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>> do you think that president biden has fought hard enough for the priorities of black voters? >> i do not. >> reporter: bradley, a trusty at her church, just outside of columbia, says her top priority is democrats voting rights legislation which was defeat this had week. she blames president biden for not pushing for it earlier. >> our ancestors fought long and hard to get these rights for us and for them to be taken away would be detrimental. >> reporter: bradley praises the presidents handli...

Is kind of looking, with everything going on like a b minus, maybe. its not. good c+? b minus. will be a little. fair he restored some alliances. but you know, kabul, kyiv, aukus, theres a lot there to unpack. >> so, what is your sense of americas standing right now? you said he wanted america back. he said there could be other signs that the relationships have gotten better to opposed to when trump was in power. but at the same time, just this, week you at the french president say that he is ca...

Lets take a closer look at the u.s. jobs report. cnns matt egan is with me now to break down the numbers. what do they tell us about the effort to recover now falls short, the expectations was what, 500,000? 194 but what is the big takeaway. >> at first blush this looked terrible. if you give it a letter grade it might be a "d", but it is not as bad as it looked. it might get a c-plus or a b-minus. here is why. the big negative is 194,000 jobs were add. less than half of what economists were exp...

This jobs report. austin, is it good, not great or fair -- is it -- it feels like a b minus. okay, its above average but i wish it were better. >> that sounds like a tough grade, but i think that spirit is exactly right. fairly solid. we want it to be better. i think now that we are getting control of the spread of the virus, i think it probably is going to get better. as the months go forward. we are a long way down in the hole. i dont think president bidens wrong that we made a lot of progress...

Performance was perfectly serviceable, it was much better than what we did before and to be honest we have to keep in mind this is knocking the rust off for him, as long as hes been in politics he hasnt really been in the day-to-day debates and i think that was a good performance on his part. >> you hear in terms of -- >> he keeps underestimating and has big lead. they would rather have more younger liberal challenger. >> case of media objectivity, im not sure that vice president biden deserved ...

Serviceable, it was much bet ken mind this is knocking the rust off for him, as long as hes been in politics he hasnt really been in the day-to-day debates and i think that was a good performance on his part. >> you hear in terms of -- >> he keeps underestimating and has big lead. they would rather have more younger liberal challenger. >> case of media objectivity, im not sure that vice president biden deserved much more credible praise here. we are talking about stumbling for words, he wasnt cr...

Because of how, the way in which he came forward. >> right. so flynn seems to have done what every cooperator -- person who wants to cooperate and benefit from that cooperation should do. he cooperated early and fully and truthfully. and, you know, theres all these sayings, you cant cooperate halfway, kind of like you cant be half away pregnant. once you put one foot in, you better put two feet in or youll be in bigger trouble than you were before. >> meanwhile, paul manafort dipping his toe in ...

About. >> bret: you wrote it as fbi director. it was a work product. >> no, it was not. >> bret: you said in the memos you said i dont do sneaky things, i dont leak, i dont do weasel moves. but we can argue what a leak is but thats a leak, isnt it? >> its not. abby: not a leaker. how could that play. >> you could barely see the democrat line because of that back drop. democrats gave this about a b minus not that great. republicans gave it a d overall. if he would have stopped talking after the g...

Pete: a partner with maslansky and partners and she put those moments to the dial test. >> great to be here. what a week. pete: every week we are saying what a week. >> thats true. pete: this is what a week. what do you make of this. >> a tough week. no question a lot of things have been happening over the last two weeks that have taken a toll. his base is still strong though. pete: how did the folks react to the presidents sound on illegals out of the country? take a listen. >> one by one, we a...