Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker. Madam speaker mr. Speaker. The president. The president. The president. Of the United States. By special invitation of the speaker of the house. Tonight, President Biden delivers the state of the Union Address. We are just getting started. A divided audience in the room. And the nation. The president makes his case for an american comeback. Lets finish the job this time. The economic success story. And its partisan combat over the southern border. U. S. Support for wars abroad, an assault on the fundamental rights of women, and the preservation of democracy itself. Democracy must not be a partisan issue. Tonight, Rachel Maddow, rachel wallace, it jen psaki all here for msnbcs special coverage of the state of the Union Address. Good evening. And thank you for joining us. For the State Of The Union. For democracy, this is the School Band Recital and the Scout Jamboree and the black friday sale and the Christmas Pageant and the new years eve ball drop and my girl
I dont know. Well have to see. Well have to try to declassify, right . As president , i could have declassified them. Now i cant. Donald trump indicted for his mishandling of classified documents will reportedly receive Intelligence Briefings as the nominee of his party. That decision apparently coming from President Biden himself. Well discuss. Also tonight, President Bidens state of the Union Address. He needs to convince americans that his very real accomplishments have made their lives better while trying to close the Enthusiasm Gap with trump with trump well discuss with trump transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg who will join me. Plus, will nikki haley supporters drink the maga koolaid, or does biden have a chance to win them over . We begin tonight with the state of the president ial race, on state of the union night. Were now just two hours away from President Bidens final state of the Union Address before the president ial election. It is an annual tradition that in a presi
the also rans claiming small victories, even though they each got walloped by the inevitable nominee donald trump, apparently put in place by god, because as one iowan put it, god picks unusual people. also tonight, michigan governor and biden campaign cochair gretchen whitmer joins me to discuss the democrats view of the republican race and whether president biden has a michigan problem. plus, the war on dr. king s memory. there is more to his legacy than just that one speech that republicans often misuse for their own political aims. we begin tonight with iowa s choice. today the winner of that state s republican presidential caucuses, donald trump, spent a significant part of the day after not in new hampshire as presidential history would suggest, but in a manhattan courthouse for the beginning of a trial to determine how much he has to pay in damages to a woman he was find liable for sexually abusing and defaming. let s just establish that straight away. donald
John hopkins hospital in baltimore, maryland. That summer she finished her novel and this photograph was taken of the famous couple shortly after the novel was released. This was twoshot of scott and zelda, a picture posed for and the expressions on their faces are unmistakable. Theres an unhappiness in the marriage that it is becoming difficult to overcome. Fitzgerald looking nervous and zelda looking very unhappy that she is the subject of attention and the reason is these photographs are appearing beside reviews of her novel which irbasically calling her thirdrate writer and a woman who is only being published because her husband is f. Scott fitzgerald. After the publication of the novel, her Mental Health kind to deer tier youre rate. For the rest of the 30s she spent over 90 of her waking hours in mental institutions, leaving the great writer, f. Scott fitzgerald, alone with his only child, daughter, bill the way, who is coming of age. In 1933, scott sent scotty to boarding school
In my garage april 30. I typed out a onepage letter that said dear friend, please read this book today and then buy enough copies to send to your delegates for the 1964 Republican National convention. I typed it on my typewriter. I headed mimeograph machine in the basement i went down to the basement and put the stencil on the round thing and ground out a hundred letters. One of those letters, which was read by a friend in california who called up and said, i read it and im going to a convention this weekend, united republicans of california. Put me off 5000 copies, so i loaded them up in my Station Wagon and took them to the airport and a sent them out and that weekend we had statewide distribution in california. That california primary was the first week in june and we sold over a halfmillion copies between the first of may and the first of june in california. Where did the title come from . Barry goldwater use the title and the minutes i heard it i knew that was it. Watch this and o