There are a lot of words you might expect a president to say over and over in the state of the yeun job address. Words like jobs, freedom, or if it is a joe biden speech, folks. The president last night chose a different word to be the theme of his remarks. He chose the word predecessor. A former republican president tells putin, do whatever the hell you want. My predecessor came off as they overturned. Hes the reason why they were overturned and he brags about it. My predecessor failed the most president ial duty that he owes to the american people. The duty to care. I think that is unforgivable. They told the nra that hes proud he did nothing when he was president. Many in this chamber want to take those Prescription Drugs away by repealing Affordable Care act. Im not going to let that happen. And we stopped you 50 times before and we will stop you again. Biden did not utter Donald Trumps name once during that speech. But he referred to his predecessor more than a dozen times. That w
you don t want to miss that. first the bad news. the world has completely turned upside down under our pathetic excuse for a president who doesn t know what day of the week it is. none other than america s hostile enemies now. they have no fear or respect for joe biden. not china, not iran and definitely not russia. putin s thugs, as we talked about last night, took down a u.s. reaper drone over international waters which, in most case, most presidents would view as an act of war. it would be some military response. what did biden do in response? pretty much nothing. actually worse than nothing. the white house started to make excuses for putin s risky behavior. they called it an accident. really? anyone here believe it s an accident? probably was they said it s probably unintentional. probably was the result of a confidence of these russian pilots. does anybody here believe there are incompetent fighter jet pilots that not once, but twice dumped jet fuel on top of our dron
punxsutawney, pennsylvania. get your arms around that. they re waiting to see. i love it. will the groundhog see his shadow? fantastic. band is on stage. everyone is ready to go. we have to do the show live from there sometime. oh, my god, i d love to do that. can we do the show live from punxsutawney? groundhog day for me is one of those things, i can never remember whether the groundhog sees its shadow, it s good or it s bad. it just doesn t stay with me. maybe because i don t care. i don t know. i don t know. but that would be fun. yeah. gobbler s knob. exactly. that s where we all want to go. we have a lot to get to this morning. i really want to hear that. including president joe biden s meeting at the white house with speaker kevin mccarthy. both sides were upbeat about their conversation. it appears we re not any closer to a deal on the debt ceiling, but we will follow the developments there. gave him a box of white house m&ms, and mccarthy le
good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. president biden will speak this afternoon about the federal government s coordination with leaders in georgia, south carolina and, of course, hurricane ravaged florida. we expect to hear from ron desantis later this hour. let s begin with nbc s kathy park in charleston, south carolina. residents are used to flooding in that historic district. this looks like it s going to be an unprecedented event. reporter: yeah. good afternoon. that s absolutely right. hurricane ian is still barrelling this way. we are getting slammed with these heavy bands of rain and wind. every so often we get slammed with wind gusts you see right now. this is the pattern that we have been experiencing all morning long. i want to show you what s happening behind me. that s the ashley river you are seeing behind me. there s sawgrass, and it s almost covered by the water. it s high tide. that s the big concern throughout the day. the combination of
dollars into failed programs that do little to solve the issue, we ran through the numbers and the amounts spent are just staggering. san francisco spent an astonishing $100,000 for homeless person. new york shells at $58,000 per year for her homeless person, but it hasn t helped. a recent report says homelessness in the big apple has seen the highest level since the great depression and chicago spends about $9,000 per homeless person. the unmanageable homelessness problem putting the mcdonald ceo in a tough spot. they ve been trying to entice employees back to headquarters in chicago and called on city and business leaders to address problems that have arisen since the pandemic. everywhere i go i m confronted by the same question these days. what s going on in chicago? there is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis. the truth is it s more difficult today for me to convince a promising mcdonald s executive to relocate to chicago from one of our other offices