hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on state of the union day when president joe biden delivers that state of the union address to we thought it was important to remember that that address will take place in what amounts to a crime scene. for which there has yet to be accountability for many of its perpetrators. members of the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th have been swept into the largest investigation in justice department history. more than 950 of them from all 50 states have been arrested. at least half of them have pleaded guilty to charges. on trial right now at this very moment on the rare and historically significant charge of seditious conspiracy, the right-wing militia groups, the oath keepers and the proud boys, the groups that form the tip of the spear of the mob that reached the capitol on that day, january 6, 2021. what about the campaign staffers? attorneys, activists, officials, the members of congress who helped put into motion complex
Tonight. This is one of the backward and nasty Executive Orders the president has issued. Also today thousands of antiabortion protesters gathered in washington for the annual march for life. Mike pence told the crowd the president would announce a Supreme Court nominee soon and trump hinted strongly at the person hes choosing. The person i pick will be a big, big i think people are going to love it. I think evangelicals, christians will love my pick. And well be represented very fairly. Jeff zeleny begins our coverage tonight out front at the white house. Trump signing a flurry of Executive Orders this week, up to 14, but these on immigration, do they really have teeth . Reporter indeed they do. The ones that he signed late today, they do sort of play out exactly what he talked about in the campaign, Extreme Vetting. It should come as no surprise, but they are going at the heart
of refugees coming here to the country, particularly syrian refugees. The white house just moments ago actu
and the science director for nif are both women, both physicists. i hope will be an inspiration to young women around the country that they can have a future in physics as well. congresswoman zoe lofgren, who manages to have these spinning plates talking about threats to our democracy and all of our future. thank you so much congressman lofgren for starting us off. take care. thank you. bringing in alycia and michael. ben rhodes, former deputy national security adviser to president obama. i am curious about what the answer is who is more dangerous to democracy, right? the ones who sit and see january 6th and the ascendance of matt gaetz and marjorie taylor greene and the guy that wore the kevlar vest and all these yahoos, or the people who see it as we see it and say nothing? for me, it s the ones who say
political vengeance. they re in charge of house oversight now. guess how that committee is spending its time tomorrow? they re having a hearing having to do with the president s son, hunter biden. and that s just the beginning for them. we ve got at least two more years of this. and in that way, tonight s state of the union is an on-ramp to a highway that leads directly, as ben s been discussing, to the 2024 presidential contest. lucky for us, alycia, michael and ben are all back. this is the point you re making, right? this in some ways begins president biden s efforts in messaging, a conversation with the country about his own reelection. that s exactly right. we are entering that cycle. and the reality is we re also entering a psych wrinkle they re not going to be able to pass big ticket items through congress. so what he knows is he is going to be running in 2024, largely on things that he s already done. on the inflation reduction act. that s right. or crises he averts. or h
leader who has handed the key of the car to the coup plotters. this is not a normal moment. but he is not going to do that tonight. you and i know that. let s see what he does. i would bet a hamburger he s not doing that tonight. and it s because of the man himself. it s the way he sees the office and the moment. i personally think we should do away with the moment, sent the letter to the hill like they did before the 1950s and call it a day. and then go out and do the politics. but okay, set that aside. i agree with you. if it were me or any other individual, i m sure you want to step to the guy behind you and go i got something for you. but that s not who he is. so i acknowledge that but i think on the other side of that, when he gets into that presidential reelection mode, that s an opportunity to kind of bring all that together. but we ll seattle. alycia? my brain went where yours went, which is we are still living sort of the hangover of the trump era, the fact that