howard: you ve been using tougher language against the former guy. you said, for instance, the white house policy is not to take advice from people who praised putin. president biden the other day called the maga movement the most extreme political organization in american history. have you and the white house and the president decided that with donald can trump still being by far most influential republican, that you ve increasing hi got to take him on? think you ve got to take him on? i think the president refers to him as the former guy k his predecessor. he did yesterday, earlier this week when he made those dependents. it s about the comments. it is about the impact and the hold that former president trump has on the republican party, the influence and the impact on what their policies are. and and he wants these as a reminder of how these policies can impact people every day. but he s also not going to hesitate calling out positions that are extreme and out of whack with th
what your strategy has been and make changes as you want to, and i would say that we talked a lot at the end of last year about what we wants to do wanted to do in the new year. and the president said i want to do two things, i to be holed up less in the oval office, and i want to be traveling out in the country more talking to the american people. that s exactly what we ve tried to do and what we re going to continue to do, and that s an opportunity to talk about and sell his programs to the public. howard: the president and the vice president have both denounced the leaked supreme court draft, as you know. you told reporter it s not a political issue because it s supported by a majority of the american public, that s true. you later amended that to say it s not a partisan right, exactly. howard: but a portion of the public is passionately opposed to abortion, and it s a key political battle in every supreme court nomination fight. how can you say it s not? according to the fo
biden that he weigh in on something like the will smith slap or dave chapelle being attack thed on stage just to get people to know more about joe biden s personality? joe biden has an enormous twitter following, an enormous facebook following, and it s one of the only social media platforms or followings that can compete with a lot of the disinformation out there howard: but his tweets rarely make news. they reach the public. they don t always have to make news. sometimes it s about providing accuracy howard: again, aiming for the public versus aiming for the media echo chamber. that s right. and i think it s important, you know, participant of the echo chamber, and this is why i don t think he will ever become a person who is tweeting all the time, is because he always reminds us of how we can t get focused on the conversation sometimes we re all having with ourselves, and we re all guilty of this, right? sometimes the journalists in the room are talking about things on
done. harris: peter doocy live at the white house. it s been interesting to watch because officials here were talking very tough on sunday in a statement blowing up joe biden for blowing up the bbb. that was when they were behind the keyboard. for some reason in front of the camera yesterday totally different tune. i will say from the president s viewpoint i saw him this morning he has worked with senator manchin over the course of decades. they share fundamental values, long-time friends. that hasn t changed. not all democrats are ready to give manchin is pass. the progressives are accusing joe manchin of leading joe biden on and creating the false impression he was almost there on the social spending bill. that lack of integrity of stunning in a town where people say the only thing that you have is your word. according to the white house s statement yesterday and my own conversations with the white
his significant accomplishments early, covid is back. at first we thought it was over, right? he s got a lot on his plate. much of his agenda is stalled. what do we do? well, i mean, i think the state of this moment six months in for joe biden is that he is a president pre siding over a country that is extraordinarily divided. and while he talked a lot in the campaign and his inaugural address about breaking through those divisions, i think we see six months in how hardened a lot of those divisions are. that being said, on covid, don, that is the thing that the country has actually rallied around joe biden on. it is by far his highest approval rating in the polls, his rating on covid. we ll see if that holds with this resurgence we re seeing with unvaccinated americans right now, but that has been his strong suit. he is dealing with a moment in time right now where this virus is not fully behind the country. clearly, it s not, and he s