under decline as the white house prepares for its biggest fight yet for the president s domestic agenda. mark meredith traveling with the president, he joins us live from delaware, hi, mark. mark: good afternoon from a very beautiful beach where the president has been keeping a fairly low profile ever since arriving on friday but just a few moments ago cameras catched him on bike ride. no doubt that the president is eagerly to get away after a few difficult weeks in washington whether it d be focus on afghanistan, covid but as you can see here out for a bike ride a few minutes ago. the white house insist its focus and eager to move the president s agenda forward but we do have new polling out today which shows the president s ratings are slipping, surveyed of registered voters 50% of people approve of the job s performance. 49 disapprove but look at the numbers have just gone down month by month from where they were even in april at 54% but it s not all bad news for the president. in t
a two-day trip on the west coast. his first trip to the region since taking office and the president will once again tie the extreme weather events that we ve been seeing across the country with the need to pass his infrastructure plan and the bigger broader economic agenda. president biden will be surveying the damage from the recent wildfires there which has burned millions of acres in several states this year. he will also campaign for governor gavin newsom ahead of tomorrow s recall vote that could decide newsom s political fate. this visit comes as so much of the president s domestic agenda is hanging in the balance. top democrats have set a wednesday deadline to finalize a deal on the the massive $3.5 trillion budget proposal but major differences between moderate and progressive democratic lawmakers is threatening to derail the whole thing. the wednesday deadline seems like a no go at this point.
same time. that s exactly what any president of the united states has to do. right at the top of the president s domestic agenda, covid. more than 100,000 americans are hospitalized with the virus. a number we haven t seen since last winter. the number of cases in children soaring. texas children s hospital reporting a record number of kids hospitalized. and with the back to school season and delta running rampant, there are worries that it could get worse. 28.8% of the eligible population. 28.8% of the eligible population 12 and up is not yet vaccinated. even after the fda gave full approval to the pfizer vaccine this week. some folks don t want vaccines. but take a look at this, all right. they don t want vaccines, but look at this. this is a line for monoclonal antibody treatments in tampa. again, that s emergency authorization as well. that as the mask wars are heating up across the country
this summer to visit family, and are now unable to get to the airport. we got more on this story. that is coming up. but in the midst of the race against time in afghanistan, the president is not is not losing sight of his agenda here at home and his promises to americans. does he think that the build back better plan is as urgent and as time sensitive as this evacuation of americans and afghan friendlies from kabul? well, first of all, i think it s important to the american people who care deeply about whether they are going to have jobs. whether they re going to have childcare. whether they are whether we are going to be able to compete with china and countries around the world to understand that we have to do multiple things, at the same time. that s exactly what any president of the united states has to do. right at the top of the president s domestic agenda, covid. more than 100,000 americans are hospitalized with the virus. a number we haven t seen since last winter.
certain people, including some members of congress. and the fda giving full approval to pfizer s covid-19 vaccine. it s also an important week for the president s domestic agenda as house democrats are divided on infrastructure strategy. lots to get to. let s bring in now cnn white house correspondent john harwood and cnn political analyst mr.m mr. john avlon. good evening one and all, both johns by the way. john harwood, you first. let s start with this critical week for the president s domestic agenda. this is where the rubber really is going to meet the road here, and it comes down to the democrats this time. so give us the latest. what do you think? what do you know? well, look, don, the democrats are going to have to decide whether to hang together or hang separately, and this is the margins are so small in the house and senate that anybody or any small group of people in the house can take down the president s agenda if they want to.