president his torial, michael beschloss, david ignatius, and once again, michael mcfaul. michael beschloss, according to the latest poll, not good news for joe biden, more than half the country says the president's first year in office was a failure. what is he up against in this speech? how does one speech, especially one now dominated by a foreign crisis, when most americans are really more worried about inflation, you know, how does that help him get the political lift that presidents want to get from this annual speech? >> doesn't help as much as it did during the time of let's say john kennedy. kennedy oddly enough in those days, presidents still gave state of the union messages at midday. they didn't care about getting a primetime audience. nonetheless, in those days, they had a big impact because you had, of course, three tv networks, probably 90% of the people watching tv, heavily