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
unscripted state of the union address than we re used to, as he was just outside madison talking to, as you can still see them milling behind me, a group of union workers. one is the exchange over retirement programs, social security and medicare. a lot of back and forth with the chamber last night. president biden reading verbatim, holding up the pamphlets from senator rick scott and senator ron johnson about what he was talking about when he referred to wanting to undercut social security and medicare, so the president clearly enjoying that. yes, you talked about sort of the interesting dynamic, he was talking about the major issues we thought he would, but also issues like airline fees that a lot of people were surprised to hear him talking about last night. biden talked earlier here today about the fact that he was watching some of the coverage of his speech and he talked about the fact that somebody was questioning why he would talk about junk fees, and he had an