younger population. they need to change mindset and start focusing on the high risk and vulnerable. negligible positive clinical effect by boosting this younger, healthier individuals. we should be sending those vaccine doses to other parts of the country and world that are racking the vaccines because that is how as a global society we re going to move forward. it is a detriment to continue to focus on the lowest risk, start targeting with high quality masks, with testing and boosting and vaccines those that are high risk. mike: thank you so much. happy new year. happy new year. happy new year. mike: breaking tonight the death of an icon actress betty white a beloved fixture on movies and tv shows for more than 60 years is dead at the age of 99. white was just weeks away from celebrating her 100th birthday. today president biden sent his condolences calling white a cultural icon who will be sorely
achieving the victory he promised to unify the country. he pledged defeat the coronavirus. he said that he would help the middle class out. and this year has had some success for biden. he passed his infrastructure bill and a few other things but it s really been marked by just massive amounts of failure whether it s the border, afghanistan, inflation, it really points to not any of those specific problems but failure of leadership and competence. mike: chuck, your thoughts on the first year of president biden and his administration? my impression is he came into office believing that they could make a plan and carry it out. and the plan had, i think, approximately four phases. one was the big $1.9 trillion bill, the american rescue plan. then that was going to be followed by an infrastructure bill and then build back better. and in between, because of the vaccines, the coronavirus by middle of july independence day
combative predecessor but took far fewer questions and sometimes bristled at routine inquires. why are you so confident he will change his behavior, mr. president. i m not confident he will change his behavior what the hell if you don t understand it, you are in the wrong business. do you think that might incentivize more people to come over illegally. if you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah. a turning point came with the president s chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan with virtually all news outlets harshly criticized as a fiasco for biden. you could also look at this as a tremendously humiliating moment of american humiliation leaving forced to leave on the taliban s clock. while the press often hammered donald trump over his uneven handling of covid-19, biden drew largely positive coverage until the pandemic dragged on another 400,000 people died, and the record breaking omicron surgery veeld a severe shortage of tests. empty shelves, no test kits,
action, any minute now president biden will meet in the situation room with heads of several federal agencies to figure out how to fight hackers, and this morning he s got his hands full. the russian hacking group cozy bear reportedly tried to breach a contractor for the rnc last week. it s the same group accused of breaching the dnc in 2016, and the solar winds hack in december. it comes days after the biggest ransomware attack we ve seen yet, when a different russian group revil, reached the company kaseya. i have so many questions. let s start with the twin attacks that do appear to cross the red line that president biden drew for vladimir putin. we ve had gasoline, meat processing, small businesses, politics. give us a sense of kind of the
businesses needed to encrypt their data. and it means putin would have to decide if there s anything he wants to do in response. what do we know about the options the president is considering? this at point the white house has not spoken publicly about the new developments. what the white house has done is point towards the company s own statement. when you review that lengthy statement one section does stand out, where the company describes the companies they work with that have been affected by that as not being part of critical infrastructure, and that s one of the lines president biden drew about the acts coming from within russia against different infrastructure in the u.s. and that would be a bar that would determine some of the president s response here. is that a clue for us? that s all we know at this