A lot of political emotions in a very fired up President Biden, welcome to our special coverage of the State Of The Union. Im caitlin collins, and im abby phillip, President Biden tonight sought to take full advantage of a prime time tv audience, setting up the stakes for election day. He directly targeted donald trump quite a lot, but he refused to even say his name. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6th. My predecessor failed the most basic president ial duty. My predecessor are promising to pass a national ban on reproductive freedom. My predecessor, a former republican president , tells putin, quote, do whatever the hell you want. My predecessor came to office determined to see roe v wade overturned. My predecessor called Members Of Congress in the senate to demand they block the bill. But unlike my predecessor, i know who we are as americans. My predecessor told the nra hes proud he did nothing on guns when he was president. He said, my prede
Us and the people work for a living in this country. All right. Anita dunn, thank you very much. A senior adviser, of course, to President Biden. And outfront now, dan cluchey, the former senior speechwriter for President Biden, who worked on multiple major biden speeches during the 2022 State Of The Union speech and the 2021 inaugural address. And david litt, speechwriter for thenpresident obama. Okay. Thanks very much to both of you. So here we are. Were less than two hours away, from from this going to be a major speech from biden. And i think, safe to say, sort of my interpretation, from spending time with him today is its hes going to take his time and hes going to talk about a lot of things, we know he reached out to tv president s, tv president s like morgan, morgan freeman, gina davis. Yeah, i mean, why do you think he did that . Well, can i say he neglected bill pullman, who i think is the best tv president s speech has gotten . No, i was not all inclusive with my list. I was
At the white house, right now, President Joe Biden preparing to Face Congress and the American People and deliver a speech that could have huge consequences for his reelection campaign. Theyll soon leave for the us capitol to give his state of the Union Address. Less than 48 hours after his long anticipated rematch with donald trump became a reality. Welcome to a Special Edition of ac360. Im Anderson Cooper and im jake tapper. About an hour from now, President Biden will walk into the House Chamber under enormous pressure to forcefully and successfully sell his vision for america and his argument for a second terme. Mister President Biden needs to take advantage of this opportunity with tens of millions of americans watching to make his case and perhaps, perhaps the most important speech of his decades long career in public life, this will be a critical test of the 81 year old commander in chief. He will try to convince skeptical voters that they have benefited from his presidency, and