took to the, do not expect him to go after the court, and maybe the work is being done by the court itself in terms of the polling that we re seeing, but it does strike me as important to given the fact that the court as a few checks on how to act, that in the room of inter branch, civic discourse, one of those checks is talking about in persuading people about it. the branches are allowed to talk about it. congress will talk about the president and that is fine. i am sorry. it goes also whether you want any movement politics, piece of this. joy was talking about this last time we were at the table in the midterms, was this a democrats are amazing election, was a, dings are getting better election or was a revolt by women and people aligned with president who care about rights in this country? it was also, that was it not? i think the other structural piece that s happened in our politics, because the only former republican here in
and how involved the president is in those? this is very nerdy but we re in a safe place here, there are several binders of policies, nicole remembers this process, that starts with, all of the ideas that could possibly be in the speech, those are narrowed down simultaneous as the speech is being written. this is the process that i ve always been a part of. the lobbying part, and this is when it gets crazy is the last couple of days where cabinet member phone calls people who care about an issue, they start calling people. i did a roundtable a speakers, someone waited outside the bathroom for him once, came out of the bathroom and said, i need this in a speech, and he said, it s in three hours. that happens. he was left a bottle of bourbon by the secretary of education. very smart, that is the last couple of days. it is one people just are desperate and want to think in that speech. can i ask you, biden strikes me as somebody who is very natural, except he does not
hour by a senior adviser, anita dunn. she s worked closely with president biden on tonight s address and we hope she will give us something of a sneak preview, hoping it s not the same as expecting. she s pretty disciplined, i don t know what we are looking up for. but we will try. nicole, let me ask you. you work in the white house. why don t you get started here tonight? i do feel like it s a specific holiday for a storks, including all of us here and watching right now. how is it differ inside the white house? what is it like? it s also a night where you get to try out of your white house references, so i asked president binary senior adviser, after the balloon shut down, was there an american president moment where he says, i needed new speech and he rips it up. she basically said, no, but i think the to the degree that there was ever let biden be biden debate in the white house, i think that s been had, and president biden will be what
years of biden s presidency. it s so interesting, steve kornacki, thank you very much for the. i think the one thing that we can probably all agree on is that the democrats would love for the republican nominee to beat donald trump. the democrats in washington without that just because they feel like if trump beats biden again, they know how i want the first time and know how it will go to second time. despite those poll numbers, don t see some way to scramble things politically. even if they did, there s one thing that president biden understands having been in washington since he was 29 years old, he understands how to use power. the shift in the calendar of the democratic primary, all but assures that there will be no challenger. we re talking about leaning into south carolina where black voters handed him the nomination, essentially wiping iowa, which is the one state where somebody like bernie sanders or someone else could make some noise. that calendar is a biden
chamber in the house, they were able to eke out a tiny majority, which earned them the right to spent a whole week getting a dozen votes trying to agree that kevin mccarthy will ultimately be the leader. that was a remarkable spectacle in time that none of us will ever get back. [laughter] for the first time, we will hear biden about what he hopes to get done over the next two years, a divided government. the wall street journal reports the head of the speech, democrats win the house met with biden senior adviser, anita dunn, who told her that they should expect the message of the presidents beach tonight to be upbeat and optimistic. joining us now from the white house s anita dunn, senior adviser to president biden. miss dunn, thank you for joining us tonight, it s an honor to have you with us. listen, i am thrilled to be with you, thank you for having me on. we know that you re a pro and they are disciplined and not going to let any cuts out of the bag, however, we do know that y