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
The first one is Conspiracy To Defraud the United States. Second is the conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. And then the conspiracy against rights. Thats, of course, the Voting Rights of u. S. Citizens around the country. Now, ill read you just a part where the Special Counsel describes what theormer president is accused of dog here. It says that the defendant spread lies, that there had been outcome determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false. And the defendant knew that they were false. But the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate. According to the prosecutors, wolf, the former president disregarded the advice of all of his appointed officials, people inside his own government, his experts, people from the Justice Department, people from the intelligence community, people from the Homeland Security department, all of whom were telling him that there was no s
gone south. as his gop rival gets under his skin donald, keep em coming. donald trump wants to pivot. 2024 is our final battle. with joe biden all in. donald trump is a loser. has the general election essentially begun? former house speaker nancy pelosi will be here. uphill battle. biden now says he wants to shut down the border. i m ready to act. an unexpected opponent is standing in the way. i would rather have no bill than a bad bill. could trump kill an emerging border bill? a key negotiator, chris murphy is next. after a supreme court ruling, gop governors say they will square off against the feds at the bodder. we do our part to secure the border. how will it end? i m dana bash in washington where the state of the union is wondering, what happened to the art of the deal? days after the second republican primary contest, donald trump and joe biden tried to turn to the general election in dueling campaign events last night. each seeking
dangerously for american women post-roe and a hot off the presses economic stump speech that debuted yesterday in chicago. and all of that just since saturday. without further ado, the 46th president of the united states, joe biden. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. this is very exciting for us. exciting for me. you said today and i know that you have a lot of power but i can t imagine you manufactured the breaking news about the court. you say this court is not normal. what did you mean? what i meant by that is it s done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history. that s what i meant by not normal. it s gone out of its way i mean, for example, take a look at overruling roe v. wade, take a look at the decision today, take a look at how it s how it s ruled on a number of issues that are have been precedent for 50, 60 years sometimes, and that s what i meant by not normal. can i read you some of your ap
smerconish starts right now. is it over before it begins? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. before a single primary vote has been cast, has donald trump already sewn up the gop nomination or is it still up for grabs? everybody has an opinion. but the data tells a pretty compelling story. peggy noonan writing that i refuse to see the story as over. voting begins now. after chris christie dropped out, nate kohn wrote the christie vote alone will probably not be enough, but haley has been steady gaining in the polls and historically there is a lot of precedent for urge is being candidates to keep gaining especially over a contest s final days. and new hampshire will be a wild card. independents can vote in the gop primary and according to data released yesterday, 43% of americans, look at that graph, 43% of americans consider themselves to be independent. rs and ds are tied at 27. it tie as record for an independent showing making them the largest political bloc in the c