seeing president joe biden take the dais in the house of representatives to deliver his second state of the union address to a joint session of congress. and the stakes are extremely high. it comes after a year when women saw their rights to their own bodies taken away. books and lessons about black history and lgbtq folks are being banned, and very real threats to democracy are still looming large. this is an opportunity for president biden to speak directly to the american people about where we are as a country and to set the tone for what the next two years of his term will look like. biden is expected to tout his administration s accomplishments with an emphasis on the strong economy, super low unemployment, and receding inflation, while also making a renewed call for bipartisanship despite a divided guess. in a just released excerpt from the president s prepared speech, biden is expected to say, quote, to my republican friends, if we could work together in the last congr
that compassion and lean in on getting this bill passed. i think we can do it together. congresswoman sheila jackson lee and thelonious floyd, thank you very much. still ahead, the state of gun violence in america as our coverage of president biden s second state of the union address continues. nothing. absolutely, nothing. it really is something. as an expedia member, you can save up to 30% when you add a hotel to your flight. so you can have a bit more money, to do even less. because you ve got a whole lot of nothing to do and absolutely nowhere to be.
it s good to see you. i want to ask the same question i asked congressman jackson lee. why did you feel it was so important to bring mr. oliver here with you tonight? well, as you mentioned, the gun violence is an issue that s uniquely american right now. and what we know is we still lose 100 lives a day due to gun violence. the leading cause of death for children in this country are guns, and i hate to be blunt about it, but it s important. if your child god forbid were to die before 18, the leading reason is because they would be shot to death. in this country, in this year right now. so i brought manny because of the work he s been doing. this is personal for him. he lost his son, but he brings his son quad with him everywhere he goes in the spirit of our activism, passion, and love. i look up to that myself. that s why i wanted to bring him here today. i also made a promise to him early in our campaign i would bring him here and also fulfilling that promise and very honored to ha
with an ar-15 on your shirt, we need to vote you out. because you clearly have no understanding for humanity. you can show no compassion and no empathy for nobody, for any human being. and this is the sad situation we re in. that s why congresswoman sheila jackson lee, i m always with her because she s on the battlefield. and i want to thank her for inviting me to this state of the union. because this is an experience that i always wanted. and the time is now once again. please pass the george floyd policing act. how does that get done, congresswoman, when you have members of congress who want to bring guns on the floor of the house, who are wearing these ar-15 pins and making it very clear that the thing they care most about is not people like felonious floyd, not people who were killed like george floyd. what they care most about is guns. you said something before,
part of that story happened again before the election. payments to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. so from the transcript, congressman jackson lee asks hope hicks did mr. trump ever direct to you make public payments about the hush money payments during the campaign? ms. hicks, i was directed to make a public statement denying that a relationship existed. o between fl trump and a woman named karen mcdougal. jackson lee polls up. did you ask the president whether that was true ms. hicks, not to my recollection. do you believe her? i don t believe her, because that was such a huge fact that she was repeating on behalf of donald trump. and it turned out to be a massive lie. now, we also did ask her about the hush money payments when she realized that it was a lie. she was not able to talk about that, because she got that information while she was at the white house. and they objected to everything about her tenure at the white house. but she confirmed that essentially donald trump