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
Who sits down. there are things but they ve made aware of, 85 or 75% of the public support the. police reform, banning assault weapons, protecting social security. i bet, and i ve heard this from my former colleagues, he s going to take moments you re going to sit on your hands during that. okay, that s an interesting thing for the public to see. there is a way to implicitly do it, by intentionally putting people on the spot, calling the questions. joining us from inside of the house chamber s senior national hill we ve got a pretty good view of what s going on on the floor there, and who s talking to who, what kind of people can see this happening. but they re in the flesh, what can you tell us about what it s like in the room right now? it s packed. this is going to be a very different audience than what president biden has dealt with in its previous two addresses to congress. both of the last two addresses has some form of covid restrictions in place, masking,