It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc.

It's the Brian Laire Show on WNYC.

Good morning everyone.

So you've probably got the basic state of the union

headline by now, right?

Joe Biden came to fight last night

to juice the enthusiasm of the Democratic Party base to

discredit Donald Trump to swing voters and to show that he's not too old to be

riled up and feisty as hell. He also made it for you new policy proposals which could

and should be getting more attention and we'll get to those. But about his tone

it struck me that it wasn't just about looking angry and alert.

There was a humor piece to it too,

and I want to play a couple of examples.

The bipartisan infrastructure bill

is not usually something that people get passionate about right or even

remember very much but here's how he got a laugh and made a point about

Republicans being happy to use the money from the bill in their districts.

Thanks to our bipartisan infrastructure law,

46,000 new projects have announced all across your communities.

And by the way, I notice some of you strongly voted against it are they're cheering

on that money coming in.

I like it.

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