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Happy Friday. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your playbook daily briefing.

Over the course of Biden's 62 minutes behind the mic yesterday, the first news conference of its presidency, there's one topic he was never asked about.

Not once. The pandemic.

Wait, what? As Politica's Anita Kumar, who was in the room, writes,

the absence of that issue from the presser shows just how much a host of other challenges

have started to dominate Biden's time in office. A search of migrants at the border,

back-to-back mass shootings, and efforts to restrict voting in Republican state houses.

We've got updates for you this morning on

several of those issues, but first, playbook co-author Ryan Liza breaks down the most important

takeaways from yesterday's big presser. It's a matter of timing. If there were a one-sentence

takeaway from Joe Biden's first press conference yesterday, that may be it. Over and over in the

East Room, the president

made it clear that he's in control of the timing of his legislative priorities and that he would not

allow events to overtake his plans. Guns, immigration, voting rights, filibuster reform,

the big issues that have intervened recently and which dominated questioning by reporters

would have to wait.

If Biden were an Italian grandmother, he would have been at that podium putting his hand

up to the reporters and patiently repeating,

Aspeta.

Wait.

The other problems we're talking about from immigration to guns and the other things you mentioned

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