it comes but once a year for politics junkies, it is the christmas and new year s and arbor day and obscure state specific holiday you can t really remember the reason for rolled into one. it is state of the union night, and we are so happy that you re here with us for it. here s a live look at the u.s. capital tonight. members of both chambers of congress, guess, supreme court justices, cabot secretaries, admirals, ambassadors, they re all gathering to hear this big heavy on the pomp and circumstance annual address the president of the united states. on the other end of pennsylvania avenue of the white house, we are watching for president biden to part from the white house for the capital. the is expected shortly. i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters. joined by my colleagues of chris hayes, joy reid, nicole wallace, alex wagner and ari melber. i also do mean it when i say thank you for being home with us. we know you had every choice in the world were to watch thi
Quote last month, they are expected tonight in the house chamber, expected to be sitting in the viewing box with first lady joe biden. for the has been erected around the capitol, as part of the security measures that now attend every presidential address to congress since the january 6th attack, something that is likely to consider in the indefinite future. of course, tonight s address comes as a global scale devastating natural disaster continues to unfold in turkey and in syria. the death toll from the massive earthquake now has passed 7000 people and is expected to continue to rise. two big american search and rescue teams are en route right now to join the international response. so coming up this hour, we will have the [crying] great steve kornacki here to talk about where the president stands at this point in his first term. he ll go to some of the numbers with us. we will also be joined this