scott gottlieb, nice to see you in person.ce the nation" will be back in one minute. d where the physicians doing the world-changing research are the ones providing care. there's only one mass general brigham. >> brennan: president biden has promised to name a black woman to replace supreme court justice stephen breyer. ketanji brown jackson, leandra reid kruger of california, and michelle child's of south carolina. the only potential nominee that the white house has publicly acknowledged being under consideration is childs. south carolina senator lindsey graham joins us from clemson, south carolina this morning. good morning to you, senator. >> good morning. >> brennan: as you know, coming up on this program, congressman jim clyburn has said repeatedly in interviews that south carolina federal district judge, michelle childs is not only someone he likes, but that both south carolina senators will support her. so he is talking about you. did you tell him you're a yes vote on childs? >> here is what i will tell him and the nati

scott gottlieb will also be with us. plus, with the clock ticking in a congressional year, congressional democrats are feeling the pressure to get things done fast. first thing up: assigning voting rights. >> it is a takeover of our democracy. >> brennan: but the same old problems: republicans are not on board. outside washington, some states have passed laws restricting ballot access. others have expanded it. georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger rebuffed former president trump's attempts to tamper with the 2020 elections, and now he is overseeing controversial new voting laws in his state. election expert david becker will also be with us. it is all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪♪ >> brennan: good morning and welcome to "face the nation." it was a sobering first full week of the new year, marked by soaring covid infections, miserable weather in most of the country, and painful memory invoked by the first anniversary of the january 6 insurrection. but it is a new week, and we want to turn our focus to what

scott gottlieb, who also sits on the board of pfizer.d morning and happy new year. >> good morning. >> brennan: this is not how we wanted to start the new year, of course. doctor, how far out are we from the omicron peak, and do we need to focus on the infection rate or the hospitalization rate? >> doctor: we clearly need to focus on the hospitalization rate and how many people are becoming severely ill. there is a coupling between cases and i.c.u. admissions. it seems to be a milder case. i think the places hard hit, like the mid-atlantic, new england, florida, may be two weeks away from peaking, but the rest of the country faces a hard month ahead of us. i don't think we'll see a national peak until we get into february, and the virus will spread around the country. there is a clear coupling between cases and hospitalizations. and it does appear based on a lot of experimental evidence we've got tten in the last two weeks, it is a milder form of the coronavirus. the one group it may be a pr problem for is very young kids. you're seeing

scott gottlieb will join us.want to hear about this we will talk about yesterday's tech sell-off and what investors need to know as fur rutesaise higher. you are watching "squawk" right here on cnbc two out of three guys experience hair loss by the age 35. kind of scary. that's why i use keeps. keeps offers clinically proven treatment, and the sooner you start the more hair you can keep. get started for $1 a day at keeps.com. >>> right now the futures are showing very modest declines in the broad indexes, s&p down less than 5 points. fax still has some pressure there down 71 points, about half a percent. though the new competitor in the electric vehicle industry, sony announcing plans to create an ev unit they displayed a prototype at the consumer electronics show in los vegas. the president says the efforts in imaging, sensing, cloud, 5g and entertainment will help it redefine mobility. shares of sony are up 4% so far. andrew, an ev is a computer and communications device with wheels in some sense >> i think tha

scott gottlieb.mericans weigh in on the pandemic and the economy as president biden kicks off his second year in office. it is all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪♪ captioning sponsored by cbs ♪♪ >> brennan: good morning and welcome to "face the nation." we begin with the tense standoff along the ukraine border. more than 100,000 russian troops are now poised to potentially invade from the north, east, and south of ukraine. russian fighter jets and missiles arrived in neighboring belarus, where war games are citizen to begin. meanwhile nato naval exercises are taking place in the mediterranean, and 90 tons of military aid just arrived from the united states. president biden is monitoring the situation from camp david. late saturday, britain accused russia of a plot to install a pro-russian leader in ukraine as it considers some form of attack. secretary of state antony blinken is just back from consfromconsultations with sergi lavrov, and he joins us from the state department. good morning. these l

scott gottlieb, thank you.. >>> all right, folks, let's take another look at the futures because things have gotten quite a bit worse on this friday morning. when we came in this morning we were looking at the futures, the nasdaq when we started the show just two hours ago was actually in positive territory. now it's down by 100 points. the dow has gotten much weaker and the s&p is down by about 42. part of the weakness with the dow is coming from caterpillar we heard from the dow component earlier this morning and came out with pretty phenomenal numbers for the fourth quarter they were talking about earnings per share and revenue much higher than had been anticipated. if you dig through some of the things they're saying about the current quarter it's dropped off 2.5% after caterpillar warned its first quarter operating margins could take a hit they talked about the same issues everyone is seeing out there. higher labor costs, and just having to pay higher prices for shipping they will be raising prices higher

scott gottlieb, he's basically urging many schools to continue their in-person teaching with the right measures. >> i think certainly the february time frame is appropriate in terms of when we're going to pass through this omicron wave across the united states. now, this is a big country, this will affect different parts of the country at different points in time, but if the u.k. is any guide, london is already peaking. if south africa is any guide, this is about a two-month epidemic wave from start to finish. parts of the country that were affected earlier like new york are probably going to start to peak in the next two weeks, other parts in four weeks. i think certainly by the end of february, we will be through this if businesses need a guide as to when prevalence is going to start to decline. >> more or less providing a time frame of what we can expect in the coming months. but also before he said that, he said it was imperative that schools actually welcome students back in person. he thought perhaps that by starting with remote learning, that sends the message that they cannot c

scott gottlieb tweeting the u.s.d relax provisions as quickly as we implemented them "squawk" coming right back box. this morning kathy woods is seeing a boom in popularity. the ticker sark has now generated $234 million in assets, reporting to bloomberg about $200 million of that came from investors and the rest from appreciation of the assets it holds. the fund which debuted in november up 57% since then wood's arc innovation up, down 42%. for every winner there's a loser or for every loser there's a winner, joe. >> $234 million, all right, we'll watch it it's money. >> it's the way to play it if that's the way you want to play the game. >> right. >>> still to come, dr. scott gottlieb to talk all the covid headlines. >>> and don't miss our interview with former goldman sachs ceo lloyd blankfein. we'll talk with him. stay tuned "squawk box" will be right back. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality

scott gottlieb will join us. we'll talk about what this means.f "squawk box" begins right now ♪ >>> good morning and welcome back to "squawk box" right here on cnbc on monday morning. along with becky quick, i'm andrew ross sorkin joe is off celebrating the bengals' win it looks like we're starting down the s&p off right know by about ten points a couple big headlines to bring you. goldman sachs and citigroup are now expecting the fed to raise rates five times that's up from four times this comes as they focus on inflationary trends. there is still seen three-quarter raises jamie dimon said we could see up to seven rate hikes in a year. people thought that was crazy. now we're seeing the expectation is higher and higher. >> if you start moving in more than a quarter percentage rate hikes, that's very important import too. the one thing that surprised me, i thought if they would do it, they wouldn't telegraph it to the market if you're looking for any sort of shock and awe, you completely dilute it when you talk about it in advance now it would ta

scott gottlieb predicted this weekend that about one month from now with places that were hit hard earlye the mid-atlantic, northeast new england, florida, and parts of the pacific northwest, the progression of this disease is more in other parts of the country. >> i don't think you will start to see a national peak until we get into february, because there are parts of the country that have not been hard-hit by oma kind yet. in the virus will spread around the country. >> is the president arrives back in d.c. this morning he is facing a series of court challenges. the supreme court will hear cases on friday about mandates for employees at larger come down that companies, and a federal judge just lost a federal vaccine mandate for those involved in the headstart program in 24 states as republican governors are challenging those mandates. >> harris: dr. brett giroir, former assistant human services secretary for health and white house testing czar in the trump administration is here now. i want to talk about the significance of the testing shortages this far into the pandemic. it doesn't

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scott gottlieb , formerly over at the fda, saying this is going to be the pivotal year when covid-19 becomes like the flu, where it will be seasonal, we will learn to live with that. do you see that as well, this y ear being that pivotal gear? jessica: i hope he is right, but right now covid is still far more severe than influenza. the number of people who have died from influenza is, like, one tenth of the people who die from covid when you go back and look at the numbers. it's a really steep difference. the number of children hospitalized with covid is much greater than the number of children hospitalized with influenza. i think we need to get that difference down before we can live with it. what might allow us to get to that is if we can really have access to safe and effective and easy to take treatments once you have covid. i was very encouraged several weeks ago when the antiviral agents came out. paxlovid and the merck agent. another looking considerably effective. in the next six months if we have really great access to those antivirals, maybe then this might be the year that

scott gottlieb will all be here. it is all ahead on "face the nation." ♪♪ >> brennan: good morning and welcome to "face the nation." thursday will mark the first full year since president biden took office, and a new cbs news poll shows americans think he is not focused enough on key issues, like the economy and inflation. 44% of americans approve of the job he is doing overall, with a split on his handling of the coronavirus. when it comes to mr. biden's efforts on the economy, just over a third, 38%, approve. his handling of inflation is worse. seven in 10 americans disapprove. we turn now to cbs news elections and surveys director anthony salvanto. good morning to you, anthony. what is weighing on the president's approval waiting the most? >> good morning, margaret. let's start with covid-19. now part of this is just expectations. at the start of his term, people thought covid would get better, but right now most people don't think the effort against the pandemic is going well. part of a president's ratings always

scott gottlieb, said it appears that vaccines can fight the variant ba.2. >> a fully boosted person may be more protected than they were against the original strain of omicron. >> reporter: 41% of americans are boosted but roughly 81 million have not gotten a single shot. yet, the nation is eager for normalcy, with san francisco being the first major city to roll back the indoor mask mandate starting tuesday. in arkansas, where masking isn't required, governor asa hutchinson calls for a new mindset. >> we need to move from a pandemic status and move out of panic mode. >> reporter: currently, nine states still have indoor mask mandates and the california order will be lifted in about two weeks, february 15. lilia luciano, cbs news from los angeles. >>> communities across the country call for an end to asian hate on the first anniversary of the death of a grandfather that was brutally attacked and killed in san francisco. kpix5 has kenny choi with a story. >> reporter: it was here in chinatown at the onset of the pandemic were so many residents and businesses felt the impact of fear, raci

scott gottlieb says the vaccine for kids under five could come earlier than expected. how early are we talking about, what do you think is the timeline? >> i would love if it would come early. my patients would be ecstatic. i think the issue is ensuring that the third dose that they have found, children from two to five need, i'm sure they are analyzing the data, we want to make sure any vaccine that is recommended is safe and works. but it does offer protection. and i think the third dose has been given to the study participants. i think they need to get blood tests to make sure their antibody levels are good and it has to be analyzed. my understanding is late spring. but we will see. i think it is important not to rush the process. we want to make sure that what we present is good data and that it works. kristen: this more optimistic earlier timeline, i think gottlieb was saying possibly early march, is that based on possibly keeping to the two dose, even if it is a little less effective than they would have hoped but same -- saying well, it is offering baseline prot

scott gottlieb says that while omicron seems to cause less severe illness in adults, it may hit young children harder than previous variants. >> this is a milder form of the coronavirus. it appears to be more of an upper airway disease than lower airway disease. that's good for most americans. the one group that may be a problem is very young children, toddlers who have trouble with upper airway infections. >> reporter: that's what dr. michael daignault is seeing in his emergency room. >> a lot of the croup-like illness, bronchial illness caused by this omicron variant which is not a walk in the park for kids. >> reporter: gottlieb says the national surge in cases is likely to continue into february. and there has been so much debate over the cdc's new five-day guidelines for people who test positive for covid-19. now dr. anthony fauci says the agency is considering adding a negative test requirement to those guidelines that would be an aboutface, anne-marie. >> yeah. it would be leaving people with a lot of questions. bradley blackburn in new york, thank you very much. >>> so covid a

former fda commission scott gottlieb appeared on "face the nation" saying the current vaccines appeared to fight off the omicron subvariant known as b.a.2. >> there's data out of the uk that suggests a fully boosted person may be more protected against this new v variant than they were against the original strain of omicron. >> gottlieb also said a vaccine could be approved by march for children ages 4 and younger. >>> and north korea confirms that it test launched a ballistic missile capable of reaching the u.s. territory of guam. south korea and japan say the missile flew almost 500 miles yesterday before landing in the water between the korean peninsula and japan. it's the most powerful missile north korea has tested since 2017. a senior biden administration official told reporters the u.s. plans to respond to the latest missile tests in the coming days. >>> and the u.n. security council may meet today for the first time since russia's troop build-up near ukraine. russia says that there are no plans to invade, but the standoff remains tense with no signs of deescalation. christina ru

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commissioner scott gottlieb and january 6 committee members liz cheney and adam schiff. forget to set your dvr so you can watch us later. that is tonight's "cbs evening news." for norah o'donnell, i'm major garrett in the nation's capitol. before we go, we'd like to take a moment to thank the journalists from around the world who've helped put this broadcast on the air night after night during yet another challenging year. from all of us at cbs news, happy new year. ♪ should old acquaintance be forgot ♪ and never brought to mind should old acquaintance ♪ be forgot and auld lang syne ♪ for auld lang syne my dear ♪ for auld lang syne we'll take a cup of kindness yet ♪ for auld lang syne for auld lang syne ♪ >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! ♪ should old acquaintance be forgot ♪ and never brought to mind should old acquaintance ♪ be forgot and days of auld lang syne ♪ for auld lang syne we'll take a cup of kindness yet ♪ for auld lang syne for auld lang syne ♪ my dear for auld lang syne ♪ we'll take a cup of kindness yet ♪ for auld lang syne ♪ ♪

former fda commissioner scott gottlieb says it is appears vaccines could serve as against the variantlly boosted person may be more protected against the new variant than the original strain of omicron. >> reporter: still just 41% of americans are boosted. roughly 80 million haven't gotten a single shot. yet the nation is eager for normalcy, san francisco will be the first major city to roll back its indoor mask mandates starting tuesday. and in arkansas where masking isn't required governor asa hutchinson is calling for a whole new mindset. >> we need to move from a pandemic status, i think we need to move out of the panic mode. >> lilia luciano with the latest in los angeles, thank you. a horrific crash in las vegas has killed nine people. it happened saturday night when a driver sped through a red light causing a six vehicle crash. the driver and his passenger died along with seven others. >> well, a former teacher from kansas is under arrest in virginia tonight charged with leading an all-female isis battalion in syria, 42 year old allison fluke-ekren is now in u.s. custody, the j

maybe not so if scott gottlieb is on there.e are good if gottlieb is on there and if other people who actually read studies and are guided by science and guided by medicine. that's quite different. so for spotify to say, oh, we're just going to warn everybody if there's ever a discussion on covid, that is such a copout by spotify. >> yeah, both sides-ism is harvard to take. in fact, by putting a warning label on all covid discussion there is all you have done is elevate joe rogan further. you are saying that what he says is equivalent to what dr. scott gottlieb or the like are saying. it is a total copout. as much as they are giving in to a little appreciate your here, neil young, joni mitchell, a number of artists pulling from spotify or others threatening to pull from spotify, they're not willing to get rid of one of their bigger podcasters. they're clearly afraid of him and his audience. we heard from rogan there, he doesn't even do research about his guests. which, joe, unthinkable. >> unthinkable! >> it is also suggesting

commissioner scott gottlieb. forget to set your dvr so you can watch us later. that is tonight's "cbs evening news." i'm norah o'donnell here in our nation's capital. >>> right now at 7:00 -- >>> if it's not bolted down, bring it in. we are tracking the trouble spot as wild wind whips across the bay area. >> we could have gusts up to 70 miles per hour at some of the higher elevations, and it will only get worse as we approach midnight. >>> california is looking to have kids call their shots on their vaccination status, taking the decision out of the hands of parents. >> that's a fairly young age to make that type of choice without a parent being present. >>> when school resumes next week, will teachers and one big barrier district be there? the strike threat looming tonight. >>> tonight, the 49er faithful are geared up to bring the heat to green bay. >> i am wearing a freezer suit and thermal shoes and everything. >> plus the big-name hot off of the injury list. good evening. i am ryan yamamoto. >>> and juliette

scott gottlieb, a former fda chief and pfizer board member, predicting pfizer's pediatric shot for those 6 months to 4 years old could be submitted for authorization in weeks, if officials opt for a two-dose regimen versus three doses now under consideration. >> getting two doses into a child can provide baseline immunity that protects them from severe disease, from hospitalization. it could be out much sooner, perhaps as early as early march. >> reporter: while it may be welcome news for some parents, covid vaccines have stalled among eligible children 5 and up, with less than 40% fully vaccinated. still, the u.s. is showing signs of turning a corner on the omicron surge. >> i think we're collectively breathing a large sigh of relief right now. we've had over a week of a slow but steady decline. >> reporter: hospital admissions were down by more than 11% in the last week. yet in some pockets of the country, not everyone feeling the ease. >> it's just beyond our capacity to be able to care for all these patients. >> reporter: and tonight, as the w.h.o. marks the second anniversary of its

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scott got bel gottlieb. >>> futureings /*s -- futures i the red.e right back stay tuned "squawk box" we'll be right back you could fret about that email you just sent. ...with a typo. aaaand most of the info is totally outdated. orrrr... you could use slack. and edit your message after it's sent. [sigh of relief.] slack. where the future works. >>> that's what's happening with goldman sax. and as a result, i feel a little bit more comfortable giving you the bottom line number which a lot of times there's items that skew that number but $10.81 is the number that the company is operating and the street was above that at $11.06 that's rare to see a goldman miss on earnings per share but as i said, we'll be seeing whether there's items that skew that above or below the revenue number was okay. it was $12.64 billion. talking about okay versus analyst's expectation right around $12 billion even. there is a lot of other metrix as there always is book value 2.84 a share. you can see it's trading sometimes one book, other times somewhere in between there th

scott gottlieb who finally admitted what a lot of us have also understood for quite some time, listenottlieb said about masks and whether or not they work will. >> watch this. >> cloth masks aren't going to provide a lot of protection. that's the bought line. this is airborne illness we understand that cloth mask is not going to protect you from a virus that spreads through airborne transmission. could protect drop elizabeth transmission something like the flu not something like this coronavirus. >> pete: rachel, if you are not going to double mask or triple mask no mask and wave to the audience if you are the comrade. >> rachel: when i saw this i thought first of all this is a great endorsement of ron desantis and of florida's policies. she did it right there. i want to go back to what, brian, we have all laughed off that she said, you know, oh, that her critics just want to date her, that republican men criticized her because they want to date her and they're sexually frustrated. i have to tell you i'm very disturbed, genuinely disturbed that this woman continues to sexualize everyt

scott gottlieb says the united states may be approaching a major turning point. >> i think the base cases that this signals the end of the p pandemic phase of this virus. >> infections are still rising in many parts of the country in some areas, hospitals are at capacity, and their health care workers are stretched very thin. so a hospital in houston is turning to virtual icus to try to take pressure off its staff doctors and nurses say it allows them to provide the same quality of care. the only difference is, they can do it remotely >> reporter: this is the operations center in the virtual icu at houston methodist right now, registered nurses are able to monitor in real time patients in icu rooms across all eight of their hospitals and if one of their colleagues working on the floor needs some assistance, they're only a push away pretend i'm one of the nurses working in the virtual icu here, monitoring different patient vic vi vitals if the numbers start to dip, i can alert the nurses and doctors in the icu, i can also zoom in to try to get a better read on the oxygen flow. maybe as a n

here's doctor scott gottlieb facing the nation yesterday. >> if south africa is any guide this is about a two month epidemic wave from start to finish. i think certainly by the end of february we will be through this. >> stephen: okay, omicron should be over by february. quick follow up, doctor: what year? ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) of course, the end of february means omicron won't be gone in time for valentine's day, so we're going to need new candy hearts that say things like "don't kiss me," "stay away," and "u r hot bcuz fever." ( laughter ) in the meantime, this fifth wave -- this is the fifth wave, right? what was delta? it was four. okay. i can count. the fifth wave is putting a real strain on our transportation system. due to pandemic-related staff shortages, more than 12,000 flights were canceled between christmas eve and new year's day, and here in new york city staffing issues led to the suspension of several subway lines. what? closing the subway because of germs is like closing broadway because of jazz hands. ( laughter ) of course, it's not just new york -- ( ap

scott gottlieb who said quote some east coast cities are probably peaking right now. he added other parts of the country where omicron hasn't been as prevalent yet still have a couple of weeks to go. researchers have reportedly claimed to discover a strain of the coronavirus that combines the omicron and delta say theys of the delta-cron strain the team said it's too early to see if there are more cases of the strain >>> and senator joe manchin has apparently pulled his $1.8 trillion spending offer for president biden's build back better package manchin tell also signalled he't interested in approving any legislation like the current iteration of that build back better plan. >>> back to the markets digesting the latest jobs report from friday and looking to tomorrow's key inflation data. the ten year also very much in focus as yields have been increasing throughout the course of the start of the year joining us is ben emmons from medley global advisers, who is laying out wall street's good, bad and ugly themes to kickoff 2022 i feel very clint eastwood-esque right now

scott gottlieb. >> i think to drop it is imprudent.make that decision. >> reporter: saying as conditions improve in the u.s., we must be willing to relax provisions as aggressively as we implemented them. the fury over pandemic protocols erupting again over the weekend in an anti-vaccine march in washington, d.c., marked by outrageous and bigoted remarks. >> even in hitler germany, you could cross the alps into switzerland. could you hide in an attic. >> reporter: the basketball hall of famer john stockton falsely suggesting vaccines have killed more than 100 athletes. a statement with no basis in fact. gonzaga university now pulling his season tickets for refusing to mask at the games. and jake, there is new data underscoring the tremendous and ongoing toll that the pandemic has had on restaurants. the national restaurant association saying 88% of restaurants are reporting a decline in demand in just the last few weeks. something they attribute to the omicron surge. >> all right, from new york, new york for us. here to discuss, the as

scott gottlieb says this, we must be willing to relax provisions as aggressively as we implemented themng about this. here's the uk spike, so dr. gottlieb says if things get better, you need to give people a longer leash. do you agree with that? >> i think that's exactly right. we have all these stricter precautions in place in the midst of a surge. when the surge passes, when people get vaccinated. when we have higher levels of immunity, we do need to let up, and we have done that before. could i see us relaxing mask restrictions? could i see school policies change? 100%. is today the day to it? absolutely not. should we expect the precautions to be put back in place in the future? yes. >> i don't think any of of saying actually for what you do when you're not on television and what your colleagues do when they're not on television. you write this -- i will celebrate like everyone else whenned omicron wave passes, but i know there will be another one, possibly something else. my colleagues and i will keep showing up for work. if we don't, who will? but we have been changed and not for

that might be just the tip of the iceberg as dr scott gottlieb explained yesterday on "the nation-face." >> we're probably only diagnosing somewhere between one in five and one in ten in actual infections and there is a lot of people walking around with mild illness or asymptomatic infection who don't know and who are spreading it. >> stephen: way to keep things optimistic, doc. he also does motivational posters: hang in there 'cuz things are actually ten times worse than you think. ( laughter ) some people don't want to know how many cases of omicron are out there. take florida governor and man realizing that the gas station sushi was a bad idea ron desantis. desantis continues to oppose widespread testing as he explained on friday. >> think about it. before covid, did anyone go out and seek testing to determine if they were sick? it's usually you feel like you're sick and then you get tested to determine what you maybe have come down with. and so this is kind of a new thing where they've been saying just go out and test all the time. >> stephen: yeah, and for that matter, did we ever

scott gottlieb saying it appears vaccines could fight the new variant of ba.2. >> there is data suggesting a fully boosted person may be more protected against this new version than the original strain of omicron. >> 41% of americans are boosted. >> reporter: the nation is eager for normalcy. nine states still have indoor mask mandates. >>> california will lift its orders in about two weeks. >>> a group of parents in marin county say schools are discriminating against them for being an unvaccinated and they say public and private schools are blocking them from taking part in their kids activities on campus and they describe mask and quarantine rules as forms of harassment. an attorney called marin parents united has sent out cease-and-desist order's and we will follow that. >>> a man in need of a life- saving kidney transplant said he would rather die than get a covid vaccine. he learned that he and anyone who wanted to donate a kidney be would be required to be vaccinated before that surgery. friends and businesses in north carolina raised money to fund the transplant and more than 100 ha

scott gottlieb said the u.s. needs to be will be to relax covid measures as conditions improve.tions as we are to put them in place? >> yes. we should. i'm not saying that we should be throwing caution out the window. there are parts of the country in the middle of a terrible surge and hospitals are overwhelmed. we don't want to relax restrictions in those areas. there are many others where the infection numbers are coming down. hospitals are coming right and we've talked about how public health depends on trust and depends on knowing that when the emergency is over you need to lift restrictions and that way people go about the daily lives and then if hospitals are overwhelmed again then those restrictions can come back and i think that planning for that future needs to happen now. >> let's get dr. sanford's numbers. do you think it's necessary to relax conditions so people go along with restrictions again if god forbid another wave >> i think so but not immediately. we need to see a consistent trend. we need to share with the american people what those numbers are. are they con

optimism about prospects for warding off new virus variants with the former fda commissioner, scott gottlieb, saying it appears that the vaccines can fight the stealth variant called ba 2. >> a fully boosted person may be more protected against this than the original strain of omicron. and 41% are boosted but roughly 80 million have not gotten a single shot. there is a return to normalcy and in arkansas, governor asia hudson's and said time to shift and consider it as an endemic rather than pandemic. >>> tomorrow, san francisco will he ease the mask mandate with the der plying to offices, gyms and other places where groups of vaccinated people gather. masks will be required at schools and other settings like retail stores, bars and restaurants. >>> tomorrow is the deadline for high-risk settings to get vaccinated and boostered but that move has firefighters bracing for staffing challenges and they will have to cover shifts for workers defying the order that are not allowed to show up for work. >>> in oakland, starting tomorrow, 12 and up entering bars, restaurants and indoor facilities have

former fda scott gottlieb says it would be wise for the country to start emphasizing other options aseating covid-19 mainly those monoclonal nobodies and antiviral medications. jon: charles watson in atlanta, thank you. in new york city a new manhattan district attorney alvin bragg critics say it soft on crime comes amid a surge in violent crime across the city including a deadly random attack on an asian woman in a subway station in new york's times square. brian llenas live in new york city with the latest. >> new year but same crime issue in new york city the first nine days in 2022 compared to the same time last year overall crime in the city is up 30%, murders are up 33% robberies up 25%, shooting incidents up 15% auto grant up 32%. on friday a 30-year-old man was arrested for shooting a 19 euro burger king cashier cold blood over $100 in the register. for prior arrest, from the possession of a weapon combination woman was murdered when she was pushed onto an oncoming train in times square by a deranged man. this is the second incident in time square since november here is mayor

former trump fda commissioner doctor scott gottlieb said on cbs face the nation that many of the supplies take time to produce and ship and americans need them now need to start thinking about how we distribute these to normal a retail channels where people used to accessing health care services, not these government direct the channels which are going make it more challenging. people get these in timely fashion. >> the white house says they've already purchased the treatment pills and are ready to begin distributing them to americans once they're off the production line, which could be late june. for now in washington. i'm anna wiernicki. back to you. >> governor gavin newsome will present his proposed state budget tomorrow. the state is estimated to have a surplus of 31 billion dollars. the governor's office is saying the proposal. >> we'll build on the ongoing work to boost economic growth and invest in california's future at the budget must be approved by june. 15th. the governor did present part of his proposal yesterday, which includes a proposed 2.7 billion dollars for a covid-19 e

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scott gottlieb was on the board of pfizer, former fda commissioner, he actually kind of took fauci down a peg when fauci said we can't say that the end of the pandemic is nye even though omicron is alive, a lot of people are getting it. fauci said that in gottlieb gave a clap back. >> between the big delta way we had, the omicron wave, and vaccination as well on top of that that you are hard-pressed to see how something can rip through the population within the same speed and efficiency that omicron did. >> laura: so there may be a few cracks here and there, dinesh. >> yeah, i think the omicron variation is obviously more contagious, but it is actually quite mild and a lot of people are getting it and experiencing it, and they don't think it is that big of a deal, so you have a disproportion between the experience of people on the one hand and the kind of panicky rhetoric that is coming out of governments and being echoed by the media on the other. this is a case where experience and reality are sort of at odds with each other and at some point, the elites and political leaders are goin

making your own decisions for both of these groups of people and the last thing i want to say scott gottlieb he said as omicron stays we should be as forceful and removing restrictions as we were and putting them in place and he said what are the most destructive restrictions is masking in schools. charles: amen, absolutely. obviously in virginia this fight is as hot as it is anywhere, touching in a political sense, listen to what virginia ag jason said this morning. >> if you are appear and you know what's best for you, that is in the code of virginia that is the message i would give to the school boards is implicit fundamental right to the educational right of the children. being brought up to the virginia supreme court for resolution real quick but nobody is talking about what's happening to the kids we have a mental health crisis and we need to make some changes were going to year three and we need to recognize what the impact is having on children. charles: invalid you get a sense democrats are learning a political lesson from all of this? emily: it only result of them shooting themselv

scott gottlieb. he's a member of the board of directors at pfizer. n defeat the next pandemic." good morning, dr. gottlieb. this all gets kind of confusing, so if you can break down for our viewers where we are. it feels like we're on the back end of this wave of omicron, yet yesterday 2,500 people in this country died of covid-19, hospitalizations spiking in some places. i know it is different by region. we have to stipulate again most of the people who die from this right now are unvaccinated. so from your view where are we in this pandemic? >> look, parts of the country are rapidly improving. other parts of the country probably are reaching their epidemic peak when you look at the mountain states, parts of the southwest, deaths are unfortunately a lagging indicator. deaths will continue to go up as infections go down. when you look at the mid atlantic, florida, places with the infection early they're clearly coming down. we could see in the united states a longer tail. that's what we saw in south africa and what we're seeing in the uk right now and