Hello, I'm Chuck Ton and I just finished taping Meet the Press with Dr. Michael Osterhom,

Brian Deese, who's the President of Biden's Chief Economist and Republican Congressman

Adam Kinzinger, one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump.

So here are my quick takeaways from what I learned today from Dr. Osterhom.

He is advocating an audible on vaccine distribution per a delay of the second shot in some

form in time. He didn't propose how long, but he has got a lot of confidence that the

delay could actually help in the long run, but certainly for those that get a delayed

second shot that it won't make the immunities weaker, but could actually make it stronger.

But more importantly, if we're going to get ahead of the variance that are out there,

these mutations, the faster people get one dose, the better. We'll see what the Biden

team does. This is not an easy answer for them, basically, no matter what they decide

to do. There's going to be a lot of backseat driving, a lot of second guessing. The question

is, do they believe the race to get ahead of the variance is more important than getting

folks inoculated completely? And a lot of this may depend on whether you believe the

vaccines will still be good in a year because the variance may end up taking over. As for

COVID relief, Brian, these seem to make it pretty clear that, look, they're going to pass

this bill in some form. And they're going to pass it close to that $2 trillion figure.

Now, I did ask them about the 10 Republicans and their smaller bill that they were going

to propose. And he seemed to essentially say we'd love to talk with them, but we're

not going to slow down the process. So I think the only shot you'll see at a bipartisan

deal is if there is an agreement by Democrats to slice off a piece of the COVID relief, let

it be passed in a bipartisan basis and then pass the rest via budget reconciliation. We'll

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