hello, everyone. i m bianna golodryga. welcome to cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. president biden is taking his state of the union pitch on the road. right now he s speaking in the battleground state of wisconsin focusing on his administration s effort to boost manufacturing in america. this is part of a two-day swing. biden is also going to tampa, florida, to reinforce last night s message which is seen as a preview of his expected 2024 re-election campaign. cnn s phil mattingly joins us now. so what more do we expect to hear from the president today? i know he s feeling good from that speech last night. i don t think white house officials could be happier in the wake of the speech last night, not because they feel like they delivered on the extensive remarks they spent months probing and in the off-the-cuff moments he had with republicans back and forth where they felt the president demonstrated a level of vigor they wanted him to show but als
tonight. former vice president mike pence testified today before the federal grand jury, investigating the former presidents actions surrounding the january six riot and an attempts to overturn the 2020 election election. i am john berman in for anderson. just pause and listen to that again. a former vice president just testified in an investigation about whether a president, his running mate, illegally tried to overturn an election. so much has happened in the last few years, it s easy to get numb to the mind bending is historical explosions taking place. it s the first time in modern history a vice president has been compelled to testify about the president he served beside, and add to that, he might run against trump in 2024. it s also the first time that this vice president has testified under oath about the today we are rioters were seen yelling, hang mike pence at the capitol, as well as personal interactions with trump and the events leading up to that day. he previous
china. erin? will ripley thank you very much for that amazing report. thank you for joining us. anderson is now. one for the history books tonight. former vice president mike pence testified today before the federal grand jury investigating the former president s actions surrounding the january 6th riot and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. i m john berman in for anderson. just pause and listen to that again. a former vice president just testified in an investigation about whether a president, his running mate illegally tried to overturn an election. so much has happened the last few years, it s easy to get numb to the mind-bending historical explosions taking place. it s the first time in modern history a vice president has been compelled to testify about the president he served beside. to add to that, he might run against trump in 2024. it s also the first time that this vice president has testified under oath about the day where rioters were seen yelling hang mi
down $1.50 from their peak. food inflation is coming down, not fast enough, but coming down. inflation has fallen every month for the last six months while take-home pay is going up. dana: the president getting knocked for all of those claims. biden also got a real-time fact-check over this attack. so slow my republican friends want to take the economy hos hostage. republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s a majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i am politely not naming them but it s being proposed by some of them. look. folks. the idea is that we re not going going to be moved into being thrown to default on a debt if we don t respond. dana: biden drawing some laughs for the wrong reason when talking about getting tough with oil companies. i said we are going to need oil for at least another decade. and beyond that. we are going to need it. dana: despite getting called out on the falsehoods, some de
point you can find yourself banned from social media for even bringing up the possibility of a lab leak. and remember with dr. fauci quick to dismiss it. just weeks ago dr. anthony fauci rejected the conspiracy the coronavirus was made in wuhan, china. both scientists and intelligence committee agreed this coronavirus was not man-made. that is not a possibility. let s take a science look at what is available. it is more likely this came from an animal. you said the overwhelming amount of evidence. i believe most molecular biologist would disagree with you. speak with the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people because quite frankly we still don t know. there is no evidence to say. before the white house downplaying the report because nothing is conclusive and affecting dr. fauci. there is not a consensus right now in the u.s. government about how covid started. there is no peer of the president believes it is really important we continue that work and tha