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hour on cnn newsroom. i m bianna golodryga. i m victor blackwell. in just a few hours, we ll see president biden in primetime. this will be his first state of the union address before a divided congress. the speech will offer the president his largest television audience of the year, and unlike last year when nancy pelosi sat behind the president, the house speaker seat will be occupied by republican kevin mccarthy. his party holds a slim majority in the house, and the president said he will extend his hand. he ll go across the aisle for veterans and the opioid epidemic. he expects to lay out his successes setting up what insiders say is a test run for his re-election bid. manu raju and phil mattingly are at the white house. give us a preview of what we can expect tonight. i think the president will try to connect. when you talk to his advisers, connect what they view of critical accomplishments to what they know they still need to accomplish the year or two ahe ....
Will reject full stop. so the question will be on that major issue that they have to deal with, what will they say, and will he say anything to poke republicans in the eye? kevin mccarthy there warning president biden not to go that route. manu raju, thank you. manu and phil, stay with us. let s bring in our cnn political commentator and cnn historian. trump, obama, george w. bush, clinton, all entered office with their party holding both chambers in congress, and then at some point at least one of them flipped. ron brownstein writes for cnn.com, we saw a breadth, the spectrum of responses. what are you expecting from the president tonight? i m expecting president biden to follow president obama s approach. i expect him to congratulate the republicans for winning the house. ....
Rating and on the economy, 39% approve, 56% disapprove. if you follow the trend line on biden s handling on the economy, it tracks perfectly with his overall approval rating, both around 40%. ron, let s talk about your new piece in the atlantic. it s asking does biden have a second act? you re looking into his predecessors. you say it s too early to count him out. why is that? the core question, all of numbers that harry just noted about his approval rating i would argue about what you would expect for a president at a moment when three quarters or more of the country is unhappy with the direction of the country or in the parlance of pollsters, they say we are on the wrong track. we have seen this movie before, don. ronald reagan, bill clinton, barack obama, all entered office at a moment of enormous dissatisfaction with the direction of the country. when they came in, there was a brief rallying of optimism but after a few months when ....
See it is very much doing the exact same thing, whereby on covid up covid you see that negative rating and on the economy, 39% approve, 56% disapprove. if you follow the trend line on biden s handling on the economy, it tracks perfectly with his overall approval rating, both around 40%. ron, let s talk about your new piece in the atlantic. it s asking does biden have a second act? you say it s too early to count him out. why is that? the core question, all of numbers that harry just noted about his approval rating i would argue about what you would expect for a president at a moment when three quarters or more of the country is unhappy with the direction of the country or in the parlance of pollsters, they say we are on the wrong track. we have seen this movie before, don. ronald reagan, bill clinton, barack obama, all entered office at a moment of enormous ....