dr. anthony fauci hinting the vaccines for america s youngest could be available sooner than expected. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start today in our politics lead. the white house s aggressive attempts to clean up shall we say comment from president biden s nearly two-hour marathon news conference yesterday marking one year in office. president biden touted some legislative victories, acknowledged nationwide fatigue with covid. and he admitted more progress needs to be made with the pandemic and the economy. but two specific comment are getting the most attention including clarification from his communications team. on the midterm elections the white house now says president biden was not suggesting that the 2022 midterm elections could be illegitimate even though that s clearly what the president s words suggested. on russia president biden today
your sense of what the right path forward is? glad to see president biden secretary castro, go ahead. i was happy to see president biden this week announce the mistreatment of asylum seekers at the border. what i hope we ll see in the near future is the lifting of the use of title 42, which has allowed the administration to summarily expel, basically deport people like those haitian asylum seekers without even allowing them to make asylum claim. this was steven miller s grant and policy in the trump administration, and it has held over into the biden administration, which to me is inexplicable. i believe it is cruel. i believe it is unnecessary. public health experts believe it is unnecessary. even chuck schumer has said it
speaker pelosi vowing to bring the $3.5 billion reconciliation to the floor for a vote tomorrow. there is little room for error if and when it gets to the senate. all democrats need to support it for it to pass. but many moderates including joe manchin still not sold on the price tags. and progressives will be taken out. something new jersey senator corey booker addressed today on meet the press. well, first of all, i don t like how this has been characterized as progressive versus moderates. this is joe biden s bill. this is about seizing what is a once in a generation opportunity. if we miss this opportunity, every dollar that we shrink it is a dollar we re not investing in our future. it s unfortunate. how this plays out, yeah, this is washington.
do you have a sense of why it is that they want to recount in those four counties? you know, i think that this continues the narrative that they have set of big you are began areas versus rural areas in the state here in texas and in other places. the fact is that joe biden won three out of those four counties that they said they re going to audit. and the governor went on tv today to say, well, this was always in the works. there is an election audit that happens every time we have an election. that s simply not true. he s not telling the truth. this is aimed at undermining confidence. it sends a strong message to that base that there is fraud out there that really doesn t exist. and most of all, this is being done because greg abbott has a primary in march that he doesn t want to lose. i want to broaden out a
thanks to the wishes of donald trump. it remains unclear why the former president wants answers about results in a state he won. this tactic didn t work out too well for them in arizona. despite lacking sbegry tip and joe biden being named winner in 2020 and by a larger margin than first thought. and then there is last night where trump held a rally. some of the other speakers last night were extreme candidates that trump endorsed to replace politicians here s the important part. to replace politicians who dare tell the truth about georgia s election results. that being that joe biden won georgia fair and square. these are all things we should be concerned about. the gop battle plan is for us