about our democratic institutions. we expect president biden to make that part of his appeal tonight. democracy itself is at stake, that's one of the things he said before. >> indeed, and michael, i know we only have ten seconds, but that's one of the big issues for you. >> if americans knowingly choose a dictatorship, there's nothing we can do. all joe biden can do is to say this is a real possibility. make sure you get active in the system this year. make sure you vote. >> well, thank you, and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow us on social media @mitchellreports and you can rewatch highlights on the show anytime on youtube, go to msnbc.com/andrea. "chris jansing reports" starts right now. good day, i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city.

in the history of television, only two of the 100 most watched shows have not been live sporting events, the oscars and the state of the union. so as a campaign kickoff, you don't get a bigger platform than joe biden has tonight. but with enormous opportunity come enormous challenges. can he meet the moment and how? our team has reporting on what is happening inside the white house right now and the unique unvarnished insights of a former biden speech writer. plus, as the president prepares to address the israel-hamas war tonight, conditions in gaza are deteriorating to new lows. children starving to death.

bright orange bursts of flames as a plane makes an emergency landing, what exactly caused it. an awful lot to get to. we begin with this, among all of the goals president biden has for tonight's state of the union address, there is one that rises above all others. show americans he is still up to the job. do not expect to hear the words age or energy or focus, but as much or maybe even more than the expected themes of the economy, immigration, and reproductive rights, that is what is on the minds of voters. >> i think his age isbeginning to show. he's not a good speech teller, you know. >> because of his age, that doesn't mean that he's not intelligent. >> yeah, i wish he was younger. >> so president biden faces enormously important dual challenges tonight, not just what he wants to get done, but coincing voters he has the ability to get it done.

the campaign says tonight's speech will serve as the first day of a month-long rollout to the general election. the not so subtle sub text is, vote for me. talk about high stakes. nbc's monica alba is reporting from the white house. also with us, adrienne elrod, eugene daniels, and former republican congressman carlos curbelo of florida, an msnbc political analyst. okay, monica, what do we expect to see and hear from the president tonight as he tries to seize the moment? >> chris, the stakes are high. the pressure is on, but you can prepare for a speech like this for days and weeks as the president and his team have been doing, but sometimes it really is those unscripted moments, what you can't possibly anticipate that become the headline out of a speech like tonight. in terms of what is being put from pen to paper, what we can definitely expect to see tonight are some of those themes that the president has been talking about in the context of what he

thinks his accomplishments have been in the first three years of this term but what he says is critical to consider if he isn't reelected to four more years in office, and trying to really make clear to the american people what's at stake when it comes to defending democracy, when it comes to defending some personal freedoms and rights, and he's going to contextualize all of that in key areas like immigration, like reproductive health care, and you're also going to be seeing some really significant news from a more foreign policy perspective. there's the domestic always in a speech like this, but also the international, and we now know and can report that he's going to be announcing tonight that he is directing an emergency mission to build a port off the coast of gaza, a temporary pier in effect to deliver food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters given the humanitarian crisis there. that's the headline that will also be coming out of the speech tonight, chris.

but then you also always have the news around who is in the speech, who's in attendance in terms of the president's guests, and he's going to be using some of their stories to really highlight some of these key issues. that's something that is notable as well. but chris, this is the latest state of the union that we've ever seen in terms of the calendar. it's coming in march. it's coming two days after super tuesday, and that's something i'm told that the white house and the biden campaign are welcoming because they think it will help them crystallize this argument of the choice and what's at stake in november in a really high platform way with a very large audience. >> adrienne, we always use the phrase high stakes. here it really applies, but it's interesting "the washington post" says that president biden's biggest challenge tonight is not to give off what they call old man vibes. how does he do that? how does he show the american people i got this? >> i think, chris, i mean, monica really laid out exactly

what's at stake and also what the biden white house is planning to do tonight, which is really draw a contrast. i think it's incredibly smart they decided to do the state of the union two days after super tuesday when the choice is very clear. it is now a two-person race effectively between donald trump and joe biden, nikki haley just dropped out. the contrast could not be more clear, and i think joe biden is going to really focus on that tonight. you know, what is at stake. yes, we made a lot of progress under president biden's administration. we have a lot of work to do going forward. if you choose donald trump, if you choose him as your -- as the one to be the president, he's going to set us back. he's going to undo all of these strong policies that we've passed in place from the inflation reduction act to historic climate change policies to infrastructure, you name it. there's so much this administration has done to move this country forward, and he's going to make it very clear that donald trump will only move us back. he's also going to talk about some of the other issues that are at stake such as reproduct

reproductive rights, foreign policy, president biden has overseen very complicated foreign policy issues. it's a really important speech for president biden. this is always for the sitting president the most important speech they give every year. but this year in particular, the stakes could not be higher, and i think joe biden is red did to come out there tonight and really make it clear why he's running for re-election, what's at stake and why people in america should support him and kamala harris for a second term. >> but the key question, i think, eugene for a lot of americans if you look at the polls and the concerns about his age and his ability to serve for four more years really is going to be about the energy, the presentation, right? i got more than a few laughs from the clever column that michelle coddle wrote for "the new york times" today where she said to unleash dark brandon. start throwing some strategic punches and show rather than tell americans that he still has the fire in the belly. does he need to not just show that he has the energy for this

but answer the negative fire? and by that, i mean the disenchantment, even anger of americans who just don't feel like their lives are where they want them to be. >> yeah, i think he does, whether or not he answers that in this speech, right, there are many opportunities for him to answer to that anger, to that frustration. i think tonight he does need to show people that he has bigger, right? it's not just about age. are you going to fight for me, right? i spoke with the chief of staff at the white house for playbook this morning, and you know, he told me that we should expect that, when it's time to take the fight to republicans, president biden is going to do that, and he has to do that in a way that a random voter sees the clip on twitter or tiktok, facebook, on their local news and they say he doesn't look as old as i thought he did or as i've been told that he has been. last year president biden got, you know, really lucky with

marjorie taylor greene and republicans kind of yelling at him. they've been told by the speaker not to do that again, that he doesn't want them to behave that way, and so this white house can anticipate a back and forth like that that did show the american people that he had vigor. he has to do that on his own. he has to find a way to do that in the fight that he's saying he's going to be willing to do because that's really what americans are talking and thinking about when they're talking about his age. they don't want him to look slower than he used to look. they don't want him to have like a senior moment when he's doing his speech. that's what focuses are looking at and that's what he has to figure out a way to not have today. >> the white house folks say he is well-rested, he is prepared, he is ready to go, but congressman, does he name check donald trump in this speech tonight? does he go after him directly, or does he just point out, as adrienne said, the contrasts? >> chris, this is the most

important speech of joe biden's life. if the election were held today, polls indicate that he would probably lose and he would probably lose to a deeply flawed candidate. so i think he has to be explicit tonight. he has to be robust. he can't, you know, speak in metaphors. he just has to level with the american people and really try to make that connection. everyone knows that this is going to be a trump/biden rematch. might as well be explicit about it, address it, and share what the contrast is going to be. the president's aides have claimed that he's extremely sharp, that he's extremely gauged. he needs to show the american people that tonight, and talk about the future. what are president biden's plans for the next four years? it's important to talk about your accomplishments, but all elections are about the future and president biden has to lay out what his vision, what his agenda is for the next four years. >> well, one of the things we

know that they want fixed for sure, congressman is immigration, right? and he can say legitimately we had a plan and the plan is the one republicans told us they wanted, and they shut it down. but to what extent can you get away with saying we put it out there, they didn't accept it, and not make it look like you're not saying the buck stops here. >> that's right, chris. look, i think immigration has come to democrats what abortion is to republicans. i think if you're talking about it, you're probably losing. it's an issue that the white house has been on defense on since day one of the administration, and obviously they have to own a big part of the failures at the southwest border. republicans did give them a little bit of an out by tanking this bipartisan compromise that would have improved the situation at donald trump's request, but at the end of the day, president biden's going to have to own what has happened at

the southwest border and try his best to show the american people that he's taking it seriously and he actually wants to turn things around. >> eugene, how much of this is an expectation's game? and by that i mean, so biden has canceled $138 billion in student loans and there are plenty of people who say that's not enough. you didn't cancel my loans. the administration made historic investments from hbcus to black-owned businesses, but they're losing black voters. strong economic indicators, but the middle class doesn't feel it. does biden suffer from, i don't know, never enough syndrome? how does he convince voters otherwise? >> yeah, i mean, it's about how voters feel, right? that is really what politics is about. it's about emotion, and you have to make voters feel like the things that you are saying that you did, with the charts and the graphs, that the white house likes to bring out, that those things impact them and that it changed their lives, and they have to feel those things. the white house and the campaign will be honest, you know, aides

will say we haven't done a good job up and to this point making that case and making that clear, and that your point about never enough syndrome, i think that's right because you have, you know, one thing that this president is grappling with as he's trying to win re-election that others haven't is this pandemic and how people feel coming out of that pandemic, right? and the way that people -- the things that people want, what they want to see the federal government do, the promises that they want kept and the promises they want made are a little bit different than they used to be, right? it's not enough to talk about compromise. they want to see you fight. it's not enough to talk about your -- you know, you're doing all of these student loans when the supreme court fought you. people don't care about the process, and that's one of the process argument is one that democrats have been using quite a bit. you know, the supreme court stopped us. congress is stopping us. voters don't care about that. this campaign and this president have to figure out a way to get around that process argument and

get to the heart of the matter of you need me because x, y and z, and they are going on the road right after the state of the union. some of the -- both the president, the vice president and many of the cabinet officials and they're going to have to do that the entire rest of this year in order to really explain to voters the kinds of things that are going to change their lives as this administration says for the better. they've been doing that for years, and it has not worked, and so they have to change the way that they're doing that and meet people where they are, which is what they say they're doing, so we will have to watch and see how that actually shakes out. >> yeah, i guess the good news is there's a lot of time still to make that argument. the bad news is it's a long campaign trail. >> a long campaign trail. >> i kind of want to put a fine point on the challenge with the economy because our dasha burns went to talk to voters in erie county, pennsylvania, and it was really fascinating what she learned. take a listen. >> darrell grace has lived in erie county, pennsylvania, all his life. the former maintenance worker is

an avowed steeler fan and muscle car aficionado. in 2020 he voted for biden, but three years later he says the economic growth the president talks about isn't helping him. >> how does the economy feel to you? >> it doesn't feel well, you know. it says everything is doing better, but it doesn't feel that way. >> darrell's kids both in their mid-20s and employed still live at home. >> when i retired, i didn't expect for my kids to be here with me, you know. i was like my golden years, me and the wife -- >> you thought you'd be empty nesters. >> yeah, you know, having fun, you know. >> as for his vote come november. >> if it's biden and trump, it's bad. >> are you considering going third party? >> yeah. yeah. >> president biden narrowly flipped this county in 2020 thanks to strong democratic turnout and won the state. but with his approval rating on the economy at just 36%, polls show swing state pennsylvania is very much in play. >> i think he has done a good

job. >> reporter: republican turned independent marianne frontino is planning to support biden. >> we did not go into a recession. it's kind of surprising that people aren't more in support of him. he has a real pr problem, a big pr problem. >> that problem for the president is playing out at eduardo's tavern where we met a group of conservative customers. >> you've got low unemployment rates, wages are up, inflation is easing, stock market's doing well. but are you feeling any of that? how do you feel about the economy day-to-day? >> i'm not sure i agree with what you just said. >> i never planned on using some of the money that i saved to retire that i had to use because of the economy. >> groceries, gas, everything you have to buy every day is way more expensive than previous

years. >> do you feel like there's a disconnect between what the biden administration is saying about how good the economy is versus what you feel? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> a disconnect that democrats will have to address this election year. dasha burns, nbc news, erie, pennsylvania. >> so adrienne, it strikes me, if this is really a pr problem, right, then it's about messaging. if it's about the reality that a lot of americans feel like this economic recovery has not found its way to them, then i don't know, do you wait and hope it improves by november? is it a combination of both? from the perspective of people like that, who will help this election go one way or another, where is the biden campaign right now? what's their challenge? >> yeah, first of all, chris, i know you've done a lot of focus groups in different states. i love a good focus group at a bar, and also going into like some really important parts of pennsylvania, which of course is the ultimate swing state in any

presidential election and listening to voters have real conversations about where they're feeling. you saw the second person in the focus group say, look, i think the economy is doing pretty well. it could have been way worse with the pandemic. president biden really helped secure the economy, and then you have others saying look, inflation is a real problem. i'm having to pull from my savings. you know, things that i never thought i would be doing. it is something of course this president continues to address. i think he's done a really effective job in terms of saying i feel your pain. you know, here's what we've done. we've created over 15 million jobs. gdp is at an all-time high. unemployment rate is low, small business growth, especially among black americans is high. i can stay here for an hour and talk about all the stats, but you'd still have to make it clear you're meeting people where the voters are and saying i know a lot of you are not feeling this and here's what i'm going to do going forward. if you reelect me, we're going

to keep lowering prescription drug costs. we're going to keep fighting to reduce inflation. we're going to keep making sure that wage growth continues to grow. there's a lot he's going to say to really speak to americans. this is something that president biden does very effectively. he meets people where they are. he has a great degree of empathy. he's working class joe, right? that's where he's always been: i think you're going to see working class joe come out tonight and really show that he knows a lot of americans are struggling and he's here to support and figure out ways to continue to make the economy better for them. >> a lot to pack in in an hour for a speech, monica alba, adrienne elrod, former congressman carlos curbelo, thanks to all of you. eugene, please stay with us. in 60 seconds, an inside look at what's probably going on at the white house at this very moment, from a former biden speech writer. from a former biden speech writer

right now, president joe biden is poring over the details of arguably the most important speech in his decades' long political career. his chief of staff acknowledged it to "politico." he said, quote, states of the union are big moments. you could argue that this is a particularly big moment, and i think there's no one better at handing high stakes than president biden. how big is it, you ask? well, while ratings for the state of the union recently are far from all-time highs, even at something under 30 million viewers, that's six times what, say, the bachelor gets, five times more than the hit show "the chicago fire." so to state the obvious, you want to get it right. our next guest knows that all too well. a former senior speech writer for the president who says, quote, when you're writing for joe biden, you're a session musician for a band that has already released 20 albums. jeff nusbom joins me now.

i want you to take me inside the white house right now. you know what that's like. they've been very open. they've been tweaking this speech every minute of every day. what's it like inside that room right now? >> sure, well, before i answer that, the viewership statistics you showed are actually dictate a lot of this, which is this is one of the rare opportunities the president has to speak to people who aren't necessarily like all your viewers. they're not paying attention every day. they're not paying attention all the time. so while in the previous panel he said one of your panelists said it's about looking forward. absolutely it is, but it's also about drawing a thread through everything that president biden has done from his earliest time in the senate to why he ran for president in the first place to his accomplishments as president through this moment and forward. i agree that it's a look forward, but it's a chance to tie everything together for people who have not paid attention to every, you know, to the minutia of legislation. >> so let me extrapolate from

what you're saying. is what they're looking at thematically how do we use every moment or at least many of the moments of this to say i'm the guy with the experience who can handle a chaotic world? >> it's absolutely part of that, and it's also part of tieing who joe biden has always been, and this gets to your question about the speech process. who he has always been is a guy who says, look, we need to build this economy from the middle out, bottom up, and so here's a chance to say this is what this means now. this is what it means going forward, and this is what all of these policies that you heard in terms of millions and billions and, you know, investments, what they mean in your life, right? and huge trillion dollar infrastructure bill doesn't mean anything, but 46,000 projects getting started right now and name some of those communities, that means something, and so a lot of this -- and this, again, gets to this question where what's happening in the white house right now? at this point hopefully they're breathing easy, going over some

last rehearsals. they've been very public about that the president spent some time at camp david going over his speech, you know, except for a couple of small pieces, it's pretty well locked. but the process itself is one in which the president will ask what story are we telling, and the story we're telling here is a story about how we're building this economy, how we're protecting democracy, how we're protecting people's freedoms both at home and abroad. >> you sound like someone who's been asked that question before. can i go back to the tv ratings for a minute? i find them fascinating. back when i started covering politics, that was it, right? so you get 51 million people, obviously, after 9/11. it's different now because a lot of people you want to reach as you say, the non-traditional viewers and people who aren't paying attention, young people, right? so this is the first time the white house is going to live stream this on instagram. obviously instagram, tiktok, facebook, all those places that

viral moments end up may be all that some people see of his speech. how important has that become? >> that's really one of the things that's new this this political universe. i taught a class at university of delaware last year and i asked after the last state of the union, how did my students watch it and more than half saw it on some form of social media or stream or digital. nothing against this network, but you're right, they are seeing moments, not a whole. and as you construct the state of the union, you want it to be a whole. it is a complete story, but you also need to be really aware of what are the moments that are going to be consumed by different audiences. so, for example, student debt relief, so for example, you know, being the first president to stand on a uaw picket line, right? there are specific audiences for whom those specific moments will resonate very powerfully. i think you will see a lot of powerful moments that resonate with groups, significant groups, but you will also see those

individual moments wrapped into a larger story about what it's all about. >> i'm sure you loved your time writing speeches for joe biden. but how low is your blood pressure comparatively to where it would be if you were in that room right now? >> well, it was a joy and an honor. he's really an amazing guy, but i will say i probably slept better last night than i had in years past. >> and nobody would blame you for that. it's good to have you. you were here last year, here this year, we appreciate it. see you next year? >> absolutely. still to come, in the ruins of gaza where children are starving and there's no cease fire in sight, nbc news is in jordan with the latest efforts to provide aid. >> reporter: we just finished accompanying an aid drop that left from here in jordan from this military base on this plane and dropped humanitarian supplies into the gaza strip. this one went to northern gaza, which is the hardest hit area where the humanitarian crisis, the hunger is at its most severe. s at its most

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hamas negotiators left cairo today without a breakthrough in talks to pause the fighting in gaza dashing hopes for a deal before ramadan now just three days away. for the people of gaza it means no imminent end to the suffering, no safety from israeli bullets and bombs, no relief from desperate hunger. international aid organizations warn that famine is now all but

inevitable and already children are starving to death. at least 16 died just last week from a mix of malnutrition and dehydration according to gaza health authorities. i think it's important to show you what that looks like, but i also want to warn you first, it is hard to see. this is yizan, he is -- he was a 10-year-old boy with a health condition that required a special diet that includes fruits and milk. items you can't get in gaza. he died of hunger on monday. he literally wasted away in a hospital that was unable to help him. the situation in gaza a u.n. spokesperson said when children are starting to die from starvation, that should be a warning like no other. if not now, when is the time to pull the stops, break the glass and flood gaza with the aid it needs? nbc's richard engel is reporting

from amman, jordanment we covered that new mission open a port and build a border crossing. you get to see other ways countries are trying to help by air dropping aid. how effective does that seem to be in at least relieving some of the hunger there. >> reporter: well, it is almost like trying to drain the ocean with a spoon. we were on a plane today, and this mission was high will coordinated because the jordanians had to coordinate with the israelis. they had to clear air space. they had to deconflict the air space to make sure they weren't shot down. they had to get approvals ahead of time. the plane took off, and it was a c-130 so a full military cargo plane and it carried 16 pallets of food and dropped the pallets down by parachute, and we

watched them go out of the back of the plane, and that would probably be enough for a day for about 25,000 people in terms of meals. so it does something. it provides something, but it is extremely temporary, and you can't provide long-term assistance. you're not going to reverse the trends of starvation that we are starting to see now in gaza with these kind of airlifts. airlifts are an emergency last resort scenario. generally in two circumstances when there is an extreme natural disaster and you can't reach place or when an area is controlled by a hostile force. neither of those scenarios apply this time. this is an unprecedented move because the access into gaza is being controlled by israel, a close u.s. ally. an ally that the united states

is supporting politically and financially with weapons. so the fact that the u.s. and other countries, jordan is taking the lead on this, are forced to rely on air drops shows both the -- i don't want to say confused commitment, although that's the way it's seen here. it shows the mixed messages that many are receiving from the u.s., helping israel with weapons and helping the people of gaza with these relatively small aid drops. opening up a seaport as you were talking about earlier, it's much more complicated. it could take weeks to establish and using cypress as an initial base, but if you're talking about a seaport that could take several weeks to just establish and then potentially several more months after that to get up and running and start functioning, then it looks like the u.s. is supporting a long-term settling in for a long-term conflict in gaza, at the same time that the u.s. has

been pushing for this cease fire. so it helps, but it is all part of an overall, somewhat confused picture about what is the end game in gaza. is it just to get them some boxes of meals dropping from the sky? is it to end the conflict? is it to overthrow hamas and have regime change, to be replaced by whom. there are a lot of things happening here, but they seem to be heading in different direction. the food being dropped, talks of a cease fire, a long-term plan to provide more aid by sea, potentially another corridor from northern gaza. i can understand the -- sort of the lack of clarity because they're dealing in a situation where children are now starting to starve to death, but to go back to your original question, no. these air drops are too expensive. they're hard to do. they're too slow.

they can't carry enough. they're not going to be able -- based on what we saw today to really make a dent in the emerging famine starting to show itself in gaza. >> so the tragedy escalates. your remarkable reporting is much appreciated. richard engel thank you so much. i want to bring back eugene daniels. our reporters have spoken, eugene, with white house officials about the state of the union as i know you have. they say that the israel-hamas war is the most fluid part of the speech, both because of the evolving situation on the ground, but also i assume surely because this is such a complex political problem with so many ramifications including for 2024. what are you hearing about this tonight? >> yeah, jeff zeinst told me this is going to be a particular part of the speech. the president thinking about this as the president and commander in chief, the person

who is diplomatically dealing with it as israel. also as a candidate, whose people, democrats independents are looking at the pictures you're showing, the pictures of the children dying and starving to death, and we are still giving money to that country. he's going to have to figure out a way to explain that to people. the things that they have been saying behind closed doors they are now saying in front of the cameras and that's what we've been starting to see. a change in the tone is and tenor which this administration has been pressuring israel to change its tactics and the way it's been killing in their words too many civilians. >> eugene daniels, appreciate you sticking around. in the last hour, here in new york city, attorney general merrick garland gave a powerful and emotional speech about the fear and isolation reverberating across the jewish community in america right now and since october 7th, comparing it to his family and the holocaust.

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senator patty murray tonight. thank you both for being with us. appreciate you coming on this show. can you first tell us, kayla, about your experience? what led you to what i anticipate is not where you expected to be at this point in your life? >> yeah, so we found out at our anatomy scan around 18 weeks that our son had several fatal fetal anomalies, and it just happened to be about two days after idaho's trigger law went into effect. so not only were we not sure what we were going to do, but our physicians also were put in a position that they didn't know what they could do either, so we had to travel to washington. we had to spend $16,000 to be able to meet our son, and through all of that and our experience we knew we wanted to grow our family still, and i have a daughter that is now 3

1/2, but we just welcomed another baby girl into our family. she's 4 months old, and we decided to make the move to washington so we currently now live in washington so that we can have bodily autonomy. >> first of all, congratulations on the baby. i hope you're getting a little pit of sleep at night or maybe washington is providing you a little break. senator, why is it important for you and your fellow democrats to invite people like kayla tonight? >> well, first of all, i want to thank kayla for coming and sharing her story. this was a personal horrific thing that happened to her when she was pregnant, wanted to have a child. it wasn't viable and had to move all the way to washington state, spend thousands of dollars she didn't have to get the kind of maternal health care she needed at that time. this should not be happening to women in america. ever since the republicans overturned roe, women who want to have kids are finding themselves in horrific health

care decision choices and personal impacts that they shouldn't have to go through, and now kayla has to share it with everyone else so they understand what these horrific policies are doing. so i brought kayla here with me tonight to help share that story so everybody in america can understand this is not about someone else. this is about us, and we have to make a statement, stand up loud and clear. share these stories so americans understand the impacts, and we can put roe v. wade back into law in this country. >> there is no doubt, kayla, a physical and emotional, a financial toll for what you've had to go through, and yet you're a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the state of idaho over their abortion ban, a decision that you made to be out there on a highly divisive issue and what can be, i think for a lot of people a scary time. so i wonder where you found it in yourself to do that and did you even hesitate to put yourself out there again as a

guest tonight at the state of the union. >> i think when i was in contact with the center, i was in a place of grief where i was just ready to fight. this was a horrific thing that happened to my family, and i did not want an abortion. i needed an abortion, and i was not able to receive one, so i want to make sure that other women have that right and don't have to suffer like i did. it's very unfortunate, but i hope that people can see my story and realize how nuanced abortion really is, and so i am just so honored to be here with senator murray today and really get my story out there and hopefully honor my son as well in that, so yeah. >> well, we should all honor your son in this and we thank you for sharing that. we only have a minute left, senator, what do you want to hear from the president tonight on this?

>> i want the president to reaffirm to all americans that when we get the votes and we can pass this law to reinstate roe he will sign it and make sure that in the future there aren't people like kayla who suffer like she has had to suffer. >> senator patty murray, kayla smith, thank you. we really appreciate you taking the time. >> thank you. major changes could be on the way at your local airport. a kind of supermarket checkout approach to security. what am i talking about? well, the tsa says it's going to help flyers speed things along. we've got the details next. ♪ so he switched to t-mobile. ♪ ♪ home internet, with 5g. ♪ ♪ what a feeling! ♪ ♪ i have wi-fi now! ♪ ♪ i need home internet from t-mobile to fulfil my ♪ ♪ li-i-i-i-iiiiiiiiiiife! ♪ get home internet from t-mobile now. just $50 bucks a month. what if you could go from this

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