good evening. in the white house president biden getting ready to face a newly divided congress and the american people at a pivotal moment in his presidency. we will soon leave from the u.s. capitol to report on the state of the union and make an argument for a run for his second term. and i m jake tapper. we are counting down to president biden s big speech about an hour from now and his entrance into the house chamber where republicans are now in charge for the first time since biden took office. new house speaker kevin mccarthy will be seated behind the president, a visible reminder of the political pressures on president biden as the gop led house challenges his agenda and launches a slew of investigations. president biden is expected to try to use his biggest national tv audience of the year to test the waters for his 2024 campaign message. new excerpts of the speech reveal that he will make a direct appeal to americans in economic pain as he tries to make the case th
very good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. today president biden taking that state of the union message to the battleground state of wisconsin. it s part of a two-day swing where he will be touting his administration s accomplishments and also which of course were laid out during last night s address. sounds like the start of a campaign. president biden s speech set the stage for a likely 2024 bid. he vowed to, quote, finish the job. while making a point to call for unity and bipartisanship, asking to work with republicans even as he sparred with a handful of republican lawmakers on a number of topics. instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share some republicans, some republicans, want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s a majority. i m not politely not naming them, but it s being proposed by some of you. look so, folks, as we all apparently agree, social security and medicare is off off the books now,
ok. in theaters april 5th. rated pg. good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. yet another norfolk southern train derails this morning just as the ceo faces members of congress who have a lot of tough questions but don t always get clear answers. a full month after the train crash that got many residents sick, will the railroad keep its word to be in east palestine, ohio, into the future, and what are lawmakers willing to do to make sure he keeps his word? plus, president biden about to lay down a critical marker ahead of the 2024 presidential race unveiling his budget just about 90 minutes from now, how it will frame the critical economic and political fight with republicans going forward. and more misery in california as a series of unrelenting storms escalates the danger and the disaster. at least a dozen people have been killed. now a new storm could dump another 8 inches of rain risking flooding in areas that are already buried under 16
election admitted in a sworn statement released on wednesday that she had knowingly misrepresented the facts in several of her public claims that widespread voter fraud led to trump s defeat. the admissions by ellis were part of an agreement to accept public censure and settle disciplinary measures brought against her by state bar officials in her home state of colorado. jenna ellis s confession is a far cry from the lies she told to millions. president trump is right that there was widespread fraud in this election. we have at least six states that were corrupted if not more through the voting systems. we know that president trump won in a landslide. but we knew he didn t and it turns out so did she. in a statement posted on twitter, jenna ellis claimed that the case against her was politically motivated and ellis and her attorney insist that she remains a practicing attorney in good standing in colorado. what she admitted to doing, though, damaged democracy and sewed dist
trump administration failed. and tonight, his message to americans and now a divided congress. this is what we are watching this hour. we want to welcome the viewers here in the united states and around the world. at this hour, i m kate bolduan. let s start with the urgent search for survivors at that huge earthquake in turkey and syria. the death toll is over 5,000 people killed and that number is to rise. the pictures of the reality of the aftermath of the quake are devastating. thousands of buildings collapsed, and the weather is making already challenging rescue efforts just that much harder, and add to that, the dissional reality that some of the places were in crisis. take northwest syria for example with more than 4 million people were already relying on humanitarian assistance there. there have been moments of light in the heartbreaking images. this video is showing a small girl being rescued after crawling out of a collapsed building. you can just imagine. we go to