Tonight president obama will talk to the nation and his fifth annual state of the Union Address, this has been a tough year for the president , according to the latest news the approval rate 46 , 50 of americans say they disapprove of the job he is doing, that is the lowest number ever heading into the state of the union, now during the speech, he will announce his intentions to use his powers to raise the federal minimum wage for contract workers right now 7. 25 an hour, he wants to raise that to 10. 10 an hour. That is just one of a number of issues he wants to outline. Lisa, already the president getting push back. He is indeed. He was asked House Speaker was asked about that move to raise the wage, and the speaker said today they wont accomplish anything. The president has the authority to raise the minimum wage for those dealing with federal contracts. Lets understand something. This is effects not one cant contract. It only effects future contracts with the federal government. Ho
To bring storm, ice, and sub zero temperatures to the south where people are not used to those conditions, nationwide thousands of flights are already canceled. In a matter of hours president barack obama will deliver his fifth state of the Union Address. And he has been to the address facing some of the lowest Approval Ratings he has ever seen. 46 disapprove of his work, thats according to a Washington Post poll. So with those numbers the president has some convincing to do. Libby casey is on capitol him, libby, what can we expect to hear . We will hear him talk about things he cares about, including income and equality. Minimum wage as you mentioned one issue that falls under that. He will also talk about Immigration Reform, and dont be surprise if he does bring up the Affordable Care act, he has center stages the national attention, it is an opportunity for him to sell the American Public owhat has been a rookie roll out. These last few months and he will touch on a range of other i
Of the president s cabinet walk in, theres panetta, the defense secretary and, of course eric holdier, the attorney general norah, youve been talking with the white house and you have some of the high points from the president s speech that were about to here. Odonnell i spoke with a senior white house advisor who said this will be more like a Campaign Speech than an inaugural address. The president is emboldened by his victory. They know chef a short window of time to get things done so tonight the big fuse that comes out of the speech is this the president will call for prek education for all american children. He will also call for raising of the minimum wage to 9 an hour. The federal minimum wage. Its at 7. 25. Finally what you reported tonight that he will call for withdrawing 34,000 troops out of afghanistan by the end of the year and, of course, were still scheduled to be in afghanistan until the end of 2014 to have some troops there. Pelley were waiting for president to enter t
At them come in, sean donovan housing and urban development there in the gray suit, arne duncan with education a lot of these people have served four years. This is not exactly a new team. He didnt clean house by any means. There are some new people, john kerry but its a very familiar group of people. Is there fresh vision there . Thats one of the things well be able to judge tonight. Woodruff a good point, mark. The president is replacing about half the cabinet, about half of them have announced theyre leaving. We know some of the new names but most of them havent taken their jobs yet. You know, there were some conversation that, you know, as david was just saying that some of these folks are exhausted from four years of partisan warfare. I think it is. I think its always difficult to replace somebody who is enjoying her work or his work. For any president. This is a president that, quite frankly, is comfortable with a smaller circle of people. Woodruff if i can just interrupt, the ge
Finally what you reported tonight that he will call for withdrawing 34,000 troops out of afghanistan by the end of the year and, of course, were still scheduled to be in afghanistan until the end of 2014 to have some troops there. Pelley were waiting for president to enter the chamber here. We expect that in another minute or two. Nancy cordes is our capitol hill correspondent and nancy, after the president makes his remarks tonight, well be hearing the republican response from senator marco rubio of florida. Reporter thats right, scott. Hes expected to say he hopes the president will abandon his obsession with raising taxes and hell say president obama believes that Free Enterprise is the source of all of our problems. Mr. Rubio is really going to be focusing on the middle class were told, in his speech tonight. He is going to make the argument that the republican party, not the democrats are the party that is better situated to help the middleclass and to help more people get into th