infighting that has stalled his agenda less visible. the white house no longer releasing talks with legislators. the president is approaching it more like a member of the senate where he served for 36 years and less like the commander-in-chief getting things done. we re not likely to hear a road map to the legislation that the president wants to get passed and that s going to be interesting because it everyone s biggest question with the senate set to tee up a doomed effort on the filibuster just hours from now, martha. martha: thanks, jacqui. joining me now, bret baier and anchor of special report. great to have you with us. we re told that we will get a ten minute speech at the top of this from president biden and now we have a view of the podium in the east room as he gets ready to walk in. we expect probably an hour of
q&a. you can hear the messages that have been sent out through jacqui heinrich s report about the wins and the victory tour and the effort to change the narrative here. your thoughts. definitely. this is the ten-minute speech you ll get a teleprompted speech. president biden was elected to a four-year term, not a one-year term. he has uphill battles to fight before the mid-terms. expect like you re hearing the communications team say that the president will travel the country. you know, he passed that bipartisan infrastructure bill, one of the legislative successes that they had. expect him to be standing in front of some bridge, some road, some thing that is being built to say this we did get done. there s a lot of negatives here and a lot of things that will be asked about not only
humanitarian crisis, as the shutdown continues to day 18 with no talks scheduled. the key question, will the president go around congress tonight and declare a national emergency to use pentagon money for his wall without congress approval? joining me now, nbc white house correspondent kristen welker, nbc national security and justice reporter julia ainsley and msnbc political analyst robert costa. national political reporter at the washington post and moderate raor for washington w on pbs. this is a high stakes pr bid, an oval office speech that s not his normal metier, if you will, it s not the live rally, free-association kind of event. this will be scripted, teleprompted. what do they think the appeal will be? this is an appeal to the president s base, to the american people, to try to take his case to them to show that he s fighting for that signature
doug schoen. these off the cuff moments that are not teleprompted. we put a few of them together. let s take a look. spread the wealth around. cambridge police acted stupidly. the shuttle ready was not a as shovel ready was not as shovel ready as expected. private sector is doing fine. if you are successful somebody along the line gave you some help. if you have a business, you didn t build that. somebody made that happen. last election after this, i will convey to vladimir putin. what is that. he is saying to the russian president, look if i told the american people now what i
doug schoen. these off the cuff moments that are not teleprompted. we put a few of them together. let s take a look. spread the wealth around. cambridge police acted stupidly. the shuttle ready was not a as shovel ready was not as shovel ready as expected. private sector is doing fine. if you are successful somebody along the line gave you some help. if you have a business, you didn t build that. somebody made that happen. last election after this, i will convey to vladimir putin. what is that. he is saying to the russian president, look if i told the american people now what i