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president's state of the union address. good morning, everyone. >> i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you here. dame, on the rematch that most americans don't want officially kicks off tonight when joe biden delivers a state of the union address that could set them up for four more years or make his road to reelection tougher he is expected to highlight the accomplishments of his first term while warning the country about the existential threat to the nation that he believes donald trump presents. the president's challenge convincing voters who are concerned about his age and stamina that he's fit for another term. trump fresh off a near-sweep on super tuesday that forced nikki haley out of the race is challenging the president to a debate and vowing to deliver a running play by play on social media during the state of the union address. let's bring in our panel on this important morning, democratic congressman pat ryan of new york is here. sarah longwell, republican strategist executive director of the republican accountability project and former abc news white house correspondent, and compton joins us and i'm so honored to have you here. thank you so

much. >> i'll see you again. >> let's just start with the big picture here. you have covered. i understand. save unions back to gerald ford. i started doing the majority w bush's administration i think you've got the table over all of us in terms of having seen it all how consequential do you think this speech is for president biden considering the stakes of the 2024 election. >> there, they're always important. they're important for the country to hear, but they don't really rock our world. i really do think the best year fears for state of the union. our presidential election years because you're not only have a president incumbent up there, but you've got a candidate who really has to woo the american voters and say, hey, i'm your guy trust me, i got this. and that that's the takeaway that he wants most of the most of the public but to be able to get from that, yeah, of course. >> let's play a little bit. we showed we showed some of this little earlier, but i want to show it again because the thing that we've been reporting here

that are reporters at cnn are hearing is that democrats really want more fire from president biden, right? they want more of that passion that people say that they see in private. but it doesn't seem to make its way out in public as much they think it could counteract some of these concerns about his age. there was a moment at the state of the union last year that showed what, what, what we understood to be an off-the-cuff reaction by president biden where he really came out on the top of that interaction. watch this some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. i'm not saying it's a majority contact >> my office. i'll give you a copy. i'll give you a copy of the proposal so that of course marjorie taylor greene, congressman, standing up now, the leadership at the time urged them not to do this republican leadership. they've apparently urged them not to do this again this year, you were on you were in the audience for that. what do you expect from republicans tonight and how

does that play into what president biden is trying to accomplish? >> i wish i could say i expected civility, but i think my colleagues, i mean, the far-right has taken over the republican party, certainly in the house. and not only are they wrong on policy, not only are they divisive and dangerous, they're just rude. and i think the american people respond. the american people see that. and when the president hauled them on that, both the style but also the substance and said we and i are going to fight to protect social security and medicare. and you've got the plan on paper to sunset it and privatized it when he called them on that that was an important moment and i think we'll see more of that and that contrast is so stark between the republican party of today, who wants to take away our critical rights and freedoms and make it harder for folks to afford live in america right now, sarah longwell and you talked to voters all the time about what they're looking for. and obviously there's the content of the speech that we were just talking about, the

policies. but there's also the performance aspect and for joe biden that may be the thing that matters the most what do you hear from voters about what the risks are, what they're looking for from him. and the balance of do they expect him to be bad and it'll be better if it's good or do they expect it to be good? and if he's bad, that's bad. >> no, no, no. >> here's where they are. right. so that republicans have done one thing that i think is a little bit but a mistake which is that they have set the bar at dementia, right? they tell their voters that joe biden has dementia, and so he can clear a dementia bar. and that's probably a win. and even better if he does what he did last time. like, i understand why democrats are saying you need to have a fiery speech. i think the stakes are enormous for him this time, because the age is such a concern and that is left, right, and center. right. age is a concern across the board they just need to know this guy is with it. he can fight, he can still he can still do the job. and i think republicans have done him a bit of a service by setting that bar so low. so he just really needs declared what the performance is way more important than the

substance because people hello or not that some in the far left, but swing voters aren't as mad at him on the substance. they're worried about whether or not he can do the job. >> and i mean, what do you see in terms of the stakes for his performance? so they higher than they typically are for president giving this address. >> there are different in kind of this year, you have two incumbents we have two presidents who were going to be meeting again in the rematch. and vice president biden has been through this before and he knows those reactions and he opted be prepared to again, bring on that. i'm the guy you can trust and i would assume he's he's he's prepared for that. but this kind of antagonism in the house and the typical quires of applause and booing and everything. it's been around for awhile and i think americans are really kind of tired of it >> do you agree? >> i don't know about that. i think i think we've hit a different moment in politics

where i here now you certainly heard it from republicans for a long time. they wanted a fighter, they chose donald trump because he went hard and mixed it up and went after their enemies. and now i hear from democrats all the time they're like what they get frustrated with. joe biden is that they feel like he's not enough of a fighter. these not out there enough taking swings and so i saw reports the other day that biden said his strategy is to go for the jugular on trump. and i think that's the right thing to do offense. they need to go on offense now, what do you think is made you agree? >> i think folks are frustrated and worried and it is about being a fighter. but it's who are you fighting for and what are you fighting for? i mean it's so clear and so stark in a contrast, trump is just about himself. >> i mean, in every >> dimension about himself and about taking us backwards, president biden and the party are about the american people reminding it is literally we the people. so why don't americans >> see it that way when the president's approval rating is it like historic lows? and

he's losing in national polls to donald trump granted some of those poles have flaws. but the washington post bowl, for example, in 2020, he was never losing to trump by a significant margin and he's got a tougher road this time. why? >> no disrespect to the pollsters and all the experts. i've been in a few tough races. i've every single time the polls have been wrong in every single day are enough. both of my tough races last year i was supposed to lose and i want and i think it's the difference of do you talk to voters and real people on the ground, or do you get over? overly focused on these numbers and polls that increasingly in today's communications were like don't work. i think one of present binds unique strands is he has this deep connection to real people. and when that comes through and when he talks about stories and when he talks about what is delivering, when he talks about why he thought the lower so then prices, for example, down to $35. and the stories of that back connects with people and i think we will see that again from him

tonight. >> i want to show a little bit of one yesterday, nikki haley dropped out of the presidential race. she did not endorse donald trump, but she did talk about what she thinks donald trump needs to do if he wants to win the general election watch haley >> it is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it, who did not support him. and i hope he does that at its best. politics is about bringing people into your cause not turning them away. >> so i mean that message does seem to me to speak to the people you talk about who might be tired of the instability on the floor of the house, right? the people that voted for nikki haley, who are saying, we don't want donald trump what could the president do tonight to try to win over those haley voters? >> well, be more ecumenical, be a broader appeal, more to people who got just on party politics. but on what actually ought to happen. and when you

look in the gallery tonight, mrs. mrs. biden has dr. biden has all of these people sitting around her, the woman who had to leave texas to get ivf procedure or abortion? abortion. and there's an ivf woman as well who had to leave the state. so i think if he can try to appeal to everything except the die-hard trump trump supporters and of course, trump when he did his last state of the union when he finished. that was pretty partisan. speaker pelosi stood behind him and quietly took his advanced text and tort and a piece most partisan those moments make, make an evening when the last word, yeah, here's what joe biden should do. he she he put out a great statement yesterday where he said nikki, who haley voters, we want you, because right now that stands in stark contrast to donald trump, who's saying, i don't want you,

you're permanently barred. hey, did you like mitt romney with an i don't like you if he's going to play the politics of subtraction, joe biden should play the politics of addition and say, you are welcome in this tent. >> fair enough. all right. >> thank you. all stay with me, please. gonna chat again in just a moment. ahead, deputy white house press secretary, olivia dalton joins me for an insider preview. the president's state of the union address. >> and >> a mysterious find off the coast of alaska. the pentagon trying to figure out if it's a spy balloon plus this nearly three weeks since the state supreme court ruling that embryos are children alabama lawmakers pushed across the finish line a law to protect ivf clinics and patients. i'll break down how it works and where exactly it falls short. we're live from montgomery, alabama with that story. next >> president biden last state of the union before the 2024 election with challenges at home and abroad, can he make

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this was a republican dominated legislature that push this bill across the finish line. and it was a republican governor that signed it into law. so let's dig into it. but what it does and does not do, this is a law designed to protect those who are receiving or providing ivf by offering them civil and criminal immunity. so this is very crucial because ivf clinics routinely dispose of frozen embryos that are nonviable or are unwanted this law applies immediately and it applies retroactively. so now let's go into what it doesn't do. it does not address when life begins this question of personhood, as you said, is at the heart of this alabama supreme court ruling that embryos are children this is not answer that. let's now go into the three clinics that pause ivf treatments in the wake of that supreme court ruling state supreme court ruling, starting with the center for reproductive medicine at mobile health. this is the same clinic involved in that case that went to the state's highest court. it's it

will not resume services. mark nix, the ceo of infirmary health, telling cnn they need legal clarification as to the extent of immunity that they have. also telling us, quote, at this time, we believe the law falls short of addressing the fertilized eggs currently stored across the state and leaves challenges for or physicians and fertility clinics trying to help deserving families have children of their own. then there's alabama fertility. dr. mamie mclean, telling us that they are set to resume ivf treatments as early as today or tomorrow. and then there's a university of alabama at birmingham. they were the first to pause ivf treatments. they say that they are working king to move promptly to resume ivf treatments. casey. >> all right. isabel >> rosales for us on this incredibly important story, isabel, isabel, thank you very much for that. and still ahead here for us, the president's son invited to a public house hearing. will he rsvp plus new this morning, the mug shot of the armorer are just found

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again consulted presidential historian and author jon meacham, that someone that the president has often turned to for these high stakes speeches. and it really comes as the president is expected to lean heavily into this argument relating to economic populism. the president is expected to to speak about raising taxes on corporations, trying to raise the corporate tax rate to 28%. and also raising the corporate minimum tax, which is currently 15% to 21% to the president is also expected to talk about efforts to lower costs for everyday americans in their lives that will include a push to really focus on lowering prescription drug costs, specifically because expected to call on congress to expand the ability for medicare to negotiate drugs from 20 drugs to 50 drugs in one year, the president is also expected to focus on the issue of reproductive rights. that is something that democrats that's really feel will galvanize voters heading into november. he's also expected to talk about ukraine, that's

something that he has wanted to see congress pass aid for theirs. then there's also the issue of border security. big questions about how the president will address that after republicans have scuttled a bipartisan border deal, the president has urged them to add, but we have yet to see whether the president will actually implement any executive actions as he has been considering on that front. and then there's the unity agenda is something that the president has touted in his past state of the union address, addresses and will be a focus again today. of course, democracy and protecting freedoms will be one of those overarching goals. it's a centerpiece of his campaign and also expected to be a huge topic at today's state of the union. and if you take a look at the guests will be sitting in the first lady's box that really highlights the priorities that the president has in this speech. that's expected to include shawn fain, the president of the united auto workers a group that endorsed him just a few months ago at a time when the president is trying to show this pro worker stance, to american voters at a time when

former president donald trump is also trying to court that group. there will also be kate cox, who is that texas mother, who had to seek an abortion outside of her state as she faced a life-threatening pregnancy, the administration is also inviting a couple of who it was going through the ivf if process in the state of alabama, there's a host of other guests that will also be featured in the first lady's box. but really this speech offers the president with the opportunity to tout his accomplishments and lay out his vision for a second term, we'll see if he tangles once again with republicans as he did last year. some in his party would like him to show a little bit more of a fight in this campaign. >> all right. arlette saenz for us at the white house. arlette, thank you. >> this of course, a big opportunity for the president tonight. what can you make of it? let's bring in our panel republican strategist, former rnc communications director, doug heye, former white house deputy press secretary in the obama administration. bill burden, sarah longwell, she's republican strategist and executive if director of the republican accountability project, she's back with us and former abc news white house correspondent and compton who

we are so grateful to have this morning and let's stick with this big picture theme for president biden. you've watched so many of these addresses. >> the >> stakes tonight for president biden as we head into what's arguably one of the most, if not the most consequential election we've had certainly in our lifetimes and it's always in a presidential election year, the stakes are really much higher and it's, it's a minefield because of a slip a problem of misstatement, a bad moment can do much more damage than all of his wonderful rhetoric and all the reaching out. i also think that president biden knows how toxic they relations are in that chamber, and he ought to be prepared to take the high road and show americans that. look, you can trust me. i'm i'm your guy. i've got your back and building that sense of things like many of his predecessors

did reagan and obama tried to exude that kind of sense of stick with me. we're gonna get through this. >> so the high road, doug heye, bill burden, doug, you have a lot of experience in congress? >> do we think that the high road is what voters are demanding right now, this might be a question for you bill to like the sort of swing voters high road? yes, high road, no. >> i mean, look, i think that voters understand that we're now getting into the general election. and this election is about a choice between joe biden's vision and donald trump let's and i think that, well, people are tuned into cable news sometimes for the fight, i think what they want is to understand, well, what does this election mean for my family, right? like, i don't think people are going to show up and vote because of all the things that joe biden, his son, i think they're going to show up and vote because of where he's going to bring the country, right? voters don't generally vote to say thank you. they vote to say, well, what's in this for me and my family, what's next? >> what do you expect it

>> wasn't one of the things when bill is working in the obama white house, i was in house leadership. and what you do when you're in the opposition is you prepare for everything that the president's going to say and you put out papers during the speech, after the speech of the rhetoric of what the president said and what the reality is that standard that's issue. but what house leadership can't plan for right now is one, the slip-ups potentially at an referenced and then also what republican members may do and we've certainly seen this in the past. speaker johnson is telling his members behave yourself, but there's a political incentive structure that we saw last year. we may see tonight that if you g or the president, if you heckled president you get your moment in the sun and your voters, the political, political incentive structure that you have, which is not wherever he say swing district member is, rewards that and ultimately, the problem is, you get rewarded, but you also provide biden with a real opportunity if he lands a good counterpunch, that's one of the takeaways from the speech republican members were rude >> so speaking of what's rewarded these days one of the

people who was an antagonist to biden in his last speech last year was marjorie taylor greene. we've showed that moment a couple of times, but she has been getting some attention for something that she did on super tuesday at where she was i'm talking to a british reporter who was very polite. i have to say in her questioning, but just just keep in mind as we head into this big speech, this is going to be one of the guests at the state of the union. watch this clip and can you tell me why so many people that support donald trump love conspiracy theories, including yourself. >> you seems to attract lots of conspiracy theories. well, let me he tell you you're a conspiracy theorist and the left and the media spreads more conspiracy theories. we'd like the truth. we liked supporting our constitution, our freedoms, and america her son about jewish space lasers, tell us about jospeh, know why don't, why don't you go talk about jewish space lasers and really why don't you how about that? >> thank you very much.

>> so i have family that's british. that's not the technical term that you would say to a brick, but also we're talking about her. this is the political incentive structure that she has and she knew that going into it and she's being rewarded for it. >> sir, what do you say? >> you know, i mean every time marjorie taylor greene sort of becomes the face of the republican party and increasingly she is it alienates those swing voters who do not want to be in coalition with people like lauren boebert, marjorie taylor greene, matt gaetz, and so if marjorie taylor greene wants to be the face of the republican party and she wants to present the contrast to joe biden tonight. i'm all for it because i think he comes out on top. just one thing. i'll say for biden. that's really important is the vast majority of voters do not watch the state of the union. when i do focus groups after the state of the union and check in with voters and say what they thought. most people are not watching it, what they're doing is they're getting vibes and like the vibes need to for biden need to be like he was sharp, feisty, like that comes from headlines, that comes from a little tangling with the opposition. and so i think that's how he

succeeds tonight, not by just knocking through the policy point. >> so maybe not so bad if he gets someone like marjorie taylor greene heckling him from the floor? >> no, that's a way >> let me play a little bit because ultimately really this election is going to come down to independent voters in a handful of swing states. a lot of independence and disaffected republicans and some democrats back to nikki haley in some of these primaries, we've collected some kind of reactions and some feelings from nikki haley, voters that kind of illustrate a little bit of the challenges that both trump and biden face heading into this election. watch what they had to say and it's trump vs biden. what >> do you think? >> oh, no question. biden. >> we cannot have another four years that me and i'm not going to vote for either one. >> biden or trump. i >> think it is not a sure thing that donald trump is going to win the general election. because if you're a voter like myself, i'm going to write her in. i think people we're looking closely at the vice

presidential candidate because it's a very probable possibility that they will be president by the end of the four years i will not vote for mr. trump. i all have to decide about mr. biden, but i cannot hit his personal behaviors are highly offensive to me. >> i think that this country can do do better than the choice that we've been given >> and what do you hear in that? i would like to note those voters, all women, first of all right. which is one of trump's absolute biggest vulnerabilities. but what does biden need to do to speak to those voters tonight? >> well part of what he faces is what happens in the political landscape in the national, global landscape between now and november, know president, no candidate can control a war overseas at the some kind of disaster or violence here in the united states. so the president to appeal to people at least as to say that he's got his hands on the steering wheel and he'll be

responsible about that is i think probably the best the best that he could do. >> i would point out about the nikki haley voters. if you look at the new york times sienna poll two-thirds of haley supporters actually voted for biden in 2020 and only nine 9% voted for trump. so to the extent that there's an opportunity to consolidate these voters, it's for president biden, and i think that that's part of what his message has to be denied. it's that i am the stable president who has a vision for the future, who has a plan for to lower taxes for middle-class, not just lowering taxes for the wealthy and who can get us back to a place in the world where we're more safe and stable >> doug, let's talk for a second about the president's vulnerabilities. here. kathy hochul yesterday, the governor of new york, sent the national guard to protect the new york city subways after a rise in violent crime there's a congressman who invited the family of laken riley, the nursing student who was killed

by an undocumented immigrant to sit her family declined the invitation, but he's going to leave an open seat for her. i mean, these are big policy vulner vulnerabilities for the president. i mean, how do you expect that to play out tonight when i'm outside of washington? fintan, the two issues i hear about the most or biden's age? biden can't do anything about that. and the border biden can do something about that. it is overwhelmingly of vulnerability for this administration. and i think in washington, they don't get it outside of washington, democrats get it more and more. i was watching msnbc for a little bit on super tuesday and there was a panel all of hosts and they were all sort of laughing. well, virginia as a border state with west virginia. so of course they'd be scared or worried about the border. hahaha. >> eric adams gets it. kathy hochul starting to get it. and if washington, if the liberal intelligencia that informs his white house can laugh this off or think they can. they're in for four more years here's what donald trump mean. >> this is i'd argue a conservative paper, the new york post, and they've splashed exactly what you're talking about as a massive in-kind

contribution to donald trump's campaign. >> i would point out though that murder is down violent crime is actually down in this country now, perception is reality for voters and president biden has to address it, but he has a story to tell on and he audit so just to close this out the other issue, of course, that the president is facing is the war in gaza. and that's something that comes from inside. and there is a contingent of house democrats who are very, very upset with the president and how he's handled this. there have been protests tests repeatedly at they've worked hard to quell them in recent weeks, but he was interrupted a number of times >> how if you were >> thinking about what those members of congress might be thinking about tonight, is it at all possible the president gets interrupted by someone in his own party? and what kind of impact would that have? >> i've figured he knows this

>> that, that will make a difference. it won't happen necessarily tonight and then debates think we might have debates >> yeah. >> bill quickly on that. what do you think the president needs to do on this is real situation if it comes up but we'll look obviously democrats in large swaths of the country, minnesota and michigan show that there's deep concerns about what's happening in gaza. i think that we're closer and closer to a ceasefire. i think the president will talk about that tonight. and it's my hope that there's some resolution in the middle east and it's much less of a political issue going into the fall. >> we'll see all right. speaking of >> the middle east, we've got a >> developing story coming out of there right now. hamas leaving cairo with no breakthrough in talks to reach

a temporary ceasefire. there were hopes for a deal by ramadan negotiators had hoped to have a draft agreement this week, one official admitted, though that hope is fading senior source says the delegation we'll resume negotiations next week just a reminder, israel did not send a delegation to participate in this round of talks when hamas would not provide a list of hostages still alive in gaza >> all right. 45 minutes past the hour. here's your morning roundup. house republicans have invited hunter biden to a public hearing on march 20th. it's the latest move to try to get their impeachment investigation of the president back on track the pentagon is examining whether debris found by fishermen off the coast of alaska is from a spy balloon discovery comes 13 months after us fighter jet shot down. a suspected chinese spy balloon over montana charges abruptly dropped against three men accused of possessing stolen lyrics to hotel california and

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the thai place again. even though the noodles stick together in a weird cubed, the shape like the box and comes in. as long as we all agree, we're not getting the sweet and sour nikki haley >> all like it or not. now, biden versus trump in 2024, president biden, of course, set to make his case during to the country, during the state of the union address tonight eight the day after nikki haley's exit from the presidential race, his campaign putting out this message to her supporters >> so if you agreed with nikki haley when she stood up to trump for things like election denialism, for the chaos and division that he represents. there isn't fact i'm going to be at home for them in joe biden's campaign all right. >> here with me now to preview biden's speech to one of the largest audiences he'll have between now and november is deputy white house press secretary, olivia adult. and olivia, thank you so much for being here. thanks for having me. >> so what should we >> expect from the president tonight? >> tonight you'll hear a clear, compelling contrast from the president and one of the biggest speeches. so i'll give

all year to one of the biggest audiences will have all year. >> and he'll >> really lay out a couple of themes and importance of defending our rights and freedoms, not rolling them back. the importance of defending democracy here and around the world, not diminishing it. and continuing on the historic economic progress we've made over the last three years as a consequence of joe biden and second economic agenda, which is really focused on building our economy, building it from the bottom-up in the middle out, not the top-down and i'll just say no accident. you're going to hear from the president, no accident that we've got 15 million new jobs, so we've got historic small business starts that we've got the racial wealth gap down to the lowest narrowest gap in 20 here's, there's a lot of progress that we've been able to make and he's going to talk about how to keep our foot on the gas. >> we've talked a lot this morning congressman pat ryan, democrat from new york is from a swing district was here saying, you know, he's been with the president, traveled to ireland with the president. the president can be fiery, talked about the irish in him. are we going to see that from the

president tonight? because there seems to be a lot of interests just in it from democrats, people in the president's own party >> the president is ready. he spent the weekend with his advisers and speech writers putting the finishing touches on this speech and camp day at camp david he is ready for tonight. he's ready to lay out a compelling case to the country and he thinks he has a good story to tell right? it is just, as i said a moment ago, no accident that we are where we are. we've had the strongest post pandemic recovery of any major economy in the world. that's not to say we don't have challenges, but the president has a plan to meet those challenges head on, and he's going to lay out the what's the competing vision for that, right? a system that priority taiz is special interests and the wealthy over the middle-class and working class americans republicans who are focused on ripping away medicare and social security and making healthcare more expensive rather than continuing the progress he's made to make it more affordable and bring down the cost of prescription drugs. those are the kinds of things that president is going to talk out and lay out tonight. and to you

he's ready for that. >> this is going to be one of the largest audiences. he'll be able to speak to between now and november, he loved the democratic convention as well, but this is a significant moment in the reelection campaign. voters tell us they're concerned that he's too old to do the job what can he do tonight to convince them otherwise? >> well, i >> thought he said it best when he told seth meyers last week that it's not the age of the person, it's the age of the ideas. and look, what if republicans decided to focus on tonight. their rebuttal is going to be delivered by someone who is responsible for creating the turmoil. we saw an repealing roe, overturning roe, a right that existed for women in this country for 50 years, taking us back 50 years so that our daughters have fewer rights in our mothers did. that is what's at stake here. antiquated ideas versus joe biden's vision for a future where we protect our most fundamental and sacred grid rights and freedoms in this country, where we protect

democracy and our most fundamental ideals as a country. and we continue to keep our foot on the gas, on the economic progress we've made for made for real working people, not the wealthiest, not the special interests in this country. >> how big of a risk is it if he were to stumble tonight? >> we'll look i think everybody is there's always in these moments a desire to focus on the distractions dujour, the president is focused on thing and that's communicating clearly his vision for the country to the american people. now have one of the largest audiences tonight that he will all year. and i want to just note that we are also doing some new things to make sure that we're meeting and people where they are, this will be the first state of the union that were were that were live streaming on instagram to make sure that we're reaching young people where they are it'll be the first time that on whitehouse.gov, you can go and you can actually interact with tonight's live stream. so we're hoping that tonight will be a night where people are really able to tune in and focus on the president's message let me ask you about the war in gaza. we were just

reporting that no ceasefire deal has been reached. i know there was hope the president had said that he hoped it would happen by monday of this week. obviously that has come and gone and it remains a very difficult life or death issue for many people in the president's party people in, we saw this in michigan with the uncommitted vote, there are a number of house democrats who are very opposed to what the president has been doing on this front. are you preparing or have you prepared for possible disruptions from any of those people on the floor of the house tonight or do you not expect that to happen? >> well, the president certainly no it was that there are intense and passionate feelings on this issue and he has also been spending hours every day addressing this working urgently toward a hostage deal, working urgently to expand the flow of humanitarian aid into gaza. certain, certainly going to hear tonight from the president himself about his efforts in this area to secure the release of hostages, to secure a

temporary ceasefire so that we can serve surge even more humanitarian aid. obviously, you've seen in recent days that we've begun airdrops of humanitarian aid into gaza because we don't think that the aid that's getting into gaza is nearly enough also continued to be extremely concerned about the level of civilian casualties in gaza this is a president who's working around the clock on this issue certainly not lost on him. the significance of this moment to communicate with the american public and with congress about the urgency of also passing the national security supplemental so that we can get not just aid to israel, but surge humanitarian aid to gaza as well has the white house or the staff of the white house, or the president himself reached out to rashida tlaib, for example, who is palestinian american. >> but the president has engaged with the community on a number of occasions then so have white house staff so we know that there are significant and passionate feelings on this across the spectrum, and we've continued to engage in good-faith conversation with folks around that, but i think

my message really today to you and to the countries the president knows and feels very deeply he's heard from the country about the range of views on this. and he's working night and day around the clock, not just to secure the release of hostages, but to me make sure that we're doing everything that we can to address the situation in the region to prevent further loss of innocent human lives, to surge humanitarian aid to get hostages home and prevent this from becoming a wider conflict. >> all right. olivia dalton forest, deputy white house press secretary. thank you very much for your time this morning. >> it's gonna be a lot on day for you. i appreciate you start to talk with us. >> all right. i'll leave you with this >> yeah. it's very special >> welcome to my madison kamala harris making a surprise stop at her childhood home in madison, wisconsin. she brought the current homeowner a gift bag and she gave her a tour. the vice president live there for two years as a young girl

while her parents worked at the university of madison, wisconsin. wisconsin, madison down there >> it is. it >> i don't remember the house as much as i remember the path down to the leg and we would take watts based very special, very special. and of course you guys have been so wonderful allowing intrusion what you need you to full place >> right? she shared these pictures on social media of her then. it's just a child of immigrants. and now the first woman of color to hold the second highest office in the country will say, i remember going back to the houses i lived in as a child to try to meet the families. were there now it's always there's a bittersweet experience. so pfk-1, to see her do that. >> all right. thank you all for joining us this morning. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now