just ahead. first to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. president obama is expected to call for a new focus on american competitiveness in his state of the union address tonight. white house officials say the speech will include a range of ideas from increasing the number of u.s. exports to improving the nation s education system. along with the focus on the economy, democratic officials say the president will challenge members of both parties to avoid political gridlock in the next two years. that s something that s already on the mind of lawmakers as some in congress will sit across the aisle. they will across that aisle and sit together for the first time. at his white house briefing yesterday, press secretary gibbs hinted that the president will talk about gun rights in his speech tonight. i don t doubt that as a result of the impact of the or the issues of what happened in tucson that there will be a number of proposals that this white house
i promise you i ll come here every night at this hour and fight for americans who feel they don t have a voice. if you re a wage earner i m your guy. i ll spend this time fighting for equal rights, workers rights, women s rights, and social justice, all of the main themes that i ve always done on the ed show. i know a lot of you are worried and i mean worried. it s in the blogs that this network is going to be going in a different direction. time out. nothing could be further from the truth. nobody has told me to tone it down and no one has told me, hey, this is what you have to say. so for those of you who have watched this show in the past, and for those of you who are seeing it for the first time, i want to thank you. i m proud that this show is on primetime across the country, 7:00 on the west coast, and adjust accordingly and i ll be here every night. now that we ve got that squared away these are the stories hitting my hot buttons tonight. on the table, with republica
on countdown more times than any of us can remember and i was keith s substitute host for over a year, before starting this program in the 10:00 hour. i am here, thanks entirely to keith. i ll have more to say about this tonight. but first, there is some news today that keith would want you to know about. it is go time for president obama. president obama is still working on his second state of the union address. the president is preparing for his second state of the union message. we re up to it. i think tomorrow night you ll see a very strong progressive case. but some republicans are already picking their candidates for 2012. . look at the rest of this list, ron paul, tim pawlenty and sarah palin, who got just 7%. new hampshire, new hampshire. plurality did not think sarah palin is has the qualifications to be president. new hampshire. none of those people would have been in the top 30 of the republican party 20, 25 years ago. sarah palin knows
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 china and our other global rivals. also, the tea party moves east. new hampshire the tea party captured the party s top spot.lso, the tea party moves new hampshire the tea party captured the party s top spot. does it flatten the one speed bump between iowa and south carolina for the right-wing sweep to the republican no
guy. i ll spend this time fighting for equal rights, workers rights, women s rights, and social justice, all of the main themes that i ve always done on the ed show. i know a lot of you are worried and i mean worried. it s in the blogs that this network is going to be going in a different direction. time out. nothing could be further from the truth. nobody has told me to tone it down and no one has told me, hey, this is what you have to say. so for those of you who have watched this show in the past, and for those of you who are seeing it for the first time, i want to thank you. i m proud that this show is on primetime across the country, 7:00 on the west coast, and adjust accordingly and i ll be here every night. now that we ve got that squared away these are the stories hitting my hot buttons tonight. on the table, with republicans at the gates after their takeover of the house it s time for the president to stand up for progressive values that basically got him elected.