look at what we can expect in 2022, midterm elections are coming, there are economic challenges at home. the world stage is always fluid and unpredictable. president biden beginning his second year in office, i can not think of anyone better to help us usher in the new year and reflect on what we ve learned in the old one than martha. the host of the story. one of my favorite people in the world, her favorite college football team has a new head coach. she may want to talk about this too, happy new year, martha. martha. martha. trey happy new year. trey: is there anything in 2021 that caught your attention because you think it received too much coverage or under played a little bit? the thing under played we
spend so much time covering politics. and the back and forth over numbers, i think about build back better bill and it is always a battle over the number. and not enough of a battle about what is best for the american people, what is fundamentals of underlying bill are. it is a transformative bill, that is the opinion of president biden who said it would transform the u.s. economy. we don t have enough discussion about what that means and what kind of country we want to be. do we want to expand the entitlement economy? what are the patterns that we ve seen that have evolved in terms of family cohesion and employment and education levels. you have to ask yourself with the under pinning,
what can we expect in the middle east. this area gives me concern. i was forecasting would be a problem for us before the biden administration had taken over after the election. i think it is coming to fruition. iran hell-bent on getting that nuclear weapon, no doubt, they will be in pursuit, and step up aggression to get united states out of the middle east, they are out of their eastern border in afghanistan, they welcome, that they are thrilled about, that they want us out of iraq and syria. they will put more pressure to do that. after all they tried to kill the iraqi prime minister. and they tried to kill a couple hundred u.s. soldiers that were at a base there. we got them out before
in a 50/50 senate, was it. you made a break point, they should have always looked at joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. they should have seen it coming, i think there was a heavy period in the initial parts of this presidency, a strong push from the progressives to angle and frame this presidency in to something that maybe of never sellable with the american people, you have is a situation where i think that president looks at this new year and says what am i doing wrong? my poll numbers are terrible. people don t have trust me or have support or confident in me when it comes to the economy and law enforcement. pretty much in all measures he is pretty much underwater
trey: all right, even if republicans win the house in 2022, joe biden still the president. so, i think it is important to say, realistic expectations, a little bit of the messaging is we re going to stop bad thing. but is it important that we set the right expectations? biden will still be president roh matter what happens in november no matter what happening in november. you are right, i believe and i am sure you do, someone who believes strongly in the words of constitution. i think faction is stability and power, i think faction is in many ways what keeps america in a strong position in the world, i don t think there is anything wrong with faction in dc, i am not saying that sells but i think you are right in the