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of the news conference from yesterday by the numbers as they call it. here are some of the highlights. the number of questions that the president took on his thoughts for 2024, saying and quoting the former president bill clinton given acacia directorate saying there are more political questions that i would have imagined. questions about the covid pandemic, zero. the length of the press conference 62 minutes. slightly longer than president obama's first conference which lasted just under an hour but shorter than president trump's first solo press conference which went on for an hour and 17 minutes. it highlights the fact that the president called on seven women, five of them were women of

color. for comparison six of the 13 reporters present obama called on during the first press conference were women. that is some of the highlights from yesterday. you can comment on it and give us a call on the phone line. you can post on twitter and facebook as well. the number of themes being addressed yesterday, but what are the ones that came up frequently, was that of immigration. here is the president from yesterday talking about migrant surge at the border. [video clip] >> you have said that immigrants and document this time, the vision of you as a, decent man is why they are coming to this country. how do you resolve that tension in choosing which families can stay and which can go, there are some families that are staying?

is there a timeline for when we will not see these overcrowded facilities when it comes to over -- when it comes to unaccompanied minors? pres. biden: i guess it should be flattering that i am a decent man. that is why they are coming that joe biden is a good guy. nothing is changed. as many people came -- 28% increase in children at the border in my administration, 31% in the last year of 2019 before the pandemic in the trump administration. it happens every single year. there is a significant increase in the number of people coming to the border in the winter months of january, february, march. it happens every year. in addition -- does anybody

suggest that there was a 31% increase under trump because he was a nice guy? and he was doing good things that the border? that is not the reason they are coming. they're coming because it is a time they can travel with the least likelihood of dying on the way because of the heat in the desert. they are coming because of the circumstances in country. the way to deal with this problem and i started to deal with it when i was united states vice president putting together a bipartisan plan, over $700 million to go to the root causes. what did trump do? he eliminated that funny, he did not use it, he did not do it did in addition, he dismantled the elements that exist to deal with what had been a problem and continued to be a problem for a

long time. he shut down the number of beds available. he did not fund hhs to get people to get children out of those border patrol facilities where they should not be. not supposed to be more than a few days. he dismantled all of that. what we are doing is attempting to rebuild, rebuild the system that can accommodate what is happening today. host: the new york times offering a fact-check from president biden's conference from yesterday, critically to those claims about immigration. it says, "i started to deal with it when i was senator, i put together a bipartisan plan but eliminated that funny, he did not use it." the new york times saying this is followed, saying that president trump did not completely eliminate the eight and that the government increased assistance -- the aid

and that the government increased assistance. he did not seek to eliminate the funding entirely. a goes on from there. offering their fact-check of the first conference. we will show you more portions as the morning goes along. we will start with joe in brownsville, texas, democrats align. what did you think of the conference? host: -- caller: he did a good job. he needs to get rid of the filibuster, to protect voting rights. in georgia they are trying to make it harder for black people, hispanic people to vote. and to pass gun control, protect the post office, social security , medicaid, medicare because

republicans are hurting those institutions. you heard what he said. about immigration. host: what do you think about the migration issue? caller: immigration is debatable , [indiscernible] amnesty, bush to here -- on immigration we can debate. host: let's go to dan in cleveland, ohio, republican line. caller: good morning how are you? host: good. caller: good. i am baleful.

i am at home with dementia, i have been dealing with this for five years. all she likes to do is talk about --, this seems like him. anything in the future, current, they have to write stuff down for them to read to see where he is out. he goes off on tangents about the past, blaming everybody. this is not a president. this is not what a president does. he gives examples of cures. he wants to keep blaming everybody. host: such as? caller: with the border. we had it under control somewhat. now it is out of control. he started back with catch and release. what is the other one?

i cannot remember. he has no clue. i feel sorry he is old and the whole bit. when obama was president, i never made fun of obama, i dealt with it. he has no prisoners -- he has no business being our president. host: what's good to steve in new jersey, mccaslin. caller: hello -- democrats align. caller: hello. trump with his first news conference, some of the asked him, why did you lie to the american people and you think they can never trust you? they have no shame. . i was the democrats and biden would say, we are for open borders. we do not care for anything else. host: what did you think about

what the president addressed? caller: i only caught part. i know what his position is on immigration, i want to give you a quote from a movie. host: before you do, what do you think about what the president said about immigration issues? caller: he is just blaming trump. trump asked conference for more money for beds and housing for the immigrants, people coming across. he asked congress and senate to change the -- that was the predicate for catch and release. people come across the border can only be held 20 days. congress does not want to change it. host: john is next up in wilmington, illinois. independent line. caller: how are you doing? i watched you guys yesterday

after the press conference. i am amazed. it seems we all have short-term memories. in 2014 when marco rubio put forth his immigration plan and president obama said i like this plan. what happened? no i do not like that now. now if the present like to, we do not like it. all donald trump did for four years was blamed democrats. host: how does that relate to yesterday? caller: i am going by what the people are saying. the people are saying that he is blaming donald trump for the situation at the border. in my opinion, there are two

things i was disappointed that joe biden did not address. the first is the opiate crisis. the second being how we can tackle immigration from a business point of view. we currently utilize asset forfeiture laws against people suspected of drug crimes when we could utilize this tool against those businesses who knowingly and willingly tried to take over or hire an illegal alien. host: that is john in illinois given comments about yesterday when it comes to topics of immigration. former president trump making statements about the statement on immigration. he did that on fox news yesterday. in response to the claim that mr. biden made that when an unaccompanied child arose at what we are not going to let

them starve to the death, no previous administration did not either. this is the response from president trump saying, "it is the opposite, but the time with us what we are doing, very few people were coming up because they knew we were not -- they're not going to get through, and we stopped to catch and release which was a disaster. the biggest thing was that they mexico policy that and we would not allow people to wait numbered -- wait in our country until they were checked out which most of them did not get checked out and they would go back to their own country." this is on fox news if you want to read the comments from former president trump. david in st. petersburg, florida, republican line. caller: how are you doing? i am baffled. i cannot believe that people believe a word that man says.

everything that he said about the border, the claims he made about most of the young people on the border are young men, 13% -- not 70%. everything he said yesterday and blamed trump, four years of bashing donald trump, stagnant government. they would not let that man govern and now they want to complain that the republicans want to get rid of the filibuster. it is the most -- most crazy thing. when i was a young man, i would never believe this was going on in this country with these

democrats and what they are doing to this country. host: okay. david in st. petersburg there. republican line we will hear from steven from ohio, democrats align. caller: my name is steve. nothing against the people trying to get across the border, but what they are doing, they are getting in front of everybody that played by the rules. people have waited for 10, 15 years to get this country. these people are getting ahead of them and being rewarded by breaking the law. that is very unfair. host: how do you think president biden handle that? -- handled that? caller: not good at all. those people -- i did not mean to say that way. host: when you say he did not handle it, what do you mean?

caller: you do not just elect people come into the country and be here permanently and claim citizenship down the line. i cannot buy that. yeah people all over the world trying to do that and they are playing by the rules. let's good -- host: let's go to bob in on the two, texas. i watched that yesterday and surprised at the hypocrisy. he has eight grand daughter in arkansas, he will not acknowledge. host: aside from that, comments yesterday from the press conference, what do you think? caller: the news media did not ask him the right questions. he has 10 years of tax returns hidden somewhere. i do not know where they are. he is having to read the notes. he is out of it. he is gone and should be

forgotten. he is going to hang around. the fbi will let him hang around. they are never going to look into his past. he said i never took a penny from a foreign country. did he take a penny from china through his son? host: that is bob in texas, the first conference, a topic that we are going to spend time on this money. if you want to comment on that (202) 748-8000 for democrats, (202) 748-8001 for republicans, independents (202) 748-8002, text us (202) 748-8003. one of things the president started off discussing was the rate of vaccinations that are going on. and the efforts by the federal government announcing a plan for increases. [video clip] pres. biden: on december 8, a indicated that i hope to get 100 million shards into people --

shots into people's arms in my first 100 days, we met that goal on day 58. now i am setting a second goal, that is we will by my 100th taken office have administered 200 million shots. i know it is ambitious. twice our original goal. no other country in the world has come close. i believe we can do it. today we made a historic investment in reaching the hardest hit and most vulnerable communities. the highest risk communities as a consequence of the virus. by investing $10 billion to reach them. i set a goal of getting a majority of schools in k-8 fully

open in the first 100 days. thanks to the enormous amount of work done by our administration, educators, presidents, local, state education officials and leaders, recent department surveys show that half of the k-8 schools are open full-time, five days per week. not yet a majority. we are really close and i believe in the 38 days left to go we will meet that. host: washington post provides a chart on the rate of vaccination. the headline as far as the u.s. being on track for those 200 million shards of the 100 day, but to reach that goal the country has to give less than 1.9 million per day, less than the current average. on the first day of his presidency, 17.2 million people were vaccinated reaching a high

of 133.3 million on day 55 of his administration and charging that goal. -- charting that goal. abbey in west springfield, massachusetts, democrat line. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: i watched the entire thing. it is nice to see a gentleman. i was taught that you can respect the office but not the man. but i have respect for both. as far as immigration, what is wrong with the american people that they fail to realize this country was based on immigrants? they are throwing darts and they are falling short. host: how do you think the president addressed the topic? caller: i was all right with it.

i know there is work to be done. i wish that people would give this president time. it has been a little more than two months he has been in office. he has had to undo things but he has plans to do future things. as far as restructuring, i think it is wonderful that he is even thinking about these bills. these towns and cities are hurting with bridges and roads. host: the reported $3 trillion bill, that is pending from the administration when it comes to infrastructure, climate change and other things, he highlighted that yesterday. saint next friday is an unveiling -- saying next friday is an unveiling of those goals.

republican line, go ahead. caller: hello, how are you? host: fine. thank you. caller: there is a a lot of questions that did not get asked about the immigration system. what he plans on doing. are we going to put people in military posts? if they keep coming up here. what are we going to do about vaccination? what are we going to do about -- he only had certain people asking questions. he already had the written down because he kept going back to his nose. he kept going back -- he would

get stumped. it is pitiful. he is the leader of the free world. he only had 10 people that got to ask questions? i think he needs to let the press go down there to the border. we need to be able to ask him questions, serious questions. somebody in the background is saying, do not ask him this, do not let that person ask this. host: he had 10 per that she had 10 reporters asking questions yesterday with follow-ups yesterday. caller: you only have those 10, he did not have anybody from one america news, fox, newsmax.

there is more than cbs, nbc, abc, npr. there are millions of people in this country. there is not just california and new york. host: that is janice in indiana, newsweek highlights some of the details of the press conference, particularly the use of notes. photos showed that present biden used a cheat sheet that appeared to show images and names of the reporters and numbers about the reporters. as a partner card detailed infrastructure data, contacts refused to comment. the use of notes at white house press conferences is not unusual. president trump used notes when speaking about the ukraine scandal ahead of his first impeachment. the straight adding that the cheat sheet ignited a row on social media is and conservative

commenters offered contrasting takes on the performance. some said the use of notes was simply a professional decision while others argued that it was a mark of decline. you can read more of those comments on newsweek. roger glenn said it was painfully obvious that he knew the questions coming. he lost track midsentence. from michigan, the president says he will allow the president look at the broader facility when the new man is given, depressed about pushback. disappointed. he came prepared, he did not belittle any reporters. what most presidential press conferences were like prior to 2017. which means that cold of the orange idiot hated it. you can make comments on twitter

at @cspanwj. democrats line, lorene is next. caller: joe biden it did so much better than trump ever did. he did not do as good as obama, obama is the high bar and trump is the low bar. he was calm, cohesive. he spoke in full sentences. he did not speak in gibberish. he had notes, he was prepared. what a tragedy, that we have a president who comes prepared. i cannot believe these people. the american media failed us. they were awful. i cannot believe how long the questions were. sometimes longer than the answers. i thought the questions were irrelevant. my mother still has not gotten her stimulus check.

where are those? there are a lot of things that could've asked about. host: what did you learn from the conference? caller: that my husband will get to shot soon. that is what i learned. i have been trying to get online. right after joe biden said everybody is going to get a shot soon, california announced that april 1 my husband can get a shot. i am so happy. my whole family is going to be protected from covid because of that news conference. >> we live this recording program here, you can finish watching it at c-span.org >> individuals signed up for appointments and provide them transportation to vaccine appointments. food assistance and housing nonprofits