kimberly atkins stohr from "the "boston globe,"" and john podhoretz, editor of the "commentary." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> a good sunday morning. the economy's inability to fully recover from the shock of covid-19 is both an economic story and a political one. what is holding the economy back? in the spring we thought we were turning the corner on covid. when we turned that corner, the delta variant was waiting to hit us hard in the face. delta and vaccine refusals sent cases to their second highest peak of this pandemic this summer before they finally began to trend downward. let's hope there's not another variant out there. a post-covid supply chain backup has spread across the globe, causing cargo ship backups, slowing delivery of goods, and driving up costs. in fact, those higher costs have helped feed a rise in prices all over the map, leading to the sharpest rise in inflation in 13 years. on top of that, millions of america