polls suggest his job approval rating has never been lower, and disapproval, higher, at any other state of the union time, so this address is critical. republicans say the president has not delivered on a number of state of the union promises he's made in the past, including and most significantly, one to cut the budget decifit in half by the end of his first term. house speaker john boehner says he expects a political speech tonight, and as for the buffet rule, he calls that the politics of envy. jenna. jenna: we'll be watching this story, wendell, thank you very much. jon, we found out one more person will be joining the first lady in the box, the wife of steve jobs, cofounder of apple. we'll hear who is going to be in the box throughout the day today. so we're getting a couple of names early on. jon: i guess the president wants to talk a lot about technology and hence he'll have steve jobs' widow there. let's bring back joe trippe and karl rove. wendell just said, joe, that the president's staff, his aides, say he is not yet in