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About joe biden that, a, he hadnt had any press conferences, he was hiding and that was feeding the narrative about competence. just to stand up and hold an mvp sort of -- or a historically long press conference proved that he is capable of just simply doing what people expect the president to do which is stand in the pulpit and answer questions. >> eugene robinson, can joe biden continue with some of these successes particularly with some of the economic successes and tamp down covid, do all th...

Like this because one can say its on the wrong track. weve got covid still. weve got, you know, inflation, but people do associate these things with the president. so how does he address that? >> a cup of things. i remember how john mccain used to say its always dark just before it goes completely black. weve kind of gone completely black at this point, so i do think that theres really -- you cant go much lower, so i think theres a lot of potential upside in the next year including two particula...

Thats what he needs to do to take the initiative as he tries to get, you know, what he can of build back better through congress as he confronts potential international crises like russia and ukraine, as he deals with covid, as he tries to fight inflation. he does have a lot on his plate. but i think the first step is to take the initiative and to go out there and to talk to people directly a lot more. >> mark, lets play a little bit of what the president said a little later in that press confer...

Focused on the administrations challenges and losses. >> look, i didnt overpromise. what i have probably out performed what anybody thought would happen. the fact of the matter is were in a situation where we have made enormous progress. >> president bidens aware his first year hasnt been all smooth sailing. >> is the country more unified than when you took office? >> the answer is based on some of the stuff we have got done i would say yes but its not nearly unified as it should be. >> there is...

Ukraine, its not our problem i then afghanistan was such a tragedy for them, they recogniz they did not do nothing in europe, but they wanted to get away with doing as little as possible so they put the sanctions out there which alway meant to say look, we are doing something so you cant attack u for doing nothing. the threat of sanctions was something they could get the europeans to do, so they are definition of leading is doing the minimum everybody else will accept. thats not leading if you k...

Were not just trying to attack the virus, put down covid, but were also trying to make sure americans can go back to a more normal life. and so it takes a team effort, not just in the federal government but the entire country. the more americans participate, act responsibly, the quicker we will get back to what we believe should be america. >> what does it look like? what are the priorities? >> to build on what we know. scientists have given us great information. the data shows that the vaccines...

Campaign. the coronavirus existed because joe biden was president. vote for me and i will shut down covid. >> i will put in place a plan to deal with the pandemic. i dont shut down the economy. but i will shut down the virus. i am going to shut down the virus! i will put in place a plan to deal with this pandemic responsibly bringing this country together with testing, tracing and masking. i wont shut down the country. i will shut down the virus. >> will: a year into his first turn joe biden hae...

Donald trump was president. joe biden cant shut down covid. neither can the federal government. no one can. the coronavirus is here to stay. no amount of boosters will stop the spread. omicron is proof. no lockdown will prevent another variant from emerging. yesterday the president of the united states admitted to that. joe biden told us there is no federal solution to the coronavirus pandemic. >> look, there is no federal solution. this gets solved at the state level. it gets down to where the ...

Lets go live to one of those testing sites now. leyla santiago is at one of the busiest locations in south florida. i understand officials there are seeing a massive increase in people wanting tests, even bigger than from the peak of the delta surge? >> thats correct. youre talking about a 50% increase in the demand for testing, compared to the peak of what we saw during that delta wave. so lets go over the numbers. where we are right now, the busiest testing site in south florida. they administ...

"operation warp speed" started under trump and then the expedited push of the vaccines by the biden administration has been a great success. but theres been a lot of other things that have not gone as well. what do you think? >> so i agree with kirsten. i think that the lack of cheap, rapid mass testing is looking like a worse and worse failure of u.s. policy. under now weve had a republican and a democratic administration running our covid policy. and weve got this continuing problem. and it ju...