The white house trying to road test his state of the union as russia has the world on high alert and the president s self-imposed deadline is rapidly approaching. joining me now kimberley atkins, white house bureau chief, ashley parker and former u.s. attorney and law professor. and this shows the approve rating is at 35% and handling the economy at a troubling 33%. it doesn t help the republicans are blocking the president s nominees to the federal reserve amid pressure on the central bank to do something on inflation. how concerned should the white house and democrats be? there should be concern whether poll numbers are low, you re in a midterm year where history has shown voters tend to vote against the party in office. that should be concern for the white house as well as democrats
Kimberley atkins, jill winebanks and barbara mcquade. good to see all of you. we again seem to be at the receiving end of confusing messaging from the cdc and biden administration as they try to combat this omicron variant. what do you think is going on here? could we be doing better? yeah, we could be doing better. there is a continued amount of confusion because the science or data coming in is causing there to be changes in how we re managing people who are positive. the messaging is very confusing. they need to get their act together. i understand the science. it is basically what dr. fauci said which is the point you get infected yourself and would be positive you would be able to carry that infection a few days before and after. once you ve been positive and you ve waited five days, you are now okay to go out and about without getting another test as long as you continue to wear face masks especially indoors. that is the sum and substance. so what you are saying is you are confident the science is
Defense. this week justice aleto was the latest to speak out. he defended the courts use on what is known as the shadow docket which allowed the texas law to go into effect. aleto called that term catchy and sinister and says it s been, quote, used to portray the court as having been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways. those were his words, by the way, just to be clear about that. joining me now to discuss this is kimberley atkins, co-host of the sisters in law podcast, also an msnbc political analyst, also a self-described scotus nerd. let s talk about this case. it centers on the 15-week abortion ban. that case slated in december. i want to play what mississippi s attorney general said when she was asked about it in an interview with catholic tv network last week.
Quote, used to portray the court as having been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways. those were his words, by the way, just to be clear about that. joining me now to discuss this is kimberley atkins, co-host of the sisters in law podcast, also an msnbc political analyst, also a self-described scotus nerd. let s talk about this case. it centers on the 15-week abortion ban. that case slated in december. i want to play what mississippi s attorney general said when she was asked about it in an interview with catholic tv network last week. take a listen. think about this. the lives that will be touched, the babies that will be saved, the mothers who get a chance to really redirect their lives and they have all these new and different opportunities that
And what i was astonished to discover was that actually as much as people are deeply furious to use the word that i use in the subtitle of the book, there s also this underlying belief in the possibility of fixing it. and you saw that in november 2020 when people turned out in record numbers to say, all right, we re going to push the pendulum back in a better direction. we re not going to allow history to units course here. we re going to make things different and by the way make things different. by the way, there s a quote in here from a fudge manager that will make everyone born with an ounce of humanity cringe, that is to say oh, the places you ll go. our thanks to our starting line as we bring the week to a close. peter baker, kimberley atkins, evan osnos. coming up for us, the president s biggest obstacle in getting his agenda passed seems
Correspondent for the new york times. kimberley atkins, now a member of the boston globe editorial board, also one of the co-hosts of the podcast sisters in law with joyce vance and barbara mcquade. and we welcome evan osnos, his new book wildland. and it s generating a lot of attention. welcome to you all. peter, i d like to begin with you and your beat. i m told it s the first time this president has paid an in-person visit to the democratic caucus in the house, the majority caucus. presidential power is a funny thing. you have to spend it wisely. when and how will we know if his trip down to the capitol today was worth it? yeah, that s a great question. obviously as you said in the opening it s not the victory lap they would have liked.
There wasn t a vote on monday. she said there was going to be vote on thursday, there s not a vote on friday. because in fact they don t have the votes. and this is, you know, the fundamental tension here between the great aspirations of the democratic party and the constrained majorities they actually have to work with, right? president biden was quoted today as telling the democrats in that meeting that they have fdr and lbj-like ambitions but they don t have lbj or fdr majorities. they literally can t spare a single member. when you have a 50-vote caucus in the senate what that means is the one senator who s the most reluctant to go along with your agenda gets to control how far you re able to go. so will it matter for president biden in the long run, we don t know the answer yet. if they get something through probably nobody will remember how messy it was to get through. we don t remember how messy it was to get through the tax cuts
Great attorney general, highly p prestigious man, a very honorable man. joining me now gary hakke, ken dilanian, kimberley atkins, senior fellow and former deputy assistant secretary of state michael fuks. it is a pretty big headline to have john bolton testify in front of these committees. it will be if it happens. bolton s lawyers have been in touch to figure out a time and place in a manner in which this could happen. bolton is as close you could get to presidential decision making without being the president himself. his name has been invoked by several of these other witnesses. and of course he has a long history of government, in and out of government service i should say known for his very
And each one of them, of course, kimberley is already nodding i ll get to that in a minute the new poll by the way shows warren with a big lead with democratic voters who say they re enthusiastic about a candidate. 25% about sanders, only 23 about vice president biden for some reason the moderates who behave moderately are still with biden i m joined by kimberley atkins and jonathan allen, national political reporter for nbc news digital. we always in politics and reporting say there s good wholesalers like reagan who can give a set speech and woo the nation and there are those really good in the room with somebody, they really come across this candidate seems to have it both well, that s what she s trying to show i think one of the biggest questions about elizabeth warren is a this idea of electability in terms of broad appeal is she too wonky