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Look at the us capitol. Beautiful evening, actually, here in washington as we jue just moments awas. Capity fm President Biden and tonights state of the Union Address. Y frompresidengood evening from. Im brad there. Good evening, everybody. Im martha maccallum. Any moment now President Biden will be announced on the house floor with the familiar callilia of the house sergeant of arms. He will make his way down cate, greeted by lawmakers all along the way. There you see mitt romney talking to joe awmakers manchin. Seems like theyre pretty engaged in some conversation ses that happens on the sidelines as you have a lot of lawmakersnh waiting a long time in the chamber. A lot of folkse chambe, you knos expressing themselves different ways. Republicans, some of the more in buttons, die of about the bo. Others dressed in white on the democratic sidemocratic in solidarity. Lets set the stage now with White House Correspondent I Peter Doocy with a preview of the president s speech. Good evening, peter. A thegood evening, bret. Officials here at the white house think that most people that are going to watch t tonight havent been very politically active so far this cycle. So bee very they see it as a clean slae to tell what they describe as unamericane. Comeback story where President Biden will talk up how many Jobback Sto S have been createdn since 2021. He will blame Republicancrd S Fh Border Problems and he will suggest his age shouldnt Ble Donalde Becaus Trump is roughly the same age. The president has also been practicing dealing with hecklers when he talks. Gosar possiblyhecklersks from progressives in his own party right. Okay. Were waiting for President Biden to get into position. Peter, thank r you. We have the walk down and theyve timed all of this w out, but we also have the walk w out after the speech. We expect the speech to be about an hour,o be but withu nee applause lines, you never know. A state of the Union Address. The i do know. Who knows . Dana perino has been around the block. She coanchor of americasthe fi newsroom, cohost of the five herald for junior. Former tennesseeve congressman, cohost of the five. John roberts, not cohost of the fightererts. Of coanchor of the America Reports and fox news chief Political Analys ft brit hume joins us remotely. Brit, you weve covered so many of these,. What do you think about tonight . Well, i think unlike a lot of these speeches where were preoccupied or what the president will say about this, this issue or that issue and what Programnt Willis I He Y announce or what steps he may now hes taking to do, for thee taking the border. E bord what the Big Focus Tonight really is on his demeanoerr, how he seems, does he seem energetic and Authoritativ Hem D will he be smooth and polished . You know, weve seenooth so many stumbles and, you know, so many awkward moment s now and falling down is getting caught in the middle of sentences, losinettino his Train Of Thought and all that. I would not discount the possibility at all that the president will come in here tonight being very well rehearsed, very well preparee t very well rested, and will deliver a speech with a lot of energy and claritdelivea speh which, of course, we can. We will watch. While the hosannas from rimocrats and their allies in the media will ring down upon him, saying that is that puts the senility and theo age and acuity issue to rest. It doesnt, but thats what i. Expect well hear. But one of the things tonight is a contrast. F ththe white house is sayinge between President Biden and his likely challenger. Soon to wrap that all up, former President Trump, who is taking to true social already saying, quote, the president is very substantially late. Not a good start , but lets give him the benefit of the doubt. Im sure he had very important things to do, but he is noe hadw just getting into the car. They will have to drive very, very quickly. Nd to you just dont want to be late to the State Of The Union. They need mari the unio andrett at the wheel of the limo. I think its going to beof a pll by play all night long. So, ye thep, were going to wait for the commentary. Dana, one of the thingse im watching for is that president bush used to remind us that Everee Watchiy speech ye multiple audiences. One of the audiences for eent President Biden tonight is his own party, the disaffected members of his partyn toni own, who voted not willing to commit, those who wanted to maybe see him do somethintotg else. Se in is and israel, though, hes i mean, what more could he do fo terms of bendin coug over backwards for ten voters in michigan . And they still protest in himup tonight and wanted to disrupt his speech. But it was the speech might tell us if the concerns about the problems within his own party are a Minor Annoyance or a genuine crisiann john, its always interesting storylines. One of them is expelled. Gop congressman George Santos is on the floostorylinr. At its a privilege that formermber bimbers have, and He Decideds Ha to take it. Thats just a bizarre thing thats happening. But your thoughts on the speecz tonight . I think a little bit of a minor story in the overall i think Overale Tonightpeningr is opening salvo in the main general election campaign. And theres indications that the democrats are going to be fighting this around indic , we abortion very hard. Theyve got a couple of guests there in the first ladys box, the maria beasley. She was an Ivf Patienttien in alabama who is just about to go. Her embryoalabama transfer andy to delay it because they shut down ivf. Another was kate cox, who had a baby with trisomy 18. She could not get an abortionsha in texas. She had to go out of the state. And ind to his speech, this is x an excerpt. So were talking about thits. This is what the president was saying. Clearly, theres bragging about Overturnint Will G roe v. Wade, and no have no clue about the power of Women In America. Thisou will be a five minutemi applause line. But they found out when Reproductive Freedom Wasse Flo on the ballot and won in 2022, 2023, and they will find out wi again in 2024. Fiutso while the republicans may be putting immigration front and center, watch for the democratpublicans to put roe v. Wade and the president s anedge, if w he gets a second term and they get Democratic Congress to instill federall pr protections for abortion. Haroldotec ford jr. N issu you know, its an issue that he doesnt like to talkdoes not aba whole lot, President Biden, but he is basically wedged into having to speak about this tonight. He doesnt usually use the word abortiong when he talks about it. Hes catholic. All those Issues Arouns T Itd t. But it is something that he needs to and he needs to digto h into this issue. Its one of the contrastsst you speak of between the two parties. I think overarching in allal of this, people around the country, americans are fed up with the rancor, with the divisionl. And most recent Congressional Elections saw a democrat elected tom suozzi. Rece democrad George Santos wins in his district, that suozzi was elected and hes come on showshows all across this networks and people want us to work together. Across t sami hope president bi, weve said it all along, be cheerful, not e said contentious, be optimistic, not ominous, be it American Peoplcontene Wan their president to talk about how were going to get things done. And finally, to those in the chambeabhow thl r is someone that had the blessing and a privilege to serve in that chamber. Singi hope Members Of Congress M and chamber guests show the respect the President Emberssss he deserves, show the respect the country deserves. Lets not deal with the gimmicks thates and some ofa outbursts that this speech play out and let katie britt give heryt speech. And if President Trump wants to respond afterwards, well let him do that. As a great point. I mean, you know, people do look to these speeches. They are opportunities to liftto l up the country. And what we see in theseift up numberhat s, 70 think the couny is going in the wrong directio7n. Its really astonishing how down people are downis how about the economy, very down about whats going on at the border. Down abos like theres a los of control in the country. And so, you know, Wefeel Lik Tak about the low bar of just getting through the speech. But, dana, there is anlow bat if opportunity here, if he sees it, thats able to d io it. I think that the low bar i its interesting that you say at because the mood in the country is pretty dark. And i feel like in a way, people sort of tuned out. Dar but they dont think wil its going to help them. They dont see or hear frohelpm washington like how things are going to get better for theml or the. Chao and also the chaoss that President Biden talks about when the trump years. I think that whe wn you see people say 72 of people say the country is going in the wrong direction, thats because they feel like their livestrvesr are chaotic. Now, let me bring in thee ti former house speakernow. , r kevi kevin mccarthy. He joinsn us. Mr speak the speaker, youve been in this position. Youve been in that chair behinden i. As the president delivers speeches, you have to control your faciaas he l remarks and hw you react to things. Your thoughts on this night . Nigh do you miss thist, moment . Yeah, i miss any opportunity to be there. Isits a unique moment becausemr for members themselves, its such a great privilege. But very seldom do you gett th the house and senate. You geet the Cabinet Members, you got the joint chiefs, youve got the Supreme Court. So its a time to interact with one another. The Parto Vianothe that the listeners and the viewers really dont know is whatever somebody says in that chamber, as you can hear, but you dont get a pick up on television when you sitn behind the president , its actually hard to hearsion s when he speaks there. And it is a moment in time for whoever is president to really have a bully pulpi to reallt to lay out and speak to the American Public. Now, if im going to tald speaky former members of the republican conference, i wouldme say dont take the bait. If he wants to Say Something negativehe wants , you to get to react,e, lis be polite, listen to it and goto through, because that never plays well on television. And whats interesting, before this night starts, there will be a wholg Ise Groupgrou of republicans and democrats who will go greet the president beforehand. Anand the chambers to the side and escort him in. And thenn and as the speech bes youll see whether hes going to lay outee and this is ano president , this is an election year. So i know this is going to be an Electio Thise ann speech with theelecti election. Yes. And foon guestr republicans, li, be respectful and get through it. See senator mark kelly there in the distance, the chief seee and justice sotomayor. Interesting then obviously in the background of allan legal of this are the legal cases, some of them at the Supreme Court, including immunit ay. Thatll be decided soon. I think we have the first lady, jill biden, arriving, joe bidenr arriving in the chamber, and she is joined as johthe chn pointed out before, by two women who have had experiencesdi with ivf and with abortion. Also a cancer nurse is joiningts her this evening. Several gaffes. I mean, this whole tradition used to be maybe one or but n two people. Now the list from the white house is about 20 people long. Theres nancy pelosi, the former speaker of thow tfros house. You know, hard to say how muchar of an impact these guests have ,t but lets listen in. Mr. Speaker, the president s binet and so the cabinet walks in. Speaker mccarthy, we see Bo Secretartht Walky Blinken and bd him, secretary austin, the defense secretary, secretarwho obviously at all off controversy about not telling the president when t he was in the hospital. So this cabinets been a lot around the block here with ae bloc number of different controversies, but theyre Als O Dealing with war in ukraine and israel. How much of the speech Dden Oll B You think is going to be aimed at the goals of of the electionth and laying out a vision for his next terelectim . I think hes going to trying to be talking to his own base. He wants to motivate them to get behind him because that is a place that the President Biden currently ha i real has a real problem with. He wants to talk about successet s and it would be smart of him to talk about where they can work together. Art of tthis is a one chance toe a very big audience in america to control exactly what youre going to say without being asked the question and tat lay out why you deserve to be reelected again in the process h and what have you achieved . You know, this election is different when youre when i he ran for the office, it was open. Now its a Report Cardhe H on the job that he has done. So hes going to try to check off and say,aso he i kept this i promise, this promise, this promise. And if you elect me agaiise annh these this is further will be able to go. Speaker mccarthisfurthey peo, judge entering the room, we just saw Denis Sullivan on veterans affairs. A he had a difficult week over the famous world war ii kiss photographus world, which some underling had hoped to cancel from all of the va hospitals and get rid of that photo. And this Marcus Obviouslhat Phoy the man who is in charge of the department of homeland security, and heres the next message from former president donald trump. Theres nothing he cany re is th sayn say tonight that can absolve himwi from lettingll 15 Million People into our country illegally. Hell probably blame me, but i have the safest border in theisy history of our country, so that wont go very or far, he says. All kinds of different numbers over how many people have l kinds m into the country. T is that one is a very high number. The one of the Cabinet Members is always the designated survivor. K its not kiefer sutherland. And that show, it is theie education secretary, cardona, tonight who is not in the chambe its ret is r in case, continuity of government, someplace else. Nee were going to wait as the Cabinet Members come through here and Thentinuity N we will get the announcement from william mcfarland. The announ. At arms i want to bring in the panel. Harold, your thoughts on this tonight as were setting the table here. The former president ithe tas r. The president is behind schedule here. Usually these thingsbehindule hp to the minute, but this is a big moment for tthis president n. Shamelessly, President Biden may be saying, look, everybody thinks im old. They joke about how i go to bed early, ill show on. Ill show up a little late. Beill speak a little longer and ill stay in the chamber a little longer than some somead do. I think weve all framed that right. Hes got a couple of things that he Calongere Dokn deal with he can talk about the issues and he can talk about the things he wants to do. Hankthe one thing he cant do is reverse his age. So hes got to show strength tonigh ag. Hes got to show hes ino command tonight. And he, too, cant be baited sde by some of the things some in the chamber may say and how bated bym. Ckle hi i think hes going to be up to the task tonight. The bar is a little low for him orw they t i should say lower th is for most president s. So i think hell exceeded. And i think what Speaker Mccarthy was saying, hes got to not juspresidenkt reach out e base, hes got to show hes seeking answers and not acrimonyt bas in as someone in his panel says quite well, hes got to seek a Little Common ground s on some of the important issues if hes able to express that. If hitll be a big success for m tonight. But one area where common helpfuls on be very is on the border, john roberts, that wbordere heard earlier todo that we shouldnt expect any executive ordedaer, that he wont pull the levers that are at his disposal as president. United statee rss to do remain in mexico to end catch and release. Hes not going thereh and rele e hes standing by his proclamation that hes done all he canproclama and that thes nothing else he can do. Whereas, you knon w, anybody will tell you President Trump got the lowestmp Immigration Numbers in recent the y pretty much Totallyexec Augh Executive Ordeutr and bret, i think somebody is watching because we mentione d a second ago that thets are democrats are going to fight this election on abortion. Republicans are goining tog to h to fight it on immigration. Donald trump just put out on True Socialt N immigrld t. En theres nothing he can say. Biden that could absolve himiden from letting 50 Million People into our country illegally. Hell probably blame me, ou but i had the safest border in history. You know, if the former president wants to cal. L in, were happy to put them in the truth. Social post his. Might he just might. Yeah, he may just want exactly that. But its an indication. Bret a you know, its going to be immigration against abortion, i think is some of the main issues for it. A lot of it is how this is delivered, because theres so many stories about, you know, his ag e and what things look like. What about that thing that harold talked about, the low expectedha asians, lo the low bar thats essentiallyba said i, i think there has been a low bar set by what weve all witnessed. And i dont think itll be hard for the president to clear, w and he will be greatly aided, i think, in terms of Howe The Public reacts. If Marjorie Taylor greene, who has alreadreactsy said, i tk today to to to us here at fox, that she doesnt she feels that decorum is not an issue becauss noe, you know, Decorum S Broken by what just what joe biden did on this, that andr th the other thing. And of course, she yelled out in the last time he was in the someone Elsetime H Orhing on the republican side might do that again. And i dont thine thek it willt down well with the audience who, if any, republican does that or anybody doest will that, and it will probably be of help to him. The last tim ie he felt that hed parried quite well with withs Marjorie Taylor greene, she was bringing up he basically accused republican s of wantingocia to get rid of Social Security, medicare. She called them a liarty or med moment. And here wewe go. Mr. Speaker, the president of the United States. E awhile, could tak because if anybody knows President Biden, He Likeknows S to work the room. In fact, last state of the Union Getting out of the chamber, it took more than 20 minutes. Usually they give himh 10 minutes from the speech to the door and it took him a lot. But, you knom w, all theseup lawmakers, they post up and they try to get face tim e with President Biden or the president and have both parties trying to to get a word in and a moment. Lets see if we can listen and present behind him. Obviously, you see the leadership as Speaker Mccarthy was talking about Senator Schumer and Senatos Speake r mcconnell, Who Justntly A recently announced that this is his last Timenn Representingesenti kentucky and being the leader of the republicans in the senatenging the f th. And then you have Steve Scalise and the other leadership in the house, the sporting body, on botboth parh parties. Now youre talking with republicans and democrats. Welcoming him. And there you got a glimpse of Marjorie Taylor greene. Shes Got A Bire Youa Grred make America Great hat on. I think sherylea she, the shirts save her name for lincoln. Rile they in georgia trying to d him a button. Mars see if he pays any attention to that. I think thats the button, attent about five buttons. Border crisis, i believe, crisy the Rse Buttons Sa that a number of the republicans are wearing. And he mayewearing. Prised but i think they went right by hugging, hugging the left sideet ,the aisle on that Par St Of Thg on the walk down. Yeah. Same here with say her name Lincoln Riley shirt,t like theres an empty chair in the Chamber Tonight to represent the Lincoln Riley her family was invited by congressman michael collinmily ws. Understandably, they are not ready to attend anything at this point. Theyre deeply grieving and the faesident has not reached out to her family at all. She, no doubt is becoming a symbolmial of so many individs who have been violently attacked and in her case, murdered by someone who is in the country illegally. This is an outrage issue for many, many people across thise s country. The president s polling is dismal on thiidents dismas, m suozzi, the new congressman who took George Santos his seat geog in long island to brane t. You know, weve covered so many of these, and usually its Sheilofa Jackson Lee who was. It was. Yes. And there she is, even as i called her name out. Right on cue, right there, re posted up. Youve seen her there many times, brooke. I have it. You know, its an amazing moment because you see these. A politicians, thimazings withouty hesitation, just reaching over, leaning over, leaniny hesig in, touching the president , looking for a moment on Nationaltelevisi Television where they can be seen in proximity to the ca. Ident at all may look a little bit craven, but or weak at least. N but they all look at them allt they all do this. And this has been going on as long as i can rememberhi. The president looks good, pretty good. Formed a united team, i guess,y and why i say that this is as set up for a president to have success. I meanse isyoure so speech is written for you by a team w of professionals. You have a chance to practice it for several days and everyones excited to see you. So hes enjoying that moment. Seethe one thing i do wantdo to mention, though, is as you see the cabinet file in i don t know if this is this i is the least cohesive cabinet that i have seen in the time ive been covering these things. I believehat e that theyve onle like a fewer than ten cabinet meet during his administration. And you think of all the problems that they have, like i on the border or on education or even when it comes to like natural disasters, like why not call them all together . S,theyre ready made for the media and theyre all therei for him. And im sure that they would take issue with what im sayint ,but you just dont ever see them actually utilized to. Great point. I mean, i rememberactually when President Trump was in office, he would often have those sort of Opep Waoffice hn events wherf all the members of cabinet were sitting at the table. They would take Questionthe Cas he would take questions, very freewheeling with the press in the room. We havent seeith the press n that. You know, its 5 minutes since he entered the chamber. So far. K usually the walk in is not the long time with the selfiest and the conversation, but this one has taken a little while. On but t thes a speech thats w to be, were told, roughly about an hour, but maybe with applause. You know, youre talking about a long time here. Theres hereplause some jill, ne brown from new york. Now hes taking the Picturg Ae With Chris and whos on the campaign. And democrats obviously will be cheering. Therell be other times where youre going to have republicans react, democrats react. Its quite something is dramadr in washington did noint stoplk to talk to joe manchin, somebody who a lot of people thought was flirting with a Potentiamansioeopll Third Partyn in the last polling that we did,he las 18 are looking for another candidate. And whether or not that will materializlog for e, as rfk junl obviously is already in there as an independeniz t. Hes and we mentioned just a bit and hes sitting with mitt romney, which is obviously republican and democrat, sending a signalho obe there. Speaker mccarthy still with us. Youverith us watched president k down this aisle. Final thoughts before we get tot the speech and what you think this is shaping up y be asands o he shakes the hands of the Supreme Court and the chairman of the joint chiefee court s th. One thing ive noticed from. All the president s, ent bi President Biden takes more time walking down and walking out. He realldewalking y wait till ey leaves. Ive never seen quite anything like ieveryone leanever set. But the uniqueness. Hes going right around the Supreme Court to g o to the joint chiefs and then hell walk up to the stage there theen and hell hand his speech to the speaker and to the viced president , and then hell turn around and hell have the Teleprompterwill Tures Right Tha speeches practiced. Theres an old Story Wherees Tha One of the speeches in the State Of The Union that bill stats he had to turn back around and tell al gore arat they had lastl al g year sh and the Teleprompter Man turned around and startedou giving that from memory. I mean, its a Nerve Racking when you sit in that positionsin and you look out. The room is very small a, even though it looks big on tv and its it gets a little nerve wrackingd it at that moment in time. But you do command a great deal of presence. Sitting. Standing. Yeah. And speaking of speeches, obviously the the moment when Speaker Nancy Pelosi up President Trumps speech after thatp pr, that was one momentnta that was remembered afterof the one State Of The Union. Youre seeing him there. That will never happenyoe. That will never happen again. , i thought i got speec to keep this speech and you didnt. It was in a few pieces. T ba they take it back from you. They give you a very nicckou, to folder. I thought id get that for history at that. I get to be able to keep r history kee. His remarks take it from there. Yeah, i, i dont think d upidnt take the rippe speech and im thankful. I think they threw that one away. And that was remarkable to put it back in the Archiverages Thae makes his way to the podium there, he will hand, as i mentioned in the speech to Speaker Johnsone, hear new relationship here between the two and two vicearri president harris lets listenb in jusret to jill. Dent j good eveningoe. Good evening, barbara smart. I i go home now, mr. Speaker, madam Vice President , members m of congress, my fellowcans, americans, in januariny 1941, Franklin Roosevelt came to thise chamber to speak to the nation and he said, i address you at a moment unprecedented in the histor y of the union. Hitler was on the march or was raging in europe. President roosevelt purpose was to wake up congress and alertt th the American People that this peop ordinary time. Freedom and democracy run under assault in the world. Tonight i come to the same chamber to address the nation. Now its we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the who. S, m and yes, my purpose tonight is to wake up the congress and alert the American People that this is no ordinary moment eitheats nor. T sinc not since president lincoln in the civil war , our freedom under and democracy been undersold at home as thereom are today. What makes our man a rare is freedom and democracy under attack, and both at home bo at the veryacy un same time, overseas. Vladi putin of russia is on the March Invading Ukrainemiand Russ and d chaos throughout europe and beyond. If anybody in this room thinks, bruno, stop in ukraine, ca i assure you he will notn letnt ukrain ue. N stop putin. Ukraine can stop putin. If we stand with ukrainee ca and provide the Weapons Itefendt needs to defend itself, that is all that is all ukraine is asking. Ameri theyre not asking for american soldiers, in fact, or no american soldiers forar ukraine. And im determined to keep it that wa id y. But now assistance ukraine is being blocked by those who want to walk awad byy fromep our world. Leadership was a long ago when a republican president named Ronald Reagan nad, mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Now. Now, my predecessor, a former republican president , tells putian, quote, doe ca whatever the hell you want. Thats a quote. The former president actuallyat said that bowing down to the russian leader. Bowin to its outrageous. K it its dangerous and itsoutr unacceptableag. Premier walker, as a Founding Member of natos the Military Alliance of Democratic Nationstf created after world war to prevent to prevent warter and kp the peace. And today weve made natos strongere ma than ever. Welcome finland to the alliance. Last year and just this morning ,sweden officially joined and their ministers here tonight standing up. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. And they know how to fight. Mr. Prime minister, welcome and made of the Strongest Military alliance minlcom the world has r seen. Has ever s i say this to cong. Wresse have to stand up to pn. Send me a Bipartisan National Security bill. History is literally watching. History is watching. Wa. United states walks away it will put ukraine at risk. Europe is at risk. W the free world be risk, emboldening others to do what theorl at risk,y wish to d. My message to president o putin, who ive known for putie itime, is simple w will not walk away. We will not bow down. I will not bow down and allow sense. History is watching. History is watchin g. Just like history watched. Three years ago on january sixth, when insurrection stormed this very capital, a place of dagger, the throat of american democracy. Manaty of you were here. And that darkest of days, wethte all saw with our own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots. They had come to stope the peaceful transfer of powerpc to overturn the will of the people. L of tjanuary 6th lies about th0 election and the plots stealthel the election posed a great Gravesect Threat to u. S. U. S. Democracy since the civil war. Democr but failed. America stood. America stood strongy prev and democracy prevaileaid. We must be honest. The threat to democracy must be defended. My predecessor and some of you herebe defen seek to bury the ty about january 6th. Th that. , thisdo this is a moment to speaka mo the truth and the Buriedment Lil heres a simple truth you can love your country only when you win. N. Biden as i ive done eve ar since being elected to office. I ask all of you without regard to partyof, to join togethermocr and defend democracy. Rememberac, oath of officet to is defending us all threats, foreign and domestic. Respect. Respect. Free and fair elections. Restore trust in our institutions farerestor and make clear Political Violence has absolutely no plac ce, no place in america. Noe again. C its not its not hyperbole to suggest history is watchingrt orch watching your children and grandchildren read about this day. What we d o. Histor history is watching another assault on freedom. Joinin her assag us to light is a tourk of beesley, a social worker from birmingham, alabamaerrming 14 months ago, 14 months ago, she and her husband welcomed a baby girl thanks to the. Racle of ivf she scheduled treatments to have that second child. The alabamd,hea Supreme Court st down. Ivf treatments across the state Unleashef Acrod By A Supreme Cot decision overturning roe v. Wade. She supreme cour was told her dreame have to wait, but her family got throug h. Should never have happened. Unless congress acts, it could happen again. So tonight, lets stand up for a families like hers. To my friends across the aisle ,dont keep this waiting longer. Guarantee the right here it arantee of nationwide. Like most americans, i believe roe v. Wade got itn like righ. I thank Vice President harris , Leaderader Idible defending Reproductive Freedomng. With mor a ae. My predecessor came to office determined to see roe v. Wade overturned, his reasons overturned, and he brags about it. Look at the chaos that has resulted. Ate join us tonight as kay cox,s, the wife and mother from dallas. Shes become pregnant agai hasnh had a fetus of a fatal condition. Her doctor told Kayfatal Conr own life and our ability to have she children in the future were at risk if shet ac didnt act because texas law banned her ability to act. Husban kay and her husband had to leave the state to get what she state t needed, but hey got through should have never happened. As well. But its happening to too manybi others. Our state laws banning the freedom to choose criminalizing Doctorstate Las of forcing survivors of and to leave their states to get the treatment they need. Many of you in this chambetmentr and my predecessor are promising to pass a national ban on Reproductive Freedom. My god, what Freedom Elsere would you take awaproducy . Look, its a decision to overturn roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court majority wrote the following. And with all due respect,e resp justices, women are not without electoral. Electoraec l power excuse me. Electoral or political power. Youre about to realize just how much you clearly, clearly, those bragging Haout Overturning roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women, but they found outoud when Reproductive Freedom was on the ballot. Wewh won in 2022, in 2020,2022 and and will win again in 2024. If you if you, the American People, send their congress to support the right to choose, i promise you ill Restorerightl Roe V as the law of the land. Againf, folks, america cannot go back. Im here to tonight to showt what i believe is the way forward, because i knoe isw howo weve come. Four years ago next week nex, before i came to office, the country was hit by the worsfice, oft pandemic and the t economic crisis in a century. You rememberomic cri the fear record losses, the amount of the spikes in crime and thee . Murder rate raging virus. It toothe ragik more than 1 Miln American lives of loved ones, millions lef left behind, a menl Health Crisis of isolation myd loneliness. A president my predecessor failed in the most basicic president ial duty that he owes toAmerican People, the duty to care. Why . I think thats unforgivabl i e. I came to office determined to get us Througdeh One Ofof the toughest periods in the nations history. We have. It doesnt make no better news. In a thousand cities and towns, the American People are writing the greatest comeback story. Never told. So lets tell the story here. Tell it here and now. Americas comeback is building a future of american possibilitieture of s, buildingd economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down. Investing in all America Andf All Americans to make sures everyone has a fair shot. Shotwe leave no one no one behi. The pandemic, no longer controls our lives. Vam vaccine to save us fro covid are now being useds to beat cancer, turning setback into comeback. Thats what america does. Thats what america got first. I hear the country is on the brink. Our economy is the envy of the e world. 15 million new jobs in just job three years. In a record a record unemployment, a 50 year low, a e a record 16 million americans are starting Small Businesses and each one isco americach one a literal act of hope. With historic job growth and Small Business growth for black and hispanics and asian americans. 800,000 new Manufacturing Jobshn in america and counting. Where is it written . We cant be the Manufacturing Capital Oft Wr the world. We are. And wee will. Rance to more people have Health Insurance today, more people at home today than ever before. The racial wealth gap, as smalla as its been i in 20 years. Year, wages keep going up. W inflation keeps coming down. Coi inflation has dropped from 9 to 3 . Ngthe lowest in the world,e worl and can even lower the landingln years. It will be sofgt. And now, instead of importing imported foreign products and exporting american jobs, were exporting American Products and Creatingih American Jobs right here in america. T all and it takes time. Pre but the American Peoplesi t takeare beginning to feel it. Consumer studies show Consumer Confidence is soarin studiesg. Buy america has been the law of the land since the 1930s. Past administrations, including my predecessor, including some democrats as well. In the past, failed to buy n american. Not anymorote. Pr on my watch, federal projects that you fund likel he helping build american roads, bridges and highways will beunbd with American Products and built by American Worker am very good paying american jobs. And thanks to our chips and science act, the unitede ac states is investing more in research and development than. Ever before. During the pandemic, a shortage of semiconductorandemis, chips that drove up the price of everything from cell phones to automobileshipsh drov. And by the way, we invented those chips right here in americaght here. Now, instead of having them talk in private, companies are now investing billions of dollarse now to build new chn factories here in america, creating Tens Of Thousands of jobs. , many of those jobsr paying 100,000 a year and dont require a college ye degree. In fact, my policies have attracted 650 billion in private Sector Investment in clean energy advancement, maa a factory creating Tens Of Thousands of jobs here tensmerica. Thanks. Thanks to our bipartisan46,000 n infrastructure law, 46,000 new projects are announced all across your communities. D by t by the way, i know that somhd of you strongly against it ore theyre cheering on that Money Comingly voted in, but im with im with you, baby. You dont want that money. Y in you just should just let merictj knowus. Modernize our roads and bridges, ports and airports, public transit. Systems, removing poor,re poisonous led pipes. So evermovingy child can dril clean water without risk watee. N damagea providing affordable, ernet affordable, high Speed Internet to every american, no matter evere you livefo. Urban, suburban or Rural Communities and red states and Blue Stateured states. Record investments in tribal communities because of mycause investment in a family farofm. Because our investment farmers, ranchers led by my sector. Agriculture knows more about this than anybody i know ledy mi were better able to stay in the family. Those farms and our children and grandchildren have to leave, leave home to makent ha a living this transformativeve, great comeback. Stories. Belvidere, illinois home to an a auto plant for nearly 60 yearsto before i cam plante to office, the plant was on its way hutting peg down thousands of workers feared for their livelihoods. Fadingg. S elec then i was elected to office and we raised Belvidere Repeatedlyte with Auto Companies knowing unions would make all the difference. The uaw would worked like toiow keep the plant open and get these jobsou the back. An and together we succeeded. Instead of all the factories instn, auto factories reopening, a new State Of The Art Battery Track is being buil t to power those cars. The same folks responsible for,u dare i say, instead of your town, be left behind. Your communit ft behiny is movingd ag forward again because instead of watching auto jammed jobsai in the future, go overseas. 4000 union jobs with higher wages are building the future in belvidere right here in america. Here, here tonight, uaw president shawn fanning,stand the great friend in the great labor tradition. Where are you . There now . And don and don sam, the ation w Third Generation worker, uaw workeror, belvidere john, i wash proud to be the first president to stand in the picket line. And today,ident tond don has a in our home town, providing stability for a family and pride and dignity as well, amowing once again wall street didnt go. Americans were not bad guys. They didnt build a downere t th the middle class, built the country and unions built the middle class. I say to the American People, when america gets knocked down, get back upts knock. We keep going. Thats america. Thats you. The American People is because of you america is coming is be back is because of you. Our future is bright. Its because of yo you u that tonight we can proudly safy the state of our union is strong and getting strongerge. Tonighoe t. , tonight, i want to talk t about the future of possibilities that we can build together. A future where the of trickle down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longernger get get along with tax breaks. And by the way, i understand corporations come from a state that has more corporations investeds, in every one of your states in the United States combined. And i represented for 36 years. Im not thanm a corporation, a but i grew up in a home wheree t trickle down economics didnt put much on my dads Kitchen Table. Thats why determined to turnunt things around, some middle class does well when they do wellddle cla, the poorer way upe wealthy still do very well. Welll. Es mowel and theres more to do to make sure youre feeling the benefitsreo doto mak of alle doing. Americans pay more for Prescription Drugs and anywhereanywhe in the world. Its wrong. It iand im ending it for the lg life because this time, not one of your republican buddies worked wonders for it. We finally beat big pharma. Al insteadly b of payingea 4o a month or thereabouts for insulin with diabetetss and only cost ten bucks to make, they only get paid 35 a month now and still make healthy profitak. And i like what to do next. Our cap, the cost of insulin 35 a month for every american teenager, Everymont Everyoneh for four years. People have talked about it,we t but we got it done. Gave medicare the power to negotiate lower prices on Prescription Drugs, just like the va is able to do for veterans. Its not just saving seniors money, saving taxpayers money. We cut the federal deficit by a 160 billion, which because medicare will no longer have too pay those exorbitant prices to big pharma. This b year, medicare is negotiating lower prices of some of the costliest Drugs Ices Forarke t to treatg fr everything from Heart Disease to arthritis. Its now time to go further i and give medicare the power to negotiate lower prices fore r 500 different drugs over the next decade. Theyre making a lot of money, e guyssi, and theyll still be extremely profitable. Well, not only save lives, it will save taxpayers another 200 billion. Starting next year, the same law caps total prescription. Nugs drug costs for Seniorsse On Medicarniore at 212 a year. Even more expensive cancer drugs that cost ten, 12, 15,000. I want to cap Prescription Drug costs of 2,000 a year for every one of me. Get in trouble for saying that. Whenever you want to get to Air Force One and fly to toronto, berlin, moscow,ir fr i mean, shoot me. And itce and will even moscow probably, and bringyour p your prescription with you. And i promise you ill get irent for you for 40 . The cost japan nowpe same companyrcent , same drug, y same place, folks. Obe Affordable Care act, the obamacare is still a veryryg big deal d. Over 100 million of you can nonr longer be denied Health Insurance because of preexisting Condition Health well, my predecessor, many in this chamber, want to takean those Prescription Drug away by repealing Affordable Care act. Im not gonna let ] that happen. We stopped you 50 times before. I will stop you again. In fact, im not only protecting it, im expandini amg it to enact a credit of 800 per person per year. Reduce healtofr h costs forf millions of working families. That tax credit Expireswog Nt year. I want to make that savings permanenat savint. You state the obvious. Women are more than half of our population. But research on Womens Healthe has always been underfunded. That thas why were launchit the first ever White House Initiative on womens fih, led by jill, doing an incredible job as first lady to pass my plan for 12 billion to transform Womens Health research and benefit millions of lives all across america. I i know the cost of housing is so important to yout of. Inflation keeps coming down. Mortgage rates will come down as well. And the fed acknowledges that. But im not waitin g. Id i want to provide an annual tax credit that Will Americans 400e a month for the next two yearsas as Mortgage Rate mors come downe to put toward their mortgages why their first homede or trade up for a little more space. , a two year. And my administration is also eliminating Title Insurance on backed mortgages. When you refinance your home, you can save 1000 dollars or oft more as a consequence. For millions of renters, ckin were cracking down on big landlords who use antitrus ot or using antitrust, who Break Antitrust Laws by price fixing and driving up rents. Weve Cuup T Tape So Builders can get federal refinancing, which already helping build a record 1. 7 million new House Housing Un now pass, now pass and build renovate 2 million Affordable Homes and bring those rents down to remain the strongest economy in the world. Bi 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 providingt access to preschool for three and four years old. You know, i think i pointed out last year i think i pointed out last year that childrenom coming from broken homes where theres no books are note read,t do not spoken, do very often start school, kindergarten or first grade hearing, having heard a million fewer wordsen spoken. Well, studies show that children who go to preschool are nearly 50 more likelyn to to finish high school, go on to earn a two and four year degree. No, wia twwhat their background. And that year and a half ago, the leaders of the business roundtable, they were mad that i woul leadersd ever angry. I said while they were discussing why i wanted to spend money on education, i i pointed out to them as Vice President i met with ovet torsel eight, i think was 182. Those folks donkst show me the exact number. And i asked them what they need most. The ceos and youve had the same on both sides of the aisle, they say a better educated workforce. Right. Of the ayso i look at them and , i come from delawaredelawa the partner should be the eighth Largest Corporation in the use world. Rise and every New Enterprise they bought they educated the workforce to that enterprise. But none. Angr you do that anymore. Why are you angry with me providing you the opportunity, the best educated workforce in theity for world . They all looked at me and said, i think youre rightanu. I want to expand high quality tutoring and summer learning. Th we see that everaty child learns to read by third grade. Palso connecting local businesses and high schools sonc students get hands on experience and a path to good paying job pat whether or not they go to college. And i want to make sur ele the college is more affordable. Lets continue increasing the pell grants to working Contiddle Class families and increase record investments in hbcu and minority servings in institutions, including hispanic institutionorits. I was told i universally justunr change the way in which you did that with student loansas. I fixed to student loan programs that already existam in to reduce the burden of student debt Foour Nearlyy 4 million americans, including nurses, firefightersllion and s in Public Service by keating jones, a Public Education in minnesota. So share with us tonight can e you saying thank you . Hes educating hundreds h to students so they can go to college now hes able to help after debt c forgiveness, get ht own daughter to collegere. Folks, look, such relief is good for economy becauseonom folks are now able to buy a homeuse , start a business, start a family while were at it. I want the Public School t teachers a raise. By the way, the first couple years we cut the deficit. Now, let me speak to the question of Fundamental Fairnessspeak for all american. Ive been delivering realr al resultl s in fiscally responsibe ways. Weve already cut the federal deficissible wayet. Weve already cut the Federal Reserve over 1,000,000,000,000. I signed the Bipartisan Deal Tor cut another trillion dollars in the next decadeillion d. Its my goal to cut the federal deficit another 3 trillion by making Big Corporations very wealthy, finally beginning to payee their fair share. Were im a capitalist. You want to make a can make a million or millions of bucks. Thats great. Just pay your fair a mi share but taxeaxes. A fair tax. Ir tax cgo. Heres how we invest things to make this country great. Makishealth care, education, dr and so much more. But heres the deal. Last a the last administration enactedd a 2 trillion tax cut overwhelmingly benefit the top 1 , the very wealthy and the biggest corporationsherporatio and exploded the federal deficiexplodint. They added more to the National Debt than any president ial term amtiy. Ican histor check the numbers, folkser, doe at home. Does anybody really think the tax code is fairnk tha . K th do you really think the wealthy Big Corporations need anotherat e wealth 2 trillion tax break . Sure. Dont. Im going to keep fighting like. To make it fair. Under under my plan, Nobody Earning ya less than 400,000 a year will pay additional penny in federal taxesy an add. One, n nobody, not one penny. And they havent yet. In fact, the Child Tax Credit it passed during the pandemic cut s for millions of workingrk families and cut child povertyin chilf, restore that Child Tax Credit. Chilyild should go hungr in this country. No way to make the tax code fair. Just to make Big Corporation the very wealthy begin to pay their fair share and thery weal remember, in 20 2055 of the Biggest Companies in america made 40 billion and pay zero in federal income tax . Zero. In tax, zee. Thanks to a law i wrote we signed. Big companies have to pay a minimuwrote and wegm 15 . But thats still less than working people pay in federal taxes. Its time to raise corporate minimuxes, itm to at least 20 so every. Big corporationig finally begins to paye. Their fair share. I also in tax breaks for big pharma, big oil, private eets, Massive Executiv only supposed to go million, about 1,000,000 that can be deducted. They can pay in 20 million if, o they want to deduct a million. Ut and it now you know there are 1000 billionaires in americallionair. You know what . Dera the average federal taxes for those Billionairesl Ta now theyre making great sacrifices. 8. 2 . At i thats far less than the vast majority of americans pay. No billionaire should pay a lower federal tanox rate thant a teacher, a Sanitation Worker or a nurseor. Pose i propose minimum Tax Forr Billionaires at 25 , just 25 . ,u you know what that would raise . What raise 500 billion over the next ten years. And imagine what that could do fowhatr, america. Imagine a futurehldcare with affordable childcare the millions of families can get. They need to go to workk to to grow the economy. Re wit itagine the future of paid leav be because no one should have to choose between working to take care of sick member. Imagine. Imagine the future of home care and elder care and People Living and eld with disabilitiei they can stay in their homes and Family Caregivers cannally finally get the pay they deserve. Tonightgey they lets all age again to stand up for seniors. Many my friends on the othere side of the aisle want to put Social Security on the chopping tocurityk. Can anyone here tries to cut Social Security, medicare or raise the Retirementsocial S Ag . I will stop you. The working people the working people who built this country pay more in your Social Security to millionaires and billionaires into so do. Its not fair. We have two ways to go. Republicans can cut Social Security and give more tax breaks to the wealthy. I will. Thats the proposamoto y, thatl. Oh, no. You guys dont want another 2 trillion tax cut. I kind of thought thats what your plan was t thats. Well, thats good to hear. Youre not going to cut anothert 2 trillion in the super. Well, thats good to hearhe. Ill protect and strengthen Social Security, make the wealthy pacty fairstrength. Look, too many corporations raise prices to pad the profits ,charging more and more for less and less. Thatsre fors our cracking down on corporations engaged in Price Gouging and deceptive pricing. From food to health care to housing. G on companiesat you think you wont notice if they change the size of thet bag. You put a hell of a loter fewer chains, same size bag, put fewer chips in it. No, im not joking. Its called shrinkflation. D shripass bobby caseys bill a stop thibos. I really mean you probably all saw that commercialn on snickers bars. Snicke you get you get charged the same amount you got about. I dont know, 10 fewerfewe snickers in itr. Look, im also getting rid of junk fees. I amthose hidden fees at the ene of your bill isnt there without your knowledge. My administration announced were cutting credit fees from 32 to eight dollars. Banks and credit Card Companieso are allowed to charge what it costs themst to and to instigate the collection. And thats more a of a lot like 8 and 30 some dollars. They dont like it. Credit Card Companies dont like it. Ard compbut im saving American Families 20 billion a year with all the junk fees. None of thejunks wem folks a thats why the banks are so mad as 20 billion in profit. Im not stopping there. My administration proposedo rules to make cable travel utilities, Online Ticket seller, travelutilits tell you l price upfront. So theyre no surprise. It didnt matter. It matters. So does this in november. My team began serious negotiations. A Bipartisan Group of. The result was a bipartisan bill with a tougher set of Border Security reforms weve ever see tt sen. Oh, you dont think so . Oh, you dont like that, bill, huh . That conservatives got together and said it was a good and sai . Ill be darned. Thats amazing. A bipartisan bill would hireando 1500 more Security Agents and officers, 100 more Immigration Judges urity ag tackle the backlog of 2 million casesf, 4000, three more Asylum Officers and new policy so they cansylund new resolve casex months instead of six years. No w now, what do you against 100 more High Tech Drop Detection Machines to significantly increase the ability to screen and Stop Vehiclessignifthe Ab smuggling l into america thats killing thousand ws of just go and save lives and then border on the border . Also, give me a new president , new Emergency Authority to temporarily shut down the border when a number of migrants at the border is overwhelming. The borderrder Patrol Unions endorse this bill. Coe federal chamber of commercee. Yeah, yeah. You know, look at the factce ha i know. Kno i know. You know how thoo read. I believe that given the opportunity, a majoritye in the house and senate would endorse the bill as well. Now, a majority right now. But unfortunately, politicnatels derailed this bill so far. Im told predecessor called members of congress in the senate to demand they blockcalled bill. He feels political when he it would be a political win for me and a political loser for him. S noits not about him. Its not about me. Id be a winner. Not really. Mentioned lincoln, riley, and an innocent Young Womaninno who was killed by an illegalcen thats right. But how many of thousands of people being Killedny Thous by illegal to her parents . I say my heart goes out to you. I having lost children myself, i understandng lmyself. E look but look, if we, change the dynamic at the border, people pay people. People pay these smugglers Eight Thousand bucks to getorde, across the border because they know if they gecause tht be they get by and let into the country, its 6 to 8y years before they have a hearing. Have a hea and its worth taking the chance of the 8000. Thlars. But but if its onl six months, six weeks, the idea is its highly unlikelypeople that people will pay that money and come all that way, knowing that theyll be abley that to be kicked out quickly. Folks, i would respectfully suggest my friend and myle republican friends owe it to the American People. Get this bill done. A we need to act now. Ind of my predecessors watching instead of Paying Politicsst and pressuring members of congress to block the bill, bloce in telling the congress to pass it. We can do it together. But apparently, heres what he will not do. I will not demonize. Immigrants say they are poisoned i will in the blood ofur count our country. I will not. Separate family. I will not ban people because of their faith. I like, my predecessor. Ay on my first day in office, i introduced a comprehensive bill to Fiuced Ax Immigration St Take A Look at it. As all these and mor e secure, secure the border. Provide a pathway to citizenship for dreamers. Der provh. Borde but unlike my predecessor, i know who we are as americans. Were the only nation in the world with a Heart And Soul that draws from old and new home. The Native Americans and ancestor s have been here fore thousands of years. Home to peoplrye of every ca place, from every place on earth. They came freelyfr. Some came in chains. Some came when famine struck. Likeso my ancestral family in ireland. Some to flee persecution, to chase dreams that are impossible anywhere but heret in america. Thats america. And we all come from somewherehi. But were all americans. But, folks, its been a simplei, choice. We can fight about fixin wg the the border or we can fix it. Now. Ready to fix it. Send me the border bill now. A chance for National Best moment in history happened 58, 59 years ago today in selma, alabama. Hundreds of footsoldiers for justice Marchea Alabam D across the Edmund Pettus bridge named after the grand dragon and ku klux to claim their fundamental right to vote. Thdle they were beaten or blooy our left for dead. Our late friend and former colleague john lewis was anfoon tharmert march. We miss him. But joining us tonight after marchers both in the galleryin and on the floor, including betty may, folks known as the voice of selma, the daughter of Gospel Singers and preachers. She sang songs of prayer and protest on that bloodyshe t to help shape the nations conscience. Five months later, the Voting Rights act passed a was signedet into lawo. Thank you. K thank you. T thank you. Hank thanthankk you for 59 years latr for forces us back in time. Voter suppression. Election subversion. Unlimited dark money, extreme gerrymandering. John lewis is a great friend to many of us here. But if you truly want to honor himruly and all the hee of march with him, then hin talke to do more thad. Pass the freedom to and the john lewis Voting Rights act and stop, stop the nine other core values of america. F am our diversity across american life. Banning books. Its wrong. Instead of a racial history, lets make history. I want to protect fundamental rights. I want tt and ity ac measure the change in the american thinking. I have your back. Pass the program for workers rights. Raise the federal minimum wage because every worker has. Right to a decent living more than a seven bucks an hour. Also making history by confronting the climate, nott denying it. I dont think any of you think there s no longer a climateat crisis. At least i hope you knoe criw im taking the most significant action ever on climate in thehir history of the world. Im cutting Carbon Emissions in half by 2030, creating Tens Of Thousands of Clean Energy Jobs like ibew workers building, installings like 500,c Electric Vehicle charging stationsle station, conserving of americas lands and waters by 2030, taking on environmental justice, fenceline communities smothered by the legacy of pollutioncote patterned after the peace corps and americorps. I launched peace the climate corps to put 20,000 young people to work in the forefront of our clean energy future. Ripl ill triple that number in ambei decaden to state the obvious. All americans deserve the freedom to. Be safe. And america is safer today than when i took office. A year before i took office,befo murder rates wenre it up 30 , 3. They went up the biggest increase in history. It was then to know through my American Rescue plan, which every american voted against, i migh ant add, we made the largest investment in Public Safety ever. Last year, the Murder Rate Saw the sharpest decrease in historyon. E fell Violent Crime fell to one of his lowest levels in moree more than 50 years. But we have more to dodo that help cities invest in more Community Police officers, more Mental Health commu, more community violence. Commungreg and communities thatl the crack down on gun crime, Retail Crimes to and carjacking keep Building Trust as i have been doing by takinge Executive Action on police doin and calling for it to beef the law of the lanand. Directing my cabinet to review the federal classification of Marijuana Expunging Thousands of convictions for the mere possession because no one should be jailed for simply possg or have it on record to take on crimes of domestic violence. Im ramping up federal the enforcement of the Violence Against Women Act that i proudly wrote when i was a senator, so we can finally, Finally Entod the scourge againt Women In America where other kinds of violence i want to sto p. To st with us tonightop is jazz, whose nineyearold sister jacki was Murdere Kie Wasdnd Tea with 21 classmates and teachers in Elementary School in uvalde, texachs very soon after that happened, jill and i went to volunteer a couple days. A we spent hours and hours s. H each of the familie we heard their message. So everyone in this room, in Thiveryons Chamber could hear the same message. The classroo messam training. And i was there for hourshing meeting every family. They said, do something, do something. Well, i did do somethinge by establishing the First Ever Office of Gun Violence Prevention in the Whit Offe House that the Vice President was leading the charge. Thank you for Doinvise Presiden meanwhile, meanwhile, my predecessor told the nrad hes proud he did nothing on guns when he was president. After another shooting in iowa recently, he said when askedsk what to do, but he said just get overedt to. There he is. Quote, just get over ias hist. I say, stop it, stop it. Stop it stopping. Nra proud we beat the nra when i signed more significant gun safety law in nearly 30 years because of this congress. We now must the nra again. Sse im demanding a ban on Assault Weapons and high w capacity magazinesea pass universal background , pa. None of this, none of this. I taught the Second Amendment for 12 years. None of this, violatenos the Second Amendment or vilifies responsible gun owner s. You know, as You Managenage challenges the at home, were ao managing crises abroad, including in the middle east. I know the last five months have been Gut Wrenching for soon manyth people with the israeli people, for the Palestinian People and so many here in america. This crisis began on octoberoct seventh with a massacre by a Terrorist Group called hamas. Massorisas you all know, 1200 it people, women and girls, men and boys slaughtered aftereg enduring sexual violence. The deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocausfot. And 250 hostages taken here in this Chamber Tonight are familiestonigh whose loved s are still being held by hamas. I pledgeheld to all the families that we will not rest until we bring everyone, your loved rest. Home we also will also work around as the clock to bring home paan and aro paul, Americans Beg unjustly detained by Theul Russians and others around the world. Israel has right to go after hamas. Hamas out of this conflict by releasing hostages laying down arms could end it by by releasing the hostages, laying down arms and surrounding those responsible for october seven. Pressurear asked. Israel has a added burdenburden as hamas hides and operates among the civilian population like counts under hospitals, Daycare Centers and alth l like. Israel also has a fundamental like, ndamenty, though to protect innocent civilians in gazta though a. This war has taken a greater chance of civilians in all Previousr Toll Wars and gone asa combined. Gaza c more than 30,000 palestinians have been killed, most of whom are not hamas. Thousands and thousands. And g innocents, women and children. Girls and boys also orphaned. Boysnearly 2 million more palestinians are under bombardment or displaced. E many homes destroyed, neighborhoods in Rubble Cities and ruined homesd, neigh famili, water and medicine. Its heartbreakin, g. Ive been working nonstop to establish an immediate ceases fire that would last for six weeks to get all the prisoners releasedr x, all Thea Hostages released to get the hostages homtoe and ease the intolerable. And you have a Humanitarian Crisishumanita and Build Towardn enduring a more somethingre enduring. The United States and leading International Efforts to get more humanitarian assistance to gaza. Thnighmanager in et, im direct. Military to lead an Emergency Missioe N to establish a temporary pier in the mediterranean on the coast of gazn th a that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelter. No u. S. Boots will be on the ground. A temporary pier will enable a massive the amountnt of humanitarian assistance getting in gaza every daofy. T. Israel must do its par israel must allow more aid into gaza. Ensure mus humanitarian workersi arent caught in the crossfire. Theyre announcing i theyre going to withdraw a car at a crossinrn gazg in northern. The leadership of the israel i say this humanitarian assistance cannot be a Secretary Consideration or a bargaining chip. Seg innocentthe prin lives has to be a priority as we look to the futuree look. The only real solution to the situation is a two state mission. Over time. And i say this as a lifelong supporter of israel my entire career. No one has a strongeronsh recommendation than i do. I challenge any of you herip te im the only american president to visit israel in wartimresidente, but there is nr path that guarantees securitytyd and democracy. There is no other path that guaranteesinians that palestinians can live in peace with part, with peace and dignit cpeacy. O othe theres no other past that guarantees peace between israel andace all of its neighbors, including saudi arabia, with whom im talking. N creating stability in the middle east also means containing the threat Creatingt Posedreat P by iran. Thats why i buildosy a coalit of more than a dozen countries to defend International Shipping efend and freedomof of navigation in the red sea. Ive ordered strikeson in Th Toh Houthi Capability and defend u. S. Forces in the regio n. As com as commander in chief, i will not hesitate to direct further will to, protect our people and our military personnel. For years, i heard many of my republican and democratic friends say that china is on the rismany oei and america is falling behind. Theyve got it backwards. Ive been sayingve b forever. For years, even i wasnt tha president. N foamerica is rising. We with the best economy in the world. Inceand since ive come to offi, Tbs Up Our Trade Deficit with china is down to ther lowest point in over a decade. And were standing up against china ups unfair economicunfa practices. 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N w so lets build the future together. Let nows remember who we are. Wm we are the United States of america. And theres nothing, nothingyonr beyond our capacity. When we act together. God bless you all. And may god protect our troops. Thank you. Thank you. Than k. President joe biden, a state ste of the Union Address lasting just about an hour. Fn addran 8 minutes. Es it started off off a little differently. Aprotocol says the speaker of the house introduces the president with the words. House uces theits My High Honoe and privilege to introduce the president. United states Speaker Johnson was read y, but President Biden dove right in to that speech straight away. He with freedom and democracy under assault, he pointed away wita on the marchaine a in ukraine, calling for funding and weapons for ukrainnd e. Right off the bat, he called out his predecessor, former president trum p, quote, bowingfor down to a russian leader fromfrt their biden went to the january 6 capitol riot, calling it the greates tot threat to our republic since the civil war. Thathe said that threat remain s. That was the first 12 paragraphs of the speech in what many 1 political watchers are calling one of the most, if not the most onehe, partisan kid of rancorous state of the Union Address they can remember. It took about 40 minutes to getf to the issue of immigration and really the exchange immillyd martha. Democrats wanted energy tonight. They wante thed fight. D it it was delivered in a fast, a forceful, sometimes yelling way at the end, reaching the dismount that he said. The idea of america is why hes optimistic about the future. Yeah, he got in some commentsmms there about his age, basically leaning on the wisdom that it has brough a t him. I think youre going to hear a lot of different takesu on the delivery of this speech. As you mentioned, bret, there were yellingntioned, moments, sm moments, angry moments. He was cantankerous at timesents. He talked a lot about his predecessor. It fels. T very much like a a Campaign Battle speech. He talked over and over, nots really referring to him as former President Trump, for. Es predecesso but when he talked about immigration, which is the Numberbout Immwhich is one issuc of americans right now in many states across the country, offi he said, i came into office with a comprehensive bill to fix itce ll t, but at the same time,e he overturned everything that was actually working. In terms of the numbers by the prio working ther. Ys then he says, you know,n in november, we came forwardnov with this idea legislatively to fix all of this. Wellid y to fix, thats three years ino his administration. He talked about the fact, nolema problem, all of these issues, but reallynd have not beent been addressed in force until very recently when they started showing up in Pollineenforcg Asr very problematic. Its interesting, i thindic. K, that he didnt mention any Executive Orders that he could do on thate orders issue with rd to remain in mexico or catch and release. Ainingbut he did say that he wod use Executive Orders in a that of other aspects. No talk about taking on the cartel against policefort reform. Thats where he said he would use Executive Orders whehan came to police reform, did mention and really exchange back andndh forth with Marjorie Taylor greene, who was wearing a tshirt that saimarjorgreenedi her name, did mention her name, send condolences to the family. Meand then on hamas and israel, which we can get into here, basicallcat into hy, he said het israels right to fight, but that its time a six weekner cease fire. You mentioned bringing home Evan Andinome Paul Grossman wits family is in the house tonight. His mom and Da Werd Say Whered they were being held, didnt say that theyre being held wherey are. Putiiasa so with that issue, obviously theyve heatedit a lot. Minnesota, michigan, places where hes lost both hasn. Age foedwher there was a big message for those places in terms of the way that hn terms e was addressa the palestinian issue. Lets listen in to some of this l now where you are on fire sometimes in what part as far as a couple of the congressmen saying you were on fire tonight. So when somebody said fire in the hol e e he was forceful. Lets bring in fox news chief Political Analyst brit hume. Brit, your thoughtts . Well, i thought it was a good chance he make a smoothly delivered mistake free blunders. Not. Umbling speech tonigh he was the theme of it, of course, was that the country is on a great comeback. For for a speech, a comeback. He shouldnt be very happy about it. Did he . He seemed angrseem very happy. There was plenty of stumbling and slurring of words and algl h the of it that weve comeo to associate with him and taken as a sigate withn of, his senils and his advancing age and the effect that it hase on ae go person. So i dont think he got out from under that at all. And that theureunde person sitting at home tonight looking at the guy will think he was anything other than a guyn man a old man. Now, if youre a partisan democrat and you lovndf ee the all the programmatic stuff he talked about, that was finea,. And i guess if he you know, democrats are worried about him s woi guess theyre glad soo see him up there showing some energy, but im not sure yt was the kind of energm no the would want to see at a time like this in this country that people are worried about. Iis many things. Can s you see him exchangingeeangi with senator pat leahyng w, vermont, from senator there. So, brit, did you think that heo hit the points he needed to hit tonight . Were talking about how it was deliveretd, but did he hit . There wasnt a lot of unity. Hem there was a lot of backoc and forth. Obviously, democrats hat ale all up. Well, it was just there was unu know, they state of the Union Addresses are often criticized for being too much of a laundryios is of accomplishments and particularly a laundry list of programs and moves o that youre going to make and so on. Well, he hit about everything that Iitbouting Yot and He Wentd On And on. A and i recognize in an hour and 8 minutes it doesnt go anywhere near being the doesest speech. It may seem that way, but ite ju was very programmaticit and throughout most of it. And im sure that, you know, if fiu look at different interest o groups, everybody will find it in some way or another. Their issue was discussey or d. D so i but but i dont think that i still dont think that was the mai thinkn thing tonight. I think the main thing tonight was how he personally came Acrossw Rsonally at a time when people are worried about a whole range of issues and Worrieaba Wholnge of id spey and particularly about him and whether he is ready to gom for another term when theyve seen him seem so halting and stumbling and indeed, you know, so very elderlo vey that so many of them say that hes not ready to gtos another four years in the hes ready to go now at all. 72 say in recent polls that he is too old for another term. Lets talk about immigration not more and whether or not thiseech speech met the moment of the way people are feeling metomen c country about the urgency and the crisis of this issue. Dis issueand were joined by br judd, president of the National Border patrobyl council. Brandon, im no doubt you were listening to all of this. As bret said, it tooke 40 minutes or so to get into the immigration issue. At did you think of what you heard tonight . Well, first, i think that he adapped every American I Iirst N the face. He didnt address what what he could do. All hesing wha did was blamed io on President Trump. But look, i have the opportunity to be op trump. Ident hav i know that the reason why he didnt support that bill has nothing to do with politichas. N it has everything g to dowith t with the president understands ithe. N from day one. St he can step into office and do a lot more than what tha t bill. F he also understands that if a bill were to be passed, o that there would be no appetite to pass a better bill when hes in office. So he looks at this and says, i can do a lot more than thiloo i could actually hurt the country if i supported this bill. And thats why he does. And it has nothingtry if supporo with politics. Now, when you look at the reason that we support the bil tolth is a President Biden has put us in this situation. He has put us in n has Pu The Situation Tha that we never thought that we would ever be in. Were apprehending ever t 7 to 7 timesven ti more people than what we normally apprehendme. We have more than ten times the got two ways than weve ever seen. Weve gos the t more fentanyl cg into this country than weve ever seen before. Weve got more dangerous criminals coming into this country than weve ever seen before. Weve got terrorists thver on the Terrorist Watch List that are coming into the country. He didnt address any of that. Atothes put us in a position that were going to accept anythingpo that is better than the status quo, and that bill is better than the status quo. But thes than th disagrees wt because he understands that you can dohe under more than what to bill would do. So its completely disingenuou s that hes talking about a border bill and putting it on congress. Taer and putwill has the executive authority right now to do more than border bill would h ever do, but hes not going to do it because if he dido somethinitg that he wouldt he be admitting that over the pastn three years its been his fault that we have this this crisis at the borde hr. So he didnt announce anything today that is actually going to help us secure the border. So that was a slap in thee fe face of all america. S he says in the speech. The bill would save lives, bring order to the bordee bill r. Me it would also give me as president , new emergency authoritpresideny to temporarilt down the border when the number of migrants at the border is ove number whelming. O your and then he points to your union endorsing the bill. Sodorsing what youre saying iy not the whole story . No, of course its notneve the whole story. But he never gives us the whole story. There are certair give beholn ti that we supported the bill is because its better than s. Want t quo what we wanted to see is we wanted to see it go to the floor to be debate gd, ment to have amendments put in there to make that bill much better. There tht perfect, bill. T weve never said it was the perfect bill, but it is better than the statuerfect but we have to look at what cank a president don right . O does he have the authority to shut down the border right now . And hethe does he does have tht authority . He doesnt need legislation. Doesity he d he have the authorf to surge Asylum Officers to the border . Oft authority. Hfi can he send immigration judge to the border today . Sendo. O th that he has that authority. All he has to do is work with with the doatj to makeis that happen. Theres a lot of things that he can do that he a tha refuses too because, again, he would be admitting that he is at fault for the last three years. Brian judd, we appreciate your perspective years on a bige tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being with us. Ou. Againe paneour panel thany and lets start and get your reflections on what we heardto tonight. Well go back to harold ford jr. Harold harol, your reaction to t president s speech. So i think a couple of things. If you think about ihanks ifyouu the way the democrats and others thought, the thought about what he had to do, he had to resetghhao he his campaign. I i think he was successful in that regard. There were those who thought theres that they wanted and i said it w thought he should be cheerful and not so contentious. Jury b is out on now. Thin and i think he brought a lotbrou of vigor, a lot of energghy. And he started with foreign policy, which i thought was very interesting. I thought it was reall tho s veryy an attempt, if they because wase unusual to start that waystoc to not talk about the state of the State Of The Union strong. I thought it might have been a tik thn p to go after some of the haley voters, haley voters who have been strong on foreign policynpolicy, who many of ther who said they could not support President Trump. He wenest in an exhaustive and extensive list. He talked about the need for Manufacturing Semiconductors chips of lowering the cost of potato chips, sick, fixin g our broken borders and schools, standing up to putin, a whole range of things. I thin tandinn k he felt like he needee to do that to demonstrate to aha crosssectiot to dn of americans that hes able hes ready that not only his cognitive abilities strong, but heanks tha understands the kinds of things that make that need to make that we needt we do to make the nation stronger. There will be criticism of the iseech, and i think some of it e is some of it is warranted. But i tell you thi fs one,is w the borderar, he could have sai a little more about something about Executive Orders. But i got to tellsa you. Partc i thought he was particularly effective tonight saying to the congress t that we work togethe, we can make this safer. And even Governor Abbott today, when you had him, he saidac Congress Need to act on this asylum process issue. So asy i thought this was a good speech and it was a good reset. Then as were watching him for t ,and we should point out, last time, it took him about 22 minutes to leave. We are going to hit the republican response on time coming up. But katie brad from alabama, brita t to play some 11. This is the back and forths is with Marjorie Taylor greene. S shes wearing this shirt that says say her name, saysely Lincoln Riley. Listen really closely. He says, lincoln, riley, but he happens to be the usc football head coach. But take a listen to this exchange. Him,s about him. Its not about me. Id be a winner. Not really. I lincoln. Lincoln. Riley. An innocent young womank inwho was killed by an illegal. T thats right i. But how many of thousandsg kill of people being killed by illegaleds . To her parents, i say my heart goes out to you. Having lost childreno yo. I understand. Okay, dani, your thoughts on. All right. So, one, he was prepared for h e that. He knew it was coming, right . He got the name a little bit wrong. Wro thebut a line that i thougs a little bit strange is what he said. Bu people are being killed by illegals, by legal. And i again, that part wasntnon on prompter, but there was a couple of times that the republican took the bait on a couple of things. One was on trumpn cuts. I talk tax cuts. Oh, i thought i thought you wanteding i those tax cuts. T i thought that was a little bit skillful. That was like one of the moments where i can sa one herey, also oh, that was pretty good. And also on immigration. But i do think that this wason a polarizing, divisive speech and it was meant to bepolarizi. T i started the night by saying im going to watch to see if they thinkwill we if that the ph that they have within the Democratic Party is a minor withe or a major crisis. I think because this was a veryr much a base speech for the far left, all the way liker the Bernie Sanders fair share, wealthy paying taxes, thingsalti that. I think this is an everyone to their corners type of night. Right. I think katy brit might be more unifying than President Bident was, but he probably needed what he needed to do for e democratededhe needes, not m at the convention. By the way, the contrast is going to be tontrasoing big. A the oldest president weve ever had to the youngest femaleever d senator ever had. Shell be speaking in alabama from a Kitchen Tableama fromhen john, your thoughts . You know, i think that dana is one of the most brilliant people i know, and particularly when it comes to political observatio con. And this was it was really its h was rancorous. It probably turned a lot of people off. If theyre light right leaning independents or republicans. But im just going to predictth that when the reviews come in on this, in places like the New York Times and the Washington Post and the National Review and msnb poscr and other left leaning outlets, theyre going to say that this was the mostng outle say brillie of the union that hes ever given because he needed a political resurrection tonight. He went into this with the lowest Approval Rating of this in a fox news poll. He was underwater on everypresi major issue and underwater far enough that he needed to b e at least breathing nitrous. If not, he lacks in order to survives in o. He was that far underwater. Lower Approval Rating than trump. Obam la and bush 43 headed thish time in their term and 72 ,rcen as martha pointed out earlier, people saying that theyre dissatisfiedasout earlpeople s, with the direction of this country. So i think froe m standpoint with the Democratic Party, th probably youre right, raised a lot of concerns that people had, that hes too old and so mand soy people inhah the Democratic Party are saying that. I thought it was kind of unusual, thoughou wa when he went after the Supreme Court. Ive not seen a president er thth that in his state of the Union Address. But for all intents and purposes, this addresr al could have been a campaign speech. Out on the trail as opposed to what happen pposed ts Supreme Courtha years ago and had a little back and fortd h with alito. The o i think thats the only other time weve seen Something Like that. Nl we have seei dont know. Im getting old. My memory is getting better. To kevinbring in mccarthy, the r speaker of the house, to tell us, you know, reflections on what we saw tonight. Id love to also hear what you thin k about what he saidcy about foreign policy. He talked very tough on ukraine. Talkin you know, spoke out about hamas going into israel. But, you know, manbuy of hist ts critics will say that these things might not have happened if he had been may nota litt a little stronger initially. Yeah, i think if youre inignpo foreign policy, youve been talking to American Public the whole time. Amertheole timetheres three bis that he had to answer his aghae the border and the economy. I think he only did one on the economy. I think when it came to age, he tried to showk when iag thatr vigor and i think he came across angry. And i think it put more doubtat in peoples mind on his pronunciation and others going througanhers goih when it came f you analyze the speech at all, h this campaign is really worried about their base. They werent speakineig to thehe independents, are they the nikki haley voters . If they werealey, would have fee pretty secure about where they were going in. This is really g in a campaignt speech trying to get the Democratic Party there, which i thin arty thek he missed the big opportunity overall. You know, just democrats hyping up online, some prominent democrats, he came out swinging. It to hes back in it. Yo to your point, that iss are the message that democrats are sending out tonight. Were going to bsetonight e bacr the republican response from alabama senator katie brad. Were goinom e britg to take a very short break here as the president exits the hall. State of the Union Address here on fox news shows. Hiding your fungus damage toenails, get clear, healthy looking nails with not ax nail gel. In a clinical study, 90 of nails improved or fungus damaged nails by neonics made in the usa and money back guaranteed. I got the thousand dollar camera , only 41 on deal. That deal dashcam. Online since 2009. This playstation five sold for only 0. 50. This ipad pro sold for less than 34. And this Nintendo Switch sold for less than 20. I got this kitchenaid stand mixer for only 56. I got this barbecue smoker for six bucks. And shipping is always free. Go to dealdash. Com right nowtote and see how much you can save for factor. Total beats is the number one beats brand in americaso yo. Thats why friends and family recommend total beats. Now you can find total beats, Blood Pressure chews at walmart so you can boost nitric oxide support, Blood Pressure and improve heart health. Rushed to walmart and find total beats beats. Welcome back. Lets go. Is st as the president is still shaking hands, i shall have to be watching all this from capitol hill. Aisha. Hi, guys. Were waiting for the gop response from senator katy brad, a freshmanp respon alabam and shes going to check mark all the boxes for the go p. Shes the youngest female senator, republican senatois ths ever. Shes also a mom from alabama at the center of this iv frof issues. You start to talk about the border very, very hard. Some tough language ahearder ve aisha, thanks so much. Weve as you watchs you President Biden make his way oudet of the chamber. Say qu you were going to say quickly, harold, that youic thought this hit the moment for democrats because no president has ever ngiven State Of The Unions hi and had his opponent known already. We kno hadw its donald trump. And in no time has a president given a State Of The Union where the opponent is tweeting time by going to the politics of the speech. I wish it wasnt as evident as john suggested, but were living in a moment where politics, unfortunateliny, gripping the moment of the moment. Were goin. G to take you togomery a montgomery, alabama. And the contrast is big. Do bec this is always a tough thing to do because you dont have a hall, a House Chamber filled with lawmakers cheering. Asethis is actually in a kitchen at a Kitchen Table where wekitche will find senator katie brad. She is set to gived to the republican to the State Of The Union. The senator from alabama with the response. Good evening. My name is katie, brad and and i have the honor of serving the people of the great state of alabama and the united stateof the gs. However, thats not the jobob that matters most. I am a proud wife and mom of two school aged kids. Myt and mysenatene son ridgeway are why i ran for the senate. R future evm worried about their future and, the future of children in every corner of our nationatt and thats why i invited t. Into our home tonigh like so many families across wad america, my husband wesley and i just watched President Bidens state of the d Union Address from our living room. And what we sawe saww was a the performance of a permanent politician who has actually been in office for longer than ive been alive. One thing was quite clear, get though, President Biden just doesnt get it. Hes out of touch under his administration and familiesd are worse off. Our communities are less our and our country is less secureso. I just wish he understood what real families are facing around Kitchen Tables just like kitc one. You know, this is wheres our family has tough conversationr fas. Its where we make hard decisions. Its where we share the good, the bad and the ugly of our days. We laugh together a and its where we hold each manyrs hands and pray for gods guidance. And many nights, to be honest, i its where wesley and i worry. I know were not alone. And so tonight, the American Family needs to have a tough. Nversation because the truth is, were all worried about the futuref o of our nation. See country we knonaw and love seems to be slipping away. And it feels like the nexte slip generationpi will have fewers opportunities and less freedoms than we did lessd. Rr i worry my own children mayn not even get a shomat at living their American Dreams. Busimerican dream allowed me, the daughter of two Small Business owners from rural enterprise to be elected to thet United States senate at the agee of 40. Growing up sweeping the floor at my dads store and cleaningne the bathroom at my moms dance studio. Bi never could have imagined what my story would entailto thi to think about what the American Dream can d whaonei across to just one generation and juston one lifetime. Its truly breathtaking. But right now, the American Dream has turned into a oni a nightmare for so many families. The true, unvarnished state,a of our union begins and ends with this. Our families are hurting. Country can do better. T ha and you dont have to look any further than crisis at our southern border to see yet. President biden inherited the most secure border of alle. Time. R taking but minutes after taking office, he suspended all deportations. He halted construction of the border wall and he announcedo ge a plan to give amnesty to no end. W that we know that President Biden didnt just create thishe border crisis. He invited iitedt with 94 execue actions in his first 100 days. When i took office, i took a different approach. Travel i traveled to the del rioleo se sector of texacts. Thats where i spoke to a womanr who shared her story with me. She had been trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12. She told me not juste that she was every day, but how many times a day she was. The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoe of a room, and they sent men through that door over and again for hours and hours on end. We wouldnt be okay thi with this happening in a third world country. This is the United Statess of america. And it is past tim e, sta my opinion, that we start acting like it. President bidens border policy a disgrace. This crisis is despicable. And the truth is it is almostlmt frto purely preventable from animal poisonings to horrific murders. Tonig there are empty chairs tonight at Kitchen Tableitchen t like this one, because of President Bidens senseless border policie s. Just think about lincoln. Riley in my neighboring state ni of georgia. Uring this beautiful 22yearold Nursing Student went out on a jog when she job but she never o the opportunity to return home. She was brutally murdered by of the millions of illegal border crossers. President biden chose to release into our homeland as a mom. I cant quit thinking, about this. Ld hav i mean, this could have been my daughter. This could have been yours. To nighand tonight, President Biden signed said her name, but he refused to tak