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
. house speaker kevin mccarthy is facing growing pushback within his own party over his new plan to raise the debt limit . we re following this critical test for the speaker for congress and for the president as the clock ticks towards a potential economic crisis. also tonight, alec baldwin s attorney says criminal charges against the actor are being dropped a year and a half after the deadly accidental shooting on the set of his film rust. and trump ally and my pillow chief mike lindell has been ordered to pay $5 million in connection with his false claims about the 2020 election. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news, but we do begin with breaking news out of the white house. cnn senior chief white house correspondent phil mattingly is here with details. phil. what are you learning? well, alex we have known for several months, the p
Pennsylvania, because he s done it before because he genuinely believes in helping the working class and manufacturing bringing that back to the united states. but look, i will say this it would be foolish to underestimate donald trump. i was wrong about donald trump in 2016. i was wrong in 2020. i thought we would win by more votes than we did, so we need to take his candidacy seriously, and we need to unify behind the president. and if you were, if i could ask you to put yourselves in the shoes of potential advisor, what would you what would you advise him to do in terms of what he should run on? should he be attacking them for things like abortion and the lack of access that has been pushed by the right in the past few months? would you advise him to put forward his accomplishments? he should be a jobs democrat and make the case that for 40 years we ve seen the hollowing out of factory towns of rural america for industry. we let so much of it go to china. we lost our production. he
Have someone like desantis signing an abortion ban at six weeks and saying you have to provide proof. of rape to be able to get an abortion. let s just understand that is more radical than ronald reagan, bush , senior bush junior or donald trump. and that s why the republican party has a real problem. i think those positions are unelectable in the general election, and you know who realizes that donald trump he s pleading with his party. don t cut social security. don t be so extreme on abortion that s going to be the real problem heading into 2024 trump, notably quiet on abortion. but as we were just saying, congressman trump does hold a significant lead in polling among republican primary candidates, at least those who have announced so far when you look at a potential democratic field, do you genuinely believe that president biden is the only democrat out there who could beat donald trump if he ends up being the republican nominee? he s the best democrat who could beat him because o
White working class just a little bit, enough to win, but he also is doing things that back in the day, democrats logan should be jobs, jobs, jobs. biden is a jobs, jobs, jobs democrat, and the bills he passed, especially infrastructure, that money is going to start rolling out the spring, and as those shovels are going into the ground, as long as the white house is disciplined about taking credit for it and not letting republican swoop in and cut ribbons at those places but they built this bill to really hit red states hard. they are pouring money into places where people don t vote for joe biden, and he s telling a story that is bipartisan, not inside the congress but inside the real world inside the country. but also make no mistake, this is a precedent that though he proposed to be a guy that would write the country, he did spent a fair amount of time talking about the extreme maga wing of the party and knows that some success democrats had in the midterms was precisely