successful president and successful vice president. mercedes, quick thought before we go. obviously kamala s poll numbers are very bad. you look at the fact she is a weak vice president. she adds very little value to the team. it also looks like she is not briefed on the materials and on these policy topics that are critical. martha: i m out of time. thank you both for being here and watching the faulkner focus . i will see you at 3:00 eastern on the story . thanks to our guests.
employee who hasn t complied by today. art laffer former economic president advisor to president reagan good to see you. that s the way it should be. allowing these companies to make their own determination and those employees have a decision to make whether or not they want to continue to work at that company or work somewhere else. it is not covid restrictions that matters. it matters who makes those decisions. i really laud the supreme court for doing what they did and just remember i m not a lawyer, martha. i think before i speak. but i think that s a great decision that they made and i think it s great on both counts. and it is not a covid this or covid that or whether it s right or not to require it. it s who makes that decision. and the more you allow businesses to make that decision and look at the individual cases involved, it is not a one size fits all. it is really you have to tailor make it to the individual companies, the states, whatever.
he takes questions from the press typically a couple times a week. it is not accurate to say he doesn t answer questions or isn t accessible. martha: let s bring in the power panel. mercedes schlapp, and brad woodhouse, former dnc communications director and obama campaign senior advisor. brad, what s going on? we watched the campaign which was mostly from the basement. he didn t get out a lot on the campaign trail. is there a reason this white house doesn t want the president to answer questions on a more regular basis? look, martha, for one i don t think that s true. you showed him in that clip answering questions from the press. you may not like the answers, may not like the length of the answers. martha: he didn t answer either question. he said we ll talk about that later. those aren t answers to the questions. those clearly are answers to the questions. he didn t just walk out of the room. the bottom of the chart you showed from the a.p. which was
she kept the senate intact at least for a while. it will change the senate and make it the house. so congratulations to her. she deserves a lot of credit as well as senator manchin. some legislative goals aren t ripe yet. it takes awhile to get the proper political weather. democrats nixed a plan for a symbolic weekend session and votes on martin luther king day. due to the circumstances regarding covid and another potentially hazardous winter storm approaching the d.c. area this weekend the senate will adjourn tonight. make no mistake the united states senate will for the first time this congress debate voting rights legislation beginning on tuesday. democrats need all of their members on board and available to vote but it is about the math. at least one senate democrat is sidelined because of covid. martha. martha: thank you very much. for more on this let s bring in
how the administration plans to shift gears and meet the moment with covid. this was her answer. watch this. at what point does the administration say you know what? the strategy isn t working. it is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day. every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down. and so right now we know we still have a number of people that is in the millions of americans who have not been vaccinated and could be vaccinated and we are urging them to get vaccinated because it will save their life. martha: some on social media comparing the vice president to fictional characters like michael scott from the office with that convoluted answer. this article says it is like an