he pointed to the global supply chain issues and he says they ve made progress already on this. he also pointed to his build back better bill, with universal pre-k and child care, expanded health care, that he says will help ease is burden on the middle class. and for the first time, he acknowledged in his second year now coming of his presidency, that he s now willing to break that bill into pieces, into large chunks, if you will, to get significant parts of it passed. our senior white house correspondent mary bruce making news on that front by pressing the president, do you need to be more realistic on your agenda? mary leads us off. reporter: on the first anniversary of his inauguration, president biden defending his accomplishments, even as major parts of his agenda stall. can you think of any other presidents done as much in one year? name one for me. reporter: still the president acknowledges covid, inflation, and gridlock in washington have left americans frustrated. did
administration after year one. dana: why the white house when they present viewed the president s press conference talked about the reset. karl rove you re here with us, perfect for this morning. let s get your overall take and show you headlines here. time magazine saying i didn t over promise. joe biden is being defensive in abc news report. an utter disaster. new york magazine says the press conference didn t go quite as planned. it was a very long one. let s get your overall take on the press conference. my overall take is that there are lots of ammunition in there for the president s critics and he gave it to them. i was taken aback with some of it. ukraine, the minor incursion we just talked about. terrible mistake that the russians will take advantage of. no apologies for afghanistan. he thought he did it perfect. covid, i m satisfied with what we ve done and i think we ve
progress. we went from 2 million people being vaccinated at the moment i was sworn in, to 210 million americas it s being fully vaccinated today. we created 6 million jobs. for all this progress, there was a lot of frustration in this country. did you over promise to the american a white you could achieve. i didn t over promise. and i did not at his dissipate that there would be such a effort to make sure, that the most important thing was that president biden couldn t get anything done. is there anything confident you can get signed into law before the midterm elections? yes, i m sure we can get back the build back better law signed into law in pieces. can you now ? no, i m not prepared to do
it is getting better. look, i didn t over promise. i think if you look at what we ve been able to do, you have y to acknowledge we made enormous progress, one thing that i think is something that one thing i have so far, iso get my republican friends to get in the game of making it better in this country. trey: so isa the republican s fault, why won t they go along with closing prisons, what is your reaction to that? joe biden is rejecting mass in washington, d.c., democrat have majority in house and senate, if joe biden wanted to get things passed with just democrats, he could do that in a lot of ways but he is unwilling to
0 progress. we went from 2 million people being vaccinated at the moment i was sworn in, to 210 million americas it s being fully vaccinated today. we created 6 million jobs. for all this progress, there was a lot of frustration in this country. did you over promise to the american a white you could achieve. i didn t over promise. and i did not at his dissipate that there would be such a effort to make sure, that the most important thing was that president biden couldn t get anything done. is there anything confident you can get signed into law before the midterm elections? yes, i m sure we can get back the build back better law signed into law in pieces. can you now ? no, i m not prepared to do that in detail in terms of executive orders, i may be able to engage in whatever i can do. we begin to organize in ways i haven t before. when you are in geneva in june, in a semblance about president putin, i think what s he wants now is a cold war. since you seen him gather