State of the Union Address. Our Special Coverage begins two hours from right now. The beat with ari starts right now. Hi, nicolle. See you soon. See you soon. Welcome to a Special Edition of the beat on State Of The Union night. You know how it works. Were looking at the capitol where people will be gathering soon. This is the final State Of The Union of the president s first term. They could not be sure that these primaries would be over or what else would be happening in the country when they scheduled this, but the primaries did functionally end yesterday, as nikki haley dropped off republican race, so tonight, the president speaks to the a largest audience. As that reality sets in for many, you watch the news, but a lot of people dont follow this every day. Theyre hearing this week, we got a rematch, yep, trump has cleared the field, yeah, its going to be this, and at this Pivotal Moment that, like it or not weve seen on both sides not a ton of excitement, but its whats happening.
In the history of television, only two of the 100 most watched shows have not been live sporting events, the oscars and the State Of The Union. So as a campaign kickoff, you dont get a bigger platform than joe biden has tonight. But with enormous opportunity come enormous challenges. Can he meet the moment and how . Our team has reporting on what is happening inside the white house right now and the unique unvarnished insights of a former biden Speech Writer. Plus, as the president prepares to address the israelhamas war tonight, conditions in gaza are deteriorating to new lows. Children starving to death. Bright orange bursts of flames as a plane makes an emergency landing, what exactly caused it. An awful lot to get to. We begin with this, among all of the goals President Biden has for tonights State Of The Union address, there is one that rises above all others. Show americans he is still up to the job. Do not expect to hear the words age or energy or focus, but as much or maybe eve
was basically in line with what this president was saying about fiery rhetoric for a while. and they were all part of this process. the speech was not a surprise to people. the speech went through the normal speech process. there was nothing unusual about it. look, they are dealing with no good option. i do believe there is some degree of placating the president so he doesn t essentially react against his own advisers on this, so he feels as if his language is his own. it did not play great at the u.n. as we know, this is unusual to say the least. but i think you are dealing with advisers to president trump who a trying to contain his own reactions to the situation at hand and they have a dullahan to play there. kim jong-un issued his own statement. here s what he said. he is unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country and he is surely a rogue and gangster fond of
we are in power. we control the house and the senate and we control the white house. it is our obligation, our promise made in 2016 that we would do this. we can do it alone or with democrats. my advice is never give up on the ability to seek bipartisan support. out, i want to give you the last word in your prediction on what we may see in the next week or two because we ve heard a lot of hopes they want to get something passed where they distracted by the fourth of july. you will see the democrats from the speech process trying to delay things and really shed broad light on the senate. republicans will be successful at janitors campaign, telling people it s good for them but taking away millions of people s health care which is politically problematic. elizabeth: al mottur, brad blakeman, we will seek her predictions come true. thanks very much. you saw the exchange between chris wallace and jay sekulow.
generation robert kennedy s grand children s generation. we did not experience this to us they re ha person in a movie or gives an inspiring speech process with you they dealt with real situations in politics. and sometimes made decisions to put them at odds with what was comfortable. appreciate you having you apprecia you changing shts talking about in book. john bohrer is the autr. the book is called the revolution of robert kennedy, out just today. wish you great good luck with this terrific. thanks. that is the broadcast on another busy news night thank you for being with us and good night for all of us from new york. ton and all in. a message do you have for jim comey ahead of his testimony. i wish him loo. count down to comey day.