This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our podcast,

The joint session will come to order.

Breaking down Biden's first address to Congress.

Madam Speaker, the President of the United States.

The President's agenda for all of America,

from the middle class to Wall Street.

Holster and strategist Frank Lunds joins us.

This is the most class-oriented speech that I've heard in a long time and is very much in this

speech that indicates that the era of big government is back.

What the president said and didn't say and what it signals for the country's future.

It's not the tax increases that the public hates. It's the ways to fraud, the abuse, and in some cases the corruption that comes when you spend this much money with this little accountability, transparency, and oversight.

And those are the three words that did not hear much of last night.

That conversation, plus the grand reopening's,

a city back to almost normal, anchors away the cruise returns.

It's Thursday April 29th, 2021.

Swackpot begins right now.

Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to Squack Box here on C.

I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe Kernan

and Andrew Ross Sorkin.

I want to talk a little bit about President Biden speaking last night to a joint session of Congress

with limited attendance due to the pandemic.

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