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0 of your second, third, and fourth years? >> ashley? >> when you gave thattors forceful speech about voting rights in atlanta you conveyed it as being on the right side of history. my question, does president biden believe those people who voted against the filibuster to open up debate on voting rates, are they racist? >> joe, quickly to you. >> american consumers are hurting so much. what additional measures are you prepared to take to curve inflation and bring it down. >> that does it for us. thanks to all of you for watching. "deadline: white house" picks up our special coverage here on msnbc now. se" picks up our special coverage here on msnbc now. hi there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york. we are less than two minutes away from president biden's news conference. just his second solo domestic news conference as president. this marks the official ends of his first year in office. the white house today setting the stage for what they are describing as a reset moment, an opportunity to focus on president biden's accomplishments rather than the messy business of legislating. a senior white house official reminds us today that what president biden accomplished gives him those items to out the, things like the american rescue plan and the infrastructure bill in the year leading up to the mid terms. jonathan lemere in politico this morning describes the specifics thatter with likely to hear from the president when he takes the podium in just a minute. quote, in his first six months he successfully steered a $1.9 trillion covid relief bill to passage, the administration rolled out a massive vaccine distribution and unveiled a series of policies that by the end of his first year in office would help cut unemployment from nearly 9% on inauguration day to 3.9% now. all of that is what we are likely to hear the president play up today. he will also pace questions from the press on some of the low points of the last year. here is the president. >> hello, folks. thanks for being here. good afternoon, everyone. tomorrow will mark one year since i took office. it's been a year of challenges, but it's also been a year of enormous progress. we went from 2 million people being vaccinated at the moment i was sborn in to 210 million americans being fully vaccinated today. we created 6 million new jobs, more jobs in one year than at any time before. unemployment dropped, the unemployment rate dropped to 3.9%. child poverty dropped by nearly 40%, the biggest drop ever in american history. new business applications grew by 30%. the biggest increase ever. and for the first time in a long time, this country's working people actually got a raise. actually got a raise. people -- the bottom 40% saw their income go up the most of all of the categories. we cut health insurance premiums for millions of american families, and we just made surprise medical bills illegal in this country. you know those bills you get that you don't expect after $2,000 to $5,000 from the hospital beyond what you thought you were going to have to owe because of the consultation you weren't told it was going to cost that much. no more. they are now illegal. thanks to the american rescue plan, and other actions we have taken we have seen record job creation, record economic growth in the past year. now, thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure bill, we are about to make a record investment in rebuilding america to take us to be the number one best infrastructure in the world. now we are way below that. we will be creating better jobs for millions of people modernizing our bridges, our highways, our roads, our ports, our airports. everything from making clean water, removing lead pipes, that every american can turn on a faucet and drink clean water in urban, rural, and suburban communities. it is going to make high-speed sbreshl available to every american in urban, rural, and suburban areas. we have never done that before. now we are. we are in the process of getting that done. still, for all this progress i know there is a lot of frustration and fatigue in this country. we know why. covid-19. omicron has now been challening us in a way that it is the new enemy. while it is cause for concern, it's not cause for panic. we have been doing everything we can, learning and adapting as fast as we can, and preparing for a future beyond the pandemic. i know that after almost two years of physical, emotional and so logical weight of this pandemic and the impact it has had on everyone, for many of us it has been too much to bear. we are in a very different place now, though. we have the tools. vaccines, boosters, masks, tests, pills, to save lives and keep businesses schools open. 75% of adults are fully vaccinated. we have gone from 90 million adults with no shots in arms last summer, and down to 35 million with no shots as of today. and we are adding about 9 million more vaccinations each week. we are going to stick with our vaxation efforts because vaccinations work. so get vaccinated, please. and get your booster. look, we are also increasing testing. should we have done more testing earlier? yes. but we are doing more now. we've gone from zero at home tests a year ago to 375 million tests on the market in just this month. if you buy a test at a store, your insurance will reimburse you. on top of that, we are making $1 -- 1 billion at-home tests available for you to order and be available to you at your home for free. just visit covidtest.gov in order to find out how to get those pretests. in addition, their 20,000 sites where you can get tested in person, for free, now. and now we have more treatments to keep people out of the hop than at any other point in the pandemic including life saving anti-viral pills. we purchased 20 million 6 these new pfizer pills, more than any country in the world. bottom line on covid-19 is that we are in a better place than we have been and have been thus far, clearly better than a year ago. we are not going to back -- we are not going back to lockdowns. we are not going back to closing schools. schools should stay open, because the american rescue plan we provided the states $130 billio $130 billion to keep your student educators safe and open. funding for ventlation, social distancing, hygiene for classes and school businesses. in addition we have added another $10 billion for covid-19 tests to be able to be administered at schools. many states and school district versus spent this money very well. unfortunately, some haven't. i encourage the states and school districts that use the funding to protect our children and keep our schools open use it. the covid-19 is not going to give up and accept things -- you know, it's not going to go away immediately. but i am not going to give up and accept things as they are now. some people may call what is happening now the new normal. i call it a job not yet finished. it will get better. we are moving toward a time when covid-19 won't disrupt our daily lives, where covid-19 won't be a crisis, but something to protect against and a threat. look, we're not there yet, but we will get there. now the second challenge we are facing are prices. covid-19 has created a lot of economic complications, including rapid price increases across the world economy. people see it at the gas pumps, the grocery stores, and elsewhere. so here's what we are going to do. a critical job in making sure that the elevated prices don't become entrenched rests with the federal reserve which has a fuel mandate, full employment, and stable prices. the federal reserve provided extraordinary support during the price crisis for the previous year and a half. given the strength of our dme and the pace of recent price increases it's appropriate as the federal chairman -- the fed chair powell has indicated to recalibrate the support that is now necessary. i respect the fed's independence and i nominated five superb individuals to serve on the fed's board of governors, men and women from a variety of economic sectors. they are qualified, diverse and earned bipartisan praise. i call on the senate to confirm them without any further delay. and here at the white house, and for my friends in congress, the best thing to tackle high prices is a more productive economy. with greater capacity to deliver goods and services to the american people. and a growing economy where folks have more choices and more small businesses compete, and where more goods can get to market faster and cheaper, i have laid out a three-part plan to do just that. first, fix the supply chain. covid-19 has had a global impact on the economy. when a fiscal tree shuts down in one part of the world shipments to shops and homes and businesses all over the world are disrupted. covid-19 has compounded that many times over. a couple of months ago in this very room we heard dire warnings about how these supply chain problems could create a real crisis around the holidays. so we acted. we brought together business and labor. and that much-predicted crisis did not occur. 99% of the packages were delivered on time, and shelves were stocked. and not withstanding the recent storms that have impacted many parts of our country, the share of goods in stock at stores is 89% now, which has wearily changed from the 91% before the pandemic. i often see empty shelves being shown on television, 89% of full, which is only a few points below what it was before the pandemic. but our work not done. my infrastructure law will super charge your effort upgrading everything from roads and bridges to ports and airports, railways and transit, to make the economy move faster and reduce prices for families. second thing, by build back better plan will address the biggest cost that working families face every day. no other plan will do more to lower the costs for american families. it cuts the cost for child care. many families, including the people sitting in this room, if they have children, and are working full-time, many families pay up to $14,000 a year for child care in big cities. less than that in smaller ones. my plan cuts that in half. that will not only be a game changer for so many families' budgets, but it will mean so much for the nearly 2 million member who have left the work force during the pandemic because of things like child care. my build back better plan cuts the price of prescription drugs so insulin that today cost some people as much as $1,000 a month will cost no more than $35 a month. it cuts the cost of elder care, and lowers energy costs, and it will do all of this without raising a single penny in taxes on people making under $400,000 a year or raising the deficit. in fact, my plan cuts the deficit and it boosts the economy by getting more people into the work force. that's why 17 nobel prize winners for economics say it will ease long-term inflationary pressure. the bottom line, if price increases are what you are worried about, the best answer is my build back better plan. third thing we are going to do, promote competition. look, in too many industries a handsful of giant companies dominate the market in sectors like meat sproesing, railroad shipping and other areas. this is not a new issue. it's not the reason we have high inflation today. it is not the only reason. it has been happening for a decade. but over time, it has reduced competition, squeezed out small businesses farmers, ranchers, and increased the price for consumers. we ends up with an industry like the meat processing industry where four big companies dominate the markets. pay ranchers less for the cattle they grow, charge consumers more for beef, hamburger meat, whatever they are buying. prices are up. look, i am a capitalist. but capitalism without competition is not capitalism. it's exploitation. so i signed an executive order to tackle unfair competition in your economy and we are going to continue to enforce it along with working with congress where we can. i will close with this. we have faced some of the biggest challenges that we have ever faced in this country these past few years. challenges to our public health, challenges the our economy. but we are getting through it. and not only are we getting through it, we are laying the foundation for future, where america wins the 21st century by creating jobs at a record pace. now we need to get inflation under control. we have developed an extraordinarily effective boost her shots and anti-viral jobs. now i need to finish the job to get covid-19 under control. i have long said it has never been a good bet to bet against the american people or america. i believe that more than ever today. we have seen the grit, and determine nation of the american people this past year. but the best days of this country are still ahead of us, not behind us. now i am happy to take questions. yes. >> thank you, mr. president. i know some of my colleagues will get into specific issues. i wanted to zoom out into your first year in office. inflation is up, your signature legislation is stalled in congress. in a few hours from now an effort in the senate to deal with voting rights and voting reform legislation is going to fail. covid-19 is still taking the lives of 1500 americans every day and the nation's divisions are just as raw as they were a year ago. did you overpromise to the american public what you could achieve during your first year in office? how do you plan to proceed? >> why are you such an optimist? i don't overpromise, but i probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen. the fact of the matter is that we are in a situation where we have made enormous progress -- you mentioned the number of deaths from covid. well, it was three times that not long ago. it's coming down. everything is changing. it's getting better. look, i didn't overpromise. but i think if you take a look at what we have been able to do, you would have to acknowledge, we have made enormous progress. but one of the things that i think is something that -- one thing i hadn't been able to do so far is get my republican friends to get into the game of making things better in this country. for example, i was reading the other day -- i wrote a quote down so i don't misquote him. a quote from senator sue knew -- excuse me, governor sue nun you, when he decided he wasn't going to run for the senate in new hampshire. here's what he said, quote, they were all for the most part content with the speed at which they weren't doing anything. it was very clear that we just had to hold the line for two years. okay, so i'm just going to be a roadblock for the next two years? that's not what i do, sununu said. he goes on to say it bothers me that they were okay with that. then he goes on to say, okay, so we are not going to get stuff done if we win the white house back, if we win the white house back. why didn't we do anything in 2017, and '18? and then he said, how do republicans expect to answer the challenge? he said crickets, yeah, crickets. he had no answer. i did not anticipate that there would be such a stall wart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that president biden didn't get anything done. think about this. what are republicans for? what are they for? name me one thing they are for. and so the problem here is that i think what happens -- what i have to do, and the change in tactic, if you will -- i have to make clear to the american people what we are for. we passed a lot. we passed a lot of things that people don't even understand all that's in it, understandably. remember when we passed the affordable care act and everybody thought that, you know, it really was getting pummelled and beaten, it wasn't until after i am out of office in that next campaign when -- that off-year campaign, and i went into a whole -- i wasn't in office anymore. and a whole bunch of districts campaigning for democrats and republican districts said they wanted to do away with health care, with obamacare? i start point that if you did that, preexisting conditions would no longer be covered. and they said, huh? we didn't know that. we didn't know that. and guess what. we won, over 38 seats, because we explained to the people exactly what, in fact, had passed. one of the things that i remember saying -- then i will ends this. i remember saying to president obama when he passed the affordable care act, i said you ought to take a victory lap. he said there is so much going on, there is no time to take a victory lap. they didn't know the details of what was passed. so the difference is, i am going to be out on the road a lot making the case around the country with my colleagues who are up for election and others, making the case for what we did do, and what we want to do, what we need to do. and so i don't think i have overpromisedal at all. and i am going to stay on this track. you know, one of the things that i remember -- and i will end this -- i was talking with, you know, jim clyburn, who was a great help to me in the campaign in south korea. and jim said he would endorse me. and there was a clip on television the last couple days of jim. and it said that we want to make things accessible and affordable for all americans. that's health care. that's education. that's prescription drugs. that's making sure you have access, access, to all the things that everybody else has. we can afford to do that. we can't afford not do it. so i tell my republican friends, here i come. this is going to be about what are you for? what are you for? and i will lay out what we are for. mary brucea, abc? >> thank you, mr. president. you mentioned your republican colleagues but right now your top two legislative priorities, your social spending packages and voting rights are stalled, blocks by your own party. you are only guaranteed control of washington for one more year before the mid terms. do you need to be more realistic and scale down these priorities in order to get something passed? >> no. i don't think so. when you say more realistic. i think it is extremely realistic to say to people because -- let me back up. you all really know the politics this country, and your networks and others. you spend a lot of time -- which i am glad you do, polling this data, determining what the american people's attitudes are, et cetera. the american people overwhelmingly agree with me on prescription drugs. they overwhelmingly agree with me on the cost of education. they overwhelmingly agree with me on early edition. overwhelmingly -- i can go down the list -- on child care. we just have to make the case of what we are for and what the other team is not for. look, we knew all along that a lot of this was going to be an uphill fight. one of the ways to do this is to make sure we make the contrast as clear as we can. and one of the things that i think is -- we are going to have to do is just make the case. i don't think there is anything unrealistic about what we are asking. i am not asking for castles in the sky. i am asking for practical things that the american people have been asking for for a long time amount of long time. i think we can get it done. >> you say you are not going to scale down any of these priorities. so far that strategy isn't working. you haven't been able to get some of these dig legislative ticket items done. >> i got some real big ones done. bigger than any president in the -- >> currently, the voting rights package isn't going anywhere. >> that's true. >> are you confident you can get anything sign into law before the elections. >> yes. i am confident we can get pieces big chunks of the build back better bill signed into law. and i am confident we can take to the case to the american people that the people they should be voting for who will going to oversee whether elections are legit and whatnot should not be left in the hands of republicans to determine whether or not they are going to accept the outcomes of the election. and by the way i haven't given up, they haven't finished what's going on with the bill on voting rights, john lewis bill and others. looks i have been engaged a long time in public policy. and i don't know many thing that have been done in one fell swoop. and so i think the post important thing to do is try to inform -- not educate -- inform the public of what's at stake in stark terms and let them make judgments and let them know who is for them and who is against them, who is there and who is not there. and make the case. that's what i am going to be spending my time doing in this offyear election. >> some republicans may be open to major changes on voting rights for instance like mitt romney says he never even received a phone call from this white house. why not? >> i like -- look, mitt romney is a straight guy. and one of the things we were doing -- i was trying to make sure we got everybody on the same page in my party on the score. and i didn't call many republicans at all. and fact is that i think that myth is a serious guy. i think we can get things done. i predict we will get something done on the electoral reform side of this. but rather than judge what's going to get done and not get done all i can say is i am going to continue to make the case why it is so important to not turn the electoral process over to political person who is are set up deliberately to change the outcome of elections. the -- allison harris, please. >> thank you mr. president. speaking of voting rights legislation, if this isn't passed, do you still believe the upcoming election will be fairly conducted and its results will be legitimate? >> well, it all depends on whether or not we are able to make the case to the american people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election. look, remember how we had the highest voter turnout in the united states of america? i think in fact no matter how hard they make it for minorities to vote i think you are going see them willing to stand in find and defy the attempt to keep them from being able to vote. i think you are going to see the people who they are attempting to keep from showing up showing up and making the sacrifice in order to change the law back to the way it should be. but it is going to be difficult. i make no bones about that. it is going to be difficult. but we are not there yet. we have not run out of options yet. we will see how this moves. >> on omicron and education, teachers are in revolt in so many places. parents are at odds over closing schools and remote learning. you say we are not going to go back to closing schools. you said that just moments ago. yet they are closing in some areas. what do you say to those teachers and parents and principals about school closings and what can your administration do to help make up for learning loss for students. >> first of all, i put in perspective the question you asked, very view schools are closing. over 95% are still open. you all phrase the questions when people -- i don't think it is deliberate on your part but you phrased the question for anyone who watches this on television, my god, all those schools must be closing, what are we going to do? 95% of still open, number one. number two. the idea that parents don't think it is important for their children to be in school -- and teachers know it as well. that's why we made sure that we had the ability to provide the funding through the recovery act, through the act that we -- the first act we passed, to be able to make sure schools were able to be safe. so we have new ventlation systems available for them. we have the way they handle, they scrub down the lavatories -- i mean the lavatories kids go to to go to the bathroom, cafeterias, buses, et cetera. all that money is there. there is billions of dollars made available. it's there. not every school district has used it as well as it should be used. but it's there. and so in addition to that, there is now another $10 billion for testing of students in schools. so i -- i think, as time goes on, it's much more likely you are going to see that number go back up from 95% back up to 98, 99%. but the outfit, the individuals for the district that says we are not going to be open is always going to get -- i am not going to be critical of any of you is always going front page, always going to be the top of the news. let's put it in perspective. 95, as high as 98% of the schools in america are open, functioning, and capable of doing the job. how about jan epstein, bloomberg. >> mr. president, thank you. your top foreign policy advisers warned russia is now ready to attack ukraine but there is still little unit what a sanctions package would look like. if american allies can't agree on a sanctions package hasn't the u.s. and the west lost nearly all of its leverage over vladimir putin. >> and given how ineffective sanctions have been in deterring putt nguyen the past, why should the threat of new sanctions give him pause? >> well, because he has never seen sanctions like the ones i promised will be imposed if he moves. number one. number two, we are in a situation where vladimir putin is about to -- we have had very frank discussions, vladimir putin and i, and the idea that nato is not going to be united, i don't buy. i have spoken to every major nato leader. we have had the nato/russian summit. the osce has met, et cetera. so i think what you are going to see is that russia will be held accountable. it depends what it does. one thing if it is a minor incursion and we end up fighting about what we have to do or not do, et cetera. but if they do what they are capable of doing with the forces amassed on the or der it is going to be a disaster for russia if they further invade ukraine. and then our allies and partners are ready to impose severe cost and significant harmon russia and the russian economy. and, you know, we are going to fortify our nato allies. i told them on the eastern flank if in fact he does invade we are going to -- i have already shipds over $600 million worth of sophisticated equipment, defensive equipment, to the ukrainians. the costs of going into ukraine in terms of physical loss of life for the russians -- they will be able to prevail over time, but it is going to be heavy. it is going to be real. it is going to be consequential. in addition to that putin has a stark choice. he either -- either deescalation or diplomacy, consultation of the consequences. look, i think you are going to see -- for example, everybody talks about how russia has control over the energy supply that europe absorbs. guess what. that money that they earned from that makes them about 45% of their economy. i don't see that as a one-way street. they go ahead and cut it off, it's like my mother used to say, you are biting your nose off despite your face. it's not like they have all of these wonderful choices out there. i spoke with the prime minister of finland. you know, we were talking about concern on the part of finland and sweden about what russia is doing. the last thing that russia needs is finland deciding to change its status. they didn't say they are going to do that. but they are talking about what, in fact, is going on and how outrageous russia is being. we are finding ourselves in a position where i believe you will see that there will be severe economic consequences. for example, anything that involves dollar denominations, if they make a -- if they invade, they are going the pay. they are not going -- their banks will not be able to deal in dollars. there is a lot that's going to happen. but here's the thing. my conversation with putin -- and we have been -- how can we say it? we have no problem understanding one another. he has no problem understanding me, nor me him. and the direct conversations were -- i pointed out -- i said, you know, you have occupied before, other countries, but the price has been extremely high. how long? you can go in and over time, at great loss, and economic loss, go in and occupy ukraine. but how many years? one? three? five? ten? what is that going to take? what toll does that take? it is real. it is consequential. so this is not all just a cake walk for russia. militarily, they have overwhelming superiority in relation to ukraine. but they will pay a stiff price immediately, near term, median term, and long term if they do it. i'm sorry. david stranger, "new york times." >> thank you, mr. president. i wanted to follow-up on your answer there about russia and ukraine. when you were in geneva in june, you said to us, about president putin, i think the last thing he wants now is a cold war. since then, of course, you have seen him gather these troops, 100,000 troops around ukraine. your secretary of state said today he thought he could invade it at any moment. you have seen the cyber attacks. and you have seen the demand that he have a sphere of influence in which you would withdraw all american troops and nuclear weapons from what used to be the soviet bloc. so i'm wondering if you still think that the last thing he wants is a cold war? and has your view of him changed in the past few months? and if it has, and he does invade, would your posture be to really move back to the kinds of containment policy that you saw so often when you were still in the senate. >> the answer is that i think he still does not want any full-blown war, number one. number two, do i think he will test the west, test the united states and nato? as significantly as he can, yes, i think he will. but i think he will pay a serious and dear price for it that he doesn't think now will cost him what it's going to cost him. and i think he will regret having done it. now, whether or not i think that -- how can i say this in a public forum? i think that he is dealing with what i believe he thinks is the most tragic thing that has happened to mother russia. the berlin wall hall of fame came down, the empire has been lost, the soviet union has been split. but think about what he has. he has eight time zones, a burning tundra that will not freeze again naturally. a situation where he has a lot of oil and gas. but he is trying to find his place in the world between china and the west. and so i'm not so sure that he has -- david, i'm not so sure he has -- is certain what he's going to do. my guess is he will move in. he has to do something. by the way, i have indicated to him. the two things he said to me that he wants guarantees on, one is ukraine will never be part of nato. and two, that nato there will not be strategic weapons stationed in ukraine. well, we can work out something on the second piece depending on what he does along the russian line as well n the border in the european area of russia. on the first piece, the likelihood that ukraine is going to join nato in the near term is not very likely based on much more work they have to to in terms of democracy and a to you other things going on there. and whether or not the major allies in the west would vote to the bring ukraine in right now. so there is room to work if he wants to do that. but i think, as usual, he's going to -- i probably shouldn't go any further. but i think it will hurt him badly. >> it sounds like you were offering some way out here, some offramp. it sounds like what it is is at least an informal occurrence that nato is not going to take in ukraine at any time in the next few decades. and it sounds like you are saying we are not going to put nuclear weapons there. and he also wants us to move all of our nuclear weapons out of the old soviet bloc. do you think there is space there? >> no. there is not space for that. the idea -- we are going to increase troop presence in poland or romania, et cetera, if in fact he moves. we have a sacred obligation to protect those countries in section five. we don't have that with ukraine although we have a great concern about what happens to ukraine. thank you. maureen, u.s.a. today. >> thank you mr. president. i wanted to follow up on your comment on build back better and also ask you a question about the pandemic. you said that you are confident you can pass big chunks of build back better this year. does that wording mean you are thinking about -- you are looking at breaking the package up into individual portions? and then on the pandemic. now that the supreme court has blocked the vaccination or test rule for larger businesses are you reconsidering whether to require vaccines for domestic flights as a way to boost vaccination rates? >> no. look, first of all, on the last part of the question, the supreme court decision i think was a mistake. but you still see thousands and thousands of people who work for major corporations having to be tested as a consequence of the decision made by the corporation, not by the standard i set that is there. i think you will see that increase, not decrease, number one. what was the first part of your question? >> on your -- your comment that you made that you are confident that major chunks of build back better can pass, are you breaking it up? >> yes, yes. well, it's clear to me that we are going to have to probably break it up. i think that we can get -- i have been talking to a number of my colleagues on the hill. i think it's clear that we will be able to get support for the $500 plus billion for energy and the environmental issues that are there, number one. number two, i know that the two people who have opposed on the democratic side at least support a number of the things that are in there. joe manchin for example, strongly supports early education, 3 and 4 years of age, strongly supports that. there is strong support for, i think, a number of the way in which to pay for these -- pay for this proposal. so i think there is -- i am not going to -- i am not going to negotiate myself as to what should or shouldn't be in it. but i think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now, come back and fight for the rest later. ken, "wall street journal." >> thank you, mr. president. i wanted to ask you about the economy. as you said earlier, americans are feeling the squeeze. >> yes. >> of inflation, oil prices have been at about a seven-year high recently. how long should americans expect to face higher prices when they are at the grocery store, at the gas pump? is there something they are going the see into next summer, into the fall? secondly, you talk about the importance of the fed, but isn't that an acknowledgment that you are limited in what you can do. if you are relying on the fed to make decisions and you are unable to get a build back better proposal through, aren't you simply limited in what you can do to deal with inflation? >> well, look, as you know, ken, inflation has everything to do with the supply chain. and i think what you are seeing is that we have been able to make progress on speeding up the access to materials. for example, one third of the increase in cost of living is the cost of automobiles. the reason automobiles have skyrocketed in price is because of the lack of computer chips. so we have the capacity, and we are going do everything in our power to do it, to become self reliant on the computer chips that we need in order to be able to produce more automobiles. that's under way. we have already passed within the context of another bill, money for that in the house of representatives, before the house of representatives now. but i think there is a way we can move to -- if we can move to get, for example, that one thing done, it can make a big difference in terms the cost of -- the total cost of living. now, with regard to the whole issue of energy prices, that gets a little more complicated. but you saw what happened when i was able to convince everyone from -- including china, india, a number of other countries to agree with us to go into their version of their petroleum reserve to release more into the market so that that brought down the price about 12, 15 cents a gallon in some places. some places more. there is going to be -- there is going to be a reckoning along the line here as to whether or not we are going to continue to see oil prices continue to go up in ways that are going up now relative to what impact that's going to have on the producers. and so it's going to be hard. i think that's the place where most middle class people, working class people get hit the most. they pull up to a pump. and all of a sudden instead of paying $2.40 a gallon they are paying 50 $5 a gallan to. that's going to be really difficult. we are going to continue to increase oil supplies that are available. i think there is ways we can value ad in terms of the price of gas, natural gas is the like to take the burden off of european countries that are now totally dependent on russia. it is going to be hard. it is going to be very hard. but i think that we have to deal with -- for example, like i said, you have a circumstance where people are paying more for a pound of hamburger meat than they ever paid. one of the reasons for that is you don't have many folks out there that are ones that are -- you have the big four controlling it all. we are going to see more and more -- we are going to move on this competition piece to allow more and more smaller operations to come in and be able to engage in providing -- buying and providing the access to much cheaper meat than exists now. but it's going to be a haul. now -- as you -- i assume the reason you said if i can't get build back better relates to what those 17 nobel laureate economists said, that, if in fact we could pass it would actually lower the impact on inflation, reduce inflation over time, et cetera. so there's a lot we have to do. it's not going to be easy. but thing we can get it done. but it's going to be painful for a lot of people in the meantime. that's why the single best way, the single best way to take the burden off middle class and working class folks is to pass the build back better piece that are things that they are paying a lot of money for now. if you get to trade off higher gases, open up higher price of hamburger and gas versus whether or not you are going to be able to be able to pay for education and child care and the like, i think most people would make the trade their bottom line would be better in middle class houd households. but it's going to be hard and it's going to take a lot of work. >> you mentioned china. do you think the time has come to begin lifting some of the tariffs on chinese imports? or is there a need for china to make due on some of its commitments in the phase one agreement? some business groups would like you to begin lifting up those tariffs. >> i know that. and that's why my trade rep is working on that right now. the is uncertain. it is uncertain. i would like to be in a position where i could say they are meeting more of their commitments and be able to lift some of it. but we are not there yet. nancy, cbs. >> thank you so much, mr. president. this afternoon, the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said that the midterm elections are going to be a report card on your progress on inflation, border security, and standing up to russia. do you think that that's a fair way to look at it? and if so, how do you think that report card looks right now? >> i think the report card's going to look pretty good if that's where we are at. but, look, the fact is mitch has been clear. he is going to do anything he can to prevent biden were being a success. i get on with mitch. i like mitch mcconnell. we like one another. but he has one straightforward objective, make sure that there is nothing i do that makes me look good in the mind -- in his mind with the public at large. and that's okay. i am a big boy. i have been here before. but the fact is that i think that the -- i am happy to debate and have a referendum on how i handle the economy, whether or not i have made progress on -- look, again, how can i -- i am taking too long answering your questions. i apologize. i think that the fundamental question is what's mitch for? what's he for on immigration? what's he for? what's he proposing? anything better? what's he for dealing with russia? that's different than i am proposing and many of his republican colleagues are supporting as well? what's he for on these things? what are they for? so everything is a choice. a choice. i think -- look, i have laid out a proposal on immigration that if we passed it we would be in a totally different place right now. but we are not there because we don't have a single republican vote. john mccain is gone. so, i mean, it's just -- it's going to take time. and, again, i go back to -- i go back to governor sununu's quote. how long -- i mean, rhetorical question. i know this is not fair to ask the press a question. i am not asking you. but think about, did you ever think that one man out of office could intimidate an entire party where they are unwilling to take any vote contrary to what he thinks should be taken for fear of being defeated in a primary? i have had five republican senators talk to me, bump into who have been told me they agree with whatever i'm talking about for them to do. but joe, if i do it, i'm going to be defeated in the primary. we've got to break that. it's got to change. i doubt through all, you all bright as hell, well informed. more informed than any group of people in america, but did any of you think you could get to a point where not a single republican would diverge on a major issue? not one? anyway. >> those five republican senators are? >> sure. no. are you kidding me? i maintain confidentiality. i'm sure you've spoken to some. >> on voting rights, sir, at your first press conference ten months ago, i asked you if there was anything you could do beyond legislation to protect voting rights. at that time, you said yes, but i'm not going to lay out a strategy before you and the world now. now that legislation appears to be hopelessly stalled, can you now lay out your strategy to protect voting rights? >> well, i'm not prepared to do that in detail in terms of the executive orders i'm being able to engage in. the things, we have significantly beefed up the number of enforcers in the justice department who are there to challenge the, these unconstitutional efforts in our view, unconstitutional efforts on the part of the republicans to stack the election and subvert the outcome. we have begun to organize in ways that we didn't before. the communities beyond the civil rights community to make the case to the rest of the american people what's about to happen. what will happen if in fact these things move forward. if i had talked to you, not you, if i had talked to the public about the whole idea of subversion of elections by deciding who the electors are after the fact, i think people would have looked at me like, whoa, i taught constitutional law for 20 years. three credit course, separation of powers on saturday mornings when i was a senator, and i never thought we'd get into a place where, where we were talking about being able to actually, what they tried to do this last time out, send different electors to the state legislative bodies to represent who won the election. saying that i didn't win, but republican candidate won. i doubt anybody thought that would ever happen in america in the 21st century, but it's happening. so i think i guess what i'm saying is, nancy, is that i think that there are a number of things we can do but i also think we will be able to get significant pieces of legislation if we don't get it all now to build to get it so that we get a big chunk of the jon lewis legislation as well as the fair election. >> sir, on covid, if you don't mind, you touted the number of americans who are fully vaccinated with two shots, but even some of your own medical advisers say you aren't fully protected unless you have that third shot. a booster. why hasn't this white house changed the definition of fully vaccinated to include that third booster shot? is it because the numbers of fully vaccinated americans would suddenly look a lot less -- >> no, it's not that at all. this has become clearer and clearer and every time i speak, if i say, if you've been vaccinated, get your booster shots. everybody get the booster shot. it's the optimum protection you can have. you're protected very well with two shots. if it's the pfizer, anyway, you're protected. but you are better protected with the booster shot. >> the definition right now. >> i am following what the, the answer is yes. get the booster shot. it's all part of the same thing. you're better protected. okay. alex. reuters. >> thank you, mr. president. i wanted to follow up briefly on a question asked by bloomberg. you said russia would be held accountable if it invades and it depends on what it does. it's one thing if it's a minor incursion and we fight about what to do and not to do. are you saying that a minor incursion by russia into ukrainian territory would not lead to the sanctions that you have threatened or are you effectively giving putin permission to make a small incursion into the country? >> good question. most important thing to do, big nations can't bluff, number one. number two, the idea that we would do anything to split nato, which would be, would have a profound impact on one of, i think, profound impact on one of putin's objectives, to weaken nato, would be a big mistake. so the question is if it's a something significantly short of a significant invasion or not significant, but major military force that's coming across. for example, it's one thing to determine that if they continue to use cyber efforts. well, we can respond the same way, with cyber. they have fsb people in ukraine now trying to undermine the solidarity within ukraine and russia and to try to promote russian interests. but it's very important that we keep everyone in nato on the same page. and that's what i'm spending a lot of time doing and there are differences. there are differences in nato as to what countries are willing to do depending on what happens. i want to be clear with you. the serious imp sigs of sanctions relative to dollar transactions and other things are things that are going to have a negative impact on the united states as well as on the economies of europe. a devastating impact on russia. and so i got to make sure everybody's on the same page as i move along. i think we will, if there's something that is, where there's russian forces crossing the border killing ukrainian fighters et cetera, i think that changes everything. but it depends on what he does, actually to what extent we'll be able to get total unity on the russia, on the nato front. >> if i may ask a quick one on iran, i just wanted to get your sense on whether the vienna talks are making progress. if you think it's still possible to reach a deal to resume compliance are the iran nuclear deal or if it's time to give up on that. >> do it in reverse. it's not time to get up. there is some progress being made. remains to be seen. okay. kristen. nbc. >> very quickly on russia. i do have a number of domestic policy issues, but on russia quickly. it seemed like you said that you have assessed, you feel as though he will move in. has this administration, have you determined whether putin plans to invade or move into ukraine as you said? >> look, the only thing i'm confident of is that decision is totally, solely, completely putin decision. nobody else is going to make that decision. he's making that decision. and i suspect it matters which side of the bed he gets up on in the morning as to exactly what he's going to do. and i think it is not irrational if he wanted to, to talk about dealing with strategic doctrine and dealing with structures in europe and in the european parts of russia. but i don't know if he's decided to do that. so far in the three meetings we've had have not produced anything because the impression i get from my secretary of state, my national security adviser and my other senior officials in these meetings is that there's a question of whether the people they're talking to know what he's going to do. so the answer is but based on a number of criteria as to what he could do. for example, for him to move and occupy the whole country, particularly from the north from belarus, he's going to have to wait a little bit until the ground's frozen so he can cross. to move in a direction where he wants to talk about what's going on, we're continuing to provide for defense capacities to the ukrainians. we're talking about what's going on in both the baltic and the back sea, et cetera. there's a whole range of things that i'm sure he's trying to calculate how quickly he can do what he wants to do and what is he going to do. but he's not, he's an informed individual and i'm sure, not sure, i believe he's calculating what the immediate, short-term, and the near-term and the long-term consequences of russia will be and i don't think he's made up his mind yet. >> i want to ask you about your domestic agenda. you've gotten a lot of questions about voting rights, mr. president, but i want to ask you about black voters. one of your most loyal constituencies. >> yep. >> i was in congressman clyburn's district yesterday in south carolina. you opened this news conference talking about him. i spoke to a number of black voters who fought to get you elected and now they feel as though you're not fighting hard enough for them and their priorities and they told me they see this push on voting rights more as a last minute pr push than it is a legitimate effort to get legislation passed. so what do you say to these black voters who say that you do not have their backs as you promised on the campaign trail? >> i've had their back. i've had their back my entire career. i've never not had their back. i started on the voting rights issues long, long ago, politics in the first place. and i think part of the problem is, look, there's significant disagreement in every community on whether or not a timing of assertions made by people has been in the most timely way. so i'm sure there are those saying why didn't biden push jon lewis bill as hard as he pushed it the last month? why didn't he push it sixth months ago as hard as he did now? the fact is that there is -- there's a timing that is not of one's own choices. dictated by events that are happening in country and around the world as the focus is. but part of the problem is as well. i have not been out in the community nearly enough. i've been here an awful lot. i find myself in a situation where i don't get a chance to look people in the eye because of both covid and things that are happening in washington. to be able to go out and do the things that i've always been able to do pretty well. connect with people. let them take a measure of my sincerity. let them take a measure of who i am. for example, i mean, as i pointed out in south carolina, you know, last time when i was chairman of the judiciary committee, i got the voting rights act extended for 25 years and i got strom thurmond to vote for it. that's what i've been doing my whole career. so the idea that, that i didn't either anticipate or because i didn't speak to it as fervently as they want me to earlier, in the meantime, i was spending a lot of time, spent hours and hours and hours, talking with my colleagues on the democratic side trying to get them to agree that if in fact this occurred, if this push continued, that they would be there for jon lewis and anyway. so but i think that's a problem that is my own making and i communicate it as much i should have. yet you find that when you deal with members of the black caucus and others in the united states congress, i still have very close working relationships. so it's like every community. i'm sure that there are those in the community and i'm a big labor guy. i'm sure there's people in labor saying why haven't i done a, b, c, or d. it's just going to take a little time. >> you put vice president harris in charge of voting rights. are you satisfied with her work on this issue? and can you commit that she'll be your running mate in 2024 provided you'll run again? >> yes and yes. >> okay. do you care to expand? >> there's no need to. she's going to be my running mate. number one. and number two, i did put her in charge and i think she's doing a good job. >> let me ask you, big picture. particularly when you think about voting rights and the struggles you've had to unify your own party around voting rights, unity was one of your key campaign promises. in fact, in your inaugural address, you said your whole soul was in bringing america together. uniting our people. people heard the speech you gave on voting rights in georgia recently in which you described those opposed to george wallace and jefferson davis. some took exception to that. what do you say to those offended by your speech and is this country more unified than it was before you first took office? >> number one. anybody who listened to the speech, i did not say that they were going to be george wallace or bull connor. i said we're going to have a decision in history that is going to be more. just like it was then. you either voted on the side, didn't make you a george wallace or bull connor or did not vote for the voting rights act back then, you were voting with those who agreed with connor. and so i think mitch did a real good job of making it sound like i was attacking them. if you'll notice, i haven't attacked anybody publicly. any senator. any congressman. publicly. and my disagreements with them have been communicated privately or in person with them. my desire is still, look. i underestimated one very important thing. i never thought like the republicans, they got very upset. there are 16 members of the president of the united states senate who voted to extend the voting rights act. now, they got very offended by that. not an accusation. just stating a fact. what has changed? what happened? what happened? why is there not a single republican, not one. it's not the republican party. so that's not an attack. >> is the country more unified than when you first took office? >> the answer is based on some of the stuff we've got done, i'd say yes, but it's not nearly as unified as it should be. i still contend and i know you'll have a right to judge me with this. i still contend that unless you can reach consensus in a democracy, you cannot sustain the democracy. and so this is a real test. whether or not my counterpart in china is right when he says autocracies are the only way to prevail because democracies take too long to make decisions and countries are too divided. i believe we're going through one of those inflection points in history. that occurs every several generations, even more time than that. where things are changing almost regardless of any particular policy. the world's changing in big ways. we're going to see more change in the next ten years than we saw in the last 50 years. because of technology. because of fundamental alterations in alliances that are occurring. not because of any one individual. just because of the nature of things and so i think you're going to see an awful lot of transition and the question is can we keep up with it. can we maintain the democratic institutions that we have not just here, but around the world, to be able to generate democratic consensus of how to proceed. it's going to be hard. it's going to be hard. but it requires, it requires leadership to do it. and i'm not giving up on the prospect of being able to do that. thank you. >> there are deep questions from americans about the competence of government and the messy rollout of 5g this week, to the afghanistan withdrawal, to tepsing on covid. what have you done to restore americans faith in the competence of government and are you satisfied by the view of the competence of your government? >> look, let's take afghanistan. you like to focus on that, which is legitimate. we're spending a trillion dollars a week, i mean a billion dollars a week in afghanistan for 20 years. raise your hand if you think anyone was going to be able to unify afghanistan under one single government. it's been a graveyard of empires for a solid reason. it is not susceptible to unity. number one. so the question was do i continue to spend that much money per week in the state of afghanistan knowing that the idea that being able to succeed other than sending more body bags back home is highly, highly unusual. my dad used to have an expression. he'd say, son, if everything's equally important to you, nothing's important to you. there is no way to get out of afghanistan after 20 years easily. not possible. no matter when you did it and i make no apologies for what i did. i have a great concern for the women and men who were blown up on the line at the airport by a terrorist attack against them. but the military will acknowledge and i think you all know a lot about foreign policy. that had we stayed and i had not pulled those troops out, we would be asked to put somewhere between 20 and 50,000 more troops back in because the only reason more americans weren't being killed than others is because the last president signed an agreement to get out by may the 1st. and so everything was thetic. had we not gotten out, we'd be putting a lot more forces in. now, do i feel badly what's happening to, as a consequence, because of the taliban? yes, i do. but i feel badly also about the fishing boats taking place in the eastern congo. i feel badly about a whole range of things around the world that we can't solve every problem. so i don't view that as a competence issue. the issue of whether or not there's competence in terms of whether or not we're dealing with 5g or not, we don't deal with, 5g. the fact is you had two enterprises, two private enterprises that had one promoting 5g and the other one were airlines. private enterprises that had government regulation. and so what i've done is pushed as hard as i can to have 5g folks hold up and abide by what was being requested by the airlines until they could more modernize over the years so that 5g would not interfere with the potential. so any tower, any 5g tower within a certain number of miles from the airport should not be operative. and that's, and so i understand, but anything that happens is consequential. is viewed as the government's responsibility. i get that. am i satisfied with the way in which we have dealt with covid and all the things that go along with that? yeah, i am satisfied. i think we've done remarkably well. you know, the idea that, on testing, we should have done it quicker, but we've done remarkable since then. we have more testing going on than anywhere in the world and we're going to continue to increase that. did we have it at the moment exactly when we should have moved and could we have moved a month earlier? yeah, we could have. but with everything else going on, i don't view that as somehow a marked incompetence. look, think of what we did on covid. when we were pushing on astrazeneca to provide more vaccines, guess what. they didn't have the machinery to be able to do it. so i physically went to michigan. stood there in a factory with the head of the, of astrazeneca, and said we'll provide the machinery for you. this is what we'll do. we'll help you do it so you can produce this vaccine more rapidly. i think that's pretty hands on stuff. we also said right now, when people in hospitalizations are overreturning hospitals and doctors and nurses are out with covid, we put thousands of people back in those hospitals. look at all the military personnel we have there. first responders. nobody has ever organized, nobody has ever organized a strategic operation to get as many shots in arms by opening clinics and keeping, and being able to get so many people vaccinated. what i'm doing now is not just getting significant amounts of vaccines to the rest of the world, but they now need the mechanical way is how they get shots in arms. so we're providing them to know how to do that. now should every american know that? no. they're just trying to figure out how to put three squares on the table and stay safe. but so i do think the place where i was a little disappointed, i wish we could have written it differently is when we did legislation to provide the funding for covid and the money we provided for the states to be able to deal with keeping schools open. some didn't do a good job. some are still holding the money. i don't have the authority to do anything about that. i think that's not particularly competent. there's things that could and should have been done. could have moved faster. so i, i understand the frustration. you know, i remember, i think it was, forget which cabinet member said to barack obama, where something was going on and he said well, you're going to be sure, mr. president, of the millions of employers you have out there, somebody's screwing up right now. somebody's screwing up. so you know, it's just, but i think you have to look at things on balance. what is the trajectory of the country? is it moving in the right direction now? i don't know we can say it's not. i understand the overwhelming frustration, fear, and concern with regard to inflation and covid. i get it. but the idea, if i told you when we started, i tell you what we're going to do. in the first year, i'm going to create 6 million jobs. i'm going to get unemployment down to 3.9%. i'm going to generate -- you'd look at me like you're nuts. maybe i'm wrong. >> at least in our recent memory, with as much washington experience you entered this office with, yet after we sit here for more than an hour, i'm not sure if i heard you say you would do anything differently in the second year of your term -- >> yeah, look -- >> are you satisfied with your team? >> there's three things i'm going to do differently now that i've gotten the critical crisis out of the way, knowing exactly where we're going. number one. i'm going to get out of this place more often. i'm going to go out and talk to the public. i'm going to do public forum. i'm going to interface with them. make the case of what we've already done, why it's important, and what we'll do, what will happen if they support what else i want to do. number two. i'm bringing in more and more now that i have time, literally, like you, i'm not complaining. 12, 14 hours a day. no complaints. i mean it sincerely, but now that certain big chunks have been put in place and we know the direction, i'm also going to be out there seeking the advice of more experts from outside. from academia to editorial writers to think tanks and i'm bringing it in. just like i did early on. presidents and historians to get their perspective on what we should be doing. seeking more input. more information. more constructive criticism about what i should and shouldn't be doing. and the third thing i'm going to be doing a lot more of is being in a situation where i'm able to bring, i'm going to be deeply involved in the, these off year elections. we're going to be raising a lot of money. we're going to be out there making sure we're helping all those candidates and some have asked me to come in and campaign with them. to go out and make the case in plain, simple language as to what it is we've done, what we want to do, and why we think it's important. how many more hours am i doing this? i'm happy to stick around. you always ask me the nicest questions. i know you do. >> all right. >> none of them make a lot of sense to me, but -- >> let's try. >> fire away. >> new year. why are you trying so hard in your first year to pull the country so far to the left? >> well, i'm not. i don't know what you consider to be too far to the left if in fact we're talking about making sure that we have the money for covid, to put together the bipartisan infrastructure, making sure we were able to provide for those things that in fact would significantly reduce the burden on working class people but make them have to continue to work hard. i don't know how that is pulling it to the left. you guys have been trying to convince me that i am bernie sanders. i like him, but i'm not a socialist. i'm a mainstream democrats. if you'll notice, the 48 of the 50 democrats supported me in the senate on virtually everything i've asked. yes, sir. >> a moment ago, you were asked whether or not you believed that we would have free and fair elections in 2022. if some of these state legislatures reformed their voting protocols. you said it depends. do you think that they would in any way be illegitimate? >> oh, yeah, i think it would be easy to be illegitimate. imagine, imagine if in fact trump has succeeded in convinced pence to not count the votes. >> in regards to 2022. >> oh, 2022, i mean, imagine if those attempts to say that the count was not legit. you have to recount it or we're not going to count, we'll discard the following votes. i'm not saying it's going to be legit. the increase of the prospect of being illegitimate is a direct proportion of not being able to get these reforms passed, but i don't think you're going to see, you're not going to see me, i don't think you're going to see the democratic party, give up on, coming back at assuming the attempt fails today. >> one more, sir. you know, you campaigned and you ran on a return to civility and yrn that you dispute the characterization that you called folks who would oppose those voting bills as being bull connor or george wallace. but you said they would be sort of in the same camp. >> no, i didn't say that. look what i said, go back and read what i said. and tell me if you think i called anyone who voted on the side of the position taken by bull connor that they were bull connor. that is an interesting reading to me. i assume you got it in the journals because you like to write. >> do you expect to work with senators manchin or sinema? >> there are certain things that are so consequential. you have to speak from your heart as well as your head. i was speaking out forcefully on what i think to be at stake. that's what it is. and by the way, no one, no one forgets who was on the side of king or connor. no one, the history books will note it. when i was making the case, don't think this is a freebie. you don't get to vote this way then somehow it goes away. this will stick with you the rest of your career and long after you're gone. >> and mr. president -- >> folks -- okay, whoa, whoa, whoa. hang on, guys. we've only gone an hour and 20 minutes. i'll keep going. but i'm going to go, let me get something straight here. how long are you guys ready to go? you want to go for another hour, two? okay. i'm going to go, tell you what, folks. i'm going to go another 20 minutes until a quarter of. okay? yes, sir. >> president biden -- >> i want to thank my communications staff for the great help here. >> well, president biden, on the coronavirus, we're tragically approaching nearly 1 million americans who died and i'd like to ask you why it is during your three and a half hour virtual summit in november with the chinese president, you didn't press for transparency and also whether that has anything to do with your son's involvement on investment control by chinese owned entities? >> the answer is that i did raise the question of transparency. i spent a lot of time with him. he, the fact is they're just not being transparent. >> transparency on the coronavirus origins? >> yes. >> and you did? >> yeah. >> is there a reason your press staff was unaware of that and what did you say to the chinese president? >> they weren't with me the entire time. look, i made it clear that i thought china had an obligation to be more forthcoming on what the source of the virus was and where it came from. yes. >> mr. president, i would like to ask you about foreign policy. one of the first priority that you declared when you came to office was to end the war in yemen. the catastrophic war in yemen. you appointed a special envoy. today, one of your allies, united arab emirates, is asking your administration to put back the rebels, militias, back on the terror list. are you going to do that? and how are you going to end the war in yemen, sir? >> the answer is it's under consideration and ending a war in yemen takes the two parties to be involved to do it and it's going to be very difficult. yes. >> thank you very much for this honor. i'd like to raise a delicate subject. a poll released this morning by politico morning consult found 49% of registered voters disagreeing with the statement, joe biden is mentally fit. not even a majority of democrats who responded strongly affirmed that statement. >> well, you'll make the judgment whether they're correct. >> so the question i have for you sir, if you'd let me finish, is why do you suppose such large segments of the american electorate have come to harbor such profound concerns about your cognitive fitness? thank you. >> i have no idea. yes, sir. >> thanks, mr. president. i appreciate it. i wanted to sort of address or ask about a tension in this press conference on unifying the country because you campaigned on two things. one of them is being able to accomplish big things and the other is the ability to unify the country. and even today, you've talked about sort of a different posture with republicans. i wonder if you still think it's possible to do both of those things. >> we have to. >> around this time last year when you were campaigning in georgia, i think where you know of the things you told people was the power is literally in your hands. if voters give democrats the house and the senate and the presidency, that all these big things can get accomplished and we've seen stalemate. we've seen things being stymied. why should folks believe you this time around? >> can you think of any other president's done as much in one year? >> i'm asking you. >> i'm serious. you guys talk about how nothing's happened. i don't think there's been much on any incoming president's plate that's been a bigger menu than the plate i had given to me. i'm not complaining. know that running in. and fact of the matter is, we got an awful lot done. an awful lot done. and there's more to get done. but look. let me ask a rhetorical question. no, anyway. thank you. yes. be careful. don't get hurt, man. >> i'm going to take a -- mr. president, thank you. sebastian smith from afp. another question on ukraine. ukraine borders for nato member countries. how concerned are you, are you concerned, that a real con flag ration in ukraine in the russians really go in there, that it could suck in nato countries that are on the border and you end up with an actual nato russia confrontation of some kind. and secondly, are you entertaining the thought of a summit with vladimir putin as a way to perhaps try and put this whole thing to bed. address their concerns and negotiate your way out of this. >> the last question, yes. when we talked about whether or not the three meetings we talked about and we talked about we would go from there, if there was reason to, to go to a summit. we talked about a summit as before the ukraine item came up in terms of strategic doctrine and with the strategic relationship would be. number two, i'm very concerned this could end up being -- what i'm concerned about is this could get out of hand. the borders and what russia may or may not do. i am hoping that putin understands that he is short of a full blown nuclear war, he's not in a good position to dominate the world. i don't think he thinks that, but it is a concern. that's why we'd have to be very careful about how we move forward and make it clear to him that there are prices to pay that could in fact cost his country an awful lot, but of course you'd have to be concerned when you have, you know, nuclear power invade. if he invades, it hasn't happened since world war ii. most consequential thing that's happened in the world in terms of war and peace since world war ii. yes. >> nearly two years have passed since the beginning of the global coronavirus outbreak and you again today acknowledged that americans are frustrated and tired. based on your conversations with your health advisers, what type of restrictions do you imagine being on americans this time next year and what does the new normal look like for social gatherings and travel to you? >> well, the answer is i hope the new normal will be that we don't have, still have 30 some million people not vaccinated. i hope the new normal is people have seen and what their own interest is and have taken advantage of what we have available to us. number two, with the pill that appears to be as efficacious as it seems to be, that they're going to be able to deal with this virus in a way that after the fact you have the ability to make sure you don't get very sick. number three, i would hope that what happens is the rest of the world does what i'm doing and provides significant amounts of the vaccine to the rest of the world. because it's not sufficient that we just have this country not have the virus or be able to control the virus, but that we can't build a wall high enough to keep a new variant out. so it requires one of the things that i want to do and we're contemplating figuring out how to do, not we are contemplating how to get done, and that is how do we move in a direction where the world itself is vaccinated? it's not enough just to vaccinate 340 million fully vaccinate 340 million people in the united states. that's not enough. it's not enough to do. we have to do it and we have to do more than we're doing now and that's why we have continued to keep the commitment of providing vaccines and available cures for the rest of the world as well. >> if i could, sir, and i should have said this before. how do you plan to win back moderates and independents who cast a ballot for you in 2020 but polls indicate aren't happy with the way you're going your job now? >> i don't read the polls. why don't you just go down the room here. >> thank you, mr. president. follow up with some of the questions about the vaccination program. you've given dozens of speeches this year urging americans to get vaccinated. you've talked to republicans. you've said it's people's patriotic duty. there have been few mention of the fact that young children under the age of 5 still in the third year of this pandemic in this country, don't have access to the vaccine. can you speak to frustrated parents a little bit about why that continues to be the case and when that might change? >> because the science hasn't reached a point where they've seen it's safe. that's what they're doing now. i got asked that question about three months ago about people between the ages of 7 and 12. well, they finally, they've got to the point where they felt secure in the number of tests they had done and the tests they had run that it was safe. so it will come. it will come, but i'm not a scientist. i can't tell you when, but it is really very important that we get that next piece. >> one more follow up on build back better. when you said it's likely going to be broken up into chunks, you mentioned the climate pieces seemed to have broad support. you mentioned manchin as a supporter of early childcare. you left out the child tax credit and i wonder if it's fair to read between the lines and assume that's a piece given senator manchin's opposition to it is the extension is likely one of those components that may have to wait. >> there's two really big components that i feel strongly about that i'm not sure i can get in the package. one is the childcare tax credit. the other is help for cost of community colleges. they are massive things that i've run on. i care a great deal about. i'm going to keep coming back at whatever floor i can get to get chunks of that done. yes, sir. next man to the left. >> thank you, mr. president. i'm with univision national news. this is my first press conference. good to meet you in person. >> we always have long press conferences. >> awesome. awesome. i've got a couple of questions. number one, you said you want to convey your message by getting out there in the country. i'm wondering if you're planning on traveling to south america and other countries in the western hemisphere given the fact china has a lot of influence in the region and the second question is what will be your message for residents of this country that are struggling every time they go to the gas station, every time they go to the grocery store, and see the prices going higher? and the pharmacy. i happen to come from south texas where i saw a lot of people struggling financially in the last few months and so i think you, i wonder what is the message you want to spread to them. >> well, i try, i try to answer that seven different ways today. but let me answer the first question. i spend a lot of time in south america. and latin america. when i was vice president, i spent the bulk of my eight years basically in europe and or in latin america. i'm in contact with the leaders of the countries in the south american, working closely with making sure that we do everything, for example, with, to deal with helping the countries in question, particularly those in central america, to be able to help them with their ability to do, people don't sit around in guatemala and say i've got a great idea. give the money to a coyote. take this across a terribly dangerous trip up through central america and up through mexico and drop, sneak us across the border, in the desert. won't that be fun? people have real problems. one of the things i've done when i was a vice president, got support with, although i don't have much republican support anymore, is provide billions of dollars to those countries to see why are people leaving and how are you going to reform your own system. that's something we've worked on a long time. it still needs a lot of work and we're focusing on that. i also believe i spent a lot of time talking about and doing policy having to do with -- little more than a dictator right now. and the same thing with chile and not the same thing, but chile as well as argentina. so, look, i made a speech a while ago when i was vice president. saying that if we were smart, we have an opportunity to make the western hemisphere a united, not united, a democratic hemisphere. and we were moving in the right direction. under the last administration. obama-biden administration. but so much damage was done as a consequence of the foreign policy decisions the last president made in latin america, central america, and south america that we now have, and i call for some of the democracies, i call that a number of nations showed up for this summit of democracies. what is it that's going to allow us to generate -- we've had a reduction in the number of democracies. we used to talk about when i was a kid in college, about america's backyard. it's not america's backyard. everything south of the mexican border is america's front yard and we're equal people. we don't dictate what happens in any other part of continent. we have to work very hard on it, but the trouble is we're having great difficulty making up for the mistakes made the last four years and it's going to take some time. yes, gentleman in the back. then i'll go to this side, okay? >> thank you, mr. president. thank you for holding this press conference. i hope there's more of them. >> next to three hours. >> we'll stay for a couple more. you said you were surprised by republican obstruction of your agenda but didn't the gop take exactly the same tactic when you were vice president to barack obama? so why did you think they would treat you any differently than they treated him? >> first of all, they weren't nearly as obstructionist as they are now. number one. they stated that, but you had a number of republicans we work with closely from john mccain, i mean, a number of republicans we worked closely with. even back in those days, lindsey graham. and so the difference here is there seems to be a desire to work with them. i didn't say my agenda. i'm saying what are they for? what is their agenda? they had an agenda back in the administration when the eight years we were president and vice president. but i don't know what their agenda is now. what is it? the american public is outraged about the tax structure we have in america. what are they proposing to do about it? anything? have you heard anything? i mean, anything? i haven't heard anything. the american public is outraged about the fact that we're the state of the environment. the vast majority of the public. what have they done? anything to ameliorate climate change other than deny it exists. so the difference between then and now is not only the announcement that was made anything to stop barack obama. i get that part. but what eventually happened? we were able to get some things done. we were able to work through some things. on the stuff that was really consequential in terms of divisive, it was a real fight. but so i don't think there's a time when i, i mean i wonder what would be the republican platform right now? what do you think? what do you think the position on taxes are? what do you think their position on human rights? what do you think their position is on whether or not we should on, what we should do about the cost of prescription drugs? what do you think? i just, i honest to god don't know what they're for yet i know a lot of these senators and congressmen and i know they do have things they want to support. whether they're things i want or not. but you don't hear much about that. and every once in a while when you hear something when there's a consensus, it's an important, but a small item, and it doesn't get much coverage. i don't mean coverage. there's not much discussion about it. so i just think it's a different, and i don't know that no matter how strongly one supports as a republican and or supports the president, the former president of the united states, i don't know how we can't look at what happened on january 6th and think that's a problem. that's a real problem. >> one more question, mr. president. >> by the way, it's a quarter of, guys. i'm going to do this, easy questions, i'll give you quick answers. >> there's an increasing concern among some democrats that even if schools do continue to open and i get most of them are now opened, republicans will weaponize this narrative of you and other leading democrats allowing them to stay closed in the midterms next year. obviously that issue has a lot of traction with suburban parents. >> i'm confused by the question. i'm sorry. >> could school reopenings or closures become a potent midterm issue for republicans to win back the suburbs? >> oh, i think it could be. i hope to god that -- look. as time goes on, the voter who is just trying to figure out as i said how to take care of their family, put three squares on the table, stay safe, be able to pay their mortgage, et cetera, is becoming much more informed on the -- the motives of some of the political players and some of the political parties and i think that they are not going to be as susceptible to believing some of the outlandish things that have been said and continue to be said. you know, every president, not necessarily in the first 12 months, but every president in the first couple of years, most ever president, excuse me. the last president, at least four of them, have had polling numbers that are 44%. favorable. so this idea that, but you all, not you all, but now is biden that one poll showed with 33%. the average is 44, 45%. one poll, 39%. i mean, the idea that -- the american public are trying to sift their way through what's real and what's fake and i don't think as, i've never seen a time when the political coverage, the choice of what political coverage a voter looks to has as much impact on what they believe. they go to get reenforced in their views. whether it's msnbc or whether it's fox. and one of the things i find fascinating this happening and you all -- a different day, and it will impact on how things move, is that a lot of speculation in the polling data shows that the, that the cables are heading south. they're losing viewership. fox is okay for a while, but it's not -- and a lot of the rest predict it to be not very much in the mix in the next four to five years. i don't know whether that's true or not, but i do know that we have sort of put everybody has put themselves in certain allies and they decided that you know, how many people who watch msnbc also watch fox, a politician trying to find out what's going on in both places. how many people, again, i'm no expert at any of this, but the fact is i think you have to acknowledge that what gets covered now is necessarily a little bit different than what gets covered in the past. i've had a couple -- i shouldn't get into this. but the nature not -- the nature of the way things get covered is my observation over the years and it's changed because of everything from a thing called the internet. it's changed because of the way which we have self-identified perspectives based on what channel you turn on. what network you look at. what cable you look at. and it's never quite been like that. anyway. >> thank you very much. for standing for our questions. we hope the public has found it as enlightening as we have. >> i can still stand. it's amazing. >> we appreciate it. we very much do. so the question i want to ask is about accountability on the coronavirus and the government's reto it. whether it's confusion over what style of mask to wear, when the test, how to test. the public is confused, sir, and you see that in the drop off polling on this question. why did you tell jeff you were satisfied with your team? why are you not willing to make or interested in making any changes? either of the cdc or other agencies given the messaging have been so confusing? >> first of all, the messages to the extent they have been confusing is because the scientists are learning more. they're learning more about what's needed and what's not needed and so the fact is that the fact is, the one piece that has gotten a lot of attention is the the communications capacity of the cdc. well, she came along and said, look, i'm a scientist. and i'm learning. i'm learning how to deal with stating what is the case that we've observed. look, i think that it's a little bit like saying when we went through the whole issue of how to deal with polio and the polio shots. it was said in the beginning, oh, no, it's changed a little bit, we move this way or that way. or when we've dealt with anything else. it's as -- this is a brand new virus. a brand new phenomenon. some of it was deadly, other was more communicable. this is an unfolding story, it's the nature of the way diseases spread. we're going to learn about it in a lot of other areas, not just covid-19. and so i think, you know, i look at it this way. think about how astounding it was within the time frame that it took to be able to come up with a vaccine. you used to write about that. pretty amazing how rapidly they came up with a vaccine. it saved hundreds of thousands of lives. did everything get right? no. and by the way, the idea whether we -- anyway, i'm talking too much. >> thank you, mr. president. i have two really simple questions, i promise. you campaigned on cancelling $10,000 of student loans. do you still plan to do so, and when? and my second question, now that you've clarified the bull connor comments, do you plan to reach out to republicans to talk about reforming the electoral count act? >> yes, i've talked to mitt on other occasions, and i reached out to the minority leader as well, at the time he made his speech. and so i have no reluctance to reach out to any republican and anyone -- i've made it clear, look, i've now had the opportunity to travel because of funerals and eulogies i've made, and congressmen and senators have come along with me. somewhere between 20 and 25 senators and congresspersons have traveled with me. and i find you should get the list of them, and ask how -- i've sat through the two, three, four, five hours together, talked together. i've asked questions, they have asked questions. i've learn a heck of a lot. but as president, i don't have the ability to do that as often as i would like to do it. and one of the things that has been made clear to me, speaking of polling, the public doesn't want me to be the president senator. they want me to be the president, and let the senators be senators. if i've made a mistake, i'm used to negotiating to get things done. and i've been in the past relatively successful at it in the united states senate. even as vice president. but i think that role as president is a different role. folks, it is now almost 6:00 p.m. with all due respect, i'm going to see you next conference, okay? thank you. >> president joe biden finishing a one-hour-and-54-minute press conference. we've been watching the press conference along with rachel maddow. i want to take off some of the headlines, he said we're not going back to lockdowns. on build back better, saying he's open to passing chunks of it. inflation, his strongest pushback was to say the strongest weapon against inflation is a more productive economy. i believe he's made news heard all around the world on ukraine, by saying he expects putin to test the u.s. and nato. he got pressed on whether a minor incursion would put into motion a military response. i expect there will be some reaction from the region before we get off the air, you and i. he spent time reframing the progress or lack thereof of his agenda in terms of the republican party. he said he's known mitch mcconnell a long time, and he mentioned five republican senators who sat with him and said, i'd be with you, but then i'd get primaried. it was the most forceful pushback on what he's contending with, with today's republican party. what did you think? >> i thought it was long. >> it was. >> not an opinion. it's long for a presidential press conference, specifically for him. with all the talk about putin and him talking about how the -- the question of whether putin may invade ukraine will be decided on what side of the bed putin gets up on. i wondered if he was trying to ape putin's feats of strength, showing how long he can go, taking these questions. on foreign policy, on america and the world, you're right. the issue of ukraine, and the possibility of not only russia's actions, but how the united states will react to them, that will set in motion a lot of discussion. and will set in motion a whole new news cycle in terms of that discussion. there's been serious american diplomacy trying to avoid that expected war. now we get the president bluntly stating he thinks russia is going to do it. that's a big deal. and that, i think, will be the most consequential headline of that. but domestically, that sort of refrain he had about republicans, what are republicans for, what is mcconnell for? what would the republican party have in its platform now? on immigration, drug prices, inflation. all this stuff, that and his reflections on how obstructionist republicans are with him, even more so in his words than with president obama, i thought, was interesting to hear from a president in his own words. i think it's also objectively true, and a real challenge to, i think, the common wisdom, at least on the beltway, about how the dynamics are at work right now on capitol hill. >> he came out, and one of his earliest lines was, i haven't been able to get my gop friends, he still sees them as his friends, into the game. then he went on to read a letter from governor sununu, where he basically says, i'm not going to run for the senate. those guys are for doing nothing. he says, i didn't anticipate such a stalwart effort to make sure i don't get anything done. >> and famously, during the obama administration, there's this meeting of republican graybeards, they say our most important priority is to make barack obama a one-term president, we're going to oppose him on everything. that was the lesson from the obama years on what the republican party is for. president biden is saying he's surprised to be getting that same treatment from the republicans. i thought him citing these very recent comments from john sununu was good. and the critique from him is objectively true, because in addition to republicans behaving towards president biden, and president obama, objecting to things they, themselves, are on the record for being in favor for, because they're part of the administration. and a significant part of the republican party voting to not admit that president biden won the last election, to not certify the electors. to stand against voting rights. the authorization of the voting rights act in a way that defies even the recent legacy of republicans like strom thurmond. so i do think that on the sort of core issues about democracy and whether we're going to continue to exist as a democracy, there's a newfound radicalism, an unpatriotic radicalism, the president would say, that you can add on to the obstruction that president obama faced as well. that's a kind of opposition,

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