the 2024 road show has begun. the lead starts right now. president biden leaving the beltway. taking the state of the union message to voters in some key battleground states. will he get cheers or jeers from the american people? then, more than 12,000 people now have been killed. the death toll from the earthquake in turkey and syria continuing to rise to staggering heights as hope fades of finding survivors left in the rubble. and a passenger s battery catching on fire mid flight, forcing a plane to make an emergency landing and sending four people to the hospital. what you need to know about flying with potentially dangerous electronic devices. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the scene after the state of the union address looks like the campaign trail. president biden is in the crucial swing state of wisconsin, where he is talk ja jobs and the economy. echoing the themes of last night. kamala harris is in georgia, another key battleground state, that you mig
life, marjorie taylor greene, who heckled him like she was at a pro wrestling match. i guess one question i have is, his campaigning. he ran in 2020, it was still covid. he was able to do nonevents. the first stop we saw is exactly what we ve come to expect. a speech in front of a union crowd, about creating jobs. is he ready for the vigors of a presidential election campaign where he is expected to do three or four of those a day? it s brutal. it s broughtal to cover for people in their 20s, much less a man who is 80. who aren t giving speeches and stops and shaking hands. biden knows it well. he s no stranger to politics. you re right. his campaign in 2020 is not what this one is going to look like. you have to be on the road, with this aggressive republican field we re going to see. that s why wisconsin was his first stop.
of the way to get to his position, front and center. and on that same day, president trump lecturing his nato allies on defense spending, but not condemn being russian action in the ukraine or pressing support for article 5, you know, an attack on one is an attack on all. on twitter the president today gave his own assessment. touting the trip as very successful. was it really? micha michael mcfaul, secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and you re asia. there are a couple things here. there s optics and substance. ambassador mccaul, how would you rate this trip, was it very successful? well, remember, expectations were very low. there was a low bar, so, in the beginning of the trip that there were nonevents, that there were nonscandals, and nonpolicy pronouncements, looked pretty good. is that where we are, if there s nonscandals that it s it is. it s pretty good?
tomorrow. back to hardball. i m not late! and i m going to stay right here and fight until this is done. even if this room gets filled with lies like these and the tailors and all their armies come marching into this place. somebody will listen to me. wow. welcome back to hardball. now, that is what a filibuster looks like, a real one. jimmy stewart collapsing at the end of a 23-hour filibuster, one-man filibuster in mr. smith goes to washington. now filibusters are the nonevents that gum up legislation and have almost paralyzed the united states senate. the talking filibuster like you saw in that famous jimmy stewart