does the act opposite. at least she did leave the balloon prop at home. also embarrassing herself, her bff kevin the speaker and the whole country, too. meanwhile in the republican response, sarah huckabee sanders does her version of carnage tying the party back to trump. also tonight, reaction to president biden s call for police reform as twisted new details emerge today about tyre nichols death after a vicious beating by memphis police. we begin tonight with a state of the union address for the books. when last night president biden achieved what kevin mccarthy could never do, which was uniting the room and getting republicans to jump to their seats in support of medicare and social security. yes, that happened. it was a master class, really, on outnegotiating republicans, pulled off by biden who sparred with a raucous crowd. no president added more to the national debt in any four years than my predecessor. they re the facts. check it out. check it out. some re
when it came to republican response, they looked to original maga, form of new generation, arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders, who stressed one thing in particular 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. i m for freedom. your freedom of speech. and the fight for freedom. america is great because we are free. our freedom is under attack. america is still the place where freedom reigns and liberty will never die. freedom, freedom. it s a stretch honestly to say you re from freedom when you support taking away women s reproductive freedoms and bans drag performances. and as a newly-minted governor, sanders issued day one orders prohibiting arkansas schools from teaching the rights made up of boogie man critical race theory and banning the term latin. x. banning a word and banning black
basil tell you because we had similar mothers, if nancy pelosi had been sitting up there and any democrats she would look at them like our mothers would look at us and we would be quiet. thank you both very much. up next on the reid out, romney scolds santos, mccarthy looks sad and sarah huckabee sanders fails to grasp the meaning of the word freedom. the view from the other side of the aisle when the reid out comes back. r side of the aisle when the reid out comes back cam with floodlight, with intelligent alerts when a person or familiar face is detected. sam. sophie s not here tonight. so you have a home with no worries. brought to you by adt.
history during black history month. she is using the opposite day definition of freedom. joining me now is michael steele, msnbc analyst and host of the michael steele podcast. good to see you yesterday. it was good to hang. before we get to sarah huckabee sanders, i feel like bringing her out was so retro. she tries to tell these stories recasting trump as some sort of military hero. she told really moving story about coming through cancer, but then she veered off into this whole freedom thing. she said freedom 473 times but here is the thing, her party is banning women s reproductive freedoms, basically enslaving women to the state. they are banning books and saying that children are not free to read about black history, holocaust history. it s so counterintuitive i wonder who they think that message was for. are they saying freedom to tweet
like rotten stuff? i don t understand what they mean. well, no. you raise a good point. and it s an important point because i think it fundamentally goes to understanding sort of the inner thinking and how that s projected out ward. so, the inner thinking is these are words, buzz words, they matter. they mean something to a lot of people. you and i are generally probably of the same mind about the concept of freedom. certainly as an old school republican, i kind of look at it from sort of a libertarian perspective. you do you, boo. as long as it doesn t infringe on my right to do me. yes. and my abilities to do me. that s how we have a limited view of what the role of government is in your life as a woman who may decide in this moment i have to make a freedom choice regarding my body and my health. and in my right as a catholic to practice my freedom choice of