Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker. Madam speaker mr. Speaker. The president. The president. The president. Of the United States. By special invitation of the speaker of the house. Tonight, President Biden delivers the state of the Union Address. We are just getting started. A divided audience in the room. And the nation. The president makes his case for an american comeback. Lets finish the job this time. The economic success story. And its partisan combat over the southern border. U. S. Support for wars abroad, an assault on the fundamental rights of women, and the preservation of democracy itself. Democracy must not be a partisan issue. Tonight, Rachel Maddow, rachel wallace, it jen psaki all here for msnbcs special coverage of the state of the Union Address. Good evening. And thank you for joining us. For the State Of The Union. For democracy, this is the School Band Recital and the Scout Jamboree and the black friday sale and the Christmas Pageant and the new years eve ball drop and my girl
gotten out, but i give biden enormous amount of credit for stopping the war. six or eight months ago will be seen as the guy got us out of 20 years of war. it is not that we shouldn t have struck al qaeda and defended ourselves, it is that we used the same formula for 100 years. we cozy up to bad people to dictators, sometimes impose people, our own people, over democratically elected other people, and we claim we want to build democracy but don t model democracy for others. i m not a noninterventionist, not somebody that thinks we ought to cut the hell out of the military budget, although it is bloated, but i am somebody that laments lack of long term thinking that goes on. does anybody ever ask where are we going to be a year and a half from now if we do this? i think they don t.
noninterventionist. people forget this about him. because of the rhetoric, because of the tweeting, the intention is to see him as somebody with an offensive posture. he has been on the side of the republican party that is not consistent with where the elizabeth cheneys and others are. in that sense he has exposed a natural rift within republican circles on foreign policy questions. he s very popular with republicans but there is a fissure within republican circles that shouldn t be ignored. as we re talking about this, i want to grapple with the democratic field that s still so large people are looking at crowd size as an indicator on where the candidate stands. ali vitale has that. reporter: nothing shows enthusiasm quite like a crowd. i just think it s a sign that people are ready for change in washington. and that s what i m seeing in
there who according to the u.n. which was invited in to be a participant and to engage as an observer at least, they were given the right to vote in self-determination. in recent days, india, barely using any constitutional authority decided to essentially launch a full-scale occupation in kashmir, and the ruling party there, the bjp has been playing on nationalist religious sentiments. same thing in pakistan. national religious sentiments. and we re seeing echoes of that here in the united states. the bjp has used the idea that these are people who don t really want to be part of india, yet they re taking our resources from us. so they need to behave a certain way. and that s the tone of lack of diversity, lack of inclusion that we re seeing recede elsewhere in the world as well. part of the issue here is there should be a role for america. even if you re a noninterventionist, even if you re one of the folks who doesn t think america needs to be the policeman to the world, there is
in kashmir, and the ruling party there, the bjp has been playing on nationalist religious sentiments. same thing in pakistan. national religious sentiments. and we re seeing echoes of that here in the united states. the bjp has used the idea that these are people who don t really want to be part of india, yet they re taking our resources from us. so they need to behave a certain way. and that s the tone of lack of diversity, lack of inclusion that we re seeing recede elsewhere in the world as well. part of the issue here is there should be a role for america. even if you re a noninterventionist, even if you re one of the folks who doesn t think america needs to be the policeman to the world, there is a role for america to play, moral suasion. people want access to american markets, american culture. that has always given us a seat at the table. donald trump has made it that the united states is no longer an honest worker of values. you simply have to pay enough money and stay at th