the ukraine aid bill passed by the united states senate. they re flying it because the president has to have the documents to sign them. they re bringing it to him. what does that tell you? a lot of it is optics. they could during the obama years they used an auto pen where he could sign legislation into law while traveling overseas, but the white house wants to show that they are taking a strong unified stand against russia. this is a massive bill. $40 billion of u.s. aid is about to go to help ukraine with the war. this comes just after $14 billion was approved last month during march. so in both sides are making clear there s going to be much more money coming down the line, so this is all part of presidents come at a time when foreign policy crises, they re not expecting for policy crises. this is a huge test for the administration. he wants to show unified united states sport which is why they re making this showing of this bill coming across seas for
burnett. out front tonight, biden s pivot. the president trying to regain his footing as his agenda son the republican rocks. today, finally promotes his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill win. these investments are consequential. we are just getting started. we are building back better than ever before. you know, it is amazing, right, trump couldn t get infrastructure through. obama couldn t get it through. perhaps, now he is realizing he should have been pounding the table on that win loudly and a long time ago because now, he is in the midst of what one famous children book s writer called a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad time. all week, the white house has watched as headlines detailed a setback, misstep, a miscalculation. covid tests and spread. biden s domestic agen that. foreign policy crises. crises, plural. and it is call all coming to a head on what is essentially the one-year mark of biden s term.
latest steps to tackle this unrelenting covid pandemic. joining me is cnn kmeef political analyst gloria borger. i want to read some of the headlines the president is facing and that the white house is sensitive to which is the washington post saying the long side inside biden s declaring popularity as he struggles with multiple crises. politico, dems stare down another failure to deliver for their base, and axios stating biden s epic failures. i think you d have to call it something like a defensive crouch because they re playing defense right now. even though folks in the administration when i talk to them will talk rightly so about how many jobs they ve added, the progress they ve made on vaccines, et cetera, et cetera, they are being hit in the face with inflation, with foreign policy crises, and on the
i think everything we ve done has helped bring the allies together to confront russia and russian aggression but for that to be sustainable for the long run, we have to have the support of the american people. they have to understand what we re doing and why we re doing it. the president s been very honest that this would not be cost-free for us, as we impose these devastating costs on putin, he would be able to impose some costs back on us and that is what we re seeing but we re trying to make sleer to the american people, we re going to try to soften that blow any way we can. we re trying to look out for the consumers here in this country, even as we deal with this crisis in europe. i think that s part of presidential leadership. i think as we ve seen presidents in the past, when they face these kinds of foreign policy crises, and that s what you re seeing from president biden now. the ex-president who was impeached twice, once for trying to get dirt on the biden family and the sec
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