justices. liberals hope to tilt the court in their direction, changing the makeup of the court must go through congress, and it would face a senate filibuster. president biden felt pressure from the left to act. washington, is that this was a very standard tactic of death by commission. president biden didn t want to stand up to the far left of his party. the problem is that it comes at great cost. by keeping the court packing movement alive. this is not the first time a president tried to interfere with the makeup of the court. fdr tried to pack the supreme court in his favor. president roosevelt clearly had the right to send to the united states senate and congress of proposal to pack the court, but it was a bonehead idea. it was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. liberals believe the g.o.p. stole seats from democrats on
problem all carried out by the private sector as a potential game changer. the president credited his own administration for the negotiations that took weeks while conditions worsened and also gave this morning and asking for more help. president biden: if federal support is needed, i will direct all appropriate action. if the private sector doesn t step up, we are going to call them out. meantime, there have been calls from the private sector for federal action that could have an immediate impact like easing restrictions on truck driving hours and weight limits or lifting certain trump era tariffs to mitigate inflationary pressures. the white house has options on the table. we been working on these pieces. they ve been in process. tomorrow the president goes to connecticut to make the case for his social spending plan as the white house is acknowledging the time for these talks between the moderates and progressives trying to hash out an agreement will need to come to an end s
this thing across the finish line, but there s a lot of we are hearing frustration about the negotiation. take a listen to this. president biden: we need to think big and bold. that s why i m pushing for it once in a generation investment in our infrastructure and our people. my infrastructure bill and my build back better act. there s even more demand than the supply chain can support. i know i keep repeating it, but it s why we ve got to invest our infrastructure as a country. when you pump the economy with huge levels of stimulus dollars, you ultimately get too many dollars chasing too few goods, and goods that aren t made in the united states. bret: steve. yeah, i think part of the problem is what you were just talking but a moment ago, that the bite in the administration seems to be sort of shrugging off this idea of inflation or labeling it is transitory and at the same time arguing again and again and again that we need to throw trillions of dollars at those problems
transitory, meaning it will fix itself as soon as possible. bret: is a problem, mara you are over at the white house sometimes, and is it a problem when he gives these speeches, the president does, and then turns around and walks out as reporters are yelling at him? and there isn t this q&a that we usually see? well, this is a tough one because journalists always want the president to answer more questions. whether it s a political pardon? he has answered some, but we feel in the white house press corps he s not answering enough. is that a problem for the general public? a political problem for the president? i don t know. but there s no doubt that compared to some of his predecessors, he is less available, but he does talk on the way to the helicopter. he occasionally has answered questions after events like today. not this one. but very, very, very few formal interactions with the press. bret: meantime they are making this push, steve, for the infrastructure, trying to get
job poll numbers inside this poll, coronavirus, education, mcauliffe is up two points on youngkin. economy, it s tied, and guns goes youngkin s way. virginia has been purplish-blue, especially when you talk northern virginia, so even though this is close, is this like lucy in the football and charlie brown for republicans that it s going to get yanked away at the end? i don t i m not sure about that. here s where i can agree with mo, certainly whether it s purple or light blue, we can agree it s not liberal but the problem for democrats is that the people who are most enthusiastic to vote, the people who actually still think biden is doing a good job, because only about 20% who strongly agree with that statement, those people aren t very prevalent in virginia, and that s their problem. there s only about 200,000 this is all dated geek stuff,