putin s invasion of ukraine. can t fix the problem if you can t acknowledge what s driving it. you ve shown the stats. people are well acquainted with the story. it was raging for a year before the february 24th invasion. this is another issue where you are going to see democrats try to break with the president. the problem is, it s basically only sinema and manchin in the senate who have said no to the big spending and departed in a serious way. the others now, i think, are in a bind where they may feel pressure and political need to say i m fighting inflation, but they really haven t created the record over the last year to back that up. bill: the whole idea taking advantage of an opportunity to find a solution that you referred to on the border. some of the democrats are opening the door for you. cross the aisle and work with republicans if you chose. spang berger is a democrat in a hotly contested district.
doping in the first place. not saying she did. i don t know. we have to wait for the results. it is weird to a lot of people that russia continues to get to compete. they compete the russian olympic committee. no flag. 15 minutes past. president biden pushing build back better again and democratic congresswoman spang berger s district in central virginia. a hotly contested district. many dems have chosen not to show up as the president comes to town. karl rove is here to react. approval, disapproval. what do you have sir in austin? let s start there. remember, this is a hotly contested congressional district. it looks like the country as a whole. we don t have numbers from this
district. overall approval for biden. 38 approve, 56 disapprove on the economy. immigration 33/56. foreign policy 37/53. covid 44/52. new abc poll 29/69 disapprove on inflation. crime 34/64 disapprove. spang berger is either of one of two mind i want to get it out of the way early so he never comes back to my district before the election again or maybe she didn t have a choice and said we re coming. not good politically for her to stand next to president bide nen a district that s clearly going to be a battleground. dana: the latter is quite possible. president biden said he wants to get on the road a little more. they don t want to travel too far. going down to richmond is not that heavy a lift. president obama is going to come speak to the house democratic retreat. do you think there will be a lot of nostalgia in the room?