rich lowry, editor-in-chief of "national review" and jessica taylor from the "cook report." appreciate you all being with me. and david, start with you. apologize bringing back unpleasant memories but going through the history. your former boss, barack obama, one of those presidents who had a very difficult midterm in 2010. we've showed 63 seat loss for democrats in barack obama first midterm. curious. somebody as involved as you were in the obama operation, when you look back a decade later, look back at that midterm campaign, are there lessons you feel you learned from it? something you feel could you have done, should have done, that might have materially affected the result, or do you take a view that there's only so much that can be done from a white house to prevent the kinds of losses we're showing here? >> well, it's a great question, steve. i think generally macro forces more important than questions of messaging or tactics. i remind you back in 2010, you remember, democrats had monster elections in '06 and '08. won everything they could win. were owning a lot of ho

jessica taylor gave us more details of thought. he a busy sat today in the kremlin situation. room was pitch log site has better russian count, overstaying those joint military drills. i'll be at force as well as the northern black sea fleets or participated, but undoubtedly the biggest crowd torah while they practice launches of the intercontinental ballistic missiles. now despite the announcement of these drills being and top 2 by the west as an open declaration of war against ukraine, it's important to note that not only with a pound while in advance, they also to happen on an annual basis. the main goal was really just to test the readiness of forces. and of course, the reliability of weapons outside of putin. ernie him himself and he recently reiterated, there's no aggression him or the go. what it is if the, in the light of the growing military activity of nato countries on the external borders of the union state. we jointly gave a high assessment to the ally, 2022 exercises that are purely defensive in nature, and do not thr

jessica taylor in the studio. now. saskia, sports and politics were, you know, there's supposed to be totally separate entities here, but in beijing is that what we're saying? what if you thought that some things are beyond politicization, you would in fact be wrong at the winter olympics in beijing have officially kicked off and re so far they have been a sight to behold. we've seen some pretty dazzling mesmerizing bold, colorful displays and performances, which of course matches the mood. this is off to all a celebration of sport. and there's so much to talk about, i mean, go 209921 competing countries, almost 3000 athletes participating. but you won't hear much of that in some mainstream, west and media. what you will hear instead though is the drumbeat of war, because some media pundits just have not been able to help themselves when it comes to commenting on vladimir putin presence in beijing. the walls, the walls top athletes were parading across the stage in the opening ceremony and the commentators, instea

jessica. >> the worst news for athletes is getting that positive test and unfortunately it is happening. a key member of team usa, elena meyers taylor, also bobsledder, now they're both positive she and her husband. she was supposed to be the flag bearer for the ceremony, right? >> exactly. she was just announced earlier today your time that she would be the flag bear we are a curler, john schuster, but she tested positive for covid. she arrived last week, she and her husband tested positive two days later. they've been moved to an undisclosed quarantine hotel in separate rooms. they have to stay in their room until they test negative twice. they're both still testing positive. i spoke to ilana 12 hours ago and she's keeping a positive attitude about this. >> you just have to be grateful, you know. all of us are healthy. yes, we have covid, but we're all asymptomatic and that's a blessing given the pandemic and the state of what's happening with everybody. so many people have lost loved ones, have been seriously harmed by this, and we're just fortunate to be healthy at this point, you know. anytime you have an opportunity to represe

taylor's mother. absolutely heartbreaking. thanks, jason. sources are telling cnn president biden met with at least three potential supreme court nominees and that decision should be coming soon. jessicaonnected to the candidates. they've been given the impression that the president really has not decided on his pick yet despite his own self-imposed deadline that's looming. he promised to make a pick by the end of the month, which is on monday. president biden has interviewed the three top candidates, one of the women will be the president's pick. at the top of a lot of lists is judge ketanji brown jackson. she's been on the federal appeals court here in d.c. for almost a year now and before that spent almost a decade on the district court. she wrote a 100-plus page opinion in 2019 knocking down the trump administration's argument the white house counsel at the time, don mcgahn, did not have to testify for congressional committees. she wrote in that opinion it's been much cited that presidents are not kings, in her words. she also ruled recently against trump's claims of executive privilege in december, citing with the three-judge panel when he tried to stop the white house records fr