I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Thursday, January 20th.

On Joe Biden's 365th day in office, at least three significant things happened. One had nothing to do with Joe Biden.

The Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump does have to comply with a congressional subpoena for

documents pertaining to the January 6th insurrection and that understanding what happened that day

is more important than any claim to executive privilege that Trump was asserting.

Only one justice, Clarence Thomas, wrote in dissent.

So last night, it's being reported.

The National Archives gave the committee hundreds of pages of White House documents it was holding.

Eventually, we'll know if they shed any meaningful light.

The second significant thing that happened yesterday was that the Senate, as expected,

failed to advance voting rights legislation blocked by all 50 Republicans,

plus Democrats Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema.

And the third thing, Biden Day 365 was the day that he held an end of his first year in office news conference that as much as anything was a two-hour long pushback against the media narrative and public perception in many places that year one has not been a great success.

Here is the first question asked by a reporter

at the beginning of the president's news conference, and we'll also hear the beginning of his response.

Thank you, Mr. President. I know some of my colleagues will get into some specific issues,

but I wanted to zoom out on your first year in office. Inflation is up. Your signature domestic legislation is

stalled in Congress. In a few hours from now, an effort in the Senate to deal with voting rights

and voting reform legislation is going to fail. COVID-19 is still taking the lives of 1,500 Americans

every day. And the nation's divisions are just as raw as they were a year ago.

Did you overpromise to the American public what you could achieve in your first year in office,

and how do you plan to course correct going forward?

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