selling the speech, public confirmation of private plans, and new help now on the ground. up first, president biden taking his state of the union to the union, pointing to the economy, saying his plans are working, but what about those calls for bipartisanship with republicans ramping up their investigations on capitol hill? we ll take you there live. also this hour, a new global response in the headlines over that chinese spy balloon. the secretary of state this afternoon appearing alongside the head of nato revealing the u.s. was not beijing s only target as the u.s. gets ready to declassify aspects of the program sometime soon. dozens of americans now on site in turkey helping in that huge rescue operation from those devastating earthquakes. we re learning now even more people have been killed. we ll take you to the scene live. i m hallie jackson in washington. let s start with nbc s mike memoli with the president in wisconsin. chad brewster is in the key voting state. a
needle a little bit some of the republicans in that chamber. give us the vibe check on capitol hill today, and give us the reality check of this idea of bipartisanship over the next two years. reality tends to come at you fast around here, hallie, especially when you consider the first 20 to 30 minutes f the speech, thanks kevin mccarthy, going around the room, trying to give everyone their flowers at the start of the speech that really did set the tone for biden trying to show that he can work with the other side, mike, john, all of us, shaq, we have been on the campaign trail. we followed biden in 2020, we know that his bipartisanship is a key part of the pitch. he of course reiterated that last night, but you look at the way that republicans almost immediately interpreted this, and you have speaker kevin mccarthy going on fox news less than 24 hours later saying it was him having a good seat at a bad sporting event and he thought this was the most partisan state of the union speec
thought his appearance was quite powerful. especially alongside his wife. i sort of don t be grudge a nominee in this environment doing something that no nominee has done before. i do think the choice of fox was a little hard to square with the supreme court. come on. let me bring up something from the interview which is something that this was a blanket denial that i have a feeling is going to get cross-examined a lot on thursday. let me play it. nothing ever physical, you never met her, never kissed her, never touched her? correct. i never sexually assaulted anyone. i did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school or for many years there after. was there ever a time that you drank on so much sha you couldn that you couldn t remember what
happened before? no. that never happened. so it is complete blanket denials. like there is one picture being painted of him as to be generous the frat boy who maybe drinks too much. he is painting a picture that says i wasn t even that. i m not anything near even what my friend wrote in his book. he has not left himself any wiggle room here. he has categorically denied that any of this happened. there is no this part might have happened but i didn t do that. he will categorically deny it. he can t back off from that. christine blasey ford will testify and people will have to decide who to believe here. big picture, him going on fox news, it is a function of the fact that a nothing about this is convention alleal anymore. we are in the wild, wild west of senate jew dishudicial wars. and it goes that it was a big battle for the base.
you have right now up until this week you had the left mobilized, you had the central mobilized. he is polarizing now and so going to fox is to remind the republican viewers that these are the stakes and you can believe me. but i go back to that blanket denial because he makes that and then a college roommate of his who told an abc affiliate let me play the bite. i am looking for a fair process. all i m asking for is a fair process. america is about fairness. i want a fair process. in america, we have fairness. fair process. a fair process and have a fair process. a fair process. where is this all coming from? i just want a fair process where i can be heard. you don t have any thoughts on where this is coming from? i just want a fair process where i can be heard, defend my integrity. that was a separate bite that