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39 past the hour. this morning president biden heads to ohio where he's expected to take the first steps to shift his economic message to the american people before his state of the union address. in cleveland and lorain, ohio, biden will tout the bipartisan infrastructure law, but he'll also be testing out new themes for his primetime speech. nbc's mike memoli joining us from lorain, ohio. mike, what about this messaging shift from the white house? >> reporter: jose, obviously the situation in ukraine and the president's search for a supreme court nominee have been dominating the time and att...

Conscience of the country. i'm told this would have been a primetime speech had it not been for the olympics. this is a message they wanted to get out. even if people get shots, we're talking six weeks before nip is fully vaccinated. so the combination of the federal workforce, also the military, a very key point today, urging his defense secretary to study this. the question is, is anyone still listening to him at all? perhaps the delta variant is the biggest argument of all that people might be afraid of this and afraid of catching it. >> jeff zeleny, thank you very much. i want to go now to...

Speaking on the anniversary of when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, President Joe Biden condemned the violence Asian Americans have endured since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

President Joe Biden said his predecessor let the coronavirus "spread unchecked," then spoke to the hopes and heartaches, dreams and deaths, loss and loves the American people have experienced over the past year in his first primetime address to the nation.

This is about. the president is banking on a strategy to say if you look at the transcript, when you read the transcript, you can see i didn't do anything wrong. a, that's not true and, b, he knows most people won't read the transcript. even though it's only nine pages long and out there for everyone to access, it's a deflection strategy by the president. he does wanting to be out there on offense and he could make an address to the nation, give a primetime speech in that way. i don't see him actually following through on that suggestion. right now the strategy is a pretty -- a strategy of wea...