Welcome back to Inside the Hive. This is Emily Jane Fox. I'm here with my co-host,

Joe Hagen. Good morning, Joe. Good morning for me.

Good morning, West Coast affiliate, Emily Jane Fox. How are you?

When I say that we are literally podcasting from my pajamas, it is true.

Because we are coming to you first thing in the morning after the State of the Union

and I haven't even gotten out of pajamas yet, but this is how committed we are to really

breaking it all down from Tuesday evenings, big night for President Biden.

And we are here with some of our favorite Hive friends, a real collection of who's who from the Hive.

We have Abigail Tracy. We have Chris Smith. We have Eric Lutz. Welcome to all of you.

And thank you for being here to break this all down with us. Good morning.

Thank you for having us.

It is Hive Gone Wild here on Inside the Hive. We have a lot of bees inside the Hive today.

Abby, Chris, Eric, all of you have been on the Biden beat as of late.

Eric wrote a fantastic sort of roundup of what happened last night at the State of the Union.

Abby was involved in telling us about how this whole speech came together.

You should go to Vanity Fair's Hive and you can read all that reporting, Chris.

I know that you're in process. You're drilling into the Biden White House and going to bring us even more about that.

I think last night what we can say is that Joe Biden came out swinging.

There was a lot of questions and doubts, anxiety.

Who doesn't feel a little bit of anxiety when Joe Biden's about to come to the mic, right?

You're like, oh God, here it comes. Isn't 9 p.m. past his bedtime.

I was worried and a lot of those worries were alleviated.

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