Will not. [ applause ] but Ukraine Ukraine can stop putin. Ukraine can stop putin if we stand with ukraine and provide the weapons it needs to defend itself. My predecessor and some of you here seek to pery the truth about january 6th. I will not do that. This is a moment to speak the truth than bury the lies. Its a simple choice. We can fight about fixing the border or we can fix it. Im ready to fix it. Send me the border bill now. Here in the Chamber Tonight are families whose loved ones are still being held by hamas. I pledge to all the families i will not rest until we bring every one of your loved ones home. Thats just a small sample of president joe bidens wide ranging and at times down right fiery state of the Union Address. Were going to have complete coverage of his speech and the reaction straight ahead. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 8th. Its friday. Its been a long week. Were so glad you spent it with us. Im jonathan lemire. Good morning. And well start this morning with President Bidens high energy and fiery state of the Union Address last night. Speaking for just over an hour, the president made his case for rasecond term, leaning into some of the themes that will play prominently as we head into november like abortion and immigration. Biden also hammered away at donald trump and his gop critics over a number of policies, contrasting offering a sharp contrast between his administrations accomplishments and those of his predecessor who he never named. Biden opened his Speech Last Night by calling on congress to authorize new foreign aid for ukraine before Ripping Trump who had recently encouraged russia to attack americas nato allies. Ukraine can stop putin if we stand with ukraine and provide the weapons it needs to defend itself. There are no american soldiers at war in ukraine, and im determined to keep it that way. But now assistance to ukraine is being blocked by those who want to walk away from our world leadership. It wasnt long ago when republican president Ronald Reagan thundered, mr. Gorbachev, teardown this wall. [ applause ] now my predecessor, a former republican president tells putin, quote, do whatever the hell you want. Thats a quote. A former president actually said that bowing down to a russian leader. I think its outrageous, its dangerous, and its unacceptable. President biden also brought up the january 6th attack on the capitol and slammed republicans for trying to whitewash the violence that took place that day. History is watching just like history watched three years ago on january 6th. When insurrectionists stormed this American Capitol and placed a dagger to democracy. Many of you were here on that darkest of days. We all saw with our own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots. Theyd come to stop the peaceful transfer of power. January 6th lies about the 2020 election and the plots to steal the election pose a grievous threat to u. S. Democracy since the civil war. But they failed. America stood america stood strong, and democracy prevailed. And lets 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. This is a moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. Heres the simple truth. You cant love your country only when you win. Securing the Southern Border was another major issue in last nights speech with the president calling on republicans to pass the senates bipartisan bill. But biden was interrupted and heckled by a House Republican who kept shouting about a nurse in georgia who was murdered. A venezuelan man who was in the United States illegally is accused of killing him. In november my team began serious negotiation with a Bipartisan Group of senators. The result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set of Border Security reforms weve ever seen. Oh, you dont think so . Oh, you dont like that bill, huh . That conservatives got together and said was a good bill . Ill be darned. Thats amazing. That bipartisan bill would hire 1,500 more securities and officers, 100 more judges to help tackle the back load, 3,000 more Asylum Officers and new policies so they can revolve cases in six months instead of six years now. What are you against . 100 more hitech drug machines to significantly increase the ability to screen and stop vehicles smuggling fentanyl into america thats Killing Thousands of children. This bill would save lives and also give me and any new president new Emergency Authority to temporarily shutdown the border, and remember migrants at the border is overwhelming. The Border Patrol unit has endorsed this bill. The federal Chamber Of Commerce who say, no, look at the facts. I know you know how to read. I believe that given the opportunity for a majority in the house and senate would endorse the bill as well. A majority right now. But, unfortunately, politics has derailed this bill so far. Im told my predecessor called Members Of Congress in the senate to demand they block the bill. He feels itd be a political win for me and political loser for him. Its not about him, its not about me. Id be a winner not really. I lincoln riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal, thats right. But how many thousands of people have been killed by illegals . To my parents i say my heart goes out to you having lost children myself. I understand. But, look, if we change the dynamic at the border, people pay people people pay these smugglers 8,000 to get across the border because they know if they get by, if they get by and let into the country its 6 to 8 years before they have a hearing. And its worth taking the chance of the 8,000. But but if its only six weeks the idea is its highly unlikely people would pay that money and come all that way knowing theyd be kicked out quickly. Folks, i would respectfully suggest to the American People, get this bill done, we need to act now. Bidens use of the term, an illegal, drew some criticism from the left. But this is another moment he got the best of a spontaneous exchange with his republican hecklers. In that case once more republican Marjorie Taylor greene. Joining us now laura eegen, coauthor of the play book and working on very little sleep. Thank you for joining us this morning. Lets start right there. This was an overtly political speech. This felt like the kick off, the unofficial kick off of President Bidens reelection effort. What were some of your main takeaways. Talking with aides to President Biden ahead of his speech, they all acknowledged the State Of The Union is typically a really hard speech to write, to deliver. And they didnt downplay how big a moment this was going to be for the president. They were pretty cleareyed just how much he needed to accomplish in this speech. I think one of the key things they were pretty aware of he needed to do is really asage voter concerns weve been talking about the last few months relating to the president s age. And based off conversations and Text Messages we all received last night from white house aides, from democrats close to the white house, they feel like he really did deliver that. Those spontaneous moments you just referenced, i think they feel like thats where the president really shines, he can show how quick he is on his feet. And, you know, people pointed out he was one of the last to leave that chamber last night, staying there, talking with Members Of Congress until literally they turned the lights off on him, and thats what they wanted the American People to see last night. Theres no question that was a vigorous, fiery speech from President Biden. Certainly aides as you say had hoped there are all these questions about his age, he may have answered some last night. He never mentioned trumps name, but right off the bat the first three issues were ukraine, january 6th and abortion rights, and trumps shadow over all of those. It really felt like those were contours of the campaign ahead. Yeah, thats right. Prettyin interesting he never mentioned trump by name, yet he really didnt need to. The former president , his presence was woven into every inch of that speech. And in some ways it really did setup what were going to see in this president ial election that is going to be one of the longest weve ever seen in history and certainly one of the ugliest most likely. And you saw in that speech the president drawing a contrast on what he thinks the issues he thinks hes strongest on against trump. Democracy, abortion rights, really tying that into our overall freedoms. And both the president and the former president are going to be in georgia this weekend. And i expect were going to continue to see them try and draw that same exact contrast. President biden about to barnstorm after the State Of The Union in pennsylvania and then georgia and get some momentum after this speech. White house reporter laura eegen, thank you so much. Still ahead on way too early well bring you the republican response to the president s address and show you what alabama senator katie brick had to say about the State Of The Union. Plus well be joined by a member of congress in the room last night for the president ial remarks. Those stories and a check on weather when we come right back. N weather when we come right back. Get tickets [ screaming ] get tickets skadoosh. Get tickets heres to Getting Better with age. Heres to beating these two every thursday. 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Thats alabama freshman senator katie britt who was tasked with delivering the republican rebuttal to President Bidens state of the Union Address, and by some accounts it was jarring and oddly delivered. First britt welcomed americans into her kitchen as she slammed the president for a variety of issues including the economy, immigration, and crime. She also painted a rather bleak picture of the u. S. Under bidens leadership calling the American Dream a nightmare. Some republicans even tried to make sense of her Speech Last Night with a few mocking her for using an over the top dramatic cadence to deliver her critiques of the president. The white house as you might imagine responded to her rebustle writing in part this. Last month senator britt sided against President Biden, thebirder patrol union, and the Chamber Of Commerce by opposing the toughest bipartisan border deal in modern history, instead voting with fentanyl traffickers. Whats more because an extreme Supreme Court decision overturned owe v. Wade and set women back nearly 50 years with senator britp it was support women across alabama were cut off from Ivf Treatments and the dream of growing families. Tonight the American People heard President Bidens vision for the future in which our core freedoms were restored, not an america driven back by extremists whose only economic principle is that everyone else is left behind. Senator britt just proved all his points. Those rebuttals after the State Of The Union always tough to deliver. Last nights a bit of a clunker. As promised former President Donald Trump also offered reactions. He tried to do it live. He called it Fact Checking even though of course it wasnt. He doesnt deal with facts very much. He did so on his Social Media Platform through President Bidens speech, but truth social seemed to be overwhelmed at times, barely worked for most users. He fired off on the president s claims including he was tough on nato, and the claim republicans are, quote, stronger on ivf than the democrats. None of that true. And as noted trumps Social Media Platform was down quite a few users last night. When the site did come back up, trump made a few policy critiques but then falsely took credit for everything President Biden touted as an accomplishment of his administration. The former president devolved into a series of personal attacks against the former president calling him angry and crazy and even complaining about biden. Ahead of the address trump released a rambling prebuttal talking about the border, shrinkflation, and ending with his trademark youre fired. Republicans did seem taken aback by just how high energy joe biden was last night. Not sleepily joe as they like to call him. Still ahead well turn to sports and bring you highlights from last nights battle of the nbas two top teams. 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