although not a new face to our viewers, katie fang. and david, you may end up with an msnbc show as well. that s why i showed up. yeah. we re going to let it rub off on him, ayman. couldn t think of a better team to talk about all these things, domestically and internationally. the state of the union. we re two days away coming in the middle of a major crisis. what tone do you expect the president to use in his address? well, president biden has a track record here with these kind of speeches. while this is the first state of the union, this is not the first time the president would have addressed congress. he addressed a joint session of congress last year. if you remember, it was the first time that vice president harris and speaker pelosi were seated behind the president of the united states, and that tone of that speech was very it
so, look, you know, if he tells that story, if he uses this opportunity to cut through the middlemen and convey to americans what has actually been accomplished, he s going to go a long way. now, he can also tell the truth about the republicans. you were just doing that about cpac and trump. he does both of these things, he has a good chance in november. does he go on the offensive with republicans? because, look, i was criticizing the democrats for not getting this done because you have 50 republicans who were completely awol and blocking whatever the president wants to try to do. they re not here to actually get anything done. does he actually go on the offensive in the state of the union and say it is their fault? no. because they re white noise and it is not worth his time to be able to do that. it is called the state of the union. it is a time to remind americans how far we have come but all the work that we re going to be able
four. while the russian conventional forces have not performed that well, they are now encircling the cities they are now going to be bringing in artillery. what comes next in terms of the bombardment of the cities we ve seen in chechnya, or russian forces due to cities they are not precision fire weapons that they are going to be using. so if those tanks roll into the streets there at ambush territory the homemade molotov cocktails the snipers will be targeting those tanks the russians know that. so they are setting up this encirclement, which historically has not been a good thing for civilians in cities like the capitol kyiv. spent the watch at very close he had back on the ground we can, jennifer thank you. president biden is set to deliver his first state of the union address on tuesday. more on that, what will be in there, what we might hear. much more of this war on going after the break.
biden will give his first state of the union address in two days amidst the backdrop of a major political crisis and headwinds here at home. biden s approval rating now is the lowest it has been at 37%. that is a stark number as he aims for a message reset ahead of the midterms later this year. let s find out what our panel thinking about how he can reset this, simone. only two other presidents have had approval ratings as low as president biden s going into their first state of the union. one of them being donald trump. what do you make of that? is this a significant number? what should he be doing to try to get those numbers up? look, i may be, you know, in the minority here, but i m somebody that actually doesn t believe that approval ratings this far out from an election day they matter that much because the reality is approval ratings are a snapshot of all the electorate feels at this point in time the last time they
ukraine. this comes as president biden is preparing to give his first state of the union address on tuesday. white house correspondent from the north lawn with more. hey peter. afternoon. the latest sanctions drop last night and then this morning we get the news that russia is elevating their nuclear readiness. after that the white house official with the statement that the russians signed onto last month says we affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fun but again things could possibly change in the white house is monitoring these reports that russia is elevating their nuclear readiness. this is a pattern that we seen from president putin to the course of a conflict. manufacturing transit don t exist in order to justify further aggression in the global community and the american people putin s moves are