so, richard, we talk about the competitiveness. you bring up china. the president and republican leaders want to cut the deficit. tonight, democrats and republicans, they re going to be sitting together. how can they use this example of what they re doing tonight by blurring the aisle to find common ground when it comes to the problem of the deficit? reporter: well, for normal people if you listen to them, there was a lot of common ground. they talk about their concerns about the deficit and say they want to reduce spending. what they mean by spending ends up being very different, and they cannot agree on an appropriate use of investment versus what issing excess inspending. if they try to find agreement as opposed to lectorle advantage, they might find common ground. richard wolffe, thanks so much. so jobs, infrastructure, ed case, the top priorities that president obama is pecked to lay out this evening. an economist with the economic cycle research, michael cooper
attitudes? from the no labels campaign, republican strategist mark mckinnon. and words matter. how does president obama make his case? democratic strategist and speechwriter, bob shrum. good day, i m andrea mitchell live in washington. the president is from all reports still tweaking that big speech which at last report ran close to an hour. the white house produced a slick video to give us a behind the scenes look at just how the president and his speechwriters are preparing for his highly anticipate ed address. usually the way it works is i ll write a little, i ll send it to the president, he ll write, send it back to me and we ll go back and forth with each other for the entire month of january. he drives all of us in, himself, very, very hard to get it to where he thinks it ought to be. and you knows, he treats the process with tremendous respect and just huge creativity. it s a lot of fun. and so what should we watch for in tonight s address? let s bring in th
fire on the right. let s play hardball. good evening i m chris matthews in washington leading off tonight glenn beck shoots off his mouth. today jared loughner pled not guilty. has the right-wing to promote trouble. glenn beck calls radicals in washington who quote believe in communism and you re going to have to shoot them in the head. gotcha. we got a republican member of congress going full board on this stuff saying he wants him and his fellow members of congress to carry guns at the capitol. welcome to the state of the union 2011. the violent rhetoric of the right won t stop, it s our top story tonight. plus president obama goes where no democrat has gone before. bill clinton wanted to do this, like he wanted to get health care, but was stopped by the danger of highest interest rates. tomorrow night president barack obama is going to do it, push for an allout progressive push for new jobs, new spending on education and r&d, and infrastructure to outcompete choo inthat
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the state of the union. there was a period, a period of inflection after the elections, and we ve seen it with the swearing-in of a new congress. there s now a split in our government, and ultimately a split in the responsibility of coming up with solutions for for this country. has the president moved ideologically to the center? the president s still the same president that we ve had for more than two years. good morning, it s tuesday, january 25. happy state of the union morning. i know the kids at home are excited. bursting with excitement, jumping up and down asking, is it tonight, is it tonight? it is. with us to celebrate on set in washington, msnbc political analyst pat buchanan. msnbc chief political correspondent, nora o donnell, and political columnist for the huffington post, sam stein. in new york, of course, willie geist. mika s going to be here soon. she thought it important to the south of france and drive to monica, get the royal family s monaco