this just into cnn. the date for the state of the union is set. house speaker nancy please i officially invited president biden to deliver the address to congress on march 1st. in a letter to the president, she says, quote, i am writing to invite you to address a joint session of congress on tuesday, march 1st, to share your vision for the state of the union. also developing right now, the supreme court hearing oral arguments on president biden s covid-19 vaccine and testing mandates. with details on that just ahead, plus the cdc director dr. walensky on the offensive amid confusion over the agency s messaging and guidance. what she s saying now. and this hour former new york governor andrew cuomo in court after prosecutors declined to pursue a forcible touching charge. we re getting destroyed out there. we need a plan!
i just get angrier and go after you more. reporter: the president s daughter, ivanka, concedes her father is upset. angry at the waste of time, angry at the collateral damage, angry but it s still energizing and it focuses you on really and draws into relief the stark contrast in priorities. reporter: but pelosi appears to be getting in some digs of her own, inviting the president to deliver the state of the union around the time of mr. trump s trial, writing in a letter, in the spirit of respecting our constitution, i invite you to deliver your state of the union address before a joint session of congress on tuesday, february 4th, 2020. but an expert witness for the democrats during the inquiry is warning pelosi should get on with it, writing in an op-ed if the house does not communicate its impeachment to the senate, it hasn t actually impeached the president. democrats aren t buying that. absolutely after the vote that we took on the floor, the
getting in some digs of her own inviting the president to deliver the state of the union around the time of mr. trump s trial. writing in a letter, in the spirit of respecting our constitution, i invite you to deliver your state of the union address before a joint session of congress on tuesday, february 4th, 2020. but an expert witness for the democrats during the inquiry is warning pelosi should get on with it. writing in an op-ed, if the house does not communicate its impeachment to the senate, it hasn t actually impeached the president. democrats aren t buying that. absolutely, you know, after the vote that we took on the floor and, you know, the majority of congress voted to impeach the president. he has absolutely been impeached. as christmas is approaching, the president is all but saying ba hum bug to the religious public christianity today, which is calling for mr. trump s removal over actions in ukraine. president blakted the website as a far-left magazine but that s no
speaker nancy pelosi has gone in his view. well, i think that she was very rigid which i would expect, but i think she s very bad for our country. she knows that you need a barrier. she knows that you need border security. she want today win a political point. she offered over a billion dollars for border security. she doesn t want the wall. she s costing the country hundreds of billions of dollars because what s happening is when you have a porous border and when you have drugs pouring? in- despite that a senior white house official says president trump is going to use his state of the union trace to call for unity and tell members of congress, quote, together 0 we can break decades of political stalemate. bridge this and heal old wounds and extraordinary promise of america s future. the decision is ours to make. immigration is one of five key topics we expect the president to touch on during a joint session of congress on tuesday.
paul: president trump set to deliver his first state of the union address before a joint session of congress on tuesday. the speech seen as a chance for the president to outline his agenda. ahead of the crucial midterm election. but should we expect a conventional state of the union address from our own nonconventional president? our own bill mcgurn seshed as a speech writer for president bush. bill, you ve worked on these. i gather it takes weeks and weeks collating suggestions from everybody. every year speech writers get together saying this is not going to be a laundry list. and every year it s a laundry list. it s the nature of the beast? why ? the president is laying out his list. whatever you re working on, you want the president to mention it. and what the president usually does is lay out what he wants to do in foreign affairs, the