selling the speech, public confirmation of private plans, and new help now on the ground. up first, president biden taking his state of the union to the union, pointing to the economy, saying his plans are working, but what about those calls for bipartisanship with republicans ramping up their investigations on capitol hill? we ll take you there live. also this hour, a new global response in the headlines over that chinese spy balloon. the secretary of state this afternoon appearing alongside the head of nato revealing the u.s. was not beijing s only target as the u.s. gets ready to declassify aspects of the program sometime soon. dozens of americans now on site in turkey helping in that huge rescue operation from those devastating earthquakes. we re learning now even more people have been killed. we ll take you to the scene live. i m hallie jackson in washington. let s start with nbc s mike memoli with the president in wisconsin. chad brewster is in the key voting state. a
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Needle a little bit some of the republicans in that chamber. give us the vibe check on capitol hill today, and give us the reality check of this idea of bipartisanship over the next two years. reality tends to come at you fast around here, hallie, especially when you consider the first 20 to 30 minutes f the speech, thanks kevin mccarthy, going around the room, trying to give everyone their flowers at the start of the speech that really did set the tone for biden trying to show that he can work with the other side, mike, john, all of us, shaq, we have been on the campaign trail. we followed biden in 2020, we know that his bipartisanship is a key part of the pitch. he of course reiterated that last night, but you look at the way that republicans almost immediately interpreted this, and you have speaker kevin mccarthy going on fox news less than 24 hours later saying it was him having a good seat at a bad sporting event and he thought this was the most partisan state of the union speec
About the 2024 of it all? we heard sarah huckabee sanders give the republican response, and she talked about joe biden being old. critics said he lost his step. it s hard to make the case when he s dancing circles around the republicans in the house chamber. i think more than any of the substantiative things that we heard in the state of the union and many of them, and we ll hear more as the year continues, but more than anything there, what you saw from joe biden was something that he doesn t always get a chance to display, which was floating like a butterfly and stinging like a harpoon missile, or harpoon as he, you know, went back and forth with the republicans. that case that he doesn t have what he used to have. doesn t have the dexterity is, again, very very tough to make if he s displaying as he did last night. allie, let me go to you. one of the things that we saw from the president was this an idea of an olive branch to bipartisanship, but at the same time, him trying to,
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