Look at the us capitol. Beautiful evening, actually, here in washington as we jue just moments awas. Capity fm President Biden and tonights state of the Union Address. Y frompresidengood evening from. Im brad there. Good evening, everybody. Im martha maccallum. Any moment now President Biden will be announced on the house floor with the familiar callilia of the house sergeant of arms. He will make his way down cate, greeted by lawmakers all along the way. There you see mitt romney talking to joe awmakers manchin. Seems like theyre pretty engaged in some conversation ses that happens on the sidelines as you have a lot of lawmakersnh waiting a long time in the chamber. A lot of folkse chambe, you knos expressing themselves different ways. Republicans, some of the more in buttons, die of about the bo. Others dressed in white on the democratic sidemocratic in solidarity. Lets set the stage now with White House Correspondent I Peter Doocy with a preview of the president s speech. Good eveni
joins us now. daphne, great to speak with you. this morning, what do we know about these experiments and the nih s involvement? well, what we know is the nih spends about $19.6 billion a year on animal experiments, and as you mentioned, they have contracts worth more than $1.2 billion million dollars, i m sorry come over the last ten years or so buying beagles from this facility located in central virginia, where how they buy puppies in hideous conditions, they have been cited by the u.s. department of agriculture for direct and critical violation for failure to provide basicic necessities of life to these nursing mother dogs and their puppies, keeping animals in temperatures as high as 92 degrees without airir conditioning, plunging needles into the heads of puppies to drain hematomas.
you re watching the news, wire ticker, whatever it is, my god, is mnuchin all in on this too? is this the united states government? not just trump. the united states government ceases to exist. we have trump. we have a monarchy of sorts, using the apparatus of the federal government in a way that was never meant to be. every bit of the country is working for trump and pompeo, they re working together. we re going to find out. i think there are more tentacles here than we can even begin to grab hold of because everybody that president trump touches turns to dirt and it s happening in this government. in my part of my brain says i m not a lawyer, i say it all the time part of me say i hope they stand up with these subpoenas and get held for contempt. the way they brought mccarthy down wasn t how he treated witnesses but the senate when they come at him. in the end it s your basicic behavior when you re under target, you are challenged and indicted in an impeachment process, it