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About joe biden that, a, he hadn't 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 these things and yet still not give a particular base in the party, a progressive base what they need...

Like this because one can say it's on the wrong track. we've got covid still. we've 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 it's always dark just before it goes completely black. we've kind of gone completely black at this point, so i do think that there's really -- you can't go much lower, so i think there's a lot of potential upside in the next year including two particular issues. one is the diminishment of the covid resurgence, and in combination with that a co...

That's 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, let's play a little bit of what the president said a little later in that press conference. >> what is the trajectory of the country? is it moving in the right direction now? i don't k...

Focused on the administration's challenges and losses. >> look, i didn't overpromise. what i have probably out performed what anybody thought would happen. the fact of the matter is we're in a situation where we have made enormous progress. >> president biden's aware his first year hasn't 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 it's not nearly unified as it should be. >> there is especially work to be done on his biggest campaign promises, shutting down covid and repairin...

Ukraine, it's 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 can't 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. that's not leading if you know it actually isn't going to work. to be honest, what they've been doing for months is lying to...