Good morning. Welcome, Nexios, today. It's Friday, December 16th. I'm Nyla Boudou.

Today, Jonathan Swan with the Year in Review Edition of our Friday Politics State of Play,

plus what's ahead in 2023? That's our one big thing.

At Exios, we talk a lot about the big picture and what's next in our coverage.

Well, over the next few shows, we're going to do just that as we wrap up 2022 in the news across a few areas,

from tech to health and beyond, and then look ahead for what to watch in the new year.

And what better way to start than by getting the big picture in politics,

from our own Exios political reporter Jonathan Swan,

plus his thoughts on what's next in 2023. Hey, Jonathan. It's great to be here.

Jonathan, I was thinking actually about how this year started and how it's ended

for Joe Biden versus Donald Trump. And I'm curious how you think history will view 2022 for the Biden administration.

Well, I would go back even a little bit further. And we saw in the summer of 2021,

Biden's approval basically collapsing after the Afghanistan withdrawal.

And from that moment, until around the summer time of this year,

many people were effectively writing his political obituary.

And there was sort of a torrent of stories that were written with at least the tacit assumption

that there was a good chance he wouldn't run for reelection.

And his presidency was effectively over that there was going to be next year a Republican house

with a big majority and probably a Republican Senate,

that while he had accomplished some major things legislatively,

there was no chance of anything further, et cetera, et cetera.

I think that that story started to shift a little bit in the summer of this year

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