Bret alive look at the u. S. Capitol a beautiful evening in washington as we are Just Moments Away from President Biden and tonights state of the Union Address, good evening from washington i am bret baier. Martha i am Martha Maccallum in moments we will be on the house floor from the familiar call of the sergeant at arms will make his way down the aisle greeted by lawmakers along the way. Bret you can see mitt romney talking to joe mansion it seems like they are pretty engaged in some conversation that can happen on the sidelines as you have a lot of lawmakers waiting a long time in the chamber, a lot of folks expressing themselves, different ways, republican some of them wearing buttons about the border, others dressed in white on the democratic side in solidarity, we set the stage now with White House Correspondent with a preview of the president s speech good evening. Good evening officials at the white house think that most people who will watch it tonight have not been very polit
Text republicans, maybe just a reminder that i actually do no republicans. Is this an app . Text a republican. So i texted my republican friends and they are really saying the same thing, i asked the same question, what should or could biden say to win over the nikki haley supporters and theyve been very clear, they think that he should laser focus and they said that her base was, it was really women, who in some cases dont normally vote in republican primaries, thats her basis, they are light voting republicans, loosely attached to the party, except for in this case, they were driven to come out because of abortion and ivf and he should do a heavy emphasis on trying to win over republican women, not so much on the democracy stuff but on ivf and reproductive rights. One of the excerpts that they released, as you said in the beginning, he wont mentioned. I would be shocked by that but its clearly those dragging about Overturning Roe V Wade, he clearly has no idea about women. Hes speaki
Warning in the dobbs decision, right, from the dissenters from the liberal justices. They said, look, this is a slippery slope. Republicans dispute this. Of course, we should note. But there are they do legislators here and there who have i mean, when you believe that fertilization that that life begins at conception, that there are some consequences there. And when you start to talk about the technologies, i mean, its entirely, you know, were seeing unintended consequences. Lets just put it that way. Just to note, i mean, how important this issue is, dozens of democrats have brought guests related to ivf and including The First Lady, including The First Lady. So thats another way that they show, you know, their priorities for this address. Thats from what weve gathered from the president s excerpts of his speech. Its going to be a big part of his remarks. Its also the most i mean, maybe second to democracy, if youre talking about base democratic voters, probably the most important iss
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