Obama’s YouTube Moment, Harry Reid’s Return and Upheaval in Ukraine

On the Webcast Extra, Alexis Simendinger reports on President Obama’s round of interviews with YouTube personalities and the administration’s digital approach to get the State of the Union message out. While the viewership of the speech itself was down, the White House hopes to further their reach. But as Simendinger says, engagement is not necessarily persuasion. Plus, Harry Reid returned to the Capitol this week after an exercising accident left him with and injured eye and ribs. Which Democratic senators have been filling in? And what are their long-term goals? And in Ukraine this week, the ceasefire appears to be crumbling.