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
Hour by a senior adviser, anita dunn. she s worked closely with president biden on tonight s address and we hope she will give us something of a sneak preview, hoping it s not the same as expecting. she s pretty disciplined, i don t know what we are looking up for. but we will try. nicole, let me ask you. you work in the white house. why don t you get started here tonight? i do feel like it s a specific holiday for a storks, including all of us here and watching right now. how is it differ inside the white house? what is it like? it s also a night where you get to try out of your white house references, so i asked president binary senior adviser, after the balloon shut down, was there an american president moment where he says, i needed new speech and he rips it up. she basically said, no, but i think the to the degree that there was ever let biden be biden debate in the white house, i think that s been had, and president biden will be what
House chamber are now live. look at this, i love the scrum. john fetterman is always going to be the easy pingel cart play on nights like this. this is always the best part of the state of the union, i ve got to say. you see which member of the cabinet is keeping which backbench member of congress, which member is camped out early to get a seat on the aisle, what are they going to do what they see on the aisle? are they going to try to touch the president s face, there s always we re stuff like this to watch for. we will be keeping eyes and ears on the chamber up until the moment he walks in. we believe he is already on site at the capitol. it s kind of like a live action renaissance painting. [laughter] it s always a little unpredictable. joining us on set, jen psaki, former press secretary, host of a soon to come msnbc show. we are all awaiting excitedly. it s good to have you here, jen. tell us about president biden s process. this is technically second but
Democrats about what they should expect, what can you share with us and with our viewers about what mood president biden has heading into this and what he s hoping to convey? the state of the union s beaches, it s a special speech, the biggest audience that the president will probably speak to this year, and tonight when he addresses the nation, as president of the united states, so he said he was running for president for all americans, and tonight, he is a president for all americans. what you should expect to hear is the story about progress and what the precedents possibilities of the united states moving forward. he will talk about the accomplishments of the last two years, how much we have gotten done in the country and the resilience that the american people coming out of the covid pandemic. you talk about 12 million jobs that have been created, the 3.4% unemployment rate, the lowest since 1969, which for a lot of your viewers, is