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and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news. we are standing by for a vote to break the filibuster that has been holding up president biden s agenda. that vote is expected to take place tonight, this hour, on the senate floor that you are seeing live. and that vote is expected to fail. this pivotal moment like i said expected to happen this hour. live and prime time. coming as president biden just wrapped up a news conference for about two hours to mark one year in office. tomorrow will mark one year since i took office. it s been a year of challenges but it s also been a year of enormous progress. his presidency depends on if the american people listen to what he said over two hours, and believed what he said about enormous progress because biden today trying to reset his presidency with that live question-and-answer session. because right now, polls show almost two-thirds of americans think the united states is on the wrong track. that ....
and cnn s latest poll of polls, it is a low outmatched in modern times only by the former president. the figure reflects his his decisions on covid, shortages, inflation, and more broadly speaking, it speaks to a question president biden was asked this evening when he spoke to reporters in the east room does he now, after a year on the job, think he overpromised on what he could accomplish when taking office? the fact of the matter is that we re in a situation where we have made enormous progress the number of deaths from covid. it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down. everything s changing. it s getting better. i did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that president biden didn t get anything done. think about this. what are republicans for? what are they for? name me one thing they re for. well, the president came back to that theme over and over, again, hitting republicans o ....
we have made enormous progress, you mentioned the number of deaths from covid. it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down. everything s changing. it s getting better. i did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that president biden didn t get anything done. think about this. what are republicans for? what are they for? name me one thing they re for. well, the president came back to that theme over and over, again, hitting republicans on what he says is their lack of policy or vision beyond just standing in his way. he did acknowledge that his signature build back better legislation was unlikely to pass, as is. but he was optimistic it seems about getting major pieces of it done this year. as for the package of voting reforms on the line tonight, he expressed hope of salvaging major portions of it as well and expressed confidence in his point person on it. you put vice president harris in ....
we are going to get to that and appreciate it. i will see you friday, as you said, not tomorrow. thank you. this is don lemon tonight and that is our breaking news. senate republicans, again, blocking voting rights ledge legislation puts forward by democrats. they are going to vote any minute now on the nuclear option as we look at mitch mcconnell now on the senate floor changing the filibuster to allow the legislation to pass with a simple majority. also, all but certain to fail due to the objections of two democrats. talking about manchin and sinema. and all of that comes in the wake of president biden s nearly two hour long news conference today. did you watch it? it was a long news conference. what i want to do here is really take a clearer look at what we saw today. what we actually saw and heard, and how it comes across. okay? so, let s use common sense to to take a good look at this, and i am going to give it to you straight here. just the facts. no conserv ....
next elections would be legitimate. the most immediate concern for the white house this morning is clearly ukraine. and the president s comments come at a tipping point in that region as russia nearly completes its buildup of forces along the ukrainian border, an invasion biden suggests is all but inevitable. russia will be held accountable if it invades. it s one thing if it is a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do or not do, et cetera. but if they actually do with their what they re capable of doing with force amassed on the border, it will be a force for russia. my guess is he will move in. he thats to do something. less than an hour later, the white house trying to clean up the remarks saying in a statement, president biden has been clear with the russian president. if any russian military forces move across the ukrainian border, that s a renewed invasion, and it will be met with a swift, severe, and united response from the united s ....