all of a sudden he came along with this amazing strategy of winning in the caucus and we were sitting around as worrywarts and he went scooting right past us in the final curve or pretty much the final curve. he seems like his administration, his two terms of presidency of his, is following that pattern of scooting along late in the game, as he calls it, the fourth quarter. well, i have to admit, he knows how to finish strong. there s no doubt about that. the president has had a good year, a good summer, and a lot of that, interestingly enough is due, maybe ironically, is due by the actions of others, whether it s the republicans in congress delivering his trade deal, the supreme court upholding his health care bill and even recently, you know, world partners coming to his rally to get the opposite pieces to work for him in a significant way. republicans in particular in
republican republican, and it seems like the president is like he was in the campaign against hillary clinton looking like he was the sleeper. he was falling behind in delegates and all of a sudden he came along with this amazing strategy of winning in the caucus and we were sitting around as worrywarts and he went scooting right past us in the final curve or pretty much the final curve. he seems like his administration, his two terms of presidency of his, is following that pattern of scooting along late in the game as he calls it the fourth quarter. well i have to admit, he knows how to finish strong. there s no doubt about that. the president has had a good year a good summer, and a lot of that interestingly enough is due, maybe ironically is due by the actions of others whether it s the republicans in congress delivering his trade deal, the supreme court upholding his health care bill and even recently, you know world partners coming to his rally to
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