border crisis caused by the biden administration. never a good bet to bet against america, never. [chanting u.s.a.] newark can once again be the land of the free and the home of the brave. pete hegseth is live in carthage in north carolina where he s going to be talking to voters. who here watched the speech last night? who loved the speech last night? ainsley: last night was joe biden s second state of the union address. we all watched it. we watched sarah huckabee sanders rebuttal and listened to the pundits afterwards. we will get you up to date, up to speed if you happened to go to sleep last night. brian: then we watched some late night movies and went to the clubs and came right to work. how late were we up last night? 11:00? steve: listen, we made one correct prediction yesterday and that was that joe biden would be wearing a blue tie. ainsley: this is true. steve: and he did. from state of the union to safety the onion. let s go to having br
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battleground state wisconsin. ten electoral votes on the line there. eight candidates have met the threshold to qualify for the debate. even though they share the stage they see it as a rare chance to seize the spotlight. i look to introduce myself to the country. six months ago many people in the country did not know who i was. i will be me. i feel like i ve been preparing for this first republican presidential debate my whole life. we feel really good going into the debate. i love debates and looking forward to it. i think it is a great opportunity for americans to start focusing who will lead us. we know america is looking for alternative. bill: team fox coverage. marc thiessen with a big picture analysis. peter doocy on the democrats keeping their eye on the first debate. alexis mcadams is live in milwaukee and we begin there now. alexis, good morning. bill, good morning from wisconsin. as we just get ready with some
declined our request. now, the president is going to be back out on the road today which is tradition after the state of the union address. he is going to be heading out to wisconsin to talk about jobs and the economy. while he is out there, also doing an interview with pbs. it s likely he will be asked about china. we will see what his comments are a little later today. steve, ainsley and brian, back to you. steve: i understand that the out when comms team is pleased with the president s performance last night when he had the back and forth with the republicans. battleground state wisconsin. florida tomorrow. as you guys have been talking about. the big question, of course, will we hear any new foreign policy announcements in the wake of what happened? brian: what about re-election announcement? when is he going to make it official? any indication? their indication within the