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