baggage that you bring into a situation or what is going on. i was not extending a forever exit. and that came well after the worst stumble by the new white house. the exit from afghanistan, following 19 years of war. people agreed on getting out. by enlarge. but i think they wanted to get out well. joe biden is not dumb and one of the things that he promised coming in was that unlike trump he would listen to experts. and his generals. and he didn t. and i think we saw the results. worst numbers for the president in a political since. he s plunging approval in the polls amid what some see as mistakes, economic struggles and fierce attacks from republicans. many calling his presidency illegitimate. if you re seeing that on your social media feed every day, it eventually has a continues to
cyberattacks. a threat overshadowed by russia s aggression toward ukraine. look ahead in three to six months, and say did the things we agreed to sit down and try to work out did it work? reporter: biden sought to reset the russian relationship. now, putin is testing biden and western allies. for all the challenges outside any president s control, one of the most devastating periods of biden s first year was a decision that he made and stands behind. i was not going to extend this forever war. and i was not extending a forever exit. reporter: the swift fall of the afghanistan government and the chaotic evacuation that followed, including 13 americans killed in a suicide bombing, raised critical questions about competence that biden and his team still struggle to shake six months later. i take responsibility for the decision. reporter: yet, taking responsibility marks a noted change between biden and his predecessor, who looms even larger one year out of office.
of course, the new administration including kamala harris, the first female u.s. vice president ever, had other issues to tackle. there was the pandemic to manage, the economic fallout, and democrats vowing to turn things around, which was not so easy. yeah, i mean, the democrats are kind of blowing this moment. on this vote, the yeas are 69. the nays are 30. the bill as amended is passed. a rapidly developing rift between progressives and centrists nearly scuttled one of the best wins for the white house. the infrastructure bill. sometimes simple decisions are made hard by the other baggage you bring into a situation or what s going on. i was not extending a forever exit. and that came well after the worst stumble by the new white house. the calamitous exit from afghanistan following 19 years of war.
have gone harder, quicker if we could have. reporter: on the world stage, biden reassured allies after the whiplack of the trump era. america is back. reporter: yet the prospect of a new cold war is now an urgent fear. that was not apparent during biden s summit with vladimir putin in june which focused on cyberattacks. a threat overshadowed by russia s aggression toward ukraine. look ahead in three to six months and say, did the things we agreed to sit down and try to work out, did it work? reporter: biden sought to reset the russian relationship. now putin is testing biden and western allies. for all the challenges outside any president s control, one of the most devastating periods of biden s first year was a decision that he made and stands behind. i was not going to extend this forever war. and i was not extending a forever exit. reporter: the swift fall of the afghan government and the chaotic evacuation that followed, including 13 americans
a threat overshadowed by russia s aggression toward ukraine. look ahead in three to six months, and say did the things we agreed to sit down and try to work out did it work? reporter: biden sought to reset the russian relationship. now, putin is testing biden and western allies. for all the challenges outside any president s control, one of the most devastating periods of biden s first year was a decision that he made and stands behind. i was not going to extend this forever war. and i was not extending a forever exit. reporter: the swift fall of the afghanistan government and the chaotic evacuation that followed, including 13 americans killed in a suicide bombing, raised critical questions about competence that biden and his team still struggle to shake six months later. i take responsibility for the decision. reporter: yet, taking responsibility marks a noted change between biden and his predecessor, who looms even larger one year out of office. that point was clear on