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Long-term consequences. and you can extend that analogy into this political season. he s at an inflection point in the presidency where a lot of the things they ve been assembling over the first seven months are now going to be in a proving ground. and this is the time when you re going to hear him start to say things in private and in public. you know, you earlier mentioned, don, joe manchin. there s no more important relationship right now than there is between joe biden and joe manchin. you re not likely to hear much in public of joe biden pressuring the senator from west virginia. but in private that s one of the people he needs. this is sort of all of the 50 years of political practice that joe biden s been working on about finally coming to joe manchin and saying this is the moment. i had a conversation with manchin earlier in the year about their relationship. and manchin said, look, the truth is i want joe biden to be a successful president. and he said if he appeals to me dire ....
Thursday. and even though the current spike is because of the unvaccinated, it s happening on his watch. do you think the president is frustrated by the resistance to the public health efforts? no question about it. look, i think if you could talk to him candidly about the one piece of our current reality that he didn t anticipate is the degree to which people even now as far into the pandemic as we are with life-saving vaccines available would still find themselves resisting for these reasons of, you know, abstract political commitments or sort of this vague sense of hesitation despite all of the things we ve heard, all the evidence we ve seen on the ground about the difference between being vaccinated and being unvaccinated. but i think one of the things we re approaching now is the point at which this didn t even though this is happening on his watch and he now has to be the one that s taking responsibility for it, he s also contending with a set of political facts that didn t h ....
I m reminded of the fact, don, that trust in government, which is really sort of one of the dimensions of this vaccine issue, has been eroding for decades. long before joe biden was in the presidency. in 1964, 88% of americans said they trusted the government. today it s down to 18%. he has to try to rebuild that confidence in a hurry. and that means talking about things like infrastructure. trying to show things on the ground, put some realistic demonstrations about government can work for you and begin to rebuild some of that confidence. and he has to do it in a hurry. he s going to have to do the real thing, the stuff that people care about. and it doesn t listen, the right-wing media and the joe biden haters can say what they want. right? that s just rhetoric. but he s going to have to really, dana, have some accomplishments in order to get people to continue to support his presidency and his initiative as well. and listen, the fight over voting rights is also becoming a defini ....
See you. love you. love you, too. we got a lot to cover. this is don lemon tonight. thank you so much for joining us. and you know what? and welcome back to everyone. this is a crucial moment for president joe biden. it really is. he s facing one huge challenge after another at home and in the wake of the end of america s longest war and the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan, the pandemic and the u.s. passing 40 million cases, 40 million cases. the aftermath of hurricane ida as well. 22 people dead in the gulf and at least 52 in the northeast. and flash floods and tornadoes. a dramatic picture showing how the climate crisis is ravaging america s aging infrastructure. big picture, okay? a lot is riding on president joe biden showing he can manage all these crises at once. and one of the biggest challenges that he faces is covid really. the president planning to lay ....
Ron klain on sunday, who said if i had a dime for every time somebody told us that this infrastructure or any kind of bit of this agenda was going to be stopped i d be a very rich man. but then he went on to talk about the ways that he thinks that joe manchin is persuadable. all of which had to do with ways to pay for the very large price tag that joe biden and the democratic leaders have for this this is just the so-called reconciliation piece that we re talk about of course but it has a lot of the biden agenda in it. and a lot of what klain was saying in terms of paying for this were about new taxes. and it s really unclear whether joe manchin or not just him but other moderate democrats who don t put themselves out there, they don t write op edds like manchin does but some of them are just as reluctant because they re on the ballot in purple states. evan, the president is set to give this major speech in the next phases of the pandemic on ....