we will also be joined this hour by a senior adviser, anita dunn. worked closely with president biden on tonight's address and we hope she will give us something of a sneak preview, hoping it's not the same as expecting. she's pretty disciplined, i don't know what we are looking up for. but we will try. nicole, let me ask you. you work in the white house. why don't you get started here tonight? i do feel like it's a specific holiday for a storks, including all of us here and watching right now. how is it differ inside the white house? what is it like? >> it's also a night where you get to try out of your white house references, so i asked president binary senior adviser, after the balloon shut down, was there an american president moment where he says, i needed new speech and he rips it up. she basically said, no, but i think the to the degree that there was ever let biden be biden debate in the white house, i think that's been had, and president biden will be what we've seen him to be. he's reflectively drawn to the idea of bipartisanship, even if

new york rah -- neera, louisa and kate bedingfield, anthony and andy, and, of course, bruce reid, anita dunn, mike done lin, my very first hire, jen dillon, and my brother in all things, steve. i want to say this about this group: the record should show that everything we accomplished here these past two years is because of you, and everything we have screwed up is because of me. [laughter] i just want to wrap up with three additional thank yous. to my family starting with my mother, which the president mentioned is too ill to be here today, i would not be here without her and everything she has done for me. to my family and my kids, whose support, patience, love and understanding has kept me going these two years, for the engagement celebrations i missed, the birthdays, the time i was not there today various things, thank you. i love you guys. and for the next two years, every day it's my turn to walk the dog. [laughter] [applause] to the vice president who's represented by our outstanding second gentleman, doug, it's been an honor to be her next door neighbor in the west wing these past tw

there is his view, and anita dunn's. there president xi is prepared. presidents before, on these kinds of speeches. when they started working on the speech, that china balloon was still in the sky. and i'm sure there was a china passage, at least one. in the earlier drafts of the state of the union address. what has the weekends events, and the shooting down of the balloon. what has it done to the speech? v >> of course there was a passage on a relationship with china. it is a critically important relationship. it is when the president has talked quite frequently about needing to navigate to a place of competition. not a place of conflict. obviously, he has had open lines of communication. he spoke with president xi a number of times since he took office. so, of course. there was language in the speech about a relationship which ina. now, there's been a lot of, i would argue, breathless reporting over the last 24 to 48 hours about what the situation with the balloon has done to a speech. i would say, i would down over crank on changes made to the speec

anita dunn was a young adviser to jimmy carter, all thoughts are with the carters. for now, he has chosen to remain in plains, georgia, the epicenter of his life, his legacy felt around the world, sarah. >> i have to say, i met him when i was in college. i know many of you have met and talked to them. he was gracious, he was kind. he was giving. it was remarkable to be in his presence because of all the things he's done, not just being the president. really tit's the post presidenc work. lots of prayers for his family. jeff zeleny, thank you so much for joining us. >>> let's turn to kye burr, author of "the unfinished presidency of jimmy carter," when was the last time you were able to speak and see the former president and how was he doing at that time? >> the last time i saw presidential carter was july of 2021 at his 75th wedding anniversary, which was a gala event in plains, where he invited 350 colleagues and friends and politicians like nancy pelosi and bill clinton, and you know, he had just had a fall that week a few days earlier. gashed his forehead, had ma

just found interesting about biden is that one of his advisers, anita dunn, says, joe, joe biden is the only irishman who doesn't carry a grudge. i carry them for him and well, not true. not quite true, but not exactly true. joe biden has a huge chip on his shoulder that he carries around. and it it goes. there people who who, in joe's opinion, failed to take him seriously for decades ago. and that he goes around complaining about people long dead that he complains about to his friends averell harriman, fdr, his friend, you know, the patrician averell harriman who governor of york ambassador to russia, railroad magnate the president referred to him one time in public as well. i've got to hear that rich guy, that railroad guy, he can't remember his name, but he remembers that rich guy, that railroad guy, big all because admiral harriman had the temerity to invite joe biden over to his georgetown townhouse and grill him about foreign affairs. and biden loves saying he thought, i didn't know the answers. he's still -- about it. so there's that. david plouffe and david axelrod, who were oba

seeing the president there with the likes of anita dunn, mike donolin, the chief messaging guru, anditer, they're all along with bruce reid, the architect of the speech, trying to drill down in the final hours. >> mike memoli, thank you, work on new material. we have to cut you off because we have to get to key beyonce news. obviously making history. we're going to just like talk about that after the break. we're going to just like talk about that after the break introducing astepro allergy. now available without a prescription. astepro is the first and only 24-hour steroid-free spray. while flonase takes hours, astepro starts working in 30 minutes. so you can [ spray, spray ] astepro and go. back when i had a working circulatory system, you had to give your right arm to find great talent. but with upwork, there's highly skilled talent from all over the globe right at your fingertips. it's where businesses meet great remote talent and remote talent meets great opportunity. ♪♪ ♪ this is how we work now ♪ life... doesn't stop for diabetes. be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's

and anita dunn, who's been at it 24 years.eral -- , he just ran the most successful presidential campaign in history. and steve ricchetti, who's been with him for more than two decades. and bruce read, who also has been with him for moment two decades. so, you've got a very, very experienced, very diverse team. and i think that team brings a lot of strength in, a specially what it brings is the patience and perseverance to not get roiled when things go poorly, but to keep at it and keep at it. look, i'm proud of what we did in these two years. but it's clear, we've also some rough moments in these two years. and we got to the finish line on all these accomplishments because we stuck with it, even when things were going poorly, even when people were counting us out, even when people were saying you'll never get it done. and i think the diversity, the majority, the experience of the team, that's really what shows here. >> i spoke to someone else in the white house today, who has worked with more white house chief of staff than a