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according to almost every poll from gallup to reuters and everything in between, approval for joe biden has dropped significantly in the last year. just today, rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll showed 58% of americans disapprove of joe biden s performance as president. according to our recent pbs poll, a meager 29% of independents approve of joe biden. you d be hard-pressed to find a majority of any demographic group that thinks joe biden is doing a good job. even cnn recently conceded that biden s low poll numbers are not an exception for biden at this point but rather the rule. it s hard to say on any given day of joe biden is aware of his low poll numbers. on some days, he doesn t seem to even know he s the president. but on the rare day joe biden is mentally present, poll numbers are in something he pays attention to. how much do you pay attention to approval ratings? not anymore. [laughter] not joking. [applause] i was checking in the mid 60s, not th ....
look, there is federal solution. it s all state level, i m looking at governors on the board here. he talks about it a lot. it ultimately gets down to where the rubber meets the road. gregg: and other words, there was no plan and there never was a plan. three months ago, the white house ignored top public health experts and turned down a proposal to add get this more than 730 million at home covid a tests to the marketplace each month. that recording to a report in vanity fair and in the middle of another search, covid tests are in short supply, i wonder why. journalists in the mainstream media are in full on panic mode. take a look. covid could not stop christmas but here we are again. the holiday season overshadowed by the pandemic that just won t go away. this time with the fear things may actually be getting worse. omicron is sweeping the country and becoming the dominant covid strain in just a matter of days. smashing hopes for a return of normal anytim ....
growing pressure to deliver with many people having to wait for hours to get tested during the holiday rush. now after promising to distribute tests the president wishes he had done it two months ago. rich edson starts our coverage live at the white house this morning. good morning, rich. good morning, julie. the white house is trying to get those tests out some 500 million of them where americans will ideally be able to go online early next month, order them, get them delivered to their homes. they still have to get the contracts signed and get all those tests out. this was the omicron variant arriving just in time for the holidays. americans have waited hours in line for covid tests, face shortages of at-home kits. president biden said last week his administration should have implemented a more aggressive testing strategy two months ago. the federal government needed to insure enough tests so anyone getting together for the holidays could have tested beforehand. u ....
clung to power. the times describes, quote, a half dozen right-wing members of congress who became key foot soldiers in trump s effort to overturn the election, according to dozens of interviews and a review of hundreds of pages of congressional testimony about the attack on the capitol on january 6th. those lawmakers jim jordan, andy biggs, paul gosar, louies gohmert, mo brooks, and scott perry. some of the most vocal advocates for the big lie, but thanks to the times reporting, we know extent of their behind-the-scenes efforts to undermine democracy, as well. here s more from the reporting, quote, the circle moved well beyond words and into action. they bombarded the justice department with dubious claims of voting irregularities. they pressured members of state legislatures to conduct audits that would cast doubt on the election results. they plotted to disrupt the certification on january 6th of joseph biden s victory. there s clear evidence in the hand of con ....
disaster declaration for kentucky and directing federal resources to help the hardest-hit state. the fema director and dhs secretary will assess the damage on the ground. they ll be joining governor beshear for an update in just a couple of hours this afternoon. this comes as recovery efforts are underway across kentucky where more than a hundred people are believed to be dead. crews are digging through the rubble of a collapsed candle factory where dozens of people remain unaccounted for. this thing is like something we ve just never seen before, the level of devastation. when it hit a house, it didn t tear the roof off, it destroyed every single bit of those homes. we ve got entire towns wiped out. the candle factory in mayfield. 110 people working in it when it hit, and we ve been able to rescue 40. but it s been about 27 hours since we ve rescued a live person. and that was even a couple of hours ago. also in illinois, six people died at an amazon warehouse to ....