from the president during a speech he s going to give at the national institutes of health on thursday. what more can you tell us about that? i think the setting of this speech tomorrow speaks volumes because the last time the president visited nih to give a spe speech was three weeks into his presidency. that was a time when he was going and the scientists there were walking him through of course the science they ve looked at when it came to vaccines. vaccines still weren t widely available at that time. they were talking about preparing for variants in case they started popping up throughout the united states. and now the president is going to be visiting nih once again, just a short drive from the white house now that this omicron variant has been found in the united states, and so he will lay out a few concrete steps there. we ve talked about tightening those testing requirements for international travelers, extending the mask mandate. overall they re going to try to push this me
korea in vietnam. hans nickehols is at the white house. with us here, ken delaney, also my panel for the hour, kelsey snell, sahil kapour, thank you so all to all of you for being here. hans, we witnessed a president on defense overnight with all the tweets and then over the weekend delivering the longest spe speech of his presidency. he had a lot to say in front of a friendly audience after a hostile reception or at least an uncomfortable reception in vietnam. here s what the white house is officially saying about the investigations. they say they ll deal with things on a case by case basis. that could be a way to slow walk the investigations. when you look at the rhetoric from the president, it s clear, have a listen, he s not someone that s respectful of this process. and all of a sudden they re
heard from him earlier this woke. other than the statement that we initially got from sean spicer we really haven t heard much from them in the wake of in reporting. but one ning is clear it s going to be very difficult for them to leave the stories haunting them in the american press behind. even as they had hoped to embark on this foreign trip. a five nation foreign trup, a very ambitious agenda particularly for a newly minted president and really refocus what the president wanted to talk about. there were a number of things he considered good deals he could get done while abroad. but it s pretty clear the controversies at home are still going to haunt him even while overseas. when the president lands what are his immediate plans? well he is going to be doing some ceremonial things bilateral meetings. but the attention is focused on the spe speech in saudi arabia on sand we re told by excellent russ producer kevin liptak has landed in riyadh that as of right now in the current fo
obstruction, that you know well, that you report on. respectfully, marc, nobody has argued that he has been up against a headwind. the obstructionism is real. but with all due respect to charles ogletree, the professor is wrong. i would ask you, lay on the table right now the evidence of how the president has been trying, tree, to have a conversation about race no action. i m talking to professor ogletree. let me finish my point. that s just a conversation. i don t think that we have a litany here of things, of moments, where he s tried to have the conversation. to the contrary, respectfully, he s tried to avoid the conversation, number one. number two, when he says a politician can t have an impact, so yes, he gives a wonderful spe speech, but he basically kicks it back to community leaders, business leaders, celebrities and athletes, and that s real, but the president can t absolve himself of it. and number three, i don t believe the president doesn t believe that he ca
i m out with a stakeout! we do it every tiday at this ti with ed henry. the clock ticking down to the president s statement of the union speech. just as people are talking about the seating arrangements as the spe speech, but let s move beyond the message and the speech and who s buddying up with whom for the seating arrangements. we want some behind-the-scenes dirt, and that s why we go to senior white house correspondent ed henry. there he is. ed, tell me what s going on behind the scenes. what happens ahead of the state of the union, which is billed s as, generally speaking, the president s most important speech? reporter: one quick news nugget from dan lothian. he s broken this news that the president tonight is going to call for a five-year freeze on non-defense discretionary spending. now, what that means in layman s terms, instead of washington speak, is that basically, the president wants to freeze all