This afternoon President Joe Biden is taking his brand on energy on the road after a fiery state of the Union Address in which he laid out the choice facing voters in november. He made a stunning indictment of the gops decision to turn its back on democracy and freedom both here and abroad, all in service of the disgraced wannabe autocrat who is The Republicans presumptive president ial nominee. President joe biden will be soon making remarks in pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is central to his hopes of prevailing in november. If todays speech is like anything we saw last night from the president he will take a blow torch to his opponent and the Republican Party. Standing before congress in front of some of the very same people who aided and abetted donald trump, trying to overturn the 2020 election, and the very seen of the crime that is the january 6th insurrection, President Biden on thursday night painted a picture of a Republican Party that has fallen so far it no longer respects or ad
This administration has lessened those and we believe that really is a big part of why iran felt emboldened enough to allow its proxies to wage this attack. Neil real quickly. Tom emmer did clear a hurdle by getting republican support, what there was within conference for potential vote on the house floor. That he will be probably shy of the votes that he needs. Do you agree with that assessment . I have to be candid. The closest to 217 votes is our former speaker that was about four votes shy when he left office. As of today, the most popular republican by far is in fact Kevin Mccarthy. That cause as lot of us the question of did we get rid of the right man to get an alternative when theres no alternative. Were going to a conference in a few minutes. As emmer tries to get to 217, a lot of us are asking the question what was wrong with the person to that almost had 217 on the day he left office. Neil do you know whether he or maybe at your behest would try entertaining for his old job
Right thing for our party. He made sure we could continue to negotiate and achieve the objects my friend from virginia laid out and achieved them in divided government. So im very proud of this speaker. Im very proud to stand behind him. Tomorrow morning whether i win or lose, im going to be pretty proud of the people i fought with and im be extraordinarily proud of the person i fought for, the Speaker Of The House, Kevin Mccarthy. With that i reserve the balance of my time. [applause] the gentleman from oklahomas time is reserved. The gentleman from florida. My friend from oklahoma says my colleagues and i dont support Kevin Mccarthy would plunge the house and the country in to chaos. Chaos is Speaker Mccarthy. Chaos is somebody that we cannot trust with their word. The one thing that the white house, House Democrats and many of us reason the conservative side of the Republican Caucus would argue is that the thing we have in common, Kevin Mccarthy said something to all of us at one po
that policy is before he loses his patience and goes down the path to provocation. yeah, it is the beginning of a new saga with north korea and america. jean, thank you so much, jean lee. thanks for being with us. thanks so much. right now, president biden is on his way to pennsylvania. the city of chester in delaware county is his latest step on the help is here tour to promote his giant covid relief package to americans, and he just spoke during his departure, so let s listen to that. southern border? not at the moment. have you decided when you re able to share thoughts with other countries? allies or neighbors first? who will be the first country to get u.s. vaccine? i ve been talking with several countries already. i ll let you know that very shortly. all right, i have with me now, cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz who s in denver following the vice president who s also part of this big rollout for the american rescue plan. arlette, tell us what