mirage. in biden s world, inflation is not at a four-decade high and 64% of americans are not living paycheck to paycheck. democrats are already cheering on the con job, chuck schumer s wetting himself with excitement. i think the president will do a very good job at selling the accomplishment. from what i hear there are like 40 million people to watch. it s not the super bowl but a heck of a lot of people. jesse: and general psaki thinks her old boss can seal the deal. people will get big, progressive, bold joe biden. he s done a lot of stuff, accomplished a lot of stuff, and nobody really knows about all those things. they can t make the speech about that, they know that. you can t do a list of all the things you ve done. people will tune out. they don t want to know about data. he needs to tell a story. joe biden is an amazing story teller. you sit in the oval office and karine can tell you and he can story tell for six hours. he needs to do that in the speech tonight
He s got pompeo cards that every candidate and local town con sell candidates had counsel candidates had pompeo cards and that s probably so joe can remember the stories. jesse: harold, i don t want to hear a listcal as jen psaki said so it don t put us to sleep. what would you tell the president to make his core theme about? i wish i was around the table with you guys. one, i think that dana in terms of what you think about when you re giving the state of the union and here he is in his third state of the union. likely this will be the precursor for the race. jesse, this portends when the speech writer and press conference at the white house is thinking about. jen psaki is right no one want
Later he posted a listcal of sorts. nine key questions about the elimination of israel. iran s former president was infamous for his denial of the holocaust. how would you like to be a pro israeli jewish reporter for a jewish publication and get off the plane in iran? my next guest did just that. larry koehler. editor at the forward has said to have been the first reporter from the jewish media to be credentialed to report in the islamic republic of iran since the 1979-revolution. larry, a pleasure to have you on. thank you very much. give me your dominant, you know, reaction. what was the thing that struck you the most? that surprised you the most.