brutal lockdown but will newfound freedoms last? let s go outfront. good evening, everyone, i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett, several developments in the investigation of the school massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead. texas officials tonight revealing the incident commander during that shooting, pete aradondo is now not repeating to investigator s request for a follow up interview, this comes aztecsous department of public safety tonight confirms the elementary school teacher who propped open the door right before the attack did in fact close it before the gunman entered. the teacher initially propped open the door with a rock then ran back inside to get her phone when the gunman crashed his truck and according to the official, she then removed the rock, closed the door, it just didn t lock and now investigators are looking into why. this information is not what police originally said during their press conference on friday. we know from video evid
invasion of ukraine, very very difficult to impossible and that s why secretary yellin got it wrong. except, mark, it was during the pandemic that they kept using the word transitory over and over again. well remember, poppy, look, remember back a year ago, a year ago now, we thought the pandemic was over. we had the vaccines that had been rolled out and you remember the president gave a speech on july 4th, go enjoy your holiday with your family. so we all thought the pandemic was over but it wasn t obviously, the delta wave hit soon thereafter. paul this comes not at a great time for the white house, the president, other democrats. a new gallop poll shows just fraentd 14% of americans think economy is in good shape, more than 3/4 of americans think the economy is getting worse. after the latest cnn poll found 60% of the americans said the economy is their most important issue. i mean you cannot sugar coat those numbers. how much time is left for
things. he got elected on the economy and covid and he needs to be seen being effective and active on these everyone use and these are meta forces beyond the control any president. we kind of assume that presidents can control everything. they can t. right, but they are held accountable for everything. he needs to be seen as working on those issues and then quietly win what legislative victories he can instead of setting deadlines that get passed and goals they can t achieve. number one is the larger issue, the covid exhaustion. the president ran a campaign. presidents get too much criticism when things go wrong and too much credit when things go wrong. sometimes especially in a pandemic or the economy that no president can control and he did say i m not donald trump. we will put science first. we will fix this happened did give a speech on july 4th that was incredibly optimistic about where we were with covid. you know joe biden well. he has this irish optimism, if you will, that s
see a limited number of options, i think, on the table politically for an administration because the country is not going to go back into lockdown. it can t happen. it makes very hard, i think, for a white house to navigate. this is a giant leadership challenge. very different. you have a president with a public health team that does share information with the american people that does talk about, you know, the data, does not try to hide the data and keep people from talking. it is very different from the trump administration. he did give a speech on july 4th that was overly optimistic about what would come next. you can criticize him for that. he s going into a new year where we know we have seen it in the last couple of days and we know how exponential math works. look where you are now in new york city, especially among the unvaccinated, but among everybody, omicron cases, the delta surge already. the combination of those two things, when we get to early january, all the smart peo
almost taboo to talk about this. you just pointed at the button that i think a lot of people didn t expect was the civil rights. he tried to touch on every american. he really did, aside from those who didn t like anything he had to say because anything that comes out of his mouth they have an issue with. people kept calling this a trump rally going into it. it could not have been more patriotic. more about america. people still have a problem with it. i m going to be subtle i hated it. that s what he said he hafted it because he said it focused too much on the military and not enough on american ideals. guess what we have american ideals because of the military. that s why we have american ideals. nicole: okay guys because he gives a speech on july 4th that does not equate to a campaign rally. that s one of the benefits of being an incumbent. you have access to the people. what did he do? he didn t speak about