Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, March 26. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's

how we're making use smarter today. All the votes have been counted in Israel's election.

Plus, our country's history with Asian-American discrimination. We start with today's one

big thing. President Biden's first news conference.

We will buy my 100th day in office, have administered 200 million shots. The idea that

I'm going to say, which I would never do, but on a company child ends up at the border.

We're just going to let them starve to death and stay on the other side. No previous administration

is dead either, except Trump. Successful presidents better than me have been successful

in a large part because they know how to time what they're doing.

In Joe Biden yesterday, Margaret Taleb is Axios' White House and Politics Managing Editor.

Margaret, how did President Biden do? What's your big takeaway?

I mean, we really have the first chance to see how he wants the public to understand how

he thinks about leadership as president. He talked about politics being about the art

of the possible. I think he gave us quite a lens through which to view his decision-making

in the weeks to come as he figures out when to roll out executive orders on guns, whether

to try to break the filibuster, all these issues, he's given us a playbook of how he thinks

about them.

One of the major issues was immigration. Did he clarify where the administration stands

on the border crisis? Yeah, it was the toughest area for him and they knew

it would be he really wanted to talk about COVID. You can see why I understandably he's had

a lot of successes on it. These are huge problems for him and he described them as chronic

or long-term problems, tried to put them in the context of things every other president

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