Far. he s also going touk about the sanctions that they have done in tandem with european allies. you have seen those rolled out over the last several days. that is something that president biden is expected to highlight tonight because a state of the union address is a speech like no other. this is a primetime address for a president who doesn t often give primetime addresses and you have a bigger audience than a president typically enjoys. what he says is critically important but also making sure that every one is up to date on what has been happening in the last few days as the developments have been happening by the minute, by the hour on the ground. i think it s also no secret that around the time president biden is going to be speaking is often when national security aides at the white house are watching the closest to see what is happening in ukraine. that is when we have seen a lot of the activity. white house officials said they will not be surprised if you see some of that to
Side. this is been done in the past when negotiating with china. donald trump is on this track. he keeps saying xi jinping is my friend, the chances of a huge victory, the campaign promise for him will affect 2020 in the polls. he has stolen the democratic party issue. it plays to his base. he has achieved success and he s not going to follow the bloomberg editorial that both sides are wrong on both sides made a mess. it back to make america great again. we will see. thank you for joining us. if you re just joining us we are digging even further into the two doing primetime addresses, donald trump demanding a solution to the border crisis, democrats say it is misinformation and a fake crisis. a second power panel coming your way with reaction.
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Anyone talked about for days. it led every newscast, big speeches, rallies, primetime addresses, a sense across the country that something major was happening. remember when newt seemed to suggest he wasn t negotiating because clinton had ignored him on air force one. one of the all-time political gifts the public sided decisively with clinton and against the republicans. less than a year later, clinton cruised to re-election, running against the gingrich congress. that, he said, had shut down the government. more recently there was obama versus the tea party in 2013. remember that one? ted cruz told republicans to close the government down and not to blink until obamacare was defunded. they held out for 16 days, but that was it. obamacare survived. although cruz s star with the republican base did rise. this shutdown is very real to the federal workers affected. but on capitol hill, around the country, this one is different, so far. it s a partial shutdown, only a quarter of the gover
Speeches, rallies, primetime addresses, a sense across the country that something major was happening. remember when newt seemed to suggest he wasn t negotiating because clinton had ignored him on air force one. one of the all-time political gifts the public sided decisively with clinton and against the republicans, less than a year later clinton cruised to reelection, running against the gingrich congress. that, he said, had shut down the government. more recently there was obama versus the tea party in 2013. remember that one? ted cruz told republicans to close the government down and not to blink until obamacare was defunded. they held out for 16 days, but that was it. obamacare survived. although cruz s star with the republican base did rise. this shutdown is very real to the federal workers affected. but on capitol hill, around the country, this one is different, so far. it s a partial shutdown, only a quarter of the government, and also happening during the holidays. these are de