the washington post notes that president obama has even be more explicit with people close to present biden, suggesting thathe campaign needs to move aggressively as, you know, donald trump appears poised to wrap up republican nomination quickly. you have run a number of different campaigns. what do you think about this advice? do you think president biden needs to hear it? well, i do think that president biden and his campaign need to be far more aggressive in challenging the distinctions between a donald trump potential presidency and a biden presidency. i m glad that the president has actually leaned in to the issues of democracy, to abortion rights, and the vice president go on the road around reproductive freedom. and hearing mother emmanuel church really highlighting another real distinction where the american people are one place and republicans are another.
credit cards are well above 20%. they are caught. question is how long can that go on and i think consumers know, they know they can t keep this up, looking for relief, you have federal reserve jacking up interest rates and federal reserve telling you what you can buy and that is not the answer to inflation and that is why people are pessimistic about it. lawrence: something has to give. brian: it does, i m afraid it is that consumer who has held up this economy. we need change, don t know if it will come fast enough. brian: catch brian 1 p.m. eastern on that big money show. carley, over to you. carley: lawrence, thank you. got headlines, manhattan grand jury hearing evidence in case against daniel penny, marine vet
trump has, but he does deserve the credit for saving the republic on january 6. i don t think he can hold his own against these guys, so nimble and so glib in their presentations. ainsley: we heard trump say what is the purpose of these individuals getting in? what is the point? do they want to be vice president, when polling 0% or 1%, why go on the road and put in the time? geraldo: i think the former president has a point. with chris christie, came in sixth in 2016. i ve seen him on bill maher, and on the view, he is very charasmatic, glib and confident and has a message that will
i want to bring in nbc s shaq brewster, jim messina, ceo of the me see na. great to see you guys. jim, you ve been in the position of trying to use the state of the union as a jumping off point for a re-election campaign. what does president biden need to do today and going forward to get americans to start feeling the optimism he talked about last night but which polls show they don t quite feel yet? he s got to continue to do exactly what he did last night. i loved his optimism, chris. i loved his bringing people together. you saw a focus group and poll numbers out of a swing state like nevada where he moved optimism by 60 points. he moved bringing people together by 38 points. you just don t see movement like that on normal speeches. and so now they got to do exactly what they re doing today, go on the road and sell this thing and continue to stay
full standstill. that s how we saw, to get of the, next to go about half mullah took us 20 minutes at a certain point. officials are saying if yo haven t done your holida travel yet, if you haven t started it, now is not yet the time to begin. that if you do, be ver careful. this is a back end of th storm. folks are dealing with i buffalo right now is much wors than this. their iodice shuns where emergency crews are saying the can t get out in some of thi weather. tony executive saying tw thirds of their emergenc vehicles were actually stuck themselves trying to clear out the roads. travel bans in multipl jurisdictions. a much different situation they re experiencing than what we are going through here in michigan bottom line is, listen to your local officials. if they re advising you don go on the road, stay off the road if you go on the, roads take i slow and keep it easy. things get checked in a moment when you re talking about wind and snow