This afternoon President Joe Biden is taking his brand on energy on the road after a fiery state of the Union Address in which he laid out the choice facing voters in november. He made a stunning indictment of the gops decision to turn its back on democracy and freedom both here and abroad, all in service of the disgraced wannabe autocrat who is The Republicans presumptive president ial nominee. President joe biden will be soon making remarks in pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is central to his hopes of prevailing in november. If todays speech is like anything we saw last night from the president he will take a blow torch to his opponent and the Republican Party. Standing before congress in front of some of the very same people who aided and abetted donald trump, trying to overturn the 2020 election, and the very seen of the crime that is the january 6th insurrection, President Biden on thursday night painted a picture of a Republican Party that has fallen so far it no longer respects or ads here to the norms of our democracy. Many of you were here on that darkest of days. We all saw with our own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots. They had come to stop the peaceful transfer of power and overturn the will of the people. January 6th lies about the 2020 election and the plot to steal the election posed a great gravest threat to u. S. Democracy since the civil war. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6th. I will not do that. This is a moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. Heres the simple truth, you cant love your country only when you win. Remember your oath of office defending against all threats foreign and domestic. Respect free and Fair Elections and restore trust in our institutions and make clear Political Violence has absolutely no place, no place in america, zero place. [ applause ] my lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy. A future based on core values that have defined america. I see a future where defending democracy, you dont diminish it. I see a future where to restore the right to choose and protect our freedoms not take them away. I will always be president for all americans because i believe in america. The president speaking about things that used to not make it into speeches like this, right. Everybody agreed about them. Bipartisan values that have been made partisan by the movement led by donald trump. Trump is mentioned in the speech 13 times, referred to simply as my predecessor. Make no mistake, trump and the threat he poses to our democracy, to progress at home, to our standing in the world, loomed large over just about every line of this speech. The new york sometimes describing the president s State Of The Union this way, unleashed and unyielding mr. Biden seemed to relish the showdown as president s usually do made no aspiration to lofty flourishes. He mentioned in passing his unity agenda in a speech with almost no unity in it. He conveyed a candidate inching for a fight. We will not walk away. We will not bow down. I will not bow down. He was speaking at that moment specifically about the fight against putin and russia, and he seemed to also intend it for the fight for his open presidency. President joe biden coming out swinging against donald trump and the gop in a speech that laid out in the bluntest terms to date the stakes in the upcoming election for our democracy and freedom at home and abroad. Its where we start today. With us at the stable table New York Times member political analyst mara gay is here and msnbc National Affairs analyst john heilemann, host of Politics Nation rev al sharpton is here. I made a list of the first things he talked about. First thing he mentions is putin, mentioning nato, january 6th and Political Violence and then mentions abortion. These are all i think starting with putin, 9010 issue, 90 of americans do not aa prove of putin. Nato last poll 70 or 80 approval among all americans. Numbers lower in the Republican Party. January 6th, again, among the General Public has high 60s, low 70s in terms of people who dont approve of what they saw on their tvs. Political violence is interesting the Republican Party 60 of republicans i think or high 50s think it can be acceptable in situations. But as a gentle issue, its another like 60 or 70 of americans who oppose Political Violence and then abortion which has some of its highest approval ratings. 60 or 70 . This was a speech designed to grab back the center of the country and say, this guy over here, you dont want to do that, folks. Its interesting because as unpopular in some ways as joe biden is, a lot of the concerns about his age have dominated, you know, the news cycles but what he did last night was important. He turned the tables and focused on the democratic agenda compared to the republican agenda and the reality is that on the issues, the democrats are winning on every issue. They have the agenda that represents more americans. Americans want gun control thats reasonable. Americans dont want to have their rights taken away. They are against the overturning of row v. Wade. Down the line, you know, the democrats actually have the more popular agenda and so joe biden reminded americans of that last night, and he really comes off as someone who is empathetic and not aing me glow maniac. Which is helpful. He said this really isnt about me, this is about you, this is about american democracy and were going to fight for it and were going to fight for the issues that you care about that are going to improve your lives. And i think that that actually is a really winning message, compared to the doom and the gloom that we saw from republicans. Even their snickering last night, came off as cynical and small. And so i think fired up biden. Even if it hadnt come out badly for them, it kind of invigorated him. I was so glad they were so interactive because he just fed off of it. Where i thought oh, god, whatever they did, sort of juiced him for the next part of the speech. We saw a fighter and i think americans are looking for a fighter. Yeah. And i think democrats had to see that. But the other thing he needs to be doing this, you know, almost every day. Yeah. I mean he needs to be out there much more. Theres no reason for him not to be if this is what hes going to look look. Bring it on. I dont know how many of the old adages of politics still hold, but when i worked on campaigns, if youre an incumbent you needed the election to be a choice, a Referendum No Buono for your political fate. He laid out the choice as expertly as any incumbent president has ever done ahead of a general election. Yeah. I think thats right. But i dont want to, you know i states of the union have a couple audiences. The audience which is the viewers and voters and that you can make a case on your agenda and make a case on choice versus the Referendum Issue and those are effective if they are they are then prosecuted over the course consistently over days and weeks and months into the future. There is this other audience for the State Of The Union which is the filter. You know, its us. The mainstream media, the ideological partisan media, the washington democrats, the democratic insiders, republican insiders, right. Those people had one thing they were looking at last night. None of the rest of this mattered. It had become a speech about is joe biden capable of running, of doing this . You can talk about why we got to that point but that was the thing. It was a binary thing. He was going to come out and people were going to go okay, he can do this, or not. Republicans made a huge mistake, not just republicans themselves but their right wing media who set the bar at, you know, hes a corps. Hes going to he can dribble out his shirt. Hes not competent. Not only did biden clear the bar but soared way above it in terms of the energy, the aggression, the aggressiveness, prosecutorial nature of it, the speed of it. Did he stumble a few times, yes. He should be but there doing this all the time. No one is talking about the few moments he stumbled or stuttered. You got the New York Post headline, hes alive. That is not a small thing in this moment where democrats are panicking, republicans are licking their chops, to walk home and have everyone go okay, the idea that this guy is just feeble and incapable and going to make an idiot of himself in this race, that at least for this news cycle is now gone and the reason you can tell is whether republicans decide to attack him. The speech is too partisan, talking too fast, yelling too loud. Nobody saying yesterday, nobody saying boy, joe biden looked old. Boy, joe biden looked feeble. Didnt hear that from anyone, even the far right people were not saying that. It was very politically nimble. If you had been Lost In Space for the last 20 years and the last Campaign You Saw was the mccainbiden 2008 campaign and you plopped down yesterday in front of a tv you would not have known necessarily that this was a democratic president. He started out quoting Ronald Reagan, talking about the civil war and world war ii. He then went on i thought it was an incredibly aggressive move to use reagans words against the people sitting in the chamber saying, you know, tear down this wall. You have a guy that says come on in. The marry poll plan which manafort, trumps last campaign manager, was essentially to give away to a chunk of ukraine and give it away. That was trumps policy. What hes saying in private and in public. I also thought that the moment that wasnt scripted, not only didnt hurt him, but might have helped him. Im sure its not that popular, but when he was confronted by Marjorie Taylor greenes stunt, it was a moment he handled it. I think it did all the things you both said it did to the filter and democrats, but i think hes also speaking directly to nikki haleys supporters the newest sort of coalition of never trumpers. I think that is correct. I think the nikki haley crowd, but i also think he spoke to some of the constituents that he was beginning to have polling lower in the democratic party. Yeah which is the priority. Which is priority because of turnout which is why yes, he spoke to the issues at the top that are 9010 but then he circled back around and reminded young voters what he did around College Debt Relief and was blocked and found a way to do it anyway. He talked to black voters about this is the anniversary of Bloody Sunday where people were beaten for the right to vote. I supported the john lewis Voting Rights bill and we need to vote it again. So he went and got the edges after he had gotten what was in the middle. And i think that i agree that the bar was lower in terms of like saying he was some guy that couldnt function, and i think the two things that was durngs by him being able to handle Marjorie Taylor greene if i was on their side and a veteran protester i would not have given him that last night. To sit in a chamber that has been disruptive youre playing the script wrong. You wanted to act like we are not that and she played right into this stereotype of what he said, that they des crated this particular chamber. He handled it well. Which showed that he was alert, astute and anything but old. The other thing that people are missing, he was almost the last person to leave the chamber. Yes. Everybody else was running to go to bed. He was up there, how are you doing, how is your wife . He blew all of it out of the water. They had to turn the lights out. The speaker gaveled the chamber, shut it down, close to midnight, biden still there, democrats were, you know, overjoyed at what they saw and eventually started to turn the lights. Like when youre at party and start to flash the lights, time to go home. Almost had to push him down the aisle to make him go speak. He was talking to everybody. This is not like a guy that is tired and old and cant make it. And to your point, and you know what this is like, rev, how many times did you tell george w. Bush, lets work on ad libs for the State Of The Union. No one does that. Doesnt matter how verbally deck truss the person is. State of the union is a scripted speech. Biden went off script like two dozen times and they were clearly kind of scripted off script moments. He was looking for opportunities to engage with republicans on the floor like it was question time in the british parliament. Like looking to, he had things, this is where im going to hold their feets to the fire. Im going to say this when they make a noise im going to hit back. Again to your point, the notion he not only, you know, showed that he had energy but thats like a High Wire Act, man. When you start having an interactive thing on Live Television at this level thats a High Wire Act for any politician, and he handled it just fine. He handled it fine because its more comfortable for him. Totally. He is more of a, you know, Prime Ministers question kind of political skill set than he is, you know, a, you know, a teleprompter speech. And a creature of that chamber, someone who is very comfortable in that room. Right. And, so i hope theres something there about otrs or i known jen psaki was saying he loved it when members were on air force one. Most president s let me put it diplomatically. That is not a sentence you would say about many president s. I mean, the the other thing is, you know, my shift ended at the end of the speech so when he was a half hour late you have to be kidding me. They should be a half hour and put those people, and they werent all democrats. He was just as juiced by The Republicans that hes known a long time. I want to Say Something that, you know, i was watching it and i was trying not to look at a lot of social media because you can get pulled in a rabbit hole of eight people talking to each other. I was trying to watch The Republicans and there was something so tragic about i was gone for four months, mike johnson, the speaker, our speaker, Mike Johnsons face and posture and then Lindsey Graham by the end was like he was watching mccain up there. He was there he is. It was like a chuckle and it was like a look of he was truly entertain and amused and to see The Republicans i wont say capitulate, because they just you can tell from their faces that, again, im sure they were back to attack aing him by the 11 00 p. M. Hour on conservative media, but in the hour it was clear everyone knew this was a good speech and moment for the. The they also know that many of them are engaged in lying daily. Theres that. You know, theyre sitting there thinking oh, yeah, he is speaking the truth. Were not going to say that, though. Were going to sit there like disgruntled schoolchildren in the back of the room snickering. Then there was the bizarre moment where langford is sitting there, you know its true. He says its true. As President Biden talks about the Immigration Bill he worked for months to secure, you know, the most Conservative Bill in years that The Republicans are now jeering and so kind of the surrealness of that moment was astounding. It actually kind of reminded me of that moment many years ago when i think it was joe wilson saying to barack obama, you lie. This was almost just an inversion of that. You have langford sitting there saying, you know, its true. And so i dont know if we he speaks the truth. Occasionally at an nba game you will see a runway game down. 20point game and youll see the other team when like lebron james does an incredible dunk the other team will like they all like to be applauding. A little bit of like were not going to win, well get them tomorrow, but now that was an incredible dunk. Im not comparing joe biden to lebron james, but with Lindsey Graham there was a little bit like this is not the night, this was not our night. This is his night. He beat us. Well get him tomorrow there was a little bit of appreciative sense like well fight this tomorrow, not today. I want to deal with the structural work he did. The axis on which the election will be decided are issues like choice and aa borgs. I have to sneak in a break, but i want to show you some of his work in that area. Well have more when we come back from the president s address in which he calls out to their faces in front of him, the United StatesSupreme Court about the power and importance of womens voices in this country, quoting them back to them. As President Biden pitches policies for the future his presumptive rival is paying like with money for lies and defamatory statements he made about e. Jean carroll. 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