Highlights from President Biden's fiery 2024 State of the Union address

President Biden pressed Congress to beef up border security and approve more aid for our allies at War he also rolled out some new proposals on taxes Aid to Gaza and much more and as You' expect his address is drawing rave reviews from Democrats and a lot of criticism from Republicans Fox 13's political editor Craig Patrick is in now to break it all down Craig we heard a lot tonight we did very interesting as well and the president was very revved up seemed to Revel the jeers he was getting from

Republicans and he really mixed up up with him more than a time or two and some really Lively moments we'll take you through in just a moment of course the president knows that he's facing questions about his age so he borrowed a page from Reagan's Playbook and trying to reframe that to his Advantage he said for example when you get to be my age certain things become clearer than ever before and from there he confronted Republicans ribbing them repeatedly for defeating or not addressing some of

his top priorities like Aid to Ukraine and to our allies and you can tell which themes he plans to press in the campaign Trail by the themes he led off with tonight that would be a to our allies the threat posed by the capitol riots his push also for abortion rights and a federal law to guarantee the right to abortion Across the Nation a guaranteed right as well to invitro fertilization he also pressed his legislative accomplishments the chips act which he signed to expand high-tech manufacturi

ng the bipartisan infrastructure law to improve our roads and other transportation systems and he stressed the gains in our job market and our broader economy since he took office which he claimed much of the media is not covering enough I came to office determined to get us through one of the toughest periods in the nation's history we have it doesn't make new but news in a thousand cities in towns the American people are writing the greatest comeback story never told and Biden knew that he was

facing a divided Congress and a very tough crowd on the Republican side of the aisle and he addressed that again by engaging that side of the aisle over their policy disagreement several points and times but one of the most striking moments was when Biden pressed Congress to pass the bipartisan plan to boost border security that President Trump former president Trump opposed and that Trump's allies in Congress derailed the result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set of border security re

forms we've ever seen oh you don't think so oh you don't like that bill huh that bipartisan bill would hire 1,500 more security agents and officers 100 more immigration judges helped tackle the backload of 2 million cases 4,300 more Asylum officers and new policies so they can resolve cases in 6 months instead of 6 years now and he kept going from there stating that there would have been more drug detection machines as part of the legislation it would have given him and other presidents the auth

ority to temporarily shut down the Border when illegal Crossings are particularly high and he noted the border of Patrol Union the Chamber of Commerce endorsed that plan so in this Biden's really doing two things he's obviously exerting a great deal of pressure or trying to to try to get Congress to reconsider and take that back up but it's also campaign season as we now know that we have a very likely match up with Biden and former president Trump he's also taking the moment to criticize the fo

rmer president Chris there as well yeah he came out of at a couple of points there tonight Craig as you pointed out he also rolled out several new ideas for the coming year um but again you know given the calendar which of those ideas are most likely to come together the ones he doesn't need Congress for for example he's talking about uh building a port off the coast of Gaza to bring in more humanitarian relief uh that's already in the works but is other proposals of capping more drug cost for s

eniors and capping cost at $2,000 a year across the board for everybody for prescriptions raising the federal minimum wage as tax proposals uh increasing the corporate tax rate and new minimum tax on large businesses and billionaires well Republican house leaders and the house Ways and Means uh committee specifically already say those measures simply will not Advance not in this election year okay Craig Craig Patrick thank you