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That will take immediate pressure off the border and help in the short term. >> jackpie, what do you think about the political optics? it does seem that the white house made a decision to not do that. biden has been seen as a consoler in chief in other con t texts even talking about his family's immigration story. do you see the argument for not trying to humanize the crisis at the border yesterday? >> so immigration has also been a really tough issue for biden. throughout this presidency, he's received a lot of condemnation and criticism from the refugee and immigration rights community for k...
This is the opportunity to do that. >> it was -- there have been some moments throughout the last few days where he's kind of taken shots at the media in kind of the way that it's been covered. but aside from that, you know, maria, i think it's actually -- he has really so far passed the initial test in terms of -- and chances are vote rs are likely to regard him for that in november. >> yeah, i actually think this has more of a 2024 lens for both of them than i think going into the midterms because for joe biden, he is not just demonstrating that he continues to be the consoler in chief. he u...
Hurricane ian. the two men notably put their political rivalry aside and projected unity on one thing, florida's recovery. >> i think one of the things that you're seeing in this response, we are cutting through the bureaucracy. we are cutting through the red tape. and that's from local government, state government, all the way up to the president. >> we've seen extraordinary cooperation at every level, as the governor has said. and the cooperation began before the storm hit. >> so, today was the second time this week that biden played the role of consoler in chief, much like the sentiment tha...
We've been in lock step. >> you have it. maybe to that point, it gets used against desantis later. at the same time, it's sort of hard to -- it's a pretty easy for desantis. i was doing what i had to do. we needed money from the federal government to help us. >> yeah. he's -- as we've all discussed -- embracing federal funds at this time. to doug's point, this does play to joe biden's strengths, being that consoler, competency in a time of crisis. that's a core part of his brand. he's not as good at messaging against whatever, against anyone. that's not really what he does. >> those are the po...