good evening. in the white house president biden getting ready to face a newly divided congress and the american people at a pivotal moment in his presidency. we will soon leave from the u.s. capitol to report on the state of the union and make an argument for a run for his second term. and i m jake tapper. we are counting down to president biden s big speech about an hour from now and his entrance into the house chamber where republicans are now in charge for the first time since biden took office. new house speaker kevin mccarthy will be seated behind the president, a visible reminder of the political pressures on president biden as the gop led house challenges his agenda and launches a slew of investigations. president biden is expected to try to use his biggest national tv audience of the year to test the waters for his 2024 campaign message. new excerpts of the speech reveal that he will make a direct appeal to americans in economic pain as he tries to make the case th
the president s speech. it s taking on even more political significance this year obviously with the president preparing to launch his bid for a second term. going to get more on what the president needs to accomplish tonight especially in key presidential battleground states. zef zeleny is in one of those states right now in medication, wisconsin. you ve been talking to voters there. what are you hearing? well, anderson, president biden is going to be stopping here tomorrow, the first stop to sell the state of the union address. these are his supporters. people want him to do well. can he continue in this role? i talked to one woman said who said wouldn t it be lovely if we could have someone run for president that isn t in their 70s or 80s. that is one of the challenges here tonight to make the case, yes, he has the agenda, but more than that he the fire to still do the job. that s why he s coming here to wisconsin tomorrow, to florida on thursday on and onto make the
zef zeleny, thank you. more now on exactly how the state of florida will get from where we are today right now to where they hope to be in january with the swearing in of a governor and senator not all the swearing at or swearing over we re seeing right now. i want to start by asking the same thing i asked jeff zeleny. you re in florida. so far has there been any evidence of fraud that s been claimed? reporter: no anderson, there s no direct evidence of fraud at this point. but republicans are pointing to a series of events that took place where they say that could open the door to fraud taking place. for instance, they filed a lawsuit against the election supervisors in both broward and palm beach county, and they won those lawsuits. they were declared to dee unconstitutional because they weren t necessarily transparent enough with the amount of votes that were in-house at both of those places before they file their returns on saturday. they were also pointing to the fact there we
cartels, they can buy any police officer, they can buy airplanes, they can buy boats. they don t need to send starving, terrorized families to try to run the river. so we re punishing the victims here and sort of joking around with the kids as if it was no big deal. i find that infuriating. the other thing is dr. shapiro mentioned the american academy of pediatrics said the same thing you did, the trump administration separating families at the border is child abuse. i want to get zef zeleny who asked secretary nielsen that. here s how she responded. watch this. how is this not specifically child abuse for these innocent children who are indeed being separated from their parents? i want to be clear on a couple other things. the vast majority, vast, vast majority who are in the care of
a witness in this investigation. so listen, is there a good chance that we could see the deputy attorney general rosenstein recuse himself in what do you think? look, i think we re walking very quickly towards that point. as i mentioned, he very well may become a witness in this investigation because he wrote the memo that president trump used to fire james comey, the fbi director. and it s widely believed that the firing of comey is going to be a part of mueller s investigation into whether or not the president was trying to interfere with or obstruct the justice department s investigation. so all of this is going to come to a head pretty quickly, pretty soon because we believe that mueller, once he s done staffing and looks at all of the evidence, will make a decision as to whether or not this becomes a full-blown investigation of the president, don. evan, thank you. stay with me. i want to bring in cnn political analyst carl bernstein, senior white house correspondent zef