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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.
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Speaker 2: I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. This is special global coverage
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Speaker 2: of the State of the Union addressed tonight in Washington,
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Speaker 2: d C. Kaylee Lines, Rick Davis, and Genie Shanzano are
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Speaker 2: with us in our Washington bureau as we try to
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Speaker 2: unpack what we just heard. A laundry list, certainly, but
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Speaker 2: also a tone from this president that was predicted from
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Speaker 2: the White House.
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Speaker 3: High energy umph behind the speech.
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Speaker 2: He did manage to find spontaneous moments, Kaylee, with a
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Speaker 2: back and forth with none other than Marjorie Taylor Green.
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Speaker 2: It was the issue of the border that really seemed
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Speaker 2: to light up Republicans tonight in this room.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely. Marjorie Taylor Green confronting the President from across many
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Speaker 4: rows of seats about Lake and Riley, who we discussed
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Speaker 4: earlier this evening, a college student in Georgia who was
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Speaker 4: killed by a person who was in the country illegally.
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Speaker 4: He did say Lake and Riley's name. He addressed her
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Speaker 4: parents and, leaning on the empathy we have often seen
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Speaker 4: from this president, says he understands what it was like
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Speaker 4: having lost children himself, what they must be experiencing interesting though,
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Speaker 4: that on the actual substantive issue of the border, which
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Speaker 4: we knew was going to likely feature heavily into this speech,
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Speaker 4: he didn't get to it until about forty minutes in.
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Speaker 4: He instead began with the issue of Ukraine, then moving
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Speaker 4: to the issue of democracy. One of the big highlight
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Speaker 4: lines in the first portion of the speech coming from
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Speaker 4: the president, and he was alluding to his predecessor said
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Speaker 4: that you can't love your country only when you win,
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Speaker 4: and Joe he said that line after talking about January sixth,
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Speaker 4: and from there, of course, we saw him touch on
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Speaker 4: many other issues, abortion, the economy, and ending the skeeech
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Speaker 4: this evening, addressing what many see as one of his
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Speaker 4: biggest weaknesses as he campaigns for a second term, his age,
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Speaker 4: he said, I've been around a while, trying to play
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Speaker 4: a joke about it, but then also said, the issue
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Speaker 4: facing our nation is not how old we are, it's
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Speaker 4: how old our ideas are. And it was really toward
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Speaker 4: the end of this speech that you saw Biden in
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Speaker 4: campaign mode, not just addressing the American people in this
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Speaker 4: Congress as president, but as someone who would like to
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Speaker 4: stay president for another four years.
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Speaker 2: Show yeah, kayleie, We heard him use that line on
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Speaker 2: Late Night with Seth Meyers a couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 2: about whether your ideas are old, and he certainly delivered
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Speaker 2: that here with some emphasis as he did the money
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Speaker 2: line of the night. The state of our union, he said,
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Speaker 2: is strong and getting stronger. Not everyone in the room
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Speaker 2: agrees with that, of course, and I will tell you
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Speaker 2: that in this Statuary Hall, all the lawmakers are now
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Speaker 2: emerging from the chamber. Senators and members of the House
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Speaker 2: are streaming bias here, and we're going to have conversations
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Speaker 2: with some of them coming up here on Bloomberg for
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Speaker 2: their impressions, as I mentioned D's and R's who sat
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Speaker 2: through this Kalian. Of course, we're now going to be
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Speaker 2: hearing the official Republican response to this address tonight from
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Speaker 2: the President.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Senator Katie Britt of Alabama. Of course, at forty
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Speaker 4: two years old, the youngest woman Republican ever to be
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Speaker 4: elected to the Chamber, will shortly give the Republican response,
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Speaker 4: and of course we will be bringing you that response
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Speaker 4: live on Bloomberg television and radio. But we also do
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Speaker 4: want to get the response of our political panel who
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Speaker 4: is still with us. Jeanie Shanzeno of Iona University and
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Speaker 4: Rick Davis, partner at Stone Court Capital, are still here
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Speaker 4: with me at the Washington Bureau, and Genie, I would
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Speaker 4: like to just begin with you. This speech was over
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Speaker 4: an hour long. One of the big conversations we were
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Speaker 4: having going into it is not what the President said,
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Speaker 4: but how he said it being important. How would you
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Speaker 4: rate his performance this evening, aside from the policy he outlined, you.
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Speaker 5: Know, I have to say I think the performance itself
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Speaker 5: it was energetic. Joe used the word he had a
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Speaker 5: lot of oomph. I think it was raucous. He was
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Speaker 5: interacting with members of Congress, and I think performance wise,
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Speaker 5: he may have been able to do what he did
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Speaker 5: last year, which was twell some of the doubts about
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Speaker 5: his age and his ability. So I think from a
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Speaker 5: performance perspective, I'm not sure that the White House or
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Speaker 5: the campaign could have expected anything more from this president.
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Speaker 5: I think his experience showed this is Joe Biden in
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Speaker 5: his element. He is, after all, a man of Congress,
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Speaker 5: having served in this body from seventy three to two
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Speaker 5: thousand and nine, after which he went to the White House.
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Speaker 5: So I think this was a night where by performance standards.
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Speaker 5: He did exceed a lot of expectations. And that's the
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Speaker 5: way Joe Biden likes it. He feels like he's been
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Speaker 5: underestimated for most of his political and professional career, and
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Speaker 5: at those important moments he has done what he needed
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Speaker 5: to do. And I think tonight was one of those nights.
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Speaker 2: Rick your impressions here of this address, Expectations were so
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Speaker 2: high and made even higher by this White House. It
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Speaker 2: promised and energetic Joe Biden at nine o'clock at night,
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Speaker 2: and it sure seemed like we got one. You might
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Speaker 2: not agree with everything he said, but Ricky had the
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Speaker 2: room palm of his hand for extended periods of times
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Speaker 2: that I'd even achieved some back and forth, some call
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Speaker 2: and response with Republicans. Did he meet his goals?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: I think he did.
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Speaker 6: I mean, look at how he started this speech out,
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Speaker 6: extremely strong, high paced, very strong wording around democracy, one
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Speaker 6: of his favorite topics. They went with something that I
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Speaker 6: think he thought he could get comfortable out and sound
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Speaker 6: like he's really embraced it. I think we also saw
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Speaker 6: the makings of the campaign speech. I mean, one of
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Speaker 6: the things I always look at is what's happening in
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Speaker 6: the first fifteen minutes, because with all due respect, not
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Speaker 6: everybody sits through the entire speech like we did tonight,
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Speaker 6: and so you want to get the biggest audience around
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Speaker 6: that key terms, and it was democracy, abortion rights, the pandemic, comeback,
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Speaker 6: the economy, and infrastructure, and I think after that the
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Speaker 6: rest of it was much more of a traditional state
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Speaker 6: of the Union and less campaign.
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Speaker 3: Until the end.
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Speaker 6: He used this opportunity to contrast over a dozen times
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Speaker 6: with his predat assessor, the unnamed man in this speech,
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Speaker 6: Donald Trump, and I think it was very aggressive in
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Speaker 6: that case. So I would say this speech was an
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Speaker 6: offensive speech. It was him taking it to Donald Trump,
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Speaker 6: defending the turf he's created for himself and his presidency
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Speaker 6: and talking to voters tonight. Much more so than Congress,
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Speaker 6: and much more so, frankly, than the foreign policy aspects
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Speaker 6: of this. It was a domestic speech meant for the
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Speaker 6: campaign well.
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Speaker 4: And Rick, as you talk about the idea that he
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Speaker 4: was referencing his predecessor without directly naming him, he also
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Speaker 4: said at one point in the speech that America cannot
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Speaker 4: go back. I'm here tonight to show the way forward.
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Speaker 4: And he went on at the end of the speech
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Speaker 4: with a kind of laundry list of the way that
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Speaker 4: he envisions the future. And I do believe we hear
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Speaker 4: Joe Matthew perhaps greeting a senator as they emerge from
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Speaker 4: the chamber and will bring you that conversation shortly. But
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Speaker 4: when he talks about the way forward, something else he
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Speaker 4: mentioned rick was a unity agenda. Is that what this
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Speaker 4: campaign is now going to be about? What is a
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Speaker 4: unity agenda?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: I would say it was surprising to me because it
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Speaker 6: was stuck literally at the end of the speech, right
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Speaker 6: as he was wrapping things up, he sort of sprung
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Speaker 6: the unity agenda. He talked about bringing people home from
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Speaker 6: conflicts around the world and taking care of them.
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Speaker 3: He talked about AI.
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Speaker 6: It didn't seem to have this sort of cohesiveness that
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Speaker 6: the rest of the speech did.
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Speaker 3: And frankly, I didn't take the speech as a unity speech.
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Speaker 6: He wasn't asking Congress to sort of get together and
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Speaker 6: work things out. He was advocating for his views, and
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Speaker 6: he actually went after Republicans in the House a number
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Speaker 6: of times when they rejected conservative plans like the immigration
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Speaker 6: bill that came out of the Senate. So I think
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Speaker 6: it must have been an afterthought or something that they
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Speaker 6: tacked on to the end of the speech to try
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Speaker 6: and keep a positive tone to the finish. But to
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Speaker 6: be honest with you, I didn't really see how it
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Speaker 6: fit into the speech.
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Speaker 4: All right, and we want to go now back to
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Speaker 4: Joe in Statuary Hall, where he is joined by Senator
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Speaker 4: Dick Durbin, the Senate majority whip. Joe.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks Kaylee, Senator, it's great to see you and
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Speaker 2: welcome back to Bloomberg. On this State of the Union night.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how you managed to get out of
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Speaker 2: the chamber there. The energy seemed high. We were promised
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Speaker 2: a high energy Joe Biden late at night. Did he
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Speaker 2: pull that through for those who were in the room.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely, home run, strong ideas, strong presentation. But to rest
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Speaker 7: this notion is somehow an elderly man, you can't handle
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Speaker 7: the job. He showed real strength to ideas that are
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Speaker 7: important for America's future.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Interesting order in topics.
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Speaker 2: We started on Ukraine, we heard about the economy, a
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Speaker 2: lot of other issues before we ever got to the border.
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Speaker 3: Senator.
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Speaker 2: That seems to be the issue that lit up the room.
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Speaker 2: It certainly has been driving the debate here with the
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Speaker 2: President's supplemental emergency request.
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Speaker 3: Did he make any headway there?
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Speaker 2: You're seeing half the room up, half the room down,
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Speaker 2: and it really underscores the division.
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Speaker 7: Two out of three Americans know what's going on there.
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Speaker 7: As a bipartisan bill proposed in the Senate, which the
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Speaker 7: President supported, James Langford of Oklahoma, a Republican senator, was
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Speaker 7: the lead negotiator. We were ready to move forward on
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Speaker 7: a bipartisan solution. Guess what happened. Donald Trump said, stop,
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Speaker 7: we don't want to give Joe Biden a victory. Blame
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Speaker 7: it on me. He said, oh, I am blaming it
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Speaker 7: on him. He stopped any progress on a bipartisan solution.
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Speaker 7: The President tonight said, stop giving your speeches on the
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Speaker 7: Republican side about the border. Do something. Join me in
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Speaker 7: passing the spill.
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Speaker 2: You're the majority whip, and you blame Donald Trump for
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Speaker 2: what happened.
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Speaker 7: I certainly do, he said. He said exactly that, I'm
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Speaker 7: quoting him. Place the blame on me. He's the one
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Speaker 7: who stopped the negotiation, stopped any effort for bipartisanship.
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Speaker 3: So let's ignore him.
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Speaker 7: For a minute and solve the problem on a bipartisan basis.
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Speaker 2: Well, indeed is the majority whip you have a sense
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Speaker 2: of the votes. I wonder if we're going to see
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Speaker 2: a vote in the Senate, maybe even tonight, Senator on
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Speaker 2: this stop gap of budget plan that passed the minibus,
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Speaker 2: if we can call it that that passed the House.
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Speaker 2: Do you have work left tonight or is that tomorrow?
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Speaker 7: Tomorrow?
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Speaker 3: Will it pass?
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Speaker 7: I think it will. I think the strong bipartisan support
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Speaker 7: in the House is an indication of what's going to
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Speaker 7: happen in the Senate.
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Speaker 2: This is the beginning of the general election, as many
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Speaker 2: have called it. This is going to be Joe Biden
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Speaker 2: versus Donald Trump. Americans need to start getting their minds
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Speaker 2: around that.
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Speaker 7: Yes, they should, and it's important that they do, because
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Speaker 7: this is a clear choice between Biden and Trump. We've
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Speaker 7: seen this match before, but we understand the gravity of it.
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Speaker 7: After January sixth insurrection Mob, I mean, the violence that
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Speaker 7: President Trump initiated against this very building and the people
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Speaker 7: who work in it should not be easily forgotten.
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Speaker 2: Senator Dick Durbin, thank you for spending time with us
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Speaker 2: tonight on Bloomberg.
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Speaker 3: It's good to see you.
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Speaker 2: On the State of the Union evening, Kaylee I'll send
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Speaker 2: it back to you in the bureau, Joe.
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Of course, as we considered the
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Speaker 4: Senate moving forward on funding the government, there do remain
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Speaker 4: many open questions that Congress still have to deal with,
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Speaker 4: many of which the President spoke about this evening, not
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Speaker 4: just including the bipartisan border measure that he was encouraging
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Speaker 4: be revived, if you will, after it was very quickly
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Speaker 4: killed shortly after the announcement, but also on the issue
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Speaker 4: of Ukraine. He touched as well on Israel, remembering that
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Speaker 4: funding for these two allies are wrapped together in a
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Speaker 4: supplemental national security package that has indeed passed the Senate
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Speaker 4: and Genie leading up to this speech, especially in light
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Speaker 4: of the fact that we were just talking about the
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Speaker 4: Unity Agenda, if you will, there's the question of unity
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Speaker 4: between the different parties. Sure, there's also the question of
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Speaker 4: unity within the party and within the Democratic Party. The
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Speaker 4: issue of Israel is perhaps one of the more divisive ones.
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Speaker 4: How do you think the President handled that tonight? Did
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Speaker 4: he do a good job of bridging the gap between
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Speaker 4: or bridging the divide if you will, from being supportive
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Speaker 4: of Israel but also trying to be supportive of Palestinian
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Speaker 4: life in Gaza.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he's in a really tough position. He
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Speaker 5: is getting a lot of pushback from his own party,
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Speaker 5: as you mentioned, Kaylee. We even saw two members in
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Speaker 5: the House tonight hold up a sign to Demokratz saying
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Speaker 5: cease fire now. So he is getting that pushback. We
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Speaker 5: saw it on Super Tuesday with the number of uncommitteds
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Speaker 5: in places like Minnesota. So the president knows he's walking
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Speaker 5: this line. As he described himself in this speech, he
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Speaker 5: has been one of the closest friends of Israel for
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Speaker 5: most of his career, but at this point he is
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Speaker 5: trying to do both support Israel in their fight against
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Speaker 5: Thomas and also make the case that they have to
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Speaker 5: be cognizant of the impact they are having on innocent men,
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Speaker 5: women and children in Palestine. He took the number thirty
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Speaker 5: thousand dead according to the health ministry over there. That's
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Speaker 5: been conflicting a lot of people, and he said, we
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Speaker 5: are going to take steps to do better. I don't
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Speaker 5: know how it's going to play on the Democratic left.
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Speaker 5: This is an issue of real concern also to young people,
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Speaker 5: not just Arab Americans.
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Speaker 4: Well, and Genie as you mentioned we saw that uncommitted
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Speaker 4: vote showing up in Minnesota. We also show sought showing
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Speaker 4: up in Michigan first. And on that note, we are
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Speaker 4: joined now by a Congresswoman from Michigan. Representative Haley Stevens
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Speaker 4: is standing by with Joe. Joe.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kaylie, we are here with Haley Stevens, who is
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Speaker 2: no stranger to this network and Congresswoman, it's great to
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Speaker 2: see you as a Democrat from Michigan supporting Joe Biden tonight.
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Speaker 2: What were your thoughts on his closing remarks about Israel.
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Speaker 2: He called for a two state solution coming off of
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Speaker 2: the uncommitted movement we've seen in your state in Minnesota
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Speaker 2: and others on Super Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: Did he say enough?
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Speaker 1: He absolutely said the right things on Israel tonight. And personally,
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Speaker 1: I'm here with liznov Tally, who is the great aunt
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Speaker 1: of four year old Abigail, who was taken hostage for
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Speaker 1: fifty days when she was three years old. She lost
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Speaker 1: both of her parents. There are so many other hostage
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Speaker 1: families in the room here tonight. And as the task
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Speaker 1: force co chair alongside Republican French Hill for American Hostages,
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Speaker 1: that was one of the most sobering pieces of his
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Speaker 1: really resounding and comprehensive speech, and it was a speech
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Speaker 1: of vision, and it was a speech of setting goals,
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Speaker 1: and what he said about getting to a two state
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Speaker 1: solution is still going to be the goal. There is
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Speaker 1: lots of pain, there's lots that we're navigating. A terrorist
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Speaker 1: operation in Gaza known as Hamas has not served its
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Speaker 1: people well, and we need to find peace and that
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Speaker 1: will come when Hamas surrenders.
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Speaker 2: You disappointed he was not able to announce the ceasefire
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Speaker 2: ar tonight.
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Speaker 3: That was a hope of the administration.
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Speaker 1: Well, I know he's worked so hard. He's working with
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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, he's working alongside Israel. Certainly they presented it
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Speaker 1: a deal, it was rejected by Hamas. We need answers.
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Speaker 1: We need these remaining hostages over one hundred, one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty three days there to come home. That was
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Speaker 1: an attack on humanity. And we also need to see
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Speaker 1: aid delivered to Palestinians, which the President made a point of.
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Speaker 1: We know that Hamas is preventing aid from coming in.
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Speaker 1: We know that where this conflict is as well, is
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Speaker 1: preventing aid for innocent Palestinians. Mothers and children. And so
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Speaker 1: that's why he said, we're setting up a special envoy
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Speaker 1: in the sea to make sure that aid gets delivered
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Speaker 1: with no American troops, certainly on the ground of Gaza.
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Speaker 2: We of course waiting for the Republican response to the
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Speaker 2: president's address before we wrap up this evening. Sean Fain
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Speaker 2: from the UAW was with the first lady tonight called
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Speaker 2: out by Joe Biden. We've talked about this before, Congresswoman.
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Speaker 2: The rank and file in this Union, in many cases,
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Speaker 2: are voting for Donald Trump. What's the message that they
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Speaker 2: heard tonight from this president or that you hope they heard.
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Speaker 1: Well, certainly he delivered a very strong and resounding commitment
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Speaker 1: to American manufacturing, to solving supply chain issues, to investing
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Speaker 1: in education and skills training. But here's the thing. Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden's coming to Michigan next week. He's going to be
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Speaker 1: digging deep. He's going to be making sure that these
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Speaker 1: union members know who he is, that he's the tough
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Speaker 1: guy in the room, and he's also the honest guy
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Speaker 1: in the room that has a commitment to protecting freedoms,
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Speaker 1: to standing up for job creation and making sure that
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Speaker 1: our middle class is at the table. Why we do it,
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Speaker 1: and that's why Sean Paine was here tonight. I was
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Speaker 1: so thrilled to see him get a shout out. Can't
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Speaker 1: wait to have the president back in Michigan.
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Speaker 2: Well, come talk to us again when you get back
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Speaker 2: to Michigan, congresswoman, and it's great to see you. Heavy Stevens,
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Speaker 2: the Democrat from Michigan with us as part of our
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Speaker 2: special coverage here, Kayley, this is the message that starts now,
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Speaker 2: Rick and Genie. We're talking about this not just members
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Speaker 2: of the cabinet, but the president's Democratic allies fan out
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Speaker 2: across the country to deliver this message starting tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely as we are now, for all intents and purposes,
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Speaker 4: in the general election in President Biden is very likely
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Speaker 4: to be up against former President Donald Trump eight months
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Speaker 4: from now on the ballot in November. And on that point,
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Speaker 4: we did have reaction to the former president during the
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Speaker 4: course of the State of the Union speech, and Donald
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Speaker 4: Trump points out Rick, it took him over twenty minutes
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Speaker 4: to get to immigration then, in Trump's words, said nothing
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Speaker 4: about it. Did he say enough about this subject this evening?
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Speaker 4: Is the former president right?
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Speaker 6: Well, we were wondering if anybody was going to sleep
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Speaker 6: through the speech, and it's pretty clear maybe President Trump did.
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Speaker 6: I think that the piece on immigration was very interesting,
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Speaker 6: and I thought one of the most engaging parts because
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Speaker 6: it was where he actually took up a discussion directly
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Speaker 6: with Marjorie Taylor Green Yes and engaged with her. And
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Speaker 6: it was an ad lib portion of the speech, and
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Speaker 6: she was pushing in a very aggressive way for him
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Speaker 6: to say Lake and Riley's name, right, say the name.
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Speaker 6: The pin that he had taken from her as he
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Speaker 6: came into the hall was next to his dais and
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Speaker 6: he picked it up and held it up and he
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Speaker 6: said the name.
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Speaker 3: And he did something that I think.
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Speaker 6: Is going to create a little bit of a backlash.
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Speaker 6: So he may have said a lot more than Donald
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Speaker 6: Trump thought he did, and that was he referred to
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Speaker 6: illegals and that was a name, that was a term
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Speaker 6: that he hasn't really used in reference to migrants coming
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Speaker 6: across the border. And we already see across the internet
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Speaker 6: some of the more progressive groups within his coalition basically
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Speaker 6: pushing back over this portion of the speech. So what's
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Speaker 6: interesting is Donald Trump and the progressives in the Democratic
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Speaker 6: wing seemed to have something in common, which is the
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Speaker 6: President sounded more conservative by defending the bill in the
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Speaker 6: Senate that didn't get a hearing in the House, and
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Speaker 6: that was something that always ruffled the feathers of the
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Speaker 6: Democrats in the House too. So I think that's going
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Speaker 6: to be one of the things we're talking about for
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Speaker 6: days to come, is this sort of very aggressive approach
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Speaker 6: he took on immigration in this speech.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jill Matthew and Statutory Hall in the House of Representatives.
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Speaker 2: Having just heard from the President and Senator britt were
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Speaker 2: joined now by Congressman Bryan Style, the Republican from Wisconsin,
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Speaker 2: was in the room, a member of the Financial Services
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Speaker 2: Committee here in the House and chair of the Admin Committee.
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Speaker 2: Congressman Style, it's great to see you. Where to begin
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Speaker 2: after a response like that. You were in the room
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Speaker 2: for Joe Biden's address. Did he speak to you as
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Speaker 2: a Republican lawmaker when he talked about his unity agenda?
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Speaker 8: I think the President really missed the opportunity to speak
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Speaker 8: with emotion, as Senator Britch just did about two of
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Speaker 8: the most important issues of the day, the way that
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Speaker 8: illegal immigration is impacting American families across the country and
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Speaker 8: the way that inflation cumulatively seventeen percent is impacting families'
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Speaker 8: ability to afford the things that they need. I think
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Speaker 8: his comments on the economic policies are pretty disingenuous at times,
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Speaker 8: commenting about the size of a Snickers bar or the
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Speaker 8: amount of chips in a bag, rather than talking about
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Speaker 8: the way that things being seventeen percent more expensive than
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Speaker 8: when he took office are impacting families who are struggling
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Speaker 8: to get by.
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Speaker 2: You know, we talk about inflation a lot when you're
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Speaker 2: on with us. Congressman Jay Powell testified the last two
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Speaker 2: days on Capitol Hill, and he seemed to be pretty
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Speaker 2: optimistic about the fight against inflation to the point where
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Speaker 2: we're talking about interest rate cuts at some point this year.
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Speaker 3: Would that not be a sign of success in that fight?
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Speaker 8: Inflation is come down, but the cumulative impact on families
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Speaker 8: is still quite real.
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Speaker 3: You come to a grocery store.
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Speaker 8: In Wisconsin at the checkout counter with me and you'll
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Speaker 8: hear time and again that families are struggling to be
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Speaker 8: able to affward the things that they need. We've made
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Speaker 8: progress on the fight against inflation, but we're still dealing
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Speaker 8: with the fact that this administration spent trillions of dollars
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Speaker 8: after the end of the pandemic.
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Speaker 2: Will you be on the trail in this campaign to
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Speaker 2: help Donald Trump deliver his message.
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Speaker 8: Wisconsin's going to be front and center in the contrast
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Speaker 8: and policy between President Biden and President Trump. Couldn't be
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Speaker 8: more clear. The President doubled down on his policies of
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Speaker 8: keeping the US Mexico border unsecure and refusing to address
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Speaker 8: the fact that inflation is clabboring families across the country.
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Speaker 2: Congressman Brian's style Republican from Wisconsin. We thank you for
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Speaker 2: the insights, Kayley. That's just a sense of the Republican
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Speaker 2: response here in the room to what we heard from
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Speaker 2: the president tonight and that speech that lasted over an hour.
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Speaker 3: His big opportunity between now and the convention.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and we want to get final thoughts now with
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Speaker 4: our political panel, Rick Davis and Jeanie Shanzano, who are
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Speaker 4: back with me here in Washington. Rick, just quickly, does
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Speaker 4: President Biden leave tonight in a better position than he
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Speaker 4: entered it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, he was able to start the campaign with a
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Speaker 6: full annunciation of his priorities for the general election. It's democracy,
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Speaker 6: abortion rights, the economy, and infrastructure. He's ready to take
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Speaker 6: it to Donald Trump. Katie Brick gave the response, that's
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Speaker 6: the Donald Trump campaign.
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Speaker 4: Genie, your thoughts.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think performance wise, Joe Biden did everything he
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Speaker 5: needed to do. Republicans who were hoping that he makes
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Speaker 5: an error have to be disappointed because he did not,
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Speaker 5: and Democrats seem to be widely enthusiastic. He is the
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Speaker 5: Joe Biden they wanted to see. He was interacting with members,
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Speaker 5: he was open, he was energetic. So a good performance
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Speaker 5: night for Joe Biden.
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Speaker 4: All right, Jeanie Schanzano and Rick Davis, thank you so
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Speaker 4: much for being with us on the State of the
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