i am stephanie ruhle. welcome to a special monday night, our state of the union preview. there is now less than 24 hours before president biden s big speech at 9 pm eastern tomorrow. this will be his first state of the union before congress. one with the republican house majority. it comes two years into biden s first term, and late today, the president hinting at what they were telling the nation tonight. i want to talk to the american people about the state of affairs, what s going on. i want to say what i m looking forward to working on from this point on, what we ve done, and just have a conversation with the american people. with that, let s get smarter with the help of the insiders. former white house press secretary and msnbc host, jen psaki, and former chief smoke and host of symone on msnbc and peacock. michael steele, the only person at the table without a show here, we might want to talk. they ve been going to let you go first. jen, you re part of this admi
president hinting at what they were telling the nation tonight. i want to talk to the american people about the state of affairs, what s going on. i want to say what i m looking forward to working on from this point on, what we ve done, and just have a conversation with the american people. with that, let s get smarter with the help of the insiders. former white house press secretary and msnbc host, jen psaki, and former chief smoke and host of symone on msnbc and peacock. michael steele, the only person at the table without a show here, we might want to talk. they ve been going to let you go first. jen, you re part of this administration. tomorrow night comes at a pivotal moment in president biden s presidency, what does he have to tell the american people? what people are going to get tomorrow night s big, progressive, fold joe biden. what does that mean? it means they know that one of the biggest challenges right now is that they ve done a lot of stuff, accom
the presidency. should be able to execute on that. so this is your hour. they re gonna make the laundry list confused people of policy names. side of bunch of statistics are not gonna know or really focused them on handful effects. and i think the argument he keeps going. biden, he could do that. with the exception of those people who are going to watch no matter what. we know that interest has waned over the years. they just gave us the numbers. how does he change? that kind of politician today change that? a lot of this is in post-production it s in the end it. and i think that s imports about a series of talking points. the strongest unemployment. the strongest deployment in 15 years. that s easy to understand talk about in and, fdr like to. we ve promoted more aid to the great people of ukraine than every other nation combined and we would push them back. and they should be thinking about it seriously and. i get to say this 50 the second 22nd minutes they can spread across soci
the strongest deployment in 15 years. that s easy to understand talk about in and, fdr like to. we ve promoted more aid to the great people of ukraine than every other nation combined and we would push them back. and they should be thinking about it seriously and. i get to say this 50 the second 22nd minutes they can spread across social media. this isn t about the state of dominion. it s about to tout slice and dice after the state in the union. it s been reported that kevin mccarthy has asked the president talks the phrase, extreme maga republicans. so what should the president do in response to kevin s request? do use the phrase, extreme maga republicans. he has to, i think one of the things. biden is a conciliatory personality. and he does not want to raise the temperature. but the temperature has been raised. the minute that balloon burst, the chinese surveillance balloon. it became political thing for republicans. they are immediately on it with lots of messaging. and they ar