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
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