menendez, democrat of new jersey and chair of the foreign relation committee. senator, thank you for joining us tonight. i know it was a bruising week for democrats and certainly president biden who opened up the second year of his presidency with thundering accommodations of republican obstruction. but watched as the senate was unable to pass voting rights legislation due in no small part to its own party. critics on both sides say the administration needs a reset after national weariness over the economy has pulled its poll numbers down. where can the president stand to reverse course and where should he stay on the one he s on now? reverend sharpton, good to be with you. look, the vote the other night in the senate on voting rights was a tough disappointment. as someone who advocated for the
president hasuffered, including the demise of voting rights legislation due to the insistence by sinema and manchin today to preserve the filibuster. of course, the difficulty with getting his build back better agenda. but the core mission for the biden white house is getting on top of this pandemic and the vaccine mandate was a way to try to do that. they have pretty much hit the wall of people who were willing to get vaccinated up front. they re using the mandate to try to get businesses to force some of the reluctant into getting vaccinated. now, businesses, many large businesses are for vaccination themselves. many of them have their own mandates. some of the airlines, for example. so it s not clear how much of a setback this is going to be, but it s clearly not what the administration wanted and they have to lean on business to get it done. you have kamala harris today answering some questions, talking about covid. and the response to this one