today the president heads to madison, wisconsin, where he will talk about his economic plans at a union training center. biden used this first address to a divided congress to strike an optimistic tone about the state of the union. he touted his achievements including the bipartisan infrastructure law and the chips act. he also called on congress to act on police reform and pass an assault weapons ban. he also talked about the need to get tough with china and help ukraine. a big highlight of the speech was this exchange with some republicans over plans to make changes to social security and medicare. some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset, i m not saying it s the majority let me give you anybody who doubts it contact my office. i ll give you a copy, i ll give you a copy of the proposal. that means congress doesn t
huckabee sanders gave the republican response. here s a little of what she had to say. most americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace, but we are under attack in a left wing culture war we didn t start and never wanted to fight. every day we are told we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags and worship their false idols all while big government colludes with big tech to strip away the most american thing there is, your freedom of speech. huge contrast in this republican response. yeah, a huge contrast, and i think it shows that while president biden was trying to strike a tone of, hey, i m willing to work with anyone who s willing to work with me, let s get this done to improve our economy and address the needs of americans, republicans are really dug in on the culture wars, and that s going to be a big shift for the next two years for biden in working with this congress, the house that s
now for an entire year. we had the polish general on here who made i thought the most poetic case for supporting ukraine a year in now. he said what we do right now is for eternity. meaning we re making a statement in the west for what we stand for right now. the outcome of this war will determine so much, and he said but also what we don t do will be for eternity as well. bottom line, joe biden s speech? listen, it was it was one of his most i think we all agree it s one of his most successful speech, and you have to give a big assist to the republican party. very helpful. very helpful. that does it for us this morning, josé diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. good morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern, i m josé diaz-balart reporting from the nation s capital. the staggering number of people killed by two massive earthquakes in turkey and syria is now more than 11,000. time is running out for rescuers
if the president is serious you will hear him pressing obrador to crack down on what s happening in mexico, your southern border, let alone the mexicans coming in here illegally people coming into mexico how are allowing to get on trains and come right to the border if he is serious about that. and finding out if we can work with him to crack down on the cartels if he is serious. if he looks around and goes yeah, can i do better. go back comprehensive immigration. i don t think so anyone buying it and he misses an opportunity to lead. steve: we have heard the new chris whipple book how joe biden behind the scenes in the white house, has been very frustrated, dropping a lot of f bombs because of what is going on in the southern border. and one of the reasons is he is getting so much blow back from big democratic mayors and governors who need help. so i would like for the president to give them some money today to make them happy. ainsley: well, i m glad he s going down there. me t
there are side effects of the covid vaccine that young males, especially boosted young males are suffering from. the cdc acknowledges it a little bit? but, they also try to put their thumb on the scale and make it sound like it s not a big deal? if you re young and healthy, you have no business getting this or needing to get it right now. yet, they re pushing it on non-citizens to play a sport for people that are healthy? this is because the left, and the white house are covid obsessed. i traveled in the middle of this year to israel i don t talk about my vaccination status often. i ve had covid multiple times but i got an exemption. i didn t get the vaccine. i was able to travel to israel and do a film called the life of jesus which is on our platform right now. israel had the most prominent covid restrictions of any country across the globe. they realize that phase is over. it s time to open up to the world. for some reason joe biden, the cdc and the white house can t figure that