president biden says he believes that s because of how terribly russia is doing on the battlefield. he used the word underperforming, how he believes the setbacks, humiliating and the draft that putin put in place is all factoring into this. it seems to be causing a real sense of concern for president biden tonight who said he believes the world is the closest it has been to the potential nuclear catastrophe since the 1960s. since the cuban missile crisis, of course, we are coming up on the anniversary of that quite soon. president biden said tonight we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. he is talking about putin. a guy we know fairly well, he is not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military is, as you might say, significantly underperforming. he made clear, don, washington is trying to figure out what putin s end game is going to be, what h
no trickle-down effect here. just the increase to the child tax credit alone will lift millions of children out of poverty and cut the child poverty rate nearly in half. because of this bill, some experts expect the economy to grow by more than 6% this year and add 7 million jobs, a level of growth, quite frankly, we ve not seen since the 1980s and it will boost the income of the poorest americans by an average 206%. given all that, it s important to remember that zero republicans reported this legislation. that s not stopping them from attempted to take credit. senate republicans led the bipartisan cares alkt that got us through the last year. the american people have built a parade marching toward victory. democrats want to sprint in front of the parade and claim credit. it s remarkable legislation. unfortunately republicans, as i say, you know, vote no and take the dough. you see already some of them claiming this is a good thing, this is a good thing, but they couldn
analyst and senior correspondent at the grio. natasha, we ended our last segment with you talking about we were talking about the issue of equity, the biden administration, and one of the things that i think they point to regularly put the first black woman on the supreme court and that is progress, that s them saying they are delivering on that agenda promise. this is a supreme court which they don t control but i think the idea of affirmative action being front and center now, everything that joan just said, and you made the point of the issues the administration may not be getting at are the ones that touch people s day-to-day lives. this one of those issues that connects whether you are for it or against it. what s your sense how this plays out? it s a huge issue. we have seen the experiment of this before in california in 1996, affirmative action was taken away from public universities and within a year you saw 50% drop in black and hispanic students going to these
go back to the issues that the voters of georgia are concerned with. so this does not continue to pop up. but the more he does interviews, it seems it peels back another layer and another layer and another layer and we are still talking about this as opposed to him getting back on message, which i think could help him. did you have any idea? because if you played the length of that, that was probably only two minutes that he took questions and kept saying, no, no, no, and when they ask him specifics he would say we are going to win this seat, playing to the crowd of supporters there, or i love my son, which was not an answer to any of this. it was a word salad. did you understand anything? did he convince you of anything? it felt familiar. i do agree it s a similar approach. it s a similar strategy to deflect, to deny, and even dismiss this even matters. but i look at it a little bit differently and that s because at the grio we serve african american readers and voters and ach o