president biden is getting covid relief through the senate and signed. that s where he wants to make his early mark. the biggest reason democrats were intent on wrapping up the trial quickly. while congressional republicans are skeptical about going big the country is largely behind biden s effort, state and local republicans insisting it s badly needed and polls revealing many republican voters want it too. at the same time some other numbers show we may be getting on the right side of the coronavirus. 52 million shots in arms and new cases in hospitalizations are dropping dramatically. all over the country. now if we can only get a handle on those new variants. so we ve got a lot to get to today. i want to bring in kelly o donnell at the white house, garrett haake on capitol hill, monica alba is in west palm beach, florida. also with me today, jake sherman and anna palmer, cofounders of punch bowl news. kelly, i want to start talking about joe biden. how does he plan to
in 2021, biden confirmed what many of us could see during the presidential campaign. he is dekeing. that is not an attack on biden. he is nearly 80 years old. anyone who has watched joe biden can see it. it is a fact we take no pleasure in stating. nobody is happy with the president of the united states trembles over his words or forget where he is. we don t enjoy watching him fall asleep in the middle of an overseas summit. but his decline is hard to ignore. s latest example came just last night in an interview with abc news. joe biden struggled to remember the name of the latest covid variant, omicron. but maybe that is not exactly a surprise since joe biden also told us he didn t even see omicron coming. the vice president said in recent days that you didn t see delta coming, you didn t see omicron coming. how did you get it wrong? [laughs] i didn t get it wrong. nobody saw it coming. nobody in the whole world, who saw it coming? of the omicron variant has b. the wo
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president is putting the onus on the unvaccinated. if you aren t fully vaccinated you have good reason to be concerned. you are at a high risk of getting sick. almost everyone who died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated. unvaccinated. get vaccinated now. it is your patriot duty. we should all be concerned about omicron but not panicked. this is a critical moment. also more tools than we ve ever had before. we re ready. dana: former cdc director robert redfield is moments away with what you need to know. let s begin with peter doocy. they re waking up to tough headlines for the administration. the people in charge are telling us two different things. they can t both be true at the same time. first you have president biden saying this new variant came out of nowhere. president biden: covid is spreading so rapidly if you notice. it just happened almost overnight in the last month. so no. it s not but the alarm bell went off. i don t think anybo