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
Jobs as an average. this president, with the calls making to the economy and things to have at the time is averaging 500,000 jobs a month, so as the old saying goes, yesterday s price is not today s price, and i think joe biden can sell a new price that they are actually a higher value presidency, they had two years of results to sell to the american public. to chris s point, you re absolutely right, this is a conversation about things being perfect and inflation know, things are not perfect. have you ve been around the last six years? people know that. but are things getting better? this is a night to go over the media filter, over the internet filter, the conspiracy theories and taught the public, whatever your pain is, it s getting better because the stuff is working, and he can bring that home with numbers. the short, punchy ways to do it, more jobs created than in any two year period under any president. we had the lowest unemployment rate since 1969. we have wages rising high