Biden, 79, spoke to ABC's David Muir for 20 minutes in an interview and defended his Administration against denouncement of its handling of the pandemic and readiness for the rapidly spreading Omicron variant. He admitted that there were certain mistakes made.
When asked regarding complaints that the lines to get tested for COVID-19 were excessive, with waits of more than five hours in New York City as one instance, Biden announced that 500 million at-home tests had been ordered.
Though many times he referred to the tests as "pills,” possibly thinking of the Pfizer antiviral pills, which were federally approved on the same day.
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"Repeatedly throughout this interview - President Biden seems confused and was confusing the half a billion tests that they've ordered with a half a billion pills," announced Jeff Zeleny, CNN's chief national affairs correspondent.
"Of course, pills were in the news today with the Pfizer approval of the antiviral, so he corrected himself, but that was one thing that stuck out to me."
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In appearing on Wolf Blitzer's show on Wednesday afternoon, Zeleny blamed Biden for "really not accepting any responsibility" for the lack of testing.
Biden, asked whether the Administration should have seen Omicron coming and prepared accordingly, announced: "nobody saw it coming."
Defiant, the President announced they were doing the best they could.
Zeleny stated it was not enough.
"Simply, this Administration, and the president leading the charge here, really not accepting any responsibility at all for this lack of testing," Zeleny stated.
"We've seen these images across the country, long lines, just the inability to get tests."
"And yes, Omicron came on very quickly here, but it has been almost a month since Thanksgiving where they knew this was coming."
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"So he said he wishes he could have acted faster, and then explains why he didn't."
Zeleny also pointed out that he has not gotten detailed information about the delivery of the 500 million tests that Biden promised.
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"But the question also is: The at-home tests for January - there is no sense from the Administration that they will be sent out in early January, as the President suggested in this interview," Zeleny concluded.
In the interview on Wednesday, Biden was asked how the Administration had failed to see Omicron coming, and he laughed.
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