country and this is what clinton did. he played to his strengths. and like clinton biden s greatest strength is his empathy. and he needs to go out in the country and comfort the families. we lost 100,000 to opioids and no elite ever seems to give a damn. biden cares, so that s what i want to see more is him taking these accomplishments. the recovery act has $4 billion to help people addicted to opioids. go to those clinic, go to the communities, the inner cities and small towns and communities being devastated by opioids. he could do so much with the empathy so powerful in him. listen, i don t disagree with that but it s going to be tough to do with covid because we don t want the president of the united states being exposed so much to covid. we ll see. joe, similar question to what i asked paul. one year in the biden administration made a lot of significant changes, but tonight the narrative is voting rights
away. business is booming. exciting time for the auto industry. we re building our bridges, our goals, the transit system. and jobs, that that s what this administration has been doing. from our toughest times america has always built a brighter future. that was tom hanks narrating a new ad from the biden inaugural committee. exactly one year ago tonight there were fireworks in washington. president biden and first lady jill biden celebrating a new era on their first night in the white house. now, many view biden s inauguration as a much needed reset after the turmoil of the trump presidency and the horrors of the january 6th attack on the capitol. he told the country he was elected to solve problems and that he has a record with some big accomplishments like covid relief and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. but, of course, the president is still facing challenges heading into the mid-term elections. so i want to bring in now paul begalla and joe lockheart.
they both worked with former president bill clinton, i should say. paul as chief strategist during his 1992 campaign and then counsel to the president. and joe in the 1996 re-election campaign and then white house press secretary. big résumés here. gentlemen, good evening. good to see you both of you. paul, i m going to start with you. what s your assessment of the president s first year in office? i think he had a great first year. he d had a terrible last couple of weeks. if you put together the recovery act for covid and the bipartisan infrastructure that s over $3 trillion on spending on things most americans think we need, saving the economy, rebuilding our roads and bridges. i think what he needs to do now is the first year was about legislating. the second year needs to be about leading. hand-off the legislative matters to your vice president who s an experienced senator, your staff who s got a lot of talent. he needs to go out in the
and restore the social safety net in this country. and he he went big. and he went big to try to reverse 30 years of neglect. you know what? and he didn t have the votes. and, you know, in washington just trying you know, you don t get credit for just trying. you get credit for winning. but i think if you look at what he was trying to do, i don t think it was drifting to the left or trying to appeal to the moderates. it was about taking on a really big problem and trying to solve it at once, which, you know, it just doesn t happen very much in washington these days. thank you, joe. thank you, paul, i appreciate it. thanks, don. further lawmakers sounding the alarm over a new bill pushed by ron desantis plus a stunning undersea discovery right off the coast of tahiti. gorgeous.
today and said sir, what you go through, no president has ever dpoen through and it s so bad for your country. it should never be allowed what s happened to this president. in the last week since the story broke, the president has tweeted or retweeted about this stand more than 100 times. the latest cover of time depicts the president painting himself into a corner, seemingly unaware until it s too late. joining us now, former clinton white house press secretary. joe lock heart. the new york times did a look back on how the clinton white house faced impeachment including the strategy by his chief of staff. a water cooler discussion about the monica scandal and i will quote break your neck, he recalled telling staffers using an expletive.