with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening. we re going to have full coverage of the biden town hall tonight, starting off with symone sanders, the spokesperson for the vice president, joining us. people who didn t catch it, you haven t missed a thing. we ve got it all for you. excellent. thank you. thank you, rachel. the first political trip of the biden presidency was to a state that joe biden and kamala harris won by .6% of a vote. won wisconsin by 20,000 votes out of 3.3 million cast. he is only more popular there now if wisconsin is following the national polling trend that is showing a surge in support for joe biden, 62% of americans now approve of the job joe biden is doing as president. that number is so high that it has to include some trump voters who have been converted to approval of the job joe biden is now doing as president. president biden went to wisconsin to convince voters that they re to support his $1.9 trillion covid relief pa
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tonight from new york to new orleans, from vegas to san juan, this is cnn s new year s eve live with appearances by katy perry. regina king, lessry jordan, patti labelle, sherry oterry. k.t. tunstell, kris jenner, james taylor plus more surprises and from the heart of times square, your hosts, anderson cooper and andy cohen. and happy new year, everyone. we are live in times square for what is going to be a very fun night. it is going to be a fun night. it s the warmest i don t know how many years i ve been doing this. this is the warmest it has ever been. it feels great. and katy perry, regina king, william shatner. so many more surprises. now i had thought the roaring 20s would have started by now. the roaring 20s? yeah. we re in the 20s. so where that s not going to happen. you have to reset. but we made it we keep resetting. we made it through another year and we ll see what the next year brings. it s a greatly reduced crowd here in times
ceaseless wanderings, we would ve had a lot less material . that is true, very true. our first clip tonight is the perfect tribute to his unintended comedic prowess. take a look. i know you were closely watching biden s public events they so what did you see? i always say it is not what he says. it is what we see that tells the tale. today the president was demanding that everybody get vaccinated and boosted to avoid this new covid variant but apparently routinely hatching orifices is not a covid risk at the white house. just watch. today thursday three misses about the new variant. we of the best vaccine of the world and now we are seeing deaths come down. we will fight and beat this new variant as well. a fully vaccinated boost third person is most protected against covid. a boost a person. that vaccine does not enough. you need to be a booster person. nightly multiple if you go near the press of them. however preschoolers don t touch their noses and eyes and mouths
the fraught transition to the biden administration. let s dive right into the moment. bob woodward and political reporter for the washington post robert costa join us now. their new book peripet kwtsz is out today. there s some pieces of the book that have come out, but what was most striking to you that perhaps hasn t been released yet to the public? wow, i guess the overall that this it was a national security crisis that trump brought because countries like china, russia, iran, looked a at what was occurring in the united states. if you go back and look at what trump said before the election, it was scary to people abroad. then after the january 6th insurrection, it was frightening and china particularly ignited on this and the chairman of the joint chiefs had these calls with the leader of the chinese military and made it very clear we re going to stabilize things. let s not have a war. and in a period of miscommunication and high tension, that s when you have an i