i want to thank eugene robinson and eugene daniels.ident's address, is hand it off to my friend and colleague joy reid at "the reidout" who continues msnbc's special coverage of this oval office address now. >>> we are just moments away from president biden's first ever oval office address to the nation, on a big night for the president. he's expected to sign into law the debt limit package as soon as tomorrow. this primetime address comes fresh off the passage of the legislation by larger than expected margins in both chambers of congress. it was less than 24 hours ago the senate passed the agreement to suspend the u.s. debt limit for two years. president biden walks into tonight's speech with an economy that is crushing expectations, with a stronger than anticipated may jobs report. it is a rare victory lap for an understated president who has proven that he can deliver on his promise of compromise. and it's what biden himself would call a big f'ing deal. we have got a big panel of all stars to break it all down and react to the spee

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us now, white house correspondent for "politico" and co-author of "the playbook," our friend eugene danielsspeech. the president has been hitting a lot of economic themes in recent days, but the white house is pointing to tomorrow in chicago as the centerpiece. what will he define as his economic policy, and why do they think it is so important to talk about this now? >> for those of us who have been paying attention to the president for years at this point, it'll sound similar probably to what we saw in pennsylvania when he was talking to those union workers, talking about inflation coming down, unemployment being down, wages being up, those kinds of things, because they feel like they have a really good argument to make here. that they have been doing a lot. the economy is better under joe biden. that he has made strides. they have some facts to back that up. the thing that most white house aides would tell you and officials and people just close to biden in general is that they haven't done a really great job of continuing to sell this consistently, continuing to beat the drum, how they

. >>> joining us is eugene daniels, let's start with republicans and how they're reacting from the trumpchris christie saying don't blame -- what's the sense as to how some of these other candidates, particularly vice president pence, governor desantis, how are they going to respond to what we see later today in a miami courtroom? >> at this point all we've seen is get almost squarely behind donald trump. there are places where they could cleave off of him here in the most obvious ways. you look at mike pence who was just found not guilty or weren't going to be pressing charges from the department of justice for something similar, right? for having documents, that though he gave them back when folks wanted them back. pence could use that. the problem with these candidates, it doesn't seem they'll get the benefit of having donald trump's back. it's going to look like the republican party squarely behind their man and this entire primary process is basically a coordination for donald trump as we move forward, and that is the issue. and there's not going to be hay made of this in the republ

let's bring in msnbc political contributor eugene daniels. white house reporter for politico and a coauthor of political's playbook. eugene, talk to me about how the white house is handling this situation. the sort of push and kill for them of being careful about just how much it is they are saying publicly. >> yeah, the same numbers are nothing. like you said, alicia. there is whiplash in the administration around what all these leaders within our government and others trying to figure out what this means for ukraine. so much of how the united states in this administration thinks about russian its relationship with russia is through the eyes of what's going on in ukraine. the amount of resources that we provided. at this, point there seems to be this wide held belief that the insurrection will occupy the attention for a little bit. it's going to be good for ukraine. hopeful that this also shows there are cracks. anthony blinken, the secretary of state saying this earlier today to chuck todd. i'm there are cracks on the paths facade of leaders

and eugene daniels, playbook coauthor and white house correspondent for politico. and an msnbc political contributor. rotimi, it's good to have you with us. i'll start with you. your reaction to these efforts to smear president biden, what do you make of the republican playbook? we've seen it time and time again. now they're doing it yet again. >> thanks for having me on. they're blowing so much hot air they should maybe get out of congress and started hvac company. they're completely not focused on actually working for the american people. i would really encourage them, maybe they're watching msnbc late at night. they should go back to the drawing board, and actually think about the jobs that they were elected to do. because they're not doing any of it. they're focused on complete nonsense. they've plug zero evidence to prove any of the things that they've suggested. it's a complete advocate of the job that people elected them to do. >> what do you make of this, danielle, republicans openly admitting that they care more about the appearance of the biden situation

eugene daniels, thank you. vaughn hillyard, dasha burns, thank you guys as well. i'll bow talking to you throughout the weekend. >>> mike pence is cleared in the doj's investigation of classified documents found at his home. why the circumstances around donald trump's classified docs investigation are very, very different. >>> plus, despite president biden's criticism of the policy as criminal, the doj is defending the legality of the trump administration's family separations at the southern border. we're going to explain. >>> and what to expect from president biden when he takes his prime time victory lap over the debt ceiling bill tonight. we are back in just 60 seconds. s ♪ tourists tourists that turn into scientists. tourists taking photos that are analyzed by ai. so researchers can help life underwater flourish. - representative! - sorry, i didn't get that. - oh buddy! you need a hug. you also need consumer cellular. get the exact same coverage as the nation's leading carriers and 100% us based customer support. starting at $20. consumer cellular. power e*tra

white house correspondent for politico eugene daniels.r at on message strategies and stephanie, welcome. let me kick off the conversation by kick off trump v. desantis this week. point counterpoint. here we go. >> we will fight the woke in the schools, fight the woke in the corporations, in the halls of congress. >> i don't like the term woke because i hear woke, woke, woke. it's just a term half the people can't even define it. they don't even know what it is. >> let's just be clear, it really does take two terms as president to be able to finish this job. >> but what i heard desantis go out and talk about eight years, you don't need eight years. you need six months. we can turn this thing around so quickly. >> brad, i have to ask you, this is your side of the aisle, how is the party going to look after six months of that? >> well, i think only the party paying attention to its for the most part. >> okay. >> i also think you look at your nbc poll most recently, the presidential primary, donald trump has about 45%. everybody else together

i want to bring in nbc's mistake moomoily and wlikt white house sxoernt political contributor eugene danielspresident going to announce? >> chris, you just laid out so well an experience we all can relate to, thinking you're getting a great deal on a ticket only to find just before check-out that it costs 20%, 30% higher than you originally thought. the president in his state of the union address described that experience, talked about what he called junk fees and said the american people are tired of feeling like as he put it suckers. what's so interesting about what the president's doing today is he's not introducing or signing a law, he's not announcing an executive order. this is simply about him using that bully pulpit, that stage that he's had as president of the united states to build pressure from consumers really onto these private companies to be more transparent about what their prices are all about. so the president's going to be joined by some major companies like live nation, a popular concert promoter, airbnb as well as seat geek, another tool many people use to buy tickets on

joining me now, vaughn hillyard and gabe gutierrez and eugene daniels. gabe, to you.an you tell us about the desantis campaign strategy on the road today? >> good afternoon. as you said, we were in iowa yesterday. the governor was barnstorming through that state. he is in new hampshire. we are outside his event. as it a small venue. he is speaking right now. we didn't want to drawn him out because it's a small venue, so we are out here. there's this merchandise. i want to show you one of those says desantis land. they are doubling down in the fight with disney that desantis has been touting on the road. some of the conservative voters in new hampshire and iowa, a strong response to that. they see it as an attack on indoctrinating children as they see it. the desantis campaign feels that will play well with some of the conservative voters. i will say, the governor this week has been trying to establish a contrast between himself and former president trump. he has not done it on the stump. he was asked about something former president trump put on social media blasting

also eugene daniels, tim miller, writer at large at the bulwark and former u.s. attorney, harry litman ken, what are the new instructions from the judge to trump and his lawyers? >> jose, this is a standard protective order that's present in almost every case it essentially -- it specifically says that the defendant, donald trump, can't keep copies of that information. he can take notes about it, but those notes have to be in the custody of his lawyers there's particular concern obviously about mr. trump because he has a habit of making public sensitive information he's obtained from his lawyers when witnesses names in this case become public, they tend to be the subject of death threats. for instance, the secret service that testified before the grand jury, members of trump's mar-a-lago staff, all that information will go to his lawyers, and he'll be able to see it what this order says is he's not allowed to reveal it to the public this is about the unclassified evidence the classified information will be subject to a different set of rules. his lawyers having t

. >> joining me now, dasha burns in iowa, jonathan lemire and eugene daniels.ha, mike pence is coming out stronger against donald trump but he is being careful. >> reporter: we saw a really interesting strategy play out over the last 24 hours when it comes to mike pence. his speech yesterday was a pretty spicy one. that's not a word i would typically use to describe mike pence. he was the sharpest he has been when it comes to his attacks on his former boss. as you just played there, he sort of later hedged his words on some aspects of the former president's leadership. he elevated some of what he did during the trump administration. he touted the administration's success while trying to strike a contrast with former president trump. the area that is most interesting to me, he spent a lot of time on january 6. he knows -- the team knows that this is the day that hangs over his candidacy, potentially hangs over his entire legacy in the republican party. there seems to be an understanding that the only way out is through. they have to tackle january 6 head on and

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. >> joining us now, white house correspondent for politico eugene daniels.is give us four more years because it's working. that is what you heard from president biden yesterday. that's what we heard from him a couple of weeks ago in pennsylvania. that's what we're going to hear throughout this entire campaign. also, they feel like it's an easy contrast. just talk about the things they've done. focus on that. try to stay out of the muck and the drama and have a chaotic republican primary that at this point feels like donald trump may be victorious and then they'll have an even better message to go out. this white house are being much more repetitive than they have been in the past. them and their allies have stayed very focused on this economic message talking about bidenomics because they know and they feel deeply they have not gotten the credit they feel like they deserve on some of the economic wins joe biden has had in the last 2 1/2 years. you're talking about the computer chip manufacturing, the infrastructure act where people are starting to see and he

eugene daniels, let's talk about the republicans.t figured out what the plan was after roe fell. they still have yet to do so. with this election coming in full swing, he is making it a litmus test for republicans that all of them should be saying there should be a nationwide ban on abortion. more importantly, he says to mifepristone, if he was elected, he will do everything in his power to reverse their approval of mifepristone. all of these things are something that the polls show americans, including suburban women that would typically vote for republicans are not very interested in, independents as well. he doesn't care. he talks about it as if it's going to bring in a bunch of different voters. we have not seen that be the case. he also knocked trump for his criticism of desantis's six-week ban. he said it was too harsh. these are all the things happening in the republican party. i will say these kinds of issues, there's always a concern in the political class whether or not it's going to continue to move voters. republicans are

correspondent for "politico and co-author of "the play book" which will be in your inbox within minutes, eugene daniels, thank you, my friend. >>> thank you for getting up "way too early" on this tuesday morning. a jam-packed "morning joe" starts right now. >>> we were talking about it, he said, we wanted to attack iraq and so on. >> you did. >> this was done by the military and given to me. uh, i think we can probably. >> we'll have to try to -- >> declassify it. >> figure it out. >> as president, i could declassify it, but now i can't. isn't that interesting? >> that is a recording by cnn of donald trump showing off u.s. war plans against iran, with people who were at his golf club in new jersey two years ago. we're going to have expert legal analysis on this seemingly damning piece of evidence in just a moment. it comes as the justice department will meet this week with someone who stood up against trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. trump's lawyers are also busy in new york trying to get the ex-president's hush money case moved to federal court. we'll have the latest on that. >>> we'll a

let's bring in now white house correspondent for politico and coauthor of the playbook eugene danielsg very hard to ignore it publicly they are obviously watching, but they're doing everything they possibly can to stay out of this as long as they possibly can any official that you talk to in the white house or in biden world will say you're not going to see joe biden talk about this, you're not going to see kamala harris talk about this on the campaign trail, because you've already hearing from republicans that the main argument is joe biden went and told jack smith and the attorney general merrick garland to do this that is not what they want out there. it gets frustrating because anything that smells like it's connected to this case or underlying issues in this case, they stay very far away, and that's not going to change. >> is it a strategy by avoiding it, not giving it oxygen, but wouldn't it also be necessarily politically to get other surrogates that will take this on and knock some of this stuff down because without any response in the vacuum, the only thing a lot of the publi

. >> white house correspondent for politico eugene daniels, thank you, my friend. great to see you. >>> thanks to all of you forgetting up way too early with us. it's a significant day in the united states of america. moej starts right now. >> i'm convinced that if he goes back to the white house, the next four years will be about him settling scores. he's shown himself, most particular he doesn't give a damn about the american people. >>> former new jersey governor chris christie is the loudest voice against donald trump so far in the 2024 republican race. it comes as the former president is set to be arraigned -- >> what are we? the falcon here? chewbacca. >> i don't think our viewers can see what was going on and i was covering perfectly. >> you were covering perfectly. >> everything was going fine. >> if i'm not telling people -- one minute before -- >> did you see the lights go out on lemire? >> were you supposed to pay the electric bill? we rotate who does the bills. >> i wanted to have sort of the 1950s murrow vibe. >> it started up and it sounded like when