is the most important? is it really tackling the coronavirus and devoting all of the attention to that. is it trying to end up having an historic type of presidency going in for the build back better? and so i m really curious on how, as this reset happens, on a communications level, if there s also an issue reset, too, on what is the most important thing to get done, not only for history, but also for his party, as we head into the midterm elections. i want to bring in one of our colleagues here at nbc news, our political director chuck todd, the moderator of meet the press who is joining us now, along with ashley parker, bureau chief for the washington post and an msnbc contributor. chuck, let me go to you. i should note, you are in atlanta. you have been doing the meet the midterms rollout starting today on meet the press daily. we will be seeing more of it on msnbc news daily. as we look ahead to, if he s on in time 11 minutes from now president biden s news conference, wha
also up in 2022, we need to elect more democrats, and have more than just 50 plus one with the vice president being the 51st vote. we can get to 53 democrats in the senate, we could actually pass this without the addition of senator sinema and manchin. we are a big tent, a big umbrella on the democratic side. there s lots of different voices. so, you know, one of the things that we need to, as we push and change the filibuster rules to restore it, so that we can pass voting rights protection, we should not stop working on the ground to make sure that we do have the voter turnout, so we can elect more democrats to office, so we can eventually pass these laws and protect the right of americans to vote. in my conversations with democrats over i don t know, let s say the past week. we have heard and i continue to hear the blame being placed squarely on the shoulders of republicans here. which we listen, we said at the top of the show, we ll say it again, republicans unanimously oppos
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their very, very slim majority is pass these long-standing democratic priorities of what they ve been wanting to do for years, and sometimes decades. and they re getting some concern, even from some members of their own party, especially the moderates who are facing tough re-election, that they may be need to put some of that aside and focus on the immediate problems that the american people care about, hallie. mark murray, let me go to you on this. and hallie, it s really interesting that leigh ann was just ticking down all the legislative priorities. what i m really going to be fascinated in this news conference is does president biden end up settling on a top priority that he really wants to tackle going into year two? as our colleague, mike memoli has put it, this presidency has been almost a whack-a-mole presidency. trying to stamp out the coronavirus, trying to pass build back better, turning attention to voting rights and dealing with infrastructure, and of course, any kind
about some of that as well today. i have ten seconds left, but i see you nodding? i think kelly really laid it out very well. i mean, the president needs to change his message. i mean, you know, maybe we ll look back later in the year and say, this was a big moment for him, or maybe they weren t able to stop it, but they ve got to do something and they ve got to start somewhere. great to have all of you. thank you. we ll have more coverage, of course, of this coming up in just a couple of minutes, including later this hour, democratic senator tammy duckworth, live with us one on one about what is going down right now on both ends of pennsylvania avenue. i want to get now to some news that s also developing. not just from the white house, but also some news on the former president that could drop at literally any minute. with the national archives set to deliver the first batch of trump white house documents, requested by the january 6th committee. this comes in the middle of th