it comes but once a year for politics junkies, it is the christmas and new year s and arbor day and obscure state specific holiday you can t really remember the reason for rolled into one. it is state of the union night, and we are so happy that you re here with us for it. here s a live look at the u.s. capital tonight. members of both chambers of congress, guess, supreme court justices, cabot secretaries, admirals, ambassadors, they re all gathering to hear this big heavy on the pomp and circumstance annual address the president of the united states. on the other end of pennsylvania avenue of the white house, we are watching for president biden to part from the white house for the capital. the is expected shortly. i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters. joined by my colleagues of chris hayes, joy reid, nicole wallace, alex wagner and ari melber. i also do mean it when i say thank you for being home with us. we know you had every choice in the world were to watch thi
Joined by my colleagues of chris hayes, joy reid, nicole wallace, alex wagner and ari melber. i also do mean it when i say thank you for being home with us. we know you had every choice in the world were to watch this thing. last year, 38 million people watched president biden give the speech, carried live on something like 19 different networks, so we know you can be watching anywhere, and that makes us particularly grateful to have you here. president biden tonight will be speaking to a very different congress than he spoke to in his last state of the union. we ll have a sock reminder that tonight, when the familiar face of nancy pelosi over the presidential shoulder, for the past several years. we will instead have a new guy. republicans won a slim majority in the house in the last election and that means tonight s state of the union, instead of seeing nancy pelosi there over the presidents left soldier, we will see the new