But it’s not enough. It’s clearly not enough. If I had -- we had known, we would have gone harder, quicker. But we have to do more. We have to do better.

We went from no over-the-counter tests in January to 46 million in October, a hundred million in November and almost 200 million in December. But it's not enough. It's clearly not enough. If I had -- we had known, we would have gotten…

It's not enough. It's clearly not enough. If I had known, we would have gotten harder quicker if we could have.

There is no Federal solution. This gets solved at the state level.

Look, let`s talk about what we have done. We have passed more major legislation than anybody in the first year ever, ever, ever, ever. And I haven`t given up on this. I haven`t given up on it.

The only thing standing between getting votes right legislation passed and not getting passed is the filibuster. I support making the exception of voting rights for the filibuster.

I still think there`s a possibility of getting Build Back Better done. Senator Manchin and I are going to get something done.

Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done is extremely consequential.

I don`t think it`s a failure. I think it`s - - you could argue that we should have known A year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago, I`ve ordered half a billion of the pills, 500 million pills. Excuse me, 500 million test kits…

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.

No, I don`t think it`s a failure.

Packages are moving. Gifts are going delivered. Shelves are not empty.

No, nothing`s been good enough.

Joe and I are going to make a deal.

Well, look, Omicron only really came on the scene just before Thanksgiving.

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

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

The much predicted crisis didn’t occur. Packages are moving. Gifts are being delivered. Shelves are not empty.

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.

And at the end of 2021, with what one analysts described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years, nearly six million new jobs, a record number for a new president, because of my staff and my…

This is not March of 2020. 200 million people are fully vaccinated. We`re prepared. We know more. We just have to stay focused.

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.

More than 200 million Americans have been fully vaccinated.

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

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.