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>>> WE ARE LIVE TONIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ACTION >> MOMENTS FROM NOW, GOING DOWN INTO THAT BUILDING. SPEECH DELIVERED TO AUDIENCE OF CONGRESS, TOP MEMBERS, SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, INVITED GUESTS. >> MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU AT HOME. >> MR. SPEAKER, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. >> PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN MOMENTS AWAY FROM THE MOST CRITICAL STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS OF HIS PRESIDENCY. >> HIS MESSAGE TO THE NATION AS A 2024 GENERAL ELECTION KICKS OFF. >> REMATCH LOCKED IN, THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN A CENTURY, FORMER PRESIDENT TAKING ON A CURRENT PRESIDENT. >> THE PRESIDENT SET TO LAY IT OUT AS CLEAR AND CONSEQUENTIAL CHOICE ARGUING EITHER CIVILITY OR CHAOS. DEMOCRACY OR TYRANNY. >> SACRIFICE OUR DEMOCRACY. >> CONFRONTING HAT ON, HIS BIGGEST POLITICAL CHALLENGE, THE IDEA HE IS TOO OLD TO KEEP HIS JOB. >> I'M AN ELDERLY MAN AND I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING. >> THE ISSUES, IMMIGRATION AND BORDER CRISIS. >>> ON THE ECONOMY, HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL BETTER ABOUT NUMBERS THAT ARE LOOKING BETTER. >> WE ARE INVESTING IN AMERICA AND AMERICAN PEOPLE FORGET >>> WITH THE WARS OF HER SEAT, DEFINING AMERICA'S ROLE IN TWO BRUTAL AND DEADLY CONFLICTS. >> UKRAINE AGAINST RUSSIA. >> ISRAEL AGAINST HAMAS. >> A SPEECH WITH EVERYTHING ON THE LINE. >> REBUILT THE BACKBONE OF AMERICA. >>> FROM NBC NEWS NOW, PRESIDENTIAL STATE OF THE UNIT LIVE FROM WASHINGTON. HERE ARE HALLIE JACKSON AND TOM LLAMAS >> GOOD EVENING FROM WASHINGTON, I'M TOM LLAMAS >> I'M HALLIE JACKSON. IN LESS THAN AN HOUR, THE PRESIDENT WILL MAKE HIS CASE, IS HE THE ONE THAT CAN FACE THE BIG ISSUES FACING THE COUNTRY? >> HIS BIGGEST CHALLENGE CONVINCING AMERICA HE CAN LEAD, NOT DONALD TRUMP. WE LOOK AT WHAT IS TOP OF MIND FOR VOTERS AND A LOT OF YOU. WE START WITH IMMIGRATION AND THE SOUTHERN BORDER IS A THING RECORD-BREAKING 250,000 MIGRANT CROSSINGS IN DECEMBER. >> IN THE ECONOMY, EVEN WITH MARKETS HEADING RECORD HIGHS, INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, NUMBERS ARE LOOKING BETTER, PEOPLE ARE NOT FEELING BETTER ABOUT THEIR MONEY TO >>> FOREIGN-POLICY, BUILDING TEMPORARY PORT TO DELIVER BADLY NEEDED AID TO THE GAZA STRIP. NO POLICY OR EXECUTIVE ACTION IN CHANGE FRONT AND CENTER TONIGHT, HIS AGE. >> THAT'S RIGHT, POLLING OF THREE-QUARTERS OF VOTERS SAY IT'S TOO OLD TO BE EFFECTIVE, INCLUDING HALF OF HIS OWN PARTY. WE KNOW THE PRESIDENT WILL NOT DO THAT TONIGHT, TO FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, HIS PRESUMPTIVE 2024 OPPONENT WHO IS IN HIS LATE 70s. >> THE PRESIDENT SET TO WALK INTO THE CAPITOL WITH APPROVAL RATING HOVERING IN THE HIGH 30 . STUMBLING OR FREEZING COULD MAKE IT WORSE. >> THERE ARE A LOT OF EYEBALLS ON THIS, TOPPING 100 BROADCASTS WITH MORE VIEWERS THAN ANYTHING TOPPING FOOTBALL AND THANKSGIVING PARADE. >> JUST LIKE FOOTBALL, TONIGHT'S COVERAGE FROM EVERY ANGLE. MR. BIDEN'S TRIP DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE TO THE CAPITOL, THE SCENES INSIDE, THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE THE PRESIDENT WILL DEPART FROM SOON. LET'S PULL THIS UP HERE, THE PROTEST HAPPENED RIGHT NOW, PRO- PALESTINIAN PROTEST THAT ERUPTED OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS. >> THE NEXT 60 MINUTES WE HAVE YOU COVERED WITH THE BEST REPORTERS IN THE BUSINESS BREAKING DOWN YOU EVERYTHING ABOUT TO SEE AND HEAR FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE CAPITOL, THE BORDER TO OVERSEAS. WE WILL START WITH GABE GUTIERREZ POSTED OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE. WE ARE GETTING A LOOK AT THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. >> Reporter: BEFORE I GET TO THAT, YOU SHOW THAT LIVE TEACHERS OF THE PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS OUTSIDE THE CAPITOL. YOU MAY BE ABLE TO HEAR IT, THE BUILDING BEHIND THE WHITE HOUSE, YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME, JUST ON THE STREET, THE LESS OUR OR SO, MORE THAN 100 PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS HERE OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE IN ADDITION TO OUTSIDE THE CAPITOL. THAT GOES TO SHOW THE CHALLENGES PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL BE FACING AS HE HEADS TO THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. CRITICISM NOT JUST ON DOMESTIC POLICY BUT FOREIGN-POLICY PROTESTERS TALKING ABOUT VOTING UNCOMMITTED SENDS A MESSAGE TO THE VOTERS LAST SEVERAL WEEKS WRITING UNCOMMITTED. I WANT TO GET TO THE THEMES THE PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO HIT, THE ECONOMY, ROE V. WADE, TALKING ABOUT ABORTION RIGHTS. ALSO TAKING THE ISSUE OF AGE HAD ON TALKING ABOUT PROTECTING DEMOCRACY. I WANT TO FOR ONE OF THE EXCERPTS, LIFETIME OF EMBRACING FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY, THE CORE VALUES THAT DEFINED AMERICA. RESPECT EVERYONE, GIVE EVERYONE A FAIR SHOT, TO GIVE HATE NO SAFE HARBOR. PEOPLE MY AGE A DIFFERENT STORY, AMERICAN STORY OF RESENTMENT, REVENGE, RETRIBUTION, THAT IS NOT ME. THE PRESIDENT PLANS TO TAKE SEVERAL OF THOSE CRITICISMS HAD ON TONIGHT >> AS WE ARE LISTENING TO REPORT, LOOKING AT LIVE PICTURES OF THE PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTEST HAPPENING BLOCKS FROM THE CAPITOL TONIGHT. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WILL MAKE A LOT OF NEWS, A LOT OF PEOPLE LISTENING TONIGHT IS WHAT WE HEARD EARLIER FROM SOURCES AT THE WHITE HOUSE THAT THE PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO TALK ABOUT THIS MAKESHIFT PORT THEY WILL BUILD IN GAZA THIS IS AN INTERESTING POSITION FOR THE U.S. WE HELP ISRAEL WHEN IT COMES TO THE MILITARY AND BUILD A PORT TO HELP PALESTINIANS STARTING AND NEED AID TO GET SOME HELP AREA >> Reporter: THAT'S RIGHT. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WALKING THE FINE LINE SINCE THE WAR BROKE OUT SIDING WITH ISRAEL BUT ALSO TRYING TO GET AS MUCH HUMANITARIAN AID INTO GAZA YES, EARLIER TODAY WE DID HEAR FROM SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS THAT TOLD US THE U.S. MILITARY WILL LEAD THAT EMERGENCY MISSION TO CREATE A PORT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN TO GET HUMANITARIAN AID INTO GAZA. THE HUMANITARIAN AID WILL FLOW THROUGH CYPRESS. A LOT OF QUESTIONS LOGISTICALLY ABOUT HOW THIS WILL PLAY OUT, THE SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS QUICK TO POINT OUT THAT WILL BE NO AMERICAN BOOTS ON THE GROUND IN GAZA. HOWEVER, QUESTIONS ABOUT LOGISTICS THE ISRAELIS SET TO PROVIDE SECURITY FOR THAT MISSION AND NGO AND U.N. EXPECTED TO RESTRICT THE AID HITTING THE GAZA APPEARED NO AMERICAN BOOTS ON THE GROUND, ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS SAY IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS TO PLAN AND EXECUTE THAT MISSION. CERTAINLY IT APPEARS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, TIME TO SHOW IT IS DOING SOMETHING TO APPEASE THE PROTESTERS THAT WE SEE RIGHT NOW. >> GABE GUTIERREZ, A LOT TO WATCH FROM YOUR PERCH BY THE WHITE HOUSE >> LET'S BRING CAPITOL HILL CORRESPONDENT RYAN NOBLES WHO JOINS US LIVE FROM THAT EXACT LOCATION. I WANT TO GO OFF SCRIPT A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE ARE WATCHING PICTURES OF THE PROTEST. IS IT CAUSING TRAFFIC JAMS, PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM GETTING TO THE CHAMBERS? LESS THAN AN HOUR AWAY FROM SEEING THE PRESIDENT APART FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND GET TO THE CAPITOL. >> Reporter: NOT CAUSING MUCH OF IT DISRUPTION, MOST PEOPLE ATTENDING THE STATE OF THE UNIT WELL PREPARED TO GET HERE EARLY BECAUSE ONCE THE PRESIDENT MAKES HIS WEIGHT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE TO THE CAPITOL, ALL OF THE ROADS ARE SHUT OFF, ENTRANCES SHUT DOWN AS WELL. IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PREVENTING ANYONE FROM MONEY TO BE HERE TO SEE THE SPEECH FROM GETTING HERE IN TIME FOR YOU POINT OUT RIGHTLY, THIS IS AN ISSUE THE PRESIDENT WILL BE FORCED TO DEAL WITH, WALKING INTO A CHAMBER AS PARTISAN AS IT HAS BEEN IN A GENERATION THAT MEANS SERIOUS DIVIDE BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS. THERE ARE DIVIDES WITHIN THE PARTIES THEMSELVES AND A NUMBER OF PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS CONCERNED ABOUT THE WAY ISRAEL IS PROSECUTING THIS WAR. THERE ARE CONCERNS THAT COULD BE DISRUPTIONS DURING THE SPEECH, MAYBE FROM REPUBLICANS OPPOSING THE PRESIDENT'S POLICY AND PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OR THE GUESTS THEY INVITED WHO MAY WANT TO VOICE DISAPPROVAL OF THAT POLICY AND THE WAY THE SITUATION IS BEING HANDLED IN THE MIDDLE EAST YOU I CAN TELL YOU THERE WILL BE A LOT OF WAYS FOR THESE MEMBERS, THEY DON'T GET A CHANCE TO SPEAK TONIGHT, TO VOICE HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT CERTAIN POLICY ISSUES IN THE WAY THEY DRESS OR THE GUESTS INVITED PICK AMONG THE GUESTS, FAMILIES OF THE HOSTAGES AND PARENTS OF EVAN GERSHKOVICH, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTED DETAINED BY RUSSIA. >> SO MUCH OF THE GUESTS, WASN'T THAT CHAMBERS IS ABOUT SENDING A MESSAGE, SENDING THE MESSAGE WITH THE OPTICS OF A NIGHT LIKE THIS, MORE THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE EXPECTED TO WATCH. WHO DO YOU EXPECT TO SEE INSIDE THE CHAMBER, INSIDE THE CAPITOL TONIGHT? >> Reporter: TALK ABOUT THE GROUP OF PEOPLE, SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON INVITED. OF THAT LIST, WE TALKED ABOUT THE PARENTS OF EVAN GERSHKOVICH BUT ALSO A FAMILY OF ONE OF THOSE HOSTAGES. THEIR SON AND BROTHER HELD CAPTIVE SINCE OCTOBER 7th. EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF THE FAMILIES OF THOSE SIX AMERICAN HOSTAGES STILL HELD IN CAPTIVITY WILL HAVE SOME SORT OF REPRESENTATIVE IN THE CHAMBER TODAY. I TALKED TO A NUMBER OF HOSTAGE FAMILIES LEADING UP TO THE SPEECH, THEY REALLY WANT THE MESSAGE TO BE THAT THEIR SITUATION TRANSCENDS THE POLITICAL DIVIDE, WHETHER OR NOT YOU AGREE THE WEIGHT SRAEL PROSECUTED THE WAR, YOU SHOULD BELIEVE THE HOSTAGES SHOULD BE AT HOME. THEY WANT THIS TO STAY AT THE FOREFRONT AND PART OF WHY YOU WILL SEE THEM TONIGHT IN THIS CROWD. >> RYAN NOBLES, STANDBY, WE WILL BE BACK TO YOU WITHIN THE HOUR. >> HE HAS THAT HEADSET AND WILL WALK US THROUGH TALKING AFTER IT. LOOKING AT THE COUNTER, 20 OR 30 MINUTES LET'S BRING CONGRESSIONAL INSIDER, FOLKS THAT KNOW THIS BETTER THAN ANYONE, MOLLY AND EUGENE SCOTT, GIVE US A VIEW FROM THE INSIDE. TRYING TO MEET THE BAR HE SET FOR HIMSELF HEADING INTO AN ELECTION YEAR. IT IS NOT A CAMPAIGN SPEECH, NOT TECHNICALLY. THIS HAS HE APPARATUS OF HIM BEING THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING FOR? >> I THINK YOUR QUESTIONS DONE TO THEM >> THEY ARE RENDERED SPEECHLES . >> THE VIEWERS WILL NOTICE THE COMMOTION BEHIND THEM, IT IS A BUSY NIGHT HERE. WASHINGTON, STATE OF THE UNION, IT IS LIKE THE SUPER BOWL AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL. WE WILL TALK TO THEM, DOING MY CHECKS. >> INTERESTING VIEWPOINT, THE SUPER BOWL, 48 HOURS OFF OF SUPER TUESDAY. THIS IS WHAT WE KNOW, DONALD TRUMP IS THE PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE AFTER NIKKI HALEY STEPPED OUT, SETTING UP THAT YOU THIS IS 2024 POLITICS BEGINNING. THE GENERAL ELECTION IS STARTING THIS WEEK, IT IS LIKE TWO SUPER BOWLS AT ONCE AREA >> SPEAKING OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT, HE PLANS TO PARTAKE WITH THE ACTIVITIES DID NOT NECESSARILY COUNTERPROGRAMMING, YOU WILL FACT CHECK, PLAY-BY PLAY ON TRUTH SOCIAL. ONE OF THE THINGS WILL BE MONITORING AS WELL. >> MOLLY AND EUGENE ARE BACK WITH US, YOU HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO THINK ABOUT THAT, WE DO HAVE SOMEBODY ELSE, WE GO TO DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN FROM SOUTH CAROLINA JIM CLYBURN. WE TAKE YOU INSIDE THE BUILDING, INSIDE THAT ROOM. IT IS GOOD TO BE WITH YOU, I KNOW IT IS A BUSY NIGHT, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US SPIRIT >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. >> HE SAID LAST YEAR'S STATE OF THE UNIT WAS A KICKOFF FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN'S RE-ELECTION PUSH. TONIGHT IS THE START OF THE CLOSING ARGUMENT, WHAT SHOULD THE HEADLINE BE TONIGHT, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT? >> I WANT TO SEE THE PRESIDENT CONTRAST BETWEEN HIM AND HIS OPPONENT. THE PRESIDENT, I BELIEVE, HAS DEMONSTRATED CLEARLY THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN BROUGHT BACK FROM THE PRECIPICE, HE HAS DONE WHAT IS NECESSARY TO RESTORE THE CONFIDENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE IN OUR GOVERNMENT THAT HE HAS REBUILT OUR INFRASTRUCTURE OR IS REBUILDING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IN A WAY THAT HAS BEEN PROMISED FOR YEARS. THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, EVERY WEEK, WE NEVER GOT A SINGLE INFRASTRUCTURE. TODAY, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS GIVEN US THE BIGGEST INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT SINCE DWIGHT EISENHOWER. THOSE ARE THE FACTS THAT WE HAVE TO GET OUT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. LOWEST-COST IN DECADES I BELIEVE HE HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT ALTHOUGH INFLATION HAS BEEN A PROBLEM, HE IS RINGING IT DOWN. THE ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY THAT WE WILL SEE INTEREST RATES CUT, AT LET SEVERAL TIMES BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER PRESIDENT BIDEN IS DOING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO TUNE INTO THAT. >> CONGRESSMAN, YOU GAVE PRESIDENT BIDEN HIS LAST WORST MOMENT DURING THE 2020 CAMPAIGN, POLL AFTER POLL SHOWS HE IS HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE RIGHT NOW, SPECIFICALLY WITH VOTERS AREA WHAT HAPPENED TO PRESIDENT BIDEN AND BLACK AMERICA? WHAT WOULD YOU ADVISE HE HAS TO DO BETTER? >> THE PLIGHT OF THE AMERICANS ARE LIKE EVERY OTHER AMERICAN. IT IS NOT JUST BLACK AMERICANS THAT HAVE SEEN THE LOST FAITH, EVERYBODY HAS A PROBLEM. WE SEE COMING BACK NOW, I WAS AMAZED TO SEE YESTERDAY, A NEW POLL OUT THAT SAYS JOE BIDEN IS LEADING IN THAT PARTICULAR POL . WE WILL GO THROUGH THIS BETWEEN NOW AND THE ELECTION WE ARE STILL IN THE PRIMARY SEASO . WE ARE GOING TO SEE US FOCUS ON THE SELECTION IN THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS AND I DO BELIEVE JOE BIDEN WILL DO WELL WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. >> CONGRESSMAN, I HAVE TO ASK YOU, WE TALKED ON THE BROADCAST TONIGHT ABOUT THE HOUSE SPEAKER WARNING MEMBERS THAT THE QUORUM SHOULD RULE THE DAY TONIGHT, BASICALLY NOT TO HECKLE. I'M LOOKING AT NUMBERS OF YOUR PARTY, PARTICULARLY SOME OF THE PROGRESSIVES THAT HAVE MADE CLEAR THEY'RE NOT HAPPY WITH THE WAY THE PRESIDENT IS HANDLING THAT ISRAEL HAMAS WAR. THE SPLIT SCREEN, WE ARE SHOWING THE PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTEST OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE, ARE YOU WORRIED PARTY DIVISIONS INSIDE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL BE ON DISPLAY TO MILLIONS OF AMERICANS TUNING IN? >> THERE WILL NOT BE HECKLING ON OUR SIDE OF THE AISLE. >> CAN YOU GUARANTEE IT? >> NO, I CAN'T GUARANTEE IT. YOU WILL NEVER SEE A DEMOCRAT ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES YELLING AND FELT THAT THE PRESIDENT NO MATTER HOW THEY MAY DISAGREE WITH HIM. THAT IS NOT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WAY OF DOING THINGS WE MAY NOT LIKE WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS DOING, WE MAY NOT LIKE WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING, LIKE WHAT MY DAD USED TO SAY, THE FIRST SIGN OF A GOOD EDUCATION IS GOOD MANNERS. WE ARE NOT GOING TO GO DOWN THAT ROUTE NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE MAY DISAGREE. >> CONGRESSMAN JIM CLYBURN, SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE TONIGHT. WILL LET YOU GET INSIDE YOUR SEAT. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. >> ANOTHER GUEST TO BRING, MEET THE PRESS MODERATOR KRISTEN WELKER THE TEMPERATURE IS HOT IN D.C., PROTEST HAPPENING OUTSIDE THE CAPITOL, LESSONS ON WHETHER DEMOCRATS, THE PRESIDENT'S SON PARTY MAY HECKLE HIM INSIDE THE HOUSE GALLERY., TO ASK YOU, IS THE PRESIDENT READY TO MEET THIS MOMENT, DO WE KNOW? >> WE KNOW HE IS WORKING HARD TO MEET THE MOMENT, HE WAS PREPARED AT CAMP DAVID OVER THE WEEKEND THE WHITE HOUSE UNDERSTANDS THE STAKES. YOU COULD ARGUE THIS IS THE BIGGEST, IF NOT ONE OF THE BIGGEST OF HIS ENTIRE POLITICAL CAREER. HE IS GOING INTO TONIGHT FIGHTING FOR RE-ELECTION , THE POLITICAL FIGHT OF HIS LIFE AND HE IS FACING SERIOUS HEADWINDS, NOT JUST THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND FRUSTRATION WITH HIS HANDLING OF THAT. THE FACT THAT YOU SEE THE ECONOMY GET BETTER BY THE NUMBERS BUT FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS, THEY DON'T FEEL IT. YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE CASE, THIS IS WHAT I WOULD DO IN THE SECOND TERM TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE FEELING THE IMPACT OF THIS. FINALLY, DRAW THE SHARP CONTRAST WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. WE KNOW THAT, NOT GOING TO STATES THAT MENTIONED TRUMP BY NAME. AND READY TO MEET THE MOMENT, YOU HEARD THAT REPORTING, YOU GUYS JUST SAID THIS, ENCOURAGE HIS CONFERENCE TO NOT JEER AND SHOUT OUT. WHAT IF THEY DO? LIKELY A LITTLE BIT OF CHEERIN , I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED AREA >> EXACTLY. >> THE SPEAKER JOHNSON HAVE THE MUSCLE THAT THEY WILL LISTEN? >> THAT IS THE QUESTION. I THINK IT WAS SOMETHING DELIVERED VERY SERIOUSLY AND STERNLY. I WOULD BE SURPRISED IF EVERYONE WASN'T. I THINK THE CHALLENGE FOR THE PRESIDENT'S PEOPLE CARE TO RESPOND TO MAKE IT FEEL AUTHENTIC. WE KNOW HE HAS BEEN PREPARING TO GO TOE-TO-TOE WITH REPUBLICANS WHO MIGHT SHOUT OUT SOME THINGS. IF IT DOES NOT FEEL AUTHENTIC, IT COULD LOSE A LITTLE BIT OF THE PUNCH HE MIGHT WANT. >> THAT GETS US TO SOMETHING IMPORTANT TONIGHT, THE POLICY. YOU WILL GET MEAT AND POTATOES. IN MANY WAYS, NOT JUST WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAYS, IT IS HOW HE SAYS IT. YOU LOOK AT THE SPEECH WE WATCHED TOGETHER A COUPLE NIGHTS AGO, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP CAME OUT ON SUPER TUESDAY ESSENTIALLY TAKING ON THE MANTLE OF BECOMING THE PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES, I THINK IT WAS GARRETT HAAKE, THE DECAFFEINATED DONALD TRUMP YOU PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS TO COME OUT AND SHOW HE HAS SOME ENERGY, HE CAN COME BACK THOSE INSULTS. >> THAT'S RIGHT. IF YOU LOOK AT THE POLLS, MORE THAN 70% OF AMERICANS HAVE REAL CONCERNS ABOUT HIS AGE AND ABILITY TO SERVE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. HE HAS TO ENTER THOSE CONCERNS TONIGHT. HE HAS TO BE FORCEFUL, IF YOU TALK TO HIS ALLIES, HE HAS TO HAVE A CAFFEINATED PERFORMANCE TONIGHT AND ONE THAT FEELS ENERGIZED LIKE HE IS READY TO TAKE ON THE TASK OF ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. I WAS TALKING TO A COUPLE OUTSIDE ADVISERS, YOU CAN'T JUST DELIVER A LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND GOALS, IT HAS TO BE A STORY. IT HAS TO BE ROUSING AREA THAT IS WHAT HE DID LAST TIME, BY THE WAY. HE WAS PRAISED FOR DELIVERING A SPRUNG -- STRONG SPEECH. >> HE TOOK ON THE HECKLERS, I'M SURE THEY PREPPED HIM FOR THAT AS WELL. WE LOOK FORWARD FOR MORE, TONIGHT. >>> TO HAVING A FRONT ROW SEAT, MAYBE NOT LITERALLY BUT FIGURATIVELY, THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO BE WITH US. ONE OF THE TOPICS WE KNOW FRONT AND CENTER FOR REPUBLICANS IS IMMIGRATION. YOU HAVE BEEN A CRITIC OF THE PRESIDENT BIDEN BORDER POLICIES, WRITTEN ON X, HE COULD SECURE THE BORDERS TO DATE WITH THE STROKE OF A PEN REPUBLICANS TAINT THE BIPARTISAN BILL THAT WOULD GIVE MORE POWER TO THE GOVERNMENT WHEN IT COMES TO IMMIGRATION AND BORDER SECURITY. WHEN THE PRESIDENT BRINGS THAT UP TONIGHT, WE KNOW HE IS LIKELY TO DO SO, WHAT IS THE GOP DEFENSE TO THAT? >> THE FIRST THING I NEED TO TELL YOU IS THAT THE PRESIDENT SIGNED 64 EXECUTIVE ORDERS SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE AND THOSE 64 EXECUTIVE ORDERS HAVE EFFECTIVELY UNDONE THE WORK THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION DID TO SEAL THE BORDER. AS A RESULT, YOU HAD 8.7 MILLION ILLEGALS COME ACROSS OUR BORDERS IN THE LAST THREE YEARS AND THAT NUMBER IS EVEN HIGHER. YOU TALK ABOUT THE BILL IN THE SENATE, LET'S SAY I TALK ABOUT THE FACT THEY COULD NOT GET CLOSURE ON THE SENATE FLOOR, DID NOT GO ANYWHERE IN THE HOUSE PROVIDED THE SENATE AND THE WHITE HOUSE WITH IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO UNDO YOUR 64 EXECUTIVE ORDERS, NOT GOING TO DO WHAT YOU COULD DO YESTERDAY TO SIX PROBLEM AT THE BORDER, THERE ARE FIVE THINGS, CORE THINGS REPUBLICAN SUGGESTED AS EARLY AS LAST MAY. ONE, FINISH THE LAW, TO, REFORM THE PRESIDENT PAROLE AUTHORITY. THREE, REFORM BROKEN A SILENT SYSTEM, FOUR IS AND CATCH AND RELEASE AND FIVE WAS RESTORE THE REMAINDER IN MEXICO POLICY WHICH CUSTOMS AND BORDER PATROL SAYS WOULD STANCH THE FLOW BY 70%. THAT SENATE BILL DID NOT HAVE ANY OF THAT. IN FACT, IT CODIFIED THE CATCH AND RELEASE, LEGAL CATCH AND RELEASE THIS ADMINISTRATION IS DOING AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER RIGHT NOW. >> WITHIN OF THE PUSHBACK BECAUSE FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP MADE CLEAR TO YOUR CONFERENCE HE DID NOT WANT TO SEE THIS GO THROUGH IN AN ELECTION YEAR? >> PRESIDENT TRUMP TALKING ABOUT THE BORDER SINCE 2014 OR 2015 WHEN HE STARTED RUNNING THE FIRST TIME NO, THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE, THIS IS WHERE WE HAVE BEEN. KEEP IN MIND, THOSE I THINK I GAVE YOU WERE DELIVERED TO CHUCK SCHUMER LAST MAY AND HE HAS REFUSED TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. THE ONLY THING WE'RE LEFT WITH IS MR. PRESIDENT, IF YOU ARE SINCERE ABOUT SEALING THE BORDER, UNDO YOUR 64 EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND DO THE JOB. >> CONGRESSMAN, PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL BE SPEAKING TO HOUSE REPUBLICANS, INCLUDING SOME ACTIVELY TRYING TO IMPEACH HIM. YOU SAID YOUR CONFERENCE SHOULD FOLLOW THE FACTS WHEREVER THEY LEAD, SO FAR INVESTIGATIONS FROM MULTIPLE COMMITTEES HAVE NOT PRODUCED EVIDENCE OF HIGH CRIMES OR MISDEMEANORS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT AS OF YET. AS A MEMBER OF LEADERSHIP, IS IT TIME TO PUT YOUR MEMBERS IMPEACHMENT PUSH TO BED? >> YOU CAN CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT BUT THE HOUSE HAS THE OBLIGATION TO DO OVERSIGHT OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. I KNOW THE JOURNALISM WORLD WANTS TO JUMP TO THE IMPEACHMENT WORD EVERY TIME BUT OUR JOB IS TO FOLLOW THE FACTS. I THINK THAT JIM JORDAN, JAMIE COMBER, JASON SMITH FROM MISSOURI, THEY HAVE DONE EXACTLY THAT. LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THE FACTS ARE, SEE WHAT WE HAVE, IF NOTHING ELSE -- PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW SOMEONE IS SELLING THEIR NAME OR THEIR RELATIVE'S NAME FOR FINANCIAL GAINS AREA >> I TOTALLY AGREE. I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT BUT WHAT WOULD YOU TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHAT HAS THE HOUSE UNCOVERED IN ALL THIS TIME THAT HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED OUT? >> I THINK THAT HAS BEEN WIDELY REPORTED. I WILL TELL YOU AGAIN, IT IS OUR JOB TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO THAT OVERSIGHT OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS TRANSPARENT AND OUT IN THE PUBLIC AND I THINK OUR GUYS HAVE DONE THAT VERY WELL. >> BEFORE WE LET YOU GO, TALKING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF UNPREDICTABLE MOMENTS FROM FOLKS IN THE CHAMBER TONIGHT. WE KNOW THE HOUSE SPEAKER TOLD MEMBERS OF YOUR CONFERENCE, DO YOU EXPECT THAT THEY WILL RESPECT THE DECORUM DIRECTIVE LAY DOWN? >> I KNOW KNOWN TO WEAR SPECIAL UNIFORMS AND TURNED THEIR BACK TO THE PERSON SPEAKING AT THE PODIUM. I DON'T EXPECT TO SEE THAT TONIGHT. I CAN ONLY CONTROL MYSELF AND I PLAN TO SIT AND LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY TO WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS TO SAY. >> CONGRESSMAN, TAKING THE TIME ON A BUSY NIGHT FOR EVERYONE IN WASHINGTON AREA >> THE PRESENT WILL HIT ON TWO BIG ISSUES VOTERS WILL FOCUS ON IN NOVEMBER, THE ECONOMY AND IMMIGRATION. >> WAS CHRISTINE ROMANS IN WASHINGTON KEEPING AN EYE ON ALL THINGS ECONOMY YOU HAD A CHANCE TO CATCH UP WITH WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS LOOKING AHEAD TO WHAT WE EXPECT TO HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT. WE GOT A TASTE OF IT FROM EXCERPT RELEASED THE LAST COUPLE HOURS, HE IS LOOKING TO SHOW THAT THE ECONOMY CAN GROW FROM THE MIDDLE AND BOTTOM AND NOT THE TOP DOWN. >> Reporter: USAGE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE PLAN IS TO FRAME IT AS HE WORKS TO LOWER COSTS FOR YOU. PEOPLE ARE SCARRED BY INFLATION, INFLATION SORRY THE LAST THREE YEARS. EVEN IF ALL THE OTHER BIG ECONOMIC NUMBERS ARE REALLY STRONG, THE STOCK MARKET HITS RECORD HIGHS, GDP CONTINUES TO GROW, THE FORECAST RECESSION NEVER HAPPENED, PEOPLE FEEL SKITTISH ABOUT THE ECONOMY. THE PLAN IS TO MEET PEOPLE AT THE KITCHEN TABLE AND SHOWS HE IS TRYING TO CUT COSTS EVERY WAY HE CAN. DRAW CORPORATE AMERICA INTO GETTING RID OF THOSE HIDDEN FEES AND JUNKIES AS THE WHITE HOUSE LIKES TO TALK ABOUT. TALKING ABOUT TAX FAIRNESS, RAISING TAXES ON MEGACORPORATIONS, PEOPLE THAT MAKE $100 MILLION OR MORE BUT NEVER RAISING TAXES ON PEOPLE THAT MAKE LESS THAN 4000 -- $400,000 A WILL -- YEAR. >> IT IS INTERESTING IN POLITICS, SOMETIMES WHEN THE STOCK MARKET IS DOWN, WHATEVER POLITICAL POWER SAYS THE STOCK MARKET IS DOWN, SHOULDN'T THEY TALK ABOUT THE STOCK MARKET BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WILL BE IN NOVEMBER? >> I DON'T THINK HE WILL SAY MUCH ABOUT IT. HE WILL TALK ABOUT PRICES AND HE WILL TRY TO LOWER PRICES FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES. DOING MANUAL THINGS THAT DRIVE FAMILIES CRAZY AND OUT OF THEIR COST, HE WILL TRY TO MEET THEM AT THE KITCHEN TABLE, NOT ON WALL STREET. >> CHRISTINE ROMANS, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. >> I'M JOINED BY CONGRESSMAN TONY GONZALES. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON SUCH A BUSY NIGHT. I WANT YOU TO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO VIEWERS, I KNOW YOU'RE REPUBLICAN BUT AT TIMES YOU'RE OSTRACIZED BY YOUR OWN PARTY. IF YOU COULD BE AS FRANK AS POSSIBLE WITH THIS, HOW BAD DO YOU SEE THE BORDER SITUATION RIGHT NOW IN THE UNITED STATES? >> IT IS SO BAD, FIRST OFF, THANKS FOR HAVING ME, TOM, IT IS ABOUT THAT PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN UP ON THE PRESIDENT, STOPPED LISTENING TO WHAT HE HAS TO SAY, THEY NO LONGER TRUST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. PEOPLE FEEL ABANDONED, THAT IS NOT REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS, THAT IS PEOPLE ALONG THE BORDER FEEL ABANDONED. MORE AND MORE, PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY FEEL UNSAFE. THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS DRIVING THAT, THIS BORDER CRISIS ABSOLUTELY HAS A NEXUS INTO THIS SECURITY ISSUE THAT WE SEE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. IT IS AS BAD AS I HAVE EVER SEEN, OVER 7000 PEOPLE COMING OVER A DAY. MORE IMPORTANTLY, PEOPLE FEEL ABANDONED AND HAVE GIVEN UP. >> ANOTHER ISSUE WE EXPECT THE PRESIDENT TO TALK ABOUT AND THAT IS THE WORST OVERSEAS. YOU ARE ONE OF THE MORE PRO- UKRAINE OF THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS LOCKSTEP WITH THE PARTY, I DON'T TO TELL YOU THAT, PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL PROBABLY ASK CONGRESS TO PASS MORE MONEY TO HELP UKRAINE FIGHT AGAINST RUSSIA. AND THEN THE ISRAEL FIGHT VERSUS HAMAS AS A NAVY VETERAN, DO YOU THINK YOUR PARTY WILL BE PUTTING AT RISK OF LOSING? >> AS A NAVY VETERAN, WE CANNOT LEAVE OUR ALLIES ON THE BATTLEFIELD TO BLEED OUT. WE ALSO CANNOT WRITE BLANK CHECKS AND EXPECT THE PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED. AMERICANS ARE MAD FOR REASON. THEIR MAD BECAUSE THEY ARE DOING ALL THE THINGS THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO, FOLLOWING THE LAW, PAYING TAXES, SENDING THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL, DOING ALL THE THINGS THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO AND SOMEHOW THEY ARE LAST IN THIS EQUATION. YOU CAN SEE THE STOCK MARKET, EVERYTHING IS RISING BUT SOMEHOW THEY CAN'T AFFORD A HOME TO BUY SO THEY HAVE TO LIVE WITH THEIR PARENTS OR THEY CAN'T SELL A HOME. SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT SO THIS IS WHERE WRITING A BLANK CHECK WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM. YOU HAVE TO GIVE OUR ALLIES EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEED TO WIN THIS WAR. >> WE KNOW THE UKRAINE FUNDING TIED TO THE BORDER AS WELL, I HAVE TO ASK YOU, ARE YOU DISAPPOINTED IN YOUR OWN PARTY OVER WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT BILL? A BILL THAT TRIED TO TACKLE IMMIGRATION? >> ONE OF THE MISTAKES I BELIEVE THE SENATE MADE IS THAT THEY STARTED NEGOTIATING WITH JOE BIDEN. THEY SHOULD'VE STARTED NEGOTIATING WITH DONALD J. TRUMP. JOE BIDEN, FOR ALL PURPOSES, IS A LAME-DUCK PRESIDENT. PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN UP ON HIM, CERTAINLY IN HIS OWN PARTY, REPUBLICANS NO LONGER RESPECT HIM AT ALL, ZERO. STOP NEGOTIATING WITH A LAME DUCK PRESIDENT. DONALD J. TRUMP, ON THE OTHER HAND, VERY CLEAR THAT THE PARTY IS BEING LED, -- >> CONGRESSMAN, WAIT, I'M SORRY, I DON'T MEAN TO BE RUDE, YOU'RE BASICALLY SAYING THAT SENATE REPUBLICANS AND HOUSE REPUBLICANS NEED TO MEDICATE WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP EVEN THOUGH HE HOLDS NO OFFICE? >> I THINK A FORMER PRESIDENT HAS MORE SWAY THAN A CURRENT PRESIDENT. I'M SEEING THAT RIGHT NOW. I WILL GIVE YOU A PRIME EXAMPLE, UVALDE. YOU KNOW THAT UVALDE IS IN MY DISTRICT, I HOSTED JOE BIDEN AFTER THE UVALDE INCIDENT. WE SPENT ALL DAY TOGETHER, I PULLED HIM ASIDE AT THE VERY END, I WILL NOT EVEN TALK ABOUT THE BORDER, I ASKED HIM FOR THREE THINGS, I ASKED HIM FOR MONEY FOR A MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC, I ASKED HIM FOR MONEY FOR A NEW EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER IN UVALDE TO USE IN AWARD, TWO BUILDINGS AND MONEY FOR COMMUNICATIONS FOR FIRST RESPONDERS. I GOT ZERO RESPONSE. I HAD TO DELIVER THAT ON MY OWN THROUGH THE APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WE GOT 2 MILLION FOR MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC, 2.5 MILLION FOR EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER, WE GOT 4.5 MILLION FOR NEW COMMUNICATIONS. I SAY THAT TO SAY, I HAVE GIVEN UP ON THE PRESIDENT AND JOE BIDEN, A LOT OF AMERICANS HAVE GIVEN UP ON JOE BIDEN. I THINK DONALD J. TRUMP HAS MORE OF A CHANCE OF GETTING SOMETHING OVER THE FINISH LINE THAN JOE BIDEN DOES. >> GUZMAN TONY GONZALES FROM TEXAS, THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME FOR US TONIGHT. >>> TAKING A LIVED-IN LOOK, IT LOOKS AS THOUGH I BELIEVE, I THINK WE CAN SEE THE PRESIDENT, I CAN'T TELL IF HE GOT IN OR NOT, IT IS A LITTLE SHAKY, IT IS LIVED TO BE. >> PHOTOGRAPHER OUT THERE SHOOTING THIS FOR ALL THE NETWORKS HAS NO IDEA HIS CAMERA IS HOT. PEOPLE ARE WALKING BY HIS PLATFORM SHAKING A LITTLE BIT, YOU CAN SEE THE CADILLAC. >> IF YOU'RE GETTING A LITTLE NAUSEOUS, WE GET IT. WE WILL CUT AWAY AND GO TO JULIA AINSLEY WAS LIVE IN TEXAS AT THE BORDER. YOU JUST HEARD THE CONVERSATION WE HAD WITH CONGRESSMAN GONZALES . GIVE US A REALITY CHECK, WHERE DO THE NUMBERS STAND? >> Reporter: THE REALITY IS, FUNNY ENOUGH, THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT WILL MAKE A LOT OF THE SAME POINTS GONZALES JUST MADE AND THAT IS REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE NOT WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH THEM ON THE BORDER BECAUSE THEY ARE SO TIED TO TRUMP. HE WILL PAINT THAT IS A MASSIVE PROBLEM. WESLEY, I WAS DOWN HERE AT THE BORDER IN ARIZONA WHERE I GOT TO TALK TO PRESIDENT BIDEN'S COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION. HE SAYS BECAUSE REPUBLICANS WON'T FUND THE BILL, THE NATIONAL SECURITY SUPPLEMENTAL AND OTHER SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING REQUEST, THEY HAVE TO GET AWAY FROM EVEN THE STATUS QUO. THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO CONTINUE PERFORMING OPERATIONS, WE KNOW THAT I.C.E. IS $500 MILLION IN THE HOLE INTO THE RELEASE WERE MIGRANTS FROM DETENTION COME MAY. THIS IS ALL WE KNOW AS DETECTION EQUIPMENT FOR FENTANYL, ON THE MINDS OF SO MANY AMERICANS RIGHT NOW, SITTING IN A WAREHOUSE UNUSED BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT ABLE TO GIVE THEM THE FUNDING TO PUT THAT ON THE GROUND. IS A SOMETHING THE PRESIDENT WENT ON TONIGHT, IT IS REALLY REPUBLICANS WHO ARE SIGNING HIS EFFORTS OF THE BORDER AND A BIG REASON WE HAVE SEEN THE WEIGHT AND NOT TAKE UNILATERAL ACTION BETWEEN THE FAILURE OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY SUPPLEMENTAL AND BORDER COMPONENT OF IT AND TONIGHT BECAUSE HE DOES NOT WANT TO GET IN THE WAY THAT IT IS REPUBLICANS TO BLAME IF THEY DON'T COME TO THE TABLE AND ET MORE FUNDING, IT IS THEIR FAULT IF THE NUMBERS GO UP AT THE BORDER. REALITY CHECK OF THE BORDER, WE ARE NOT AT RECORD HIGHS PICKED LAST YEAR IN DECEMBER, WAS A RECORD HIGHS OF OVER 12,000 A DAY. THINGS ARE A LOT QUIETER NOW, WE SEE BETWEEN 5000 AND 7000 MIGRANTS CROSSING A DAY UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, MORE THAN 1000 A DAY WAS TOO MUCH. WE ARE NOT RECORD HIGHS ANYMORE. >> JULIA AINSLEY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHY ARE LOOKING AT A DOOR, THAT IS THE DOOR HE WILL WALK OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE BUT WE EXPECT TO SEE THE PRESIDENT AS HE MAKES THE TWO MILE JOURNEY DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE TO GO TO THE CAPITOL. >> THE PRESS IS ASSEMBLED OUTSIDE THE DOOR, AS SOON AS THE PRESIDENT COMES OUT, WE WILL PAUSE FOR A MOMENT SO WE CAN LISTEN TO THE PRESIDENT TAKE QUESTIONS. WE DON'T KNOW SEAL ANSWER, HAS A LOT TO DO TONIGHT. WE WILL WAIT AND LISTEN. SEVERAL CAMERAS ARE LIVE OR HOT AS WE SAY IN THIS BUSINESS ALL AROUND THE WHITE HOUSE YOU CAN SEE THE BALCONY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. GUESTS OF THE PRESIDENT. DIFFERENTLY HAVE SEVERAL GUESTS THAT WILL BE SITTING WITH HER AND ANOTHER CAMERA INSIDE THE HOUSE CHAMBERS. AS PEOPLE ARE ENTERING, I CAN SEE SENATOR WARREN AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SENATE. I CAN'T TELL, TOO FAR AWAY. >> THAT IS WHERE EVERYONE WALK THROUGH TO TAKE THEIR SEATS. THERE'S A LOT OF POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE THAT HAPPENS AT THE STATE OF THE UNION. LAWMAKERS FILING IN. ONE OF THE RARE INSTANCES YOU HAVE HOUSE AND SENATE MEMBERS, SENATORS AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS COMING IN TO SIT IN THE SAME PLACE TO LISTEN TO THE SPEECH AND IT IS A LOT OF PRESSURE ON THE PRESIDENT. BIGGEST MOMENT OF THE YEAR LOOKING AT THE LIVE CAMERAS WE HAVE UP. >> TO BE HONEST, THIS ONE FEELS DIFFERENT. STATE OF THE UNION HAS A BAD RAP FOR BEING BORING. THIS ONE HAS A MUCH PRESSURE ON THE PRESIDENT, UNKNOWNS, WILL REPUBLICANS FIRE BACK, WILL HE BE HECKLED, HECKLED BY DEMOCRATS? WHO IS THE GUEST OF HONOR, WHO IS NOT THE GUEST OF HONOR CIRCLE? WILL THE PRESIDENT PERFORM? THE MICROSCOPE, THE SPOTLIGHT IS ON HIM TO DELIVER TONIGHT. DEMOCRATS HOPE HE DELIVERS. THEY HAVE ANNOUNCED THE BIDEN/HARRIS ELECTION TEAM, THE ELECTION STARTED THIS WEEK, SUPER TUESDAY AND STATE OF THE UNION. AS WE MENTIONED, THE BIGGEST BEACH BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW IF THERE WILL BE A DEBATE. IT COULD BE THE BIGGEST BEACH UNTIL THE CONVENTION. >> NO PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTED TO DEBATE ANY TIME, ANYWHERE. WE'LL TALK, TOM, A LOT OF PEOPLE PROBABLY DON'T REMEMBER THE LAST STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH IS OR IF THEY EVEN WATCH THE STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH BUT THIS YEAR IT IS DIFFERENT. IT COULD BE A DIFFERENCE MAKER AS PRESIDENT BIDEN FIGHTS FOR HIS POLITICAL FUTURE IN 2024 . AS WE ARE WATCHING THIS, WE ARE ESSENTIALLY ANY MINUTE FROM SAINT PRESIDENT BIDEN WALK OUT THE DOOR. HE WILL WALK OUT, I CAN GUARANTEE THAT, I STOOD ON THE LAWN MANY A TIME TRYING TO SHOUT QUESTIONS THAT FORMER PRESIDENT, SOMETIMES THEY ANSWER, SOMETIMES THEY DON'T. >> SOMETIMES THEY PRETEND NOT TO HEAR YOU. >> VERY NOISY. HE WILL TAKE THE MOTORCADE DOWN AND LIVING AVENUE. WE SHOULD HAVE LIVE SHOT OF EVERY BIT OF IT, TWO BLOCKS FROM THE STUDIO, WE CAN HEAR THE SIRENS. CONGRESSIONAL INSIDERS MAY HEAR IT, MOLLY AND EUGENE. MOLLY, I WILL START WITH YOU, WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR BASED ON CONVERSATIONS YOU HAVE HEARD AND FROM LAWMAKERS AND WHERE THIS GOES? >> THE NUMBER ONE THING WATCHING IS NOT SO MUCH WITH THE PRESIDENT -- >> HALLIE , YOUR QUESTION -- >> HIS DEMEANOR, WHETHER HE IS IN COMMAND. HOW LONG HE SPEAKS, HOW SMOOTHLY HE SPEAKS. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER THIS PRESIDENT IS UP TO THE JOB. I THINK THAT IS THE MAIN TEST HE IS FACING. BEYOND THAT, WHAT HE TALKS ABOUT IS GOING TO BE REALLY IMPORTAN . WHEN IT COMES TO IMMIGRATION, IT IS IMPORTANT. FOCUS MORE ON BLAMING REPUBLICANS OR DOES HE HAVE ANY ACTIONS OF HIS WN HE PLANS TO ANNOUNCE TONIGHT? THOSE ARE COUPLE THINGS I WILL BE WATCHING FOR. >> EUGENE, WHAT YOU THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WANTING FROM THE PRESIDENT? HE WILL HAVE THEIR ATTENTION AND EARS TONIGHT, WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO SAY TO CONNECT? >> THERE SHE IS. >> WATCHING THE VICE PRESIDENT WALKED INTO THE CHAMBER FOLLOWED BY SENATE MINORITY LEADER MITCH McCONNELL AND SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER. >> MITCH McCONNELL/TIME. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS WALKING UP, HISTORIC VICE PRESIDENT. FINALLY THE SHOTS, THE CAMERAS GO UP IN THE ROOM, WE GET A SENSE OF WHO IS THERE. I SAY WHAT ARE THEY RANG, NOT TO BE GLIB ABOUT IT, THERE ARE MESSAGES SENT. A LOT OF WOMEN ARE WEARING WHITE. I BELIEVE THAT IS A NOD TO THE SUFFRAGIST MOVEMENT, THE VICE PRESIDENT SHAKING HANDS. THIS IS PART OF THE PROCESS WHAT IS ALSO INTERESTING, WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN WALKS IN, THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME DOWN THAT AISLE AND SHAKE HANDS AND TALK TO FOLKS. DO YOU KNOW WHO LIKES TO SHAKE HANDS AND TALK TO PEOPLE, THE PRESIDENT PICKED THAT CAN BE A LONG WALK BEFORE HIS SPEECH. WE GET OUR VERY FIRST LOOK AT THE CHAMBER. ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND MOST WATCHED KNIGHTS IN AMERICAN POLITICS. >> THAT IS SOMETHING WE HAVE NOT SEEN YET IN AMERICAN HISTORY BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SPEAKER JOHNSON WILL BE PRESIDING IN THE HOUSE NEXT TO THE VICE PRESIDENT, THE HEAD OF THE SENATE. BEHIND PRESIDENT BIDEN, HE WILL DELIVER HIS FOURTH ADDRESS TO THE CHAMBER BUT ALSO HIS THIRD STATE OF THE UNION. IT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE -- >> I WANT TO BE A FLY ON THE WALL, ON THE CHAIR BEHIND THEM. >> ECO-FRIENDLY THEY ARE, MUCH DIFFERENT FROM LAST YEAR BUT I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER, KEVIN McCARTHY WAS THERE AND IT WAS NOT SO FRIENDLY. OTHER TIMES, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI AND MIKE PENCE OF PEOPLE AT HOME KNOW THIS, THE SENATORS AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE THEY GET TO SHAKE THE HAND WAIT HOURS AND HOURS TO GET THAT POSITION. LET'S LISTEN IF THE NATURAL SOUNDS INSIDE THE ROOM ARE PICKED UP BY CAMERAS >> PROBABLY TOO FAR AWAY TO HEAR THAT AUDIO. YOU CAN SEE SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL TAKING IT ALL IN. SOMEBODY THAT JUST THIS WEEK ENDORSED FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, DESPITE BAD BLOOD BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM EVER SINCE JANUARY 6th. >> BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH, LOSING HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, MAKING THAT ANNOUNCEMENT HE WILL LEAVE THAT POST AND ALSO SUFFERING SOME HEALTH SETBACKS LAST YEAR. SPEECH, REMAINS PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. HE WILL NOT BE THE LEADER. MITCH McCONNELL DOES NOT OFTEN DELIVER GUSHING EXHIBIT -- EXUBERANT STATEMENTS. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, JOE MANCHIN. >> SHE WAS HECKLING HIM, WEARING RED TONIGHT. WHAT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE WEARING, WILL BE ABLE TO SPOT HER. DELEGATION FROM THE HOUSE IN WHITE. >> I WANT TO BRING OUR PANEL. YOU KNOW THESE PEOPLE, YOU GET WITH THESE MOMENTS ARE LIKE. WHAT IS GOING THROUGH THE MIND OF THE HOUSE SPEAKER, MIKE JOHNSON AT THE MOMENT, NOT AS NIGHT, YOU WILL BE VERY VISIBLE OVER THE PRESIDENT SOLDER MOST OF THE EVENING? >> THEY TRY TO FADE INTO THE BACKGROUND. PICK A SPOT ON THE BACK OF BARACK OBAMA'S HEAD AND STARED THAT TWO HOURS. THESE ARE BIG NIGHTS MEANING A FEW NIGHTS IN THE CAPITOL WHERE THERE IS PROBABLE ENERGY THAT YOU CAN TELL THERE'S A SPECIAL MOMENT FOR DEMOCRACY TAKING PLACE AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE. EVEN THE MEMBERS THAT DON'T NECESSARILY AGREE WITH THE PRESIDENT, THEY WILL SHOW UP BECAUSE THEY KNOW THIS IS A BIG PART OF OUR SYSTEM, IT IS A BIG MOMENT FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD TO SEE HOW WE OPERATE. EVEN THOUGH THERE WILL BE A LITTLE MORE ACRIMONY INTO THE CHAMBER 10 OR 15 YEARS AGO WHEN WE DID THESE THINGS, IT IS A SPECIAL MOMENT. I EXPECT PEOPLE WILL RISE TO THE OCCASION. >> WITHOUT REPRESENTATIVE CORI BUSH, A LOT OF EYES ON HER TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN REFERENCE TO THE WORKER IN GAZA RIGHT NOW, THE FUNDING. ALSO IN CONNECTION TO HER GUESTS IN THE GALLERY TONIGHT. THERE HAS BEEN TALK THAT MEMBERS INVITED, PEOPLE SITTING UP TOP MAY ALSO HECKLED THE PRESIDENT. THESE ARE THINGS PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, NONE OF IT MAY HAPPEN, SENATORS LIKE SENATOR RUBIO ENTERING THE CHAMBER, STUFF WE ARE WATCHING. >> LET ME TALK ABOUT THE UPTICKS, YOU SAW THE MEMBERS OF THAT DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S CAUCUS IN WHITE, WEARING FIGHTING FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM PINS, THE ALABAMA REMAIN THAT FROZEN EMBRYOS HER CHILDREN. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT, MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN WEARING SAY HER NAME, LAKEN RILEY SHIRT. LAKEN RILEY THE NURSING STUDENT FROM UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA KILLED BY SOMEBODY FROM ACROSS THE BORDER WHO WAS HERE SO SHE HAS BECOME IN MANY WAYS ASSEMBLE FOR REPUBLICANS, HER DEATH. HER PARENTS INVITED BY THE GEORGIA REPUBLICAN BUT THEY CHOSE NOT TO COME BACK THERE WILL BE A VACANT SEAT. >> CONSERVATIVES PUT THAT UP, HASHTAG OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA. WE LOOK AT SENATE REPUBLICANS ENTERING THE CHAMBER. WE HEARD SOMETHING, I WOULD TAKE REMARKABLE FROM REPRESENTATIVE TONY GONZALEZ ESSENTIALLY SAID THAT DONALD TRUMP IS THE LEADER OF THE PARTY, THEY SHOULD NEGOTIATE WITH HIM ALTHOUGH HE HOLDS NO OFFICE RIGHT NOW. IS THAT THE STATUS OR STATE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY RIGHT NOW? CAN I NOT GOVERN THEMSELVES? YOU HAVE TO CHECK IN WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT? >> I WOULD NOT GO THAT FAR, TALKING LONG-TERM POLICY PLANS, CHECK WITH THE LEADER OF THE PARTY. THE PLACE I WORK DURING THE DAY, AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE, CAME OUT AGAINST THE BIPARTISAN LEGISLATORS WEEKS BEFORE THAT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ANNOUNCED HIS OPPOSITION. THERE WAS BIPARTISAN OPPOSITION TO IT IN THE SENATE. MANY REASONS TO OPPOSE THAT BILL. THE PRESIDENT ADDING HIS VOICE TO THAT, I THINK THE FINAL MAIL INTO IT. THERE WERE A LOT OF CONSERVATIVES, ESPECIALLY IN THE HOUSE, THE VERY MUCH OPPOSED, DO NOT BRING THAT OVER HERE. >> WITHOUT REPRESENTATIVE HAKEEM JEFFRIES. >> YOU KNOW WHO WE HAVE NOT SEEN? ARE YOU READY? GEORGE SANTOS. HE IS NO LONGER IN CONGRESS. HE IS APPARENTLY IN THE BUILDING. WE HAVE RYAN NOBLES GETTING READY, MOVING TO A PLACE WHERE HE HAD A HEADSET AND CAN WATCH THIS AND SPEAK TO US IN A COUPLE MINUTES. HE HAS FLOOR PRIVILEGES AS A FORMER FLOOR MEMBER CAN RETURN. >> ANY FORMER MEMBER NOT EXPELLED HAS FLOOR PRIVILEGES THE REST OF THEIR LIFE UNLESS THEY ARE A LOBBYIST. >> HE SHOWED UP TO THE TRUMP VICTORY PARTY IN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. I GUESS HE WILL BE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN PSEUDO-CELEBRITY EITHER INVITED OR NOT INVITED BUT WE WILL LOOK OUT FOR HIM. WE HAVE SEEN THOSE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AS THEY ENTER THE CHAMBERS. >> SENATOR TED CRUZ. >> FROM THE BORDER STATE OF TEXAS HANDILY WINNING HIS PRIMARY. >> TALK TO US ABOUT THE ISSUE OF ABORTION AND HOW MUCH YOU HOPE THE PRESIDENT FOCUSES HIS SPEECH ON THIS TOPIC. >> IF YOU SEE THE DIFFERENT GUESTS OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND THE FIRST LADY, KATIE FROM TEXAS HANDILY TEXAS TO GET ABORTION. WOMAN FROM ALABAMA TALKING ABOUT IVF FROM ALABAMA. WHAT DID NOT HAPPEN WITH THE RIGHT WAY FROM MIDTERM ELECTIONS, MODERATES SAY THAT WENT TOO FAR THAT RED WAVE WE EXPECT IT DID NOT HAPPEN BECAUSE ABORTION IS ABSOLUTELY ONE OF THE THINGS EVERYTHING WILL AMERICAN RECOGNIZES, THAT WE WANT FREEDOM. WHAT WE WILL HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT IS NOT JUST FREEDOM AND WOMEN'S AGENCY BUT GENERAL FREEDOMS. IF THE GOVERNMENT IS ALWAYS IN DECIDING WHO CAN OR CANNOT BE PART OF FAMILY PLANNING, ALL OF A SUDDEN IT SHOULD RICOCHET ON WHAT OTHER FREEDOMS THEY WILL TAKE AWAY FROM YOU. SUCH A NEW STEP ON IVF FROM THE REPUBLICAN SIDE ON ALABAMA. ENERGIZED REMNANT THAT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN DAYS PRIOR, IVF USUALLY MEANS I CANNOT LEAVE THE STATE. IVF HAPPENS AT HOME, IT BECOMES VERY PERSONAL. THE STATE IS INTERJECTING -- >> WILL CHECK WITH SOME REPORTERS. I WANT TO CIRCLE BACK TO ALABAMA BECAUSE WE KNOW THE PERSON WHO WILL GET THE REBUTTAL, SENATOR KATIE BRITT HAS HER OWN STORY FROM THE STATE OF ALABAMA. I WILL CHECK FIRST WITH RYAN NOBLES, WE ARE GETTING EARLY INDICATIONS THAT A LOT OF FACES WE HAVE KNOWN ABOUT, ALSO SOME SURPRISE GUESTS LOOKING AT SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS. I MAY HAVE TO IN TRUCKEE BECAUSE WE ARE STARTING TO SEE ACTION AT THE WHITE HOUSE AS WELL. WE WILL LIVE FOR THE VIEWERS. TELL US ABOUT THE GALLERY. >> Reporter: THE FIRST THING I HAVE TO SAY THAT STANDS OUT AS YOU'RE SITTING IN THIS ROOM RIGHT NOW IS THE SEA OF DEMOCRATIC WOMEN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO HAVE WORKED IT OUT TOGETHER TO DRESS IN ALL WHITE AS PART OF A MESSAGE RELATED TO WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. NOT ONLY DID THEY ALL DRESS IN THE SAME COLOR, THEY HAVE ALL DECIDED TO BUNCH THEMSELVES TOGETHER AND SIT IN THE SAME AREA. SO WHEN YOU WALK INTO THE ROOM, YOUR EYES ARE IMMEDIATELY DRAWN TO THAT AREA. PART OF WHAT WE SEE A LOT OF THESE MEMBERS DO IS TRY TO SEND A MESSAGE, EVEN THOUGH THEY WON'T BE THE ONES SPEAKING TONIGHT. THERE IS NO DOUBT THEY ARE SENDING THAT MESSAGE THROUGH THE WAY THEY ARE DRESSED AND THE COLORS THAT THEY CHOSE TO WEAR. THEY'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES DOING THIS, THERE ARE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS, WE CAN SEE THEM FROM HER PERCH UP IN THE GALLERY WEARING WHITE RIBBONS AND ALSO BUTTONS THAT SAY THE NAME OF THE YOUNG WOMAN KILLED BY A MIGRANT, LAKEN RILEY. >> LISTEN TO THE PRESIDENT, EVERYBODY. >> SEE YOU ALL LATER >> MAKING A BRIEF, TO THE FOLKS ON THE BALCONY, DON'T JUMP, I NEED YOU JOKINGLY. GETTING READY FOR THAT DRIVE DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, QUICKER THAN YOU OR I COULD DO IT, THEY DON'T HAVE TRAFFIC LIGHTS TO CONTEND WITH, THAT IS ONE OF THE PERKS OF BEING PRESIDENT. SIGNIFICANT MOMENT, WE SAW THE FIRST LADY WALKED OUT AHEAD OF THEM, THE GUESTS SHE AND HE WILL HAVE AS THEIR PEOPLE HERE AT THE STATE OF THE UNIT, SIGNIFICANT AND MEANT TO SEND A MESSAGE, THE PRESIDENT IN A FEW WORDS PROBABLY TALKING TO HIS LIFE INSIDE THE VEHICLE, POINTING TO THE CAMERAS THAT ARE OUT THERE AS WELL. PETER ALEXANDER IS LIVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE ON THE NORTH LAWN. TALK US THROUGH THE MOMENTS HERE. >> Reporter: A MOMENT AGO, AS THE PRESIDENT WALKED ON THE SOUTH PORTICO OF THE WHITE HOUSE , WE HEARD REPORTERS YELLING QUESTIONS AT HIM AMONG OTHERS ASKING HOW HE IS FEELING RIGHT NOW. HE SAID GOOD BEFORE LOOKING AT OTHER STAFF MEMBERS TELLING THEM NOT TO JUMP, AS YOU JOKED. HE SAYS HE WILL NEED THEM, THERE HE IS ALONGSIDE THE FIRST LADY AS THEY WAVE. THIS IS HIS FIRST STATE OF THE UNIT BUT THE STAKES ARE SO MUCH MORE CRITICAL THAN ANY SPEECH HE DELIVERED BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO THIS POINT. I THINK THE WHITE HOUSE ADVISERS ACKNOWLEDGE THERE WILL BE A LOT OF FOCUS TONIGHT ON THE PRESIDENT OFFICE DELIVERY AND WHAT THEY THINK THE FOCUS SHOULD BE ON TONIGHT, WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS DELIVERED AND THEY RECOGNIZE THE RGENCY OF THIS MOMENT, THE BEST COMMUNICATE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. AND SAID DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE NEWS HEADLINES EVERY DAY, THIS IS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM HIM, SPEAKING MORE THAN AN HOUR AS EXPECTED TONIGHT. WHITE HOUSE AIDES HAVE INSISTED AND POLLING SHOWS ON A LOT OF ISSUES, MANY OF THE PRESIDENT'S POLICY POSITIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE VIEWED AS POPULAR BUT A LOT OF AMERICANS DON'T KNOW HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME OF THOSE ACCOLISHMENTS, THE PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO FRAME THIS AS A COMEBACK STORY OF SORTS, REMINDING PEOPLE HOW WE GOT HERE. JANUARY 2021 YOU WILL REMEMBER, MORE THAN 100,000 AMERICANS DIED. THAT WAS THE DEADLIEST MONTH OF THE PANDEMIC FOR THE UNITED STATES AND THE DIFFERENCE THE PRESIDENT HAS MADE HELPING THE COUNTRY REBOUND IN THE COURSE OF THAT TIME IN SPITE OF A LOT OF WORK THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE DONE. YOU TAKE THESE HIGHLIGHTS, AND TOLD BY A SENIOR ADVISER AS I WALK OUT, THE PRESIDENT RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE WILL FOCUS HEAVILY ON THE TOPIC OF DEMOCRACY, NOT JUST AROUND THE WORLD, UKRAINE ON THAT FRONT BUT HERE AT HOME, THE THREAT POSED BY THE FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. >> WITH FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI THERE. WANT TO POINT OUT THE CARAVAN BEHIND, THE FORMATION THAT GOES FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO CAPITOL HILL AS THE PRESIDENT MAKES HIS WAY THERE. WE EXPECT HIM THERE IN A FEW MINUTES, THE DRIVE IS PRETTY FAST BUT THE QUESTION I WONDER ABOUT WITH THAT PROTEST, IF THE PRESIDENT CAN HEAR IT, MAKES IT TO HIS RADAR, THERE'S A PALESTINIAN PROTEST HAPPENING JUST OUTSIDE CAPITOL HILL, OUTSIDE WHERE HIS SPEECH WILL TAKE PLACE. SEA OF WHITE RIGHT NOW IN THE HOUSE CHAMBER, A LOT OF WOMEN, FEMALE DEMOCRAT REPRESENTATIVES THAT WANTED TO SEND A BIG MESSAGE TONIGHT. >> THERE'S A PART OF THIS ABOUT THE OPTICS. MATCHES HOW YOU LOOK. >> COUNTDOWN. >> THANK YOU FOR POINTING THAT OUT. >> SOME OF THE COMMON THINGS REPUBLICANS WHERE AT TIMES. I WANT TO BRING RYAN NOBLES, ONE OF THE BEST SEATS IN THE HOUSE FOR SOMEONE THAT IS NOT A MEMBER OF CONGRESS ARE INVITED GUEST, YOU'RE UP THERE, WE DON'T HAVE RAIN YET, WE HAVE DAVID, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST, SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO HAVE A HIGH-STAKES MOMENT. >> I WAS TALKING TO DAVID EARLIER, TALK TO THE VIEWERS ABOUT IF YOU HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK TO PRESIDENT BIDEN, I KNOW YOU BEEN IN THIS POSITION BEFORE, LIVE PICTURE OF SENATOR ROMNEY IN THE CHAMBER, IF YOU HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK TO PRESIDENT BIDEN BEFORE HE DEPARTED FOR CAPITOL HILL, WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE? >> TRY TO KEEP IT LIMITED, DON'T PUT TOO MUCH IN THEIR HEAD. I WOULD SAY TO HAVE FUN, YOU PREPPED AND THE SPEECH IS READY, PRACTICED PERFORMANCE. GO OUT AND LET IT RIP. >> WILL PAUSE FOR A MOMENT AND LISTEN TO SPEAKER JOHNSON. >> THE PART OF THE COMMITTEE TO ESCORT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES INTO THE CHAMBER TO GENTLEMAN FROM LOUISIANA, MR. SCALISE, THE GENTLEMAN FROM MINNESOTA, GENTLEMAN FROM NORTH CAROLINA, MR. HUDSON. THE GENTLEMAN FROM ALABAMA, MR. PALMER. GENTLEMAN FROM UTAH, MR. MOORE. MRS. McLEAN. THE HOUSE WILL BE IN ORDER. GENTLEMAN FROM OKLAHOMA, MR. COLE. GENTLEMAN FROM PENNSYLVANIA. GENTLEMAN FROM KENTUCKY, MR. ROGERS. GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK, MR. JEFFRIES. GENERAL WOMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS, MISS CLARK. MR. AGUILAR FROM CALIFORNIA. GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, MR. LIU. GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON. GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO, MR. NEGUS. GENTLEWOMAN FROM ILLINOIS, MS. UNDERWOOD. FROM TEXAS, MS. ESCOBAR. FROM MASSACHUSETTS, MR. HAHN >> SPEAKER JOHNSON ACKNOWLEDGING ALL OF THE LEADERSHIP IN THE HOUSE. >> LISTEN TO THE VICE PRESIDENT. >> ESCORT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES INTO THE HOUSE CHAMBER. THE SENATOR FROM NEW YORK, MR. SCHUMER. THE SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS, THE SENATOR FROM WASHINGTON, MRS. MURRAY. THE SENATOR FROM MICHIGAN. THE SENATOR FROM MINNESOTA, MS. CLOVER CHART. THE SENATOR FROM VIRGINIA, MR. WARNER. THE SENATOR FROM WISCONSIN, MS. BALDWIN. THE SENATOR FROM KENTUCKY, MR. McCONNELL. THE SENATOR FROM SOUTH DAKOTA, SENATOR FROM WYOMING, THE SENATOR FROM WEST VIRGINIA, AND THE SENATOR FROM IOWA. >> MEMBERS OF THE ESCORT COMMITTEE WILL EXIT THE CHAMBER THROUGH THE LOBBY DOORS. >> THE ESCORT COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE SPEAKER AND VICE PRESIDENT AS WE ARE MINUTES AWAY FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN WALKING IN FOR HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. POTENTIALLY, DEPENDING HOUSE IN NOVEMBER, HIS FINAL OR PERHAPS NOT. >> MAYBE HIS MOST IMPORTANT, I THINK WE WILL AGREE TO THAT, YOU MENTIONED THE POP -- POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE, LOOKING AT MATT GAETZ FROM FLORIDA, SOMEONE ELSE WHO COULD POSSIBLY TACKLE THE FORMER PRESIDENT. WE ARE LOOKING HERE, SENATORS GATHER TO TALK ABOUT LIKELY THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SPEECH AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT AND WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN. EUGENE SCOTT JOINS US, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING OUT FOR WITH THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH? >> LOOKING FOR TO ADJUSTING MANY ISSUES VOTERS HAVE SAID, CONCERNING THEM, HE HAS TO LOOK ENERGETIC SHOWING VIGOR AND LOOK SHARP. AND PROVE WHAT HE HAS IT TAKES TO STAY ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. >> MOLLY, WATCHING WHAT HAPPENED, HOW MUCH OF A FIGHT OR HECKLING BACK AND FORTH? >> REPUBLICANS CONCLUDED THE BACK-AND-FORTH LAST YEAR DID THEM NO FAVORS WE HEARD A LOT OF THEM SAY THEY EXPECT MORE DECORUM TONIGHT, IN PART BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO GET JOE BIDEN THAT POLITICAL GIFT PICK LAST YEAR, HE WAS ABLE TO CLOCK BACK AT THEM, THAT IS A MOMENT THE WHITE HOUSE RELISHED AND I DON'T THINK REPUBLICANS ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH. WE WILL SEE, MAYBE TOO BIG A TEMPTATION FOR SOME OF HIS OPPONENTS TO WANT TO YELL AT HIM . I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THEY SIT ON THEIR HANDS A LITTLE BIT. DAY WAITING FOR OTHERS TO ENTER THE CHAMBERS, JUST BEHIND THEM THE PRESIDENT, HOW MUCH POLITICALLY DO YOU THINK IT WILL MATTER IF HE HITS IT OUT OF THE PARK OR STUMBLES? >> HISTORICALLY, WE HAVE NOT SEEN PRESIDENTS GET MUCH OF A BUMP OUT OF THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS PICKETERS INSIDE WASHINGTON PHENOMENON. AS MANY PEOPLE SAID, IT IS SO HIGH-STAKES FOR THE PRESIDENT. IN THE WAKE OF LAST MONTH'S SPECIAL COUNSEL REPORT, IT AMPLIFIED SO MANY CONCERNS AMONG VOTERS ACROSS THE BOARD, AMONG DEMOCRATS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S AGE, HIS ABILITY TO PERFORM. IF HE IS ABLE TO HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK, PERHAPS THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE, PERHAPS IT DOES RESET THE NARRATIVE FOR HIM. IF HE DOES STUMBLE IN SOME WAY, THAT COULD BE ABSOLUTELY DISASTROUS. >> WITHOUT MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN AS WELL . EUGENE SCOTT, THIS WILL BE A CLOSE ELECTION, EVERY POLL SHOWS THAT. THE PRESIDENT HAVING ISSUES WITH MINORITY GROUPS ACROSS THE COUNTRY INCLUDING ARAB AMERICANS, BLACK AMERICANS, HISPANICS DO YOU THINK HE ADDRESSES THOSE TONIGHT? >> I THINK IT IS VERY POSSIBLE. HE WILL TALK ABOUT THE CONFLICT IN GAZA, SOMETHING MANY VOTERS WANT TO HEAR ABOUT, THE DEMOGRAPHIC HE NEEDS TO BE VICTORIOUS WHO WILL WIN IN NOVEMBER. >> WE WERE LISTENING AS THEY WERE ANNOUNCING THE SUPREME COURT IS ENTERING LED BY CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS, WHO WILL APPEAR, THERE HE IS. SONIA SOTOMAYOR JUST BEHIND HIM. ELENA KAGAN. JUSTICE GORSUCH BEFORE HER, JUSTICE KAVANAUGH. ENTERING CAPITOL HILL MAKING THE LEFT TURN CARRYING THE PRESIDENT TO STEER CLEAR -- SECURE LOCATION WHERE HE CAN ENTER THE CHAMBERS WITH HIS WIFE AND FIRST LADY. THEY WILL SPLIT FOR SHORT TIME SO SHE CAN GO TO THE GALLERY AND WATCH THE SPEECH WITH HER INVITED GUESTS. MOLLY, SOMETHING I FOUND INTERESTING, A LOT OF IMPORTANT PEOPLE THAT WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED. THERE WILL BE NOBODY FROM ISRAEL , NO PALESTINIANS FROM GAZA IT SEEMS LIKE THEY AVOIDED THAT WHEN IT CAME TO GUESTS. >> A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT TOPIC BUT ON THE SUBJECT OF PRIYA SRIDHAR , THE PRESIDENT PLANS TO CALL THE SUPREME COURT AND TALK ABOUT ROE V. WADE, THE DECISION MADE BY THE COURT AND SAY THAT THE COURT SAID WOMEN HAVE POLITICAL POWER AND HAVE SHOWN THAT TALKING ABOUT HIS DESIRE WITH ROE V. WADE ON GAZA, VERY INTERESTING, DOES THE PRESIDENT WANT TO SPEAK TO THE LEFT WING OF THE PARTY PROTESTING AND WE STAY PROTESTING OUTSIDE TONIGHT OR SPEAK TO THE BROAD MIDDLE OF THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE MORE FAVORABLE TO ISRAEL? >> JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON , THE SUPREME COURT SIGNIFICANT ROLE WITH THE SELECTION, WAITING ON THE COURT CASES THAT INVOLVE FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. RIGHT NOW, ALL SMILES. AT TIMES WE HAD THAT JUSTICES NOT SMILING DURING STATES OF THE UNION. WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS TONIGHT. MOMENTS AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENT ABOUT TO ENTER THE CHAMBER PICK WE WANT TO WE WANT TO THANK OUR GUESTS TONIGHT ON THIS PORTION OF OUR BROADCAST BUT NOW WE WANT TO GO TO AN NBC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN ON THE STATE OF OUR UNION. THE PRESIDENT SENT TO ADDRESS A BITTERLY DIVIDED CONGRESS. OUTLINING THE CHALLENGES FACING AMERICANS AT HOME AND ABROAD. >> THE WAR IN UKRAINE NOW AT A CRITICAL CROSSROADS. WHILE FEARS REMAIN OF A WIDER WAR SPREADING IN THE MIDDLE EAST. >> DESPITE IMPROVING ECONOMY AT HOME, AMERICANS UNDER PRESSURE THE COST OF LIVING STILL STUBBORNLY HIGH. PLUS, GROWING TENSIONS OVER SOME KEY ISSUES. INCLUDING IMMIGRATION, AND ABORTION RIGHTS. >> WITH EIGHT MONTHS UNTIL THE GENERAL ELECTION AND ITS APPROVAL RATING UNDERWATER AND THE PRESIDENT MAKES THE CASE THAT THE STATE OF THE UNION IS STRONG. >> FROM ABC'S NEWS, PRESIDENT BIDEN'S STATE OF THE UNION, LIVE FROM WASHINGTON, HERE IS LESTER HOLT AND SAVANNAH GUTHRIE. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS AND TONIGHT IS A PIVOTAL NIGHTHE AS HE DELIVERS THE MOST IMPORTANT SPEECH OF HIS PRESIDENCY. WE ARE STILL EIGHT MONTHS OUT FROM THE GENERAL ELECTION BUT WITH THAT REMATCH NOW SET BETWEEN HIM AND FORMER PRESIDENT TROP TONIGHT MIGHT BE THE PRESIDENT'S BEST CHANCE TO GET HIS MESSAGE OUT THERE. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ALREADY ASSEMBLED ON THE HOUSE FLOOR, THE MESSAGE WE ARE EXPECTED TO HEAR THE MOST CRITICAL ISSUES THE COUNTRY IS FACING INCLUDING IMMIGRATION, THE ECONOMY AND OF COURSE TWO WARS RAGING OVERSEAS. RYAN NOBLES IS INSIDE THE CHAMBERS, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING THERE AS FOLKS CONTINUE TO FILE THEIR WAY IN? >> Reporter: WE ARE ALREADY SEEING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS DISPLAYING MESSAGES THAT THEY WANT THE WORLD TO SEE EVEN THOUGH THEY WILL NOT HAVE A VOICE IN THIS ROOM HERE TONIGHT THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THE POLICY ISSUES THAT THEY CARE ABOUT ARE FRONT AND CENTER, AMONG THEM UCSC OF WHITE AND THIS IS WOMEN FROM THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS THEY DECIDED TO BAND TOGETHER TO WEAR WHITE IN REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND IN PARTICULAR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. NOTHING ELSE TO LOOK FOR TONIGHT IS SOME MEMBER YELLOW A BLUE TO SHOW THEIR ONGOING S PURPOSELY WEARING YELLOW AND BLUE TO SHOW THEIR ONGOING SUPPORT OF UKRAINE AND OF COURSE THE PUSH FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL AID PACKAGE TO PASS AT SOME POINT WE ARE ALSO NOTICING REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS WEARING WHITE RIBBONS, THIS IS THEIR WAY OF DEMONSTRATING THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT THE ONGOING BORDER CRISIS AND THE VIOLENCE THEY BELIEVE IS ASSOCIATED WITH IT. SOME DISPLAYING PINS WITH THE NAME OF LAKIN, THE WOMAN THAT WAS ALLEGEDLY MURDERED BY AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT. IT'S IMPORTANT BUT HE PRESIDENT IS ENTERING WHAT IS REALLY ONE OF THE MOST HOUSE CHAMBERS IN A GENERATION, THERE IS OF COURSE ONLY A FEW VOTES SEPARATING REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS FIRST SLIM MARGINS MAKE IT VERY DIFFICULT TO GET ANYTHING OF SUBSTANCE TO BE ACCOMPLISHED. THERE IS OF COURSE THE POSSIBILITY OF THE PRESIDENT BEING HECKLED BY MEMBERS OF HIS OPPOSING PARTY. AND ALTHOUGH THE NEW SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON WHO WILL BE SITTING BEHIND THE PRESIDENT FOR THE FIRST TIME HE HAS ONLY BEEN ON THE JOB FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS, HE HAS INSTRUCTED HIS MEMBER AND TO DISPLAY DECORUM. THERE'S GOING TO BE SES RAL TO THE TS IN THE HOUSE Y WH RULES AND HE HAS TOLD THEM TO DISPLAY WHAT HE CALLS DECORUM. THE OTHER THING WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR TONIGHT IS THERE WILL BE SEVERAL GUESTS IN THE GALLERY WHO REPRESENT VARIOUS CAUSES, THEY HAVE BEEN INVITED BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS OR THE WHITE HOUSE AMONG THEM THE FAMILIES OF THE AMERICAN HOSTAGES THAT ARE STILL BEING CAPTIVE AND HELD CAPTIVE IN GAZA AND OF COURSE CAUGHT UP IN THE CONFLICT BETWEEN HAMAS AND ISRAEL AND WE DO EXPECT THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO BE A KEY FOCUS TONIGHT. WE DO KNOW THAT THE PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS THE SITUATION BUT AS WE TALK ABOUT PROTESTERS THERE IS ALSO THAT POSSIBILITY THAT AN INDIVIDUAL MEMBER MAY BE OF THE PRESIDENT'S OWN PART Y RHAPS ONE OF THEIR GUE OR PERHAPS ONE OF THEIR GUESTS ATTEMPTS TO STAGE A PROTEST TO PUT PRESSURE ON PRESIDENT BIDEN TO WORK TO BRING AN END TO THE WAR AND OF COURSE THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. THAT IS PLAYING OUT THERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. AND THEN WE SHOULD ALSO NOT FORGET THAT ALL OF THIS COMES AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE ONGOING IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY THAT WAS LAUNCHED BY HOUSE REPUBLICANS AND INVESTIGATING THE PRESIDENT'S FAMILY, THIS IH IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY COMMITTEES. NOW THE WHITE HOUSE HAS S AN INVESTIGATION THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MONTHS, THE PRESIDENT'S SON RECENTLY TESTIFYING IN FRONT OF THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRIES COMMITTEE NOW THE WHITE HOUSE HAS DISMISSED THIS ALL AS A SHAM. EVEN SOME HOUSE REPUBLICANS OF COURSE HAVE SAID THAT THIS HAS FAILED TO DELIVER THE EVIDENCE NECESSARY BUT IT IS SOMETHING TO KEEP IN THE BACK OF YOUR MIND AS THE PRESIDENT ADDRESSES THIS YEAR TONIGHT THAT THERE ARE MANY OF THESE MEMBERS WHO BELIEVE THAT HE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED EVEN THOUGH AT THIS POINT THEY HAVE YET TO DEMONSTRATE THE EVIDENCE THAT LEADS TO HIGH CRIMES OR MISDEMEANORS. AT THIS POINT MEMBERS ARE MILLING ABOUT, HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH EACH OTHER CATCHING UP AS THEY PREPARE FOR THIS MOMENT, IT'S INTERESTING, WE WERE IN THE CHAMBER VERY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AROUND 3 PM AND THERE WERE ALREADY MEMBER SO THEY CAN GET THAT MOMENT, S O SH GETTHE PRESID THOSEHAND A KEY COVETED SEATS ALONG THE AISLE WHERE THE PRESIDENT WILL WALK IN SO THEY CAN GET THAT MOMENT SHAKE THE PRESIDENT'S HAND AND BE SEEN ON NATIONAL TELEVISION AND SEEN BY MILLIONS OF AMERICANS OF COURSE COVETED SEATS IN POLITICS AND WE WILL SEE THAT ON FULL DISPLAY HERE WHEN THE PRESIDENT ENTERS THIS ROOM IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES. >> WRITE THE CONTRAST TO THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE WE ARE SEEING THERE INCLUDING GEORGE SANTOS. >> AND EXCELLED, DECIDED TO COME TONIGHT, NO INVITATION NECESSARY. NOT CONVID OF A CRIME HAS A RIGHT TO BE THERE, ON THE HOUSE FLOOR AND HAS DECIDED TO COME TONIGHT. NO INVITATION NECESSARY SO HE IS THERE JUST ONE OF THE MANY STORYLINES THAT WE SEE DEVELOPING ON THE FLOOR TONIGHT. >>> THE TIMING OF THIS TWO DAYS AFTER SUPER TUESDAY MOMENTS THE PRESIDENT HAS TO REALLY GET HIS MESSAGE OUT THERE TO RESPOND TO THE DARKER VIEW AMERICA THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN OFFERING WE WILL BRING IN OUR CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, PETER ALEXANDER, PETER WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM THE PRESIDENT? >> Reporter: THE FACT IS IT IS THE STARTING GUN ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN I THINK THERE'S A COUPLE THINGS TO KEEP AN EYE ON. THIS IS AS GHT FILLEDTHE H SENO CHAL THE PRESIDENT DESCRIBES, TO ME I THINK THERE'S A COUPLE THINGS TO KEEP AN EYE ON THIS IS A NIGHT INSTILLED WITH CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES, THE CHALLENGE HERE OF COURSE THE PRESENT THE PRESIDENT QUESTIONS LIAND S ABOUT HIS AGE, HIS PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH, RIGHT NOW BUT IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT HAS ACCOMPLISHED THE WHITE HOUSE A LOT SINCE COMING TO OFFICE AND THAT'S WHY THEY ARE GOING TO TRY TO BRING THIS AS A COMEBACK STORY OF SORTS. YOU WILL REMEMBER JANUARY 2021, MORE AMERICANS DIED OF THE PANMOREC, MORE THAN ANY OTHER COURSE OF THE PANDEMIC MORE THAN 105,000 AMERICANS AND YET THE ECONOMY HAS BEEN GROWING AND THE TIME SINCE, THE PRESIDENT WILL TOUT THE STRONGEST JOB GROWTH AND INFLATION IS STILL HIGH, NOW TWO THIRDS OF WHAT IT WAS AT ITS PEAK AND WHILE A LOT OF THE FOCUS FOR MANY AMERICANS GIVEN CONCERNS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT AGE WILL BE ON HIS DELIVERY, THE WHITE HOUSE AND PRIMARY FOCUS TONIGHT IS ON WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS DELIVERED FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. I AM TOLD BY A SENIOR AIDE AS I WALKED OUT TO THE NORTH WANT TO SEE THE EVENING THAT RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE HE WILL FOCUS SPECIFICALLY ON THE TOPIC OF DEMOCRACY, INCLUDING IN PLACES LIKE UKRAINE BUT HERE AT HOME, THE THREAT THAT IS POSED BY THE POTENTIAL FOR ANOTHER TRUMP PRESIDENCY, THE TOPIC OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AS BRIAN NOTED A MOMENT AGO WILL BE KEY WITHHIS A KEY INDIVIDUAL INEVE FIRST BOX THIS EVENING BEING SOMEONE'S WHO FAMILY BENEFITED FROM IVF, ANOTHER ONE AN INDIVIDUAL THERE WHO SOMEONE WHO SUED THE STATE OF TEXAS FOR NEAR-TOTAL ABORTION BAN AND FINALLY OF COURSE THE ISSUE OF THE ECONOMY AS WELL SHARPLY CONTRAST, HIS VISION AND TIME IN OFFICE WAS THAT OF HIS PREDECESSORS, HE MAY NOT BE REFERRED T TAUGHT ME TO EMBRACE FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY, TO GIVE HATE NO SAFE O RBOR.BY HIS NAME AND ON THE TOPIC THE PRESIDENT WILL SAY MY LIFETIME AND EMBRACE FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY TO GIVE HATE NO SAFE HARBOR, NOW SOME OTHER PEOPLE MY AGE, SEE A DIFFERENT STORY AND AMERICAN STORY REVENGE AND RETRIBUTION, THAT IS NOT MADE JUST ONE EXAMPLE THE PRESIDENT IS INSPECTED TO MAKE TONIGHT. >> THANK YOU SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS MIXING AND MINGLING , WITH MEMBERS OF THSET BINET, TH THERE WE SEE FORMER SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS MINGLING WITH MEMBERS OF THE CABINET. THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HAVE ASSEMBLED THERE AND WE SEE THE SECOND GENTLEMAN ENTERING RIGHT NOW AND WE AWAIT THE STATE OF THE UNION ONE OF THE STORIES TRADITIONS OF OUR DEMOCRACY THE PRESIDENT ADDRESSING THE NATION IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS, HE HAD LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE AND WE WILL EXPECT HIM TO ENTER THAT CHAMBER AT ANY MOMENT. I TRADITION HE WILL BE ANNOUNCED AND THEN HE WILL ENTER WE WILL HAVE A MOMENT TO KEEP CHATTING AND FOR THAT RETURN TO THE MODERATOR OF MEET THE PRESS KRISTIN WELKER, GIVING A SHOUT OUT THERE TO VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE STATE OF THE UNION IT IS SO OFTEN IN PAST YEARS ABOUT POLICY. CERTAINLY IT WILL BE TONIGHT. PRESIDENT BIDEN AND THE LAYOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO WITH A SECOND TERM. BUT IT IS ALSO ABOUT PERFORMANCE TONIGHT. THERE ARE QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS AGE. SHOWING UP IN POLL AFTER POLL, IT IS NO SECRET. HOW HE PERFORMS TONIGHT IS AS KEY AS ANYTHING THAT HE SAYS THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT FOR THAT VERY REASON. ON THAT PODIUM. >> YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD, THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT FOR THAT VERY REASON BECAUSE WE WILL BE PAYING ATTENTION TO ALL THE POLICIES, PROPOSALS THAT EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE FOCUSED ON HIS PERFORMANCE. THINK ABOUT LAST YEAR HE WAS WIDELY SEEN AS GIVING A STRONG AND ROBUST SPEECH IN PART BECAUSE WHEN REPUBLICANS HECKLED HIM HE FLIPPED IT AROUND AND TURNED IT ON THEIR HEAD. CAN HE SHOW THE SAME TYPE OF FIGHT THAT COMES, HERE COMES THE FIRST LADY INTO THE CHAMBER. THE FIRST LADY IS ENTERING THE >> AND I THINK THAT IS CHAMBER. AND AUTHENTIC WE KNOW THAT THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN PREPARING FOR THEM, EVEN THOUGH THE HOUSE SPEAKER HAS ENCOURAGED THE CONFERENCE NOT TO DO THAT BUT UNDOUBTEDLY THAT IS IT. WE WILL PAUSE FOR A MOMENT AS THE PRESIDENT IS ABOUT TO BE INTRODUCED. >> MR. SPEAKER, THE PRESIDENT CABINET, [ APPLAUSE ] >> AS WE WAIT FO >> SOME OF THE ISSUES, IMMIGRATION AND THE ECONOMY, AND A POSITIVE AND AFFIRMATIVE CASE. >> I THINK YOU WILL SEE BOTH. I CAN TELL YOU BEFORE, WITH THE CAMPAIGN HE WILL LOOK TO FLIP THE SCRIPT ON IMMIGRATION AND HE WILL DO WHAT HE HAS BEEN TRYING TO DO WITH A SMALLER AUDIENCE HE HAS TENS OF MILLIONS OF EYEBALLS ON HIM AND HE SAYS WAIT A SECOND YOU COULD'VE PASSED A COMPREHENSIVE BIPARTISAN SECURITY BILL AND CONGRESS WOULD NOT. I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF HE TALKS ABOUT THAT. AND LEADERSHIP IN THE ROOM TONIGHT, THAT MAY NOT BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE LINE OF ATTACK FOR THE PRESIDENT REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN GOING AFTER HIM ON THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AT THE BORDER FOR MONTHS NOW, THIS IS WHAT IS CENTRAL AND AGAINST HIM. SO WE HAVE SAID WE HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THE ECONOMY. AS IT DRIVES THEM TO GET OUT AND VOTE, THIS YEAR NOW, ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES WE ARE SEEING SOME IMMIGRATION OVERTAKE THAT AS THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE THAT AFFECTS PEOPLE. I WILL TELL YOU I WAS TEXTING WITH A DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS NOW IN THE ROOM AND I ASKED AND THEY SAID I AM EXCITED BUT A LITTLE ANXIOUS BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT RIDING ON THE PERFORMANCE TONIGHT. AS YOU POINT OUT THAT WHAT HE SAYS BUT HOW HE SAYS IT. >> HE WAS AT A CAMPAIGN THIS WEEKEND. WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT HE HAS BEEN GOING OVER IT WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB. REALLY LOOKING AT EVERY SINGLE WORD, HE KNOWS HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS. HE KNOWS THAT THE STAKES OF THIS MOMENT AND HAS BEEN MAKING THE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP IN RECENT WEEKS, TONIGHT IS HIS NIGHT TO MAKE THE CASE FOR JOE BIDEN. THE COUNCIL, THE CRITICS WHO SAY THAT HE DOESN'T HAVE IT N HIM TO SERVE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. I THINK THERE IS A POLITICAL CHALLENGE HERE. HE HAS TO ENERGIZE THE STAGE TONIGHT AND HE HAS TO DO THAT BUT HE ALSO HAS TO REACH ACROSS THE AISLES TO THE INDEPENDENT VOTERS. THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF VOTERS WHO COULD MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN SOME OF THIS. >> THEY ARE WELCOMING MY CAMPAIGN. >> HE SAID I DON'T NEED THOSE VOTERS. SO HE DID SAY IF YOU WANT HE SAID FEEL FTOE TO MOVE IN JOIN MY MOVEMENT YOU MAY BUT HE WAS NOT MOVING IN THEIR DIRECTION HE SAID FEEL FREE TO MOVE IN MY DIRECTION BUT IT RAISES THE POLITICAL QUESTION THAT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE YOU PERCEIVE THIS ELECTION ABOUT TURNING OUT YOUR BASE? AND THE ENTHUSIASM ON THE LEFT AGAINST TRUMP MORE THAN IT IS FOR BIDEN? AND DOES THAT CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR BIDEN TO MOVE TO THE CENTER IF HE WANTS TO? BOTH INDEPENDENCE, THE SUBURBAN AND THE TRIED AND TRUE SWING VOTERS WHO DEFIED SO MANY ELECTIONS. MAKE THE BET THAT THESE PROGRESSIVES ARE NOT GOING TO FIND DONALD TRUMP MORE PALATABLE THAN BIDEN HOWEVER CONCERNED THEY ARE AND ISSUES THAT THEY HAVE OF THE HANDLING OF THE ISRAEL-HAMMAS WAR. THIS IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE BOTH. IT IS A TURNOUT ELECTION, BUT THE MARGINS ARE SO CLOSE HERE THAT YOU ALSO HAVE TO APPEAL TO THOSE BATTLEGROUND STATES AND THAT WILL BE CRITICAL FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN OR FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. HE IS WATCHING AND NOW THAT WE ARE GETTING TO THE GENERAL ELECTION, 240 DAYS TO GO NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER HE WILL BE BACK TO CHECKING. >> I WILL SAY IT AGAIN, IT IS A REMATCH OF 2020, NOW WE KNOW, IT'S NOT THINGS ARE DIFFERENT. FIRST OF ALL FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP THE FIRST CRIMINAL TRIAL GETS UNDERWAY LATER THIS MONTH, SO IN THE PRIMARY IT HAS REPUBLICAN VOTERS ACROSS THEM. FIGHNG IN THE GENERAL ELECTION. HERE'S WHAT IS ALSO DIFFERENT DURING THE LAST ELECTION CYCLE, CANDIDATE BIDEN WHO HAS NEVER BEEN TRAILING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP VERY DIFFERENT SITUATION THIS TIME AROUND SO WE WILL SHOW YOU THE GENERAL ELECTION AS WELL AS THE BATTLEGROUND STATESASED ON MY CONVERSATIONS H THE PRESIDENT'S ALLIES AND WHAT IT HAS BEEN. >> THE IDEA OF USING AND LOSING THE NARRATIVE. AND IN THIS CASE PRESIDENT BIDEN A LOT OF THE SUPPORTERS THINK HE HAS BEEN SLOW TO RESPOND. >> THEY SAY HE HAS NOT SHOWN ENOUGH URGENCY AND I WAS SPEAKING TO SOME OF THE ALLIES TODAY WHO SAID TONIGHT WE ARE GOING TO SEE THAT URGENCY. EVERYTHING STARTS TONIGHT. AND THEY GO THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE START PAYING ATTENTION TO. AND SET THE PACE. >> PEOPLE WANT TO SEE HE HAS A PEP IN HIS STEP. IT MENTIONED THAT IMMIGRATION IS BEEN THE POLITICAL CLICHE SINCE THE '90s. NOW IT'S THE ECONOMY AND IT'S IMMIGRATION. BUT THE ECONOMY IS SUCH AN IN THE 90s, NOW THE ECONOMY AND THE IMMIGRATION, THE ECONOMY IS SUCH AN INTERESTING PICTURE BECAUSE AS YOU WELL KNOW AND I KNOW YOU HAVE THESE NUMBERS MEMORIZED SO MANY OF THE METRICS , SHOW AN IMPROVING ECONOMY. AND YET PEOPLE DON'T SAY THEY FEEL IT. AND THIS COMES DOWN TO INFLATION AND SPECIFICALLY THE GROCERY STORE, THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IS STRONG, THIS SHOULD BE A BIG ADVANTAGE FOR THE STATE OF AMERICANS FRANKLY IS SKEPTICAL OR EXHAUSTED DEPENDING ON WHO YOU TALK TO. AND EXHAUSTED BY THE THREE YEARS OF HIGHER INFLATION. INFLATION IS MODERATED AND HE WON'T SAY MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. >> THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] [ INDISCERNIBLE CONVERSATIONS ] >> HE STILL HAS A LOT OF FRIENDS >> MAKING HIS WAY THROUGH THE CROWD. >> MORE THAN ANYWHERE IN WASHINGTON, THE HOUSE OF CONGRESS WHERE JOE BIDEN FEELS AT HOME AND SPENDING DECADES IN CONGRESS AND ALSO HAVINGTHREE TE RUN FOR PRESIDENT THREE TIMES YOU CAN IMAGINE A YOUNG JOE BIDEN IMAGINES HIMSELF IN THIS ROLE AND IT SEEMS LIKE HE IS RELISHING EVERY SINGLE MINUTE. AND THIS IS THE JOE BIDEN THAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE FAMILIAR WITH AND THE CHITCHATTING. HE IS DOING IT AT THIS MOMENT. WE WILL BE TALKING HERE UNTIL THE PRESIDENT DELIVERS HIS SPEECH AND WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE PRESIDENT IN THE AISLE TALKING WITH REPUBLICANS HE SPENDS SOME TIME THERE AND REPUBLICAN MEMBERS WHO ARE THERE. OBVIOUSLY THAT IS DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER BEHIND HIM BUT THIS IS A SPACE WHERE HE DOES HAVE A LEVEL OF COMFORT WHERE HE DOES DO THAT. LOOKING AT THE LIVE FEEDS HAPPENING. SEEING THE CABINET MEMBERS COMING AND WE KNOW THAT SECRETARY, LOOKING FOR THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS BUT YOU SEE HIM GETTING GREETED BY DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS NOW SO SO MUCH. THE IMPEACHMENT PUSH IN THIS ROOM. THERE'S SOME TENSION. THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS THERE IS A LOT OF DRAMA IN THIS ROOM AND SOME TENSION. YOU DON'T SEE IT ON THE PRESIDENT'S FACE AT THE MOMENT BUT MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN RIGHT BEHIND HIM I BELIEVE. >> WEARING SOME OF BUTTONS TALKING ABOUT THE BORDER CRISIS. >> MAKING IT AROUND. WAS KILLED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA NOT LONG AGO. AND REPUBLICANS HAVE GONE SO FAR AND HAVE PREPARED. WEARINGH. PI OR RIBBONS AND SOME CASES A PICTURE OF THAT YOUNG WOMAN WHO WAS TRAGICALLY KILLED AND WE JUST SAW MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN. YOU HAVE BETTER HEARING THAN I DID I COULD NOT MAKE THAT UP MYSELF BUT YOU SEE THE PRESIDENT ENTER, TALK ABOUT RELISHING THE MOMENT. THE EXIT LAST YEAR. FIVE, SIX, SEVEN MINUTES, SOMEBODY THAT WANTS TO GREET EVERY PERSON WITH THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND IN SOME CASES THESE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WILL COME IN THE AFTERNOON AND MUST REMEMBER LEADERSHIP. YOU HAVE TO SAVE THAT. AND THEY WILL DO IT, TAKE THE PICTURE OR IN THE CASE OF MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN, HAVE THAT MOMENT. >> WEST VIRGINIA, DEMOCRATS VERY CONCERNED FOR THE VERY STRONG LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY WILL LEAVE THAT SEAT BUT I GO BACK TO WHAT WE WERE SAYING AND JOE BIDEN HAS SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN THESE CHAMBERS TIME IN THES. CHAMBERS. THIS IS >> THE ADMINISTRATION, WEEKS AND MONTHS OVERSEAS, TRYING TO SECURE A DEAL IN THE WAR WITH ISRAEL AND HAMAS. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO REACH THAT DEAL. THERE MAY BE SOME A POLICY ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THIS VERY NIGHT ON THAT ISSUE BECAUSE THIS IS A HUGE INTERNATIONAL ISSUE. A POLITICAL ISSUE FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN AS WELL AS MANY YOUNG VOTERS. DISMAYED AT THE PRESIDENT AND THE VICE PRESIDENT, KAMALA HARRIS WAS VERY STRONG. ASKING FOR A CEASE-FIRE. THAT'S RIGHT. >> WE ANTICIPATE IT'S GOING THROUGH AND HE IS GOING TO ANNOUNCE A NEW MILITARY EFFORT TO GET AID TO GAZA AND YOUNG VOTERS. WE'LL SEE. >> IN THE CHAMBER, ARE YOU HEARING FOUR MORE YEARS, HOW ARE YOU HEARING? >> I CAN HEAR A LITTLE BIT BETTER IN THE ACTUAL ROOM BUT IT DID APPEAR THAT THE PRESIDENT MADE HIS WAY DOWN PAST THE CEILING OF THE MEMBERS IS NOW OF COURSE MAKING HIS WAY TO THE JOINT CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT SO JUST AS WE GOT DOWN TO KIND OF A FINAL STAGE BEFORE HE HEADS UP AND THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS CHANTING FOUR MORE YEARS AND CLAPPING LOUDLY FOR THE PRESIDENT, IT'S INTERESTING, IT IS REALLY KIND OF A SPARKING A ROOM LIKE THIS, OF WHERE IT IS SO GREAT ONE ON ONE, THAT'S WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN IS KNOWN FOR. WHERE PERHAPS IN A BIG SPEECH, OTHER ISSUES. WHEN HE IS HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE HE OFTEN MAKES THAT PERSON FEEL LIKE THEY ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT FUSION, PERSON IN THE ROOM. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WATCHING ALL OVER THE WORLD. HE TAKES A MOMENT WITH EACH AND EVERY PERSON THAT HE SEES AS HE MAKES HIS WAY DOWN THE AISLE. AND AS THAT MOMENT IS MOVING HE HAS THE MOMENT WITH THEM. LIKE SEEING A FRIEND HE HAS NOT SEEN IN A LONG TIME WITH A BIG HUG AND SHARING SOME SORT OF MOMENT. AND TO GET BACK TO THAT MOMENT WITH MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN COMING DOWN THE AISLE, WE COULD SEE HER HAD AND LOOKING TO HAVE A VIRAL MOMENT. SHE HAD HER CAMERA SHE ALSO HAD HER CAMERA PHONE POINTED AT HIM THE WHOLE TIME. R PHONE APPOINTED AT THE PRESIDENT THE ENTIRE TIME SO I'M SURE THAT IS SOMETHING SHE WILL ATTEMPT TO MAKE A BIG DEAL ON MEDIA. IT DID NOT SEEM TO BOTHER THE PRESIDENT AT ALL, YOU COULD NOT TELL WHETHER HE ENGAGED WITH HER OR WALKED BY AS SHE WAS TRYING TO GET HER MESSAGE TO HIM. SO THIS IS I WOULD IMAGINE PART OF FRUSTRATION FOR THE PLANNERS OF THE EVENT HERE TONIGHT, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE WORKED OUT ENOUGH TIME FOR JOE BIDEN TO GREET ALL THESE FOLKS, I THINK THERE IS A LEVEL OF FRUSTRATION FOR HIM THAT HE DOES NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS AS FREQUENTLY AS HE DID WHEN HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE SENATE. HE IS TAKING THE PODIUM NOW AND WE WILL BE HEARING FROM THE PRESIDENT IN A MOMENT. MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT ARE THERE. [INDISCERNIBLE] [ APPLAUSE ] >> THANK YOU. >> GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. IF I WERE SMART, I WOULD GO HOME NOW. >> MADAM VICE PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, MY FELLOW AMERICANS. IN JANUARY, 1941, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT CAME TO THIS CHAMBER TO SPEAK TO THE NATION. AND HE SAID I ADDRESSED YOU IN A MOMENT UNPRECEDENTED IN THIS CIVIL UNION. WAR WAS RAGING IN EUROPE. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PURPOSE WAS TO WAKE UP CONGRESS AND ALERT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THAT THIS WAS NO ORDINARY TIME. FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY, ASSAULT IN THE WORLD. TONIGHT, I COME TO THE SAME CHAMBER TO REST AND ADDRESS THE HISTORWEOF THE UNI WHO FACE S UNPRECEDENTED MOMENT. IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNION AND YET, OUR PURPOSE TONIGHT IS TO WAKE UP THE CONGRESS AND ALERT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT THIS IS NO ORDINARY MOMENT EITHER. NOT SINCE PRESIDENT REAGAN AND THE CIVIL WAR HAVE FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY BEEN UNDER ASSAULT AT HOME AS THEY ARE TODAY. BUT MAKES OUR MOMENT RARE IS DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK AT HOME AND OVERSEAS. AT THE VERY SAME TIME. OVERSEAS, PUTIN AND RUSSIA ON THE MARCH. INVADING UKRAINE. AND ENSUING CHAOS IN EUROPE AND BEYOND. IF ANYBODY IN THIS ROOM THINKS PUTIN WILL STOP WITH UKRAINE I ASSURE YOU HE WILL NOT. OT. >> WHAT UKRAINE, UKRAINE. UKRAINE CAN STOP PUTIN. IF WE STAY WITH UKRAINE. AND SURVIVE AND PROVIDE THE WEAPONS. AND THE MEANS TO DEFEND ITSELF. THAT IS ALL UKRAINE IS ASKING. THEY ARE NOT ASKING FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS. IN FACT THERE ARE NO AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND I'M DETERMINED TO KEEP IT THAT WAY. BUT NOW, UKRAINE IS BEING BLOCKED BY THOSE WHO WANT TO WALK AWAY FROM OUR WORLD LEADERSHIP. IT WAS NOT LONG AGO REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT NAMED RONALD REAGAN THUNDERED MR. GORBACHEV TEAR DOWN THIS WALL. NOW, [ APPLAUSE ] NOW MY PREDECESSOR FORMER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT TELLS PUTIN QUOTE DO WHATEVER THE YOU WANT. THAT IS A QUOTE. THE PRESIDENT ACTUALLY SAID THAT BOWING DOWN TO A RUSSIAN LEADER, I THINK IT'S OUTRAGEOUS AND DANGEROUS AND UNACCEPTABLE. AMERICA IS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF NATO. THE MILITARY ALLIANCE OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONS TREATED AFTER WORLD WAR II TO PREVENT WAR AND KEEP THE PEACE. AND TODAY, WE HAVE MADE NATO STRONGER THAN EVER. WELCOMING FINLAND TO THE ALLIANCE LAST YEAR. AND JUST THIS MORNING SWEDEN OFFICIALLY JOINED AND THEIR MINISTER IS HERE TONIGHT, PLEASE STAND UP. WELCOME. WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME. THEY KNOW HOW TO FIGHT. MR. PRIME MINISTER WELCOME TO NATO, THE STRONGEST MILITARY ALLIANCE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. I SAY THIS TO CONGRESS, WE HAVE TO STAND UP TO PUTIN. SEND ME A BIPARTISAN NATIONAL SECURITY BILL, HISTORY IS LITERALLY WATCHING. HISTORY IS WATCHING. THE UNITED STATES WALKS AWAY WHEN YOU PUT UKRAINE AT RISK, YOURS IS AT RISK, THE FREE WORLD IS AT RISK AND BULLYING OTHERS TO DO AS THEY WISH AND DO US HARM. I MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT PUTIN RIGHT NOW AND FOR A LONG TIME IS SIMPLE, WE WILL NOT WALK AWAY. MY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT PUTIN, WHO I'VE KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME IS SIMPLE. WE WILL NOT WALK AWAY! >> WE WILL NOT BOW DOWN. I WILL NOT BOW DOWN. I WILL NOT BOW DOWN! AND IN A LITERAL SENSE, HISTORY IS WATCHING. HISTORY IS WATCHING. JUST LIKE HISTORY WATCHED THREE YEARS AGO ON JANUARY 6. WHEN INSURRECTION STORMED THIS VERY CAPITAL AND PLACED A DAGGER IN THE THROAT OF DEMOCRACY, MANY OF YOU WERE HERE ON THAT DARKEST OF DAY. WE ALL SAW WITH OUR OWN EYES THE INSURRECTIONS WERE NOT PATRIOTS, THEY HAVE COME TO STOP THE TRANSFER OF POWER AND TURN THE WORLD OF PEOPLE, JANUARY 6 LIES ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION ON THE PLOT TO STEAL THE ELECTION POSED A GREAT GREATEST THREAT TO U.S. DEMOCRACY. SINCE THE CIVIL WAR. BUT THEY FAILED. AMERICA STOOD. >> AMERICA STOOD STRONG. AND DEMOCRACY PREVAILED. I MUST BE HONEST. THE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY MUST BE DEFENDED. MY PREDECESSOR AND SOME OF YOU HERE SEEK TO BURY THE TRUTH ABOUT JANUARY 6. I WILL NOT DO THAT. THIS IS A MOMENT TO SPEAK THE TRUTH AND THE VERY LIES, HERE IS A SIMPLE TRUTH, YOU CAN'T LOVE YOUR COUNTRY ONLY WHEN YOU WIN. ALL OF YOU WITH OUR REGARD TO PARTY TO JOIN TOGETHER AND DEFEND DEMOCRACY, REMEMBER YOUR OATH OF OFFICE OF DEFENDING US ALL FROM FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, RESPECT RESPECT FREE AFREEAIR ELEC ANDS AND RESTORE TRUST IN OUR INSTITUTIONS. AND MAKE CLEAR POLITICAL VIOLENCE HAS ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE, NO PLACE IN AMERICA, ZERO PLACE. AGAIN, IT IS NOT HYPERBOLE TO SUGGEST HISTORY IS WATCHING. YOUR GROWN CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WILL READ ABOUT THIS DAY AND WHAT WE DO. HISTORY IS WATCHING, JOIN US, THE SOCIAL WORKER IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 14 MONTHS AGO. 14 MONTHS AGO SHE AND HER HUSBAND WELCOMED SHE SCHEDULED TREATMENTS TO HAVE THAT SECOND CHILD. BUT THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT SHUT DOWN IVF TREATMENTS ACROSS THE STATE, UNLEASHED BY A SUPREME COURT DECISION OV ATURNING ROE BABY .GIRL WELCOME TO THE MIRACLE OF IVF, SHE SCHEDULED TREATMENTS TO HAVE THE SECOND CHILD AND THEN ALABAMA SUPREME COURT SHUTDOWN IVF TREATMENT ACROSS THE STATE. AT LEAST BY SUPREME COURT'S DECISION OVERTURNING ROE V WADE. SHE WAS TOLD HER DREAM WOULD HAVE TO WAIT FOR HER FAMILY GOT DOCTORS THAT THINK THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. LET'S STAND UP FOR FAMILY RIGHTS LIKE HERS, DO NOT KEEP US WAITING ANY LONGER. GUARANTEE THE RIGHT TO IVF. GUARANTEE IT NATIONWIDE.ANTEE I! >> LIKE MOST AMERICANS I BELIEVE ROE V WADE GOT IT RIGHT. I THINK VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, I THINK HER FOR BEING AN INCREDIBLE LEADER IN DEFENDING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM AND SO MUCH MORE. THANK YOU. MY PREDECESSOR CAME TO OFFICE DETERMINED TO SEE ROE V WADE OVERTURNED. HE IS THE REASON IT IS OVERTURNED AND HE BRAGGED ABOUT IT. LOOK AT THE CHAOS. THAT HAS RESULTED. JOIN US, WIFE AND MOTHER FROM DALLAS, SHE HAS BECOME PREGNANT AGAIN AND HAD A FETUS WITH A FATAL CONDITION, HER DOCTOR TOLD KATE THAT HER OWN ABILITY AND LIFE TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE FUTURE WERE AT RISK. IF SHE DID NOT ACT. BECAUSE TEXAS LAW KATE AND HER HUSBANNEDAD T HER ABILITY TO ACT, KATE AND HER HUSBAND HAD TO LEAVE THE STATE TO GET WHAT SHE NEEDED. BUT HER FAMILY GOT THROUGH SHOULD'VE NEVER HAPPENED AS WELL. BUT IT IS HAPPENING TO TOO MANY OTHERS. OUR STATE LAWS BANNING THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE, CRIMINALIZING DOCTORS, FORCING SURVIVORS OF INCEST TO LEAVE THEIR STATES TO GET THE TREATMENT THEY NEED. MANY OF YOU IN THIS CHAMBER AND MY PREDECESSOR ARE PROMISING TO PASS A NATIONAL BAN OF REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM. MY GOD, WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY TAKE AWAY? THE DECISION TO OVERTURN ROE V WADE THE SUPREME COURT HAS ALREADY WROTE THE FOLLOWING. AND WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO JUSTICES, WOMEN ARE NOT WITHOUT ELECTORAL POWER. OR POLITICAL POWER. YOU ARE ABOUT TO REALIZE THIS. >> CLEARLY., CLEARLY. THOSE BRAGGING ABOUT OVERTURNING ROE V WADE HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT THE POWER OF WOMEN. IF THEY FOUND OUT, REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM WAS ON THE BALLOT IN 2022 AND 2023 AND AGAIN IN 2024. >> IF YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE, I PROMISE YOU I WILL RESTORE ROE V WADE AS THE LAW OF THE LAND AGAIN. FOLKS, AMERICA CANNOT GO BACK. I'M HERE TONIGHT TO SHOW WHAT I BELIEVE IN THE WAY FORWARD BECAUSE I KNOW HOW FAR WE HAVE COME. 40 YEARS AGO NEXT WEEK, BEFORE I CAME TO OFFICE THE COUNTRY WAS HIT BY THE WORST PANDEMIC AND THE WORST ECONOMIC CRISIS IN A CENTURY. REMEMBER THE FEAR, RECORD LAWSUITS, REMEMBER THE SPIKES IN CRIME AND THE MURDER RATE RAGING VIRUS. THAT TOOK MORE THAN 1 MILLION AMERICAN LIVES OF LOVED ONES AND MILLIONS LEFT BEHIND. MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS OF ISOLATION AND LONELINESS. PRESIDENTS, MY PREDECESSOR FAILED IN THE MOST PRESIDENTIAL DUTY, THE DUTY TO CARE. I THINK THAT'S UNFORGIVABLE. I CAME DETERMINED TO GET US THROUGH ONE OF THE TOUGHEST PERIODS IN THE NATION HISTORY. WE HAVE. IT DOES NOT MAKE NEW BUT THOUSAND CITIES AND TOWNS, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WRITING THE GREATEST AMERICAN COMEBACK STORY NEVER TOLD. [ APPLAUSE ] >> SO LET'S TELL THE STORY HERE. TELL IT HERE AND NOW. AMERICA'S COMEBACK IS BUILDING THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN POSSIBILITIES, BUILDING ECONOMIES, FROM THE BOTTOM UP, NOT THE TOP DOWN. ADDRESSING ALL AMERICA AND ALL AMERICANS. TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE HAS A FAIR SHOT. WE LEAVE NO ONE, NO ONE BEHIND. THE PANDEMIC NO LONGER CONTROLS OUR LIVES. THE VACCINE HAS SAVED US FROM COVID, THEY ARE NOW BEING USED TO BEAT CANCER, TURNING SETBACK INTO COMEBACK, THAT IS WHAT AMERICA DOES. THAT'S WHAT AMERICA DOES. FOLKS, I HEAR THE ECONOMY IS ON THE BRINK, NOW IT IS THE ENVY OF THE WORLD. 50 MILLION NEW JOBS IN THREE YEARS, A RECORD. A RECORD. UNEMPLOYMENT, A 60 YEAR LOW. RECORD 16 MILLION AMERICANS ARE STARTING SMALL BUSINESSES AND EACH ONE IS A LITTLE ACT OF HOPE. WITH HISTORIC JOB GROWTH AND SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH FOR BLACK AND HISPANIC'S AND ASIAN AMERICANS. 1000 NEW MANUFACTURING JOBS IN AMERICA AND COUNTING. WHO SAYS WE CANNOT BE THE MANUFACTURING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD? WE ARE, WE WILL. MORE PEOPLE HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE THAN EVER BEFORE. THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP IS SMALLER THAN IT HAS BEEN IN 20 YEARS. INFLATION KEEPS COMING DOWN AND WE JUST KEEP GOING UP. DROPPING 9% TO 3% THE LOWEST IN THE WORLD, AND GETTING LOWER. THE LANDING IS AND WILL BE SOFT. AND NOW INSTEAD OF IMPORTING FOREIGN PRODUCTS AND EXPLOITING AMERICAN JOBS, WE ARE EXPORTING AMERICAN PRODUCTS AND CREATING AMERICAN JOBS. RIGHT HERETIME, . T THE AND IT TAKES TIME BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO FEEL IT. CONSUMER STUDIES SHOW CONSUMER CONFIDENCE IS STORING, BY AMERICA. HAS BEEN THE LAW OF THE LAND SINCE THE 1930S. MY PREDECESS PAST ADMINISTRATIONS INCLUDING MY PREDECESSOR INCLUDING SOME DEMOCRATS AS WELL IN THE PAST FAILED TO BUY AMERICAN. NOT ANYMORE. ON MY WATCH FEDERAL PROJECTS BUILD AMERICAN ROADS, BRIDGES WILL BE HELPING TO BUILD AMERICAN BRIDGES, ROADS AND HIGHWAYS WILL BE MADE WITH AMERICAN PRODUCTS AND BUILT BY AMERICAN WORKERS. CREATING GOOD PAYING, AMERICAN JOBS. AND THANKS TO OUR SCIENCE ACT, THEY ARE INVESTING MORE INTO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT THAN BEFORE THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING. FROM CEL SEMICONDUCTORS, CHIPS, THAT DROVE UP THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING FROM CELL PHONES, AUTOMOBILES, AND BY THE WAY WE INVENTED THOSE CHIPS RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. INSTEAD OF HAVING TO IMPORT THEM, INSTEAD OF PRIVATE COMPANIES ARE NOW INVESTING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. TO BUILD NEW CHIPS FACTORIES HERE IN AMERICA, CREATING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF NEW JOBS, MANY OF THOSE JOBS PAYING THE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR AND DO NOT REQUIRE A COLLEGE DEGREE. AND IN FACT, MY POLICY TO RETRACT $650 BILLION IN PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT. CLEAN ENERGY, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, CREATING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS HERE IN AMERICA. >> THANKS TO OUR LAW, 46,000 NEW PROJECTS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED ALL YOUR COMMUNITIES. AND BY THE WAY I KNOW THIS SOME OF YOU STRONGLY VOTED AGAINST IT AND THEY ARE CHEERING ON THAT MONEY COMING IN. I LIKE IT. I AM WITH YOU. I AM WITH YOU.. BECAUSE IF ANY OF YOU DON'T WANT AND IF ANY OF YOU DON'T WANT THE MONEY FOR YOUR DISTRICT, YOU LET ME KNOW. ROADS AND PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEMS, EVERY CHILD CAN DRINK CLEAN WATER WITHOUT THE RISK OF BRAIN DAMAGE. PROVIDING AFFORDABLED INTERNET FOR EVERY AMERICAN NO INTERNET FOR EVERY AMERICAN NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE, URBAN, SUBURBAN, RURAL COMMUNITIES IN RED AND BLUE STATES. INVESTMENTS IN TRAVEL COMMUNITY. BECAUSE OF MY INVESTMENT IN FAMILY FARMS FAMILY , AND MY SEY OF AGRICULTURE KNOWS ABOUT THIS MORE THAN I KNOW, THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN DO NOT HAVE TO LEAVE HOME TO MAKE A LIVING. IT IS TRANSFORMATIVE. THE GREAT COMEBACK STORIES ARE BUILT IN ILLINOIS,EARS. CLOSING AUTO I CAM PLANT FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS, BEFORE I CAME TO OFFICE THE PLANT WAS ON ITS WAY TO SHUTTING DOWN. THOUSANDS OF WORKERS FEARED FOR THEIR LIVELIHOOD. HOPE WAS FADING. AND WHEN I WAS ELECTED TO OFFICE WE RAISED AND KNOWING UNIONS WOULD MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. THEY WORKED TO MAK TOGETHER WE SUCCEEDED.THE PLANT STAY OPEN AND GET THE JOBS BACK AND TOGETHER WE SUCCEEDED. INSTEAD OF ALL FACTORIES SHUTTING DOWN, ALL THE FACTORIES ARE REOPENING AND THEY ARE BEING BUILT TO POWER THOSE CAR. FOLKS, THE FOLKS INSTEAD OF YOUR TOWN BEING LEFT BEHIND, YOUR COMMUNITY IS MOVING FORWARD AGAIN., INSTEAD OF THE TOWN BEING LEFT BEHIND, THE COMMUNITIES MOVING FORWARD AGAIN. BECAUSE INSTEAD OF WATCHING ALL THE JOBS OF THE FUTURE GO OVERSEAS 4000 UNION JOBS WITH HIGHER WAGES OF FILLING THE FUTURE IN BELVEDERE RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. >> TONIGHT SEAN, WHERE ARE YOU? STAND UP UNIO. LEADER AND A GREAT FRIEND. AND SEAN AND JOHN SIMS. A THIRD-GENERATION WORKER UAW WORKER OF BELVEDERE, SEAN, I AM PROUD TO BE THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO STAND IN THE PICKET LINE AND TODAY, JOHN HAS A GOOD TOP JOB IN A HOMETOWN PROVIDING FOR HIS FAMILY AND PRIDE AND DIGNITY AS WELL. SHOWING ONCE AGAIN, WALL STREET DID NOT BUILD AMERICA, THEY ARE NOT BAD GUYS BUT THEY DIDN'T BUILD IT THOUGH, THE MIDDLE CLASS TO BUILD THE COUNTRY. AND YOU GUYS BUILD THE MIDDLE CLASS. THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHEN AMERICA GETS KNOCKED DOWN, WE GET BACK UP. WE KEEP GOING. THAT'S AMERICA THAT'S AMERICA. THAT YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IT IS BECAUSE OF YOU AMERICA IS COMING BACK AND BECAUSE OF YOU OUR FUTURE IS BRIGHTER, IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU THAT TONIGHT WE CAN PROUDLY SAY THE STATE OF OUR UNION IS STRONG AND GETTING STRONGER. [ APPLAUSE ] >> FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! >> TONIGHT, TONIGHT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF POSSIBILITIES. THAT WE CAN BUILD TOGETHER. A FUTURE WHERE THE DAYS OF ECONOMICS ARE OVER, AND I UNDERSTAND CORPORATIONS I COME FROM A STATE THAT HAS MORE CORPORATIONS THAN EVERYONE OF YOUR STATES IN THE UNITED STATES COMBINED. AND I REPRESENTED THEM FOR MANY YEARS, WHEN I GREW UP, IN A HOME WHERE TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS DID AND PUT MUCH OF MY JOBS AND MUCH ON MY KITCHEN TABLE, I DECIDED TO TURN THINGS AROUND SO MIDDLE CLASS CAN DO WELL. WE ALL DO WELL. AND THERE IS MORE TO DO TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE FEELING THE BENEFITS OF ALL WE ARE DOING. AMERICANS PAY MORE FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS IN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. IT IS WRONG AND I AM ENDING IT. >> NOT ONE OF YOUR REPUBLICAN ABILITIES WROTE IT FOR IT. WE FINALLY BEAT BIG PHARMA, INSTEAD OF PAYING $400 A MONTH TO BUY INSULIN, WITH DIABETES IT ONLY COSTS 10 BUCKS TO MAKE, THEY ONLY GET 35 A MONTH NOW AND STILL MAKE A HEALTHY PROFIT. AND WHAT TO DO NEXT, I WANT THE CAST AND CAP THE COST OF INSULIN TO 35 FOR EVERYONE. FOR YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IT BUT FINALLY WE GOT IT DONE AND GAVE MEDICARE THE POWER TO NEGOTIATE LOWER PRICES OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. JUST LIKE THE VA DID AND WHAT WE DO FOR VETERANS. THAT'S NOT JUST SAVING SENIORS MONEY, IT'S SAVING TAXPAYERS MONEY, WE CUT THE FEDERAL DEFICIT BY $160 BILLION. BECAUSE MEDICARE WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO PAY THOSE PRICES TO BIG PHARMA. THIS YEAR MEDICARE IS NEGOTIATING LOWER PRICES AT SOME OF THE COSTLIEST DRUGS ON THE MARKET. THAT TREAT EVERYTHING FROM HEART DISEASE TO ARTHRITIS. IT IS NOW TIME TO GO FURTHER AND NEGOTIATE PRICES FOR 500 DIFFERENT DRUGS OVER THE NEXT DECADE. THEY'RE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY GUYS. AND THEY WILL STILL BE EXTREMELY PROFITABLE. NOT ONLY SAVE LIVES, IT WILL SAVE TAXPAYERS ANOTHER $200 BILLION. STARTING NEXT YEAR, PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS TO SENIORS ON MEDICARE AT 200 TO $2000 A YEAR. EVEN EXPENSIVE CANCER DRUGS COST 10, 12, $15,000 AND I WANT TO CAP THEM TO $2000 A YEAR FOR EVERYONE. FOLKS, ANYONE TORONTO, BERLIN, MOSCOW, EXCUSE ME, MAY BE MOSCOW, PROBABLY. AND BRING YOUR PRESCRIPTION WITH YOU AND I PROMISE YOU I WILL GET IT FOR YOU FOR 40% THE COST YOU ARE PAYING NOW, SAME COMPANY AND SAME DRUG, SAME PLACE. FOLKS, AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, OBAMA CARE. IT IS STILL A VERY BIG DEAL. DEAL. >> OVER 100 MILLION OF YOU CAN NO LONGER BE DIED HEALTH INSURANCE BECAUSE OF A PRE EXISTING CONDITION. BUT MY PREDECESSOR AND MANY IN THIS CHAMBER WANT TO TAKE THOSE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AWAY BY REPEALING THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. I'M NOT GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN. WE STOPPED YOU 50 TIMES BEFORE AND WE WILL STOP YOU AGAIN. IN FACT, I'M NOT ONLY PERFECTING IT I AM EXPANDING IT. WE ENACTED A TAX CREDIT FOR $800 PER PERSON PER YEAR TO REDUCE HEALTHCARE COSTS FOR MILLIONS OF WORKING FAMILIES, THAT TAX CREDIT EXPIRES NEXT YEAR, I WANT TO MAKE THAT SAVINGS PERMANENT. PERMANENT. >> TO STATE THE OBVIOUS, WOMEN ARE HALF OF OUR POPULATION AND THE RESEARCH IN WOMEN'S HEALTH HAS ALWAYS BEEN UNDERFUNDED. THAT'S WHY WE ARE LAUNCHING THE FIRST EVER WHITE HOUSE INITIATIVE ON WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH. LED BY JILL. DOING AN INCREDIBLE JOB ALREADY. >> $12 BILLION OF WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH TO BENEFIT MILLIONS OF LIVES ALL ACROSS AMERICA. I KNOW THE COST OF HOUSING IS SO IMPORTANT TO YOU. INFLATION KEEPS COMING DOWN AND MORTGAGES HAVE COME DOWN AS WELL AND WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BUT I AM NOT WAITING. I WANT TO PROVIDE AN ANNUAL TAX CREDIT THAT WILL GIVE AMERICANS $400 A MONTH FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS AS MORTGAGE RATES COME DOWN TO PUT TOWARD THEIR MORTGAGE WHEN THEY BUY THEIR FIRST HOME, OR TRADE UP FOR A LITTLE MORE SPACE. FOR TWO YEARS. AND BY ADMINISTRATION HAS ALSO ELIMINATED INSURANCE ON FEDERALLY BACKED MORTGAGES. WHEN YOU REFINANCE YOUR HOME, YOU CAN SAVE $1000 OR MORE IN THE CONSEQUENCE. FOR MILLIONS OF RENTERS, CRACKING DOWN ON BIG LANDLORDS WHO USE ANTITRUST LAWS, AND PRICE FIXING AND DRIVING UP RENTS. WE HAVE CUT FEDERAL TAPE, BUILDING A RECORD 1.7 MILLION NEW HOUSING UNITS NATIONWIDE. AND NOW PAST. NOW BUILD AND RENOVATE, 2 MILLION AFFORDABLE HOMES AND BRING THOSE RENTS DOWN. >> TO REMAIN THE STRONGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD, WE NEED TO HAVE THE BEST EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE WORLD. AND I LIKE I SUSPECT ALL OF YOU WANT TO GIVE A CHILD, EVERY CHILD A GOOD START. BY PROVIDING ACCESS TO PRESCHOOL FOR THREE AND FOUR YEARS OLD. I THINK I POINTED OUT LAST YEAR, , I THINK I POINTED OUT LAST YEAR THAT CHILDREN COMING FROM BROKEN HOMES WHERE THERE IS NO BOOKS NOT READ OR ARE NOT SPOKEN TO VERY OFTEN START SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN OR FIRST GRADE, HAVING HEARD 1 MILLION OR FEWER WORDS ARE SPOKEN, WE HAVE, CHILDREN WHO GRADUATE AND HAVE PRESCHOOL, GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL AND GO ON TO COLLEGE NO MATTER WHAT THEIR BACKGROUND IS. AND THAT YOUR AND A HALF AGO THE LEADERS OF THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE THEY WERE MAD THAT I, THEY WERE DISCUSSING. WHY I WANTED TO SPEND MONEY ON EDUCATION. I POINTED OUT TO THEM AND VICE PRESIDENT I MET WITH OVER I THINK IT WAS 182 VOTES, I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT NUMBER. AND I ASKED THEM WHAT THEY NEED MOST THE CEOS. AND THEY SAY BETTER EDUCATED WORKFORCE. SO I LOOKED AT THEM AND I SAY I COME FROM DELAWARE. THE EIGHTH LARGEST CORPORATION IN THE WORLD. AND BRINGING THAT EDUCATED WORKFORCE TO THE ENTERPRISE, AND THEY DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE. PROVIDING OPPORTUNITY FOR THE BEST EDUCATING WORKFORCE IN THE WORLD AND THEY ALL LOOKED AT ME AND SAID I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT. I WANT TO EXPAND HIGH-QUALITY TUTORING AND SUMMER LEARNING TO SEE THAT EVERY CHILD LEARNS TO READ BY THIRD GRADE. I AM ALSO CONNECTING LOCAL BUSINESSES AND HIGH SCHOOLS SO STUDENTS GET HANDS-ON EXPERIENC COLLEG WHETHER OR NOT THEY GO TO COLLEGE. AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT COLLEGE IS MORE AFFORDABLE. LET'S CONTINUE INCREASING THE PROGRAMS FOR WORKING AND MIDDLE- CLASS FAMILIES AND INVESTMENTS AND MINORITIES SERVING AND HISPANIC INSTITUTIONS. I WAS TOLD THEY JUST CHANGE THE WAY IN WHICH WE DO STUDENT LOANS AND I FIXED TWO STUDENT LOANS PROGRAMS THAT ALREADY EXISTED TO REDUCE THE BURDEN OF STUDENT DEBT FOR NEARLY 4 MILLION AMERICANS BETWEEN NURSES AND FIREFIGHTERS, OTHERS IN PUBLIC SERVICE. KATIE WHERE ARE YOU. THANK YOU. THESE, EDUCATE THE STUDENTS SO THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE, NOW HE IS ABLE TO HELP AFTER GETTING HIS OWN DAUGHTER TO COLLEGE. AND SO FOLKS, LOOK. FOLKS ARE NOW ABLE TO BUY A HOME. START A BUSINESS, START A FAMILY. WHILE WE ARE AT IT, I WANT TO GIVE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS ARRAYS. A RAISE. >> BY THE WAY, WE CUT THE DEFICIT. NOW LET ME SPEAK TO THE QUESTION OF FUNDAMENTAL THINGS FOR ALL AMERICANS. I BELIEVE GETTING RESULTS AND FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WAYS. HE CUT THE FEDERAL DEFICIT OVER $1 TRILLION. I SENT THE BIPARTISAN DEAL. AND CUT ANOTHER TRILLION DOLLARS AND MY GOAL IS TO CUT THE FEDERAL DEFICIT ANOTHER 3 TRILLION BY MAKING BIG CORPORATIONS FINALLY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE. BEGINNING TO PAY THEIR FAIR FAIR SHARE. I'M A CAPITALIST, MAKE MILLIONS OF BUCKS, THAT IS GREAT, JUST PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE IN TAXES. A FAIR TAX CODOUE RY IS HOW WE T, HEALTH INVEST THINGS AND MAKE THIS COUNTRY GREAT. HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, DEFENSE, SO MUCH MORE. HERE'S THE DEAL, THE LAST ADMINISTRATION ENACTED $2 TRILLION TAX CUT, OVERWHELMINGLY BENEFITING THE TOP 1%, THE VERY WEALTHY AND BIGGEST CORPORATIONS AND EXPLODED THE FEDERAL DEFICIT. THEY ADDED MORE TO THE NATIONAL DEBT THAN ANY PRESIDENTIAL TERM IN AMERICAN HISTORY. CHECK THE NUMBERS. FOLKS A HOME, DOES ANYONE REALLY THINK THE TAX CODE IS FAIR? DO YOU REALLY THINK THE WEALTHY AND BIG CORPORATIONS NEED ANOTHER $2 TRILLION TAX BREAK? I SURE DON'T. I KEEP FIGHTING LIKE HELL TO MAKE IT FAIR, UNDER MY PLAN, NOBODY EARNING LESS THAN $400,000 YEAR WILL PAY ADDITIONAL PENNY IN FEDERAL TAXES, NOBODY, NOT ONE PENNY AND THEY HAVE NOT YET. IN FACT, THE CHILD TAX CREDIT I PASSED DURING THE PANDEMIC CUT TAXES FOR MILLIONS OF WORKING FAMILIES AND CUT CHILD POVERTY IN HALF. RESTORE THAT TAX CREDIT. NO CHILD SHOULD GO HUNGRY IN THIS COUNTRY. THE WAY TO MAKE THE TAX CODE FAIR IS TO MAKE BIG CORPORATIONS AND THE VERY WEALTHY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE. REMEMBER IN 2020, 55 OF THE BIGGEST COMPANIES IN AMERICA PAID $40 BILLION AND PAID ZERO IN FEDERAL INCOME TAX, ZERO. NOT ANYMORE. THANKS TO A LAW WE WROTE AND I SIGNED, THEY HAVE TO PAY MINIMUM OF 15%. THAT IS ATTACKS LESS THAN WORKING PEOPLE PAY WITH FEDERAL TAXES. IT IS TIME TO RAISE THE CORPORATE MINIMUM TAX TO AT LEAST 21%. SO EVERY BIG CORPORATION FINALLY BEGINS TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE. I WANT TO END TAX BREAKS FOR BIG PHARMA, PRIVATE CHECKS, MASSIVE DEDUCTIONS. DEDUCT 1 MILLION, AND IT NOW. THERE ARE 1000 BILLIONAIRES IN AMERICA, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE AVERAGE FEDERAL TAX IS FOR THOSE BILLIONAIRES? THEY MAKE GREAT SACRIFICES, 8.2% . THAT IS FAR LESS THAN THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS PAY. NO BILLIONAIRES SHOULD TAKE A LOWER FEDERAL TAX RATE THAN A TEACHER OR SANITATION WORKER IN AMERICA. >> I PROPOSE MINIMUM TAX FOR BILLIONAIRES OF 25%, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD RAISE? THAT WOULD RAISE $500 BILLION OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS. IMAGINE WHAT THAT COULD DO FOR AMERICA. IMAGINE A FUTURE WITH AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE, MILLIONS OF FAMILIES CAN GET THAT NEED TO GO TO WORK TO HELP BUILD THE ECONOMY. IMAGINE A FUTURE WITH PAID LEAVE BECAUSE NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN WORKING AND TAKING CARE OF THEIR SICK FAMILY MEMBER. IMAGINE THE FUTURE OF HOME CARE AND ELDER CARE, PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES SO THEY CAN STAY IN THEIR HOMES AND FAMILY CAREGIVERS CAN FINALLY GET THE PAY THEY DESERVE. NIGHT, LET'S ALL AGREE ONCE AGAIN TO STAND UP FOR SENIORS. MANY OF MY FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE WANT TO PUT SOCIAL SECURITY ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK. ANYONE HERE TRY TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY OR RAISE THE RETIREMENT AGE, I WILL STOP YOU. WORKING PEOPLE, THE WORKING PEOPLE WHO BUILT THIS COUNTRY PAY MORE INTO SOCIAL SECURITY THEN MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES DO. IT IS NOT FAIR. WE HAVE TWO WAYS TO GO, REPUBLICANS CAN CUT SOCIAL SECURITY AND GET MORE TAX BREAKS TO THE WEALTHY. THAT IS THE PROPOSAL. YOU GUYS DON'T WANT ANOTHER $2 TRILLION TAX CUT? I KIND OF THOUGHT THAT IS WHAT YOUR PLAN WAS. THAT IS GOOD TO HEAR. NOT GOING TO CUT ANOTHER $2 TRILLION FOR THE SUPER WEALTHY, THAT IS GOOD TO HEAR. I WILL PROTECT AND DEFEND SOCIAL SECURITY AND MAKE THE WEALTHY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE [ APPLAUSE ] >> TOO MANY CORPORATIONS RAISE PRICES TO PAD FOR PROFITS, CHARGING MORE AND MORE FOR LESS AND LESS. START CRACKING DOWN ON CORPORATIONS, PRICE GOUGING AND DECEPTIVE PRICING FROM FOOD TO HEALTHCARE TO HOUSING. THE SNACK COMPANIES THINK YOU WILL NOTICE, THAT THEY CHANGED THE SIZE OF THE BAGS AND PUT A HECK OF A LOT FEWER, SAME SIZE BAG, THEY PUT FEWER CHIPS IN IT. I'M NOT JOKING. STOP THIS. I REALLY MEAN IT. [ APPLAUSE ] >> WE SAW THAT COMMERCIAL ON SNICKERS BARS, CHARGE THE SAME AMOUNT AND YOU GOT ABOUT 10% FEWER SNICKERS. LOOK, I'M ALSO GETTING RID OF JUNK FEES, THOSE HIDDEN FEES. AT THE END OF YOUR BILL, THEY ARE THERE WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED CUTTING CREDIT CARD LATE FEES FROM $32 TO EIGHT DOLLARS. BANK AND CREDIT CARD COMPANIES ARE ALLOWED TO CHARGE WHAT IT WOULD COST THEM TO INSTIGATE THE COLLECTION AND THAT IS MORE LIKE $8 THAN $30, THEY DON'T LIKE IT, CREDIT CARD COMPANIES DON'T LIKE IT. SAVING AMERICAN FAMILIES $20 BILLION A YEAR INVOLVING JUNK FEES THAT I'M ELIMINATING. FOLKS AT HOME, THAT IS WHY THE BANKS ARE SO MAD, $20 BILLION OF PROFIT. I'M NOT STOPPING THERE, MY MISSION IS MATT CABLE, TRAVEL, UTILITIES, ONLINE TICKET SELLERS TELL YOU THE TOTAL PRICE UPFRONT SO THERE ARE NO SURPRISES. IT MATTERS, IT MATTERS AND SO DOES THIS. IN NOVEMBER, MY TEAM AGAIN SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS WITH BIPARTISAN GROUP OF SENATORS. THE RESULT WAS A BIPARTISAN BILL FOR THE TOUGHEST SET OF BORDER SECURITY WE HAVE EVER SEEN. YOU DON'T THINK SO? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT BILL? THAT CONSERVATIVES GOT TOGETHER AND SAID WAS A GOOD BILL? I WILL BE DARNED. THAT BIPARTISAN WOULD HIRE 1500 MORE SECURITY AGENTS AND OFFICERS FROM 100 IMMIGRATION JUDGES ON THE BACK LOAD OF 40,000 ASYLUM OFFICES AND NEW POLICY TO RESOLVE CASES IN SIX MONTHS AND SET OF SIX YEARS NOW [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]. WHAT ARE YOU AGAINST? 100 MORE HIGH-TECH DRUG DETECTION MACHINES TO STOP SMUGGLING FENTANYL INTO AMERICA KILLING THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN. IT WOULD SAVE LIVES AND BRING ORDER TO THE BORDER. IT WOULD GIVE THE PRESIDENT EMERGENCY AUTHORITY TO TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN THE MIGRANTS IN THE NUMBER OF MIGRANTS AT THE BORDER IS A BOMBING. BORDER PATROL UNIT ENDORSED THE SPELL, THE FEDERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. LOOK AT THE FACTS. I KNOW YOU KNOW HOW TO READ. I BELIEVE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE, THEY WOULD ENDORSE THE BILL AS WELL, THE MAJORITY RIGHT NOW. UNFORTUNATELY, POLITICS DERAILED THE SPELL SO FAR. UNTIL MY PREDECESSOR CALLED MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND THE SENATE, DEMAND THAT THEY BLOCK THE BILL. HE FEELS POLITICAL WIND, POLITICAL LOSER FOR HIM. IT IS NOT ABOUT HIM OR ME, I WOULD BE A WINNER >> LAKEN RILEY, INNOCENT YOUNG WOMAN KILLED BY AN ILLEGAL, THAT IS RIGHT. HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE BEING KILLED BY ILLEGALS? TO HER PARENTS, I SAY, MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU HAVING LOST CHILDREN MYSELF, I UNDERSTAND. IF WE CHANGE THE DYNAMIC OF THE BORDER, PEOPLE PAY THESE SMUGGLERS 8000 BUCKS TO GET ACROSS THE BORDER BECAUSE A NOTE IF THEY GET BY AND LET INTO THE COUNTRY, IT IS 6 TO 8 YEARS BEFORE THEY HAVE A HEARING AND IT IS WORTH TAKING THE CHANCE FOR THE 8000. BUT IF IT IS ONLY SIX MONTHS OR SIX WEEKS, THE IDEA IS IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY PEOPLE WILL PAY THAT MONEY AND COME ALL THAT WEIGHT KNOWING THEY WILL BE KICKED OUT QUICKLY. FOLKS, I WOULD RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST MY REPUBLICAN FRIENDS IN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GET THIS BILL DONE, WE NEED TO ACT NOW. [ APPLAUSE ] >> IF MY PREDECESSOR IS WATCHING, INSTEAD OF PLAYING POLITICS AND PRESSURING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO BLOCK THE BILL, JOIN ME TELLING CONGRESS TO PASS IT. WE CAN DO IT TOGETHER. THAT IS WHAT HE WILL NOT DO. I WILL NOT DEMONIZE IMMIGRANTS SAYING THEIR POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR COUNTRY. I WILL NOT SEPARATE FAMILIES. I WILL NOT BAN PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH, UNLIKE MY PREDECESSOR IN MY FIRST DAY IN OFFICE, I INTRODUCED BILLS TO FIX THE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM, TAKE A LOOK AT IT, ALL THESE AND MORE. SECURE THE BORDER, PROVIDE A PATHWAY FOR DREAMERS AND SO MUCH MORE, UNLIKE MY PREDECESSOR , I KNOW WHO WE ARE AS AMERICANS . THE ONLY NATION IN THE WORLD WITH A HEART AND SOUL THAT DRAWS THE OLD AND NEW, HOME TO NATIVE AMERICANS THAT HAVE BEEN HERE THOUSANDS OF YEARS. HOME TO PEOPLE OF EVERY PLACE ON EARTH, THEY CAN FREELY, SOME IN CHAINS, SOME CAME WHEN FAMINE STRUCK LIKE MY AND STRESSFUL FAMILY OF IRELAND PICK SOME FLED PERSECUTION, TO CHASE DREAMS POSSIBLE ANYWHERE IN AMERICA. THAT IS AMERICA AND WE ALL COME FROM SOMEWHERE SO WE ARE ALL AMERICANS. [ APPLAUSE ] >> IT IS A SIMPLE CHOICE, WE CAN FIGHT ABOUT FIXING THE BORDER OR WE CAN FIX IT. I'M READY TO FIX IT. SEND ME THE BORDER BILL NOW! SEND ME THE BORDER BILL NOW! >> FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! >> TRANSFORMATIONAL MOMENT IN HISTORY HAPPENED 58, 59 YEARS AGO TODAY IN SELMA, ALABAMA. HUNDREDS OF FOOT SOLDIERS FOR JUSTICE MARCHED ACROSS THE BRIDGE NAMED AFTER THE GRAND DRAGON OF THE KU KLUX KLAN TO CLAIM THEIR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO VOTE. THEY WERE BEATEN, BLOODIED AND LEFT FOR DEAD. LATE FRIEND AND FORMER COLLEAGUE JOHN LEWIS WAS ON THAT MARCH. WE MISS HIM. >> JOINING US TONIGHT, OTHER MARCHERS OPENING THE GALLERY ON THE FLOOR INCLUDING THE VOICE OF SELMA. THE DAUGHTER OF GOSPEL SINGERS AND PREACHERS, SHE SANG SONGS OF PRAYER AND PROTEST ON THAT BLOODY SUNDAY TO HELP SHAKE THE NATION'S CONSCIENCE. FIVE MONTHS LATER, THE VOTING'S RIGHT ACT WAS PASSED AND SIGNED INTO LAW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. >> 59 YEARS LATER, TAKEN US BACK IN TIME. VOTER SUPPRESSION, ELECTION SUBVERSION, UNLIMITED DUCT MONEY, EXTREME GERRYMANDERING, JOHN LEWIS WAS A GREAT FRIEND TO MANY OF US HERE, IF YOU TRULY WANT TO HONOR HIM AND ALL THE HEROES THAT MARCHED WITH HIM, IT IS TIME TO DO MORE THAN TALK. PAST THE FREEDOM TO VOTE ACT. THE JON LILLIS VOTING RIGHTS ACT. [ APPLAUSE ] >> AND STOP DENYING ANOTHER CORE >> STOP DENYING ANOTHER CORE VALUE OF AMERICA, OUR DIVERSITY ACROSS AMERICAN LIFE. BANNING BOOKS IS WRONG. INSTEAD OF iRacing IT, MATRIXES TO PROTECT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, PAST THE QUALITY ACT. THAT I MENTIONED TRANSGENDER AMERICANS? MIGHT HAVE YOUR BACK. PATH THE ACT. RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM AGE BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO A DECENT LIVING, MORE THAN SEVEN BUCKS AN HOUR. CONFRONTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS, NOT DENYING IT. I DON'T THINK ANY OF YOU THINK THERE IS NO LONGER CLIMATE CRISIS, AT LEAST I HOPE YOU DON'T. I'M TAKING THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ACTION ON CLIMATE EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. CUTTING OUT CARBON EMISSIONS IN HALF BY 2030, CREATING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CLEAN ENERGY JOBS WITH 500,000 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS. CONSERVING 30% OF AMERICANS REPORTED BY 2030. AND TAKING ACTION ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, SMOTHERED BY LEGACY OF POLLUTION. PATTERNED AFTER THE PEACE CORPS AND AMERICA CORE, I LAUNCHED THE CLIMATE CORPS TO PUT 20,000 YOUNG PEOPLE THE WORK IN THE FOREFRONT OF OUR CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE, I WILL TRIPLE THAT NUMBER IN A DECADE >> TO STATE THE OBVIOUS, ALL AMERICANS DESERVE THE FREEDOM TO BE SAFE AND AMERICA IS SAFER TODAY THAN WHEN I TOOK OFFICE. THE YEAR BEFORE I TOOK OFFICE, MURDER RATES WENT UP 30%, 30% THEY WENT UP. THE BIGGEST INCREASE IN HISTORY. IT WAS THEN THROUGH MY AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN, EVERY AMERICAN VOTED AGAINST I MIGHT ADD, WE MADE A LARGE INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC SAFETY EVER PICK LAST YEAR, THE MURDER RATES WAS THE BIGGEST DECREASE IN HISTORY. VIOLENT CRIMES FILE TO THE LOWEST LEVELS OF MORE THAN 50 YEARS. WE HAVE MORE TO DO TO HELP CITIES INVEST IN MORE COMMUNITY POLICE OFFICERS, MORE MENTAL HEALTH WORKERS, MORE COMMUNITY VIOLENCE. GIFT COMMUNITIES ABILITY TO TRACK DOWN GUN CRIME, RETAIL CRIME, CARJACKING. KEEP BUILDING, TAKING OUT EXECUTIVE ACTION ON POLICE REFORM AND CALLING FOR IT TO BE THE LAW OF THE LAND. DIRECTING MY CABINET TO REVIEW THE FEDERAL PYSYK INVOCATION OF MARIJUANA EXPUNGING THOUSANDS OF CONVICTIONS FOR THE MERE POSSESSION BECAUSE NO ONE SHOULD BE JAILED FOR SIMPLY USING OR HAVE IT ON THEIR RECORDS. TAKE ON CRIMES AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. I'M RAMPING UP FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT THAT I PROBABLY WROTE WHEN I WAS A SENATOR SO WE CAN FINALLY END THE SCOURGE ON WOMEN IN AMERICA. AND OTHER KINDS OF VIOLENCE I WANT TO STOP, WITH US TONIGHT IS JASMINE, 9-YEAR-OLD SISTER JACKIE WAS MURDERED. IN UVALDE, TEXAS. VERY SOON AFTER THAT HAPPEN, JILL AND I WENT TO UVALDE A COUPLE DAYS. WE SPENT HOURS AND HOURS WITH THE FAMILIES. WE HEARD THEIR MESSAGE SO EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM AND HAMBER CAN HEAR THE SAME MESSAGE. IT IS CONSTANTLY THERE, SPENT HOURS WITH EVERY FAMILY. THEY SAID, DO SOMETHING. DO SOMETHING! I DID DO SOMETHING BY ESTABLISHING THE FIRST EVER OFFICE OF GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION IN THE WHITE HOUSE. THANK YOU FOR DOING IT. MEANWHILE, MY PREDECESSOR TOLD [ APPLAUSE ] THE NRA HE IS PROUD HE DID NOTHING ON GUNS WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT. AFTER ANOTHER SHOOTING IN IOWA RECENTLY, HE SAID WHEN ASKED WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, JUST GET OVER IT. THAT IS HIS QUOTE, JUST GET OVER IT. I SAY, STOP IT, STOP IT, STOP IT! [ APPLAUSE ] I'M PROUD SIGNING INTO LAW IN NEARLY 30 YEARS BECAUSE OF THIS CONGRESS. WE MUST BEAT THE NRA AGAIN PICKED UNDEMANDING BAN ON ASSAULT WEAPONS AND HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINES. UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS. NONE OF THIS, I THOUGHT THE SECOND AMENDMENT 12 YEARS, NONE OF THIS VIOLATES THE SECOND AMENDMENT OR VILIFIES RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERS. AS WE MANAGE CHALLENGES AT HOME, MANAGING CRISES ABROAD INCLUDING THE MIDDLE EAST. I KNOW THE LAST FIVE MONTHS HAVE BEEN GUTWRENCHING FOR SO MANY PEOPLE, THE ISRAELI PEOPLE, PALESTINIAN PEOPLE AND SO MANY IN AMERICA. THIS CRISIS BEGAN OCTOBER 7th WITH THE MASSACRE CARRIED OUT BY TERRORIST GROUP KNOWN AS HAMAS AS YOU WELL KNOW, 1200 INNOCENT PEOPLE, WOMEN AND GIRLS, MEN AND BOYS, SLAUGHTERED AFTER ENDURING SEXUAL VIOLENCE. THE DEADLIEST DAY FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS THE HOLOCAUST WITH 250 HOSTAGES TAKEN.. HERE IN THE CHAMBER TONIGHT, FAMILIES OF LOVED ONES STILL HELD BY HAMAS, I PLEDGE TO ALL OF THE FAMILIES, WE WILL NOT REST UNTIL WE BRING EVERY ONE OF YOUR LOVED ONES HOME. [ APPLAUSE ] >> WE WILL ALSO WORK AROUND THE CLOCK TO BRING HOME IVAN AND PAUL, AMERICANS UNJUSTLY DETAINED BY THE RUSSIANS AND OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD. ISRAEL HAS THE RIGHT TO ATTACK HAMAS., ENTERED THE CONFLICT BY RELEASING HOSTAGES, LAYING DOWN ARMS COULD END IT BY RELEASING THE HOSTAGES, LAYING DOWN ARMS, SURRENDERING THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR OCTOBER 7th. ISRAEL HAS ADDED BURDEN, HAMAS HIDES AND OPERATES AMONG THE CIVILIAN POPULATION LIKE COWARDS, UNDER HOSPITALS AND THE LIKE. ISRAEL ALSO HAS FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN GAZA. [ APPLAUSE ][ APPLAUSE ] THIS WAR HIS WAR ASS TAKEN TH TAKEN A GREATER TOLL ON INNOCENT CIVILIANS THAT ALL PREVIOUS WARS IN GAZA COMPLYING -- COMBINED. 30,000 PALESTINIANS KILLED, MOST OF WHOM ARE NOW HAMAS. THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN, GIRLS AND BOYS ALSO ORPHANS. NEARLY 2 MILLION PALESTINIANS UNDER BOMBARDMENT AND DISPLACEMENT. HOMES DESTROYED, CITIES IN RAELYNN. WITHOUT FOOD, WATER, MEDICINE. IT IS HEARTBREAKING. I HAVE BEEN WORKING NONSTOP TO ESTABLISH IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRE THAT WILL LAST SIX WEEKS TO GET ALL OF THE PRISONERS RELEASED, ALL OF THE HOSTAGES RELEASED. GET THOSE HOSTAGES HOME AND END THE INTOLERABLE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AND FIELDWORK ENDURING, SOMETHING MORE ENDURING. UNITED STATES TO GET MORE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO GAZA. TONIGHT, I'M DIRECTING THE U.S. MILITARY TO LEAD EMERGENCY MISSION TO ESTABLISH TEMPORARY PIER ON THE MEDITERRANEAN ON THE COAST OF GAZA THAT CAN TAKE LARGE SHIPMENTS CARRYING FOOD, WATER, MEDICINE, TEMPORARY SHELTER. NO U.S. BOOTS WILL BE ON THE GROUND, TEMPORARY PIER ALLOWS MASSIVE INCREASE OF HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE GETTING INTO GAZA EVERY DAY. >> AND ISRAEL MUST DO ITS PART. ISRAEL MUST ALLOW MORE AID INTO GAZA. SO THAT HUMANITARIAN WORKERS ARE NOT CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE. TRYING TO CROSS INTO NORTHERN GAZA, THE LEADERSHIP OF THE ISRAELITES SAY THIS, HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE CANNOT BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION OR PART OF EGYPT, PROTECTING AND SAVING INNOCENT LIVES HAS TO BE PRIORITY. AS WE LOOK TO THE FUTURE, THE ONLY REAL SOLUTION TO THE SITUATION IS TWO-STATE SOLUTION OVERTIME. AND I SAY THIS, AS A LIFELONG SUPPORTER OF ISRAEL MY ENTIRE CAREER, NO ONE HAS A STRONGER RECORD ON THIS THAN I DO, I CHALLENGE ANY OF YOU HERE. I'M THE ONLY AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT ISRAEL DURING WARTIME. THERE IS NO OTHER PATH THAT GUARANTEES SECURITY AND DEMOCRACY. THERE'S NO OTHER PATH TO GUARANTEE PALESTINIANS CAN LIVE IN PEACE WITH DIGNITY. THERE'S NO OTHER PATH THAT GUARANTEES PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND ALL OF ITS NEIGHBORS INCLUDING SAUDI ARABIA, WITH WHOM I'M TALKING. CREATING STABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST MEANS CONTAINING THREATS POSED BY IRAN. THAT IS WHY I BUILT A COALITION OF MORE THAN A DOZEN COUNTRIES TO DEFEND INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING AND FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION IN THE RED SEA. I'VE ORDERED STRIKES FOR HOUTHI ABILITIES AND DEFEND U.S. FORCES IN THE REGION. AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, I WILL NOT HESITATE TO DIRECT FURTHER MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR MILITARY AND PERSONNEL MEASURES TO PROTECT MILITARY >> FOR YEARS, I HEARD MANY REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS SAY THAT CHINA IS ON THE RISE AND AMERICA IS FALLING BEHIND. THEY HAVE IT BACKWARDS. I HAVE BEEN SAYING IT OVER FOUR YEARS, EVEN WHEN I WASN'T PRESIDENT. AMERICAS RICE AFFECTS THE ECONOMY IN THE WORLD AND OUR TRADE DEFICIT WITH CHINA IS DOWN TO THE LOWEST POINT IN OVER A DECADE AND WE ARE STANDING UP AGAINST CHINA UNFAIR ECONOMIC PRICES. STANDING UP FOR PEACE AND STABILITY ACROSS THE TAIWAN STRAITS. I REVITALIZE OUR PARTNERSHIP AND ALLIANCE WITH THE PACIFIC, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. I HAVE MADE SURE THE MOST ADVANCED AMERICAN TECHNOLOGIES CAN'T BE USED IN CHINA. FRANKLY, ALL OF THE TOUGH TALK ON CHINA, NEVER OCCURRED TO MY PREDECESSOR TO DO ANY OF THAT. I WANT COMPETITION WITH CHINA, NOT CONFLICT STRONGER POSITION TO WIN THE CONFLICT OF THE 21st CENTURY AGAINST CHINA THAN ANYONE ELSE, FOR THAT MATTER, ANY TIME AS WELL. HERE AT HOME, I SIGNED OVER 400 BIPARTISAN BILLS, THERE IS MORE TO PASS MIGHT UNITY AGENDA. STRENGTHEN PENALTIES ON FENTANYL TRAFFICKING. DON'T WANT TO DO THAT? PASS BIPARTISAN TO PROTECT OUR PROTECT OUR CHILDREN ONLINE. HAE PREMISE OF A.I. TO PROTECT US FROM PERIL. IN A.I. VOICE IMPERSONATIONS AND MORE AND CHEAPER TRULY SACRED OBLIGATION TO TRAIN AND EQUIP THOSE WE SEND INTO HARM'S WAY AND CARE FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES WHEN THEY COME HOME AND WHEN THEY DON'T. >> THAT IS WHY STRONG SUPPORT AND HEALTH OF DENNIS AND VA, I SIGNED THE PACT ACT. ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT LAWS EVER HELPING MILLIONS OF VETERANS EXPOSED TO TOXINS WHO HAVE 150 DIFFERENT CASES, MANY OF THEM DON'T COME HOME BUT WE OWE THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES SUPPORT. WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES TO KEEP SUPPORTING THEM. OUR NEW HEALTH RESEARCH AGENCY CALLED ARPA-H AND REMIND THEM, REMIND US WE CAN DO BIG THINGS LIKE AND CANCER AS WE KNOW IT AND WE WILL. [ APPLAUSE ] >> LET ME CLOSE WITH THIS, I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE WHAT I HAVE TO SAY A FEW MORE THINGS. I KNOW I MAY NOT LOOK LIKE IT BUT I'VE BEEN AROUND A WHILE. WHEN YOU GET TO BE MY AGE, CERTAIN THINGS BECOME CLEARER THAN EVER. I KNOW THE AMERICAN STORY. AGAIN AND AGAIN ICING THE CONTEST BETWEEN COMPETING FORCES INTO BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF OUR NATION. BETWEEN THOSE THAT WANT TO PULL AMERICA BACK TO THE PAST AND THOSE THAT WANT TO MOVE AMERICA TO THE FUTURE. OF MY LIFETIME HAS TAUGHT ME IMMIGRATION, FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY, FUTURE BASED ON CORE VALUES, THIS HAS DEFINED AMERICA. HONESTY, DECENCY, DIGNITY, EQUALITY, TO RESPECT EVERYONE. TO GIVE EVERYONE A FAIR CHANCE, TO GIVE HATE NO SAFE HARBOR. OTHER PEOPLE MY AGE SEE IT DIFFERENTLY. THE AMERICAN STORY OF RESENTMENT, REVENGE, AND RETRIBUTION. THAT IS NOT ME. I WAS BORN AMID WORLD WAR II, WHEN AMERICA STOOD FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD. I GREW UP IN SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, CLAYMONT, DELAWARE AMONG WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE THAT THIS COUNTRY. I WATCHED IN HORROR AS TWO OF MY HEROES LIKE MANY OF YOU DID, DR. KING AND BOBBY KENNEDY WERE ASSASSINATED AND THEIR LEGACY INSPIRED ME TO PURSUE A CAREER IN SERVICE. I LEFT A LAW FIRM AND BECAME A PUBLIC DEFENDER BECAUSE MY CITY OF WILIMINGTON WAS THE ONLY CITY WITH THE AMERICAN NATIONAL GUARD AFTER DR. KING WAS ASSASSINATED BECAUSE OF THE RIOTS. I BECAME COUNTY COMPLEMENT ALMOST BY ACCIDENT I GOT ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE WHEN I HAD NO INTENTION OF RUNNING AT AGE 29. VICE PRESIDENT, FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT THE FIRST WOMAN VICE PRESIDENT >> IN MY CAREER, I HAVE BEEN TOLD I WAS TOO YOUNG. BY THE WAY, THEY WOULD NOT LET ME ON THE SENATE ELEVATOR TO VOTE SOMETIMES, NOT A JOKE. I HAVE BEEN TOLD I'M TOO OLD. WHETHER YOUNG OR OLD, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN KNOWN, I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN WHAT ENDURES I HAVE KNOWN OUR NORTH STAR. THE VERY IDEA OF AMERICANS, WE WERE ALL CREATED EQUAL, DESERVE TO BE TREATED EQUALLY THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES. WE NEVER FULLY LIVED UP TO THAT IDEA AND NEVER WALKED AWAY FROM IT EITHER. I WANT TO WALK AWAY FROM IT NOW. I'M OPTIMISTIC, I REALLY AM. I'M OPTIMISTIC. MY FELLOW AMERICANS, THE ECISION FACING OUR NATION IS NOT HOW OLD WE ARE, IT IS HOW OLD ARE IDEAS? HATE, ANGER, REVENGE, RETRIBUTION ARE THE OLDEST OF IDEAS. BUT YOU CAN'T LEAD AMERICA WITH VENGEANCE IDEAS, IT ONLY TAKES US BACK. YOU NEED AMERICA, THE LAND OF POSSIBILITY, YOU NEED A VISION FOR THE FUTURE AND WHAT CAN AND SHOULD BE DONE. TONIGHT, YOU HAVE HEARD MINE. I SEE A FUTURE WHERE DEFENDING DEMOCRACY, YOU DON'T DIMINISH IT. I SEE A FUTURE WHERE YOU RESTORE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND PROTECT OUR FREEDOMS, NOT TAKE THEM AWAY. I SEE A FUTURE FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS FINALLY HAS A FAIR SHOT AND THE WEALTHY HAVE TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE IN TAXES. I SEE A FUTURE WHERE WE SAVE THE PLANET FROM THE CLAIMANT CRISIS AND OUR COUNTRY FROM GUN VIOLENCE. ABOVE ALL, I SEE A FUTURE FOR ALL AMERICANS, I SEE A COUNTRY FOR ALL AMERICANS AND I WILL ALWAYS BE PRESIDENT FOR ALL AMERICANS BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN AMERICA. I BELIEVE IN YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, YOU'RE THE REASON WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE THAN I AM NOW SO LET'S BUILD A FUTURE TOGETHER, REMEMBER WHO WE ARE. WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! AND THERE IS NOTHING, NOTHING BEYOND OUR CAPACITY WHEN WE ACT TOGETHER. GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND MAY GOD PROTECT OUR TROOPS. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. IT [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> PRESIDENT BIDEN ADDRESSING >> PRESIDENT BIDEN ADDRESSING JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS IN THE STATE OF THE UNION, THE FINAL ONE OF THIS TERM. THE FUTURE AND ARGUMENT 44 MORE YEARS, THE CHANT HEARD BY DEMOCRATS THROUGHOUT THE SPEECH THAT LASTED A LITTLE OVER AN HOUR, AN HOUR AND NINE MINUTES. IT WAS ENERGETIC AND OPTIMISTI . THE PRESIDENT CLEARLY TRYING TO DRAW A CONTRAST WITH THE INDIVIDUAL WHO CALLED HIS PREDECESSOR ON MANY, MANY OCCASIONS, NEVER BY NAME THAT EVERYONE KNOWS WHO HE MEANT. HAS OPPONENT IN THE NEXT ELECTION, DONALD TRUMP. >> NOT A LOT OF PREAMBLE, HE WENT RIGHT AT IT, THE FREEDOM OF DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK. TALKING ABOUT JANUARY 6th, THE LIE HE SAYS THAT POSES A THREAT TO U.S. DEMOCRACY, SPEAKING TRUTH TO JANUARY 6th LIES. HE SAYS YOU CAN'T LOVE YOUR COUNTRY ONLY WHEN YOU LOSE. HE WENT ON WITH ROE V. WADE. >> ONLY WHEN YOU WIN. IT SEEMS LIKE HE WANTED TO START WITH THE THEME OF DEMOCRACY, DEMOCRACY ITSELF IS UNDER ATTACK OVERSEAS AND HERE AT HOME. HE HAD THAT SET OF COMMENTS FOR VLADIMIR PUTIN, RUSSIAN LEADERS. OF HIS CONVERSATION. [INDISCERNIBLE] >> COME ON NOW! >> TALKING ABOUT DEMOCRACY ABROAD, MAKING JANUARY 6th VERY HIGH UP. >> SOME HAGGLING AND GIVE-AND- TAKE BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND THE PRESIDENT. HE SEEMED TO RELISH THOSE MOMENTS, EXPECTING THOSE MOMENTS, I THINK WE COULD SAY AND PARRIED WITH REPUBLICANS IN THE CROWD. >> ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, HIS AGE, HE TOOK IT ON. SO MUCH TALK ABOUT HIS AGE, WHETHER AT 81 YEARS OLD, HE IS UP FOR THE JOB. THIS IS SOMETHING VOTERS WILL BE DECIDING, VOTERS HAVE EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT. HE TOOK ON THE ISSUES SAYING IN ESSENCE, I MAY BE OLD BUT I HAVE EXPERIENCE AND WISDOM. HE CONFIRMED THAT WITH OTHER PEOPLE THE SAME AGE, REFERRING NOT SO SUBTLY TO DONALD TRUMP WHEN HE LAID OUT A VISION HE SAYS OF AMERICA THAT IS OPTIMISTIC AND HE TRIED TO CONTRAST WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYING THAT HE IS LAYING OUT A VERSION OF AMERICA THAT IS DARK AND DESTITUTE. TURNING HIS GIFT POLITICAL LIABILITY INTO AN ASSET. HE IS TRYING TO MAKE THE CASE THAT WITH TIME COMES WISDOM AND LEAD THE COUNTRY INTO THE FUTURE. THREE-QUARTERS OF AMERICANS HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S AGE INCLUDING HALF OF HIS OWN PARTY INTERESTING TO WATCH DEMOCRATS REACTING TO THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. IN THE ROOM, COMBATIVE, FIERY, ROBUST FROM NECROTIC LAWMAKERS WHO SAY THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED TO SEE. YES, THIS IS A FORM OF SPEECH FOR THE PRESIDENCY BUT IT IS ALSO, AND TALKED ABOUT IT TO KICKOFF THE GENERAL ELECTION. >> KRISTEN WELKER, TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE BIG TOPICS TONIGHT, IMMIGRATION. HE TURNS IT ON ITS EAR AND SAYS IT S REPUBLICANS. IS NOT GOING TO FLY WITH AMERICANS WHO HAVE FOR WEEKS AND MONTHS WATCH THE CROWDS COMING ACROSS THE BORDER, WATCHED THEIR CITIES TRANSFORM AS WE SEE MORE MIGRANTS? >> IT MIGHT PICK HE IS EFFECTIVELY TAKEN BUT PLAY OUT OF THE PLAYBOOK WITH NO NOTHING CONGRESS. THAT IS WHAT WE SAW THE PRESIDENT DUDA AND I EFFECTIVELY SAY WE HAD A BIPARTISAN BILL ON THE TABLE. IT WAS SCRAPPED AT THE DIRECTION OF DONALD TRUMP. THAT IS ENERGIZING THE DEMOCRATIC BASE, WE WILL SEE IF IT WHEN -- WINS OVER INDEPENDENTS AND MODERATES. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN URGING THEM TO DO THAT, LAKEN RILEY, THE NURSING STUDENT KILLED BY SOMEONE WHO WAS IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. THE QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER HE GOT HER NAME RIGHT, DEFIANT MOMENT. I'M HEARING FROM DEMOCRATS, ONE PERSON TELLING ME CONTEMPT. >> IMMIGRATION IS A BIG ISSUE, AT THE TOP ISSUE MANY VOTERS, PERENNIAL ISSUES THAT VOTERS CARE ABOUT. WHAT DID YOU MAKE FROM THE SPEECH FROM THE PRESIDENT? >> DESCRIBING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, I THINK MORE AMERICANS ARE STARTING TO MAYBE AGREE WITH HIM ON THAT, THAT MIGHT BE A REASON WHY OTHER ISSUES RISING TO THE TOP OF THE POLL AND ECONOMY STARTING TO SLIP A LITTLE BIT IN TOP OF MIND. ALSO APPEALING TO, WE HEARD FROM LESTER AT THE TABLE, I'M TRYING TO CUT COSTS, I DON'T THINK IT IS FAIR, I DON'T THINK THE NURSE SHOULD HAVE A LOWER TAX BREAK THAN YOU DO. HE IS TRYING TO APPEAL TO THEM. HIS PREDECESSOR WAS NOTORIOUS FOR TAKING CREDIT FOR THE STOCK MARKET. THIS PRESIDENT KNOWS YOU CANNOT DO THAT. THAT WOULD BE TONE DEAF. >> HE TALKED ABOUT STRENGTH, THE OVERSEA OF THE COUNTRY, TAPPING LATE FEES. THINGS THAT DIRECTLY AFFECT --'S BEES JUNK COSTS, INSULIN AND HE WANTS TO DO THAT FOR ALL AMERICANS, EXPAND HOW MEDICARE CAN NEGOTIATE WITH DRUG COMPANIES. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT APPEALS TO PEOPLE. WE HAVE THE HIGHEST HEALTHCARE COSTS IN THE WORLD AND TO THE UNITED STATES. HE WANTS TO LEVERAGE, HE HAS SEVERAL FRIENDS THAT ARE VENTURE CAPITALIST AND PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET RICH IF THEY WANT TO GET RICH. HE THINKS HE CAN TURN THE TABLES ON THE CENTURY BY TAPPING INTO THE PEOPLE AND COUNTRY TO PAY MORE. DAY THE CAMPAIGN CLEARLY BELIEVES YOU GO AFTER BILLIONAIRES PAYING 8% IN TAXES WHEN OTHERS PAY A MULTITUDE OF THAT, THAT IS A WINNING ARGUMENT FOR THEM. TALK ABOUT HOW IT WAS ON THE RIM, RYAN NOBLES, CAPITOL HILL CORRESPONDENT IS THERE, THE PRESIDENT SLOWLY GETTING OUT OF THE CHAMBER, SHAKING HANDS WITH EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO SHAKE HANDS AND GREETING OLD COLLEAGUES FROM THE SENATE. WE KNOW THAT SPEAKER JOHNSON INSTRUCTED HIS CONFERENCE NOT TO LOSE THEIR DECORUM, I THINK THAT WAS THE WORD HE USED. HOW WAS THAT IN THE ROOM? >> Reporter: I DON'T KNOW HOW WELL IT CAN IT ON TELEVISION BUT INSIDE THIS ROOM, ON FULL DISPLAY. NORMALLY DURING THE STATE OF THE UNIT, A COUPLE THAT WOULD LEAD TO BOTH SIDES OF THE CHAMBER'S STANDING IN APPLAUSE. OTHER THAN WHEN THE PRESIDENT ENTERED THE ROOM AND ONE OTHER MOMENT WHERE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE LATE JOHN LEWIS AND SURVIVORS IN THE ROOM FROM THE BLOODY SUNDAY ATTACK, REPUBLICANS WERE SITTING ON THEIR HANDS FOR THIS ENTIRE SPEECH. EVEN DURING SECTIONS OF THE SPEECH YOU WOULD THINK THEY WOULD RALLY SUPPOR THERE'S A LOT OFT EPUBLICANS FRE THINGS THE PRESIDENT WAS TALKING ABOUT. FOR INSTANCE, SUPPORTIVE UKRAINE, A LOT OF REPUBLICANS BELIEVE SUPPORT SHOULD CONTINUE FOR UKRAINE. THE ISSUE OF IVF WHERE MANY OF THESE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS HAVE COME OUT AND STRONGLY SAID THEY WERE IN SUPPORT OF IVF DESPITE WHAT THEY SAW PLAY OUT IN ALABAMA. EVEN IN THOSE MOMENTS, HE SAW MANY REPUBLICAN MEMBERS LOOK AT EACH OTHER, CLAP HALFHEARTEDLY OR NOT CLAP AT ALL . THEY SEEMED UNCOMFORTABLE WITH ANY NUMBER OF SUPPORT FOR ANYTHING PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS SAYING. IN TERMS OF THE HECKLERS, THERE WAS A DEGREE OF THEM. AT ONE POINT, ONE NUMBER FROM THE BACK YELLED, LIES. SOMETHING PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS TALKING ABOUT WITH HIS PREDECESSOR, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. AND MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE HAD MULTIPLE INSTANCES AROUND THE SPEECH MAKING A SPECTACLE OF HERSELF. IT WAS THAT MOMENT, MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENT IS IN THE NAME OF LAKEN RILEY AND HELD UP THE PIN WITH HER NAME ON IT. YOU SAY LEVEL OF PREPARATION FROM JOE BIDEN IN THIS ROOM. HE SEEMED READY TO TAKE ON ANY CHALLENGE THAT COULD COME FROM A PROTESTER OR HECKLER IN THE AUDIENCE. AT ONE POINT, ANOTHER HECKLER REMOVED FROM THE GALLERY, THE PRESIDENT DID NOT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WAS TAKING PLACE. HE WAS CLEARLY PREPARED FOR ANY DISRUPTION DURING HIS SPEECH AND NEVER SEEMED TO THROW HIM OFF. HE SEEMED TO ENJOY IT, ENGAGING WITH REPUBLICANS AT DIFFERENT POINTS DURING THE SPEECH AND TRY TO GET ACROSS THE POINT. I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY DOUBT A LOT OF US FELT TENSION BEFORE THE SPEECH STARTED BECAUSE OF THE CONCERN OVER HOW THE SPEECH COULD BE INTERRUPTED. THOSE TENSIONS SEEMED TO FADE AWAY AS THE SPEECH CONTINUE TO GO ON AND THE PRESIDENT DEMONSTRATED HE WOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE WHATEVER WAS THROWN HIS WAY. >> RYAN, THANKS VERY MUCH. WITH AND FORMER OBAMA CAMPAIGN MANAGER AND EDITOR AND CEO OF THE DISPATCH. DAVID, I WILL START WITH YOU. THERE WAS A LOT OF NAILBITING AMONG DEMOCRATS GOING INTO THIS EVENING NOT KNOWING WHAT TO EXPECT. THAT LEADS ME TO WONDER WHERE THE BAR WAS AND IN YOUR VIEW, HOW DID THE PRESIDENT DO AGAINST THAT BAR? >> FOR DEMOCRATS, WITH THAT BAR, THEY WILL BE ENTHUSED. I THINK IT WAS ONE OF THE STRONGEST PERFORMANCES JOE BIDEN HAS HAD. IT MATTERED MORE THAN THE SUBSTANCE. THERE WAS ENERGY, BIGGER, HE TOOK THE FIGHT TO THE REPUBLICANS AND TRUMP WHEN APPROPRIATE. I DON'T EXPECT WHOLESALE CHANGES AMONG THE WHOLE ELECTORATE. I THINK THAT THEY, CONCERNED ABOUT THE POLLS, CONCERNS ABOUT AGE, MY GUESS IS HE WILL GO A LONG WAY, NOT ALL THE WAY, TO SETTLING BACK DOWN. OF COURSE ONE OF THE BIGGEST DIRECT AUDIENCES HE WILL HAVE UNTIL THE FIRST DEBATE, ASSUMING WE HAVE ONE. IT WAS IMPORTANT FROM THAT STANDPOINT AS WELL. >> WE HAVE STEPHEN HAYES AS WELL, NBC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR, REPUBLICAN. STEPHEN, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS SPEECH AND DO YOU THINK IT REACHED ACROSS THE AISLE? SWING VOTERS, TINY SLIVER OF AMERICANS WERE PERSUADABLE WHEN WE HAVE BOTH SIDES OF THE PARTISAN DIVIDE SO POLARIZED AND CALCIFIED IN THEIR POSITION, DID YOU THINK PRESIDENT BIDEN REACHED ACROSS TO TRY TO BRING MORE PEOPLE INTO THE COALITION OR DEBATE? >> I AGREE WITH DAVID, SPEECH TO DEBATE. THE PRESIDENT MADE A COUPLE REFERENCES TO HIS UNIT THE AGENDA BUT NOT MUCH IN HIS UNITY AGENDA THAT WOULD BRING REPUBLICANS ALONG. I THOUGHT HE HAD A DIFFICULT TIME TRYING TO MAKE THE CASE THAT THE COUNTRY IS STRONG, THE STATE OF OUR UNION IS STRONG AND GETTING STRONGER. HE ENDED WITH A FLOURISH OF OPTIMISM SAYING THAT HE IS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE. BUT IT SEEMS TO CONTRAST WITH THE CENTRAL MESSAGE OF HIS CAMPAIGN WHICH IS THAT DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE, THE FORMER PRESIDENT, MENTIONED AS PREDECESSOR 13 TIMES, EXISTENTIAL THREAT CONTINUES TO EXIST FOR THE UNITED STATES. THERE'S TENSION BETWEEN WHAT HE SAID IN THE SPEECH TONIGHT THAT PLEASED THE BASE AND WHAT HE SAYS MORE PROBABLY WITH HIS CAMPAIGN. >> AS THE CHIEF FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT RICHARD ENGEL IN AMMAN, JORDAN WATCHING THIS. RICHARD, YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT PRESIDENT'S COMMENTS REGARDING ISRAEL AND HIS CONVERSATION WITH ISRAELI LEADERSHIP? >> Reporter: HE MADE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY SAYING THAT SOON THE U.S. MILITARY WOULD BE LEADING AN EFFORT TO OPEN THIS TEMPORARY PIER IN GAZA SO THAT LARGE SHIPMENTS OF AID COULD BE BROUGHT TO THE PEOPLE OF GAZA. THAT IS EXPECTED TO BE A PROCESS THAT WILL TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS TO CONSTRUCT AND COULD TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS TO GET UP AND RUNNING PROPERLY. IT WILL BRING MUCH MORE RELIEF TO THE 2.3 MILLION PEOPLE OF GAZA. RIGHT NOW, VERY LITTLE AID IS GETTING IN BECAUSE ISRAEL HAS SEALED OFF GAZA AS IT CONTINUES TO BEEF UP THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN TO DRIVE HAMAS FROM POWER AND FREE HOSTAGES. SOME OF THE AGE GOING IN NOW IS BEING AIRDROPPED AREA I WAS ONE ON ON THE AIRDROPPED EARLIER TODAY WHICH IS WHY I'M IN JORDAN, THE AIR DROPS ARE ORCHESTRATED FROM JORDAN. I SAW HOW USEFUL THOSE AIR DROPS ARE ON ONE LEVEL BECAUSE AT LEAST THEY WERE ABLE TO GET SOMETHING TO GAZA BUT IT IS NOT NEARLY ENOUGH. A/C LIFT WOULD BE FAR MORE EFFECTIVE THAT PEOPLE AND THE REASON -- REGION ARE WONDERING IF THERE WILL BE A LONG-TERM SOLUTION AS WELL, CAN THE U.S. PUSHES ALLY, ISRAEL, TO COME TO A CEASE-FIRE. BEAT RICHARD ENGEL, THANK YOU. >> WE'RE WAITING FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EXIT FROM THE CHAMBER WHERE HE JUST DELIVERED HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. A FEW MINUTES AFTER THAT WE WILL HEAR FROM REPUBLICANS WITH RESPONSE FROM SENATOR KATIE BRITT OF ALABAMA. LAURA JARRETT IS WITH US, WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT TONIGHT BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT WHO WERE THERE AND THE AUDIENCE, AD-LIBBED MOMENT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE DECISION, THEIR DECISION TO OVERTURN ROE V WADE AND HE SAID, IN THAT DECISION, QUESTION WHETHER YOU SAY WOMEN HAVE POLITICAL POWER AND HE SAID TO THE JUSTICES, YOU ARE ABOUT TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH. THAT WAS A MOMENT. >> Reporter: IT WAS A STRIKING ONE, SAVANNAH, AT THAT. DIRECT, WITH THE SUPREME COURT SITTING RIGHT THERE. IT IS A COURT WITH A SOLID CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY THANKS TO FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, HIS PREDECESSOR. JOE BIDEN WENT RIGHT AT THEM AND PROBABLY THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL DECISION OVER THE LAST GENERATION WHICH OF COURSE IS OVERTURNING OF ROE VERSUS WADE AND DOBBS, QUOTING THEIR OWN LANGUAGE FROM THE DOBBS DECISION BACK TO THEM. AS YOU MENTIONED, AD-LIBBING A MUCH MORE POINTED AND FRANKLY, ABOUT THE POLITICAL BACKLASH WE HAVE SEEN FROM DOBBS. IT IS A SCENE THAT WE SAW SO EARLY, IT WAS ONLY A COUPLE MINUTES IN AND OF THE WHOLE ISSUE OF ABORTION AND REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM AND IVF, WHICH HAS OBVIOUSLY DOMINATED THE NEWS CYCLE OVER THE LAST MONTH, TO DO IT SO EARLY IN THE SPEECH WAS OBVIOUSLY A CHOICE AND SIGNALING PRIORITY HE WANTS TO MAKE THE CONNECTION FROM THE FALL OF ROE TO THE JEOPARDIZING OF IDEAS. POINTEDLY THAT THE NATION HAS HAD SUCH A VISCERAL REACTION. >> WILL BRING CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT PETER ALEXANDER. CONTINUED TO WATCH THE PRESIDENT SHAKE HANDS AND TALKING, HE ENJOYS THE GIVE-AND- TAKE. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE CIRCLE IN TERMS OF THEIR REVIEW OF HOW HE DID? >> Reporter: I COULD HEAR FOR MYSELF OUT OF THE WHISTLING, CHEERING AND APPLAUSE AS THE PRESIDENT WAS SPEAKING. THE WHITE HOUSE FEELS VERY GOOD WHERE THEY ARE, WHERE THEY'RE GOING IN THE WEEKS AHEAD. THE PRESIDENT HAS AGGRESSIVE SCHEDULE OF CAMPAIGNING DESCRIBED TO ME, BEGINNING TOMORROW WITH TRAVEL TO PENNSYLVANIA. HE WILL GO OUT OF TOWN THIS WEEKEND TO GEORGIA AND WILL BE ON THE ROAD A LOT OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS. ONE MOMENT I HEARD WHILE YOU WERE SPEAKING WITH THE AUDIENCE WITH COLLEAGUES FROM DEMOCRAT GREETING PRESIDENT BIDEN, NO ONE WILL CALL YOU COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED. THE PRESIDENT RECOGNIZING THE URGENCY OF THIS MOMENT, OPPORTUNITY TO DRIVE PERFORMANCE THAT WOULD SATISFY THE CONCERNS OF SOME AMERICANS WHO HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH. THE WHITE HOUSE AND A LOT OF DEMOCRATIC ALLIES HEARING FROM RIGHT NOW. >> PETER ALEXANDER, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I POSED, WHAT IS THE BAR, NERVOUSNESS AMONG DEMOCRATS AS TO HOW HE WOULD DO, THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, FRANKLY. THEY FEEL HE DID WELL AFTER HE TAKES HIS TIME. >> YOU CAN HEAR THE COLLECTIVE EXHALE, GLEE FROM THE DEMOCRATS IN THE BUILDING TO SEE THAT PUNCH AND FIGHT IN HIS SPEECH IN JUST A MOMENT, WE WILL BE BACK AND HAVE THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENT BIDEN STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS DELIVERED BY KATIE BRITT AFTER THESE MESSAGES ♪ >>> KRISTEN WELKER HOSTS MEET THE PRESS EVERY SUNDAY ON NBC. >>> WE HAVE NOT QUITE TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS IN TERMS OF MOPPING THE FLOOR, THE PRESIDENT MAY BE THE LAST ONE IN THE ROOM AS HE PRESSES THE FLESH WELCOME BACK TO THE COVERAGE OF THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. >> WE'RE WAITING ANY MAMA ALABAMA SENATOR KATIE BRITT TO DELIVER THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE. BACK IN THE POPULAR 80s, THEN SENATOR BIDEN THE DEMOCRATIC RESPONSE WHEN HE WAS IN HIS 40s. LET'S SEE SENATOR KATIE BRITT. >> GOOD EVENING, AMERICA. MY NAME IS KATIE BRITT AND I HAVE THE HONOR OF SERVING THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT STATE OF ALABAMA AND UNITED STATES SENATE. HOWEVER, THAT IS NOT THE JOB THAT MATTERS MOST. I'M A PROUD WIFE AND MOM OF TWO SCHOOL-AGED KIDS. MY DAUGHTER AND SON ARE WHY I RAN FOR THE SENATE. I'M WORRIED ABOUT THEIR FUTURE AND THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN IN EVERY CORNER OF OUR NATION AND THAT IS WHY I INVITED YOU INTO OUR HOME TONIGHT. LIKE SO MANY FAMILIES ACROSS AMERICA, MY HUSBAND AND I JUST WATCH PRESIDENT BIDEN'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS FOR MY LIVING ROOM. WHAT WE SAW WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF A PERMANENT POLITICIAN WHO HAS ACTUALLY BEEN IN OFFICE FOR LONGER THAN I'VE BEEN ALIVE. ONE THING WAS QUITE CLEAR THOUGH, PRESIDENT BIDEN JUST DOESN'T GET IT P HE IS OUT OF TOUCH. UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION, FAMILIES ARE WORSE OFF. OUR COMMUNITIES ARE LESS SAFE AND OUR COUNTRY IS LESS SECURE. I JUST WISH HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT REAL FAMILIES ARE FACING AROUND KITCHEN TABLES JUST LIKE THIS ONE. YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHERE A FAMILY HAS TOUGH CONVERSATIONS. IT IS WHERE WE MAKE HARD DECISIONS, IT IS WHERE WE SHARE THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY OF OUR DAYS. IT IS WHERE WE LEFT TOGETHER AND WHERE WE HOLD EACH OTHER'S HANDS AND PRAY FOR GOD'S GUIDANCE AND MANY NIGHTS, TO BE HONEST, IT IS WHERE WESLEY AND I WORRY. I KNOW WE ARE NOT ALONE SO TONIGHT, THE AMERICAN FAMILY NEEDS TO HAVE A TOUGH CONVERSATION BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, WE ARE ALL WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR NATION. THE COUNTRY WE KNOW AND LOVE SEEMS TO BE SLIPPING AWAY AND IT FEELS LIKE THE NEXT GENERATION WILL HAVE FEWER OPPORTUNITIES UNLESS FREEDOMS THAN WE DID. I'M WORRIED MY OWN CHILDREN MAY NOT EVEN GET A SHOT AT LIVING THEIR AMERICAN DREAM. MY AMERICAN DREAM ALLOWS ME, THE DAUGHTER OF TWO SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS FROM RURAL ENTERPRISE, ALABAMA, TO BE ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE AT THE AGE OF 40. GROWING UP, SWEEPING THE FLOOR AT MY DAD'S OFFICE HARDWARE STORE IN CLEANING THE BATHROOM AT MY MOM'S DANCE STUDIO, I COULD NEVER HAVE IMAGINED WHAT MY STORY WOULD ENTAIL. TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THE AMERICAN DREAM CAN DO ACROSS JUST ONE GENERATION AND ONE LIFETIME. IT IS TRULY BREATHTAKING. BUT, RIGHT NOW, THE AMERICAN DREAM HAS TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE FOR SO MANY FAMILIES. THE TRUE UNVARNISHED STATE OF OUR UNIT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THIS, OUR FAMILIES ARE HURTING. OUR COUNTRY CAN DO BETTER. WE DON'T HAVE TO LOOK ANY FURTHER THAN THE CRISIS AT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER TO SEE IT. PRESIDENT BIDEN INHERITED THE MOST SECURE BORDER OF ALL TIME BUT MINUTES AFTER TAKING OFFICE, HE SUSPENDED ALL DEPORTATIONS. HE HALTED CONSTRUCTION OF THE BORDER WAL , AND HE ANNOUNCE A PLAN TO GIVE AMNESTY TO THE MILLIONS. WE KNOW PRESIDENT BIDEN DIDN'T JUST CREATE THIS BORDER CRISIS, HE INVITED IT WITH 94 EXECUTIVE ACTIONS IN HIS FIRST 100 DAYS. WHEN I TOOK OFFICE, I TOOK A DIFFERENT APPROACH. I TRAVELED TO THE DEL RIO SECTOR OF TEXAS. THAT IS WHERE I SPOKE TO A WOMAN WHO SHARED HER STORY WITH ME. SHE HAD BEEN SEX TRAFFICKED BY THE CARTELS STARTING AT THE AGE OF 12. SHE TOLD ME NOT JUST THAT SHE WAS LATE EVERY DAY BUT HOW MANY TIMES A DAY SHE WAS RAPED. THE CARTELS BUT HER ON A MATTRESS IN A SHOEBOX OF A ROOM AND THEY SENT MEN THROUGH THAT DOOR OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR HOURS AND HOURS ON END. WE WOULD NOT OWE -- BE OKAY WITH THIS HAPPENING IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND IT IS PAST TIME, IN MY OPINION, THAT WE START ACTING LIKE IT. PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ORDER POLICY -- BORDER POLICIES ARE A DISGRACE. IT IS DESPICABLE AND THE TRUTH IS, ALMOST ENTIRELY PREVENTABLE. FROM FENTANYL POISONINGS TO HORRIFIC MURDERS, THERE ARE EMPTY CHAIRS TONIGHT AT KITCHEN TABLES JUST LIKE THIS ONE BECAUSE OF PRESIDENT BIDEN'S SENSELESS BORDER POLICIES. THINK ABOUT LAKEN RILEY. MY NEIGHBORING STATE OF GEORGIA, THIS BEAUTIFUL 22-YEAR-OLD NURSING STUDENT WENT OUT ON A JOG ONE MORNING AND SHE NEVER GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO RETURN HOME. SHE WAS RUDELY MURDERED BY ONE OF THE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSERS PRESIDENT BIDEN CHOSE TO RELEASE INTO OUR HOMELAND. AS A MOM, I CAN'T QUIT THINKING ABOUT THIS. THIS COULD HAVE BEEN MY DAUGHTER, THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AND TONIGHT, PRESIDENT BIDEN FINALLY SAID HER NAME, BUT HE REFUSED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS OWN ACTIONS. MR. PRESIDENT, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. AMERICANS ARE DYING. YOU ONLY HAVE YOURSELF TO BLAME. FULFILL YOUR OATH OF OFFICE. REVERSE YOUR POLICIES, AND THE CRISIS AND STOP THE SUFFERING. WE KNOW THAT IT DOESN'T STOP THERE. HIS AGENDA DUG THE ECONOMY INTO A WHOLE AND SENT THE COST OF LIVING THROUGH THE ROOF. WE HAVE THE WORST INFLATION IN 40 YEARS. AND THE HIGHEST CREDIT CARD DEBT IN THE NATION'S HISTORY. HARD-WORKING FAMILIES ARE STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET. WITH SOARING MORTGAGE RATES AND SKYHIGH CHILDCARE, THEY ARE STRUGGLING TO HAVE A PLAN FOR TOMORROW. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SCRAPING BY WHILE PRESIDENT BIDEN PROUDLY PROCLAIMS THAT IT IS WORKING. BLESS HIS HEART. WE KNOW BETTER. I WILL NEVER FORGET STOPPING AT A GAS STATION IN CHILTON COUNT . THE GENTLE MAN WORKING THE COUNTER TOLD ME THAT AFTER RETIRING, HE HAD TO PICK UP A JOB IN HIS 70s SO HE DIDN'T HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN GOING HUNGRY OR GOING WITHOUT MEDICATION. HE SAID I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT. I DID EVERYTHING I WAS TOLD. I WORKED HARD AND I SAVED. HE IS NOT ALONE. I HEAR SIMILAR CONCERNS FROM FELLOW PARENTS. WHETHER I AM WALKING WITH FRIENDS OR I'M AT MY KIDS GAME. LET'S BE HONEST, IT HAS BEEN A MESS SINCE JOE BIDEN PUMPED GAS OR RAN A CARPOOL OR PUSH TO GROCERY CART. MEANWHILE, THE REST OF US KNOW IT DOESN'T GO AS FAR. WE SEE IT EVERY DAY. DESPITE WHAT HE TELLS YOU, COMMUNITIES ARE NOT SAFER. FOR YEARS, THEY HAVE CODDLED CRIMINALS AND DEFUNDED THE POLICE, ALL WHILE LETTING IT REPEAT OFFENDERS WALK FREE. THE RESULT IS TRAGIC. FROM SMALL TOWNS TO THE MOST ICONIC CITY STREETS, LIFE IS GETTING MORE AND MORE DANGEROUS. UNFORTUNATELY, THE WEAKNESS ISN'T JUST HURTING FAMILIES, HE IS MAKING UP A PUNCH LINE ON THE WORLD STAGE. WHERE I AM FROM, YOUR WORD IS YOUR BOND. FOR THREE YEARS, THE PRESIDENT DEMONSTRATED THAT AMERICA'S WORD DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT USED TO. FROM ABANDONING ALLIES IN HIS DISASTROUS WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN TO DESPERATELY PUSHING ANOTHER DANGEROUS DEAL WITH IRAN. PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS FAILED. WE HAVE BECOME A NATION IN RETREAT. ENEMIES OF FREEDOM SEE AN OPPORTUNITY. SEE AN OPPORTUNITY. BRUTAL AGGRESSION IN EUROPE PUT ALLIES ON THE BRINK. THE TERRORIST PROXIES HAVE SLAUGHTERED ISRAELI -- AND AMERICAN CITIZENS. THEY TARGETED COMMERCIAL SHIPPING AND ATTACK OUR TRUTH'S -- TROOPS 200 TIMES KILLING THREE SOLDIERS AND TWO NAVY SEALS. MEANWHILE, THE COMMUNIST PARTY IS UNDERCUTTING AMERICAN WORKERS. CHINA IS BUYING UP THE FARMLAND. SPYING ON THE MILITARY INSTALLATIONS AND SPREADING PROPAGANDA THROUGH THE LIKES OF TIKTOK. THE CCP KNOWS, IF IT CONQUERS THE MIND OF OUR NEXT GENERATION, IT CONQUERS AMERICA. WHAT DOES PRESIDENT BIDEN DO? HE DID BAND TIKTOK FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES BUT CREATES AN ACCOUNT FOR HIS OWN CAMPAIGN. YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP. LOOK, WE RECALL WHEN PRESIDENTS FACE NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS WITH STRENGTH AND RESOLVE. THAT SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT HISTORY. RIGHT NOW, POOR COMMANDER-IN CHIEF IS NOT IN COMMAND. THE FREE WORLD DESERVES BETTER THAN A DITHERING AND DIMINISHED LEADER. AMERICA DESERVES LEADERS WHO RECOGNIZE THE SECURE BORDER AND STABLE PRICES AND A STRONG DEFENSE ARE ACTUALLY THE CORNERSTONES OF A GREAT NATION. ASK YOURSELF, ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW THAN THREE YEARS AGO? THERE IS NO DOUBT WE ARE AT A CROSSROADS. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. WE ALL FEEL IT. WE THE PEOPLE ARE STILL IN THE DRIVER SEAT. WE GET TO DECIDE WHETHER THE FUTURE WILL GROW BRIGHTER OR THE OTHER WE WILL SETTLE FOR AMERICA IN DECLINE. I KNOW, WHAT CHOICE OUR CHILDREN DESERVE AND I KNOW THE CHOICE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FIGHTING FOR. WE ARE THE PARTY OF HARD WORKING PARENTS AND FAMILIES. WE WANT TO GIVE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN, THE OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE. WE WANT FAMILIES TO GROW. THAT IS WHY WE STRONGLY SUPPORT CONTINUED NATIONWIDE ACCESS TO IN VITRO FERTILIZATION. WE WANT TO HELP MOMS AND DADS BRING LIFE INTO THE WORLD. WE BELIEVE THERE IS NO GREATER BLESSING THAN OUR CHILDREN. THAT IS WHY TONIGHT, I WANT TO MAKE A DIRECT APPEAL TO PARENTS AND IN PARTICULAR, TO MY FELLOW MOMS. MANY WHO WILL BE UP TOSSING AND TURNING AT 2:00 AM, WONDERING HOW YOU WILL BE IN THREE PLACES AT ONCE AND THEN STILL GET DINNER ON THE TABLE. WE SEE YOU. WE HEAR YOU. WE STAND WITH YOU. I KNOW, YOU ARE FRUSTRATEDPROBAD I KNOW YOU ARE PROBABLY DISGUSTED BY MOST OF WHAT YOU SEE IN WASHINGTON. YOU ARE NOT WRONG FOR FEELING THAT WAY. THE PATH IS NOT EASY. I PROMISE YOU ONE THING. IT IS WORTH IT. I AM ASKING YOU FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR KIDS AND YOUR GRANDKIDS, GET INTO THE ARENA. EVERY GENERATION HAS BEEN -- HAS BEEN CALLED TO DO HARD THINGS. AMERICAN GREATNESS RESTS IN THE FACT THAT WE ALWAYS ANSWER THAT CALL. IT'S WHO WE ARE. NEVER FORGET. WE ARE STEEPED IN THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS, WHO OVERTHREW THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE IN THE WORLD. WE WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF PIONEERS WHO TAMED THE WILDS. WE NOW CARRY FORWARD THE SAME FLAME OF FREEDOM AS THE LIBERATORS OF AN OPPRESSED EUROPE. WE CONTINUE TO DRAW COURAGE FROM THOSE WHO BENT THE MORAL ARC OF THE UNIVERSE. AND WHEN WE GAZE UPON THE HEAVENS, NEVER FORGET THAT OUR DNA CONTAINS THE SAME INGENUITY THAT PUT MAN ON THE MOON. AMERICA HAS BEEN TESTED BEFORE, AND EVERY SINGLE TIME WE'VE EMERGED UNBOWED AND UNBROKEN. OUR HISTORY HAS BEEN WRITTEN WITH THE GRIT OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO GOT KNOCKED DOWN. BUT WE KNOW THEIR STORIES, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT STAY DOWN. WE ARE HERE BECAUSE THEY STOOD BACK UP. SO NOW IT'S OUR TURN, OUR MOMENT TO STAND UP AND PROVE OURSELVES WORTHY OF PROTECTING THE AMERICAN DREAM. TOGETHER, WE CAN REAWAKEN THE HEROIC SPIRIT OF A GREAT NATION. BECAUSE AMERICA, WE DON'T JUST >>> WE DON'T JUST HAVE THE RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY. WE TAKE DESTINY'S HAND. OUR FUTURE STARTS AROUND KITCHEN TABLES LIKE THIS. WITH MOMS AND DADS. JUST LIKE YOU. YOU ARE WHY I BELIEVE WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING THAT DESPITE THE CURRENT STATE OF THE UNION, OUR BEST DAYS ARE STILL AHEAD. MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. >> THAT WAS DELIVERING THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT BIDEN STATE OF THE UNION WHILE STILL IN THE CHAMBER. SHE AND MANY OTHERS ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF AMERICA. SHE BLASTED HIS HANDLING OF THE BORDER AND PAINTED THE MOMENT IT'S A CROSSROADS FOR AMERICA. ALABAMA IS AT THE CENTER OF THIS CONTROVERSY. SUPREME COURT RULING THAT THREW >> WHETHER THEY COULD HAVE THAT AND SHUTDOWN CLINICS. I WANT TO TURN TO HALLIE JACKSON.S 42 YEARS OLD. >> LITERALLY ALMOST HALF OF THE PRESIDENT'S AGE. SHE'S SITTING IN A KITCHEN THIS IS WHAT REPUBLICANS ARE HOPING TO GET ACROSS. THE BIG PARSIS RELATED ABILITY SHE DID, OF COURSE, TURN ON IMMIGRATION AND CAST IT AS A DARK MOMENT FOR AMERICA, WHICH IS SOMETHING THA. REPUBLICANS AND THEN IT IS A DARK MOMENT FOR AMERICA. IT IS SOMETHING REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN GOING AFTER FOR MONTHS. FLIPPING THAT SWITCH TO WHAT CONGRESS COULD DO.S GOING TO CO A THEME IN NOVEMBER. IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A THEME IN NOVEMBER. IT IS IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT WHY SHE WAS CHOSEN, BECAUSE SHE REPRESENTS ALABAMA. THAT COURT RULING, IMMEDIATE BACKLASH IVF ENJOYS BROAD SUPPORT FROM . IT ENJOYS BROAD SUPPORT FROM ACROSS THE SPECTRUM. IT IS NOT REPUBLICAN ISSUE OR DEMOCRAT ISSUE. YOU HEARD HER MENTION THE NEED TO PUSH FOR CONTINUED ACCESS. NOTABLE THAT WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN MENTIONED IT IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION, IT IS THE FIRST TIME THOSE WORDS HAVE EVER BEEN SAID IN STATE OF THE UNION SEEN THE VISION OF TWO AMERICAS HERE, TALKING ABOUT THE SAME THING BUT WITH STRIKING . >> STRIKING VISIONS OF WHAT THE COUNTRY LOOKS LIKE. DONALD TRUMP IS A NOMINEE. AND TWO VERY DIFFERENT TAKES OF WHAT THE VERY NEXT FOUR YEARS COULD LOOK LIKE. >> THE ENTIRE TEAM WATCHING TONIGHT. WE CONTINUE TO HAVE COVERAGE NOW. MUCH MORE TOMORROW MORNING ON TODAY. WE ARE GOING TO GET UP NICE AND EARLY REVIEW. >> FOR ALL OF US HERE, GOOD NIGHT. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING. WE >> Reporter: >>> THIS IS COVERAGE OF STATE OF THE UNION. >>> WELCOME TO THE SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE 2024 STATE OF THE UNION. HE JUST WRAPPED UP HIS REMARKS. THE STAKES ARE INCREDIBLY HIGH AS THE PRESIDENT FACES SCRUTINY ABOUT HIS AGE. PUBLIC FRUSTRATIONS, A CRISIS OF THE BORDER AND DIVISION INSIDE HIS OWN PARTY. ALL OF IT COMING AS THE PRESIDENT BATTLES LOW APPROVAL RATINGS AS HE GEARS UP FOR ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL RACE AS HE IS UP AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. IN THE ADDRESS, HE DIDN'T SHY AWAY FROM GOING RIGHT OUT MR. TRUMP, MORE THAN A DOZEN TIMES. HITTING ON EVERYTHING FROM THE BREACH OF THE CAPITOL TO ABORTION AND THE BORDER. >> THE FORMER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT TELLS PUTIN, DO WHAT EVER YOU WANT. THEY SEEK TO BURY THE TRUTH. I WILL NOT DO THAT. HE BRAGS ABOUT IT. MY PREDECESSOR, MANY IN HIS CHAMBER WANT TO TAKE THAT AWAY BY REPEALING THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. I AM NOT GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN. >> MY PREDECESSOR CALLED CONGRESS AND DEMAND THEY BLOCK THE BILL. IT HE FEELS IT WOULD BE A WIN FOR ME AND I LOSE FOR HIM. JOIN ME IN TELLING CONGRESS TO PASS IT. >> ALSO NOTABLE HOW PRESIDENT BIDEN BEGAN HIS REMARKS. DEMOCRITUS -- DEMOCRACY ITSELF UNDER THREAT. >> IT IS NO ORDINARY MOMENT EITHER. NOT SINCE LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAR HAVE FREEDOM OF DEMOCRACY -- AS TODAY. WHAT MAKES IT RARE IS FREEDOM OF DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK AT HOME AND OVERSEAS. >> THE PRESIDENT ALSO ENGAGING WITH REPUBLICANS ON THE ISSUE OF THE BORDER, CALLING ON THEM TO PASS THE BILL WHILE PLACING BLAME SQUARELY ON DONALD TRUMP. >>> MY TEAM BEGAN NEGOTIATIONS. THE RESULT WAS A BILL WITH THE TOUGH SET OF BORDER SECURITY THAT WE HAVE EVER SEEN. YOU DON'T THINK SO? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT HA CONSERVATIVES GOT TOGETHER. I WILL BE DARNED. THAT IS AMAZING. >>> THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED A MISSION TO ESTABLISH A COURT TO GET MORE AID TO PALESTINIANS. CEMENT MAKING SURE WORKERS ARE NOT CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE. THERE'S GOING TO BE A CROSSING IN NORTHERN GAZA. I SAY THIS, HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE CAN'T BE THAT OR A BARGAINING CHIP. PROTECTING AND SAVING INNOCENT LIVES HAVE TO BE A PRIORITY. >> FOLLOWING HIS REMARKS, THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE IS DELIVERED BY KATIE BRITT. SHE RESPONDED FOR OF EMOTION, ATTACKING HIM ON EVERYTHING FROM THE BORDER TO BE ECONOMY AND FOREIGN POLICY. ULTIMATELY CRITICIZING HIS FITNESS FOR OFFICE. >> HE IS ACTUALLY BEEN IN OFFICE FOR LONGER THAN I HAVE BEEN ALIVE. RIGHT NOW, OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS NOT IN COMMAND. THE FREE WORLD DESERVES BETTER THAN A DITHERING AND DIMINISHED LEADER. AMERICA DESERVES LEADERS WHO RECOGNIZE SECURE BORDERS AND STABLE PRICES AND SAFE STREETS AND A STRONG DEFENSE ARE ACTUALLY THE CORNERSTONE OF A GREAT NATION. >> TAKE US INSIDE WHAT STOOD OUT. >> THE THING I WAS STRUCK BY WAS HOW MUCH PARTISANSHIP WAS ON DISPLAY INSIDE THE CHAMBER. IS NOT OUT OF THE ORDINARY FOR REPUBLICANS TO NOT CHEER FOR A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT FOR DEMOCRATS TO CHEER LOUDLY FOR A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT. USUALLY USE THE OPPORTUNITIES TO FOR BOTH SIDES TO STAND WITH A COMMON GOAL. THOSE MOMENTS WERE SO FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. REPUBLICAN SEEMED TO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO SIT ON THEIR HANDS AND FIND NOTHING THEY COULD CONNECT WITH. DURING THAT TIME WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS TALKING ABOUT JOHN LEWIS AND HE HONORED THE SURVIVORS OF THE ATTACK, THEY DID APPLAUD AT THAT POINT. THERE WERE NUMEROUS OTHER OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU WOULD EXPECT AT LEAST SOME LEVEL OF SUPPORT. LIKE IVF. SO MANY HAVE RUSHED TO DEFEND AND SAY THEY SUPPORT AND PRESENTED LEGISLATION TO THAT AND WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT HIS SUPPORT IS ON MANY LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND NOT KNOW WHETHER THEY SHOULD CLAP. MOST CHOSE NOT TO. THAN THE SITUATION WITH UKRAINE. THERE WAS A SMALL -- OF REPUBLICANS HOLDING THE LEGISLATION FROM MAKING ITS WAY TO THE FLOOR. THEY DO BELIEVE THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT UKRAINE AND ALSO BELIEVES THERE IS A CONCERN THAT RUSSIA COULD OVERTAKE UKRAINE. THAT WAS THE COMMITMENT TO DEFEND UKRAINE LONG-TERM. THIS DOES SEEM TO BE THE ARROW THAT WE ARE LIVING IN. THIS HYPER PARTISANSHIP, ONLY ON DISPLAY BECAUSE THERE IS SUCH A THIN MARGIN. IT WAS DIFFICULT. >> YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. PRESIDENT BIDEN STARTING WITH SOME OF HIS BIGGEST LINES TO FIRE UP THE BASE, TALKING ABOUT UKRAINE JANUARY 6 AS WELL AS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS FROM THE START. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT GREAT REPORTING. LET'S NOW GO TO THE WHITE HOUSE. HOW IS THE WHITE HOUSE RESPONDING AFTER GETTING TEXTS FROM DEMOCRAT TO OUR RELIEVED. ONE PERSON TELLING ME THEY THOUGHT THIS WAS A PERFECT 10. >> HEARING MANY OF THE SAME THINGS. THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A FEISTY SPEECH. THEY THOUGHT THE PRESIDENT MORE THAN CLEARED THE BAR. PRESIDENT BIDEN CAN'T REALLY TAKING ON REPUBLICANS MORE DIRECTLY. CERTAINLY OVER REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND FOREIGN POLICY. ALSO, TALKS ABOUT TAXES AS WELL WITH THAT CLASS ON IMMIGRATION. COMING BACK AND SAYING THE NAME OF LINCOLN RILEY. THAT WOMAN IN GEORGIA WHO WAS MURDERED ALLEGEDLY BY AN UNDOCUMENTED WORKER. THE PRESIDENT SAYING THE NAME ALTHOUGH MISPRONOUNCING HER FIRST NAME. REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS SAYING THAT THE PRESIDENT REALLY WAS TAKING ON REPUBLICANS. DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN RELUCTANT TO TAKE ON IMMIGRATION. THEY ARE TRYING TO FLIP THE SCRIPT. PROTESTERS RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND WRITES THAT OUTSIDE OF THE CAPITOL THAT WERE PROTESTING THE HANDLING OF THE WAR. THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCING THAT TEMPORARY PORT. THE EMERGENCY MISSION LED BY THE MILITARY. STILL A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW IT WILL PLAY OUT. THAN TRYING TO TELL THOSE THAT CRITICIZED THE APPROACH THAT HE IS DOING THE BEST HE CAN. THE PRESIDENT NOW WILL EMBARK ON A TRAVEL BLITZ OVER THE COMING WEEKS. PENNSYLVANIA TOMORROW IN GEORGIA SATURDAY. SEVERAL OTHER CABINET MEMBERS TRYING TO SELL THE AGENDA. THE WHITE HOUSE TANK TWO DAYS AFTER SUPER TUESDAY, THE STATE OF THE UNION WAS CERTAINLY A GOOD WAY TO SELL THAT AGENDA. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>> WE HAVE MUCH MORE COVERAGE STILL AHEAD. >>> BECAUSE OF YOU THAT TONIGHT WE CAN SAY THE STATE OF THE UNION IS STRONG AND GETTING STRONGER. >>> WHEN YOU GET TO BE MY AGE, IT IS TRUER THAN EVER. I KNOW THE AMERICAN STORY. AGAIN AND AGAIN I'VE SEEN THE CONTEST BETWEEN COMPETING FORCES IN THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE NATION. THE ISSUE FACING THE NATION. IT IS THE OLDEST OF IDEAS. YOU CAN'T LEAD AMERICA WITHINGTON IDEAS. IT ONLY TAKES US BACK. >>> WELCOME BACK. CHUCK TODD IS JOINING US AND ANDREA MITCHELL. THANK YOU FOR STAYING UP WORKING THE NIGHT SHIFT WITH ME. IT IS GREAT TO HAVE YOU. WHAT WERE YOUR TAKEAWAYS? IT FELT LIKE A CAMPAIGN SPEECH. >> TO HEAR A CHANT OF FOUR YEARS. IF YOU WERE TO SIT HERE IN THE PRE-TRUMP ERA, THE SPEECH WOULD'VE UNCONSIDERED OVERHEATED AND TOO PARTISAN. HE DIDN'T SPEAK TO ALL AMERICANS, HE ONLY SPOKE TO HIS BASE. WE ARE LIVING IN A DIFFERENT WORLD. DONALD TRUMP CHANGED ALL THE RULES TO THE POINT WHERE BIDEN'S PERFORMANCE WAS ALMOST THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO NOW. HE DID WHAT HE HAD TO DO. HE HAD TO PERFORM WELL. HE ABSOLUTELY PERFORMED WELL. I FOUND IT TO BE A SURPRISE. HE TOOK ON TRUMP IMMEDIATELY. ANYONE ELSE WOULD TREAT IT LIKE A CAMPAIGN, AS A TACTIC, I HAVE A FEELING IT WILL BE -- THROUGH THE CONVENTION. SOME PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE IN THE MIDDLE. >> WHAT WERE YOUR TAKEAWAYS. I WAS STRUCK BY HOW ENERGETIC HE WAS. >> HE ALMOST WANTED HECKLERS. >> HE WAS SO COMFORTABLE, HE WAS IN HIS ELEMENT. HE WENT OFF PROMPTER. I THOUGHT IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST SPEECHES HE HAD EVER DELIVERED. I WAS IMPRESSED THAT HE STARTED OUT WITH NOT THE STATE OF THE UNION IS THIS OR THE OTHER, IT WAS DEALING WITH UKRAINE. HE WENT FOR AT. THAT WAS GOING FOR THE BIG PICTURE. >> WE KNEW THEM IN THE ROOM. I COULDN'T TELL EXCEPT AT THE BEGINNING. HE STARTED OUT WITH 1941. IT SOUNDED VERY MUCH LIKE THAT RIGHT FRAME. >> THAT CONTRAST AND HOW TRUMP HAD SPOKEN. >> WE DO HAVE THAT MARGERY TAYLOR GREEN MOMENT. LET'S PLAY IT AND GET THE REACTION ON THE OTHER SIDE. >> LINCOLN RILEY. AN INNOCENT YOUNG WOMAN THAT WAS KILLED BY AN ILLEGAL. HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BY LEGALS. MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU HAVING LOST CHILDREN MYSELF. >> HE FUMBLED HER FIRST NAME A LITTLE BIT. >> IT WAS WEIRD TO HEAR IT FIRST. >> HE WAS QUOTING HER. MANY PEOPLE WERE OFFENDED. >> WOULD YOU HAVE EXPECTED DEMOCRATS TO CHANT PASS THE BILL FOR A BILL SIX MONTHS AGO NOT ONE OF THEM WOULD'VE SIGNED ONTO. IT IS REMARKABLE HOW NEGATIVE PARTISANSHIP WORKS. HE SAID OKAY YOU SAID NO, NOW WE WANT IT. LOOK WHAT WE ARE GETTING INTO. THEY ARE NOW CHEERING FOR MORE SECURITY. >> LANGFORD WAS -- IN CONTRAST TO THE POINTS WHICH WERE NONE OF THE GOOD STUFF WAS IN THE BILL. THERE ARE CONSERVATIVE SENSIBLE'S AND HE HAD GONE FAR. >> IT IS A FASCINATING MOMENT. DEMOCRATS DID NOT HAVE THE PASSIVE CITIZENSHIP. DONALD TRUMP SCUTTLED THE BILL EFFECTIVELY. THIS WAS HIS MOMENT OF CALLING OUT A DO-NOTHING CONGRESS. >> THE SPEAKER WAS FASCINATING. >> I DON'T THINK HE KNEW WHAT TO DO. >> HE WAS SMILING LIKE ON PRESCHOOL EDUCATION. >> I DON'T KNOW THAT. >> HE DIDN'T HAVE THE MEAN FACE. ISRAEL AND GAZA, IT WAS 54 MINUTES BEFORE HE GOT TO THAT. >> HE ANNOUNCED THE NEW POLICY OF GETTING MORE AID. >> I HAVE A PROBLEM. I HAVE TO FACT CHECK. THE UN SPOKE OUT YESTERDAY ABOUT THE FACT THAT THERE IS ALREADY A PEER, WHY NOT USE WHAT IS THERE. IT IS AN ISRAELI PEER. WHY USE THAT ROAD, THERE IS A CROSSING THAT THEY HAVE BEEN URGING THEM TO USE INTO GAZA. FROM ISRAEL INTO NORTHERN GAZA. WEIGLE IN THROUGH THE EXISTING OPENING IN THE SOUTH. THAN THE UN IS IN NORTHERN GAZA WITHOUT ANY HELP. IT IS NOT A GOOD PROCESS. >> SPEAKS TO HOW COMPLICATED THE ISSUE IS. THE FACT THAT DEMOCRATS ARE DIVIDED. IT DIDN'T GO THAT FAR. >> IT HAS BEEN INTERESTING. IT IS OKAY WITH LETTING THE WEST WING LOOK AS DIVIDED AS DEMOCRATS ARE. >> IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE IF BIDEN WAS TO THE SIDE, HE WOULD HAVE A BIGGER PROBLEM. AS PROBLEMATIC AS IT IS, I'M NOT GOING TO SAY DOES NOT. I ALSO BELIEVE IN THE FALL, THIS IS BIGGER THAN WORRYING ABOUT MICHIGAN. >> IT WAS BURIED IN THE SPEECH. >> I DON'T THINK THERE IS A PROBLEM. IT'S SOMETHING THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT. RIGHT NOW TRYING TO WORK ON IT. >> ANDREA AND CHUCK, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE COULD KEEP THIS GOING ALL NIGHT. >> DOZENS OF DEMOCRATIC WOMEN DRESSED IN WHITE IN A SHOW OF SUPPORT. ONE OF THOSE LAWMAKERS, JUDY CHU, WILL JOIN ME NEXT WITH HER MESSAGE WITH THE RESPONSE TO THE BIG SPEECH. THAT SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE STATE OF THE UNION. >>> THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT SHUT DOWN IVF ACROSS THE STATE. DON'T KEEP IT WAITING ANY LONGER. GUARANTEE THE RIGHT. GUARANTEE A NATIONWIDE. >>> WELCOME BACK TO OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE STATE OF THE UNION. JOINING ME NOW IS JUDY CHU. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. >> I HAVE TO ASK, YOU HEARD ONE OF THOSE FIERY REMARKS ABOUT PRESERVING IVF ACCESS. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THE SPEECH? >> I WAS ECSTATIC THAT HE TALKED ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM RIGHT AT THE START. WE HAD 40 OF OUR GUESTS, ALL ON THE ISSUES OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS WHETHER IVF OR ABORTION PROVIDERS. IT WAS OUR BIGGEST TURNOUT EVER. IT WAS THE KEY ISSUE FOR AMERICANS, IT IS SOMETHING WE NEEDED TO HEAR. >> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF A LOT OF PEOPLE HEARD THE SPEECH AND SAID SOUNDED A LOT LIKE A CAMPAIGN SPEECH RIGHT OFF THE BAT. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANTED TO HEAR? >> HE SAID THE THINGS WE WANTED TO HEAR. I WAS THERE IN THE AUDIENCE. I COULD FEEL THE ENERGY. HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE KEY ISSUES. I THINK HE COMMUNICATED THAT AGGRESSIVELY AND VIGOROUSLY AND ENERGETICALLY. >> KATIE BRITT CALLED HIM DITHERING AND DIMINISHED. THEY EXPRESSED CONCERNS THAT HE MIGHT BE TOO OLD. >> WE MUST'VE WATCHED A DIFFERENT SPEECH. I SAW HIM BEING SO DIRECT ABOUT SO MANY BUT PROPOSALS. HE TALKED ABOUT >> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT FIERY MOMENT THAT HE HAD WHERE HE HELD IT UP AND SAID I WILL SAY HER NAME. HE DIDN'T QUITE GET HER NAME RIGHT BUT REALLY ANSWERING CRITICS THAT SAID SAY HER NAME. AND CALLING OUT REPUBLICANS FOR NOT PASSING THE BIPARTISAN DEAL THAT WAS STRUCK. >> I LIKE THAT. >> HE WAS ON HIS TOES AND I LIKE THE FACT THAT HE CALLED OUT REPUBLICANS FOR BEING A DO NOTHING. >> DO YOU THINK THAT MESSAGE ON IMMIGRATION IS ENOUGH? IT ENERGIZED DEMOCRATS. YOU THINK IT WAS ENOUGH TO GET THOSE NIKKI HALEY VOTERS? >> HE WAS STRONG IN TERMS OF TALKING ABOUT WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE. HE LAID OUT THOSE PROPOSALS. I THINK HE WAS CONVINCING ON THAT ISSUE. ONE THING FOR SURE, WHAT IS GOING ON NOW ISN'T WORKING. >> HE ANNOUNCED THE FACT THAT THEY ARE GOING TO MOVE TO GET MORE AID INTO GAZA. HE CALLED FOR AND TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY ARE WORKING REALLY HARD TO GET THIS TEMPORARY CEASE-FIRE AND EXCHANGE. HE DIDN'T GO SO FAR AS CALLING FOR A PERMANENT CEASE-FIRE. >> HE DID CALL FOR A CEASE-FIRE FOR NOW. THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT. HE REALLY NEEDED TO REINFORCE IT. PEOPLE NEEDED TO HEAR THAT. THIS PROPOSAL FOR THE HUMANITARIAN AID, THAT WAS INTRIGUING. IT IS ALSO SOMETHING PEOPLE NEEDED TO HEAR. THEY NEEDED TO HEAR WHAT CONCRETE MEASURES THAT WOULD GET THAT AID INTO THE DESPERATE PEOPLE OF GAZA. >> THE CHAIR OF THE PROGRESSIVE POCKET THAT TOLD MY COLLEAGUES THAT IF DEMOCRATS LOSE, IT WILL BE BECAUSE OF THE POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT YOU MAKE OF THAT? >> IT WAS A CRITICAL ISSUE WE NEED TO ADDRESS IT VERY SERIOUSLY. PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR HUMANITARIAN AID INTO GAZA. THEY DO NOT WANT TO SEE STARVING CHILDREN OR INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING. IT HAS TO STOP. ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND FOR STAYING UP LATE. WE APPRECIATE IT. >>> COMING UP, WE WILL TURN TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE. BYRON DONALD WILL BE ON SET WITH ME NEXT. SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. >>> WELCOME BACK. WE HEARD FROM A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS MEMBER NOW LET'S TURN TO A REPUBLICAN. JOINING ME IS BYRON DONALD OF FLORIDA. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. >> GOOD TO BE WITH YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR STAYING UP LATE. LET ME GET YOUR REACTION TO THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. THE DEMOCRATS ARE STANDING AND APPLAUDING. THERE WASN'T MUCH ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THE SPEECH. >> IT WAS HIGHLY PARTISAN. HE WAS TRYING TO RALLY HIS BASE. HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THE CONDITIONS OF THE COUNTRY. HE DIDN'T BRING SOLUTIONS FOR THE CRISIS IN THE COUNTRY. HE TALKED ABOUT THINGS HE WANTED TO DO IF YOU ADD UP THE LAUNDRY LIST IT WOULD ADD ANOTHER TRILLION TO THE ANNUAL DEFICIT ON TOP OF THE 2 TRILLION DEFICIT UNDER JOE BIDEN. HOW ARE THE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO PAY FOR IT. EVERYTHING HE WANTS TO DO IS GOING TO CREATE MORE. >> ONE OF THE PROPOSALS IS TO RAISE TAXES ON LARGE CORPORATIONS AND WEALTHY AMERICANS. NOT TOUCHING TAXES FOR ANYONE THAT MAKES $400,000. >> HE SAID PEOPLE THAT MAKE MORE MONEY SHOULD PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE. >> HIS SON INVADED TAXES. IF YOU START RAISING CORPORATE TAXES AT A TIME WHERE INFLATION IS HIGH, YOU WILL DEPRESS THE ECONOMIC GROWTH. NUMBER 3, TAX CONTACT HAS RAISED MORE REVENUE FOR THE FEDERAL TREASURY THAN ANY OTHER TIME IN HISTORY. IT BROUGHT RECORD REVENUE. WE DON'T HAVE A REVENUE PROBLEM WE HAVE A SPENDING PROBLEM. >> IN MANY CASES MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES ARE PAYING LOWER TAX RATES THAN TEACHERS AND THOSE THAT ARE MAKING MINIMUM WAGE. AT ME TOLD TELL YOU WHAT HE SAID ON SOCIAL SECURITY. >> MANY OF MY FRIENDS WANT TO PUT SOCIAL SECURITY ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK. IF ANYONE TRIES TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY OR MEDICARE OR RAISE THE RETIREMENT AGE, I WILL STOP YOU. WE HAVE TWO WAYS TO GO. REPUBLICANS CAN CUT SOCIAL SECURITY AND GET TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHY, THAT IS THE PROPOSAL. YOU DON'T WANT ANOTHER $2 TRILLION TAX CUT? I THOUGHT THAT WAS YOUR PLAN. THAT IS GOOD TO HEAR. YOU NOT TO CUT ANOTHER $2 TRILLION FOR THE SUPER WEALTHY. THAT IS GOOD TO HEAR. >> HE IS GAS LIGHTING THE PEOPLE. THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE AND -- DON'T EVEN AGREE WITH THOSE NUMBERS WHEN IT COMES TO THE TAX POLICY THAT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL. WHEN IT COMES TO SOCIAL SECURITY, THE REPUBLICANS HAVE BROUGHT NO PROPOSAL. WE DO SAY THE PROGRAM IS GOING SOLVENT IN NINE YEARS. IT WILL BE A 22% CUT ACROSS THE BOARD FOR ALL SENIORS. CONGRESS DOES HAVE TO FIND THE REMEDY. >> WHAT WOULD YOU SUPPORT? WOULD YOU SUPPORT RAISING THE RETIREMENT AGE? >> THERE ARE PROPOSALS THAT CONGRESS HAS BEEN DEBATING. FIRST, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SERIOUS CONVERSATION WITH THE PEOPLE. NOT POLITICAL. THE RESULT OF SOCIAL SECURITY GOING SOLVENT IS GOING TO BE DISASTROUS. >> THERE IS NO DOUBT IT IS A PROBLEM. THE QUESTION IS WHAT DO YOU DO ABOUT IT? LET ME ASK ABOUT WHAT YOU HEARD TONIGHT ON THE BORDER. THE FACT THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN TRIED TO PAY CONGRESS. HE SAID WE HAD A BIPARTISAN DEAL AND DONALD TRUMP CAME AND SAID DON'T ACCEPT THE DEAL UNLESS IT'S PERFECT. IT WAS A DEAL THAT LINDSEY GRAHAM PRAISED AND DIDN'T INCLUDE A PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP . DOES HE HAVE A POINT? >> HE IS WRONG. THE REASON WHY, WHEN ELEMENTS OF THAT WERE BEING LEAKED OUT BY SOMEONE IN THE SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND HOUSE REPUBLICANS SAID THAT DEAL IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL. YOU CAN FINISH NEGOTIATING BUT IF THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF ALLOWING 5000 IMMIGRANTS PER DAY TO COME INTO THE COUNTRY BEFORE YOU TAKE ANY MEASURES. >> THE DEAL WOULD NOT HAVE ALLOWED 5000 TO COME INTO THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. IT WOULD HAVE A CERTAIN POINT ONCE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF MIGRANTS WERE IN PROCESS, IT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED THE BORDER TO BE SHUT DOWN. >> COMING IN AND PROCESSING. THOSE ARE SEMANTICAL PHRASES. IT IS AN OVERWHELMING NUMBER. WE CAN'T DO THAT. >> THE QUESTION, WHY NOT DO SOMETHING. IF IT IS SUCH A CRISIS, WHY WOULDN'T REPUBLICANS TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING AND TO PASS THE LEGISLATION. IS THERE ANY POSSIBILITY OF SOMETHING GETTING DONE OR ARE WE TOO CLOSE TO THE ELECTION. >> REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE SOMETHING. WE ARE THE ONLY CHAMBER THAT PASSED THE BILL. THE SENATE REFUSES TO TALK ABOUT OR DEBATED. WE WERE ABOUT WANTING TO NEGOTIATE. >> HR TWO IS A NONSTARTER. >> THE SENATE BILL WAS A NONSTARTER. >> LET ME ASK YOU, I KNOW SPEAKER JOHNSON ENCOURAGED YOU TO SHOW THE CORM IN THE CHAMBER. THERE WERE OUTBURSTS. HOW DID YOU VIEW THIS? DID YOU THINK THERE WAS ENOUGH TO CORM TONIGHT? >> IT WAS VERY HARD FOR A LOT OF MEMBERS TO MAINTAIN THE CORM WHEN THE PRESIDENT REPEATEDLY LIED AND WHEN THE SPEECH WAS PARTISAN, IT WAS NOT DESIGNED TO UNITE THE COUNTRY OR ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT STATE OF THE UNION, IT WAS DESIGNED TO LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN. >> YOU DIDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT? >> WE JUST WANT SOLUTIONS AND THAT DID NOT OCCUR. >> GOOD TO SEE YOU IN PERSON. WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. STACK DIVIDED GOVERNMENT. THE REELECTION PITCH AND THE LONG ROAD TO A REMATCH. STACK YOU ARE WATCHING NBC NEWS NOW, SPECIAL STATE OF THE COVERAGE. >>> IT WAS A $2 TRILLION TAX CUT OVERWHELMINGLY BENEFITING THE TOP 1%. THE VERY WEALTHY AND BIGGEST CORPORATIONS AND EXPLODED THE FEDERAL DEFICIT. THEY ADDED MORE -- IN AMERICAN HISTORY. CHECK THE NUMBERS. FOLKS AT HOME, DOES ANYBODY THINK THE CODE IS FAIR? DO YOU THINK THE WEALTHY CORPORATIONS NEED ANOTHER $2 TRILLION TAX BREAK? I DON'T. I'M GOING TO KEEP FIGHTING TO MAKE IT FAIR. >> TRAINING ME NOW ARE POLITICAL PROS. THE FORMER PRESS SECRETARY TO -- AND PAUL RYAN. HE IS NOW A POLITICAL ANALYST. THANK YOU FOR STAYING UP LATE. I APPRECIATE IT. >> I WAS WIRED AFTER THAT. >> WE ALL WERE AT THIS POINT. WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION? DO YOU THINK THE PRESIDENT DID WHAT HE NEEDED TO DO AND DID YOU LIKE THE POLICY OR THE PERFORMANCE? >> THE PERFORMANCE IS WAY MORE IMPORTANT. HE HAD TO BE VIGOROUS. HE HAD TO BE RESPONSIVE. WHAT THIS WAS, WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE CAMPAIGN. THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION. WHAT HE BASICALLY ACQUIT HIS CASE FOR FOUR MORE YEARS. I WANT TO MAKE THIS POINT. IT MAY HAVE BEEN ANDREA. STARTING WITH UKRAINE, I THOUGHT THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING. HE KNOWS HOW IMPORTANT IT IS AND HOW IMPORTANT TO GET THE PUBLIC BEHIND. LEAVING WITH THAT AND TALKING ABOUT THE LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP. IT WAS MAYBE ABOUT TWO JOHN McCAIN. >> WHAT WERE YOUR TAKEAWAYS? >> WE THOUGHT HOW DOES HE BALANCE THE IDEA OF FIRING UP THE BASE AND OPENING UP A HAND TO THE VOTERS. >> HE SAID WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO THAT. I THINK THAT IS FINE. DOING BOTH MAYBE WOULDN'T WORK OUT. IT'S OBVIOUSLY VERY CONFRONTATIONAL. I THINK REPUBLICANS SHOULD PROBABLY REALIZE THAT IS NOT A GOOD PLAY. THE PRESIDENT HAS ALL OF THE STRUCTURAL ADVANTAGES. HE IS ABLE TO OWN THE BACK-AND FORTH. IT HAPPENED LAST YEAR AND AGAIN THIS TIME. HOPEFULLY NEXT TIME THEY WILL LEARN THEIR LESSON. THAT WAS A NOTABLE MOMENT. INEQUITABLY THE NARRATIVE. HE PROVED HE WAS TOTALLY CAPABLE OF HOLDING THE STAGE. THEN HE FLASHES THE SMILE AND IT'S DISARMING. HE HAS SOME MAD SKILLS. >> WHAT IS SO EFFECTIVE ABOUT THOSE MOMENTS IS THE FACT THAT HE LOOKS IN COMMAND. IT IS ONE OF THE STRONGEST COUNTERPOINTS TO THE CRITICISM THAT HE DOESN'T HAVE THE STAMINA. >> WHAT CHUCK SAID IS IMPORTANT. THIS WAS NOT THE SMOOTHEST DELIVERY OF THE SPEECH. HE STUMBLED NUMEROUS TIMES OVER WORDS AND HAD TO STOP HIMSELF. WE SET EXPERT PATIENTS SO LOW THAT IF YOU GOT THROUGH THE SPEECH IT WAS A SUCCESS. >> STRATEGICALLY, HE DID SOMETHING, HE'S BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW HE WANTS TO DEAL WITH THE AGE ISSUE. TONIGHT HE TOOK IT HEAD-ON. HE MADE JOKES BUT HE ALSO EMBRACED THE FACT THAT I USED TO BE CALLED THE YOUNGEST PERSON AND NOW I AM THE OLDEST. HE REALLY ADDRESSED THE ISSUE HEAD ON. >> HE HAD TO GIVE A NOD. HE HAD TO SAY YES I RECOGNIZE THAT HE MAY HAVE THE IMAGE. I HAVE THE EXPERIENCE. YOU WANT ME AT THE HELM. I THINK IT WORKED. IT WORKED BECAUSE IT WAS INFUSED WITH HUMOR. WHEN YOU HEAR THAT, YOU SAY HE GETS IT. WILL IT STOP THE DISCUSSION? HE'S THROUGH A PUNCH AT THE AGE OF TRUMP. HE SAID MY IDEAS ARE NEW WHEN HIS ARE OLD AND HE IS AS OLD AS I AM. >> THE FACT HE WAS GOING AFTER HIM SO DIRECTLY WITH STUNNING. WE NEVER HAD A SITUATION WHERE THE PRESIDENT ALREADY KNEW WHO HIS OPPONENT WAS GOING TO BE. >> THE CONVERSATION WAS HOW WAS HE GOING TO DRAW THAT CONTRAST. MY PREDECESSOR, MANY TIMES. NOT BY NAME. >> THIS IS BRAND-NEW. HE IS RUNNING AGAINST A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THERE IS SO MUCH THEY ARE. REMEMBER WHAT HE DID AFTER, HE TALKED ABOUT THE INSURRECTION. >> IT WAS STRIKING. >> THE OTHER MOMENT THAT STOOD OUT, WHEN HE HELD UP WHAT MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN HAD GIVEN TO HIM. SAY HER NAME. HE DIDN'T GET THE FIRST NAME 100% RIGHT BUT HE DID SAY THE NAME. SHE IS THE NURSE THAT WAS KILLED BY AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THAT MOMENT. >> IF HE HAD IGNORED IT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HUGE. HE HAD TO SAY HER NAME AND ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT HER FAMILY HAD BEEN THROUGH. IF YOU'D SAID WRITE THE CAMPAIGN THAT WOULD BE RUNNING, IT WOULD BE HER NAME. HE HAD TO DEAL WITH IT. I THOUGHT HE DID WELL. HE SAID I FEEL HORRIBLE FOR HER FAMILY. >> THE ARGUMENT THAT TRIED TO PAINT THEM AS A DO-NOTHING CONGRESS. IT IS SOMETHING OBAMA DID IN HIS CAMPAIGN. >> IT IS A TRIED AND TRUE TACTIC. ON IMMIGRATION, REPUBLIC PINS PUT THIS UP TO WHACK. U >> CONGRESS SAYING WE ARE NOT DOING THIS BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO GIVE A WIN. THAT IS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO RUN AGAINST CONGRESS. HE TOOK IT. HE SAID IT WAS A REALLY GOOD IDEA TO SAY HER NAME. I AGREE WITH THAT. IT WAS MORE OF AN AD LIB. THAN ANYTHING ELSE. HE WAS ABLE TO PIVOT THAT WAY. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO REMEMBER. IF YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT CONTRASTING, IF YOU WOULD PICK A FIGHT WITH ANYBODY IN THE CHAMBER, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN. >> HAD SHE NOT HECKLED HIM, HE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD THAT MOMENT. IT DIDN'T BENEFIT HER AT ALL. >> EVERYBODY GETS WHAT THEY WANT. SHE GOT PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HER AND THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS TO HER. YEARS FROM NOW, WE ARE NOT CAN REMEMBER ANYTHING EXCEPT PERHAPS THAT ONE STANDOFF. >> WE HAVE TO ASK YOU ABOUT WHAT YOU HEARD ON THE MIDDLE EAST. THE FACT THAT HE IS WORKING TO GET MORE AID INTO GAZA. IT HIGHLIGHTS THE DIVIDE WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO GET TOUGHER. >> ANYTHING SHORT OF CALLING TONIGHT FOR A PERMANENT CEASE- FIRE WOULD NOT SATISFY. >> WHAT DO YOU THINK AND HOW POTENT OF AN ISSUE IS THIS FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE PEOPLE PROTESTING IS A HUGE RED FLAG. >> WHAT ABOUT THESE NUMBERS? IN MICHIGAN HE SAW 100,000. DID IT STAY THAT CLOSE? >> THEY ARE RUNNING AGAINST A FORMER PRESIDENT THAT WOULD DO SOMETHING MUCH MORE DRAMATIC >> LET PEOPLE TAKE FIRE YOU OR TRUCK CONTEST WHICH IS WHAT HE DID.'S DAY THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT CONVERSATION, REALLY APPRECIATE IT. FANTASTIC TO BE WITH YOU AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE ON A SPECIAL NIGHT. WE WILL HAVE MORE ANALYSIS OF TONIGHT'S ADDRESS AND THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL RACE ON MEET THE PRESS NOW PICK THIS CONCLUDES SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE 2024 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS >>> TONIGHT, PRESIDENT BIDEN ON THE STATE OF OUR UNION. THE PRESIDENT SENT TO ADDRESS A BITTERLY DIVIDED CONGRESS, OUTLINING THE CHALLENGES FACING AMERICANS AT HOME AND