handle that, instead going out in the country talking about what they are doing and what they have done. it will be a shift. phil, thank you. joining us now is david axelrod, correspondent abby phillip, and sky jennings. does that make sense to you, the difference between being a president and a senator/president? it does make sense. joe biden is the person who pines for his time in the senate. he wants to be in there. he thinks of himself as a deal maker, and when things don t go well, he gets blamed for it. people say things like president manchin is the one really making decisions here. i don t think that s a good optician for the white house, and they re trying to, you know, take that back a little bit. i think they realize that biden needs to go back to the bide than he ran on in terms of
phil, thank you. joining us now is david axelrod, correspondent abby phillip, and brian jennings. does that make sense to you, the difference between being a president and a senator/president? it does make sense. joe biden is the person who pines for his time in the senate. he wants to be in there. he thinks of himself as a deal maker, and when things don t go well, he gets blamed for it. people say things like president manchin is the one really making decisions here. i don t think that s a good optician for the white house, and they re trying to, you know, take that back a little bit. i think they realize that biden needs to go back to the bide than he ran on in terms of people felt like he was a decent guy. a guy who understood them.
glass half empty side. infections are still very high. we are still roughly getting on to 60,000, 70,000 cases a day. higher than at any other point in the winter, any point last summer, higher than at any point last spring. still high levels of infection. there are some concerns about things like this new variant of a variant called baa two of omicron, spreading more quickly, so there are concerns. some scientists are worried about this, but this is really a question for politicians rather than scientists, weighing up these two risks and decide what they want to do. ads, bit decide what they want to do. a bit short time. decide what they want to do. a bit short time. so decide what they want to do. a bit short time, so apologies if we cannot read your question, but i to pick up on valerie s question, she says, will i risk acting covid from a list of people here, a doctor, nurse, dentist, optician, care worker or teacher because they will be able to go to work with covid,
the state department is urging all-americans to leave ukraine but not everybody can. james burke is an optician from montclair, new jersey, living in ukraine with his wife and baby daughter. despite the threat of a full scale war, burke says he s staying put. he joins us from ukraine this morning. james, so nice to have you on early start. really appreciate you coming on. good morning. so why is staying in ukraine the right decision for your family? you obviously have a young child. you have a wife. just explain to our viewers, what is your situation? i guess there s a few reasons but the main ones are that my wife as a ukrainian national, she needs a visa to even enter america even as a tourist so with the embassy closed, we d have to leave the country and go to poland. it will be too much to ask our young daughter to make that