across the board on issue after issue, he laid out both achievements and an agenda for the future. the average american household is better off in real terms. the white house touting the resiliency of the biden economy and the president is getting ready to head to philadelphia to kick off a 20-state blitz to tout the economic record. hello, on this friday afternoon. great to have you here today. thank you for having me. aishah hasnie in for john roberts on this friday. this is america reports . the president is using the address to the nation to try to win americans back on the economy, calling it not inflation, it s corporate shrinkflation. but we caught up with americans at a diner in the last hour and they re not buying it. frankly, when i see a difference in the total at the bottom of my receipt at the grocery store and the gas station, that s when i ll start feeling better about the economy. we might want something really bad but it s four more dollars more ex
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
And how involved the president is in those? this is very nerdy but we re in a safe place here, there are several binders of policies, nicole remembers this process, that starts with, all of the ideas that could possibly be in the speech, those are narrowed down simultaneous as the speech is being written. this is the process that i ve always been a part of. the lobbying part, and this is when it gets crazy is the last couple of days where cabinet member phone calls people who care about an issue, they start calling people. i did a roundtable a speakers, someone waited outside the bathroom for him once, came out of the bathroom and said, i need this in a speech, and he said, it s in three hours. that happens. he was left a bottle of bourbon by the secretary of education. very smart, that is the last couple of days. it is one people just are desperate and want to think in that speech. can i ask you, biden strikes me as somebody who is very natural, except he does not