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The basic public health guidelines and are finding themselves in a world of hurt. >> there is an argument to be made, sam, that minefield may be an under statement. what is the political toll on this white house especially as we head into a midterm year? >> people are exhausted by it all. i am personally. i think that manifests itself in what you were talking about, chris, which is the political toll. you know, huge chunk of bidens appeal in the 2020 campaign was his pledge to get a handle on th...

That is the real problem biden has. he is having a difficulty persuading that chunk of people when that is the clearest way out of this pandemic. >> well talk to a doctor in a little while. i want to move on to talking about the january 6 committee. we mentioned theyll present their arguments to the supreme court in response to trumps attempt to keep his records hidden. is the court likely to take this case? how quickly might they decide on whether the document should be released? >> i think the...

But he may focus on voting rights first. >> optimism. okay. bill, i also want to talk about foreign policy. biden has the call tomorrow with vladimir putin. putin asked for it. retired general ben hodges had this to say to the bulwark about russia and ukraine this week. i would still say that a new offensive is not inevitable but all the pieces are in place. whats most worrisome is the language that keeps coming out of the kremlin. how does biden need to deal with this threat? >> this is the tro...

There was the infrastructure bill $1.2 trillion. there was a huge spending bill that we dont even talk about very much, mere hundreds of billions. but to make the united states more competitive with china, which is potentially very important going forward. he has had approved 40 federal judges. thats more than any president in the first year of his administration since ronald reagan. its a record. so, yeah. this is a big year of a lot of accomplishments and, you know, democrats and we observers ...

Covid outbreak just ahead. also tonight weve now heard from the january 6th committee about its agreement with the biden white house to hold off on requesting hundreds of records from the prior trump administration. in a statement a house committee spokesperson said the panel, quote, welcomes president bidens decision to clear the way for the production of another set of records. the committee has agreed to defer action on certain records as part of the accommodations process. the statement goes...

Has to say. he is in fact indicating publicly he has nothing to hide, he would be willing to talk further. i hope he lives up to that. we know from other republican members who related the conversation he had with the president that he had some communication. id like to ask kevin about that. >> the committees fight for the rest of the records takes another step forward tomorrow. the panel and the biden administration will file their response to donald trumps appeal to the supreme court where he ...

Latest strategy. catching up on testing which we know they are behind on. redoubling vaccination and booster efforts and surging supplies to overwhelmed hospitals instead of implementing more restrictions that are just politically not palatable for a president whose approval rating have taken a hit in recent months. biden admitted in a call earlier this week to governors that they did fail to prepare for testing ahead of the holiday season and that is something weve heard epidemiologists beat th...

Doesnt all have to happen in the first calendar year of a presidency. and in fact some of these things sometimes take time. my distinct impression from the president in recent weeks and certainly the last couple weeks is that he is more focused than he had been before on the voting rights question, the voting rights issues, and i would not be surprised to see that move to top of the agenda especially since it now appears that it is going to take time to get the build back better agenda or as muc...

Predictions for 2022 notoriously bad and difficult, i said maybe well have a foreign policy era for better or worse. could be for worse incidentally. its been a long time since weve had a year defined by foreign policy challenges about six or seven years after 9/11. some very bad things happened in the world. some good things happened we didnt put at the top of our agenda i would say. we may not have the choice this year. so joe biden has a lot of experience in foreign policy and this could be a...

Tomorrow. it will be their second this month. as tensions build up around russias military build up on the border with ukraine. biden is expected to tell putin the u.s. is prepared to proceed diplomatically but also stands to respond with economic sanctions, nato reinforcement, and assistance to ukraine to defend itself. a senior administration official told us this afternoon. but, you know, that biden and both leaders actually believe there is value in leader to leader engagement and what they ...