booster shot? is it because the numbers of fully vaccinated americans would suddenly look a lot less no, it s not that at all. this has become clearer and clearer and every time i speak, if i say, if you ve been vaccinated, get your booster shots. everybody get the booster shot. it s the optimum protection you can have. you re protected very well with two shots. if it s the pfizer, anyway, you re protected. but you are better protected with the booster shot. the definition right now. i am following what the, the answer is yes. get the booster shot. it s all part of the same thing. you re better protected. okay. alex. reuters. thank you, mr. president. i wanted to follow up briefly on a question asked by bloomberg.
get covid-19 under control. i have long said it has never been a good bet to bet against the american people or america. i believe that more than ever today. we have seen the grit, and determine nation of the american people this past year. but the best days of this country are still ahead of us, not behind us. now i am happy to take questions. yes. thank you, mr. president. i know some of my colleagues will get into specific issues. i wanted to zoom out into your first year in office. inflation is up, your signature legislation is stalled in congress. in a few hours from now an effort in the senate to deal with voting rights and voting reform legislation is going to fail. covid-19 is still taking the lives of 1500 americans every day and the nation s divisions are just as raw as they were a year ago. did you overpromise to the american public what you could achieve during your first year in office?
0 of your second, third, and fourth years? ashley? when you gave thattors forceful speech about voting rights in atlanta you conveyed it as being on the right side of history. my question, does president biden believe those people who voted against the filibuster to open up debate on voting rates, are they racist? joe, quickly to you. american consumers are hurting so much. what additional measures are you prepared to take to curve inflation and bring it down. that does it for us. thanks to all of you for watching. deadline: white house picks up our special coverage here on msnbc now. se picks up our special coverage here on msnbc now. hi there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york. we are less than two minutes away from president biden s news conference. just his second solo domestic news conference as president. this marks the official ends of his first year in office. the white house today setting the stage for what they are describing as a reset moment, an opportunity to
0 to talk about going. we re continuing to provide for defense capacities to the ukrainians. we re talking about what s going on in both the baltic and the black sea, et cetera. there s a whole range of things that i m sure he s trying to calculate how quickly he can do what he wants to do and what does he want to do. but i he s not he s an informed individual, and i m sure not sure. i believe he s calculating what the immediate short-term and the near-term and the long-term consequences of russia will be. and i don t think he s made up his mind yet. i want to ask you about your domestic agenda. you ve gotten a lot of questions about voting rights, mr. president, but i want to ask you about black voters. one of your most loyal constituencies. yep. i was in congressman clyburn s district yesterday in south carolina. you opened this news conference talking about him. i spoke to a number of black voters who fought to get you elected, and now they feel as though you re not figh
ali vitali and dr.er win redlinger. he advises us on public health and professor of pediatrics at albert einstein college of medicine in his spare time, but, ali, nation turns its lonely eyes to you. remember please your host is a bit slow so without any acronyms or use of the word reconciliation, i m begging you to explain what we re witnessing go on in the house tonight, what it will result in and what it will give to americans. well, brian, i ll leave our beloved biff tag line on the hill. it is the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the senate now working its way through the house after many hours and much frustration in anticipation of this moment. what we ve seen in the last half hour really is the coalescing of