i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. we re hours away from president biden s state of the union address tonight, his first to a divided congress. instead of nancy pelosi over the president s left shoulder, it will be speaker kevin mccarthy. the speech is expected to draw the largest television audience for the president this year. americans will hear biden lay out why he believes the state of the union is strong as he said last week. he s expected to talk about lowering inflation, improving infrastructure and getting past the worst of the pandemic. he s also expected to talk about america s stand against china. of course just days after an american fighter jet shot down one of its supply balloons. the president will likely increase the urgency for congress to act on policing reform and an adult weapons band. all of it will be a test run for his re-election bid. phil mattingly is with us now. what more should we expect from the president tonight? you know, vict
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we have the libertarian candidate dropping out and throwing his support to republican blake masters. to florida where polls show ron desantis leading by double digits. why does charlie crist still think he can win it. he s here too. we are live in georgia, in new hampshire, nevada, so many races, so little time. let s get started. welcome. glad to have you. pennsylvania is the source of all the pressure campaigns going on and the attention worldwide it seems of late. reporter: good morning. for dr. oz, today is about appealing to his party s base, trump voters who have not been enthusiastic about his candidacy. tonight, donald trump will host a rally in an effort to boost dr. oz, he s in a dead heat against lieutenant governor john fetterman. it was trump s endorsement that led to dr. oz winning the republican primary by less than a thousand votes. dr. oz will share stage with trump and republican candidate doug mastriano. according to polls he is seen as too extreme by hal
them the path to victory next tuesday. the party spent tens of millions of dollars across nine states. imagine if you are a donor, a supporter of that party and they set up a situation now where they can t beat the candidates that they spent your donation money trying to beat by paying them technically. president biden and the white house focused on tearing down the very same candidates that they built up because dems likely can t take them down. president biden: it s a fundamental shift working compared to the mega republican we have seen mega maga republican officials who don t believe in the rule of law. harris: well, the house majority shocked that anybody could see hypocrisy here. by amplifying these election and deniers aren t you holding responsibility for a degree for the undermining of democracy you are also warning about? oh my god, we ran a true general election ad two weeks early calling john gibbs an extremist who is too conservative for western michi
Enough, problems like this seem like not a big deal. rachel: absolutely. turning now to your headlines starting with the crisis at the southern border, agents say they ve encountered more than a million migrants so far this year. there s already been 200 i m sorry, 328,000 gotaways. there were about 600,000 all last year. wow. and thousands of criminals are filing into el salvador s new mega-prison. the country s president releasing the video saying 2,000 gang members including some from ms-13 transferred into the prison. just think about how many made it to our southern border before they got caught in this crackdown in el salvador it s really scary stuff. there s a great article on it. you should look it up. and now to a fox weather alert, oregon s governor declaring a state of emergency in multnomah county after a record-breaking snowstorm. officials are expecting more cold weather, this as part of