of becoming the megaphone for the biden administration through the covid era continuously as the administration has been wrong on so many different aspects of covid. the press just simply parroting what he had to say. now some slight repositioning, some slight skepticism, some slight pushback, howard. i think all it illustrates is that joe biden is more detached from reality than even our national press. and really the only question for me is, why. why the sent schism skepticism now, why the pushback now? why all of a sudden did they stop becoming his cheer leader, his megapone? if. howard: well, tara, i would suggest that given biden got shot down on build back better, on his slide in the polls, the press can read the polls. do you think some reporters were feeling pressure not to toss softballs? i think so. also here s the deal, it s been a year. this is a point in the presidency when you look at the promises and see if they were being delivered on. p so this is a natural point i