President Biden delivers a State of the Union address for the books
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on The Readout, we have to be the nation we've always been in our best optimistic, |
| 0:10.5 | hopeful, forward-looking. |
| 0:12.7 | We have to see each other not as enemies, but as fellow Americans. |
| 0:16.3 | As President Biden calls for unity, Marjorie Taylor Greene does the exact opposite, channeling |
| 0:22.3 | Boris Natascha in her fur coat, and at least she did leave the balloon prop at home, and |
| 0:29.8 | also embarrassing herself, her caucus, her BFF Kevin the Speaker, and the whole country |
| 0:33.9 | too. |
| 0:34.9 | Meanwhile, in the Republican response, Sarah Huckabee Sanders does her version of American |
| 0:38.9 | carnage tying the party right back to Trump, while repeatedly using the word freedom to |
| 0:43.7 | describe the party that's taking away women's rights and banning books. |
| 0:46.8 | So tonight, reaction to President Biden's call for police reform as twisted new details |
| 0:52.4 | emerged today about Tyrene Nichols' death after a vicious beating by Memphis police. |
| 0:57.6 | We begin tonight with a state of the Union address for the books, when last night President |
| 1:02.2 | Biden achieved what Kevin McCarthy could never do, which was uniting the room and getting |
| 1:07.3 | Republicans to jump from their seats in support of Medicare and Social Security. |
| 1:11.7 | Yes, that happened. |
| 1:13.4 | It was a masterclass, really, on out negotiating Republicans, pulled off by Biden, who sparred |
| 1:19.4 | with a rockest crowd of Maga Hecklers and one big. |
| 1:24.0 | No president added more to the national debt in any four years than my predecessor. |
| 1:29.2 | There are the facts. |
| 1:30.3 | Check it out. |
| 1:33.4 | Check it out. |
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