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inflation dropping, fewer uninsured people than at any time in history of the u.s.. all those things are easy and short sentences, and that s the sort thing that the president list for, to be able to brag about those sorts of things. also, that balloon steve kornacki, we will not ask you for any balloon reporting, but we definitely want to check in with you, steve, about whether there is a story to tell about how president biden is doing at this point in his presidency? whether there is a number based story? i think it s interesting to look at biden and the broader political climate right now. i think one thing that jumps out when you look at the numbers is i am not sure that there is a president in modern times for quite where we are in our politics are. now let s take a view at the numbers, because there are some numbers here with joe biden that politically for him, are just not good, they re flat out. that is approval rating, on average, sitting at 44%. he s been in the low to m
who sits down. there are things but they ve made aware of, 85 or 75% of the public support the. police reform, banning assault weapons, protecting social security. i bet, and i ve heard this from my former colleagues, he s going to take moments you re going to sit on your hands during that. okay, that s an interesting thing for the public to see. there is a way to implicitly do it, by intentionally putting people on the spot, calling the questions. joining us from inside of the house chamber s senior national hill we ve got a pretty good view of what s going on on the floor there, and who s talking to who, what kind of people can see this happening. but they re in the flesh, what can you tell us about what it s like in the room right now? it s packed. this is going to be a very different audience than what president biden has dealt with in its previous two addresses to congress. both of the last two addresses has some form of covid restrictions in place, masking,
it comes but once a year for politics junkies, it is the christmas and new year s and arbor day and obscure state specific holiday you can t really remember the reason for rolled into one. it is state of the union night, and we are so happy that you re here with us for it. here s a live look at the u.s. capital tonight. members of both chambers of congress, guess, supreme court justices, cabot secretaries, admirals, ambassadors, they re all gathering to hear this big heavy on the pomp and circumstance annual address the president of the united states. on the other end of pennsylvania avenue of the white house, we are watching for president biden to part from the white house for the capital. the is expected shortly. i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters.
quote last month, they are expected tonight in the house chamber, expected to be sitting in the viewing box with first lady joe biden. for the has been erected around the capitol, as part of the security measures that now attend every presidential address to congress since the january 6th attack, something that is likely to consider in the indefinite future. of course, tonight s address comes as a global scale devastating natural disaster continues to unfold in turkey and in syria. the death toll from the massive earthquake now has passed 7000 people and is expected to continue to rise. two big american search and rescue teams are en route right now to join the international response. so coming up this hour, we will have the [crying] great steve kornacki here to talk about where the president stands at this point in his first term. he ll go to some of the numbers with us. we will also be joined this