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>> the travel ban now that omicron is so prevalent here in the u.s. >> do you believe senator manchin -- how do you -- >> president biden: i'm not supposed to be having this press conference right now. [reporters shouting] >> harris: so he did go back and forth with some q and a there. however, when it got to one point he said he wasn't supposed to be doing that. does the president have a press problem? the power panel in "focus" now. matt schlapp, kevin walling, former biden campaign surrogate. great to see you both. he leaned in, took a couple of questions and i don't know what happened, kev...

Get the rap when a bad story comes out. jennifer, looks like a big press problem just because the press is covering -- something wasn't going well. that doesn't make it a press problem, but not every politician and certainly president trump is not equipped so to speak, to accept that just because a story, a bad story appears in the press doesn't mean that it's the fault of the communications staff, and you have to, you know, presidents get very frustrated with the press and you're the person that can absorb that, have to absorb that frustration and also tell the hard truth. let me just tell yo...

It's about his access to the president, about him saying something it was undermined by the president on twitter. in the same news cycle. affirming the president as someone who was fired less than 4 hours later -- i mean, they have solved a press problem when they have a substance problem. >> i think you're right. the change is really the wrapping paper. it's the product, the substance, the president that most are concerned about. nobody voted for spicer or scaramucci or sarah huckabee sanders. they voted for or against president trump. and with 36% of americans right now approving of him, he'...

About your job being on the line. >> sean spicer is basically sean spicer exists. that was basically -- when the president of the united states says he is here, he has been here from the beginning -- >> i'm sorry. >> they should never have taken the job because you know that is an impossible job because you work for somebody who doesn't believe in the truth and you are never going to be able to reconcile that if your job is to talk to the press and tell them the truth. >> some would say not -- >> it's impossible. >> that donald trump likes to speak for himself and isn't very good at getting ot...

Can you say affirmatively that whenever the president says something, we can trust it to be real? >> if he's not joking, of course. every time he speaks authoritatively, that he speaks, he is speaking as president of the united states. >> the credibility of the president, the role of the press. we have a special panel. we continue turning back to gay talese and floyd abrams here. is this different, in all of the different press that you have covered and you have basically represented the press, the credibility of this particular president and how the press deals with it. >> i think it has beco...