Power over decisions that affect their lives. we re going to look back and see this as a moment of real change in american history. cnn senior washington correspondent joe johns joins me now live from the white house. so joe, overseas still very much pressing, is the white house concerned domestic issues have been on the back burner so that s why it needs to pivot? reporter: there is a perception that they have a lot of selling to do and it is a midterm and that is part of the reason why the white house has announced that the president is flying out to iowa on tuesday, going to minlow isle, right outside dumoines, the first trip for the president to iowa since days before the 2020 election, we re told he will talk about economic agenda at large as well as that infrastructure initiative he signed into law in
As a moment of real change in american history. the white house has their theory has been all along that what matters to the midterms and the president s prospects is what s happening at home. can they make this pivot back? they re trying. it s clear the white house and president has to do more than one thing at a time, which all must do. they cannot set their agenda. what they cannot do, as we head into the spring here, almost into the summer, the president can t only talk about ukraine. you have seen a shift. it s always key to watch his schedule. what s he saying and doing? since he came back from europe, the president, he has not given any major addresses on ukraine and russia. we will see the president traveling this week for the first time in several weeks, going to iowa on tuesday, talking about infrastructure, trying to remind voters what they have done. go to north carolina later in the week. it s a tough lift.
Really play out through the entire day, as biden, who served as the vice president to the first black president, was flanked on one side with the first black and south asian american woman to serve as vice president, who he selected. and then on the other side, ketanji brown jackson, the first black woman who will serve on the supreme court. the president talked about the impact of that moment in history and on so many young girls to come after judge jackson. take a listen. this is going to let so much sun shine on so many young women, so many young black women, so many minorities. it s real. it s real. we re going to look back nothing to do with me. we re going to look back and see this as a moment of real change in american history. and as for the make-up of the court, for the very first time, white men will not be in the majority on the supreme court.
thank you, kamala. thank you, thank you, thank you. the first really smart decision i made in this administration. my name s joe biden. please sit down. i m jill s husband. and naomi s grandfather. and folks, yesterday this not only a sunny day, i mean this from the bottom of my heart. this is going to let so much sunshine on so many young women, so many young black women, so many minorities, that it s real. it s real. we re going to look back, nothing to do with me. we re going to look back and see this as a moment of real change in american history. i was on the phone this morning, jesse, the president in south africa and talking about how the time i was so outspoken about what was going on in my meeting
president biden: thank you, kamala, the really first smart decision i made in this administration. please sit down, i m jill s husband and emily biden s grandfather. folks, yesterday this is not only a sunny day this is going to let so much sun shine on so many young women, so many young minorities, that it is real, it is real. were going to look back not at what we made, working to look back and see this as a moment of real change in american history. i was on the phone this morning, jesse, with the president of south africa and he was talking about how the time when i was so outspoken about what was going