>> ♪ well, look who's here want to come on in it's >> coming up, today's white house coronavirus root -- response briefing, they will be taking questions we will have that live when it starts and it's set for 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. coming up this afternoon come a discussion on president biden first 100 days in office hosted by ax steve scalise is expected to take part in that's live at 12 p.m. eastern on c-span. 30ios. a little later, remarks from the homeland security secretary. he will talk about immigration

at the ucla center for immigration law and policy. live coverage starts at 3 p.m. eastern on c-span, streaming on www.c-span.org board listen free with the live c-span radio app. posted on facebook. your grade for president biden on his first one hundred days. the "washington post" asked opinion writers what would be there grade for the president. they broke it down by issue. jennifer rubin gave the president an a-when it comes to presidential leadership. look at james homan's grade for the president on bipartisanship. he said he gets a b. when it comes to unity, gary abernethy gave him a c-. he says biden's recognizes republicans only as one would acknowledge shoulder lint. the relief package rivals the new deal, and there have been

strict party line votes. a package twists the definition of infrastructure beyond recognition. here is the president from his inauguration address promising unity. [video clip] pres. biden: this, bringing america together, uniting our people, uniting our nation, and i ask every american to join me in this cause. [applause] uniting to fight the foes we face, anger, resentment, and hatred, asked -- extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness. with unity, we can do great things, important things. we can right wrongs we could put people to work in the good jobs. we can teach our children in

safe schools. we can overcome the deadly virus. we can reward work and rebuild the middle class and make health care secure for all. we can live a racial justice. and we can make america once again a leading force for good in the world. i know, speaking of unity, it can sound like a fullest fantasy these days to some. i know the forces that divide us are deep, and they are real. but i also know they are not new. our history has been a constant struggle between the american ideal that we are all created equal and the harsh, ugly reality of racism, nativism, fear, demonization have long torn us apart. the battle is perennial and victory never assured. great depression, world war,

9/11. struggles, sacrifices come and setbacks, our better angels have always prevailed. in each of these moments, enough of us, enough of us, have come together to carry all of us forward. and we can do that now. history, faith, and reason show the way, the way of unity. we can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors. we can treat each other with dignity and respect. we can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. without unity, there is no peace, on the goodness and impurity, no progress, only exhausting outrage. no nation, only a state of chaos. this is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity

is the path forward. host: president biden from january 20 after being sworn into office that day. we are asking you, 100 days later, what grade would you give him? begin dialing in now. phone numbers on your screen. mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate, took issue with president biden's call for unity recently. here is what he said. [video clip] >> like my fellow kentuckians watching at home, i will be curious how the president can't square his rhetoric with the administration's actions over the past 100 days. in january, many americans hoped they could take the incoming president at his word. after a year of beating back a historic pandemic and grappling with civil unrest, president biden pledged he would be "the president for all americans."

intending to repair, restore, and heal. the american people elected a 50/50 senate, a closely divided house, and a president who preached moderation. he promised with his whole soul, he was committed to uniting our people. many hoped his administration would reflect that promise. but the first 100 days have left much to be desired. over a few short months, the biden administration seems to have given up on sowing actual unity in favor of the liberal base covered with a hefty coat of false advertising. the so-called american rescue plan, directing less than 10% of vaccines and pending -- pandemic health care, market it a covid-19 relief measure. after sending sums of money to

state governments whose revenues have already rebounded in declaring war on the consensus that welfare spending should actually be linked to work, or take hr-1, a sweeping effort by democrats for a bipartisan takeover of all 50 state voting laws. after republican won the white house and the white house in 2016, this was billed as a massive overhaul for a broken office. now and nearly identical plan is instead marketed as a modest dose of preventative agreements. it is still the same takeover. it has always been. and now we have and the multitrillion dollar plan of liberal social engineering that would decimate entire industries and spend only a small fraction on roads and bridges. [video clip] the minority leader from wednesday. joel in spring, texas, a.

you are up first. what grade do you give president biden? caller: not a passing grade, greta, and good morning to you. host: why not? caller: well, the spending he is reposing. our national debt is approaching $30 trillion. we do not have the money. we are about to, very possibly, lose the reserve currency status that the world uses. when that happens in our interest rates go up for outstanding treasury bonds, we are out of luck. i am not a neurologist, but it does not take one to be able to see that there is some mental deficiency on the part of the man.

i do not take pleasure in saying that. i am a member of the loyal minority. but we got trouble. host: joel, on the spending and the economy, how do you square what you have said with headlines like this this morning -- wall street journal, u.s. economy bounces back near its peak. that is "wall street journal." then you have "the new york times come to economic search in the united states lifts hoped for the year as people aim to spend. caller: that does not mitigate the effect we are approaching $30 million in debt. yes, we have got a barely result -- a very resilient economy. and donald trump was hard to like, and a lot of people just could not do it, even members of my own family. said this guy is bombastic and is an up erisman, and we do not want him. -- is an embarrassment, and we

do not want him. he was not my favorite choice in the primaries. i was a ted cruz guy. host: joel, would you give -- caller: i have no argument with "the wall street journal" or "the new york times" on the economy. host: so what grade would you give president biden on the economy? does he deserve any credit? caller: no. what has he done? i have not heard anybody postulate what he has done to actually increase or benefit the economy, no. he gives nothing. he gets a zero. it is not even a 50. it is like zero. and i have been watching since 1979, the first day that this program came on. and let me say just two things.

please go back to the way that it was when you have two people discussing something that have diametrical positions on that. they do not have to argue and attacks, just arguing. but we are going to get a lot more out of it, certainly. and jesse the other day, that guy needs to start watching -- [inaudible] do not involve himself. he fancies himself a journalism professor or he is from mississippi or this, that, and the other. y'all have made every attempt to never evolve -- involve yourselves, and he seems not to. i like him and do not mean to just call some of the but i did.

host: joel, we take that feedback. i cannot agree more with you about the roundtable point that you made. it is something that we try to do. we reach out to lawmakers and ask them to sit across the table from somebody that they disagree with. and we also very much enjoyed that kind of conversation. ted, you are next, you are a democrat in new york. what grade do you give president biden? caller: you know, i give him an a, mostly because, you know, trump was just an f. biden is a clear a. he is trying to do the right thing, trying to be a government worker, trying to be an employee for the government, instead of being this guy that is on the tv after hour after hour for four years. trump was running a tv show. he was an egomaniac.

you know, you have got to give it to biden. he is a normal human being trying to run the government. i am a fiscal conservative, even though i am a democrat, and i am a pro-second amendment, oddly, even though i am a democrat. so i hate being labeled by my sons on the right. you know, i do not know why everybody on the right and conservatives are worried about people being taxed who make more than $400,000 a year. i am not worried about a guy who makes over $400,000 a year. they have throwaway money. they throw away their money on this and that and the other things. and to go back to former tax rates into say, oh -- business people will always invest to make money, regardless of the tax rate. you know, we need -- we are 30

trillion dollars in debt, but that ain't biden's fault. remember, clinton -- i do not know exactly how the clinton administration did it, but there were a lot less in debt than we were, but they were turning that aircraft carrier finance around. they were lowering the debt, the national deficit. host: heard your point, and we want some other voices, as well. here is a text from california that says i would give biden an f. too progressive, overspending, not working with members across the aisle. brad, you are an independent in kentucky. what is your grade for the president? caller: i would give president biden an f. those around him are probably giving him an a. he is covering -- governing

exactly how i figured he would from what i saw in his career and the campaign. i think he is sort of a shell, and those around him, who are some of the worst intentioned people in government, have pushed him into the nomination over the infringement of democratic voters in that primary and those caucasus. from the nomination, they have pushed him into the white house, and he is there now -- not that i can verify that because no one is allowed to go to d.c., i suppose. so they want him there because he is a pushover. he will not do anything. and you can see that in the policies they have enacted. host: which ones? caller: biden bombed syria. ok, he is saying he is ending wars. they said they are against guns and going to do gun control, but

he just did billions of arms sales to saudi arabia. he is a pushover, a joke. he is said. host: president biden on the campaign trail promised quite a few things before he became president. in his first 100 days, look at the list. covid-19 response and economic recovery is one of the things he promised. a new foreign palma -- policy, new approach to immigration. guns and policing was also on his list. climate change, call for national unity, and cabinet appointee diversity. how do you think he did on those promises in these first 100 days? what grade would you give him on that? the "washington times" front page this morning, president biden takes a hard left in his first 100 days. the gop has been unable to block his agenda. michael in new kensington, pennsylvania, republican. hi. caller: good morning.

yes, i would give him a d or maybe an e. [laughs] that he has certainly not done anything to engender my support. i do not believe he is uniting this country. and i think he is dividing this country. and as i think the media has divided this country. the problem with the polarization is the media's fault. they have continually harped on everything trump did and said that he was a divider, polarizing, racist, this and that and the other thing. and i did not see any of that in him. i heard his speech when he was inaugurated, and he said a lot of good things. and he wanted to be president for all americans, and i think he demonstrated that in some of the policies that he promoted that were for blacks, helped

employment for blacks and education for blacks and all kind of things. and other minorities, women and hispanics. and i think that he has -- biden has divided this country. he has not promoted independence, individualism. and some of the american values that i think trump was trying to restore. that is my take on it. host: let's go to anna in chicago, democratic caller. caller: good morning, greta. i give president biden double-a. he is also. all republicans do is complain, complain, complain. trump spent too much money. if not, biden could do all the

things he wanted to do. host: why do you give him a double-a? what has he done to deserve that? caller: he has big plans, and i believe in him. he would not want to spend money if he could not afford it. so now we have a real president, presidential figure. so i am proud of him. thank you. host: jt in kentucky, texas, says he gives him an a+ for the first 100 days. republicans helping him will never happen. tax breaks for the rich would be the only thing they would help with. if he wants to help the working people, he has to forget about republican help. bobby in alabama, a republican. what is your grade? caller: hi, i think he is a zero.

i just don't understand -- i can't understand why the people think he doing such a great job when he had not done anything. he is more like a puppet than a president. i have never saw anything -- i would have never dreamed we would have a leader in this country that is so ignorant. host: bobby, when it comes to his promises of addressing climate change, the associated press put together a list of issues that the president promised to work on if he was elected to office. and one of them is climate change. they say that he has completed four of his seven promises when it comes to climate change, take executive action to reduce greenhouse gas emission, check, rejoin paris climate accord, check, curbing fluorocarbon's,

and the world's climate summit. all of those get a check. others like making infrastructure investments >> we lived -- relief this recorded program here. you can see it on a website. we taking out to the coronavirus briefing with dr. ouchi and dr. wilensky -- with dr. anthony thought she and dr. walensky. jeffrey: we delivered -- we beat the president's goal by delivering over 200 50 million shots in 100 days, a level nobody expected us to reach this quickly. by the end of may we will have enough vaccine supply for every adult american. just this