Actions. Mr. President , enough is enough. Innocent americans are dying and you only have yourself to blame. Fulfill your oath of office. Reverse your policies, end this crisis, and stop the suffering. Sadly we know that President Bidens failures dont stop there. His reckless spending dug our economy into a hole and sent those through the living through the roof. We have the worst inflation in 40 years, and the highest Credit Card Debt in our nations history. Let that sink in. Hard working families are struggling to make ends meet today. And with soaring Mortgage Rates and sky high childcare costs, theyre also struggling on how to plan for tomorrow. The American People are scraping by while President Biden proudly proclaims that bidenomics is working. Goodness, bless his heart. We know better. Ill never forget stopping at a gas station in Shulton County one evening. The gentleman working behind the counter told me after retiring he had to pick up a job in his 70s, so he didnt have to choose between going hungry or going without his medication. He said i did everything right. I did everything i was told to do. I worked hard, i saved, i was responsible. Hes not alone. I hear similar concerns from fellow parents whether im walking with my friends or whether im at my kids games. But lets be honest. Its been a minute since joe biden pumped gas, ran a car pool, or even pushed a grocery cart. Meanwhile the rest of us see our dollar, and we know it doesnt go as far. We see it every day. And despite what he tells you our communities are not safer. For years, the left has coddled criminals and defunded the police. All while letting Repeat Offenders walk free. The result is tragic, but foreseeable. From our small towns to americas most iconic city streets, life is getting more and more dangerous. And unfortunately President Bidens weakness isnt just hurting families here at home. He is making us a punchline on the world stage. Look, where im from, your word is your bond. But for three years, the president has demonstrated that americas word doesnt mean what it used to. From abandoning our allies in his disastrous withdraw from afghanistan. To desperately push another dangerous deal with iran. President biden has failed. We have become a nation in retreat. And the enemies of freedom, they see an opportunity. Putins brutal aggression in europe has put our allies on the brink. Irans Terrorist Proxies have slaughtered israeli jews and american citizens. Theyve targeted commercial shipping, and theyve attacked our troops nearly 200 times since october. Killing three u. S. Soldiers and two navy seals. Meanwhile the Chinese Communist party is undercutting americas workers. China is buying up our farmland, spying on our military installations, and spreading propaganda through the likes of tiktok. You see the ccp knows that if it conquers the minds of our next generation, it conquers america. And what does President Biden do . Well, he bans tiktok for government employees, but creates an account for his own campaign. You cant make this stuff up. Look, we all recall when president s faced National Security threats with strength and resolve. That seems like ancient history. Right now our Commander In Chief is not in command. The free world deserves better than a diminished leader. America deserves leaders who recognize that secure border, stable prices, safe streets, and the Strong Defense are actually the cornerstones of a great nation. Just ask yourself, are you better off now than you were three years ago . Theres no doubt were at a crossroads, and it doesnt have to be this way. We all feel it. But heres the good news, we, the people, are still in the driver seat. We get to decide whether our future will grow brighter or whether we will settle for an america in decline. Well, i know which choice our children deserve, and i know the choice the Republican Party is fighting for. We are the party of hard working parents and families. And we want to give you and your children the opportunities to thrive. And we want families to grow. It is why we strongly support continued nationwide access to in vitro fertilization. We want to help bring precious life into this world. Wesley and i believe there is no greater blessing in life than our children. And thats why tonight i want to make a direct appeal to the parents out there, and in particular to my fellow moms. Many of whom i know will be up tossing and turning at 2 00 a. M. , wondering how youre going to be in three places at once, and then somehow still get dinner on the table. First of all, we see you, we hear you, and we stand with you. I know youre frustrated. I know youre probably disgusted by most of what you see going on In Washington, and ill be really honest with you, youre not wrong for feeling that way. Look, i get it. The task in front of us isnt an easy one, but i can promise you one thing. It is worth it. So i am asking you for the sake of your kids and your grandkids, get into the arena. Every generation has been called to do hard things. American greatness rests in the fact that we always answer that call. Its who we are. Never forget, we are steeped in the blood of patriots who overthrew the most powerful empire in the world. We walk in the footsteps of pioneers who tamed the wild. We now Carry Forward the same flame of freedom as the liberators of an oppressed europe. We continue to draw courage from those who bent the moral arc of the universe. And when we gaze upon the heavens, never forget that our dna contains the same ingenuity that put man on the moon. America has been tested before, and every single time weve emerged unbowed and unbroken. Our history has been written with the grit of men and women who got knocked down. But we know their stories because they did not stay down. We are here because they stood back up. So now its our turn, our moment to stand up and prove ourselves worthy of protecting the american dream. Together we can reawaken the heroic spirit of a great nation. Because america, we dont just have a rendezvous with destiny. We take destinys hand and we lead it. Our future starts around Kitchen Tables just like this. With moms and dads just like you. And you are why i believe with every fiber of my being, that despite the current state of our union, our best days are still ahead. May god bless you and may god continue to bless these United States of america. Alabama republican u. S. Senator katie britt speaking from montgomery. A very long response in terms of the republican response this evening. I should say just as a matter of context here, i think alabama has been on everybodys mind in terms of the debate around reproductive rights in particular because of the Alabama Supreme Court and their recent ruling on ivf. Senator britt ran as a strongly antiabortion rights candidate. And that does spotlight that issue. Obviously the most, i would say, the portion of her response that had took up the most word count at least was her talk on the border. She was one of the u. S. Senators who was involved in the bipartisan negotiations to create a border bill, and she helped create the bill, and then voted against it when donald trump called on republicans to pull the plug on the bill that they, themselves, had negotiated. We have a little piece of sound from President Bidens remarks tonight that got a very interesting response in the room from the lead republican senator with whom katie britt worked to write the border bill. Go ahead. In november my team began serious negotiations with a Bipartisan Group of senators. The result was a bipartisan bill with a tougher set of Border Security forms weve ever seen. [ booing ] you dont think so . You dont like that bill . That conservatives got together and said it was a good bill . Ill be darn. Thats amazing. That bipartisan bill would hire 1,500 more Security Agents and officers. 100 more Immigration Judges to help tackle the back load of too many cases, and new policies to resolve cases in six months instead of six years now. [ applause ] wouldnt have guessed. He says what are you against . And you say just before that, Senator Langford from oklahoma, he was the lead republican negotiator along with senators like katie britt who just gave that long lured speech for the most part about the border. And you saw Senator Langford there saying thats true after President Biden described what was in that bill. Again that bill negotiated by republicans, by conservative republicans. They got everything they wanted, and it was donald trump who then called on republicans to pull the plug on it because as President Biden made the point in his speech tonight, he thought it would be better politics to not fix the border and instead to just secure it up. And Senator Langford went on the floor and said he was threatened with being destroyed by an unnamed media person. He didnt say what it was. But he received threats for daring to negotiate a bill that conservatives asked for. And one of the democrats a prime negotiator is a member of the Foreign Relations committee, joining us now. Senator murphy, we know you were there and we see you responding to bidens speech tonight. Whats your reaction on how things went . Reporter the president laid it out there on the question of the border. The fact of the matter is we did come to a bipartisan agreement. Negotiated by a conservative senator, james langford, that would have been the toughest law. And donald trump told them to, why . Donald trump wants chaos at the border. I like katie britt a lot, but you didnt hear her say in her speech one thing what republicans are for because many of the ideas that republicans actually think would work like putting more Border Patrol officers on the border, like giving the president the power to shut down the border when crossings get too high, were in that bill and they all voted against it because they dont want to fix the problem. They are addicted to talking about the problem, but they dont want to do anything to fix it. I thought the president did a great job of calling out the emperor as having no clues tonight. On that issue he hit it square in the head. And it was one of his biggest applause of the night. We have a simple choice, we can fight about fixing the border or fix it. Im ready to fix it, send me the border bill now. Senator, there was one other moment when the president was talking about this issue, and this bill that you worked on where he was addressing republican criticism not just around this issue, but republicans criticizing yelling out, sort of heckling, in the room. I want to get your response to this moment. The Border Patrol union endorsed this bill. The federal Chambers Of Commerce yeah, yeah, youre saying look at the facts. [ applause ] i know you know how to read. There is both style and substance there in terms to comment and seems to be enjoying some of the criticism and the cat calling from republicans in the room. At least that is how it appeared. What was it like in the room . Well, it was actually Pretty Amazing in the room because the president comes out and just knocks everybody over with the first ten minutes of that speech, right . Normally the beginning of the State Of The Union has a little bit of rhetoric, a little flourish, but the president comes right out saying were not bowing down to putin, were not banning abortion. We are not giving up on democracy. And republicans in the chamber who were ready to battle with them were on their back foot from the beginning. And that exchange also shows you that the president was ready. He knew they were going to come after them. He knew there were going to be cat calls, but hes right. Did they read the bill . They didnt. Because they all opposed the border bill within hours of its release simply because donald trump gave them political instructions to keep the border a mess. So i thought from the very beginning when the president just kept on punching him in the mouth to the middle where he dealt with them trying to rattle him to the end where he said listen, you know, this is a choice between civility and unity or division. I just thought it was the best speech that ive seen him give in person. In terms of that punching in the mouth and the idea and the aggression many which they came out. There is one other little piece of sound from the president s speech that i would like to play it for you again to get your response to. The president made a number of remarks right off the bat, talking about 1941 and addressing that chamber, talking about Abraham Lincoln in the civil war. Talking about ronald reagan, telling them to tear down this wall. He then talked about the fact that the swedish Prime Minister was in attendance and that sweden, as of today, will become the newest member of nato. Something that would not have to happen had they not started the largest land war in europe since world war ii. On that point, he said this. I would like to get your response to this on the other side. My message to putin who i have known for a long time is simple. We will not walk away. We will not bow down. I will not bow down. In a literal sense, history is watching. History is watching. Senator murphy in that moment hes talking about not bowing down to putin, but by substantively what he means there is were not going to abandon our ally thats in a war with putin right now. Is he can he say that with mike johnson sitting over his shoulder . Well listen, thats just a really muscular part of the speech, right . I mean this country Still Believes in the might of american leadership. The middle of this country does not want putin to roll over one of our allies. They certainly dont want americans to then be at war directly with russia and nato. And so i just thought that part of the speech hit. But yes, hes talking to mike johnson in that part of his speech. Hes looking out at that chamber and he knows there are votes in the House Of Representatives right now for the senate bill to fund ukraine, and all he needs to do is convince mike johnson to stand up to donald trump and call that bill far vote. The only thing right now, standing in the way of our protection of nato and ukraine is speaker mike johnson. The minute he calls that vote is the minute that we have funds delivered to ukraine and putin is pushed back. I thought it was an incredibly powerful moment over the speech. Hes speaking to the nation, but clearly speaking to the speaker of the house. Senator chris murphy, democrat of connecticut. Sir, its fortuitous to us that you were able to be here with us tonight on such a big evening. Thank you so much. Thanks. All right, we have everybody is bursting at the seams, i know. We need to take one quick break, but when we come back, everybody can say what they want to say. I have a lot to say. We are going to take a quick break. I do want to tell you one announcement. This saturday, our beloved colleague, jonathan capehart, is going to sit down with President Biden for his first interview after the State Of The Union. That interview is going to air this saturday here on msnbc at 6 00 p. M. Eastern time. You will not want to miss that. The State Of The Union tonight, remarkable in many ways. We have a lot more to talk about. Stay with us. My scooter broke down. I went into a depression. How do you feel about that . Pretty sad. And i posted it to show that kennys not always happy. Within 24 hours people had donated over 5,000. No, youre kidding. We set up the Patriotic Kenny Foundation to give Mobility Scooters to veterans. It has changed my life tremendously. None of this wouldve happened without tiktok. Numbers move you. But some can stop you in your tracks. 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