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eve. what is it going to take to end our travel nightmare? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our health lead. the cdc battling an apparent credibility problem. today the agency s director, dr. rochelle walensky took questions from reporters in her first solo news conference since july after facing a barrage of criticism, including from within the white house and the cdc over isolation guidance that even allies call confusing. walensky admitting the past few weeks have been particularly challenging. she noted that as a as the science changes, the guidance has to change as well. and she went on to say this is hard. and i am committed to continue to improve, unquote. now former biden administration health advisers are urging the white house to shift its covid strategy. as cnn s alexandra field reports, these advisers, former advisers want the president to prioritize ways for our society to learn to live and function with the virus. instead of chasing ....
him are ridiculous. reporter: fresh signs of optimism are coarsing through the gop. following a big win in the governor s race and stunning finish in new jersey. yet those signs of strength have shined a brighter life in balancing the risks and rewards of embracing the former president. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell urged his party to spend more time talking about president biden. the key to 22 is to have a discussion with the american people about how they feel about the new administration and the democratic congress and what they re doing. so i think the election will be about the future, not about the past. reporter: trump s role in midterm election races and whether he runs for president again is a central question hanging over the party. at a weekend gop gathering in las vegas, that question was on the back burner. as former president mike pence and a parade of republicans made appearances. just 12 months away from a great republican comeback, a ....
we ll dig in to where the race stands and talk to dnc chair jaime harrison about why the effects of this race will reach far beyond the state. nancy pelosi and her fellow democrats are meeting behind closed doors right now as democrats once again have put themselves in a tight spot when it comes to the president s agenda. speaker pelosi said she wanted a deal on human infrastructure and a vote on hard infrastructure by tomorrow. she s been telling us a vote was imminent for more than a month. we ll see what happens. recently she s been saying democrats are almost there. it is 90% done. just a few more things to work out. even some of her own colleagues in the house are now saying i ll believe it when i see it. let s bring in our guests. at this point, how much of what happens next is up to speaker pelosi? right now it feels like joe manchin is calling the shots. that s how it s long felt, steph. technically speaker pelosi is the one calling the shots here on the hou ....
away from the bipartisan presidential debate commission? we haven t even made it to the midterms yet. we will get into all of that and more. first, there are big holes in the story about the moskva, the flagship of russia s black sea fleet, a war ship that now rests at the bottom of the sea. it s described as the biggest wartime loss of a naval ship in 40 years, but there s very little vetted information about what happened. there were no reporters, no witnesses when the ship began to sink. so what we are left with are dueling story lines. with ukraine claiming to have hit it with anti-ship missiles and russia trying to say otherwise, claiming a fire broke out on board the warship, that s what caused ammunitions to exp explode, that s what damaged the vessel and forced the crew to evacuate. a more complicated story, right? there is no way for news outlets to truly get to the bottom of it. but consider this, the normal crew on the moskva would have been about 500 sailo ....
entire country and seize kyiv in a matter of days. later today president biden will meet at the white house with the new german chancellor who faces criticism for not be more outspoken in the aggression against ukraine. and emmanuel macron is meeting with vladimir putin to deter him from invading his neighbor. the white house says both leaders discussed deterrence efforts. kelly o donnell asked the president yesterday what he thinks putin is looking for in order to de-escalate tensions. reporter: do you think there s any particular thing that vladimir putin is looking for, sir, in order to make this decision? i think things he cannot get. things he cannot get. well, all of this comes as russia continues to build up troops along its ukraine border. according to a u.s. intelligence assessment, russia has already assembled 70% of the forces it will need to launch a full-scale invasion with estimates that as many as 50,000 civilians could be killed or wounded in a mat ....