actions. mr. president, enough is enough. innocent americans are dying and you only have yourself to blame. fulfill your oath of office. reverse your policies, end this crisis, and stop up the suffering. sadly we know that president biden's failures don't stop there. his reckless spending. doug our economy into a hole and sent the cost of living through the roof. we have the worst inflation in 40 years and the highest credit card debt in our nation's history. let that sink in. hardworking families are struggling to make ends meet today, and with soaring mortgage rates and sky high child care cost, they're also struggling to how to plan for tomorrow. the american people are scraping by. well, president biden proudly proclaims that bidenomics is working. goodness, you'll bless his heart. we know better. i'll never forget stopping at a gas station in chilton county one evening. the gentleman working the counter told me that after retiring, he had to pick up a job in his 70s so that he didn't have to choose between going hungry or going without his medication. he said, i did everything right. i did everything i was told to do. i worked hard, i saved, i was responsible. he's not alone. i hear similar concerns from fellow parents, whether i am walking with my friends or whether i'm at my kid's games. but let's be honest, it's been a minute since joe biden pumped gas, ran a carpool, or even pushed to go grocery cart. meanwhile, the rest of us see our dollar and we know it doesn't go as far. we see it every day, and despite what he tells you, our communities are not safer for years, the left has coddled criminals and defunded the police, all while letting repeat offenders walk free. the result is tragic but foreseeable from our small towns to america's most iconic city streets like life is getting more and more dangerous. and unfortunately, president biden's weakness isn't just hurting families here at home. he is making us a punchline on the world stage. look where i'm from . your word is your bond. but for three years, the president has demonstrated that america's word doesn't mean what it used to. from abandoning our allies in his desert estrous withdrawal from afghanistan to desperately pushing another dangerous deal with iran. president biden has failed. we've become a nation in retreat, and the enemies of freedom. they see an opportunity . putin's brutal aggression in europe has put our allies on the brink. iran's terrorist proxies have slaughtered israeli jews and american citizens. they've targeted commercial shipping, and they've attacked our troops nearly 200 times since october, killing three us soldiers and two navy seals. meanwhile, the chinese communist party is undercutting america's workers. china is buying up our farmland, spying on our military installations and spreading propaganda through the likes of tiktok. you see, the ccp knows that if it conquers the minds of our next generation, it conquers america. and what does president biden do? well, he bans tiktok for government employees, but creates an account for his own campaign. y'all you can't make this stuff up. look, we all recall when presidents faced national security threats with strength and resolve. that seems like ancient history, right now. our commander in chief is not in command. the free world deserves better than a dithering and diminished leader. america deserves leaders who recognize lies that secure borders, stable prices, safe streets, and a strong defense are actually the cornerstone bones of a great nation. just ask yourself, are you better off now than you were three years ago? there's no doubt we're at a crossroads and it doesn't have to be this way. we all feel it. but here's the good news we, the people are still in the driver's seat. we get to decide whether our future will grow brighter, or whether we'll settle for an america in decline. well, i know which choice our children deserve, and i know the choice the republican party is fighting for. we are the party of hard working parents and families and we want to give you and your children the opportunities to thrive and we want families to grow. its why we strongly support continued nationwide access to in vitro fertilization. we want to help loving moms and dads bring precious life into this world. wesley and i believe there is no greater blessing in life than our children. and that's why tonight i want to make a direct appeal to the parents out there and in particular to my fellow moms. many of whom i know will be up, tossing and turning at 2 a.m. wondering how you're going to be in three places at once, and then somehow still get dinner on the table. first of all, we see you. we hear you, and we stand with you. i know you're frustrated. i know you're probably disgusted by most of what you see going on in washington. and i'll be really honest with you, you're not wrong for feeling that way. look i get it. the task in front of us isn't an easy one, but i can promise you one thing. it is worth it. so i am asking you, for the sake of your kids and your grandkids, get into the arena. every generation has been called to do hard things. american greatness rests in the fact that we will always answer that call. it's who we are. never forget we are steeped in the blood of patriots who overthrew the most powerful empire in the world. we walk in the footsteps of pioneers who tamed the wild, and we now carry forward the same flame of freedom as the liberators of an oppressed europe. we continue to draw courage from those who bent the moral arc of the universe. and when we gaze upon the heavens, never forget that our dna contains the same ingenuity that put man on the moon. america has been tested before, and every single time we've emerged unbowed and unbroken in our history has been written with the grit of men and women who got knocked down. but we know their stories because they did not stay down. we are here because they stood back up. so now it's our turn, our moment to stand up and prove ourselves worthy of protecting the american dream. together we can reawaken the heroic spirit of a great nation. because america, we don't just have a rendezvous with destiny. we take destiny's hand and we lead it. our future starts around kitchen tables just like this, with moms and dads just like you. and you are. why i believe with every fiber of my being, that despite the current state of our union, our best days are still ahead. may god bless you and may god continue to bless these united states of america. >> all right. the republican response from junior senator from alabama, katie britt. she is 42 years old. she is a former chief of staff for one of the previous senators from alabama, richard shelby. and this is the job that the senator is from the republican party have have given her. caitlin collins, a fellow university of alabama graduate. what can you tell us about miss britt, and what did you think of her response? >> i'll tell you why republicans picked her. they they picked her because she is the youngest woman elected, the youngest republican woman elected to the senate. they believed that the fact that she's half biden's age would be an effective response to have her also at her kitchen table, talking about kitchen table issues, which they feel like president biden is the weakest on, and also the moment in alabama, of course, that no one could ignore. republicans there have been sent scrambling to protect ivf, to let clinics. they're open. i think a question also is she's on trump's vp short list. i think after that, the question is going to be if republicans felt like she met the moment in responding to a very fiery biden speech and forceful delivery that he had, where he addressed issues like the border and crime, which she mentioned there. i think that's going to be the big question of whether republicans feel that she met the moment. i'll tell you, i talked to multiple republicans on the hill today who were looking forward to this, and obviously, also, i should note, it's always a thankless task to deliver. it is indeed a thankless task and also very difficult to give a speech, basically by yourself in your kitchen, much easier for politicians to do it in a room where they can play off the crowd, anderson. jake, thanks very much. here with the panel in new york. ashley. alyssa, what do you think? >> so listen, katie britt, a rising star, no doubt among among republicans. i think it was a smart choice. she's somebody who's an incredibly impressive person. she ran a smart race in alabama, but i've got to say, the staging of this was bizarre to me, women can be both wives and mothers and also stateswomen. so to put her in a kitchen, not in front of a podium or in the senate chamber where she was elected after running a hard fought race, i think fell very flat and was confusing to some women watching it. i think that was a missed opportunity. i think her her focus on the border, on the economy, that's what republicans wanted to hear. the substance of her remarks, great. the staging just very, very bizarre. >> i want to play two sound bites from president biden's address, where i think some of the key moments was and we talked about this, he had done this in the last state of the union, where he was sort of trying to elicit a response from republicans. one is on tax cut to one is on immigration. let's play those back to back. >> january 6th lies about the 2020 election and the plots to steal the election poll posed a great gravest threat to us democracy since the civil war. but they failed. >> america stood. america stood strong and democracy prevailed. >> we must be honest. the threat to democracy must be defended. my predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6th. i will not do that. political violence has absolutely no place, no place in america. zero place. in november, my team began serious negotiations with a bipartisan group of senators. the result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set of border security reforms we've ever seen. oh, you don't think so? oh, you don't like that bill, that conservatives got together and said it was a good bill. i'll be. darn. that's amazing. >> that was summit. we played the wrong side for the first. but then that was some of his his do you think that was effective, david, yeah, i do look, first of all, i think he knew that was going to happen. and he was ready to do it. and he did it because there's a tremendous amount of hypocrisy associated with what happened. james lankford is, in fact, one of the most conservative members of congress. he spent months assiduously negotiating what would have been the strictest border bill in decades. and then it was tanked, and it was tanked, as the president said, because donald trump wanted it tanked. so he knew this moment was going to elicit a response, and he wanted to say exactly what he said. >> but it has nothing to do with the current problem and how we got here over the last three years. on day one, reversing all of donald trump's immigration policies by executive action, and the idea that after three years of telling the american people the border was secure after having unleashed this on the american people, on the executive and then saying, well, we didn't pass a bill, i understand it's all their fault. it's not it's no, i understand that you feel like you you feel and you're probably right. >> this is a good issue for republicans. but the public actually wants answers to it. this was an answer. and trump tanked it. >> yeah, but do you think the public believes joe biden has the answers? listen, i think the public believes that the bill i think if they saw the details of the bill and its particulars, they would say, yeah, those are good things and we ought to do that. >> and in fact, you would have said that too, if you were on if you were asked about this before it became an issue that that trump pulled the ripcord on scott the whole time joe biden has been president, people have been saying he's cowering to the left. >> he's too progressive on an issue that republicans say they care about. he presented one of the most conservative bills possible in the chamber tonight. one of your anderson's point, most conservative senators says that's true. yes. which took some courage because he i'm sure he knew the camera was going to be on him. so he's really discounting what you're saying right now is that that bill would have solved the problem. and if you want to be the party who says you want to take the future forward, then you have to solve problems. but that's not what's happening. and the person on the top. wait, let me finish. the person on the top of your ticket doesn't solve problems. he creates chaos. he tells people not to do their job. and that is what happened on the immigration bill and the president, joe biden is allowed to call it out. >> so the president, the president biden created the crisis, only went to the border because governor abbott gave some immigrants options to go to democratic cities and elevate this issue to be a national issue. and now, at the last minute and right before the fourth quarter, right before the end of the game, fellas, there's a there's a there's a there's a bill, there's a bill on the table. you can't get a bill on the table. >> there's a bill on the table, dave. that would solve it. or at least help address it. everybody agreed on it until trump came in and said, no, i see i see it somewhat differently in that there's there there is a problem there. >> and there's been a problem there for a while. it has gotten worse. every everybody has got a number that's too many. we hit our numbers democrats, and we couldn't find a partner. and i think that's not good. you wouldn't take yes for an answer. and i'm glad that biden called you out on it. >> let's go back to jake in dc. jake pierson, we are joined now by a very special guest who was in the house chamber for tonight's state of the union address, speaker emerita and democratic congresswoman from california nancy pelosi, speaker pelosi, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. so i have to say this was this may have been the highest stakes speech of president biden's long career in politics. it may have been the highest stakes state of the union address that i've ever seen. do you think he met the moment? >> oh, i think he did definitely . he actually, i should quote him and just say, maybe i should go home right now because i think what he did was spectacular. he did it with vigor. he did it with vision, with patriotism. and i think it was one of the finest state of the union addresses i have seen. and i've seen many. >> so obviously a lot of republicans are critical of it. one of the things that they're criticizing it for is for being political. and it was a very political state of the union address. >> well, it had some political aspects to it, mostly generated by the audience saying four more years, but the perhaps amnesia has set in on the disgraceful speech that donald trump gave to the chamber, the one you ripped up. well, there were so many disgraceful ones. i'm getting them. but this is the one where he gave a presidential medal to somebody who was, oh, rush, rush limbaugh. yeah. all that stuff and all he talked about was the election, the rest. and as speaker, i was offended because it is not a political rally. and by the way, he had what the convention at the white house, right. so, okay, let's get to what's important to america's working families instead of some of this. >> so he did mention you by name. president biden. yeah. can we roll that little clip? so you think the very idea of america's that we're all created equal and deserves to be treated equally throughout our lives? >> we've never fully lived up to that idea, but we've never walked away from it either. and i won't walk away from it. >> now. i'm optimistic. i really am, i'm optimistic. nancy hope you didn't hear it that time. hey, mr. >> he said, i'm optimistic. i'm i'm i'm optimistic. nancy, you didn't catch that the first time. i guess there's a lot of noise going on. >> noise? yeah >> why do you think he said that to you. do you, do you do you disagree with him privately about his optimism? >> no, no, i think he was saying i hope you agree that i delivered the message tonight. this was you said it's high stakes. one of the reasons it's high stakes is because cause the opposition, the person that he's running against, is such a low form. i always say he's doing a limbo contest with himself to see how low he can go. so this really important for the democratic candidate who is the incumbent president to be presidential, to show a path. and i think, quite frankly, while i missed the nancy part, i did love what he said at the end about two paths. you have a path that takes us to the path, narrowing our freedom in the history of our country. we have always expanded freedom from a constitution in which, thank god our founders made it amendable ending slavery, expanding the right to vote black men, women. as time goes by, roe v wade and the rest until this court narrowed freedom with the dobbs decision and threatening to say because privacy is not guaranteed in the constitution, and we are ignoring the precedent of the court, everything else is at stake. whether it's a marriage equality or whatever else. so this was a path to go back or a path to go to the future. and i think that he very clearly laid out a vision for the future based on values and really centered around america's working families, which has always been his commitment and quite frankly , i think tonight was a clear definition between the democrats and the republicans is what we stand for. and he has faced down big money, big money and guns. and one big money in pharma and one big money in fossil fuel industry. and one with legislation in the congress and a path with more to come, making wealthy people pay their fair share. >> dana. madam speaker, one of the clearly ad libbed moments was during the section about immigration and, i'm sure you saw the buttons that your colleagues across the aisle had, and he had one of those buttons, we believe it was given to him by marjorie taylor greene. and when she said something to him during his speech, he responded, i think we have that. let's listen to it. >> i didn't see any republican buttons. >> lincoln. lincoln. riley an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal. that's right. but how many of the thousands of people being killed by illegals to her parents, i say my heart goes out to you having lost children myself, i understand now you should have said undocumented, but it's not a big thing. >> okay? what's the big thing about marco? >> i was i actually wasn't even going to ask about that. i was just going to ask more about the moment. but you do think that he should have sent undocumented? that wasn't going to be my question. >> well, we usually say undocumented, he said. illegal i don't think it's a big deal. okay. i don't think it's a big deal, but but more broadly, because i think the his focus was on the sympathy for the family. yeah. it's a terrible tragedy that was going to be the sort of the basis of my question about it, which is, as you well know, maybe you didn't know about the buttons, there's been a lot of talk, a lot of news about this, this young woman who was a student at university of georgia, and she died and apparently was an undocumented immigrant and the fact that he was ready with that, with the button, with the response, what do you make of that when it comes to not just the substance, but also the performance? >> well, i think that it was that spontaneous. see, i don't know about the buttons, and you're telling me that they had buttons i didn't see? i didn't do too much schmoozing with the republicans before. usually we do, and we had some conversations, but none of the ones that came over to converse with us had those buttons on, so i didn't see the buttons. so we won't make a thing of the button. the president, i think, handled it very well. >> yeah. >> and i think i think he handled it very well. it's a terrible situation in that anybody losing a child or a family member, it's a terrible situation. but i think he handled it well. >> and you well know that one of the questions that, people were looking at, they were wanting to see how he performed when it comes to his age. >> yeah, i think he. >> do you think that do you think he put it to rest, at least for a short time? >> well, i thought he i thought he showed great vigor in the speech. sustained a level of strength in his speech for a long time, which would be hard for anyone at any age to give that performance. and i think that his enthusiasm for all of it was demonstrated. he's old. he said it. you know, i've been around, but i have wisdom and i think it's important for him to embrace his age, says one who is older than the president myself. with age comes wisdom, judgment, knowledge. and this president, when he was speaking, i was thinking at last, people are seeing the way we see them, which is when you go in there, you don't have to speak short a long hand to him. on subjects he's informed he's knowledgeable, he's been around, he knows the territory. he has a great vision for the country. he has great knowledge of the issues. he has great judgment. therefore because he has knowledge and he thinks in a strategic way about how to get things done. and his record as a president when we had the majority was equal, well on a par with lyndon johnson. and compared to franklin roosevelt for a two year period of their terms in office. so i think that his kind of making some humor about his age was okay. i i thought i thought he was great. what what are you going to do? you can't make yourself younger, but you have to show what you bring to the table at whatever your age is. and i think that it was important for him to embrace it. madam speaker, can't erase it. >> madam speaker, thank you so much for being here. we really appreciate it. thank you for your insights, aaron. >> i just want to say, you know, it's so interesting is ever one of the best speeches ever. >> okay, aaron, to you, jake, you know, it's interesting hearing the former speaker there, talk about how this would have been a hard speech for anyone to deliver. >> and i'm going to admit when right when he started, you know, they they send you the full speech, so print it out. and i and i go, okay, i knew this was long, but this was long. and then you looked at it and you saw lots of exclamation points, which was really just a symbol of how much he had, oops. how much he had worked on practice. it, how much he he knew this performance mattered. yeah. >> this was a this was a demonstration project, really. it was about demonstrate to americans that from the moment he walks into that room, that he's got the energy to stay through to the end. and, you know, by the end, he's still schmoozing afterwards. that's very important because that's what people wanted to see. and exclamation points. you know, he also puts tick marks next to the words where he needs to take a breath. he's been doing this ever since he started giving speeches 50 years ago because he. >> and did you hear that now that you've known, you knew that that's part of his practice. >> it's part of the reason. it's as kate knows better than i do. it's part of the reason why he starts early and needs to rehearse, because he knows he's got to. this stutter never goes away. it's been a part of his life forever, and he mastered it at an early age. but it comes back. and so when you hear him trip up in a speech like that, this is something that he's dealt with for, you know, all of his life. >> and even in it, with all the clear, you know, the short sentences and the and the and the, you know, plethora of exclamation points to where he wanted to put emphasis. and there was a lot of ad libbing. and we started noticing that you started noticing that early. just play a couple for anybody who just joining us now, a couple of examples of when that happened. >> republicans can cut social security and get more tax breaks to the wealthy. i will that's the proposal. oh no, you guys don't want another $2 trillion tax cut. i kind of thought that's what your plan was. well, that's good to hear. you're not going to cut another $2 trillion for the super wealthy. that's good to hear. in november, my team began serious negotiations with a bipartisan group of senators. the result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set of border security reforms we've ever seen. oh, you don't think so? oh, you don't like that bill, >> you know, that was the repartee that he clearly was seeking out. yes. and then and then. but there was also these were just moments that he was creating, and there were many other moments that he just added some much more extensively than others. >> yes. because he was very comfortable. and i think one thing that was great about this, and i imagine this was probably some of the calculation here, is, you know, there's been a lot of, you know, as people have talked about what he's like behind closed doors and have said, you know, his mental acuity is strong. you know, the criticism has been well, then let's see it, you know, then let's see some of these things that go on behind closed doors that that's a great example. i mean, that i can tell you that's how he is in meetings. you know, if you're going back and forth with him, you raise an issue and he says, now wait a minute. no, actually, that's not it. and you know, he's very, he's very on top of that back and forth. and so i think it was great for them to, to be able to kind of, for him to be able to manufacture those kinds of moments, to show people that, you know, he's he is more than capable of that. >> back it was a moment when wall street came up in a pejorative sense in the speech. and then he said, well, they're not bad guys. and we're sitting here, right? and kate interjects to us, oh, you know, then he's going to tell this thing about how in delaware, it's okay, because the corporate tax laws, i'm not against corporations and capitalism. that was not in the speech. but then there it came, almost word for word. i mean, you knew what was coming because he knows who he is. >> and so when he's talking about these issues, he talks about things from a place of his own experience. and every, you know, as he's explaining where he stands on things, he really he takes the time to talk about why he feels that way, why his why he you know, why he's been shaped that way. that's that's the perfect example. i mean, you know, and you saw that frequently throughout the speech again because he was comfortable. >> and what struck me something that was very new was the way he talked about age at the end. you know, six months ago, he wasn't talking about it that way. he wasn't really comfortable addressing it head on. he would make an offhand comment, but i think what you heard tonight was the beginning of a strategy for how he's going to talk about it, which is it's not the age of how old you are, it's about the age of your ideas. are they fresh? are they forward looking? that's something that, you know, at one point he said, young or old, i've had a sense of our north star. i think there is a way in which we're going to hear about age for the next eight months. it's a reality. but as much as you perform and you show people, look, judge this performance for yourself, but also talk about it and acknowledge it and say that this is a big issue for this country. and i take it seriously and ending on it knowing that people will remember that. >> right. not trying to bury it. yeah. all right. of course, staying with us is our special coverage continues. coming up, the big question tonight is how the president's speech played with actual voters. so we are now getting the first results of cnn's exclusive flash poll of americans who watched the state of the union, and we will have that for you. after a quick break. >> cidp disrupts cidp derails. >> let's be honest, cidp sucks, but living with cidp doesn't have to. >> when you sign up at shining through cidp .com, you'll find inspiration and real patient stories, helpful tips, reliable information, and more. >> cidp can be tough, but finding hope just got a little easier. sign up at shining through cidp .com. >> be heard. be hopeful. be you . >> americans are doing their best to get by. but with an uncertain economy and prices still rising, budgets are stretched thin, and washington's new capitol regulation is another bill americans can't afford. basel three end game will make loans, utilities and groceries more expensive and make it harder to access credit. families, seniors, farmers and small businesses are already struggling to make ends meet. washington needs to scrap basel three endgame and start over again. >> introducing ned's plaque psoriasis. he thinks his flaky red patches are all people. >> see, otezla is the number one prescribed pill to treat plaque psoriasis. matt otezla can help you get clearer skin and reduce itching and flaking with no routine blood tests required. doctors have been prescribing otezla for nearly a decade. otezla is also approved to treat psoriatic arthritis. don't use otezla if you're allergic to it. serious allergic reactions can happen. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. some people take otezla had depression, suicidal thoughts or weight loss, upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur with clear skin. >> movie night is a groovy night when i was your age, we never had anything like this. what? 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>> well, anderson, we knew heading into the evening the major issues and the themes that the president wanted to hit on what we didn't know was how he was going to land the delivery. you know, there was a moment where he got into the chamber, and when he got to the podium, he joked, if i were smart, i'd go home. now, after getting that warm reception from a lot of the lawmakers in the room, you can easily imagine that some of the aides that were watching had that sort of joke in the back of their minds as he started speaking. well, the white house and campaign aides that i've been speaking tonight, they are very, very happy with the way that the speech was delivered. they said that there were applause and cheers, both here at the white house and also at the wilmington campaign headquarters, where aides were spending the evening watching the speech unfold on their television sets. you know, they felt like he was high energy. he landed his major lines. they appreciated the banter that he had with republicans as he was trying to call them out for inaction and some of their policies. obviously, there were no major mistakes. so all in all, they were incredibly happy with the way that the speech was delivered. one campaign official i was speaking to was saying they also liked the split screen of moments when the president was talking about some of the day to day issues, the work that the administration has done on issues like removing lead pipes or fighting big pharma, and those moments where republican lawmakers in the house chamber did not stand up, obviously gets sort of that contrast that the president wanted to make between himself and his vision versus the republican vision for the country. and in a speech where the delivery was just as important as the actual words that he said. i think that's probably one of the biggest reasons that aides that i've been speaking to have been so pleased with how the speech went. anderson. all right. >> mj, the white house, thank you. we now have the first results from our exclusive flash poll from people who watched president biden's state of the union address. cnn political director david chalian is here to break it all down. so, david, how are our viewers reacting to the speech? >> yeah, anderson, i should just remind everyone this is a poll of speech watchers. so it's not a poll that is representative of the electorate overall. >> the way people are used to watching polls. in fact, in this sample of speech watchers, which is normal, it's a little more democratic than the public is at large, because we find this when a democrat is president, more democrats tend to overrepresent and tune in to the speech. >> same thing happens on the republican side when a republican is president. they are make up. here is about 37% democratic, 30% republican, 33% independent. so about eight points more democrat than the country is as a whole. with that in mind, take a look at these results here. reaction to biden's speech. among those watching it tonight, 35% said they had a very positive reaction, 29% somewhat positive reaction. that's 64% their total and 35% had a negative reaction. take a look at that very positive number. how does that compare with biden's speeches to joint sessions of congress passed here? well, you can see 35% this year, 34% in 2023, 41% in 2022, and 51% in 2021. his poll numbers go down here with reviews of his speech, kind of like they have overall with his job approval ratings. biden's policies will they move the united states in the right direction or wrong direction? 62% said they're going to move in the right direction, 38% said they're going to move the country in the wrong direction. but keep an eye on that 62, because we also asked how people felt that way prior to the speech. and if you compare here before the speech started, these speech watchers, only 45% said biden's policy would move the us in the right direction with watching the speech that went up from 45% to 62, again, sort of within the norm of what we've seen in the last couple of years. for him, this kind of increase in support with people watching the speech. >> anderson, fascinating to see that that change is that, well, let's talk about it with the panel. i i think i'm seeing that in my text messaging people. >> i think people went into the speech. i'm talking about people who are, you know, friendly to biden, probably going to vote for biden. but feeling depressed, feeling distressed, not sure if biden was up to it. not sure if his policies were going to help them at all. and i think he that those numbers that you go from 45% to 62, that's as much you can do in a speech and i think people feeling reassured that we've got a fighter in this race and that we've got an agenda we can get behind. >> you know, i was thinking before the speech, there are a couple of audiences here. if i was on the campaign staff, right. there are people who are in biden's corner to van's point. and then there are people, perhaps, like me, who are i'm going to vote for biden. but i needed something tonight to now go and tell other people to vote for biden and that's what happened tonight. and these numbers prove it. and i think, you know, if i'm a campaign worker, that job is hard. and working on this campaign right now, i have on first hand account. it's hard. this gives them the steam they need. and i heard last night from top white house officials, and now he is going to get on the road. his cabinet is going to get on the road, and they are going to take this to the people. >> let me ask you, what was it tonight that gave you something to tell other people about? >> i think when he talked about tax credits to buy homes, that talks to like a lot of people, you know, the thing that was funny about katy brit's response is, i'm not married and i'm not a mom. so what about me, katy? who are you talking like? and a lot of black women fall into that, that category. so it felt like i didn't have a place in her party of the republican party. but joe biden was saying, i want kids to be able to read, i want to fund hbcus. i want to fund minority serving institutions. republicans didn't stand. i cut student loan debt. and so i can now say to people, this is what he some he has already done and some he will continue to do, but he's been doing that for three years, three years. >> none of this is new tonight. this is what joe biden's been doing for three years. and the numbers suck. so i don't know what he's going to do to effectually, you know, communicate. >> well. he's got to try. he's going to have to first of all, i mean, don't assume that. don't don't assume, don't don't assume that, you know, these these proposals, some of which are new and some of which are recycled proposals are known widely to americans. i don't think they are. he you know, but the second thing is it's going to be a comparative process. so it's not just about what he's proposing, but what is on the other side on all of these things. and that's why he brought up, brought up the tax cut. let me just make a couple of points. i think he had a strong night, and i think he had a strong night, in part because of the economic agenda that he outlined. but mainly because, as these guys said, he had a, you know, a very strong pulse and he had a fighting instinct. and democrats needed to see his base, needed to see that. but what you point out is really important going on. just let me just finish this one point. just he's going to hit the road now in any state of the union speech, the audience is limited. what you want to do is then take it out on the road. he's going to a swing states he's going to take. hopefully he'll emphasize the economic piece. and the only thing that i would say is i still think that if you ask people who watch the speech, the triumphalism about where the economy is today is probably not matching, not matching their mood. >> was there enough? i feel your pain, right? like the bill clinton. there's a lot of numbers, but was there not? i feel i understand that you still feel it at home. i didn't i didn't get that sense. >> i think they had a clear mission. i mean, i'll concur with you. democrats are going to love it. it was a speech only for democrats. there was nothing in there for. i didn't hear anything in there. much for nikki haley supporters. truthfully you didn't hear anything, a reference i didn't i didn't hear anything much in there for swing vote independents who have anxiety about different things. i, i don't think his stuff on ukraine and abortion rights and so on would appeal to intentionally voters. i heard a partizan president who is was jumping from soft constituency one to the other. they're looking at polling every day. we got it's like whack a mole. i got to shore up these guys. we're worried about palestinians. i got to shore up. these people are worried about this and but they're all democratic. and so the speech was built to jump from those lily pads, but it wasn't built a unified despite his rhetoric about unity. that's not what it was for. so i'm not surprised democrats are telling you it was great because that's who it was for and no one else. >> well, and at the end of the day, elections are about contrast. and while this speech was being given, the former president who he's running against spent his time posting, commenting on how old biden looks, how his hair is thinning out, and just like mindless critiques throughout, not policy, not substance, it was an opportunity for a campaign that i've actually praised that this is trump's best campaign yet to be putting out policy contrasts, and instead he was giving it to his worst instincts, which are only going to see more of on the campaign trail. but i did think that biden actually threw a couple of little lines to the nikki voters out there within the first three minutes of the speech, he quoted ronald reagan and then went into this generation defining issue of supporting ukraine. there are american voters, old school republican voters, who will not be with a republican party if they do not get aid to ukraine. >> yeah, and i do see it differently in that it was partizan and it's an unusually so for state of the union. but you know, regular working folks health care cost too much. right. and he had an answer for that. groceries cost you much. he had an answer for that. you can't buy a house. you can't buy a car. rent is too high. he really was giving people like me something to go out and say, this dude is going to go out here and fight to get these prices down. and he's already fought to get, you know, certain medicines cheaper. so somebody tells me, well, he had nothing for us. he's not going to do anything. he doesn't matter. he is going to fight for an agenda that is very different than donald trump. >> can i ask you a question? yes. do you think people want answers on those difficult issues that you mentioned from someone who refuses to take responsibility for any of it? that, to me is the most maddening thing about this presidency. this guy has repeatedly said, the buck stops here, i'm in charge. i'm going to i'm going to, i'm going to be responsible for this. he takes no responsibility. so how do you compare to someone when they won't take responsibility to trump? i he's the president. no, no. >> but what what on these on these economic issues. what are you talking about? he's been working on this prescription drug issue. he's been working on education because he's been working on these things. >> inflation, rents. but just remember, interest rates. >> remember, in order to speak, 18% of people think that biden has helped him. >> i just feel like we're not being honest about the state of our government right now. joe biden cannot do it all, and we have people he donald trump, perfectly legitimate, and neither can donald trump do didn't do anything really, in my opinion, but definitely couldn't do it all. neither does joe biden. and that's not how our government works. we have a house, we have a senate, we have governors, he said in the speech . oh, you want my money that i got you in the infrastructure bill? 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>> anyone who dares insult me or my country shall feel my fury. yeah. good regime streaming exclusively on max. >> president biden delivering a forceful and often fiery state of the union address tonight, repeatedly attacking donald trump. not by name, though democrats often cheering, republicans sometimes cheering during this unusually political and very interactive speech before congress. let's go to manu raju. he's on capitol hill. he was in the house chamber during the state of the union address. so mono, you know, you were there. you were watching the interjections in the back and forth and now having a chance to talk to some of the people involved in those exchanges. >> yeah. that's right. in fact, it got pretty tense inside the house chamber. republicans in particular, weren't some of them heckling the president, including one congressman, derrick van orden of wisconsin, the republican yelled out lies when joe biden criticized donald trump during this speech. and i just caught up with van orden, and i asked him whether it was appropriate for a member of the house to push back like he did, and he defended his remarks. why did you allow the president was lying? >> the president should have started in an end as his state of the union address by apologizing to the american people. he's let 8 million illegal immigrants in to the country. he opened the border and you know, he can close it. so what he said there in the state of the union, a tremendous amount of it was just flat out fabrication. >> you're obviously a member of the house. is it appropriate for you to yell out lies when the president is addressing you guys? >> is it appropriate to tell the truth? >> so i went back and forth like that for some time. so as you can see there, very clearly defending his remarks. but i just caught i've caught up with a lot of members of the house and the senate, democrats and republicans. most of the remarks are mostly coming on around party lines. most democrats saying this is a great speech, republicans sharply criticizing it. some members of the on the on the left, though, aaron not happy with how the president talked about israel, wanted the calls for an immediate cease fire. and one important member who i just spoke caught up with to the speaker of the house, mike johnson. i asked him about whether or not it alleviated any of his concerns about the president's mental acuity, and he indicated that it did not. >> aaron. very, very interesting. and watching him early on, standing when the president talked about nato and then, you know, just watching his facial expressions throughout. all right, manu, thank you very much. and i want to go to jeff zeleny now because he's joining us from michigan, which obviously is a crucial battleground state in this year's presidential election. and in the context, jeff, of what manu just mentioned, right, israel and gaza and how the president handled those two issues in his address tonight. how are voters where you are reacting to that and the rest of the speech? >> well, aaron is the president takes his state of the union message on the road, of course, one stop. >> not surprisingly, will be here in battleground michigan. you're right. >> the economy and foreign policy front and center on the minds of voters. but i can tell you, i was at a watch party tonight with biden's supporters and there were feelings of anxiety and apprehension among his own supporters going into the speech. that quickly changed as the speech wore on, we caught up with one small business owner here, rihanna knowles, who said she was impressed and surprised by the president. >> overall, it was a different side of him that came out. he was, like i said, very confident, very reassuring of the things that he has done for our country. >> and i didn't get a glimpse of anything involving age or the lack thereof, of being able to deliver and be the president of the united states. >> and not just the performance, but the policy as well, particularly that populist message. there much applause in terms of the high housing costs and the rest. aaron, one question mark, of course, is the situation in israel and gaza. there is much concern and anger here among the muslim american community. of course, that did not go away tonight. but there were many people who were pleased that the president addressed it. getting humanitarian aid into gaza. that, of course, is something that will play out over the next eight months. but the president comes here next week. certainly a bounce in his step and a sign of relief from his supporters. aaron jeff zeleny, thank you. >> and more reaction to the president's speech ahead, viewers. and now voters are actually sounding off in our exclusive flash poll. so we'll get you a very early poll here. and we're joined by a key member of congress. stay with us. >> vegas. the story of sin city next sunday at ten on cnn. >> look, we know it's going to be a big change, but it's the right thing to do for all of us. it's just your mother and i want different things, which is why we got sling tv so we can watch live and free tv all in one app. >> that's right. >> dad gets live sports and news , and i get my reality shows. >> and when we don't want to pay your mom and i can still get hundreds of channels for free. >> this thing is really keeping this family together. >> you have no idea. >> you have no idea. sling the live tv you love sling y'all. >> wayfair is the talk of the neighborhood. come on. >> we wanted a recliner, but it had to be chic, so we wayford it. >> wayfair for the win. >> hey neighbor looking fancy fancy? 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>> let's talk about one of the most important substantive issues. i know it's very important to you, and that's immigration. an listen to what the president said on that. >> that bipartisan bill would hire 1500 more security agents and officers, 100 more immigration judges, to help tackle the backlog of 2 million cases, 4300 more asylum officers and new policies so they can resolve cases in six months instead of six years. now >> you could see senator lankford mouthing the words, that's true. how do you think that's going to play, particularly given i know that you and some others are trying to find another way. >> yeah. you know, for the audience, don't give hope or give up hope. quite yet. there's still a chance here, but that aside, look, let's, let's let's get some facts straight in the president's fy 24 budget request, he cut cbp by 10, cut ice funding by 15. all right, we replenished that funding. now he's asking for more in the supplemental. great. there's not really a problem with republicans, on on what that money is our problem is that it doesn't come with policy changes. and look, i applaud the efforts in the senate to try and make those policy changes. like i said, i'm not willing to give up on trying to find a solution on those policy changes. we need to. and i tell my fellow republicans like, look, this is the one time where biden actually wants it. now he wants it for cynical reasons. he wants it because it helps him in his in his election. but you know what? if that's what it takes to stop illegal immigration, i'm all about it, you need a lot more than more immigration judges, though. to decrease that timeline, you need to actually stop the flow, which means you need to disincentivize people coming, which means which means in his case, you need to stop paroling. everybody. okay he's he's using loopholes in the law to parole way, way too many people. and that's what's causing this draw into the country. >> it needs to stop for republicans to i mean, he used it as a cudgel against your party tonight. i mean, was it a mistake to not just do something even if it wasn't all of the things that you want? >> yeah. so, so politically speaking, i don't think biden's in a good place here, you know, he's still got a depending on what poll you're looking at between an 18 and 30% approval rating when it comes to immigration on the southern border. that's not good. people know that. it's his fault. like, two things can be true at once. republicans should be trying to get new laws in place, but also biden has done a lot to make the situation worse. i mean, it it happened as soon as he took office because he rescinded all of trump's old policies, rescinded those executive orders, whether that's remain in mexico, whether that's the northern triangle, asylum cooperation agreements, those things were working. and then there was a signal sent by the biden administration that people should just come in. it did happen. >> i mean, they said, i just have to we have to correct the record. i mean, they literally said, do not come. that's president said, that's fine. >> but actions speak louder than words. >> the dhs secretary said that just she whispered it into a microphone in a very awkward way. >> you were right. the czar went down once and said that you are correct. but their policy has said the exact opposite. their policies were. you're going to come in and you're going to get paroled, heck, you can have a notice to appear in however many months. that's that's what the policies actually did. and that's the word that actually gets to immigrants when they come. >> so what's the right word then from your perspective, especially a guy from texas who wants to get this done, is it frustrated? is it annoyed that it is fair to say that this would have happened? and you're right, it took president biden. maybe he's in office 100 days, a thousand days when the negotiations started, maybe took him that long to get started. but she did have a bill that would do a lot of things that you think are long overdue. and donald trump said, stop it. and the republicans agreed. that's fair. right? >> i don't know that. he said, stop it. i don't know that he's on the record saying, stop it. i will tell you, don't lose hope. there's a few good people, democrats and republicans don't lose hope that we can also that we can both beat russia and get some decent reforms on the border. i am not losing hope on that. we have a very limited time frame to do it, but i'm not losing hope on that. >> congressman, stay right there because we have some more results from our flash poll that i want to get. and then we'll come back to you. david chalian. hey jake. >> yeah, in our flash poll. and again, this is a poll of speech watchers, we asked questions about biden's economic policies presented tonight by the president, do his economic policies move the united states in the right direction or wrong direction? speech watchers in our flash poll, 56% said biden economic policies move will move the us in the right direction. 44% say the wrong direction. now take a look at the pre speech versus post speech on this. 45% of speech watchers before the speech said president biden's economic policies would move the us in the right direction. that goes up to 56% after the speech. so he makes some progress with those watching the speech on the economy. but look at his trend on the economy in these state of the union addresses. you see that 56% right direction number that he gets tonight. it's his lowest. it's ten points below the 66. who said that. who watched the speech last year, jake. >> interesting. david chalian and as david noted, congressman, this is with a more democratic audience than is representative of the nation as a whole, because it's a democratic president. john, your thoughts on the flat? >> well, i want to ask the language. i think part of it is the language here. when you go home, right? forget democrat, republican when you go home and you're just talking to people, how do they describe what's happening here? that's a slightly better number for the president, but obviously that's an issue on which he's way underwater here, he said inflation is getting better. when i travel, people don't use that word as much. they use gas or food or store. how are people talking about this at home? and just to be as fair as possible, is it better now than it was six months ago or a year ago? >> it's better, but we don't want. i always caution people when you when you give blame or credit to a president. if you're going to do that from a from an unemotional, analytical perspective, you need to tie a policy to that outcome. and we don't do that enough in america. and that's our media's fault. it's everybody's fault. we're not tying policy to actual outcomes. so i want to know what biden did exactly to bring inflation down. you can call it the inflation reduction act all day long. that didn't do anything to bring inflation down. more spending does not bring inflation down. what happened more likely is the economy bouncing back because we have, you know, 250 years of history of building a dynamic economy. americans are resilient. but the reality is, is that while inflation has come down, it's still higher than when he took office. and he's not doing anything from a policy perspective to make that better. he's raised taxes. that's not going to be good on inflation. he's massively increased a lot of regulations that make it harder to manufacture, make it harder to produce energy. that's not going to have a deflationary effect. it's just not, and so the rebuilding of supply chains that were crippled under covid lockdowns, that's more likely what's what you can attribute to a to a decrease in inflation. and i don't think biden should or is getting any credit for that. >> do you think senator katie britt did a good job with the republican response? >> i was busy prepping for this, and i didn't get a chance to really watch it. so i have no comment. i was busy prepping for you guys. >> can i follow up with something you said to jake a second ago? you said that you weren't aware of anything. you know, the comment about taking away women's reproductive rights. you said you're not aware of anything that would do that. former president trump is talking about coming out in support of a 16 week federal abortion ban. do you think it would be a mistake if he came out in support of that? >> well, by the way, that's a very different policy than that. i would i understood the president to say in the state of the union, which was just an all out ban. >> well, he was getting at roe versus wade, though. >> sure. okay. and there are states. but but there's a massive difference right, between a 16 week ban at the federal level. but would you versus a zero wait. oh a 16 week easily. you know why? because 65% of americans support that. i mean that if you want to talk middle ground, man, that's the easiest, most moderate place to be. you know what? you know what the laws are in europe, right? liberal europe, they're mostly 12 weeks. and you talk to somebody from france and they're like, they think it's an abomination that we would kill the baby at 20 weeks. so, you know, 16 weeks is frankly probably too moderate. you know, and this and this is long standing polling. you go to pew research, you see what americans opinions are. >> do you think he should endorse something shorter than 16 weeks? >> i'm pretty pro-life. so you know, i'm good with i'm good with. there should never be abortions of convenience, right? you know, and then we can have harder conversations about exceptions. but look, the 16 week would be a very, very moderate stance to take. and when you're when you're doing it from a national level, politically that's probably not a bad idea. and it also it also can can can save republicans in many ways because it at least shows that we have a position. and so, you know, lindsey graham proposed this. i think it was a 15 week ban some while back. and he got a lot of heat from from a lot of different angles on that. but there was some genius to it because it actually shows that we at least have a position, you know, maybe not, may not be my favorite position, but it's certainly better than the current position of oh yeah, sure, kill a baby when they have ten fingers and ten toes and in a heartbeat. and you know, they're basically they're a baby. so i don't think that kills us, i really don't. and if it does, you know what? i'm happy to stand for what i think is right. >> congressman dan crenshaw, republican from texas, thanks so much for coming by at this late hour. really appreciate it, aaron. >> all right, jake, and joining us now a special guest of first lady jill biden during tonight's state of the union address in the context of reproductive rights. they were just talking about the former first lady of california and niece of the late us president john f kennedy and journalist maria shriver and maria i appreciate your time so much. you know, we saw you there in the audience and you rode to the capitol. i know in the motorcade, president and first lady had a bit of time with them after the address, and what was the president's feeling and the first lady's feeling after the address about how he did? >> well, i didn't talk to the first lady after the address. >> i spoke to her briefly before. >> well, i was up in the white house where the guests that were going to be in the box with her, we were all congregated there, and she came by and spoke to all of us. >> i've been working with her the last 8 or 9 months on this white house initiative on women's health research. she was excited about the announcement tonight. $12 billion for women's health research. she's excited to get that going. and what he said to me when i was walking out, he came back after making his way through the capitol, the rotunda there. and when we took pictures, the guests that had been in the box, when i went to take the picture, he said, i want you to know that i'm going to stay on this women's health research, and we're going to get the money and we're going to do the research. so he's committed to it. she's committed to it. and that was a very brief conversation. i didn't ride over with them. i rode, rode over in the bus with the other 20 guests that were in the first lady's box. >> and i know that obviously women's health research is focused on a lot of things, you know? yes cardio, menopause, it's much broader than reproductive rights, but obviously i think that's what's really important, erin, because i think, you know, so much of when we talk about women's health, there's so much of what's in the news is focused on reproductive health and abortion, but there's a whole lifespan and health span for women. there's very little research on menopause and endometriosis, on heart disease, on ms, on alzheimer's, two thirds of those with alzheimer's are women, 80% of those with autoimmune women. how do women age? we don't know any of these things because we haven't done the research. so this is going to look at the breadth and the depth of women's health issues, which are vast. and i hope we can have that conversation because as i travel across this country, that's the conversation women want to have. >> and i the president did speak forcefully tonight about women as a group talking about how they're more than half the population. i just wanted to play one clip where he was particularly impassioned. here he is. >> those bragging about overturning roe v wade have no clue about the power of women, but they found out when reproductive freedom was on the ballot. we won in 2022 and 2020 and we're winning again in 2024. >> there are a lot of issues for women, but abortion obviously has been one that the democrats have been betting will fuel and fire the democratic women base. there was a kaiser family foundation study though poll yesterday, maria, that i found interesting. only 1 in 5 democratic women say that abortion is the top issue, and it's only the top issue for 12% of voters overall. does that surprise you? i mean, do you expect that that number would be higher? >> well, i think if you look at i don't look at women just in terms of that issue, i look at women across the board. i think women are interested in the economy. women are interested in starting their own businesses. women are interested in family leave and women are interested in their health. i mean, talk to any woman in this country and she will talk about the story of her health, whether it's migraines, perimenopause, menopause, as i said, endometriosis. she'll talk about being gaslit by doctors. she'll talk about trying to get time off from work to go to doctors. so i think that kind of just focusing on one issue misses the boat about what women are thinking about, what they are talking about. they're talking about their mental health, their emotional health, their spiritual health, their physical health. they're, you know, taking care of children. they're taking care of aging parents. they have a lot on their plate. reproductive health is one thing. it's a galvanizing issue for a certain part of the female population. but there's a lot more on the plates of most women. >> you know, the speech ended and you were there with the president talking about age and addressing and a really the elephant in the room and head on in a way that evan osnos was just saying moments ago was a bit different than he had. right? it wasn't a joking, passing reference. it was straight on. and it was interesting in the context of your uncle jfk, it was the youngest president ever elected. right. and we're now facing an election which will see the oldest president ever elected, no matter who wins. but you've spent time with this president quite a bit of time and you were there tonight. so what's your impression. what do you say to people who say president biden is not fit to serve. he is too old to serve another time? >> i don't believe that. and i think this is a person who's a decent man, who's devoted his life to public service, who will defend democracy, who wants to invest in women, who wants to invest in infrastructure, who wants to invest in making life better for everybody in this country? i look when i look at somebody who's running for senate, who's running for governor, who's running for president, i know enough that you have to look at also, who are the people surrounding that person who's in their cabinet, who's in their main office? who do they rely on for information? who do they rely on to make decisions? the presidency isn't just one person in, you know, in a room by themselves. it's who they surround themselves with. it's who will move them forward. and i think this president is surrounded by really competent, really capable people who will defend democracy and will do the right thing for this country. >> maria shriver, thank you very much. we all appreciate it. thank you. and coming up, president biden coming out swinging on russia's threat to ukraine and the world, calling out putin by name, waiting until nearly the end of his speech to though address the israel-hamas war and the crisis in gaza. we're going to go live to both ukraine and jerusalem for reaction next. >> some of you believe you hate me, but i know you love me. >> they want you to fill. we have to crush them. >> what happens now? >> the regime streaming exclusively on max with fast signs, create factory grade visual solutions to perfect your process. >> fast signs make your statement. >> if you have graves disease, gritty eyes could be more than a rough patch. >> people with graves could also get thyroid eye disease or ted, which may need a different doctor to find a ted eye specialist at. is it ted .com? 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>> i engaged in an affair with another man. did you want to be outed? >> united states of scandal with jake tapper. >> i've got to get a therapist. after having an interview with jake tapper new episodes next sunday at nine on cnn. >> welcome back. we are getting reaction here in the united states and around the world to president biden's rather politically charged state of the union address. here are some of the key moments on capitol hill tonight. >> mr. speaker, the president of the united states. >> if anybody in this room thinks putin will stop at ukraine, i assure you he will not. now, my predecessor, a former republican president, tells putin, quote, do whatever the hell you want. that's a quote, a former president actually said that bowing down to a russian leader, i think it's outrageous. it's dangerous, and it's unacceptable. my predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6th. i will not do that. this is the moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. here's the simple truth. you can't love your country only when you win. those bragging about overturning roe v wade have no clue about the power of women, but they found out when reproductive freedom was on the ballot. we won in 2022 and 2020, and we're winning again in 2024 because of you that tonight we can proudly say the state of our union is strong and getting stronger. in november, my team began serious negotiations with a bipartisan group of senators. the result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set of border security reforms we've ever seen . oh, you don't think so? not really. i. lincoln. lincoln. riley an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal. we can fight about fixing the border, or we can fix it. i'm ready to fix it. i know it may not look like it, but i've been around a while. when you get to be my age, certain things become clearer than ever. the very idea of america is that we're all created equal and deserves to be treated equally throughout our lives. we've never fully lived up to that idea, but we've never walked away from it either. and i won't walk away from it now. >> so many different components to that speech. but let's see, right now how the president's foreign policy message played with the americans who did watch his speech tonight. david chalian is back with more results from our exclusive flash poll. david. >> yeah. jake. and again, just a reminder, this is a poll of speech watchers, more democrats tune in to watch a democrat president, a democratic president speak. and so overall, it skews a little more democratic than the public overall. but we asked both about ukraine and israel and take a look at the results. president biden's proposed level of u.s. aid to ukraine among speech watchers tonight, 34% said too much of a proposed level of u.s. aid, 49. the plurality here says about right, 16% says not enough when it comes to proposed level of u.s. support for israel, 28% of speech watchers says said too much, 53% a clear majority says about right. 20% of speech watchers said not enough. and anderson, interestingly, we see an age divide on that question substantially more people under the age of 45 says it's too much support for israel, whereas if you're over 45, only 22% say that. all right. >> david chalian, thanks very much. let's go live to two key regions mentioned during tonight's speech. cnn's clarissa ward joins us from jerusalem. and cnn's nick paton walsh is in odessa, ukraine. clarissa, let's start with you. president biden made a case for gaza to receive more humanitarian aid. he talked about building a port. how do you think that's likely to play in in israel? and also just the logistics of that. >> i think that, you know, these were some strong words that we heard from president biden for the israeli leadership. he talked about how aid cannot be, quote, a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip. >> he impressed upon them the need to get aid into gaza. >> but i have to tell you, anderson, that is actually not a popular viewpoint here. we attended a protest yesterday where people are trying to block aid from getting into gaza. and you might think that that's sort of a fringe movement. but according to the top polling agency here in israel, some 68% of israelis believe that aid should not be getting into gaza. and that is because of a conviction that they hold a belief that there is no evidence to support, but that they hold that all the aid is simply going into hamas's hands. now, the construction of this pier that president biden talked about, that obviously would provide aid, much needed direct access to get that aid in. you might remember that the us had sent a huge ship full of flour that was sitting in ashdod. the israeli financial ministry minister, rather blocking that from getting into gaza. so this pier would potentially circumvent the kind of politics around this. but the timeline we're talking 30 to 60 days potentially. that's potentially two months away. anderson, the situation in gaza obviously deteriorating by the minute. and, you know, just really desperate situation. i think for palestinians listening to this speech, they will see it as too little, too late. and, you know, they believe firmly that biden's policy of publicly supporting and privately pressuring israel has failed. and that that is why we are seeing this catastrophe unfolding in gaza. >> anderson and nick, to you in odessa, russia's war against ukraine was one of the first things that the president talked about tonight, calling for more military aid to be provided. that's something ukraine obviously desperately needs right now, as you have been reporting over just this last week. i mean, you've been talking to troops who are literally running out of ammunition. we used to fire 80 shells a day, or now we're only firing ten. yeah i'm sure hearing that speech, they'll be heartened by the fact that it was pretty much the first thing of substance. >> he came to a tall making comparisons to his moment on the podium there, to roosevelt in 1941, making, frankly, a not particularly subtle comparison between putin being on the march. now in europe and hitler being on the march back then in 1941, and trying to sound the urgency, frankly, of the moment for american security and european security that we're seeing here now because of the crisis ukraine is facing, because of the lack of funding. but essentially, two, we didn't have some magical new policy wheeled out here to get over that republican roadblock. and indeed, the republicans and their rebuttal didn't even seem to address this heartily themselves either. so i think ukrainians will hear some sense of backing for how prominently ukraine was in his discussion there and how he sounded that alarm about what an imminent threat that is for us security as well. that 1941 comparison, you know, is stark, frankly, to stand there and say we are on the brink of potentially another world war. not exactly the words he used, but the timing you've got to bear in mind, anderson, you know, three years after 1941 came 1944. and while biden said he doesn't want american troops on the ground here in ukraine, his plan is not for that. by 1944, they certainly were. so i think it's a deeply serious series of comments. we heard about ukraine. but again, no way of getting around that roadblock. the $60 billion isn't suddenly here. there are other mechanisms potentially for frozen russian assets that are being floated. that wasn't put out tonight. and so i think maybe some ukrainians seeing him there essentially pointing the finger again at republicans for not getting the aid through, despite reminding everybody how utterly dire it is right now. they need that aid. not in a few months, anderson. >> and just very quickly, clarissa ward, what is the status of any talks about a cease fire or hostage, getting hostages out? >> well, it's interesting because previously, anderson, we've heard president biden say that he was hopeful that this might be imminent. he talked about it being as soon as last monday. now, clearly a very different story. cnn's own reporting indicates that it is unlikely that we're going to see a cease fire by ramadan. that's expected to start here in the next couple of days. and you did hear president biden saying that they're doing everything they can to push to get the hostages released and that cease fire implemented on the ground for six weeks. but as we just said, no indication that that is going to happen now. anytime soon. anderson. >> all right. >> clarissa ward, nick paton walsh, both thank you. be careful. back with the team here in new york. i want to play. just something that the president said tonight. he took aim at the former president over ukraine. let's take a look. >> my predecessor, a former republican president, tells putin, quote, do whatever the hell you want. that's a quote. a former president actually said that bowing down to a russian leader, i think it's outrageous. it's dangerous, and it's unacceptable. >> david. yeah. i mean, well, look, the context of that quote was he was saying, if the europeans don't, pay their fair share, if they don't pay more into their own defense. but he sort of made nato sound like a protection racket. and it was. but still he truncated that quote. but i think this issue itself is, you know, one that biden feels very strongly about. it is one, scott, that does speak to the haley voters and some of those republicans who are not are not isolationist republicans. >> it is extraordinar. you have the former president of united states saying to vladimir putin, i mean, it's outrageous, actually saying, do whatever you want. >> well, let's point out he also the former president. also, his initial reaction to the invasion of ukraine was that it was genius. like, if you can go in and snatch a country, why not? i mean, his attitude on these issues has been consistently shocking. and that is a distinction in between them. it may not be the distinction that drives most voters one way or, you know, to biden, but it's one that's, you know, that's certainly what the old republican party would have stood for. yeah. >> listen, i'll say i ex-military guy, i you know, i'm pro funding for ukraine, i'm pro nato. but americans are tired, right? americans the population americans are tired about endless wars, right. they're tired of afghanistan. we saw we saw a collapse in afghanistan. the gentleman who stood up in the gallery this evening, steve, nick nicolai, son karim, was killed at abbey gate. so he stood up and yelled, you know, 19 marines, abbey gate. you know, a lot of americans think that ukraine happened because of the disastrous pullout in afghanistan. and the world watched america kind of go to its knees and a weak america and emboldened putin to do a deal. >> so signed by the former president. >> but it didn't have to happen this way, anderson. not that it didn't wasn't going to go down the same way. i will tell you. look at the testimony of all the generals who went testified to the house armed services committee from mark milley on down. it wasn't it wasn't going to go that way. >> and biden. >> but botching two things back to back does make american. >> respectfully. i was in those meetings. it was because of mark milley and mark esper that it wasn't a more reckless timeline. donald trump wanted to move far quicker than that. >> but my point is, the advice given to joe biden by by tony blinken and others was not the same thing that happened with president biden did not what he did in afghanistan. that was reprehensible. >> you know, you say you say, first of all, you're right that people are war weary. there's no doubt about that. the question is, is not supporting ukraine. leave the sort of moral issues of supporting a democracy that's being overrun. but does it make it less likely that american troops aren't going to have to acts? >> and here's why i agree with you, ukraine. i think that we should be. and tonight, the president should have said, we're not handing bags of money to the ukrainians. we're building the us military industrial base. we're helping americans go to work and resupply our own military. that's an opportunity he missed here. >> a common defense to defeat our enemies. >> right? for pennies on the dollar. and i would say this, but, you know, if we don't, if we don't do that, what's going to happen in january of 25? we're going to be sending people to he had he had a chance to make that argument. >> he didn't. what did he do? he made it a partizan political argument. now look what donald trump said about telling russia to whatever the that's wrong. that is absolutely wrong. but instead of making the case, which is what i would think the state of the union, and it was his first topic in instead of making the case, he turned it into a partizan political argument, which is a missed opportunity. >> i just okay, real quick on on ukraine is that i think he did a did it well in terms of connecting ukraine and protecting the democracy to january 6th, january 6th was the very next thing that followed. after his comments on ukraine. and it was what's happening in ukraine is because putin is a dictator. and what could happen in america is donald trump could be a dictator. you know why? because he said he would on day one. and so making that connection highlights the ability to make that contrast, which i think he did really well . i think the other thing about, the speech tonight is that joe biden had a really, important task to talk to the issue around israel and gaza. we heard reporting people don't like to see people killed on october 7th, and they certainly don't want to see innocent palestinians killed day after day 300,000. and he or 330,000, 30,000, excuse me. and he acknowledged that many of them, most of them are not hamas. and so i hope we can all agree that we want to preserve life. we want we want peace. we don't want our troops to go into countries, and we need people to get aid. and we just heard reporting from clarissa ward that aid is being blocked. so he has people on the left are asking him to do a list of policy things that i don't think he's going to get there, but he is trying to do something here and try and be on the right side of this morally and, and politically. >> can i just mention one thing? i was watching mike johnson closely tonight, someone who didn't expect to be speaker and i don't think thought he'd be governing this house. and when the issue of ukraine came up, he seemed to subtly nod along and he is the person who single handedly holding up a bill that, if put on the floor tomorrow, would release aid to ukraine because donald trump has told him to. i have a feeling donald trump is not going to be happy with how mike johnson performed tonight, and i think that's another narrative we should be following. >> let's go back to jake in dc. jake. thanks, anderson. now let's go to our fact checker, daniel dale, who is watching for anything. president biden got inaccurate during his state of the union address. daniel, the president was accused by the likes of marjorie taylor greene and other house republicans of saying a lot of things that weren't true. what did you make overall of the factual content of the speech? >> i found jake, it was quite a factual speech, at least in terms of the assertions of fact. i was able to check, of course, i don't check the many, many subjective opinions that fill these kinds of speeches, but president biden did make at least a few false or misleading claims that i do want to address. listen to something he said about the federal budget deficit. >> i've been delivering real results in fiscally responsible ways. we've already cut the federal deficit. we've already cut the federal deficit over $1 trillion. >> the president keeps making this claim. i've called it misleading on air before. it's still misleading. now, jake, here is why the federal deficit is indeed more than $1 trillion lower today than it was in president trump's last fiscal year in office. but president biden conveniently never mentions why. and that why is overwhelmingly simply because bipartisan emergency pandemic spending from 2020 expired as planned in the biden era, so spending skyrocketed. then it fell on schedule. that's not a biden fiscal achievement, and especially because and i think here's the key experts at places like moody's and the committee for a responsible federal budget have told me in detail that biden's own actions, executive actions, laws have worsened the deficit picture. so biden is patting himself on the back for fiscal prudence. but his actions have clearly added to deficits, not improved them. a couple more claims. i think we need to break down. let's also listen to something the president said about the corporate minimum tax he signed into law in 2022. >> remember, in 2025, 85 of the biggest companies in america made $40 billion and paid zero in federal income tax, zero. not anymore. thanks to the law i wrote and we signed. big companies have to pay a minimum of 15. >> so biden made this sound like a final triumph. like every big company is going to have to pay federal income tax now. not anymore. will there be anybody paying zero? but that is false. it's an exaggeration. why? well, biden did sign a 15% corporate minimum tax into law, but here is the key here. it only applies to companies with 1 billion or more in average annual income. so on that list, he cited of 55 companies that were identified as paying nothing in 2020, while only 14 of those 55 had u.s. income of 1 billion or more that year. so it is clear. and the think tank, the left leaning think tank behind. this report has confirmed to me that many big companies will still be able to avoid taxes under this new biden law. >> all right. daniel, daniel, thanks so much. let's talk more with our our panel. and manu raju joins us fresh from capitol hill. so manu you've been talking to republicans democrats , all sorts of folks, tell us your basic take on the response, especially from the opposition. yeah. >> look, there's been it's been very partizan, as you can imagine, coming out of the chamber. republicans in particular, going after, the speech saying it's way it was way too political and the likes democrats saying it's fine that he was political. look at the way donald trump talked about this as well. but there was also some criticism, too, from some members of the president's own party, including from congressman jamaal bowman. just listen to the sampling of responses. i got over the last hour or so. >> i think the state of the union address has become more and more political. >> you know, there were chants going on in the chamber. >> the president obviously making a very strong political pitch and, you know, i would rather go back to having an actual address that talks about the state of the union, but he passed the first test, which is he showed he can get up there and speak with a lot of energy, and i'm sure he feels good about it. >> so other members, when i asked, congressman jamaal bowman, he's a member of the far left faction of the house democratic caucus about president biden's comments on israel. he says, i wish he would have called for an immediate cease fire. and he went on to say that the president should have done more and this could actually hurt him come november. so you're hearing some milder criticism from the members of the president's own party from that faction. but overall, well, jake, the response has been pretty party line. democrats liked what they heard inside the chamber. they were cheering. republicans were jeering. many republicans i witnessed actually leaving the speech early, which i'm not. i've sit in a lot of chambers during the state of the union addresses. i don't really remember that happening, but that happened in this situation. >> so speaker johnson, the new republican speaker, was very hopeful. dana bash, that that there would be the jeering would be to a minimum. there's always groaning and applauding by the opposite sides or the supporting sides, depending on who the president is. i remember when obama was president and congressman joe wilson from south carolina yelled out, you're lying or you lie. it was a big moment. i think i heard at least 4 or 5 different moments like that during this speech. you interviewed one of the one of the individuals, and there was marjorie taylor greene, there were other moments. i've. i can't recall another time when there were so many heckling incidents. dana bash, can you. >> no, i can't. and i guess it's the new normal. well, yeah. yeah, it kind of. it is. and i was thinking about that mike johnson discussion that he had with his conference this morning saying, you know, remember decorum and so on and so forth. and obviously it was the other side of that coin when the president walked in and the democrats were were they were cheering. they weren't cheering, but they were cheering and they were saying four more years. so, the sort of the cork came out of the bottle, the minute the president walked in there. when it comes to the political sentiment that was just bursting at the seams, and it was only a matter of time before the republicans had a rejoinder. >> and, john, you talked about what the president needed to do tonight. and, you know, i think we can all agree that he didn't have any major horrible incidents that are going to necessarily affect, i mean, just stylistically that are going to affect his reelection. but he's got a lot more nights like this that he needs to deliver. >> yeah, he's got 241 more nights until people are voting. i mean, early voting obviously starts in september in some states. so you can't. but it's game on. look, the president started we talked at the beginning of the show his approval ratings at 38. his approval rating has to get up above 40. most smart people who do politics, democrats or republicans, say you've got to get to 43 or 45. if you're looking at it, then you're looking at a national map where you can get 270 electoral votes. right? so he's at 38. he has to go up. it looks like, from our polling again, the people watching the speech are overwhelmingly democratic. so this is you know, you have to put that into context. but among the overwhelmingly democratic audience, he made some gains. the question is can he sustain them sometimes 2 or 3 weeks down the road that fades. the question is, he needs to build. i mean, he needs to go up. i would argue he needs to go up just about every day. i mean, i suppose you can have a day or two of plateau, but you need to go up from where you are. i'm looking this is an incoming from a dozen of our all over the map voters around the country. and it's fairly predictable in the sense that the republicans said he was yelling at us, you know, he was yelling. he was shouting. we don't like most of what he said. he was too political and criticizing donald trump. the democrats are more interesting, among the democrats with who have problems with him or say he has problems in their communities. angela lang runs a community organizing group in milwaukee. they do remarkable work knocking on doors, staying active with people. and when i visited with them, the president clearly has a problem. and the african-american street, she said. it was a great down payment, she said. it was a strong and a forceful speech. she liked a lot of what she heard. she wished she heard more about policing, which is a big issue in the black community. but she said, you know, the big takeaway here now he needs to back it up and keep the same energy all the way into the november election. jay gray, a student at the university of michigan, among the students we talked to out there who is very upset with the president's conduct, they she believes pro is too pro-israel in the war between israel and gaza. again said some progress. she wants an immediate cease fire. and again, she says she liked the president's energy needs to see it out there. so i think from this anecdotally, the president checked some boxes. he's got a long way to go. >> all right. still ahead. did president biden convince enough americans that he has plenty of fight in him to serve four more years? 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david? >> yeah. and, erin, just remember, as you noted, it's a poll of speech watchers. more democrats watch a democratic president speak. and so it doesn't represent the country overall. so keep that in mind. as you see this. we asked, do you have confidence in president biden's ability to protect american democracy? 36% of speech watchers said they have a lot of confidence in his ability to do that. 27% said they have some confidence in his ability to do that. so if you add those two up there, i think that's like 63. nearly two thirds have confidence for him to protect us. democracy, 37, just over a third say none. they have no confidence in joe biden to protect the us democracy. what about confidence in his ability to carry out his duties? 31% said a lot of confidence, 28% said some. so again, that adds up to 59. nearly 6 in 10 have a lot or some confidence in his ability to carry out his duties. 41% said no confidence at all. and look at how those numbers change from pre-speech to post-speech. so pre speech, it was just 25. that said, they have a lot of confidence that he could carry out his duties. erin. that goes up to 31% some confidence 27 that stayed about the same and 48% before the speech said no confidence that went down to 41. so clearly made some progress on that score. erin. >> wow, that is incredible. just to see how quickly things, those perceptions could change. all right. here with two people who know, the president so. well, evan osnos does it this issue of democracy and his being ready to protect it, this is something that he has made a signature issue. and you over the many years that you have been covering him and writing about him, have found this to be a new sense of purpose. yeah, it's quite distinct. >> you hear it when he talks about this issue of democracy at home around the world. putin's attack on ukraine, attack on free societies. he calls it the central cause of my presidency. and, you know, joe biden's been in washington for 50 years. he's worked on a lot of issues, foreign, foreign affairs. he was head of the judiciary committee. he never had something that was the central cause of his political life. and he's really come to it now in many ways, sort of in this third act of his political life. it's quite noticeable because i think it organizes his thinking. >> and you've been here the past three state of the unions with him, three state of the unions that you did not expect to be a part of because you were you know, you thought that that the career was over. >> exactly right. i worked for him at the end of his time as vice president. we spent time that last year really thinking about how we wanted to cement his legacy, what kind of communications plan we wanted to put together, to really put an exclamation point on the things that he cared the most about a lot of his foreign relations work, work that he did on campus, sexual assault, the it's on us campaign. we really spent a lot of time thinking about how he would sort of be remembered. i mean, he truly thought that he was done. and, you know, then donald trump's election really for him just, catalyzed a feeling that we were really at a tipping point in history. i remember traveling with him in 2017. he was reading how democracies die, a book by two harvard professors who were studying the way that democracy erodes as our institutions erode, as the press erodes, as the courts erode, so this was something that really consumed him and has absolutely become the cause, really of, of his career. so, so you think you're done, you got a biographer, you do the whole thing. >> you think you're done, and then all of a sudden you're back and you're back with a worldview that is not the way the world things have changed, right? he gets elected on. i'm going to be the guy to bridge the differences and work across the aisle and something he shared with you that you haven't yet shared with the public. he realizes the world has changed. >> yeah. he's come to the conclusion that something profound has changed in the republican party, he said. i don't see it as just donald trump is leading the republican party. he said to me, as i see it, the republican party is gone. that's a huge change for him. for years, he prided himself on the relationships he had with republican leaders. but look, mitch mcconnell stepped aside from the leadership role. many of the people who he knew and could make deals with, they're gone. and i think as you see him making strategic decisions, how is he going about trying to relieve student debt? they're doing it by using the department of education and working around the gop majority in conservative majority in the supreme court. so in a sense, he's saying if the gop is not going to work with me, i'm not going to pretend that we're going to make deals. i'm going to try to go around him. i think it's i think it's also important to understand why he felt that way. >> you know, there was a lot of criticism that his, you know, perspective that you could continue to work across the aisle was naive or that he didn't understand the political moment. but, you know, i think to understand his thinking, it's important to, to know that he really felt that holding on to that kind of last vestige of being able to work together was actually about holding on to our democracy in some ways, i think he kind of saw this moment in a in a broader historical context, you know, that was that was sort of a bigger lens than just the kind of immediate, you know, scoring a political point. so so, to him, it really is this is really a historic moment. >> well, and it's been amazing to have both of you who know him so well and have worked with him for so long with us for this night of special coverage. thanks so much to all of you and all of you. and please stay with cnn for more state of the union coverage ahead. >> i'm manu raju on capitol hill and this is cnn sale through the heart of historic cities and unforgettable scenery with viking. >> unpack once and get closer to iconic landmarks, local life and cultural treasures. because when you experience europe on a viking longship, you'll spend less time getting there and more time being there. viking exploring the world in comfort . as you fall in love with you. >> all your streaming in one app with one password. find your happy place. >> so what do you think about these? 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