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sexy manatee and music back. really big deal. thanks, dana. good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, president biden is three hours away from what critics and supporters are calling one of the most important speeches of his political career. the incumbent president trying to fend off his predecessor and potential successor must prove to the american people he is not too old, too infirm or too out of touch on policies important to americans to justify a second term. he must also lay out a vision for a second term that his campaign hopes can prompt a reversal of his recent dismal poll numbers. the state of the union address can be seen right here live at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. we re just now getting a sneak peek at a few elements of the president s speech. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off with that live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: bret, this is going to be president biden s balancing act tonight. pitch a u
okay days. let s be more than our allergy. the white house. and this is cnn president biden set to deliver the speech of his career tonight, his third state of the union address. we re learning details about how he s expected to make his case for a second term tonight is some of his allies are begging him to fight harder. plus developing now president biden will direct the us military to create a temporary port in gaza to deliver aid. how soon that relief could come as the un says, israel blocked nearly half of its aid missions into gaza just last month, and his hope is dwindling that a ceasefire deal will be done before ramadan. plus researchers looking inside the brain of a killer what they say reveals about the maine mass shooter who killed 18 people and then turned the gun on himself. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central tonight. president biden will delivery pivotal state of the unio
practice. joining us with the latest, monica alba. what more do we know about the president s exams today? reporter: today is what is known as partial physical because that is there are usually a couple components that go into it. and the president had what is more locally referred to as a complete physical in 2021 where he even had a colonoscopy, he had to hand over his duties for the momentto the vice president. we don t expect that today. he is at walter reed undergoing labs and some tests and we expect the white house and the president s personal physician will be able to put out a summary of how that went later today. this is really something where they continue to assess certain things that the president is constantly dealing with, certain medications that he is taking. certain effects of a stiffened gate from a foot injury he s had in the past. we ll be being look at all of that. and in his 2021 physical, he also had biopsy of a small lesion that could have potential