how do you plan to proceed? why are you such an optimist? i don t overpromise, but i probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen. the fact of the matter is that we are in a situation where we have made enormous progress you mentioned the number of deaths from covid. well, it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down. everything is changing. it s getting better. look, i didn t overpromise. but i think if you take a look at what we have been able to do, you would have to acknowledge, we have made enormous progress. but one of the things that i think is something that one thing i hadn t been able to do so far is get my republican friends to get into the game of making things better in this country. for example, i was reading the other day i wrote a quote down so i don t misquote him. a quote from senator sue knew
definitions of centrism, neither of them idealogical. for clinton, it s the popular stuff from both parties. for biden, the center amounted to splitting the difference between the two poles of the democratic party. clinton s ascent to the oval office was the result of a deck decade long war of the democratic establishment. biden s career was a member of the establishment. in june of 1993 when bill clinton s approval ratings were lower than biden s today, clinton sought a reset. he declared, i was set to the white house, i think, to take on brain-dead politics in washington from either party, or both. it was widely assumed biden would use his press conference for a similar do-over. when asked if he overpromised, he said, look, i don t overpromise, but i ve probably
0 of your second, third, and fourth years? ashley? when you gave thattors forceful speech about voting rights in atlanta you conveyed it as being on the right side of history. my question, does president biden believe those people who voted against the filibuster to open up debate on voting rates, are they racist? joe, quickly to you. american consumers are hurting so much. what additional measures are you prepared to take to curve inflation and bring it down. that does it for us. thanks to all of you for watching. deadline: white house picks up our special coverage here on msnbc now. se picks up our special coverage here on msnbc now. hi there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york. we are less than two minutes away from president biden s news conference. just his second solo domestic news conference as president. this marks the official ends of his first year in office. the white house today setting the stage for what they are describing as a reset moment, an opportunity to