diplomacy is the best way to achieve this. reporter: even as yair lapid urged biden to adopt a more muscular approach. words were not stop this, mr. president. diplomacy will not stop this. the only thing that will stop iran is knowing that if they continue to develop their nuclear program, the free world will use force. reporter: biden addressed reporters among the world would meetings. he acknowledged jerusalem as israel s capitol . he faced no questions about the top issue back at home. record new numbers in inflation that he said is acceptably high. tomorrow, biden steps into another controversy, coming face to face with saudi arabia s crown prince. the first meeting since biden
europe with our nato allies. and it will have to be a heavy price to pay for it. reporter: biden laying out that heavy price during a 50-minute phone call yesterday, urging putin to deof escalate ahead of u.s./russia security talks scheduled for january 10th. they only could work if he deof escalates. i always expect if you negotiate you make progress but we ll see. reporter: beyond the potential war in eastern europe, biden steps into 2022 facing an uphill battle against an unrelenting pandemic and criticism of his covid response. on testing at least, the president acknowledging he s come up short. it s not enough. it s clearly not enough. if we d have known we d have gone harder quicker, if we could have. reporter: top health officials defending cdc guidelines shortening the isolation period to five days for those who test positive. those five days account for somewhere between 85% to 90% of all transmission that occurs. reporter: skyrocketing covid
before president biden steps on the plane and flies to italy today. is it worth to say hey it s not. few look at this the last few days, this is as horrific as the way the united states does business. they taken a complex piece of law, the united states tax code, you don t have to be h&r block to tell you it s very complicated. they re trying to rewrite it in 48 hours. it s absurd what they are doing. we have the late night clip there, senator manchin is out of step with everyone else. how much is progressives have to compromise. they seem to be doing most of the sacrifices here. i can t understand why chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and others and the president of the
to see hunter. we had a guest talking about the ethics issue saying these paintings are going to be bought by anonymous people, hunter isn t even going to know and that is supposed to make everything okay but art is something you display so clearly if you pay half $1 million for it you will display it on a wall and word will get out about the painting. todd: they want to collect it and don t want people to know about it, the art world is right for problems with this kind of stuff. president biden steps toward shutting down guantánamo bay with an acute taliban fighters. will: the move is just to satisfy the far left in your tax dollars are paying for all of it.