good evening everyone, thanks for tuning in, i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. we have a lot to talk about. we are one night away from what will be the unofficial kickoff of joe biden s likely reelection run, also known as his state of the union address. what case will he make to the nation to elect him to a second term? a lot of political types think it s not just what he says, it s how he appears. president biden would be 82 if he wins reelection. he s already the oldest american president ever. is that why so many people are still on the fence? plus, lebron james is on his way to breaking the nba s all-time scoring record. remember when he was advised to just shut up and dribble? he did not take that advice. now he s 36 points shy of lakers legend gerard s record. we will talk about it. is it stressful at all? the chase? no, because it was never goal, it was never journey. the stress so far for me is competing every single day. also, nerve-racking moment
he is sort of succeeded in opposition to things for years. and i m curious if he continues to try to hit that mark saying, at least on that these guys. he does stand for unity, he talks about that a lot, he spurred building bridges, he talks about his accomplishments a lot. i don t think he only defines himself as not being trump. i m not saying that he only defines himself by not being trump, i m saying that a lot of his success has come from that. if you look at the midterms, where democrats did better than i think people expected they would, i think that success came from not being trump, not being some of the republicans. i don t think it came from the infrastructure bill that the bipartisan on the bus things they got through. messaging issues still the democrats not getting through. i beg to differ. i don t know that most of the people are paying much attention to any of the successes. i think they re just stuck on the fact that he s an old man. why could they do differe
that brings us to two. here is the third point in the line of the saga. a few months afterward, mayor zimmer says christie s head of hurricane sandy aid gets involved. she says furzon use linked sandy money to development. here is anderson cooper just last week. that s what i m asking as governor. please support this. but when i get an answer back from mark saying, well, you know. and mark is? the head of the sandy recovery process for the governor. so when i get an answer back saying you need to tell us the level of development you re willing to do. you re staying head of the sandy redevelopment process was also talking to you about development? he said that like a month ago. well, let me go to matt katz. you re on this story like wolf hounds. what picture do you get when you see the timeline of all three episodes when pressure is
the community of newark. congratulations to you both, honestly. that s the other thing we ve been talking about all along. you want to reward good teachers. you want to reward teachers who excel in the classroom. this now gives us a way to do it. and i have to mention that we wouldn t have been able to do this without mark zuckerberg and the $100 million grant from facebook that we ve now raised money to match. that s great. the fact of the matter is that these bonuses are going to be paid from the money that mark contributed almost two years ago now. and this is what he wanted. what he said to me when we got this together was, governor, use this to try to make a contract in newark that will be an example for the country. when it was voted and affirmed this week, i got a text from mark saying thank you. you kept your end of the bargain. now i m keeping mine. that is exciting. that is the third part of the equation, both sides getting along and the corporate involvement as w