He's going to tell the accomplishments that he's had. But the real purpose of this is to build public support for the phases that have yet, to come to pass this American jobs plan, and to tout this American Family Plan that he's going to unveil, perhaps at that speech, and build support to try and put pressure on Congress to pass it.
David Axelrod discusses President Biden's upcoming address to Congress and its purpose of building public support for future legislative initiatives.
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I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.
I think the darker interpretation of what we saw today is that they were setting up a pretext, he and the vice president for walking away from Ukraine and blaming Zelenskyy for it.
There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.
I mean, he's president of the United States. He was elected. They should be there.
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