Marty, you`ve done a hell of a job, pal, cutting the red tape so that companies can set up, registered apprenticeships for truck drivers in two days instead of two months.

We`ll see some fully vaccinated people get COVID potentially in large numbers. Vaccinated people who get COVID may get ill, but they`re protected from severe illness and death. If you`re not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be…

How did we get it wrong? Nobody saw it coming. Nobody in the whole world saw it coming.

It is possible there could be other variants that come along. It’s possible.

Booster shots provide the strongest protection. Unfortunately, we still have tens of millions of people who are eligible for the booster shot who would have not yet gotten it. Just another day, former President Trump announced he had…

Former President Trump announced he`s had gotten his booster shot. Maybe one of the few things he and I agree on.

This is not Christmas last year and it's not the beginning of the pandemic because of vaccinations.

I still think there's a possibility to Build Back Better done.

the most important thing, as the president said today, is that vaccines and booster work.

I know you`re tired. I really mean this. And I know you`re frustrated. We all want this to be over. But we`re still in it.

More than 200 million Americans have been fully vaccinated.

Another question that folks are asking is, are we going back to March 2020? Not last March 2021, but March 2020 when the pandemic first hit. That’s what I keep getting asked. The answer is absolutely no, no. This is not arch of 2020, 200…

Yes. But look, I'm a great respecter of fate. Fate has intervened in my life many, many times. If I'm in the health I'm in now, if I'm in good health, then in fact, I would run again.

Sure, it was possible, and it is possible there could be other variants that come along.

I call on them to purveyors to these lies and misinformation to stop it, stop it now.

No, I don't think it's a failure. I think it's a -- you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago, I've ordered a half a billion of the pills -- 500 million pills -- excuse me, 500…

Well, what took so long is it didn`t take long at all. What happened was the omicron virus spread even more rapidly than anybody thought.

The QAnon and the extreme elements of the Republican Party and what Donald Trump keeps sort of, seems to me, feeding -- with the big lie, it makes it awful hard.