Tonight, we begin with that Msnbc Exclusive Interview with my colleague and host, jonathan and President Biden, the president and the former president arrived in georgia to hold dueling rallies just 60 miles apart, presenting two radically different visions of america, both after scoring big wins on super tuesday. Both campaigns are gearing up for a close race in the battleground state. Remember, the margin was so tight in 2020 that trump was indicted for pressuring the Secretary Of State to find him more votes. Jonathan, the president discussed a wide variety of issues including his fight for reproductive access and his controversial handling of the Israel Hamas War and those comments about the socalled Migrant Crime Wave on the border. Here is a clip from the interview. What is your redline with Prime Minister netanyahu, for instance, the invasion of rafah, is that a redline . It is, but im never going to leave israel, the defense is so critical, theres no redline to cut off the iron
The Man Trump Belittles as sleepy joe seemed quite fiery last night as the president tries to flip the script launching a campaign blitz, just one day after his forceful kind of political state of the Union Address. Plus Donald Trumps oneonone at maralago today, meeting with Hungarys Viktor Orban ban. The authoritarian leader, knowing, known for antiimmigration nationalist rhetoric, who often cozies up to Vladimir Putin and attempts to stop the aid. See what happened when cnn confronted israeli protesters, determined to make sure little food, if any, makes it into gaza despite the overwhelming human and tharon crisis welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we start today with our politics lead in the white house in an all Reelection Blitz trying to capture on any momentum from President Bidens fiery and rather political state of the Union Address last night in which the president referenced donald trump, at least a dozen times in less than an hour, we expect to hear from the president
Ill see at the end of Donald Trumps fourth criminal indictment, number four appears to be days away. Nbc news is now reporting that Voting Congress returning fani willis is expected to present her case to the grand jury next week. We know the d. A. Willis has been investigating trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. Her investigation appears to have quite a bit in common with the federal case being brought by Special Counsel jack smith in washington, d. C. The case in georgia may prove to be different than dak smith s case in one very meaningful way. To understand that, we have to go back to 1979. The City Of Atlanta was experiencing an unprecedented wave of crimes. It wasnt Nbc Nightly News in august of that year. During the First Six Months of the year, crime and atlanta was up 30 . Robbery and aggravated assault were upset many percent. Murder was up to. Atlanta has had 140 homicides the, highest total since 1973. That was the way that the National Media was talkin
Americas late news, fox news at night. Pushback underway, republicans crying foul to many claims president made in his state of the Union Address which sounded like a Campaign Speech remreet with promises and a few swipes at his opponent. President biden hoped to put aside concern about his age. Many saying he sounded angry and difficult to understand. We have Live Team Coverage tonight, response from katie britt youngest republican female ever elected to the senate. Kevin corke has more. Kevin tonights state of the Union Address was like showing your opponent your playbook before an upcoming game. If you are the gop, you have to look at this speech as the crib notes for november. Keep that in mind. For President Biden, tonights address was about more than just a speech, it was emphatic declaration to say im here, im the man for the job and our countrys future is bright. President biden because of you, tonight we can proudly say the state of our union is strong and getting stronger. Ke
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