Gentleman and also the first lady, the president will lay and out his agenda to those lawmakers and to you, the American People. Congressional correspondentd th American People. Aisha hosny is standing by withs a preview of the republican response. But we begin standin with housee house correspondent Jackie Heinrich and a preview of the president s speech tonight. Jacqui good evening, jackie. D good evening, martin. Resident good evening, bret. Well, President Biden directly a assail republicans tonight. Officials have sent ousst memos hitting republicans forro everything from trump tax cuts ,adding to the deficit to proposals for National Abortion bans. Deficit, and also plans to cut social ban security and medicare. Wes an this speech is widely vid as an anchor to a anchor t 2024 announcement, but its not supposed to look like a campaign speech. So the president Will Instealo D frame his achievementsai as progress made against allns odds that needs to be protected and continued. Right. Martha contin . Okay, thank you, jacki. Lets go to icasa and capitol hill. She has a preview coming up of,h the republican responsees and whats happening there isha. Ponse is hey there, martha. Happeningthats right. To so the republican response tonight comes from, of course,ne the new governor of arkansas, ir Sarah Huckabee sanders. And thises is an interesting pis for a couple of different reasons. First and foremost, shd foe represents the future of the gop. Sh e is the youngest governor inwht america right now, and shese part of what some are calling the rising Generatioe Risin of republican governors. Shes also a really good. A representingreally portion of the entire spectrum of the gopto from those moderate republicans all the way to thosethat conservatives. And thats really importan it, especially House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy. When you look at the Conference Ae Represents with a wide variety of republicans. And finally, she took this white house on fairly Wellriety Ofduring the gubernatorialn campaign that she ran, going after the Biden Administration pandemic response, immigrationl. Policy. So shesh is not going to mince words tonight. Shes really going to shows the difference between wil the o ideology and the left guys. Lo isha, thank you very much. Were looking live at the house floor there, waiting momentarily to hear fromms the house sergeant at arms, william mcfarlane, as he comesa, out in the traditional way, introducing the United States. And then President Biden will make his way down that aisle to a lot of lawmakers, senators and house members housewho often angle for thatno position to have the shaking of the handhas. Theres a few of them who aree known to be there. Every single Stateery Single ofe address. M ri and theres one of them rightgh there. Sheila jackson lee of texas. Shes always there. Lets listen is alwaysn. Mr. Speaker, the president of the United States , while we watch the president move down the aisle here for mar a quic thought. Th good evening to you, brad. Or despite despitehe the applause, applause that you hear, he is looking atannoun the possibility of a Reelection Announcement soon and hes se to set the stage for that. But basically asking americans tonighricanstonight, of whom doe me or your lived experiencesma as democrats like to say, heres this is a man whose ownew party members, 62 in the latest poll, do not want better than gain. So hes got to say things aryoe better than you think, folks. Im better than you think. Im re folks, im ready to go and you should be ready to go with me. O thats thats thats a tall order. L well see how he can do it. A you know, bring a lot of times these things are Shopping Lists ovr agencies around washington. Weve hearerd a lot of them. K to but over the years, really all the way back to president in Stories Reagan in 1982, they have woveny in these stories of people int the chamber to try to get drama ,try to hit some points. Ints the president is not known forif those rhetorical kind of emotional speeches. E gets but what do you think about this moment as perhaps he gets ready to announce a Reelection Bid . Well, the biden i knew whenen i i covered him in the senate was known for those rhetorical moments bread. But in more recent years, its s been less and less common and to see and hear from him. And well see if hes going to do it tonight. These people in the galleries will be hard to understand. For example, paul pelosi and Nancy Pelosis husband so badly injured in that attack in his own home, Mahiy Be Onrecogn Hand Tonight and will be recognized. And that will certainly be an emotional momentiz and. And i suspect the cheering for that will be while everybody. Knows paul pelosi,er the whatever they may think of hisy wifes his wifes politics, likee the guy. And well see, you know, as the president can associate himself with him in a way thats appealing to people, thatsw kind of why they do ithe. And well see how well he does h it. Ill be interested to see the president , how he does tonight. Hes you know, he he stumbled at times and the speech Hasth Stutter Orructed to try to help him with anything that might aneexpect to stutter or stumbl and well see if h he can do itf i suspect, of being as good a for him as he can be. You know, hes shaking the hands there of Supreme Court justices, including the chief justice. Nd sup and obviously, the Supremere Court will likely come u ell. The speech as well. Yeah, no doubt. No doubt. Bret, well bring the panel stand by. Ba were going to bring the panelck back in. Dana, its interesting that inse the excerpts that were sent out, he says, my Economihe Sayc is about investing in places and people that have been forgotten Verygotten Interestint hes using this terminology that was so associateded wit with President Trump, the forgotten men and women as he tries to get back those voters that were traditionally democrat voters. Youre going to hear a lot fromn him tonight about Manufacturing G jobs, the return of Manufacturing Jobs to the United States. Youre also going to see vill see in the president , in the firssitbo, ladys visitors box, there will be a union worker fromy ohio. So theyre definitely realizing rea probthat they have a proble theyre trying to fix it. T im not surehi this is going to cut it. Arold, harold, as we look at the president making his way, we just saw a glimpse of nancym pelosi. Now congresswoman nancy pelosi not sittinpelosig behindpeeches. The president for one of these speeches. I its a challenge to is a challenn the minority in the house. Carty and its a different environment now with Kevin Mccarthy as speaker. Different priorities for democrats. Its the first time youve not. Had a gephardt or pelosi, the minority majority in a long, long time. Shr e helped usher in a new generation of leadership. But i think for tonight, thatedt that group is going to be challenged because theyre going to have to come up with ideas. Also ideas, the president will lay his out hope the republicans challenge with good stuf lay hi the president Podium Receivingda Ape last round of applause here before he gets under way. Plally he typically speaks for aboutou an hour. Ll do that thi we expect that he will do that this evening. Thatg. Is. And theres an Interestingrthy E moment. Kevin mccarthy has waited a lond a long time for that moment. And the speech was just handedro over to him. As President Biden get gs ready to speak, the two of them met ds last week to discusscu the possibility of reining in some spendinthe pog. So well see if we hear anything about that tonight. Onig the House Speaker saying that is not going to rip up speeches and hes not going to do anything to going to honor president of the United States. And herdent oe is President Joe Biden and his second state of mr. Speaker, thank. Thank you. Thank you. Than, k you. Please, mr. Speaker. President biden mr. Speaker, madam Vice President , our first lady and second gentlemen, good to see you guys up there. G uy members of congress, by thy way, chief, as i may needr, she a court order, she gets to gos g to the game tomorrow. I ha next week, i havvee to stay home now to work something out here, members of the cabinet leaders, our military chief justice, Associate Justice and retired justice, Supreme Courtjustic. And to you, my fellow americans, you know, startlating tonight by congratulating One Hundred Eighteen congresths. The new speaker of the house, Kevin Mccarthy, speaker. I dont want to ruin your reputation, but i look forward to working with you. O o and i want to congratulateamc the new leader of the housane democrats, the first africanamerican minority leader i leader in history, hakeem jeffries. Akeem he won in spite of thed i campaigned for him. Ng congratulations. Leader i the longest Serving Leader in the history of the United States senate, Mitch Mcconnell or mitch. E are and congratulations to chuck tischumer. Schu another, youme know, another tem Senate Minority leader. You know, i think you alone bige this time, you have a slightlymr bigger majority, mr. Leader, uc majority leader. Bigg but that mucerh bigger now. L reo well,gn i tell you what, i want to give special special recognition to someone who i think is going to be considered the greatest speaker eake in the history of the House Of Representatives. Nancy pelosi,house of books the story of america is A Story Of Progress, the resilience ofmg always moving forward, ofstor never, ever giving up is a story unique among nations. Were the only country that has emerged from every crisis weve ever entered, stronger than weio got into. Doing again. Look, folks, thats what wereyr doing again. Two years ago. Her the economy is really i stand here tonightafter after weve created with the help of manyrom people in this room, 12 million new jobs, more jobs created inef two years than any president created in four yearss because of you, all the peoplei] ,two years ago, two years ago,d covihad shut down. Robbe our businesses were closed. Our schools were robbed. Uch anof so much. Ols and today, covid nouo longer controls our lives. Two years agy and two years ago, democracy faces greatest threats of civil war. Civitoday, though bruised, de our democracy remains unbowed. Ye and unbroken. D an as we gather here tonigh, were writing the next chapter in the Great American story, A Story Of Progress, ss and resilience. When World Leaders asked meesil to define americanience. , i do believe it or not, i can define it in one word. And i mean, theres possibilities. We dont think anythingnd is beyond our capacity. Everything is a possibility. Apacity,you know, were often tt democrats or republicans cant re together. Weve but over the past two years, weve proved the cynics and naysayerans wrong. Are timedisagree plenty. And yes, there are times that democrats want alone, but time and again, democrats and republicans came togethe blicans r, came together to defend a stronger and safer europe. You came together to passnc one and a one in a generation, once in a generation,w infrastructure, law, building bridges, connecting our nation and our people. We came together to pass the most significant law ever helping victims exposed to toxic burn pits. Burnn fact, important fact. I signed over Three Hundred bipartisan pieces of legislation since becoming president from Reauthorizing Prm the violence against women act, the Electoral Reform acts, the Respect For Marriage Act that protects the right to marry the person you love irn my republican friends, we could lork together. The last congress is no reasonv we cant worwok together and Fii Consensus on important things in this congress. As well. Think we all are just formed as i am. But i think the people sent us a clear message fighting fork the sake of fighting power, for the sake of power, conflict, power, con for the sake of conflict getsr f us nowhere. Thats always been my vision of our country. And i know its many of yours 9g to restore the soul of this nation, to rebuild the backbone of america. Ba oamericas middle class, and unite the country. Weve been sent here to finish the job, in my view, for decades. Decadesmiddle class has been hd out and more than and not no one administration, but for a long time, too many goodng jo paying Manufacturing Jobs move overseas. Factories closed down. Once thriving cities and towns many of you represent became shadows of what they used to be along the way. Something elseong th we lost prr our sense of self worth. I ran for president to fundamentally change things a to make sure our Economy Workslt for everyone so we can allha fe that pride in what we do to build an economy from the bottom up, the middle out, not from the top down. Lass doe because when the Middls E Class does well, The Poor Havealthy A Ladder Up and the wealthstywel still do very well. We all do well know a lot ofquon you always kid me draws quote, my dad my dad used to say joeybs jobs about a lot more than a paycheck is really would say more. Its about a lot more than tha a paycheck. , about its about your dignity. Its about respect. Its about being a look your kid in the eye and say, honey, its going to be okay. And mean it. Well, folksfo, so lets look at the results. Were not finished yet by any stretch of the imagination. But Unemployment Rate is at three point four percent, a 50 a year low near near Record Unemployment, near Record Unemployment for black and hispanic workers. Weve already created your help. Eight hundred thousand good payment factory jobs, the fastest growth in 40 years. Where is it written . E is i where is it written that America Cathn lead the world in manufacturing . And i dont know where thats written fowritten . R many decadee import a projection of exported jobsan. Now, thanks to what youve all done, were exporting American Products and creating americancn jobs. In inflation has beenause a global problem because a pandemic disrupted p our suppy chains and putins unfair brutaa and brutal war in ukrainete disrupted Energy Supplied eners as well as food supplies, blocking all that grain in ukraine. Ukraine. But were better posd than any country on earth right now. At hom earbut we have more to d. But here at homee , inflation is coming down here at home. Gas prices are down a dollar fifty from their peak. Food inflation is coming down not fast enough, but coming down. Inflatio n is Falling Everyg month for the last six monthsth or take home pay has gone up. P. Additionally, over the last two years, a record ten million americans applied to start new businesses. Ten million by away every time, every time someone starts pr Small Businesses, an act of hope. Ent, and madam Vice President , i want to thank yo i wanu for la that effort to ensure that Small Businesses have accessll to capitalaccess and the historc laws were enacted that are going to just come to ber, standing here. Last year, i shared with you g a story of american genius and smssibilities, semiconductors, small computer chips the sizalel of the fingerprint, the power, everything from Cell Phonesan to automobiles, so much more. R these chips were invented ine invented i america. Lets get that straight. Str they were invented in america. We used to make 40 of the worlds chips in the last several decades. We lost our edge. E were down to only producing 10 . No what happened during the pandemic when Chip Factories shut down overseas. , todays automobiles made 3000 s chips, each of those ameri automobiles. But american automobiles couldnt make Enoughca Carsug because there werent enough chips. Car prices went up. People ch got laid off. So did everything from refrigerators to cell phones. O refrigerators we can never let that happen again. Thats whphy thats why we came together to pass the buyn h Partisan Chips in science atip. C i know ive beenri criticized f, saying this, but im not changing my view. Were going to make suree chain the Supply Chainfo for america begins in america. Begins in america. More free trade. A hundred thousand800,000 new Manufacturing Jobs bef new manufacturing without This Hundbefore The Law kicks in with this law, were goingnd to create a thousand new jobss across the country. Ntry, al i mean, all across the country, throughout not just the cups, s but throughout the country. So thats a companies that have announced more than Three Hundred being investment in manufacturing over the nextiu few years. Isiah thomas 30 years. I learned she told me shed been a proud member of the ironworkers local 44, known as. Has the cowboys in the sky. But she built. Bill cincinnati skyline er said she cant wait to be 10 stories above the ohio River Building that new bridge god bless her. Thats pride. And thats were also building. Were Building Back pride. Look ross replacing poisonous lead pipes going to 10 million homes in america, 400,000 schools and childcare centers. So every child in america every child american drink the water instead of having permanent damage to the brain. Look were making sure. Making sure. The community. Every community americas access to affordable , high speed internet. No parent should have to drive by mcdonalds parking lot to help them do their homework online or their kids, which many thousands were doing across the country. And when we do these projects and again i get criticized this, but i make no chooses for it. Were gonna buy american bye, america. Totally. Its totally consistent with International Trade rules. Bye america has been the law since 1933 but for too long past administrations, democrat and republican have fought to get around it. Not anymore. Tonight im announcing new standards require all Construction Materials used in federal Infrastructure Projects to be made in america. I mean it. Number. Glass drywall rocking cable. My watch American Roads , bridges, american highways are going to be made with American Products as well. Folks. My economic plan is about investing in places and people that have been forgotten. So many of you listen to you tonight. I know you feel it. So many of you felt like you just simply been forgotten. Made the academic people of the past four decades. Too many people have been left behind. Treat it like theyre invisible. Maybe thats you watching from home . Remember the jobs that went away . You remember them, dont you folks at home, remember them . You wonder whether the path even exists anymore. For your children to get a hand withouthome. For example, too many of you lay in bed at night like m lay in bed at night like my dad did, staring at the ceiling, wondering what in gods name happens if your spouse gets cancer or your child gets deathly ill. Ad lyor something happens to you. Ne whaty to are you going to get my to pay for those medical bills . Are you going to have to sell the house or try to get a second mortgage on it . I get it. I get it. With the Inflation Reduction Act that i signed into law,werfl were taking on powerful interests to Bring Health Care g so you can sleep better at night with moreght securitywith. We p yoayu know, we pay more foron Prescription Drugs than any the nation in the world. We say it again. Rugs t weha pay more for Prescription Drugs than any major nation on earth. For example, one in ten americans has diabetes. Many of you in this chamber doo, and in the audience. But every day, millions need die insulin to control their diabetes so they can literally staytey ca or lie. Insu and soli its been around forr over 100 years. 100 the guy who invented didnt even patented because you wanted to be available for everyone t. It cost the Drug Companies roughly ten dollars a vial to make that Insulin Package and all. Maybe you may get up to thirteen dollars, but big pharma has been unfairly charging people h hundreds of dollars, fous ofr to Five Hundred Dollars a month, making record profits ,not any more. Not anymore. Ymso much so many things that we did are only now comingis to fruition. We sai ad we wernd e doing thist and we said we passed a law to do it, but people didnt know because the law didnt take effect. Knowuntil january one of this yy we capped the cost of insulin at Thirty Five Dollars a month for seniors on medical pay. People are just finding out. Im im sure youre getting the same calls. Im gettin. G. Look, there are millions of other americans who do not or are not on medicare, including Two Hundred Thousand young people with type one diabetes and heart disease. This etes is going to stay aliv lets finish the job this time. Lets cap the cost of medicine for everybody at thirty five dollar. Oh, big pharma. Still going to do very well, i promise. I promise you theyre going to do very well. This law. So this law also caps effec and wont go into effect on the twenty twenty five costs out of Pocket Drug Costs for seniors on medicare at a maximum of Two Thousand Dollars a year. You donpet have to pay more tht two thousand. No matter how mucher how your dg costs are. Whu alluse You Know Why Yo know, many of you, like many in my family, have cancer. Hano you know, the drugs can range from 10 to 11 , fourteen Fifteen Thousand Dollars forlla the cancer drugsfo. Rugs the drug prices rise faster. Inflation, Drug Companies aredrp going to have to pay medicare wl back. The difference Fol R Finallh finally giving medicare the power to negotiate drug prices, bringing down bringing down Prescription Drug costs doesnt just save seniors money. It cuts the federal deficitt by billions of dollars. Cu the by hundreds of billionf dollars because thesen Prescription Drugs are drugs purchased by medicare to keep their commitment to the seniors. Well, guess what . Nior. Instead of paying four or Five Hundred Bucks a month, youre paying fifteen. , that i thats a lot of savings for the federal government. And byt the way, why would we a want that . Now,nt that . Some members here e threatening and i know its not official Party Position. So an im not going to exaggerate, but threatening to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act as m noty coach. Thats okay. Is thats fair. As my Football Coach used luckay, lots of luck in your senior year. Make no mistake, if you try anything to raise the cost of relaxium jobs, i will veto it. Im pleased to say the Moreer Americans have Health Insurance now than ever in history histo, a record 16 Million People are enrolled in the Affordable Care act. And thanks thanks to the law signed last year, saving millions of saving Eight Hundred Dollars a year their premiums. By the way, that Law Wa Written and the benefit expires in 2020 five. So my plea to some of you, at l least to this point, is lets finish a job and make these savings permanent. Expand coverage of medicaid. Look, Inflation Reduction Act is also the most significant investment ever in Climatemate Change ever. Lower utility bill , creating american jobs, leading the world to a clean energy future. Fu i visited the devastating aftermath of record floods, droughts, storms and wildfires from arizona and new mexico to all the way up to the canadian border. Canadia more timber has been burned,n and ive observed from helicopters that the entire state of missouri and we dont have global warming. Addition o not a problem. In addition to emergency f recovery, from puerto rico to florida to idaho, where rebuilding for the long term tric gri new electric grids that are able to weather major storms, te not prevent those fire forestst fires, roads and water r justbi to withstand the next big flood, clean energy to cutd, cln pollution, to create jobs in communities often left behind. Were going to build Five Hundred Thousand electric vehicle Charging Stations installed across the country by Tens Of Thousands of workers and helping families saveith ta more A Thousand Dollars a year with tax credits to purchase electricse vehicles and efficiet and efficient appliances. Energy efficient appliances, historic Conservation Efforts to be responsible stewards of our land. Lets facer reality. Snt car the Climate Crisis doesnt care if youre in a red or blue state. Its an existential threatit. Ix we have an Obligation Notntia to ourselves and our children or grandchildrenat, we to confr. It. Im proud of how the how America At Last is Stepping Upwr to thee challenge. Were still in need oil and gast for a while. But guess what . Gue sswhatno, were good. Do but theres so much more to do. Weve got to finish the job. We pay for these investments. Our future by finally making the wealthiest and biggest corporations begin to pay their fair share just began. Pii look, im sta catholic. T pa im a capitalist. I pay your fair share. Of i think a lot of you at home ,a lot of you at Home Agreeple H with me and many people that, you knowat, the tax system is nt fair. It is not fair. For the idea that in twenty , twenty , fifty five ofameric the largest corporations in america, the fortune 500 , madeofits an 40 Billion Dollars in profits and paid zero in federal taxes, zero . Folks, simply not zero folks simply not fair. But now because of the law i signed, a billion Dollar Companies have to pay a minimum of 15 . God love them. 15 . Ats l thats lesess than the lastta nine to crystalclear. I said at the very beginning, under my plans, as long as imld president , nobodyen earning les than Four Hundred Thousand dollars will pay an additional penny in taxes. Tional nobody, not one penny. But lets finish the job. , theres more ttho do to reward work, not just wealth. Pass my proposal for the billionaire minimum tax. You know, theres a Thousand B Billionairesil in america. Ng its up from aboutould six hundred and began to return. But nobody in there should be paying a lower Tax Rate Thant a School Teacher or firefighter. Ea oi mean, think about it. I i mean, Emiliano Enthusiasticiac about that, but thin ak about it. Think about it. Have you noticed Big Oil Justor reported his profits, d record profits last year. They made Two Hundred Billion dollars in the midst of a Global Energy crisis. Lo ba i think its outrageous. Eos why they invested too little ofi that profit, increased domestic productiontsomesti. And when i talked to a couple of them, they say we were afraid youre going to shut down all the oil wells and all the Oil Refineries anyway. So why should we invest in w them . Ill ne i said were going to need oiled for at least another decade. And thats going to exceed and beyond. Beyond t were going to need productionhe. Ify in they had, in fact, invesn in productioven to keep gas prices down. Instead, they use the record profits to buy back their own stock, rewarding the ceos and shareholders. Oratio corporations ought to dons the right thing. Thats why i propose weuadrup quadruple the tax on corporate stoclek buybacks to encourage long term investment. Ke just still make a profit. Let s finish a job and close the loopholes. Wealthyth to avoid paying their taxes f instead of cutting the number of audits for wealthy taxpayers. I just signed a law to reduce the deficit by One Hundred And Fourteen Billion dollarslthy by cracking down on wealthy tax cheats. Thats been fiscally responsible in the last two ad years. My administration has cut the Deficiministration C Thet bo one point seven trillion dollars, the largest Deficit Reduction in american history. American history. Under the previous administration. The american efforts went up four years in a row becaused those record deficits, no president added more to the national deb tt in any four years than my predecessor. Nearly predece 25 of the entirv National Debt that took overer 200 years to accumulate was added by just one administration alone. Administration last one there to fact check it. T out. Eck i how the Congress Responded thatd day. Tthey did the right thing. They lifted the debt ceiling three times without preconditions or crisis. They paid American Billsican to prevent and Economic Disaster in the country. Tonightto, im Askingllow The Congress to follow suit. Lets commit here tonight to the full faith and credit of the United States. America will never, ever be questionee d. So my men, some of m my republican friends want to take the economy hostage. I get it. Unless i agree to their economic plans. T d alknowl of you at home should k. What those plans are. Instead, of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some republicans, some republicans want medicare and Social Security sunset. Im not saying its a majority. Let me give you anybody ts it,ubts it. Contact my office. Ill give you a copy. E ill give you a copy of the proposal. I Means Congress doesnt vote. T im glad to see. And i tell you, i enjoy conversion. You know, it means that if congress doesnt keepicans the programs the way they are, they go away. Maher republicans say, im not t saying its a majority of you. I dont even thint k its evn a significant but is beingpropos proposed by individuals. Im no im not politely not naming them, but its being proposed by somebody. Y look, folks, the idea is that b were not going to be were not going to be moved into being threatened to default on the debt if we dont respondt. W both. So folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security, medicare is off off the books now. Theyre not to this. All right. Ght. We got it in Social Security, medicare, our lifeline for millions of seniors. Americans havelifeli to pay ints from the very first paycheck they start. So tonight, lets all agree and we finally are a stand up for seniors. Stand up and show them will notr cut Social Security. It we will not cut medicare. Those benefits belong to they American People. They earne id it. If anyone tries to cut Social Security, which apparently no ones going to d o ,if anyone tries to cut medicareo , ill stop them. Ill veto it. Bill , im not gonna allow them to take away be taken away. Way, not today. Not tomorrow, not ever. But apparently its not t going to be a problem next month. When i offer my fiscal plan, i ask my republican friendsn th to lay down their plan as well. I really lets sit down together and discuss our mutual plans together. Al lets do that. I can tell you plan. Im going to show yourenothr going to cut the deficit by another two trillion dollars and then well cut a single bit of medicare or Social Security in fact, were going to extend the Medicare Trust fund at least two decades because that could be the next target. How do we make keep it solvent right. Well, well not raise taxes on anyone making under four hundred grand. Bu ise taxet well pay for it the i talked about it by making sure that the wealthy and big C Corporations pay their fair share. Look, look, look,pay thei hes a deal. In theyre just taking advantage of the tax code to take Advantage Ofcodee am the american consumer. Heres my message to all oermero out there. Have your back. , we were already preventing americans receiving surprise medical bills, stopping one billion dollarl surprise bills per month so far for Mon Protectingth Seniors Life Saving Nursincking down on Nursing Homes that commit fraug hod, endanger patient safety, prescribe drugs that are not needed. Millions of americans can now. Save thousands of dollars because it can finally get a hearing aid over the counter without a prescription. Look, capitalism without competition is not capitalism. Its extortion. Its exploitation. Last year, i cracked down with the help of many of you on Foreign Shipping Companies that were making you pay higher prices for every good coming into the country. I signed a bipartisan bill to cut Shipping Costs by 90cost b percent, helping american farmers, businessmen, consumers. Lets finish the job. Pastd consumera, Bipartisan Legn to strengthen and strengthen Antitrust Enforcement and for banks and prevent big onlineing platforms giving their own th an unfair advantage. R wideness is also taking on juk fees. Those hidden surcharges are too Many Companies used to make you pay more. For example, were Making Airline Show you the full ticket price up front. Refund your money if your flight is canceled or delayed. Weve reduced exorbitant Bank Overdrafts by saving consumers more than 1 billion a year. For cutting credit card late fees by seventy five percent from 40 to Eight Dollars for junk fees may not matter to the very wealthy, but they matter to most other folks in homes like the one i grew up. Many of you did they add up to hundreds of dollars a month . They make it harder for you to pay your bills or afford that family trip. I know how unfair it feels when a company overcharged you and gets away with it. Not anymore. Weve written a bill to stop it all. Its called the junk fee prevention act. Were going to ban surprise resort fees that hotels charge on your bill. Those fees can cost you up to ninety a night in hotels that arent even resorts. We the idea that cable, internet and Cell Phone Companies can charge you two hundred or more if you decide to switch to another provider. Give me a break. We can stop service fees on tickets to concerts and sporting events. That make companies disclose all the fees up front. And well prohibit airlines from charging 50 roundtrip for family just to be able to sit together. Baggage fees are bad enough. Airlines cant treat your child like a piece of baggage. Americans are tired of being poor, tired, being played for suckers surpass the junk free prevention act so Companies Stop ripping off. For too long, workers have been getting stiffed, but not anymore. Were getting were beginningi to restore the dignity of work. For example,she kn i should have known this, but i didnt until two years ago. Thirty million workers have to sign non compete agreements with the jobs they take 30 million to a cashier at a burger place can walk across town and take the same job, jus another burger place and make a few bucks more. Justd. But i just changed it because we exposed it. That was par, gut ofys the deala guysny, look it up. But not anymore. Ents for banning those agreements. Rr so companies have to competey tm for worker fs, pay them what theyre worth. And i must tell you, this fri is bound to get a response from my friends on my left with the right. Im so Companies Sick and tiredf Companies Breaking the law p by preventing workers from asthorganizing past the program because business hav, e a right. Workers have a right to form a union. Lets guarantee all workersge have a living wage. H sick lets make sure working parents can afford to raise a familymeda with sick days, paid familyl lev medical leave,e, affordablee chl childcare, thats going g to enable millions more people to go and stay at work. And lets restore the full child tax credit, which gave tens of millions of parents some Breathing Room and cut Child Poverty in half to the cen lowest level in history. Cr and by the way, we do all these thingswe. So we increase productivity, we increase economic growth. The job. And get mor so lets finish the job and gets more families access to affordable, quality housing. Lets get seniors wantors th toy in their homes, the care they need to do so. To lets get more Breathing Room to millions of Family Caregivers looking after their loved ones. Lookr love pass my plan so we get seniors, people with disabilities, the Home Care Services they need and support the workers who are doing gods work. These plans are fully paid for. R and we can afford to do them. Restoring the dignity of work means making education. Affordable ticket to the middle class. You know, when wble madeic publc education, 12 years of it Centuy Universal in the last century, s we made the best educated, best paid. We became the best educated, best paid nation i cn the worldh the rest of us caught up. Its caught up. Tim jill , my wife, who teaches i full time, has an expression. I hope i get right, kid. Any nation that out educates out us is going to outcompete us. Any nation our educationtion Cao Outcompete o folks we all know. H twelve years of Education Com of not enough to winpe the economic competition of 21st century 2. Te do i have the best educated workforce . Lets finish the jobool, f by providing access to preschool for three fouor anr years old. Studies show that children go to preschool are nearly 50 more likely to finish high and ea school and go on to earn a two or four year degree no matter their background. They came from lets get public School Teachers a raise. Were making progress by reducing student increasing pell grants. The working and middle classs families. Lets finish the job to connectt students to careeraro tw opportunities. Starting high school. Provide access to Twyearo Yearsf community college, the besting Career Training in america. To a in addition to be a pathwayll to a four year a degree. A thats all for every american. Apostle cars whether they go to college or not. Folks. Folks in the midst of the cobra crisis when schools were closed and we were, le shutting down everything, lets recognize how far we came in. C the fight against the pandemic itself. While the virus has not gone, th thanks to the resilience of the American People and the ingenuity of medicine, we broke in the cova grip on us covid deaths are down by 90 . Milli weve saved Millions Oonf Liveso and opened up our country. D we opened our country back uthp and soon well end the Public Health emergency. But thats called a Public Health emergency. But well remember the toll g and painoi. Its never going to go away. More than a million americans lost their lives. Over a million familiesre grieving, children orphaned, empty chairs. Used the Dining Room Table constantly reminding you that she used to sit theret rememberinthg. We remain vigilant. We still need to monitor Dozenss Of S Variance and support new vaccines and treatments. O needs tso Congress Needs to e efforts and keep america safe. And as we emerge from thiss crisiscr, stronger, were also going to double down prosecuon prosecute criminals who stole relief money meant t l to keep workers and small before i came to office. T you remember during thatho campaign, the big issue is about Inspector Generals who protect taxpayers dollars or sideline neve r fire. Many people said we dont need them. Ld and fraud became rampant last te year. I told you the watchdogs are back. Since thene , since then, weve recovered billions of taxpayers dollars. Now lets triple the Anti Fraudt Strike Force going after these uecriminals, double the statutek limitations on these crimes and crack Downdo On Identityates Fraud By Criminal Syndicates stealing billions of billions of dollars from the American People. Amen people. And the das and the data shows that for every dollar we put into fighting fraud, the taxpayers get back, at least ten timesit as much. It matters. It matters. Look, covid left his scars like the spike in Violent Crimeth inn 2020 first year of the pandemic. We have an obligation to make po surepl all people are safe. Public safety depends on public trust, as al il of us know. But too often that trust is violated. Joining us tonight are the parents of tyre nichols. Welcome. Had to bury tyre last. As many of you personally know, theres no words to describe the heartache and grief of losing a child. But imagine imagine if you lost that child at the hands of the law. Imagine having to worry whether your sone or daughterkr came home from walking down the street playing in the park or just driving a car. Most onf us in here have never had to have the talk, the talk ,the brown and black Parentsh Have had to have their children. Beau hunter, ashley,hunter my children. , ashtoni have had to have a tak with them. I never had to tell them Ifr A Police Officerin pulls you over, turn your interior lights on right away. Dont reach forkeep your license. Your hands on th keep your hands on the steering wheel. Havi imagine having to worry like that every single time your kid got ine a car. Retirees mother shared with me when i spoke to her. When i asked her how sheth finds the courage to carry outd and speashk out the faith of god , she said her son was, quote, A Beautiful Soul and something good will come of this. Cour imagine how much courageag and courage that takest ta us to all of it. We all want the same thing. Vio Neighborhoods Free of violence, Law Enforcement of Enforcement Arms is the communitys trust, juste righ as every cop and they pin on that badge in the morning has a right to be able to go home at night. So does everybody out there. Our children have the right to come home safely. Ly. Equal pn equal protection under the law is a covenant we have with each other in america. We know Police Officers puty si their livengs on the line everye single night and day. E too much and we know we ask them in many, cases to do too much to be counselors, social workers, Psychologists Respondingologistg overdoses, Mental Health crisesh and so much more. In one sense, we ask much too much of them. I knoweir fami most cops and thr families are good, decent, honorable people. The vast majority time they pu and they risk their lives every time they put that shield on. P but what happened to tyre in memphis happens too often. We have to do better, give Law Enforcement the real training need, hthey need, hold them tol standards, help them succeed inr keeping us safe. We also need more first the responders and professionals to address the growing Mental HealthSubstance Abuse challenges for resources, reduce Violent Crimee chal, gunr talk, Community Intervention vestmentprogram for veterans ho, education and job training. All this to help prevent violence in the first place. Wh with Police Officers or police departments. Violate the public trust, they must be held accountable with the support. If the support of the families signed an executrights goes to lawiv enforcement, i sign an Executive Order for all federals officers banning chokeholds, restricting no Knock Warrantsom and other key elements oouf the george florida act. Lets commit ourselves to make the words of toddlers mom true. Something good must come th from this. Somethinisg good and all of us. All of us. Ple, a its difficult, bullt its simple. All of in this chamber, we needw to rise to this moment. We cant turn away. Lets do what we know in our hearts. We need, to dolets come. Lets come together to finish the job on Police Reform. O somedo something, do somethint is a plea of parents who lost their children. Uvalde, i met with every one of them. Do something about gun violence. Thank god. D we thank god we did. Thre passing the most sweeping Gun Safety Laws for decades. That includes things like that. Y the majority of responsible gun owners already support enhancedg background checks for eighteen to twenty one year red flag laws. Keeping guns out of the handsan of people are a danger to themselves and others. Bujot wein know our work is not done. Join us tonight is brandon saying a twenty six year old b hero, brandon, putra His College Dreams On Hold to be at his moms side. Momcils sideo to die from cancer. Nd and Brandon Brandon now works at the dance studio started by his grandparents. Tws o weeks ago during the Lunar New Year celebrations. You heard the studio door close. You saw a man, taylor , pointing a semiautomatic pistol at hi m. Pl he thought hes going to die, but he thought about the peopleg inside. And that instant he found the courage to act and wrestleda a semiautomatic pistol away from the gunmahen who had alreay killed 11 people in another dance studio. Eleven dance, he saved lives. Its time we do the same. Bannedt Assault Weapons nownow. Banned and now, once and for all, i tried to do that in 1994 in ten years. Mass that ban was law. They l Mass Shootings went down after he let it expire and Republican AdministrationMass Shootings tripled. Lets finishh th the job and ban these Assault Weaponr s and it also comise together on immigration. Make it a bipartisan once again. We know we p now have a Record Number of Personnel Workinge bo to secure the border, resting a thousand human smugglersrd, seizing over Twenty Three Thousand pounds ofn fentanyl in just the lastr pl several months, weve launched a new border plan last month, unlawful migration from cuba. Hadi, hait, nicaragua and veneza has come down. Fi as a consequence of that, put american border problemsxe wont be fixed until congress cr acts. If wehe donvet passgratio equiomprehensive reform, at least pass my plan to provide the equipment and officers to secure the border and a pathway to citizenship for dreamers. Those on temporary status, farmworkers, Essential Workerswr here, the peoples house. Ct a its our duty to protect all the peoples rights and Freedoms Congress must restore the right and the Congress Must restore the right that was taken away in roe v. Wade and protect roe v. Wade. P give every one of the vice the council, the viceo pr president are doing everythingo, to get access to Reproductive Health care and safeguard a d patient safety. But alreadozy more thaenn a doza states are enforcement. Extreme abortion bans. Make no mistake about themke, if Congress Passes a national ban, i will veto it. V but lets also pass. A its also passing by , passing the quality controlafet lgbtq americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety, dignity. O our our strength is not jut the example of our power, but the power of our example. s lets remember the worldhing is watchini g. Afspoke in this chamber one year ago, just days after Vladimir PutinUnleashed Hisl at brutal attack against ukraine. Tack a murderous Assault Evoks images of death and destruction europe suffered in world war two. Putins invasion. Putin has bet a test for the ages test for america, test for the world. Cis would we stand for the most basic of principles . We stand for sovereignty. F tyra, we stand for the right of t peoplehe to live free of tyrann. What we stand for, the defense of democracy, for such Defense Matters to us because we keep peace and prevents open season on would be aggressive and threatens our prosperity. One year later, we know d the answer. Id yes, we would. And we did. We did. And together we did what america always does at our best. We lead, we unite in nato. Al we build a global coalition. We stood against putins aggression. We stood with Ukrainian Peopler to deny were once again joinedd by ukrainians. Ambassador denounced states,. She represents not just our nation, but the courage ofr our people. Peopambassador is our ambassador is here. Ited united. Were united in our support of your country. N support of your l will you stand so we can alltake take a look at your. Thank you, because were going to stand with you as long as it takes our nations working fore u more freedom, more dignity, more and more peace, not just in europe, but everywhere. Before i came to office, the story was abouthtwe how the peoples republic of china was increasing its powerd. And americas failing in the world. T not anymore. We made clear and i made my personal conversations, which have been many with president xi, that we competition, not conflict. But i will make no apologies that were investing and to make americas stronger, i investing in americane innovation and industries will define the Futurefu Thatdoa china intends to be dominatingti investing in our alliances and working with our allies to protect advanced technology. Mo they will not be used against us modernizing our military to safeguard stability, to detedr aggression. Today, were the strongest position in decades to compete with china or anyone else in the world anywhere else. The not committed. Im committed to worke amer with china, where We Canic Advance American Interests and benefit the world. But make no mistake about nef it, as we made clear last week, if China Threatensthre our sovereigntaty, we will act l to protect our country. And we ditod look, lets be clear. Winning the competition. Should your nineetition l. E wo we face serious challenges across the world. But in the past two years,er not democracies have become stronger, not weaker. Weaautocracies grow weaker, noe stronger. Name m me a world leader who changed places with xi jinping. Name me one. Rallying t name me one. Et those americas role in the world to meet those challenges from climate to Global Health to Food Insecurity to terrorism to territorial aggression,erriti allies are stepping up, spending more and doing more. Look, the bridges were formedica between partners in the pacific and those are the lantin theg. And those who bet against america are learning how wrong they are. Its never, ever been a good bet to bet against america. Never. Well, when i came to office, most assure of bipartisanship assumed was impossible, butt never believed. Thats why a year ago i offerede a unity to the nation. A law i stood here. It we made Real Progress together. Fowe passed a law making it easy for doctors to prescribe effective treatmentsts for for t addiction. W the gun safety law, making historic investments in Mental Health. Ve we launched the drive for breakthrough in the fight against cancerzheimers and, alzs and diabetes and so much more. T we passed the Heath Robinson nam pact acted named after the late Iraq War Veteran whose story about exposure to toxic friendships i shared here last year. B ur i understand something abot roseburg. Theres so muccan h more to dod. We can do together. Joining us tonight is a father named doug from newton, he jill new hampshire. Hemy jill , my wife will let hei and me as well about his courageous daughter, courtney contagiously. Contagioushis sisters best frir sisters best friend, he sharedf a story all too familiarny to millions of americans and many of you in the audience. Courtney discovered pills in high school. Eath it spiraled into addiction and eventually death from jus fentanyl overdose. She just 20 years old, describing the last eight yearst without a drug, said eight yearo worse pain if their families, wo turnrkin pain. The purpose working to end h the stigma and change laws. He told us he wants to starty a journey toward american recovery. Dugher with you fentanyl is killing more than Seventy Thousand americans a year big. You got it. So lets launch a major surge of Stop Fentanyl Production in the sale and trafficking with more drug detection machines. Inspection cargo, stop pills and powder at the border. Heworking firms like fedex to inspect more packages for drugs, Strong Families to crack down on trafficking. Y fo second, lets do more on Mental Health, especially for our children. But millions of young people are struggling with bullying, v violence, trauma. Ntal we give them greater accesstc to Mental Health care, to schools. We must finally hold social Media Companies accountable for experimenting. Theyre doing running children ch. Tionit a its time to pass My First N To Stop Big Tech Kid from collecting personal data. Kids and teenagers online. E st theyve targeted advertising to children and impose strictero limits on the personal data the Companies Collect on all ofh us. Ird, third, mr. Murdaugh to kp this nations one truly sacred obligation to equip those we send into harms way and care for them and their families when they come home. Ngb job training, Job Placementr Veterans and their Spousesg Veti as they come to return to civilian life. Helping veterans afforr the rend the rent because no one should be homeless in america, especially someone who served the country. Denis mcdonough and Denis Mcdonough is here, the va. We had our first real discussion to ask him to take the job. Im glad he did. Uicide we were losing up to twentye five veterans a day and suicidle. Now were losing seventeenrge today to the Silent Scourgofe of suicide. Seventeen veterans a day are committing suicide more than all the people being killed in the wars. Folks i, the Va Is Doingntal everything it can, including expandinealtg Mental Healthcruis screening, proven programs of krutch veterans to help othert veterans understand what theyre going through. They neea get them the help they need. D we got to do more. And fourth, last year, jill andh i reignited the Cancer Moonshot that i was abl obamae to start o president obama asked me cane to lead our administration on this issue. Our goal is to cut the Cancer Death Rates at least by 50 percent the next twenty five years turn p more cancers and Death Sentences to treatable diseases. Reor patientprovide more suppors patients and their families. Its personal, as so many of us , so many of us , this audience joining us org us morrison, daughter of morrisson candies, an irishmani and a daughter of immigrants from panama,mm they met and fell in love ine new york citynd i and got married in the same chapel. Kindre and i got married in new york city. Kindred spirit as. He wrote us a letter about hisrt little daughter, ava, and i sawa her just before i came over. She was just a year old when she was diagnosed with rare kidney disease. Cancer after twenty six blood, transfusions11 rou, 11 rounds of radiation, eight rounds of keino chemo, one kidney removedw. Roow give me a five percent survival rate. He wrote down the darkests i ca moments. Hne thought if she goes, i cant stay. Many of you went through thatanh as well. Juliannaat. Describ and that, like sino many of youn you read jills Bookce Describig our familys cancer journey and how we tried to steal moments of joy where we could t, with bob t for them. And that glimmer of joy wasr the half smileba of their baby girl , meant everything to. Gave up they never gave up hope. Hope. Sh labor never gave up hope. 4 next she turns four next month. They just found out aboutway beating the odds is on herto way to be cured of cancer. She isand shes watching from the white house. Tonight is not sleep already with a large reconceive is alive. We wve can save the lives weve lost. Lets justam be an momena trulyn moment. The rallies, the country in the world together and prove that we can still do bigo things. Twenty years ago, undeleshipr the leadership of President Bush and countless advocates and champions, he undertook a bipartisan effort through pepfar to transfor them the global fight against hiv aids. Its been a huge success. He thought big. F he thought large. He i believe we can do the same thing with cancer. That cancer, no know, cure and some cancers once and for alls, folks. Theres one reason why wevehin, been able to do all of these dem things, our democracy itself. Its the most fundamental thingy of all with democracy,. Everything is possible. Th without it, nothing is. The last few yearsed, Pu Our Democracy has been risk, threatened and attacked, put at risk, put to the test in thisan very room on january the 6th. And then just a few months ago, an unhedged Big Lie Assailant unleashed a Political Violence. The home of the then speaker oft the House Of Representatives using the very same language insurrectionist used as they ins and Chantedall On January 6th here tonight intt this chamber is a man who bears the scars of that brutal attack. What, tough an is tough and as , as resilient as they get , my friend paul pelosi, paul stanley, its such a heinous. Should have never happened. We must all speak out. Theres no place for Political Violence in america. We have to protect the right res to vote, not suppress the fundamental right honor. Elei the Resultons Nos of our electi not subvert the willru of and the people. Trust t we have to uphold the rule ofhen law, Restore Trust in our institutions of democracy. We musgie t hate and extremism n any form, no safe democracy i must not be ssa partisan issue. Its an american issue. Generaty n hasprotecation america faced a moment where they have upen called to protect our democracy, defend it, stand up for it. F t his isurand this is our moment. My fellow americans, we meets tonight at an inflection point. One of thosonlye moments that only a few generations evere wi face with the direction we now u take is goinrsg to decide the course of this natiocon for decades to come. T bystwere not bystanders oftht history. Were not powerless before the forces that confront us. Its within our power of we, o the people were facinge alwa the test of our time. At we have to be the nation. Weve always been, at our best, optimistic, hopeful, Forward Lookinookingg a nation that embs light over dark, hope overho fear. Pe ove unity of stability oves chaos. We haveee to see each other not as enemies, but as fellowple. Ti americans. Were good people. The only nation in the world built on an idea, the only one other nation are defined by geography, ethnicity, but were the only nation based on the iden ana that all of us , every one of us is created s equal in the image of god. The a nation that stands as a a beacon to the world. Ge a nation in a new age of possibilities. Bligation to rep so ive come to fulfill the my constitutional obligation to report in the State Of The Union. And heres i wrote theoul of mye because the soul of this nation is strong, because the backbonen backbone of this nationat is strong, becauseng, the peop of this nationis are strong. The State Of The Union is strong. Her im not new to this place. I stand tonight, having served as long as about any one of youo have ever served. You. But ive never been more optimistic about our future, about the future america. Just remembeof. Justr who we ar the United States of americais. And theres nothing, nothing you beyond our capacity. If we do i at togetherll, god bs you all. May god protect our troops. Thank you. President joe biden, secondss state of the Union Address running about seventeen minute sg long, interrupted about one hundred times. Reservations. E president touting a list of what he called major successes in the story of america. Resilic A Story Of Progress and resilience. He said he toute th Infrastructure Bill numerousi the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill numerous times. Also, the socalled inflation reduction ac t for Climate Change investments. When he accused republicans,inet though, of wanting to sunset medicare and Social Security and the debt ceiling debate, th that chamber looked and sounded more like the house of commonsnu in the uk, with many members a piping up. It didartisa turn out intoationo a bipartisan moment when both parties stood for innovationy wi to not Touch Medicare or socialv security. Bothe parties clearly will haver to agree together to make any long term changem chans to eitht program. The repeated line in thissh speech, lets finish the job, which sounds a lot like a possible Campaign Slogan ford 2024 when it cameity th to immigrationat and Border Security that only receivedngres four lines in the speech saying Congress Needs to act. And he ended weaving in a lot ms of stories about Threatsbe To Democracy by saying it must a not be a partisan issue. Democracy, he said, musterican. Be anr refr american issue. He ended with a familiar refrain talking about america,to that theres nothing that we i cant do if we put our mindh to to it. And yet it seems that the path to achieving that is anormous enormous amount of spending. In and this Comesg On Top oft five trillion dollars of spending during covid. We but it seems liksue the pathccee to making sure that we succeed as a nation includes a laundry list of spending, medical, leave, paid family leave, hom nursing, home affordability,sesl teacher raises pell grants. L he went on and on. E is mor the answer to police violence, as he put it, is moree training ,housing, jobs. So theres theres a lot of spending that he outlines in this plan. Also, he talked about that for just a short moment. Wte i think a lot of people would attribute a lot of that to the open border. Butt yet he said when it cameo to the immigration, he wantedde. To pass his plan to provide the equipment and officers a lot ure the border. So thats also another outlayof of moneyr of and we heard from i a lot of Border Officials over e the course of this afternoonnd on capitol. Ntences and i would just end with this seven sentences on china, t ou basically saying that our sovereignty was threatened n and we responded to it. T no mention ohef the balloon, nor mention of the ten balloons that we now know about over the recent years and no sort of certainly no axis of evil kind of moment that we heard from george bush back in 2002 in adde terms of addressing head on the way that he views hthe the numbernu one foreign policy, National Security threat to the country. Comprehein a comprehensive way. It was very, very, very brief in terms of the dealing as you i go past the joint chiefs there. Lets just listen just were. Ok going to talk about cubaay. Sure. I know the president himself. Some who wanted to speak to that. Hey, joint guy. They should irans president to swear to god froe m scoredstory. Sitting there every single day. Yeah, you see, joe. O fi said, joe , i want you to fix creighton waters. I thank you. The congressman from michigan saying the president obama told him as Vice President to fix detroit. I will say, as we bring in a brit hume, chieft hu political analyst, brit he used is hisstar favorite line folksi to start a lot of sentences. I counted it at 19 folksat throughout the speech. But your thoughts on the state of the Union Address, youve seen a few of them. I sure have. Thi and i looking at this one inf ln this man giving it, i think that there are two ways to look at this speech. E progra one is, you know, the speechth itself, what it said, th the programs announced, the spending promise, the remedies, the bragging about what the 10 are and allaf that. The other way is looking at, this man, thisth 80 year old man ,the oldest president , i i guess, ever, and whether he got through the speech. Well, and it seemed to me thatnf it was an awful lot of on. Stumbling and Slurring Wordsbece left out and so on. S soom the question becomes this. S does someone sitting at home worried about the future of our country, perhaps sufferinge from inflation and the other maladiesot, worried about crime worried about the border . I look at this man deliveringhave this Speece Toh Tonight and say i have confidence to give him te four more years. Who lead our no well, fully in hes a man who has led Ourr Have Nation so well, hes fully in command or they look at him and have doubts, doubts that they may already harbor based Tg On Afghanistan and certain other things. I have i have my is. Onsidera hae considerable doubt as to whether this was a confidence inspiring speech tonight. President Talking There To Retired Justices Breyer and kennedy. I mentioned, as we talke td abot the Supreme Court and roe versus wade as well. Lets bring back our panel. Dana perino, larry kudlow, harold ford jr. , dana, your thoughts . Well, i think the era of bigo of government is back in a big wayi. And he was not shy about thatd at all. Now, we spena t some time talkig about things that happened mentn before and then a little bit ofr time on the debt ceiling. You already mentioneit hd Social Security fees, but then he talked a lot about things that are not going to happen becausne ,again, we are now have divided government. And you had Speaker Mccarthy behind him. I think it was pretty the incredible that he spent more time on the Junk Fauci Act and the resorts than he did the border and china combined. Weve talked a lot about. The polls. Theyre not good fore whit the president right now. And yet the white house Reallye Anwalks around thinking i everything is great and he wants to finish the joma bb, whh i imagine that will beer the Campaign Slogan. As you said, larry, there wasshd a Washington Post poll this week that showed i wou it said,d you be enthusiastic if joe biden was the next president . Seven percent to seven. 7 . Your thoughts on what we saw tonight . And i, i think brit makes itch. A point that is needs to be you made about the delivery of this speech. Well, you know, i think his low Approval Rating in these things is really a function. I keep saying this , of c the fastest inflation in two years sincte jimmy carter and Cost Of Living is up 14 . It has done enormous damage to the wages, to the pay, to the income of middle class bw working folks. And i might add , below thatthas income scale. Its hurt them very badly. Thats what they see. G its very real iron terms of groceries and gasoline and utilities and whatnot, so that, that his achilles heel, ts the Soft Underbelly of biden economics. He got a good jobs number last week, but that doesnt deal with the inflation, which jay powell, the fed chairman, today said continues. O sa and the fed is going to have to tighten more and raise rates. The othe i wouldr thing i want y is i agree with dana. I would simply say this was an exhaustive list with no pric nev tag of the spending and mandatesr seen. E ive neverdo seen anything like it. I mean, its lik e twenty five pages worth. So theyre doubling up or tripling up what i would call Big Government socialism. I dont think the country wants more and more spending. The and he never mentioned, never pi mentioned the possibility ofmcct a compromise with Kevin Mccarthyhy, the republican speaker, with respect to the he said were going to pass the debt ceiling. We always do what were going to do it. No ones going to touch the bigsaid entitlement. And thats all he said. T he had nothing to offer on that front, which i think is goingrom to be a big problem. E harold, there werewere some effs to reach across the aisle spre where heisces touted republicans working with republicans, perhaps best delivery, though, ind the section of the speech was when he introduced nichols mother and father. Obviously, family. The the man k killed in memphis and talking about Police Reform in thatseemd section, the entire chamber seemed to go silent and seemedta to be a powerful moment for his speech. Thoseit was one of those momens where the chamber was in unisonl and look, i agree with that t point. I agree with largely whatshe t been a lot of things have been raised. I thought the start of joe biden the speech set the tone. And so the class sy joe biden start. , he saluted everybody. Mcconnell, mccarthy,mccarthy, t that was classy to do,nc obviously saluting nancy pelosi and hakeem jeffries. And yo, whu when i was in congr, we never had applause from both sides and we said were not going to touch Social Security or medicare. That point has been made. But this is rshed Mo La Watershed moment reb for the leader of the republican party, the leading Democratic Party in the hous o sae, in the senate, to say we aro e not going to touch that. Its hard to think aboutu ousl how you seriously and meaningfully reduce spending or for that matter,negt even the debt. He v did say there are two thina he wouldnt negotiate. He said he wouldn ba he would vo a National Abortion ban and he would veto any effort to raisedi Prescription Drug prices. Thought the speech was fine, Disappointin Enog to regards ont not enough when china thought wed have a doctrine tonight on china, missed anot opportunity. Crimink there to do thath on ano not enough on border and crime. Hopefully theyve got a lot youl know, thereicans a willingness to work with republicans and republicans are willing to work with them. T i was looking fo them. Giver a little more on those three areas. But overall, i give himana, e plus tonight. I mean, the things that harold just mentioned, border crime, china, i mean, those are those are huge issues that confrontou this presidency. And it feels like wethings heard a lot about things that are, don you know, would be nice, i guess. Bu address t but that dont addrest the deep concerns that a lot of people in the country havestatef about the future. The and theres nothing wrong with in a State Of The Union speech dealing with something that is actually in the news, which was this china spycraft, which the the the information about that gets worse by the hour. E thinkseven though the white he actually thinks that because they shot it down overt make the water, eventuall bidey, that it makes biden look strong. Now, maybe g to tryin to rally the allies and seeity h what they can doer there. Ps but to miss an opportunity tonight when you have perhaps your biggest audience for your speech of the Yeach Of Thrn Our Fox Poll last week, he ap is at a thirty one percent approvalprg on rating on the bot you would think that he wouldor. Want to do something f more becauseor of problems for the dreamers are only made worse by the situation ate l the border rightot. Let me just say that a lot of president s make their way out of the chamber really quickly. This president may not make his way out of the chamber. Hes taking his time. Lets just listen back in for a couple seconds. Good news. Just so thank you, passenger3 4 30 . Really, its it was masterful. Its a legacy thats because of you as president and secretary and republicans want to shake your hand. Yourd. You announc e a where you stand, suffolk county. Y. Garden little bit wme. Any time. No, i just this point was a very emotional speech. Im going to speak to thish this thing about american this counto try. Opportunity to getthank you. Thank you so much for your words. And what you just 8th District Of Colorado n. And joe, as i mentioned, Sheilae Jackson Lee from texas, she is always on the line there. And again, the selfirighe right there on the on the edge, brigg ,youve covered these things. S n think Sheila Jackson lee is always in that position. Every State Of The Union i can remember in recent memory, since shes been in the house, shes always gotten a position on the aisle and always wants to get ito n a shot. Air and , of course, look whats happened. She got on the air on the wayan in. Theres a president whod sge te on his way in and now shes getting him on the way out with a selfie to boot. I suppose by her lights, it would be worth the effort. What does this do . S do politically, brit, for President Biden . Hes going to hit the road Forph Tomorrow and probably spice upis this speech when it comes to going after republicans. Remember, we just had speeches over the last three or four weeks that were extreme magar republicans. Theyre crazy other things. Ach h there waiss a lot more outreach, this speech. D but whato dyou thino you thinki politically it does for this base . Well, i know look, i think if he if heteam now he and his teaw felt that attacking major stagblicans was the way to go toward a second term at thisd ht stage, that he would have seen some of that tonight. You saw almost nothing. Hy and i mean, it t was he madeeasant a graceful recognition of Kevin Mccarthy h and that wasng a pleasant exchange. And he talked aboutgether the possibility of doing Tones Business together. And he struck early bipartisan tones in his speech. Fo my guess is that hell stickly g to that for a while. Wa the only thing he did, i thinkta that really was severelyn hi partisan was his attempt to byg innuendo, really to say that soa republicans are going to take away Social Security and medicare, cut them back or o shut them down and so on. E of and at one point at one point, he even said, you know,pr on the issue of of Cuttingopos M Back , he said nobody is going to propose, but hed vetoed i anyway. So i thought tha thoughtt was an intriguing moment and i didnt see it in the prepared text. So i thinkn he ad libbed that. It was kind of absurd, but i thought it was interesting. He quotejid his wife, jill biden ,who is a teacher, and said that she always says anybody usd who out educates us outcompetes us. And there was noe reference frm the president about the deepd Me Covid Learning Loss that wed is now more and more documented all the time about whatot he wants to do to catch upy re our students across this country, something thats pareclearly really important to parents and has been instrumental in several elections that weve seen play out. Yeah, i know he didnt deal with that. And i thin, Wak The Reason forte that, martha, was almost certainly that his people in the his party were very, Veryte Hawkish on covid. They supported the shutdown as they like dr. Fauci. And to do that would be implicitly to criticize a lockdowns and to note the damage that they seem to have done. To Kids Education and socialization. So wha w Himt You Heard was him saying that, you know, 12 years of school isnt enough. T a time when he hadlleg earlier in the speech mentioned jobs that were coming on didnt require a colleg. So,e degree. So that was kind of a peculiar reference. I guess he thought thata more preschool and democratic speech like the democratic president s speech like this, theres always room for morer te more school and more teachers and higher teacher pay so that that would be the only i would say began to cover it. S room for yeah, i mean, look, there tshi thereg s always room for this left wing stuff. Weve goy t to taxth the riceir they dont pay their fair share. Okay, we just had numbers out the top one percent of t taxpayers paying. 42hi of all the taxes in this country. The bottom 50 pa pay two and half percent. Now, huse knows that, but this e is just left wing c Democratic Party. Then he takeompaniess on the oie companies. Okay, well, yeahca, the Oil T Companies had high profits ine part because he wont let themir produce or frack his interiotmr department wont give a permit away. He can tout electric vehicles, but again, his own interior department wont let us mine for the minerals, the cobalt, for example, and the coppere and the lithium, they just shut it down in minnesota in o the iron range. I mean, none of this stuff makes any common sense. Thatses m what drives me somewt crazy. And i need i need an Adding Machine to total up all the current and future spendings has got to be another five trillion dollars in there. And that is not what i thinkakin people really want to hearsing right now, because the inflation is taking their Purchasing Power away. Its more of the saml it and i a thats all it is. And i dont think its going to work. To danas point, the era of Big Government, id be back in full form. Lets go to Jacqui Henrick live at the white house. T ho jacqui, your thoughts on the speech kind of laid outwh how the white house portrayee we you know, i think its really interesting the moment, that interactive moment on Social Security and medicare, because the president , as we know, is going to tampa on thursday where he was set to really delve into gop plans thatreally the white house says would harm those programs for seniors. That part of his speech really i got undercut by the speech tonight. Apparenyou ended it with appary its not goingon to bese a prob after the response from those the crowd that Republicans Don prot want to take those programs and chop them up. I also noticed that the president took steps int several places not to Malignhe Republicans whose votesdged tha hes going to need through the second half of this term. He acknowledgep pl d that gop plans to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act are not ann of official Party Position and said he didnt want to exaggerate that. And in other areasr, his o language was scripted to besaul stronger on the assault weaponts ban. He said, you know, after republicans let the Assault Weapons ban expire, he changed that to after it expired under i a previous Republican Administration. Repues Outlining Areas where he wants to work with republicans, includingyou on comprehensive immigration reform, saying, if you wont pass that, letswo at least do d something to secure the border and get a deal for dreamers. Brad , Debbie Dingell there. From michigan saying hello, ve i shall have me is standing by as well as we wait for the president to leave. And then Sarah Huckabeet sanders, the governor of arkansas, can get under way hy with her Rebuttal Speech here. Isha, over to you. Hey there, martha. Well, its really interestingrso that the gop picked governor sanders, now governor of the state of arkansasecause, because shes ay household name. But thats not why theres. Fir a couple of reasons why. D th first and foremost, shes the youngest governor in america0 yr and that really juxtaposes with what we just saw, an of th80 year old president ofe the United States delivering a speech in the gop really Goscore Thwants to underscore tt they have a new generation leade coming up. In fact, leader Mitch Mcconnell called Huckabee Sanders among the rising generation of gops al leaders. Shes also delivering tonightso response, martha, because She Ee Touches really the entirefrom spectrum of this party. Were talking from everyone, est from those moderates here in the House Of Representatives to those trump conservatives. And we knot w thatanytim shes t canning for president any time soon. She also ran her gubernatorialmn campaign l the, largely going ar the president s policies. His covid responses immigr, hisd immigration policies, and she ts won based on thaincet. She and since then, since becoming governor , shes really been delivering the conservative agenda. Shes hit the ground running. She banned crt, pans Crt Critice Theory and those classrooms she banned tock on stateoom, Deviceg Shete wants to raise teacher pae she wants to get rid of the states income tax. So these are all bold moves. And shes expected to be very bold tonight, martha. All right. In thank you very much. See, Kevin Mccarthy banging down the gavel, ending this session there are times when hee sort of was looking over ambt some of his more kind of a raucous members and kind of giving them the a little of the eyeball. I think they got a little bit of turn thisar all around. You dont watch it. He did tha bt exactly. H rewere going to be back with the republican response in jus t a moment. Take a quick break. Ressour continuing coverage in the state of the Union Address here on fox. Those of us who are over 35 grew up in a different america. And read the news and look around me and say, i dont recognize this country anymore. We are turning on our own legacy and declaring it evil. What the communists did, they took down monuments and rewrote history. This is whats happening in the United States. Americans have lost something, not just Purchasing Power. The american dream. If you wanted to devise an Energy Policy to weaken us , you would do exactly what biden is doing in San Francisco now spends A Billion Dollars a year on homelessness. China is waging war against us economically, politically and psychologically. This is about Delegitimizing America itself. This should be a wake up call. American requiem streaming now only on fox nation. Welcome back. In moments, we will take to little rock , arkansas, where governor Sarah Huckabee sanders is set to giveuckabesanr the republican response to the State Of The Union. The former White House Press secretary under President Trump is now the forty seventh the i n governor of arkansas, the first female governor of that state. tt and shes the youngest governor in the United States. And thats going to be part of a her message tonight. From what we understand that she says its time for a new era of younger leadership in the country. Hing s and thats Somethinghe Thate Poe people talk abountt a lot, especially after speech tonight. Prcomiou look at some of ng uthe potential candidates r president. Coming up, wer pe back with our panel. Dana perino, harold ford, jr. , larry kudlow, brit hume. Y, do yy dana, you were White Housens press secretary. I now have any aspirations. So i dont. T have i dont. And i do not have the courage or the bravery or the thick skin or the or the skills. I am pretty much in awe of i somebody who could go from White House Press secretary to being governor. I think its amazing and its wonderful that shes giving this speech tonight. Its interesting because you say that this new era nowera, the democrats also have a little of a new era, right . Hakeem jeffries, now the leaderm of the democrats in the houser Chuck Schumer still over there in the senate. But there is a call across the nation, a desire for might a younger leadership. However,no that might pop up, might not be what they get when it comes to the two president ial candidates. As we look at to the possibility of biden trumpg rematch. And i dont knowiden how that s going to gso. H toni i was Alsogh Thinking of bidencs as hes sitting there giving the Speech Tonightov and the democrats are going to love it. The media is going to fawn all over this speechr. But did the democrats get on board . Because if you look at those polls today, you have the skypem ,the sniping about vice democ president harris and a majoritrw of democrats of all ages do not want him to run again. Harold, you r know, wighte td about polls right beforethough the midterms and they didnt turn outt how republicansrming thought they were going to with bodecrats outperforming where they where they were. Ent and that has emboldened this president and this white house. Look about, we talk about his ey and larry touch when hes 80 years old. It took hi it m 30 minutes to gt out that chamber and he would say another 30 minutes, certainly not gavel the thing down to agree with you. I dont like when american president s pit us Companies Tax against people. I know what the president s trying to get at, but wem. Need a fair tax system. Bus goodt farmer was good to usg covid big oil is important big oil at a war in ukraine. To us. We now find ourselves at a war in a war in ukraine. So i think u that us versus them thing is not necessarily a thing to do, but w de neede on a fair tax code. And you and i Start Talking about how we could agree on the Medicaid Expansion by making work requirementneed. Y those are the things we mod need. I agree with you 100 . You were like that. P shot youre a moderate democrat. Its all cheap shots. All right. Wee gotrock to get out. , arka were going to head to little s rock , arkansas. Arbe i was joined that common ground. Lets listen. Sanders 100 guy. E im Sarah Huckabee. Sandersa beings being a mom to y Young Children taught me not to believe every story i hear. So forgive me for not believingn much of anything i heardbiden. Tonight from President Bident from out ocrf control, inflatiod and Violent Crime to the china dangerous border crisisand th and threat from china. Biden and the democrats have failed you. Ts they know it and you know it. And its time for a change. Tonight, let us reaffirm our commitment to a timeless american idea. Thament e xistthat government exists not to rule the people, but to serve the people. Democrats wantwi to ruleth us wl more government control, but the thats not who we are. America is the greatest country the world has ever known. Because were the freest country the world has ever known. Whwith a people who are strong and resilient. Hyroid five months ago, i was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. It was a hard time for our family, particularly our kids, scarlett huc and george. T but we kept our faith and persevered. Thanks to exceptional doctors here in arkansas, a Successful Surgery and the grace of god. I am cancer free. About through it all, i couldnt help but think about my mom. N he she was twenty years old and her first year of marriage when she was diagnosed a spinal cancer. The doctors told her sheno mighe not live and if she did live, they said shed never walk again. And if she did walk, she definitely never have children. The daughterth she was told shed never have was just sworn inkint as the new governor of arkansas and is speaking to you tonight. Adversity and fear ofpa the unknown can paralyze us. But faith papel allows us to charge boldly ahead. Wee cantca stand still inu an the face of great challenges. You and pi wereut put on this earth for such a time as this to charge boldly ahead. Ill be the first to admit President Biden and i dont have a lot im n commonfor. Im for freedom. Hes for government control. 0 ih at forty , im the youngestd at governor in the country and at 80 , hes the oldest president in american history. Im the first woman to lead t my statehe and hes the first mn to surrender his presidency to a work mob that cant even tell you what a woman is in the radical left. America, washington taxes you and like your hard earned money on fire, but you get crushed with high gas prices, emptye grocery shelves, and ourta children are taugh ot to hatnee one another on account of their race, but not to lov e on one another. E another or our grt or our great country. 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But over the last two years, democrats destroyed it allt. I despite democrats trillions in reckless spendinnding ang and ms of debt, we now have the worst border crisis in american history. A as a mom, my heart breaks for every parent who has lost a son or daughter to addiction. One hundred thousand americans a year are now killed from drugm overdoses, largely from fentanyl pouring across y our southernet the border. You have the Biden Administration refuses to secure the border and save american lives. Livesteand after years of demot attacks on Law Enforcementent a, and calls to defund the police, violent criminals roam free while law abiding families live in fear beyond our border fromno afghanistan, to ukraine, from north korea to iran,ld a President Bidens weakness puts our nation and the world at risk. And the president s refusal to stand up to china, our most formidable adversary, is dangerous. Rmidableand unacceptable. S an President Biden is unwilling to defend our border, d defend our skiesef and defend our people. He is simply unfitmply to serve as commander in chief. And while you reap the consequences of their failures, the Biden Administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the har ad realiy americans face every day. Most americans simply wantck to live their lives in freedom and peace. Bun t we are under attack in a left wing culture war. We didnt start and never wanted to fight. Ake in t every day we areheir told we muw partake in their rituals, salute their flags and worship their false idols, all while Big Government collude with bige tech to strip away the most thi american thing thereng is your freedom of speech. Thats not normal. , its its crazy and its wrong. Make no mistake, republicanser t will not surrender this fight. Ot wes will lead with courageally and do whats right, not c whato politically correct or convenient. Republicans believe in an america where Strong Familiesrer thrive in safe communities, where jobs are abundant and paychecks are rising. Where the freedom our veteransdo shed their blood to defend is the birthright of every man. Woman and child. Vernors ar these are the principles republican governors are fighting for. And in washington, underp of the leadership of Senate Republicans and speaker Kevin Mccarthyld the, we will hd the administration accountable. Down the stree st fromit where i sit is my alma mater, little rock , central hig ah. L as a studentne there, i will never forget watching my dad,ik governor mike huckabee,e and president bill clinton holdn the doors open to the littles rock nine doors that 40 yearsaut earlier had been closehed to thm because they were black. Schoo today, those children once barred from the schoolhouse, are now heroes memorialized in bronze at our state house. 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