unfortunately georgian, let s take a look. the problem is that joe biden has not a good agenda. you know, when he came in, people were talking as though he would be the next fdr or l.bj but he didn t have fdr or lbj majorities. now what s the most common met for used? it s jimmy cart earth. jimmy carter is a synonym for haplessness with inflation. i think afghanistan was particularly brutal because it is not a right or left thing. i think a lot of people just have the impression that the job is too big for joe biden. he s not up to it. todd: did you guys hear a common theme between what we all said and what bill mcgurn said and the new york times said and what seems to be the underlying premise. this is no longer a democrat vs. republican thing. when it comes to the people that are in society, when it comes to the people that are in congress, yes, it s partisan and they are going to stick with their guy,
is the border czar who tries to stay as far away from the border as she can. and in some sense i don t blame her. the vice president is supposed to be the chief salesman for the president s agenda. and the problem is that joe biden has not a good agenda. you know, when he came in, people were talking as though he would be the next fdr or lbj, but he didn t have fdr or lbj majorities. so now what s the most common met for used? jimmy carter. jimmy carter is synonym for haplessness you know with inflation. and i think afghanistan was particularly brutal because it s not a right or left thing. i think a lot of people just have the impression that the job is too big for joe biden. he is not up to it. mike: obviously the year ended on capitol hill not able to get the build back better act across the finish line. house speaker nancy pelosi says they are still going to try to get it done in 2022. let s play it. first and foremost, we
it s a great question, obviously as you said in the, opening it was not what they would ve liked. when nancy pelosi said there s gonna be a vote of money, there was not a vote on monday. then she said there be a vote on, thursday there was not a vote on thursday. they re supposed to be a vote on friday. there is not a vote on friday. because in fact they don t have the votes, and this is the fundamental tension here between the great aspirations of the democratic party, and the constrain majorities they have actually have to work. with president biden was quoted today is telling the democrats in that meeting, that they have fdr in lbj like ambitions, but they don t have lbj or lbj majorities. they literally cannot spare a single democrat. you have a 50 vote caucus, as the majority in the senate, we are lying on a tie breaking vote a vice president. it means the one senator is most reluctant to go along with your agenda, gets to control how far you are able to go. that s just the real
transformative terms like f.d.r., like lyndon johnson with the great society and the new deal. the problem is he doesn t have roosevelt or l.b.j. majorities. a three-vote margin in the house and a zero vote margin in the house and yet trying to pass sweeping huge spending. that s a lot harder to do when you have literally no vote margin. you can t lose a single vote in the senate and three in the house. as a result, you have in the house progressives saying, you know, we re not going for this. they can block the infrastructure bill and then in the senate you have people like joe manchin and krysten sinema that can block you can see the president and speaker pelosi. we re catching a glimpse of him. stand by. obviously a big moment. nancy pelosi walking side by
0 will 700,000 the president paused and held memorial, how does he intend to mark this next terrible mile stone and what the president said many times, he feels incredible responsibility for everything happening in the country, including our fight and battle with covid-19. that s why he is focused on this. his number 1 priority since the first day he came into office. i note that we saved according to outside experts tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives because of the actions his administration took including at this point we re 77, 78% of the public having received one vaccine. obviously we ll take a moment to pause when we hit 700,000 that is a striking horrifying number of lives lost to a pandemic. people that lost loved ones, parents, grandparents, children and many cases. in terms of what the president will do, we ll have to get back to you when we have more on that. go ahead. is it the president s way of saying enough is enough? he s going to make the case