guthrie joins us. good morning. good morning. savannah, how is the white house preparing for the speech tomorrow night? what s the headline out thereof today? i think what we re going to see from the president is the posture of where can we work together? it will be in some ways a conciliatory speech, certainly recognizing the change, political landscape from his state of the union one year ago. it s expected to be kind of a frame of, here are some things we should be able to do together. it s just was told this morning by a senior aide this the president will be fairly specific about places to cut in the budget. it s not going to be reveal the budget tomorrow night but he will be specific about where to cut spending and then there s been a lot of talk, certainly you have been talking about it this morning on the sunday shows, about what the white house calls investments. the position here is you want to take a scalpel and be surgical when you approach the deficit problem, appr
we can get these jobs back, america is just as good as any of the countries that are growing so quickly, like china. we can be competitive but we have to increase exports. the president will make that argument. part of that argument will be we need to invest in innovation and education. other countries aren t scaling back on those expend tours and neither should we. i expect the president will argue. savannah, just quickly. the reports we ve seen in the press the past few days, the president is going attempting to have his own, quote, sputnik moment. is there any truth to that? this is the idea that sputnik, 50 years ago, the russian the first russian satellite, startled america and made it think we ve got to catch up here. the president is going to use that metaphor to say we ve got to catch up in many ways now. is that true? you hearing anything about it. if i m not mistaken, that s an analogy the president has used before, for the very thing
once america focussed it moved ahead in the area of space exploration. created a generation of engineers, mathematicians, scientists that created the american central. that s the sort of thing only the federal government can do. the state of illinois can t do that. if you re going to have a space program, it s federal. the federal government should move forward on the things that only federal government can do. savannah guthrie, thank you so much. catch savannah and chuck on the daily rundown at 9:00 eastern time. we ll see you in d.c. we ll be there for the state of the union address. much more on the president s state of the union. we bring in historian joe hinckley. and joe namath. he ll be here. he ll join us for the morning gridiron. keep it right here on morning joe. i was huge namath fan.
everything the way republicans are proposing to do. so the president will talk about places where there does need to be investment in things like innovation, maybe perhaps a mix of tax cuts but also spending on education. i think the frame will be in the sense of, republicans, this is where we should be able to work together. i m told to expect the president to be gracious, to speaker boehner in that hall tomorrow night. i have a question. savannah, is there i feel i speak for the american people on this. yes, you do. we are united in a desire that this speech go less than one hour. is there any chance you know how they go over one hour with applause and everything. yes. i always think president obama s going to surprise us with a state of the union that is shockingly wonderfully marked by brevity and clarity and actually when they timed it even with applause it went only 28 minutes. any chance? really?