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
good morning. welcome to morning joe. that s a look at times square. we re a heart of hours the ball the will drop and we ll turn the page to 2024. good morning. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to this morning, including another state remove donald trump from the republican presidential ballot. we will have expert legal and political analysis on that big decision from maine s secretary of state. plus nikki haley s attempt at cleaning up her highly criticized answer on the cause of the civil war. also forces continue to strike refugee camps where it believes hamas terrorists are hiding. this comes as the biden administration is putting more pressure to protect civilians. plus we ll take a look at the stories that dominated 2023 from two wars overseas to chaos on capitol hill, as well as the former president s many legal battles as he enters the presidential election. a lot to go through. with us for all of us is nbc news national affairs analyst john heilem
world. i m kim brunhuber. this is the final weekend before the critical midterm elections in the u.s. we ll tell you what big names are focused and who seems to be resonating with voters. tornadoes are wreaking havoc in southeastern u.s. at least nine touched down in texas. we ll have more in a few minutes. and a crowd sourcing campaign like you ve never seen before, how people in the world are helping ukraine in its war with russia. the january 6 investigation, the u.s. president s domestic agenda, abortion rights, voting rights are all on the line as americans prepare to vote tuesday in the midterm elections. candidates across the board are pulling all the stops in the final week of campaigning. president joe biden will be in illinois with a message on lowering prescription prices and shoring up medicare. and then he ll head to pennsylvania. the president sounded optimistic. here he is. i know you always ask me how are we doing. we re going to win this time around
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the ex-president turned criminal defendant and his lawyers, the prosecutors who brought the first ever criminal case against an american ex-president and indeed the entire country waiting for word from the jury in the trump election interference hush money criminal trial. in court right now, the jury is currently on its 10th hour of deliberations. the judge has said that the jury will not work past 6:00 p.m. today no matter what. if anything happens in court, we ll let you know as soon as we know. the jury spent most of their morning listening to things they have already heard before read back to them. they asked to rehear the judge s instructions regarding what inferences they can make from the evidence shown at trial. they also reviewed the testimony of michael cohen and david pecker regarding their august 2015 trump tower meeting, as well as testimony from david pecker regarding a call from donald trump at his decision to not buy
Physical evidence. It came down to who the jury believed. They believed andreas story and bill cosby, The Comic Legend found guilty on all three counts. He faces up to 30 years in prison. He was let free on bail. Million dollar bond. A home on house arrest. We await the sentencing hearing. His Defense Attorney said the fight is not over. Thats tom mesereau, famous for defending michael jackson. So we expect this to go to appeals. Right now a big victory for Andrea Constand and the dozens of women that accused bill cosby of Sexual Assault over the years today. Neil . Neil bryan llenas, thanks very much. Just to put this in perspective here, constand is the focus of this attention in this case and these allegations. More than 60 woman have come forward making similar accusations and a pattern of
behavior. Putting it in perspective, constand testified that in her case in 2004 meeting with bill cosby, he gave her three blue pills and she drank wine at his request. She passed out, woke up a