we won t give it back to them. we ll study what was on that balloon. if it s garbage, we wouldn t give it back to them, right? if there is nothing usable. let me ask you, you know the pentagon says three chinese spy balloons drifted over the u.s. but apparently, they didn t know that until the biden administration. cnn obtained a u.s. military intelligence report from april last year that documents one incident in 2019 when the balloon quote drifted past high hydroxyc h hawaii and across florida. the first question i have is how was the pentagon or whomever able to go back and figure out that during the trump administration these three balloons happened? do you have any idea? i have a classified briefing i ll bring up the issues. i think this probably had happened before and for whatever reason, when i talked to higher level officials, like the national security advisor for instance, it was not communicated properly but we had
are now in the ma jr.ty now the governing majority in terms of their behavior towards biden. that s why anticipating the conference maybe back off and be on your best behavior tonight. might be a little late is my point. let s talk about what president biden is going to say tonight. one advisor told cnn quote there isn t some new joe biden. he is who he is and his consistency is nothing if not consistent. [ laughter ] so it s definitely not new. yeah. do you think that this is going to be new in any way considering who he is and how familiar we all are with him at this point? no, when it comes to his agenda, no. what he s clearly going to try to do is hit home and let sort of penetrate into the public s consciousness the things that he has done and they don t give him any credit for, according to recent polls. it s kind of mind blowing people don t realize how much they have done in a bipartisan way and
optimism of the nation. tonight s address is being viewed by many observers as a test run for biden s messaging for a potential second term. cnn manu raju is live on capitol hill. walk us through what we re going to see unfold in the next few hours. reporter: around 8:30 eastern time the house will gavel into session. kevin mccarthy will call the house into order before the senators come in there and the formal procession of the president s guests and then the president himself making an address to the nation in the 9:00 p.m. eastern hour, an address expected to run an hour or so where he ll layout accomplishments, things to sell to the american public at a time voter votes will show they do not believe the president has done enough and layout things he believes cob done in the next two years in this divided congress and take aim at republicans to call on a passage for measures that have no chance of passing in this republican controlled house, but there are questions about how far h
hot mike that can pick up your conversation and the cameras can pick up what you re looking at on your phone projected to the nation. mccarthy is trying to showcase a different type of republican party when it went to 15 ballots to elect the speaker of the house instead he wants to show a different opposition and he told me earlier today he does not plan to do what nancy pelosi did in the trump era, when she ripped up donald trump s speech in one of the state of the union addresses. he said i will not do that and be a political ploy but we ll see how republicans respond and members on the hard right listen to the request. he ll count votes in arizona and pennsylvania but not ripping up a speech. got it. manu raju, thanks so much. let s discuss with dana bash. a big difference between this state of the union and last is that speaker mccarthy, republican will be remiend biden s shoulder. you were in a briefing with mccarthy. i m not sure if it was on the
lawsuit, voting against counting the electoral votes in arizona and pennsylvania. is this a guy to talk about respecting the presidency? right, that s the challenge. i think, too, that kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house says not someone that will have much control of his conference. while we re watching speaker mccarthy behind the president, we ll watch how house republicans behave. you have marjorie taylor greene walking around with a balloon wanting to bring the balloon into the state of the union address and considering all of the what is this? she has a balloon? she posted a video on twitter walking around with a big white balloon calling it her state of the union guest. obviously a reference to the chinese surveillance balloon president biden has come under a lot of cristicism for. is she going to try to bring a balloon there are house rules against that but this is the stunt she s pulling this afternoon. in terms of you have mccarthy s treatment of the presidenc