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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...

Further. with us tonight eugene robinson, and mark kinnen. welcome to you both this evening. mark, lets start with you. what do you think bidens options are right now? on some levels his path forward is narrow, but on other he has to deal with things that yesterday he could think about avoiding? >> well, he may not get a whole loaf, maybe not half a loaf but maybe a slice of bread out of joe manchin. he wanted to go to republican and he thought he could get ten republican votes to help on voting...

So we cant have that same fight again. the question is how you get past that 60-vote threshold in the senate. because you have to assume right now that theres no way youre going to get manchin and sinema to move on the filibuster. therefore, i dont see how substantial voting rights legislation gets through unless you get, i dont know, something from susan collins and mitt romney and lisa murkowski and then who were the other seven. i just dont see it. >> mark, lets talk about that for a second. ...