striking a blow against covid-19. setting up a strong public-health infrastructure to help us get through other variants, like delta and omicron. the bipartisan infrastructure agreement is an example of his leadership. it will have created millions of good-paying jobs moving forward all across the country. and now, president biden and vice president harris are leaning into voting rights legislation. and importantly, have indicated that we have to reform, if not dismantle, the filibuster. the filibuster is the obstacle to this equilibrium between majority rule and minority rights and that is one of the reasons why is it a perversion of our democracy, an obstacle to progress, and hopefully will be dealt with decisively this week. and the senators on the democratic side can find a way to convince manchin and sinema to do just that. do you believe democrats in congress will have the opportunity to pass other parts of its agenda before the midterms, some portion of the
former white house political director under george w. bush, sara fagen. welcome to sunday, it s meet the press. announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. as we ve said before, as covid goes, so goes joe biden s presidency. right now covid is a major health and political problem. a combination of new variants like delta and omicron and stubborn vaccine refusal among millions has led to an all-time high in cases. the seven-day average has blown past previous records. that doesn t begin to account for people who don t report results of at-home tests or who are asymptomatic. hospitalizations are spiking as well. but the death rate so far has ticked up much more slowly, owing in part to a less severe illness caused by omicron. the public is in a different place than it was a year ago, and the biden administration is desperately trying to catch up. the cdc has offered confusing
we have seen the president and the vice president, both, strongly get behind these voting rights bills in recent weeks. at the same time, you know, many voting rights activists are saying it s too little, too late. and that speeches are clearly insufficient at that point. there is clearly a lot of frustration to those who are arguing what you are arguing for. what do you say to those who are frustrated with a lack of results from democrats? well, democrats do consistently deliver for the people, and president biden has delivered in many different ways. the american rescue plan was an incredible step forward early on in his presidency in terms of stabilizing the economy and striking a blow against covid-19. setting up a strong setting up a strong public health infrastructure to help us get through other variants, like delta and omicron. the bipartisan infrastructure agreement is an example of his leadership. it will have created millions of good-paying jobs moving forward all across
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challenges, full. when you show thatly, the democratic base says, hey, you raised our hopes and we won the georgia seats. we should have done more with our power when we had it. those are washington conversations or democratic party conversations. the country writ large is more focused on this if you just show the covid case count across the country. back in july the support an optimist and back in july he gave an optimistic speech about the summer freedom and then omicron came along, delta and omicron, 13,000 cases back on july 4th to nearly 100,000 cases now. i guess the question is by the next july 4th when people are thinking to about how to vote in november, we might be having a different conversation. exactly. while a lot of democrats are angry they didn t pass something and say that s going to hurt them next year, when you look at voters and what they care about it s the covid numbers. it s the economy right now. it s supply chain issues, and so, you know, if the economy sort