Across the globe. Well bring you insights into what voters and World Leaders are hoping to hearfrom the us president this evening. The speech marks a crucial moment in his presidency. This will be his third State Of The Union as president and last planned National Address before voters head to the polls this november. Withjust under eight months until election day, the us is preparing for a 2020 Rematch Betweenjoe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Its a match up that 48 say they feel negative about and 42 call depressing. Will President Biden be able to reassure voters hes best able to tackle the countrys issues and that the State Of The Union is still strong . We will hear all about but a little later. Well bejoined tonight by our experts, reporters, white house veterans and lawmakers attending the speech on capitol hill. First, lets go to our reporter Helena Humphrey live on capitol hill. This is one of the busiest nights on the hill. Of all of the knights of the year, what is
welcome to the programme. plenty of elections around the world this year. now know a bit more about what could be happening here in the uk. rishi sunak says the general election is likely to happen in the second half of this year . he didn t rule out it happening earlier but says his working assumption is later this year. take a listen. so, look, my working assumption is we ll have a general election in the second half of this year, and in the meantime, i ve got lots that i want to get on with. that means cutting people s taxes this saturday. that s a tax cut worth £450 for the average person in work. we can do that because we d halved inflation. i want to keep going, managing the economy well and cutting people s taxes, but i also want to keep attacking illegal migration. last year, we got the numbers down by a third, and now we need to get our rwanda schema through parliament, up and running, so we have a full deterrent. and that s how we are really going to solve this
some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s the majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i ll give you a copy. i ll give you a copy of the proposal. good morning, everyone. welcome to capitol hill to the balcony here. listen, it was very interesting watching. i was asking kaitlin as that was playing, have you been as a white house correspondent to the state of the union. you say you are always at the white house. yeah. and you have been watching them. i don t know if i have ever seen one like that, to have that reaction. i remember the you lie moment with president barack obama, but i don t know if i remember one like that. i think what s so different in those two moments is the reaction. when the lie moment happened, everyone was stunned. last night it was feisty. almost expected. yeah. the president trying to cut through all of the noise and heckling from republicans. did he get his message acr
survivors. their cries for help can be heard through the rubble. we need help. we need the international community to do something, to help us, to support us. survivors being pulled from the wreckage including this toddler. i ll speak with a u.n. official about the recovery effort. also this morning, tensions flaerg with china as the u.s. rushes to collect the debris from that spy balloon. china calling it a clear overreaction. the fallout from that hanging over president biden one day out from his second state of the union address. what we know about tomorrow s high stakes speech. we re going to begin with those massive deadly earthquakes rocking turkey and syria. p nbc news foreign correspondent meagan fitzgerald has the latest on the damage. i m joined by senior communications adviser and spokesperson for the u.n. high commissioner for the refugee office for middle east and north africa. the images coming out of the region are horrifying. children being pulled from
campaign, you can tell he s moving forward reconvenes the investigation, the alleged hush money paid to alleged according to new nbc news reporting, da alvin bragg has dismissed a second letter from house republicans put seeking information into the back against republicans, making it their mission to investigate investigators. republicans, because they cannot govern on the issues, continue to use fearmongering tactics, red herrings, and playing the consistent victim to a so-called woke culture. that s how they re looking to govern, versus dealing with the facts of this particular case. and by the way, facts relayed to georgia, and facts related to the department of justice as well. stop, you know, president trump has to be held accountable for what he has done, and let s see if that accountability begins with an indictment in manhattan. for donald trump, it s back to the playbook as casting all of these investigations was nothing but a hoax. 2024 campaign in texa