president biden s state of the union address. in the meantime, kick up your feet and watch the beat which starts right now. hi, ari. was that a lyric? you re rubbing off on me. i ll see you soon. have a good show. welcome to the beat s state of the union coverage. president biden now just hours away from delivering the annual trace. white house aides are touting that they say could be a positive and almost classy address, taking the high road. we know biden spent the weekend working on drafts at camp david, aides eyeing ways to tout what they see as job growth, navigating this post pandemic economy and laying the groundwork for an official campaign announcement. those are just some of the images we ve seen coming out of the white house operation. there s also the sense of security, extra fences going up at the capitol today. this is just two years after the violent insurrection. all three branches of government represented onsite. it is always a security challenge as
democrats panic is muzzled if poll numbers stay. there are big events, including donald trump s sentencing coming up shortly. john heilemann, we ll talk again in a little bit on morning joe. thanks for getting up way too early on this friday morning from atlanta. morning joe starts right now. i ll fix the taxes. we have a thousand trillionaires in america, i mean billionaires. what s happening? they, in fact, pay 8.2% taxes. if they just paid 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers, they ve raised $500 million billion dollars, i should say, in a ten-year period. wipe out the debt. we can help make sure all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure we re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what i ve been able to do with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do look, if we finally beat medicare after you rallied your supporters that da
there are the imagery, the pageantry and sometimes, yes, the stories told through the people who are there. since you mentioned that and the politics of that as well, that joe biden, in his mind and he said publicly he feels what he says a special link to civil rights issues and the black america community and the way that clyburn and others resuscitated a campaign at one point left for politically dead, that s a constituency he s going to need if he does as expected run this re-election campaign at a time when folks, michelle goldberg of the state of the union, greeting a state of the union for him not to run again. as a reporting matter, in no way are we seeing prominent democrats or his allies talk that way in public, but what do you see politically on that in general and specifically with the coalition that he needs to hold or revive if he s going to run and win? right. you don t really see democrats willing to be on the record at least although they are talking
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that we fight to bring the economy from 750,000 jobs lost a month to three years later we ve had 22 straight months of private sector job growth. we ve begun to turn the economy around. people know that president obama is fighting for them. they know that any one of the republicans, especially mitt romney, is fighting to it is interesting, chris, david, as a reporting matter, as republicans they will concede the fact that a lot of people like this president personally. they like him to succeed. that runs counter to a lot what have you hear here on the hustings which is, you know, we ve got to get power back to reverse what he s done. the toughest challenge for the president is the economy and if the unemployment rate is going up to 9% by the end of this year, that s a real challenge, isn t it? the economy and jobs is the number one issue on everybody s minds. the president has a record that has taken us from being in a really impossibly difficult situation, the worst economic p