to entrust our security, our safety and that of the rest of the free world and beyond with a man who is so impettuous, so subject to rage in a moment s notice? i don t think we want to entrust that. but there are things that we can do. there are thaefrts we can make to make sure that the chain of command really remains intact, that no one president has the sole authority to put in place a command that could be carried out to the world s detriment. right. that is the concern, that is the fear is that trump could have put generals that he wanted in place to try to control the military. and that is how close we got. but that is all the time we have. so we ll continue this discussion. all right. coming up you re looking at live pictures of president biden on the ground in cincinnati, ohio, as he sells his agenda ahead of his exclusive cnn town hall. plus, we re seeing a remarkable shift toward the covid vaccine from influential conservatives.
afghanistan. and the signature piece of the domestic agenda, the jobs and infrastructure plan is teetering. white house officials concede the coming weeks hold the cards to the future of the president s agenda before the midterm elections consume washington and make deals even harder to reach. a senior biden adviser telling cnn the clock is running, we all know that, the president certainly knows that. tonight biden will appear on stage at mount st. joseph university taking questions from ohio voters on those topics and more. here in cincinnati, like many parts of the country, infrastructure is a critical issue. this bridge which crosses the ohio river on one of the busiest trucking routes in the country, has long been labeled functionally obsolete. it s an unfilled promise of the obama and trump administrations. biden hopes not to fall short. i think we re on the verge of maybe being able to get something really done. rebuilding roads and bridges. reporter: protecting voting right
infrastructure package that they re currently negotiating. that big reconciliation package, the $3.5 trillion jobs plan, that can be passed without any republican support whatsoever. so even if there is some bleeding into the conversations between republicans and democrats over this partisan rancor over january 6th, it really doesn t have anything to do with the broader biden agenda. could it hang over the conversation? is it something that a lot of these members are going to be forced to answer questions about because it s going to dominate a lot of the headlines? that s for sure. but there s no reason that the democrats can t get the work they need to get done whether or not this committee moves forward as planned. and president biden just faced a setback on infrastructure. it may be temporary, but other efforts on the hill are stalled. he s facing this covid resurgence. how do you expect him to address all of these hurtles tonight at the town hall? he has a lot to answer for at th
doubts pleaded this week for his viewers to take the virus seriously and said this about the vaccine. it makes sense for many americans to get vaccinated. i believe in science. i believe in the science of vaccination. reporter: what s behind the shift for those that have been skeptical. if you re a politician in state facing re-election in 2022 or perhaps a very strong candidate for the republican nomination for president in 2024, it is imperative you re on the right side of this issue. reporter: could it help president biden in his quest to get more americans vaccinated. if you re trying to reach american who is take their cues from different political leaders, republican political leaders and that message is consistently take the vaccine, it can save your life, it could have an impact. reporter: not every conservative have gotten the memo. this week twitter briefly suspended the account of marjorie taylor greene for misinformation about the dangers of coronavirus vaccine.
will be questioning the president here tonight. president biden arriving in cincinnati tonight for a cnn town hall meeting. as the white house urgently tries to sell its domestic agenda. there s nothing that america is unable to do when we do it together. but it congress, both sides are far from together. that divide was on full display again today as senate republicans voted against the president s bipartisan infrastructure plan in a key test vote. so who s playing games? raising questions about whether a deal can still be reached before democrats try passing a bill on their own. which is complicated in its own right. we all want the same thing here, to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill. but in order to finish the bill, we first need to start. reporter: at the six-month mark of biden s presidency, the list of challenges facing the administration is daunting. covid cases are spiking with the delta variant. inflation is up. border crossings are rising. the taliban is tak