Biden to tout “America’s comeback” in State of Union tonight

Erin Burnett OutFront

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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President Biden is expected to deliver his Stay of the Union address tonight in front of Congress in a moment he must seize as a Biden-Trump rematch is set for the White House. Dan Cluchey, the former senior speechwriter for President Biden, who worked on multiple major Biden speeches during the 2022 State of the Union speech and the 2021 inaugural address and David Litt, speechwriter for then-president Obama join to discuss what Biden’s strategy might be for tonight’s speech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.1	Out front next live from Capitol Hill, and the stakes here could not be higher. The president
0:37.2	about to deliver his state of the union address, one of the biggest audiences that he will have before election day.
0:43.3	And we have new details on what the president is about to say.
0:46.4	Plus, Trump welcoming a strong man tomorrow, Lago, Hungary's far-right authoritarian prime minister, getting the red carpet treatment tomorrow.
0:54.0	Is it a sign of how
0:55.1	Trump wants to run this country and should trump be allowed to get classified intelligence briefings
1:00.7	again it's a question that is now front and center as he is about to formally clinch the republican
1:05.4	nomination let's go out front and good evening and welcome to a special edition of Outfront.
1:11.6	I'm Erin Burnett and I am live tonight on Capitol Hill and we begin with the breaking news.
1:15.6	President Biden is set to arrive here soon to deliver his State of the Union address to what, as I mentioned, could be the largest audience that he will get all at one time before Election Day.
1:26.6	This is a moment that he must seize as a Biden-Trump
1:30.4	rematch is now where the country is. According to new excerpts that are very much, that rematch is
1:37.4	very much on the president's mind tonight. It doesn't actually name Trump in these excerpts,
1:41.9	but he does draw clear distinctions between himself and Trump, like this.
1:46.7	And I quote from the speech that we'll all hear tonight. My lifetime taught me to embrace freedom and democracy, a future based on the core values that have defined America.
1:56.3	Honesty, decency, dignity, equality, to respect everyone, to give everyone a fair shot, to give hate,
2:04.2	no safe harbor. Now, some other people see my age, other people my age see a different story.
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