correspondent kelly o'donnell, along with nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles and robert gibbs, former obama press secretary and an msnbc political analyst. robert, let me start with you, you know the criticism has been out there, the pressure the white house has been under, you have been in the white house when a president was under pressure. what does he need to deliver right now? >> well, i think the more than people want to know what level of new information we have about the three objects that have been shot down recently. i also think the president needs to outline what our posture is dealing with china and the aggressiveness of the balloon that traversed the country. as you said, i think he's been under some pressure to do this. but at the same time, i think the administration wants to get this right, so i think i'll be listening for what level of new information he imparts today and what it means for our foreign policy going forward. >> are we getting indication, kelly, that there is going to be new information, stuff we haven't heard before? >> well, we know that this

. >>> joining us now, jen psaki and stephanie cutter and robert gibbs.n't think of more political expertise in one space here. jen, you were part of the administration. what shaq is reflecting a progressive community in madison, wisconsin, which is not reflective of all of wisconsin. it's a diverse state. what does president biden have to say tonight to try to address both of those audiences, or the multiple audiences politically? >> as stephanie and gibbs can speak to, writing these speeches is one of the biggest challenges in the white house. it's so important. it's also hugely challenging. you are packing about 50 pounds of ideas and policies and contrasts into a one-point bag. i think the woman will be happy. what i understand from white house officials i have spoken to is the president's going to speak to people who feel invisible, who don't feel heard, seen by washington. he will speak to his fight for them and how he is going to continue that moving forward. telling that story and not getting into a data list of all the things he listed. it's my v

♪ >> robert gibbs, want to start this block by thanking you, seriously, for getting up so early in stor you to be here. steve rattner is about to show starts on obamacare. it just keeps kyra getting. republicans have been trying to kill obamacare now for a dozen years. the american people have continued to vote where their feet, continue to vote by enrolling. talk about that, and we could get personal for a second here, that has to mean a lot to you and to others who fought so hard to make that happen. >> it certainly does. i think it is an enduring part of the obama legacy, probably the biggest part of the obama legacy. it is heartening when you see the new enrollment numbers to understand and feel the impact it has on americans. i go places, i hear people tell stories about being able to get health insurance for the first time because they had a pre-existing condition they didn't allow them to be able to do that previously, and i think most heartening, joe, if you talk to people in health care, it is becoming even more ingrained part of the health care system, and it's probably only

robert gibbs. >> robert, thank you so much for coming on this morning.e, i need to go back to you. i want to show this map again. >> he likes the florida number one. >> i think -- >> it's the ultimate hypocrisy. >> i lived in florida, lived in georgia, lived in mississippi. >> a lot of republicans really hated obamacare and wanted to get rid of it again and again and again and again. >> isn't this really -- like, we look at these states. the hypocrisy is just amazing. i'll tell you what else the hypocrisy is amazing on. vaccinations. do you know, like i know, that before trump, mississippi had the highest vaccination rates in america? in fact, their laws were so tough on vaccinations, because they hated all the hippies out west who are anti-vaxers, that they didn't allow for a religious exemption, right? now, these same people who hate the federal government, they get more money from the federal government per capita than anybody else, and they hate the affordable care act, hate obamacare. they're the first ones. i'm glad they're signing up for it, but t

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secrecy seems to be paramount here while there's a lot of demands for transparency. >> robert gibbs,mer white house press secretary, after so much criticism over them permitting the china balloon to cross the country and not be shot down until it got to the atlantic and then senators in both parties then said, they had a reason to do that because they did retrieve intelligence and now they have the key sensors, they have a good number of electronics. they may get more from that than they would have from shooting it down. they were collecting data as it was flying. in the three small objects, was this overkill? general milley said the first missile didn't take it down. they had to shoot two at it. that's a lot of money to spend on launching and then trying to do the debris search. for what? is this more politics than show? >> i don't know that we know the answer to obviously what these objects are. i think the consternation is the military decided to take action and shoot down something and yet what it shot down and why it shot it down is not all readily clear. i think the challenge t

. >> hero to talk about it, robert gibbs, an msnbc political analyst.ey seems to want to skip ahead and run against joe biden. can anyone win the nomination without taking on trump? >> not eventually, there are absolutely going to have to take him on. i think it's probably fairly smart at this point not to start with that, and not to begin to divide out the lane you might sit in. there's no doubt this nomination is going to go through donald trump, and somebody's going to have to essentially take it are from him. mitt romney said it today, and i think he's right. right now donald trump is probably best positioned to be the republican nominee in 2024. >> so haley is also forcing the generational question. it's something we've heard from her before, but take a listen. >> we'll have term limits for congress. [ cheers and applause ] and mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old. >> nobody's -- who's going to enforce mandatory competency tests. having aid that, late last year there was a poll that showed 73% of americans do favor ag

so let us discuss and bring in robert gibbs.e house press secretary under president obama and david plouffe. former obama campaign manager and senior white house adviser. david to first. you've known joe biden for many years. how would you say his speech was tonight? >> that part in particular i think was skillfully design and executed. what is interesting, it's not like the republicans in the house tomorrow going to say, biden was lying about us, we are actually four sub security and medicare cuts. i sort of think he boxed the man. and basically unmask this entire thing as not serious. as being consistent. i still worry, i don't see an exit ramp. the last nine or a few hours ago. that speech, i do think advances that president democrats in this debate. but i'm not going to breathe a sigh of relief stephanie. until the exit ramp is clear. how do we revert, basically economic global catastrophe. but i thought that in particular was when it was a designed play. but you've executed extremely well. >> it's all been a stagecraft. >>

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but obama's press secretary, robert gibbs, suggested the speech will set the stage for a consequentialpublicans. last year's theme was unity, that didn't go very far. so now what's this year's theme, war? >> bret: if you look at the speeches he's given and the maga republicans line and the extreme maga republicans line, i mean, clearly they are trying to use that. some would argue they used it effectively ahead of the midterm election, that and the abortion issue to drive some independent and suburban districts the democrats' way. but this is a joe biden who traditionally has said i'm the guy that wants to reach across the aisle. i don't know if that message is coming out today. i bet we are going to hear how republicans are going to fight him tooth and nail and they want to cut your social security and medicare, something that speaker mccarthy has said is not going to happen. >> john: and we will see after the state of the union if he declares for re-election. which is a real question. tonight on "special report" you have senator joe manchin. >> bret: i do. and an op-ed, something abo

robert gibbs and david plouffe -- >> how many minutes of the eagles have you watched the season?>> name the quarterback. jalen hurts. he's the eagles. >> our bureaucracy remains unbought and unbroken. [applause] >> we are back with a little state of the union address history lesson. don't worry, we are not the ones giving it. ali didn't even know the name of the quarterback, the easier eagles. we have none other than michael beschloss the historian. what was your biggest take away from the address? for years we are talking about how worried you were about the climate of the country, where we are headed, the way people are feeling. tonight i think you have a different observation. >> i thought was a great beach. don't you think this guy was mr. smoot? he's been a national politics for 50 years. you don't always see the result of that, leisure site tonight. he was elegant, he was civilized, he was conciliatory, he was reasonable, and maybe most of all, he sounded like a centrist, which is exactly where he wants to be, and after this performance tonight, and i don't know if everyone

let's talk about it with nbc ease senior national politics reporter jonathan allen and robert gibbs,ite house press secretary and msnbc political analyst. jonathan, i want to play for you what was heard from donald trump. >> if you're not the nominee, will you support whoever the gop nominee is? >> it would depend. i would give you the same answer i gave in 2016, during the debate. i was asked two rather interesting questions. it would have to depend on who the nominee was. >> so we can't get ahead of how the primaries play out. why does that kind of statement make republicans nervous? >> it's a pretty open threat if someone else were to win the nomination, donald trump would take his ball and base and go home, and that could deprive republicans the opportunity to win the next election. he's basically saying nominate me or there's a potential i'm going to sink whoever the nominee is. >> the way they put it in the "new york times" is that trump is exposing a quagmire for republicans. here's exactly what they said. in 2020, for example, about 9% of republicans voted for someone other t

joining me now, robert gibbs, former obama white house press secretary.d msnbc political analyst. danielle moodie, host of the podcast -- and co-host of the podcast, democracy. ash and cristobal, journalist, documentarian, and author. his new book is the fight of his, life inside joe biden's white house. welcome into all of you. all right, let's begin with you, robert. first, you have been through three of these. at least one to an unfriendly congress. what is the biggest discussion or debate your taking place right now at camp david? >> well, i guess is that they're pretty unified at camp david about what to. do i think they have that outline of vision for the future of the country, and really systematically convinced the american people that there are most capable of implementing that vision for the future. i think there is an important moment for president biden because, as you, mentioned the first time that he is standing in front of a congress controlled, at least in one, house by an indifferent party. i think what's going to be most interesting here