WEBVTT 00:11.966 --> 00:16.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Welcome to our "PBS NewsHour" special live coverage of President Trump's 00:16.366 --> 00:20.200 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% second State of the Union address, and the Democratic response. 00:20.200 --> 00:21.933 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% I'm Judy Woodruff. 00:21.933 --> 00:25.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Mr. Trump faces a deeply divided Congress and nation. 00:25.800 --> 00:30.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He is expected to call for unity, while, at the same time, continuing his demand for a 00:32.166 --> 00:34.566 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% wall on the U.S. southern border with Mexico. 00:34.566 --> 00:39.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Tonight's address was delayed a week by the federal government shutdown, with another 00:39.233 --> 00:42.233 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% potentially on the horizon next week. 00:42.233 --> 00:47.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Stacey Abrams, who lost a close governor's race in Georgia last November, will deliver 00:47.966 --> 00:50.033 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% the Democratic response. 00:50.033 --> 00:54.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But, for the first time, we will see newly elected Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi 00:55.100 --> 00:57.266 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% seated behind Mr. Trump. 00:57.266 --> 01:02.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It is his first address before this divided Congress, with a new Democratic majority in 01:02.833 --> 01:04.833 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% the House. 01:04.833 --> 01:08.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Our Lisa Desjardins is there at the Capitol, and Yamiche Alcindor is at the White House. 01:09.500 --> 01:10.766 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Yamiche, the president left the White House. 01:10.766 --> 01:12.466 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% He has just arrived at the Capitol. 01:12.466 --> 01:14.500 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% What do we expect him to say? 01:14.500 --> 01:17.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Well, we know that president is extremely excited to deliver this State 01:17.800 --> 01:20.433 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% of the Union address in the House chambers. 01:20.433 --> 01:24.033 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Important to note that the president at one point was looking at other locations outside 01:24.033 --> 01:27.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Washington, D.C., to deliver his State of the Union address, but instead decided that 01:27.900 --> 01:31.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the House was where he wanted to deliver it because of all of its grandeur and all of 01:31.966 --> 01:33.900 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% its history. 01:33.900 --> 01:35.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We know that the president is going to be talking about immigration. 01:35.966 --> 01:38.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He is going to be casting immigration as a moral issue, and saying that the political 01:38.833 --> 01:42.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% class of D.C. that is safe and that has gates on their homes, that they are going to deny 01:42.900 --> 01:46.000 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% that same sense of security to working-class people. 01:46.000 --> 01:50.766 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% The president is also going to try to deliver a unifying message and talk about prescription 01:50.766 --> 01:52.800 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% drugs and infrastructure. 01:52.800 --> 01:56.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But the one thing to remember, of course, is that the president has some credibility 01:56.366 --> 02:01.233 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% issues on that, because Democrats are saying that he has offended them, that he has insulted 02:01.233 --> 02:05.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Democrats, that he has even suggested that Democrats don't believe in border security. 02:05.266 --> 02:08.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But we are going to try to think that the president is really going to try to deliver 02:08.500 --> 02:12.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% a message to say this is not about his agenda, but about America's agenda. 02:12.733 --> 02:16.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And, Lisa, at the Capitol, it is hard to think of a State of the Union 02:16.466 --> 02:21.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% that has been preceded by as much drama as we have had over the last few weeks, waiting 02:21.300 --> 02:26.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% to see whether this government shutdown would end, they would come to some sort of temporary 02:26.000 --> 02:27.233 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% agreement. 02:27.233 --> 02:29.833 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% How has that affected the anticipation there? 02:29.833 --> 02:34.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: I think there is a lot of anxiety and frustration at deeper levels, 02:34.566 --> 02:37.233 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% especially for Republicans here at the U.S. Capitol. 02:37.233 --> 02:42.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But it is an interesting contrast tonight, Judy, because there is also a different kind 02:42.033 --> 02:44.833 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% of excitement than I have felt in a while here. 02:44.833 --> 02:49.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And that's because -- think about it -- there are 101 new members of this Congress, many 02:49.666 --> 02:51.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% of them never elected to office before. 02:51.200 --> 02:53.300 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (CROSSTALK) 02:53.300 --> 02:54.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Lisa, I have got to interrupt you just a second, just one second. 02:54.666 --> 02:59.633 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% MAN: The president of the United States! 03:00.500 --> 03:03.266 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 03:03.266 --> 03:07.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And the president enters the chamber of the House of Representatives. 03:07.300 --> 03:10.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Lisa, I interrupted you, so that we could hear the president announce by the sergeant 03:10.266 --> 03:12.066 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% at arms. 03:12.066 --> 03:13.566 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But continue with what you were saying. 03:13.566 --> 03:16.100 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% You were saying a lot of anxiety there. 03:16.100 --> 03:19.366 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: Well, I am happy to be interrupted by the announcement of the president of the 03:19.366 --> 03:20.366 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% United States. 03:20.366 --> 03:21.833 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (LAUGHTER) 03:21.833 --> 03:23.633 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: I will step aside any time for that. 03:23.633 --> 03:25.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% There is anxiety, especially among Republicans, over the shutdown. 03:25.733 --> 03:28.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And kind of in general, the last year has been one of ups and downs legislatively. 03:30.300 --> 03:35.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% However, there is a lot of excitement because think about this; 101 people in that chamber 03:36.000 --> 03:37.533 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% are newly elected. 03:37.533 --> 03:39.600 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% They have never been to a State of the Union before. 03:39.600 --> 03:43.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% So there is almost just sort of like a first day of school kind of excitement for many 03:43.833 --> 03:48.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% of these especially younger and first-time lawmakers that are in that chamber tonight. 03:48.166 --> 03:49.166 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Yes. 03:49.166 --> 03:51.166 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% You are exactly right. 03:51.166 --> 03:53.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And a lot of them are a lot younger than the class that preceded them. 03:53.333 --> 03:58.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% As we watch President Trump greet and be greeted by members of Congress who are seated there 04:00.266 --> 04:03.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% along the aisle, I want to introduce all of you to the team who is going to be with me, 04:05.833 --> 04:09.766 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% watching the president and analyzing his remarks later. 04:09.766 --> 04:14.766 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Joining us all this night, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, Amy Walter of The Cook Political 04:16.833 --> 04:19.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Report, Peter Wehner of the Ethics and Policy - - Public Policy Center in Washington. 04:19.300 --> 04:22.666 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% He served in the last three Republican administrations. 04:22.666 --> 04:27.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Karine Jean-Pierre, senior adviser to MoveOn.org, she worked in the Obama White House. 04:27.100 --> 04:31.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And Chris Buskirk, editor of the conservative blog American Greatness. 04:31.600 --> 04:33.066 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% Welcome to all of you. 04:33.066 --> 04:34.533 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And, Mark Shields, I am going to come to you first. 04:34.533 --> 04:36.666 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% MARK SHIELDS: Sure. 04:36.666 --> 04:39.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: This is the -- President Trump's second State of the Union address, but the 04:39.933 --> 04:44.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% atmosphere, I think it is fair to say, is very different from last year. 04:44.666 --> 04:47.033 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% MARK SHIELDS: Totally different, Judy. 04:47.033 --> 04:50.900 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% It's a -- after presidents have suffered stinging rebukes in midterm elections, the common approach 04:52.966 --> 04:57.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% is to reach for common ground, to reach across the aisle, to come in a little bit humbled, 04:58.900 --> 05:03.233 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% as Bill Clinton did in '94, as George Bush did in 2007. 05:06.800 --> 05:11.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And it will be interesting to see if Donald - - if President Donald Trump does try that 05:13.700 --> 05:17.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% sort of grace note that particularly comes to mind with George W. Bush, who said that 05:19.400 --> 05:21.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% he was -- he felt privileged to speak words that nobody had ever spoken before, "Madam 05:21.933 --> 05:26.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Speaker," when he introduced Nancy Pelosi the first time she was speaker. 05:26.933 --> 05:31.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And so I will just be interested to see how he handles the rebuke, or just ignores it. 05:31.666 --> 05:36.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And President Trump is giving, as tradition would have it, a copy of his 05:36.266 --> 05:41.266 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% remarks, the address, to both Speaker Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence, both of whom 05:43.433 --> 05:45.500 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% will be sitting behind him. 05:45.500 --> 05:49.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And we will be watching their reaction throughout the night, because they are the fixture, as 05:50.666 --> 05:53.600 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - - again, as tradition would have it. 05:53.600 --> 05:58.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The president at this point enjoying a round of applause that he is getting as he -- and 06:01.566 --> 06:03.700 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% everybody is standing, Democrats and Republicans. 06:03.700 --> 06:06.866 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% It is a point of honor as the president comes in. 06:06.866 --> 06:09.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Peter Wehner, you have watched this president before. 06:09.200 --> 06:11.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% He seems to be enjoying the moment. 06:11.200 --> 06:14.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% PETER WEHNER, Ethics and Public Policy Center: Well, he enjoys it when he's the center of 06:14.666 --> 06:15.833 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% attention. 06:15.833 --> 06:17.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And he is the center of attention. 06:17.866 --> 06:19.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But I tell you, what I am looking for in the speech is -- his aides were saying that this 06:19.733 --> 06:23.400 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% is going to be an effort to unify the country. 06:23.400 --> 06:25.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I just don't think that is realistic. 06:25.733 --> 06:30.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And the reason I don't is that this is a person whose entire presidency has been based on 06:30.633 --> 06:33.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% division and acrimony and anger. 06:33.033 --> 06:35.000 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And, number one, I don't know that he can pull it off. 06:35.000 --> 06:39.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And, number two, even if he does, I don't know how plausible it is or how long it will 06:39.266 --> 06:41.300 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% last. 06:41.300 --> 06:44.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Amy Walter, that is the skepticism that is out there, isn't it? 06:44.800 --> 06:47.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report: Well, and it is a well-earned skepticism. 06:47.533 --> 06:49.666 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (LAUGHTER) 06:49.666 --> 06:51.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% AMY WALTER: But, look, there are actually real things on the table here that have to 06:51.733 --> 06:56.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% be -- theoretically, have to be figured out in the next few days here, especially about 06:56.000 --> 06:57.633 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% a potential government shutdown. 06:57.633 --> 06:58.966 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: Thank you very much. 06:58.966 --> 07:01.066 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: The president. 07:01.066 --> 07:03.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% DONALD TRUMP: Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, the first lady of the 07:03.233 --> 07:04.233 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% United States. 07:04.233 --> 07:06.166 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 07:06.166 --> 07:08.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United 07:08.166 --> 07:12.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% States, and my fellow Americans:We meet tonight at a moment of unlimited potential. 07:37.433 --> 07:42.433 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% As we begin a new Congress, I stand here ready to work with you to achieve historic breakthroughs 07:45.233 --> 07:48.733 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% for all Americans. 07:48.733 --> 07:53.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Millions of our fellow citizens are watching us now, gathered in this great chamber, hoping 07:55.133 --> 07:59.466 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% that we will govern not as TWO PARTIES but as ONE NATION. 08:20.233 --> 08:25.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican Agenda or a Democrat Agenda. 08:27.533 --> 08:32.266 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% It is the agenda of the American People. 08:32.266 --> 08:37.266 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Many of us campaigned on the same core promises: to defend American jobs and demand FAIR TRADE 08:41.366 --> 08:46.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% for American workers; to rebuild and revitalize our nation's infrastructure; to reduce the 08:49.500 --> 08:54.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% price of healthcare and prescription drugs; to create an immigration system that is safe, 08:58.700 --> 09:03.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% lawful, modern and secure; and to pursue a foreign policy that puts America's interests 09:08.700 --> 09:10.833 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% first. 09:10.833 --> 09:15.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% There is a new opportunity in American politics, if only we have the courage to seize it. 09:31.700 --> 09:35.833 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Victory is not winning for our party. 09:35.833 --> 09:40.833 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Victory is winning for our COUNTRY. 09:43.833 --> 09:48.833 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% This year, America will recognize two important anniversaries that show us the Majesty of 10:03.433 --> 10:08.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% America's Mission, and the Power of American Pride. 10:10.333 --> 10:13.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In June, we mark 75 years since the start of what General Dwight D. Eisenhower called 10:16.233 --> 10:21.233 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% the Great Crusade - the Allied liberation of Europe in World War II. 10:26.500 --> 10:31.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, fifteen thousand young American men jumped from the sky and 10:42.700 --> 10:47.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% sixty thousand more stormed in from the sea, to save our civilization from tyranny. 10:53.666 --> 10:58.633 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Here with us tonight are three of those heroes: Private First Class Joseph Reilly, Staff Sergeant 11:05.433 --> 11:10.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Irving Locker, and Sergeant Herman Zeitchik. 11:33.700 --> 11:38.700 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Gentlemen, we salute you. 11:59.666 --> 12:04.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In 2019, we also celebrate 50 years since brave young pilots flew a quarter of a million 12:09.233 --> 12:14.233 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% miles through space to plant the American flag on the face of the moon. 12:16.533 --> 12:21.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Half a century later, we are joined by one of the Apollo 11 astronauts who planted that 12:25.200 --> 12:30.200 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% flag: Buzz Aldrin. 13:02.333 --> 13:07.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% This year American astronauts will go back to space on American rockets. 13:10.733 --> 13:15.733 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% In the 20th century, America saved freedom, transformed science, and redefined the middle 13:31.833 --> 13:36.833 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% class standard of living for the entire world to see. 13:46.733 --> 13:51.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Now, we must step boldly and bravely into the next chapter of this Great American Adventure, 14:06.066 --> 14:11.066 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% and we must create a new standard of living for the 21st century. 14:13.000 --> 14:16.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% An amazing quality of life for all of our citizens is within our reach. 14:18.766 --> 14:23.766 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% We can make our communities safer, our families stronger, our culture richer, our faith deeper, 14:28.433 --> 14:33.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% and our Middle Class bigger and more prosperous than ever before. 14:53.866 --> 14:58.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution - and embrace 15:02.066 --> 15:07.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise and the common good. 15:16.933 --> 15:21.933 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Together, we can break decades of political stalemate. 15:30.800 --> 15:35.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We can bridge old divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions, 15:40.333 --> 15:45.333 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and unlock the extraordinary promise of America's future. 15:46.200 --> 15:49.866 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% The decision is ours to make. 15:49.866 --> 15:54.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, 15:58.266 --> 16:01.333 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% incredible progress or pointless destruction. 16:01.333 --> 16:06.333 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Tonight, I ask you to choose GREATNESS. 16:25.100 --> 16:30.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Over the last two years, my administration has moved with urgency and historic speed 16:32.000 --> 16:35.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% to confront problems neglected by leaders of BOTH parties over many decades. 16:37.400 --> 16:41.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In just over two years since the election, we have launched an unprecedented economic 16:43.166 --> 16:48.166 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% boom - a boom that has rarely been seen before. 16:51.133 --> 16:56.133 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% We have created 5.3 million new jobs and importantly added 600,000 new manufacturing jobs -something 17:00.233 --> 17:05.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% which almost everyone said was impossible to do, but the fact is, we are just getting 17:06.600 --> 17:11.600 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% started. 17:23.766 --> 17:28.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Wages are rising at the fastest pace in decades, and growing for blue collar workers, who I 17:31.266 --> 17:36.266 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% promised to fight for, faster than anyone else. 17:39.800 --> 17:44.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Nearly 5 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps. 17:49.633 --> 17:54.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The U.S. economy is growing almost twice as fast today as when I took office, and we are 18:10.033 --> 18:15.033 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% considered far and away the hottest economy anywhere in the world. 18:23.133 --> 18:28.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Unemployment has reached the lowest rate in half a century. 18:36.266 --> 18:41.266 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% African-American, Hispanic-American and Asian-American unemployment have all reached their lowest 18:51.133 --> 18:56.133 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% levels ever recorded. 19:09.866 --> 19:14.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Unemployment for Americans with disabilities has also reached an all-time low. 19:20.133 --> 19:25.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% More people are working now than at any time in our history - 157 million. 19:40.366 --> 19:45.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We passed a massive tax cut for working families and doubled the child tax credit. 20:06.000 --> 20:11.000 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% We virtually ended the estate, or death, tax on small businesses, ranches, and family farms. 20:23.900 --> 20:28.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We eliminated the very unpopular Obamacare individual mandate penalty - and to give 20:44.900 --> 20:49.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% critically ill patients access to life-saving cures, we passed RIGHT TO TRY. 20:57.833 --> 21:02.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% My Administration has cut more regulations in a short time than any other administration 21:13.000 --> 21:18.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% during its entire tenure. 21:20.133 --> 21:25.133 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Companies are coming back to our country in large numbers thanks to our historic reductions 21:32.766 --> 21:37.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% in taxes and regulations. 21:41.033 --> 21:46.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We have unleashed a revolution in American Energy - the United States is now the number 21:48.166 --> 21:53.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% one producer of oil and natural gas in the world. 21:59.633 --> 22:04.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And now, for the first time in 65 years, we are a net exporter of energy. 22:23.233 --> 22:28.233 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% After 24 months of rapid progress, our economy is the envy of the world, our military is 22:40.666 --> 22:45.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% the most powerful on earth, and 23:02.300 --> 23:07.300 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% America is winning each and every day. 23:12.533 --> 23:17.533 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Members of Congress: the State of our Union is Strong. 23:47.566 --> 23:52.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Our country is vibrant and our economy is thriving like never before. 23:54.633 --> 23:58.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% On Friday, it was announced that we added another 304,000 jobs last month alone - almost 24:03.400 --> 24:08.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% double what was expected. 24:18.200 --> 24:23.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% An economic miracle is taking place in the United States - and the only thing that 24:28.200 --> 24:33.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations. 24:52.466 --> 24:57.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. 25:01.266 --> 25:06.266 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% It just doesn't work that way! 25:07.700 --> 25:11.633 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% We must be united at home to defeat our adversaries abroad. 25:14.033 --> 25:19.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% This new era of cooperation can start with finally confirming the more than 300 highly 25:22.900 --> 25:27.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% qualified nominees who are still stuck in the Senate - some after years of waiting. 25:47.800 --> 25:52.800 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% The Senate has failed to act on these nominations, which is unfair to the nominees and to our 25:55.333 --> 25:57.133 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% country. 25:57.133 --> 26:00.900 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Now is the time for bipartisan action. 26:00.900 --> 26:05.900 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% Believe it or not, we have already proven that it is possible. 26:08.400 --> 26:11.933 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% In the last Congress, both parties came together to pass unprecedented legislation to confront 26:15.600 --> 26:20.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the opioid crisis, a sweeping new Farm Bill, historic VA reforms, and after four decades 26:27.466 --> 26:32.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% of rejection, we passed VA Accountability so we can finally terminate those who mistreat 26:36.100 --> 26:41.100 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% our wonderful veterans. 26:46.566 --> 26:51.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And just weeks ago, both parties united for groundbreaking Criminal Justice Reform. 27:20.133 --> 27:25.133 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% Last year, I heard through friends the story of Alice Johnson. 27:27.866 --> 27:30.633 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% I was deeply moved. 27:30.633 --> 27:35.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In 1997, Alice was sentenced to life in prison as a first-time non-violent drug offender. 27:42.700 --> 27:47.700 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Over the next two decades, she became a prison minister, inspiring others to choose a better 27:52.633 --> 27:54.633 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% path. 27:54.633 --> 27:59.633 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% She had a big impact on that prison population - and far beyond. 28:01.800 --> 28:06.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Alice's story underscores the disparities and unfairness that can exist in criminal 28:10.333 --> 28:15.333 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% sentencing - and the need to remedy this injustice. 28:17.300 --> 28:22.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% She served almost 22 years and had expected to be in prison for the rest of her life. 28:29.466 --> 28:34.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In June, I commuted Alice's sentence -when I saw Alice's beautiful family greet her 28:39.233 --> 28:44.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% at the prison gates, hugging and kissing and crying and laughing, I knew I did the right 28:47.133 --> 28:52.133 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% thing - Alice is here with us tonight. 29:08.733 --> 29:13.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Alice, thank you for reminding us that we always have the power to shape our own destiny. 29:43.166 --> 29:48.166 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Inspired by stories like Alice's, my administration worked closely with members of both parties 29:49.866 --> 29:54.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% to sign the First Step Act into law. 30:04.700 --> 30:09.700 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% This legislation reformed sentencing laws that have wrongly and disproportionately harmed 30:11.933 --> 30:15.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% the African-American community. 30:15.533 --> 30:20.533 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% The First Step Act gives non-violent offenders the chance to re-enter society as productive, 30:22.333 --> 30:24.400 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% law-abiding citizens. 30:24.400 --> 30:29.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Now, states across the country are following our lead. 30:30.600 --> 30:34.666 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% America is a nation that believes in redemption. 30:34.666 --> 30:39.666 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% We are also joined tonight by Matthew Charles from Tennessee. 30:42.266 --> 30:47.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In 1996, at age 30, Matthew was sentenced to 35 years for selling drugs and related 30:52.866 --> 30:54.966 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% offenses. 30:54.966 --> 30:59.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Over the next two decades, he completed more than 30 Bible studies, became a law clerk, 31:03.100 --> 31:07.166 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% and mentored fellow inmates. 31:07.166 --> 31:12.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Now, Matthew is the very first person to be released from prison under the First Step 31:14.433 --> 31:18.966 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% Act. 31:18.966 --> 31:23.966 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Matthew, on behalf of All Americans: WELCOME HOME. 31:51.166 --> 31:56.133 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Now, Republicans and Democrats must join forces again to confront an urgent national crisis. 32:05.466 --> 32:10.466 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Congress has 10 days left to pass a bill that will fund our government, protect our homeland, 32:13.000 --> 32:18.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% and secure our Southern Border. 32:20.033 --> 32:23.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Now is the time for Congress to show the world that America is committed to ending illegal 32:25.566 --> 32:30.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% immigration and putting the ruthless coyotes, cartels, drug dealers, and human traffickers 32:34.200 --> 32:39.200 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% OUT OF BUSINESS. 33:01.366 --> 33:06.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% As we speak, large, organized caravans are on the march to the United States. 33:09.333 --> 33:14.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We have just heard that Mexican cities, in order to remove the illegal immigrants from 33:17.466 --> 33:22.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% their communities, are getting trucks and buses to bring them up to our country in areas 33:24.166 --> 33:28.300 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% where there is little border protection. 33:28.300 --> 33:33.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I have ordered another 3,750 troops to our Southern Border to prepare for the tremendous 33:38.666 --> 33:41.566 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% onslaught. 33:41.566 --> 33:44.800 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% This is a MORAL issue. 33:44.800 --> 33:49.800 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% The lawless state of our Southern Border is a threat to the safety, security and financial 33:51.466 --> 33:55.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% well-being of all Americans. 33:55.766 --> 34:00.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We have a moral duty to create an immigration system that protects the lives and jobs of 34:02.333 --> 34:04.533 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% our citizens. 34:04.533 --> 34:09.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% This includes our obligation to the millions of immigrants living here today, who followed 34:11.533 --> 34:16.366 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% the rules and respected our laws. 34:16.366 --> 34:21.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% LEGAL immigrants enrich our nation and strengthen our society in countless ways. 34:39.566 --> 34:44.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I want people to come into our country, but they have to come in legally. 34:54.300 --> 34:59.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Tonight, I am asking you to defend our very dangerous southern border out of LOVE and 35:11.533 --> 35:16.533 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% DEVOTION to our fellow citizens and to our country. 35:18.600 --> 35:22.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% No issue better illustrates the divide between America's WORKING CLASS and America's 35:24.300 --> 35:28.600 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% POLITICAL CLASS than illegal immigration. 35:28.600 --> 35:33.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Wealthy politicians and donors push for open borders while living their lives behind walls 35:36.466 --> 35:41.466 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% and gates and guards. 35:47.900 --> 35:52.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Meanwhile, working class Americans are left to pay the price for mass illegal migration 36:03.666 --> 36:08.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% - reduced jobs, lower wages, overburdened schools and hospitals, increased crime, and 36:15.633 --> 36:20.266 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% a depleted social safety net. 36:20.266 --> 36:25.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Tolerance for illegal immigration is not compassionate - it is cruel. 36:29.433 --> 36:34.433 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% 1 in 3 women is sexually assaulted on the long journey north. 36:44.100 --> 36:49.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Smugglers use migrant children as human pawns to exploit our laws and gain access to our 36:53.466 --> 36:55.466 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% country. 36:55.466 --> 36:59.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Human traffickers and sex traffickers take advantage of the wide open areas between our 37:01.966 --> 37:06.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% ports of entry to smuggle thousands of young girls and women into the United States and 37:09.433 --> 37:14.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% to sell them into prostitution and modern-day slavery. 37:17.600 --> 37:22.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Tens of thousands of innocent Americans are killed by lethal drugs that cross our border 37:25.200 --> 37:30.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% and flood into our cities - including meth, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl. 37:34.966 --> 37:39.966 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% The savage gang, MS-13, now operates in at least 20 different American states, and they 37:44.300 --> 37:49.300 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% almost all come through our Southern Border. 37:51.300 --> 37:55.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Just yesterday, an MS-13 gang member was taken into custody for a fatal shooting on a subway 37:57.533 --> 38:01.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% platform in New York City. 38:01.033 --> 38:06.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We are removing these gang members by the thousands, but until we secure our border 38:07.766 --> 38:12.766 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% they're going to keep streaming back in. 38:14.800 --> 38:18.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Year after year, countless Americans are murdered by criminal illegal aliens. 38:20.766 --> 38:24.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I've gotten to know many wonderful Angel Moms, Dads and families -no one should ever 38:28.666 --> 38:33.666 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% have to suffer the horrible heartache they have endured. 38:37.500 --> 38:42.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Here tonight is Debra Bissell. 38:42.400 --> 38:47.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Just three weeks ago, Debra's parents, Gerald and Sharon, were burglarized and shot to death 38:50.833 --> 38:55.833 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% in their Reno, Nevada home by an illegal alien. 38:58.400 --> 39:01.733 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% They were in their eighties and are survived by 4 children, 11 grandchildren, and 20 great-grandchildren. 39:07.033 --> 39:12.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Also here tonight are Gerald and Sharon's granddaughter, Heather, and great-granddaughter 39:14.166 --> 39:16.066 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% Madison. 39:16.066 --> 39:20.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% To Debra, Heather, Madison, please stand:few can understand your pain. 39:37.333 --> 39:42.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But I will never forget, and I will fight for the memory of Gerald and Sharon, that 39:58.666 --> 40:02.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% it should never happen again. 40:02.033 --> 40:07.033 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Not one more American life should be lost because our nation failed to control its very 40:09.666 --> 40:12.233 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% dangerous border. 40:12.233 --> 40:16.966 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% In the last two years, our brave ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of criminal aliens, including 40:24.133 --> 40:29.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% those charged or convicted of nearly 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 killings. 40:39.233 --> 40:44.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We are joined tonight by one of those law enforcement heroes: ICE Special Agent Elvin 40:46.300 --> 40:48.833 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Hernandez. 40:48.833 --> 40:53.800 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% When 41:09.500 --> 41:14.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Elvin was a boy, he and his family legally immigrated to the United States from the Dominican 41:16.300 --> 41:18.433 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Republic. 41:18.433 --> 41:23.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% At the age of eight, Elvin told his dad he wanted to become a Special Agent. 41:25.333 --> 41:28.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Today, he leads investigations into the scourge of international sex trafficking. 41:33.966 --> 41:38.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Elvin says: "If I can make sure these young girls get their justice, I've done my job." 41:45.233 --> 41:50.200 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Thanks to his work and that of his colleagues, more than 300 women and girls have been rescued 41:54.466 --> 41:59.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% from horror and more than 1,500 sadistic traffickers have been put behind bars. 42:11.266 --> 42:16.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Special Agent Hernandez please stand: We will ALWAYS support the brave men and women of 42:33.566 --> 42:38.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Law Enforcement -and I pledge to you tonight that we will NEVER Abolish our heroes from 42:42.300 --> 42:47.300 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% ICE. 42:57.566 --> 43:02.533 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% My administration has sent to Congress a commonsense proposal to end the crisis on our Southern 43:04.700 --> 43:06.733 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% Border. 43:06.733 --> 43:10.733 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% It includes humanitarian assistance, more law enforcement, drug detection at our ports, 43:15.066 --> 43:20.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% closing loopholes that enable child smuggling, and plans for a new physical barrier, or wall, 43:22.800 --> 43:27.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% to secure the vast areas between our ports of entry. 43:30.000 --> 43:35.000 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% This 43:57.133 --> 44:02.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% is a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier - not just a simple concrete wall. 44:06.466 --> 44:11.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It will be deployed in the areas identified by border agents as having the greatest need, 44:14.966 --> 44:19.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% and as these agents will tell you, where walls go up, illegal crossings go way down. 44:36.666 --> 44:41.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% San Diego used to have the most illegal border crossings in the country. 44:43.000 --> 44:48.000 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% In response, a strong security wall was put in place. 44:49.533 --> 44:53.566 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% This powerful barrier almost completely ended illegal crossings. 44:56.300 --> 45:01.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime 45:03.833 --> 45:08.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% - one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our nation's most dangerous 45:13.100 --> 45:16.533 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% cities. 45:16.533 --> 45:21.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Now, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of our safest cities. 45:29.533 --> 45:34.533 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Simply put, WALLS WORK and WALLS SAVE LIVES. 45:50.400 --> 45:55.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% So let's work together, compromise, and reach a deal that will truly make America 45:57.033 --> 45:59.233 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% SAFE. 45:59.233 --> 46:04.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% As we work to defend our people's safety, we must also ensure our economic resurgence 46:08.166 --> 46:10.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% continues at a rapid pace. 46:10.966 --> 46:15.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% No one has benefitted more from our thriving economy than women, who have filled 58 percent 46:18.433 --> 46:23.433 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% of the new jobs created in the last year. 47:00.800 --> 47:05.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% All Americans can be proud that we have more women in the workforce than ever before - 47:39.366 --> 47:44.366 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% and exactly one century after Congress passed the Constitutional Amendment giving women 47:47.366 --> 47:52.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the right to vote, we also have more women serving in Congress than ever before. 48:57.600 --> 49:02.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% As part of our commitment to improving opportunity for women everywhere, this Thursday we are 49:05.066 --> 49:08.900 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% launching the first ever government-wide initiative focused on economic empowerment for women 49:10.866 --> 49:13.300 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% in developing countries. 49:13.300 --> 49:18.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% To build on our incredible economic success, one priority is paramount -reversing decades 49:27.966 --> 49:32.900 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% of calamitous trade policies. 49:32.900 --> 49:37.900 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% We are now making it clear to China that after years of targeting our industries, and stealing 49:41.333 --> 49:46.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% our intellectual property, the theft of American jobs and wealth has come to an end. 49:56.066 --> 50:01.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Therefore, we recently imposed tariffs on $250 billion dollars of Chinese goods - and 50:10.033 --> 50:15.033 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% now our Treasury is receiving billions of dollars. 50:17.033 --> 50:21.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But I don't blame China for taking advantage of us - I blame our leaders and representatives 50:24.400 --> 50:28.333 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% for allowing this travesty to happen. 50:28.333 --> 50:33.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I have great respect for President Xi, and we are now working on a new trade deal with 50:34.533 --> 50:36.533 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% China. 50:36.533 --> 50:41.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But it must include real, structural change to end unfair trade practices, reduce our 50:43.466 --> 50:48.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% chronic trade deficit, and protect American jobs. 51:03.700 --> 51:08.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Another historic trade blunder was the catastrophe known as NAFTA. 51:10.600 --> 51:15.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I have met the men and women of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Hampshire, 51:17.766 --> 51:22.766 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and many other states whose dreams were shattered by NAFTA. 51:25.100 --> 51:30.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% For years, politicians promised them they would negotiate for a better deal. 51:31.533 --> 51:36.233 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But no one ever TRIED - until now. 51:36.233 --> 51:41.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Our new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement - or USMCA - will replace NAFTA and deliver for 51:44.900 --> 51:49.866 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% American workers: bringing back our manufacturing jobs, expanding American agriculture, protecting 52:04.266 --> 52:09.266 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% intellectual property, and ensuring that more cars are proudly stamped with the four beautiful 52:14.933 --> 52:19.933 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% words: MADE IN THE USA. 52:23.866 --> 52:28.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Tonight, I am also asking you to pass the United States Reciprocal Trade Act, so that 52:38.433 --> 52:43.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% if another country places an unfair tariff on an American product, we can charge them 52:46.366 --> 52:51.366 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% the exact same tariff on the same product that they sell to us. 52:58.766 --> 53:03.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Both parties should be able to unite for a great rebuilding of America's crumbling 53:11.200 --> 53:16.200 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% infrastructure. 53:25.666 --> 53:30.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I know that Congress is eager to pass an infrastructure bill -and I am eager to work with you on 53:33.166 --> 53:37.633 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% legislation to deliver new and important infrastructure investment, including investments in the cutting 53:40.866 --> 53:45.266 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% edge industries of the future. 53:45.266 --> 53:47.533 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% This is not an option. 53:47.533 --> 53:50.400 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% This is a necessity. 53:50.400 --> 53:55.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The next major priority for me, and for all of us, should be to lower the cost of healthcare 53:59.366 --> 54:04.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% and prescription drugs - and to protect patients with pre-existing conditions. 54:12.633 --> 54:17.633 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Already, as a result of my administration's efforts, in 2018 drug prices experienced their 54:28.233 --> 54:33.233 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% single largest decline in 46 years. 54:42.766 --> 54:44.833 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% But we must do more. 54:44.833 --> 54:49.266 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% It is unacceptable that Americans pay vastly more than people in other countries for the 54:50.666 --> 54:55.500 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% exact same drugs, often made in the exact same place. 54:58.833 --> 55:03.833 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% This is wrong, unfair, and together we can stop it. 55:20.766 --> 55:25.766 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% I am asking Congress to pass legislation that finally takes on the problem of global freeloading 55:28.366 --> 55:33.366 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% and delivers fairness and price transparency for American Patients. 55:37.000 --> 55:42.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We should also require drug companies, insurance companies, and hospitals to disclose real 55:49.800 --> 55:54.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% prices to foster competition and bring costs down. 56:09.466 --> 56:14.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% No force in history has done more to advance the human condition than American Freedom. 56:37.366 --> 56:42.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In recent years we have made remarkable progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS. 56:46.433 --> 56:51.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach. 56:54.400 --> 56:59.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate 57:02.833 --> 57:07.833 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years. 57:20.200 --> 57:25.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Together, we will defeat AIDS in America. 57:35.733 --> 57:40.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Tonight I am also asking you to join me in another fight that all Americans can get behind: 57:43.633 --> 57:48.633 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% the fight against childhood cancer. 58:01.766 --> 58:06.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Joining Melania in the gallery this evening is a very brave 10 year old girl, Grace Ee-line. 58:11.833 --> 58:16.833 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Every birthday 58:41.466 --> 58:46.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% since she was 4, Grace asked her friends to donate to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. 58:50.000 --> 58:55.000 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% She did not know that one day she might be a patient herself. 58:57.333 --> 59:01.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Last year, Grace was diagnosed with brain cancer. 59:01.400 --> 59:05.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Immediately, she began radiation treatment. 59:05.200 --> 59:10.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% At the same time, she rallied her community and raised more than $40,000 dollars for the 59:12.733 --> 59:17.733 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% fight against cancer. 59:37.600 --> 59:42.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% When Grace completed treatment last fall, her doctors and nurses cheered with tears 59:47.933 --> 59:52.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% in their eyes as she hung up a poster that read: "Last day of Keemo." 01:00:15.600 --> 01:00:20.600 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Grace - you are an inspiration to us all. 01:00:22.033 --> 01:00:26.633 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Many childhood cancers have not seen new therapies in decades. 01:00:28.666 --> 01:00:32.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% My budget will ask Congress for $500 million dollars over the next 10 years to fund this 01:00:33.466 --> 01:00:36.266 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% critical life-saving research. 01:00:36.266 --> 01:00:41.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% To help support working parents, the time has come to pass SCHOOL CHOICE for America's 01:00:46.566 --> 01:00:50.200 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% children. 01:00:50.200 --> 01:00:55.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I am also proud to be the first President to include in my budget a plan for nationwide 01:01:06.533 --> 01:01:11.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% paid family leave - so that every new parent has the chance to bond with their newborn 01:01:14.233 --> 01:01:19.233 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% child. 01:01:21.866 --> 01:01:26.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% There could be no greater contrast to the beautiful image of a mother holding her infant 01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:41.000 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% child than the chilling displays our nation saw in recent days. 01:01:44.700 --> 01:01:49.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would 01:01:51.633 --> 01:01:56.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% allow a baby to be ripped from the mother's womb moments before birth. 01:01:58.466 --> 01:02:03.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% These are living, feeling, beautiful, babies who will never get the chance to share their 01:02:04.300 --> 01:02:07.433 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% love and dreams with the world. 01:02:07.433 --> 01:02:12.433 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% And then, we had the case of the Governor of Virginia where he stated 01:02:13.633 --> 01:02:17.033 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% he would execute a baby after birth. 01:02:17.033 --> 01:02:22.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking Congress to pass legislation to prohibit 01:02:25.366 --> 01:02:30.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother's womb. 01:02:55.933 --> 01:03:00.900 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% Let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life. 01:03:24.766 --> 01:03:29.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And let us reaffirm a fundamental truth: all children - born and unborn - are made 01:03:33.366 --> 01:03:35.833 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% in the holy image of God. 01:03:35.833 --> 01:03:40.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The final part of my agenda is to protect America's National Security. 01:03:46.166 --> 01:03:51.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Over the last two years, we have begun to fully rebuild the United States Military -with 01:03:54.333 --> 01:03:59.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% $700 billion dollars last year and $716 billion dollars this year. 01:04:03.233 --> 01:04:08.233 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% We are also getting other nations to pay their fair share. 01:04:24.600 --> 01:04:29.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% For years, the United States was being treated very unfairly by NATO - but now we have 01:04:37.666 --> 01:04:42.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% secured a $100 billion dollar increase in defense spending from NATO allies. 01:04:53.433 --> 01:04:58.433 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% As part of our military build-up, the United States is developing a state-of-the-art Missile 01:05:11.866 --> 01:05:14.433 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Defense System. 01:05:14.433 --> 01:05:19.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Under my Administration, we will never apologize for advancing America's interests. 01:05:22.666 --> 01:05:27.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% For example, decades ago the United States entered into a treaty with Russia in which 01:05:30.366 --> 01:05:35.366 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% we agreed to limit and reduce our missile capabilities. 01:05:37.233 --> 01:05:41.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% While we followed the agreement to the letter, Russia repeatedly violated its terms. 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:55.000 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% That is why I announced that the United States is officially withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range 01:05:57.333 --> 01:06:02.333 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF Treaty. 01:06:03.133 --> 01:06:08.133 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% Perhaps 01:06:21.100 --> 01:06:26.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% we can negotiate a different agreement, adding China and others, or perhaps we can't -in 01:06:30.066 --> 01:06:35.066 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% which case, we will outspend and out-innovate all others by far. 01:06:48.866 --> 01:06:53.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% As part of a bold new diplomacy, we continue our historic push for peace on the Korean 01:06:56.100 --> 01:06:58.700 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Peninsula. 01:06:58.700 --> 01:07:03.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped, and there has not been a missile 01:07:06.533 --> 01:07:09.733 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% launch in 15 months. 01:07:09.733 --> 01:07:14.733 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, 01:07:18.133 --> 01:07:23.133 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% be in a major war with North Korea. 01:07:28.900 --> 01:07:33.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Much work remains to be done, but my relationship with Kim Jong Un is a good one. 01:07:36.433 --> 01:07:41.433 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% Chairman Kim and I will meet again on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam. 01:07:48.400 --> 01:07:53.400 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Two weeks ago, the United States officially recognized the legitimate government of Venezuela, 01:08:00.666 --> 01:08:05.633 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and its new interim President, Juan Gwydo. 01:08:13.200 --> 01:08:18.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom - and we condemn 01:08:21.700 --> 01:08:26.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation 01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:35.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair. 01:08:40.833 --> 01:08:45.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country. 01:08:59.666 --> 01:09:04.666 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% America was founded on liberty and independence - not government coercion, domination and 01:09:07.366 --> 01:09:08.566 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% control. 01:09:08.566 --> 01:09:13.366 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We are BORN FREE, and we will STAY FREE. 01:09:27.766 --> 01:09:32.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will NEVER be a socialist country. 01:09:58.733 --> 01:10:03.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% One of the most complex set of challenges we face is in the Middle East. 01:10:07.900 --> 01:10:12.900 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Our approach is based on principled realism - not discredited theories that have failed 01:10:14.933 --> 01:10:19.933 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% for decades to yield progress. 01:10:22.300 --> 01:10:25.200 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% For this reason, my Administration recognized the TRUE capital of Israel - and proudly 01:10:27.966 --> 01:10:32.966 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% opened the American Embassy in Jerusalem. 01:10:46.566 --> 01:10:51.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Our brave troops have now been fighting in the Middle East for almost 19 years. 01:10:56.000 --> 01:11:00.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In Afghanistan and Iraq, nearly 7,000 American Heroes have given their lives. 01:11:05.133 --> 01:11:10.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% More than 52,000 Americans have been badly wounded. 01:11:11.666 --> 01:11:16.233 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% We have spent more than $7 trillion dollars in the Middle East. 01:11:19.633 --> 01:11:24.633 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% As a candidate for President, I pledged a new approach. 01:11:27.833 --> 01:11:32.833 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Great nations do not fight endless wars. 01:11:48.466 --> 01:11:53.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% When I took office, ISIS controlled more than 20,000 square miles in Iraq and Syria. 01:11:58.300 --> 01:12:03.266 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Today, we have liberated virtually all of that territory from the grip of these bloodthirsty 01:12:09.433 --> 01:12:11.400 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% killers. 01:12:11.400 --> 01:12:16.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Now, as we work with our allies to destroy the remnants of ISIS, it is time to give our 01:12:19.966 --> 01:12:24.966 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% brave warriors in Syria a warm welcome home. 01:12:27.366 --> 01:12:31.033 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% I have also accelerated our negotiations to reach a political settlement in Afghanistan. 01:12:45.633 --> 01:12:50.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Our troops have fought with unmatched valor - and thanks to their bravery, we are now 01:12:53.866 --> 01:12:58.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% able to pursue a political solution to this long and bloody conflict. 01:13:19.900 --> 01:13:24.900 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% In Afghanistan, my Administration is holding constructive talks with a number of Afghan 01:13:27.933 --> 01:13:32.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% groups, including the Taliban. 01:13:32.566 --> 01:13:37.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% As we make progress in these negotiations, we will be able to reduce our troop presence 01:13:39.633 --> 01:13:44.633 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% and focus on counter-terrorism. 01:13:47.333 --> 01:13:52.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We do not know whether we will achieve an agreement - but we do know that after two 01:13:54.033 --> 01:13:59.033 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% decades of war, the hour has come to at least try for PEACE. 01:14:06.666 --> 01:14:11.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Above all, friend and foe alike must never doubt this nation's power and will to defend 01:14:24.966 --> 01:14:26.900 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% our people. 01:14:26.900 --> 01:14:31.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% 18 years ago, terrorists attacked the USS Cole - and last month American Forces killed 01:14:39.200 --> 01:14:44.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% one of the leaders of the attack. 01:14:58.133 --> 01:15:03.133 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% We are honored to be joined tonight by Tom Wibberley, whose son, Navy Seaman Craig Wibberley, 01:15:06.966 --> 01:15:11.966 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% was one of the 17 sailors we tragically lost. 01:15:13.400 --> 01:15:17.333 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Tom: we vow to always remember the heroes of the USS Cole. 01:15:39.733 --> 01:15:44.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% My administration has acted decisively to confront the world's leading state sponsor 01:15:46.900 --> 01:15:51.900 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% of terror: the radical regime in Iran. 01:15:58.400 --> 01:16:03.400 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% To ensure this corrupt dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons, I withdrew the United 01:16:06.400 --> 01:16:11.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% States from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal. 01:16:13.366 --> 01:16:18.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And last fall, we put in place the toughest sanctions ever imposed on a country. 01:16:32.166 --> 01:16:37.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We will not avert our eyes from a regime that chants Death to America and threatens genocide 01:16:41.766 --> 01:16:46.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% against the Jewish People. 01:16:49.100 --> 01:16:53.633 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% We must never ignore the vile poison of Anti-Semitism, or those who spread its venomous creed. 01:17:07.600 --> 01:17:12.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% With one voice, we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs. 01:17:15.566 --> 01:17:20.566 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Just months ago, 11 Jewish-Americans were viciously murdered in an Anti-Semitic attack 01:17:25.033 --> 01:17:28.266 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. 01:17:28.266 --> 01:17:33.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% SWAT Officer Timothy Matson raced into the gunfire and was shot seven times chasing down 01:17:39.600 --> 01:17:41.700 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% the killer. 01:17:41.700 --> 01:17:46.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Timothy has just had his 12th surgery - but he made the trip to be here with us tonight. 01:17:58.100 --> 01:18:03.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Officer Matson: we are forever grateful for your courage in the face of evil. 01:18:54.166 --> 01:18:59.166 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Tonight we are also joined by Pittsburgh survivor Judah Samet. 01:19:00.600 --> 01:19:05.000 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% He arrived at the synagogue as the massacre began. 01:19:06.866 --> 01:19:11.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But not only did Judah narrowly escape death last fall - more than 7 decades ago, he 01:19:13.800 --> 01:19:18.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% narrowly survived the Nazi concentration camps. 01:19:19.666 --> 01:19:24.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Today is Judah's 81st birthday. 01:19:49.333 --> 01:19:54.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Judah says he can still remember the exact moment, nearly 75 years ago, after 10 months 01:20:42.233 --> 01:20:47.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% in a concentration camp, when he and his family were put on a train, and told they were going 01:20:49.800 --> 01:20:52.066 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% to another camp. 01:20:52.066 --> 01:20:57.033 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Suddenly the train screeched to a halt. 01:20:59.100 --> 01:21:00.800 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% A soldier appeared. 01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:04.833 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Judah's family braced for the worst. 01:21:04.833 --> 01:21:09.833 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Then, his father cried out with joy: "It's the AMERICANS." 01:21:38.200 --> 01:21:43.200 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% A second Holocaust survivor who is here tonight, Joshua Kaufman, was a prisoner at Dachau Concentration 01:21:47.666 --> 01:21:49.733 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% Camp. 01:21:49.733 --> 01:21:53.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He remembers watching through a hole in the wall of a cattle car as American soldiers 01:21:56.466 --> 01:21:58.533 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% rolled in with tanks. 01:21:58.533 --> 01:22:03.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% "To me," Joshua recalls, "the American soldiers were proof that God exists, and they 01:22:05.333 --> 01:22:08.333 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% came down from the sky." 01:22:08.333 --> 01:22:13.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I began this evening by honoring three soldiers who fought on D-Day in the Second World War. 01:22:19.900 --> 01:22:24.100 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% One of them was Herman Zeitchick. 01:22:24.100 --> 01:22:26.566 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But there is more to Herman's story. 01:22:26.566 --> 01:22:31.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% A year after he stormed the Beaches of Normandy, Herman was one of those American Soldiers 01:22:35.633 --> 01:22:40.633 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% who helped liberate Dachau. 01:23:12.833 --> 01:23:17.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He was one of the Americans who helped rescue Joshua from that hell on earth. 01:23:21.600 --> 01:23:26.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Almost 75 years later, Herman and Joshua are both together in the gallery tonight -seated 01:23:31.333 --> 01:23:36.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% side-by-side, here in the home of American Freedom. 01:23:36.133 --> 01:23:41.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Herman and Joshua: your presence this evening honors and uplifts our entire nation. 01:24:18.700 --> 01:24:23.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% When American soldiers set out beneath the dark skies over the English Channel in the 01:24:25.700 --> 01:24:29.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% early hours of D-Day, 1944, they were just young men of 18 and 19, hurtling on fragile 01:24:34.333 --> 01:24:39.333 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% landing craft toward the most momentous battle in the history of war. 01:24:42.533 --> 01:24:47.266 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% They did not know if they would survive the hour. 01:24:47.266 --> 01:24:51.533 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% They did not know if they would grow old. 01:24:51.533 --> 01:24:56.533 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But they knew that America had to prevail. 01:24:58.000 --> 01:25:01.866 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Their cause was this nation, and generations yet unborn. 01:25:04.433 --> 01:25:07.700 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% Why did they do it? 01:25:07.700 --> 01:25:12.700 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% They did it for AMERICA - they did it for us. 01:25:14.666 --> 01:25:17.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Everything that has come since -our triumph over communism, our giant leaps of science 01:25:23.000 --> 01:25:28.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% and discovery, our unrivaled progress toward equality and justice - ALL of it is possible 01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:36.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% thanks to the blood and tears and courage and vision of the Americans who came before. 01:25:41.300 --> 01:25:46.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Think of this Capitol -think of this very Chamber, where lawmakers before you voted 01:25:49.233 --> 01:25:54.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% to end slavery, to build the railroads and the highways, to defeat fascism, to secure 01:25:59.266 --> 01:26:04.266 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Civil Rights, to face down an evil empire. 01:26:06.900 --> 01:26:11.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Here tonight we have legislators from across this magnificent Republic. 01:26:16.200 --> 01:26:21.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% You have come from the rocky shores of Maine and the volcanic peaks of Hawaii; from the 01:26:25.466 --> 01:26:30.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% snowy woods of Wisconsin and the red deserts of Arizona; from the green farms of Kentucky 01:26:33.833 --> 01:26:37.333 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and the golden beaches of California. 01:26:37.333 --> 01:26:42.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Together, we represent the most extraordinary nation in all of history. 01:26:47.433 --> 01:26:51.933 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% What will we do with this moment? 01:26:51.933 --> 01:26:55.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% How will we be remembered? 01:26:55.533 --> 01:27:00.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I ask the men and women of this Congress: Look at the opportunities before us! 01:27:04.800 --> 01:27:09.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Our most thrilling achievements are still ahead. 01:27:10.933 --> 01:27:15.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Our most exciting journeys still await. 01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:21.100 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Our biggest victories are still to come. 01:27:21.966 --> 01:27:26.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% We have not yet BEGUN TO DREAM. 01:27:26.033 --> 01:27:31.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We must choose whether we are defined by our differences - or whether we dare to transcend 01:27:34.700 --> 01:27:37.200 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% them. 01:27:37.200 --> 01:27:41.366 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% We must choose whether we squander our inheritance - or whether we proudly declare that WE 01:27:45.266 --> 01:27:50.133 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% ARE AMERICANS: We do the incredible. 01:27:50.133 --> 01:27:53.333 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% We defy the impossible. 01:27:53.333 --> 01:27:56.500 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% We conquer the unknown. 01:27:56.500 --> 01:28:01.500 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% This is the time to re-ignite the American Imagination. 01:28:04.000 --> 01:28:09.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% This is the time to search for the tallest summit, and set our sights on the brightest 01:28:12.200 --> 01:28:14.233 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% star. 01:28:14.233 --> 01:28:18.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% This is the time to rekindle the bonds of love and loyalty and memory that link us together 01:28:20.433 --> 01:28:25.433 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% as citizens, as neighbors, as patriots. 01:28:26.866 --> 01:28:31.300 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% This is our future -our fate - and our choice to make. 01:28:32.600 --> 01:28:36.900 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I am asking you to CHOOSE GREATNESS. 01:28:36.900 --> 01:28:41.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% No matter the trials we face, no matter the challenges to come, we must go forward together. 01:28:46.300 --> 01:28:51.033 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We must keep America FIRST in our hearts. 01:28:51.033 --> 01:28:55.966 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We must keep Freedom alive in our souls. 01:28:55.966 --> 01:29:00.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And we must always keep FAITH in America's Destiny -that One Nation, Under God, must 01:29:06.400 --> 01:29:11.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% be the HOPE and the PROMISE and the LIGHT and the GLORY among all the nations of the 01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:17.800 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% world! 01:29:17.800 --> 01:29:19.066 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Thank you. 01:29:19.066 --> 01:29:22.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% God Bless You, God Bless America, and Goodnight! 01:29:22.866 --> 01:29:24.466 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 01:29:24.466 --> 01:29:26.600 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% DONALD TRUMP: Thank you. 01:29:26.600 --> 01:29:30.933 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: And that concludes President Trump's second State of the Union address. 01:29:30.933 --> 01:29:35.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Coming up in a few minutes will be the Democrats' response. 01:29:35.200 --> 01:29:40.200 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% That will be delivered by Stacey Abrams, who lost last November to Republican Brian Kemp 01:29:41.366 --> 01:29:43.433 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% in a tight contest for governor of Georgia. 01:29:43.433 --> 01:29:48.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% You can see the president applauding, as he is applauded by members of Congress, as he 01:29:51.333 --> 01:29:56.333 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% is there in the chamber of the House of Representatives with all the members of the House and the 01:29:57.766 --> 01:30:01.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Senate, his Cabinet, members of the Supreme Court. 01:30:01.800 --> 01:30:05.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% This has been an hour-and-a-half-long speech. 01:30:05.200 --> 01:30:10.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The president touched on themes from unifying the two parties, pleading with Democrats to 01:30:12.400 --> 01:30:17.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% work with him on his immigration and border security proposal, deploring abortion, loosening 01:30:22.133 --> 01:30:27.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% abortion rights measures, and on a number of foreign policy issues. 01:30:28.600 --> 01:30:30.600 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% It crossed the spectrum. 01:30:30.600 --> 01:30:35.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And there was a good -- a good amount of this speech was devoted to celebrating heroes in 01:30:37.433 --> 01:30:42.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the audience from World War II Holocaust survivors, to a young girl who has fought back brain 01:30:46.200 --> 01:30:48.800 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% cancer. 01:30:48.800 --> 01:30:53.100 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% I am joined here in the studio by Mark Shields, Amy Walter, Peter Wehner, Karine Jean-Pierre, 01:30:53.866 --> 01:30:56.366 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% and Chris Buskirk. 01:30:56.366 --> 01:30:59.066 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And I want to -- Mark, I want to turn to you first. 01:30:59.066 --> 01:31:04.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% This is a president who spent so much of this speech pleading with Democrats to work with 01:31:05.966 --> 01:31:08.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% him across the aisle, pleading for unity, and yet we are coming off one of the most 01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:11.533 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% divided periods in recent history. 01:31:11.533 --> 01:31:13.200 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% MARK SHIELDS: Yes. 01:31:13.200 --> 01:31:15.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Judy, it is fascinating to me. 01:31:15.400 --> 01:31:20.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% As I listened to the speech, he devoted three pages of the speech to the economy. 01:31:22.366 --> 01:31:25.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And he has got a marvelous economic story to tell, and he never talks about it. 01:31:26.733 --> 01:31:28.700 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I mean, he very rarely brings it up. 01:31:28.700 --> 01:31:30.166 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% And he did tonight. 01:31:30.166 --> 01:31:34.166 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And I think he is on strong ground when he does it. 01:31:34.166 --> 01:31:38.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The rest of it, when he said, this is not - - he opened it up by saying, this is not 01:31:38.466 --> 01:31:43.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% a two-party -- it's not -- I don't want a Republican or Democrat response. 01:31:45.733 --> 01:31:50.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Any time we use Democrat as an adjective, it sends up the hairs on the back of every 01:31:51.333 --> 01:31:52.600 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Democrat's neck. 01:31:52.600 --> 01:31:54.066 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% The word is Democratic. 01:31:54.066 --> 01:31:55.500 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% That's an adjective. 01:31:55.500 --> 01:31:57.566 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Democrat is a dismissive, pejorative word. 01:31:57.566 --> 01:32:01.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And, you know, so, if you are offering an olive branch, that isn't the way to begin. 01:32:03.066 --> 01:32:05.600 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% It was a long speech. 01:32:05.600 --> 01:32:09.433 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% He delivers the speech better than he has in the past, but I just thought it was conspicuously 01:32:10.433 --> 01:32:11.433 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% unmemorable. 01:32:11.433 --> 01:32:12.633 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Peter Wehner? 01:32:12.633 --> 01:32:14.333 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% PETER WEHNER: I will say a couple of things. 01:32:14.333 --> 01:32:19.333 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Just from the craft of a speech, it was very bad. 01:32:20.033 --> 01:32:21.033 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% It was banal. 01:32:21.033 --> 01:32:22.033 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% It was undisciplined. 01:32:22.033 --> 01:32:24.666 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% It was windy. 01:32:24.666 --> 01:32:26.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And it was tossed together. 01:32:26.733 --> 01:32:29.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It didn't have the sense that there was somebody in control of the speech. 01:32:29.933 --> 01:32:34.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% You know, the teleprompter is not a friend of Donald Trump, and he proved that tonight. 01:32:34.833 --> 01:32:38.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And this is a -- this is a man who is more or less allergic to eloquence. 01:32:38.533 --> 01:32:40.766 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And he showed that again tonight. 01:32:40.766 --> 01:32:43.833 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% So, in that respect, I thought it was a bad speech. 01:32:43.833 --> 01:32:48.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I thought it was -- contrary to what his aides said, it wasn't a speech of unity. 01:32:48.200 --> 01:32:51.833 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% It was at its core a speech for the base. 01:32:51.833 --> 01:32:54.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% He gave -- devoted one sentence to education. 01:32:54.733 --> 01:32:59.700 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And he must have gone on 15 minutes on illegal immigration. 01:33:00.633 --> 01:33:02.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% So that was his target audience. 01:33:02.533 --> 01:33:06.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The last thing on this immigration issue, that argument and his entire case is built 01:33:06.966 --> 01:33:08.500 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% on a fiction. 01:33:08.500 --> 01:33:13.033 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And the fiction is that this is an unprecedented crisis. 01:33:13.033 --> 01:33:16.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% You can be in favor of border security, but illegal border apprehensions are at their 01:33:16.800 --> 01:33:18.466 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% lowest point since 1971. 01:33:18.466 --> 01:33:23.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And yet he speaks as if this is the great crisis facing America. 01:33:23.200 --> 01:33:24.666 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% And it is not. 01:33:24.666 --> 01:33:25.633 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Amy Walter, what did you make of the speech? 01:33:25.633 --> 01:33:27.633 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% AMY WALTER: Yes. 01:33:27.633 --> 01:33:31.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% This sounded a lot more to me like a 2020 convention speech at the RNC than a State 01:33:32.366 --> 01:33:33.866 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% of the Union speech. 01:33:33.866 --> 01:33:36.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% You made a point, Judy, saying he was pleading with Democrats. 01:33:36.200 --> 01:33:38.233 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I really didn't hear pleading. 01:33:38.233 --> 01:33:42.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I heard him saying, as he has pretty much for the entirety of the time that Democrats 01:33:44.666 --> 01:33:49.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% have been in control of Congress, that, this is the way that I want it to be. 01:33:49.033 --> 01:33:51.100 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Here are the problems on the border. 01:33:51.100 --> 01:33:54.666 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% He has made the same case over and over again on border security and what he wants for the 01:33:54.666 --> 01:33:57.233 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% wall. 01:33:57.233 --> 01:33:59.366 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% There wasn't a sense, we are going to compromise, we are going to find common ground, and really 01:33:59.366 --> 01:34:03.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% no answer to the question of, what happens in 10 days from now to the government workers 01:34:03.933 --> 01:34:08.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% who are sitting there wondering, if there is no agreement, what happens to us? 01:34:11.433 --> 01:34:14.333 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: I want to turn to our correspondent at the Capitol, Lisa Desjardins, and Yamiche 01:34:15.766 --> 01:34:18.366 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Alcindor, who is at the White House. 01:34:18.366 --> 01:34:23.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Lisa, the members had some sense of what the president was going to say tonight, but they 01:34:25.466 --> 01:34:28.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% didn't know -- they certainly didn't know all the detail. 01:34:28.133 --> 01:34:32.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Are you able to a pick up from any of them in these last few minutes how they -- how 01:34:32.200 --> 01:34:33.200 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% they read this? 01:34:33.200 --> 01:34:35.200 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% LISA DESJARDINS: Yes. 01:34:35.200 --> 01:34:37.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I am looking off to my right here with the House chamber just about 100 feet away, Judy, 01:34:37.400 --> 01:34:39.733 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and I see members just starting to come out now. 01:34:39.733 --> 01:34:41.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% So we haven't had a chance to talk to them yet. 01:34:41.800 --> 01:34:44.233 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And I have been e-mailing with my sources. 01:34:44.233 --> 01:34:48.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I think some things that they will be thinking about -- this is a tough speech in a way for 01:34:48.133 --> 01:34:51.500 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% members to react to, because I counted myself 29 different topics. 01:34:51.500 --> 01:34:56.500 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% That's not just words he mentioned, but topics that he spoke about in multiple sentences. 01:34:57.233 --> 01:34:58.900 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% That's lot to react to. 01:34:58.900 --> 01:35:03.133 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% On the one hand, he did reach out in bipartisan ways on some issues. 01:35:03.133 --> 01:35:08.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% On the other hand, on the issue of border security, he tried to make that a class issue, 01:35:08.033 --> 01:35:13.033 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% and say that Democrats were against the working class in their stance for illegal immigrants. 01:35:15.000 --> 01:35:17.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I think that is something we are going to see Democrats react strongly to, as well as 01:35:17.966 --> 01:35:20.033 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% the abortion language that the president had. 01:35:20.033 --> 01:35:24.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I would expect a statement from Virginia's governor, Ralph Northam, who was specifically 01:35:24.633 --> 01:35:26.933 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% singled out for, I think, direct attack from the president. 01:35:26.933 --> 01:35:28.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% But, Judy, I will let you know. 01:35:28.733 --> 01:35:30.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We are waiting for the members to come out now. 01:35:30.866 --> 01:35:34.466 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% As you saw, the applause was scattered, sometimes bipartisan. 01:35:34.466 --> 01:35:38.900 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Sometimes, we saw even the president's most adamant opponents stand up for his statements. 01:35:38.900 --> 01:35:41.133 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Other times, it was clearly a partisan room. 01:35:41.133 --> 01:35:44.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Very quickly to Yamiche Alcindor at the White House. 01:35:44.700 --> 01:35:49.300 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% We have got about three-and-a-half minutes before we hear from Stacey Abrams with the 01:35:49.300 --> 01:35:51.333 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% Democratic response. 01:35:51.333 --> 01:35:55.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Yamiche, the president went into this knowing that he is working with a Democratic majority 01:35:56.833 --> 01:35:58.266 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% in the House. 01:35:58.266 --> 01:36:00.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% That had to enter into the calculus of what he had to say. 01:36:00.433 --> 01:36:03.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Well, the White House said that this was supposed to be a speech about 01:36:03.666 --> 01:36:06.066 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% unity and a speech about bringing the country together. 01:36:06.066 --> 01:36:09.966 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% But the president made clear that he doesn't want a compromise and that he still wants 01:36:09.966 --> 01:36:13.666 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% a border to be built -- and a border wall to be built. 01:36:13.666 --> 01:36:16.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% The president also used some misleading language. 01:36:16.200 --> 01:36:21.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He talked about the fact that border walls in San Diego and El Paso led to a decrease 01:36:22.400 --> 01:36:24.333 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% in crime and a decrease in illegal immigration. 01:36:24.333 --> 01:36:27.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% What we know for a fact, actually, is that there has been no new wall built and that 01:36:27.766 --> 01:36:32.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% there has been some fixes to existing fences that were passed by prior administrations. 01:36:34.733 --> 01:36:38.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The president also was talking about the idea that border walls would somehow stop the flow 01:36:39.466 --> 01:36:41.100 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% of illegal drugs coming into the country. 01:36:41.100 --> 01:36:44.233 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% What we know is that most drugs come through legal ports of entry. 01:36:44.233 --> 01:36:48.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The president did, however, talk about the low unemployment rate for African-Americans. 01:36:48.700 --> 01:36:49.866 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% That is true. 01:36:49.866 --> 01:36:51.900 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% The employment rates are very low. 01:36:51.900 --> 01:36:55.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He also talked about NATO and getting NATO to have more defense spending. 01:36:55.466 --> 01:36:57.566 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% That is true. 01:36:57.566 --> 01:37:00.766 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% The president pushed that body to spend more on defense spending and to have the countries 01:37:00.766 --> 01:37:03.433 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% around him spend more on defense spending. 01:37:03.433 --> 01:37:06.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% The president in some ways had a touching moment. 01:37:06.133 --> 01:37:10.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He talked about a cancer survivor that he brought as a guest, and he also talked about 01:37:10.366 --> 01:37:12.600 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Alice Johnson, who he freed from prison. 01:37:12.600 --> 01:37:14.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Those were moments where you could see unity. 01:37:14.733 --> 01:37:18.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But I think the most telling moment, for me as a reporter watching this, was when the 01:37:18.300 --> 01:37:23.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% president said, the state of our union is strong, Mike Pence clapped, Republicans started 01:37:24.700 --> 01:37:27.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% chanting, "USA, USA," but Nancy Pelosi sat in her seat. 01:37:27.133 --> 01:37:29.533 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And what you -- what that tells is that we can believe our eyes. 01:37:29.533 --> 01:37:31.666 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% The state of our union is divided. 01:37:31.666 --> 01:37:34.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And we have a president who, as much as he wants to talk a about the border wall and 01:37:34.766 --> 01:37:39.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% border security, he also is someone who is still using misleading statements and still 01:37:41.700 --> 01:37:45.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% not telling the entire truth in a speech that was, as you noted, an hour-and-a-half long. 01:37:47.000 --> 01:37:50.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And to Robert Costa joining us now, Washington Post reporter Robert Costa, 01:37:51.766 --> 01:37:54.266 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% who is, of course, the moderator of PBS' "Washington Week." 01:37:54.266 --> 01:37:58.933 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Robert, I saw you tweeting during the speech about the president going back to basics when 01:38:00.166 --> 01:38:02.233 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% it came to immigration and the border wall. 01:38:02.233 --> 01:38:06.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% ROBERT COSTA: A dark, defiant speech that has echoes of what he said, American carnage, 01:38:08.366 --> 01:38:12.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% at his inauguration, echoes of what he said in 2015 when he entered the presidential race. 01:38:14.233 --> 01:38:18.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% His message on illegal immigration was one of trying to say to the Republican Party, 01:38:18.166 --> 01:38:22.400 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% stick with me, taking this hard line, trying to build a border wall. 01:38:22.400 --> 01:38:27.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% This is a president staring divided government in the face and saying, I will not change. 01:38:29.266 --> 01:38:33.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And, Robert, it's -- there is a contradiction there, because the White 01:38:33.133 --> 01:38:38.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% House all day today and up -- leading up until this saying the president was going to be 01:38:38.100 --> 01:38:42.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% reaching out, trying to show that he was prepared to work with Democrats. 01:38:42.466 --> 01:38:47.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% ROBERT COSTA: That was the White House message, but then there was the actual message in this 01:38:47.933 --> 01:38:50.033 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% speech. 01:38:50.033 --> 01:38:53.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It began with overtures to the Democrats, mentions of Buzz Aldrin, chants of "USA, USA," 01:38:55.833 --> 01:38:59.333 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% then that turn toward immigration, the turn toward talk of mass illegal immigration at 01:39:00.133 --> 01:39:02.200 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% the border, of crime. 01:39:02.200 --> 01:39:06.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% This is who President Trump was reaching out to, the Republican voter who he wants to stand 01:39:06.333 --> 01:39:10.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% by him through this turbulent year ahead, with Robert Mueller's investigation looming 01:39:10.933 --> 01:39:13.000 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% and so much else. 01:39:13.000 --> 01:39:16.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: All right, Robert Costa with "Washington Week in Review" and also with 01:39:17.666 --> 01:39:19.166 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% The Washington Post. 01:39:19.166 --> 01:39:21.266 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And now the Democratic response. 01:39:21.266 --> 01:39:24.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It's being delivered tonight by Stacey Abrams, who lost a close race for governor in Georgia. 01:39:24.566 --> 01:39:25.933 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% STACEY ABRAMS (D), Former Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate: Good evening, my fellow Americans. 01:39:25.933 --> 01:39:27.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And happy lunar new year. 01:39:27.966 --> 01:39:32.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I'm Stacey Abrams, and I am honored to join the conversation about the state of our union. 01:39:34.733 --> 01:39:39.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Growing up, my family went back and forth between lower middle class and working poor. 01:39:41.533 --> 01:39:44.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Yet, even when they came home weary and bone-tired, my parents found a way to show us all who 01:39:45.966 --> 01:39:47.400 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% we could be. 01:39:47.400 --> 01:39:50.733 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% My librarian mother taught us to love learning. 01:39:50.733 --> 01:39:55.733 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% My father, a shipyard worker, put in overtime and extra shifts; and they made sure we volunteered 01:39:56.600 --> 01:39:59.033 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% to help others. 01:39:59.033 --> 01:40:02.866 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Later, they both became United Methodist ministers, an expression of the faith that guides us. 01:40:04.700 --> 01:40:09.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% These were our family values - faith, service, education and responsibility. 01:40:10.966 --> 01:40:15.466 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Now, we only had one car, so sometimes my dad had to hitchhike and walk long stretches 01:40:16.800 --> 01:40:20.500 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% during the 30 mile trip home from the shipyards. 01:40:20.500 --> 01:40:22.733 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60% One rainy night, Mom got worried. 01:40:22.733 --> 01:40:27.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We piled in the car and went out looking for him - and eventually found Dad making his 01:40:27.266 --> 01:40:31.833 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% way along the road, soaked and shivering in his shirtsleeves. 01:40:31.833 --> 01:40:35.733 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% When he got in the car, Mom asked if he'd left his coat at work. 01:40:35.733 --> 01:40:39.133 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% He explained he'd given it to a homeless man he'd met on the highway. 01:40:39.133 --> 01:40:44.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% When we asked why he'd given away his only jacket, Dad turned to us and said, "I knew 01:40:46.366 --> 01:40:49.300 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% when I left that man, he'd still be alone. 01:40:49.300 --> 01:40:54.266 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% But I could give him my coat, because I knew you were coming for me." 01:40:56.333 --> 01:40:59.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Our power and strength as Americans lives in our hard work and our belief in more. 01:41:01.400 --> 01:41:05.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% My family understood firsthand that while success is not guaranteed, we live in a nation 01:41:06.366 --> 01:41:08.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% where opportunity is possible. 01:41:08.666 --> 01:41:13.666 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% But we do not succeed alone - in these United States, when times are tough, we can persevere 01:41:15.533 --> 01:41:19.333 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% because our friends and neighbors will come for us. 01:41:19.333 --> 01:41:22.700 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Our first responders will come for us. 01:41:22.700 --> 01:41:27.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It is this mantra - this uncommon grace of community - that has driven me to become 01:41:29.633 --> 01:41:33.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% an attorney, a small business owner, a writer, and most recently, the Democratic nominee 01:41:34.600 --> 01:41:37.166 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% for Governor of Georgia. 01:41:37.166 --> 01:41:41.800 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% My reason for running for governor was simple: I love our country and its promise of opportunity 01:41:43.800 --> 01:41:47.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% for all, and I stand here tonight because I hold fast to my father's credo - together, 01:41:50.800 --> 01:41:55.766 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% we are coming for America, for a better America. 01:41:57.733 --> 01:42:01.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Just a few weeks ago, I joined volunteers to distribute meals to furloughed federal 01:42:01.300 --> 01:42:03.333 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% workers. 01:42:03.333 --> 01:42:07.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% They waited in line for a box of food and a sliver of hope since they hadn't received 01:42:08.166 --> 01:42:10.366 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% a paycheck in weeks. 01:42:10.366 --> 01:42:15.366 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% Making their livelihoods a pawn for political games is a disgrace. 01:42:17.400 --> 01:42:21.166 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% The shutdown was a stunt engineered by the President of the United States, one that defied 01:42:23.166 --> 01:42:27.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people - but our values. 01:42:29.233 --> 01:42:33.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% For seven years, I led the Democratic Party in the Georgia House of Representatives. 01:42:33.533 --> 01:42:37.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I didn't always agree with the Republican Speaker or Governor, but I understood that 01:42:37.866 --> 01:42:42.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% our constituents didn't care about our political parties - they cared about their lives. 01:42:45.300 --> 01:42:48.000 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% So, when we had to negotiate criminal justice reform or transportation or foster care improvements, 01:42:49.533 --> 01:42:54.066 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% the leaders of our state didn't shut down - we came together. 01:42:54.066 --> 01:42:56.766 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% And we kept our word. 01:42:56.766 --> 01:42:59.966 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% It should be no different in our nation's capital. 01:42:59.966 --> 01:43:04.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We may come from different sides of the political aisle; but, our joint commitment to the ideals 01:43:04.900 --> 01:43:08.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% of this nation cannot be negotiable. 01:43:08.866 --> 01:43:13.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Our most urgent work is to realize Americans' dreams of today and tomorrow. 01:43:15.733 --> 01:43:19.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% To carve a path to independence and prosperity that can last a lifetime. 01:43:20.966 --> 01:43:24.833 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Children deserve an excellent education from cradle to career. 01:43:24.833 --> 01:43:29.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We owe them safe schools and the highest standards, regardless of zip code. 01:43:31.866 --> 01:43:35.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Yet this White House responds timidly while first graders practice active shooter drills 01:43:36.700 --> 01:43:40.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and the price of higher education grows ever steeper. 01:43:40.400 --> 01:43:45.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% From now on, our leaders must be willing to tackle gun safety measures and the crippling 01:43:47.400 --> 01:43:50.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% effect of educational loans; to support educators and invest what is necessary to unleash the 01:43:51.966 --> 01:43:55.533 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% power of America's greatest minds. 01:43:55.533 --> 01:44:00.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In Georgia and around the country, people are striving for a middle class where a salary 01:44:01.433 --> 01:44:03.833 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% truly equals economic security. 01:44:03.833 --> 01:44:08.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But instead, families' hopes are being crushed by Republican leadership that ignores real 01:44:09.933 --> 01:44:12.800 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% life or just doesn't understand it. 01:44:12.800 --> 01:44:17.800 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Under the current administration, far too many hard-working Americans are falling behind, 01:44:19.866 --> 01:44:24.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% living paycheck to paycheck, most without labor unions to protect them from even worse 01:44:24.666 --> 01:44:26.266 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% harm. 01:44:26.266 --> 01:44:30.566 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% The Republican tax bill rigged the system against working people. 01:44:30.566 --> 01:44:35.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Rather than bringing back jobs, plants are closing, layoffs are looming and wages struggle 01:44:36.766 --> 01:44:40.266 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% to keep pace with the actual cost of living. 01:44:40.266 --> 01:44:45.266 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% We owe more to the millions of everyday folks who keep our economy running: like truck drivers 01:44:47.266 --> 01:44:51.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% forced to buy their own rigs, farmers caught in a trade war, small business owners in search 01:44:53.300 --> 01:44:57.233 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% of capital, and domestic workers serving without labor protections. 01:44:59.166 --> 01:45:02.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Women and men who could thrive if only they had the support and freedom to do so. 01:45:04.833 --> 01:45:08.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We know bi-partisanship could craft a 21st century immigration plan, but this administration 01:45:09.800 --> 01:45:14.800 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% chooses to cage children and tear families apart. 01:45:16.433 --> 01:45:19.800 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% Compassionate treatment at the border is not the same as open borders. 01:45:19.800 --> 01:45:22.266 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60% President Reagan understood this. 01:45:22.266 --> 01:45:25.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% President Obama understood this. 01:45:25.000 --> 01:45:27.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Americans understand this. 01:45:27.100 --> 01:45:32.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And Democrats stand ready to effectively secure our ports and borders. 01:45:34.100 --> 01:45:37.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But we must all embrace that from agriculture to healthcare to entrepreneurship, America 01:45:38.700 --> 01:45:43.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% is made stronger by the presence of immigrants - not walls. 01:45:45.400 --> 01:45:48.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Rather than suing to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, as Republican Attorneys General 01:45:48.500 --> 01:45:53.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% have, our leaders must protect the progress we've made and commit to expanding health 01:45:53.200 --> 01:45:57.333 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% care and lowering costs for everyone. 01:45:57.333 --> 01:46:01.266 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% My father has battled prostate cancer for years. 01:46:01.266 --> 01:46:06.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% To help cover the costs, I found myself sinking deeper into debt - because while you can 01:46:07.633 --> 01:46:10.333 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% defer some payments, you can't defer cancer treatment. 01:46:10.333 --> 01:46:15.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In this great nation, Americans are skipping blood pressure pills, forced to choose between 01:46:16.400 --> 01:46:19.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% buying medicine or paying rent. 01:46:19.000 --> 01:46:24.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Maternal mortality rates show that mothers, especially black mothers, risk death to give 01:46:25.566 --> 01:46:27.633 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% birth. 01:46:27.633 --> 01:46:31.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And in 14 states, including my home state where a majority want it, our leaders refuse 01:46:33.500 --> 01:46:37.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% to expand Medicaid, which could save rural hospitals, economies, and lives. 01:46:38.866 --> 01:46:43.500 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% We can do so much more: Take action on climate change. 01:46:44.900 --> 01:46:48.000 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Defend individual liberties with fair-minded judges. 01:46:48.000 --> 01:46:53.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But none of these ambitions are possible without the bedrock guarantee of our right to vote. 01:46:54.400 --> 01:46:59.400 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Let's be clear: voter suppression is real. 01:47:01.433 --> 01:47:04.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling 01:47:04.200 --> 01:47:09.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy. 01:47:12.066 --> 01:47:17.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% While I acknowledged the results of the 2018 election here in Georgia - I did not and 01:47:18.533 --> 01:47:22.566 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% we cannot accept efforts to undermine our right to vote. 01:47:24.933 --> 01:47:27.700 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% That's why I started a nonpartisan organization called Fair Fight to advocate for voting rights. 01:47:29.766 --> 01:47:34.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% This is the next battle for our democracy, one where all eligible citizens can have their 01:47:35.933 --> 01:47:38.800 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% say about the vision we want for our country. 01:47:38.800 --> 01:47:43.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We must reject the cynicism that says allowing every eligible vote to be cast and counted 01:47:44.533 --> 01:47:47.033 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% is a "power grab." 01:47:47.033 --> 01:47:52.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Americans understand that these are the values our brave men and women in uniform and our 01:47:53.166 --> 01:47:56.033 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% veterans risk their lives to defend. 01:47:56.033 --> 01:48:01.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The foundation of our moral leadership around the globe is free and fair elections, where 01:48:02.933 --> 01:48:07.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% voters pick their leaders - not where politicians pick their voters. 01:48:09.433 --> 01:48:13.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In this time of division and crisis, we must come together and stand for, and with, one 01:48:14.933 --> 01:48:17.000 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% another. 01:48:17.000 --> 01:48:21.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% America has stumbled time and again on its quest towards justice and equality; but with 01:48:21.466 --> 01:48:26.466 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% each generation, we have revisited our fundamental truths, and where we falter, we make amends. 01:48:29.866 --> 01:48:34.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We fought Jim Crow with the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, yet we continue 01:48:36.800 --> 01:48:40.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% to confront racism from our past and in our present - which is why we must hold everyone 01:48:40.200 --> 01:48:45.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% from the very highest offices to our own families accountable for racist words and deeds - and 01:48:46.933 --> 01:48:49.533 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% call racism what it is. 01:48:49.533 --> 01:48:51.566 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% Wrong. 01:48:51.566 --> 01:48:55.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% America achieved a measure of reproductive justice in Roe v. Wade, but we must never 01:48:55.533 --> 01:49:00.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% forget it is immoral to allow politicians to harm women and families to advance a political 01:49:02.666 --> 01:49:04.633 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% agenda. 01:49:04.633 --> 01:49:08.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We affirmed marriage equality, and yet, the LGBTQ community remains under attack. 01:49:11.066 --> 01:49:15.600 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% So even as I am very disappointed by the President's approach to our problems - I still don't 01:49:16.500 --> 01:49:18.566 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% want him to fail. 01:49:18.566 --> 01:49:23.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But we need him to tell the truth, and to respect his duties and the extraordinary diversity 01:49:25.900 --> 01:49:28.200 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% that defines America. 01:49:28.200 --> 01:49:33.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Our progress has always found refuge in the basic instinct of the American experiment 01:49:34.300 --> 01:49:37.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - to do right by our people. 01:49:37.733 --> 01:49:42.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And with a renewed commitment to social and economic justice, we will create a stronger 01:49:42.600 --> 01:49:45.100 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% America, together. 01:49:45.100 --> 01:49:50.100 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Because America wins by fighting for our shared values against all enemies: foreign and domestic. 01:49:52.333 --> 01:49:57.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% That is who we are - and when we do so, never wavering - the state of our union 01:49:59.533 --> 01:50:01.466 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% will always be strong. 01:50:01.466 --> 01:50:06.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Thank you, and may God bless the United States of America. 01:50:06.433 --> 01:50:08.533 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 01:50:08.533 --> 01:50:11.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And that was Stacey Abrams delivering the Democrats' response to the 01:50:11.733 --> 01:50:13.666 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% president's State of the Union address. 01:50:13.666 --> 01:50:17.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Still with us at the "NewsHour" table, Mark Shields, Amy Walter, Peter Wehner, Karine 01:50:17.133 --> 01:50:20.800 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Jean-Pierre, and Chris Buskirk. 01:50:20.800 --> 01:50:25.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Karine, remarkable in -- on a number of counts, I mean in contrast to the president. 01:50:25.333 --> 01:50:30.200 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% You have a woman of color delivering the Democratic response and you have someone who lost a race, 01:50:30.200 --> 01:50:31.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% who doesn't hold office right now. 01:50:31.866 --> 01:50:33.333 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I believe that is a first... 01:50:33.333 --> 01:50:35.266 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, Democratic Strategist: It is a first. 01:50:35.266 --> 01:50:38.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: ... to have someone not holding office making the Democratic response. 01:50:39.666 --> 01:50:40.766 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% She went to her family. 01:50:40.766 --> 01:50:42.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% She talked about her father. 01:50:42.966 --> 01:50:47.200 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% And she laid it on the line in terms of what this administration has done in terms of health 01:50:47.200 --> 01:50:49.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% care, immigration, and the shutdown. 01:50:49.866 --> 01:50:51.633 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Yes, you said it perfectly, Judy. 01:50:51.633 --> 01:50:53.133 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% That is exactly right. 01:50:53.133 --> 01:50:55.666 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% She is the first black woman to give a response. 01:50:55.666 --> 01:50:57.533 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Look, giving a response is very difficult. 01:50:57.533 --> 01:50:59.233 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% It is not easy to do. 01:50:59.233 --> 01:51:00.566 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% Many have failed. 01:51:00.566 --> 01:51:02.666 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And I believe she nailed it tonight. 01:51:02.666 --> 01:51:07.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It was a complete opposite of contrast to what we just heard from Donald Trump moments 01:51:09.633 --> 01:51:13.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% ago, a speech at a State of the Union that you would never hear being given by a president 01:51:13.033 --> 01:51:14.666 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% of the United States. 01:51:14.666 --> 01:51:15.933 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% Her speech was powerful. 01:51:15.933 --> 01:51:18.466 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% It was optimistic. 01:51:18.466 --> 01:51:22.100 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% It was talking about bringing people together, and it wasn't going down in the mud with Donald 01:51:22.100 --> 01:51:24.166 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Trump, which is something that Democrats shouldn't do. 01:51:24.166 --> 01:51:27.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It should be about a vision of how we are going to move America forward. 01:51:27.933 --> 01:51:29.966 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And that's what we heard from her. 01:51:29.966 --> 01:51:33.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And another thing that you just said, Judy, that I really agree with you on is, having 01:51:33.533 --> 01:51:38.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% a woman of color respond to Donald Trump, that alone is such a powerful statement, especially 01:51:40.400 --> 01:51:43.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% from all the hateful rhetoric that we hear from this president and we have heard from 01:51:43.566 --> 01:51:45.566 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% this president these last two years. 01:51:45.566 --> 01:51:48.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Chris Buskirk, what did you take away from Stacey Abrams? 01:51:48.033 --> 01:51:50.833 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% CHRIS BUSKIRK, AmericanGreatness.org: I thought two things, style and substance. 01:51:50.833 --> 01:51:54.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I thought she was a really interesting choice to do the rebuttal. 01:51:54.466 --> 01:51:59.333 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% I was sort of expecting before she was announced maybe somebody like a Kamala Harris or something 01:51:59.333 --> 01:52:00.600 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% like that. 01:52:00.600 --> 01:52:02.700 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And then the political context struck me. 01:52:02.700 --> 01:52:06.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And I thought, there are so many Democrats, Kamala Harris being one of them, running for 01:52:06.233 --> 01:52:09.633 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% president, they almost had to go with somebody who wasn't in office. 01:52:09.633 --> 01:52:12.266 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And so there is this backdrop which I keep thinking about. 01:52:12.266 --> 01:52:16.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% How does this whole night play into 2020, both for the president, also for Democrats, 01:52:16.933 --> 01:52:19.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% who obviously will be seeking the presidency? 01:52:19.733 --> 01:52:22.066 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And so that is sort of the style, the political part of it. 01:52:22.066 --> 01:52:25.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% On the substance, I thought it was -- you know, it was very up in the air. 01:52:25.233 --> 01:52:30.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% You know, it was very, a lot of -- a lot of sort of glib talk about, you know, the shirt 01:52:31.366 --> 01:52:32.300 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% off my back and this sort of thing. 01:52:32.300 --> 01:52:33.300 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% Great. 01:52:33.300 --> 01:52:35.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I mean, those things sound good. 01:52:35.300 --> 01:52:38.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But then you have to sort of come up with policies to put behind that. 01:52:38.033 --> 01:52:41.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% You know, there is the rhetoric, and then there is the action. 01:52:41.433 --> 01:52:46.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And so I -- it just struck me what we have seen over the past 15, 20 years is that the 01:52:47.500 --> 01:52:48.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Democratic -- Democratic Party. 01:52:48.666 --> 01:52:49.933 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MARK SHIELDS: Thank you, Chris. 01:52:49.933 --> 01:52:51.033 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% CHRIS BUSKIRK: I got the adjective. 01:52:51.033 --> 01:52:52.900 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (CROSSTALK) 01:52:52.900 --> 01:52:55.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% CHRIS BUSKIRK: The Democratic Party has become the party of the rich. 01:52:55.066 --> 01:52:58.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Since 2008, the majority of voters with over $200,000 of income have gone Democratic. 01:53:00.333 --> 01:53:02.766 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And that doesn't jibe well with the rhetoric. 01:53:02.766 --> 01:53:05.233 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% And that was -- I think there is this battle for the middle class. 01:53:05.233 --> 01:53:10.066 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% We saw it in Trump's speech, trying to explain what his vision is for the middle class and 01:53:12.033 --> 01:53:14.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% for the working class, and how that ties to things like immigration and trade. 01:53:14.033 --> 01:53:18.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And then you saw Stacey Abrams trying to claim that same mantle for the Democratic Party. 01:53:18.100 --> 01:53:19.733 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And that's where the battle is going to be fought. 01:53:19.733 --> 01:53:21.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Is that what you heard, Mark Shields? 01:53:21.800 --> 01:53:25.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% MARK SHIELDS: Yes, I mean, Stacey Abrams didn't try to answer Donald Trump. 01:53:25.633 --> 01:53:30.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% She gave basically a Democratic speech, her Democratic speech, or sort of her signature 01:53:30.500 --> 01:53:32.000 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% speech. 01:53:32.000 --> 01:53:36.166 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% And, you know, it is an impossible assignment for anybody. 01:53:36.166 --> 01:53:41.166 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% And if we wanted to list on one hand the memorable ones, I think, you know, we, unfortunately, 01:53:43.133 --> 01:53:46.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% remember the unfortunate, the Marco Rubio striving for the water, you know, whatever 01:53:49.966 --> 01:53:51.566 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% else. 01:53:51.566 --> 01:53:53.633 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% Jim Webb, I think, probably gave the only good one I can remember. 01:53:53.633 --> 01:53:56.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% That was 15 -- or 13 years ago. 01:53:56.566 --> 01:53:58.800 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% But she -- no, she was good. 01:53:58.800 --> 01:54:00.500 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And I think Chris is right. 01:54:00.500 --> 01:54:02.633 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% It was a way of avoiding a family argument. 01:54:02.633 --> 01:54:06.033 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% I mean, you choose her, she -- you stay out of the presidential. 01:54:06.033 --> 01:54:08.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% You are not showing favoritism. 01:54:08.100 --> 01:54:12.766 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% And, certainly, I mean, she emerged from that race in Georgia with a surprising strength, 01:54:15.933 --> 01:54:18.633 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% surprising -- I will just say one with thing. 01:54:18.633 --> 01:54:23.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% What Trump tried to do in his speech was, he tried to recreate the Reagan mystique. 01:54:25.633 --> 01:54:29.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Ronald Reagan could talk about America and its values by talking about World War II and 01:54:30.500 --> 01:54:31.500 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% D-Day. 01:54:31.500 --> 01:54:33.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% He had a great gift for that. 01:54:33.533 --> 01:54:36.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It doesn't ring true with Donald Trump, because he never has talked about it before. 01:54:36.200 --> 01:54:41.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% That has never has been a part of his basic composition or just in his knowledge. 01:54:44.400 --> 01:54:49.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And I thought, you know, the idea that an American first, which is what his foreign 01:54:51.400 --> 01:54:55.933 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% policy is, the irony is, he is praising World War II and America's involvement in it, when 01:54:58.033 --> 01:55:00.433 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% his predecessors in that movement, America first, did everything they could to stay out 01:55:00.433 --> 01:55:02.400 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% of World War II. 01:55:02.400 --> 01:55:04.666 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% So, I mean, it is sort of an interesting bookend philosophically, if contradictory. 01:55:04.666 --> 01:55:09.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: It was striking that Stacey Abrams was the one who cited President Reagan. 01:55:09.466 --> 01:55:10.466 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MARK SHIELDS: That's right. 01:55:10.466 --> 01:55:11.466 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% No, exactly. 01:55:11.466 --> 01:55:13.466 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% Yes. 01:55:13.466 --> 01:55:14.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: She talked about understanding that compassionate treatment at the border 01:55:14.533 --> 01:55:16.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% is not the same as open borders. 01:55:16.566 --> 01:55:18.533 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% MARK SHIELDS: Yes. 01:55:18.533 --> 01:55:22.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Put Stacey Abrams in context, Peter Wehner, with what the president had 01:55:23.300 --> 01:55:25.266 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% to say. 01:55:25.266 --> 01:55:28.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% PETER WEHNER: Well, as everybody said, it is very, very hard to give a response to the 01:55:28.533 --> 01:55:29.966 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% State of the Union. 01:55:29.966 --> 01:55:31.700 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% I thought that she carried it off pretty well. 01:55:31.700 --> 01:55:35.433 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% You have some people who have crashed and burned in these kind of things. 01:55:35.433 --> 01:55:39.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Nobody has ever given a response to a State of the Union that has been really deeply memorable. 01:55:39.633 --> 01:55:41.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And this one won't be either. 01:55:41.766 --> 01:55:46.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It was -- it was probably a good choice for the Democrats to make, for the reasons that 01:55:47.366 --> 01:55:49.200 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Chris said. 01:55:49.200 --> 01:55:51.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I thought she was relitigating to some extent her loss in Georgia. 01:55:51.266 --> 01:55:54.100 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% She spent a fair amount on the right to vote. 01:55:54.100 --> 01:55:56.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% That is an important issue. 01:55:56.033 --> 01:56:00.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But when you have seven minutes to give a national response, I think I probably would 01:56:00.166 --> 01:56:02.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% have advised going in a different direction. 01:56:02.200 --> 01:56:06.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It was culture, leaning toward culture, as opposed to economic growth. 01:56:06.333 --> 01:56:10.466 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And it wasn't a hugely uplifting vision, but it was fine. 01:56:10.466 --> 01:56:13.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I will say that, a week from now, both speeches, I think, will be forgotten. 01:56:13.866 --> 01:56:15.366 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: What do you think the overriding message... 01:56:15.366 --> 01:56:16.933 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: But the contrast... 01:56:16.933 --> 01:56:18.100 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (CROSSTALK) 01:56:18.100 --> 01:56:19.366 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% AMY WALTER: The contrast will be important. 01:56:19.366 --> 01:56:21.466 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I think Chris made a good point, too. 01:56:21.466 --> 01:56:25.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It's -- you know, we get into 2020, the battle is, who best represents the middle class? 01:56:25.266 --> 01:56:29.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The middle-class people, who do you think is looking out for them, the Republican or 01:56:29.533 --> 01:56:31.566 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% the Democrat? 01:56:31.566 --> 01:56:35.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And also this fight that we are going to see in 2020 reflects what Mark was talking about, 01:56:37.666 --> 01:56:41.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the president, really a nostalgia for the way things were and celebrating things of 01:56:43.500 --> 01:56:47.433 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% the past, vs. Stacey Abrams, what she represents, both her age, her gender, and her race, sort 01:56:50.233 --> 01:56:54.466 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% of future-looking, we are going to have somebody that looks different, sounds different, comes 01:56:54.466 --> 01:56:58.066 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% from so many different places to be in a leadership position. 01:56:58.066 --> 01:57:00.166 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% So those will be at a contrast. 01:57:00.166 --> 01:57:04.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I think she also basically hit every note of the sort of grievances of Democrats for 01:57:06.066 --> 01:57:10.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the last two years, children in cages, you have to call racism out, the president needs 01:57:12.733 --> 01:57:16.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% to tell the truth, being able to get every one of those -- this was sort of this trying 01:57:16.166 --> 01:57:21.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% to be above, right, above politics, we are going to be the party that doesn't get down 01:57:23.066 --> 01:57:26.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% in the muck, but then got a chance to just get some of those digs just right in there. 01:57:26.300 --> 01:57:28.633 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Yes, a little bit. 01:57:28.633 --> 01:57:30.500 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Yes. 01:57:30.500 --> 01:57:34.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Well, we are -- just a couple of minutes more before we take a short break. 01:57:34.433 --> 01:57:39.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But I just want to quickly say to Karine, I thought from -- cosmetically, I think they 01:57:40.166 --> 01:57:41.633 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% needed more light there. 01:57:41.633 --> 01:57:42.500 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: You said that at the beginning. 01:57:42.500 --> 01:57:43.733 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% You said, it's so dark. 01:57:43.733 --> 01:57:44.733 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (LAUGHTER) 01:57:44.733 --> 01:57:46.833 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: It was dark. 01:57:46.833 --> 01:57:49.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And I think, when you give the Democratic nuance, it is often in an unfortunate location. 01:57:49.266 --> 01:57:50.433 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% It is someplace. 01:57:50.433 --> 01:57:52.400 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% It's not the chamber of the House. 01:57:52.400 --> 01:57:53.933 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% And you can't see. 01:57:53.933 --> 01:57:57.700 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And you are focused on trying to see and hear sometimes. 01:57:57.700 --> 01:57:59.066 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And they do reach for water sometimes. 01:57:59.066 --> 01:58:01.166 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Yes. 01:58:01.166 --> 01:58:03.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, we are going to be back after the turn of the hour. 01:58:03.966 --> 01:58:06.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% But we know that some stations will be cutting away. 01:58:06.133 --> 01:58:10.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% We are coming up on 11:00 Eastern, 8:00 p.m. Pacific time. 01:58:10.400 --> 01:58:15.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And as our coverage of the State of the Union continues, we are going to give some PBS stations 01:58:15.033 --> 01:58:17.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% the opportunity to resume their regular programming. 01:58:17.400 --> 01:58:21.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But for those stations staying with us and for those of you watching online, don't go 01:58:21.600 --> 01:58:22.600 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% anywhere. 01:58:22.600 --> 01:58:24.633 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% We will be right back. 01:58:24.633 --> 01:58:28.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Mark Shields, Peter Wehner, Chris Buskirk, Amy Walter, and Karine Jean-Pierre, thank 01:58:36.633 --> 01:58:41.633 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% you. 01:58:45.766 --> 01:58:50.766 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% (BREAK) 01:58:54.866 --> 01:58:59.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And welcome back to special "PBS NewsHour" coverage of the State of the 01:59:16.966 --> 01:59:19.233 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Union address tonight and the Democratic response. 01:59:19.233 --> 01:59:21.300 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% I'm Judy Woodruff. 01:59:21.300 --> 01:59:24.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And let's pick up the conversation where we left off, with Lisa Desjardins. 01:59:24.333 --> 01:59:28.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% She is at the Capitol, where she has been following reaction to the president's speech. 01:59:28.966 --> 01:59:31.733 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And Yamiche Alcindor, who is at the White House. 01:59:31.733 --> 01:59:35.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Lisa, I am going to come to you, because you were looking for some members to try to get 01:59:35.766 --> 01:59:36.766 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% their reaction. 01:59:36.766 --> 01:59:37.933 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Were you able to talk to any? 01:59:37.933 --> 01:59:40.033 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% LISA DESJARDINS: Right. 01:59:40.033 --> 01:59:42.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I was able to speak to a wide group of members, everyone from the top Republican in the House, 01:59:42.366 --> 01:59:44.533 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Kevin McCarthy, to one of the freshman Democrats. 01:59:44.533 --> 01:59:46.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Your panel will be shocked. 01:59:46.300 --> 01:59:49.333 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% There are differing views on how the president did tonight. 01:59:49.333 --> 01:59:51.466 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (LAUGHTER) 01:59:51.466 --> 01:59:53.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: Kevin McCarthy, someone who's seen as one of the closest allies of the president, 01:59:53.066 --> 01:59:55.100 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% so I wanted to make sure and talk to him. 01:59:55.100 --> 02:00:00.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He said he thought the president did very well and that, in his words, surpassed Democratic 02:00:00.666 --> 02:00:02.666 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% expectations. 02:00:02.666 --> 02:00:06.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He said he thought the president reached out to Democrats more than he or Democrats would 02:00:06.800 --> 02:00:08.766 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% have expected. 02:00:08.766 --> 02:00:12.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% When I brought up the areas that Democrats felt were attacks, he said he felt they were 02:00:13.133 --> 02:00:15.533 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% justified. 02:00:15.533 --> 02:00:18.566 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% When you talk to Democrats, like Colin Allred of Texas, a freshman member, he said he wanted 02:00:19.433 --> 02:00:21.466 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% to look for points of agreement. 02:00:21.466 --> 02:00:25.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% When the president brought up specifically his tone and words on immigration, Colin Allred 02:00:27.066 --> 02:00:29.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% being from a border state, he found that was a problem. 02:00:29.400 --> 02:00:31.500 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% He said he went too far and it got too partisan. 02:00:31.500 --> 02:00:35.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And he also, interesting, Judy, said, as a freshman, he didn't expect to have such a 02:00:35.566 --> 02:00:39.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% feeling when he walked into that chamber that he didn't just represent himself, but that 02:00:39.566 --> 02:00:42.966 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% every time he stood up, he was standing up for his entire district. 02:00:42.966 --> 02:00:45.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% He said he felt that heavily on his shoulders. 02:00:45.133 --> 02:00:47.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: It's interesting, Lisa. 02:00:47.200 --> 02:00:51.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Mark Shields just handed me a note saying that he thought, for the most part, the freshman 02:00:51.066 --> 02:00:56.033 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% members behaved themselves, that they didn't get out of control. 02:00:57.966 --> 02:00:59.466 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% How did you read that? 02:00:59.466 --> 02:01:02.000 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% I mean, I am sure you were watching, too, their reaction. 02:01:02.000 --> 02:01:03.933 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% They did stand. 02:01:03.933 --> 02:01:08.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I mean, the women were standing, freshmen and others, when the president talked about 02:01:09.466 --> 02:01:10.666 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% more women being employed today than ever. 02:01:10.666 --> 02:01:12.633 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% LISA DESJARDINS: Right. 02:01:12.633 --> 02:01:15.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% That was one of the more delightful and surprising moments of the night, I think. 02:01:15.133 --> 02:01:20.133 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% But Mark Shields is on to something, not for the first time . That was intentional, Judy. 02:01:21.266 --> 02:01:23.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% This freshman class has been very strategic. 02:01:23.733 --> 02:01:25.800 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% They are aggressive and assertive. 02:01:25.800 --> 02:01:30.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% They are activists mostly, but they are being very careful about when they choose their 02:01:30.800 --> 02:01:32.300 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% moments. 02:01:32.300 --> 02:01:35.100 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And they are -- they want to be seen as dignified and serious. 02:01:35.100 --> 02:01:40.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% They do not want to be seen as a class that is going to knee-jerk react to everything. 02:01:40.066 --> 02:01:42.300 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And I think you saw that in the speech tonight. 02:01:42.300 --> 02:01:47.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I think we will see in their Twitter feeds probably more of their emotional reaction 02:01:48.766 --> 02:01:51.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% that they chose not to display as much on the House floor. 02:01:51.200 --> 02:01:55.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: I know that Speaker Pelosi said earlier today, when I was one of a group 02:01:55.100 --> 02:01:59.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% of reporters talking to her, she said that she didn't think she would need to signal 02:01:59.966 --> 02:02:04.933 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% to her members to -- quote, unquote -- "behave or stay calm." 02:02:07.466 --> 02:02:10.200 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% But there was a point during tonight's State of the Union when it looked like she was gesturing. 02:02:10.800 --> 02:02:12.233 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% I am not sure. 02:02:12.233 --> 02:02:14.233 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I don't know whether you saw that. 02:02:14.233 --> 02:02:17.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: No, I did see, but with the Republicans -- we are thinking of different 02:02:17.566 --> 02:02:19.666 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% moments, perhaps. 02:02:19.666 --> 02:02:21.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I saw her gesturing toward the Republican side when the president said something to 02:02:21.500 --> 02:02:22.500 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% the effect of... 02:02:22.500 --> 02:02:24.533 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Ah. 02:02:24.533 --> 02:02:25.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% LISA DESJARDINS: ... if I had not -- if I wasn't president, I think we would be in a 02:02:25.966 --> 02:02:27.633 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% major war with North Korea. 02:02:27.633 --> 02:02:28.833 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Ah. 02:02:28.833 --> 02:02:30.933 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% LISA DESJARDINS: And there was some applause. 02:02:30.933 --> 02:02:34.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I saw Speaker Pelosi look over askance and try to see who was clapping at that line about 02:02:35.933 --> 02:02:37.266 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% major war. 02:02:37.266 --> 02:02:39.400 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I missed any other moment like that. 02:02:39.400 --> 02:02:40.900 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% So, I don't know if that is the same one. 02:02:40.900 --> 02:02:42.366 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (CROSSTALK) 02:02:42.366 --> 02:02:43.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, that line certainly got a reaction. 02:02:43.800 --> 02:02:46.733 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% I want to turn to Yamiche at the White House. 02:02:46.733 --> 02:02:51.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Yamiche, they had to take into consideration that this is a very different Congress the 02:02:53.666 --> 02:02:55.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% president was talking to tonight than the one he has been dealing with for the last 02:02:55.866 --> 02:02:57.566 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% two years. 02:02:57.566 --> 02:02:59.966 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% YAMICHE ALCINDOR: I think the president took that into consideration. 02:02:59.966 --> 02:03:03.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And that is why you saw the president do that shout-out and say there are a record number 02:03:03.900 --> 02:03:05.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% of women serving in Congress. 02:03:05.966 --> 02:03:09.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He didn't talk about the fact that the record number of women are serving on the Democratic 02:03:09.133 --> 02:03:14.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% side, and wearing all white to make sure that that is visually very shown. 02:03:16.633 --> 02:03:19.100 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% But the president here was in some ways still having -- trying to have this tone of unification, 02:03:19.100 --> 02:03:21.533 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% while I still think not compromising. 02:03:21.533 --> 02:03:23.966 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% The president wanted to make it clear that he wants his wall. 02:03:23.966 --> 02:03:25.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% He said, walls save lives. 02:03:25.566 --> 02:03:27.266 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But he did talk about health care. 02:03:27.266 --> 02:03:31.133 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% And he talked about it in a long way, much like he did with immigration. 02:03:31.133 --> 02:03:35.933 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% He spent some time really talking about the cost of health care and how he wanted to eliminate 02:03:35.933 --> 02:03:37.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% the transmission of HIV/AIDS. 02:03:37.600 --> 02:03:40.766 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% I also want to point out something that he said about cancer research. 02:03:40.766 --> 02:03:45.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He said: "My budget will ask Congress for $500 million over the next 10 years to fund 02:03:45.533 --> 02:03:47.633 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% this critical lifesaving research." 02:03:47.633 --> 02:03:50.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Now, it is important to point out that, while the president -- that is going to be about 02:03:50.433 --> 02:03:55.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% $50 million a year if it is spread out evenly over 10 years -- that is a fraction of the 02:03:55.233 --> 02:03:56.233 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% total budget. 02:03:56.233 --> 02:03:58.333 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% It is about 0.001 percent. 02:03:58.333 --> 02:04:02.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And in -- now, in President Obama's last State of the Union, he talked about cancer research 02:04:02.933 --> 02:04:04.866 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% funds as well. 02:04:04.866 --> 02:04:08.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% By 2023, the budget estimate for the program that was started by President Obama would 02:04:08.766 --> 02:04:10.800 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% be $1.8 billion. 02:04:10.800 --> 02:04:15.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% So, what you have there is just really a comparison of President Trump and President Obama. 02:04:18.000 --> 02:04:19.200 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% But I think there are a lot of Democrats who stood up and clapped when they heard the president 02:04:19.200 --> 02:04:21.233 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% talk about health care. 02:04:21.233 --> 02:04:24.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But, of course, they also were I think very - - were very dismayed when he pointed out 02:04:24.100 --> 02:04:29.100 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% the idea that immigrants and people -- and people that come to this country and are undocumented 02:04:30.533 --> 02:04:32.833 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% are somehow adding to the criminalization of America. 02:04:32.833 --> 02:04:37.800 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: It is so important to get this context and to get these comparative numbers, 02:04:37.800 --> 02:04:38.966 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% Yamiche. 02:04:38.966 --> 02:04:40.966 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I mean, I certainly appreciate it. 02:04:40.966 --> 02:04:45.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I know our audience appreciates the fact that you and our crack team of researchers here 02:04:47.400 --> 02:04:49.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% have been looking at this, looking at what the president is saying, trying to understand 02:04:49.766 --> 02:04:54.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% what the context is, because it may be that a number is accurate, but when you put it 02:04:56.766 --> 02:05:00.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% in context and you compare it with what has been done in the past, it can take on a different 02:05:01.100 --> 02:05:03.200 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% - - a different cast. 02:05:03.200 --> 02:05:07.233 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% I want to also bring in Robert Costa, moderator of PBS' "Washington Week" and, of course, 02:05:08.400 --> 02:05:10.466 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% a reporter at The Washington Post. 02:05:10.466 --> 02:05:15.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Robert, you had been telling us earlier in the hour that this is President Trump going 02:05:17.300 --> 02:05:21.266 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% back to who he is and what he fundamentally believes. 02:05:21.266 --> 02:05:26.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But there was this reaching out to Democrats tonight to say, you have a choice, you can 02:05:27.766 --> 02:05:29.533 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% work with me or not. 02:05:29.533 --> 02:05:32.366 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% You know, it is a chance to make a difference. 02:05:32.366 --> 02:05:34.433 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Why do you think they did that? 02:05:34.433 --> 02:05:38.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% ROBERT COSTA: The president believes that he can try to maybe work with Democrats down 02:05:38.200 --> 02:05:42.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the line, but more important to him, based on my conversations with White House officials, 02:05:42.933 --> 02:05:47.933 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% is solidifying that Republican base, reassuring them on immigration, that that signature campaign 02:05:49.933 --> 02:05:54.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% promise, the border wall, in some way is going to be pursued. 02:05:54.200 --> 02:05:56.266 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% That is the president's aim. 02:05:56.266 --> 02:05:59.666 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% He believes that base will sustain him through all the political winds that are likely to 02:05:59.666 --> 02:06:01.800 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% come this year. 02:06:01.800 --> 02:06:05.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Is there a chance the Democrats could work with the president on something like prescription 02:06:05.033 --> 02:06:06.966 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% drugs or infrastructure? 02:06:06.966 --> 02:06:08.900 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% Sure. 02:06:08.900 --> 02:06:11.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But this is a White House, from acting Chief of Staff Mulvaney, to the Cabinet, to the 02:06:11.700 --> 02:06:16.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% president himself, who are not pursuing those things, those bipartisan aims in the same 02:06:16.666 --> 02:06:18.733 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% aggressive way. 02:06:18.733 --> 02:06:22.166 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: But those numbers, we know, the base numbers, don't add up to 51 percent. 02:06:22.166 --> 02:06:24.466 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% So that has to be a part of the calculus as well. 02:06:24.466 --> 02:06:26.600 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% ROBERT COSTA: Well, that is exactly right. 02:06:26.600 --> 02:06:31.266 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% But this is a White House right now that is looking more at Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland, 02:06:32.533 --> 02:06:34.500 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% looking at former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld. 02:06:34.500 --> 02:06:39.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And they see a possible primary challenge on the horizon, if those Republican numbers 02:06:40.300 --> 02:06:42.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% in various polls start to slip. 02:06:42.033 --> 02:06:44.066 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And they want to prevent that from happening. 02:06:44.066 --> 02:06:48.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The White House has urged its political allies to take action at the party level to try to 02:06:48.266 --> 02:06:50.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% stave off a primary challenge. 02:06:50.033 --> 02:06:51.600 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% You are right. 02:06:51.600 --> 02:06:54.833 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% In the general election, his numbers are weak among every poll. 02:06:54.833 --> 02:06:58.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% At the same time, this is a White House that says, we have to stop a primary first. 02:06:58.766 --> 02:07:00.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Yes, fascinating. 02:07:00.300 --> 02:07:02.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% We are all thinking ahead. 02:07:02.400 --> 02:07:06.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We're trying not to think ahead to 2020, but we are thinking ahead to 2020. 02:07:06.366 --> 02:07:08.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But you are absolutely right, Robert, in that the White House has been to be focused on 02:07:08.933 --> 02:07:10.966 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% the next contest. 02:07:10.966 --> 02:07:14.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And if there is a primary challenge, that's what they have to deal with first. 02:07:14.500 --> 02:07:16.966 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Robert Costa, thank you very much. 02:07:16.966 --> 02:07:21.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Still with us at the table, the "NewsHour" table, Mark Shields, Amy Walter, Peter Wehner, 02:07:23.133 --> 02:07:25.100 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Karine Jean-Pierre, and Chris Buskirk. 02:07:25.100 --> 02:07:29.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I want to take you back to one of the president's comments tonight. 02:07:31.000 --> 02:07:33.466 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% We have been talking about rejecting the politics of revenge. 02:07:33.466 --> 02:07:35.300 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But this is -- I believe this is right. 02:07:35.300 --> 02:07:38.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Am I hearing you correctly, those of you who are talking in my ear? 02:07:38.200 --> 02:07:40.200 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (LAUGHTER) 02:07:40.200 --> 02:07:44.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: The chunk of sound that we want to play, this is when the president spoke 02:07:45.800 --> 02:07:50.100 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% about the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote. 02:07:50.100 --> 02:07:52.200 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Let's listen. 02:07:52.200 --> 02:07:56.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% DONALD TRUMP: And exactly one century after Congress passed the constitutional amendment 02:07:58.533 --> 02:08:03.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% giving women the right to vote, we also have more women serving in Congress than at any 02:08:07.333 --> 02:08:09.933 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% time before. 02:08:09.933 --> 02:08:14.933 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 02:08:17.000 --> 02:08:22.000 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Dressed in white, in honor of women's suffrage. 02:08:24.366 --> 02:08:28.800 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Mark Shields, that was a striking moment, because the president is celebrating the fact 02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:32.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% that women, more women are working than ever before, more women elected to Congress. 02:08:32.366 --> 02:08:34.933 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Of course, most of those women are Democrats. 02:08:34.933 --> 02:08:37.500 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% Republicans lost numbers of women in the House of Representatives. 02:08:37.500 --> 02:08:39.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MARK SHIELDS: That's right. 02:08:39.566 --> 02:08:43.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We are now talking about 80 percent of the women in Congress are Democrats. 02:08:45.000 --> 02:08:48.766 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% The 35 elected in 2018, all but one was a Democrat. 02:08:50.766 --> 02:08:55.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And I think, even beyond that, as you look at the diversity, I mean, the religious diversity, 02:08:57.500 --> 02:09:02.500 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% all the Hindus, the Muslims, the Buddhists, I mean, are Democrats. 02:09:03.900 --> 02:09:06.066 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% I mean, all but two of the Jewish members are Democrats. 02:09:06.066 --> 02:09:10.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I mean, it is just -- it is a -- it's fascinating that the Republicans have become narrow. 02:09:10.966 --> 02:09:13.600 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And I will just say this about Donald Trump. 02:09:13.600 --> 02:09:18.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He is -- his strategy, as Robert Costa was talking about it, is totally alien and contradictory 02:09:20.566 --> 02:09:24.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% to that of George W. Bush, who added 11.5 million votes from 2000 to 2004. 02:09:26.200 --> 02:09:28.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% It's totally alien to that of Ronald Reagan, who went from... 02:09:28.800 --> 02:09:30.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: You mean relying on the base, trying to rely on the base. 02:09:30.866 --> 02:09:32.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% MARK SHIELDS: Relying on the base. 02:09:32.866 --> 02:09:35.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The point is to enlarge it, Bill Clinton -- or anybody who won a second term. 02:09:35.433 --> 02:09:40.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I mean, it is just that tending the base and holding the base and courting the base and 02:09:42.333 --> 02:09:46.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% wooing the base and making sure -- I mean, I just think it is a very finite and limited 02:09:47.533 --> 02:09:49.633 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% political strategy. 02:09:49.633 --> 02:09:51.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: But we heard Robert say -- Peter Wehner, we heard Robert say what they are 02:09:51.266 --> 02:09:53.466 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% focused on right now is a potential Republican challenge. 02:09:53.466 --> 02:09:54.966 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% PETER WEHNER: I think that's right. 02:09:54.966 --> 02:09:56.933 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And they're also, frankly, focused on impeachment. 02:09:56.933 --> 02:09:58.600 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% They have to. 02:09:58.600 --> 02:10:03.033 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% With the specter of impeachment, he has got to keep his base there. 02:10:03.033 --> 02:10:08.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I want to say one thing Mark said with the contrast with Reagan, which is true in many 02:10:08.500 --> 02:10:10.533 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% ways. 02:10:10.533 --> 02:10:12.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% One of the things I was struck by -- and I wonder if people really fully realize -- is 02:10:12.633 --> 02:10:17.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the degree to which Donald Trump has transformed the Republican Party on a whole set of issues. 02:10:19.366 --> 02:10:23.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% There was not a word about spending or deficits or limited government or liberty. 02:10:26.066 --> 02:10:29.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Illegal immigration, Ronald Reagan gave amnesty to three million. 02:10:29.766 --> 02:10:33.066 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And Trump devoted so much of his attention there. 02:10:33.066 --> 02:10:36.266 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Protectionism, Ronald Reagan was a free trader. 02:10:36.266 --> 02:10:38.233 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Donald Trump is a protectionist. 02:10:38.233 --> 02:10:40.266 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% He was critical of NATO. 02:10:40.266 --> 02:10:43.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He had more critical words to say about NATO than he did with North Korea. 02:10:43.333 --> 02:10:47.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And one of the things that a lot of us during the primary season said, that Donald Trump 02:10:47.866 --> 02:10:52.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% could do to the Republican Party that Hillary Clinton never could do, is to transform it, 02:10:52.000 --> 02:10:54.166 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% because he could do it from within. 02:10:54.166 --> 02:10:58.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And I do think, if people went back and read the speeches of Reagan or Bush, and contrasted 02:11:01.000 --> 02:11:05.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% that with Trump, they would see a very dramatic change in the tone and policy and the heart 02:11:07.033 --> 02:11:09.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% and the spirit of the GOP. 02:11:09.566 --> 02:11:12.966 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Chris Buskirk, how do you read that contrast between this president and another 02:11:12.966 --> 02:11:15.000 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Republican president, Ronald Reagan? 02:11:15.000 --> 02:11:17.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% CHRIS BUSKIRK: You know, I am glad you asked me that question, because when I was listening 02:11:17.533 --> 02:11:18.933 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% to Stacey Abrams. 02:11:18.933 --> 02:11:21.166 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I was -- and her talking about Ronald Reagan. 02:11:21.166 --> 02:11:25.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The 1986 immigration bill, Ronald Reagan said afterwards that he got rolled, and that it 02:11:25.800 --> 02:11:28.500 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% was a huge mistake that he signed it. 02:11:28.500 --> 02:11:31.700 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% So that is a bit of revisionist history there. 02:11:31.700 --> 02:11:33.766 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% He did it. 02:11:33.766 --> 02:11:37.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He regretted it later, and he thought that it was something that he could have done better. 02:11:37.600 --> 02:11:42.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I think that -- I think that Reagan and Trump actually stand in a long line of intellectual 02:11:44.366 --> 02:11:47.533 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% continuity within the American Republican Party. 02:11:47.533 --> 02:11:52.533 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Reagan's policies were appropriate and salutary for the country in the 1970s, '80s, into the 02:11:54.133 --> 02:11:56.233 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% '90s. 02:11:56.233 --> 02:12:00.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But our biggest problem right now is not the taxes, marginal taxes need to go down, or 02:12:01.333 --> 02:12:03.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% that we need to defeat international communism. 02:12:03.733 --> 02:12:06.900 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% It is about -- statesmanship is about applying the same principles to different circumstances. 02:12:06.900 --> 02:12:11.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And that's why I think that Donald Trump's stance on things like immigration or on trade, 02:12:11.333 --> 02:12:16.333 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% on China and so on, or what he calls principled realism in foreign policy, I think those are 02:12:18.100 --> 02:12:20.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% consistent with the Republican Party's principles for a very long time. 02:12:20.933 --> 02:12:24.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: So, Pete's point, that the fact he didn't talk about the debt, didn't 02:12:24.166 --> 02:12:25.566 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% talk about spending is, I mean... 02:12:25.566 --> 02:12:27.266 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (CROSSTALK) 02:12:27.266 --> 02:12:29.200 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% CHRIS BUSKIRK: This is -- I will tell you, this is the strangest thing. 02:12:29.200 --> 02:12:31.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% There is a bipartisan consensus right now to totally ignore the debt, until it blows 02:12:31.966 --> 02:12:33.600 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% up in somebody's face. 02:12:33.600 --> 02:12:35.533 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% And then I think the plan is just blame it on who is in office then. 02:12:35.533 --> 02:12:37.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And it is a huge mistake. 02:12:37.033 --> 02:12:40.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Amy Walter, do you want to pursue that? 02:12:40.433 --> 02:12:41.866 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (LAUGHTER) 02:12:41.866 --> 02:12:44.466 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% AMY WALTER: On what happens when we get there? 02:12:44.466 --> 02:12:49.100 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Listen, the two parties are now really reflective of their constituencies and of who their bases 02:12:51.133 --> 02:12:53.166 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% are. 02:12:53.166 --> 02:12:57.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And we got a very strong example of that in Virginia this week, and the blowback to Governor 02:12:58.866 --> 02:13:01.966 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Northam and the blackface incident. 02:13:01.966 --> 02:13:06.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And now, of course, we have his -- the lieutenant governor of the state with sexual assault 02:13:09.033 --> 02:13:11.100 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% allegations. 02:13:11.100 --> 02:13:15.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It is a Democratic Party now that is reliant on voters of color and women to deliver the 02:13:16.200 --> 02:13:18.133 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% votes. 02:13:18.133 --> 02:13:22.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The Republican Party is reliant on older white voters to deliver their votes. 02:13:23.600 --> 02:13:26.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And so they are reflecting their constituencies. 02:13:26.800 --> 02:13:31.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And the constituency that made up the Republican Party in the 1980s, many of those folks now 02:13:31.333 --> 02:13:33.766 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% are Democrats. 02:13:33.766 --> 02:13:37.666 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% We saw that transition and the realignment in the 2018 election. 02:13:37.666 --> 02:13:42.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Those suburban voters who had been voting on fiscal issues for all those years and stuck 02:13:42.066 --> 02:13:47.066 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% by Republicans, saying, I am fiscally conservative and I want government to spend my money smartly, 02:13:49.100 --> 02:13:52.700 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% maybe they were a little more socially moderate, they definitely were not happy in 2016 with 02:13:54.500 --> 02:13:56.466 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% their choices between Trump and Clinton. 02:13:56.466 --> 02:13:59.266 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Many of them didn't vote for Donald Trump. 02:13:59.266 --> 02:14:04.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And two years later, this is a constituency that, I would argue many of them a Reagan 02:14:05.900 --> 02:14:09.333 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% constituency, that has absolutely abandoned the Republican Party. 02:14:09.333 --> 02:14:14.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And now it is small-town rural America, many of which had been the Democrats' base, that 02:14:16.133 --> 02:14:18.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% make up what the Democratic Party is. 02:14:18.733 --> 02:14:23.200 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: So with -- Karine Jean-Pierre, with the two parties headed in opposite directions, 02:14:25.200 --> 02:14:28.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% is it smart for the president to do as he did tonight, to say, you know, to say to Democrats, 02:14:30.733 --> 02:14:33.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% let's work together on a few things, but still to hold -- you know, to stick to his guns 02:14:33.133 --> 02:14:38.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% on the things that he thinks he needs to -- you know, to not move on? 02:14:40.100 --> 02:14:42.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: There was no surprises in the president's speech tonight. 02:14:42.066 --> 02:14:46.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He basically spoke to his base, which is a small and shrinking base, which is something 02:14:47.500 --> 02:14:49.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% that he does all the time. 02:14:49.600 --> 02:14:53.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% To me, there was no difference from what he did at the State of the Union address tonight 02:14:53.333 --> 02:14:56.033 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% with what he does in front of a rally. 02:14:56.033 --> 02:15:01.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It was -- he gave maybe two minutes or so of bipartisanship, but everything else was 02:15:03.033 --> 02:15:06.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% a doubling down on divisiveness, hateful rhetoric, and this is just the way Donald Trump is. 02:15:08.466 --> 02:15:12.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He believes that, in order -- if he is looking towards 2020, which it seems to be, that he 02:15:14.200 --> 02:15:17.366 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% needs to double out and continue to shore up his small base. 02:15:17.366 --> 02:15:19.466 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% He has never been a president for everyone. 02:15:19.466 --> 02:15:24.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% He has never -- from the moment that he stepped in -- into the office, the day of inauguration, 02:15:25.700 --> 02:15:27.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% it has been about carnage, it's been about divisiveness. 02:15:27.800 --> 02:15:31.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% So, there's -- so there's no surprises at all, and this is what he is doing, but it 02:15:32.866 --> 02:15:34.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% is going to hurt the Republican Party. 02:15:34.866 --> 02:15:38.400 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We saw that in November with suburban voters, in particular women in suburban areas. 02:15:40.000 --> 02:15:43.866 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% They are sprinting away from the president and the Republican Party. 02:15:45.766 --> 02:15:47.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And also independent voters are sprinting away from the Republican Party. 02:15:47.833 --> 02:15:49.833 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% So they are going to be in a tough spot in 2020. 02:15:49.833 --> 02:15:53.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: I want to come back to you, Robert Costa, because you started all of this 02:15:53.066 --> 02:15:58.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% by pointing out that the president at this point, despite the -- some talk about reaching 02:15:59.500 --> 02:16:03.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% across the aisle, is very -- is hyper-focused on his base. 02:16:03.200 --> 02:16:08.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% ROBERT COSTA: And it is, Judy, perhaps historically notable in the way the president disavowed 02:16:09.966 --> 02:16:12.000 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% socialism. 02:16:12.000 --> 02:16:15.966 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% He addressed the rise of a vigorous new left in this country, a movement that was stoked 02:16:18.433 --> 02:16:21.100 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% by Senator Bernie Sanders in his 2016 campaign, was then championed in 2018 by new Democrats 02:16:23.100 --> 02:16:27.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new member from New York. 02:16:27.200 --> 02:16:31.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And he is saying to the Republican Party, there will never be a socialist government 02:16:31.533 --> 02:16:33.533 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% in this country. 02:16:33.533 --> 02:16:37.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% That is a rally cry for a right wing in this country that is nervous about this vigorous 02:16:38.333 --> 02:16:40.400 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% left. 02:16:40.400 --> 02:16:43.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And he is saying that there is a line in the sand between that vision that is emerging 02:16:43.433 --> 02:16:46.933 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% on the left and his own that he has cultivated on the right. 02:16:46.933 --> 02:16:50.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Robert Costa reporting for us from The Washington Post. 02:16:50.966 --> 02:16:55.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I want to spend the remaining time we have here, Mark, looking at how the president has 02:16:57.866 --> 02:17:01.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% set the table for this coming year, whether it is immigration, whether it is -- whether 02:17:03.133 --> 02:17:07.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% they do something together on infrastructure, but trying to shore up his base and, frankly, 02:17:10.700 --> 02:17:15.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% making sure he is in as strong a possible position, given that there may be a Mueller 02:17:17.733 --> 02:17:21.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% investigation result that is not favorable to him -- we don't know -- and any number 02:17:21.833 --> 02:17:25.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% of other things that could go wrong, other investigations that are leading somewhere. 02:17:25.233 --> 02:17:27.300 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% MARK SHIELDS: No. 02:17:27.300 --> 02:17:31.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I mean, I thought if, in fact, he was secure with his base and not worried about losing 02:17:33.533 --> 02:17:37.533 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% support with any kind of impeachment effort, which I don't see immediately on the horizon, 02:17:39.600 --> 02:17:43.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% then doing the infrastructure, and particularly drug prices, in a bipartisan way, I think, 02:17:46.500 --> 02:17:49.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% is just a political winner for the president. 02:17:49.133 --> 02:17:52.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But it was almost cursory, it was almost pro forma, the way he did that. 02:17:52.966 --> 02:17:56.600 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% I mean, you know, infrastructure has become a throwaway line. 02:17:56.600 --> 02:17:59.366 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% It is like the balanced budget constitutional amendment. 02:17:59.366 --> 02:18:00.400 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% I mean... 02:18:00.400 --> 02:18:02.433 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (CROSSTALK) 02:18:02.433 --> 02:18:03.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: But a lot of people would agree the country is in desperate need of getting 02:18:03.366 --> 02:18:04.166 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% its infrastructure fixed. 02:18:04.166 --> 02:18:05.700 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% MARK SHIELDS: I agree. 02:18:05.700 --> 02:18:06.500 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anybody about it. 02:18:06.500 --> 02:18:09.033 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Well... 02:18:09.033 --> 02:18:10.466 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% MARK SHIELDS: I mean, he asked for $1.5 trillion, and the Congress appointed $21 billion, and, 02:18:10.466 --> 02:18:14.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% you know, which was, what, one-half a percent. 02:18:14.433 --> 02:18:18.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% You know, it was just the last year. 02:18:18.733 --> 02:18:23.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I mean, but he is asking the Congress for a plan, instead of coming in with a plan. 02:18:23.700 --> 02:18:28.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I mean, and on the prescription drugs, I mean, I think it is a winner for him. 02:18:30.700 --> 02:18:34.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But I saw tonight more word paid to it, and not sort of that sense of passionate commitment. 02:18:40.400 --> 02:18:42.066 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% That's where you get the coalition. 02:18:42.066 --> 02:18:44.600 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% That's where you get the bipartisanship, if he really wants it. 02:18:44.600 --> 02:18:47.100 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And that's something the Democrats have said they would like to work with the 02:18:47.100 --> 02:18:48.100 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% president on. 02:18:48.100 --> 02:18:50.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MARK SHIELDS: Sure they would. 02:18:50.100 --> 02:18:51.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Pete Wehner, how has he set the table, do you think, for this coming year? 02:18:51.766 --> 02:18:54.566 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% PETER WEHNER: Well, I don't think the speech will have set the table. 02:18:54.566 --> 02:18:57.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I think it was primarily a political speech, as opposed to a policy speech. 02:18:57.433 --> 02:19:00.133 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% State of the Unions are always a mix. 02:19:00.133 --> 02:19:04.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But this is a White House, if you talk to Republicans on Capitol Hill, which I have 02:19:04.066 --> 02:19:07.000 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% done, where the policy process is broken. 02:19:07.000 --> 02:19:12.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% So I think you have to view most of these initiatives that he mentioned as basically 02:19:12.733 --> 02:19:14.733 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% public relations. 02:19:14.733 --> 02:19:17.800 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% Look, the country, unfortunately, is going to be more divided at the end of this year 02:19:17.800 --> 02:19:22.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% than it is right now, because you have several things that are going to happen. 02:19:25.233 --> 02:19:28.100 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% You have a president whose natural instinct is toward the inflammation of the body politic, 02:19:29.400 --> 02:19:30.933 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% who seeks to divide. 02:19:30.933 --> 02:19:33.500 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% That is what gives him energy. 02:19:33.500 --> 02:19:37.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And, secondly, he believes that it is in his political interest to do it, for the reasons 02:19:37.200 --> 02:19:38.700 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% that we have discussed. 02:19:38.700 --> 02:19:41.366 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And, third, you are going to have the Mueller report. 02:19:41.366 --> 02:19:43.466 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% It was very interesting. 02:19:43.466 --> 02:19:47.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% At the beginning of the speech, he -- his tone and his countenance struck me. 02:19:47.033 --> 02:19:49.766 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% It was like he was hit by a tranquilizer dart. 02:19:49.766 --> 02:19:52.033 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And when did he begin to become animated? 02:19:52.033 --> 02:19:57.033 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% It was when he went after this illegal, partisan investigation. 02:19:58.466 --> 02:20:00.366 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And that is the thing that is closest to his heart. 02:20:00.366 --> 02:20:02.633 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% That's what he tweets about. 02:20:02.633 --> 02:20:05.700 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And that is what draws his energy. 02:20:05.700 --> 02:20:10.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% So, you know, I wish it were something else, but I don't think that this speech will have 02:20:11.900 --> 02:20:14.266 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% been a foreshadowing of the year to come. 02:20:14.266 --> 02:20:16.233 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I think that it will be viewed as a parenthesis. 02:20:16.233 --> 02:20:18.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: So, do we just go back to the way things were after the speech... 02:20:18.733 --> 02:20:19.733 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% AMY WALTER: Yes. 02:20:19.733 --> 02:20:21.433 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Pretty much. 02:20:21.433 --> 02:20:22.400 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: ... as if the State of the Union never happened? 02:20:22.400 --> 02:20:24.433 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Amy Walter. 02:20:24.433 --> 02:20:28.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% AMY WALTER: I was reading this line where he said, we can build new coalitions, forge 02:20:28.166 --> 02:20:32.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% new solutions, break decades of political stalemate. 02:20:32.133 --> 02:20:35.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% A lot of people voted for Donald Trump thinking that is exactly what he would do. 02:20:35.433 --> 02:20:39.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I don't think they were -- they weren't totally naive, but they did think, here is somebody 02:20:39.033 --> 02:20:43.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% who is going to come into this process who is not attached to the party. 02:20:43.700 --> 02:20:45.433 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% He has no ideological moorings. 02:20:45.433 --> 02:20:48.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% He can kind of go wherever he needs to go. 02:20:48.200 --> 02:20:52.700 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And I was wondering that, too, that, in that moment of time between the election and his 02:20:52.700 --> 02:20:57.666 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% inauguration, was there going to be this moment where the president could reach out and create 02:20:58.433 --> 02:21:00.433 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% these new coalitions? 02:21:00.433 --> 02:21:03.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We knew these new coalitions had formed in the 2016 election, especially in the Upper 02:21:03.566 --> 02:21:08.566 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Midwest that had for years gone Democratic and went to the GOP. 02:21:10.733 --> 02:21:12.733 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% So there was this chance, whether it was with infrastructure, prescription drugs, certainly 02:21:12.733 --> 02:21:14.200 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% the opioid crisis. 02:21:14.200 --> 02:21:16.233 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% That could have been the first thing out of the gate. 02:21:16.233 --> 02:21:20.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It would have absolutely put Democrats back on their heels, because they wouldn't be feeling 02:21:22.100 --> 02:21:24.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% very sure of what to do with this, right? 02:21:24.733 --> 02:21:26.733 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Well, we have got to work out with the president. 02:21:26.733 --> 02:21:28.233 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% He's saying things... 02:21:28.233 --> 02:21:30.333 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Rather than trying to kill health care. 02:21:30.333 --> 02:21:31.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% AMY WALTER: Right, absolutely, not only kill health care, but the very first thing he did 02:21:31.800 --> 02:21:35.633 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% was the -- was calling for the travel ban, right? 02:21:35.633 --> 02:21:37.433 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% That was the first thing out of the box. 02:21:37.433 --> 02:21:38.433 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: That was the very first... 02:21:38.433 --> 02:21:40.400 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (CROSSTALK) 02:21:40.400 --> 02:21:42.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% AMY WALTER: And, at that moment in time, you could see that potential going away. 02:21:42.433 --> 02:21:45.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And the other issue, the other reason we are not going to see bipartisanship, there is 02:21:45.233 --> 02:21:48.133 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% just an absolute lack of trust there. 02:21:48.133 --> 02:21:50.466 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% There was always wariness with the president. 02:21:50.466 --> 02:21:55.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But after the debacle over the wall funding, there is not one Democrat right now who I 02:21:57.433 --> 02:22:01.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% talk to who thinks it is worth putting any stock in anything that the president says 02:22:03.800 --> 02:22:07.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% to you in private or in public about -- whether it is about infrastructure or other things 02:22:08.333 --> 02:22:10.333 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% that they can agree on. 02:22:10.333 --> 02:22:14.166 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And, given that, Chris Buskirk, how does this president get anything done 02:22:15.366 --> 02:22:17.366 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% that he wants done going forward in this climate? 02:22:17.366 --> 02:22:20.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% CHRIS BUSKIRK: Yes, I think there is always the opportunity for a president to reset the 02:22:20.800 --> 02:22:22.033 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% table and take action. 02:22:22.033 --> 02:22:24.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% The question will be, will this one do it? 02:22:24.733 --> 02:22:26.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And I, for one, would like to see it. 02:22:26.733 --> 02:22:30.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% I think I have heard other people who are on the left say, in some instances, narrow 02:22:30.266 --> 02:22:32.566 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% instances, they would like to see that too. 02:22:32.566 --> 02:22:34.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Infrastructure is, again, one of these things that has been in every speech. 02:22:34.900 --> 02:22:37.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Where is the legislation? 02:22:37.033 --> 02:22:40.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Preexisting conditions, those are things that could be done, or at least solutions offered. 02:22:40.433 --> 02:22:41.933 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Drug prices, these are things. 02:22:41.933 --> 02:22:45.300 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% But you really have to push a legislative agenda hard. 02:22:45.300 --> 02:22:48.300 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And that requires working with Republicans and Democrats. 02:22:48.300 --> 02:22:49.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I don't expect bipartisanship. 02:22:49.566 --> 02:22:52.000 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% People like to say that to kind of win the day. 02:22:52.000 --> 02:22:53.000 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% Politics are real. 02:22:53.000 --> 02:22:55.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% The disagreements are real. 02:22:55.033 --> 02:22:57.866 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% But there are places where people can find common interests, political interests, and 02:22:57.866 --> 02:22:59.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% pass some of these things. 02:22:59.033 --> 02:22:59.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Criminal justice reform. 02:22:59.866 --> 02:23:01.533 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% CHRIS BUSKIRK: Sure. 02:23:01.533 --> 02:23:03.066 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: And then the president keeps coming back to that. 02:23:03.066 --> 02:23:04.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And the Democrats, Karine, come back to that as well. 02:23:04.400 --> 02:23:05.900 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Right, right. 02:23:05.900 --> 02:23:10.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% It was a -- it is a first step, hence the name of the now law. 02:23:12.366 --> 02:23:16.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And if some -- that would be something that Democrats would work on to make it better, 02:23:17.333 --> 02:23:19.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% along with infrastructure and other things. 02:23:19.433 --> 02:23:22.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But it is just -- it is just not going to happen because of just the speech that we 02:23:22.333 --> 02:23:24.466 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% saw tonight. 02:23:24.466 --> 02:23:26.633 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% But there were a couple of differences tonight, something that Donald Trump surely has never 02:23:26.633 --> 02:23:31.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% seen before, is, it is probably the first time in his career as a politico that he spoke 02:23:33.033 --> 02:23:36.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% in front, an audience that was majority Democrats, right? 02:23:36.133 --> 02:23:38.200 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% It is a divided government. 02:23:38.200 --> 02:23:41.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And that is something, that does sit in his craw, because he knows the Mueller investigation, 02:23:41.933 --> 02:23:43.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% the question of impeachment. 02:23:43.733 --> 02:23:47.033 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Now there's the SDNY that he can't even control. 02:23:47.033 --> 02:23:48.833 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% There is no one he can fire there. 02:23:48.833 --> 02:23:50.900 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Southern District of New York. 02:23:50.900 --> 02:23:53.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Yes, right, Southern District of New York that is now looking at -- now 02:23:53.133 --> 02:23:57.333 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% looking at the inaugural committee and sent out subpoenas a couple of days ago. 02:23:57.333 --> 02:24:00.766 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% So, we are living in a new world for Donald Trump. 02:24:00.766 --> 02:24:04.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The one thing I want to say that was kind of comical, when he talks about women, and 02:24:04.800 --> 02:24:08.966 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% everybody stands up and clapping, and he is acknowledging them, the funny thing about 02:24:08.966 --> 02:24:13.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% it is, he is one of the reasons why many women decided to run in 2018 and take it on, because 02:24:17.500 --> 02:24:18.500 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% they wanted to... 02:24:18.500 --> 02:24:20.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: That's right. 02:24:20.566 --> 02:24:23.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: ... to be a part of Congress, to stop the madness that they were seeing. 02:24:23.033 --> 02:24:27.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% So it is kind of comical that he was, you know, acknowledging it, but he is kind of 02:24:27.766 --> 02:24:29.700 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% the catalyst for it too. 02:24:29.700 --> 02:24:31.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: It was striking, because a lot of these women to decided to get in and 02:24:31.933 --> 02:24:33.566 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% jump in and run because they were... 02:24:33.566 --> 02:24:34.500 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Right, because of what they were seeing. 02:24:34.500 --> 02:24:35.700 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Opposed him. 02:24:35.700 --> 02:24:37.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Well, our time is just about at an end. 02:24:37.200 --> 02:24:39.233 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% I have to say, some news is apparently being made tonight. 02:24:39.233 --> 02:24:43.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Amy Klobuchar, the senator from Minnesota, has tweeted that she will have an announcement 02:24:43.466 --> 02:24:45.700 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% to make, I think, in a few days. 02:24:45.700 --> 02:24:50.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% So it sounds like maybe she will be, what, the fourth woman to announce that she's running 02:24:50.500 --> 02:24:51.500 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% for president... 02:24:51.500 --> 02:24:52.966 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (CROSSTALK) 02:24:52.966 --> 02:24:54.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Fourth woman, crowded field. 02:24:54.200 --> 02:24:55.366 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: ... on the Democratic side. 02:24:55.366 --> 02:24:56.033 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% MARK SHIELDS: Everybody satisfied? 02:24:56.033 --> 02:24:57.266 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (LAUGHTER) 02:24:57.266 --> 02:24:58.066 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Hey, we will talk about it. 02:24:58.066 --> 02:24:59.300 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% We will talk about it. 02:24:59.300 --> 02:25:00.166 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: It is historical. 02:25:00.166 --> 02:25:02.233 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% It is historical. 02:25:02.233 --> 02:25:03.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: I just have to thank these wonderful people for sticking with us through 02:25:03.766 --> 02:25:06.400 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% this -- this extraordinary State of the Union night. 02:25:06.400 --> 02:25:08.933 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Thank you for joining us. 02:25:08.933 --> 02:25:12.600 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% I want to thank 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