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Force a doover of the 1990s. he wants to go back to the time when the cold war order had crumbled and a new order was being created and create a stake for russia in it. he wants to get what his predecessors, mykkele gorbachev didnt get. if thats not going to happen, then he has historical interests in merging ukraine and russia. >> okay. very interesting conversation for which i thank you. mary elise, well look forward to seeing you again. thanks. somethings going to happen very soon that is s...

President, and thats why he has beaten all of his recent predecessors in first-year confirmations of federal judges. joe bidens confirmed 42 federal judges is almost double what donald trump confirmed in his first year. you have to go all the way back to 1961 to find a first-year presidency confirming more federal judges than joe biden has confirmed. that was president kennedy. this is the single most important achievement of the first year of the biden presidency, the achievement that will live...

It galvanized the three administrations to do just that and zelensky has done more than his two predecessors that is at the heart of some of the frustration that putin is bearing over should he or shouldnt he take matters into his own hands to change that government. >> steve: another great job outlining what could be one of the most impact offul thing to happen to past relations since the end of the cold war clearly. thanks so much, general. >> have great weekend, brian, you and the team. >> br...

That. it is unfair to at nominees but there are people on the shortlist, african-american women on that shortlist that have stellar beckons but you cant disagree whether they have that right, you know, credential views. but it is unfair to them for the president to say, you are selected on this threshold exclusionary basis. and i think that was sort of an error that the president repeated only to do what his presidency those predecessors did. >> laura: yeah, another self-inflicted wound. it is g...

His predecessors, going back decades. of that number, 78% were women. 50% were people of color. and so, you look at the chief of staff, ron klain, hes had 30 years of experience. before ron klain was chief of staff, he was clerk to joe biden and it was ron klain who advised the obama white house for the nominations of elena kagan and sonia sotomayor so when i spoke about the experience this white house has when it comes to supreme court nomination processes, thats what i was speaking about. so t...

Should say. >> reporter: i have to say last time i was here a couple of weeks ago all the talk was about the chaotic state of british politics and how everything is looking like a complete mess there. this is really where the foreign office likes to use royals to protect that stability . prince william was focusing on the climate. hes taking a different approach than his predecessors. rather than talking about the stark realities of climate change and how awful everything is, hes saying that but...

Uh, he was told the intelligence indicated that he was in this three-story residential building. the go order, we are told, was given on tuesday. and this operation carried out on wednesday. um, it is not clear who will take his place at the top of isis. he is the second leader of isis. but whoever it is, according to the biden administration, that person almost certainly will be a man, will suffer the same fate as his two predecessors who were killed by u.s. special forces. sorry, who blew them...

Rating and on the economy, 39% approve, 56% disapprove. if you follow the trend line on bidens handling on the economy, it tracks perfectly with his overall approval rating, both around 40%. >> ron, lets talk about your new piece in "the atlantic." its asking does biden have a second act? youre looking into his predecessors. you say its too early to count him out. why is that? >> the core question, all of numbers that harry just noted about his approval rating i would argue about what you would ...

Conditions, particularly in the economy, did not improve as fast as voters expected or at least hoped, the wrong track number shot up again and hydraulic fashion their approval rating sank to somewhere around biden is today and that ultimate live produced a very bad mid term in 82 for reagan, 92 for clinton. 2010 for obama. people were counting them out saying theyre doomed. one term presidents. in the second half of their first term as people became more optimistic about the direction of the ec...

Decrease. but the other issue is the white house from a purely political angle that the window is closing. they have this -- it doesnt matter over the past 13 months in bidens time in office, the economy has grown more in just that specific time fraum than it has for his predecessors over the last 50 years but that doesnt resonate as much if people feel that their salaries arent keeping pace with just what every day goods cost. >> you make such a good point. when you go to the grocery store, you...