The most important election of our lifetime. Welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight. Im abby phillip in new york, and im laura coates in Washington Dc. Its a short time ago. Joe biden made official well, the obvious yes and he will be the democratic nominee, come this november. He is celebrating clinching in a new video asking voters, are you ready to win . Well, tonight, biden adding important victories to his win column. Look at all of these states. State of georgia, a one that he won in 2020, put them over the top. Its also a state were done on trump tried to deny democracy. I say were donald trump is on trial for Election Interference. And tonight the president put the november choice and quite the story stark terms. Are we going to stand up and defend our democracy or let others tear it down so who are the others hes talking about . Well, its pretty obvious one person, its donald trump, who sits only a handful of delegates away. Now from locking up the nomination after romping
To start landing some Haymakers Biden and trump are in Georgia Today and were going to zero in on the swingstate voters. Theyre both targeting with experts who know how to win them. Plus no ceasefire, know hostage deal before the muslim holy month of ramadan and no relief to the humanitarian crisis. Ill speak with someone who said shes frustrated my who is being put out front to defend the us strategy on gaza. And the parents of tyre nichols, they were guests to President Bidens 2023 his State Of The Union, when they want to meet with him after they say they were blindsided by a vote in the Tennessee State house. They will join me live im victor blackwell. Lets start the show the president ial race is heading to Georgia Today. It will be the first weekend of the 2020 camp 20 2024 campaign. I should say where President Biden and former President Trump are. Again, theyre partys presumptive nominees. So now its time for the candidates to fine tune these messages and swing states that coul
Speaker emerita and democratic congresswoman from california, nancy pelosi. Speaker pelosi, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. So i have to say this was this may have been the highest stakes speech of President Bidens long career in politics. It may have been the highest stakes state of the Union Address that ive ever seen. I think he met the moment. Oh, i think he did definitely. Actually, i should quote him and just say, maybe i should go home right now because i think what he did was spectacular. He did it with vigor. He did it with vision, with patriotism. And i think it was one of the finest state of the Union Addresses i have seen. And ive seen many. So obviously a lot of republicans are critical of it. One of the things that theyre criticizing it for is for being political. And it was a very political state of the Union Address. Well, it had some political aspects to it, mostly generated by the audience saying four more years, but the perhaps amnesia has set in
Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning, saturday, march 9. Im Victor Blackwell. His horizontals in for amara walker. Thanks for joining us. And you look refreshed, coming back from vacation. Thank you very much. Im a couple of shades. Darker. Got a little red toner into there. What i want to beat, feel better all right. Heres what were watching. Were you this weekend will get a preview of what to expect in a headtohead rematch between President Biden and former President Trump as the to hold dueling rallies here in georgia today. Plus, well discuss a Biden Campaign strategy to try to seize on momentum from the state of the Union Address Tornado Watches are in effect across parts of the southeast this morning with some major cities at risk for tornados and dangerous hail were also tracking a significant flood threat. Cnn got exclusive access to one of the first ship set to bring cool. So humanitarian supplies to gaza well, show you whats being delivered and how the us is helping in t
With a big focus on the Southern Border and the broken Immigration System i want to get straight to cnns priscilla alvarez, whos been traveling today with the president priscilla. The georgia audience heard a lot of overlap at the rally tonight between the State Of The Union and his message there in atlanta. But the president also apologized for something that he said to the country on thursday night. What did he say . Thats right, alex. And it was a bit of a pivot. He was referred he was asked, i should say, about his comments during the State Of The Union when referencing the alleged suspect in the Laken Riley Killing here in georgia in the moment he called that person, any legal thats a term that has long been decried right. Immigrant advocates. But when interviewed on msnbc today, the president said that he should have said the word on documented documented version. I shouldnt have usually gone as undocumented and look, when i spoke about the different future in trump on me, one of