congressman brad ask here to weigh in on the potential for lockdowns and mandates to continue and then what hypocrisy? press secretary jen's next. >> my team at the white house will provide me with daily update this is week and thursday i'll be putting forward a detail strategy outlining how we are going to fight covid this winter. not with shutdowns or lockdowns but with more widespread vaccinations, boosters, testing and more. maria: that was president biden yesterday addressing the covid-19 omicron variant and pushing masks and vaccine boosters. he's saying that there's no excuse for eligible americans not to get an extra shot and promising to avoid shutdowns for now. joining me right now is ohio congressman brad, member of the intelligence and house ways and means committee, congressman, a pleasure to see you, thank you very much for being here this morning. assess the state of affairs for us, congressman. congressman: what's interesting, look, we know from the trial that is people that are vaccinated still get covid. it's a smaller percentage, fewer people get sick, it's had a lot of very positive effects and no dou