Jonathan Swan: 'Biden is getting hit hard on both sides'

let's bring in our panel we'll start there leslie marshall democratic strategist jonathan swann national political reporter for axios and former education secretary bill bennett jonathan it's obviously night and day as far as the speech and the message from president biden to what we saw from president trump and his uh address to the united nations but it was interesting that he didn't talk about china or russia your thoughts yeah there was no mention whatsoever of china or russia which is notable given that the administration is orienting itself towards great power competition is focused on asia there china was referenced in in indirect ways so he was sort of putting out these non-confrontational messages the big one you grabbed there which was the that we're not heading we don't want a new cold war uh it was sort of trying to lower the temperature he's got a real problem with cha with the china strategy that he's trying to pursue right now they said their strategy sounded good on paper it was this idea that we can compete and confront china in all these areas where we need to like trade but we'll also cooperate with them on climate change that's not how china likes to operate and china sent a very clear message to biden if you keep talking to us about you know the genocide in in xinjiang we're not going to be sitting down with john kerry we're going to be doing zoom calls with him and we're going to be humiliating him when he comes over here so that's probably one of the biggest strategic challenges they face leslie it's been a bumpy few days maybe a few weeks for the bite administration for the president on foreign policy but domestically as well what about this speech i actually thought it was strong i thought it was forceful and i thought it had hope i like a lot of things that he discussed regarding diplomacy i like that he pretty much put it out there brett that we the united states are the ones that are going to lead the rest of the world and this is so true uh through climate change and through covid in other words we need to work together we don't need to have these unnecessary wars we're going to be your leader and in in a sense you need us and they do the world does need the united states and the world does need our leadership i loved the fact that he talked about sudan and belarus and he talked about uh protesters there and i liked the fact that i felt he owned it and took responsibility he didn't shirk it on afghanistan but he didn't dwell on it too long in this speech either you know billy it'd be interesting to take a poll of what countries think about the u.s in the wake of the recent days and weeks but there is a poll that came out today here in the u.s in one particular state in the state of iowa which obviously factors into politics take a look at this president biden's job approval in iowa 31 according to the des moines register poll has dropped significantly and obviously the situation at the border factors in not just along texas but around the country well if he wants to continue to talk about the protesters in belarus and ignore russia and china those numbers will continue to go down look he showed up i guess he gets credit for that by the way and not talking about russia and china then he talks and emphasizes i'm told about climate change uh global warming we used to call it but doesn't mention china there either uh which of course is uh is whistling in the wind if you don't if china doesn't get do something if we don't force or use our efforts to get china to do something nothing nothing better will happen he doesn't seek a cold war but he's in a cold war somebody should tell him that he's already in it china must be very happy uh with that speech the border is a disaster it is a catastrophe and uh the human catastrophe here of these 15 16 000 people is just exacerbated uh by the catastrophe of the secretary mayorkas who says the border is closed you know there you are you want to believe the secretary of homeland security are you going to believe your own eyes this is ridiculous is there a breaking point on this issue is there a breaking point well it is interesting to watch the secretary testify there were not a lot of answers to senators both sides of the aisle questioning mayorkis today but i want to talk about this one image that has taken a lot of coverage in a lot of different places and this is a border patrol uh along the border dealing with these haitian immigrants the vice president weighed in uh others take a listen what i saw depicted about um those individuals on horseback treating human beings the way they were is horrible and i fully support what is happening right now which is a thorough investigation to ensure control of the horse long reigns are used but we are going to investigate the facts to ensure uh that the situation is as we understand it to be any mistreatment or abuse of a migrant is unacceptable we are very troubled by what we have seen uh jonathan quickly uh border patrol is pushing back hard the vice president's weighing in on this but but hasn't been weighing in on the border well biden's in a very difficult position because he's actually getting hit by both sides at this point i mean chuck schumer senate majority leader came out and was pretty excoriating in his comments about this so bind's being hit by the left for harsh treatment and he's being hit by the right for the scenes that you're seeing on the border

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Length: 5min 49sec (349 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 22 2021