To address the remaining six appropriation bills, that includes contentious issues like funding for the pentagon and the department of homeland security. Welcome, everyone. Let go now to the decision 2024 and the tale of two vastly different candidates and almost identical geographical locations. President joe biden and former President Donald Trump both campaigning in the Swing State Of Georgia today at the unofficial start of the general election season. Biden will speak in atlanta this evening. His campaign is also launching a new ad in georgia, a critical swing state. Arizona, michigan, north carolina, nevada, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. And in it, biden acknowledges his age as he targets young voters. More on that coming up for you. Last night in his first speech since the State Of The Union address, he told voters in pennsylvania about his a compliment on jobs. 15 million new jobs in three years. That is a record in american history. Unemployment at a 50 year low. 800,000 new Manufacturing Jobs and counting. Trump, meanwhile, will speak at a rally in Marjorie Taylor greens district in a few hours from now. On his way he may drive past dnc sponsored billboards like the one you are seeing right there. Yesterday he welcomed hungarys Prime Minister to maralago, with the hardline conservative leader. There is nobody that is better, smarter, or a better leader than victor. Trump also posted a 91 million bond in the e. Jean carroll case. We are going to talk to Melissa Murray about that in a few minutes are now. We have reporters and analysts in place covering all these new developments for you, and we are going to begin with aaron gilchrist, with the president in atlanta, georgia. Reporter set to receive major endorsements here in atlanta today. Meanwhile, just 70 miles away, former President Trump will be rallying his base, trying to win over voters in a state he narrowly lost four years ago. With the general election effectively underway, President Biden launching his post State Of The Union tour in the philadelphia suburbs on friday with the first lady, telling the crowd democracy is at stake. Above all, i see a country for all americans. Future for all americans. A presidency for all americans. Because i believe in america, i believe in you. Reporter the Campaign Kickoff after the president s fiery address to the nation, part of his report of the State Of The Union. The state of our union is strong and getting stronger. Reporter and energized and feisty pitcher reelection. Voters here in georgia reacting to the president s speech, saying he showed he is ready for the general election ahead. Super energetic. Stay organized. Kept delivering punch after punch. He said the things i wanted to hear him say. He might be a little elderly, but he is saying, and he is a kind man. The other one, hes old, too. But hes crazy. And dangerous. Reporter the Presumptive Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump on friday having a photo op with the hungarian Prime Minister, widely seen as one of europes biggest autocrats and embraced as a model for far right conservatives in the u. S. The mac a controversial figure, because he says this is the way at the same time, trump dealing with legal troubles, filing an appeal in the e. Jean carroll case where she won and 83 million verdict. Tonight, trump returned to georgia for the First Time Since turning himself into Fulton County jail last august on charges related to the 2020 president ial election. Trump and biden set to stump in the crucial swing state the biden narrowly won in 2020, Holding Dueling Rallies for key Georgia Voting blocs physically just miles apart, with President Biden answering trumps challenge to a faceoff. Tonight, three Political Action committees representing asian, black, and latino groups will endorse President Bidens reelection. With that endorsement comes 30 million in support and more visibility in these key groups the president will need to win reelection. Alice . Thanks, for that. Notably in that pennsylvania stop, the president also taking aim at his predecessor. Donald trump and the republicans are trying to take away our freedoms. And that is not an exaggeration. Guess what . We will not let him. The republicans and donald trump want to pass a national ban on the right to choose. Hear me loud and clear. This will not happen on my watch. Honesty, decency, fairness, equality, treating people fairly. That is the american creed. Donald trump sees the story differently. Lets bring in peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times, esteemed msnbc political analyst. Welcome. Peter, in your new article you called the last two days the start of a month of Campaign Style barnstorming. What tone is the President Setting for the rest of this election season, and contrast that with the Donald Trumps plan to get off of legal entitlement . Well, i think he set an aggressive tone from the start. Part of that is aimed at picking on donald trump, and part of that is aimed at reassuring his own supporters and the disenchanted supporters of 2020 who have left him for the moment. He is trying to both tell the democrats who are nervous about it, about his age, about his stamina, that he had a lot of vigor left. He has a history, he has fight, and he is ready to take it on. He is trying to convince those democrats and independents who may have drifted away, who dont support him, who tell posters they are not sold on him for this year that he has what it takes to be the president and to remind them of what they didnt like about donald trump in 2020. You know, based on what we have heard from the president in the last several days, the approach to campaigning, does it feel different from what he has been doing up to this point . Absolutely. It is a bit more vigorous, as peter just laid out. I think it is important for host to layout the successes of the ministration over the last four years. It is also important to understand and layout the stakes of this particular election. Some people believe that folks have disconnected, and there is a type of exhaustion with regards to trump. But remember, he opens the State Of The Union with an assault on freedom and democracy at home and abroad. So i think it is really important for him to highlight and underline the danger that donald trump presents, that this is not a typical election. At the same time, highlight the fact that he is addressing this Kitchen Table issues that every day, ordinary people wanted to address. Its taken a little farther into content and tone. Im curious, your assessment of how the president addressed his countrys most pressing issues during the State Of The Union speech. Did he successfully get his message across . I think he got across what he wanted to get across, which, again, was the idea that he is still the president , he is in command, he is not some sort of an enfeebled old man. He has strong views about these issues and hes going to take the fight, not just to trump, but to the people in the room. He was very confrontational with the republicans sitting in front of him in a way i have not seen a President Due at the State Of The Union and quite that way. A lot of State Of The Unions are much more about, they are partisan, they have partisan moments, obviously. But broadly speaking, a president tries to get up there and say what we can do together if we put our minds to it, he was much more in their face in a way that we have not seen before. Again, i think it is because he is frustrated by republican obstruction on the ukraine aid for israel aid, on the border deal that was negotiated by a Bipartisan Group of senators. And he is trying to basically make the case that harry truman made in 1948, that they have a congress that can deal with it, so therefore voters ought to keep that in mind when they go to the polls. So, the white house certainly went into this State Of The Union knowing that the president needed to offset the concerns about his age by projecting vitality and a firm grip on the many Critical Issues that face this country, which he did. From a campaign perspective, was image even more important than content . Because we are here eight months before election day. How many really remember content in any State Of The Union in january, february, march whenever they might be given all the way to november . You know, americans have a short attention span. We know that. We know that the State Of The Union will have an immediate impact, whether it is a kind of onslaught of criticism depending on how successful orb how bad it is, i suppose. But i think it is really important for President Biden to do both throughout. We are here for the long haul. This is going to the longest president ial election we have had, at least in my lifetime. I think in history. So i think its important for him to really emphasize and do it with them and vitality. When you leave the State Of The Union, look. He called for legislation around ivf, he talked about pre k, he talked about increasing pell grants. The days of trickledown economics are over. Calling for 21 Corporate Tax rate hikes. There was such policy issues there that attracts the base, at the same time he did it in a way that peter laid out, going after those republicans, putting down the mantle, as it were, showing he has interviewed a fight, which is important. Yeah, and adding to that, the president made the issue of democracy and the threat to it a main focal point on thursday. Lets take a listen to part of that. My lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy. A future based on core values that have defined america. I see a future where defending democracy you dont diminish it. I see a future where restoring the right to choose and protect our freedoms, not take them away. I will always be president for all americans, because i believe in america. You know, im curious how important you think that message was, particularly against the backdrop of Donald Trumps meeting with hungarian autocrat Prime Minister viktor orban just hours later. Yeah, yesterday in pennsylvania i was in the room when the president addressed his rally and he specifically mentioned it, he said do you know who that guy down in mar alago is meeting with . He is meeting with a guy who favors dictatorship. An interesting thing to say about a nato ally, but probably pretty accurate. I think his point to the larger audience watching at home is that donald trump is not someone who is committed to democracy. Remember, donald trump is that he is for the termination of the constitution in order to return him to Office Without waiting for an election. He has had his campaign is about retribution. He has made clear time and time again that he does not observe the norms and traditions that other president s have. And what President Biden is trying to do is remind those voters who are disappointed with him for various reasons, for his age were his relation with the border, that there is something larger at stake here in his view. And to see if he can get them back on board. Yeah. Does the Micro See Message resonate, when you juxtapose it with the trump orban meeting . Does the contrast actually reach undecided voters, and specifically what might reach independence beyond the Democracy Message . I think so. When you operationalize the contrast, what does it look like . It looks like we are defending freedom, they want to take freedom away. The freedom for a woman to choose, the right to vote. We can go down the line. There is an assault on freedom at home by the very forces that donald trump represents. So i think it is really important to kind of put forward that broad frame. So there is not only the kind of Concrete Contrast between the policy that trump embraces and the policies that President Biden is putting forward, but also the historical connection. He is trying to make that move that lincoln and Frederick Douglass made, to read the Declaration Of Independence and the constitution. That ethical mandate, which he translates as honesty, decency, dignity, and equality as essential to the american creed. Donald trump is on the opposite side of those values and commitment. That is important, particularly when we talk about the assault on our freedoms at home. 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Now to big developments in the trial of donald trump in his d. C. January 6th criminal case. The Supreme Court has set a date of april 25th to hear his claims of absolute residential immunity. In the maralago classified documents case, Judge Cannon Set a surprise hearing for this thursday, March 14th On Two of his motions to dismiss that indictment. And trump has posted in the sum of 91. 6 million that bond and has filed notice of appeal in the Defamation Case filed by new york writer e. Jean carroll. Joining me now, Melissa Murray, New York University law professor and director of the birnbaum womens legal center. Now msnbc legal analyst. She is also coauthor of the trump indictment, the historic charging documents. All indicating you are a very busy lady, and i thank you for your time with me. So what does it mean that trump posted a bond, and how much money did he actually have to put up . So, what it means to post a bond is if you have a major judgment like the judgment that e. Jean carroll has secured against donald trump, you have to pay that out. Trump is going to appeal, but in order to proceed with those appeals he has to show that he has the money to satisfy that judgment if he is unsuccessful in that appeal. Typically a bond is something that is offered by a bond Holding Company or an Insurance Company that secures or guarantees the amount of the judgment for a premium. So, the person seeking the bond has to pay maybe 13 above and beyond the cost of the bond and secure it with collateral. So this raises a number of questions for donald trump. Where did he get the money to procure the bond as the Bond Collateral . Did he put up buildings . Which buildings . What was the value of those buildings . Did he get another person to underwrite the bond room . Who is that person to whom he is now beholden just as he is beholden to this Insurance Company that has underwritten the bond . There are still a lot of questions, but what it means for e. Jean carroll is that even if donald trump is unsuccessful in this appeal, she is going to get paid. Okay, good on that. Lets move to donald trump Planning Immunity in both of his federal court cases. Jack smith in a new Response Shreds trumps Immunity Claims in the classified documents case, calling them frivolous and outlandish. Do you think smiths filing is a preview of what he plans to argue before the Supreme Court in april, even though there are two Different Cases here . So, they