welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe to this bbc news special. this is president biden s first presidential address to congress. he will talk about america being on the move again. in the next few minutes president biden will address a joint session of congress to mark his first 100 days in office. he will speak soon. let s see what is happening inside the chamber. it is quite odd. it is a covid friendly address. normally there would be something like 1600 people in this chamber, or members of congress that all members of the senate. all of the members of the cabinet would be there and all of the members of the supreme court would be there. senior members of the defence department would be there. it is a much reduced crowd. there are a select few people about 200 in all in the whole chamber. top republicans, top democrats are there. the first ladyjill biden is up in the gallery. and of course it is a historic occasion because sitting behind joe biden
a consequential president, but today first thing you ll see, all i can say is count me out. enough is enough. i m doing a golf tournament where president trump this sunday, may 2nd, in my campaign is going to auction a slot off to play in this tournament. you have lunch, you have breakfast with president trump. you get a photo. you play at his golf course in florida. it s going to be a lot of fun. a tale, willie of two characters. that is so painful. they had the strongest of convictions. they had the weakest of convictions. unfortunately there are a lot more lindsey grahams than there are liz cheneys. in fact two or three liz cheneys in this case. adam kinzinger others said what they said on january 6th, yeah, this was a bad day. you can t incite a riot, you can t bring people to the capitol in an insurrection and stayed to that which wouldn t seem that hard of a position to hold. yet we see lindsey graham and kevin mccarthy headed right back on. kevin mccarthy wen
president and ceo he joined me now from virginia. have a statewide race in virginia and more than a decade, why is this one so close? i think a couple of things, if you look at a poll released yesterday a national poll, the honeymoon is premature over for biden, his numbers declined to negative on his job approval. a 40-point shift in terms of independent voters but usually what you see in terms of intensity, a major factor here in virginia right now, the president serves as the gravity to bring the numbers down i also think you and mcauliffe, someone who stopped the campaign not knowing where to go, he started off talking like an incumbent but he hasn t been in income but in four years and that s a lifetime in politics so he got off to a bad start, gave going duncan determine as the new person talking about what can be done to the future of the state and i think the combination of those two things but the race ever since labor day is a very close brace with more intensity
protecting the people from the powerful. it s intoxicating stuff. reality, of course, is less glamorous. supporting that candidate is an army volunteers, donors, political operatives, and they can sometimes get too wrapped up in in the lore, the legend, which brings us to the story of johnny reid edwards an american success story, crusading trial lawyer, family man. the senator from north carolina was seen by millions of americans as the future of the democratic party. candidate john edwards was inspirational. people seemed as if they would go to the ends of the earth for him. and in some cases, he made them. because in reality, john edwards the person well, he was no savior. [cheers and applause] [amplified voice] i will give you back your democratic party. i will give you back the white house, and i will give you back your country. tapper: who could ever forget this handsome face? john edwards. being honest and changing course in iraq is the first step in trying to re
at their best, candidates represent an ideal the overcoming of obstacles or hopes for a better future, protecting the people from the powerful. it s intoxicating stuff. reality, of course, is less glamorous. supporting that candidate is an army volunteers, donors, political operatives, and they can sometimes get too wrapped up in in the lore, the legend, which brings us to the story of johnny reid edwards an american success story, crusading trial lawyer, family man. the senator from north carolina was seen by millions of americans as the future of the democratic party. candidate john edwards was inspirational. people seemed as if they would go to the ends of the earth for him. and in some cases, he made them. because in reality, john edwards the person well, he was no savior. [cheers and applause] [amplified voice] i will give you back your democratic party. i will give you back the white house, and i will give you back your country. tapper: who could ever forget this