the norman is associate professor and politics and international relations at the university university college london. also in the us capital, steve home and these voice of america's chief national correspondent and those covered both the trump and biden administration's great heavy will with us here on inside story. so less a traditional state of the union address board also to stay to the election campaign if you like, a demonstration of the power of the incumbent to be able to do that on a platform like this, steve. and let me begin with you that broadly speaking, do you think joe biden did enough to prevent, present a vision of a 2nd to him in office that remains to be seen. we won't know the answer of that, of course, until november 8 months away. what he did do is he stood up there for 66 minutes. uh, there were no major stumbles. that certainly may have convince some of those sitting on the fence about whether biden is up for another or 4 years as president . so definitely a success and his people at the white house and in the bite and campaign are certainly presenting it as such. a nice age o

does, i think it's to do with this london liberal thing, you know, king's college , it know, being king's college, it doesn't university. doesn't happen in my universityl university or as my friends call it, hell on earth university. but it happens in, you metropolitan you know, our metropolitan areas. metropolitan areas. it's this metropolitan mind, in mine. it mind, this malign in mine. it doesn't happen in old universities hull , for universities like hull, for instance. but it's a london thing. >> and cass can you just give us anidea >> and cass can you just give us an idea of the types of people that were signing? i mean, i believe said couple of believe you said a couple of them were actually politics students . and what about the students. and what about the kind of ethnic who were kind of ethnic makeup? who were the this ? the people signing this? >> it's variety of people, you >> it's a variety of people, you know this the left do not discriminate when they recruit people, when they get their marxist missionaries. it is a lot of middle class women, you know, with fancy names like henrietta jacquetta. then you have, a lot of lgbt people, despi