the line began at 5:30 a.m. the fact that we are 22 months into thing and we still don t have the infrastructure for proper testing is an american scandal. just before christmas, david mueller of abc news asked the president why the white house wasn t better prepared for the omicron surge. how did you get it wrong? how did we get it wrong? nobody saw it coming. nobody in the whole world. who saw it coming? that is just not true. we ve been talking about variants for months and months. we ve been talking about how european countries send their citizens free tests at home for months and months. biden now has ordered over half a billion at-home kits to be made available to americans, and according to vanity fair, the white house was pitched a proposal to roll out free rapid testing for the holidays back in october, but the proposal was
not participants, not people who are in charge of this. people inside their coalition like julian castro have come out strongly against them. a decade ago you could try to triangulate between the two parties, get some credit from republicans, get some criticism from the democrats on the right, joe biden is getting no credit for this so there are no easy answers here, no easy solutions and the white house is stuck in the middle with no refuge or place to go and they still have to manage the border. and there are questions about why after four years of donald trump s demagoguery around immigration, why the biden administration wasn t better prepared for all of this it s a great question, especially when biden was elected on this promise of competency, of experience. the idea that you can forget the president existed because he knew the government was in good hands. then we see images of this and that cuts to the heart of that there has been a lot of tension inside his own coalition b
stephanie ramos live at the white house tonight. stephanie, we know reaction pouring from capitol hill, democrats and republicans. we know the senate intel chair calling the images coming out of afghanistan, devastating, sand saying it is time to ask questions about why the u.s. wasn t better prepared. and the republican minority leader go much further tonight. reporter: mitch mcconnell said today he s argued with previous presidents about troop withdrawal before but he had this to say about biden s decision. i think the president felt strongly about this obviously. he overruled his own military leaders to do it and he owns it. david? stephanie ramos live at the white house tonight. stephanie, thank you. one of the most painful consequences, the thousands of afghans who did help the u.s. over the 20-year war, hoping to get out, but now fearing they ve been left behind. martha raddatz tonight, who recently traveled to afghanis afghanistan, this evening, you will hear from the af
it was obviously something she prepared for and she delivered very well. she used her personal story and o incredibly effectively. i was surprised the vice president wasn t better prepared given this was a story over a week ago. in the exchange yesterday, he responded today and i do think most people think he has a record on civil rights and he will have to articulate that case as the debate goes on, but i thought kamala harris was incredibly effective. she has been making the case that she can prosecute trump. yesterday she demonstrated that she can prosecute trump. listen to what joe biden said today about what he and the obama administration did in areas of concern. the kind of thing you would have expected him to try to say last night. he was talking about with the
for the daily beast and president and ceo of voter latino and msnbc contributor. as the only one who worked on a presidential campaign working on hillary clinton s last campaign, i want to get your reaction to the exchange. i did debate prep for hillary clinton in her primaries 12 years ago. i thought senator harris had a surgical strike. it was obviously something she prepared for and she delivered very well. she used her personal story and o incredibly effectively. i was surprised the vice president wasn t better prepared given this was a story over a week ago. in the exchange yesterday, he responded today and i do think most people think he has a record on civil rights and he will have to articulate that case as the debate goes on, but i thought kamala harris was