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Feb. 8, 2023 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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BENNY vs. BIDEN: LIVE Reaction to Joe’s State Of The Union Speech | Let’s Laugh Together at Brandon!
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alex alx lorusso
13:36
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benny johnson
47:34
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joe biden
50:53
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sarah huckabee sanders
14:10
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danny de urbina
03:43
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donald j trump
01:48
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marjorie taylor greene
02:09
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chuck todd
00:20
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savannah guthrie
00:30
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Speaker Time Text
unidentified
But I do want to especially thank President Trump.
benny johnson
Who, baby, you are seeing live on your screen, Joe Biden's regime being frog-marched into the halls of Congress.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
My name is Benny Johnson.
You are going to watch, you have chosen wisely to watch tonight's State of the Disunion.
Tonight's Liar Liar Pants on Fire Festival with Joe Biden in living color here with us.
We will be bringing this live feed to you in real time.
You will be able to watch with us.
We will have live commentary with you and along with...
Joe Biden, we will be showing memes.
We will be showing Marjorie Taylor Greene trying to bring a giant white balloon, which you just saw in our cold open, into the halls of Congress.
No confirmation yet as to whether she's gotten into Congress with it.
We've called various members of Congress.
Trust me, there's going to be shenanigans.
There's going to be a lot of hoopla going down tonight.
And I hope you are ready for a hot time in the Old Town tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
And speaking of Old Town, it does look as though there is going to be a absolute...
On time departure for Joe Biden here, unlike his transportation secretary there, Pete Buttigieg, who has no on time departures for any airplane that he has ever managed to get off the ground.
Airplanes crashing, trains derailing, the...
State of the nation is in total and complete calamity, but it will be fun to listen to Joe Biden lie about it and to suffer from sundown syndrome before he gets on stage.
Sundown syndrome is, of course, the syndrome where Joe Biden, he's 89,000 years old, the sun goes down and Joe Biden gets sleepy.
So sleepy, sleepy, sleepy Joe Biden.
We do certainly have a compilation of old gaffes from Joe Biden's last State of the Union, but we're going to stick on this.
We have a lot, ladies and gentlemen, for your viewing pleasure, including but not limited to Marjorie Taylor Greene with her giant white balloon.
That was possibly the most viral moment yet.
Here comes...
What are we on?
We're on NBC.
We got CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, and PBS all pulled up for the State of the Union here, ladies and gentlemen.
Trust me, when Brandon goes and wobbles downstairs and, you know...
He acts as though, you know, tries very hard not to show the Depends that he is indeed wearing.
Oh, there's the spy balloon!
So, wait a second.
In the build-up to the State of the Union, they shoved the spy balloon in there?
Wow!
Savage, NBC!
Who you got?
Who you got, NBC?
Good for you.
Okay, alright, alright.
Okay, didn't count on it.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna laugh.
We're gonna laugh tonight.
We're going to laugh at this thing.
We are not going to use this opportunity as a time to doom or to blackpill you.
We don't want you to be blackpilled.
We want to be happy warriors and people who can laugh at this State of the Union and laugh at these people, including the fraudulent individuals on your screen right now who are such incredible losers.
Ladies and gentlemen, we do have quite a bit of...
We have two Super Chats already, ladies and gentlemen.
We just say thank you.
James Tiberius Kirk, related to Charlie Kirk.
God bless you, Benny.
From Australia.
Whoa!
That's awesome, man.
Fantastic.
And Ayahuasca says Lion Biden.
You're right.
You're absolutely right.
I wonder if he will address his daughter's...
I wonder if he will address his daughter's diary.
It says Extreme Overdrive.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
I'm not sure.
Oh, there's Nancy!
Nancy!
What you don't see below, the lower third there, is the bottle of Smirnoff and the three olive martini.
But that certainly is in our cover image.
Ooh, here we go.
Is this Brandon's arrival?
Again, sundown syndrome, ladies and gentlemen.
I see we got Salty Army in the chat.
We got people from all over the place.
I bet he'll mumble more than one sentence.
I totally agree with you.
Let's see here.
Who do you got here?
Benny, your hair is all over.
Did you just wake up?
No!
Actually, I've been working all day, and I went for a jog with my 8-month-old.
So I put my 8-month-old in one of those jogging strollers, and to get out of the studio, I went running to get a little workout in.
And so my hair was...
I went running, I guess.
That's what I did.
What did Joe Biden do to get into his hair?
You ever seen photos of Joe Biden in 1973?
That guy was bald as a bat's balls.
A Wuhan bat.
Whatever happened to Joe Biden's hair?
How does Joe Biden have hair?
It's all plastic, just like his teeth, just like his soul, ladies and gentlemen.
We got the first Let's Go Brandon in the chat.
What up?
Okay.
I think now, there he goes.
Okay, alright, there we go.
All right, let's get the audio up.
unidentified
Thank you.
benny johnson
Let's make that a little bigger.
unidentified
There we go.
benny johnson
All right.
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
We are watching the chat here.
We got the chat.
unidentified
Let's go.
benny johnson
FJB from Wilmington, Delaware.
Hey, what up, my man?
We got MAGA is here.
unidentified
President making his way into the chamber.
He's being greeted all smiles right now.
We'll see what it looks like at the end.
But President on time and we normally have about 10 minutes of what you're seeing right now.
Greetings before we expect him to take the podium and begin his remarks.
savannah guthrie
A lot of pressing of the flesh.
Often in history, certain members of Congress wait, save those seats, want to get that face time with the president.
As Garrett mentioned, this is a different chamber he's facing the first time he'll address divided government.
Look at that bald spot.
Look at that bald spot.
benny johnson
As big as the moon!
savannah guthrie
The president makes his way to the podium.
We want to turn to Peter Alexander, correspondent who has been talking to officials about what we can expect from this State of the Union.
unidentified
Savannah, good evening to you.
We just heard from the president as he left the White House a matter of moments ago.
He was asked by reporters, what is the state of the union?
He said it's in great shape and getting better.
But fundamentally, that is his challenge tonight, to try to bridge the gap between what has been strong economic news, the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years, inflation still too high, but certainly easing right now, and the dissatisfaction with the direction of the country for most Americans right now.
Audio all good, Royce.
The White House believes that its policies, the president's accomplishments are popular, but the Americans don't even know exactly what they are.
And I hope he can communicate that directly to Americans tonight, with the takeaway being that Joe Biden has your back.
He will say jobs are coming back and pride is coming back.
Watch him use 2023 in the words of one White House official tonight as the year of implementation to try to put all of those efforts into effect.
I've been struck by reading the excerpts.
This looks like the president's going to try to sort of lower the temperature tonight, effectively staying away from those attacks on MAGA Republicans, instead saying that there was no reason that we can't work together on some of the topics they hope to get done.
Those bipartisan issues like opioid addiction and combating cancer, of course, for this president, the stakes are very high right now, not just...
For his administration in this term, but for his presidential future, this in many ways is the unofficial kickoff to 2024, where, among other things, his job tonight will be to try to convince Democrats that he's prepared for another four years.
And it's not, of course, Peter, not just domestic issues, but tonight's State of the Union comes a bit rising tensions with China over that spy balloon.
benny johnson
Oh, my.
unidentified
Andrea Mitchell is NBC's chief Washington chief foreign affairs correspondent.
Andrea, some revisions to the president's speech.
we understand regarding China.
Indeed, I'm told the president is expected to talk about the importance of the strategic I absolutely will, John.
We're going to do our thing.
You're welcome.
Shout out from Scranton.
You just saw Mark Miley on screen there.
benny johnson
Mark Miley, Miley, I think is the Mandarin pronunciation of his name.
Owned and operated by the Communist Chinese Party.
Joe Biden grabbing his hand, shaking his hand.
This is the guy that told him not to shoot down the spy balloon.
Got it.
This is the guy that also gave our war plans to Communist China.
Let's see what Joe Biden does here.
Okay.
He's like, who are you, lady?
What?
Nice to see you, young man.
Did you win the Boy Scout medal?
unidentified
What's going on?
benny johnson
Oh, man.
Okay.
You got Jill wearing a very, very, very expensive bath curtain.
Joe Biden handing his resignation in to Kevin McCarthy, hopefully.
That's nice.
All right.
Audio back up.
chuck todd
He's going to have not many opportunities.
You get 30 million people, even supposedly fewer than before.
30 million.
Nowhere else you're going to get 30 million.
So he ought to be starting to test out his reelection.
unidentified
Uh-oh.
I have the high privilege and distinct honor to present to you the President of the United States.
Thank you.
benny johnson
Oh, look at Mattis.
Oh, my gosh.
He even clapped like a Communist Party member.
This is how they clap in North Korea.
Lobotomized shields.
chuck todd
Look, you would assume that how he's going to talk about what he did in those first two years, if it's all about implementation, well, that sounds like a real act.
joe biden
Mr. Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman, good to see you guys up there.
Members of Congress.
benny johnson
I'll boo.
unidentified
Boo!
benny johnson
I'll boo for you.
joe biden
Boo!
She gets to go to the game next week.
I have to stay home.
He doesn't know when the Super Bowl is.
benny johnson
He doesn't know when the Super Bowl is.
joe biden
Associate Justice and retired Justice of the Supreme Court.
And to you, my fellow Americans.
You know, I start tonight by congratulating the 118th Congress.
the new Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy.
benny johnson
Okay, Kevin McCarthy.
Hey guys, you guys know my take.
Kevin McCarthy's been based.
What do you want from me?
Kevin McCarthy's been based.
I think that Kevin's done a good job so far.
joe biden
I don't want to ruin your reputation, but I look forward to working with you.
I want to congratulate the new leader of the House Democrats, the first African-American minority leader in history, Hakeem Jeffries.
benny johnson
He got his name right!
Damn!
Got his name right!
Thought he was going to mess that one up.
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
Who claps like that?
What are you clapping like?
joe biden
I won in spite of the fact that I campaigned for him.
Congratulations to the longest serving leader in the history of the United States Senate, Mitch McConnell.
Warrior Mitch.
benny johnson
Don't clap!
unidentified
No!
benny johnson
Don't clap!
unidentified
Boo!
benny johnson
I boo Mitch McConnell.
unidentified
Boo!
joe biden
Chuck Schumer, another term as Senate Minority Leader.
You know, I think you...
benny johnson
It's his first stumble.
joe biden
This time you have a slightly bigger majority, Mr. Leader.
You're the majority leader.
About that much bigger?
Well, I tell you what.
I want to give special recognition to someone who I think is going to be considered the greatest speaker in the history of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.
benny johnson
Oh, good.
Oh, she's wearing a Ukraine pin.
Perfect.
She should wear sponsors on her jacket.
She should be like NASCAR for all the stocks that Paul buys.
joe biden
Folks, the story of America is a story of progress and resilience.
benny johnson
He's not getting arrested.
joe biden
Of always moving forward.
Of never, ever giving up.
benny johnson
Here we go.
joe biden
It's a story unique among all nations.
We're the only country that has emerged from every crisis we've ever entered stronger than we got into it.
Look, folks.
That's what we're doing again.
Two years ago, the economy was reeling.
I stand here tonight after we've created, with the help of many people in this room, 12 million new jobs.
More jobs created in two years than any president's created in four years because of you all, because of the American people.
Two years ago, and two years ago, COVID had shut down.
Our businesses were closed.
Our schools were robbed of so much.
And today, COVID no longer controls our lives.
And two years ago, democracy faced its greatest threat to the Civil War.
And today, though bruised, our democracy remains unbowed and unbroken.
benny johnson
Hey, jackass, you wanted vaccine mandates.
COVID no longer controls our lives.
You tried to make COVID control like how people can make bread for their families.
joe biden
You cretinous old B. When world leaders ask me to define America, and they do, believe it or not, I can define it in one word, and I mean this.
Possibilities.
We don't think anything is beyond our capacity.
Everything is a possibility.
We're often told that Democrats and Republicans can't work together.
But over the past two years, we've proved the cynics and naysayers wrong.
Yes, we disagreed plenty.
And yes, there were times when Democrats went alone.
But time and again, Democrats and Republicans came together.
Came together to defend a stronger and safer Europe.
It came together to pass one in a generation, once in a generation infrastructure law, building bridges connecting our nation and our people.
It came together to pass the most significant law ever, helping victims expose the toxic burn pits.
And in fact...
benny johnson
Not going to answer that one, Z. Don't tempt me, Z. It's important.
joe biden
In fact, I signed over 300 bipartisan pieces of legislation since becoming president.
From reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, the Electrical Account Reform Act, the Respect for Marriage Act that protects the right to marry the person you love.
And to my Republican friends, if we could work together the last Congress, there's no reason we can't work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress as well.
unidentified
Thank you.
We work together because we're all owned by China.
benny johnson
This is the world's largest gathering of Chinese prostitutes.
joe biden
We all are as formed as I am, but I think the people sent us a clear message.
Fighting for the sake of fighting.
Power for the sake of power.
Conflict for the sake of conflict gets us nowhere.
That's always been my vision of our country, and I know it's many of yours.
To restore the soul of this nation.
To rebuild the backbone of America.
America's middle class.
And unite the country.
We've been sent here to finish the job, in my view.
For decades, the middle class has been hollowed out in more than, and not no one administration, but for a long time.
Too many good-paying manufacturing jobs move overseas.
Good-paying manufacturing.
Factories closed down.
benny johnson
Backories.
joe biden
Thriving cities and towns that many of you represent became shadows of what they used to be.
Along the way, something else we lost.
Pride.
Our sense of self-worth.
I ran for president to fundamentally change things.
To make sure our economy works for everyone.
So we can all feel that pride in what we do.
To build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out.
Not from the top down.
Because when the middle class does well, the poor have a ladder up and the wealthy still do very well.
We all do well.
benny johnson
Guy says he's going to restore the soul of America.
This guy.
The guy who's covering for Hunter Biden right now.
Oh my.
Bernie.
Bernie, what are you doing?
joe biden
I know a lot of you always kid me for always quoting my dad, but my dad used to say, Joey, your job's about a lot more than a paycheck.
He really would say this.
It's about a lot more than a paycheck.
It's about your dignity.
It's about respect.
It's about being able to look your kid in the eye and say, honey, it's going to be okay and mean it.
benny johnson
It's about the money we got from China.
joe biden
So let's look at the results.
We're not finished yet by any stretch of the imagination, but unemployment rate is a 3.4%, a 50-year low.
unidentified
A near record...
benny johnson
That data point is a lie.
joe biden
We've already created, your help, 800,000 good-paying manufacturing jobs.
The fastest growth in 40 years.
unidentified
And where is it written?
joe biden
Also, creepy old liar.
Well, you can say manufacturing, right?
Manufacturing?
Manufacturing.
benny johnson
Manufacturing.
You're exporting American jobs to the Chinese.
The only job you haven't exported is Hunter.
joe biden
The pandemic disrupted our supply chains, and Putin's unfair and brutal war in Ukraine disrupted energy supplies as well as food supplies, blocking all that grain in Ukraine.
But we're in a better position than any country on Earth right now.
But we have more to do.
But here at home, inflation is coming down.
Here at home, gas prices are down $1.50 from their peak.
Food inflation is coming down, not fast enough, but coming down.
Did you just say the gas prices are down?
unidentified
You just said the gas prices are down.
You son of a barnyard!
joe biden
By the way, every time...
benny johnson
You lit liquor.
joe biden
Someone starts in small business as an act of hope.
And Madam Vice President, I want to thank you for leading that effort to ensure the small business have access to capital.
You know who don't have access to the capital?
benny johnson
The American people, could you put a fence around it?
joe biden
of American genius and possibilities.
Semiconductors.
Small computer chips the size of a fingerprint.
The power of everything.
So much more.
These chips were invented in America.
Let's get that straight.
They're invented in America.
We used to make 40% of the world's chips.
In the last several decades, we lost Why can't we make a potato chip?
We can't make a potato chip anymore.
Today's automobiles need 3,000 chips each of those automobiles.
American automobiles couldn't make enough cars because there weren't enough chips.
Car prices went up.
People got laid off.
So did everything from refrigerators to cell phones.
We can never let that happen again.
That's why.
That's why we came together to pass the Bipartisan Chips and Science Act.
benny johnson
We were able to fund...
Five new Lay's potato factories.
unidentified
Five new Lay's potato factories.
benny johnson
Tom Cotton's like, uh-uh, uh-uh.
There's empty seats there, too.
There are senators who aren't there.
joe biden
I know I'll be criticized for saying this, but I'm not changing my view.
We're going to make sure the supply chain for America begins in America.
The supply chain begins in America.
benny johnson
Supply of hookers and blow for Hunter.
That's the only supply chain that Joe Biden has protected.
Who's that?
joe biden
800,000 new manufacturing jobs without this law, before the law kicks in.
With this new law, we're going to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs across the country.
And I mean all across the country.
Throughout not just the coast, but through the middle of the country as well.
That's going to come from companies that have announced more than three...
$300 billion in investment in American manufacturing over the next few years.
Outside of Columbus, Ohio, Intel is building semiconductor factories on 1,000 acres.
Literally a field of dreams.
It's going to create 10,000 jobs, that one investment.
7,000 construction jobs.
3,000 jobs.
benny johnson
And we let the Chinese balloon spy on all of it.
joe biden
And many do not require a college degree.
benny johnson
$130,000 a year?
That's like one month of Bursama payments for Hunter.
Chinese spy balloon.
Oh, Fang Fang!
Fang Fang!
She flew you a balloon!
joe biden
Eric, she flew your balloon!
benny johnson
Just in time for Valentine's Day!
joe biden
Think about the new homes, the small businesses, the medium-sized businesses.
So much more that's going to be needed to support those 3,000 permanent jobs.
benny johnson
Look at Kevin McCarthy's expression.
unidentified
Look at that.
joe biden
Look at Kevin McCarthy.
benny johnson
Good for him.
joe biden
Talk to mayors and governors, Democrats and Republicans.
benny johnson
Way to go.
joe biden
And they'll tell you what this means for their communities.
For seeing these field of dreams transformed to the heartland, but to maintain the strongest economy in the world.
We need the best infrastructure in the world.
unidentified
Folks, as you all know...
benny johnson
Man, more Ukraine pins than there are American flags.
joe biden
We've sunk to 13th in the world.
The United States of America, 13th in the world in infrastructure, modern infrastructure.
benny johnson
He's yelling!
joe biden
But now we're coming back.
Because we came together and passed a bipartisan infrastructure law.
The largest investment in infrastructure since President Eisenhower's interstate highway system.
benny johnson
You can tell he's lying because of the amount of yelling.
When he starts yelling, that means two things.
He's lying and he has poopy pants.
joe biden
Already we've funded over 20,000 projects, including major airports from Boston to Atlanta to Portland.
Projects that are going to put thousands of people to work rebuilding our highways, our bridges, our railroads, our tunnels, ports, airports, clean water, high-speed internet, all across America.
Urban, rural, tribal.
And folks, we're just getting started.
We're just getting started.
And I mean this sincerely, I want to thank my Republican friends who voted for the law.
And my Republican friends who voted against it as well.
But I still get asked to fund the projects in those districts as well.
But don't worry.
I promised I'd be a president for all Americans.
We'll fund these projects.
And I'll see you at the groundbreaking.
unidentified
Free free at the groundbreaking What What?
joe biden
Who does it like that?
What are you wearing?
benny johnson
This is not the Grammys!
Although this is Satan worshippers all in one room.
joe biden
I went there last month with Democrats and Republicans and from both states.
To deliver a commitment of $1.6 billion for this project.
And while I was there, I met a young woman named Sarah, who's here tonight.
I don't know where Sarah is.
Is she up in the box?
I don't know.
Sarah, how are you?
Well, Sarah, for 30 years.
unidentified
Ah, that's Sarah.
benny johnson
Got it.
joe biden
For 30 years.
I learned.
She told me she'd been a proud member of the Ironworkers Local 44, known as the Cowboys in the Sky.
benny johnson
Why are you yelling at her?
Unions voted for Trump, dude.
Unions voted Trump.
Union members vote Trump.
joe biden
She can't wait to be 10 stories above the Ohio River building that new bridge.
God bless her.
That's pride.
And that's what we're also building.
We're building back pride.
Look, we're also replacing poisonous lead pipes that go into 10 million homes in America.
benny johnson
Are you going to wear the bedazzling jacket while you're building the bridge?
joe biden
So every child in America, every child in America can drink the water instead of having permanent damage to their brain.
unidentified
Look, we're making sure...
benny johnson
What the French toast?
joe biden
That every community, every community in America has access to affordable high-speed internet.
No parent should have to drive by McDonald's parking lot to help them do their homework online with their kids, which many thousands are doing across the country.
And when we do these projects...
benny johnson
I love this line.
joe biden
And again, I get criticized for this, but I make no excuses for it.
We're going to buy American.
unidentified
We're going to buy American.
Okay.
benny johnson
Who goes to McDonald's to use the...
Wait a second.
Who goes to McDonald's to use the Wi-Fi?
Somebody, like, told Joe Biden this once.
joe biden
It's totally consistent with international trade rules.
Why America has been the law since 1933, but for too long, past administrations, Democrat and Republican have fought to get around it.
Not anymore.
Tonight, I'm announcing new standards require all construction materials using federal infrastructure projects to be made in America.
benny johnson
Oh, wow.
Wow.
Joe Biden, that's the first deal he's ever done in America.
He's done deals in Russia and Ukraine, Tajikistan.
He's done deals in China.
joe biden
And on my watch, American roads, bridges, and American highways are going to be made with American products as well.
Folks, my economic plan is about investing in places and people that have been forgotten.
benny johnson
I'm the emperor from Star Wars!
joe biden
So many of you listen to me tonight.
benny johnson
Listen to me!
Or I got lightning bolts for you!
joe biden
So many of you felt like you've just simply been forgotten.
unidentified
Made in America!
joe biden
Too many people have been left behind and treated like they're invisible.
Maybe that's you watching from home.
Remember the jobs that went away.
You remember them, don't you?
The folks at home remember them.
You wonder whether the path even exists anymore for your children to get ahead without having to move away.
Well, that's why I get that.
That's why we're building an economy where no one's left behind.
Jobs are coming back.
Pride is coming back.
Because choices we made in the last several years.
benny johnson
You've created zero jobs.
joe biden
This is, in my view, a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America and make a real difference in your lives at home.
For example, sponsored by Pfizer.
benny johnson
Have you seen the Pfizer tag on my back?
joe biden
Wondering what in God's name happens if your spouse gets cancer.
Or your child gets deadly ill.
Or something happens to you.
What are you going to do?
Money to pay for those medical bills?
You don't have to sell the house or try to get a second mortgage on it.
I get it.
I get it.
The Inflation Reduction Act that I signed into law, we're taking on powerful interests to bring health care costs down so you can sleep better at night with more security.
You know, we pay more for prescription drugs than any nation in the world.
Let me say it again.
We pay more for prescription drugs than any major nation in the world.
Here we go.
benny johnson
Palpatine hands again.
Is Kamala drunk?
joe biden
What is she doing?
benny johnson
Why is she scowling?
Is she drunk?
joe biden
But every day, millions need insulin to control their diabetes so they can literally stay alive.
Insulin's been around for over 100 years.
The guy who invented it didn't even patent it because he wanted it to be available for you.
benny johnson
It's vodka.
joe biden
It cost the drug companies roughly $10 a vial to make that insulin.
Package it and all, you may get up to $13.
But Big Pharma has been unfairly charging people hundreds of dollars, $400 to $500 a month, making record profits.
Not anymore.
unidentified
Dude, you are literally sponsored by Pfizer.
benny johnson
You are literally the world's greatest pharmaceutical salesman.
You created a vaccine mandate.
You old jack wagon.
unidentified
What the French toast.
benny johnson
Dude, you have a Pfizer tramp stamp on your ass.
joe biden
We said we were doing this and we said we passed the law to do it.
benny johnson
Dandruffy.
joe biden
But people didn't know the law didn't take effect until January 1 of this year.
benny johnson
You said you're going to fight big...
joe biden
We capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors.
benny johnson
Really?
joe biden
Really?
benny johnson
Did you do a mandate for that too?
joe biden
Dude, people are just finding out.
benny johnson
The Supreme Court had to strike down your vaccine mandate.
And you said you're going to fight big pharma?
joe biden
Look, there are millions of other Americans.
benny johnson
You are a disease.
joe biden
You are not on Medicare.
Including 200,000 young people with type 1 diabetes.
Speaking of a...
It looks like a duck.
benny johnson
Bernie Sanders with a duck impression.
joe biden
Let's cap the cost of everybody at $35.
benny johnson
The old quack.
We call him an old quack.
Dad joke.
Look at that.
John Tester.
Look at this guy.
Jill Biden.
Looking like a tube of toothpaste.
Jill Biden looks like New Crest.
joe biden
I promise you, they're going to do very well.
benny johnson
Kamala Harris looks like Sam Smith, dancing as Satan.
joe biden
When is Kamala Harris going to dance?
Costs out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors on Medicare at a maximum of $2,000 a year.
You don't have to pay more than $2,000 a year, no matter how much you don't cost.
unidentified
Do you know why?
You all know why.
joe biden
Many of you, like many in my family, have cancer.
You know the drugs can range from 10. $11, $14, $15,000 for the cancer drugs.
If drug prices rise faster than inflation, drug companies are going to have to pay Medicare back the difference.
We're finally giving Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices.
Bringing down prescription drug costs doesn't just save seniors money.
It cuts the federal deficit by billions of dollars.
unidentified
Dude, this guy has a brain injury.
joe biden
Look at that.
benny johnson
Look at that.
That lady's name is Rosa DeLauro, congresswoman from Connecticut.
joe biden
She looks like a space alien.
Instead of paying $400 or $500 a month, you're paying $15.
That's a lot of savings for the federal government.
And by the way, why wouldn't we want that?
Now some members here are threatening, and I know it's not an official party position, so I'm not going to exaggerate, but certainly the Inflation Reduction Act.
As my coach, that's okay, that's fair.
As my football coach used to say, lots of luck in your senior year.
benny johnson
You didn't have a football coach because you were born a lizard.
You are a lizard person.
You came from the lizard planet.
That's why Kamala's neck looks like that.
unidentified
Look at Ted Cruz.
joe biden
The lion.
How short is Jerry Nadler?
benny johnson
Did you know the Penguin was elected to Congress?
joe biden
Thanks for the law I signed last year, saving millions or saving $800 a year on their premiums.
By the way, that law was written and the benefit expires in 2025.
So my plea to some of you, at least in this audience, let's finish the job and make these savings permanent.
Expand coverage of Medicaid.
unidentified
So no one has to go get their Medicaid at McDonald's.
No parent should have to go get...
A vaccine at McDonald's for their Medicaid.
joe biden
Wireless.
unidentified
Ah, here we go.
benny johnson
You want your hot air, baby.
joe biden
Here we go.
benny johnson
Again, Kamala Harris is dressed like Sam Smith at the Grammys.
Sam Smith took his Satan outfit and sent it to Kamala.
joe biden
More timber has been burned, as I've observed from helicopters, than the entire state of Missouri.
And we don't have global warming?
Not a problem.
In addition to emergency recovery from Puerto Rico to Florida to Idaho, we're rebuilding for the long term.
New electric grids that are able to weather major storms and not prevent those forest fires.
Roads and water systems will stand in the next big flood.
Clean energy to cut pollution and create jobs in communities often left behind.
We're going to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations installed across the country by tens of thousands of IBW workers.
benny johnson
Hey, what does the electric grid come from?
Where do you get electricity, Joe?
Where does electricity come from?
joe biden
In America, it comes from burning coal and natural gas.
benny johnson
Electric cars are coal-powered cars.
joe biden
Let's face reality.
benny johnson
You old jack wagon.
joe biden
The climate crisis doesn't care if you're in a red or blue state.
It's an existential threat.
We have an obligation, not to ourselves, but to our children and grandchildren to confront it.
I'm proud of how America at last is stepping up to the challenge.
benny johnson
Burn more coal.
joe biden
We're still going to need oil and gas for a while.
But guess what?
No, we're good.
unidentified
We're still going to need oil and gas for a while.
benny johnson
Where does the electricity come from?
For the electric cars?
joe biden
We pay for these investments in our future by finally making the wealthiest and biggest corporations begin to pay their fair share.
benny johnson
Oh, here comes the creepy...
joe biden
Just begin.
benny johnson
Oh, there's a lot of more.
Oh, brother lover.
joe biden
Look, I'm a capitalist.
benny johnson
Lauren Boebert.
joe biden
I'm a capitalist, but pay your fair share.
benny johnson
Boebert and Gates are sitting together.
joe biden
I think a lot of you at home, a lot of you at home agree with me and many people that you know, the tax system is not fair.
It is not fair.
Sponsored by Pfizer.
unidentified
It's not fair.
benny johnson
Joe Biden's speech, sponsored by Pfizer.
joe biden
That in 2020, 55 of the largest corporations in America, the Fortune 500, What if she's wearing a crayon?
She's wearing a crayon, huh?
benny johnson
Oh, there she goes.
She's wearing a crayon.
What's she going to do?
Is she going to put it in her hair and pretend it's a feather?
Claim to be an Indian again?
joe biden
Gonna use it?
Color her face?
Racial.
benny johnson
Racial stolen valor.
joe biden
$400,000 will pay an additional penny in taxes.
Nobody, not one penny.
unidentified
Well, let's finish the job.
joe biden
There's more to do.
benny johnson
Racial hoaxer.
joe biden
She said it.
benny johnson
I'm an Indian because I have high cheekbones.
joe biden
She's on camera saying, Elizabeth Warren.
There's a thousand billionaires in America.
benny johnson
Racial fraud.
joe biden
But no billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a schoolteacher or firefighter.
I mean it.
Think about it.
unidentified
Remember that.
benny johnson
I went to a black church sponsored by Pfizer.
Jill Biden.
unidentified
Oh, man.
joe biden
I'm enthusiastic about that, but think about it.
Think about it.
Have you noticed?
Big Oil just reported its profits, record profits.
Last year they made $200 billion in the midst of a global energy crisis.
I think it's outrageous.
Why?
benny johnson
Chinese turtle!
joe biden
Too little of that profit increased domestic production.
And when I talked to a couple of them, they said, we're afraid you're going to shut down all the oil refineries anyway, so why should we invest in them?
I said, we're going to need oil for at least another decade.
And that's going to exceed and beyond that.
benny johnson
You've seen how much lube Hunter uses?
We need oil.
We need petroleum products.
joe biden
If they had, in fact, invested in the production to keep gas prices down, instead, they used the record profits to buy back their own stock.
Rewarding the CEOs and shareholders.
Corporations ought to do the right thing.
That's why I propose we quadruple the tax on corporate stock buybacks and encourage long-term investments.
benny johnson
Brought to you by Pfizer.
Oh, look, it's Ramen Noodle Hair Lady.
joe biden
Let's finish the job and close the loophole to allow very wealthy to avoid paying their taxes.
Instead of cutting the number of audits for wealthy taxpayers, I just signed a law to reduce the deficit by $114 billion by cracking down on wealthy tax cheats.
benny johnson
Hey, Joe, how many houses do you own?
How many beach houses you got, pal?
You're going to act like you're some champion for the middle class?
How many beach houses you got?
joe biden
$1.7 trillion.
The largest deficit reduction in American history.
Under the previous administration, the American deficit went up four years in a row.
Because those record deficits, no president added more to the national debt in any four years than my predecessor.
benny johnson
Kevin McCarthy's mean.
joe biden
Nearly 25% of the entire national debt that took over 200 years to accumulate was added by just one administration alone, the last one.
benny johnson
What's he saying?
I got my bingo card.
unidentified
Uh-oh.
joe biden
Check it out.
How did Congress respond to that debt?
They did the right thing.
They lifted the debt ceiling three times without preconditions or crisis.
They paid American bills.
benny johnson
Angry Brandon.
Dark Brandon.
joe biden
Let's get here tonight to the full faith and credit the United States of America will never, ever be questioned.
Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage.
I get it.
benny johnson
Unless I agree to their economic plans.
joe biden
All of you at home should know what those plans are.
unidentified
Lauren, we love you!
joe biden
Some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security sunset.
I'm not saying it's a majority.
unidentified
Anybody who doubts it, contact my office.
I'll give you a copy.
benny johnson
Marjorie!
What is Marjorie wearing?
Marjorie Taylor Greene representing Hoff.
joe biden
I enjoy conversion.
You know, it means if Congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are, they'd go the way other Republicans say.
I'm not saying it's the majority of you.
I don't even think it's even a significant...
But it's being proposed by individuals.
benny johnson
Yelled at.
joe biden
I'm not politely naming them, but it's being proposed by some of you.
benny johnson
Dude, this is amazing.
Joe Biden's getting fact-checked in real time!
joe biden
The idea is...
benny johnson
Fact-checked in real time!
unidentified
Get me that!
joe biden
We're not going to be threatened to default on the debt if we don't respond.
unidentified
Oh, man.
benny johnson
Look at Mike Lee!
Mike Lee's like, what?
unidentified
What?
What?
benny johnson
Joe Biden, what happened there is Joe Biden said that Republicans want to get rid of Medicaid.
joe biden
Social Security and Medicare is off the books now, right?
They're not to this far.
unidentified
All right.
benny johnson
They started yelling at him.
They're like, what do you mean?
You're like lying.
joe biden
Social Security and Medicare are a lifeline for millions of seniors.
Americans have to pay into them from the very first paycheck they started.
So tonight, let's all agree, and we apparently are, let's stand up for seniors.
benny johnson
Joe Biden?
joe biden
Stand up and show them.
We will not cut Social Security.
We will not cut Medicare.
Those benefits belong to the American people that earned it.
And if anyone tries to cut Social Security, which apparently no one's going to do, and if anyone tries to cut Medicare, I'll stop them.
I'll veto it.
I'm not going to allow them to take away, be taken away.
Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.
But apparently it's not going to be a problem.
Next month, when I offer my fiscal plan, I ask my Republican friends to lay down their plan as well.
I really mean it.
Let's sit down together and discuss our mutual plans together.
benny johnson
So getting rid of entitlement programs is actually an important thing.
It has to happen.
They are unattainable.
Social Security is bankrupt.
No one's going to get Social Security.
By the way, no one can even survive on Social Security anymore anyway.
joe biden
And it won't cut a single bit of Medicare or Social Security.
In fact, we're going to extend the Medicare Trust Fund at least two decades.
Because that's going to be the next argument.
How do we keep it solvent, right?
Well, we'll not raise tax on anyone making under 400 grand, but we'll pay for it the way we talked about it, by making sure that the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share.
Look, look, look.
Here's the deal.
benny johnson
You know, this guy just proposed a rule to tax waitresses more.
joe biden
They're taking advantage of you, the American consumer.
Here's my message to all of you out there.
Tax waitresses tips.
We're already preventing Americans from receiving surprise medical bills.
Stopping $1 billion surprise bills per month so far.
We're protecting seniors' life savings.
By cracking down the nursing homes that commit fraud, endanger patient safety, prescribe drugs that are not needed.
Millions of Americans can now save thousands of dollars because they can finally get a hearing aid over the counter without a prescription.
benny johnson
I don't know anything about hearing aids.
I am a lizard.
We hear through our mouths.
joe biden
It's extortion.
It's exploitation.
Last year, I cracked down on foreign shipping companies that were making you pay higher prices for every good coming into the country.
I signed a bipartisan bill to cut shipping costs by 90%, helping American farmers, businessmen, and consumers.
Let's finish the job.
Pass the bipartisan legislation to strengthen antitrust enforcement and prevent big online platforms from giving their own products an unfair advantage.
benny johnson
Again, Kamala Harris stole the Satan outfit from the Grammys.
Put on the top hat with the horns.
joe biden
Those hidden charges too many companies use to make you pay more.
For example, we're making airlines show you the full ticket price up front.
Refund your money if your flight is canceled or delayed.
We reduce exorbitant bank overdrafts.
By saving consumers more than $1 billion a year.
We're cutting credit card late fees by 75% from $30 to $8.
unidentified
It's time to yell!
It's time to yell!
benny johnson
We made your tickets transparent for airlines so that your planes can crash midair.
unidentified
Diversity!
joe biden
They make it harder for you to pay your bills or afford that family trip.
I know how unfair it feels when a company overcharges you and gets away with it.
Not anymore.
benny johnson
Like your son did?
joe biden
We've written a bill to stop it all.
It's called the Junk Fee Prevention Act.
We're going to ban surprise resort fees that hotels charge on your bill.
Those fees can cost you up to $90 a night at hotels that aren't even resorts.
Wow.
benny johnson
What about the bills for Hunter Biden that you paid at the Beverly Hills?
unidentified
We have the receipt, Joe.
joe biden
Give me a break.
We can stop service fees on tickets to concerts and sporting events.
We know you did.
And we'll prohibit airlines from charging $50 round trip for family just to be able to sit together.
Baggies fees are bad enough.
Airlines can't treat your child like a piece of baggage.
Americans are tired of being...
unidentified
Dude!
benny johnson
You hired a guy who stole women's baggage in the airport!
Your non-binary nuclear waste disposal guy stole women's baggage!
joe biden
Sam Brinton!
benny johnson
Sam Brinton!
joe biden
But not anymore.
We're beginning to restore the dignity of work.
Dude!
I should have moved, but I didn't until two years ago.
30 million workers have to sign non-compete agreements for the jobs they take.
30 million.
So a cashier at a burger place can't walk across town and take the same job at another burger place and make a few bucks more.
It just changed.
They just changed it because we exposed it.
That was part of the deal, guys.
unidentified
Look it up.
benny johnson
He's getting yelled at again.
joe biden
But not anymore.
benny johnson
He's getting yelled at again.
joe biden
For banning those agreements, so companies have to compete for workers and pay them what they're worth.
benny johnson
Yell more.
Republicans, yell more.
joe biden
And I must tell you.
benny johnson
Oh, my.
Oh, the squad.
There we go.
joe biden
I'm finally getting a response to my friends on my left but the right.
I'm so sick and tired of companies breaking the law by preventing workers from organizing.
Pass the PRO Act.
Because business have a right.
Workers have a right to form a union.
unidentified
Let's guarantee all workers have a living wage.
joe biden
Let's make sure working parents can afford to raise a family with sick days, paid family medical leave, affordable childcare.
That's going to enable millions of more people to go and stay at work.
And let's restore the full child tax credit.
Which gave tens of millions of parents some breathing room and cut child poverty in half to the lowest level in history.
And by the way, when we do all these things, we increase productivity.
We increase economic growth.
So let's finish the job and get more families access to affordable, quality housing.
Let's get seniors who want to stay in their homes, the care they need to do so.
Let's give more breathing room to millions of family caregivers looking after their loved ones.
Pass my plan so we get seniors and people with disabilities the home care and services they need.
unidentified
And support the workers who are doing God's work.
joe biden
These plans are fully paid for and we can afford to do them.
Restoring the dignity of work means making education and affordable tickets to the middle class.
You know, when we made public education, 12 years of it, universal in the last century.
We made the best educated, best paid, we became the best educated, best paid nation in the world.
The rest of the world's caught up.
It's caught up.
Jill, my wife, who teaches full time, has an expression.
I hope I get it right, kid.
Any nation that out-educates us is going to out-compete us.
benny johnson
We know you're into kids.
joe biden
Any nation that out-educates is going to out-compete us.
Folks, we all know 12 years of education is not enough to win the economic competition of 21st century.
unidentified
We want to have the best educated workforce.
joe biden
Let's finish the job.
By providing access to preschool for three and four years old.
Studies show that children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a two or four year degree, no matter their background they came from.
Let's give public school teachers a raise.
benny johnson
I still cannot believe that he said that he doesn't want to treat children like baggage.
And he was for forced vaccine mandates.
He was for masking children.
And he hired a guy who stole baggage at the airport.
joe biden
Let's finish the job.
And connect students to career opportunities starting in high school.
benny johnson
Oh, he's also for abortion.
joe biden
Provide access to two years of community college.
benny johnson
Permanent abortion.
Forever.
joe biden
The best career training in America in addition to being a pathway to a four-year degree.
benny johnson
Post-birth abortion.
joe biden
Let's offer every American a path to a good career, whether they go to college or not.
benny johnson
How about you stop treating children like baggage, Joe?
joe biden
Stop showering with them.
When schools were closed.
And we were shutting down everything.
benny johnson
You shut down everything!
joe biden
To recognize how far we came in the fight against the pandemic itself.
While the virus is not gone, thanks to the resilience of the American people and the ingenuity of medicine, we've broken the COVID grip on us.
COVID deaths are down by 90%.
We've saved millions of lives and opened up our country.
We opened our country back up.
And soon we'll end the public health emergency.
But that's called a public health emergency.
But we'll remember the toll and pain that's never going to go away.
More than a million Americans lost their lives to COVID.
A million.
Families grieving.
Children orphaned.
Empty chairs at the dining room table constantly reminding you that she used to sit there remembering them.
We remain vigilant.
We still need to monitor dozens of variants and support new vaccines and treatments.
So Congress needs to fund these efforts and keep America safe.
And as we emerge from this crisis stronger, we're also got to double down on prosecuting criminals who stole relief money meant to keep workers in small businesses afloat.
benny johnson
Dirtiest attorney general ever.
Okay, so wait a second.
Joe Biden is sitting there talking about the pain of COVID, and he and his party, one, funded Dr. Fauci's research to do gain-of-function research in the Wuhan world.
joe biden
And fraud became rampant.
Last year...
I told you the watchdogs are back.
Fraud was rampant.
unidentified
What about your own family, Joe?
joe biden
Now let's triple the anti-fraud strike force going after these criminals, double the statute of limitations on these crimes, and crack down on identity fraud by criminal syndicates stealing billions of dollars, billions of dollars from the American people.
benny johnson
Your own kid got billions of dollars from the communist Chinese.
joe biden
From Ukraine.
benny johnson
From bio-laboratories.
From Russian oligarchs.
Your own family.
You talk about fraud.
joe biden
Like a spike in violent crime in 2020.
Go fraud yourself.
We have an obligation to make sure all people are safe.
Public safety depends on public trust, as all of us know.
But too often that trust is violated.
Join us tonight are the parents of Tyree Nichols.
unidentified
Welcome.
Welcome.
joe biden
I had to bury Tyree last week.
As many of you personally know, there's no words to describe the heartache or grief of losing a child.
But imagine.
Imagine if you lost that child at the hands of the law.
Imagine having to worry whether your son or daughter came home from walking down the street, playing in the park, or just driving a car.
Most of us in here have never had to have the talk, the talk that brown and black parents have had to have with their children.
Beau, Hunter, Ashley, my children.
I never had to have a talk with them.
I never had to tell them if a police officer pulls you over, turn your interior lights on right away.
benny johnson
Dude, you old ass racist!
joe biden
Keep your hands on the steering wheel.
Imagine having to worry like that every single time.
benny johnson
My parents literally told me to do that.
joe biden
Here's what Tyree's mother shared with me when I spoke to her.
benny johnson
You're saying the police have never killed a white person.
Is that what you're saying?
joe biden
The faith in God, she said her son was, quote, a beautiful soul, and something good will come of this.
Imagine how much courage and clarity that takes.
It's up to us, to all of us.
We all want the same thing.
Neighborhoods free of violence.
Law enforcement earns the community's trust.
Just as every cop when they pin on that badge in the morning has a right to be able to go home at night, so does everybody else out there.
Our children...
benny johnson
Dude, you were for defund the police.
You're in favor of defund the police.
joe biden
Look at this guy.
benny johnson
Al Green, hacking, coughing.
What a disgusting racial attack.
What a disgusting racial attack.
joe biden
in many cases to do too much to be counselors, social workers, psychologists, drug overdoses, mental health crises, and so much more.
In one sense, we ask much too This just pisses me off so much.
benny johnson
You ran against police officers.
You knelt to BLM.
You literally got down on your old diseased knees and knelt to BLM.
You were in favor of defunding the police.
joe biden
But what happened to Tyree in Memphis happens too often.
We have to do better.
Give law enforcement the real training they need.
Hold them to higher standards.
Help them succeed in keeping us safe.
We also need more first responders and professionals to address the growing mental health and substance abuse challenges.
More resources to reduce violent crime and gun crime.
unidentified
More community intervention programs.
joe biden
More intervention in housing, education, and job training.
benny johnson
Memphis, where Tyree Nichols died, is run by Democrats, Democrat police chief, Democrat city council, Democrat DA, all five officers charged here were black.
joe biden
They must be held accountable.
unidentified
Oh, what?
benny johnson
Oh, why didn't you mention their rights?
Unbelievable.
What a cretinous, craven, despicable man.
joe biden
Of the families of victims, civil rights groups, and law enforcement, I signed an executive order for all federal officers banning chokeholds, restricting no-knock warrants, and other key elements of the George Floyd Act.
Let's commit ourselves to make the words of Tyler's mom true.
Something good must come from this.
Something good.
And all of us.
All of us.
unidentified
Thank you.
benny johnson
What Joe Biden is failing to mention...
As he coughs there into his COVID hand, is that the entire city of Memphis has been run by Democrats for generations.
Multiple of these officers were hired for the lowering of standards inside of the police department for diversity programs.
joe biden
Let's come together to finish the job on police reform.
Do something.
Do something.
That was the plea of parents who lost their children in Uvalde.
benny johnson
What a nauseating...
joe biden
Do something about gun violence.
Thank God.
benny johnson
Nauseating.
To turn that into a racial...
To turn that into some type of like...
My kids don't have to worry about this?
joe biden
That includes things like...
benny johnson
Disgusting, divisive man.
joe biden
Enhanced background checks for 18 to 21 years old.
Red flag laws keeping guns out of the hands of people who are a danger to themselves and others.
But we know our work is not done.
Joining us tonight is Brandon Say, a 26-year-old hero.
Brandon put his college dreams on hold to be at his mom's side.
His mom sighed when she was dying from cancer.
And Brandon...
benny johnson
Okay.
joe biden
Brandon now works at the dance studio started by his grandparents.
Two weeks ago, during the Lunar New Year celebrations, he heard the studio door close.
He saw a man standing there pointing semi-automatic pistol at him.
He thought he was going to die, but he thought about the people inside.
In that instant, he found the courage to act and wrestled a semi-automatic pistol away from the gunman who had already killed 11 people in another dance studio.
unidentified
11. He saved lives.
joe biden
It's time we do the same.
Banned assault weapons now!
Banned them now!
benny johnson
Really?
So it's the gun's fault.
Also, define an assault weapon.
Define an assault weapon.
joe biden
I love the fight to do that.
benny johnson
The assault weapons ban did not stop gun violence.
joe biden
After we let it expire in the Republican administration, mass shootings tripled.
Let's finish the job and ban these assault weapons.
And let's also come together on immigration.
Make it a bipartisan issue once again.
unidentified
Here it comes.
benny johnson
Here it comes.
joe biden
We know.
We now have a record number of personnel working to secure the border, arresting 8,000 human smugglers, seizing over 23,000 pounds of fentanyl in just the last several months.
We launched a new border plan last month.
benny johnson
Oh, boy.
joe biden
Migration from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela has come down 97% as a consequence of that.
benny johnson
Look at that human ball sack.
joe biden
American border problems won't be fixed until Congress acts.
If we don't pass my comprehensive immigration reform, at least pass my plan to provide the equipment and officers to secure the border.
unidentified
Oh, oh, you diseased old bastard.
joe biden
And a pathway to citizenship.
benny johnson
You lit liquor!
joe biden
Those on temporary status, farm workers, essential workers.
benny johnson
How dare you?
joe biden
Here in the People's House, it's our duty to protect all the people's rights and freedoms.
Congress must restore the right that was taken away in Roe v.
Wade and protect Roe v.
unidentified
Wade.
benny johnson
Not a right.
Not a right.
joe biden
The Vice President and I are doing everything.
benny johnson
Oh, remember here, by the way, Joe Biden says the airline shouldn't treat your kids like baggage, but also we should be pushing young women to kill their children.
But that's not treating them like baggage.
joe biden
If Congress passes a national ban, I will veto it.
unidentified
Oh, man, the audacity to talk about the border.
joe biden
Let's also pass the Bipartisan Equality Act.
I'm sure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.
benny johnson
Didn't get the plus in there.
joe biden
Our strength is not just the example of our power, but the power of our example.
Let's remember the world's watching.
I spoke in this chamber one year ago, just days after Vladimir Putin unleashed his brutal attack against Ukraine.
A murderous assault, evoking images of death and destruction that Europe suffered in World War II.
Putin's invasion has been a test for the ages, a test for America, a test for the world.
Would we stand for the most basic of principles?
Would we stand for sovereignty?
Would we stand for the right of people to live free of tyranny?
benny johnson
Dude, you fall off bikes.
joe biden
Would we stand for the defense of democracy?
benny johnson
You can't stand.
You fall downstairs.
joe biden
Social defense matters to us because it keeps peace and prevents open season.
I would be aggressive and threatens our prosperity.
benny johnson
Literally, oh, it's the mushroom.
joe biden
One year later, we know the answer.
Yes, we would, and we did.
We did.
And together, we did what America always does at our best.
We led.
We united NATO.
We built a global coalition.
We stood against Putin's aggression.
We stood with the Ukrainian people tonight.
We're once again joined by the Ukrainians ambassador to the United States.
She represents not just her nation, but the courage of her people.
Ambassador.
benny johnson
There's Paul.
joe biden
Our ambassador is here.
benny johnson
Good old Paul.
joe biden
We're united in our support of your country.
Will you stand so we can all take a look at you?
benny johnson
No drinker time.
joe biden
Paul's wearing pants.
benny johnson
Paul's wearing pants in this video.
joe biden
We're going to stand with you.
unidentified
As long as it takes.
benny johnson
What size fox do they have his speech printed out in?
joe biden
Our nation's working for more dignity, more peace.
Not just in Europe, but everywhere.
Before I came to office, the story was about how the...
People's Republic of China was increasing its power, and America was failing in the world.
benny johnson
Oh, man.
joe biden
Not anymore.
We made clear, and I made my personal conversations, which have been many, with President Xi, that we seek competition, not conflict.
But I will make no apologies that we're investing to make America stronger.
Investing in American innovation and industries will define the future that China intends to be dominating.
benny johnson
He's getting slow.
He's slurring.
joe biden
Investing in our alliances and working with our allies to protect advanced technologies so they will not be used against us.
Modernizing our military to safeguard stability and deter aggression.
Today, we're in the strongest position in decades to compete with China or anyone else in the world.
benny johnson
Dude, you just let China fly a spy balloon to Eric Swalwell's house and sleep with him.
We know you popped the balloon with Eric Swalwell.
We know you did.
joe biden
Trans-American interests and benefit the world, but make no mistake about it.
As we made clear last You didn't!
benny johnson
You literally didn't!
unidentified
Sit down, Kamala!
benny johnson
My God, Karl Marx behind Jill Biden.
joe biden
When in the competition should you deny all of us?
We face serious challenges across the world.
But in the past two years, democracies have become stronger, not weaker.
Autocracies have grown weaker, not stronger.
Name me a world leader who changed places with Xi Jinping.
Name me one.
Name me one.
benny johnson
Dude, you're a lizard person to show.
joe biden
America's rallying the world to meet those challenges from climate to global health to food insecurity to terrorism to territorial aggression.
Allies are stepping up, spending more, and doing more.
benny johnson
Joe, your human exoskeleton is falling off.
joe biden
The bridges were forming between partners in the Pacific and those in the Atlantic.
benny johnson
Very lizard-y.
joe biden
Those who bet against America are learning how wrong they are.
It's never, ever been a good bet to bet against America.
Never.
unidentified
Who would change places with Xi Jinping?
Who?
Who?
Palpatine hands.
benny johnson
What are you doing?
Some guy's got a cane.
joe biden
What's he doing with a cane?
I never believed it.
You're going to give Pelosi a flashback.
We made real progress together.
We passed the law making it easy for doctors to prescribe effective treatments for opioid addiction.
We passed.
The gun safety law making historic investments in mental health.
benny johnson
You're going to talk about opioids only.
joe biden
We launched the ARPA-8 drive for breakthrough in the fights against cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes, and so much more.
benny johnson
He's slurring, guys.
Like, look at how he's been going for an hour and ten minutes.
joe biden
named after the late Iraq war veteran's story about exposure to toxic burn kits I shared here last year.
I understand something about those burn pits, but there's so much more to do.
We can do it together.
Joining us tonight is a father named Doug from Newton, New Hampshire.
He wrote Jill, my wife, a letter, and me as well, about his courageous daughter, Courtney.
A contagious laugh, his sister's best friend, her sister's best friend.
He shared a story all too familiar to millions of Americans and many of you in the audience.
Courtney discovered pills in high school.
benny johnson
That came here through an open border.
joe biden
And eventually death from a fentanyl overdose.
She was just 20 years old.
Describing the last eight years without her, Doug said, there's no worse pain.
benny johnson
Dude, the fentanyl came from China through an open border!
joe biden
Working to end the stigma and change laws.
He told us he wants to start a journey toward American recovery.
Doug, we're with you.
Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year.
benny johnson
The fentanyl comes from China through our open border.
The border's open because of you, Jack Wad.
unidentified
The border's open.
joe biden
So let's launch a major surge of fentanyl production in the sale and trafficking with more drug detection machines, inspection cargo, stop pills and powder at the border.
benny johnson
I'm pissed, man.
joe biden
I'm pissed.
unidentified
This craven scumbag.
This guy, oh.
joe biden
When millions of young people are struggling with bullying, violence, trauma, we have greater access to mental health care at their schools.
benny johnson
Bullying?
joe biden
We must finally hold social media companies accountable for experimenting or doing running Children for Profit.
benny johnson
Bullying?
joe biden
It's time to pass bipartisan legislation.
benny johnson
Children for Profit is your abortion industry, Joe, and bullying is what you did to Corn Pop.
Justice for Corn Pop!
joe biden
Fan targeted advertising to children.
And opposed to their limits...
benny johnson
Justice for Corn Pop.
joe biden
The companies collect on all of this.
Third, let's do more to keep this nation's one's fully sacred obligation to equip those we send into harm's way and care for them and their families when they come home.
Job training, job placement for veterans, You son of a bitch.
benny johnson
You killed 13 American service members in Afghanistan.
joe biden
Helping veterans afford the rent.
Because no one should be homeless in America, especially someone who served the country.
benny johnson
You ordered them to their death, Joe Biden.
And you have spent exactly $100 billion more on Ukraine than you have on homeless American veterans.
You old, diseased human cancer.
joe biden
Dennis McDonough is here, the VA.
We had our first real discussion when I asked him to take the job.
I'm glad he did.
We were losing up to 25 veterans a day on suicide.
benny johnson
How many did you lose in Afghanistan, Joe?
joe biden
In the silent scourge of suicide.
17 veterans a day are committing suicide.
More than all the people being killed in the wars.
Folks, VA is doing everything they can, including expanding mental health screening.
benny johnson
We're not at war.
joe biden
Proven programs that recruits veterans.
To help other veterans understand what they're going through.
Get them the help they need.
We've got to do more.
And fourth, last year, Jill and I reignited the cancer moonshot that I was able to start with.
President Obama asked me to lead our administration on this issue.
Our goal is to cut the cancer death rates at least by 50% in the next 25 years.
Turn more cancers from death sentences to treatable diseases Provide more support for patients and their families It's personal to so many of us so many of us this audience Joining us are Morris and Candice An Irishman and the daughter of immigrants from Panama.
They met and fell in love in New York What's going on?
Kindred spirits.
benny johnson
What's happening?
joe biden
He wrote us a letter about his little daughter, Ava, and I saw her just before I came over.
She was just a year old when she was diagnosed with rare kidney disease, cancer.
After 26 blood transfusions, 11 rounds of radiation, 8 rounds of chemo, one kidney removed, given a 5% survival rate.
He wrote how in the darkest moments he thought, if she goes, I can't stay.
Many of you have been through that as well.
Jillian, I understand that like so many of you.
He read Jill's book describing our family's cancer journey and how we tried to steal moments of joy where we could with both.
For them, that glimmer of joy was the half-smile of their baby girl.
It meant everything to them.
They never gave up hope.
Little Ava never gave up hope.
She turns four next month.
They just found out.
Is on her way to being cured of cancer.
And she's watching from the White House tonight and she's not asleep already.
For the lives we can save.
benny johnson
Obviously not going to say anything about, you know, God bless them and I hope that their child gets better.
Obviously.
joe biden
For the lives we can save and the lives we've lost.
Let's just be a truly American moment.
It rallies the country and the world together.
And prove that we can still do big things.
Twenty years ago, under the leadership of President Bush and countless advocates and champions, he undertook a bipartisan effort through PEPFAR to transform the global fight against HIV-AIDS.
It's been a huge success.
He thought big.
He thought large.
He moved.
I believe we can do the same thing with cancer.
benny johnson
Look at the cane.
Look at the cane in the shot.
Put it down.
joe biden
What is this?
Once and for all.
benny johnson
What is that?
joe biden
There's one reason why we were able to do all of these things.
benny johnson
It's Nancy Pelosi.
joe biden
Our democracy itself.
It's the most fundamental thing of all.
With democracy, everything's possible.
Without it, nothing is.
The last few years, our democracy has been threatened and attacked, put at risk.
Put to the test in this very room on January the 6th.
benny johnson
Here we go.
joe biden
And then just a few months ago, an unhinged big lie assailed and unleashed the political violence at the home of the then-speaker of the House of Representatives, using the very same language the insurrectionists use as they stalked these halls and chanted on January 6th.
Here tonight in this chamber is a man who bears the scars of that brutal attack.
But it's as tough and as strong and as resilient as they get.
My friend Paul Pelosi.
Paul Stanley.
benny johnson
Oh my God.
He did it.
Guys, we've got to do the show on Paul Pelosi tomorrow.
He did it.
He conflated.
He conflated Paul Pelosi's attack with the MAGA movement.
joe biden
We must all speak out.
benny johnson
There's no place for political violence in America.
You are a disease.
joe biden
We have to protect the right to vote, not suppress the fundamental right.
Honor the results of our elections, not subvert the will of people.
We have to uphold the rule of law and restore trust in our institutions of democracy.
benny johnson
That's right.
joe biden
We must give hate and extremism in any form no safe harbor.
benny johnson
This is from the same jackasses that said that Donald Trump is not a legitimate president.
Of the scum!
The parasites in that audience said Donald Trump was not a legitimate president and that he stole the election from Hillary Clinton.
We have them on tape!
Stop waving the cane!
You're going to give Paul Pelosi a flashback!
Stop it!
joe biden
And this is our moment.
My fellow Americans, we meet tonight at an inflection point.
One of those moments that only a few generations ever face.
But the direction we now take is going to decide the course of this nation for decades to come.
We're not bystanders of history.
We're not powerless before the forces that confront us.
It's within our power of we, the people.
We're facing the test of our time.
We have to be the nation we've always been at our best.
unidentified
Optimistic, hopeful, forward-looking.
joe biden
A nation that embraces light over dark.
Hope over fear.
Stability over chaos.
We have to see each other not as enemies, but as fellow Americans.
benny johnson
He's starting to drool.
We're good people.
joe biden
The only one.
benny johnson
Uh, no.
What?
unidentified
What exactly is the idea there, Joe?
benny johnson
What's that?
Why are they all wearing crayons?
joe biden
Or defined by geography, ethnicity.
But we're the only nation based on an idea that all of us, every one of us, is created equal in the image of God.
unidentified
A nation that stands as a beacon of the world.
joe biden
A nation in a new age of possibilities.
So I've come to fulfill my constitutional obligation to report in the State of the Union.
And here's my report.
Because the soul of this nation is strong.
Because the backbone of this nation is strong.
Because the people of this nation are strong.
The State of the Union is strong.
unidentified
Applause.
Thank you.
Look.
benny johnson
Liz.
Nancy Pelosi can't even stand.
Good for Kevin.
Good for Kevin.
Look at Kevin.
The Rock.
Stay a rock, pal.
joe biden
I'm not new to this place.
I stand here tonight and have served as long as about any one of you have ever served here.
benny johnson
You're a fossil.
You've never had a job in the private sector.
joe biden
But I've never been more optimistic about our future.
About the future of America.
Just to remember who we are.
We're the United States of America.
unidentified
Yelling!
joe biden
Nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together.
Loud noises!
Thank you.
unidentified
Oh, man.
Thank you.
President Biden in a roughly hour and 15-minute speech.
The State of the Union is not the only voice in that chamber tonight.
He got some words of encouragement from the left side of the aisle and some words of criticism from the other side of the aisle tonight, but seemed to at times relish mixing it up at other times.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, what you just saw there was an absolute catastrophe for Joe Biden.
He was shouted down multiple times in the chamber.
He lied, essentially threw his teeth through the entire program.
But most especially, as you watch him bumble and fumble and figure out his way back to the dementia ward of the local nursing home, you saw the craven, absolute disgust of him using a...
Horrible attack in Memphis.
Nobody is saying that it's not an awful attack.
But trying to, like, make it a race issue?
I mean, it was so despicable, saying that his white kids don't have to follow orders when police officers pull them over?
What a sick, craven old lunatic.
This guy tells a story about Corn Pop, where it's like, I went after this young black man to beat him up, and I got a chain and a razor blade to beat him up.
So this same guy, this same old cretin, man, look at all these fossils.
Look at all these fossils.
You want to know why America's in the state that it is?
You want to know why America's in the state that it is?
There's Bill Pascrell, that guy, right there.
The guy he's shaking his hand with.
That guy's like 90 years old.
His district in New Jersey looks like a bomb went off.
I mean, it is just so bad.
All of these people.
Look at the purple hair.
That's Rosa DeLauro.
Look at these absolute freak shows.
Degenerates.
Lizard people.
Boy, it was really bad.
Man, I got so upset at that.
I am so disgusted by this.
I was so angry at those Memphis lines with him there.
We will have Sarah Sanders soon, ladies and gentlemen.
Sarah Sanders will be doing her response.
We love Sarah and we'll certainly stick through.
To that moment, as we watch Joe Biden sort of fumble and sort of cough on everyone.
Fake teeth, fake hair.
Somebody who's not fake is the great ALX, our executive producer at this show, who is a very, very smart young man.
He'll be joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, to tell us what he thinks about this whole debacle.
Hopefully we can keep sort of the...
Can we keep the picture up, Royce?
Can we keep the video up?
There we go.
Nice.
Alex, got you, buddy?
alex alx lorusso
Yes, sir.
Can you hear me loud and clear?
There we go.
benny johnson
I got you.
alex alx lorusso
This is...
This was an absolute joke.
Oh, gosh.
Oh, yeah.
They're talking right now about the balloon incident, how he hit the intelligence from Trump.
That's exactly what happened.
We've got Adam Schiff in there, too.
Oh, it was your idea.
benny johnson
You sent the balloon.
Oh, that's right.
Adam Schiff.
Oh, my God.
Adam Schiff and General Mili all together talking about their great plan of popping the balloon by sending it on a hot date to China Buffet with Eric Swalwell.
alex alx lorusso
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, and then the entire time he was just, you know, screaming loud noises the entire time.
David Sachs posted, old man yells at Cloud saying this is every Biden speech.
benny johnson
Yes!
unidentified
Yes!
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, it's absolutely nothing of substance.
It's just all yelling at random times.
We got the January 6th Paul Pelosi connection.
We knew that was coming.
benny johnson
Every lie in the book.
You have him talking about going after tax cheats while his son is literally being indicted for being a tax cheat.
alex alx lorusso
Yes, and the Biden IRS is actually going to target waitress and waiter's tips.
I saw that story come out today.
benny johnson
That's right.
So, what was the standout moment for you, ALX?
You are a keen observer of these things.
alex alx lorusso
The standout moment and most viral moment happened before the speech.
It was Doug Emhoff and Jill Biden kissing on the lips.
Mind you, there's still a COVID emergency until May 11th.
I don't think that's socially distancing.
They're kissing on the lips for Congress.
benny johnson
Do we have it?
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, let's see this.
benny johnson
Rolls Royce is telling us we got it.
Oh boy.
Ladies and gentlemen, cringe alert.
Man, right on the lips!
unidentified
Whoa!
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, that image is everywhere on social media right now.
That is the number one viral moment I've been seeing.
And then the number two, I think, is MTG yelling liar and everyone else yelling liar when Biden claimed that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
So that was, I think, the number two moment.
benny johnson
So I believe we have those moments queued up, but before we get to them, because there might have been, I might have been engaging in some crosstalk, because I really wanted to fact check.
I mean, we told the audience, and we love all of you, we told you that we would be your voice here, we would put up your comments, and we would shout down Joe Biden, and tell, you know, just like you, at home, with the TV.
And, you know, hopefully a bottle of Jack Daniels is what you needed to get through that speech.
I think that I missed...
The second time that Joe Biden was shouted down, there were two times, right, that he was shouted down by the Republicans.
Can you illuminate for us, ALX, what they were?
alex alx lorusso
I didn't catch the second one.
I think I was getting something else up on, you know, Team Benny.
We're getting everything out.
Yeah, yes, I believe it was with the fentanyl death.
They were saying, secure the border, secure the border.
That was the second time.
But the first time, yeah, they said that Republicans wanted to cut.
So we have Joe Biden getting shouted down during the State of the Union.
benny johnson
Weak, feeble, diseased, disjointed man.
I think it's worth watching.
Let's go.
joe biden
Some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset.
I'm not saying it's a majority.
unidentified
Let me give you, anybody who doubts it, contact my office.
joe biden
I'll give you a copy.
I'll give you a copy of the proposal.
That means Congress doesn't vote.
Well, I'm glad to see you.
I tell you, I enjoy conversion.
unidentified
You know, it means...
joe biden
If Congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are, they'd go away.
Other Republicans say, I'm not saying it's a majority of you.
I don't even think it's even a significant...
But it's being proposed by individuals.
I'm politely not naming them, but it's being proposed by some of you.
Look, folks, the idea is that we're not going to be moved into...
Being threatened to default on the dead if we don't respond.
Folks.
benny johnson
Oh, that is definitely the meme.
This is the live shot of Joe Biden.
That is definitely the meme, right?
Based Mike Lee.
alex alx lorusso
Based Mike Lee.
unidentified
What are you talking about?
alex alx lorusso
That's so, so good.
benny johnson
That is definitely, definitely the meme.
So, Joe Biden is sitting here poking his fingers in people's faces, sniffing them, head and shoulders, doing the head and shoulders ad.
Look at how wrinkly and old.
How do you even get hair like that?
That's not living people's hair.
That is absolutely lizard people exoskeleton hair.
Everybody knows it.
That's not how a normal person with a soul would grow their hair.
There's no way.
What the hell is that, ALX?
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, it looks like it's just glued on.
And you know, he probably had to...
He tweeted that picture yesterday that he was getting ready.
You have to take into context this entire speech with all of the gaffes and whatnot tonight.
That comes with probably full weeks of preparation.
Never mind the whole day yesterday that he spent preparing for it.
So he had an entire day to prepare for this.
And it still came out like that.
And he still looked like complete crap in front of the American people.
benny johnson
What were the biggest gaffes?
alex alx lorusso
Well, he slurred a lot of his words.
It seemed like he was trying to get ahead of himself.
And then I would just say every time that he was just shouting things like, Name me one!
Name me one!
benny johnson
Name me one!
Whoa, whoa, stop for a second.
Name me one with Xi Jinping?
Is that what you're talking about?
alex alx lorusso
Yes.
benny johnson
Okay, so set that up for a second, ALX.
What...
What the hell was that about?
I was totally caught off guard by that craziness.
We have the clip, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
We will play you the clip in just a moment, but ALX, lead us into this.
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, he was saying, name me a world leader that would want to switch positions with him, I guess.
I'm not sure where he was going with it.
I guess he was saying that America has the upper hand on China and no one would want to be in his place, but he just went on a complete tangent screaming, name me one.
And he does this all the time.
It's super weird, and I don't know why he does this.
benny johnson
Name me one!
All right, you want to see the number one sundown syndrome from the old man, the old dusty disease man.
Wait, hold on just a second.
Here he's crossing.
When he crosses the aisle, it means he's shaking hands with a Republican.
Do you know which member this is, Alex?
alex alx lorusso
I do not know.
benny johnson
I actually don't know who that guy is.
alex alx lorusso
I couldn't say.
benny johnson
Got a beard.
I don't know who that guy is.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
Name me one!
joe biden
Autocracy has grown weaker, not stronger.
Name me a world leader who changed places with Xi Jinping.
Name me one.
Name me one.
America's rally.
benny johnson
Yeah, okay, ALX, next time you and I are out at a bar, you'll be like, hey, I'll be like, hey, I want to get me a bourbon.
And you'll be like, name me one!
Which one?
Which bourbon?
Name me one!
Rolls-Royce, you have to pop on screen here for a second.
Rolls-Royce is going to turn 21 in a week.
In a week.
unidentified
That's the day before I get to Tampa.
alex alx lorusso
That's right.
benny johnson
Turning 21. What up?
Rolls-Royce might be having his...
You might be able to name him one bourbon.
Name me one bourbon.
You never know.
You never know.
We'll see.
We'll see.
We'll see what the wife lets him do.
We'll see.
unidentified
We'll see.
benny johnson
She's a lovely lady.
Alright, well, Rolls Royce might be screaming, name me one.
Who knows?
Who knows?
So that was a big, that was a bit of a, that was a bit of like a weird, creepy, like, flub.
Also, the McDonald's line is so weird to me.
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, the McDonald's Wi-Fi thing.
benny johnson
Perry, he said that like a million times.
alex alx lorusso
It's such an overused line.
I've never even heard of anyone actually doing it.
It's just like overused at this point.
And he probably doesn't even know what he's saying.
It's just a talking point that he's feeding in.
And I see a clip in here too.
It looks like he got lost, as usual, with his dismount from the dais there, asking which way he should go.
It looks like we have that clip if we want to play that.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
This is Joe Biden getting lost, trying to find his way out of a paper bag.
There's only one way to go.
You ever bend down to the well of the Capitol?
Even the guy with the horns, the shaman, knew which way to go.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
In the well of the Capitol.
The guy with the raccoon horns.
Oh, there's Sheila Jackson Lee.
Oh my god.
She doesn't know how to use her phone.
Look at this moment.
Look at this moment with the two of them.
alex alx lorusso
Oops, she almost dropped it.
benny johnson
Chips!
Remember, chips!
Goodness gracious.
Sheila Jackson Lee, a total racist, by the way.
In favor of legislation.
She introduced legislation that would make it...
Oh, yeah.
This is the equivalent.
And let's talk about that.
Oh, here's Doug Emhoff saying he needs a mask to kiss his wife there, but no mask to kiss Jill Biden.
Let's talk about this.
I thought that the Tyree Nichols stuff was the most craven and utterly diseased.
That side of talking about treating kids like baggage for a guy who's pro-abortion up to and after the moment of birth.
And is pro-hiring people who steal women's baggage.
I thought the most repulsive moment was absolutely the Tyree Nichols moment.
I mean, making that, racializing that, like turning that, like going, that was the most extremist left.
This was like actually relatively moderate.
There's clearly Joe Biden trying to moderate.
As he wishes to run in 2024.
The most extreme left is to racialize an attack inside of a dark blue Democrat city.
Like the only little blue...
Go look at a map of Tennessee.
Everything is red.
There's a teeny little speck.
And that's Memphis.
That's blue.
Democrat city council.
Democrat mayor.
Democrat police chief.
Five black police officers commit a heinous...
A heinous attack.
Nobody's arguing that, of course.
But what we're trying to say here is, like, to somehow cravenly try and make that about how Hunter Biden, he never had to tell Hunter Biden to worry about police?
What a sick thing to say.
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, and MTG made that point at a hearing, I believe it was earlier today, where she pointed out that all five of them were indeed black as well, and it was in a Democrat.
And then she's, like, making the point, like, how does this have to do with racism?
Is your case that in a Democrat-controlled city, they're training their black cops to be racist against other black people?
And then she pointed out the unfair treatment of the J6 prisoners, of course.
But yeah, to your point, it's like, and then he connects it to his kids.
It's like, that has nothing to do with anything.
And you don't want to, like, want to get started on his kids, but...
benny johnson
Like, talk about a white kid that I'm totally in favor of getting arrested, Hunter Biden.
And what an absolute disgrace.
What a spit in the eye of the American people to have these concurrent and parallel scandals with your son having to do with misuse of firearms, being a tax cheat.
Foreign interference.
That's not even including all of the sex trafficking and drug abuse.
And he's sitting there with a father who has a child who, I believe, his daughter perished from fentanyl usage.
A lot of times this happens accidentally, right?
The kid thinks they're taking some type of party drug and it's laced with fentanyl and they die.
I actually don't know about this dad and his father.
Tragic, obviously.
Made more tragic by the fact that fentanyl is made in China.
It comes through our open border.
And so that guy is the guest of Joe Biden.
And here's Joe Biden.
Signed the crack law.
You know, wrote the crack law.
And here's this kid using crack cocaine.
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, and that's the other thing, too, about, like, when they're talking about, oh, my children never had to worry about the police.
Just the drug crimes alone would have an African-American person walked up for 20 years in prison, never mind all the other crimes found on the laptop.
So for him to exemplify his children as a case of, oh, I didn't have to worry about...
unidentified
White privilege?
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, like, it's so out of touch.
benny johnson
You've convinced me.
You're right.
You convinced me, actually.
Joe Biden did tell the truth.
He did tell the truth.
His white, privileged kids don't have to worry about cops.
alex alx lorusso
Yeah.
benny johnson
No, you're exactly right.
If you and I did a scintilla, a Midecum, I mean, if Rolls-Royce had a teeny, teeny sip of alcohol before his 21st birthday, Gitmo.
Gitmo for Rolls-Royce.
alex alx lorusso
And the point is, that's a Democrat running trade.
unidentified
Send him back to Cuba.
alex alx lorusso
Very sad.
benny johnson
Very sad.
Rolls Royce back to Cuba.
unidentified
He says, no, please.
benny johnson
What a fraud.
I mean, it's so sad.
He raised Hunter Biden.
If he cared actually about gun laws or drug abuse, he would put his kid in jail.
You know, prove it, Joe.
Put your own kid in jail.
alex alx lorusso
I can't believe he's still on the floor.
I can't believe he's still awake.
benny johnson
I know.
I know.
Which Joe Biden is this?
unidentified
Look at it.
alex alx lorusso
He actually wants to get out.
benny johnson
Look at Darth Vader shaking his hand.
alex alx lorusso
Oh, gosh.
He just doesn't know where to go.
That's the problem.
benny johnson
He doesn't know who these people are.
He's looking for applesauce.
Everyone knows it.
unidentified
He's like, where's the applesauce?
benny johnson
He doesn't know.
Stop kissing.
These people, they were like the COVID lockdown.
The COVID lockdown mafia.
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, they keep their mouths off of each other.
benny johnson
Slobbering all over each other.
It's repulsive.
We want to see Sarah Sanders.
Hey, Alex, is Sarah Sanders coming up?
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, let's see.
Awaiting GOP response from Sarah Sanders still says on Fox.
They'll probably wait for him to leave the floor before they go to her.
She's probably all set up in position.
benny johnson
I think that makes sense.
I think that makes sense.
Okay, so he's now at the back of the well on the floor.
He's now exiting the floor.
You can see there he's greeting.
This is kind of strange.
It's interesting.
If you watched Trump...
Then Trump was, like, surrounded by a large mass of people in every direction, including Democrats, which is kind of interesting.
alex alx lorusso
Oh, yeah.
benny johnson
Because Trump was, like, wildly popular with Democrats.
Look at these.
These are empty rows.
These are empty rows from Joe Biden's side of people not wanting to say hi to Joe Biden.
alex alx lorusso
Everybody's already peaced out, yeah.
benny johnson
Everyone's gone.
No members of the squad.
Look at Joe Biden.
unidentified
Look at how old.
benny johnson
Dude, look at him.
Total poltergeist here.
alex alx lorusso
He's translucent.
benny johnson
Yeah.
Oh, no.
unidentified
Look at the back.
benny johnson
Oh, man.
I've seen that character in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.
Look at that.
It was an empty...
Look at the empty Congress.
alex alx lorusso
Oh, man.
Yeah, you're right.
It's deserted.
benny johnson
Joe Biden had no one.
Had no one.
Hey!
unidentified
Yeah!
There she is.
benny johnson
There's our girl.
Is she popping on?
alex alx lorusso
Keeping an eye on...
benny johnson
And says, awaiting.
Ladies and gentlemen, we don't want to take...
Fox News is not streaming live on YouTube.
It's the easiest way to get, like, a clean picture is YouTube.
And Fox News is, you know, to, like, just sort of, like, track with one of these.
So Fox News is not...
We would probably have used Fox.
C-SPAN had, like, a really weird advertisement on their feed.
It's not like we have any love for NBC.
They just had a clean feed.
That's all.
And we couldn't stand...
We wouldn't be able to stand putting up CNN.
But as soon as Sarah goes live, they'll all take it, right?
alex alx lorusso
Yeah.
All right.
benny johnson
Any other notable moments that we can replay here?
alex alx lorusso
I would say one of the notable moments that didn't happen at the event was Donald Trump was live truthing during the entire thing.
He was saying...
This speech has too many of the word folks in it.
And he was just like, you know, ranting about every line.
It was pretty funny to watch.
And then he actually gave his own real state of the union.
I don't know how much time we have before Sarah, but I didn't know if we wanted to play some of that.
benny johnson
Oh, totally.
Hey, man.
We'll put up Trump's state of the union just to do a palate cleanser.
And we'll toss up Trump's state of the union.
We got that Rolls Royce?
And then, of course, if Sarah pops on, because right now it's just an advertisement, if Sarah pops on, then we'll cut to Sarah.
alex alx lorusso
Okay.
Sounds good.
benny johnson
All right, ladies and gentlemen, here is Donald Trump's State of the Union.
Without further ado.
donald j trump
Here's the real State of the Union.
Over the past two years, under Biden, millions and millions of illegal aliens from 160 different countries have stormed across our southern border.
Drug cartels are now raking in billions of dollars from smuggling poison to kill our people and to kill our children.
Savage killers, rapists, and violent criminals are being released from jail to continue their crime wave.
And under Biden, the murder rate has reached the highest in the history of our country.
Biden and the radical Democrats have wasted trillions of dollars and caused the worst inflation in half a century.
Real wages are down 21 months in a row.
Gas prices have soared and are now going up much higher than even before.
And the typical American family is paying $2,200 in increased energy and food costs each year.
Joe Biden's weaponized Justice Department, and I'm a victim of it, He's persecuting his political opponents.
His administration is waging war on free speech.
They're trying to indoctrinate and mutilate our children.
He's leading us to the brink of World War III, and on top of all of that, he's the most corrupt president in American history, and it's not even close.
But the good news is we are going to reverse every single crisis, calamity, and disaster that Joe Biden has created.
I am running for president to end the destruction of our country and to complete the unfinished business of making America great again.
We will make our country better than ever before, and we will always put America first.
Thank you.
benny johnson
All right.
Well, I was watching the comment section here.
A lot of people very, very happy to see Donald Trump.
Again, if you were able to last this long, then a little bit of a palate cleanser there to get yourself a bit of Donald Trump in.
And it's nice to sort of hear that command of the English language without the stuttering or the stammering or the sundown syndrome.
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, that's one of the other things I'll say about Trump's state at the unions.
They were very well thought out.
And he knew, like, you could tell that he put thought into what he was saying and he knew the speech.
And, like, again, like I said earlier, Biden seemed like he was rushing to get to the next sentence before he finished the first one.
And he tweeted out that he was preparing over 24 hours ago.
So he's had a lot of time with the speech in front of him.
And he's still, like, mumbling through it.
He doesn't know what he's saying.
Trump's state of, like, states of the union, they're very well thought out.
Almost poetic at some points.
That first one that he did with the stories, that was very well thought out.
benny johnson
Very well thought out.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm seeing the GOP response here.
unidentified
Here we go.
sarah huckabee sanders
Taught me not to believe every story I hear.
So forgive me for not believing much of anything I heard tonight from President Biden.
benny johnson
Nice.
sarah huckabee sanders
From out-of-control inflation and violent crime to the dangerous border crisis and threat from China.
Biden and the Democrats have failed you.
They know it, and you know it.
And it's time for a change.
Tonight, let us reaffirm our commitment to a timeless American idea that government exists not to rule the people, but to serve the people.
Democrats want to rule us with more government control, but that's not who we are.
America is the greatest country the world has ever known, because we're the freest country the world has ever known, with a people who are strong and resilient.
Five months ago, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
It was a hard time for our family, particularly our kids, Scarlett, Huck, and George.
But we kept our faith and persevered.
Thanks to exceptional doctors here in Arkansas, a successful surgery, and the grace of God, I am cancer-free.
Through it all, I couldn't help but think about my mom.
She was 20 years old and in her first year of marriage when she was diagnosed with spinal cancer.
The doctors told her she might not live, and if she did live, They said she'd never walk again.
And if she did walk, she'd definitely never have children.
The daughter she was told she'd never have was just sworn in as the new governor of Arkansas and is speaking to you tonight.
Adversity and fear of the unknown can paralyze us, but faith propels us to charge boldly ahead.
We can't stand still in the face of great challenges.
You and I were put on this earth for such a time as this to charge boldly ahead.
I'll be the first to admit, President Biden and I don't have a lot in common.
I'm for freedom.
He's for government control.
At 40, I'm the youngest governor in the country.
And at 80, he's the oldest president in American history.
I'm the first woman to lead my state, and he's the first man to surrender his presidency, Nice.
And our children are taught to hate one another on account of their race.
But not to love one another or our great country.
Whether Joe Biden believes this madness or is simply too weak to resist it, his administration has been completely hijacked by the radical left.
The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left.
The choice is between normal or crazy.
It's time for a new generation of Republican leadership.
Upon taking office just a few weeks ago, I signed executive orders to ban CRT, racism, and indoctrination in our schools, eliminate the use of derogatory term Latinx in our government, repealed COVID orders, and said never again to authoritarian mandates and shutdowns.
Americans want common sense from their leaders.
But in Washington, The Biden administration is doubling down on crazy.
President Biden inherited the fastest economic recovery on record.
The most secure border in history, cheap, abundant, homegrown energy, fast rising wages, a rebuilt military, and a world that was stable and at peace.
But over the last two years, Democrats destroyed it all.
Despite Democrats' trillions in reckless spending and mountains of debt, we now have the worst border crisis in American history.
As a mom, my heart breaks for every parent who has lost a son or daughter to addiction.
100,000 Americans a year are now killed from drug overdoses, largely from fentanyl pouring across our southern border.
Yet the Biden administration refuses to secure the border and save American lives.
And after years of Democrat attacks on law enforcement and calls to defund the police, violent criminals roam free while law-abiding families live in fear.
Beyond our border from Afghanistan to Ukraine, from North Korea to Iran, President Biden's weakness puts our nation And the world at risk.
And the president's refusal to stand up to China, our most formidable adversary, is dangerous and unacceptable.
President Biden is unwilling to defend our border, defend our skies, and defend our people.
He is simply unfit to serve as commander in chief.
And while you reap the consequences of their failures, the Biden administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality Americans face every day.
Most Americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace.
But we are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn't start and never wanted to fight.
Every day we are told we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags, and worship their false idols.
All while big government colludes with big tech to strip away the most American thing there is, your freedom of speech.
That's not normal.
It's crazy.
And it's wrong.
Make no mistake.
Republicans will not surrender this fight.
We will lead with courage and do what's right, not what's politically correct or convenient.
Republicans believe in an America.
Where strong families thrive in safe communities.
Where jobs are abundant and paychecks are rising.
Where the freedom our veterans shed their blood to defend is the birthright of every man, woman, and child.
These are the principles Republican governors are fighting for.
And in Washington, under the leadership of Senate Republicans and Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
We will hold the Biden administration accountable.
Down the street from where I sit is my alma mater, Little Rock Central High.
As a student there, I will never forget watching my dad, Governor Mike Huckabee, and President Bill Clinton hold the doors open to the Little Rock Nine.
Doors that 40 years earlier had been closed to them because they were black.
Today, those children once barred from the schoolhouse are now heroes memorialized in bronze at our statehouse.
I'm proud of the progress our country has made.
And I believe giving every child access to a quality education, regardless of their race or income, is the civil rights issue of our day.
Tomorrow, I will unveil an education package that will be the most far-reaching, bold, conservative education reform in the country.
My plan empowers parents with real choices, improves literacy and career readiness, and helps put a good teacher in every classroom by increasing their starting salary from one of the lowest to one of the highest in the nation.
Here in Arkansas, And across America, Republicans are working to end the policy of trapping kids in failing schools and sentencing them to a lifetime of poverty.
We will educate, not indoctrinate our kids and put students on a path to success.
It's time for a new generation to lead.
This is our moment.
This is our opportunity.
A new generation born in the waning decades of the last century, shaped by economic booms and stock market busts, forged by the triumph of the Cold War and the tragedy of 9-11.
A generation brimming with passion and new ideas to solve age-old problems.
A generation moored to our deepest values and oldest traditions.
Yet unafraid to challenge the present order and find a better way forward.
If we seize this moment together, America can once again be the land of the free and the home of the brave.
During my two and a half years at the White House, I traveled on every foreign trip with the president.
A trip I will never forget.
It was on December 25th of 2018.
My husband Brian and I had just cleaned up wrapping paper that was shoved into every corner of our house, thanks to our three kids.
When I had to walk out on my own family's Christmas, unable to tell them where I was going that night, because the place I'd be traveling was so dangerous, they didn't want anybody to know that the president was going to be on the ground.
Even for a few hours.
We boarded Air Force One in complete and total darkness.
There were no lights on the plane, no lights on the runway.
Our phones and computers shut down and turned in.
We were going completely off the grid.
Nearly 12 hours later, in the pitch black of night, We landed in the war-torn part of western Iraq.
It was again a similar scene.
No lights on the plane.
No lights on the runway.
The only thing you could see was coming from about a mile away in a dining hall where hundreds of troops who were in the fight against ISIS had gathered expecting to celebrate Christmas with senior military leadership from around the region.
They had absolutely no idea that the President and First Lady were about to walk into that room.
And when they did, it was a sight and a scene and a sound I hope I never forget.
The room erupted.
Men and women from every race, religion, and region, every political party, every demographic you can imagine, started chanting in perfect unison over and over and over again, USA, USA, USA.
It was an absolutely perfect picture of what makes our country great.
One of the young soldiers yelled from the back, Mr. President, I re-enlisted in the military because of you.
And the president said, and son, I'm here because of you.
Shortly after, that young soldier came up to me.
He said, Sarah, you have a tough job.
I told him what I do is nothing.
You take bombs and bullets.
That's a tough job.
And in a moment that I know I'll cherish for the rest of my life, that soldier reached up and he pulled the brave rifle's patch he wore on his shoulder.
And he placed it into my hand, a sign of ultimate respect.
And he said, Sarah, we are in this together.
Overwhelmed with emotion and speechless, I just hugged him with tears in my eyes and a grateful heart.
unidentified
For our heroes who keep us free.
sarah huckabee sanders
That young man and everyone who has served before him, all of those who serve alongside him, and the thousands we know who will be called upon to serve after him, deserve to know they have a country and a community back home doing our part in the fight for freedom.
America is great because we are free.
But today, our freedom is under attack, and the America we love is in danger.
President Biden and the Democrats have failed you, and it's time for a change.
A new generation of Republican leaders are stepping up, not to be caretakers of the status quo, but to be change-makers for the American people.
We know not what the future holds, Who holds the future in his hands.
And with God as our witness, we will show the world that America is still the place where freedom reigns and liberty will never die.
Thank you.
God bless you.
unidentified
And God bless America.
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders with the rebuttal from the Republicans.
benny johnson
All right, ALX, that was the...
Rebuttal slash Sarah Sanders telling an emotional story, right?
It was like a little less of like a point-by-point rebuttal because you never know what's going to be in these speeches.
You can kind of guess, but you don't know what they're going to talk about, right?
So I've been in the press gallery and they hand you the speech like as the president's walking in and that's when the speech gets sort of released.
So it's kind of hard to write a rebuttal necessarily.
You can sort of guess.
She went after Joe Biden a little bit, saying he's not a competent commander in chief and that he has no qualifications to lead this country.
That was probably the hottest line from Sarah Sanders.
Am I wrong?
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, and I like how she outlined how she is basically the complete inverse of Joe Biden.
Joe Biden's the oldest president in his 80s, and he's running for re-election, and she's the youngest governor.
Basically, they're ideological inverses.
And I liked how she really hit on parents and how she's emphasizing parents' rights and how she's going to unveil that new legislation tomorrow.
And then I like how she dovetailed with her own experience with President Trump overseas and that touching story.
We all know the legendary story of this Christmas visit over there in Afghanistan.
And it just, you know, I think this is probably one of the best responses I've ever heard.
It was honestly less politically charged and more of what her views are.
Of course, she brought up how Joe Biden is the inverse of her and her beliefs, but it was more targeted on the vision for a new generation of leadership and Republicans and basically what she thinks the future of this country should look like.
And I think it was really refreshing.
benny johnson
We were putting comments up on screen, man.
Wasn't that refreshing?
It was really refreshing to hear somebody just talk about God, talk about the Creator who has us in His hands, and talk about patriotism, and talk about real, actual support of the troops, not fake support of the troops, or fake support of police, or fake supports of freedom when you're running vaccine mandates.
That was very, very refreshing.
ALX, I have a question for you.
You are a young man.
So is Kevin McCarthy, kind of, right?
Like, Kevin McCarthy is young.
He's like half the age of Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.
I mean, he is.
He's literally half their age, so that's technically young.
How do you think Kevin McCarthy did during this State of the Union?
Speaking of new generations.
alex alx lorusso
It was pretty funny.
It looked kind of like he was falling asleep during half of it.
It seemed like he was trying to do it on purpose.
What I will say is, he wasn't Nancy Pelosi, and he didn't tear up the speech.
And he actually made a comment on that earlier, how he wasn't going to tear up the speech.
And he doesn't believe in that sort of, you know, political, you know, gesture.
And, you know, it's just so immature, especially for the people that talk about decorum.
This entire time.
And, you know, they were so offended by everything that Trump tweeted and everything, and now she's going to rip up an official document.
So he didn't do that.
So I think, and again, I think leading up to this, he's shown leadership.
Again, I wasn't the biggest fan of him as becoming the Speaker, but he's really stepped up.
Obviously, his actions will be judged going forward if he follows through with the rhetoric.
Yeah, I think he's doing a good job so far.
benny johnson
I think that he had a couple of memeable moments.
He just posted on Instagram from his official Speaker McCarthy verified Instagram page a memeable moment of Joe Biden staring at the podium, Kamala Harris standing up clapping like a lobotomized seal, and him sort of looking over with this expression.
And he says in a caption, we'll throw it up here on screen, he says, when you have really good seats to a really bad sporting event.
alex alx lorusso
That is incredibly accurate.
I have been in that position too.
Same with like really good seats to a bad concert when I'm going with family members and I don't quite enjoy the music, but I'm, you know, front row or whatever.
I can definitely relate to that.
benny johnson
When you have really good seats to a really bad sporting event.
Good for you, McCarthy.
So McCarthy's getting in on the trolling.
MTG, ladies and gentlemen, we just have to show you this clip one more time.
I guess we can just play the cold, Royce.
But MTG tried to bring, and we're very close with our team, Alex, maybe you can tell us the background here, tried to bring a spy balloon into the State of the Union.
Is this correct?
alex alx lorusso
Yeah.
Yeah, I think she tried to get it in.
I saw the staff member that I talked to a couple, actually, behind them, and one of them was recording it.
So it looked like they were trying to get it into the building.
They didn't end up getting it in, I don't think, but she walked around whatever office building I think it might have been, Raven.
I'm not sure where she is now.
But yeah, she walked around with it, and obviously it was symbolic of the Chinese spy balloon that let fly over our entire country.
But it didn't look like they made it into the actual chamber with it.
benny johnson
So, ladies and gentlemen, your Republican Party remaining strong.
watch Marjorie Taylor Greene go straight full-on epic troll goat mode.
That's great.
danny de urbina
So good.
benny johnson
So Marjorie Taylor Greene ultimately did not, was not allowed in with the white balloon.
So very strong performance, I would say, from Republicans, right?
So if you're going to talk about, you know, I'm, you're a center-right, I'm center-right, we obviously come, you know, we look, you know, I sometimes hate the Republican Party more than I hate the Democrat Party.
Because the Democrat Party will stab you in the face.
Like the Republican Party will stab you in the back.
But I'm kind of proud of the Republicans tonight.
They shouted down Biden.
It wasn't just like one kook in the back.
They like shouted down Biden during the speech.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was trolling Joe Biden with that balloon.
Kevin McCarthy is trolling Joe Biden after the speech.
Multiple times they shouted down Biden.
Kind of threw him off his game.
And then Sarah Sanders was just such a breath of fresh air.
She's just such a nice...
Like, calming, refreshing, wonderful, wholesome, southern.
You just wanted her to cook you a bourbon pecan pie, which she actually does.
And I've tried before.
They're delicious.
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, and it wasn't just grandstanding, too, from the Republicans.
There were actual issues that they were responding to.
He was calling them out for wanting to cut Medicare and Social Security, which they didn't want to do.
And all of them are like the resounding no and boo because that's not accurate.
And then also he himself was grandstanding about fentanyl deaths and everything.
And basically, you know, like they were all calling him out and saying, no, it's a lie.
It's because you didn't secure our border.
So there were two like moments that were willing to be called out on and they weren't just grandstanding.
It wasn't just politics.
benny johnson
I think we have Donald Trump's reaction here on Truth Social.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex alx lorusso
Too much use of the word folks.
And then he had another one where he said, come on, this can't be the speechwriters writing it in.
This has to be him ad-libbing, right?
And then this one just showed Swalwell, a man who spent a lot of time in Spy Fang Fang's honey net and wasn't removed from our most important and was removed from our most important committee.
Only in America.
Oh, yeah.
Classic.
benny johnson
Good.
Okay, so Donald Trump was live truthing, live truthing this event.
Donald Trump will be heading back to Facebook.
I know we had a lot of people watching on Facebook.
Donald Trump will be heading back to Instagram and presumably Twitter.
Here in the coming days and weeks, he'll be allowed back on all...
He's already allowed back on all those platforms.
So we'll see what happens.
And we'll get, you know, we'll obviously get more of that.
We played you Donald Trump's response to the State of the Union.
Donald Trump's State of the Union.
And Sarah Sanders' response to the State of the Union.
Let us know what you think, ladies and gentlemen.
But I, you know, I just...
I believe what Americans really wanted to see was sort of like the difference between the craven abortion mongrels who are sitting there wanting to codify Roe into law while talking about airlines that treat children like baggage.
It's just deeply, deeply repulsive and then using the deeply unfortunate and sickening death of a young man in Memphis to score political points.
Making it a racial thing.
Just to cravenly divide the country, actually.
alex alx lorusso
And that's what they're doing.
They're doing it on purpose.
He's trying to divide the country.
And the thing is, he saved them all for the end.
To soften the blow from his entire speech.
Because, you know, he knows that people aren't going to criticize him when he's talking about these sensitive issues.
And...
Oh my gosh, there goes my hair probably again.
And you know that he's not going to be attacked for talking about those things while they're there, although it's accurate, because the parents are right there, and obviously it's in bad taste.
But he knows exactly what he's doing, and it's sickening.
benny johnson
Yeah, yeah.
Ladies and gentlemen, we certainly have had our share of viral moments tonight.
None worse, however, than the extremely creepy reptile kiss between Kamala Harris' husband and Jill Biden.
So these would be like the first lady and the second gentleman as it were.
You know, if you believe in old-fashioned gender roles as such.
And so, joining us, ladies and gentlemen, right now to break all of that down, to break down the most viral moment of the night, one of the greatest internet experts that we know, Danny Dayurbina, currently a student at the...
Not-so-great George Washington University that just canceled its own mascot.
danny de urbina
You can't call it that anymore, Benny.
It's not the George Washington University.
It's the hippos.
We don't really know at this point, but it's definitely not George Washington.
He's going to appear on that Disney Plus show.
They're going to picket our campus soon, so we'll see.
A lot of little Disney Plus employees outside our school.
benny johnson
Danny, we wanted you to hop on.
Nothing, nothing...
Nothing slips the keen eye of Danny.
Danny is one of the people on our team that is able to catch every single viral moment.
And Danny caught this moment before anyone else, I think, on the internet.
The moment of the first lady kissing the second gentleman.
They're both married.
Not to each other.
But they are, like, locked in a deep and super gross lizard kiss here.
Maybe you can break this down for us, Danny.
danny de urbina
So I don't know what hurts more.
It's my eyes watching this entire speech, my ears listening to it, or my fingers just, like, tweeting about it.
But I gotta say, that was probably the worst moment, is walking onto the State of the Union and just seeing Jill Biden kissing the second gentleman.
It was truly, truly disturbing.
And then there is that clip of Kamala Harris...
Kamala Harris kissing Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, with a mask on.
They're like...
It's a really awkward thing where they're, like, hugging outside of, like, Air Force Two or something.
They're, like, all masked up.
And then here you can see no masks in sight.
I mean, I don't know.
Joe Biden was touting his COVID response, but this isn't much of a response to me.
benny johnson
Paul Pelosi's sitting down there looking lonely.
Like, oh, come on, man.
danny de urbina
They've got Bono there.
They're entertained.
benny johnson
That's right.
unidentified
I was a little shocked though.
danny de urbina
Why was an SBF in the gallery?
Wasn't it the second largest Democrat donor?
How much do you have to donate?
Yeah.
alex alx lorusso
How much do you have to donate to get to the gallery?
benny johnson
$37 million and you can't even get a ticket?
danny de urbina
To the bad sporting event.
You can't even get that ticket.
benny johnson
Oh, man.
danny de urbina
It's expensive.
benny johnson
Really?
Okay, so what does this say?
What does this say, Danny?
You are a keen observer of these things.
That Kamala Harris won't kiss her husband without a mask on.
Both of them.
But Kamala's husband?
Will kiss Jill Biden on the lips?
danny de urbina
This probably means they're as confused as we all are watching this.
This whole charade play out.
I mean, these people are not...
They're past their prime, for sure.
I mean, you can see Joe Biden.
You said he was, like, dribbling for applesauce walking off that stage.
They don't really know what's happening, and I gotta say, that clip kind of showed it all in a quick, like, two-second span.
And it only got worse after that, to be honest.
benny johnson
You are a Jill Biden fashion critique.
Your thoughts on Jill Biden's purple, shiny dress tonight?
danny de urbina
It was a bold choice, but I gotta say, Kamala's choice of not dressing up like a UPS driver tonight was a welcome addition to your wardrobe.
So it's pretty interesting seeing this all play out.
benny johnson
I think that Bono and Joe Biden go to the same barber.
They both have creepy old man mullets.
Also, can we please...
I would be totally in favor of a new Patriot Act to stop the terrorism of Apple automatically downloading Bono's albums to my iPhone.
Please stop that.
Whatever we need, I will sign the next infrastructure bill, whatever it takes.
Whatever it takes to get them to stop shoving Bono's...
Bono's...
Albums into my iPhone.
danny de urbina
I think this is how we unite the country.
benny johnson
We're getting the dings.
Somebody has their ding.
It's got to be you, Danny.
There you go, buddy.
Alright.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen.
We've got one more Republican response.
Danny, can you lead us in here?
Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Has been pretty viral tonight.
I would say probably the most viral member of the Republicans.
She didn't get the official response to the State of the Union.
But Marjorie's had a heck of a night tonight.
Can you give us some of the highlights, Danny, from Marjorie?
And then lead us into her response to the State of the Union.
danny de urbina
Yeah, absolutely.
And so Joe Biden was going on about...
He was literally just flat out lying about the Republicans' agenda.
And she just stood up and called him out.
I clapped back pretty quickly, and she just said, you just called him a liar.
Stood up, called him a liar, and then the whole conference started calling him a liar, too.
So it was pretty interesting to see that.
I mean, as much as the left likes to hate, or loves to hate MTG, she definitely is a leader in our party, and I think she's got a future there, for sure.
benny johnson
So, she is releasing her own State of the Union response.
I believe we have it loaded, is that correct, Rolls Royce?
We got it ready to go?
Okay, alright.
Now, this is Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I believe she was watching from the planet Hoth in the Star Wars planetary system.
She had a fuzzy white fur coat on.
Do you want to wait for the 16-9?
unidentified
I can do it.
benny johnson
I'll do the 16-9 now.
Okay, hold on.
Royce is adding the correct aspect ratio so that we have the clip proper.
While we wait, ALX, what are you sipping on there?
And what's on your shirt?
alex alx lorusso
This shirt is, at least we got a pizza party for World War III.
And it's the famous picture of Joe Biden eating his pizza.
It's from Luke Gradesky's shop, bestpoliticalshirts.com, actually.
Very, very fun shirt.
Yeah, right.
And I'm sipping on some nice rare hair, old-fashioned, that I actually had to get up in the middle of the speech and refresh my glass, because the Joe Biden drinking game got too far.
benny johnson
Yes, that's right.
Maybe that's why the earbuds keep falling out and ALX is here all rosy-cheeked because he was playing the drinking game.
It's amazing.
You can still stand ALX if you were staying true to that drinking game.
You should look like Joe Biden trying to ride a bike.
Here we go!
Marjorie Taylor Greene, response to State of the Union.
Go.
marjorie taylor greene
I just got back to my office after listening to the State of the Union with Joe Biden, and part of the time we couldn't really understand what he was saying as he was yelling at people, yelling through the applause and mumbling through his words.
Some of the things that we did here didn't make any sense.
Joe Biden claimed to care about the border and talked about fentanyl deaths, which is the number one cause of young people ages 18 to 45. But yet has no plan to secure the border.
And frankly, we all know he doesn't care about the border because Joe wants the border wide open.
That's the whole problem with Joe.
We also heard him talk about McDonald's non-compete fees.
Well, I got to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, I don't hear anybody at home worrying about these terrible fights between different fast food companies.
Joe Biden did talk a lot about communism, though, and controlling private companies, and I think that's something that should concern every single American and every single business owner.
I will tell you one thing Joe Biden did lie about.
He didn't know what he was talking about a lot of the time, but he did, frankly, lie.
Talking about Republicans and Social Security and Medicare.
We have not talked about cutting Social Security and Medicare.
Joe Biden has been claiming that we're going to cut Social Security and Medicare, but we're not.
So we called him out on the House floor.
I called him a liar because that's what Joe Biden is.
Either he doesn't know what he's talking about or he's just flat out lying.
The one thing he did not talk about was the one thing he should have talked about.
He should have apologized to America.
For the Chinese spy balloon that he allowed to traverse across our country, spy on our military...
Bases, spy on our food factories, spy on our cities, spy on our entire country.
They knew about it on January 28th, still allowed it to enter our airspace, spy on our country, and never did a damn thing about it until it left our country on February 4th.
Joe Biden is weak.
Joe Biden can't stand up to China.
Joe Biden cannot protect our country.
He can't protect our borders.
And Joe Biden doesn't know anything he's talking about.
That's the state of our union.
benny johnson
Boom!
Shakalaka!
Danny!
All right!
Okay, Danny, what's up?
Did that speak to you?
Spy balloon and all?
danny de urbina
Yeah, absolutely.
So I think this sort of sets a tone for the rest of the Republican majority.
I think it's not just this state of the union response.
I think this is what we should expect for the rest, the remainder of our majority.
I think it's going to be a lot of withholding Biden accountable, calling out his weaknesses.
I mean...
We are like two years into his presidency and we are weaker as a nation.
We are less safe.
We are poorer.
We are like, we're definitely worse off than we were two years ago.
And so I think this is going to be sort of the course correction that our country needed.
benny johnson
Man, Marjorie Taylor Green, they're going in like hot.
On the 13 American service members whose lives were lost, saying that she called Joe Biden a liar, out to his face.
Again, she had her own Chinese spy balloon.
Yo, ALX, I mean, you're seeing a bit of a superstar in the making here, obviously.
alex alx lorusso
Oh, yeah.
benny johnson
I mean, she's already a superstar, right?
alex alx lorusso
Day one she's been, yeah.
benny johnson
You're not gonna, you ain't gonna win against Marjorie.
alex alx lorusso
Yeah.
Like, to her point, too, she's like, oh, they didn't mention the Chinese spy balloon.
And the entire last 48 hours has been his administration trying to clean up this mess that this lie spread that there was, oh, it's okay because there were spy balloons under Trump.
And then they have to clean that up and say, well, actually, that's not true.
John Kirby and NORAD actually said that was false.
And everyone, including John Bolton and everyone else in Trump's administration that don't even like him anymore are saying, nope, not on my watch, not on my watch.
So they have egg in their face over that.
So that's mainly why they're not bringing it up, is because they know it's all on them.
And, you know, they're putting our country at risk, and they just looked like absolute fools this entire week over that.
benny johnson
Final takeaways from the evening.
ALX, I'm going to go right back to you.
You and I have been preparing for this along with Danny.
We have an incredible team here.
Thank you very much, obviously, for...
Supporting us and supporting our team.
We hire young conservative creators at this show.
We want to make sure that they have careers in this profession.
We don't want to sacrifice them on the altar of the communist corporate press.
And so we are very happy to be job creators at this show for great young conservative talent who watches this stuff very, very closely and who makes sure that it is put in front of you and displayed and oftentimes they do not get the credit they deserve.
So we're just so proud of our team here.
Rolls-Royce, Danny, Ashley, Jerry, ALX.
Everyone is just doing such an incredible job.
So, ALX, you watch this stuff as close as anyone.
What's the final takeaway from tonight for you?
alex alx lorusso
My final takeaway is it's expected.
Biden didn't seem prepared.
He stumbled over his words.
And then, you know, the refreshing response from Sarah Sanders, very calm.
She didn't raise her voice or scream.
She knew exactly what she was saying and meant it.
And the key takeaway, I think, is Trump is probably looking very closely at her as a potential vice president.
benny johnson
Interesting.
Danny, do you agree?
danny de urbina
Yeah, like that pretty much sums it up.
I mean, Biden's speech is...
Pretty much delusional.
I mean, it's so far away from reality that I think Americans sitting at, as Biden likes to say, their kitchen tables, and they see the reality of what they're facing every day.
It's so different to the sort of successes he's touting right now that I think Sarah Sanders' response is sort of a reality check.
And I think Republicans are...
Gonna do pretty well in the majority as long as you keep holding Biden accountable.
benny johnson
Yeah.
I mean, gentlemen, I think that the cake is baked, right?
I don't think Joe Biden's convincing anyone.
Who the hell are you gonna convince with his speech?
I actually don't think...
I've seen him do much worse speeches, right?
Whatever serum they have him on, okay?
Like, he was not as bad as he has been in the past.
I mean, you've literally seen him fall over.
You know, he's on the wrong cocktail.
And so, whatever they had him on tonight is clearly the right dosage.
He was less of a humiliation when it comes to just, like, basic speaking of the English language.
But you're not going to convince anyone.
Like, it doesn't matter that Joe Biden slurred less words or didn't say there's no walls tall enough to stop a vaccine from getting to the Iranians that were fighting in Ukraine.
Like, it doesn't matter.
I don't think that people are, like, Are ready to be convinced of anything.
Eggs are 12 bucks a dozen.
Gasoline is skyrocketing.
Inflation is skyrocketing.
Mortgage interest rate hikes.
And everybody, even if they're not saying, everyone feels like it's a recession right now.
I mean, there's a, like, nobody feels confident in the way that the country's heading.
So I think that this was, like, unfortunately, like, not unfortunately, but if you're a Democrat, if you're Joe Biden, this is too little too late.
Right?
Like, you've screwed the pooch, and the cake is baked.
And so, you know, I think the people that hate, you know, the people that...
People are not going to be convinced by this, is what I'd say.
People are convinced and are longing for something refreshing, and that's why they are gravitating towards...
MTG is going insanely viral.
Trump is going insanely viral right now.
Sarah Sanders is going insanely viral.
That was deeply well-received.
And so people are, like, longing for something that's not as craven, or as, like...
unidentified
Agreed.
benny johnson
I guess we'll have more to say on it in the morning, ladies and gentlemen.
We will be back.
We've been going strong for three hours.
We will be back in the morning, and I just want to state one final time with everyone on screen here.
Royce, can you hop on?
You able to hop on?
There we go.
danny de urbina
There we go.
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