there i'm remundinded of someth that joe biden believed, first lesson of being president. you can set an agenda but it is impossible to be able to follow it day to day. simply because of things coming down the pike. in this case, there is a level environment legislative unpredictability that he is contending with that is going to make it very difficult. i wonder if you believe that he is pushing back a bit at this sort of caretaker idea. joe biden, veteran politician coming in. quiet things down post trump. i have a legacy here. i'm going big on family stuff, health care, gun reform, immigration. >> yeah, i think so. it's interesting. i started to hear that tone from him last summer. he started the cam ppaign sayin he wanted to be the caretaker tra transitional president. he said, no, i see myself in the challenge that fdr was facing. i think at the time people said how does that actually work? this is something he doesn't want to go down in hist rich. he didn't meet the challenge or the moment. that is why you begin to hear from him this much more ambitious and some ways,

. >> the polling shows that joe biden is doing well, at 53% overall. that's remarkable compared to where donald trump was. normally, though, during the first hundred days we give presidents big honey moons. they rack up approval ratings in the 60s and seven percents. we are not seeing that with joe biden, which reminds us what a deeply divided countries we are. but i think history is going to look well on what joe biden has done. he has evened the temperature of our country. he calmed things down. he responded with dignity after the horror of the january 6 insurrection. he works daily with kamala harris, historic first person of color as vice president. he's pulling us out of afghanistan. was able to start really getting shots in arms. i mean, the covid rollout, all things considered, are going very well under joe biden. failures with immigration, but overall, it has been a remarkable 00 days with joe biden, and they should be proud of where they are. they have got their cabinet by and large confirmed, which is also a good thing. >> now, arguably, the

and joe biden is a student of history. i think we are not only in a moment of crisis and opportunity but as the president pointed out last night, we're in a moment of necessity. women took it on the chin in this pandemic. and we need to make sure we invest in child care. so many people feel left behind and blue collar blueprint of this president is tailor made to rebuild our economy from the bottom and the middle up. and that's where i think his secret weapon is. it's not going to be easy. no doubt about it. but i think he has the american people on his side. and the republicans continue to oppose this. i think at their political peril. they're on the wrong side of these issues. >> except, david gergen, to tom's argument. you have people like lisa murkowski who has just made a response saying, i think it makes it very difficult to be truly bipartisan. tim scott in his response pointing out that under the trump administration there were five covid related bipartisan bills passed on that front. and we saw straight partisan l

that is no different for joe biden tonight. what is different, though, is the impact of the pandemic on all of this.

even if you compromise and get a bipartisan deal they're voting a joe biden opportunity. is there actual republican interest in compromise? >> you're absolutely right the political incentives make members of both parties tack hard to their base in seeking consensus and compromise. there are voices there. the problem solvers caucus is working right now on an infrastructure plan like they did last year on covid relief that became the foundation for ultimate agreement. they need to do the same thing now. there are people who want to do infrastructure on both sides. they should let the centers, the manchins, fitzpatricks and others, let them negotiate a deal. the leaders should embrace it. the leaders are also very afraid of their own bases in many respects. they get a lot of pressure from their caucuses and the senate has to really drive this thing. if they do, i think we could see some results. >> chuck schumer, he has his own challenge within his party in 2022. he has to be conscious of the base as he's making these deals. we will see. it may be a necessity for biden becau

he was senior adviser to president obama and also worked closely with joe biden. as someone who has had so many years working side by side with biden in the white house, i wonder if his bold moves surprise you and what you expect tonight on that front. >> well, he has the value of experience. he spent eight years in the white house, as you mentioned, at president obama's white house, really as a partner in that administration. and he saw how events unfolded in that administration. and i think that he was determined to strike quickly and to strike as large as he could in his first -- in this first year and in the first half of his term. there's no guarantee, poppy, that there will be a democratic congress in 2023. and biden knows that. with redistricting and the census. so, you know, he needs to get done what he needs to get done now. he's probably at the peak of his popularity right now. and he's taking advantage of that. and the fact that we had a crisis. and that crisis created a mentality that we needed to move. so all of that is at play here. so i'm not surpri

somebody who served as president early in joe biden's senate career. was not a popular president. was dpeeted for re-election. but has become much more popular and beloved as a humanitarian since leaving the presidency. joe biden consistently tried to show respect to some of his peers or older colleagues over the years. bob dole has been ill and jimmy carter at 96, he's going to see him. mostly this is about trying to generate momentum for this economic plan, not a lot of time for new president to get the top items on his agenda through. he is trying to maximize it. >> john, thank you. let's bring in former white house deputy chief of staff. good morning, jim. >> good morning. >> i remember you talking about working so hard in 2009 in the obama-biden white house to get republicans onboard with what was then that stimulus legislation. and you said it was actually a mistake. so has that mistake been learned by biden? did you hear that last night sense of we can't -- when you said, doing nothing is not an option. basically, we can't wait. and republicans were going to go with or with

the question is, is joe biden going to do that? >> and this will be a big test. can he get it through? he has to keep the democratic caucus in line here. you talk about leadership, as you know, there is a battle within the republican party. we saw that in this republican party conference this weekend and you saw former president trump speaking in terms that we're familiar with right? even about other republicans, like mitch mcconnell. you have a long history with former speaker john boehner. you guys were founding members of the gang of seven in the early 1990s. john boehner has been withering. we'll play a clip on "cbs this morning" and get your reaction. >> i'm a republican. but we've got some people in the party who believe more in making noise than they do with making policy. i went to washington to serve in the congress. not because i wanted to make noise, but because i wanted to do something on behalf of our country. i think if republicans begin to focus more in on the policies, that we all believe in, we can unite the party in a place that americans will r

i think what we're going to see from joe biden is two parts. one is taking credit for the progress against the pandemic that we have seen over the first 100 days, 200 million shots in arms. he low balled the initial promise of $100 million. he well exceeded that. we're seeing vaccination rates go up. we're seeing -- we can glimpse the other side of the pandemic and we expect that he will will tease that or elude to that with reference to the new cdc guidelines that we expect. telling americans that, yes, we're making progress and here are some of the rewards of that. we can do more things than we thought we could just months ago. but the other part of that is going to be saying, okay, we took care of the immediate crisis. but now let's build for the future. and that's what the american jobs plan, the american family plan is all about. massive investment in economic growth, in the building blocks of economic growth and helping families up the economic ladder. that is a two-part message. he's going to say that taking that second step is going to

president joe biden actually spoke on this in an interview with espn last night. take a listen. >> i would strongly support them doing that. the very people who are victimized, the most, are the people who are the leaders in these various sports. and it's just not right. this is jim crow on steroids. >> now, look, jim, again this is coming because of all of that pressure from people in the voting r voting activist community. profiles encouraged here, this could have all been done leading up to the georgia law. they say they hope they'll be able to take this energy to other states and to potentially propel federal legislation like hr-1, s-1 in washington. >> thank you very much, dianne gallagher. p mun just minutes from now, powerful testimony in the derek chauvin murder trial. we'll bring you details as they come. mputers. we didn't stop at storage or cloud. we kept going. working with our customers to enable the kind of technology that can guide an astronaut back to safety. and help make a hospital come to you, instead of you going to it. so when it comes to your

. >> it's a fascinating framing that joe biden is undertaking here. he knows he has an enormous fight on his hands to try to get this massive infrastructure and human capital program through to congress. he's trying to take it out of the context of a fight within the united states between democrats and republicans but put it as an american fight with forces and the rest of the world like china that pits free countries, democrat cies versus awe to beingcy that's rule from the top down. this is how we compete with those autocracies. >> do you think china is waiting around to invest in this digital infrastructure or research and development? i promise you, they are not waiting. but they're counting on american democracy to be too slow, too limited, and too divided to keep pace. >> now, poppy, as you indicated, he's get something support from people like jamie dimon, the head of j.p. morgan chase who is saying we have been hobbled by bad policy. we're not rising up to meet challenges of inequality, climate change and the like. but people like jamie dimon,

. >> major league baseball put the wishes of stacy abrams and joe biden ahead of the economic well-being of hard-working georgian who's are counting on the all star game for a paycheck. >> i can't say that i like it. i certainly understand it. and it is really probably the first of many boycotts of our state to come. and the consequences of this bill are significant. >> i can't say that i like it but i understand it. a lot of democratic officials are looking at the money that the state is going to lose, jim, poppy, one more thing. coca-cola provided free products to state lawmakers there. some of the republican state lawmakers said coke, take your products out. coke has come out against this law. coca-cola said we're going to continue focusing on what we can do including federal legislation when it comes to voting rights. >> yeah. well, dianne gallagher, good to have you following this. they seem to be happening every other day. >> yeah. thank you, dianne. >>> minutes from now, a second week of testimony guns in the murder trial of ex-police officer derek chauvin. we'll bring that to you

biden saying at least 52% reduction in carbon emissions by the year 2030. and the third thing is laying down a set of policies and pushing them in congress that would try to achieve that reduction in carbon emissions. he's done it with a different strategy than used in the past. he's not embracing the pawn of carbon caps or carbon taxes. instead, he is framing it as a matter of opportunity. big spending to create jobs as part of an energy trans formation. here is the president just a few minutes ago. >> as we transition to a clean energy future, we must ensure that workers who have thrived in yesterday's and today's industries have as bright a tomorrow in the new industries as well as in the places where they live and the communities they have built. when we invest in climate resilience and infrastructure, we create opportunities for everyone. that's the heart of my job's plan that i proposed in the united states. >> and that political message is also at the heart of what you need to try to overcome resistance in congress from all the fossil fuel industries

joe manchin is the linchpin in all of this, lauren. he knows it. he doesn't want the corporate tax hike as high as the biden administration wants it, up to 28%. he said in no uncertain terms if i don't vote to get on it, it's going nowhere. we've got leverage here. and what i thought was interesting, lauren, he said he has six or seven other democrats on his side here. >> that's right. manchin knows he has the power here. part of that is because much the narrow majority that chuck schumer has in the senate. it's a 50/50 majority in the senate. of course that, is not enough to give you wiggle room to lose joe manchin. even if they use the reconciliation process and pass this with just democratic votes, they have to convince manchin. what manchin said yesterday is that raising the corporate tax rate to 28% is too high. he said something in the neighborhood of 25% would be what he said was fair. now one of the issues with that is if you only raise the corporate tax rate a couple points, 3 or 4 points, you're raising about 300 to $400 billion instead o

so often, says he opposes passing biden's infrastructure plan through budget reconciliation. that's with only democrat ic votes. republicans have proposed a bill that spends about one-third of the president's target, some including manchin and senator chris coons have suggested as a result splitting the bills. begin with so-called hard infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, pipes, save other items for a second bill. a second package. with me is democratic senator ben cardin of maryland. senator, good to have you on this morning. i wonder if you support this idea of splitting the bills. start with some hard stuff, get some gop votes and then move on to the other priorities. >> jim, first, good to be with you. infrastructure is more than roads and bridges. we have to rebuild america. we have buildings, energy infrastructure, we need to be bold to modernize our nation. so i support the president's approach. but i can tell you as the chair of the subcommittee on the environment of public works committee, we are working in a bipartisan manner to deal with the transportation part

. ♪ >>> west virginia senator joe manchin, a democrat, has extraordinary influence in washington right now. effectively holding veto power over the fate of president biden's agenda. >> the moderate democrat becoming a central political figure with the senate evenly split 50-50 and he hopes to use that power to bring lawmakers together. he sat down for an exclusive interview with our lauren fox. watch. >> reporter: the other joe who holds the power in washington. clear and unequivocal tonight. >> i'm not killing the filibuster. >> reporter: the reason, the insurrection at the capitol. >> january 6th changed me. i was very clear with everybody. i never thought in my life, i never read in history books to where our form of government had been attacked at our seat of government, which is washington, d.c., at our capitol by our own people. now the british did it, but not americans. so something told me, wait a minute. pause. hit the pause button. something is wrong. you can't have this many people split to where they want to go to war with each other. >> reporter: insisting the only way to