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i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. we re hours away from president biden s state of the union address tonight, his first to a divided congress. instead of nancy pelosi over the president s left shoulder, it will be speaker kevin mccarthy. the speech is expected to draw the largest television audience for the president this year. americans will hear biden lay out why he believes the state of the union is strong as he said last week. he s expected to talk about lowering inflation, improving infrastructure and getting past the worst of the pandemic. he s also expected to talk about america s stand against china. of course just days after an american fighter jet shot down one of its supply balloons. the president will likely increase the urgency for congress to act on policing reform and an adult weapons band. all of it will be a test run for his re-election bid. phil mattingly is with us now. what more should we expect from the president tonight? you know ....
Six years. that s the undercurrent that is very important. the president will detail economic agenda, foreign policy planks. you can look at the guests in the first lady s box, he will talk about police reform, mental health, the war in ukraine that is still ongoing, that is a vocal point of the president s foreign policy. he ll also talk about republicans and don t expect this to be, when you talk to white house officials, any kind of political attack line speech or partisan warfare type speech. he will lay out clearly, when it comes to the debt limit battle that we re already kind of in the middle of now, the president has a diametrically opposed view than kevin mccarthy. he will also detail where there s areas of overlap, where the two parties can work together, lowering the temperature, steadfast leadership type moment when he knows tens of millions of americans will be watching. it will be a long speech, but an important speech for the president and what he s not only ....