Plus: What Biden Got Wrong in His State of the Union Address
March 2 2022
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden last night put on a brave face for his State of the Union address, which came amid crisis at home and abroad. We fact-check some of the president’s boldest assertions and offer a roundup of informed perspectives from Heritage Foundation policy experts. On the podcast, author and commentator Mollie Hemingway puts the spotlight on what’s wrong with today’s corporate media. Plus: Iowa’s governor delivers the GOP response to Biden’s speech, and a video report on his rhetorical missteps. Fifty years ago today, Pioneer 10 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a successful, 21-month journey of 620 million miles to Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet.
In his first official State of the Union speech, President Biden addressed Russia's invasion of Ukraine, rising inflation at home, an ongoing border crisis, and a fading COVID-19 pandemic.
"A lot of Republican politicians do a lot to prop up this corrupt press. They treat them as if they're reasonable, instead of as their primary political opponents," says Mollie Hemingway.
"Weakness on the world stage has a cost, and the president's approach to foreign policy has consistently been too little, too late,” says Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds.
