Messaging you re hearing if the president and what he wants voters and americans to hear, and what they re actually hearing and seeing in front of them. i talked to people in this coffee shop throughout the day, and most had not seen the speech. they might have seen clips about the back and forth between the president and congress, they don t know the substance of it yet. that s why the visits are important. they get to see the message, and it accelerates what you heard last night. i watched the speech with a group of students on the campus of the university of wisconsin, and after the speech, you know, one thing that they said is, yes, they like the attention and the energy that they have been seeing from the president. they like the issues that he brought up. but whether or not that changed how they viewed him in terms of that 2024 context, there s still some work left to be done there. i want you to listen to some of those conversations. i mean, i ll vote for the democratic candid
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. ali vitale
Implementation. i think this is interesting for several reasons. the first is they re expanding the sort of inner circle, senior advisers group at the white house, bringing an additional player here to focus on the big challenge for the administration in the year ahead, implementing infrastructure, the c.h.i.p.s act, so many proposals that the president talked about last night, and it also speaks to potentially taking some items off the plate for some of those other senior advisers who are going to be increasingly focused on not necessarily governing, but campaigning inside the west wing. i took that as a clue toward both of those things as they gear up both to make sure that the government is functioning in a way that s going to be core to his reelection campaign, and help broaden the portfolio of others who had a heavy lift. john allen, mike memoli. happy post state of the union day. get some sleep. exclusive reporting from our nbc news team on why the widow of jamal khashoggi is
Hill and joined by nbc news senior politics reporter, jonathan allen. the president looking to ride a little bit of momentum from the state of the union, today in wisconsin selling ideas about the economy that he hit on last night in his big speech. listen. we re building an economy where no one is going to be left behind. my economic plan is about investing in places, people, that have been forgotten. as part of that plan, i talked last night about things we re going to do for families, just a little more breathing room. just a little more breathing room. at the end of the month, when everything is paid, you have just a little more breathing room. we heard him talk a lot about the economy in the state of the union, pointing out stuff that annoys people. resort fees junk fees, airline fees, et cetera. talk about the messaging here from the administration. reporter: it was definitely a feisty and folksy president biden on display, last night at the state of the union address there
Republican members as they were leaving the chamber last night as well. and in large part, hallie, it s because of what happened after the first 20 to 30 minutes of that speech, those moments you and john were talking about whether biden was parrying with republican members in the chamber. it shows something about the kind of politician biden is but tells a story about where the republican conference is right now. speaker mccarthy said to his members in the mortgage, cameras are live, mics are hot, effectively saying don t do anything that will make us look like we are chaotic and out of control and what we ended up seeing is multiple moments with marjorie taylor greene, and other right leaning members of the conference shouting liar, shouting other things at the president, and the president knocking those attacks back, and even mccarthy at various points shushing them, and asking them to be quiet with these disapproving looks. it just is another reminder that even as mccarthy might be