americans can rest assured that our banking system is safe. did the government s actions actually make the system healthier? i ll ask democratic senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts.ollides plus, close encounters a russian fighter jet collides with a u.s. drone over the black sea. we know the intercept was intentional. we know the aggressive behavior was intentional. vladimir putin gets ready to welcome chinese president xi jinping at what could be a pivotal moment for the war while the top 2024 candidates no longer see supporting ukraine as a vital security interest. the greatest threat to western civilization today is not russia it s probably more than anything else ourselves. is the party ronald reagan now embracing isolationism i ll ask republican mike rounds of south dakota and a call for protest. former president donald trump claims he will be arrested and calls on his supporters to protest as he faces the possibility of an indictment in new york city
also come together on immigration. make it a bipartisan mission once again. a major theme in last night s state of the union, president joe biden calling on a divided congress to work together and pass legislation on several key issues. however, some members of the gop decided to make a scene during the speech heckling the president over the budget and the border. and then there was george santos who found himself in a tense exchange with of all people republican senator mitt romney. we ll show you what romney had to say about the freshman congressman who s facing multiple legal investigations. good morning and welcome to wail on this wednesday, february 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president joe biden delivered his annual state of the union address last night before a newly divided congress. speaking for just over an hour, biden touted his administration s accomplishments while repeatedly stressing that the job isn t finished yet. h
politicians. he s getting the party to support it. you do see the republicans do it. that s right. this is the trump you do see the republicans do it that s right this is the trump trap republicans need to check the box a to appease donald trump and this is good for the trump base and the house republicans for the primaries depend on the trump base, but this is bad for those majority maker, right? and there are only five. there s a five-seat majority so these members i m thinking people from south florida, suburbs, long island, all over the country, they don t like this this is a distraction. as you said, for the party it s very harmful long term and for kevin mccarthy, someone who has had an unstable situation in the house a few weeks ago. that s a nice way of saying it this is one of the ways that he guarantees that stability by appeasing trump. jen, you know, it s interesting. albert bragg, there are people who will claim he was bullied
greene called president biden a liar, that is when the president was talking about republicans wanting to chip away retirement spending for social security and medicare. we also some some yell from republican lawmakers when president biden was talking about the fentanyl crisis in the u.s. saying we should close the border and one lawmaker even yelling out it s your fault. while we did see a lot of pleas for bipartisanship in the speech, there were those moments of bitter parsonship when we saw republican lawmakers try to stand up and interrupt the speech. and house speaker mccarthy had warned republicans not to do just that and yet some didn t listen. 12 different times president biden said for the congress to let them finish the job as the nation comes out of the pandemic and tries to repair the economy. but it also felt like as much as that s an earnest repeal for bipartisanship, it s also a trap republicans have laid.
constantly dependent on a government handout in order to make it in the world. it s pitiful, embarrassing and very rich for our side. megyn: the deputy rnc communications directer had a similar take on it, alan tweeting out. i m shocked. megyn: tweeting out the new obama graphic concedes the government s role is taking care of people from cradle to grave. yea, government. does this play into a narrative that the republicans have unleashed already on the democrats. it s a trap republicans are falling into, they talk about the lilly led bet tere act in the julia cartoon. equal pay for women. a free public education which has been a foundation of our life in america for years. the things that are talked about here aren t particular to obama, it was lbj who did head start. fdr started social security. these are things that american democrats thank goodness for the democrats and liberals who have brought us these thins that people now take for granted. you want to take away people s m