Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker. Madam speaker mr. Speaker. The president. The president. The president. Of the United States. By special invitation of the speaker of the house. Tonight, President Biden delivers the state of the Union Address. We are just getting started. A divided audience in the room. And the nation. The president makes his case for an american comeback. Lets finish the job this time. The economic success story. And its partisan combat over the southern border. U. S. Support for wars abroad, an assault on the fundamental rights of women, and the preservation of democracy itself. Democracy must not be a partisan issue. Tonight, Rachel Maddow, rachel wallace, it jen psaki all here for msnbcs special coverage of the state of the Union Address. Good evening. And thank you for joining us. For the State Of The Union. For democracy, this is the School Band Recital and the Scout Jamboree and the black friday sale and the Christmas Pageant and the new years eve ball drop and my girl
now. new reporting from the white house this hour ready to go. those are the words of a biden adviser tonight about a 2024 run. and we re going to tell you what else is going on behind the scenes tonight. all new reporting from our phil mattingly at the top of the hour. plus, ron desantis new target is a small liberal arts college. his goal is to turn it into a conservative school and the man desantis putting in charge making double his predecessor. space race, inside china s spy balloon-making operation. famed astrophysicist kneel degrasse tyson is out front. let s go out front. good evening. welcome to this special edition of out front. i m erin burnett. tonight, ready to go. that s an exact quote. those are the words of a biden adviser tonight telling our phil mattingly about the president s plans to announce he s running for re-election. up until last week president biden publicly said he s not ready to make a decision on 2024. he kept using that words, i
One year ago today, on August 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law landmark legislation to lower health care costs for millions of Americans, known as the
tremendous record of accomplishment to run on. i m a bit biased as someone who was just in congress at least you acknowledge it, right? helping to pass this. objectively, to john s point, large-scale transformational legislation, much of which still hasn t taken effect. americans will continue to feel especially when prescription drug costs go down, insulin capped at $35 for medicare recipients in january of this year, he can run on a lot. that stuff when it happened, midterms had not taken effect. it s a fair point to say people hadn t felt it then. they will obviously by the presidential election. harry, when you look at the numbers, how do you see a president who is waiting to formally announce? i think he has got all the time in the world to be perfectly honest with you, erin. if you look at essentially the median president going back 40-plus years, when did they announce? they did not announce until late april, april 30th of the year before the general election. we are s