quinnipiac poll. 38% approve. you can t be satisfied with that as a democrat? look, do you believe in all the polls, bill? there is another poll that had him at 45%. another poll that had him at 49%. that s not how he will govern. the democrats and president biden need to accomplish things. they have accomplished a lot. they need to accomplish more and deliver those accomplish 789s and do what he did yesterday. what are republicans for? why are they against prescription drug lowering costs? why are we against lowering costs for premiums and against cutting childcare costs? why are they against everything that the american people are for? you have to accomplish things and hold republicans accountable. dana: there was a poll from the a.p. today. 28% of people in america, only 28% want president biden to run again. brad says it is undeniable how great the first year was. what happened to the 70% who don t want him to run again? so much of what president biden promised in the beginni
done remarkably well. voting rights, read the speech. i didn t call him a bigot and compare them to george wallace and jefferson davis. read the speech. that s what he did. out of touch. i thought peter doocy made an interesting comment. i m not asking for castles in the air. he ignored some of the main concerns of the american people and saying inflation is transitory and dismissive of its effects and focusing on things being pushed by the base of the party without support from the middle independents and on the congress support from republicans and that s not what the american people want. they want a less partisan president and they certainly don t want somebody out there on the leftward fringe playing to the base of his party. bill: he seemed intent on delivering a message to republicans, what are they for? what will the answer be now from republicans to that question? look, this is positioning for the fall campaign and he is right. if he can say the republicans
news conference yesterday was a total disaster for almost everybody. he wasn t speaking to republicans or people in the middle. he was trying to basically play pundit in chief about his own agenda giving it glowing reviews to no one s surprise. he stepped in it in ukraine obviously sending shock waves around the world. and really continues to try to get some accomplishment out of this congress when his progressives are dead set against him. there wasn t much in it for the american people. it was generally just a conversation between joe biden and the democratic party. bill: let me bring in brad on this. the headline. no course correction for joe biden after a year in office it writes an unpopular president says full speed ahead. the one thing he said he will get out and travel more. beside that he conceded nothing, brad. well look, look, 6 1/2 million jobs. record number of jobs created.
his second year in office with a nearly two-hour press conference yesterday, quite a marathon. the president defending his record despite his major agenda items falling short in congress. here to talk about it is white house press second jen psaki. bill: it s hard to find two bengal fans in the same room and we ve done it. dana: can i join the party? big game on saturday, go bengals. dana: hopefully no breaking news you have to deal with during the bengals game. we ll try to protect you from that. let s start with voting rules. you tweeted this. let s be clear the president was not casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2022 election. he was making the opposite point in 2020 a record number of voters turned out in the face of a pandemic and election officials made sure they could vote and have the votes counted. here is what the president said yesterday afternoon. president biden: it all depends on whether or not we re
issues to ripen. chuck schumer says they ll try again on voting rights. we are closer to achieving our goal of passing vital voter protection legislation. this comes as democrats are discussing breaking up build back better into smaller pieces. they think that could help pass that bill. bill: chad pergram, early day, late night. thanks. he is not predicting that the 2022 elections will be illegitimate. a lot of republicans in the past. 16 who are still in the senate today have supported the protection in the past. his question is why wouldn t it be a bipartisan effort? dana: jen psaki clearing up some of president biden s comments on the 2022 mid-terms. josh holmes, former chief of staff to senator mcconnell. let s talk about when you heard the president say yesterday that unless he got those re forms that failed last night in