APPEAR AT 5:00 IN NEW YORK CITY
AND THIS IS THE FIVE.
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>> THERE’S A LOT OF TALK ABOUT
DISAPPOINTMENTS AND THINGS WE
HAVEN’T GOTTEN DONE.
WE ARE GOING TO GET A LOT OF
THEM DONE I MIGHT ADD MIGHT ADD.
>> Jesse: PRESIDENT BIDEN
TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST OF THE
WEEK OF EPIC FAILURE AND
EMBARRASSMENT.
THE WHITE HOUSE NOW REELING
AFTER SUFFERING ONE HUMILIATING
BLOW AFTER ANOTHER.
THE SUPREME COURT SLAPPING DOWN
BIDENS FACTS MANDATE, INFLATION
SURGING TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN
30 YEARS, WHILE BIDENS POLL
NUMBERS ARE PLUMMETING TO RECORD
LOWS.
AND IT GETS WORSE.
BITING GETTING CALLED OUT BY
SOME OF HIS OWN PARTY FOR HIS
UNHINGED VOTING RIGHTS SPEECH IN
ATLANTA.
KYRSTEN SINEMA CRUSHING HIS PLAN
TO KILL THE FILIBUSTER BEFORE IT
EVEN GOT STARTED.
AS FAR AS THE PANDEMIC HE
PROMISED TO SHUT DOWN, CASES ARE
A RECORD HIGH.
THAT IS JUST A SMALL TASTE OF
THE MAJOR SETBACKS.
PRESS SECRETARY JEN PSAKI
SPINNING LIKE SHE’S NEVER SPUN
BEFORE TO TRY TO CLEAN UP THE
MESS BIDEN HAS LEFT BEHIND.
>> I PROMISE TO -- "BUILD BACK
BETTER" IS NOT GOING TO PASS,
AND VOTING RIGHTS WILL NOT PASS.
APPARENTLY ILLEGAL.
WHAT HAPPENS?
>> LOOKED BACK AT LAST YEAR AND
WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH
THAT INCLUDES GETTING THE
AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN PAST.
HE ALSO PRESSED, DESPITE
SKEPTICS, TO GET AN
INFRASTRUCTURE BILL PASSED.
>> WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GUY WHO
WHEN HE WAS ELECTED SAID TO MAKE
PROGRESS, WE MUST TREAT OUR
OPPONENTS AS ENEMIES.
>> HE WAS COMPARING THE CHOICE.
>> THE MEDIA THAT IS TRIED TO
POP UP AND CHAMPIONED BY IT IN
EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
>> PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN HAS HAD A
VERY TOUGH WEEK.
>> MY GOODNESS, EVERY TIME I
THINK THE WHITE HOUSE THOUGHT
THEY’VE HIT BOTTOM, THERE SEEMS
TO BE A NEW BOTTOM.
>> IT IS HARD TO THINK OF THEM
AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN
RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGICAL -- THEY
SHOULD ALL HAVE RIGHT WING
TALK SHOWS.
THEY ARE NOT JUSTICES IN THE
GREAT TRADITION OF THE
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.
>> SHE DID SOMETHING THAT IS
EXTRAORDINARY.
SHE COMPLETELY EMBARRASSED,
POLITICALLY EMBARRASSED THE
LEADER OF OUR OWN PARTY THE
SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
>> YOU KNOW IT’S HIT ROCK BOTTOM
IN THE CLINTON IS GETTING
INVOLVED.
BILL AND HILLARY ARE SWOOPING IN
AND GIVE DEL NOT GIVING
JOE BIDEN ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO
NEXT.
IF THEY OFFER YOU ADVICE COME I
THINK IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO MAY BE
TO BE CAREFUL.
>> HILLARY CLINTON WANTS
JOE BIDEN’S JOB.
IF HE TAKES ADVICE FROM HER, HE
IS AS DUMB AS WE THINK HE HAS.
HERE IS MY THING, A LOSS FOR
BIDEN IS A WIN FOR AMERICA.
THINK ABOUT THIS.
SOME OF THESE SETBACKS THIS WEEK
WILL ACTUALLY BE GREAT FOR THE
COUNTRY AND THE ECONOMY AND MAY
BE EVEN BY EXTENSION, BIDEN AND
COMPANY AND THE WHITE HOUSE
SUPREME COURT KNOCKING DOWN THE
VACCINE MANDATES, WELL, IT WILL
HELP COMPANIES KEEP AND HIRE
WORKERS.
IT WILL PREVENT THE SUPPLY CHAIN
PROBLEM FROM GETTING WORSE, AND
PROP UP THE ECONOMY.
AGAIN, THEY WANTED TO THROW
WRENCHES INTO THE WORKS OF OUR
ECONOMIC SYSTEM.
THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
THE BUILD BACK BROADER
MONSTROSITY IS DEAD, $5 TRILLION
WELFARE PROGRAM -- THAT WOULD
HAVE MADE INFLATION WORSE.
THAT HELPS THE FEDERAL RESERVE
FIGHT INFLATION.
AND KEEPING THE FILIBUSTER
INTACT MEANS THAT THE NATION
IS -- IT STAYS THE COURSE.
IT IS NOT FAR LEFT OR FAR RIGHT.
BUT HOW BAD IS IT FOR JOE BIDEN?
TODAY A GROUP OF SENATE
DEMOCRATS, INCLUDING JOE MANCHIN
AND KYRSTEN SINEMA, SENT A
LETTER TO THE WHITE HOUSE
WANTING -- I’M GOING TO
PARAPHRASE HERE -- WANTING TO
KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE
COVID RESPONSE?
IT WAS WRITTEN BY
SENATOR JACKY ROSEN BUT ALSO JON
OSSOFF AND MARK KELLY SIGNED IT.
I THINK IT’S THE THIRD LETTER
FROM CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS
THIS WEEK THAT THE $2 TRILLION
PLAN THAT JEN PSAKI WAS BRAGGING
ABOUT, LESS THAN 1% WAS FOR
THERAPEUTICS TO TREAT COVID.
INSTEAD THESE PEOPLE IN THE
WHITE HOUSE HAVE BEEN JOB OWNED
ABOUT MASKING, VACCINES, AND
TESTING BE AT ALL THREE OF THOSE
HAVE BEEN A FAILURE.
>> THEY ARE GOING UP A WEBSITE
LIVE ON WEDNESDAY, WE WILL BE
MONITORING THAT.
AND THEN --
>> I’M SURE IT WILL GO WELL.
>> Jesse: IT COULD TAKE UP TO
12 DAYS TO SHIFT THE TESTS ONCE
YOU ORDER IT.
12 DAYS.
WHAT IS IT, CARRIER PIGEON?
HOW ARE THEY GETTING THEM?
>> WHAT ABOUT ORDERING SOMETHING
TODAY?
I KNOW YOU HAVE A BIG WEEKEND
COMING UP.
CAN SOMEONE FOR AND AN INVOICE
AND JUST ORDER THE TASKS?
WE ARE NOT ASKING TO INTUBATE
THE THERAPEUTICS, NOT ASKING TO
INNOVATE THE VACCINES, WE ARE
ASKING TO EXECUTE.
BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT YOU GUYS
HAD ALL THE EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW
HOW TO DO THIS, FOR YEARS PRIOR
YOU HAD IT GREAT.
THIS IS BASICALLY THE SAME
GROUP.
YOU’VE GOT SUSAN RICE, RON
KLAIN, YOU’VE GOT TO FIRE
EVERYBODY.
YOU’VE GOT TO CLEAN HOUSE.
THIS IS A FLAT OUT DISASTER.
FOR A DEMOCRAT, WHERE DO YOU GO
FROM HERE?
SEE IF YOU CAN GET SOME WINS FOR
THE INFRASTRUCTURE DEAL WAS A
WIN.
WHEN THEY HAD THE
ELECTORAL COLLEGE DECIDE THAT
IT’S A PROBLEM AND THE
VICE PRESIDENT, WHETHER IT’S
JOE BIDEN OR MIKE PENCE, OR
AL GORE, WHEN THEY HAVE TO GO
GALLIVAN THE OFFICIAL TALLY, IT
SEEMS TO BE AN ISSUE.
THERE SEEMS TO BE BLOW UPS EVERY
TIME.
LET’S JUST FORGET ABOUT THAT.
AND THEN I LOOKED DOWN AND I
SAY, WHAT DID HE TALK ABOUT
TODAY?
HE TALKED ABOUT DOING POLICE
REFORM.
WHAT?
POLICE REFORM?
WE’VE BEEN OVERRUN IN CRIME.
CARJACKING 101.
AND NOW WERE TALKING ABOUT
POLICE REFORM.
YOU ARE GOING TO CRACKDOWN ON
COPS? IF THERE’S ANYTHING THAT SHOULD
IF THERE’S ANYTHING THAT SHOULD
BE LEFT ON THE SIDE IT IS THAT.
YOU’VE GOT TO LOOK FOR SOMETHING
YOU CAN GET SOME WINS ON.
SO TALK TO JOE MANCHIN NOW AND
GREAT ADVICE BY THE WAY, TALK TO
MANCHIN, FIND OUT WHAT HE WANTS,
AND PASS IT.
THE REST OF THE STUFF, RUN ON
IT.
YOU WANT FOUR MORE YEARS?
THEN YOU GO AHEAD AND SAY, I’VE
GOT SOMETHING BETTER THAN "BUILD
BACK BETTER."
THIS IS THE BEST I CAN DO.
AND LASTLY, THE WORST THING TO
HAPPEN TO JOE BIDEN’S FOR HIM TO
INVITE THOSE HISTORIANS TO THE
WHITE HOUSE TO TALK ABOUT FDR
AND LBJ AND FOR HIM TO WIN THOSE
TWO SENATE SEATS IN GEORGIA.
IT GAVE THEM THE SENSE THAT HE
COULD DO ANYTHING EVEN THOUGH HE
THINKS HE KNOWS REALITY, HE
CAN’T DO ANYTHING.
>> I WAS GOING TO GO TO SANDRA
NEXT, BUT YOU JUST NAME
CHECKED -- HAROLD FORD JR., HOW BAD IS IT?
BAD IS IT?
IS IT BAD OR IS IT REALLY BAD?
>> I THINK BRIAN’S FRAME IS THE
RIGHT ONE.
IF YOU ARE IN THAT WHITE HOUSE
NOTE, AND HE HAD A LOT OF GOOD
POINTS COME I WOULD DISAGREE
WITH SOME OF THEM, BUT I THINK
THE OVERALL THING IS THAT IT’S
NOT GOING WELL.
HE FORGOT TO RESET YOUR WHOLE
FRAME.
WHEN YOU ARE PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE
TWO JOBS.
YOUR FIRST IS YOUR COMMANDER IN
CHIEF.
CHINA, RUSSIA, NORTH KOREA, IRAN
IRAN.
AND OBVIOUSLY IN THE
MIDDLE EAST.
YOU THINK ABOUT THE DOMESTIC
CHALLENGES, WE’VE HAD A FEW
REALLY EMERGE.
CRIME, COVID, AGAIN OUR BORDER
AND SUPPLY CHAIN.
IF I AM HIM, I WOULD SIT BACK
AND SAY, WHAT IS IT, TO BRIAN’S
POINT, HOW DO WE CREATE WITHIN
THE THIN MAJORITY WE HAVE IN THE
HOUSE AND SENATE, AN AGENDA
THAT’S GOING TO BEGIN TO ADDRESS
THESE CONCERNS?
FROM THOSE CONCERNS, FIRM THEM
CONSISTENTLY.
I WOULD ARGUE CONSTANTLY.
WE’VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION
AROUND THE TABLE BEFORE, WE ALL
A VERY STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT IT,
BUT I’M ROOTING FOR WHOEVER THE
PRESIDENT IS.
WE WANT COVID TO BE BEATEN, WE
WANT INFLATION CHANGED, WE WANT
OUR GEOPOLITICAL ADVERSARIES TO
KNOW THEY CAN’T PUSH US AROUND.
THE PRESIDENT HAS TO RESET,
REFRAME.
IF THAT MEANS BRINGING PERSONNEL
AROUND, HE SHOULD CONSIDER THAT.
HE SHOULD CONSIDER IT.
HE’S GOT TO GET A FRAME, SET,
AND A RESET COME AND GO OUT AND
MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE.
GRAB THOSE WINDS THAT ARE EASY
WINS IN FRONT OF YOU, BECAUSE
ONE VICTORY CAN PRODUCE ANOTHER
VICTORY, AND ANOTHER VICTORY
AFTER THAT.
>> DOES HE NEED TO FIRE ANYBODY?
>> I DON’T KNOW IF HE WILL HAVE
TO, BUT CAN YOU IMAGINE
JEN PSAKI WANTING TO STICK
AROUND MUCH LONGER AFTER THIS?
I MEAN, I WOKE UP FLIPPING THE
CHANNEL HEARING CNN SAYING BIDEN
HAD A WEEK FROM.
THE COUNTRY IS FRUSTRATED. THE HEADLINE ON AXIOS WAS
THE HEADLINE ON AXIOS WAS
BIDEN’S QUEBEC EPIC FAILURE.
I MEAN, JESSE, WHEN YOU ARE
GOING ON THE LIST OF ALL THE
FAILURES JUST THIS WEEK ALONE, I
CHECKED THEM OFF SO I COULD GO
WHERE YOU LEFT OFF AND YOU LEFT
OUT AND INFLATION HAD ITS
HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 1982.
McCONNELL TAKING TO THE SENATE
FLOOR TO GO AFTER THAT SPEECH HE
CAME IN GEORGIA.
HE WAS SNUBBED BY STACEY ABRAMS
AND HE FINISHED THE WEEK
THURSDAY WITHOUT LUNCH ON
CAPITOL HILL COMING OUT TO THE
MICROPHONE AND ACKNOWLEDGING
THAT IS VOTING LEGISLATION IS
UNLIKELY TO PASS.
REALLY COULDN’T HAVE GOTTEN MY
SPIRIT I WILL LEAVE OFF ON THIS,
JEN PSAKI ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING
THAT HE IS GOING TO HOLD A
FORMAL PRESS BRIEFING ON
WEDNESDAY, PRESS CONFERENCE I
SHOULD SAY, ON WEDNESDAY, THE
EVE OF THE FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE
FOR THIS PRESIDENCY.
THAT IS THURSDAY, THAT MARKS ONE
YEAR.
HOW DO THEY SPIN THIS?
IT’S TOUGH TO EVEN GET WHAT
VICTORY THEY ARE GOING TO BE
ABLE TO TOUT ON WEDNESDAY.
IT HAS BEEN A ROUGH WEEK, IT IS
BEEN A ROUGH YEAR, THEY BETTER
DO A LITTLE BIT OF A...
THEY BETTER DO A LITTLE BIT OF
LOOKING BACK TO SEE WHERE THEY
CAN CORRECT, BECAUSE
HILLARY CLINTON SEES AN