tonight, the 2024 primary is officially underway. last hour in south carolina, the first democratic contest in the nation closed, president joe biden easily secured a victory there, flowing his rival out of the water. all eyes are on the number of down the a total of 55 are up. those will be awarded remember of course that they need a total of 2000 to capture the democratic nomination. a short time ago the president issued a statement thanking the voters of south carolina saying in part quote, in 2020 it was south carolina who proved p- breaking news coming out of the middle east in the united states launched strikes targeting the cuties in yemen, they hit 36 targets across the country. an official told nbc news today that the strikes in yemen and yesterday s attacks on more than 85 targets linked to iranian-backed militias in iraq and syria are not related. let s go back to politics, and the primary results we re getting out of south carolina. msnbc correspondent trema
does the act opposite. at least she did leave the balloon prop at home. also embarrassing herself, her bff kevin the speaker and the whole country, too. meanwhile in the republican response, sarah huckabee sanders does her version of carnage tying the party back to trump. also tonight, reaction to president biden s call for police reform as twisted new details emerge today about tyre nichols death after a vicious beating by memphis police. we begin tonight with a state of the union address for the books. when last night president biden achieved what kevin mccarthy could never do, which was uniting the room and getting republicans to jump to their seats in support of medicare and social security. yes, that happened. it was a master class, really, on outnegotiating republicans, pulled off by biden who sparred with a raucous crowd. no president added more to the national debt in any four years than my predecessor. they re the facts. check it out. check it out. some re
we re going to decide. and what words you can say. not everybody likes the word latin-x. you re going to outlaw it? biden versus sanders. speaker, i don t want to ruin your reputation, but i look forward to working with you. the america we love is in danger. president biden and the democrats have failed you. we have to see each other not as enemies but fellow americans. he surrendered to a woke mob that can t tell you what a woman. don t worry. i promised i would be a president for all americans. we ll fund these promgts. and i ll see you at the groundbreaking. the radical left america, washington taxes you and lights your hard-earned money on fire. despite all that, biden refuses to demonize all republicans. if you want lower drug prices, lower cable prices, lower
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many see progress and an attempt to consolidate the democratic party while on domestic policy going full bernie after coming in as incremental moderate. more cops, more prisons, more physical protection for the people. we have predators on your treats. you must take back the streets. congress gives president biden what he wants in the showdown with saddam hussein. we say, yes, you have that power to go to war. i meant social security as well. i meant medicare and medicaid. he meant medicare and medicaid. he meant iraq. he meant clean up the streets with that tough and controversial crime bill. that was then. in his long career. we know recently that party he s in seemed to sort of split, two presidential cycles in a row between the more centrist choice