new reporting on the biggest political speech of the year just hours now away from president biden's state of the union address. six to be exact. set to take place on the building on your screen, just a couple of blocks from where i'm sitting. sources telling the president he will focus on his accomplishments and to finish the job. a job that will require bipartisan ship with the republicans. we've got our team standing by live at the white house and on capitol hill. also standing by across the country asking voters what they think about our state of the union just months before 2024 campaigning gets into full swing. also this hour, you have u.s. aid workers now on their way overseas as the dual crisis in turkey and syria are going from bad to worse. more than 7,000 people now confirmed dead from those powerful earthquakes.

our team is there live on the ground as the rescue efforts continue. i'm hallie jackson with you in washington where we'll with the rest of the evening. with me now, monica alba, brian chung. mon, you and our white house team have been talking with sources all day getting info on the themes we expect to hear and see from president biden tonight. take us through that. >> absolutely. this is really a speech tonight that's going to have a lot of familiar language. things we have heard before from president biden, even from candidate joe biden. a lot of themes from the 2020 campaign that are going to be revived but put into a new context and that is according to the white house, one of look at what we were able to accomplish once you elected us in these first two years of this first term and look at all the work we have left to do in the words of senior white house officials. so that's why some people

test. test. state of the economy. that's a huge part of the speech. huge part of the speech he devoted a big part of last year's speech to lowering. >> we'll lower your cost and lower the deficit. grow the economy. lower the cost of families. my plan will not only lower costs and give families a fair shot, it will lower the deficit. >> we all know what this last year has looked like as it relates to inflation. >> historic inflation and unemployment. that's what makes this economy so weird. if you look at the jobs market, which we got an updated read on last week, 3.4% is what the unemployment rate in this country is right now.

that is the lowest we've seen since 1969. we have to remember how far we came from when the biden administration began at 6.3%. coming down as the economy reopened actually during the trump administration and towards the end, it came down from almost 15%, but this picture looks good. what doesn't look so good is this right here. the year-over-year pace of inflation and also historic because it peaked at 9.1% in the summer of last year. that was the highest that we had seen since the 1980s. americans feeling this at the store. this rate has come down to about 6.5% as of the last read, but economists say it's not going to be comfortable for this economy until we can get down to 2% right here or rather here. overlooming this is what ryan was talking about. the debt ceiling debate. this could throw all of these types of things, throw a wrench into that when you consider that if the economy is not able to, if the united states is not able to pay its bills, that could really lead to catastrophic situations as the treasury secretary has described it. they have extraordinary measures

to pay our bills through early june. the estimate is june 5th when the country will run out of money. hopefully republicans and democrats can make that 79 this time around. >> thank you very much. ryan, back to you. this is going to be the state of the union from the president then there will be a republican response or rebuttal officially delivered by arkansas governor, sarah huckabee sanders. unofficially, there will be another response from former president trump, we understand. as it relates to governor sanders' response, i'm told by a source familiar with the speech that it is going to be a call for a new generation of leadership. this person specifically pointed to the fact that joe biden is literally twice as old as governor sanders is. and that there will be, i imagine, some leaning into some of these so-called culture war issues that governor sanders led off with when she was inaugurated as governor of the state of arkansas. namely banning crt in k-12 schools. banning the word latinx in state

documents, et cetera. >> yeah. that's exactly right and i think what you're seeing here is republicans kind of repackaging the branding that they've really been running on for the past four years or more and presenting it in a younger perhaps newer model. sarah huckabee sanders as you point out, half the age of the president. the messaging, the things they've been talking about aren't that different. it's a sharp distinction from the message we'll hear from president biden tonight. listen to what the third ranking republican had to say about where republicans are right now in terms of the differences between what they're presenting and what president biden is presenting. >> tonight in his state of the union, joe biden must answer for his failed leadership. >> no amount of spin this evening will change the reality so many americans are facing. they are worse off now than they were two years ago. >> the state of our union is struggling under the weight of president biden's far left extremist agenda that is hurting

families across this country. >> of course, that wasn't just elise. you heard from tom emmer there. from the majority leader, steve scalise. so they want to make it clear that they hold joe biden accountable for what they describe as the pain that many americans are feeling and this has been the big challenge of the biden administration. they believe they've accomplished a lot over the past two years. it hasn't necessarily resonated with the american people. they aren't necessarily feeling the benefits of all this legislation and funding that's gone into the american economy. it will be part of joe biden's job here tonight to convince the american people that better days are ahead. >> ryan, monica, brian, thank you all very much. lots more to come on all of this as we await the president's state of the union. we'll have special coverage here on msnbc and nbc news now. even later on this show, our team is going to be out talking with voters across the country asking them, hey, what do you want to hear tonight. plus, with the president set to

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experts are on their way. they're bringing search dogs and thousands of pounds of search gear. matt bradley is live on the ground for us. we also have our sky news with us in a city that's been particularly hard hit. matt, i'll start with you. >> reporter: that u.s. team, our understanding, is that they're going to be landing here in southern turkey tomorrow morning. they're coming just in time. we were here all day at the site of this mountain of debris left by a residential building that had collapsed, crushing what sounds like from our conversations with neighbors, dozens of people. when we came earlier in the day, we saw hundreds of people, some rescue workers, but mostly just ordinary folks from around the neighborhood. around the whole city, who had come to try to help out. they were digging frantically. they were lifting cinder blocks with their bare hands trying to get inside this mountain of rubble. trying to find anybody who might

still be alive, still be breathing underneath all of this. now, amidst all of that chaos that lasted all night yesterday and all day today, we finally saw in the late afternoon, the arrival of the first foreign rescue crew that we've seen since we got here. that was a bulgarian team. and when they came, they demanded the entire community here be silent and then they did what looked like they used sort of sonar equipment. sophisticated sounding equipment to try to take advantage of the silence they had imposed on everybody to try to hear if there were any signs of life underneath this rubble. so far, we haven't seen any live people being taken out of here since we arrived, but we have seen from other parts of the country and in syria, some people, some children, babies, pulled out of the rubble as long as 30 hours after those second tremors that hit. the second of those twin tremors that have just devastated this entire region. so there is some reason for

hope. >> matt bradley live there for us. i want to go to usra. you're in a city that is very close to the epicenter of where this earthquake happened in the south central region of turkey. tell us what you're seeing there. i can see a lot of activity. >> reporter: we're at the airport where we've seen search and rescue teams arrive from all over the world today. just behiepd us, the force that landed. before them was a british search and rescue team with sniffer dogs equipped ready to go into areas that needed the most help. before that was an israeli relief team. our team flew in with the military who were also sending mass amounts of humanitarian aid, but also military personnel to come in here and add to the manpower that is needed to help recover people from the rubble. turkish authorities have said that 12,000 search and rescue

team members are currently working in affected areas and 9,000 of them are troops. they're expecting more to arrive as people answer that call for help. the president soon after the earthquakes happened called for international support and he said 70 countries have pledged to help. some of them in you know, south central america, mexico has pledged to help. south korea has called turkey a brother nation. cited their support in the korean war in the '50s and said they would be sending a team. the concern here is that the death toll is rising so rapidly that those, that these efforts will barely scratch the surface of what needs to be done to recover as many people as possible. >> thank you so much. our correspondent from sky news. matt bradley from here at msnbc, thanks very much. back in washington, a new

update on the chinese spy balloon. the navy has now released new photos. look at this. of what it looked like in the water offer south carolina, after the military shot it down. today, some big house committees are focusing on china and the border in three big hearings that have just wrapped up on the hill. the armed services and financial services committee both meeting to talk about defense and economic threats from china. it comes as the biden administration faces criticism from house republicans over the handling of that spy balloon. ali, it's not the last time, right? house republicans are going to focus on china. i will tell you in my conversations leading up to tonight with a number of republicans, there is i think, i say what are you looking for? everybody rolls their eye, it's the state of the union. b, they're really interested to a person really on how president biden is going to address china given what we have seen over the last 72 or so hours. >> certainly. this is why it's a speech that's always evolving.

our white house team reported yesterday they were still actively updating the language around china especially as it pertains to this balloon, but china has been a focus here on capitol hill and was always going to be so central to this congress because in a period of divided government, there's so little these two parties agree on and so little progress to be made on key issues, but when it comes to china, the fact they were able to in bipartisan fashion, put together a select committee to focus on china then you see in the hearings today, although they're not directly related to state of the union, will end up feeding into that because they're talking about two of the key issues we expect the president to talk about tonight, which is china and foreign policy. and then of course the situation on the border. for biden's part, he will probably press for comprehensive immigration reform, but this is how the head of the oversight committee was talking about immigration today. >> administration officials continue to say they are creating a quote safe and

orderly, humane immigration system. but reality contradicts this propaganda. conditions at the border are dangerous, chaotic, and inhumane. >> and look, in the comes weeks, we're going to see other republican committees go to hearings at the border. this is clearly something that is going to be a big focus for republicans as they have control of this house chamber. not surprising given the way we've seen this issue be such an important one in every election cycle then time and again, it continues to vex lawmakers as they are unable to come to any kind of bipartisan fix on immigration reform. i would note that there is an effort happening on the senate side of this building right now, but again, it's hard to feel optimistic for any kind of big legislative change in a congress like this one. >> ali vitali, thank you. ahead, what president biden is planning to do to mark one year since the start of the russian invasion of ukraine. but first, what voters want to hear from the president tonight

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asking them how they feel about the state of our union. giving their own progress reports on the president's performance so far. shaquille brewster is in madison, wisconsin. a blue stronghold in a key swing state. dasha burns in pennsylvania and antonia hilton is in memphis, tennessee, where the debate over police reform is in full swing after the death of tyre nichols. shaq, our guy in wisconsin. our election coverage. you know the state so well and you caught up with some democrats, democratic voters, who you also talked with a year ago. how are they feeling now about the past 365 days and what do they want to see tonight? >> yeah, these are self-described progressive voters. liberal voters and their sentiments are different than what you see across the country when you look at the average voter. i want you to look at a poll we got earlier this week when these people were asked how they view what biden has accomplished.

you had two out of three voters saying he accomplished not much or little to nothing. among his base, the people i'm talking to here are not saying that. they're saying they understand he's accomplished a lot legislatively. they point to the inflation reduction act, his attempt to cancel student loans, but they say they want him to go further. they want that message tonight to be focused on progressive priorities. when i asked if they wanted to compromise or see more fight, they want to see more fight. listen to a little bit of those conversations i'm having. >> i'm still waiting for this clearer vision, more constructive kind of agenda from the biden admin. seems like they're playing defense on a lot of things. >> i think democrats compromise a lot. and i think we really need to show a more aggressive stance because i don't think we have been aggressive enough in this. >> reporter: it should be clear

they do acknowledge the political reality. the fact that if you look at washington, d.c. right now, there is a divided government. president biden is going to have to deal with a republican congress or at least house of representatives, but they want his message tonight to be a little bit more aggressive than what they've seen in the past. remember, these are his base voters. they say they will support him in the future, but they want to see more fight. now i want to hear what dasha has to say in pennsylvania. >> reporter: what you're hearing and what i'm hearing is what makes being the president of the united states so difficult and what makes biden's goal tonight tough. because i've been talking to voters here in pennsylvania who have split their ticket in the past. both democrats and republicans. moderates who are struggling to be moderates in a world where there aren't a lot of moderate options. so they're hobbling together their ticket from both sides of the aisle to try to find some of that moderation, at least in their personal political lives. and these folks do want to see

more compromise rather than more fight. they feel like they have not seen enough bipartisanship. by the way, not just from the president, but also from republicans in congress as well, but tonight, with joe biden, the president in the spotlight, they want to see him try to reach across the aisle and talk to all americans. of course, those kitchen table issues, the economy, number one for everyone i talk to. the price at the pump, the grocery store. one of the key issues i kept hearing from all sides is honesty. they want some real talk from the president tonight. take a listen to what i heard. >> what we want is honesty. what we want is a good bit of transparency. and don't insult our intelligence. don't tell us it's great when it's not. >> there's a lot of data that suggests things are going well, but i don't think people feel that way. there's a disconnect between

what the numbers show and how people perceive things going on. >> reporter: and in the vein of transparency and clarity, one of the issues that came up in all my conversations was china. they want to hear some clarity from the president on what happened with that chinese spy balloon and when it comes to 2024, which is also a conversation that's been coming up, the voters i talked to all said one thing they don't want is some ground hog day deja vu of 2020 with a biden versus trump 2024 match-up. they don't know what they do want. they know what they don't want though. now over to my colleague, antonia, in memphis. >> reporter: well here in memphis, this is a city that's very much still in pain and still in mourning on the heels of the death of tyre nichols. so the residents i've been talking to say they first want to hear biden acknowledge the family. they're going to be in the audience tonight. but thoughts and prayers aren't

going to be enough for them. they want a real legislative package, a plan. hearing there's gridlock in washington is just not enough for most of the people i've spoken to here. they are tossing around a number of different reforms. people want to see an end to qualified immunity. they want there to be a path for people to hold police officers on the scene accountable so that parents like the parents of nichols can take additional action if things like this ever happen again. and then there's been a lot of talk about who should really respond to different types of infractions or stops. this all began with a traffic stop. there's questions here from many about whether police should be involved in traffic stops in the first place. should they be on the scene if someone is having a mental health crisis? take a listen to one of the conversations i had. >> you come on instances where people are going to be in a state of instability and you know, for a police officer that's not been trained in that and not having the assistance

from somebody who has been well trained at handling mental illness, you're going to have a breakdown. that's a challenge. >> reporter: the real frustration here is a fear that the biden administration is going to say kind words to this family, to say they're going to make another push at the george floyd justice and policing act, but ultimately fail to get anything else done. but this is a community that's grappling with a sort of sobering reality. which is that there were cameras. body cameras. all kinds of technology available to capture what happened on the scene and still this didn't prevent the kind of brutality and violence that happened. so the old reforms, the old solutions, they're not going to be enough for people here in memphis and they want to hear something strong and powerful from the president tonight. >> antonia, thank you very much for that. our thanks to dasha and shaq. next up, we'll be joined by cori

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right now as we get closer to tonight's state of the union speech, we're focusing not just on what president biden will say, but also who will be listening. who in the house chamber will be

in the audience for his speech with lawmakers bringing in guests with close connections to things like gun violence. like tyre nichols' mother and stepfather. george floyd, tamir rice, and an unarmed black teen who was shot and killed. i want to bring in cori bush and her guest, michael brown sr. thank you so much for being on the show this afternoon. >> thanks for having us. >> mr. brown, glad to have you. congresswoman, i see you're wearing a pin that says 1870. i understand you'll also be wearing it tonight at the state of the union. that's the first known year a police officer killed an unarmed person in this country. it's all about drawing attention to the need for progress on police reform. what are you going to be looking to hear from the president on this in. >> we're talking about police reform, you know, it has to get

to the point to where actual change happens and people feel the change because lives are saved. so when looking at 911 diverse programs, civilian traffic enforcement. putting more money into behavioral health. unarmed emergency first responder programs. those are things we have legislation for and we'd love to see it move from introduction to actually being able to be passed across the president's desk. >> mr. brown, similar question to you because your son was shot and killed by a now ex-police officer in 2014. somebody who was never charged. we are now here at a moment when tyre nichols' family is mourning his death and we've heard his mother call on congress to pass the george floyd justice and policing act just last week at his funeral. what is your message to president biden and what's the message you want to hear from him? >> i want to hear some type of something being resolved. you know, we have a lot of

things on people desk that's catching dust that needs to be pushed. so the george floyd act needs to be pushed. we have one, too. there are so many, but they need to be pushed and we're tired of being looked over. we just want to have a conversation to see what we're doing next. >> on the topic of that conversation, this is a conversation this country has been part of for many years. the death of your son brought movement to the black lives matter movement. what do you think as changed and has not over the last nearly ten years now? >> clearly a conversation has not been happening. there's been a lot of conversation in rooms, but not getting no resolve. we definitely need to get the right people in these rooms. have people like miss cori bush. all of us in these rooms that knows what it looks like. you know, to have these con ver

says so we can move forward on change. >> a white house official is telling nbc news that one key phrase from the president tonight is going to be to finish the job. i'm quoting there. on things like police reform as mr. brown is talking about. on gun violence, the economy, making healthcare better et cetera in this country. do you think that is a realistic, let me phrase it this way. what are the chances that happens given the realities of legislating as you know in a divided house? >> absolutely, it's divided. we have a house that is republican controlled, that is this maga insurrectionist platform that gets to lead in congress. where white supremacy gets to lead in congress every day, but you have people here that are pushing and we have brought people with us to be able to help push that change and so this is the thing. we won't forget the pain. the trauma. we won't forget that today.

could be another day where another life, act to the point e we get to quit shouting at buildings and throwing pebbles at the ocean. we actually get something and so our president is the first person to help make sure that that happens. whether it's by executive order. whether it's by using political power and political will, but congress needs to move and that courage has to, it has to come and so people like me who i don't care about the name or the reputation. i don't care about if people like me or sign up, you know, to support me. i care about making sure that lives like his son were saved. so i believe that if we have to push a little harder, if we have to march a lot longer, if we have to pull on people and ask them to do things they would have never done that makes them uncomfortable. that's what i have to do. if i have to wear a pin that says 1870 and wear black lives matter on my shoulder in the state of the union, which i'll do tonight, you'll see. if that's what we have to do to

start pushing these messages, i'm not going to shut up, stop saying the same things i've been saying. why? because when we allow folks to silence us and say this is not yet the priority, that these are the ways we go about this, year after year, it's police killings. whenl i spoke about a year ago, i said oh, you know what, 2021 was the year with the highest number of police killings in this country. it's on record. now i'm saying 2022 is on record for the highest number of police killings. now has to be the time. the time was a century ago. the time is way past now. >> when you talk about pushing the message and you're clear on that. i also wonder about pushing the president to the left some because we know congressman ramirez will give the progressive response to the speech tonight. reportedly on issues like executive action on drug pricing, raising a threshold to make more workers eligible for overtime pay. what do you want to see the president do to help satisfy the progressive members? >> yeah, so first of all,

ramirez is amazing. i can't wait to continue to work with her. like i said before, we have a bill. helping families heal act. that bill will make sure that money is going into our schools to be able to have someone there that can help deal with, work with students who are suffering from trauma. the trauma of police violence because that's actually a thing. when we don't see the test scores we want to see from our students, when our stupts live in a place that's a toxic environment, how are we addressing that. we have a bill, the people's response act. putting those unarmed first responders, those health experts on the ground answering the calls of those who say i'm in a mental health crisis. there's a substance use crisis in st. louis. we have seen over 600% increase in opioid deaths in just six years. how do we get the help? we have to put the people on the ground who are qualified to do

that and hopefully this is what the president will be able to say is we're looking at whose qualified to do the job. >> mr. brown, i want to come back to you on what it means to be to be in the chamber tonight and how you'll be remembering your son tonight. >> you'll see what i have on, what i'll be dressed in, right? but what being here with miss bush, you know, this is -- this is in the making. i see only good coming out of this. we have worked, stumped these grounds so hard for all these years and i think it's about, it's our time, you know. if we're the only ones see this as a problem and we have people in certain positions that don't, it's a problem. so we want to have a conversation and see what we can fix this and move forward. >> and we've been rocking for a

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there is talk in this country, ukrainian officials suspect that russia is planning a major spring offensive, but it is not waiting until the spring. that the spring offensive is already beginning, and it is going to intensify over the course of this month. the reason the russians are going early is that according to ukrainian intelligence, they don't want to wait until all the new weapons arrive, until the ukrainians are flush with those new american tanks and the german tanks. and both sides believe there is an advantage to striking first. and this city, bakhmut, which used to have around 60,000 people. only around 6,000 of them remaining, is the center of this tug-of-war, the center of this new offensive which the russians seem to be starting right now. >> our thanks to richard engel for that report. i want to bring in now for more raf sanchez who is live in kharkiv. tell us more about this.

the president's trip to poland that is expected to happen, although caveat, things could change, and where the work goes from here. >> hallie, our nbc news colleagues at the white house confirming president biden is planning, as you say, subject to change, to be in poland for the anniversary of the war on february 24th. poland makes a lot of sense. it is a major nato ally. it is also basically as close to ukraine as you can get without being in ukraine. knowing president biden, knowing that he likes to be up close with people, i wouldn't be at all surprised if he personally would like to go to kyiv himself that is something we have seen other world leaders do. president macron of france, british prime ministers have come to kyiv. but hallie, you know the footprint of the american president. it is considered just not practical for the president of the united states to go to a city that is still regularly being hit by russian cruise missiles. so the question then is there any chance zelenskyy would come to poland to meet the president there. we know the two leaders met in

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