covid. thank you. thank you. i ll take this one question. reporter: are you going to share anything more about the message to senator manchin about why you would like him to [ indiscernible ] . no, look i, i told you when i speak to senators or house members or governors or any other elected official, to try to convince them that what i m proposing makes sense and it s not inconsistent with what they believe, i do that and then i ll discuss it after. okay? thanks for your time. thank you. all right. welcome to meet the press daily . i m garrett haake. we ve been watching president biden answer questions after he was briefed by his emergency response team on the state of the federal response to those tornado disasters that just hammered kentucky and several neighboring states. as you heard him there, the president said he will be visiting kentucky on wednesday. and that the federal government would provide whatever assistance was needed in the region. we ll be spe
much-needed resources to the devastated communities. storms unleashed more than 30 tornados late friday into early saturday, destroying buildings and claiming lives across six states, and one twister, just one, may be responsible for damage along a 250-mile stretch from arkansas to kentucky. officials now fear as many as 80 people may have lost their lives. here in edwardsville, authorities say a recovery effort could take three tase days, as we look at what s left of this amazon warehouse behind me. at least six people died after a tornado just carved through the building. 11-inch concrete walls falling in. the roof collapsing. roughly 45 people made it out, but getting an exact number of how many were in the warehouse at the time has proved difficult. these were shift workers, a lot of people coming and going. rescue and search and cries operations i should say have shifted into search and recovery operations. officials not expecting to find anyone else alive underneath
hayes. supply chains slow down met with the migrants and the white house reaction to it all may be behind the present plumbing job approval numbers which stand at a poultry 37%. what makes a number even worse is the fact that only a small number of the fraction of those surveys were republican. meaning that he is getting failing grades for members of his own party. all of this comes as critics claim his administration for seeming to laugh off the nation s troubles. take a look. if you can t get dishwashers and furniture and treadmills delivered on time, not to mention all sorts of other things. the tragedy of the short treadmill. steve: there s always been two kinds of christmas shoppers. which of all of their list completed by halloween and then if people like me who show up at the mall on christmas eve. if you are in the latter bucket, obviously there s going to be more challenges. do you have plans to visit the border vice president harris: not today. speed throu
the woman tapped to run it is not instilling confidence. bill: she dismissed the hunter biden lap stop story, misleading claims on the steele dossier. mayorkas standing behind her saying the board will focus on security threats and not political speech. there is no question that we could have done a better job in communicating what it does. it does not infringe on civil rights. civil liberties. it is not about speech. it is about the connectivity to violence. that is what we need to address. you know, an individual has the free speech right to spew anti-semitic rhetoric. what they don t have the right to do is take hostages in a synagogue. that s where we get involved. bill: david spunt leads our coverage from there today. good morning to you, david. good morning to you, dana, good morning as well. this new disinformation governance board falls under the department of homeland security and also focuses on disinformation or misinformation, whatever you want to call it,
officials in ukraine say russia has launched its anticipated offensive in the eastern donbas region. the ukrainian military says the new phase began when russian forces tried to break through its defenses along the entire front line, from kharkiv to the north, to donetsk in the south. but some military officials, both in ukraine, and in the west, say the ground is still being set. a ukrainian military official tells the new york times that the offensive will quote activate in the coming days. last week, the u.s. said russia wasn t quite ready to launch the new offensive, because of ongoing logistical problems. here s what the pentagon is saying now. these appear to be chronic difficulties that the rishen military has had, in russian military has had, in terms of logistics and unit cohesion and operational maneuver, and air to ground, all problems they still suffer from and it remains to be seen whether they have quote fixed these problems and are ready to execute in a m