one. it is fitting for democrats to hand out masks made in the same place the virus originated and congressman murphy saying speaker pelosi fails to recognize senseless optics of her own decision-making. president biden with a joke when reporters press him over testing problems and broken promises. most americans will get covid at some point. folks, we ll talk about that later. come on. in your press conference, we look forward to that. me, too. carley: joe concha is here to react. joe, what did you make of the president s speech yesterday and that answer from the president about a press conference? joe: par for the course, what else can you say? the president has not had a formal press conference in more than 10 weeks and when you think about everything that happened, carley and todd, as far as build
calling foul. when you have a leader overstep their authority especially in a time of crisis that s when you break this country. and to pile on some of the testing problems the food and drug administration just came out yesterday announcing they are not confident with those antigen tests, the rapid antigen tests you swab your nose and get results in 15 or 20 minutes. according to the fda those tests are less sensitive and not as effective in detecting omicron. trace. confusion abounds. thank you. for more on this let s bring in former clinton white house special assistant bennett and jason meister. thank you both. listening the whole concept you have a lot of democrats really disappointed in this disastrous messaging. then you have some democrats saying the g.o.p. is blowing it out of proportion. the truth is they are not.
a fierce debate between businesses and unions. david, we begin with you. jackie, good afternoon to you. there s been talk recently of testing problems. no question about that. people are waiting in line hours to get a test. today the administration mentioned national guard troops helping out with testing. that brings people back to the early days of 2020. people don t want to hear the terms together. however, the administration asserting that they have a strong plan to deal with testing after people are waiting in line. administration officials announced a plan, 13,000 national guard troops helping in covid related issues in 48 starts. testing is a serious problem with people waiting not just one or two hours or three or four, sometimes five or six hours to get a simple test. the president himself just two days ago admitted his team is
the truth because number one and number two is an unsustainable position for the white house. now you have the biden administration looking like they are trying to be in control by adopting a position which is they had no idea that this was going to be as bad as it was while their poll numbers are sink and while the american people, who elected joe biden, who put him in office based on the fact that they were going to get this virus under control, now has testing problems as you ve been talking about, they have control problems, and everything they promised the american people is actually not only not happening but it s in worse shape than it was when they took over. dana: president biden yesterday got quite defensive when he was asked about the problems of getting tests to americans. they are going to send 500 million tests in mid-january, which doesn t help anybody right before the holidays, reince. no, it doesn t help.