Us and the people work for a living in this country. All right. Anita dunn, thank you very much. A senior adviser, of course, to President Biden. And outfront now, dan cluchey, the former senior speechwriter for President Biden, who worked on multiple major biden speeches during the 2022 State Of The Union speech and the 2021 inaugural address. And david litt, speechwriter for thenpresident obama. Okay. Thanks very much to both of you. So here we are. Were less than two hours away, from from this going to be a major speech from biden. And i think, safe to say, sort of my interpretation, from spending time with him today is its hes going to take his time and hes going to talk about a lot of things, we know he reached out to tv president s, tv president s like morgan, morgan freeman, gina davis. Yeah, i mean, why do you think he did that . Well, can i say he neglected bill pullman, who i think is the best tv president s speech has gotten . No, i was not all inclusive with my list. I was
increases the terror threat level in northern ireland from substantial to severe , meaning an attack is considered highly likely. humza yousaf is confirmed as scotland s first minister, becoming the first person from an ethnic minority background in the role. hello and welcome. we start this hour in france, where another day of co ordinated, nationwide protests is very much under way, as unions continue to oppose president macron s pension reforms. over a million people took part in similar protests in the last week. we have seen extraordinary scenes again out on the streets. let s go to our paris correspondent, hugh schofield. immediately behind you, looking slightly quieter than the last time we spoke, but very much give us a sense of what has been going on and in different parts of the country of course as well. course as well. yeah, we re at the end of the course as well. yeah, we re at the end of the itinerary course as well. yeah, we re at the end of the itinera
you how the markets fed overnight. as you can see on the screens, the dowjones and s&p 500 closed higher thanks to the energy sector index which surged after the announcement. inflation concerns have been tempered by expectations the us central bank could end its monetary tightening campaign. still, an oil output cut will mean higher prices. my colleague has more. many analysts colleague has more. many analysts believe colleague has more. many analysts believe that - colleague has more. many analysts believe that they | colleague has more. many - analysts believe that they want to keep the price above $80 a barrel, even hovering around $90 a barrel. a higher price of oil has wide ranging implications. it will make producing goods more expensive for companies and if prices stay high for a while it will have an impact on the price of gasoline, and as many countries around the world are fighting high inflation, this move but opec could make this more difficult and the white
end. it is not great politically. i still stand by the fact they are very difference cases with former president trump and biden. but i can understand, even though his lawyers handled this legally correctly, with the communication lenses it seems like there has been a few stumbles. there are comparisons being drawn. i want to go back to the timeline. when did you know it? who knew it and what did you do about it? for 68 days they did not say anything about the discovery. i wonder if the idea of the explanations, the idea of the trying to differential doj, is that connecting with voters? or is it there a concern that there is not? i think what is connecting with voter is that president biden had classified documents after criticizing former president trump for having classified documents. it is not the same. the obstruction that was perceived from former president trump is not the same. the refusal so cooperate is not perceived as the same. but i don t know how closely the