take covid very seriously are genuinely unclear on some of the policies around it. i think that will be a big focus of it. i hope he s able to provide clarity. i will say this too, i would disagree with joe. i think biden was very divisive this past week. listen, there s no comparison to donald trump, that s not what i m suggesting. but he s a man who ran on unity and being the president to all americans and you cannot outright dismiss 50% of the country. so i hope he takes a softer tone in how he talks about working with the senate and trying to get republicans on board with his agenda. alyssa and joe, thank you both very much. coming up is sean hannity trying to win dr. oz a senate seat? sure looks like it. and abc s complete and utter distortion of the cdc director. what went wrong here? we have answers next. t you just ride the wave? (judith) no - we actively manage client portfolios based on our forward-looking views of the market. (other money manager) but you still sell
legitimate election and joe biden legitimately won is beyond destructive to the future of this country. republicans, my party cannot dismiss that. they cannot discredit it. he s going to continue to stoke these lies and it will be our undoing if we re not paying attention and taking him very seriously when he talks about, you know, wanting to stack state officials so that in the future, electors are going to go for him. he s doing this all over the country. we need to be paying attention to it. joe, what do you make of what alyssa said about the balance of how much attention is paid at these rallies or not? i think the rallies and donald trump needs to be paid attention to because he still has a stranglehold on the republican party. these things around the country are undermining our democracy in plain sight, right in front of us. they don t get the attention they deserve because people kind of dismiss them. they should not be dismissed. this is our democracy we re talking about. a
even fox refuses to carry a trump rally at the start of the midterm year, you know something going on, that s not strength, that s a weakness from the current president. now the current president, we will hear from him as biden holds his first formal press conference since nonkvember. i want to get into that with my two political analysts, alyssa and joe lockhart. welcome to you both. alyssa, did you watch the trump rally? no, like most americans i was watching the patriots and bills game. i was kind of surprised they would decide to host this big coming back rally for donald trump when the rest of the country is wanting to watch this exciting football game. but to your point, brian, yes, the former president has lost steam in legacy media. but what i would not discredit is how much these srtort of
lies, the trump party, presidency lied from the beginning from the first day and it s a hard habit to break. alyssa herself friday tweeted joe biden didn t need or do an education program on vaccinations, he went right fto mandates. that s absolutely not true. joe biden did more promoting vaccinations in the first six months of his presidency than anything else. all right, joe, let s let alyssa respond. hey, listen, brian, you got me and joe to agree on the first part of that. i followed up with that and had a great conversation with ron klain. it was not fair to a biden did nothing on vaccinations. that is certainly not the case. i encurrent the biden administration to parter in with republican governors. if you had joe biden and ron desantis do an ad saying you can trust this vaccine, it is safe, that would go so much further
conferences very irregularly. let s look at the past, the few presidents will show compared to biden. biden s been holding formal press conferences less often, there s the data. however, he does hold informal q&as quite often, more than past presidents, where he answers a few questions from the press corps after the event. that s the data. we have a formal press conference coming up this week, it s been announced almost a week ahead of time. what do you make of that strategy, alyssa? it kind of goes against my pr-101. you just don t know what the news cycle will be so to announce it this far in advance builds expectation. butz any time the president is talking to the american people and the press is a good thing. biden s challenge is this, his press secretary does speak to the press daily. that is a good thing. but they re very confusing and conflicting guidances going out around covid. he needs to be answering the questions more regularly. if you can make sense of the cdc s guidance