wages on the rise, the strongest gdp that s the strongest economic growth in decades as it bounces back. the economy bounces back from the pandemic. and the stock market breaking record after record last year. and that huge infrastructure bill passed in a deeply divided congress. here to join us, cnn political commentator and former clinton white house press secretary, joe lockhart. joe, so nice to have you this morning. you are the perfect guest to have on a morning like this. you saw us just layout some of the major challenges facing this white house, and that was only on the economy really. we didn t even touch on covid, a possible invasion of ukraine. i mean, he s got a lot on his plate. if you were prepping president biden for today s news conference, what would you advise him he needs to do? what s his message need to be? well, i think he needs to do two things. and i think christine touched on it. he does have to talk about what he s done over the last year. there are some
president. putting aside how great their legal advice was, don t they have a better claim to attorney/client privilege? it does complicate things. it s not entirely clear whether the attorney/client privilege applies in congressional investigations, but certainly i think they re going to claim it and that will slow things down because if the committee doesn t accept it, likely these folks will file in court to quash the subpoenas. so it does complicate matters ultimately, especially given the crime fraud exception you can t claim privilege where there is a crime or fraud involved in the communications. it s probably not going to carry the day, but unfortunately they will claim it and it will take time to sort it out. jennifer rodgers, legal analyst. so night nice to see you with all these legal news. thank you. thanks. thank you. the white house official says the biden administration is making 400 million n95 masks available to the public for free beginning next week. free ma
is. do you think that s the right strategy going forward this year? does he need to be more aggressive? well, there s two points there. i think he has to put in context things like oil prices. oil prices are at, i don t know, seven-year high or something because of world tensions. i ll prices has a lot more to do with what s going on in ukraine than what s going on in our economy. he just has to explain that to people. on the second point, yes, he has to be more aggressive. he has tried over the first year to work with republicans. they have refused to work with him. there is not a single policy proposal that s come out of the republican party. mitch mcconnell has said we re not going to do anything. we re going to make trouble for biden. he has to change tack, which i think he ll do. go after republicans, make them pay a political price for their obstructionism, and probably most importantly, politically, he s got to motivate democrats to get out and vote in the midterms, otherwise
geneva. and the russians say they want those as fast as possible. the other thing dmitry peskov said, the meeting with secretary of state blinken and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov on friday in geneva, that that is going to be of the utmost importance. he didn t say anything more than that, but he said it will be very important for the russians again. though, russians still making some of those military moves, we do now know and they ve said they ve moved troops into belarus, guys. matthew chance in moscow. thank you. president biden takes questions in his first news conference in months. former secretary joe lockhart stops by to talk about how the president can reset. and britain s boris johnson taking hours two hours from now, in the hot seat about the party scandal. every emergen-c gives you a potent blend of nutrients
reframe the agenda for the next three to six months. i think the republicans have done a pretty good job lately of framing that agenda. he s got to grab that back and talk about what he wants to get done and how he should be measured. one lawmaker in our excellent washington reporting noted it is unfortunate biden s first year is ending with what he didn t get done instead of what he has gotten done. roll it out for me. either your message is wrong or your approach is wrong. something is wrong. can i tell you something, though? something feels a little bit like it did in the obama administration when they were having these successes with stimulus, and they tried to say, no, look at what s right, they were called tone deaf and hauty. how do you talk about what s going right and not appear tone deaf? well, some of this is a disconnect. a disconnect between what happens within washington, within the media and pundit