Brit Hume: White House hoping to avoid this Clinton 'calamity'

GRAPHIC COMES UP. EVEN I NEED TO LEARN ABOUT THE TELEPROMPTER. I DIGRESS. ONE YEAR TO THE DAY SINCE JOE BIDEN'S INAUGURATION AND THUS FAR HIS TIME WANDERING AROUND THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN A DISASTER ON ALL FRONTS. HE FAILED TO CRUSH THE VIRUS, WHICH HE WAS NEVER GOING TO DO BUT HE PROMISED IT BUT HE IS CRUSHING IN PERSON LEARNING FOR KIDS. THE ECONOMY IS TANKING AND INFLATION IS SOARING. THE SUPPLY CHAIN IS WORSE THAN EVER, BARE SHELVES BIDEN IS A REAL THING. GO TO YOUR LOCAL GROCERY STORE RIGHT AFTER THE SHOW. OUR SOUTHERN BORDER, WIDE OPEN. AND CRIME, AS YOU KNOW, IS OUT OF CONTROL. SO FAR THE ONLY THING JOE BIDEN HAS BUILT BACK BETTER IS THE TALIBAN. SO IT SHOULDN'T BE A SURPRISE TO ANYONE THAT TEAM BIDEN WOULD LIKE A CHANCE TO FORGET THIS WHOLE LAST YEAR AND JUST START OVER FRESH. HERE'S THEIR SOLUTION ONLY D.C. COULD COOK UP THIS SOLUTION. JOE 2.0. ACCORDING TO NBC, CONSIDER THE SOURCE, SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS ARE LOOKING TO LAUNCH A PUBLIC RESET AND REBRAND OF JOE BIDEN SAYING, QUOTE: THERE IS A RECOGNITION TO CHANGE THE DYNAMIC. WHAT A QUOTE. YA THINK? LET'S BE HONEST CAN YOU REALLY TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT DOG HAS BEEN IN POLITICS FOR 47 YEARS. AND CAN HE LEARN THOSE TRICKS BEFORE THE RED WAVE WIPES OUT HIS MAJORITY AFTER THE MIDTERMS? HERE NOW FOX NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST AND SMART DUDE BRIT HUME. BRIT, THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. JOE 2.0. YOUR REACTION TO THAT ATTEMPT? >> WELL, I'M NOT EXPECTING FULL RESET ANY TIME SOON, PETE. I THINK WHAT WE ARE GOING TO HEAR TOMORROW IN THE PRESIDENT'S NEWS CONFERENCE IS AN EFFORT ON HIS PART TO CITE THE THINGS THE ADMINISTRATION HAS INDEED ACHIEVED. THEY HAD 1. TRILLION DOLLARS COVID RELIEF BILL. HE GOT THAT PASSED. HE HAD THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL, WHICH WAS ANOTHER SIZEABLE WAD OF SPENDING, THAT WAS DONE ON A BIPARTISAN BASIS. HE CAN CERTAINLY POINT TO THAT. THOSE TWO THINGS ARE REAL AND NOT INSIGNIFICANT. HIS PROBLEM, I THINK IS ALL THESE MATTERS THAT RELATE TO COVID HAVE NOT ENDED UP ENDING COVID WHICH HE PROMISED TO DO AS YOU POINTED OUT. AND ON THE ECONOMIC SIDE, YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT THE ECONOMY IS GROWING AND IT CERTAINLY HAS BEEN AND CONTINUES TO, STOCK MARKET UP AND THE REST OF IT, MUCH OF THAT OBSCURED BY THE FACT THAT EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN IS FEELING THE EFFECTS OF INFLATION WHICH HAS SPURRED FORWARD WHICH WE HAVEN'T SEEN IN MANY, MANY YEARS INDEED. HE HAS A PROBLEM. HE DOES HAVE THINGS HE CAN POINT TO. WE WILL HEAR MORE ABOUT WHAT HE HAS DONE THAN PROMISES TO DO BETTER ON WHAT HE HASN'T DONE IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF HE WANTS TO MAKE ANY KIND OF TURN AWAY FROM HIS ALLEGIANCE TO HIS PARTY'S LEFT THAT SO DOMINATED THE FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE. >> Pete: INTERESTING POINT. MY ASSESSMENT, BRIT, AND HELP ME OUT. LET ME KNOW IF YOU THINK THIS COULD WORK OR IS CONCEIVABLE. HE PROBABLY CAN'T MOVE AWAY FROM HIS MARRIAGE WITH THE FAR LEFT. THAT'S HAPPENED. HE IS IN ON THAT. BUT, WHAT -- IS THERE ANY CHANCE THAT A JOE 2.0 WOULD SAY YOU KNOW WHAT? WE ARE TURNING THE CORNER ON COVID. WE ARE GOING TO MOVE INTO AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE WE RECOGNIZE NATURAL IMMUNITY. DON'T DO MANDATES. DON'T DO LOCKDOWN. GET KIDS BACK IN SCHOOL. RECOGNIZE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT YOU WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE TO ADMIT HE IS WRONG. HE WOULD JUST HAVE TO SAY WE ARE ENTERING A NEW PHASE AT WHICH POINT PEOPLE CAN BREATHE AGAIN A LITTLE BIT. BUSINESS GOES BACK TO NORMAL. LIFE GOES BACK TO NORMAL. PEOPLE MIGHT LIKE THAT HEADING INTO A MIDTERM. >> Brit: I THINK PEOPLE MIGHT INDEED LIKE THAT. FOR HIM TO SAY THE THINGS THAT YOU JUST OUTLINED WOULD BE FOR HIM TO CONTRADICT. POLICIES THAT HE HAS ADOPTED AND MANY OF WHICH ARE STILL IN PLACE. IT SEEMS TO ME WHAT HE WOULD NEED TO DO IS ANNOUNCE A WHOLE SET OF POLICY CHANGES IN WHICH HE WOULD BE OVERRULING PEOPLE LIKE DR. FAUCI AND HIS CDC DIRECTOR AND SO ON. AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A HARD MOVE FOR HIM TO MAKE AT THIS TIME. THIS KIND OF THING THOUGH, PETE, HAS BEEN DONE. I MEAN, BILL CLINTON HAD A VERY ROUGH START AND LOST CONTROL OF CONGRESS, LOST CONTROL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES. AND THE ELECTION IN 1992. I MEAN, 1994. THAT WAS A HUGE DEAL. AND HE MADE -- HE DID A REAL SHIFT AT THAT TIME. AND HE BECAME THE MORE MODERATE BILL CLINTON WHO HAD BEEN THE GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS RATHER THAN THE LEFT ONE WE HAD SEEN FOR HIS FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE. THAT WAS ONLY AFTER A BIG WASH-OUT AT THE POLLS WHOSE MESSAGE WAS UNMISTAKABLE. I SUSPECT THAT MANY IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ARE STILL CLINGING TO THE HOPE THAT THEY CAN TURN THINGS AROUND IN HIS SECOND YEAR AND AVOID THAT KIND OF CALAMITY THAT CLINTON FACED IN 1994. >> Pete: VERY INTERESTING POINT. I WONDER IF MAYBE WE WILL HEAR JOE BIDEN ENTER THOSE WORDS THE ERA OF BIG GOVERNMENT IS OVER. I DON'T FEEL LIKE WE WILL. THAT WOULD BE AN INTERESTING JOE

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Keywords: 2022 midterms, Bare shelves Biden, Biden Build Back Better, Biden COVID, Biden crime, Biden southern border, Brit Hume, COVID relief bill, Fox News Primetime, Joe 2.0, Joe Biden, Joe Biden 2.0, Joe Biden rebrand, Pete Hegseth, White House, economy, inflation, infrastructure bill, midterm elections, red wave, supply chain

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Length: 5min 10sec (310 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 18 2022