Revolt on fisa as the House Speakers future hangs in the balance, just a few votes. But we begin at the white house where President Biden is still predicting an Interest Rate cut and defending his administrations role fighting inflation. At the same time, the president is trying to circle the wagons in the pacific against china. White house correspondent Jacqui Heinrich starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. Good evening, jacqui. Good evening, bret. Once enemies now allies closer than ever. The United States and japan announced more than 70 Defense Cooperation Agreements among other collaborations in a not so subtle message to china, increasingly aggressive in the South Pacific and the taiwan strait. President Biden Preemptively Cooling Blowback from beijing. And our alliance we have with japan is a purely defense in nature. Its not aimed at any one nation or a threat to the region. The japanese state visit comes one day before a trilateral meeting with the philippines under i
so he puts together this program which relies on voluntary action by americans. there was no program. basically the president was saying buy less. the win buttons were part of the propaganda, there were pamphlets and posters. are you suggesting, sir, that buttons and flags are trivial? yes. abc news presents live coverage of the president s state of the union message to congress. the president of the united states. when he goes to give the state of the union address, he is under tremendous pressure. i remember being there and it was palpable. a lot hangs on this. this being his very first state of the union. 26 years ago, a freshman
you know, we saw that video of the president on the hill yesterday pushing for changes in voting laws. i think about prior attempts to sort of make inflation the banner issue, you know, with inflation now, right? why aren t we seeing that as sort of just get your arms around it and lead on this issue? you should. in fact, when jerry ford did the whip inflation out was a catastrophic policy as biden s we at the university of chicago back then it wasn t win buttons we wore lose buttons. let others save the economy. this is the one where biden should stop doing the poll seals he is doing, which is causing the inflation. he is the anti-reagan. reagan stopped the inflation and biden is causing it the way i put it in the paper i put out recently is that reagan healed the sick and biden is infecting