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♪ ♪ >> TONIGHT, PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT SPEECH OF KA BIDEN'S POLITICAL CAREER. THE ECONOMY, ISRAEL, GAZA, WAR, INTEGRATION, FRUSTRATIONS FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ALL COME TO A HEAD TONIGHT AS JOE BIDEN PREPARES TO STAMP OVER THE.

COUNTRY WITH TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS HAD TO TUNE INTO NIGHT. THE STAKES COULD NOT BE HIGHER AS PRESIDENTIAL JOE ELECTION IS NOW A TWO MAN RACE. >> BECAUSE THE SOUL OF THE NATION IS STRONG, THE BACKBONE OF THE NATION IS STRONG.

BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION ARE STRONG. THE STATE OF THE UNION IS STRONG. >> PRIME SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE 2024 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS STARTS RIGHT NOW. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE, I'M LINSEY DAVIS, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

FOR STREAMING WITH US. WE ARE HERE IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL TONIGHT WE ARE IN TWO HOURS PRESIDENT BIDEN IT IS SAID TO ADDRESS NATION AND A CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED STATE OF THE UNION. IN THE VERY FIRST STATE OF THE UNION BACK IN 1790,.

GEORGE WASHINGTON SAID THE WELFARE OF OUR COUNTRY IS A GREAT OBJECT FOR WHICH CARES AND OBJECTS OUGHT TO BE DIRECTED. IT TONIGHT, BIDEN COMES BEFORE THE NATION AT A TIME WHEN MANY ARE QUESTIONING THE WELFARE OF THIS COUNTRY. CONCERNED ABOUT INSURRECTION.

THE RISING COST-OF-LIVING. TO THE BATTLE OF THE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY. SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE MIKE JOHNSON ASKED HIS COLLEAGUES TO STAY CALM TONIGHT DURING THE SPEECH AND WILL NOT INTERRUPT.

BUT WHILE THEY COOPERATE? BIDEN IS MAKING SOME LAST MINUTE PREPS FOR THE SPEECH THAT WILL ESSENTIALLY KICKOFF HIS REELECTION. PITCHED IN THE NATION. IT COMES AT A TIME WHEN THERE IS MOUNTING QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS AGE.

AND ACUITY. TENS OF MILLIONS WATCHING, WILL BIDEN BE ABLE TO CALL SOME OF THE CONCERNS? THE TEAM IS STANDING BY, CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE PICKS US OFF. >> TONIGHT, A PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR THE FUTURE OF HIS PRESIDENCY,.

JOE BIDEN LOOKING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIS BIGGEST PLATFORM YET TO CONVINCE AMERICANS TO GIVE HIM FOUR YEARS. THE PRESIDENT KNOWS HE'S DOWN IN THE POLLS, WELL AWARE VOTERS HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS AGE AND THEY WILL BE WATCHING NOT ONLY.

WHAT HE SAYS BUT HOW HE SAYS IT. SOURCES TELL US HE'S NOT EXPECTED TO MENTION DOND TRUMP BY NAME, HE BUT HE'LL DRAW A CLEAR CONTRAST BETWEEN THEIR POLICIES AND THEIR VALUES. ON THE ECONOMY AND THE IMMIGRATION, THAT AT TRUMP'S URGING, THEY TAKE THE TOUGHEST.

BIPARTISAN BILL IN DECADES. JUST TO DENY BIDEN A POLITICAL WIN. IF THE PRESIDENT WILL PRESS CONGRESS TO PUT POLITICS ASIDE AND GET THE BORDER DEAL DONE. STOP USING IT AS A POLITICAL WEAPON. >> IT'S TIME FOR SPEAKERS AND.

REPUBLICAN FRIENDS IN CONGRESS FROM BLOCKING THE DEAL TO SHOW A LITTLE SPINE. >> THE PRESIDENT WILL CONFRONT THE GROWING OUTCRY OVER THE MOUNTING CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL IN GAZA. ANNOUNCING WITH THE WHITE HOUSE DESCRIBES AS AN EMERGENCY.

MISSION. >> A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE STARVING, A LOT OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE IN TROUBLE AND DYING. IT'S GOT TO STOP HERE TO SPEAK OF THE PRESIDENT WILL LAY OUT A PLAN FOR THE EUROS TO CONSTRUCT A TEMPORARY FORT OFF THE COAST OF GAZA REPUBLICAN AND WHAT YOU.

SEE HERE IN THESE IMAGES. A SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL TELLS US IT'LL TAKE WEEKS TO PLAN AND EXECUTE THE MISSION WHICH WILL BE CARRIED OUT BY THE ARMY. TO PENTAGON SOURCES SAY AMERICAN TROOPS WILL BE STATIONED OFF SHORE TO BUILD THE P.R. COME UP.

THEY WERE ADAMANT. THERE WILL BE NO U.S. BOOTS ON THE GROUND INSIDE GAZA. AT THE PRESENT AND EXPECTED TO EMPHASIZE AN ISSUE CENTRAL TO HIS CAMPAIGN, ABORTION, DRAWING A SHARP CONTRAST WITH TRUMP WHO APPOINTED THREE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WHO OVERTURNED.

ROE V. WADE. KATE COX, THE TEXAS WOMAN WHO IS DENYING AN ABORTION UNDER THE STATE'S STRICT BAN. EVEN THOUGH SHE FACED LIFE-THREATENING COMPLICATIONS. KATE COX SITTING DOWN WITH RACHEL SCOTT. >> WE KNOW THE PRESIDENT'S GOING.

TO PUT THIS ISSUE FRONT AND CENTER. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE HAPPEN? >> MY HOPE WOULD BE THAT WOMEN AND FAMILIES CAN MAKE MEDICAL DECISIONS WITH THEY ARE DOCTORS AS THEY NAVIGATE WAS OFTEN A VERY DIFFICULT PROCESS TO BUILD THEIR FAMILIES.

>> Linsey: SO MANY WANT TO SEE CHANGE THERE. IF MARY BRUCE JOINS US. WHAT ELSE ARE YOU LEARNING ABOUT WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAYS ABOUT OF ORIGIN? >> WE'VE SEEN SOME OF THE EARLY EXCERPTS OF THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH AND HE'S GOING TO REMIND.

VOTERS THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS BOASTED OF PUTTING THOSE JUSTICES ON THE SUPREME COURT. THE PRESIDENT WILL SAY CLEARLY THOSE BRAGGING ABOUT OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT THE POWER OF WOMEN IN AMERICA. THEY'LL FIND OUT AGAIN IN 2024 SAYING IF AMERICANS SUPPORT THE.

RIGHT TO CHOOSE, I PROMISE YOU I WILL RESTORE ROE V. WADE AS THE LAW OF THE LAND AGAIN. >> Linsey: I UNDERSTAND THAT'S NOT THE ONLY JOB PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL TAKE AT FORMER PRESIDENT FROM? >> IT CERTAINLY ISN'T, EVEN THOUGH HE'S NOT CALLING HIM OUT.

BY NAME, JOE BIDEN WILL BE GOING AFTER TRUMP SEVERAL TIMES INCLUDING REJECTING WHAT THE PRESIDENT WILL CALL AN AMERICAN STORY OF RESENTMENT, REVENGE, AND RETRIBUTION. ACCORDING TO THE EXCERPTS, THE PRESIDENT AGAIN IS CLEARLY GOING TO TRY TO CRYSTALLIZE THE TWO.

VERY DIFFERENT VISIONS HE AND DONALD TRUMP HAVE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY. >> Linsey: WILL BE WATCHING IT TOGETHER. THANK YOU. JOINING US NOW, MINNESOTA REPRESENTATIVE ILHAN OMAR, CONGRESSMAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. LET'S GET INTO THE HIGH-STAKES SPEECH THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO DELIVER TRYING TO CALM FEARS AMONG DEMOCRATS AND SPEAKING TO CONCERNS OF REPUBLICANS AS WELL. I DO THINK HE CAN ENCOMPASS BOTH? >> WELL, I THINK THE PRESIDENT.

HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT THE PROGRESS THAT WE'VE MADE, TALKING ABOUT THE INVESTMENTS THAT ARE IN THE CHIPS AND MANUFACTURING ACTS, BIPARTISAN GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION LEGISLATION, TALKING ABOUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL, OBVIOUSLY TALKING ABOUT THE INFLATION.

REDUCTION ACT. PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO FEEL THE IMPACT OF THE MASSIVE INVESTMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, BUT ALSO I THINK TALKING TO SOME OF THE FEARS THAT PEOPLE HAVE IN REGARDS TO THEIR POCKETBOOKS AND THE FACT THAT COSTS IS STILL HIGH FOR THEM.

TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES IN REGARDS TO THE BORDER AND OBVIOUSLY TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HIS LEADERSHIP IN THE GLOBAL WORLD. >> Linsey: AS WE ARE STARTING TO WATCH, SOME PEOPLE MAKE THEIR WAY INTO THE CAPITAL TONIGHT, LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT YOUR HOME STATE OF MINNESOTA VOTED.

UNCOMMITTED AT NEARLY 20% ON SUPER TUESDAY BROKE TESTING PRESIDENT STANDS ON THE ISRAEL-GAZA WAR. YOUR DISTRICT VOTED 25% UNCOMMITTED MORE THAN 100,000 VOTERS DID THE SAME IN MICHIGAN. IS THERE ANYTHING THE PRESIDENT CAN SAY TONIGHT TO SPEAK TO.

THOSE CONCERNS WITHIN THE PARTY? >> I THINK THE PRESIDENT OBVIOUSLY CAN SPEAK TO THE PAIN AND THERE HEARD THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FEELING. MANY IN MY CONSTITUENCY HAVE LOST FAMILY MEMBERS IN GAZA. MANY ARE PEACE ADVOCATES. A LOT OF THEM ARE ANTIWAR OR.

SURVIVED WAR LIKE MYSELF. THIS IS I THINK A TIME FOR THE PRESIDENT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT HE'S WILLING TO DO IN ORDER FOR THE MASSACRE IN GAZA TO END AND FOR THE STARVATION NOT TO BE AS DEVASTATING AS IT IS AT THE MOMENT. >> Linsey: JUST CURIOUS,.

WONDERING IF YOUR GOING TO SHARE HOW YOU VOTED ON TUESDAY'S PRIMARY? >> THIS IS ONE OF THE CASES WHERE I MADE A PLAN TO VOTE ON ELECTION DAY BUT BECAUSE THE VOTE IS CHANGING, I DID NOT HAVE MUCH TIME VOTING ABSENTEE. I ENDED UP BEING HERE VOTING ON.

BEHALF OF MY CONSTITUENTS. >> Linsey: I KNOW YOU HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST WITH YOU TONIGHT WE WILL BRING IN JUST A MOMENT, BUT ONE LAST QUESTION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. AT THE BIG NEWS TONIGHT IS THE EMERGENCY PORT THEY'LL SET UP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN TO GET AID TO.

GAZA. COULD THAT BE SEEN AS REACTIONARY TO THE PROTEST THAT WE HAVE SEEN? >> WE KNOW AIR DROPPING FOOD HAS NOT BEEN WELCOMED AND HASN'T ALLOWED THE KIND OF ACCESS TO FOOD THAT IS NEEDED FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE LITERALLY FACING.

STARVATION IN GAZA, 1.5 MILLION PEOPLE, AND WE KNOW THE BUILDING OF A FORT ACTUALLY MIGHT NOT WORK AS FAST. THE PRESIDENT HAS A LOT OF LEVERAGE. OUR CO COUNTRY HAS A LOT OF LEVERAGE. THE TWO COUNTRIES THAT NOW.

CONTROL THE BORDER WHETHER IT'S ISRAEL OR EGYPT, AND FORCING THEM TO ALLOW THE ACCESS OF HUMANITARIAN AID. WE HAVE NO REASON FOR US NOT TO USE THE LEVERAGE THAT WE HAVE AS A COUNTRY TO PRESSURE THEM IN DELIVERING AID. WE'VE DONE THIS IN MULTIPLE.

COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. WE ARE KNOWN FOR OUR ABILITY TO CARE AND SHOW CONCERN AND DELIVER NECESSARY AID. IN THIS PARTICULAR TIME, TO BE FACED WITH TWO COUNTRIES THAT WE HAVE THE MOST LEVERAGE OVER DENYING THIS AND NOT USING THAT LEVERAGE REALLY IS EMBARRASSING,.

IT'S KILLING OUR CREDIBILITY AND ARE STANDING IN THE WORLD. >> Linsey: WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST WITH YOU FOR TONIGHT STATE OF THE UNION, MINNESOTA STATE REPRESENTATIVE. A CONGRESSMAN, IT SO IMPORTANT TO INVITE YOUR FELLOW STATE REPRESENTATIVE?.

>> ONE THING WE'VE ALL BEEN FOCUSED ON IS THE PRESERVATION OF OUR DEMOCRACY AND THE EXPANSION OF OUR DEMOCRACY. CEDRIC HAS BEEN A TRAILBLAZER. LAST YEAR HE WAS ABLE TO PASS THE RESTORE THE BOAT ACT WHICH WE WE RESTORED THE VOTES FOR 55,000 MINNESOTANS.

I WANTED HIM TO BE HERE TO SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE IN MINNESOTA IN REGARDS FOR CREATING MORE ACCESS IN THE BALLOT BOX AND BE INSPIRED BY THAT SO THEY CAN PRESSURE STATE LEGISLATORS AND CONTINUE TO PRESSURE CONGRESS TO DO MORE. >> Linsey: REPRESENTATIVE.

FRASER, I WANT TO BRING YOU IN HERE, OF COURSE YOU RESTORED VOTING RIGHTS TO ONE TO 55,000 MINNESOTANS WHO COMPLETED FELONY SENTENCES. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO CHAMPION SUCH MONUMENTAL LEGISLATION? >> IT FELT AMAZING. VOTING IS FOUNDATIONAL TO OUR.

DEMOCRACY BUT HAVING THE ABILITY TO HELP FOLKS, HAVING THEIR VOICE ESPECIALLY A MONUMENTAL ELECTION COMING UP IT WAS AMAZING TO BE A PART OF THAT. >> Linsey: LAST QUESTION, CONGRESSMAN, IS THERE A WAY TO GET SIMILAR LEGISLATION THROUGH CONGRESS BEFORE THE NEXT.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION? >> WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH. I'M A PULLEY ON MULTIPLE — WE L CONTINUE TO BE OPTIMISTIC AND HOPEFUL THAT PEOPLE DO UNDERSTAND WE ARE A DEACON WHEN IT COMES TO CHAMPIONING DEMOCRACY AND WE SHOULD BE THE COUNTRY WHERE EVERYBODY.

CONTINUOUSLY HAS ACCESS TO THE BALLOT BOX BECAUSE YOU CANNOT BE A COUNTRY THAT SAYS DEMOCRACY IS VALUABLE, DEMOCRACY IS IMPORTANT, EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE VOICES AND FOR DISENFRANCHISED AMERICANS. >> Linsey: CONGRESSMAN, A THANK YOU.

HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON URGED HOUSE REPUBLICANS NOT TO INTERRUPT THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT SAYING TO QUORUMS THE ORDER OF THE DAY. SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT. ANY IDEA THEY'LL HEED THE WORD AND?.

>> NOT ALL OF THEM, JUDGING BY WHO WE'VE TALKED TO TODAY. THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE WAS DIRECT, HE WANTS PEOPLE TO REMAIN CIVIL AND RESPECTFUL DURING THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. AT YOUR MEMBER WHAT PLAYED OUT LAST NIGHT.

CONGRESSMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE HECKLING THE PRESIDENT, SHE BOOED AT ONE POINT, SHOUTED CALLING HIM A LIAR. TODAY, CONGRESSMAN GREENE WAS ASKED ABOUT THE WORDING FROM THE SPEAKER TO MAINTAIN SOME LEVEL OF DECORUM AND SHE SAID IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE PRESIDENT.

HAS TO SAY. OF COURSE, IT MAY NOT BE MULTIPLE EVENTS BY PROTESTERS OVER HIS SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL. THEY ARE KEENLY AWARE IT COULD GET ROWDY. >> Linsey: I'M GETTING WORRIED OF A SURPRISING GUEST TONIGHT. TELL US ABOUT THAT.

TO SPEAK OF MANY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ON CAPITOL HILL ARE PROBABLY NOT EXPECTING THIS ONE. I JUST LEARNED THAT EMBATTLED FORMER CONGRESSMAN GEORGE SANTOS WHO WAS EXPELLED FROM THE HOUSE MONTHS AGO PLANS TO ATTEND THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS TONIGHT.

NOW, YOU MAY BE ASKING HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? AND FORMER MEMBERS CONGRESS DO HAVE PRIVILEGES TO COME ON THE HOUSE FLOOR AND CONGRESSMAN SANTOS — FORMER CONGRESSMAN SANTOS HAS THOSE PRIVILEGES EVEN THOUGH HE WAS EXPELLED. HE PLANS TO BE INSIDE THE.

CHAMBER TONIGHT ALONG WITH MANY OF HIS FORMER COLLEAGUES WHO, BY THE WAY, VOTED HIM OUT OF THE HOUSE, EXPELLED HIM SAYING THAT HE BROUGHT SHAME TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. >> Linsey: GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? A LITTLE REVERSAL THERE.

RACHEL SCOTT, VERY INTERESTING REPORTING THERE. NOW TO OTHER NEWS THIS THURSDAY NIGHT, AND ALARMING SITE ON A RUNWAY, TIRE FALLING OFF THE UNITED FLIGHT FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO JAPAN DURING TAKEOFF. >> TONIGHT, THE ALARMING VIDEO THAT THE PASSENGER JET LOSING.

ATTIRE MOMENTS AFTER TAKEOFFS. THE REAR TIRE FALLS OFF THE PLANE. THE BOEING 777 WITH 249 PASSENGERS AND CREW ON BOARD HEADING FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO OSAKA AROUND 11:30 A.M. LOCAL TIME. >> OKAY, THAT'S 35.

>> AND LITERALLY JUST HAPPEN. >> TIRE EMPL PLUNGING INTO THE EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT. FORTUNATELY, NOBODY ON THE GROUND WAS INJURED. THE PLANE DUMPING FUEL MAKING IN THE EMERGENCY LANDING TOUCH INTENSIVELY IN LOS ANGELES TWO HOURS AFTER TAKEOFF.

IT COMES AFTER THIS MID AIR SCARE INVOLVING ANOTHER UNITED FLIGHT. THE FLAMES SEEING SHOOTING OUT OF THE ENGINE SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF FROM HOUSTON ON MONDAY NIGHT. >> PANIC SET IN A LOT OF PEOPLE. A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WERE.

SCREAMING AND CRYING. >> UNITED AIRLINES CLAIMING THAT FIRE ON BUBBLE WRAP THAT WAS SUCKED INTO THE ENGINE. TO SPEAK THE THE INCIDENTS APPEARED TO BE ON THE RISE. GOING BACK TO THE PLANE LOSING ATTIRE, THE TIRES HAVE TO BE HUGE.

WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE INCIDENT? >> FIRST, THEY SAY THEY'RE WORKING WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS AND THE FOLKS WHOSE CARS WERE DAMAGED IN THE EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT TO ADDRESS THEIR NEEDS. WE ARE LEARNING YOU MENTION THE.

TIRES. NOBODY WAS MIRACULOUSLY HURT. THE WHEEL WEIGHS 255 POUNDS, ONE REASON THE FAA IS LOOKING INTO THIS. >> Linsey: BACK OFTEN FOR US, OUR THANKS TO YOU, MATT'S. AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR FOUND THE FIRST FIVE OFFICERS ON.

THE SCREEN IN THE MASSACRE IN UVALDE, TEXAS, DID NOT VIOLATE POLICY. THE ACTING POLICE CHIEF EXONERATED. HER PARENTS ARE ERUPTING IN ANGER OVER THE FINDINGS. NOW REPORTING IN TEXAS TONIGHT. >> Reporter: THESE ARE THE.

DRAMATIC IMAGES OF THE FIRST TO VALIDATE OFFICERS ENTERING THE ELEMENTARY BEING MET WITH GUNFIRE AND RETREATING AND WAITING A TOTAL OF 77 MINUTES BEFORE BREACHING THE DOORS. BUT TONIGHT, A NEW INDEPENDENT REPORT FINDING THOSE OFFICERS DID NOTHING WRONG.

SPARKING OUTRAGE AGAIN IN UVALDE. >> HOW DARE YOU. HOW DARE YOU. YOU ARE PAID BY THEM. >> RETIRED DETECTIVE HIRED BY THE CITY TO INVESTIGATE THE DEADLY RAMPAGE THAT KILLED 19 CHILDREN AND TWO TEENAGERS.

DETAILING MULTIPLE FAILURES BY LAW ENFORCEMENT. FINDING THAT NONE OF THE OFFICERS VIOLATED POLICY. >> THERE WERE NO CASES OF WRONGDOING IN ANY OF THE ACTIONS. IF NO EVIDENCE OF SERIOUS ACTS OF MISCONDUCT.

>> EVEN SAYING ACTING CHIEF OF POLICE WHO RESIGNED WEEKS AFTER THE SHOOTING SHOULD BE EXONERATED. KIM RUBIO WHOSE DAUGHTER LEXI WAS KILLED, ANOTHER FAMILIES DEMANDING THE COUNCIL STILL TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE OFFICERS. >> DO WHAT'S RIGHT, TERMINATE.

THEM. >> Linsey: THE STORIES ARE JUST SO HEARTBREAKING. MARIA JOINS US NOW. HOW ARE CITY LEADERS TO THIS? >> WE KNEW TWO OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS DO NOT AGREE WITH THE FINDINGS OF THE REPORT OR ACCEPTED.

WE SPOKE WITH THE MAYOR AND HE SAID AS OF RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE NOT MAKING ANY FINAL DECISIONS UNTIL EVERYONE CAN FULLY DIGEST THIS REPORT AND THEY CAN HAVE THEIR MEETING. THE NEXT MEETING SET FOR NEXT TUESDAY. MORE TO COME HERE.

>> Linsey: ALL RIGHT, WILL BE STANDING BY FOR NEWS ON THIS. OUR THANKS TO YOU. OPENING STATEMENTS BEGAN TODAY IN THE MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL OF JAMES CRUMBLY, THE FATHER OF THE TEENAGER WHO KILLED FOUR STUDENTS AT A HIGH SCHOOL IN 2021.

THE TRIAL COMES WEEKS AFTER JENNIFER WAS CONVICTED OF THE SAME CHARGES. HE PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO FOUR COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. HE FACES UP TO 15 YEARS IF CONVICTED. THE FIRST TIME A SCHOOL SHOOTER.

WAS HELD DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KILLING. NOW TO THE URGENT MANHUNT FOR A SUSPECT IN THE MURDERS OF A MOTHER AND HER 11-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WHO WERE GUNNED DOWN WHILE SITTING ON A PARKED CAR IN MASSACHUSETTS. POLICE SAY ONE SUSPECTS IN.

CUSTODY. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, AND URGENT MANHUNT FOR A SUSPECT WANTED IN THE BRAZEN MURDER OF A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WHO WERE SHOT IN THEIR CAR OUTSIDE THEIR HOME IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. >> GETTING REPORTS OF BETWEEN 12-20 GUNSHOTS.

>> CHASTITY AND THE 11-YEAR-OLD WHO IS LEGALLY BLIND WERE FOUND IN THE BULLET RIDDLED NISSAN TUESDAY AFTERNOON. A POLICE LATER ARRESTING 28-YEAR-OLD MAN CHARGING HIM WITH ASSAULT AND MURDER. THE HUNT IS ON FOR HIS ACCOMPLICE, THE 24-YEAR-OLD.

>> TWO MALES WEARING MASKS. IF >> Reporter: POLICE A SECURITY VIDEO SHOWS THE TWO MEN WALKING UP AND SHOOTING THE CAR BEFORE THEY GET AWAY IN THE WHITE SEDAN. TONIGHT, A HEARTBROKEN FAMILY IS REMEMBERING A LOVING MOTHER WHO SERVED IN THE CONNECTICUT.

NATIONAL GUARD AND A DAUGHTER WHO HAD OVERCOME MAJOR CHALLENGES. >> HAPPY, HEALTHY, FUNNY, JUST SO LOVING, AND MADE IT THROUGH ALL OF THAT TO BE TAKEN LIKE THIS IS NOT RIGHT. >> Linsey: JUST SO SENSELESS. WHAT'S THE LATEST ON THE.

INVESTIGATION TONIGHT? >> Reporter: WELCOME THE AUTHORITIES ARE NOT COMMENTING ON A POSSIBLE MOTIVE OR THE VICTIMS AND THE SUSPECTS MAY HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER. NOW BEING HELD WITHOUT BAIL, HE PLEADED NOT GUILTY. THE OTHER SUSPECTS STILL ON THE.

RUN. >> Linsey: FAILURE RUSSIA FOR BACK IN NEW YORK, SUBWAY RIDERS ARE SEEING THE FIRST OF THE NEWLY DEPLOYED NATIONAL GUARD. NYPD'S WELCOMING THEM TO THE FRONT LINES. IT TRANSIT CRIME UP OVER LAST YEAR BUT OFFICIALS HAVE.

SURPRISING INFORMATION ABOUT THE PERPETRATORS. >> Reporter: TONIGHT ARMED AND A FULL UNIFORM, 757 NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS ARE PATROLLING THE LARGEST TRANSIT SYSTEM. THE NYPD SEARCHED 1,000 POLICE OFFICERS INTO THE SUBWAY AND.

MORE THAN 100 STATIONS AROUND THE CITY. NYPD TRANSIT MICHAEL KEMPER HOPE IT REASSURES RIDERS. >> THEY WILL SEE NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS IN ADDITION TO COPS. >> LOOK, WE WELCOME ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET. IF THIS IS ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY.

>> POLICE RELEASING THIS VIDEO, A PERSON CONVICTED OF HITTING A FEMALE CONDUCTOR OVER THE HEAD WITH A BOTTLE. LAST YEAR SAW THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF SUBWAY ASSAULTS IN 27 YEARS. AND SO FAR THIS YEAR, TRANSIT CRIMES OF MORE THAN 13% IN THE CITY COMPARED TO LAST YEAR.

>> THEY MADE OVER 3,000 ARRESTS THIS YEAR IN THE SUBWAY SYSTEM. UNFORTUNATELY, THEY FIND THEMSELVES ARRESTING THE SAME SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE. OVER END-OVER-END OVER AGAIN. >> Linsey: ERIC JOINS US NOW. AARON, WITH INCREASED SECURITY, HAVE THEY BEEN ABLE TO REDUCE.

SUBWAY CRIMES? >> THEY HAVE, LINSEY, THEY BELIEVE THE SEARCH OF 1,000 OFFICERS DOWN IN THE SUBWAY HAS BEEN PAYING OFF BECAUSE AFTER A SPIKE AT THE START OF THE YEAR, MASS TRANSIT CRIME IS COMING DOWN AROUND HERE COME UP AND AFTER SOME INSTANCES OF.

VIOLENCE, THE AUTHORITIES KNOW IT'S NOT THE STATISTICS THAT MATTER, BUT IT IS HOW PEOPLE FEEL WHEN THEY RIDE THE SUBWAY. >> Linsey: EXACTLY RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. A 17-YEAR-OLD BOY HE REMAINS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER HE WAS SHOT NINE TIMES IN A MASS.

SHOOTING IN A BUS STOP ON PHILADELPHIA ON TUESDAY. THREE MASTIC GUNMAN EXITED A CAR AND FIRED MORE THAN 30 ROUNDS TOWARD HIGH SCHOOLERS AS THEY TRIED TO BOARD A BUS ACCORDING TO PHILADELPHIA POLICE. AGES 15-17 WERE SHOT, NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE.

A BILL AIMED AT CRACKING DOWN ON THE VIDEO APP TIKTOK WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED BY THE THE HOUSE PANEL. THE HOUSE IN CONGRESS AND THE COMMITTEE APPROVED THE LEGISLATION THAT WILL GIVE THE TIKTOK PARENT OF THE SIX MONTHS TO SELL THE APP OR FACE A U.S.

BAN. THE VOTE REPRESENTS THE BIGGEST CRACKDOWN ON THE OUTCOME OF TARGETING 170 MILLION U.S. US USERS. SWEDEN OFFICIALLY JOINED NATO TODAY AND IN THE COUNTRY'S LONG-STANDING MILITARY NEUTRALITY SPIRIT OF THE LONG.

PATH TO JOINING THE NATO ALLIANCE CAME TO A SUCCESSFUL CLOSE AS THE SWEDISH PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER DEPOSITED THE COUNTRIES INSTRUMENT . ANTONY BLINKEN QUOTED GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT. STILL MUCH MORE TO GET TO.

IF WE HAVE NEW INFORMATION ON WHAT CAUSED THE MASSIVE WILDFIRE IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. IF THE NEXT, KATE COX, THE WOMAN AT THE CENTER OF THE UNPRECEDENTED CASE THAT SUED TEXAS FOR EMERGENCY TERMINATION AND DR. SIT DOWN WITH RACHEL SCOTT IN THE FIRST JOINT.

INTERVIEW. BOTH GUESTS AT TONIGHT'S STATE OF THE UNION. >> I ALSO HOPE THAT PEOPLE LEARN FROM WHAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH. HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TO SPEAK OUT? HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TO TELL THEIR MOST PAINFUL JOURNEYS.

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PUBLICATIONS. HERE CASE CUT THE NATION'S ATTENTION AFTER SHE SUED TEXAS WERE AN EMERGENCY TERMINATION. IF SHE AND THE DOCTORS SAT DOWN WITH OUR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT FOR THEIR FIRST JOINT INTERVIEW AND THEY ARE BOTH GUESTS AND.

TONIGHT'S STATE OF THE UNION. >> SHE WAS AT THE CENTER OF THE UNPRECEDENTED CASE SUING TEXAS FOR EMERGENCY TERMINATION. KATE COX AND HER DOCTOR SITTING DOWN FOR THEIR FIRST JOINT INTERVIEW SPEAKING WITH ABC NEWS. >> Reporter: WOULD HAVE THE.

LAST FEW MONTHS BEEN LIKE FOR YOU? >> IT'S BEEN A TOUGH TRAINING. I LOOK FORWARD TO HOPEFULLY ANOTHER PRESPREGNANCY IN THEFUTURE. >> IT SHOULD BE BASED ON THE STANDARDS OF CARE, INSTEAD THEY ARE BEING DICTATED BY THE.

LEGISLATOR. >> KATE AND HUSBAND DREAMS OF HAVING A BIG FAMILY. >> WE WERE OVERJOYED WHEN WE WERE PREGNANT WITH BABY NUMBER THREE. OUR HUSBAND SAYS WE NEED A NEW CAR, PLAYING OUT ALL THE LOGISTICS.

ANOTHER BABY, IT WAS A REALLY JOYFUL TIME. >> BUT THEN SHE FOUND OUT SOMETHING WAS TERRIBLY WRONG. THE FETUS WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A FATAL CONDITION AND HAD LITTLE CHANCE OF SURVIVAL. >> YOU'RE TOLD THAT YOUR BABY HAS UNFORTUNATELY NO CHANCE OF.

SURVIVAL. >> IT WAS REALLY HEARTBREAKING. WE WERE SO EXCITED FOR A THIRD BABY. IT'S THE HARDEST NEWS WE'VE EVER RECEIVED. AND IT'S HARD TO WALK AROUND PREGNANT, ESPECIALLY WITH THE BELLY, MY TWO KIDS, PEOPLE ASK.

YOU. WHEN ARE YOU DO? WHEN ARE YOU HAVING? YOU HAVE A NAME? IT'S REALLY HARD WHEN YOU KNOW. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN? THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE A BABY. >> KATE'S UTERUS WAS AT RISK OF RUPTURING.

THE DOCTOR WARNED THAT IF SHE CARRIED THE CHILD TO TERM, IT COULD BE HER LAST. >> SO THE RISKS INCREASED BY THE DAY, THE RISK OF HEMORRHAGE, THE RISK OF RUPTURE OF THE AREA >> I'VE BEEN TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS. HOW MUCH LONGER DID I HAVE TO GO.

GOING IN AND OUT OF EMERGENCY ROOMS? >> TEXAS BAND ABORTIONS ARE RIGHT WITH A NEW EXCEPTION TO PREVENT MAJOR BODILY HARM RECEIVED IN THE MOTHER. IT KATE WAS CERTAIN THAT APPLY TO HER. HER CASE WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE.

TEXAS SUPREME COURT THEY ARE TO HER HEALTH ON THE LINE, SHE COULDN'T MAKE A DECISION SO SHE FLED THE STATE. AT THE COURT ULTIMATELY DECIDED SHE DID NOT QUALIFY FOR AN EMERGENCY TERMINATION. >> YOUR HANDS ARE TIED AS A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL IN THE.

STATE OF TEXAS TO CARE FOR PATIENTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS. >> YOU COULD LOSE YOUR MEDICAL LICENSE, UP TO 99 YEARS IN PRISON, $99,000 FINE. POSITIONS ARE TERRIFIED. THEY'RE NOT WILLING TO TAKE THAT RISK.

I FELT SO IMPOTENT TO PROVIDE THE CARE THAT MY PATIENTS NEED. >> I MEAN, I WANTED TO BE HOME, I WANTED TO BE CLOSE TO MY DOCTOR, I WANTED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE MY BABIES AFTER TOO, CRY INTO MY PILLOW. I DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO TRAVEL. PUTTER TONIGHT, KATE COX AND THE.

DOCTOR WILL BE ATTENDING THE STATE OF THE UNION. KATE A GUEST OF PRESIDENT BIDEN IN THE FIRST LADY. >IF WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE CHANGE? >> I WANT TO SEE THE GOVERNMENT GET OUT OF MEDICAL DECISION-MAKING. I WANT THE DECISIONS TO BE.

BETWEEN MY PATIENTS AND MYSELF. >> I ALSO HOPE PEOPLE LEARN FROM WHAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH. HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TO SPEAK UP? HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TO TELL THEIR MOST PAINFUL JOURNEY PUBLICLY BEFORE SOMETHING CHANGES?.

>> Linsey: SO MANY HOPING FOR CHANGE. OUR THANKS TO RACHAEL FOR THAT. IT JOINING NOW DEMOCRATIC OVERSENSITIVE OF TEXAS AND DR DR. AUSTIN CONGRESSMAN INVITED AS HIS GUEST TO THE TONIGHT'S STATE OF THE UNION. THANK YOU BOTH FOR JOINING US.

A DOCTOR, I WOULD LIKE TO START WITH YOU, YOU'RE AN OB-GYN AND A MOTHER WITH A SIMILAR STORY TO KATE COX. CAN YOU TELL US WHAT IT'S LIKE LEAVING THE STATE TO GET A LIFE SAVING A PORTION? >> WELL, IT WAS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, IT WAS TERRIFYING.

IT'S SOMETHING NO WOMAN SHOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH. I FELT LIKE THE STATE OF TEXAS ABANDONED ME WHEN I NEEDED HER MOST. >> Linsey: YOU SAID YOU CAN NO LONGER BE SILENT ON THIS ISSUE. ONCE YOUR MESSAGE TO MILLIONS OF WOMEN OUT THERE INCLUDING THOSE.

THAT PLAN TO VOTE REPUBLICAN IN NOVEMBER? >> I THINK EVERYBODY NEEDS TO LOOK AT THE ISSUE AND BE THE REASON WHY EVERYBODY GOES OUT AND VOTES. QUITE FRANKLY, I FEEL LIKE MY BODY IS ON THE BALLOT AND EVERY WOMAN'S BODY IS ON THE BALLOT.

THE BEST WAY FOR US TO MAKE CHANGE IS TO GET OUT THERE AND VOTE. >> Linsey: CONGRESSMAN, YOU COSPONSOR THE WOMAN'S HEALTH PROTECTION ACT. AND TELL US ABOUT THAT. >> WELL, WE JUST CODIFIED ROE V. WADE AND GO BACK TO THE.

STANDARD WE'VE HAD FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS. THE SUPREME COURT STRUCK DOWN THE RULING AND SAID WE CANNOT RESTORE THE RIGHT. WE ARE NOT ABLE TO GET IT THROUGH THE SENATE AT THE TIME, BUT WHEN I'M IN THE SENATE, WE WILL BE AREA WILL MAKE SURE WE.

PROTECT THIS RIGHT. >> Linsey: AND I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND CONGRESSMAN, WE CAN START WITH YOU. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR FROM BIDEN ON THIS ISSUE TONIGHT? >> I HOPE HE TALKS ABOUT THE REAL STORIES AND THE REAL.

IMPACTS. BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S MOVING SO MANY FOLKS AND THAT'S ALSO THE REALITY. MY WIFE AND I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH TWO HEALTHY PREGNANCIES IN DALLAS, TWO BEAUTIFUL BOYS. I CAN'T IMAGINE IF ONE OF THOSE APPOINTMENT'S WE GOT THE NEWS,.

THAT KATE COX GOT, SO MANY TEXAS WOMEN WILL GET. TO GET THE CARE THAT THEY NEEDED BECAUSE POLITICIANS LIKE TED CRUZ DECIDED THEY KNEW BETTER. I HOPE THEY'LL TALK ABOUT THAT AND THE REAL IMPACTS OF THIS. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.

IT SHOULD BE A BIPARTISAN EFFORT, I KNOW IT WON'T BE, BUT IT SHOULD BE TO RESTORE THIS RIGHT. >> I AGREE, I WANT TO HEAR HIM TALK ABOUT WOMEN AND ONE AN IMPORTANT ISSUE THIS IS THAT IT'S HAPPENING TO REAL WOMAN. AND IT'S ROOTED IN WOMEN'S LIVES.

AND IT'S RUINING FAMILIES. WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER SO THE CHOICE CAN BE RESTORED FOR WO WOMEN. >> Linsey: HOW STRONGLY YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS? WILL GET TO THE POINT THAT YOU MIGHT MOVE OUT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS?.

>> I LOVE THE STATE OF TEXAS, I'M A SIXTH GENERATION TEXAN, AND I DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THE IDEA OF HAVING TO LEAVE MY STATE. BUT YOU NEVER KNOW. >> Linsey: CONGRESSMAN, YOU'RE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE HOPING TO OUST TED CRUZ FOR THE SENATE.

SEAT. HOW CRUCIAL IS THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH FOR CANDIDATES LIKE YOU TRYING TO WIN AND STATES THAT HAD TROUBLE ELECTING DEMOCRATS TO STATEWIDE OFFICES IN YEARS? >> TEXANS TALKING TO TEXANS, NEIGHBORS TALKING TO NEIGHBORS, THIS WILL BE ABOUT WHO'S GOING.

TO REPRESENT US IN THE SENATE FAND THE NEXT PORTION OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE ITEM I THINK IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT FREEDOM, TALK ABOUT RESTORING RIGHTS, I THINK HE'LL TALK ABOUT HOW WE NEED TO SECURE THE BORDER, BUT DO IT CONSISTENT WITH OUR VALUES.

TEXANS UNDERSTAND THAT. I'M A FOURTH GENERATION TEXAN. IF SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE CONCERNED AT ALL ABOUT LEAVING OUR STATE AND I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO HAVE TO. I WANT TO RESTORE THESE RIGHTS AND WE CAN. THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO BE ON THE.

BALLOT IN NOVEMBER FIFTH. >> Linsey: SPEAKING OF NOVEMBER 5TH, HOW STARKLY DO YOU THINK HOW YOU CONTRAST ABORTION RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY UNDER ANOTHER BIDEN PRESIDENCY VERSUS DONALD TRUMP? >> WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN THAT DONALD TRUMP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR.

ROE V. WADE GOING DOWN, THE SUPREME JUSTICES HE APPOINTED AND THE POSITIONS HE TOOK. WE KNOW THAT HE AND TED CRUZ, THEY'LL CREATE A NATIONWIDE BAN. WE CANNOT ALLOW THAT. AND THAT'S NOT WHO WE ARE IN THE UNITED STATES, THAT'S NOT WHO WE ARE ASKED TEXANS.

WILL GO A DIFFERENT DIRECTION,I KNOW THAT THE ARTIST >> Linsey: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. IF STILL AHEAD ON PRIME COME OF NEW CAP IN DESIGN AS TRAVELERS ARE REACHED BEFORE THE NEW LOOK TAKES TO THE SKIES.

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THE SPEECH THAT HAS BECOME PART OF THE POLITICAL TRADITION IN TONIGHT'S BIDENOMICS. THERE HAVE BEEN 99 IN PERSON STATE OF THE UNION UNDRESSES, GEORGE WASHINGTON GAVE THE FIRST, BUT GETTING A REPORT IN PERSON AND CONGRESS DIDN'T BECOME A TRADITION UNTIL 1913.

WHEN WOODROW WILSON USED IT TO RALLY. IF HARRY TRUMAN AND 1947 WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO BROADCAST HIS STATE OF THE UNION ON TELEVISION. JOHNSON IN 1965 WAS THE FIRST TO DELIVER HIS IN PRIME TIME. TWO STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESSES.

HAVE BEEN POSTPONED, ONE OF THEM 1986 RONALD REAGAN RESCHEDULED BECAUSE OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER EXPLOSION. AT 2019, THE GOVERNOR SHUT DOWN FORCING TRUMP TO DELAY HIS. THE 2022 STATE OF THE UNION WAS THE FIRST TO BE STREAMED ONLINE. AT THE SHORTEST ADDRESS SINCE.

1994, LESS THAN 29 MINUTES GIVEN BY RICHARD NIXON IN 1972. THE LONGEST? ONE HOUR, 25 MINUTES BY BILL CLINTON IN 1995. MORE TRIVIA AHEAD OF TONIGHT'S BIG SPEECH, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S CREDITED FOR COINING THE TERM STATE OF THE UNION.

BEFORE THAT, IT WAS CALLED THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE. MUCH MORE TO GET TO ON PRIME TIME CELEBRATING A NEW CHAPTER IN A STORIED CAREER. IN THE CONVERSATION WITH FIRST TIME OSCAR KATE BROWN. THE AMERICAN WOMAN MAKING HISTORY AT SEA, HER IMPRESSIVE.

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Need to know. I love that. >> Linsey: NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE DEVASTATING WILDFIRES IN TEXAS. IF THE CONTROVERSY FIRST SOUTHWEST CABIN MAKEOVER AND A YOUNG WOMAN MAKING HISTORY AND CBRE TO STORIES AND MORE INTO NINES ROUNDUP.

XCEL ENERGY IS ACKNOWLEDGING ITS INVOLVEMENT IN THE TEXAS SMOKEHOUSE FIRE THAT STARTED LAST WEEK AND BECAME THE LARGEST WILDFIRE IN STATE HISTORY BURNING MORE THAN 1 MILLION ACRES. XL SAID IT'S COOPERATING WITH INVESTIGATIONS WITH THE WILDFIRE.

AND CONDUCTING ITS OWN REVIEW OF THE INCIDENT SINCE IT STARTED. THE SAME STATEMENT, THE COMPANY DISPUTED CLAIMS THAT THEY ACTED NEGLIGENTLY MAINTAINING AND OPERATING ITS INFRASTRUCTURE. DR. STUDYING THE BRAIN OF ROBERT CARDIN WHO KILLED 18 PEOPLE IN MAINE LAST YEAR SAY THAT HE.

LIKELY SUFFERED FROM TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY. A STUDY OF HIS BRAIN BY THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY CTE CENTER SHOWED THAT PARTS OF HIS BRAIN BUT NOTICED THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF CTE. HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES ARE ASSOCIATED.

WITH AN INCREASED RISK OF BEHAVIORAL OR EMOTIONAL ISSUES, BUT N DOES NOT MEAN SOMEONE WILL BECOME VIOLENT. >> SOUTHWEST IS ONBOARDING A NEW LOOK. UNVEILING THE NEWLY REDESIGNED CABIN FEATURING A SLEEK INTERIOR COMPLETE WITH POWER OUTLETS AND.

DEVICE TREES. BUT IT DID NOT TAKE UP WITH SOME ON SOCIAL MEDIA. ONE DESCRIBING THE SEATS AND WHY NOT PUT WOODEN BENCHES IN. >> SOUTHWEST SAYS THE SEATS HAVE THE SAME WIDTH AND LEGROOM AS THE CURRENT ONES. THE UPGRADES WILL BE FACED AS.

THE NEW PLANES COME IN EARLY 25. >> THE TEXAS WOMAN WHO INTERVENED IN THE DISPUTE BETWEEN HER SON AND A SCHOOLYARD BULLY FINDS HERSELF FACING CRIMINAL CHARGES. SHERIFF DEPUTIES IN SAN ANTONIO SAY THAT JENNIFER ADMITTED TO MIXING LEMON JUICE, VINEGAR,.

SALT, AND GATORADE IN A SPORTS BOTTLE AND TELLING HER SON TO GIVE IT TO THE CLASSMATE WHO HAD STOLEN HIS DRINK THE DAY BEFORE. THE BOY EXPERIENCED NAUSEA AND A HEADACHE AND WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL. THE DRINK WAS NONTOXIC, SHE IS CHARGED ON A BOOK CHARGE OF.

INJURY TO A CHILD. A FORMER BOXING CHAMPION MIKE TYSON WILL BE FIGHTING JAKE PAUL THIS SUMMER. GOING TO TAKE PLACE JULY 20TH AND AT&T STADIUM IN ARLINGTON, TEXAS, WITH THE MAIN EVENT HEARING ON NETFLIX. IF MIKE TYSON WILL BE 58 AT THE.

TIME OF THE FIGHT. PAUL 273 DECADES HIS JUNIOR. PAUL TURNED PRO FOUR YEARS AGO AND COMING OFF BACK-TO-BACK FIRST ROUND KNOCKOUTS. IT'S YET TO BE DETERMINE WHETHER THE FIGHT WILL BE CLASSIFIED AS A PRO FIGHT OR AN EXHIBITION. COLE BROWER BECAME THE FIRST.

AMERICAN WOMAN TO RACE AROUND THE WORLD NONSTOP WHEN SHE ARRIVED IN SPAIN TODAY. THE 29-YEAR-OLD TRAVELED ABOUT 30,000 MILES AND TOOK 130 DAYS TO COMPLETE. SHE THANKED THE CHEERING CROWD, FAMILY, FANS WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR HER ON SHORE.

>> Linsey: NOW TO AN “ABC NEWS” EXCLUSIVE WITH COLLEGE BASKETBALL SENSATION CAITLIN CLARK HERE TO ABCs ROBIN ROBBINS WENT ONE-ON-ONE WITH THE NCAA'S ALL-TIME LEADING SCORER VEERED EVERYTHING FROM MAKING COLLEGE POSSIBLE HISTORY TO HER FUTURE AS A PRO IN THE.

WNBA. ♪ ♪ >> SHE IS THE DOMINATING FORCE RESHAPING THE LANDSCAPE OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL. >> IT'S BEEN SO MUCH FUN. >> THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA GUARD CAITLIN CLARK SMASHING RECORDS AND CAPTIVATING FANS ACROSS THE.

NATION. AND NOW, SHE IS READY TO TAKE HER GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL. >> CAITLIN CLARK KNOCKS DOWN THE THREE! >> WHY DID YOU DECIDE THIS IS THE TIME TO END YOUR COLLEGE CAREER? >> I THINK THERE'S PROS AND CONS.

TO BOTH SIDES, AND THAT'S WHAT MADE THE DECISION SO DIFFICULT. IT WAS A WIN-WIN, I'M JUST GETTING READY FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER AND CHALLENGE OF MY LIFE. I DECIDED TO ANNOUNCE IT WHEN I DID WAS TO HAVE THE CLOSURE, ESPECIALLY GOING INTO SENIOR.

>> FANS LINING UP FOR HOURS AHEAD OF SENIOR NIGHT. >> CAITLIN CLARK! >> THE LAST REGULAR-SEASON GAME FOR NUMBER 202022 >> SHE TIES IT WITHOUT ONE. THIS FOR COLLEGE BASKETBALL HISTORY! >> BECOMING THE ALL-TIME LEADING.

SCORER IN NCAA HISTORY. >> CAITLIN CLARK BECOMES THE ALL-TIME LEADING SCORER! >> PLAYING THE NUMBER TWO TEAM IN THE COUNTRY. IT SENIOR NIGHT, OUR HOME COURT, YOU CANNOT SCRIPT IT BETTER. I HONESTLY DIDN'T REALIZE IT UNTIL EVERYBODY WENT WILD.

IT'S SO COOL TO HAVE SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN THE STANDS. ONES THAT APPRECIATE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL BUT THEY UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF IT. >> THE 23-YEAR-OLD HAS CALLED IOWA HOME HER ENTIRE LIFE, AND NOW SHE'S ON THE CUSP OF ACHIEVING ONE OF HER BIGGEST.

GOALS. >> YOU'RE MOVING ON UP. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE NEXT CHAPTER? >> I THINK IT'S SOMETHING I'M READY FOR AND THAT'S WHY HE DECIDED TO MAKE THE MOVE, BUT ALSO THIS IS THE PLACE ALL I'VE KNOWN ALL OF MY LIFE.

THAT THAT'S THE MAIN REASON COMING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, I WANTED TO PLAY FOR MY HOME STATE. I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING THAT NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE. >> WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE WNBA DRAFT, AND I'M GOING OUT ON A LIMB HERE.

I DON'T KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE NUMBER-ONE PICK, INDIANA, THEY HAVE THE TOP SELECTION. THEY ARE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT THEIR TICKET SALES, THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT THE DEMAND. WHEN IS IT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR GAME THAT HAS PEOPLE JUST CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU IN THE.

PROFESSIONAL WORLD? >> ISAAC IT'S JUST THE STYLE BASKETBALL THAN I PLAY, BUT ALSO PEOPLE LOVE THE FIRE AND THE EMOTION THAT I HAVE AND LIKE THE SMILE I ALWAYS HAVE ON MY FACE. TO BE HONEST, I DON'T GET NERVOUS FOR GAMES BECAUSE I JUST KNOW THIS IS FUN FOR ME.

PEOPLE LOVE THE LONG SHOTS, PEOPLE LOVE THE FIRE. >> THAT FIRE BLAZING DURING LAST YEAR'S MARCH MADNESS TOURNAMENT. THERE'S A LOT OF TALK ABOUT WOMEN ATHLETES AND BEING COMPETITIVE AND FIERCE AND ALL THAT. WHERE HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN?.

>> IT STILL SURPRISES ME THAT PEOPLE GET A LITTLE DISTRAUGHT ABOUT WOMEN BEING COMPETITIVE AND GETTING INTO LITTLE ARGUMENTS ON THE COURT OR HAVING A LITTLE TRASH TALK. THAT'S HOW IT SHOULD BE THE AREA MORE THAN ANYTHING, IT'S SURPRISING THAT YOU GUYS DIDN'T.

KNOW. THIS IS HOW WOMAN SPORTS ARE PLAYED. >> AS A YOUNG GIRL, YOU COULD FIND CAITLIN GRACING THE COURT, THE FIELD, AND THE TRACK. YOU ARE A MULTISPORT ATHLETE. AND WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT BASKETBALL?.

>> I RAN TRACK, I DID SOFTBALL, SOCCER, BUT I THINK BASKETBALL I LOVE THE COMPETITIVE SIDE OF IT AND I GREW UP PLAYING WITH THE BOYS. IF MY DAD WAS MY FIRST EVER BASKETBALL COACH. I WOULD LOOK AT MY DAD AND GIVE HIM A NOD AND HE GIVE ME A NOD.

I WOULD GET READY FOR THE TIP AND THE BOND I HAD WITH OVER THE COURSE OF BASKETBALL UPBRINGING. >> AS A HIGH SCHOOLER, CLARK CLINCHING A SPOT ON THE YOUTH SQUAD WINNING THREE METALS ON THE GLOBAL STAGE. BUT A STUMBLING SETBACK THAT TURNED INTO A MAJOR COMEBACK.

>> I REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE A RISING JUNIOR, THEY DIDN'T PUT YOU ON THE TEAM. AT THAT SEEM TO FIRE YOU UP LIKE IT DID JORDAN WHEN HE DIDN'T MAKE THE VARSITY TEAM. >> I HURT MY PINKY DURING TRAINING CAMP, BUT I KEPT PLAYING, I WAS FINE, BUT I JUST.

PLAYED REALLY BAD. I DIDN'T DESERVE TO BE ON THE TEAM. HONESTLY, THAT'S ONE OF THE LOWEST POINTS OF MY BASKETBALL CAREER IS YOUR ON THE TEAM THE PREVIOUS YEAR, YOU WANT LIKE A GOLD MEDAL, YOU GO BACK TO TRY OUT WITH YOUR TEAMMATES THE.

PRIOR YEAR. IT ALLOWED ME TO REALLY FIND ANOTHER FIRE. A PUSH ME TO WORK EVEN HARDER AND GET EVEN BETTER AND PROVE PEOPLE WRONG. >> YOU KNOW WE HAD TO STEP ON THE COURT WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS.

>THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT TE SMELL OF A GYM. AND SEE THE ICONIC RECORD-BREAKING SPOT NOW FOREVER ETCHED ONTO THE FLOOR BOARDS. WHERE IS IT? WEARS IN ON THE COURT? >> ALL THE WAY OVER HERE. >> THAT?.

YOU SHOT FROM THERE? LET ME SHOW FOLKS. THIS IS THE 3-POINT LINE. THIS IS WHERE SHE SHOT FROM. YOU SEE THAT? >> AND THAT'S HALF-COURT. >> NOT ONLY DO YOU HAVE A PLACE IN THE RECORD BOOKS, YOU HAVE A PLACE ON THAT COURT.

THAT'S GOT TO MEET SOME THING SPECIAL. >> IT'S JUST KIND OF CRAZY. WHEN I WENT OUT AND LOOKED AT IT, THIS HAS TO BE IN THE WRONG SPOT. IT SEEMED WAY FURTHER BACK FROM ACTUALLY WHERE I SHOT IT FROM. >> HOW WILL SHE GO FOR HISTORY?.

>> THIS IS WHAT I DREAMED OF. I DREAMED OF PLAYING IN FRONT OF THESE TYPES OF CROWDS. I TAKE A LOOK AROUND AND THINK IN THE ENVIRONMENT BECAUSE IT SERIOUSLY NEVER GETS OLD. >> Linsey: OUR THINGS TO ROBIN AND CAITLIN FOR THAT CONVERSATION.

STERLING K. BROWN'S USHERING IN A BRAND-NEW CHAPTER IN HIS CAREER IN A MAJOR WAY. AT THE ACTOR EARNED HIS FIRST ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN HIS ROLE OF A BOOK ON AMERICAN FICTION.” HE SAT DOWN TALKING ABOUT HIS.

JOURNEY TO THIS MOMENT. >> IT'S DANGEROUS. >> LOOKED, AND KEEPING AN EYE ON THEM. >> RIGHT, IF WE NEED TO REVISE A SENTENCE. >> STERLING K. BROWN, CONGRATULATIONS. OSCAR-NOMINATED, WHAT DOES THAT.

FEEL LIKE? >> THANK YOU. IF COOL, I FEEL BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED. I FEEL THE COMPANY THAT'S IN THE CATEGORY, YOU'VE GOT GOSLING, ROBERT DE NIRO, MARK RUFFALO, YOU'VE GOT ROBERT DOWNEY JR., AND BROWN.

I'M WITH THESE DUDES WHO ARE HEAVY WEIGHTS BURIED >> IS THIS THE DREAM? IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE THINKING WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT TO DO FOR A LIVING? I WANT TO ACT. >> I WILL SAY IT'S A DREAM THAT CAME AFTER.

THE ACTING IN AND OF ITSELF WAS THE REWARD. I LOVE GETTING INSIDE OF PEOPLE AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT MAKES THEM TICK. >> HE'S FUNNY. >> NO, HA HA FUNNY. LIKE SAD FUNNY. >> AND WHAT ABOUT BEING.

NOMINATED FOR THIS FILM AND THIS WORLD IN PARTICULAR? >> I LOVE THIS MOMENT. I JUST THINK I WANT TO BE A PART OF IT. THERE ARE SQUABBLES IN THE BEGINNING LIKE IT'S NOT THE LEAD, IT'S A SUPPORTING CHARACTER, I READ THE SCRIPT AND.

I WAS LIKE, NO. HOW CAN I GET IT DOWN? I HAVE TO BE IN THIS BECAUSE IT'S EXPANDING THE BREADTH OF BLACK STORIES, IT TOLD EXCELLENCE, AND HE CONTINUES TO HAVE SOME COMMERCIAL SUCCESS, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE OF THESE STORIES BE TOLD BECAUSE IT SEEMS.

LIKE THE LANGUAGE WE HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO A CERTAIN EXTENT IS RELATIVELY NARROW. >> THIS NOMINATION HAS MADE HISTORY IN A LOT OF WAYS. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE SEEN A LEAD CHARACTER IN A FILM AND A SUPPORTING CHARACTER IN THE FILM BOTH BE NOMINATED THAT.

ARE BLACK. THIS IS HUGE, THIS IS COLOSSAL. TALK ABOUT THAT AND THE IMPORTANCE OF REPRESENTING IN THIS WAY. >> I THINK JEFFREY AND I FEEL THE SAME WAY THAT IT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO. BUT I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE WHO DO.

FIRST SHOULD BE STATELY. HE STATELY. YOU KNOW, DENZEL WASHINGTON IS STATELY. I'M DUMB. THE FACT I GET A CHANCE TO BE A PART OF IT FIRST IS GOD'S WAY OF SSAYING THAT I'VE A SENSE OF HUMOR.

>> ARE THOSE HUMAN REMAINS? YOU HAVE A PERMIT FOR THAT? >> SHUT UP, PHILIP. I WILL EAT YOUR SWEATER VEST FOR DINNER. >> FIRST ACTING ROLE WAS FRESHMAN YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL. WE DID GOD SPELL THE ART AT THE END OF THE PLAY YOU SING THE.

SONG PREPARE YOU THE WAY OF THE LORD. PEOPLE STOOD UP WHILE WE WERE STILL CARRYING AND LIKE THIS RUSH. IT WAS LIKE A THRILL AND A HIGH THAT I'D ONLY EXPERIENCED PLAYING SPORTS. YOU'RE GIVING SOMETHING TO.

PEOPLE AND THEY FEEL IT'S AND ARE APPRECIATIVE OF IT. THERE IS THIS EXCHANGE OF ENERGY THAT'S JUST SORT OF LIKE FILLS YOU UP IN A WAY THAT I CAN'T EXPLAIN. IF YOU'VE DONE IT, YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT. THAT WAS IT, YOU CHASE THAT.

MOMENT FROM THEN ON. >> Linsey: OUR THANKS TO KELLY AND STERLING FOR THE CONVERSATION. BE SURE TO CATCH THE BRAND-NEW SPECIAL ROAD TO THE OSCARS FEATURING ALL OF OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH THE 2024 OSCAR NOMINEES TOMORROW NIGHT AT.

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COMING TO A HEAD TONIGHT AS JOE BIDEN PREPARES TO STAND BEFORE THE COUNTRY WITH TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS SAID TO TUNE INTO NIGHT. THE STAKES COULD NOT BE HIGHER AS THE PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION IS A TWO MAN RACE. >> BECAUSE THE SOUL OF THE.

NATION IS STRONG, THE BACKBONE OF THE NATION IS STRONG, BECAUSE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION ARE STRONG. THE STATE OF THE UNION IS STRONG. >> PRIME SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE PRESIDENT'S 2024 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS.

STARTS RIGHT NOW. ♪ ♪ GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US. WE ARE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., ABOUT AN HOUR PRESIDENT BIDEN IS SET TO ADDRESS THE NATION IN THE CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED.

STATE OF THE UNION. THE VERY FIRST STATE OF THE UNION BACK IN 1790, GEORGE WASHINGTON SAID THE WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY IS THE GREAT OBJECT FOR WHICH CARES AND EFFORTS ARE DIRECTED. TONIGHT, BIDEN BECOMES BEFORE THE NATION 234 YEARS LATER AND A.

TIME WHEN MANY ARE QUESTIONING THE WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY CONCERNED ABOUT ITS DIRECTION. AT THE RISING COST OF LIVING TO THE PRICES OF THE SOUTHERN BORDER, TO THE BATTLE OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN THE COUNTRY. A SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.

MIKE JOHNSON ASKED HIS COLLEAGUES TO STAY CALM TONIGHT DURING THE SPEECH TONIGHT AND NOT INTERRUPT. WILL THEY COOPERATE? TAKING A LIVE LOOK NOW, THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE BIDEN IS MAKING LAST-MINUTE PREPARATIONS FOR A SPEECH THAT WILL KICK OFF.

HIS REELECTION PITCHED IN THE NATION. IT COMES AT A TIME WHERE THERE IS MOUNTING QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS AGE AND ACUITY. TENS OF MILLIONS WATCHING, WILL BIDEN BE ABLE TO QUELL SOME OF THE CONCERNS? TEAM STANDING BY TONIGHT, CHIEF.

WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE LEADS US OFF. >> TONIGHT IN THE PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR THE FUTURE OF HIS PRESIDENCY, JOE BIDEN LOOKING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIS BIGGEST PLATFORM YET. CONVINCING AMERICANS TO GIVE HIM FOUR OR MORE YEARS.

THE PRESIDENT KNOWS HE'S DOWN IN THE POLLS, WELL AWARE VOTERS HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS AGE AND THEY'LL BE WATCHING NOT ONLY WHAT HE SAYS BUT HOW HE SAYS IT. SOURCES TELL US HE'S NOT EXPECTED TO MENTION DONALD TRUMP BY NAME, BUT HE'LL DRAW CLEAR CONTRACTS BETWEEN THEIR POLICIES.

AND THEIR VALUES. ON THE ECONOMY AND IMMIGRATION WHERE HE'S EXPECTED TO REMIND AMERICANS THAT AT TRUMP'S URGING, REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS TAPED THE TOUGHEST BIPARTISAN POLITICAL BILL JUST TO — PUTTING POLICIES ASIDE TO GET THE.

BORDERS ON. TO STOP USING IT AS A POLITICAL WEAPON. >> IT'S TIME FOR THE SPEAKERS AND THOSE WHO BLOCK THE BILL TO SHOW A LITTLE SPINE. >> THE PRESIDENT WILL CONFRONT THE GROWING OUTCRY OVER THE MOUNTING CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL IN.

GAZA. ANNOUNCING WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DESCRIBES AS AN EMERGENCY MISSION. >> THERE'S A LOT OF INNOCENT PEOPLE THAT ARE STARVING, A LOT OF INNOCENT PEOPLE THAT ARE TROUBLE AND DYING. IT'S GOT TO STOP.

>> THE PRESIDENT WILL LAY OUT A PLAN FOR THE U.S. TO CONSTRUCT A TEMPORARY PORT OFF THE COAST OF GAZA RESEMBLING WHAT YOU SEE IN THESE IMAGES. TO PROVIDE WHAT THEY NEED FOR DESPERATELY NEEDED FOOD, WATER, MEDICINE. AND SENIOR OFFICIAL TELLS US.

IT'LL TAKE WEEKS TO EXECUTE THE MISSION CARRIED OUT BY THE ARMY. PENTAGON SOURCES SAY AMERICAN TROOPS WILL BE STATIONED OFF SHORE TO BUILD PEER, BUT THERE WERE ADAMANT THERE WILL BE NO U.S. BOOTS ON THE GROUND INSIDE GAZA. IN THE PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO.

EMPHASIZE AN ISSUE CENTRAL TO HIS CAMPAIGN, ABORTION DRAWING A SHARP CONTRAST WITH TRUMP WHO APPOINTED THREE OF THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WHO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE. KATE COX THE TEXAS WOMAN WHO WAS DENIED AN ABORTION UNDER THE STATE'S STRICT BAN.

EVEN THOUGH SHE FACED LIFE-THREATENING COMPLICATIONS. KATE COX SITTING DOWN WITH RACHEL. >> WE KNOW THE PRESIDENT WILL PUT THE ISSUE FRONT AND CENTER. OF WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE HAPPEN? >> MY HOPE WOULD BE THAT WOMEN AND FAMILIES CAN MAKE MEDICAL.

DECISIONS WITH THEIR DOCTORS AS THEY NAVIGATE WHAT'S OFTEN A VERY DIFFICULT PROCESS BUILD THEIR FAMILIES. >> Linsey: SO MANY WANT TO SEE CHANGE THERE. OF MARY BRUCE JOINS US NOW, WHAT ELSE ARE YOU LEARNING ABOUT WHAT THE PRESIDENT WILL SAY ABOUT.

REGARDING ABORTION? >> WE SEE EARLY EXPERTS OF THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH AND HE'S GOING TO REMIND VOTERS THAT BUT DONALD TRUMP BOASTED OF PUTTING THE SUPREME JUSTICES ON THE SUPREME COURT. CLEARLY THOSE BRAGGING ABOUT OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE HAVE NO.

CLUE ABOUT THE POWER OF WOMEN IN AMERICA. THEY'LL FIND OUT AGAIN IN 2024, SAYING OF AMERICAN SEND ME IN CONGRESS THE RIGHTS TO CHOOSE, I WILL SUPPORT ROE V. WADE AS THE LAW OF THE LAND AGAIN. >> Linsey: I UNDERSTAND THAT'S NOT THE ONLY JOB PRESIDENT BIDEN.

WILL TAKE AT FO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP? >> IT CERTAINLY ISN'T EVEN THOUGH HE'LL WILL NOT BE CALLING THEM OUT BY NAME, JOE BIDEN WILL BE GOING AFTER TRUMP SEVERAL TIMES INCLUDING REJECTING WHAT THE PRESIDENT WILL CALL AN AMERICAN STORY OF RESENTMENT,.

REVENGE, AND RETRIBUTION. ACCORDING TO THE EXCERPTS, THE PRESIDENT IS AGAIN CLEARLY GOING TO TRY TO CRYSTALLIZE THE TWO VERY DIFFERENT VISIONS HE AND DONALD TRUMP HAVE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY, LINSEY. >> Linsey: WE WILL BE WATCHING IT TOGETHER, MARY, WE WILL SEE.

YOU IN A LITTLE BIT. HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON URGED HOUSE REPUBLICANS NOT TO INTERRUPT THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT, SAYING DECORUM IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY. SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL SCOTT. ANY IDEA WHETHER HOUSE.

REPUBLICANS WILL HEAT THAT MORNING? >> NOT ALL OF THEM JUDGING BY WHO WE'VE TALKED TO SO FAR TODAY. THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE WAS VERY DIRECT. HE WANTS REPUBLICANS TO REMAIN CIVIL AND RESPECTFUL DURING THE.

STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. YOU REMEMBER WHAT PLAYED OUT LAST YEAR INSIDE THE CHAMBER? CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE HECKLING THE PRESIDENT, SHE BOOTED, SHE SHOUTED AND CALLED HIM A LIAR. TODAY, CONGRESSMAN GREENE WAS ASKED ABOUT THE WARNING FROM THE.

SPEAKER TO MAINTAIN SOME LEVEL OF DECORUM, AND SHE SAID IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS TO SAY. OF COURSE, HE MAY NOT JUST BE REPUBLICANS, WE KNOW PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS BEEN INTERRUPTED MULTIPLE EVENTS BY PROTESTERS OVER HIS SUPPORT FOR.

ISRAEL. THE WHITE HOUSE WHITE HOUSE IS KEENLY AWARE IT COULD BE ROWDY, LINSEY. >> Linsey: RACHEL, I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE GETTING WORD OF A SURPRISING GUEST TONIGHT. HIM TELL US MORE ABOUT THAT. >> UNTIL YOU COME MANY MEMBERS.

OF CONGRESS PROBABLY ARE NOT EXPECTING THIS ONE. I JUST LEARNED EMBATTLED FORMER CONGRESSMAN GEORGE SANTOS WHO WAS EXPELLED FROM THE HOUSE MONTHS AGO PLANS TO ATTEND THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS TONIGHT. NOW, YOU MAY BE ASKING HOW IS.

THIS EVEN POSSIBLE? FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS DO HAVE PRIVILEGES TO COME ON THE HOUSE FLOOR AND CONGRESSMAN SANTOS, FORMER CONGRESSMAN SANTOS HAS THOSE PRIVILEGES EVEN THOUGH HE WAS EXPELLED. HE PLANS TO BE INSIDE THAT CHAMBER TONIGHT ALONG WITH HIS.

FORMER COLLEAGUES, BY THE WAY, WHO VOTED HIM OUT OF THE HOUSE, EXPELLED HIM, SAYING THAT HE BROUGHT SHAME TO THE HOUSE, LINSEY THE ARTIST BE MY GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? A LITTLE REVERSAL, RACHEL SCOTT, VERY INTERESTING REPORTING. NOW I WANT TO TAKE A LIVE LOOK.

OUTSIDE OF THE WEST WING. NOW YOU CAN SEE THE CAPITOL WHERE PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO GATHER AND FILE IN JUST OUTSIDE OF THE CHAMBER HERE FOR THE STATE OF THE UNION. TO THE RIGHT, THAT IS THE DOOR WE ARE EXPECTING PRESIDENT BIDEN TO COME OUT IN AND HEAD TO THE.

U.S. CAPITOL TO GIVE THE SPEECH. FIGHTING CAMPAIGN MEGAN HAYES. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. IF THE SPEECH COMES AT A TIME WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN'S FACING INCREASING QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS AGE, STANDS ON THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR. HIM WE DO THINGS THE MOST.

IMPORTANT THING THE PRESIDENT HAS TO GET TONIGHT? >> FIRST, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. ON TONIGHT SPEECH, ONE OF THE MOST APPARENT THING IS TO DRAW THE CONTRAST ABOUT WHAT HE CAN OFFER FOR A VISION FOR A SECOND TERM IN WHAT DONALD TRUMP WILL.

DO AND WHAT HE DID IN THE FIRST FOUR YEARS. I THINK HE NEEDS TO TOUCH ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS FOR WOMEN, THAT'S A BROAD COALITION HE NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO BUILD. IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING IN THE HALEY VOTERS OVER TO THE BIDEN COALITION.

>> Linsey: RECENT ABC NEWS POLL FOUND THAT 62% OF AMERICANS THINK FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TOO OLD FOR A PRESIDENT TERM. 80% OF AMERICANS FOUND THAT BIDEN'S TOO OLD ALONG WITH 73% OF DEMOCRATS. WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO TO ADDRESS CONCERNS ABOUT HIS AGE.

WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY? >> WELL, I THINK IS IN A BIND AND WITH AGE COMES WITH ITS RUN OF AMOUNT OF EXPERIENCE AND WISDOM WHICH HE HAS SHOWN WITH THE WAY HE GOVERNS AND THE WAY HE'S DONE FOR THE COUNTRY IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, BUT I ALSO THINK SPECIFICALLY FOR TONIGHT,.

THE PRESIDENT HAS TO HAVE A STRONG PERFORMANCE. HE HAS TO COME UP WITH ENERGY. I KNOW THE WHITE HOUSE IS TALKING ABOUT THAT TODAY, BUT HE HAS TO COME OUT WITH A LOT OF ENERGY. VOTERS WILL REMEMBER THE SPEECH SPECIFICALLY, HOWEVER HE NEEDS.

TO QUELL SOME OF THE CONCERNS AND COME UP WITH ENERGY AND A LOT OF FOCUS. >> Linsey: IT DOES SEEM LIKE THIS IS THE KICKOFF CAMPAIGN SEASON FOR HIM. THE STATE OF MINNESOTA OF COURSE, RECENTLY VOTED UNCOMMITTED 20% MORE THAN A WEEK.

AFTER 100,000 VOTERS DID FOR MICHIGAN. IS THERE ANYTHING THE PRESIDENT CAN SAY TO SPEAK TO THOSE PARTICULAR CONCERNS WITHIN A PARTY? >> I DON'T THINK THE UNCOMMITTED VOTES ARE DIFFERENT THAN THEY WERE IN 2012 FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA.

DURING HIS PRIMARY CAMPAIGN. I THINK HE NEEDS TO ADDRESS THE ISRAEL-GAZA CONFLICT TONIGHT. IT'S SOMETHING HE'S WORKED ON MANY OF THE TIME BUT THAT'S WHERE THE UNCOMMITTED VOTES ARE COMING FROM. I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT IN NOVEMBER, THE UNCOMMITTED'S WILL.

SHOW UP FOR HIM TO VOTE FOR HIM AND ALSO END UP NOMINATING HIM IN AUGUST IN CHICAGO. >> Linsey: AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE COMPARISON OF THE PRO-RATINGS OF THE LAST FOUR PRESIDENT SEEKING REELECTION. IF BIDEN'S APPROVAL RATING AND DURING THIS YEAR 41% IS THE.

LOWEST OF ANY OF THEM. HOW MUCH DOES HE NEED TO GET THE NUMBER UP TO WIN NOVEMBER? >> HE OBVIOUSLY NEEDS TO GET THAT NUMBER UP BUT I DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW IT'S A DEAL BREAKER FOR PEOPLE VOTING IN NOVEMBER. CONTINUING TO DRAW THE CONTRAST.

BETWEEN HIM AND PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SUPER IMPORTANT. THE PRESIDENT HAS DONE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN IT THAT HE NEEDS TO MAKE IT CLEAR AND SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT HE'S DONE FOR THEM. WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DID THE.

PREVIOUS FOUR YEARS. >> Linsey: THE PRESIDENT'S EXPECTED TO SPEND A GOOD PORTION OF THE SPEECH HITTING ON THE ABORTION RIGHTS AND ABORTION MAY BE ONTO AS MANY AS 11 BALLOTS IN THE STATES THIS FALL. DO YOU THINK THE BALLOT INITIATIVES WILL HELP DEMOCRATS.

WIN MARK MORE SEATS IN NOVEMBER? >> I DO, AND TO IT'S AN IMPORTANT ISSUE ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN. IT'S AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR UNDECIDED VOTERS AND VOTERS IN THE MIDDLE. IT IS SOMETHING WHEN YOU SAY THE RUBBLE CAN PARTY AND.

PRESIDENT TRUMP ARE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOMS AND REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOMS, THAT'S AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR WOMEN AND MEN EQUALLY. IT'S SUPER IMPORTANT TO GET THE BLOCK TO VOTE AND I THINK THAT WILL HELP THE PRESIDENT. TO THE FINISH LINE IN NOVEMBER.

>> Linsey: MEGAN HAYES, WE APPRECIATE YOUR INSIGHT THERAPY OR >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME. >> Linsey: AND JOINING US NOW, ELIZABETH, ALL EYES ON THE ECONOMY TONIGHT. HOW DO YOU THINK THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO TOUT THE.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS? >> THE ECONOMIC RECORD HE HAS IS STRONG WHEN YOU LOOK AT A LOT OF THE METRICS. UNEMPLOYMENT SLOW, THERE'S A LOT OF JOBS CREATED, AND THE LINGERING INFLATION HAS TURNED D TO IMPROVE. AND IT STILL SUCH A PROBLEM FOR.

AMERICAN FAMILIES. HE'S GOING TO WANT THE LINE SAYING THINGS ARE BETTER AND HE GRADED A JOB AND ENGINE OF GROWTH IN THE ECONOMY, BUT AT THE SAME TIMES HE'S UNDERSTANDING THAT FAMILIES ARE DEALING WITH THE HIGHER COST FOR EVERYDAY GOODS.

A LOT OF THINGS THE PRESIDENT SAID HE'S BEEN TACKLING IN HIS PREVIOUS AGENDA, HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE SOME THAT HE WANTS TO HIGHLIGHT AND SAYING WE TAKEN STEPS THROUGH LEGISLATION TO TRY TO MAKE COSTS LOWER FOR AMERICANS BUT TRYING TO MAKE THE POINT CLEARLY THAT THEY ARE.

WORKING TO GET IT DONE AND ACKNOWLEDGING THE PEOPLE ARE FEELING AS HE TRIES TO TURN AROUND WHAT ARE PRETTY DISMAL POLL RATINGS ON THE ECONOMY FAR BEHIND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WHEN IT COMES TO THE RATINGS, LINSEY. >> Linsey: AS WE HEARD FROM.

HAYES, WE KNOW THE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ARE A BIG TOPIC TONIGHT. WHAT CONTRAST WILL HE DROP BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? >> THIS IS A KEY PART BECAUSE HE'S DIRECTLY TRIED TO MAKE THE LINK THAT THE REPUBLIC AND PARTY AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP CHOSE.

THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES THAT WOULD OVERTURN ROE V. WADE AND IT LED TO FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. WE SAW IT PLAY OUT IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS IN ALABAMA WITH DEBATE OVER IVF THE FACT THAT THE TREATMENTS WERE PUT ON PAUSE. AT THE WHITE HOUSE SAID IT.

WANTED TO USE THAT AS AN EXAMPLE THAT STATES ARE PUTTING THE RESTRICTIONS IN PLACE BECAUSE REPUBLICANS APPOINTED THE JUSTICES AND ENFORCED MORE BROADLY MAKING THE DECISIONS THAT ARE VERY PERSONAL FOR PEOPLE WHEN IT COMES TO THEIR REPRODUCTIVE CARE.

THE PRESIDENT AND THE EXPERT WE HAVE IS DIRECTLY SAYING THAT HE WANTS TO RESTORE ROW AND THIS IS A MESSAGE WE HEARD FROM THE WHITE HOUSE EVER SINCE THE SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S REQUIRED BY CONGRESS IN SOMETHING HE WANTS TO RUN ON.

HE KNOWS IT GALVANIZES VOTERS, HE KNOWS IT'S AN IMPORTANT POINT TO TRY TO GET ACROSS TO PEOPLE AS THEY HAD TO THE POLLS IN NOVEMBER AND SOMETHING WE EXPECT THE HIGHLIGHT. AND YOU CAN SEE IT WITH THE GUESTS WHO WILL BE THERE, IN THE CHAMBER, TO SPEAK TO THAT AND.

HAVE THESE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH STATEMENTS WHEN IT COMES TO THE RESTRICTIONS, LINSEY. >> Linsey: ANYTHING ELSE IN PARTICULAR YOU ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO TONIGHT? >> FOR THE PRESIDENT, IT COMES DOWN TO CAN HE SELL SOME OF THE POINTS THAT WE KNOW ARE.

IMPORTANT ISSUES TO VOTERS. REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, ABORTION, THE ECONOMY, THEY CONSISTENTLY RANK AS TOP ISSUES WITH THE PRESIDENT HAS STRUGGLED TO GET THIS MESSAGE ACROSS. I TALKED TO A LOT OF VOTERS WHO SAY THEY THINK THE PROBLEM IS THE MESSENGER.

THEY DO NOT SEE THE WAY THAT HE'S DELIVERED THIS AS COMPELLING. IT IT WILL COME DOWN TO CAN HE CONNECT WITH PEOPLE ON THE ISSUES? AND HE SIMULTANEOUSLY SAID HE UNDERSTANDS THE CONCERNS PEOPLE HAVE WHILE TOUTING HIS OWN.

RECORD AND MAKE THE CASE THAT HE HAS DONE MORE? THAT SOMETHING I WILL BE LOOKING FOR CLOSELY IS HOW DO YOU DRAW THAT COMPARISON TO SAY THAT THINGS ARE BETTER, BUT YOU STILL UNDERSTAND PEOPLE'S PAIN. >> Linsey: REALLY GOOD POINT. IT ELIZABETH, OR THANKS TO YOU I.

WANT TO BRING IN BRYAN. WE DO HEAR FROM DEMOCRATS ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE HOPING TO TO HEAR? >> LINSEY, THEY ARE HOPING THE PRESIDENT HITS ON SOME OF THE POLICY ACCOMPLISHMENTS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS WHICH HAS BEEN THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LEGISLATION, THE BIPARTISAN.

GUN'S BILL, THE CHIPS AND SCIENCES ACT, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. ELIZABETH NOTED JUST MOMENT TO GO, POLLING SHOWS THAT WHILE VOTERS MIGHT LIKE THE COMPLIMENTS, SOME OF THEM DO NOT GIVE THE PRESIDENT THE MAJORITY OF THEM, DO NOT GIVE PRESIDENT.

CREDIT FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THEY THINK THAT'S A PROBLEM WITH THE ADMINISTRATION MESSAGES. IF SOME ACKNOWLEDGED IT MIGHT BE, BUT THEY WANT THE PRESIDENT TO AGAIN REMIND VOTERS OF WHAT THEY SAY WHERE THE BIPARTISAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS. IN TERMS OF LOOKING AHEAD TO NEW.

POLICY, THEY WANT TO PRESENT TO TALK ABOUT ABORTION RIGHTS, I THINK I WILL BE A KEY 2024 ISSUE. YOU SEE THE CAMERA PANNED TO THE CROWD TONIGHT, EXPECT TO SEE A SEA OF DEMOCRATIC WOMEN LAWMAKERS WEARING WHITE AS A DEMONSTRATION THEY SAY OF THEIR.

SUPPORT FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. THEY WANT THE PRESIDENT TO HIT ON THAT NOTE. I TALKED TO SOME LAWMAKERS WHO SAID THEY WANT THE PRESIDENT TO TRY TO KICK OPEN THE LOG JAM FOR UKRAINE. THE SENATE PASSED A BIPARTISAN $95 BILLION PACKAGE THAT.

INCLUDES FUNDING FOR UKRAINE, ISRAEL, TAIWAN, THAT PACKAGE IS STALLED RIGHT NOW IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BEARDED SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON IS NOT PUTTING IT ON THE FLOOR FOR A VOTE. I TALKED TO DEMOCRATS WHO SAY THEY WANT THE PRESIDENT TO DO.

SOMETHING TO BREAK OPEN THAT LOGJAM. AND LASTLY, I TALKED TO DEMOCRATS PRIVATELY. IF SOURCES WHO WANT THE PRESIDENT TO TAKE THIS ISSUE OF AGE HEAD ON. THAT THEY WANT HIM TO DELIVER A CLEAR, QUICK, CRISP.

STATE OF THE UNION TONIGHT IN ORDER TO BELAY ANY OF THE CONCERNS THAT SOME VOTERS HAVE SAID IN THE POLLING THAT HE'S LOST TOO. >> Linsey: THAT'S THE DEMOCRATS, OF COURSE HE'S GOT THE JOB OF TRYING TO BRING EVERYBODY INTO THE BANK.

COLLECTIVELY. WOULD YOU THINK ABOUT HEALTH CARE? >> I TALKED TO REPUBLICANS GOING INTO THE SPEECH TONIGHT SAYING THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THEY REALLY WANT TO HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT IS ADDRESSING THE ONGOING SITUATION AT THE U.S.

SOUTHERN BORDER. REPUBLICANS USE THAT ONGOING CRISIS TO HAMMER THE PRESIDENT. WHERE THEY ARE IN THE SPECTRUM OF EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT ON THE BORDER DEPENDS ON WHERE THEY ARE IDEOLOGICALLY PURE AND HARD-LINE CONSERVATIVES DO NOT WANT TO.

HEAR ANYTHING FROM THE PRESIDENT ON THE BOARD AND THEY BLAME HIM FOR THE ONGOING SITUATION OF THE BORDER WHOLEHEARTEDLY. MODERATE REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING THEY ARE GOING TO HEAR THE PRESIDENT OUT IF THEY CAN STRIKE A KIND OF TONE THAT LEADS TO SOME KIND OF BIPARTISAN.

IMMIGRATION COMPROMISE. BUT IF IT SOUNDS FAMILIAR, LINSEY, THAT IS BECAUSE IT'S FAMILIAR. A MODERATE REPUBLICAN SAID THAT MONTHS AGO. REMEMBER WHEN BORDER SECURITY AND IMMIGRATION PROVISIONS WERE LATE TO ANY FUNDING FOR UKRAINE.

IN ISRAEL? THOSE CONCERNS FROM REPUBLICANS CREATED THAT ONGOING OR MONTH-LONG RATHER PROCESS IN THE SENATE IN WHICH SENATORS ON DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, INDEPENDENCE GOT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AND HAMMERED OUT A BIPARTISAN IMMIGRATION DEAL.

THE PRODUCT OF WHICH HARD-LINE REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE AT THE URGING OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP REJECTED. AND SO, THE QUESTION FACING THE PRESIDENT IS HOW MUCH DOES HE EXTEND THE OLIVE BRANCH TO REPUBLICANS AND SOME MODERATES TOLD ME THEY WANT TO HEAR FROM.

HIM AND HOW MUCH DOES HE INSTEAD CRITICIZE REPUBLICANS FOR WALKING AWAY FROM THAT I PARTISAN DEAL? >> Linsey: JAIL BRYANT , WE APPRECIATE YOUR INSIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. TONIGHT, HOUSE MINORITY KATHERINE CLARK OF MASSACHUSETTS.

INVITED AMANDA TO JOIN HER IN THE CHAMBER. SHE WAS 18 WEEKS PREGNANT BECAUSE ARC CONDITION AT THE PRECISE TIME WAS NOT CONSIDERED LIFE-THREATENING, SHE WAS DENIED AN ABORTION SINCE HER FETUS HASD A DETECTABLE HEARTBEAT. IF SHE DEVELOPED SEPSIS WHICH.

NEARLY KILLED HER. >> THIS IS COMING A CRITICAL WEEK, SUPER TUESDAY JUST HAPPEN. WE ARE HEADING INTO THE INTO THE STATE OF THE UNION. A CRITICAL ELECTION YEAR. WOULD YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT? >> I KNOW HE'S GOING TO SHARE.

WITH THE COUNTRY STORIES LIKE A MAN DOES. VERY REAL AND DEVASTATING IMPACT OF THESE LAWS ARE GOING TO HAVE. OUR COUNTRY IS AT A CROSSROADS. AND THINGS WILL GET WORSE. THE G.O.P. IS SAYING IT OUT LOUD. WE HAVE A BILL ON IVF THAT WAS.

UP IN THE SENATE LAST WEEK. THE G.O.P. BLOCKED IT FROM COMING TO A VOTE. WE HAVE A SPEAKER WHO JUST TODAY SAID, WELL, THIS IS REALLY GOING TO BE DEALT WITH IN THE STATES. THAT IS A PASS. 84% OF THE HOUSE G.O.P. HAS ALREADY SIGNED ON LEGISLATION.

THAT WOULD ENABLE AN IVF BAND NATIONWIDE. SO WHERE ARE WE? WE KNOW WHAT THEIR VISION FOR WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY IS, AND THEIR VISION IS THEY GET TO MAKE THE CALL. >> WHAT ARE THE REAL-LIFE CONSEQUENCES?.

WHAT IS THE REALITY? WHAT HAS YOUR REALITY BEEN AS A RESULT OF THE ABORTION BANS? >> THE REALITY FOR ME IS THAT I NEARLY DIED BECAUSE OF THE ABORTION BAN IN TEXAS. I CANNOT GET ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE WHEN I NEEDED IT AND AS A RESULT, I VERY NEARLY DIED.

AND NOW MY FUTURE OF FERTILITY IS PERMANENTLY COMPROMISED AS A RESULT. SINCE I'VE BEEN PUBLIC WITH MY STORY, I'VE HEARD FROM COUNTLESS OTHERS WHO'VE BEEN THROUGH SOMETHING SIMILAR. AND SO THIS IS REALLY A MASSIVE PROBLEM THAT I THINK, TO.

CONGRESSWOMAN CLARK'S POINT, IF IT BECOMES A NATIONAL ABORTION BAN, NOBODY IS SAFE. THE REAL-LIFE IMPACT FOR YOU AND NOW THIS HAS IMPACTED YOUR OWN FERTILITY AND THE LAWMAKERS WHO DESIGNED THESE LAWS SAY THE GOAL HERE IS TO PROTECT LIFE. IN YOUR CASE, IT IS RESTRICTING.

THE ABILITY FOR YOU TO CREATE LIFE. LOOKING AT ONE HAPPENED IN ALABAMA WITH IVF, HOW MUCH DID THAT CONCERN YOU? >> OH, IT TERRIFIED ME. MY HUSBAND AND I ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE TWO FROZEN EMBRYOS AS A RESULT OF IVF AFTER.

WHEN I WENT THROUGH. WHEN WE SAW THAT RULING IN ALABAMA, THE VERY NEXT DAY, WE SIGNED THE PAPERWORK TO GET OUR EMBRYOS OUT OF TEXAS BECAUSE WE ARE TERRIFIED THAT A SIMILAR RULING COULD TAKE PLACE IN TEXAS. >> HOW DIFFICULT HAS IT BEEN TO.

COME FORWARD AND SHARE YOUR STORY? SOMETHING THAT IS SO PERSONAL AND SO INTIMATE? >> IT'S EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. LOSING A CHILD, NEARLY DYING, THESE ARE NOT EASY THINGS TO LIVE WITH. IF THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE OUT.

THERE WHO HAVE A STORY JUST LIKE MINE AND THEY CAN'T SPEAK UP. I FEEL LIKE IT'S MY RESPONSIBILITY TO SPEAK UP FOR THEM AND TELL MY STORY WHICH IS REALLY ALL OF MY STORY. WE ARE THE PORTRAIT OF THE POST AND PREDOBBS. WHEN I HAD A MISCARRIAGE AND.

NEEDED ABORTION CARE TO PREVENT INFECTION, I GOT IT. I GOT IT WITHOUT QUESTION. AND NOW WE ARE SEEING THAT IN THE SAME SITUATION, AMANDA AND SO MANY THOUSANDS OF OTHER WOMEN HAS BEEN DENIED THAT CARE AND HAVE PUT THEIR OWN LIVES INTO JEOPARDY.

>> WHAT THIS CHANGE LOOK LIKE TO YOU? >> THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. I THINK IT'S RESTORING ROE. AT THE GOOD SELECTING THE RIGHT PEOPLE, AND ETIQUETTES CLARIFYING THE LAW SO THAT MORE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH WHEN I WENT THROUGH.

IT STILL CAN GET WORSE. WE KNOW THAT REPUBLICAN EXTREMISTS ARE TARGETING CONTRACEPTION AND SURROGACY. WHICH IS A REALITY TO ME BECAUSE OF THE LAWS THAT THEY PASSED. THIS SLOPE IS SO SLIPPERY AND SO STEEP, AND I JUST THINK THAT IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD TO GO THROUGH.

WHEN I'VE BEEN THROUGH, MAYBE YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW BAD IT CAN STILL GET. >> Linsey: RACHEL SCOTT, THANK YOU. PRESIDENT BIDEN PREPARES TO SPEAK TO WHAT'S EXPECTED TO BE HIS BIGGEST AUDIENCE OF THE YEAR, WE ARE JOINED BY FORMER.

SPEECHWRITER FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA TERRY . AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. GIVE US A SENSE OF THE BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE BIG SPEECH. WHAT'S THE WRITING AND PREPARATION PROCESS LOOK LIKE? >> SURE, THANK YOU FOR HAVING.

ME. IT GOES ON FOR MONTHS. TODAY WE ARE FOCUSED ON WHAT WILL HAPPEN TONIGHT AND THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT WEEKS AND MONTHS. THE WRITING AND RESEARCHING BEGAN MANY MONTHS BEFORE. IT BECOMES AN EXERCISE IN.

EVERYONE IN THE GOVERNMENT WORKING VERY HARD TO GET THEIR PARTICULAR INITIATIVE, PROPOSAL AND THE STATE OF THE UNION BECAUSE THEY RECOGNIZE IT AS THE BIGGEST PLATFORM THEY WILL HAVE ALL YEAR. IT'S A TREMENDOUS EFFORT BY THE SPEECHWRITERS AND THE PRESIDENT.

TO SIFT THROUGH ALL OF THAT AND MAKE SURE THE PRESIDENT IS TELLING A COHERENT AND COMPELLING STORY THAT RESONATES WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. >> Linsey: OF COURSE WE ARE SEEING THE SCENES OF THE PRESIDENT AND HIS STAFF SCRIBBLING FURIOUSLY, CHANGING.

LAST-MINUTE WORDS. IT IS NOT ACCURATE, AND HE FINISHING TOUCHES BEING WRITTEN RIGHT AT THIS SECOND? >> I IMAGINE SO. THE WRITING DOES NOT STOP UNTIL THE PRESIDENT STARTS SPEAKING. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE A SITUATION WHERE THE EDITS ARE BEING MADE.

IN THE LIMOUSINE ON THE WAY UP OR BACK STAGE. ON TOLD THE, ANYTHING CAN BE CHANGED. >> Linsey: BEING CHALLENGED ON HIS AGE, HE SAID WATCH ME. PERHAPS THE BIGGEST AUDIENCE HE WILL GET IN THE ELECTION YEAR. DOES THAT PUT EXTRA PRESSURE ON.

THE PREPARATION OF THE STATE OF THE UNION. >> I THINK EVERY PRESIDENT GOES INTO THE STATE OF THE UNION KNOWING IT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST PIE FORMS THAT THEY HAVE FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE EXPECT EVERY PRESIDENT TO SHOW STRENGTH,.

CONFIDENCE, VIGOR, A COMPELLING VISION FOR THE FUTURE, AND THAT ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO TWO BIG THINGS. WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAYS AND HOW THE PRESIDENT SAYS IT. THAT WILL BE TRUE THIS YEAR. EVERYONE WILL BE WATCHING NOT ONLY WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS,.

BUT HOW HE SAYS IT WITH HIS DELIVERY. HE SHOWS HE'S ABLE TO GIVE A STRONG FIERY SPEECH, HE DOES IT ALL THE TIME. MOST AMERICANS DO NOT SEE EVERY PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH THAT IS GIVEN. HE CAN GIVE A STRONG FIERY.

SPEECHES I EXPECT HE'LL YOU'LL DO IT TONIGHT. >> Linsey: IN ADDITION TO THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S AGE, THERE IS ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT HIS MENTAL FITNESS. WHAT DOES THE PRESIDENT HAVE TO DO TONIGHT IN ORDER TO QUIET THOSE FEARS AMONG MEMBERS OF HIS.

OWN PARTY AND IN SOME CASES THAN HE IS FIT FOR THE JOB. >> I THINK A STRONG PERFORMANCE, A STRONG DELIVERY, STRONG PERFORMANCE. IT'S FAIR TO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS, BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OVER THE COMING YEAR HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE BETWEEN TWO.

CANDIDATES. I SUSPECT THAT ONE THINGS YOU'LL START TO HEAR TONIGHT IS PRESIDENT BIDEN STARTING TO FRAME THE ELECTION AS A CHOICE, WE NOW KNOW, BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. THAT'S THE CHOICE OF THE MARKET.

PEOPLE HAVE TO MAKE AND QUESTIONS OF EMPATHY AND TEMPERAMENT, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ACCORDING TO THE POLLS MUCH PREFER PRESIDENT BIDEN OVER THE TEMPERAMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP. IT HAS BEEN THREE YEARS ACCORDING TO THE POLLS. SORT OF THE MEMORIES HAVE FADED.

A LITTLE BIT OF HOW CHAOTIC AND CRUEL THOSE YEARS WERE UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP. OVER THE COMING YEAR, YOU WILL START TO SEE MORE REMINDERS OF THAT AND IT STARTS TONIGHT. THE PRESIDENT WILL POSITION HIMSELF AS A LEADER THAT DEMONSTRATES EMPATHY AND.

COMPASSION IN STARK CONTRAST TO THE PERSON HE'S RUNNING AGAINST. >> Linsey: HOW MUCH IS IT THAT THE PRESIDENT DECIDES LOOK, THESE ARE THE OUTLINES, THE MAJOR POINTS I WANT TO HIT OR IS IT THE SPEECHWRITER COMING TO HIM? IS IN A MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE.

TWO? >> WE TALK ABOUT AS A MIND MELD. IT'S THE SPEECHWRITER'S JOB TO UNDERSTAND HOW A PRESIDENT SPEAKS, OF COURSE, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY HOW THE PRESIDENT THINKS, HOW THE PRESIDENT APPROACHES ISSUES. PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS A TERRIFIC.

SPEECHWRITING TEAM LED BY — WHO'S BEEN WITH HIM MANY, MANY YEARS. VERY MUCH THE SPEECHWRITERS ARE TAKING THEIR CUES FROM THE PRESIDENT. NO ONE ELECTED THE SPEECHWRITER TO DO ANYTHING. IF WE ARE THERE AT THE.

INVITATION OF THE PRESIDENT, WE ARE THERE TO ASSIST THE PRESIDENT. AND WE ARE THERE TO HELP THE PRESIDENT GIVE THE BEST SPEECH THE PRESIDENT CAN GIVE. IT'S VERY MUCH THE PRESIDENT IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT. >> Linsey: TERRY SZUPLAT,.

FORMER SPEECHWRITER FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA. WE APPRECIATE YOUR INSIGHT. IF NOBODY CAN TAKE US BEHIND-THE-SCENES QUITE LIKE YOU CAN. THANK YOU FOR THAT AND FOR YOUR TIME. >> WE APPRECIATE BEING HERE.

>> Linsey: AND WE HAVE A LOT MORE TO TALK ABOUT AS WE COUNT DOWN TO THE STATE OF THE UNION. 30 MINUTES, TERRY MORAN WILL LEAD US INTO COVERAGE AS WE JOIN DAVE AND MARY AT THE DESK FOR A SPECIAL REPORT. WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. ♪ ♪.

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♪ ♪ >> GOOD EVENING, AND THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. I'M TERRY MORAN. WE ARE JUST A FEW MINUTES NOW FROM THE STATE OF THE UNION HERE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THERE IS THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL.

BEAUTIFUL NIGHTS. IF THE LIVE PITS WE'VE GOT COMING FROM THE HOUSE CHAMBER WHERE THE PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES JOE BIDEN WILL DELIVER THE STATE OF THE UNION, A CRUCIAL ONE REALLY, IT KICKED OUT FOR HIS CAMPAIGN. WE ARE GETTING A LIVE LOOK AT.

SOME PROTESTERS. SO, THAT'S OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE. A LITTLE WHILE AGO. AND THAT IS A PROTEST OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE FOR PALESTINIANS. PRESIDENT FACING A LOT OF RESISTANCE PARTICULARLY AMONG YOUNG VOTERS AND ARAB AMERICAN.

VOTERS FOR HIS SUPPORT OF ISRAEL'S WAR IN GAZA. LET'S GET RIGHT TO ALL OF THE ISSUES TONIGHT. THEY ARE STATUARY HALL WHERE MEMBERS WILL FILE IN DOWN THE GAUNTLET OF REPORTERS THEY ARE. WE'LL ASK QUESTIONS AS THEY MOVE INTO THE STATE OF THE UNION NOW.

JUST ABOUT HALF AN HOUR AWAY. LET'S GET RIGHT TO ABC AT THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE PRESIDENT BIDEN IS EXPECTED TO BE PART ANY MOMENT. WOULD YOU EXPECT TO HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT? >> TERRY, THE OVERARCHING KEY THEME IS DEFENDING DEMOCRACY AND.

FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS INCLUDING HE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THE RIGHT FOR WOMEN TO HAVE ACCESS TO ABORTION. THIS IS THE UNOFFICIAL KICKOFF TO THE GENERAL ELECTION BUT ON THE FRONT WE ARE TOLD BY SOURCES THE PRESIDENT'S NOT EXPECTED TO DIRECTLY CALL OUT TRUMP BY NAME,.

BUT HE WILL DO IS SET UP THE VERY DIFFERENT VISIONS THEY HAVE FOR THE FUTURE OF AMERICA. REALLY, THE PRESSURES ON FOR THE PRESIDENT. HE HAS TO SHOW HIS VIGOR AND VITALITY. THIS COULD BE THE BEST CHANCE TO PROVE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,.

THE SKEPTICAL AMERICANS WHO THINK HE IS TOO OLD. HE'S GOT TO PROVE HE CAN DO THIS JOB FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. HE'LL TALK ABOUT HIS LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS, THE EFFORT TO BREAK OUT THE STUDENT LOAN DEBT AND GO AFTER BIG PHARMA COMPANIES.

I'M CURIOUS TO SEE HOW HE GOES AFTER THE ISSUE OF THE ECONOMY. HE WANTS TO HIGHLIGHT HOW THE ECONOMIC PICTURES IMPROVING MALL ALSO EMPATHIZING WITH AMERICANS WHO JUST ARE NOT FEELING IT. YOU SAW PICTURES OF THE PROTESTS AROUND THE WHITE HOUSE EARLIER. LARGE SCALE PROTESTS AND THE.

PRESIDENTS, HE WILL HAVE TO TOUCH ON THE TRICKY ISSUE WITH THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THE LIABILITY FOR HIM AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE, PROGRESSIVE VOTERS AND HE'LL ANNOUNCE THAT THE U.S. IS GOING TO BUILD A PORT OFF THE COAST OF GAZA TO DELIVER MORE MUCH-NEEDED HELP.

>> THE PRESIDENT TRYING TO OFFER SOMETHING TO THE PROTESTERS. A PROGRESSIVE YOUNG PEOPLE, ARAB AMERICANS, EVERY VOTE IN THE ELECTION. I KNOW YOU WILL BE WITH US THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. WE WILL CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU AS WE LOOK AHEAD TO THE STATE OF.

THE UNION JUST LESS THAN 30 MINUTES AWAY NOW WE ARE NOT LET'S BRING IN BRYANT WHO COVERS CAPITOL HILL FOR US AND HE IS UP THERE IN THE CAPITAL. AS YOU WATCH THE SPEECH, YOU'RE WATCHING EVERYBODY, BUT YOU ARE COVERING CONGRESS. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?.

>> THERE'S TWO ELEMENTS YOU HAVE TO WATCH FOR. ONE IS UNIQUE IS DOES THE PRESIDENT TRY TO BUILD A BRIDGE IN A DEEPLY DIVIDED CONGRESS THAT RIGHT NOW IS TRYING TO REVERSE A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, INSTALLED ON AID FOR UKRAINE, INSTALLED ON IMMIGRATION REFORM.

IF DOES THE PRESIDENT PUT OUT A OLIVE BRANCH TO CONGRESS AS HE DID IN THE LAST DATE OF THE UNIN OR DOES HE TALK ABOUT ELECTION-YEAR POLITICS AND SAY THAT THE CONGRESS IS STALLED. HARD-LINE REPUBLICANS TEND. WE KNOW THE PRESIDENT WAS DEEPLY UPSET ABOUT, HE'S BEEN TRYING TO.

PUSH REPUBLICANS TO GET BACK TO THE TABLE AND ACCEPT THAT DEAL. WHAT'S HIS MESSAGE TO AGAIN, THIS DEEPLY DIVIDED CONGRESS? THE OTHER THING TO WATCH OUT FOR, SOMETHING THAT YOU AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT AT LENGTH BEFORE WHICH IS HOW DOES THIS MESSAGE HIT VOTERS WHO MAY BE.

CONCERNED ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS AGE? I BRING THAT UP BECAUSE I'VE HEARD THAT FROM DEMOCRATS HERE ON CAPITOL HILL. DEMOCRATS ACKNOWLEDGE THE PRESIDENT IS 81 YEARS OLD. ONE DEMOCRAT SAID THAT EVERY AMERICAN KNOWS SOMEONE THAT IS.

81 YEARS OLD. SOME OF THEM MAY USE A KNOCK AGAINST THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WHAT I HEARD FROM DEMOCRATS PRIVATELY TONIGHT IS THEY ARE LOOKING FOR A CRISP STATE OF THE UNION, SOME LOOKING FOR A QUICK STATE OF THE UNION,.

AND THEY WANT THE PRESIDENT TO TAKE A VICTORY LAP ON WHAT THEY SAY HAVE BEEN BIPARTISAN PARTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS, SAID A VISION FOR THE FUTURE, AND QUELL ANY OF THE CONCERNS ABOUT HIS AGE AND FITNESS FOR OFFICE. >> THAT'S A TALL ORDER, ISN'T IT?.

WE ARE LOOKING AT THE BACK DOOR TO THE WHITE HOUSE JUST OUTSIDE THE SOUTH LAWN EXPECTING THE PRESIDENT TO LEAVE THE DOOR VERY SHORTLY TO GET INTO THE BEAST, THE LIMOUSINE, THE PRESIDENTIAL LIMOUSINE AND HEADED UP TO THE CAPITOL. THE REPUBLICAN SIDE, THE.

EXPECTED RESPONSE FROM KATIE BRITT, WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING? >> WE'VE GOTTEN EXCERPTS OF KATIE BRITT'S SPEECH AND SHE'LL ECHO WHAT WE HAVE HEARD BEFORE FROM THEIR REPUBLICANS BLAMING FOR INSTANCE THE ONGOING SITUATION AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER ON THE PRESIDENT SAYING THE.

PRESIDENT HAS TAKEN WHAT THEY VIEW AS TO PROGRESSIVE POLICY DECISIONS AND SET THE COUNTRY OFF ON REPUBLICANS VIEW IN THE LONG TRACK. WHEN THAT ENDS, IN ESSENCE, WE HAVE HEARD THAT LINE BEFORE FROM REPUBLICANS. THE THING TO WATCH IN THE KATIE.

BRITT SPEECH FRANKLY IS THAT SHE'S A RISING STAR. JUNIOR SENATOR FROM ALABAMA, YOUNG, FEMALE, CONSERVATIVE, SHE HAS BEEN DOTED ON BY THE PARTNER LEADERSHIP FOR QUITE SOME TIME EVEN WHEN SHE CAME TO CONGRESS IN THE LAST ELECTION. I HEARD FROM A FALCONS EARLY ON.

WHO SAID THAT KATIE KATIE BRITT WAS ARISING STAR EA. REPUBLICANS VIEW KATIE BRITT AS A NEW GENERATION OF LEADERSHIP. POSSIBLY, THE SCUTTLEBUTT IS THAT KATIE BRITT COULD BE A POSSIBLE VP PICK. WHEN IT COMES TO REPUBLICANS IT'S THE DECORUM IN THE CHAMBER.

THIS EVENING. MIKE JOHNSON EVEN WHEN HE WALKED IN THAT CHAMBER TO ARTHUR JONES, THE PRODUCER WHO COVERS CONGRESS WITH ME, HE REITERATED TO REPORTERS THAT HE WANTS REPUBLICANS TO REMAIN RESPECTFUL. HE DOES NOT WANT OUTBURST IN THE.

STATE OF THE UNION LIKE WE SAW LAST YEAR FROM THE LIKES OF MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE. SO THIS WILL BE A REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT OF WHAT SPEAKER JOHNSON GRIP ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS LIKE. IF THIS REITERATING FROM HIM THAT HE WANTS DECORUM OUT OF HIS.

CONFERENCE, DO THEY FOLLOW HIS HEED OR THEY TRY TO INTERRUPT THE PRESIDENT AGAIN? >> THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE IN THE CONGRESS WHERE DECORUM IS NOT TOP OF THE AGENDA. WE WILL SEE, WE WILL SEE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. NOW LET'S EXPAND THE.

CONVERSATION WITH ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTORS HEIDI HEITKAMP, FORMER DEMOCRATIC SENATOR FROM SOUTH DAKOTA AND — NORTH DAKOTA. IF SARAH IS KIRK I'M A FORMER TRUMPET TRUMPADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL. YOU KNOW, THE MAJOR CONCERN SO.

ACCELERATED BY THE SPECIAL COUNSEL'S REPORT THAT HE'S AN ELDERLY, SYMPATHETIC OLD MAN WHO HAS POOR MEMORY? WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR FROM THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT? >> I THINK THE PRESIDENT HAS TO DO TWO THINGS. I APPRECIATE THIS IS A SPEECH TO.

CONGRESS. HE'S NOT TALKING TO CONGRESS TONIGHT. HE'S TALKING TO THE VOTERS OF THIS COUNTRY AND MAKING HIS C CASE. YOU HEARD HIM, THEY'VE GOT THE RAP DOWN ON THE ECONOMY, BUT THERE'S TWO THINGS HE NEEDS TO.

DO. HE NEEDS TO SHOW UP, BE ALERT, BE FRIENDLY, SMILED THAT BEAUTIFUL SMILE THAT HE HAS, AND GIVE THE PEOPLE CONFIDENCE THAT HE CAN EXECUTE THE JOB FOUR MORE YEARS. AT THE SECOND THING HE NEEDS TO DO, WHICH I DOUBT WILL BE.

SATISFYING. WE KNOW THESE POLICIES, YOU KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW? IT'S NOT CLEAR WHAT HIS POLICY IS ON THE BORDER. IF IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH TO SIMPLY SAY WORK WITH ME, HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A VISION FOR WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO ON THE.

BORDER. IF THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE IN MY PART OF THE COUNTRY, THE MIDDLE PART OF THE COUNTRY WHO CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THE ISSUE WANT TO HEAR. WHAT DOES HE THINK AND WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? >> BECAUSE THAT'S TOP OF MIND FOR VOTERS.

AT THAT AND THE ECONOMY. THE PRESIDENT WE HERE WILL NOT MENTION DONALD TRUMP BY NAME, BUT CLEARLY THIS IS ESSENTIALLY THE KICKOFF HIS CAMPAIGN. IS THERE A MISTAKE YOU WANT THE PRESIDENT TO AVOID TONIGHT? >> WELL, I THINK THAT WE WANT HIM TO DO WELL PHYSICALLY.

WE WANT THE SPEECH TO BE CRISP, WE WANT HIM TO GIVE A SPEECH WHERE EVERYBODY SAYS HE'S GOT IT GOING ON AND HE CAN LEAD THE COUNTRY. BUT THE SECOND THING I THINK IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL IS TO BE JOYFUL, DID NOT MAKE — THE COUNTRIES IN SUCH A SOUR MOOD.

AND IT'S IN A SOUR MOOD BECAUSE THEY CANNOT GET IT TOGETHER IN WASHINGTON. IF YOU CAN RISE ABOVE THAT AND LOOK LIKE A LEADER, LOOK LIKE WHO HE IS. EMPATHETIC, FRIENDLY, JOYFUL ABOUT THE JOB HE HAS, I THINK IT'LL GO A LONG WAY.

I USED TO SAY, TERRY, WATCH THE SPEECHES OR HEARINGS, TURN OFF THE SOUND. IT DON'T LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE WILL NOT REMEMBER THAT, BUT THEY'LL REMEMBER HOW THEY LOOK. >> THAT REALLY IS THE BIG CHALLENGE FOR BIDEN, TO LOOK.

VIGOROUS, TO LOOK LIKE THERE IS ENERGY IN THE EXECUTIVE. TO USE ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S PHRASE. AS YOU CAN SEE, ON THE HOUSE FLOOR OF SOME OF THE BIGGER NAMES ARE RISING. THERE YOU SAW A GROUP OF DEMOCRATIC WOMEN IN WHITE,.

THAT'S THE COLOR FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM PUSHING THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS ISSUE, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE, THAT'S BEEN A WINNING POLITICAL ISSUE FOR DEMOCRATS. HEIDI, WE WILL HEAR A LOT ABOUT THAT FROM THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT.

>> YEAH, I'VE SAID ALL ALONG THIS IS A WINNING ISSUE FOR DEMOCRATS. IT EVEN IN STATE OF KANSAS. THE MIDTERMS TURNED ON THIS ISSUE, ALL OF THE RACES SINCE THEN INCLUDING SOME STATE RACES HAVE TURNED ON THIS ISSUE. THIS IS THE ISSUE THAT WILL.

REALLY PROPEL DEMOCRATIC TURNOUT VOTERS AMONG SUBURBAN WOMEN. THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT IS REPREHENSIBLE AS THE DECISION IS, WAS A HUGE BENEFIT TO THE MOVEMENT TO TRY TO SOLIDIFY SUPPORT IN THIS COUNTRY IS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT IVF, YOU.

WILL HEAR ABOUT FAMILIES, AND YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT STAY OUT OF OUR BUSINESS BECAUSE YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND WE DO. >> REMINDER, THE STAKES OF THIS. SARAH, LET ME GO TO YOU ON ONE OF THE THINGS PRESIDENT BIDEN IS GOING TO DO IS DRAW A CONTRAST.

BETWEEN HIM AND WILL NOT MENTION DONALD TRUMP BY NAME, BUT TRY TO HEARKEN BACK TO A TIME HE DESCRIBED AS CHAOS AND REALLY MISS MANAGEMENT BY THE FORMER PRESIDENT. WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT? WHERE ARE THEY REPUBLICANS.

VULNERABLE FROM WHAT THE PRESIDENT MIGHT BE ABLE TO SAY ABOUT? >> THE BIGGEST VULNERABILITY IS FOR JOE BIDEN TO WIN BACK SOME OF THE WORKING-CLASS VOTERS THAT MOVED OVER TO DONALD TRUMP AS WE HAVE SEEN THE TWO PARTIES REALLY, REALLY ALIGN AND WHO THE.

CORE VOTERS ARE. WE HEARD FROM HIM BY THEN STRATEGIST AND DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES SAY THE MESSAGE THEY WANT TO FOCUS ON IS DEMOCRACY ON THE BALLOT. YOU'VE HEARD DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST SAY YOU'VE GOT A LAND THAT A LOT MORE ON PEOPLES.

KITCHENS TABLE. FOLKS AREN'T SITTING AROUND TALKING ABOUT DEMOCRACY, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT EMIGRATION, JOBS. I'LL BE WATCHING TO SEE OF THE PRESIDENT CAN MOVE THE MESSAGE FROM THE THEORETICAL TO SOMETHING MORE CONCRETE THAT I THINK PEOPLE AND THE FORMER.

DEMOCRATIC BASE VOTERS WILL REALLY IDENTIFY WITH. >> SARAH, THERE ARE MANY MEMBERS WE EXPECT WILL BE HOLDING UP CARDS SAYING 153, 153 DAYS SINCE OCTOBER 7TH WHEN THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR WITH HORRIFIC ATTACK ON ISRAEL. THIS IS A HARD ISSUE FOR.

PRESIDENT BIDEN. HE'S LOSING SUPPORT AMONGST CONSTITUENCIES THAT HE NEEDS TO SHOW UP FOR HIM IN NOVEMBER, YET HE'S COMMITTED THE COUNTRY AND THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRIES SUPPORT COMMITMENT TO SUPPORT ISRAEL. HOW DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO WALK.

THAT LINE? >> THIS IS WHERE THE BIDEN TEAM HAS TO SHOW SOME BRAVERY IN THEIR BELIEF AND HOW POLITICS REALLY WORKS. WE SAW THE RELATIVELY HIGH AT 13% UNCOMMITTED VOTE IN MICHIGAN. THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND THOSE.

VOTERS, THE ONES I VOTED IN PRIMARIES ARE THE MOST ACTIVE, MOST COMMITTED VOTERS, THE HIGHEST TURNOUT OF VOTERS. YOU GET TO SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, THAT'S WHERE NEGATIVE POLARIZATION REALLY COMES IN. THAT'S THE IDEA OF THE VOTERS MAY NOT BE HAPPY WITH JOE BIDEN,.

THEY NOT LIKE JOE BIDEN BUT THEY HATE DONALD TRUMP MORE FEAR THAT THE BIGGEST MISTAKE JOE BIDEN COULD MAKE IS CATERING TO THE MOST ACTIVE VOTERS, THE MOST LIKELY TO VOTE FOR HIM ANYWAY VERSUS THE VOTERS WHO ARE TRENDING AWAY FROM DEMOCRATS, NOT SHOWING UP, OR MOVING OVER.

TO DONALD TRUMP. WE SEE THE NONCOLLEGE-EDUCATED VOTERS, BLUE-COLLAR VOTERS, AND MEN OF COLOR. >> THERE IS A SIGN THAT THE NONCOLLEGE EDUCATED, NONWHITE VOTER IS MOVING TOWARDS THE REPUBLICANS RIGHT NOW. I WANT TO GO BACK TO SALINA AT.

THE WHITE HOUSE ON WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE. UNDERSTAND PROTESTERS MIGHT TRY TO BLOCK PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. >> THAT'S A BIG QUESTION ABOUT HOW HE'S GOING TO DEAL WITH THE PROTESTERS THAT COULD BE THERE. HE'S INTERRUPTED IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS SPEECH, I'VE BEEN TO A.

LOT OF THE EVENTS AND IT'S DIFFICULT WHEN THE PRESIDENT GETS INTERRUPTED OVER AND OVER AGAIN. BUT LOOK OUT FOR ANY POSSIBLE UNSCRIPTED MOMENTS. WE TALKED ABOUT POTENTIAL HECKLERS EARLIER. LAST YEAR, REMEMBER THE VIRAL.

MOMENT MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE, OTHER HECKLERS STANDING UP CALLING HIM A LIAR AND THE PRESIDENT WAS ABLE TO TURN THE TABLES AND GET REPUBLICANS TO AGREE NOT TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY OR MEDICARE. THE PRESIDENT IN THE MOMENTS CAN REALLY SHINE.

SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HE CAN THINK OFF THE CUFF, HE CAN THINK ON HIS FEET. THAT WILL BE A VERY INTERESTING MOMENT TO SEE IF WE CAN GET ANYTHING LIKE THAT. >> HE HAS AD-LIBBED EFFECTIVELY IN THE PAST, CELINA WAYNE, WE WILL COME BACK TO YOU A LITTLE.

BIT LATER. HEIDI HEITKAMP, SARAH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LET'S TURN TO ABCs ELIZABETH SHAHS HE IS COVERING THIS FOR US TONIGHT. THE FIRST LADY'S GUESTS, FIRST LADY BOX A STATEMENT BEING MADE BY THE PRESIDENT, ALABAMA.

WOMAN WHOSE IVF TREATMENT WAS HALTED, HEIDI WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THE RULING THE FROZEN EMBRYOS ARE CHILDREN. IF THERE TEXAS MOTHER WHO FOUGHT A HIGH-PROFILE LEGAL BATTLE. OF THESE ARE ISSUES YOU'VE BEEN COVERING EXTENSIVELY, WHAT CAN YOU WE EXPECT TO HEAR FROM THE.

PRESIDENT ABOUT THIS AND TONIGHT'S ADDRESS? >> TERRY, HIGHLIGHTING THE PERSONAL STORIES, HE COULD ASK TO WHAT YOU AND HOW YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ISSUE TO VOTERS AND HOW DEEPLY PERSONAL IT IS FOR SO MANY VOTERS.

THE ALABAMA STORY REALLY DID RESONATE NOT JUST IN THE STATE, BUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THE FACT IS A LOT OF PEOPLE RELY ON IVF. IF SO WHEN THEY SAW THAT WAS UNDER THREAT, THEY DID BECOME MORE INVOLVED POLITICALLY THEN THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

I'VE BEEN SPEAKING WITH PEOPLE WHO GOT ON THE GROUND, WENT TO THE STATEHOUSE IN ALABAMA TO PROTEST WHAT THEY SAW HAPPENING THERE. THEY SAID THIS MOTIVATED THEM POLITICALLY IN A WAY THAT THEY DIDN'T EXPECT TO BE. A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT.

OUTSPOKEN ON ONE WAY OR THE OTHER BUT THEY SAID THAT THIS BECAME AN ISSUE THAT WAS SO PERSONAL TO THEM THAT THEY HAD TO GET INVOLVED. THAT'S SOMETHING THE PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO REALLY GET THE MOMENTUM TO SEIZE UPON. AND WE KNOW THE PRESIDENT IN HIS.

SPEECH IS EXPECTED TO DRAW THIS SHARP CONTRAST WITH WHAT REPUBLICANS ARE PUSHING WHEN IT COMES TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, WHEN IT COMES TO PUTTING MORE RESTRICTIONS ON, NOT JUST ABORTION BUT BROADER REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. EXTENDING OVER TO IVF.

>> LET'S GET BACK TO FOR JUST A SECOND ON THE LEFT-HAND OF THE SCREEN, WE ARE LOOKING AT THE DOOR JUST OUT OF THE SOUTH PORT OF CALL OF THE WHITE HOUSE LEADING TO THE SOUTH LAWN WHERE THE PRESIDENT'S MOTORCADE WILL BE DEPARTING FROM. WE SAW STAFF COME OUT, THAT'S A.

GOOD SIGN THE PRESIDENT IS NOT FAR BEHIND. WHEN YOU SEE THE SECRET SERVICE PULLING THE DOOR, YOU KNOW IN FACT THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT THERE. THERE IS MORE STAFF. IF THINGS ARE MOVING AT THE WHITE HOUSE AS THE PRESIDENT.

PREPARES TO DELIVER PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SPEECHES — AND THERE HE IS, THE FIRST LADY AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A FIST PUMP. THERE THEY ARE. >> YEAH, HE'S GOING OVER TO THE MOTORCADE IN A FEW MINUTES HE.

WILL BE OVER AND CAPITOL HILL. DELIVERING THE SPEECH IN THE CHAMBER, THAT'S A VENUE HE'S VERY COMFORTABLE WITH. THAT COULD WORK TO HIS ADVANTAGE. BUT AGAIN, HE'S SPEAKING TO A DEEPLY DIVIDED CONGRESS AND HE COULDN'T USE THE OPPORTUNITY TO.

APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BUT AGAIN TO URGE CONGRESS ON A NUMBER OF ISSUES WHERE THEY NEED THE SUPPORT. UKRAINE AIDES GOING TO BE ONE OF THE AREAS AND THE PRIME MINISTER OF SWEDEN WILL BE ONE OF THE WHITE HOUSE GUESTS. THEY JUST JOINED NATO, HE WILL.

BE USE IT AS A OPPORTUNITY TO REAFFIRM WHY THAT ALIGNS AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT AND TO UNDERLINE WHY AMERICA NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT UKRAINE. AND THERE IS THE ISSUE OF THE BORDER. HE'S PROBABLY GOING TO BLAME HER REPUBLICANS AGAIN UNDER THE.

LEADERSHIP OF DONALD TRUMP TAKING THE BIPARTISAN SECURITY DEAL WHICH HAD SOME OF THE TOUGHEST BORDER SECURITY MEASURES IN DECADES. EARLIER, TERRY, THEY BROUGHT UP A VERY INTERESTING POINT WHICH IS HOW IS THE PRESIDENT GOING TO TAKE THE LOFTY IDEALS?.

BRING IT BACK TO THE KITCHEN TABLE AND HIT HOME AMERICANS AT HOME WHO WANT TO HEAR ABOUT INFLATION, THE ECONOMY. WE KNOW THE PRESIDENT WILL BE TALKING ABOUT HOLDING BIG CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE, INCREASING TAXES. THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO FOCUS ON.

SENDING A VISION FOR WHAT'S GOING TO BE IN THE FUTURE AND NOT FOCUSING ON THE SPEECH OF WHAT'S HAPPENED AND WHAT HE HAS ACHIEVED, TERRY. >> THERE HE GOES, A LITTLE WAVE AS HE LEFT AND THAT'S HIS AGENDA AND IT'S AN AMBITIOUS ONE. IT DID DEMONSTRATE TO THE.

AMERICAN PEOPLE THE ENERGY COME OF THE VIGOR, AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE SAW AS HE WALKED OUT WHICH IS ONE OF THE CHANGES FROM 2020. TIME MARCHES ON FOR ALL OF US. EXCUSE ME. THE PRESIDENT'S GATE IS SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT.

THE DOCTORS HAVE IN FACT NOTED THAT HE'S HAD SOME ISSUES WITH HIS FEET AND WALKS A LITTLE MORE STIFF LEASE AS WE DO AS WE GET OLDER. THAT'S JUST SOMETHING YOU CANNOT REALLY AVOID AND HE WILL BE JUDGED MORE ON WHAT HE HAS TO SAY.

IF BUT I TO GO RIGHT NOW TO ELIZABETH ON WHAT WE ARE SEEING. THERE IS ALEXANDRA CAUSEY OF CORTEZ I WANT TO ASK ABOUT THE WOMEN IN WHITE, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVES TALK ABOUT THAT. >> THIS IS THE HOUSE WOMEN'S.

DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS. THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM AS YOU CAN SEE THE FIGHT AND HOW MUCH IT STANDS OUT. THIS IS A MESSAGE TO SHOW IT'S A PRIORITY FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. THEY KNOW IT'S AN ISSUE,.

GALVANIZE VOTERS IN THE MIDTERM ELECTION ON BALLOT MEASURES THAT PUT IT ON THE BALLOT. DEMOCRATS CAME OUT ON TOP SO THIS IS SOMETHING THEY ARE RUNNING ON AS THEY LOOK AHEAD TO NOVEMBER. ALSO THIS IS A KEY PLATFORM WHEN THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE AGENDA IN.

CONGRESS. THERE IS A PUSH FROM DEMOCRATS TO RESTORE PROTECTIONS IN PLACE BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED TO ROE. IF WE HAVE SEEN IT'S BEEN BLOCKED AT THIS POINT. TO PROTECT IVF NATIONALLY WAS THWARTED BY REPUBLICANS.

THIS IS CLEARLY A VISUAL REMINDER TO PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING AT HOME THAT THIS IS TOP OF MIND FOR A LOT OF THOSE WOMEN IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, TERRY. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ELIZABETH. SELENA WANG, WE WILL BE BACK TO.

BOTH OF YOU AS WE CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE AND MORE ANALYSIS WE TURN TO FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY TO PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND BARBARA COMSTOCK FORMER REPUBLICAN CONGRESS MOMENT. SO TO ADDRESS A WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES. ONE IN YOUR EYES IS YOUR BIGGEST.

SINGLE ISSUE HE'LL DISCUSS BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? >> THERE SO MUCH TO DISCUSS IN THE VERY LONG SPEECH, BUT I THINK YOU'LL DEFINITELY HIT ON THE ECONOMY AND WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM. THOSE ARE TWO THINGS WE KEEP SEEING OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

REMINDING VOTERS ABOUT JOB CREATION, THE ECONOMY, LOWERING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND ENERGY COSTS, ALL THOSE THINGS. THE STATE OF THE UNION IS A STORY, AND JOE BIDEN IS A GREAT STORYTELLER AND HAS A VERY GOOD STORY TO TELL THIS YEAR. WE WILL SEE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT.

AND MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF SCRANTON JOE IF HE GOES OFF THE MARK TONIGHT. >> YOU WERE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. THE SOUTHERN BORDER, THIS IS SOMETHING THE ADMINISTRATION, BY MOST AND EVEN NEUTRAL ASSESSMENTS, HAS STUMBLED ON.

IT CAME OUT OF THE GATE TRYING TO UNDO THE POLICIES OF HIS PREDECESSOR DONALD TRUMP WHICH JOE BIDEN FELT WAS INCONSISTENT WITH AMERICAN VALUES AND ON EFFECTIVE. AND — AND NOW, LISTENING TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE THERE. AND NOW IT REALLY IS A CRISIS.

SO WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON HOW HE CAN UNDRESS THAT AND GET SOME CONFIDENCE FROM THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ON THIS ISSUE? >> I THINK YOU WILL DEFINITELY UNDRESS EVERYTHING THAT HE'S DONE SO FAR AND STAND THERE AND CALL ON CONGRESS TO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING, BECAUSE HE CAN ALWAYS.

SAY THERE — HE BROKERED A BIPARTISAN DEAL THAT WOULD SOLVE A LOT OF THIS. CONGRESSMAN'S REFUSED TO ACT ON IT. IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WITH SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON STANDING BEHIND HIM, TO CALL ON.

REPUBLICANS TO COME TO THE TABLE AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE BORDER. RATHER THAN JUST TALK ABOUT IT AND MAKE IT A CAMPAIGN ISSUE. IT'S THERE, IT'S ON THEIR PLAY, IT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST DEALS THAT WE HAVE EVER SEEN IN IMMIGRATION HISTORY THAT HASN'T.

BEEN TOUCHED YOU KNOW SINCE WORLD WAR II. IT'S DESPERATELY NEEDED, EVERYONE KNOWS THAT. THE PRESIDENT CANNOT FIX ALONG WITH EXECUTIVE ACTION AND BAND-AIDS. WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS A LONG LASTING SOLUTION AND ONLY.

CONGRESS CAN DO THAT. >> NO QUESTION, IT'S A NATIONAL PROBLEM THAT REQUIRES A NATIONAL LEGISLATION GATHERING THERE IN THAT CHAMBER TO COME UP WITH A SOLUTION. UNFORTUNATELY ON THE BIG ISSUES, IT IS BROKEN. GOING TO BARBARA COMSTOCK,.

LOOKING AT THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE THERE. SPEAKER JOHNSON AND THE VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. IF SPEAKER JOHNSON TOLD THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS TO BEHAVE ESSENTIALLY. NO DEMONSTRATIONS, AS MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE, CONGRESSWOMAN.

FROM GEORGIA LAST TIME, STAND UP AT THE BACK AND SCREAM WHILE YOU'RE AT THE PRESIDENT. IF YOU THINK IT'S GOING TO WORK? >> THAT'S GOING TO BE A TALL ORDER WHEN YOU HAVE SOME OF THE CHARACTERS YOU HAVE IN THERE. BUT I THINK PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO YOU KNOW,.

MAYBE TAKE A PAGE OUT OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT NIKKI HALEY WAS TALKING ABOUT. YOU MADE A GRACIOUS STATEMENT TOWARD HER WHEN SHE BOWED OUT THIS WEEK AND TALKED ABOUT LET'S MAKE AMERICA NORMAL AGAIN. YOU CAN TALK ON IMMIGRATION, HE CAN TALK ABOUT THERE IS A.

BIPARTISAN DEAL. MAYBE CALL OUT JAMES LANKFORD AND POINT OUT TOM SUOZZI JUST CAME INTO CONGRESS TALKING ABOUT HE WANTS TO WORK ON THE BIPARTISAN DEAL. MAYBE GET EVERYBODY ON THEIR FEET SAYING WE NEED TO DO THE BIPARTISAN BORDER DEAL AND LET'S.

PUT IT TOGETHER WITH SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE AND SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL. WE NEED TO HAVE THE BIPARTISAN WORK AND THEY DID IT IN THE SENATE. YOU NEED TO TAKE THE BILL UP IN THE HOUSE. TOM SUOZZI, EVERYONE RUNNING ON THAT, LET'S GET EVERYBODY.

RUNNING ON THAT AND GET THAT DONE. HE CAN GET GOOD PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO GET THE BIPARTISAN WORK DONE BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT THEM TO WORK TOGETHER AGAIN. HE CAN, YOU KNOW, MAKE IT ABOUT US, AND MAKE IT ABOUT MAKING THINGS WORK AGAIN INSTEAD OF THE.

EVASIVENESS THAT EVERYONE IS SICK OF. >> EVERYONE IS SICK OF — THEY SAY THEY WANT TO WORK TOGETHER. THEY WANT THE SYSTEM TO WORK THE AREA THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LET'S BRING IN SELENA WANG AND BRIAN AGAIN. TALK ABOUT THE STAKES, THE HIGH.

STAKES FOR JOE BIDEN TONIGHT. >> TERRY, THEY COULD NOT BE HIGHER. THIS COULD BE THE BIGGEST AUDIENCE HE GETS BEFORE THE GENERAL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER. JOE BIDEN, THE PRESIDENT, HE'S GOT TO PROVE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HE'S GOT A VISION FOR THE.

NEXT FOUR YEARS, THEN HE'S NOT TOO OLD TO DO THE JOB AND I WANT TO KNOW IF AS HE'S LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY, HE SAID FEELING GOOD AND PUMPED HIS F FIST. IT'S BEEN METICULOUSLY POURED OVER. THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN INVOLVED.

EDITING THINGS TO THE LAST MINUTE, BUT AGAIN HE NEEDS TO SHOW THIS STYLE AS WELL INCLUDING THE SUBSTANCE, THE ENERGY, THE VITALITY, TERRY. AND THAT'S WHEN THE STAKES ARE SO HIGH BECAUSE HE'S ALSO GOING TO APPEAL TO VOTERS HERE AND HOW IS HE GOING TO TRY TO REACH OUT.

TO THOSE WHO VOTED FOR NIKKI HALEY? BRING SOME INDEPENDENTS AND MODERATES TO THE FOLD. AND THIS IS A CRITICAL MOMENT AND HE CAN DO A LOT HERE. BUT HE MAKES A MISTAKE, TERRY, WE KNOW THAT'LL BE DISSECTED AND PLAYED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

HE NEEDS TO AVOID THAT. >> EXACTLY, NO QUESTION HE'S UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. JAY, THIS IS PRESIDENT BIDEN'S HOME TURF. NO OTHER PRESIDENT BEFORE. HE SPENT 36 YEARS AS A SENATOR, AND A VICE PRESIDENT PRESIDING OVER THE SENATE.

HE'S COMFORTABLE UP THERE. THESE ARE HIS PEERS HE SPEAKING TO, HIS FORMER PEERS IN A SENSE. WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING FOR FROM HIM AND HOW DO YOU EXPECT THE DYNAMIC TO PLAY OUT? >> HE'S GOT A LOT OF FRIENDS IN THAT ROOM. DON'T FORGET MITCH McCONNELL,.

THE SENATE MINORITY LEADER WHO WILL NOT BE THE LEADER COME NOVEMBER. HE SAID AND I THINK THE PRESIDENT'S CABINET IS ON ITS WAY IN AS WE SPEAK HERE. HE'S GOT FRIENDS ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE OF THE AISLE. WE WERE DISCUSSING EARLIER, THE.

JURY IS OUT WHETHER HE EXTENDS THE OLIVE BRANCH TO CONGRESS, AND TRENDS TO EKE OUT MORE BIPARTISAN LEGISLATURE IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE ELECTION OR GIVE THE ELECTION-YEAR SPEECH. I CAN TELL YOU THE LAWMAKERS I'VE TALKED TO IN BOTH CHAMBERS.

ARE EXPECTING THE LATTER AS THE SUPREME COURT COMES IN. THE OTHER THING WORTH NOTED IS THAT THIS IS THE FIRST SPEECH OF WHAT IS IN A SENSE THE GENERAL ELECTION. NIKKI HALEY DROPPED OUT, DONALD TRUMP HAD A BIG NIGHT ON SUPER TUESDAY.

DEAN PHILLIPS, BIDEN'S ONLY PRIMARY CHALLENGER HAS DROPPED OUT. HE WAS NEVER EXPECTED TO MAKE A BIG BID TO UNSEAT THE PRESIDENT AS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE BUT NEITHER OF THE GUYS HAVE PRIMARY OPPONENTS NOW. WE ARE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.

THE TIMING MIKE JOHNSON GAVE HER THE SPEECH, IT'S UP TO THE SPEAKER WHEN THE STATE OF THE UNION HAPPENS AFTER SUPER TUESDAY, THE FIRST SPEECH NOW FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION. >> ABSOLUTELY. THTHANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU SEE THE MEMBERS OF THE.

SUPREME COURT, FIVE ANYWAY, IT'S BEEN AN UP-AND-DOWN RECORD OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. IF THERE'S CONTROVERSY AROUND IT IN THE PAST WHEN BARACK OBAMA AND INTERESTED AND REALLY THE MAIN EVENT IN HIS MANY LONG DECADES AND POLITICS, JOE BIDEN HAS NEVER GIVEN A MORE IMPORTANT.

SPEECH. RATINGS ARE STUCK IN THE LOW 40s AND HIGH 30s, DOESN'T SEEM TO HAVE CONFIDENCE. HE'S BEHIND HIS REPUBLICAN RIVAL, NO DEMOCRAT HAS BEEN TRAILING AT THIS POINT SINCE 2004. HE HAS HIS WORK CUT OUT FOR HIM.

AS I SAY, THIS IS HIS HOME TURF. HE'S COMFORTABLE THERE IN THE CHAMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. HE'S LOOKING OUT AT THE PEOPLE HE KNOWS, PEOPLE HE TRUSTS, AND HE WANTS TO SUMMON THE COUNTRY TO HIS CAUSE. AND WE'LL THROW IT OVER TO.

DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS AND THE SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ♪ ♪ TONIGHT, PRESIDENT BIDEN'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, HIS MESSAGE TO AME >> TONIGHT PRESIDENT BIDEN'S.

STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, THE STAKES CANNOT BE HIGHER. ABC NEWS LIVE COVERAGE BEGINS RIGHT NOW. >> THIS IS AN ABC NEWS SPECIAL, THE STATE OF THE UNION. >> AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE KNOW WHO WE WORK FOR IN THE OBJECTIVE IS TO GET THINGS DONE.

>> TONIGHT, HOW WILL PRESIDENT BIDEN ADDRESS THE KEY ISSUES FACING OUR NATION? THE BATTLE OVER THE BORDER. >> IT'S REAL SIMPLE, IT'S TIME TO ACT, IT'S A LONG TIME PAST TIME TO ACT. >> THE ECONOMY AND JOBS. >> NEARLY 15 MILLION NEW JOBS.

SPEAK ABOUT WHY ARE SO MANY AMERICANS NOT FEELING IT TO THE WARS OVERSEAS, ISRAEL AND GAZA. UKRAINE AND RUSSIA, AND HERE AT HOME, THE DEEP DIVISIONS. HOW TO BRING THIS COUNTRY TOGETHER WITH THE COUNTRY NOW FACING A BIDEN-TRUMP REMATCH. >> WE MUST BE CLEAR, DEMOCRACY.

IS ON THE BALLOT, YOUR FREEDOM IS ON THE BALLOT. >> MOMENTS FROM NOW BEFORE A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE WORLD, THE PRESIDENT DELIVERS HIS STATE OF THE UNION. >> I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE OPTIMISTIC.

THE PROSPECTS OF WHAT WE CAN DO IF WE JUST WORK TOGETHER. >> NOW REPORTING, DAVID YARD >> GOOD EVENING FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL TONIGHT. PRESIDENT BIDEN IS JUST MOMENTS AWAY FROM DELIVERING HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND OF COURSE TO.

THE WORLD. HE COMES BEFORE THE COUNTRY TONIGHT AT HIGH-STAKES MOMENT IN HIS PRESIDENCY, QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS AGE, HIS REMATCH AGAINST DONALD TRUMP NOW UNDERWAY WITH TRUMP SET TO QUENCH THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION AFTER A SWEEP ON SUPER TUESDAY.

THE NATIONAL POLLING TELLING US THIS IS ALREADY A VERY CLOSE RACE WITH DONALD TRUMP IN THE LEAD. WE HAVE A POWERHOUSE POLITICAL TEAM WITH US TONIGHT AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THE CHAMBER ALREADY FILLING WITH LAWMAKERS, THE PRESIDENT'S CABINET, MEMBERS OF.

THE SUPREME COURT COMING IN JUST MOMENTS AGO, WE SAW CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS, JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, RETIRED JUSTICE KENNEDY ALSO THERE. JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON ALSO IN ATTENDANCE THERE TO MAKE AND THEY'RE PLAYING A ROLE, AS.

YOU KNOW, IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, WHETHER THEY LIKE TO OR NOT. JUST THIS WEEK WE SAW THEM MAKE THAT DECISION INVOLVING DONALD TRUMP TO KEEP HIM ON THE BALLOT, ACROSS THE COUNTRY SAYING COLORADO COULD NOT TAKE HIM OFF THE BALLOT AND THEY WILL.

TAKE UP ANOTHER ISSUE IN THE COMING WEEKS WHEN IT COMES TO PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY WHEN IT COMES TO ONE OF THE TRIALS INVOLVING DONALD TRUMP. YOU CAN SEE GEORGE SANTOS IS ACTUALLY THERE IN THE CHAMBER AS WELL. WE WILL GET TO WHY HE'S THERE.

COMING UP IN OUR COVERAGE. OF COURSE HE WAS EXPELLED BY THE HOUSE, SO THE QUESTION YOU MIGHT BE ASKING AT HOME IS WHAT IS HE DOING THERE. WE ARE EXPECTING THE FIRST LADY, DR. JILL BIDEN, ANY MOMENT. OF COURSE FIRST LADIES IN THESE SPEECHES ALWAYS PLAY AN ROLE.

THE PRESIDENTS AND IT WILL BE STANDING BEFORE A DEEPLY DIVIDED CONGRESS SPEAKING TO A DEEPLY DIVIDED NATION AND AT THE SAME TIME WELL AWARE THAT THIS IS ALSO KICKSTARTING HIS REELECTION CAMPAIGN. HIS EVERY MOVE, HIS EVERY WORD, HIS ENERGY, WILL BE CLOSELY.

STUDIED AMID QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS AGE AND WHETHER THEY WILL GIVE HIM A SECOND TERM. THE MESSAGE WILL FOCUS ON IMMIGRATION, THE SOUTHERN BORDER, ABORTION RIGHTS, THE ECONOMY, MILLIONS OF NEW JOBS, THE STOCK MARKET REACHING NEW HIGHS BUT THE PRESIDENT AND THIS.

WHITE HOUSE WELL AWARE MANY ARE NOT FEELING IS. RACHEL SCOTT IS IN THE HOUSE CHAMBER TONIGHT. WHAT IS THE MOOD, AND WE UNDERSTAND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, THE THIRD SPEAKER TO STAND BEHIND PRESIDENT BIDEN FOR STATE OF THE UNION, HAS ASKED.

THE HOUSE CHAMBER, HIS COLLEAGUES, TO BE RESPECTFUL. >> EXACTLY. THIS IS GOING TO BE A HIGH-STAKES ADDRESS FOR THE PRESIDENT. YOU MENTIONED IT, WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN ENTERS THIS CHAMBER TONIGHT HE WILL BE.

PASSING THROUGH WHAT HE KNOWS IS A DEEPLY DIVIDED CONGRESS FROM IMMIGRATION TO FUNDING OF UKRAINE. INSIDE THE CHAMBER RIGHT NOW IS A SEA OF WHITE, DEMOCRATS WEARING THAT COLOR TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND ABORTION RIGHTS, AND ISSUE.

WE KNOW THE PRESIDENT WILL PUT FRONT AND CENTER IN HIS ADDRESS. SOME OF US ARE ALSO WEARING TAGS WITH THE NUMBER 153 ON IT, A MEMBER TELLING US THAT IS THE NUMBER OF DAYS SINCE ISRAEL WAS ATTACKED. RIGHT BEHIND THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT, DIFFERENT AND NEW.

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, MIKE JOHNSON, HE HAS BEEN URGING HIS REPUBLICAN MEMBERS TO BE RESPECTFUL AND CIVIL TONIGHT, SAYING DECORUM IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY. WE CAUGHT UP WITH HIM ON HIS WAY INTO THE CHAMBER, HE TOLD US THAT EVERYONE WILL BE ON THEIR.

BEST BEHAVIOR BUT WE WILL HAVE TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS. >> JOHNSON HOLDING OFF THE RECORD MEETING WITH REPORTERS HERE IN WASHINGTON TODAY. CAN'T GET INTO THE DETAILS, WE APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT THEY INVITE US IN ON THE DAYS.

THE ONE THING SPEAKER JOHNSON DID NOT MIND US SHARING IS HIS CONCERN THAT THIS REMAIN RESPECTFUL TONIGHT, HOPING TO UPHOLD THE GREAT TRADITIONS OF THE STATE OF THE UNIONS. >> HE WANTS STABILITY IN THE CHAMBER, HE WANTS DECORUM, HE HAS SENT THAT MESSAGE OUT AND.

SOME OF HIS MEMBERS HAVE RECEIVED IT SKEPTICALLY. REMEMBER HOW RAUCOUS IT WAS LAST YEAR. >> David: I DEN FACT, MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE ONE PREST SAID WE WILL JUST WAIT WITH THE PRESIDENT HAS TO SAY. WILL WANT TO BRING RACHEL SCOTT.

BACK IN. THE OBVIOUS QUESTION FOR PEOPLE WATCHING HOME IS — WATCHING AT HOME IS WHAT IS HE DOING THERE? >> MANY AMERICANS MAY BE REMEMBERING THAT HE WAS EXPELLED FROM THE HOUSE, FACING 23 COUNTS, ACCUSED OF EVERYTHING FROM CREDIT CARD FRAUD, IDENTITY.

THEFT, LYING TO OFFICIALS, HE WAS EXPELLED BY HIS MEMBERS WHO CALLED HIM A DISGRACE. HE DECIDED TO SHOW BACK UP TODAY AS A REMINDER HERE, FORMER MEMBERS DO HAVE PRIVILEGES TO BE ON THE HOUSE FLOOR AND SANTOS HAS KEPT HIS FLOOR PRIVILEGES DESPITE BEING EXPELLED, SO HE IS.

ALLOWED TO BE INSIDE OF THE CHAMBER TONIGHT. I AM SPOTTING HIM RIGHT NOW. HE IS STANDING IN THE BACK. IS NOT SEATED DOWN WITH HIS FORMER COLLEAGUES AT ALL, HE IS STANDING IN THE BACK BY CONGRESSIONAL AIDES, WERE SENATE PAGES ARE STANDING RIGHT NOW.

BUT HE IS INSIDE OF THE CHAMBER FOR THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS TONIGHT. >> David: SO BOTTOM LINE, YOU'RE WELCOME TO THE CHAMBER EVEN IF YOU ARE EXPELLED. >> YOU'RE WELCOME INTO THE CHAMBER EVEN IF YOU ARE EXPELLED.

THE HOUSE RULES ACTUALLY SAY NOTHING ABOUT THAT AT ALL. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED BACK IN THE CHAMBER IF YOU HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF A CRIME OR ARE A LOBBYIST BUT THE BOTTOM LINE, EVEN AS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE HOUSE THAT HAS BEEN EXPELLED BY HIS COLLEAGUES, HE IS ALLOWED TO.

BE HERE FOR THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. >> David: EXTRAORDINARY. IT'S 2024 IN AMERICA. SAW THE SHOT OF SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS THERE, ONE OF THE MANY VOICES OFFERING ADVICE, COUNSEL TO THE WHITE HOUSE, TO PRESIDENT BIDEN,.

THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN. THE PRESIDENT'S JUST MOMENTS AGO SAYING HE'S FEELING GOOD AS HE HEADED TO THE CAPITAL. MARY BRUCE, OR CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT. IT'S REALLY HARD TO UNDERSCORE JUST HOW DIFFICULT THIS NIGHT WILL BE FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN.

>> THIS IS A HUGE AND MASSIVELY CRITICAL AND PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. HE KNOWS IT, THE WHITE HOUSE KNOWS IT, THE CAMPAIGN CERTAINLY KNOWS IT. HE IS DOWN IN THE POLLS TO DONALD TRUMP, FACING THESE PERSISTENT CONCERNS ABOUT HIS.

AGE. HE CERTAINLY KNOWS WELL THAT EVERYONE IS PAYING ATTENTION NOT JUST TO WHAT HE IS SAYING BUT HOW HE IS SAYING IT. HIS CHALLENGE HERE IS HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS MASSIVE AUDIENCE, PERHAPS THE LARGEST HE WILL HAVE ALL YEAR TO TRY AND.

CHANGE THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION. HE HAS TWO SELL SKEPTICAL VOTERS ON HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HE IS UP FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. HE HAS TO BRING IT IN THE SPEECH. THE CAMPAIGN FEELS THAT AT THIS POINT IN THE CAMPAIGN THAT THE.

AMERICAN PEOPLE AREN'T TRULY DIALED INTO THE RACE AND THEY HAVEN'T FULLY REGISTERED YET THAT WE ARE HEADING FOR THIS REMATCH. THEY KNOW THESE MEN BUT THE BIDEN TEAM FEELS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING FROM WHAT THEY CALL TRUMP AMNESIA.

THIS IS THE PRESIDENT'S CHANCE TO CHANGE SOME OF THAT. I'M TOLD HE WILL NOT CALL OUT TRUMP BY NAME BUT IT'S VERY CLEAR WHO HE'S TALKING ABOUT AS HE LAYS OUT THEIR VERY DIFFERENT VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE. >> David: NOT EXPECTED TO DRAW DONALD TRUMP'S NAME BUT VERY.

LIKELY TO DRAW CONTRAST BETWEEN THESE TWO MEN AS HE MOVES THROUGH THE NIGHT AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING HE WANTS TO DO IT WHILE AT THE SAME TIME RESPECTING THE CHAMBER. >> HE HAS TO STRIKE THE RIGHT TONE HERE. FIRST OF ALL, REMEMBER THIS IS A.

FORMAT IN WHICH JOE BIDEN IS VERY COMFORTABLE. HE RELISHED HIS TIME IN THE SENATE AND IN CONGRESS, HE FEELS VERY COMFORTABLE IN THIS ENVIRONMENT AND HE CERTAINLY RESPECTS CONGRESS AND HE ALSO WANTS TO STRIKE A RESPECTFUL TONE, EVEN AS HE IS GOING TO.

PRESSURE REPUBLICANS, TO CALL THEM OUT ON CERTAIN ISSUES, ESPECIALLY THINGS LIKE IMMIGRATION. HE'LL ALSO OF COURSE IS DOING THIS AT A TIME WHEN HE IS TRYING TO COURT REPUBLICAN VOTERS TO COME TO HIS SIDE. >> David: THE VICE PRESIDENT.

KAMALA HARRIS UP THERE, SHE WILL STAND BEHIND THE PRESIDENT AS SHE ALWAYS DOES, BUT ALONG WITH A NEW SPEAKER THIS TIME, SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON, IT WAS KEVIN McCARTHY A YEAR AGO, HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI FOR THE FIRST ADDRESS TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS, LIKELY.

WAITG TO HIS WIFE AT THE PODIUM BUT PERHAPS MIKE JOHNSON AS WELL. THEY ARE BOTH UP THERE TOGETHER. MARTHA RADDATZ, THIS IS ALSO A HOUSE CHAMBER THAT HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN WELCOMING, WE HAD THAT MOMENT LAST YEAR WITH MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE, AND PARTICULARLY.

THE REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE EVERLY HALTED A COUPLE OF KEY THINGS THE PRESIDENT HAS TRIED TO ACCOMPLISH JUST IN RECENT WEEKS. AID TO UKRAINE HAS LOOMED LARGE, THEY FAULTED THAT AND SAID YOU MUST ATTACK ON THE BORDER FIRST. THE REPUBLICANS — THE PRESIDENT.

URGED THEM TO GET THAT BILL. VERY HEAVY SECURITY, HE SAID HE WAS READY TO SIGN IT AND ON THE HOUSE TORPEDOED IT. >> THEY TORPEDOED IT BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP WANTED IT TORPEDOED. HE WANTS THIS TO BE AN ELECTION ISSUE.

HE BELIEVES THIS IS HIS ISSUE AND THAT HE CAN DOMINATE ON THAT ISSUE. AND WE TALK ABOUT DECORUM, WE TALK ABOUT DECORUM, OBVIOUSLY WE SEE THE FIRST LADY COMING IN NOW. [APPLAUSE] >> David: ENTERING THE CHAMBER.

HERE TONIGHT, JILL BIDEN, WHO HAS TAKEN A SIGNIFICANT ROLE JUST IN RECENT DAYS FOR THIS CAMPAIGN, A SIGNAL SHE'S GOING TO BE OUT THERE FIGHTING FOR HER HUSBAND TOO. >> SHE ABSOLUTELY WILL, SOMEONE WHO IS BEHIND HIS RACE 100% AND HIS MOST IMPORTANT AND TOP.

SURROGATE, SHE'S GOING TO BE OUT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL HEAVILY I SUSPECT IN THE COMING MONTHS. >> David: HERE IS THE GAVEL HERE. SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON, HIS FIRST TIME IN THIS ROLE, LET'S LISTEN. >> MR. SPEAKER, THE PRESIDENT'S CABINET.

>> David: THE PRESIDENT'S CABINET NOW ENTERING THE ROOM, SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN, MARTHA, LET'S BRING YOU BACK INTO THIS CONVERSATION. ON THE WORLD STAGE, HAS BEEN FOR MANY MONTHS NOW, NOT ONLY WITH ISRAEL AND GAZA, BUT WITH.

UKRAINE AS WELL. A LOT OF QUESTIONS EVEN FROM WITHIN THEIR OWN PARTY ABOUT THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS INSIDE GAZA AND THE PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO BREAK MAJOR NEWS TONIGHT ON G GAZA. >> Reporter: EXACTLY AND WHAT THEY WANT TO DO IS SET UP A.

FLOATING DOCK, A FLOATING PEERS OF THE U.S. CAN HELP GET AID INTO GAZA FROM SHIPS TO DELIVER THIS VERY, VERY CRITICAL AID. PEOPLE ARE STARVING TO DEATH IN GAZA, YOU SAW THE SECRETARY THERE, HE'S BEEN SO BUSY, HE'S BEEN OVER TO THE REGION SO MANY TIMES.

ALSO SAW DEFENSE SECRETARY LLOYD AUSTIN THERE, WE KNOW HE HAD SOME HEALTH PROBLEMS, HE DID NOT TELL THE PRESIDENT, HE WAS IN AN ICU UNITS, HE HAS MADE UP FOR THAT, HE HAS APOLOGIZED FOR THAT BUT THEY HAVE BOTH BEEN VERY BUSY WITH GAZA, WITH UKRAINE, AND AS YOU SAID, THAT AID TO.

UKRAINE HAS BEEN BLOCKED. THE BORDER BILL BLOCKED. TALK ABOUT DECORUM THAT THE PRESIDENT WANTS IN THERE WITH HIS OWN RED WALL OF RESISTANCE IN THIS REALLY IS — THE REPUBLICANS ARE FULLY AWARE THIS IS A HUGE EVENT PRESIDENT BIDEN. THIS IS ALMOST THE BEGINNING OF.

THE CAMPAIGN FOR HIM. SO WHETHER THEY MAINTAIN THAT DECORUM ARE NOT, WE WILL HAVE TO SEE. >> David: AND THE QUESTION IS HOW WILL IT BE RECEIVED, ANY KIND OF BEHAVIOR IN THIS ROOM, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OFTEN JUDGE THIS WITH DIFFERENT EYES, THEY.

ARE NOT INSIDE THE BELTWAY, THEY ARE WATCHING FROM HOME, THEY KNOW THIS IS A DEEPLY DIVIDED COUNTRY AND AS WE HAVE HEARD SO OFTEN ON THE TRAIL, A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT MORE IN COMMON THAN WE HAVE THAT SEPARATES US AND OFTEN WE DON'T SEE THAT IN OUR OWN.

LAWMAKERS SO WE WILL KEEP THAT IN MIND AS WE MOVE FORWARD AND WATCH THIS TONIGHT. LINSEY DAVIS ALSO WITH US AT THE DESK, WE ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE THEM INTRODUCE THE PRESIDENT. ONE OF THE THINGS I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING INTO IS THE INDEPENDENTS, MODERATE VOTERS,.

NIKKI HALEY SUPPORTERS WHO JUST THIS WEEK SEEMED TO GIVE AN INDICATION THAT THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE AUTOMATICALLY. >> Reporter: INDEPENDENT VOTERS, AS YOU WELL KNOW, DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF.

ELECTIONS. WE'VE SEEN IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN IN 2020, JOE BIDEN ABLE TO WIN THE INDEPENDENT OVER THE BATTLEGROUND STATES. DONALD TRUMP WAS ABLE TO WIN OVER INDEPENDENT VOTERS IN SIX OF THE BATTLEGROUND STATES. IN PARTICULAR TONIGHT I'M.

INTERESTED IN THE FREE AGENT NIKKI HALEY VOTERS AND IS HE GOING TO BE ABLE TO WIN THEM OVER AND PERHAPS PERSUADE THEM BECAUSE AS YOU ARE REFERENCING ON TUESDAY, WE SAW THAT 51% OF THEM SAID THAT THEY ACTUALLY APPROVE OF JOE BIDEN, 76% SAID THAT THEY OPPOSED ABORTION BANS.

AND SO THEY ARE GOING TO BE LISTENING VERY CRITICALLY I WOULD IMAGINE TO WHAT HE HAS TO SAY AND BY MANY STRETCHES OF IMAGINATION, THIS IS AN OPENING STATEMENT FOR THEM. >> David: NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. YOU SAW THE HOMELAND SECURITY.

SECRETARY ALSO IN THE CHAMBER AND IMMIGRATION A KEY ISSUE TONIGHT, REPUBLICANS, AS WE HAVE REPORTED HERE, SPENT MONTHS IMPLORING PRESIDENT BIDEN TO DO SOMETHING ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER AND THEN OF COURSE AS WE MENTIONED, THE BIPARTISAN BORDER SECURITY BILL, REPUBLICANS AND.

DEMOCRATS, THE REPUBLICANS — THE PRESIDENT SAYING GET IT TO MY DESK AND I WILL SIGN IT ONLY TO HAVE REPUBLICANS IN THE CHAMBER THERE TONIGHT — LIKELY TO KEEP AN ISSUE THAT IS FRONT AND CENTER COME NOVEMBER. MARY BRUCE, PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL LIKELY NOT SHY AWAY FROM.

IMMIGRATION, IT SEEMS HE RECOGNIZES THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HIM IN THIS MOMENT TOO BECAUSE HE HAD A HISTORIC OFFER IN FRONT OF HIM, BIPARTISAN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS SAYING WE ARE FINALLY READY TO WORK TOGETHER ON THIS. >> Reporter: THE KIND OF.

REFORMS THAT THE REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN DEMANDING FOR MONTHS. URGING REPUBLICANS NOT TO TAKE THE DEAL AND OF COURSE WE KNOW IT HAS GONE NOWHERE SINCE THEN. THIS COMES JUST A WEEK AFTER DONALD TRUMP AND JOE BIDEN WERE BOTH DOWN AT THE BORDER TOGETHER, THOSE DUELING VISITS.

PRESIDENT BIDEN AGAIN TRY TO UP THE PRESSURE ON REPUBLICANS TO FINALLY ACT ON THIS ISSUE. OF TRYING TO SHIFT THE ISSUE. DID HAVE THAT REMARKABLE — I SUSPECT YOU WILL HEAR HIM URGE CONGRESS TO PUT POLITICS ASIDE TO GET THIS BORDER DEAL DONE. >> David: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

MERRICK GARLAND WHO HAS ALSO BEEN A KEY FIGURE IN THIS ADMINISTRATION, UNDER FIRE FOR SOME, GIVEN THE INVESTIGATIONS INTO DONALD TRUMP BUT HAS MADE THE CASE THAT HE HAS DONE THIS IN INDEPENDENT FASHION, HAS STAYED FAR FROM THE SPECIAL COUNSEL'S AND ALL OF THESE CASES.

THAT ARE HARD FOR PEOPLE TO TRACK. HE IS THERE IN THE CHAMBER AS WELL. WE HEARD RACHEL SCOTT POINT OUT A NUMBER OF WHITE SUITS IN THE CHAMBER TONIGHT, MANY OF THE DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS ARE WEARING THEM, A SIGNAL ON REPRODUCTIVE.

RIGHTS, THE PRESIDENT PUTTING THE BLAME ON DONALD TRUMP IN RECENT DAYS FOR APPOINTING JUSTICES TO THE SUPREME COURT WHO OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE AND WITH THE PRESIDENT SAYS OF THE RIPPLE EFFECT ALREADY BEING SEEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY. OF COURSE THE DEBATE IN ALABAMA.

IN RECENT DAYS, AT STATE'S HIGHEST COURT RULING THAT FROZEN EMBRYOS ARE IN FACT PEOPLE, CLINICAL HOSPITALS IN ALABAMA ALMOST IMMEDIATELY HALTING IVF FERTILITY TREATMENTS. HUSBANDS AND FAMILIES WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS PROCESS AND THERE'S BEEN A MOVE ACROSS THIS.

COUNTRY ALMOST IMMEDIATELY NOT ONLY IN ALABAMA BUT MOVING FORWARD IN SEVERAL OTHER STATES TO PROTECT WOMEN FROM THIS DISCOMFORT MOVING FORWARD. AND ALSO IN THAT CHAMBER TONIGHT, RACHEL SCOTT, YOU SPOKE WITH A YOUNG WOMAN — BECAME THE CENTER OF A MAJOR NATIONAL.

STORY. LET'S LISTEN HERE AT THE DOOR, WE WILL GET BACK TO YOU IN A MOMENT. >> MR. SPEAKER, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> David: THERE YOU HAVE THE MOMENT, THE HOUSE SERGEANT OF.

ARMS INTRODUCING PRESIDENT BIDEN AT THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. [APPLAUSE] SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER. HE SHAKES HANDS WITH MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTY — PARTIES, I SHOULD SAY.

AS MARY BRUCE MENTIONED EARLIER, THIS IS THE KIND OF MOMENT THAT FUELS THIS PARTICULAR PRESIDENT. >> Reporter: THIS IS ALWAYS A BIG MOMENT, I THINK THE TELEVISION AUDIENCE, ALL THE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE BUT THE TRUTH IS STATE UNION ADDRESS — STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESSES ARE.

LITTLE NOTED ON LONGER MEMBERS. TONIGHT IT REALLY FEELS DIFFERENT. HE HAS A CHANCE TO PROVE TO A SKEPTICAL COUNTRY THAT HE HAS WHAT IT TAKES, THAT HE HAS THE PHYSICAL FITNESS, THE MENTAL FITNESS TO GO HEAD-TO-HEAD IN A VERY BRUTAL COME A CAMPAIGN WITH.

DONALD TRUMP AND TO SERVE ANOTHER FOUR, REALLY FIVE YEARS AS PRESIDENT. SO THIS FEELS LIKE AN INCREDIBLY CONSEQUENTIAL MOMENT ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF HOW LATE IT IS, IT'S MARCH 7TH, JUST AFTER SUPER TUESDAY. WHERE WOULD YOU SEE EVER IN MY.

LIFETIME A STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS THAT ACTUALLY DOUBLES AS EFFECTIVELY THE KICKOFF FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. >> David: YOU MENTIONED A SKEPTICAL AUDIENCE. I KNOW YOU MEAN THAT IN TERMS OF NOT ONLY PRESIDENT BIDEN, BUT MANY IN THIS COUNTRY WERE.

SKEPTICAL OF DONALD TRUMP AS WELL AND WE'VE SEEN IN THE POLLING. AMERICANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY SAY WE DON'T WANT EITHER ONE OF THESE MEN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. WE WANT OTHER CHOICES AND YET THIS IS WHERE THE COUNTRY IS RIGHT NOW, WHICH MAKES THE.

STAKES EVEN HIGHER TONIGHT FOR HIM TO TRY AND CONVINCE SOME OF THOSE MODERATE INDEPENDENT VOTERS WHO HE BROUGHT OVER BEFORE, THE QUESTION IS WOULD HE BE ABLE TO DO IT AGAIN. >> YOU HAVE UPWARDS OF 70% OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SAYING THAT THEY DON'T WANT THE REMATCH THAT.

THEY ARE ABOUT TO HAVE. THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE BIDEN, TRUMP YET AGAIN. >> David: MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE THERE WEARING HER MAKE AMERICA GREAT HAT AND HOLDING UP THE PIN. WE HAD AN IDEA THAT REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE CHAMBER WOULD HAVE.

PINS TONIGHT? >> YEAH, HIGHLIGHTING WHAT THEY ARE CALLING BIDEN'S FAILED POLICY AT THE BORDER. BUT THE DECORUM ISSUE, SO MUCH AS CHANGED. I'VE BEEN IN THE CHAMBER FOR ABOUT A DOZEN OF THESE THINGS AND I FULLY REMEMBER WHEN.

BARACK OBAMA HAD A BIG JOINT SESSIONS EACH ON HEALTH CARE AND ONE SINGLE MEMBER YELLED OUT “YOU LIE” AND IT WAS THE SCANDAL, HOW COULD SOMEBODY — AND NOW EVERY MEMBER IS USING THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A MOMENT FOR THEMSELVES. >> David: IT S SHOCK WAVES BACK.

THEN AND IT SHOULD HAVE. >> IT WAS QUITE A MOMENT. >> David: UNFORTUNATELY NOW IT'S BECOME A LITTLE MORE OF THE NORM. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE TALKING WITH THE PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW. SOMEBODY THERE TAPPING THE PRESIDENT ON THE SHOULDER.

>> HE CERTAINLY WASN'T LETTING MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE BOTHER HIM. I THINK YOU TALK ABOUT DECORUM, WEARING A MAKE AMERICA GREAT HAT IS PRETTY DECORUM-ASIDE RIGHT AWAY BUT IN SO MANY WAYS, AND WE TALK ABOUT THIS, THIS IS NOT ONLY THE STATE OF THE UNION,.

THIS IS THE STATE OF JOE BIDEN BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE LOOKING AT TONIGHT, HOW DOES JOE BIDEN HANDLE THIS, DOES HE HAVE THE MENTAL ACUITY THAT EVERYBODY IS LOOKING FOR. LAST YEAR AS WE SAT HERE HE GAVE A VERY POWERFUL SPEECH, GOT GOOD MARKS FOR THAT BUT AGAIN, THIS.

IS A VERY DIFFERENT SPEECH AT A VERY DIFFERENT MOMENT WHEN VOTERS ARE REALLY, REALLY LOOKING AT THE PRESIDENT, BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. >> David: THIS IS A PATIENT RESIDENT, TAKING A NUMBER OF SELFIES ON HIS WAY DOWN. >> CLASSIC JOE BIDEN.

MOST PRESIDENTS TAKE THEIR TIME WALKING THROUGH THE CHAMBER, THEY SHAKE SOME HANDS. HE'S HAVING FULL ON CONVERSATIONS, SNAPPING SELFIES. THAT IF HE COULD HE WOULD PLACE CALLS TO THEIR MOTHER AND FATHER AND HE SHOUTING WITH EVERYONE ALONG THE WAY.

>> David: WE SHOULD MENTION JOE MANCHIN, NOT RUNNING FOR REELECTION. JOE MANCHIN LETTING THE PUBLIC KNOW INTEREST RECENT DAYS THAT HE WOULD NOT BE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, HE SAID IT WAS JUST TOO DANGEROUS ACTUALLY TO RUN AS A THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATE.

HE SAID THE STAKES WERE TOO HIGH. >> AND DEMOCRATS FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT A THIRD-PARTY CANDIDACY REELECTS OR ELECTS ONCE AGAIN DONALD TRUMP. LOOKING AT BITING HERE, YOU KIND OF CONSIDER — I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GO BACK AND COUNT EACH.

AND EVERY ONE BUT I BELIEVE THIS MAY BE HIS 50TH STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS AS HE'S BEEN IN THE CHAMBER. >> David: HE WOULD BE PROUD OF THAT. SENATOR GILLIBRAND NUMBER REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS WELCOMING.

WE ALWAYS LIKE TO SEE THAT. RACHEL SCOTT, YOU ARE IN THE CHAMBER. SO FAR, SO GOOD. >> SO FAR, SO GOOD, DAVID. SO FAR. THE COVETED SEATS ARE ALONG THE AISLES, THAT'S WHERE YOU ARE SEEING MEMBERS SORT OF RUSHED TO.

THE AISLES AND TRY TO GREET THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. NOTABLE ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE, SAW SOME OF THE MOST CONSERVATIVE, RIGHT-WING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE, CONGRESSMAN TIM BURCHETT, CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE TRYING TO GET THE PRESIDENT'S ATTENTION TO SHAKE.

HIS HAND AND POSSIBLY DELIVER A MESSAGE THAT THEY WANT THE PRESIDENT TO SHARE TONIGHT. IF YOU ARE HEARING THE CHANCES NOW OF “FOUR MORE YEARS” FROM DEMOCRATS TONIGHT AND A VERY STARK REMINDER WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS HEADING INTO THIS CRITICAL ELECTION YEAR.

WHAT IS AT STAKE, THIS IS VERY MUCH ALSO ABOUT MAKING AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND A VERY CRITICAL ELECTION YEAR WHERE HE WILL BE LIKELY FACING OFF AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. >> David: JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON AND CHIEF JUSTICE.

AS WELL. A MAJOR DECISION IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, IT WILL BEGIN HEARING ARGUMENTS IN DONALD TRUMP'S FEDERAL JANUARY 6TH CASE, THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE AND WHETHER OR NOT HE HAS ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY, JUDGE GERSHON SUCH AN.

JUDGE KAVANAUGH BOTH WITH SMILES ON THEIR FACES, BUT IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO SEE IN THESE DEEPLY POLARIZED MOMENTS IN OUR COUNTRY WHEN SO FAR THINGS PLAY OUT THE WAY THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO. FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI AND WE WILL STICK WITH THE PRESIDENT BUT WE DID.

SEE NANCY PELOSI TALKING WITH MITCH McCONNELL JUST BEFORE WE CAME ON THE AIR TONIGHT, SORT OF A SIGNAL THERE OF A CHANGING GUARD. OBVIOUSLY NANCY OUT OF THE SPEAKERSHIP FOR A TIME NO AND MITCH McCONNELL INDICATING HE WILL STEP DOWN AS LEADER.

>> WHAT A CHANGING OF THE GUARD, TWO OF THE MOST POWERFUL FIGURES IN CONGRESS OVER THE LAST HALF-CENTURY. McCONNELL AND PELOSI, BOTH MAKING THEIR MARKS IN HUGE WAYS. PELOSI WITH HEALTH CARE AND WITH ALL THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN GOT THROUGH CONGRESS AND HIS FIRST.

TWO YEARS, MITCH McCONNELL, THE LONGEST SENATE LEADER IN HISTORY. 17 YEARS. AND WHEN IT WAS NICE TO SEE McCONNELL AND PELOSI ENGAGED WITH ONE ANOTHER. >> AND BY THE WAY, THEY WERE TOGETHER ON JANUARY 6TH AS THE.

CAPITAL WAS ATTACKED AND THEY WERE EVACUATED WORKING TO GET CONGRESS BACK IN SESSION AND RESTART THE CERTIFICATION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THAT THE TRUMP SUPPORTER'S WERE TRYING TO STOP. >> David: NOT A SURPRISE THAT THE PRESIDENT IS TAKING HIS T.

TIME. WE EVEN JOKED WITH REPORTERS OFF THE RECORD TODAY, MY OWN STAFF KNOWS I FEEL VERY MUCH AT HOME UP ON THE HILL. >> AND THAT SHOWS HERE TONIGHT, ABSOLUTELY. AND THEY THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL ALSO PLAY TO HIS.

STRENGTHS HERE AS HE DELIVERS WHAT IS EXPECTED TO BE A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT SPEECH. >> David: LET'S LISTEN AS SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON PLAYS HIS ROLE. [APPLAUSE] THE VICE PRESIDENT, THE VICE PRESIDENT AND THE STATE OF.

UNION UNION ADDRESS AS WELL. [APPLAUSE] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> President Biden: THANK YOU. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] GOOD EVENING! GOOD EVENING! IF I WERE SMART, I WOULD GO HOME NOW.

[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] MR. SPEAKER, MADAME 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 ADDRESS YOU IN A MOMENT UNPRECEDENTED IN THE.

HISTORY OF THE UNION. WAR WAS WAGED IN EUROPE, PRESIDENT WAS TO ALERT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT THIS WAS NO ORDINARY TIME. FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY WERE UNDER ASSAULT IN THE WORLD. TONIGHT, I COME TO THIS SAME CHAMBER TO ADDRESS THE NATION.

NOW IT'S WE WHO FACE AN UNPRECEDENTED MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNION, AND YES, MY PURPOSE TONIGHT IS TO WAKE UP THE CONGRESS AND ALERT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT THIS IS NO ORDINARY MOMENT EITHER. NOT SINCE PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAR HAVE FREEDOM AND.

DEMOCRACY BEEN UNDER ASSAULT AT HOME AS THEY ARE TODAY. WHAT MAKES OUR MOMENT RARE IS THE FREEDOM OF DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK BOTH AT HOME AND OVERSEAS AT THE VERY SAME TIME. OVERSEAS, HOOTON AND RUSSIA IS ON THE MARCH , INVADING UKRAINE AND SOWING.

CHAOS THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND BEYOND. IF ANYONE IN THIS ROOM THINKS PUTIN WILL STOP AT UKRAINE, AND ASSURE YOU, HE WILL NOT. ♪ ♪ [APPLAUSE] UKRAINE CAN STOP PUTIN. UKRAINE CAN STOP PUTIN IF WE.

STAND WITH UKRAINE AND PROVIDE THE WEAPONS IT NEEDS TO DEFEND ITSELF. [APPLAUSE] THAT IS ALL — THAT IS ALL UKRAINE IS ASKING. THEY ARE NOT ASKING FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS. THERE ARE NO AMERICAN SOLDIERS.

IN THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND I'M DETERMINED TO KEEP IT THAT WAY. BUT NOW ASSISTANCE TO UKRAINE IS BEING BLOCKED BY THOSE WHO WANT TO WALK AWAY FROM A WORLD LEADERSHIP. IT WASN'T LONG AGO WHEN A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT NAMED RONALD REAGAN THUNDERED.

“MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL.” [APPLAUSE] NOW MY PREDECESSOR, FORMER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT TELLS PUTIN “DO WHAT EVER THE HELL WANT.” THAT'S A QUOTE. THE FORMER PRESIDENT ACTUALLY SAID THAT, BOWING DOWN TO A.

RUSSIAN LEADER. I THINK IT'S OUTRAGEOUS, IT'S DANGEROUS, AND IT'S UNACC UNACCEPTABLE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AMERICA IS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF NATO. THE MILITARY ALLIANCE OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONS CREATED AFTER.

WORLD WAR II TO PREVENT WAR AND KEEP THE PEACE. AND TODAY WE'VE MADE NATO STRONGER THAN EVER. WE WELCOMED FINLAND TO THE ALLIANCE LAST YEAR. AND JUST THIS MORNING SWEDEN OFFICIALLY JOINED IN THEIR MINISTER IS HERE TONIGHT.

STAND UP. WELCOME! WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME! AND THEY KNOW HOW TO FIGHT. MR. PRIME MINISTER, WELCOME TO NATO, THE STRONGEST MILITARY ALLIANCE 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, IT WILL PUT UKRAINE AT RISK. EUROPE IS AT RISK, THE FREE WORLD WILL BE AT RISK, EMBOLDENING OTHERS TO DO WHAT.

THEY WISH AND DO US HARM. MY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT PUTIN, WHO I'VE KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME, IS SIMPLE. WE WILL NOT WALK AWAY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WE WILL NOT BOW DOWN! I WILL NOT BOW DOWN! IN A LITERAL SENSE, HISTORY IS.

WATCHING. HISTORY IS WATCHING. JUST LIKE HISTORY WATCHED THREE YEARS AGO ON JANUARY 6TH WHEN INSURRECTIONIST STORMS THIS VERY CAPITAL AND PLACED A DAGGER IN THE THROAT OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. MANY OF YOU WERE HERE ON THAT.

DARKEST OF DAYS. WE ALL SAW WITH OUR OWN EYES THE INSURRECTIONIST WERE NOT PATRIOTS. THEY HAD COME TO STOP THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER, TO OVERTURN THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. JANUARY 6TH LIES ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION AND THE PLOTS TO STEAL.

THE ELECTIONS POST A GREATEST THREAT TO U.S. DEMOCRACY SINCE THE CIVIL WAR. BUT THEY FAILED! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AMERICA STOOD. AMERICA STOOD STRONG, AND DEMOCRACY PREVAILED! WE MUST BE HONEST.

THE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY MUST BE DEFENDED. MY PREDECESSOR AND SOME OF YOU HERE SEEK TO BURY THE TRUTH ABOUT JANUARY 6TH. I WILL NOT DO THAT. THIS IS THE MOMENT TO SPEAK THE TRUTH AND TO BURY THE LIES. HERE'S THE SIMPLE TRUTH.

YOU CAN'T LOVE YOUR COUNTRY ONLY WHEN YOU WIN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AS I'VE DONE EVER SINCE BEING ELECTED TO OFFICE, I ASK ALL OF YOU WITHOUT REGARD TO PARTY TO JOIN TOGETHER AND DEFEND DEMOCRACY. REMEMBER YOUR OATH OF OFFICE TO.

DEFEND AGAINST ALL THREATS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC! RESPECT FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS, RESTORE TRUST IN OUR INSTITUTIONS AND MAKE CLEAR POLITICAL VIOLENCE HAS ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE, NO PLACE IN AMERICA. ZERO PLACE.

[APPLAUSE] AGAIN, IT'S NOT HYPERBOLE TO SUGGEST HISTORY IS WATCHING. YOU ARE WATCHING, YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WILL READ ABOUT THIS DAY AND WHAT WE DO. THE STORY IS WATCHING ANOTHER ASSAULT ON FREEDOM. JOINING US TONIGHT IS A SOCIAL.

WORKER FROM BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 14 MONTHS AGO — 14 MONTHS AGO SHE AND HER HUSBAND WELCOMED A BABY GIRL THANKS TO THE MIRACLE OF IVF. SHE SCHEDULED TREATMENTS TO HAVE THAT SECOND CHILD. THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT SHUT DOWN IVF TREATMENT ACROSS THE.

STATE. UNLEASHED BY SUPREME COURT DECISION OVERTURNED BY ROE V. WADE, SHE WAS TOLD HER DREAM WOULD HAVE TO WAIT BUT IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED UNLESS CONGRESS ACTS, LET'S STAND UP FOR FAMILIES LIKE HERS. UP TO FRIENDS ACROSS THE AISLE,.

DON'T KEEP THIS WOMAN WAITING LONGER. GUARANTEE IT NATIONWIDE! [APPLAUSE] LIKE MOST AMERICANS, I BELIEVE ROE V. WADE GOT IT RIGHT. I THINK VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS FOR BEING AN INCREDIBLE LEADER IN DEFENDING REPRODUCTIVE.

FREEDOM AND SO MUCH MORE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] MY PREDECESSOR CAME TO OFFICE DETERMINED TO SEE ROE V. WADE OVERTURNED. HE'S THE REASON IT WAS OVERTURNED AND HE BRAGS ABOUT IT. LOOK AT THE CHAOS THAT HAS.

RESULTED. JOINING US TONIGHT IS KATE COX, A WIFE AND MOTHER FROM DALLAS. SHE'S BECOME PREGNANT AGAIN AND HAS A FETUS WITH THE FATAL CONDITION. HER DOCTOR TOLD KATE THAT HER OWN LIFE AND HER ABILITY TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE FUTURE WERE AT.

RISK IF SHE DIDN'T ACT BECAUSE TO. BECAUSE TEXAS LAW BANNED HER ABILITY TO ACT KATE AND HER HUSBAND HAD TO LEAVE THE STATE TO GET WHAT SHE NEEDED. WHAT HER FAMILY HAS GONE THROUGH SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED, BUT IT'S HAPPENING TO TOO MANY.

OTHERS. THERE ARE STATE LAWS BANNING HER FREEDOM TO CHOOSE. THEY ARE FORCING SURVIVORS OF RAPE AND INCEST TO LEAVE THE STATE TO GET THE CARE THAT THEY NEED. MANY OF YOU IN THIS CHAMBER AND MY PREDECESSOR ARE THREATENING.

TO BAN THIS FREEDOM. THE DECISION TO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE, THE SUPREME COURT MAJORITY WROTE THE FOLLOWING, AND WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, JUSTICES, WOMEN ARE NOT WITHOUT ELECTORAL POWER. EXCUSE ME, ELECTORAL OR POLITICAL POWER.

YOU ARE ABOUT TO REALIZE JUST HOW MUCH. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] CLEARLY! CLEARLY! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THOSE BRAGGING ABOUT OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT THE POWER OF WOMEN, BUT THEY.

FOUND OUT WHEN REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM WAS ON THE BALLOT, WE WON IN 2022 AND 2020 AND WE WILL WIN AGAIN IN 2024. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IF YOU WILL, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, SEND ME A CONGRESS THAT SUPPORTS RIGHT TO CHOOSE, I PROMISE YOU I WILL RESTORE.

ROE V. WADE AS THE LAW OF THE LAND AGAIN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] FOLKS, AMERICA CANNOT GO BACK. I'M HERE TONIGHT TO SHOW WHAT I BELIEVE IS THE WAY FORWARD, BECAUSE I KNOW HOW FAR WE'VE COME. FOUR YEARS AGO NEXT WEEK, BEFORE.

I CAME TO OFFICE, THE COUNTRY WAS HIT BY THE WORST PANDEMIC AND THE WORST ECONOMIC CRISIS OF THE CENTURY. REMEMBER THE FEAR ON THE RECORD LOSSES, REMEMBER THE SPIKES IN CRIME AND THE MURDER RATE, RAGING VIRUS THAT TOOK MORE THAN 1 MILLION AMERICAN LIVES, LOVED.

ONES, MILLIONS LEFT BEHIND. THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS OF ISOLATION AND LONELINESS, A PRESIDENT, MY PREDECESSOR, FAILED THE MOST BASIC PRESIDENTIAL DUTY THAT HE OWES TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE DUTY TO CARE. I THINK THAT'S UNFORGIVABLE.

I CAME TO OFFICE DETERMINED TO GET US THROUGH ONE OF THE TOUGHEST PERIODS IN THE NATION'S HISTORY. WE HAVE BURIED IT DOESN'T MAKE NEWS. IN A THOUSAND CITIES AND TOWNS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WRITING THE GREATEST COMEBACK STORY.

NEVER TOLD. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] SO LET'S TELL THE STORY HERE! TELL IT HERE AND NOW! AMERICA'S COMEBACK IS BUILDING THE FUTURE OF AMERICA POSSIBILITIES. AN ECONOMY FROM THE MIDDLE OUT ON THE BOTTOM UP, NOT THE TOP.

DOWN. INVESTING IN ALL-AMERICANS, ALL-AMERICANS, TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HAS A FAIR SHOT. WE LEAVE NO ONE, NO ONE BEHIND. THE PANDEMIC NO LONGER CONTROLS OUR LIVES. THE VACCINE THAT SAVED US FROM COVID ARE NOW BEING USED TO BEAT.

CANCER, TURNING SETBACK INTO COMEBACK. THAT'S WHAT AMERICA DOES. THAT'S WHAT AMERICA DOES. FOLKS, I INHERITED AN ECONOMY THAT WAS ON THE BRINK AND NOW IT IS THE ENVY OF THE WORLD. 15 MILLION NEW JOBS IN JUST THREE YEARS, A RECORD.

A RECORD. UNEMPLOYMENT AT 50 YEAR LOWS! RECORD 16 MILLION AMERICANS STARTING SMALL BUSINESSES AND EACH ONE IS A LITERAL ACT OF HOPE. HISTORIC JOB GROWTH AND SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH FOR BLACKS AND HISPANICS AND ASIAN AMERICANS,.

800,000 NEW MANUFACTURING JOBS IN AMERICA, AND COUNTING. WE ARE THE MANUFACTURING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. WE ARE, AND WE WILL. MORE PEOPLE HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE TODAY — MORE PEOPLE HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE TODAY THAN EVER BEFORE.

THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP IS A SMALL IS IT SPENDING 20 YEARS. WAGES KEEP GOING UP, INFLATION KEEPS COMING DOWN. INFLATION HAS DROPPED FROM 9% TO 3%, THE LOWEST IN THE WORLD AND TRENDING LOWER. [APPLAUSE] THE LANDING IS AND WILL BE SOFT.

AND NOW INSTEAD OF IMPORTING FOREIGN PRODUCTS AND EXPORTING AMERICAN JOBS, WE ARE EXPORTING AMERICAN PRODUCTS AND CREATING AMERICAN JOBS! RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA WHERE THEY BELONG! [APPLAUSE] IT TAKES TIME, BUT THE AMERICAN.

PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO FEEL IT. CONSUMER STUDIES SHOW CONSUMER CONFIDENCE IS SOARING. BUY AMERICA HAS BEEN THE LAW OF THE LAND SINCE THE 1930s. PASTOR MINISTRATIONS, INCLUDING MY PREDECESSOR, INCLUDING SOME DEMOCRATS AS WELL IN THE PAST, FAILED TO BUY AMERICAN.

NOT ANYMORE. ON MY WATCH, FEDERAL PROJECTS THAT YOU FUND BY HELPING BUILD AMERICAN ROADS, BRIDGES, AND HIGHWAYS, WILL BE MADE WITH AMERICAN PRODUCTS AND BUILT BY AMERICAN WORKERS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] CREATING GOOD-PAYING AMERICAN.

JOBS! AND THANKS TO OUR CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT, THE UNITED STATES IS INVESTING MORE IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT THAN EVER BEFORE! DURING THE PANDEMIC SHORTAGE OF SEMICONDUCTORS, CHIPS, THAT DROVE UP THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING.

FROM CELL PHONES TO AUTOMOBILES, AND BY THE WAY, WE INVENTED THOSE CHIPS RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. INSTEAD OF HAVING TO IMPORT THEM, PRIVATE COMPANIES ARE NOW INVESTING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO BUILD NEW CHIP FACTORIES HERE IN AMERICA, CREATING TENS OF.

THOUSANDS OF JOBS, MANY OF THOSE JOBS PAYING $100,000 A YEAR AND DON'T REQUIRE A COLLEGE DEGREE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IN FACT, MY POLICIES HAVE ATTRACTED $650 BILLION IN PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT. CLEAN ENERGY, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING CREATING TENS OF.

THOUSANDS OF JOBS HERE IN AMERICA. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND THANKS TO OUR BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW, 46,000 NEW PROJECTS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED ALL ACROSS YOUR COMMUNITIES. BY THE WAY, I NOTICE SOME OF YOU VOTED AGAINST IT, BUT ARE.

CHEERING THAT MONEY COMING ON. I'M WITH YOU. I'M WITH YOU. AND IF YOU DON'T WANT THAT MONEY IN HER DISTRICT, JUST LET ME KNOW. MODERNIZING OUR ROADS AND BRIDGES, PORTS AND AIRPORTS, PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEMS, REMOVING.

POISONOUS LEAD PIPES SO EVERY CHILD CAN DRINK RAINWATER WITHOUT RISKING BRAIN DAMAGE. PROVIDING AFFORDABLE HIGH-SPEED INTERNET FOR EVERY AMERICAN NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE, URBAN, SUBURBAN, OR RURAL COMMUNITIES, RED STATES AND BLUE STATES. RECORD INVESTMENTS IN TRAVEL.

COMMUNITIES BECAUSE OF MY INVESTMENT IN FAMILY FARMS. BECAUSE I INVESTED IN FAMILY FARMS LED BY MY SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, WHO KNOWS MORE ABOUT THIS THAN ANYONE I KNOW. THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WON'T HAVE TO LEAVE, LEAVE HOME TO MAKE A LIVING.

THE GREAT COMEBACK STORY IS BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS. HOME TO AN AUTO 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 LIVELIHOODS.

HOPE WAS FADING. WHEN I WAS ELECTED TO OFFICE AND WE RAISED IT REPEATEDLY KNOWING UNIONS WOULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. UAW WORKED LIKE HELL TO KEEP THE PLANT OPEN GET THE JOBS BACK AND TOGETHER WE SUCCEEDED. INSTEAD OF AUTO FACTORIES.

SHUTTING DOWN, THEY REOPEN A NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART BATTERY FACTORY TO POWER THOSE CARS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] FOLKS… THE FOLKS OF BELVIDERE I SAY INSTEAD OF YOUR TOWN BEING LEFT BEHIND, YOUR COMMUNITY IS MOVING FORWARD AGAIN BECAUSE INSTEAD OF.

WATCHING AUTO JOBS OF THE FUTURE GO OVERSEAS, 4,000 UNION JOBS WITH HIGHER WAGES ARE BUILDING THE FUTURE IN BELVIDERE RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] HERE TONIGHT IS UAW PRESIDENT SEAN FAIN. SEAN, WHERE ARE YOU, STAND UP.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND DON SIMS, THIRD-GENERATION WORKER, UAW WORKER IN BELVIDERE. SHAWN, I WAS PROUD TO BE THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO STAND AT THE PICKET LINE AND TODAY, SHE HAS A GOOD JOB IN HER HOMETOWN PROVIDING STABILITY FOR HER FAMILY AND PRIDE AND DIGNITY AS.

WELL. SHOWING ONCE AGAIN WALL STREET DIDN'T BUILD AMERICA, THEY ARE NOT BAD GUYS, THEY DIDN'T BUILD IT THOUGH. THE MIDDLE CLASS BUILT THE COUNTRY AND UNIONS BUILT THE MIDDLE CLASS! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE].

I SAY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHEN AMERICA GETS KNOCKED DOWN, WE GET BACK UP! KEEP GOING! THAT'S AMERICA! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THAT'S YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU AMERICA IS COMING BACK.

IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU OUR FUTURE IS BRIGHTER. IF BECAUSE OF YOU THAT TONIGHT WE CAN PROUDLY SAY THE STATE OF OUR UNION IS STRONG AND GETTING STRONGER. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CROWD CHANTING “FOUR MORE YEARS”].

>> President Biden: TONIGHT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF POSSIBILITIES THAT WE CAN BUILD TOGETHER. A FUTURE WHERE THE DAYS OF TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS ARE OVER AND THE WEALTHY AND THE BIGGEST CORPORATIONS NO LONGER GET ALL THE TAX BREAKS.

BY THE WAY, I UNDERSTAND CORPORATIONS, I COME FROM A STATE THAT HAS MORE CORPORATIONS INVESTED IN EVERY ONE OF YOUR STATES COMBINED. I'VE REPRESENTATIVE FOR 36 YEARS, I AM NOT ANTICORPORATE BUT I GREW UP IN A HOMEWORK TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS DIDN'T.

PUT MUCH IN MY DADS ITCHING TABLE. THAT'S WHY I'M DETERMINED TO THIRD THINGS AROUND, SO THE MIDDLE CLASSED AS WELL. WHEN THEY DO WEALTH THE POOR DO WELL IN THE WEALTHY STILL DO VERY WELL. WE ALL DO WELL AND THERE'S MORE.

TO DO TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE FEELING THE BENEFITS OF ALL WE ARE DOING. AMERICANS PAY MORE FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. IT'S WRONG, AND I'M ENDING IT! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THE LAW THAT I PROPOSED AND.

SIGNED, NOT ONE OF YOU REPUBLICANS WORKED FOR IT, WE FINALLY BEAT BIG PHARMA. INSTEAD OF PAYING $400 A MONTH OR THEREABOUTS FOR INSULIN FOR DIABETES, IT ONLY COSTS TEN BUCKS TO MAKE, THEY ONLY GET PAID 35 A MONTH AND THEY WOULD STILL MAKE A HEALTHY PROFIT.

[APPLAUSE] WHAT TO DO NEXT, I WANT TO CAP THE COST OF INSULIN, $35 A MONTH FOR EVERY AMERICAN WHO NEEDS IT, EVERYONE! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] FOR YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IT BUT FINALLY WE GOT IT DONE, WE GAVE MEDICARE THE POWER.

TO NEGOTIATE PRICES ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, JUST LIKE THE VA IS ABLE TO DO FOR VETERANS. THAT'S NOT JUST SAVING SENIORS MONEY, IT IS SAVING TAXPAYERS MONEY. CUT THE FEDERAL DEFICIT BY $160 BILLION.

BECAUSE MEDICARE WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO PAY THOSE EXORBITANT PRICES TO BIG PHARMA. THIS YEAR MEDICARE IS NEGOTIATING LOWER PRICES FOR SOME OF THE COSTLIEST DRUGS ON THE MARKET TO TREAT EVERYTHING FROM HEART DISEASE TO ARTHRITIS. IT'S NOW TIME TO GO FURTHER AND.

GIVE MEDICARE THE POWER TO NEGOTIATE LOWER PRICES FOR 500 DIFFERENT DRUGS OVER THE NEXT DECADE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THEY ARE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY, GUYS. AND THEY WILL STILL BE EXTREMELY PROFITABLE.

IT WILL NOT ONLY SAVE LIVES. IT WILL SAVE TAXPAYERS ANOTHER $200 BILLION. STARTING NEXT YEAR, TOTAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS FOR SENIORS ON MEDICARE AT $2,000 A YEAR. EXPENSIVE CANCER DRUGS THAT COST TEN TO 12, $15,000.

I WANT TO CAP PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES AT $2,000 A YEAR FOR EVERYONE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I'M GOING TO GET IN TROUBLE FOR SAYING THAT BUT GETTING IN AIR FORCE ONE TO FLY TO TORONTO, BERLIN, MOSCOW — EXCUSE ME — EVEN MOSCOW, PROBABLY.

[LAUGHTER] RINGER PRESCRIPTION WITH YOU AND I PROMISE I WILL GET IT FOR YOU FOR 40% ACROSS TWO TO OUR PLANE FROM THE SAME COMPANY, SAME DRUG, SAME PLACE. FOLKS, THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, THE OLD OBAMACARE IS STILL A VERY BIG DEAL.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] OVER 100 MILLION OF YOU CAN NO LONGER BE DENIED HEALTH INSURANCE BECAUSE OF PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS. BUT MY PREDECESSOR AND MANY IN THIS CHAMBER WANT TO TAKE THOSE — THAT PRESCRIPTION DRUG AWAY BY REPEALING AFFORDABLE.

CARE ACT. I'M NOT GOING TO LET THAT HA HAPPEN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WE'VE STOPPED YOU 50 TIMES BEFORE AND WE WILL STOP YOU AGAIN! IN FACT, I'M NOT ONLY PROTECTING IT.

I'M EXPANDING IT. WE ENACTED TAX CREDITS OF $800 PER PERSON PER YEAR TO REDUCE HEALTH CARE COSTS FOR MILLIONS OF WORKING FAMILIES. THAT TAX CREDIT EXPIRES NEXT YEAR. I WANT TO MAKE THAT SAVINGS PERMANENT.

[APPLAUSE] TO STATE THE OBVIOUS, WOMEN ARE MORE THAN HALF OUR POPULATION. BUT RESEARCH IN WOMEN'S HEALTH HAS ALWAYS BEEN UNDERFUNDED. THAT'S WHY WE'RE LAUNCHING THE FIRST EVER WHITE HOUSE INITIATIVE ON WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH LED BY JILL, DOING AN.

INCREDIBLE JOB AS FIRST LADY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] PASSED MY PLAN FOR $12 BILLION OF HEALTH CARE RESEARCH COULD BENEFIT MILLIONS OF LIFE ALL ACROSS AMERICA. I KNOW THE COST OF HOUSING IS SO IMPORTANT TO YOU. INFLATION KEEPS COMING DOWN,.

MORTGAGE RATES WILL COME DOWN AS WELL AND THE FED ACKNOWLEDGES THAT. BUT I'M 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 TOWARDS THEIR.

MORTGAGE WHEN THEY BUY THEIR FIRST HOME OR TRADE UP FOR A LITTLE MORE SPACE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND BY ADMINISTRATION IS ALSO ELIMINATING TITLE INSURANCE ON FEDERALLY-BACKED ORG EDGES. WHEN YOU REFINANCE YOUR HOME, YOU CAN SAVE $1,000 OR MORE AS A.

CONSEQUENCE. FOR MILLIONS OF RENTERS, WE ARE CRACKING DOWN ON BIG LANDLORDS WHO USE USING — WILL BREAK ANTITRUST LAWS BY PRICE-FIXING AND DRIVING UP RENT WITH CUT RED TAPE SO BUILDERS CAN GET FEDERAL FINANCING, WHICH IS ALREADY HELPING BUILD A RECORD.

1.7 MILLION NEW HOUSING UNITS NATIONWIDE. NOW PASS AND BUILD AND RENOVATE 2 MILLION AFFORDABLE HOMES AND BRING THOSE RENTS DOWN. [APPLAUSE] 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 4-YEAR-OLDS. YOU KNOW, I THINK I POINTED OUT LAST YEAR — [APPLAUSE].

I THINK I POINTED OUT LAST YEAR THE CHILDREN COMING FROM BROKEN HOMES WHERE THERE IS NO BOOKS WHERE THEY ARE NOT READ TO AND NOT SPOKEN TO VERY OFTEN START SCHOOL, KINDERGARTEN OR FIRST GRADE HEARING — HAVING HEARD A MILLION FEWER WORDS SPOKEN.

STUDIES HAVE SHOWED THAT CHILDREN WHO GO TO PRESCHOOL ARE 50% MORE LIKELY TO FINISH HIGH SCHOOL, AND EARN HER TO A FOUR-YEAR DEGREE NO MATTER WHAT THEIR BACKGROUND IS. [APPLAUSE] AND A YEAR AND A HALF AGO WITH LEADERS OF THE BUSINESS.

ROUNDTABLE, THEY WERE MAD — THEY WERE ANGRY — WELL, THEY WERE DISCUSSING WHY I WANTED TO SPEND MONEY ON EDUCATION. I POINTED OUT TO THEM AS VICE PRESIDENT I MET WITH OVER EIGHT — I THINK IT WAS 182 OF THOSE FOLKS, DON'T HOLD ME TO THE EXACT NUMBER.

AND I ASKED THEM WHAT THEY NEED MOST, THE CEOs. AND YOU'VE HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE, THEY SAY A BETTER EDUCATED WORKFORCE, RIGHT? SOY LOOKED AT THEM AND SAID I COME FROM DELAWARE. USED TO BE THE EIGHTH LARGEST.

CORPORATION IN THE WORLD AND EVERY NEW ENTERPRISE THEY BOUGHT, THEY EDUCATED THE WORKFORCE TO THAT ENTERPRISE. BUT NONE OF YOU DO THAT ANYMORE. WHY ARE YOU ANGRY WITH ME PROVIDING YOU THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE BEST EDUCATED 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. [APPLAUSE] I'M ALSO CONNECTING LOCAL BUSINESSES AND HIGH SCHOOLS SO.

STUDENTS GET HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE AND A PATH TO A GOOD PAYING JOB WHETHER OR NOT THEY GO TO COLLEGE. AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT COLLEGE IS MORE AFFORDABLE. LET'S CONTINUE INCREASING PROGRAMS TO WORKING AND MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILIES AND.

INCREASE RECORD INVESTMENTS IN HBCU AND MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS, INCLUDING HISPANIC INSTITUTIONS. [APPLAUSE] I WAS TOLD I COULDN'T UNIVERSALLY JUST CHANGE THE WAY IN WHICH WE DEALT WITH STUDENT LOANS.

I FIXED TWO STUDENT LOAN PROGRAMS THAT ALREADY EXISTED TO REDUCE THE BURDEN OF STUDENT DEBT FOR NEARLY 4 MILLION AMERICANS, INCLUDING NURSES, FIREFIGHTERS AND OTHER PUBLIC SERVANTS. LIKE CAIN AND JONES, A PUBLIC EDUCATOR IN MINNESOTA WHO IS.

HERE WITH US TONIGHT. WHERE ARE YOU? THANK YOU. HE HAS EDUCATED HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS SO THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE. NOW HE IS ABLE TO HELP AFTER DEBT FORGIVENESS TO GET HIS OWN DAUGHTER TO COLLEGE.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND FOLKS, LOOK. SUCH RELIEF IS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY BECAUSE FOLKS ARE NOW ABLE TO BUY A HOME, START A BUSINESS, START A FAMILY AND WHILE WE ARE AT IT, I WANT THE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS TO GET A RAISE.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BY THE WAY, THE FIRST COUPLE YEARS WE CUT THE DEFICIT. NOW LET ME SPEAK TO THE QUESTION OF FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS FOR OTHER QUESTIONS. I'VE BEEN DELIVERING REAL RESULTS IN FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WAYS.

WE'VE ALREADY CUT THE FEDERAL DEFICIT OVER A TRILLION DOLLARS. I SIGNED THE BIPARTISAN DEAL. TO CUT ANOTHER TRILLION DOLLARS IN THE NEXT DECADE. IT'S MY GOAL TO CUT THE DEFICIT ANOTHER 3 TRILLION BY MAKING THE BIG CORPORATIONS AND WEALTHY FINALLY BEGIN TO PAY THEIR FAIR.

SHARE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] LOOK, I'M AT CAPITALIST, YOU WANT TO MAKE A MILLION OR A MILLION BUCKS, THAT'S GREAT, JUST PAY OUR FAIR SHARE IN TA TAXES! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AFFAIR TAX CODE IS HOW WE INVEST.

TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY GREAT, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, DEFENSE, AND SO MUCH MORE. BUT HERE'S THE DEAL, THE LAST HAD A TAX CUT OVERWHELMINGLY BENEFITING THE 1% AND EXPLODED THE FEDERAL DEFICIT. THEY ADDED MORE TO THE NATIONAL DEBT AND ANY PRESIDENTIAL TERM.

IN AMERICAN HISTORY. CHECK THE NUMBERS. FOLKS AT HOME, DOES ANYBODY REALLY THINK THE TAX CODE IS FAIR? DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT WEALTHY AND BIG CORPORATIONS NEED ANOTHER TO TRILLION DOLLAR TAX BREAK?.

I SURE DON'T. I'M GOING TO KEEP FIGHTING LIKE HELL TO MAKE IT FAIR. UNDER MY PLAN NOBODY EARNING LESS THAN $400,000 A YEAR WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL PENDING IN FEDERAL TAXES. NOBODY, NOT 1 PENNY. IN FACT, THE CHILD TAX CREDIT.

CUT TAXES ARE MILLIONS OF WORKING FAMILY AND CUT CHILD POVERTY IN HALF. DESTROY THE CHILD TAX CREDIT. NO CHILD SHOULD GO HUNGRY IN THIS COUNTRY. A WAY TO MAKE THE TAX CODE FAIR IS TO MAKE BIG CORPORATIONS IN THE VERY WEALTHY TO PAY THEIR.

OWN SHARE. REMEMBER IN 2020, 55 OF THE BIGGEST COMPANIES IN AMERICA PAID $40 BILLION AND PAID $0 IN FEDERAL INCOME TAX, $0. NOT ANYMORE. THANKS TO THEIR LAW WE WROTE AND SENT THEM A BIG OF THESE HAVE TO PAY A MINIMUM OF 15%.

BUT THAT IS STILL LESS THEN WHAT PEOPLE PAY IN FEDERAL TAXES. IT'S TIME TO RAISE CORPORATE FEDERAL MINIMUM TAX TO AT LEAST 1%. [APPLAUSE] SO EVERY BIG CORPORATION FINALLY BEGINS TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE. ALSO I WANT TO END TAX BREAKS.

FOR BIG PHARMA, MASSIVE EXEC OF PAYS, $1 MILLION CAN BE DEDUCTED. THEY CAN PAY $20 MILLION IF THEY WANT. AND IT NOW. YOU KNOW, 1,000 BILLIONAIRES IN AMERICA. YOU KNOW WHAT THE AVERAGE.

FEDERAL TAXES FOR THOSE BILLIONAIRES? NO. THEY ARE MAKING GREAT SACRIFICES, 8.2%. THAT'S FAR LESS THAN THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS PAY. NO BILLIONAIRES SHOULD PAY A LOWER FEDERAL TAX BREAK THAN A.

SANITATION WORKER, A TEACHER, OR A NURSE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I PROPOSE MINIMUM TAX FOR BILLIONAIRES OF 25%, JUST 25%. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD RAISE? THAT WOULD RAISE $500 BILLION OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS. IMAGINE WHAT THAT COULD DO FOR.

AMERICA. IMAGINE A FUTURE WITH AFFORDABLE CHILD CARE. IMAGINE A FAMILY IF THEY NEED TO GO TO WORK, TO GROW THE ECONOMY. IMAGINE A FUTURE WITH PAID WAGE BECAUSE NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN WORKING AND TAKING CARE OF A FAMILY MEMBER.

IMAGINE, IMAGINE A FUTURE OF HOME CARE, PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES SO THEY CAN STAY IN THEIR HOMES AND FAMILY CAREGIVERS CAN FINALLY GET THE PAY THEY DESERVE. TONIGHT, 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 BOARD. IF ANYONE HERE TRIES TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY OR MEDICARE OR RAISE THE RETIREMENT AGE, I WILL STOP YOU. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THE WORKING PEOPLE, THE WORKING.

PEOPLE WHO BUILT THIS COUNTRY PAY MORE IN SOCIAL SECURITY THAN MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES DO. IT'S NOT FAIR. WE HAVE TWO WAYS TO GO. REPUBLICANS CAN CUT SOCIAL SECURY AND GIVE MORE TAX BREAKS TO THE WEALTHY.

I WILL — WELL, THAT'S THE PROPOSAL. YOU GUYS DON'T WANT ANOTHER $2 TRILLION TAX CUT? I KIND OF THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT YOUR PLAN WAS. [LAUGHTER] WELL, THAT IS GOOD TO HEAR. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO CUT ANOTHER.

$2 TRILLION FOR THE SUPER WEALTHY? THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR. I WILL PROTECT AND STRENGTHEN SOCIAL SECURITY AND MAKE THE WEALTHY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] LOOK, TOO MANY CORPORATIONS RAISE PRICES TO PAD THE PROFITS.

CHARGING MORE AND MORE FOR LESS AND LESS. THAT'S WHY I'M CRACKING DOWN ON CORPORATIONS AND PRICE GOUGING AND DECEPTIVE HOUSING FROM FOOD TO HOUSING. THIS NEXT COMPANY THING YOU WILL NOT NOTICE IF THEY CHANGE THE SIZE OF THE BAG AND PUT A HECK.

OF A LOT FEWER — SAME SIZE BAG COME UP WITH FEWER CHIPS IN IT. NO, I'M NOT JOKING. PAST BOBBY CASEY'S BILL AND STOP THIS! I REALLY MEAN IT! [APPLAUSE] WE PROBABLY ALL SAW THAT COMMERCIAL ON SNICKER BARS.

YOU GET CHARGED THE SAME AMOUNT, YOU GET ABOUT 10% FEWER SNICKERS IN IT. [LAUGHTER] LOOK, I'M ALSO GETTING RID OF JUNK FEES. THE SAME FEES THAT AT THE END OF YOUR BILL, THEY ARE THERE WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE.

IF MY ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED FOR CUTTING CREDIT CARD LATE FEES FROM $32 TO $8. BANKS AND CREDIT CARD COMPANIES ARE ALLOWED TO CHARGE WHAT WILL COST THEM TO INSTIGATE THE COLLECTION. AND THAT IS MORE A HECK OF A LOT LIKE $8 THAN 30 SOMETHING.

DOLLARS. THEY DON'T LIKE IT, THE CREDIT CREDIT CARD COPIES DON'T LIKE IT. BUT I'M SAVING AMERICAN FAMILIES $20 BILLION WITH THE JUNK FEES I WILL BE ELIMINATING. FOLKS AT HOME, $20 BILLION IN PROFITS.

I'M NOT STOPPING THERE. MY ADMINISTRATION PROPOSE TO MAKE RULES THAT TRAVEL, TRAVEL, TO TELL YOU THE PRICE UPFRONT SO THERE IS NO SURP SURPRISES. IT MATTERS, IT MATTERS. AND SO THERE'S THIS. IN NOVEMBER, MY TEAM BEGAN.

SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS WITH A BIPARTISAN GROUP OF SENATORS. PEERED AT THE RESULT WAS A BIPARTISAN BILL WITH THE TOUGHEST SIDE OF BORDER SECURITY FORMS WE HAVE EVER SEEN. OH, YOU DON'T THINK SO? OH, YOU DON'T LIKE THAT BILL, DO YOU?.

THE CONSERVATIVES GOT TOGETHER AND SAID WAS A GOOD BILL? WHILE, I'LL BE DARNED, THAT'S AMAZING. THAT BIPARTISAN AND I ARE 500 AND MORE SECURITY AGENTS AND OFFICERS. 100 MORE IMMIGRATION JUDGES TO TACKLE THE BACK LOAD OF TOO MANY.

CASES. OF 300 MORE ASYLUM OFFICERS AND NEW POLICIES TO RESOLVE CASES IN SIX MONTHS INSTEAD OF SIX YEARS NOW. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WHAT ARE YOU AGAINST? 100 MORE HIGH-TECH DRUG THEIR ATTENTION MACHINES TO INCREASE.

THE ABILITY TO SCREEN AND STOP VEHICLES SMUGGLING FENTANYL INTO AMERICA THAT'S KILLING THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN. THIS BILL WOULD SAVE LIVES. IT WOULD ALSO GIVE THE PRESIDENT THE AUTHORITY TO SHUT DOWN THE BORDER WHEN THE MIGRANTS AT THE BORDER IS OVERWHELMING.

THE BORDER PATROL UNIT ENDORSED THIS BILL. OF THE FEDERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — YEAH, YEAH. YOU'RE SAYING, WELL, LOOK AT THE FACTS. I KNOW — [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I KNOW YOU KNOW HOW TO READ.

I BELIEVE THAT GIVING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE MAJORITY AND THE HOUSE AND SENATE WOULD ENDORSE THE BILL AS WELL. THE MAJORITY RIGHT NOW, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, POLITICS HAS DERAILED THIS BILL SO FAR. I'M TOLD MY PREDECESSOR CALLED MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND THE.

SENATE TO DEMAND TO BLOCK THE BILL. HE VIEWED THE POLITICAL WIN FOR ME AND NOT FOR HIM. IT'S NOT ABOUT HIM, IT'S NOT ABOUT ME. I — [LAUGHTER] [BOOING]LINCOLN RILEY!.

THE MENACING YOUNG WOMAN WHO WAS KILLED BY AN ILLEGAL. THAT'S RIGHT. BUT HOW MANY OF THOUSAND PEOPLES HAVE BEEN KILLED BY ILLEGALS? TO HEAR PARENTS I SAY COME ON MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU HAVING LOST CHILDREN MYSELF. I UNDERSTAND.

BUT LOOK, IF WE CHANGE THAT DYNAMIC AT THE BORDER, PEOPLE PAY SMUGGLERS $8,000 TO GET ACROSS THE BORDER. BECAUSE THEY KNOW IF THEY GET BY, THEY KNOW IF THEY GET BY AND LET INTO THE COUNTRY, IT 6-8 YEARS BEFORE THEY HAVE A HEA HEARING.

AND IT'S WORTH TAKING THE CHANCE WITH A THOUSAND DOLLARS. BUT — BUT, BUT IF IT'S ONLY SIX MONTHS — SIX WEEKS, THE IDEA IS IT'S HIGHLY UNLIKELY. THAT PEOPLE WILL PAY THAT MONEY AND COME ALL THE WAY KNOWING THEY'LL BE KICKED OUT QUICKLY. FOLKS, I WOULD RESPECTFULLY SAY.

TO THE MIC AND PEOPLE THAT WE NEED TO GET THIS BILL DONE. AND WE NEED NOW. [CHANTING “GET THIS DONE”] IF MY PREDECESSOR IS WATCHING, I SAY JOIN ME IN TELLING CONGRESS TO PASS IT. WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER.

APPARENTLY HERE'S WHAT HE WILL NOT DO. I WILL NOT GIV DEMONIZE IMMIGRAS SAYING THEY ARE THE POISON OF THE 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 INTRODUCE THE BILL AND TAKE A LOOK AT IT AS ALL THIS AND MORE BEER AND SECURE THE BORDER, PROVIDE A PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP FOR DREAMERS AND SO MUCH MORE. UNLIKE MY PREDECESSOR, I KNOW WHO WE ARE AS AMERICANS. AND WE'RE THE ONLY NATION IN THE.

WORLD WITH THE HEART AND SOUL THAT DRAWS FROM OLD AND NEW, HOME TO NATIVE AMERICANS AND ANCESTORS WHO'VE BEEN HERE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. HOME TO PEOPLE OF EVERY PLACE ON EARTH. SOME CAME FREELY, SOME CAME IN CHAINS, SOME CAME FAMINE STRUCK.

LIKE MY ANCESTRAL FAMILY IN IRELAND, SOME TO FLEE PERSECUTION, TO CHASE DREAMS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE ANYWHERE BUT HERE IN AMERICA. THAT'S AMERICA. AND WE ALL COME FROM SOMEWHERE. WE ARE ALL AMERICAN. [APPLAUSE].

LOOK, FOLKS, IT'S A SIMPLE CHOICE. WE CAN FIGHT ABOUT FIXING THE BORDER OR WE CAN FIX IT. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I'M READY TO FIX IT! SAID ME THE BORDER BILL NOW! [CHANTING “FIX IT”] TRANSFORMATIONAL MOMENT IN.

HISTORY. 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. THEY WERE BEATEN, THEY WERE BLOODY, LEFT FOR DEAD.

LATE FRIEND AND FORMER COLLEAGUE JOHN LEWIS WAS ON THAT MARCH. WE MISS YOU. [APPLAUSE] JOINING US TONIGHT, OUR OTHER MARCHERS. ON THE FLOOR INCLUDING BETTIE MAE FIKES KNOWN AS THE VOICE OF SELMA.

IF SHE SANG SONGS OF PRAYER AND PROTEST ON THAT BLOODY SUNDAY TO SHAKE THE NATION'S CONSCIOUS SPIRIT OF FIVE MONTHS LATER, THE VOTING RIGHTS ACTS PASSED AND WS SIGNED INTO LAW. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BUT 59 YEARS LATER, IT'S TAKEN US BACK IN TIME, VOTER SUPPRESSION, ELECTION SUBVERSION, UNLIMITED DARK MO MONEY, EXTREME GERRYMANDERING, JOHN LEWIS IS A GREAT FRIEND TO MANY OF US HERE. IF YOU TRULY WANT TO HONOR HIM.

WITH ALL THE HEROES THAT MARCHED WITH HIM AND H IT IS TIME TO DO MORE THAN TALK THEY ARE TO PASS OF VOTE ACT. JOHN LEWIS VOTING RIGHT NOW. AND STOP, STOP DENYING ANOTHER CORE VALUE OF AMERICA. OUR DIVERSITY ACROSS AMERICAN LIFE, BANNING BOOKS IS WRONG.

INSTEAD OF OUR RACING HISTORY, LET'S MAKE HISTORY. IF I WANT TO PROTECT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS. PAST THE EQUALITY ACT. AND MY MESSAGE TO TRANSGENDER AMERICANS, I HAVE YOUR BACK. [APPLAUSE] PASSED THE ACT FOR WORKERS.

RIGHTS. RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE! BECAUSE ANY WORKER HAS A RIGHT TO MORE THAN A DECENT LIVING THEN $7 AN HOUR. WE ARE ALSO MAKING HISTORY BY CONFRONTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS, NOT DENYING IT. I DON'T THINK ANY OF YOU THINK.

THERE IS NO LONGER A CLIMATE CRISIS — AT LEAST, I HOPE YOU DON'T. I'M TAKING THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ACTION EVER ON CLIMATE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. I'M CUTTING OUR CARBON EMISSIONS IN HALF BY 2030. CREATING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF.

CLEAN ENERGY JOBS BY INSTALLING 500500,000 ELECTRIC CHARGING VEHICLE STATIONS. CONSERVING 30% OF AMERICANS LAND AND WATER BY 2030. TAKING ACTION ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, FENCE LINE COMMUNITY SMOTHERED A LEGACY OF POLLUTION. PATTERNED AFTER THE PEACE CORPS.

AND THE AMERICAN COURT, LAUNCHED THE CLIMATE CORE TO PUT 20,000 YOUNG PEOPLE TO WORK IN THE FOREFRONT OF OUR CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE. I WILL TRIPLE THAT NUMBER IN A DECADE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] STATE THE OBVIOUS, ALL AMERICANS.

DESERVE THE FREEDOM TO BE SAFE. AND AMERICA SAFER TODAY THAN WHEN I TOOK OFFICE. THE YEAR I TOOK OFFICE, MURDER RATES WERE AROUND 30% I'M A 30% THEY WENT UP. THE BIGGEST INCREASE IN HISTORY. IT WAS THEN THROUGH MY AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN WHICH EVERY AMERICAN.

VOTED AGAINST, WE MADE THE LARGEST INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC SAFETY EVER. LAST YEAR, THE MURDER RATES DECREASED IN HISTORY. IN VIOLENT CRIME FELL TO ONE OF THE LOWEST LEVELS IN 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 INTERVENTION. GIVE COMMUNITIES THE TOOLS TO CRACK DOWN ON GUN CRIME, CARJACKING. KEEP BUILDING TRUST AS WE'VE BEEN DOING TAKING EXECUTIVE.

ACTION ON POLICE REFORM. IT CAN BE THE LAW OF THE LAND. ERECTING MY CABINET TO BE FOR THE MERE POSSESSION BECAUSE NOBODY SHOULD BE JAILED FOR SIMPLY USING OR HAVING IT ON THEIR RECORD. TAKE ON CRIMES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

I'M WRAPPING UP THE FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT OF THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT THAT I PROBABLY WROTE WHEN I'M A SENATOR SO WE CAN FINALLY, FINALLY END THIS SCOURGE AGAINST WOMEN IN AMERICA. [APPLAUSE] OTHER KINDS OF VIOLENCE I WANT.

TO STOP. WITH US TONIGHT IS JASMINE, WHO IS 9-YEAR-OLD SISTER JACKIE WAS MURDERED WITH 20 ELEMENTARY CLASSMATES AND TEACHERS WERE MURDERED IN UVALDE. IF WE WENT THERE FOR A COUPLE DAYS AND WE SPENT HOURS AND HOURS WITH EACH OF THE FAMILIES.

IF WE HEARD THEIR MESSAGE SO EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM AND THIS CHAMBER CAN HEAR THE SAME MESSAGE. THE CONSTANT REFRAIN WE SAT THERE FOR HOURS WE HEARD FROM EVERY FAMILY. THEY SAID, DO SOMETHING. DO SOMETHING!.

WELL, I DID DO SOMETHING BY ESTABLISHING THE FIRST EVER OF OFFICE OF GUN PREVENTION VIOLENCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. THE VICE PRESIDENT AGREED TO BE IN CHARGE. THANK YOU. OF MEANWHILE MEANWHILE –[APPLAUSE].

MEANWHILE, MY PREDECESSOR TOLD THE NRA HE'S PROUD HE DID NOTHING ON GUNS WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT. AFTER ANOTHER SHOOTING IN IOWA RECENTLY, HE SAID WHEN ASKED ABOUT TO DO WITH IT, HE SAID JUST GET OVER IT. THAT'S HIS QUOTE.

“JUST GET OVER IT.” I SAY, STOP IT! STOP IT, STOP IT, STOP IT! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I'M PROUD WE BEGAN TO SIGN THE MOST SIGNIFICANT GUN SAFETY LAW IN NEARLY 30 YEARS BECAUSE OF THIS CONGRESS. WEWE MUST EAT TO.

VAST UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CH CHECKS. NONE OF IT, NONE OF IT ARE TAUGHT THE SECOND AMENDMENT FOR 12 YEARS, NONE OF THIS VIOLATES THE SECOND AMENDMENT OR VILIFIES RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERS. YOU KNOW, AS WE MANAGE CHILD'S AT HOME, WE ARE MANAGING CRISIS.

ABROAD IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I KNOW THE LAST FIVE MONTHS HAS BEEN GUT-WRENCHING FOR SO MANY PEOPLE, FOR THE ISRAELI PEOPLE, THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, AND SOMEBODY HERE IN AMERICA. THIS CRISIS BEGAN ON OCTOBER 7TH WITH THE MASKER BY A TERRORIST GROUP CALLED HAMAS AS YOU ALL.

KNOW. 1,200 INNOCENT PEOPLE, 100 GIRLS MEN AND BOYS SLAUGHTERED AFTER ENDURING SEXUAL VIOLENCE. THE DEADLIEST DAY FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE SINCE THE HOLOCAUST. 250 HOSTAGES TAKEN. IN THIS CHAMBER TONIGHT OUR FAMILIES WHO LO LOVED ONES ARE.

BEING HELD BY HAMAS. I PLEDGE TO THE FAMILIES THAT WE WILL NOT REST UNTIL WE BRING YOUR FAMILIES HOME. WE ALSO — [APPLAUSE] WE WILL ALSO WORK AROUND THE CLOCK TO BRING HOME EVAN AND PAUL, AMERICANS BEING UNJUSTLY.

DETAINED BY THE RUSSIANS AND OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD. ISRAEL HAS THE RIGHT HAMAS RELEASED HOSTAGES.LAYING D SURRENDERING THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR OCTOBER 7TH. BUT ISRAEL — EXCUSE ME, ISRAEL HAD A BURDEN AS HAMAS HIDES AND OPERATES AMONG CIVILIAN.

POPULATION LIKE COWARDS UNDER HOSPITALS, DAY CARE CENTERS, AND THE LIKE. THEY HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY THOUGH TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN GAZA. [APPLAUSE] THIS WAR HAS TAKEN A GREATER TOLL ON INNOCENT CIVILIANS THAN.

ALL PREVIOUS WARS IN GAZA COMBINED. OF MORE THAN THOUSAND PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED. MOST OF WHOM ARE NOT HAMAS. THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF INNOCENTS, WOMEN, GIRLS, CHILDREN, BOYS, ALL ORPHAN. THERE'S GOING TO BE 2 MILLION.

MORE PALESTINIANS UNDER THE BOMBARDMENT AND DISPLACEMENT. CITIES IN RUIN. FAMILIES WITHOUT FOOD, WATER, MEDICINE. IT'S HEARTBREAKING. OF I'VE BEEN WORKING NONSTOP TO ESTABLISH IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRES OVER THE LAST SIX WEEKS TO GET.

THE PRISONERS RELEASED, THE HOSTAGES RELEASED. TO GET THE HOSTAGES HOME AND EASE THE INTOLERABLE AND HAVING THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. BUILD TOWARD SOMETHING MORE ENDURING. TONIGHT, I'M DIRECTING THE U.S. MILITARY TO LEAD THE EMERGING.

OMISSION ESTABLISH A TEMPORARY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN OFF THE COAST OF GAZA TO RECEIVE LARGE SHIPMENTS CARRYING FOOD, WATER, MEDICINE, TEMPORARY SHELTERS. IF NO U.S. BOOTS WILL BE ON THE GROUND. OF THE TEMPORARY PEER WILL ALLOA MASSIVE INCREASE IN GETTING HIM.

IN THAT HEARING AID TO GAZA. AND ISRAEL MUST DO ITS PART. ISRAEL MUST ALLOW MORE AID TO GAZA AND ENSURE HUMANITARIAN WORKERS ARE NOT CAUGHT IN THE CROSS FIRE. THEY HAVE A CROSSING IN NORTHERN GAZA. THE LEADERSHIP OF ISRAEL, I SAY.

THIS. HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE CANNOT BE SECOND OR A BARGAINING CHIP. PROTECTING AND SAVING LIVES HAS TO BE A PRIORITY. AS WE LOOK TO THE FUTURE, BUILDING A REAL SOLUTION TO A SITUATION IS A TWO-STATE SOLUTION.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND I SAY THIS. AS A LIFELONG SUPPORTER OF ISRAEL, MY ENTIRE CAREER, NO ONE HAS A STRONGER RECORD THAN I DO. I CHALLENGE ANY OF YOU HERE. I'M THE ONLY AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT ISRAEL MORE TIMES. THERE IS NO OTHER PATH FOR.

GUARANTEEING SECURITY AND DEMOCRACY. THERE IS NO OTHER PATH THAT GUARANTEES PALESTINIANS CAN LIVE WITH PEACE. THERE IS NO OTHER PATH THAT CAN GUARANTEE THE NEIGHBORS LIKE SAUDI ARABIA WITH WHOM I'M TALKING.

CREATING PEACE IN MIDDLE EAST MEANS CONTENDING THAT THE RIGHT. THAT'S WHY BUILD A COALITION OF MORE THAN ONE DOZEN COUNTRIES TO DEFEND INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING, FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION OF THE RED SEA. I'VE ORDERED STRIKES TO DEFEND U.S. FORCES IN THE REGION.

AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, I WILL PROTECT OUR PERSONNEL. [APPLAUSE] FOR YEARS, I'VE HEARD MANY OF MY REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS SEE OF CHINA ON THE RISE AND AMERICA FALLING BEHIND. THEY'VE GOT THE BACK ROOTS. I'VE SAID IT FOR YEARS EVEN.

THOUGH I WAS IN PRESIDENT. AMERICA IS RISING, WE'VE GOT THE BEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD. BUT SINCE I'VE COME TO OFFICE, OUR TRADE WITH CHINA IS DOWN TO THE LOWEST POINT IN OVER A DECADE. WE ARE STANDING UP AGAINST CHINA'S UNFAIR ECONOMIC.

PRACTICES. IF WE ARE STANDING UP FOR PEACE AND STABILITY ACROSS THE TAIWAN STRAITS. I'VE REVITALIZED OUR PARTNERSHIP AND ALLIANCE IN THE PACIFIC. INDIA, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, PACIFIC ISLANDS. I MADE SURE THE MOST ADVANCED.

AMERICAN TECHNOLOGIES CAN'T BE USED IN CHINA, NOR ALLOWING THEM TO TRADE THEM THERE. FRANKLY, THE TOUGH TALK ON CHINA, AND NEVER OCCURRED TO MY PREDECESSOR TO DO ANY OF THAT. I WANT COMPETITION WITH CHINA, NOT CONFLICT. WE ARE IN A STRONGER POSITION TO.

WIN THE CONFLICT IN THE 21ST CENTURY AGAINST CHINA THAN ANYONE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER THEN ANY TIME AS WELL. HERE AT HOME, I'VE SIGNED OVER 400 BIPARTISAN BILLS. THERE'S MORE TO PASS MY UNITY AGENDA. STRENGTH OF PENALTY ON FENTON.

OWN TRAFFICKING. DON'T WANT TO DO THAT? PASSED BIPARTISAN BILLS TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN ONLINE. HARNESS THE PROMISE OF AI. DAN AI IMPERSONATIONS AND MORE. AND KEEP OUR TRULY SACRED.

OBLIGATIONS AND MORE TO TRAIN AND EQUIP TO THOSE WE SEND INTO HARM'S WAY AND CARE FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES WHEN THAT'S WHY THIS SONG OF SUPPORT AND HOPE FROM DENNIS IN VA, I SIGNED ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT LAWS EVER. HELPING MILLIONS OF THOSE.

BATTLING DIFFERENT CANCERS. MANY OF THEM DON'T COME HOME. BUT WE ONLY THEM AND THEIR FAMILY SUPPORT. WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES TO KEEP SUPPORTING OUR NEW HEALTH RESEARCH AGENCY. TO REMIND US, TO REMIND US THAT WE CAN DO BIG THINGS LIKE.

ANTICANCER AS WE KNOW IT AND WE WILL! [APPLAUSE] LET ME CLOSE WITH THIS. [APPLAUSE] I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE, LINDSAY, BUT I HAVE TO SAY A FEW MORE THINGS. I KNOW IT MAY NOT LOOK LIKE IT,.

BUT I'VE BEEN AROUND A WHILE. [LAUGHTER] WHEN YOU GET TO BE MY AGE, CERTAIN THINGS BECOME CLEARER 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.

OUR NATION. BETWEEN THOSE WHO WANT TO PUT AMERICA BACK IN THE PAST, AND THOSE WHO WANT TO MOVE AMERICA INTO THE FUTURE. OF MY LIFETIME HAS TOLD ME TO EMBRACE FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY. IF A FUTURE CORE VALUES THAT DEFINED AMERICA, HONESTY,.

DECENCY, DIGNITY, EQUALITY. TO RESPECT EVERYONE, TO GIVE EVERYONE A FAIR CHANCE, TO GIVE HATE NO SAFE HARBOR. OTHER PEOPLE IN MY AGE SEE IT DIFFERENTLY. THE AMERICAN STORY OF RESE RESENTMENT, REVENGE, RETRI RETRIBUTION.

THAT'S NOT ME. I WAS BORN MID WORLD WAR II WHEN AMERICA STOOD FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD. I GREW UP IN SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, DELAWARE AMONG WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE WHO BUILT THIS COUNTRY. I WATCHED IN HORROR AS TWO OF MY.

HEROES, LIKE YOU DID, WERE ASSASSINATED. THE LEGACIES INSPIRED ME TO PURSUE A CAREER IN SERVICE. I LEFT A LAW FIRM AND BECAME A PUBLIC DEFENDER BECAUSE MY CITY BLOOMINGTON WAS THE ONLY CITY IN AMERICA WITH THE NATIONAL GUARD AFTER DR. KING WAS ASSASSINATED.

I BECAME A COUNTY COUNCILMAN ALMOST BY ACCIDENT. I GOT ELECTED UNITED STATES SENATE AND I HAD NO INTENTION OF RUNNING AT AGE 29. THEN VICE PRESIDENT AND THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT. NOW PRESIDENT TO THE FIRST WOMAN VICE PRESIDENT.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IN MY CAREER, I'VE BEEN TOLD I WAS TOO YOUNG. BY THE WAY, THEY LET ME ON THE ELEVATOR FOR OLD FOLKS NO JOKE. YOUNG OR OLD, I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN OUR NORTHSTAR. THE VERY IDEAL OF AMERICA IS.

THAT WE ARE ALL CREATED EQUAL. WE DESERVE TO BE TREATED EQUALLY THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES. WE NEVER FULLY LIVED UP TO THAT IDEA. WE NEVER WALKED AWAY FROM IT EITHER. AND I WON'T WALK AWAY FROM IT NOW.

I'M OPTIMISTIC. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I REALLY AM, I'M OPTIMISTIC, NANCY. MY FE FELLOW AMERICANS — >> President Biden: ANY 6 IT'S NOT ITS NOT HOLD WE ARE. IT'S THE IDEAS.

BUT YOU CAN'T LEAD AMERICA WITH ANCIENT IDEAS THAT'LL TAKE US BACK. YOU NEED AMERICA THE LAND OF POSSIBILITIES, YOU NEED A VISION FOR THE FUTURE AND WHAT CAN AND SHOULD BE DONE. TONIGHT YOU'VE HEARD MINE. I SEE A FUTURE WHERE DEFENDING.

DEMOCRACY, YOU DON'T DIMINISH IT. I SEE A FUTURE WHERE WE RESTORE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND PROTECT OUR FREEDOMS, NOT TAKE THEM A AWAY. I SEE A FUTURE WHERE 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 CLIMATE CRISIS AND OUR COUNTRY FROM GUN VIOLENCE. ABOVE ALL, I SEE A FUTURE FOR ALL AMERICANS. I SEE A COUNTRY FOR ALL AMERICANS.

NOW, I WILL ALWAYS BE PRESIDENT FOR ALL AMERICANS, BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN AMERICA. I BELIEVE IN YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! YOU'RE THE REASON WHY WE'VE NEVER BEEN MORE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OUR FUTURE THAN I AM NOW. SO LET'S BUILD THE FUTURE.

TOGETHER. IT LETS WHO WE ARE, WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ! LETS A RUMOR WHO WE ARE, WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THERE IS NOTHING BEYOND OUR CAPACITY WHEN WE ACT TOGETHER.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND MAY GOD PROTECT OUR TROOPS! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! >> ONE HOUR, 7 MINUTES LONG, PRESIDENT BIDEN SPEAKING BEFORE A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS' SHAKING THE VICE PRESIDENT'S HAND AND SP SPEAKER'S HAND AS WL BE HER THAT THIS IS BIGGEST.

AUDIENCES PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL HAVE COME NOVEMBER. OUT OF THE GATE, LOOKING AT REPUBLICANS IN THAT ROOM TALKING ABOUT VLADIMIR PUTIN, WE MUST HELP UKRAINE, WE MUST FUND UKRAINE, PUTIN'S ON THE MARCH. IT TALKING ABOUT HIS PREDECESSOR AND DONALD TRUMP, THAT'S HIS.

NAME, SAID ABOUT PUTIN IN RECENT DAYS. IF WE WILL GET TO WHAT TRUMP SAID ABOUT PUTIN IN JUST A MOMET HERE. ON THE PRESIDENT TELLING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THE CHAMBER OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HISTORY IS WATCHING.

HE TALKED ABOUT THE OVER OVERTUG OF ROE V. WADE, WHAT FOLLOWED BEARD AT THE IVF DEBATE IN THIS COUNTRY. YOU CAN SEE HIM BEGIN TO LEAVE THE CHAMBER AND HE LOOKED RIGHT AT THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. HE SPOKE ABOUT WOMEN WITH THE ELECTORAL POWER AND YOU'RE ABOUT.

TO SEE IT COME NOVEMBER. IMMIGRATION, WHICH IS CERTAINLY ONE OF THE TOP ISSUES, THE PRESIDENT AGAIN SQUARELY LOOKING AT REPUBLICANS IN THE ROOM SAYING WE MUST ACT ON THE BIPARTISAN BILL IN THE SENATE FROM BOTH REPUBLICANS, CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS, AND.

DEMOCRATS. SENATOR LANKFORD LOOKING ON. THE CUT AWAY FROM HIM, CENTER SENATOR LANKFORD NODDING YES. SIX MONTHS INSTEAD OF SIX YEARS WITH THIS BILL. A LISTING ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT COME WITH IT TOO BEER TO SING WE CAN FIGHT ABOUT THE.

BORDER OR WE CAN FIX IT. A CHIEF listing all the other things WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE, SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS SHAKING THE PRESIDENT'S HAND WE KNOW SENATOR SANDERS OFFERING ADVICE.

LEADING UP TO THE SPEECH. I'M CURIOUS WHAT YOU'RE HEARING FROM YOUR SOURCES DOING WHAT THEY WANT HIM TO DO. >> I CAN SAY THE WHITE HOUSE IS VERY HAPPY RIGHT NOW. I BET THERE'S A LOT OF HIGH FIVES GOING ON RIGHT NOW. THEY KNEW THAT CHARLIE JUST.

GOING INTO THIS. THE PRESIDENT WELL AWARE OF THE CRITICISM OF HIS CAMPAIGN AND THE PRESSURE ON HIM TO PERFORM TONIGHT. OF THE WHITE HOUSE FEELS THAT HE NAILED THIS, THAT HE PUT HIS CRITICS ON THEIR HEELS AT EVERY TURN.

AT THE OVERARCHING MESSAGE WAS REALLY GAME ON. IT'S CLEAR FROM THE SPEECH THAT THE GENERAL ELECTION IS NOW ON. FOR MONTHS, THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN CRITICIZED FOR NOT GOING HARD ENOUGH AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. THERE REALLY WAS A SENSE TONIGHT.

HE'S RIPPING THE BANDAGE OFF AND THAT HE WAS LETTING LOOSE, LETTING OUT A LOT OF THE FRUSTRATION AND CERTAINLY IT DID NOT TAKE HIM LONG TO TEAR INTO TRUMP ON EVERYTHING FROM NATO TO ABORTION, HE SAILED THE TAX CUTS AND SKEWERING HIM ON IMMIGRATION.

THE TONE OF IT WAS SO CLASSIC BIDEN. IT WASN'T POLISHED, LOFTY RHETORIC, IT WAS FOLKSY COME FOLKSY, PERSONABLE, HE WAS FUNNY AT TIMES. DAVID, HE REPEATEDLY PUT REPREPUBLICANS ON NOTICE. I DON'T AGREE SEEN AT AN ESTATE.

OF STATE OF THE UNION BEFORE. I ONE POINT POKING THEM ON THE IMMIGRATION BILL. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT BILL? THE ONE THAT YOU WANTED, THE ONE YOUR PARTY NEGOTIATED. WHAT ARE YOU AGAINST? IT FELT MORE LIKE A ROWDY CAMPAIGN SPEECH THAN A STATE OF.

THE UNION. I THINK THE BIG QUESTION GOING FOR THIS CAN THE PRESIDENT BRING THE FIRE TO THE TRAIL? WILL THIS JOE BIDEN SHOW UP AT THE CAMPAIGN EVENTS ALL THE WAY INTO NOVEMBER? >> PLOTTING REPUBLICANS ASKING WHAT YOU DO NOT LIKE WAS MEANT.

TO TELL US WHAT YOU DON'T WANT WITH SENATOR LANKFORD WHOSE REIGN IN THE AUDIENCE THERE TONIGHT. IF VERY STRIKING TAKING ON DONALD TRUMP BUT NOT BY NAME. HOW MANY TIMES DID HE SAY PREDECESSOR TONIGHT? >> THIS WAS A GREAT NIGHT FOR.

JOE BIDEN. THIS WAS MUCH MORE A CAMPAIGN SPEECH THEN A STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. YOU SAW THAT HOW HE REPEATEDLY TOOK ON DONALD TRUMP. BY MY COUNT, OUR ACCOUNT, 16 TIMES DID HE SAY MY PREDECESSOR, THE FORMER PRESIDENT, OR OTHER.

PEOPLE MY AGE. REFERRING TO DONALD TRUMP. VERY DIRECT ATTACKS, THE MOST POWERFUL ONE, THE VERY FIRST ONE. WHEN HE COMES OUT AND FIRST INVOKES RONALD REAGAN WHO TOLD THE RUSSIANS, WHO TOLD THE SOVIETS, MR. GORBACHEV TEAR.

DOWN THIS WALL. HE COMPARES PUTIN TO WHATEVER THE HECK HE WANTS. AT THE KIND OF POINTED CAMPAIGN STYLE SPEECH YOU JUST NEVER HAVE SEEN IN THE STATE OF THE UNION, BUT I THINK VERY EFFECTIVE. SPEAK OF THE FACT HE'S TALKING ABOUT.

DONALD TRUMP JUST IN RECENT DAYS TALKING ABOUT TRYING TO UP THE SPENDING ON DEFENSE OF NATO COUNTRIES WHICH HAS BEEN A LONG-STANDING ARGUMENT FOR DONALD TRUMP AND ONE THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS TALKED ABOUT MAKING SURE EVERYBODY PAYS THE FAIR SHARE.

BUT IT WAS THAT TURN WHEN DONALD TRUMP THEN SAID IF THEY DON'T DO IT, WELL, I WOULD SAY DO WHATEVER THE HECK YOU WANT TO VLADIMIR PUTIN. >> LOOK, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT NIGHT FOR JOE BIDEN. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A HOME RUN, BUT IT CERTAINLY WAS A TRIPLE.

ONE FACTOR TO CONSIDER HERE, HE'S BEEN PRACTICING FOR THIS SPEECH. THIS IS HOME TURF. HE KNEW THE RESP RESPONSES. THIS AUDIENCE IS A VERY PREDICTABLE AUDIENCE. HE KNEW THE TOWNS THAT WERE GOING TO COME AND HE KNEW WHAT.

HE WAS GOING TO DO IN RESPONSE. THE WAY HE DIRECTLY TOOK ON MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE. >> NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. HE KNEW IT WAS COMING ON IMMIGRATION, HE KNEW WHAT THE ARGUMENT WAS GOOD TO BE AND ANSWERED IT IN REAL TIME. IT'S BECAUSE THE REST OF THE.

CAMPAIGN WILL NOT BE SO TRIVIAL BUT THIS IS A REALLY BIG NIGHT FOR BIDEN. >> NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. A LINSEY DAVIS WITH HERE AT THE DESK. VERY RARE FOR A PRESIDENT TO LOOK RIGHT AT MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT SITTING BEFORE.

THEM. BUT THEY DID. YOU TALKED ABOUT THE OVERTURNING OF ROE V. WADE, HE URGED CONGRESS, LET'S CODIFY ROE V. WADE. OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. BUT HE MENTIONED IN THE DECISION.

ABOUT ROE V. WADE, THEY TALKED ABOUT THE POWER OF WOMEN HAVE COME OF THE ELECTORAL POWER, AND THEY RUN WITH IT. >> SO SIGNIFICANT IN THAT MOMENT TO LOOK AT THE JUSTICES DIRECTLY IN THE ROOM AND TALK ABOUT THAT. SPECIFICALLY, HE SAID, LOOK, THE POWER OF WOMEN WHEN REPRODUCTIVE.

FREEDOM WAS ON THE BALLOT. WE WON BACK IN 2022,-23 WE WILL WIN IN 2024. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW ABORTION MAY BE ON THE BALLOT IN MANY AS 11 STATES INCLUDING A BATTLEGROUND STATE OF ARIZONA AND NEVADA. SO POTENTIALLY, THAT COULD.

DETERMINE THE ELECTION, RIGHT? IF THAT REALLY BRINGS PEOPLE OUT IN THE TWO PARTICULAR STATES. BUT I WANT TO ADD THAT EVEN BEYOND SOME OF THE BIG TICKET ITEMS OF ABORTION O IMMIGRATION OR ECONOMY. IN MANY CASES, THIS REALLY WAS ABOUT THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.

ABOUT HIS AGE. THE PEOPLE WHO SAID THEY VOTED FOR BIDEN LAST TIME AROUND, 61% OF THEM ACCORDING “THE NEW YORK TIMES” FELT THAT HE WAS TOO OLD TO BE AN EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT. IT SEEMS HE REALLY ATE HIS WHEATIES TODAY.

HE HAD THE FIRE IN THE BELLY, HE HAD THE QUICK ZINGERS. HE DRESSED FOR MANY ACCOUNTS DIRECTLY HEAD ON THE ISSUE OF HIS AGE SAYING IT'S NOT ABOUT HOW OLD WE ARE, IT IS ABOUT HOW OLD OUR IDEAS ARE. >> NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT, TAKING DOWN THE ISSUE OF AGE AND.

SAVING IT TO THE END OF THE SPEECH SAYING THAT I'M KNOW I MAY NOT LOOK LIKE IT BUT I'VE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE. USING HUMOR TO ADDRESS IT. I WENT TO GET REACTION FROM DONNA BRAZILE, FORMER HEAD OF THE DNC, OF COURSE, AS AN ADVISOR TO DEMOCRATS ALONG THE.

WAY. THIS ADMINISTRATION AS WELL. I'M SO CURIOUS, DONNA, WHAT YOUR ADVICE WAS LEADING UP TO TONIGHT AND DID HE DELIVER IN YOUR EYES? >> HE HAD TO POUR SOME TABASCO IN HIS SPEECH AND HE DELIVERED IT REALLY WELL. IT WAS SPICY, IT WAS JUICY, IT.

WAS ANOTHER MASTER CLASS AND HOW YOU DEFEND YOUR VALUES, YOU TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BECAUSE OF YOU, WE ARE STRONGER. BECAUSE OF YOU, WE ARE FIGHTING HARDER. IT'S QUINTESSENTIAL JOE BIDEN. POLITICS IS IN HIS BLOOD AND HIS DNA, AND TONIGHT WE SAW WHY HE.

WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT. >> LET ME ASK YOU, DONNA, FOR THOSE AT HOME WHO MIGHT ASK WHY NOT A PERFORMANCE LIKE THIS AND OTHER MOMENTS ALONG THE WAY? WHERE DID THIS COME FROM TONIGHT? ONE IN PARTICULAR ABOUT THIS? >> HE WAS SPEAKING TO THE.

AMERICAN PEOPLE AND OF COURSE HE WAS SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER LOOKING AT THE SUPREME COURT. HE SAID EVERY LAST WORD I WOULD HAVE SAID TO JOHN IF I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY. IT TONIGHT, WOMEN AND OF COURSE MEN WHO LOVE US AND SUPPORT US UNDERSTAND THAT JOE BIDEN IS.

GOING TO FIGHT FOR WOMEN. HE'S GOING TO FIGHT FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH. WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT IS THAT HE GOT UP IN THE FIRST THING HE SAID TO MR. PUTIN, I SEE YOU AND WE ARE GOING TO DEFEND UKRAINE. IT'S A GREAT SPEECH AND A GREAT.

NIGHT FOR JOE BIDEN. JOE BIDEN SHOWS UP EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE WHETHER HE SHOWS UP IN THE MORNING, AND BY THE WAY, IT'S OATMEAL, NOT WHEATIES. >> SHE WOULD KNOW. >> I WANTED GRITS AND HE HAD OATMEAL. HE'S GOING TO SHOW UP AND HE'S.

GOING TO SHOW UP EVERY DAY. WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO SEE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IS NOT JUST OF PRESIDENT, THE VICE PRESIDENT AND EVERYBODY ELSE IS GOING TO STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM. >> DID HE KICK-START THE CAMPAIGN TONIGHT?.

>> THE CAMPAIGN WAS ALREADY UNDERWAY. TONIGHT, HE GAVE US A LITTLE GAS IN OUR TEN TONIGHT. >> REINCE PRIEBUS, WHAT IS YOUR TAKE TONIGHT? >> IT SOUNDED LIKE A DNC SPEECH, A POLITICAL SPEECH. I THINK IT WAS A HEALTH AND.

WELLNESS CHECK. EVERYBODY WAS RIGHT ABOUT THAT. HE PASSED THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CHECK TONIGHT. CLEARLY EXCITED PERHAPS OVERCOMPENSATING, MAYBE YELLING QUITE A BIT. AND YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE SCREAMING AND.

YELLING, BUT I ALSO THINK HE RUNS THE RISK OF TRYING TO PAINT A PICTURE THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T BUY. THE IDEA THAT THE ECONOMY IS BOOMING, THAT THE BORDERS SECURE, AND IT'S ONLY BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS WON'T PASS A BILL AND AMERICA'S DOMINATING ON.

A WORLD STAGE. I THINK HE OVERPLAYED THAT QUITE A BIT. I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT AMERICANS ARE FEELING OUT THERE. BUT AS FAR AS THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CHECK, I THINK HE DID THAT TONIGHT. >> LET ME ASK YOU, REINCE ABOUT.

YOUR CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH PEOPLE WORKING IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. THE NATIONAL POLLS ARE STILL FAR OUT BUT DONALD TRUMP LEADING IN THE MAJOR POLLS IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS. IT IS THAT THE SENSE IN TRUMP WORLD?.

JUST HOW CLOSE IT IS? >> I FEEL IT'S A BLOW OUT. PEOPLE IN THE TRUMP OPERATION KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE CLOSE, THAT IT'S GOING TO COME DOWN TO 100,000 VOTES IN FIVE STATES. IT'S ALL GOING TO BE ABOUT DATA, GROUND GAME, TURN OUT AND THAT'S WHAT THEY KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING.

>> WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE. A RISING STAR IN THE REVOKING PARTY. WE WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH PRESIDENT BIDEN IN THE ROOM TONIGHT AND MARTHA, THERE WERE SO MANY QUESTIONS GOING INTO TONIGHT.

OBVIOUSLY ABOUT AGE IN THIS COUNTRY, EVEN FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN SUPPORTERS WHO TRAVEL THE COUNTRY LEADING UP TO THE PRIMARIES. HE WAS UNCONTESTED, OBVIOUSLY THE FINAL CANDIDATE DROPPED OUT. BUT EVEN SUPPORTERS OF BIDEN WHEN THEY LEAVE TELLING THE EXIT.

POLLS THAT THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT HIS AGE AS WELL. DID HE ASSUAGE THOSE CONCERNS WITH HIS PERFORMANCE HERE? >> WELL, HE WAS CERTAINLY VIGOROUS. IT WAS A CAMPAIGN SPEECH, IT WAS PROBABLY FOR THE DEMOCRATS A DREAM CAMPAIGN SPEECH BECAUSE OF.

HIS ENERGY. I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S REALLY SCREAMING, REINCE, BUT HE'S DEFINITELY RAISING THE LEVEL OF HIS VOICE. PROBABLY BECAUSE HE OFTEN CLEARS HIS VOICE, HE DOES HAVE PROBLEMS WITH HIS VOICE, HE DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS TONIGHT'S.

BUT I THINK THE SPEECH WAS MORE THAN A CAMPAIGN SPEECH. IT WAS A LEGACY SPEECH. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN NOVEMBER, JOE BIDEN LAY DOWN THE HAMMER TONIGHT ABOUT WHAT HE BELIEVES AND WHAT HE FEELS ABOUT THIS COUNTRY. SO I THINK DEMOCRATS WILL LOOK.

AT IT AS THAT AS WELL, AND THAT'S WHY JOE BIDEN PROBABLY REALLY ROSE TO THIS MOMENT. HE KNEW NOT ONLY FROM A CAMPAIGN SPEECH HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS, BUT FOR HIS OWN LEGACY. >> I SUSPECT MARTHA, WE HEARD AT THE BEGINNING OF WHAT WILL BE A MAJOR CAMPAIGN THEME, IT'S NOT.

HOW OLD YOU ARE, IT'S HOW OLD YOUR IDEAS ARE. HE TRIED TO REFRAME THE AGE TODAY. IT'S BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. ATTICUS CAMPAIGN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND PEOPLE WITHIN THE.

WHITE HOUSE. I KNOW THERE'S SOME DISAGREEMENT ABOUT HOW THEY ARE HANDLING THE AGE ISSUE. HE CAN'T IGNORE IT. IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, HE MAY STUMBLE, HE MAY MAKE B MISTAKES, BUT TONIGHT HE PUT IT TO REST AND SOME OF THE WAYS WE ARE TO.

SPEAK I'M GOING TO BRING IN TERRY MORAN WHO COVERED SO MANY PRESIDENCIES. IT YOU KNEW THE STAKES GOING INTO TONIGHT AND IT'S NOT HYPERBOLE TO TALK ABOUT THE HIGH WIRE FACT THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS WALKING INTO THE CHAMBER TO TRY TO PERFORM.

IT DID HE DELIVER? >> IT SURE WAS A HIGH WIRE ACT. THE MESSED MAJORITY FELT BETTER. THE PRESIDENT HIT HARD AND YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE ALL YOU WANT. MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT HE HAD. THIS WAS THE ALL-TIME MIDDLE-CLASS, WORKING-CLASS,.

CLASS, LABORER DEMOCRAT AGENDA. AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. THAT VALUE, THAT LINE, YOU CAN'T LOVE COUNTRY ONLY WHEN YOU WIN. BEST LINE IN THE SPEECH. FAIR PLAY AND DECENCY ARE BEDROCK VALUES IN THE MIDDLE CLASS, NO NO MATTER THE NOTION THAT YOU DON'T LOVE YOUR COUNTRY.

IF YOUR GUYS LOSE. IT DOESN'T SIT WELL WITH HIM. RIGHT ACROSS THE ECONOMIC TREND HITTING AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, MIDDLE-CLASS, MIDDLE-CLASS VALUES. >> JUST A FEW SEGMENTS LEFT IN THE SEGMENT, CHIEF CORRESPONDENT PRESIDENT BIDEN MAKING IT CLEAR.

TONIGHT DEFENDING DEMOCRACY WILL BE A KEY THEME RIGHT INTO NOVEMBER. >> ABSOLUTELY. HE WENT REALLY HARD ON THE ISSUE OF JANUARY 6 IN TERMS OF THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITAL. HE WANTED TO MAKE EVERYONE IN THE PUBLIC WAS REMINDED OF THAT.

KNOWING THEY WERE SCURRYING FOR THEIR LIVES. ALSO IT STRUCK ME THAT THIS IS A PRESIDENT PARTICULARLY IN REGARDS TO THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS WHO'VE BEEN TRYING TO IMPEACH HIM. HE WANTED TO TAKE THEM HEAD ON AND LET THEM KNOW.

THEY DIDN'T CARE HOW THEY FELT ABOUT WHAT HE WAS SAYING. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN WITH A SMILE ON HIS FACE AS HE LEAVES THE CHAMBER. WHEN WE COME BACK HERE, THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE TONIGHT FROM A RISING STAR IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, ALABAMA.

SENATOR KATIE BRITT, JUST 42 YEARS OLD, YOUNGEST REPUBLICAN WOMAN EVER ELECTED TO THE SENATE. WE'RE GOING TO BREAK FOR JUST A MOMENT BECAUSE SHE'S GETTING READY TO NOW SPEAK TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT BIDEN.

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PARTY. A CLEARLY ENJOYING THE MOMENT IN THE CHAMBER. IF WE'VE TALKED OFTEN. HE SPOKE OF IT TONIGHT ABOUT THE LENGTH OF HIS CAREER. HOW MANY YEARS HE SPENT UP ON THE HILL BEFORE HE WAS VICE PRESIDENT.

TALKED ABOUT THE HISTORY, BEING VICE PRESIDENT TO THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT AND HAVING THE FIRST WOMAN VICE PRESIDENT BEHIND HIM. THAT WAS A MOMENT TOWARD THE END OF THIS SPEECH. D>> THEY CERTAINLY DO THINK HE DELIVERED THE AIR THAT THEY WERE.

WELL AWARE OF HOW IMPORTANT AND PIVOTAL THIS MOMENT WAS AND THEY DO THINK HE ABSOLUTELY NAILED IT. I MEAN, THEY FEEL THEY OUTLINED THE STAKES IN THIS ELECTION. THAT HE NOTED HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS COME OF IT ALSO MADE VERY CLEAR THE STARK CHOICE.

FOR A VOTER SPIRIT THE MOOD IN THE CHAMBER? >> REPUBLICANS HEADED FOR THE EXITS AND THIS IS TYPICAL JOE BIDEN BEARD AND YOU CAN SEE HIM SHAKING HANDS WITH DEMOCRATS, MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY THAT STUCK AROUND HERE.

THE FORMER PRESIDENT GOING TOE-TO-TOE WITH MANY REPUBLICANS AS YOU HAVE NOTED ON IMMI IMMIGN AND MEDICARE AND SECURITY AS WELL. ON FULL DISPLAY YOU HEARD THE CHANCE FOUR MORE YEARS OF REMINDER OF THE STAKES. >> RACHEL SCOTT IN THE CHAMBER,.

THANK YOU. SENATOR KATIE BRITT REPUBLICAN STAR WILL DELIVER THE REPUBLICANS RESPONSE. IF SHE'S A MOTHER OF TWO. IF YOU WILL SPEAK FROM MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA. YOU CAN SEE THE LIVE PICTURE COMING UP BEFORE YOU RIGHT NOW.

LET'S LISTEN. >> Senator 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 THE UNITED STATES SENATE. THAT'S NOT THE JOB THAT MATTERS.

MOST. I'M A PROUD WIFE AND MOM OF TWO SCHOOL AGE KIDS. MY DAUGHTER AND MY 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'S WHY I INVITED YOU.

INTO MY HOME TONIGHT. LIKE SO MANY FAMILIES ACROSS AMERICA, MY HUSBAND WESLEY AND I JUST WATCHED PRESIDENT BIDEN'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS FROM OUR LIVING ROOM. AND WHAT WE SAW WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF A PERMANENT POLITICIAN WHO'S ACTUALLY BEEN.

IN OFFICE FOR LONGER THAN I'VE BEEN ALIVE. ONE THING WAS QUITE CLEAR THOUGH. PRESIDENT BIDEN JUST DOESN'T GET IT. HE'S 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 OUR FAMILY HAS TOUGH CONVERSATIONS. IT'S WHERE WE MAKE HARD.

DECISIONS. IT'S WHERE WE SHARE THE GOOD COME OF THE BAD, AND THE UGLY OF OUR DAYS. IT'S WHERE WE LEFT TOGETHER. IT'S WHERE WE HOLD EACH OTHER'S HANDS AND PRAY FOR GOD'S GUIDANCE. AND MANY NIGHTS, TO BE HONEST,.

IT'S WHERE WESLEY AND I WORRY. I KNOW WE ARE NOT ALONE. AND 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 GENERATIONAL WILL HAVE FEWER OPPORTUNITIES AND LESS FREEDOMS THAN WE DID. I WORRY MY OWN CHILDREN MAY NOT EVEN GET A SHOT AT LIVING THERE AMERICAN DREAMS. MY AMERICAN DREAM ALLOWED ME THE DAUGHTER OF TWO SMALL BUSINESS.

OWNERS FROM REAL ENTERPRISE ALABAMA TO BE ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE AT THE AGE OF 40. GROWING UP, SWEEPING THE FLOOR AT MY DAD'S HARDWARE STORE AND CLEANING THE BATHROOM AT MY MOM'S DANCE STUDIO, I NEVER COULD HAVE IMAGINED WHAT MY.

STORY WOULD ENTAIL. TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THE AMERICAN DREAM CAN DO ACROSS JUST ONE GENERATION IN JUST ONE LIFETIME. IT'S TRULY BREATHTAKING. BUT RIGHT NOW, THE AMERICAN DREAM HAS TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE. FOR SO MANY FAMILIES.

THE TRUE UNVARNISHED STATE OF OUR UNION BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THIS. OUR FAMILIES ARE HURTING. OUR COUNTRY CAN DO BETTER. AND YOU 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 WALL, AND HE ANNOUNCED A PLAN TO GIVE AMNESTY TO MILLIONS. WE KNOW THAT 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 SECTOR OF TEXAS. THAT'S WHERE I SPOKE TO A WOMAN WHO SHARED HER STORY WITH ME.

SHE HAD BEEN TRAFFIC BY THE CARTELS STARTING AT THE AGE OF 12. SHE TOLD ME NOT JUST THAT SHE WAS RAPED EVERY DAY, BUT HOW MANY TIMES A DAY SHE WAS RAPED. THE CARTELS PUT HER ON A MATTRESS IN A SHOE BOX OF A ROOM AND THEY SENT MEN THROUGH THAT.

DOOR OVER AND OVER AGAIN. FOR HOURS AND HOURS ON END. WE WOULDN'T BE OKAY WITH THIS HAPPENING IN T 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 BORDER POLICIES ARE A DISGRACE. THIS CRISIS IS DESPICABLE. AND THE TRUTH IS, IT 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. JUST THINK ABOUT LINCOLN RILEY. AND MY NEIGHBORING STATE OF GEORGIA, THIS BEAUTIFUL 22-YEAR-OLD NURSING STUDENT WENT OUT ON A JOB ONE MORNING AND SHE NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO RETURN HOME.

SHE WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED BY ONE OF THE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSERS. A PRESIDENT BIDEN SHOWS TO RELEASE INTO OUR HOMELAND. YELL, AS A MOM, I CAN'T QUIT THINKING ABOUT THIS. I MEAN, THIS COULD HAVE BEEN MY DAUGHTER.

THIS COULD HAVE BEEN YOURS. AND TONIGHT, PRESIDENT BIDEN FINALLY SAID HER NAME. BUT HE REFUSED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS OWN ACTIONS. MR. PRESIDENT, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DYING AND YOU ONLY HAVE YOURSELF TO BLAME.

FULFILL YOUR OATH OF OFFICE, REVERSE YOUR POLICIES, AND THIS CRISIS AND STOP THE SUFFERING. SADLY, WE KNOW THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN'S FAILURES DON'T STOP THERE. HIS RECKLESS SPENDING DOWN OUR ECONOMY INTO A HOLE AND SENT THE COST-OF-LIVING THROUGH THE ROOF.

WE HAVE THE WORST INFLATION IN 40 YEARS AND THE HIGHEST CREDIT CARD DEBT IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY. LET THAT SINK IN. HARDWORKING FAMILIES ARE STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET TODAY AND WITH SOARING MORTGAGE RATES AND SKY HIGH CHILD CARE.

COSTS. THERE ARE ALSO STRUGGLING TO HAVE A PLAN FOR TOMORROW. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SCRAPING BY WHILE PRESIDENT BIDEN PROUDLY PROCLAIMS THAT BIDENOMICS IS WORKING. AND YELL, BLESS HIS HEART, WE KNOW BETTER.

I'LL NEVER FORGET STOPPING AT A GAS STATION ONE EVENING. AT THE GENTLEMAN WORKING THE COUNTER AND TOLD ME THAT AFTER RETIRING, HE HAD TO PICK UP A JOB IN HIS 70s SO THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN GOING HUNGRY OR GOING WITHOUT HIS MEDICATION.

HE SAID I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT. I DID EVERYTHING I WAS TOLD TO DO. I WORKED HARD, I WAS SAVED, I WAS RESPONSIBLE. HE'S NOT ALONE. I HEAR SIMILAR CONCERNS FROM FELLOW PARENTS, WHETHER I AM WORKING WITH MY FRIENDS OR.

WHETHER I'M AT MY KIDS GAMES. BUT LET'S BE HONEST. IT'S BEEN A MINUTE SINCE JOE BIDEN PUMPED GAS, RAN A CARPOOL OR EVEN PUSHED A GROCERY CART. MEANWHILE, THE REST OF US SEE OUR DOLLAR AND NO IT DOESN'T GO AS FAR.

IF WE SEE EVERY DAY. AND DESPITE WHAT HE TELLS YOU, OUR COMMUNITIES ARE NOT SAFER. FOR A YEAR'S COME ON THE CRIMINALS AND DEFUNDED THE POLICE. ALL WHILE LEADING REPEAT OFFENDERS WALK FREE. THE RESULT IS TRAGIC, BUT.

FORESEEABLE. FOR SMALL TOWNS TO AMERICA'S MOST ICONIC CITY STREETS, LIFE IS GETTING MORE AND MORE DANGEROUS. AND UNFORTUNATELY, PRESIDENT BIDEN'S WEAKNESS ISN'T JUST HURTING FAMILIES HERE AT HOME.

HE'S MAKING US A PUNCH LINE ON THE WORLD STAGE. LOOK, WHERE I'M FROM, YOUR WORD IS YOUR BOND. BUT FOR THREE YEARS, THE PRESIDENT HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT AMERICA'S WORD DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT USED TO. FROM ABANDONING OUR ALLIES IN.

HIS DISASTROUS WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN, TO DESPERATELY PUSHING ANOTHER DANGEROUS DEAL WITH IRAN. PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS FAILED. WE'VE BECOME A NATION IN RET RETREAT. AND THE ENEMIES OF FREEDOM, THEY SEE AN OPPORTUNITY.

PUTIN'S BRUTAL AGGRESSION IN EUROPE HAS PUT OUR ALLIES ON THE BRINK. IRAN'S TERRORIST PROXIES HAVE SLAUGHTERED ISRAELI CITIZENS. THEY'VE TARGETED COMMERCIAL SHIPPING AND THEY'VE ATTACKED OUR TROOPS NEARLY 200 TIMES. KILLING THREE U.S. SOLDIERS AND.

TWO NAVY SEALs. MEANWHILE, THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY IS UNDERCUTTING AMERICA'S WORKERS. CHINA IS BUYING UP OUR FARMLAND, SPYING ON OUR MILITARY INSTALLATIONS, AND SPREADING PROPAGANDA THROUGH THE LIKES OF TIKTOK.

YOU SEE, THE CCP KNOWS THAT IF IT CONQUERS THE MINDS OF OUR NEXT GENERATION, IT CONQUERS AMERICA. AND WHAT DOES PRESIDENT BIDEN DO? WELL, HE BANS TIKTOK FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, BUT CREATES AN ACCOUNT FOR HIS OWN.

CAMPAIGN. Y'ALL, YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS STUFF UP. LOOK, WE ALL RECALL WHEN PRESIDENTS FACED A NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS WITH STRENGTH AND RESOLVE. THAT SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT HISTORY. RIGHT NOW, OUR COMMANDER IN.

CHIEF IS NOT IN COMMAND. THE FREE WORLD DESERVES BETTER THEN A DITHERING AND DIMINISHED LEADER. AMERICA DESERVES LEADERS WHO RECOGNIZE THAT SECURE BORDERS, STABLE PRICES SAFE STREETS, AND A STRONG DEFENSE ARE ACTUALLY THE CORNERSTONE OF A GREAT.

NATION. JUST ASK YOURSELF. ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW THAN YOU WERE THREE YEARS AGO. THERE IS NO DOUBT WE ARE AT A CROSSROADS, AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. WE ALL FEEL IT. BUT HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS.

WE, THE PEOPLE, ARE STILL IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT. AND WE GET TO DECIDE WHETHER OUR FUTURE WILL BURN BRIGHTER, OR WE SETTLE FOR A BETTER AMERICA AND DECLINE. WELL, I KNOW WHICH CHOICE OUR CHILDREN DESERVE. AND I KNOW THE CHOICE THE.

REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FIGHTING F FOR. WE ARE THE PARTY OF HARDWORKING PARENTS AND FAMILIES. AND WE WANT TO GIVE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN THE OPPORTUNITIES TO THRIVE. AND WE WANT FAMILIES TO GROW. IT'S WHY WE STRONGLY SUPPORT.

CONTINUED NATIONWIDE ACCESS TO IN VITRO FERTILIZATION. WE WANT TO HELP LOVING MOMS AND DADS BRING PRECIOUS LIFE INTO THIS WORLD. WESLEY AND I BELIEVE THERE'S NO GREATER BLESSING IN LIFE THAN OUR CHILDREN. AND THAT'S WHY TONIGHT, I WANT.

TO MAKE A DIRECT APPEAL TO THE PARENTS OUT THERE. AND IN PARTICULAR, TO MY FELLOW MOMS. MANY OF WHOM I KNOW WILL BE UP TOSSING AND TURNING AT 2:00 A.M. WONDERING HOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE IN THREE PLACES AT ONCE AND THEN SOMEHOW STILL GET DINNER ON THE.

TABLE. FIRST OF ALL, WE SEE YOU. WE HEAR YOU. AND WE STAND WITH YOU. I KNOW YOU ARE FRUSTRATED. I KNOW YOU'RE PROBABLY DISGUSTED BY MOST OF WHAT YOU SEE GOING ON IN WASHINGTON AND I'LL BE REALLY HONEST WITH YOU.

YOU'RE NOT WRONG FOR FEELING THAT WAY. I GET IT, THE TASK IN FRONT OF US ISN'T AN EASY ONE, BUT I CAN PROMISE YOU ONE THING. IT IS WORTH IT. SO I'M ASKING YOU, FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR KIDS AND YOUR GRANDKIDS. GET INTO THE ARENA.

EVERY GENERATION 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 WILD. 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 CYCLE 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 THE GREAT NATION. BECAUSE AMERICA, WE DON'T JUST HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY. WE TAKE DESTINY'S HAND AND WE LEAD IT. OUR FUTURE STARTS AROUND KITCHEN.

TABLES JUST LIKE THIS. WITH MOMS AND DADS JUST LIKE Y YOU. AND YOU ARE WHY I BELIEVE WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING THAT DESPITE THE CURRENT STATE OF OUR UNION, OUR BEST DAYS ARE STILL AHEAD. MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY GOD.

CONTINUE TO BLESS THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. >> AND THERE YOU HAVE IT, SENATOR KATIE BRITT FROM ALABAMA, 42 YEARS OLD, THE YOUNGEST REPUBLICAN EVER ELECTED TO THE SENATE GIVING THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE TONIGHT TO PRESIDENT BIDEN'S.

STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS FROM HER KITCHEN THERE IN ALABAMA. I WANT TO GET OVER TO JOHN BEFORE WE SAY GOOD NIGHT HERE BECAUSE WE HAVE FIRST REACTION IN FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP TO PRESIDENT BIDEN SPEECH TONIGHT. >> IT MAY NOT SURPRISE YOU BUT.

TRUMP DIDN'T LIKE THE SPEECH, HE REACTED BY CALLING AT THE ANGRIEST, LEAST COMPASSIONATE, AND WORST STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH EVER MADE. >> THE RACE IS UNDERWAY, ISN'T IT? >> YOU GUYS MAKE THIS SO EASY UP HERE AND DONNA BRAZILE,.

REINCE PRIEBUS, GREAT TO HAVE YOUR ANALYSIS OF THESE BIG POLITICAL NIGHTS. THANK YOU ALL. WE LEAVE YOU TONIGHT WITH THIS VERY TELLING IMAGE FOR A MOMENT TO GO IN THE CHAMBER. IF PRESIDENT BIDEN ALMOST THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THAT.

CHAMBER TONIGHT. THE LIGHTS APPEARED TO BE TURNED OFF IN THE CHAMBER. PEOPLE STILL ASKING FOR SELFIES AFTER GIVING THE STATE OF THE UNION. OUR COVERAGE BE DON'T CONTINUES ABCNews.com. “GOOD MORNING AMERICA” TOMORROW.

I'M DAVID MUIR, GOOD NIGHT. ♪ ♪ >> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE, TERRY MORAN, COMING TO YOU A FEW MINUTES AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN GIVE THE MOST IMPORTANT SPEECH OF HIS LONG POLITICAL CAREER. BIDEN ADDRESS THE DIVIDED COUNTRY CALLING IT “NO ORDINARY.

MOMENT” AND HE SAID HISTORY IS WATCHING. HE SHOOK SO MANY HANDS ON THE WAY, IT TOOK HIM A WHILE TO GET INTO THE CHAMBER AND A LONG WHILE TO LEAVE. THIS IS HIS HOME TURF, REMEMBER. MEMBER OF CONGRESS SENATOR FOR SO MANY YEARS.

36 YEARS. CLEARLY AT HOME HERE. HE GREETED PEOPLE, REPUBLICAN DEMOCRAT BEFORE HE MADE HIS WAY TO GIVE HIS SPEECH. HE ALLUDED TO MANY TIMES THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS MOMENT. HE CAME RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE TALKING ABOUT VLADIMIR PUTIN.

DIRECTLY ADDRESSING REPUBLICAN SAYING WE MUST HELP UKRAINE. THE MINORITY POSITION IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WE MUST FUND UKRAINE. PUTIN'S ON THE MARCH. HE TALKED ABOUT ALL THE KEY ISSUES AMERICANS AT HOME, THE ECONOMY, THE BORDER, GROWING UP.

ON THE ATTACK RIGHT OFF THE BAT JANUARY 6TH. SEEMINGLY DIRECTLY ADDRESSING THEM WITH THIS KEY MOMENT IN THE SPEECH TONIGHT. >> THERE IS A SIMPLE TRUTH. YOU CAN'T LOVE YOUR COUNTRY ONLY WHEN YOU WIN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE].

>> HE ONCE AGAIN SAID THAT LINE DIRECTED BEFORE AT PEOPLE WHO THINK THE 2020 ELECTION WAS STOLEN EVEN THOUGH >> JOHNSON SPEAKERJOHNSON. YOU SAW MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE. IT KICKED OFF WHAT IS GOING TO BE A BITTER REELECTION CAMPAIGN. POST CAMPAIGN, TENS OF MILLIONS.

ARE WATCHING. THE TEAM STANDING BY TO WEIGH IN WITH ALL THE ANALYSIS INCLUDING THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE. LET'S BEGIN WITH JAY BRYANT WHO COVERS AMERICAN POLITICS FOR US. JAY, WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THE SPEECH? >> THE NIGHT, WE CAN PROUDLY SAY.

THE STATE OF OUR UNION IS STRONG AND GETTING STRONGER. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CROWD CHANTING “FOUR MORE YEARS”] >> TONIGHT, A FIERY STATE OF THE UNION, THE LAST OF HIS FIRST TERM IN HIS FIRST SPEECH OF THE GENERAL ELECTION.

PRESIDENT BIDEN REPEATEDLY DRAWING CONTRAST WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. BUT NEVER ONCE MENTIONING HIM BY NAME. >> MY PREDECESSOR FAILED IN THE MOST BASIC PRESIDENTIAL DUTY HE OWES TO AMERICAN PEOPLE. THE DUTY TO CARE.

>> THE PRESIDENT'S THEME ON ISSUE AFTER ISSUE, HISTORY IS WATCHING. >> HISTORY IS WATCHING. JUST LIKE HISTORY AND WATCHED THREE YEARS AGO IN JANUARY 6TH WHEN INSURRECTIONIST STORM TO THE GREAT CAPITOL AND WITH A DAGGER TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.

TO >> THE 81-YEAR-OLD BIDEN TAKING CONCERNS HAD ON. >> I KNOW I MAY NOT LOOK LIKE IT, BUT I'VE BEEN AROUND A WHILE. [LAUGHTER] MY FELLOW AMERICANS, [CROWD CHANTING “FOUR MORE YEARS”] THE ISSUE FACING OUR NATION.

IT ISN'T HOW OLD WE ARE, IT'S HOW OLD OUR IDEAS. >> TRADING JABS WITH REPUBLICANS IN REAL TIME OVER A BIPARTISAN ORDER DEAL DERAILED BY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> LOOK AT THE FACTS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I KNOW YOU KNOW HOW TO READ.

>> CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE YELLING AT THE PRESIDENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE DEATH OF LINCOLN RILEY. THE GEORGIA COLLEGE STUDENT ALLEGEDLY KILLED BY AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT. THE PRESIDENT CALLING HER BLUFF. LINCOLN RILEY, AN INNOCENT YOUNG.

WOMAN WHO WAS KILLED BY AN ILLEGAL. THAT'S RIGHT. HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE BEING KILLED BY ILLEGALS. TO HER PARENTS, I SAY MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU HAVING LESS CHILDREN MYSELF. I UNDERSTAND.

I RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST MY REPUBLICAN FRIENDS, GET THIS BILL DONE, WE NEED TO ACT NOW. >> FACING CALLS FOR MANY OF HIS PARTY TO PUT PRESSURE ON ISRAEL FOR A CEASE-FIRE IN GAZA. IN THE PRESIDENT SAYING ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO GO AFTER HAMAS BUT EMPATHIZING WITH CIVILIANS.

CAUGHT IN THE CROSS FIRE. THE PRESIDENT SPEAK INTO A DEEPLY DIVIDED CONGRESS RIGHT NOW TO NEARLY AVERT A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN PARALYZED ON AID FOR UKRAINE. SHARP CRITICISM FOR TRUMP. >> UKRAINE CAN STOP PUTIN IF WE STAND WITH UKRAINE.

NOW MY PREDECESSOR, A FORMER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT TELLS PUTIN “DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT” IS DANGEROUS AND UNACCEPTABLE. MY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT PUTIN IS SIMPLE. WE WILL NOT WALK AWAY. WE WILL NOT BOW DOWN! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE].

I WILL NOT BOW DOWN! >> THE KEY ISSUE FOR THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN IN THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SINCE THE OVERTURNING OF ROE. >> IF YOU WILL, IF YOU THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SEND ME A CONGRESS THAT SUPPORTS THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE, I PROMISE YOU, I WILL.

RESTORE ROE V. WADE AS THE LAW OF THE LAND AGAIN! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> SITTING WITH THE FIRST LADY, AN ALABAMA WOMAN WHOSE IVF WAS PUT ON HOLD BY THE CONTROVERSIAL STATE SUPREME COURT DECISION. AND KATE COX, THE TEXAS WOMAN AT THE CENTER OF A HIGH-PROFILE.

ABORTION CASE. >> MY GOD, WHAT FREEDOM ELSE WOULD YOU TAKE AWAY? >> HANGING OVER IT ALL, THE SPECTER OF DONALD TRUMP. POLLS SHOW HIM LEADING BIDEN NATIONALLY AND IN SOME KEY SWING STATES. A BIDEN LAYING OUT WHAT HE.

BELIEVES ARE THE STAKES. >> HATE, DANGER, REVENGE ARE THE OLDEST OF IDEAS, YOU CAN'T LEAD AMERICA WITH ANCIENT IDEAS. IT WILL ONLY TAKE US BACK. AND SO LET'S BUILD A FUTURE TOGETHER. LET'S REMEMBER WHO WE ARE. IF WE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!.

AND THERE IS NOTHING AND THERE IS NOTHING BEYOND OUR CAPACITY WHEN WE ACT TOGETHER. GOD BLESS YOU ALL! AND MAY GOD PROTECT OUR TROOPS! >> BRYANT JOINS US NOW FROM CAPITOL HILL. JAY, YOU HIT THE HIGHLIGHTS AND YOU'RE GETTING REACTION NOW FROM.

A BUNCH OF YOUR DEMOCRATIC SOURCES ABOUT HOW THEY FEEL IT WENT. WHAT ARE THEY TELLING? >> I TALKED TO DEMOCRATS TONIGHT, TERRY, THEY KNEW THE STAKES GOING INTO THE SPEECH. THEY KNEW THE QUESTIONS THEY'D BE FACING PARTICULARLY ON HIS.

AGE, 81 YEARS OLD PARTICULARLY ON HIS FITNESS FOR OFFICE. ON CHECKING IN WITH A NUMBER OF THOSE SOURCES AT THIS HOUR. AT ONE WHO IS CLOSE TO THE CAMPAIGN TELLING ME HE WAS STUNNED THAT THIS SPEECH SURPASSED EVEN HIS EXPECTATIONS. I TALKED TO ONE DEMOCRAT HERE ON.

CAPITOL HILL WHO SARCASTICALLY TEXTED ME THIS. I THOUGHT YOU GUYS SAID HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TOO OLD FOR THE JOB. SO DEMOCRATS TAKING A VICTORY LAP TONIGHT. THEY BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT PUT TO REST A NUMBER OF THOSE.

QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS FITNESS FOR OFFICE AND KICKED OFF THE CAMPAIGN. AT THIS AGAIN, THE FIRST SPEECH OF THE GENERAL ELECTION. >> HE MAY HAVE BENEFITED, JAY, FROM THE LOW EXPECTATIONS AFTER THE SPECIAL COUNSEL REPORT. NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.

HOW ABOUT REPUBLICAN SIDE? HE HAMMERED THEM PRETTY GOOD UP AND DOWN AND FROM MY PERSPECTIVE REALLY WENT AFTER THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY. A LOT OF WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS VERY MIDDLE-CLASS STUFF. TAX THE RICH, PRESCRIPTION DRUG.

STUFF. WE HEAR FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS WE DON'T WANT ANY MODERATES. BIDEN WANTS THE MODERATES. >> THE PERCEPTION WE SAW FROM REPUBLICANS WAS REALLY ENCAPSULATED BY REPUBLICAN RESPONSE BY KATIE BRITT WHO SAID.

THAT BIDEN'S PAINTING A PICTURE IN HER VIEW OF THE COUNTRY THAT DOESN'T EXIST. INFLATION THAT HAS GONE DOWN AS BIDEN RATHER HAVE SAID GHANA. THINGS OF THAT NATURE. I CAN TELL YOU, I TALKED TO REPUBLICANS AT THE OUTSET OF THE SPEECH THAT THEY SOMETIMES PUT.

THE NOTIONS OF BIDEN'S AGE ASIDE. I DIDN'T HEAR A LOT OF REPUBLICANS TAKING SHOTS AT BIDEN'S AGE GOING INTO THE SPEECH. INSTEAD, THEY SAID THEY WANTED TO SEE HIM BUILD SOME KIND OF A BROADER MESSAGE TO TALK TO THEIR.

VOTERS, GRABBED THE VOTERS, BRING THEM IN. IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THIS SPEECH WOULD DO MUCH TO BRING HARD-LINE CONSERVATIVE SPIRIT AND MAY HAVE AN IMPACT ON MODERATES, BUT CERTAINLY AS WE NOTED, IT PUTS TO BAD A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE 81-YEAR-OLD COMMANDER.

IN CHIEF. >> FOR NOW, QUESTION ABOUT IT. PROBABLY NOT GOING TO GO AWAY, A LEGITIMATE ISSUE FOR PEOPLE TO CONSIDER. I THINK YOU VERY MUCH. AND BACK WITH US NOW, LINDSEY DAVIS BACK FROM THE BIG SET WITH DAVID MUIR AFTER THE “ABC NEWS”.

SPECIAL REPORT. WHAT A NIGHT. I WILL LET YOU TAKE IT FROM HERE. >> I THINK THAT'S A BIG HEADLINE APPROPRIATE AND FITTING TO DESCRIBE THE STATE OF THE UNION AND I WANT TO BRING IN RACHEL SCOTT AND TERRY THANK YOU SO.

MUCH FOR YOUR COVERAGE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT HERE. RACHEL, HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON MOURNED THE HOUSE TO HAVE DECORUM AND TO BEHAVE. IF WE DID HEAR SOME SHOUTING. WHO DIDN'T BEHAVE? >> YEAH, THE HOUSE SPEAKER WANTED TO COURT HIM, HE WANTED.

CIVILITY, HE WANTED REPUBLICANS TO REALLY RESPECT TO PRESIDENT BIDEN DURING THE STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH. IN FACT, HEADING INTO THE CHAMBER, HE TOLD US HE BELIEVES EVERYONE WAS GOING TO BE ON THEIR BEST BEHAVIOR. THAT CERTAINLY DID NOT HAPPEN.

TONIGHT. CONGRESSWOMAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WHO YOU MAY REMEMBER FROM LAST YEAR HAD VERY SIMILAR OUTBURSTS BOOING THE PRESIDENT, HECKLING HIM, CALLING HIM A LIAR. WHEN THE PRESIDENT TURNED TO SOCIAL SECURITY, WHEN HE TURNED.

TO MEDICARE, THAT'S EXACTLY THE SAME MOMENT THAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR. IT ONCE AGAIN WE SAW A LITTLE BIT OF A REPEAT. THAT'S WHEN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE STARTED YELLING OUT THE PRESIDENT CALLING HIM A LIAR. THEN HE TURNED TO THE BIPARTISAN.

BORDER DEAL THAT WAS NEGOTIATED BY DEMOCRATS AND RIBALD GUN IN THE SENATE'S SHE DIDN'T LIKE WHAT HE HAD TO SAY ABOUT THAT EITHER. HE STARTED SHOUTING AT HIM AND THEY GOT INTO A LITTLE BIT OF A BACK-AND-FORTH THAT WAS REALLY RARE TO SEE IN THE HOUSE CHAMBER.

BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DELIVERING A STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, BROUGHT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHILE GOING BACK TO AND AND FORTH WITA REPUBLICAN. AT ONE THING WAS VERY CLEAR. ONE THING I NOTICED DURING THAT TIME, THE PRESIDENT WAS TALKING.

ABOUT THE BIPARTISAN BILL, YOU HAD SENATOR JAMES, THE REPUBLICAN THAT NEGOTIATED IT. HE WANTED TO GET SOMETHING DONE ON THE ISSUE WHEN THE PRESIDENT STARTED GOING LINE BY LINE ABOUT WHAT WAS IN THE BILL, HE NODDED AND SAID IT WAS TRUE. >> AND THAT'S A PRETTY.

REMARKABLE MOMENT IN THAT MOMENT. YOU WERE IN THE ROOM. WHAT ELSE DID YOU MAKE ABOUT WHAT HE SAW? >> YOU KNOW, I WAS SURPRISED BY HOW MANY OUTBURSTS THERE WERE FROM PEOPLE THAT WERE NOT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

ACTUALLY IN THE GALLERY. YOU HAD THAT BEHAVIOR ONCE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE STARTED THAT REFLECT ALL THE WAY UP TO THE TOP OF THE CHAMBER. SO WE WERE PERCHED SITTING IN THE GALLERY WATCHING MEMBERS BELOW, WELL IT TURNS OUT WE INVITED GUESTS BEHIND US STARTED.

HAVING SOME OUTBURSTS AS WELL. THERE WAS A MOMENT WHEN THE PRESIDENT WAS TALKING ABOUT THE CIVILIANS THAT HAVE BEEN KILLED AND HE WENT ON TO SAY THEY WEREN'T FROM HAMAS AND THE MAN BEHIND ME STARTED YELLING THAT'S NOT TRUE. IF YOU HAVE THE OFFICER THAT.

CAME OVER, HE IMMEDIATELY RESISTED SORT OF BEING REMOVED AND ULTIMATELY HE WAS REMOVED. ANOTHER OUTBURST FROM ANOTHER MAN THAT WAS RIGHT ACROSS THE GALLERY STARTED SHOUTING ABOUT THE UNITED STATES MARINES. HE WAS QUICKLY REMOVED AS WELL. THAT'S REALLY SURPRISING TO SEE.

WE HAVE SEEN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HAVE SOME OF THE OUTBURSTS, BUT FROM THE BIDEN GUEST TONIGHT, THAT WAS HAPPENING ALL THE WAY UP IN THE GALLERY. UNCLEAR IF IT WAS ACTUALLY HEARD THOUGH. >> LET'S TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE MOMENTS OF UNITY TONIGHT AS.

WELL. >> THEY WERE RARE. IT YOU KNOW, THE PRESIDENT HAD TO JOKE OFF THE TOP THAT MAYBE HE SHOULD JUST GO HOME, THAT OBVIOUSLY GOT A LOT OF REPUBLICANS LAUGHING. ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE, THERE WAS A MOMENT WHEN THE PRESIDENT.

WAS TALKING ABOUT VOTING RIGHTS. HE WAS TALKING ABOUT SELMA. IT YOU'VE GOT SO MANY DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS THAT TAKE THE PILGRIMAGE BACK TO SELMA, TO THE MN PREJUDICE BRIDGE WHERE JOHN LEWIS AND SO MANY OTHERS MARCHED TO TE AND YOU HAD THE MOMENT WHERE EVY.

STOOD UP AND APPLAUDED. THAT WAS A MOMENT OF UNITY. AT THOSE WERE RARE IN THE ADDRESS THOUGH, LINSEY. >> THERE WERE MANY WOMEN AND THE GALLERY. LADIES OF CONGRESS WHO SAID THEY SUFFERED BECAUSE OF THEIR STATE'S ABORTION RESTRICTIONS.

AND SPOKE TO SOME OF THESE WOMEN EVEN JUST TODAY. WHAT MESSAGE WAS SENT BY HAVING THEM IN THE ROOM? >> I WAS TOLD THERE WERE 28 WOMAN THEY ARE TODAY RELATED TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. THESE ARE WOMAN WHO MAYBE HAD TO FLEE THEIR STATES IN ORDER TO.

GET AN EMERGENCY ABORTION. THE WOMAN WHO HAD THEIR IVF APPOINTMENTS CANCELED BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN ALABAMA. THERE WERE DOCTORS THERE AS WELL THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE STATES WITH STRICT ABORTION BANS PLEADING FOR CHANGE. YOU KNOW THIS WHEN YOU LOOK OUTS.

IN THE CHAMBER, THERE WAS A SEA OF WHITES. IF YOU HAD ALL THESE DEMOCRATS WEARING WHITE, SHOWING THEIR SUPPORT, LOOKING TO SEND A MESSAGE ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. I TALKED TO SEVERAL WOMAN THAT TRAVELED HERE FOR THE STATE OF THE UNION, INCLUDING THE.

PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE UNION GUEST KATIE COX, THE FIRST PREGNANT WOMAN TO SUE THE STATE OF TEXAS SEEKING EMERGENCY ABORTION. HER DOCTOR WAS ALSO IN THE CHAMBER TONIGHT. I SAT DOWN WITH THEM FOR THE FIRST JOINT INTERVIEW.

IT LOOKS, SHE TOLD ME FLAT OUT WHAT SHE'S HOPING IS JUST SOME CHANGE. SHE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE ANOTHER WOMAN GO THROUGH EXACTLY WHAT SHE WENT THROUGH. SHE HOPES BY THE PRESIDENT HIGHLIGHTING HER STORY TONIGHT THAT MANY AMERICANS WILL SEE.

THIS FAR AS BEYOND JUST POLITICS, THEY CAN SEE IT AS AN ISSUE OF ACTUALLY GETTING HEALTH CARE. TO THOSE WHO MAY NEED IT. >> THE ABORTION POTENTIALLY ABOUT AS 11 STATES. THIS COULD ULTIMATELY DECIDE THE ELECTION.

RACHEL SCOTT, OUR THANKS TO YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK THROUGHOUT THE DAY. NOW I WANT TO BRING IN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE. ON CURIOUS WHAT YOUR SOURCES AT THE WHITE HOUSE ARE SAYING AND HOW ARE THEY ARE REACTING TO THE.

SPEECH. >> THEY ARE REACTING VERY POSITIVELY AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. HERE THAT THEY FEEL THE PRESIDENT NAILED IT. THAT HE DELIVERED, THAT HE WAS ABLE TO REALLY PUT HIS CRITICS ON THEIR HEELS AT EVERY TURN. I THINK THE CHALLENGES WERE BIG.

GOING. THE PRESSURE WAS BE GOING INTO THIS AND THE PRESIDENT WAS WELL AWARE OF THAT. HE KNEW HE HAD TO STRIKE THE RIGHT TONE, HE KNEW THAT IN MANY WAYS JUST AS IMPORTANT PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT ON THE SUBSTANCE WAS THE DELIVERY.

HE WAS CLASSIC BIDEN. HE WASN'T LOFTY RHETORIC, HE WAS FOLKSY, FUNNY AT POINTS, AND HE REALLY SPARRED WITH HIS REPUBLICAN OPPONENTS IN A WAY THAT I DON'T THINK WE HAVE EVER SEEN IN THE STATE OF UNION ADDRESS ADDRESS. IT DEFINITELY FELT ARE MORE LIKE.

A ROCK'S CAMPAIGN SPEECH THAN A STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. I THINK THE OVERARCHING TAKE AWAY IS THAT WE ARE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION. THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING GAME ON, LET'S A DO THIS WE ARE >> WE HAD SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER AND RAKIM JEFFORDS AND BOTH.

STATED THE SAME SENTIMENT WHICH WAS LET'S JUST LET JOBY JOE TONIGHT. THAT FEELS LIKE THAT'S 100% WAS THE VIBE. >> THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THAT. ANYTIME YOU DISCUSS THE PRESIDENT'S AGE, THE STAMMERING, BOATERS NO JOE BIDEN, HE'S BEEN.

LIKE THIS TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. HE STRUGGLES WITH A STARTER. HE'S NEVER BEEN A PERFECTLY POLISHED POLITICIAN, BUT THAT'S WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE FEELS MAKES HIM SO RELATABLE. THAT WAS FULLY ON DISPLAY TONIGHT. IT WAS A CLASSICALLY JOE BIDEN.

KIND OF SPEECH. AND WHAT STRUCK ME WAS SO MUCH OF THE SPEECH WASN'T ABOUT WHAT HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS WERE, BUT LOOKING FORWARD. HE'S GOT TO MAKE A CASE FOR ANOTHER FOUR HERE'S AN OUTLINE THINGS HE'S GOING TO DO BEYOND JUST THE ARGUMENT OF HEY, I'M.

NOT DONALD TRUMP YARD BUT SO MANY OF THE THINGS HE'S POINTED TO, LOWERING DEBT, PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS, THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT THE WHITE HOUSE FEELS VERY REAL REALLY RESONATE WITH AMERICANS, RESONATE WITH VOTERS BECAUSE THEY ARE WELL AWARE OF THE POLLING THAT SHOWS A LOT OF.

AMERICANS ARE GETTING THE CREDIT FOR A COMPLIMENT BECAUSE THEY AREN'T REALLY FEELING THEM IN THEIR WALLET. THEY AREN'T FEELING THEM IN THEIR LIFE. AND SO MANY OF THE THINGS HE'S OUTLINING WHERE THOSE AREAS WHERE HE HAS THE MOST IMPACT FOR.

AVERAGE AMERICANS, MIDDLE A CLASS AMERICANS. >> IT FELT LIKE HE HAD THE FIRE IN THE BELLY QUITE OFTEN THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT ENGAGING, SPARRING REALLY WITH THE REPUBLICANS. AT WHAT WERE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FOR YOU?.

>> THE QUESTION IS CAN THE FIRE LAST? IT WAS A REHEARSED, PRACTICED, CAREFULLY COMBED OVER SPEECH. HE REHEARSED IT FOR DAYS WITH HIS ADVISORS AND WORKING WITH A SPEECH COACH. IT WAS THOSE MOMENTS IN SOME WAYS SEEMED OFF SCRIPT WHERE HE.

CHALLENGE REPUBLICANS ABOUT SAYING WHAT, YOU DON'T LIKE THAT BILL? TO BUILD THAT YOU SAID YOU WANTED. THE BILL THAT OTHER MEMBERS OF YOUR PARTY SUPPORTED AND CHALLENGED HIM AT SOME POINT. WHAT ARE YOU AGAINST?.

AT ONE POINT QUIPPING I KNOW YOU CAN READ. HE HAD A LOT OF JOBS AT THEM WHICH IS WHY THE WHITE HOUSE FEELS LIKE HE WAS ABLE TO PUT THE CRITICS ON THE HEELS. BUT THE QUESTION IS DOES THE JOE BIDEN SHOW UP ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL DAY IN AND DAY.

OUT. IT'S A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT WHEN YOU ARE OUT THERE ON THE TRAIL AND NOT IN THE HOUSE CHAMBER. >> AS YOU KNOW VERY WELL COME OUR THANKS TO YOU, MARY BRUCE. I WANT TO BRING ELIZABETH AND CERTAINLY A BIG PROMISE WAS MADE.

TONIGHT FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN TO RESTORE ROE V. WADE. IT IS NOT A PROMISE HE CAN FULFILL? >> IT'S WHEN HE'S RUNNING ON AND AS YOU POINTED OUT WITH RACHEL, IT'S SUCH AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR THE PRESIDENT TO FOCUS ON HOW HE IS THE LEADER WHO WILL RESTORE.

WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. HE IS TRYING TO DRAW A VERY CLEAR CONTRAST WITH REPUBLICANS WHO HE SAYS ARE NOT JUST PUTTING NEW RESTRICTIONS ON ABORTION, BUT NOW FERTILITY CARE TOO. AND WE HAVE SEEN THIS HEATED DEBATE IN RECENT WEEKS BECAUSE OF THE RULING BY ALABAMA.

SUPREME COURT. I THINK IT'S WORTH LISTENING TO HOW THE PRESIDENT'S TRYING TO LAY THIS OUT AND TELLING THE STORY OF ONE OF THE WOMEN TORI BEASLEY WHO WAS SEATED RIGHT NEXT TO THE FIRST LADY TONIGHT. AND H HOW THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IS IMPACTING PEOPLE.

BECAUSE OF THE DECISION. >> SHE SCHEDULED TREATMENTS TO HAVE THAT SECOND CHILD. THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT SHUTDOWN ON TREATMENTS TREATMENTS ACROSS THE STATE. OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE. SHE WAS TOLD HER DREAM WOULD HAVE TO WAIT, WHAT HER FAMILY.

GOT THROUGH SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. UNLESS CONGRESS ACTS, IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN TONIGHT. SO TONIGHT, LET'S STAND UP FOR FAMILIES LIKE HERS. OUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE AISLE. >> THE PRESIDENT MAKING A VERY DELIBERATE PUSH.

REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE AND THE CHAMBER WITH HIM TONIGHT TO PASS SPECIFIC LEGISLATION TO PROTECT IVF WHICH WAS BLOCKED IN THE SENATE LAST WEEK. IT'S NOTABLE THAT IN THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE, SENATOR KATIE BRITT BASICALLY.

SAID THAT THIS IS SOMETHING REPUBLICANS DO SUPPORT. WE ARE SEEING A LITTLE BIT PLAY OUT TONIGHT, THE FINE LINE REPUBLICANS ARE WALKING TRYING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEY DO NOT WANT TO GO TOO FAR RESTRICTING RIGHTS WHEN IT COMES TO IVF. IT'S GOT BROAD PUBLIC SUPPORT.

BUT ALSO TRYING TO HAVE THOSE ABORTION RESTRICTIONS IN PLACE, THE PRESIDENT CLEARLY ATTACKED THEM FOR, LINDSAY. >> THE PRESIDENT PROPOSED A NEW TAX CREDIT TO HELP AMERICANS FACE HIGH MORTGAGE PAYMENTS. HOW COULD THIS HELP? >> THIS COMES DOWN TO WHAT CAN.

THE PRESIDENT DO TO LET AMERICANS KNOW THAT HE'S TAKING STEPS ON THE ECONOMY WHEN A LOT OF THIS HE SAYS HIS AND IN HIS OWN CONTROL. AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE PRESIDENT'S TOUTING STRONG NUMBERS ON ANTON BECOME A LOW ON THE PLUMBING, COOLING.

INFLATION. GDP CONTINUES TO POWER FORWARD. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NOT FEELING THAT DAY-TO-DAY BUT ONE THING THEY CAN DO IS OFFER TAX CREDITS TO LOWER HOUSING COSTS. EVEN MORE THAN THEY WERE A COUPLE YEARS AGO. AND THIS IS SOMETHING THE.

PRESIDENT SAYS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN DO TO TRY TO ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE COSTS. OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED CONGRESSIONAL HOW MUCH THE PRESIDENT CAN DO HERE. I BELIEVE IT'S THEIR OWN QUESTION, LINSEY, BY THE PRESIDENTS TRYING TO FOCUS ON.

WHATEVER AREAS HE CAN TAKE TO LOWER COSTS. HE POINTED OUT THE LEGISLATION THAT HAS BEEN PASSED IN THE LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS. AT THE END OF THE DAY, SOME OF THE OTHER PLACES, FOOD, HOUSING, RUN PRICES HE WANTS TO SAY I KNOW THEY ARE TOUGH, I'M TRYING.

TO DO WHAT I CAN HEAR, AND WORK WITH ME, UNDERSTAND THERE ARE STEPS WE ARE TRYING TO TAKE IT TO MAKE THIS EASIER FOR YOU WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THOSE PRICES DAY-TO-DAY. >> ELIZABETH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. MARTHA RADDATZ, CHIEF GLOBAL.

AFFAIRS ANGER, COANCHOR THIS WEEK JOINS US TONIGHT. OF COURSE, THE PRESIDENT CALLED FOR A SIX-WEEK CEASE-FIRE TALKED ABOUT POTENTIALLY BUILDING A COURT TO PROVIDE AID TO GAZA. REITERATING HIS SUPPORT AGAIN FOR A TUESDAY SOLUTION, YOU WANT TO TAKE A LISTEN TO WHAT ELSE HE.

HAD TO SAY. >> TONIGHT, I'M DIRECTING THE U.S. MILITARY TO LEAD EMERGENT Y MISSION. TTO NO U.S. BOOTS WILL BE ON THE GROUND. >> IS NOT ENOUGH TO APPEASE THE VOTERS IN RECENT DAYS VOTED UNCOMMITTED?.

>> PROBABLY NOT, LINSEY. THERE'S PROTESTERS ON THE STREETS IN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE TONIGHT. AS THE MOTORCADE WAS MAKING HIS WAY TO THE CAPITOL, PROTESTING HOW THE ISRAELIS ARE CONDUCTING THE WAR IN GAZA. BUT THE PRESIDENTS WALKING A.

FINE LINE. HE WANTED DO SOMETHING AND THIS IS CERTAINLY WELCOME. IT IS AS THOSE WHO WORRY ABOUT THIS WILL SAY IT'S A VERY GOOD FIRST STEP, BUT SO MUCH MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE. THEY HAVE STARTED THE AIR DROPS, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE.

NUMBERS, 100,000 MEALS DROPPED, 38,000 MEALS DROPPED, THAT'S REALLY NOT MANY WHEN YOU HAVE MILLION STARVING TO DEATH. THE OTHER ISSUE IS HOW LONG THE TEMPORARY PIER AND DOCK WILL TAKE? AT LEAST 45 DAYS. THAT'S WHEN A PENTAGON OFFICIAL.

WAS SAYING ON BACKGROUND I TALKED TO SOME FORMER OFFICERS IN THE U.S. ARMY WHO KNOW A LOT ABOUT HOW THIS HAPPENS. AND THEY SAID THAT WOULD BE EVEN 60 DAYS WOULD BE A WARP SPEED. SO THIS IS GOING TO TAKE A WHILE, BUT THE PRESIDENT CLEARLY WANTED TO APPEASE PEOPLE TONIGHT.

AND HELP. AND HELPED WITH THE SITUATION. THE PRESIDENT AND THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS IS REALLY CAMPAIGN AND HOW MANY — COUNTLESS OF HOW MANY HAVE BEEN KILLED MORE THAN 30,000 HAVE BEEN KILLED IN GAZA.

AND IT IS SOMETHING HE DEEPLY WORRIES ABOUT BEER IN >> PRESIDENT BIDEN RIGHT ALL OF THE GATE ADDRESSED UKRAINE AND HE HAD A MESSAGE DIRECTLY FROM VLADIMIR PUTIN. TAKE A LISTEN. >> I SAY THIS TO CONGRESS, WE HAVE TO STAND UP TO PUTIN.

SEND ME A BIPARTISAN NATIONAL SECURITY BILL. HISTORY IS LITERALLY WATCHING. IF HISTORY IS WATCHING. UNITED STATES WALKS AWAY, IT'LL PUT UKRAINE AT RISK. EUROPE IS AT RISK. THE FREE WORLD WILL BE AT RISK, EMBOLDENING OTHERS TO DO WHAT.

THEY WISH, DO US HARM. MY MESSAGE TO PUTIN IS SIMPLE. WE WILL NOT WALK AWAY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> WHY KICK IT OFF WITH UKRAINE? DID NOT SURPRISE YOU? >> TOTALLY SURPRISED ME. A FIRST OF ALL, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING VOTERS ARE AT ALL ON.

THEIR RADAR HAVE NOT BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT UKRAINE. THAT THEY MAY HAVE THAT PERIPHERALLY COME ABOUT THE ELECTION IS DEFINITELY NOT ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY AND UKRAINE. SO IT WAS SURPRISING COME UP AND THEN OF COURSE WHAT THE PRESIDENT WENT ON TO SAY IS.

ATTACK HIS PREDECESSOR BY SAYING THAT YOU KNOW, IF PUTIN WILL NOT STOP AT THE BORDERS OF UKRAINE, IF WE DO NOT SEND AID TO. HE WANTS THE AID BUT HE SAID HIS PREDECESSOR, YOU KNOW, WHO THE HECK CARES? KEEP GOING. HE WANTED THAT MESSAGE, BUT.

CERTAINLY SURPRISING HE STARTED IN HIS SPEECH OFF THAT WAY, BUT IT WAS VERY CLEAR WHY HE DID THAT VERY QUICKLY. >> HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED. OF MARTHA RADDATZ, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WANT TO TAKE A LIVE LOOK NOW AT THE PRESIDENT'S MOTORCADE.

WE HAVE THAT HERE. WAITING FOR THE PRESIDENT TO LEAVE, WE ARE WATCHING AS HE IS IN THE CHAMBERS THEY ARE. ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE LEAVING, ACTUALLY TURN THE LIGHTS OUT, HE WAS STILL TAKING SELFIES, PERHAPS TAKING A FEW FACE TIME CALLS WITH SOME OF THE.

CONSTITUENTS WHO WERE THERE IN THE ROOM WITH THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS BECOME A REALLY INTERESTING THAT HE WAS CLEARLY IN THE ZONE RELISHING THE MOMENT. ENJOY THE CONVERSATION ONCE AGAIN WITH THE “ABC NEWS” POLITICAL ANALYST REINCE PRIEBUS.

AND CONTRIBUTE OR AN STRATEGIST DONNA BRAZILE. LET'S GET TO IT. I DO FEEL LIKE PRESIDENT BIDEN GOT IT RIGHT? >> ABSOLUTELY. ONCE AGAIN, HE GAVE A MASTER CLASS AND HOW TO TALK TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NOT ONLY ABOUT.

THE PROGRESS WE'VE MADE, BUT THE CHALLENGES WE FACE. HE ALSO SAID TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WE ARE GOING TO WRITE THIS FUTURE TOGETHER. PRESIDENT BIDEN SHOWED UP TONIGHT. THAT'S THE PRESIDENT WHO'S BEEN FIGHTING FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS.

IN THE PRESIDENT WHO KNOWS HE'S GOT TO KEEP AMERICA'S BORDERS SAFE. SECURE. A PRESIDENT WHO UNDERSTANDS THAT THE NEXT ELECTIONS GOING TO BE EVEN TOUGHER AND THEN THE LAST ONE. I THINK TONIGHT DEMOCRATS,.

AMERICANS, INDEPENDENCE, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO'S A PRESIDENT, WHO SHOWED UP, I'M GOING TO STICK WITH YOU BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN AMERICA'S FUTURE. >> FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS MENTIONED BY BIDEN AS MY PREDECESSOR AS WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING WITH MY THOUGHT.

MORE THAN ONE DOZEN TIMES. IF TRUMP RESPONDED TONIGHT CALLING AT THE ANGRIEST AND WORST STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS EVER. IS THAT FAIR OR IS TRUMP DISPARAGING? >> I THINK THE BAR IS PRETTY LOW FOR JOE BIDEN.

THESE ARE NOT DIFFICULT SPEECH IS TO GIVE. I THINK JOE BIDEN'S DELIVERED A FANTASY LAND TRYING TO CLAIM THE ECONOMY IS BOOMING, THE BORDER IS SECURE, AMERICA IS DOMINANT ON THE WORLD STAGE. I DON'T THINK ANYONE IS BUYING THAT AT ALL.

BUT LOOK, HE DELIVERED THE SPEECH, THIS WAS MORE THAN A HEALTH AND WELLNESS CHECK ON THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT. I THINK HE DID THAT. TWO DAYS, NO ONE'S GOING TO REMEMBER THE CONTENTS OF THIS SPEECH. BY THE WAY, HE PROMISED A BIG.

TAX HIKE ON CORPORATIONS IN 2021. HE DIDN'T DELIVER IT. HE HAD THE HOUSE COME ON THE SENATE, DIDN'T HAPPEN. THESE ARE THE SAME OLD PROMISES, SAME OLD SPEECHES, WE WILL SEE. >> THEY ARE TAKING A LIVE LOOK WE WILL SEE THE MOTORCADE.

LEAVING THE CAPITOL, TURNING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE AT THIS POINT. STAYING WITH YOU FOR A MOMENT, JUST 3 MINUTES INTO THE SPEECH, THE PRESIDENT MADE HIS FIRST SEVERAL MES REFERENCES TO DONALD TRUMP WHILE NOT NAMING HIM.

IT TOOK A LISTEN. >> NOW — [APPLAUSE] NOW, MY PREDECESSOR, FORMER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT TELLS PUTIN “DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT.” THE FORMER PRESIDENT ACTUALLY SAID THAT. BOWING DOWN TO A RUSSIAN LEADER.

I THINK IT'S OUTRAGEOUS, DANGEROUS, AND UNACCEPTABLE. >> TRUMP WAS QUICK TO PUSH BACK ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM. IS THIS JUST A TASTE OF WHAT VOTERS WILL LIKELY TO SEE OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS? >> IT'S GOING TO BE ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE.

IT WILL BE A CLOSE RACE. I DON'T THINK ANYONE'S DELUSIONAL THAT THIS WILL BE EASY ON EITHER SIDE OF THE AISLE. IT'LL BE VERY FEW AMONG THE PEOPLE THAT WILL DECIDE THIS THING IN FIVE STATES. RIGHT NOW, LOOK, PRESIDENT TRUMP.

IS WINNING IN EVERY BATTLEGROUND STATE. A 75% OF DEMOCRATS SAY THEY WISH THEY HAD A DIFFERENT CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. THEY DON'T EVEN WANT JOE BIDEN TO BE THEIR NOMINEE. THAT'S WHAT THE POLLS SAY OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

BY EQUAL AMOUNT, 75% OF DEMOCRATS SAY THAT JOE BIDEN IS TOO OLD TO BE PRESIDENT. HE ASKED TOO OLD AND IS TOO OLD. THAT'S WHAT DEMOCRATS SAY ABOUT THEIR OWN PRESIDENT. GO AHEAD. >> WE CAN'T CHANGE JOE BIDEN'S AGE.

HE TOLD US TONIGHT THAT HE'S PRETTY OLD, BUT HE ALSO SAID THAT HE KNOWS AMERICA. HE KNOWS WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT. BY THE WAY, HE HAS A LOT OF RECEIPTS. THERE IS NO NEED TO SIT AROUND YOUR KITCHEN TABLE AND WORRY AS.

MUCH AS YOU USE TO WHEN WE WERE LOSING 3,000 PEOPLE A DAY TO COVID. 18 MILLION AMERICANS WERE UNEMPLOYED. WE SHOULD APPLAUD THE FACT THAT AMERICA IS GETTING BACK ON ITS FEET. THE AMERICAN ECONOMY HAS.

RESULTED THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE FEELING BETTER. GAS PRICES HAVE GONE DOWN AND INFLATION SCHOOLING. WE WILL HAVE A VERY SPIRITED DEBATE AND CONVERSATION THROUGHOUT THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS. MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT.

AMERICA IS COMING BACK AND WE SHOULD ALL APPLAUD THAT. >> DONNA, I'M CURIOUS, JOE BIDEN MADE A LOT OF BIG PROMISES TONIGHT. DO YOU THINK HE'LL DELIVER ON HALF OF THEM? >> HOPEFULLY IF HE CAN GET A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS HE CAN.

DELIVER ON MANY OF THE PROMISES. LET'S NOT FORGET, IN THE SENATE YOU HAVE TO OVERCOME THE FILIBUSTER. 34 UNITE STATE SENATORS UP FOR GRAB AND ALL 435 MEMBERS THAT HAVE TO REAPPLY FOR THE JOB. I BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT DID WHAT HE HAD TO DO, SHOWED.

THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HE'S KIND, STRONG, COMPASSIONATE, AND HE'S A LEADER. HE SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO LEAD AMERICA FORWARD. HE MADE THE CONTRACT WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT, HIS PREDECESSOR, HE'S NOT DELMONT.

DETERMINED TO NOT LET AMERICA GO BACK TO THOSE DAYS WHEN WE WERE DOWN IT OUT OF LUCK. >> REINCE PRIEBUS, DONNA BRAZILE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANALYSIS AS ALWAYS. LET'S BRING IN RICK KLEIN, AND LET'S START WITH KEY STATS. THAT YOU COUNTED THE EXCLAMATION.

MARKS. AT WHAT DID YOU FIND? >> I WATCH THE SPEECH AND I WROTE ABOUT IT TOO. WHEN I FOUND 80 EXCLAMATION POINTS IN THE PREPARED TEXT AND YOU COUNTED THE WAY THAT JOE BIDEN DELIVERED IT, YOU HAVE 240, AND THERE'S A LOT OF.

ENERGY. HIS OWN DELIVERY, YOU KNOW HOW MUCH EMPHASIS HE WANTED TO PUT ON SOME OF THE LINES GIVEN THE PUNCTUATION THAT WAS THERE FLOATING INTO IT. I THINK THAT CARRIED THROUGH A LOT OF THE SPEECH. THE PRESIDENT KNEW WHAT THE.

PERCEPTIONS WHERE. I TALKED TO A LOT OF THE AIDES WHO KNEW HOW BIG OF A MOMENT THIS WAS. IT MAY BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR MONTHS. THEY KNEW HOW IMPORTANT THIS WOULD BE. IF STORIES CAME ABOUT HIS AGE.

HE BUILT UP EXPECTATIONS. IF YOU COULD SAY IT'S A LOW BAR BUT IT WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN MUCH WITH SOME MISSTEP OR MISCUE, AND REALLY THERE WAS NOT THAT MUCH OF THAT. THEY HAD A VERY ENERGETIC PRESIDENT BIDEN THAT WAS EAGER TO ENGAGE WITH SOME OF THE.

FIERCEST CRITICS. >> THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN NOTED DID NOT MENTION THE WORDS DONALD TRUMP TONIGHT, BUT HE MADE SURE HE WAS ON VOTERS MINDS TONIGHT TALKING ABOUT THE SO-CALLED DOUBLE HATERS, WHO DISLIKE BY BIDEN AND TRUMP. HOW DID HE TAILOR HIS COMMENTS.

TO WINNING OVER SOME OF THEM? >> WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A RACE THAT'S EXTRAORDINARY CLOSE. PRESIDENT — FORMER PRESIDENT TRIP WITH A SLIGHT EDGE IN A RANGE OF RECENT POLLS. IT'S A TWO-POINT EDGE. IT WAS INTERESTING TO ME WHEN WE LOOK AT THE POLLS IS THE.

QUESTION OF FAVORABILITY. THESE ARE TWO HISTORICALLY UNFAVORABLE CANDIDATES. DONALD TRUMP'S FAVORABILITY IS HIGHER THAN JOE BIDEN'S, 44-38 IN A POLL THAT HAS TRUMP LEADING BY A COUPLE POINTS. BUT AMONG PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE EITHER OF THEM, BUT DOUBLE.

HATERS, ACTUALLY THEY ARE BREAKING MORE FOR JOE BIDEN THEN FOR TRUMP. 45-33, CONSISTENT ACROSS POLLS. WHEN VOTERS ARE PRESSED, REALLY WHO ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE FOR? THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO SUPPORT BIDEN THEN TRUMP BEER THAT THAT'S ONE OF THE FEW GLIMMERS.

OF HOPE IN A RANGE OF RECENT POLLING IS THAT IF BIDEN CAN GET OUT THERE AND REMIND PEOPLE WHAT THEY DON'T LIKE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP, HE'S GOT SOMETHING OF AN EDGE. IN THE SPEECH TONIGHT, HE WASN'T GOING OUT THERE WITH AN EYE TRYING TO GET NEW VOTERS INTO.

THE FOLD. THIS WAS A CASE HE PROSECUTED AGAINST HIS RIVAL BECAUSE HE KNOWS NUMBERS LIKE THIS, THIS IS ABOUT TRUMP, HE MIGHT WIN. IF IT'S ABOUT JOE BIDEN, HE'S IN A BAD SPOT. >> BIDEN TOOK HIS TIME BEFORE TALKING ABOUT PERCEPTIONS, HIS.

AGE, HIS ABILITY TO DO THE JOB. HOW BIG OF A CONCERN IS THIS FOR VOTERS AND HOW CAN HIS PERFORMANCE ALLAY THE CONCERNS? >> WE HAVE SEEN THIS SHOW UP ACROSS POLLING. MOST DEMOCRATS SAID THEY HAVE THESE KIND OF CONCERNS AND THEY HAD SOMEONE ELSE RUNNING.

WE HAVE SEEN IT PLAYED OUT IN THE PRIMARIES. HE'S ON THE VERGE OF CLINCHING THE NOMINATION AS IF THERE'S ANY DRAMA. WE SAW IT PLAY OUT IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN UNCOMMITTED VOTE GOT 13% MORE THAN 100,000 PEOPLE VOTED FOR UNCOMMITTED THAN.

JOE BIDEN. IT MAINLY AS A PROTEST AGAINST ISRAEL-HAMAS POLICY. IT THEN IN THE VOTING IN MINNESOTA THE OTHER NIGHT IT WAS A LARGER PORTION, 18% OF THE VOTE. JOE BIDEN GOT 70% OF THE VOTE EVEN THOUGH HE'S THE INCUMBENT.

PRESIDENT. WE SAW PROTEST BOTH PLAY OUT IN VIRGINIA WHERE MARY AND WILLIAMSON WHO BARELY CAMPAIGNED GOT 27,000 VOTES AND ANOTHER 12,000 FOR DEAN PHILLIPS. AT NORTH CAROLINA AGAIN, NO PREFERENCE CONTINUING TO REGISTER AND IT HAPPENED IN.

HAWAII AS WELL THIS WEEK. WE HAVE SEEN IT IN STATE AFTER STATE WHERE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO THE POLLS TO REGISTER DISAPPROVAL. THE AUDIENCE IN THE ROOM TODAY, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND MANY BEING CRITICAL OF THE PRESIDENT AND WORRIED ABOUT HIS STAMINA.

AND ABILITY TO DO THE JOB, THEY LED A CAMPAIGN RALLY THAT WILL ECHO AROUND A LOT OF DEMOCRATIC CIRCLES FOR A WHILE. YOU WANT A DISPLAY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY, ENTHUSIASM, I THINK YOU FOUND IT IN THE LAST DATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS BEFORE THE ELECTION.

>> ALL WEEK LONG, THANK YOU RICK, AS ALWAYS. AND WE SHOULD NOTE THAT WE NOW KNOW THE MAN WHO WAS ARRESTED FOR SHOUTING DOWN FROM THE GALLERY IN THIS MOMENT RIGHT HERE AT BIDEN. HE'S THE FATHER OF A MARINE WHO WAS KILLED AT THE AIRPORT IN.

2001 TO A SUICIDE BOMB THAT WENT OFF OUTSIDE THE AIR PORT GATES. HE WAS THE GUEST OF BRIAN MASSEY WAS A VETERAN HIMSELF. IT WAS 2021, SORRY ABOUT THAT. I APOLOGIZE ABOUT THAT. CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT JOINING US NOW. JOHN, A LOT OF SUPERLATIVES.

IT IN GREENEST, WORST, DONALD TRUMP'S REACTION. >> HE APPARENTLY DIDN'T LIKE THE SPEECH VERY MUCH. MAYBE NOT SHOCKING. HIS REACTION, HE HAD A LOT OF REACTIONS. THIS ENCOMPASSES WHAT HE SAID, THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE.

ANGRIEST, LEAST COMPASSIONATE STATSTATE OF THE UNION EVER MAD. THIS IS A CAMPAIGN SPEECH AS MUCH AS A STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. IT JOE BIDEN TOOK THE SPEECH RIGHT TO DONALD TRUMP. SOME OF THE MOST POINTED — AGAIN, NOT MENTIONING HIS NAME,.

BUT HE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR WHO HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. >> OF COURSE WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING FOR SEVERAL WEEKS AT THIS POINT, INDEPENDENT VOTERS OFTEN CAN DETERMINE ELECTIONS AND NOW ADD TO THAT THE FREE AGENT NIKKI HALEY VOTES. WHAT DO YOU THINK HE'S ABLE TO.

BRING ANY OF THOSE? THE VOTERS OF DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE DOESN'T WANT. >> YOU KNOW, WE HAD A TOUGH CHALLENGE, PRESIDENT BIDEN DID ON THIS. WHICH HE WANTED TO MAKE THIS A POINTED RESPONSE TO DONALD TRUMP.

HE WANTED TO KICK OFF THE CAMPAIGN BUT IF YOU APPEAR TO PARTISAN, YOU RISK ALIENATING THE NIKKI HALEY VOTERS WHO ARE LARGELY REPUBLICANS WHO ARE DISCONTENTED, DON'T LIKE TRUMP. BUT THEY ARE NOT PARTISANS. BUT I THINK HE DID THREAD THE NEEDLE PRETTY WELL.

I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING TO SEE HIM COME RIGHT OUT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SPEECH AND TAKE ON THE ISSUE OF UKRAINE, WHICH ISN'T NECESSARILY A BIG POPULIST ISSUE. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S GOING — THAT YOU SEE IN THE POLLING ON UKRAINE.

BEGIN TWO YEARS AGO WHEN RUSSIA INVADES. THE COUNTRY RALLIES AROUND SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE. IT BECOMES A MORE 50/50 ISSUE, BUT HE CAME OUT STRONG AND THAT'S A HUGE ISSUE FOR NIKKI HALEY. NIKKI HALEY HAD THE ISSUE HARD.

YOU KNOW, IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES. THAT IN ITSELF, OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING BIDEN CARES ABOUT DEEPLY AND IT'S COMING UP IN CONGRESS RIGHT NOW IN UKRAINE'S FACING A DIRE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING. TAKING ON THE ISSUE THAT WAS.

IMPORTANT FOR A LOT OF NIKKI HALEY VOTERS. >> ON THE OTHER THING WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IS HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED. WHY DO YOU THINK HE TOOK THAT STRATEGY AND NOT SAYING DONALD TRUMP SIMPLY SAYING MY FORMER PREDECESSOR?.

>> MY PREDECESSOR, SOMEONE OF A SIMILAR AGE TO ME, HE HAD A COUPLE DIFFERENT WAYS. LOOK, IT TOOK A LONG T TIM BEFOE BIDEN MENTIONED TRUMP'S NAME AT ALL. IT'S SOMETHING HE STARTED TO DO AS WE GET INTO THIS CAMPAIGN AND NO LONGER ELECTING TO DO SO.

BUT I THINK MENTIONING TRUMP'S NAME WAS A BRIDGE TOO FAR IN THAT CHAMBER. >> HE'S ABLE TO KILL TWO BIRDS WITH BOTH STONES AND REMIND PEOPLE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP'S AGE AS WELL. JONATHAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR ANALYSIS TONIGHT.

IT JOINING US NOW, “ABC NEWS” CONTRIBUTOR CHRISTINA AND JOHN KATKO. IT CHRISTINA, LET'S START WITH YOU. YOU CONSIDER THE NIGHT HUGE MAKE OR BREAK FOR THE PRESIDENT'S REELECTION AND HOW DID HE FARE? >> I THINK HE DID A GREAT JOB.

OVERALL YOUR HEARING FROM PEOPLE WHO POSTED SAVE DONALD TRUMP WHO'S A PETULANT CHILD, THAT HE DID A VERY GOOD JOB. HE TACKLED THE AGE QUESTION OUTRIGHT AND I THINK FOR ORGANIZED YOUNG VOTERS, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. HE'S RIGHT, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT.

AGE, IT'S ABOUT WHOSE IDEAS ARE BETTER. LOOK, DONALD TRUMP IS NO SPRING CHICKEN HIMSELF. IT WOULD NOT MATTER TO A LOT OF VOTERS IF HE'S 50 YEARS YOUNGER BECAUSE HIS POLICIES ARE STRAIGHT OUT OF THE 1950s. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE RIGHTS.

OF WOMEN'S TO ABORTION ACCESS, IVF, THE CLIMATE CRISIS, ET CETERA. I THINK BIDEN DREW A LINE IN THE SAND TO SHOW THE DIFFERENCES. I ALSO THINK WE WILL HEAR A LOT MORE OF OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS IS THE REALLY STRONG ECONOMIC POPULIST MESSAGE THAT HE HAD.

THROUGHOUT HIS SPEECH TALKING ABOUT BUILDING AN ECONOMY FROM THE BOTTOM UP IN MIDDLE OUT INSTEAD OF THE TOP DOWN. THAT'S A BIG CHANGE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND I THINK OVERWHELMINGLY TALKING ABOUT NOT MAKING THE ECONOMY FROM THE TOP 1%, BUT FOR OVERALL THE AMERICAN.

PEOPLE VERY, VERY POPULAR ABOUT TAXING THE RICH THEIR FAIR SHARE OVERWHELMINGLY POPULAR POPULACE IS WITH THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. >> THERE WERE A FEW STUMBLES BUT YOU THINK HE'S ABLE TO PROVE TO AMERICANS WHO THINK THAT HE'S TOO OLD TO SERVE AGAIN?.

THAT HE IS FIT FOR THE JOB? >> THE AGE ISSUE WAS CERTAINLY SOMETHING COMING INTO THIS AND ARGUABLY AND OBVIOUSLY IT WAS A LOW BAR FOR HIM. THIS IS A SCRIPTED SPEECH. I DON'T GET CHANGES THINGS MUCH IN THE LONG WRONG, BUT HE CERTAINLY DID PRETTY WELL.

TONIGHT FROM BEING ABLE TO DEVER THE SPEECH AND DELIVER IT WITH ENERGY. I AM CONCERNED WITH THE BASE PROBLEM HE HAS COME A SPRING VOTERS AND THE AVERAGE AMERICAN. THE PERSPECTIVE OF BASE PROBLEMS, HE'S ACKNOWLEDGING THE BASE PROBLEM BECAUSE IT WAS A.

VERY PARTISAN SPEECH AND IT WAS VERY DIVISIVE. IF MUCH MORE SO THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. HE DIDN'T PROJECT HOPE AS MUCH AS HE PROJECTED DIVISIVENESS. AS FAR AS THE SPRING VOTER GOES, I'M NOT SURE HE'LL REACH THEM WITHOUT TYPE OF RHETORIC AND.

THAT TONE. THE LAST THING THE AVERAGE AMERICAN AT HOME STRUGGLING, TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO BUY THEIR FIRST HOME OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, HOW ARE THEY GOING TO BE INSPIRED BY THIS SITTING THERE WHEN HE'S TALKING ABOUT THINGS ARE A LOT BETTER THAN THEY ARE.

FOR THE AVERAGE AMERICAN BEER THAT THE AVERAGE AMERICANS REALLY STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN BUY A HOME. I'M NOT SURE HE REACHED THOSE. HE DID A GOOD JOB SHORING UP SPACE. HE DID GOOD JOB TAKING CARE OF THE AGE ISSUE TEMPORARILY.

BUT AS FAR AS REALLY GETTING TO THE KNOB OF WHAT'S GOING TO GET HIM IN OFFICE VERSUS TRUMP, THAT'S THE SWING VOTER, I'M NOT SURE THAT REACH THEM TONIGHT. >> TIME WILL TELL. JOHN KATKO, CHRISTINA RAMIREZ, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, WE APPRECIATE IT.

NOW GOING TO BRING AN ABC WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELENA WANG. THANK YOU FOR HANGING OUT WITH US ALL NIGHT LONG AND GOING TO GIVE YOU THE FINAL WORD HERE. WHERE DOES THE PRESENT AND FROM HERE? >> LINDSAY, TODAY HE WAS.

ENERGETIC, FORCEFUL, HE BROUGHT IT, BUT THE QUESTION IS WHERE DOES HE GO FROM HERE? CAN HE KEEP THIS UP? WE'VE GOT MANY MORE MONTHS BEFORE IN NOVEMBER. HE'LL TAKE THE MESSAGE ON THE ROAD AND IN FACT HE'S GOING TO PHILADELPHIA TOMORROW.

I'LL BE TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT. HE GOES TO GEORGIA AFTER THAT. THIS IS A MESSAGE SHE WILL CONTINUE TO HAMMER HOME ALL THOSE THINGS WE POINTED OUT TODAY. THIS WHITE HOUSE, THIS PRESIDENT, THEY KNOW IT'LL BE AN.

EXTREMELY CLOSE ELECTION AND THEY'VE GOT TO FOCUS ON THE ISSUES THAT RESONATE WITH AVERAGE AMERICANS. I'VE HEARD CRITICISM FROM DEMOCRATIC ALLIES THAT THE PRESIDENT HASN'T DONE A GOOD JOB LAYING OUT WHAT HE'S ABOUT FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS BEYOND BEING.

BETTER THAN THE ALTERNATIVE. TODAY WE DID HEAR THE VISION ABOUT WHAT HE'S LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF THE ECONOMY, LOWERING HOUSING COST WHEN IT COMES TO STUDENT LOANS. FOREIGN POLICY, ABORTION ACCESS, THE PRESIDENT WILL WANT TO DELIVER ON THE POPULIST MESSAGES.

AS YOU SAID EARLIER. IN ADDITION TO THAT, ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MOMENTS WAS WHEN HE LOOKED DIRECTLY AT THE CAMERA AND SAID TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO YOU THINK THE TAX SYSTEM IS FAIR? LINSEY, OVER THE COMING MONTHS, THE PRESIDENT WILL GO TO MORE OF.

THE SWING STATES BRINGING THE MESSAGE HOME AND THE GOAL FOR HIM AND HIS STAFF IS TO DELIVER LIKE THAT EVERY SINGLE TIME WHEN HE DOESN'T HAVE AS MUCH TIME TO PREPARE. >> SELENA WANG, OUR THANKS TO YOU FOR YOUR FINAL THOUGHTS AND YOUR COVERAGE WITH US.

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