We are alsojoin, i hope. I still have with me from christie and] newton small, the democratic response . This is such a tough speech together. They almost always bomb it. It was so hokey. It is really the Existential Crisis for democrats. Do they go for the white Middle Class Union base they have lost which is clearly what they did here or do they support minorities who did not show up in and after this to support hillary clinton. It is like an identity crisis. Clearly in the response they went for the middle class White Union Vote but the diner was super auckland. Laughter all could. was surprised to hear from bob casey that this was not an economic speech the democrats would like, 1 trillion spent in infrastructure is kind of what president obama had suggested. We talked about his very ambitious infrastructure plan, he talked about health play, clean water, clean air president obama articulated the same things. This guy is saying things i actually believe in, some will be saying. Everything that the democrats lost, women, people of colour, gays, was not evident in the democratic response. Perhaps they are doing a little soul searching. Response. Perhaps they are doing a little soulsearching. Congressman, iimagine you little soulsearching. Congressman, i imagine you liked what you heard . I think the republican side of the aisle was very exciting. Tonight, mr trump became president. It was the night he works to unite the American People, got much more specific of these policies and was clearly in command of that room. He is clearly the commander in chief of this country. Will you give it what he wa nts country. Will you give it what he wants an infrastructure and military hike . The details of all matter but he talked about a host of things. He talked about repealing a obamacare, infrastructure, tax reform and all exciting things. The Transportation Investment may be one of the best things. Some of the things about replacing the Health Care Bill allowed people keeping their pre existing programme. He talked about paid family leave, Womens Health issues, he sounded more democratic. It was a trump agenda. It was not a speech in a classical way along one party line. Many issues he talked about work by partisan. I was surprised to see some of my friends sitting on their hands when he talked about by partisan ideas. It was a speech will give in and well received. In terms of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, how happy are they going to be to go along with the big Spending Proposal that donald trump wa nts you Spending Proposal that donald trump wants you to agree with . Again, their details will matter. This is not a done deal. The Infrastructure Investment would require by partisan corporation and we have a lot of work to do. But he called america to a bigger vision, he talked about what can happen once again when we invest in the right things, i think it is something in the American People will rally around. In washington, when we tend to talk about which senators, which member of congress, ultimately, the American People will decide. If they rally around President Trumps ideas i believe they will happen. A lot of work to be done but definitely possible. The congressman from indian. He seemed to be suggesting that the Republican Party would give mrtrump that the Republican Party would give mr trump what he wants. Perhaps the devil is in the details but the point he made at the end that if republicans go home to their districts and donald trump is popular, they are going to be happy to swallow nonconservative agenda items than otherwise . Yes but the devil really is in the details and the details matter. 40 or so members did not want to spend 1 trillion. They looked at the Obama Stimulus Package and they say they got nothing for it. What they heard the night was our president wants to go even bigger. Paul obrien is going to have a difficult time getting it through the house. Paul ryan. They want to see President Trump hit the right tone but that amount of spending a lot of republicans will say no. I agree with ron in that analysis. You are looking at the 40 members of the Freedom Caucus but also members of the Mainstream Partnership who are already signing on to democratic calls for investigations into Donald Trumps connections to russia. They are worried about the elections in 2018. The ball, all these different things, there has been concern on the moderate wing of the Republican Party as well. I find it hard to believe that if donald trump can manage to keep up this kind of appearance that he gave us tonight, more conciliatory, more president ial, will it not bring it all republicans who are perhaps wavering on him . We would have to measure with an egg timer how long he stays on message because he has a lwa ys he stays on message because he has always gone off message. A democrat from new yorkjoins us now. Thank you forjoining us, congressman. These new donald trump, bought conciliatory more conciliatory, more president ial will be a problem for democrats . I think that is premature. That does nationality is laughable. Dysfunctionality. All ofa laughable. Dysfunctionality. All of a sudden one speech supposedly setting him right with the world is not realistic. There was a lot in the speech that still divides us. Higher on fluff and low on substance. But the tone of the speech, you would agree, was not the carnage in america, the flame throwing off the campaign. But maybe we expected to little from him. Ithink maybe we expected to little from him. I think that is unfortunate. The office of the man is more than that. Talking at the same time about tolerance and simultaneously speaking about rounding up people. Not a democrat support the banality within the immigrant community but there are many people that are innocent getting caught up in that trap and a lot of peoples lives at terra rise this evening, families torn apart in the same time he is giving that speech. Terra rise. Terrorised. All criminal elements should be expelled from the country and all people who are victims of crime need the attention and the focus of our country. The president also began his speech by talking about attacks against jewish centres, about attacks against indian engineers, one shop dead in kansas state in that respect he has taken on board the criticism he has not reached out to people who did not reached out to people who did not necessarily support him. Not reached out to people who did not necessarily support himm not reached out to people who did not necessarily support him. It is about time. The rhetoric and hateful speech that has come out the white house, the lack of attention to the jewish people and what they paid during the holocaust was abysmal and really needed to be addressed and the president really needs to continue this, to speak against hate in this country and also do more than just speak about it. Let me ask you a little bit about the agenda, there has been a paradox that in some ways he has a very progressive economic agenda, certainly by republican standards hes not a classic conservative republican. The call for a very large infrastructure bill, you may not believe he will get a lot of that through but in some ways those would be things that asa some ways those would be things that as a democrat you would like . When the president roosevelt about clean water and clean air, in his proposed budget he would cut the epa by 27 it is literally talking out of both sides of your mouth. The detail is what matters. We are all full family sick leave but we need to make sure that everyone who wants to work can do so and their child is in a safe environment. But how is the trillion dollar raise . Those are the kinds of details we are yet to hear. We wait with bated breath and an open mind. Where we can be supportive we will be otherwise we will be vociferous. Thank you forjoining us. Our bbc colleague in Eastern Pennsylvania Co is with a group of voters and has been watching the speech with them. What did they think of the president s address . The room behind me was absolutely field with those whose say they sent donald trump to the presidency. They gave him a Standing Ovation after the speech and all throughout they cheat him an, really energised by the message. Sheared him on. The struggles that they are facing, when it came to buying american first, using American Made steel to build American Made steel to build american pipelines, all those lines went down really well. The rhetoric went down really well. The rhetoric we heard on the Campaign Trail got this crowd going, draining the swan, tackling obamaca re, this crowd going, draining the swan, tackling obamacare, people here were not bothered at all that he did not necessarily give a ton of specifics. Washington lawmakers had been looking for that. He did spell out some specifics but here they were over role enthusiastic that he stayed on message, sticking to the promises he made throughout the campaign and really they were saying he was speaking to them and they we re he was speaking to them and they were not bothered by the lawmakers. That is interesting. They did not object to some of the things he was proposing that sounded more democratic like Infrastructure Spending, keeping pre existing conditions in the Affordable Health act. That we should be flexible on state rights to expand healthcare for poor people, they did not mind that . Lets remember that here we had the unique situation where a lot of democratic voters turned republican sir really when you had those proposals, i spoke to a voter who mentioned infrastructure and he said if you looked at this country, it almost looks like a Third World Country where the roads are Com Pletely Country where the roads are completely crumbling. A lot of people said they rely on the medical care. They are not necessarily down at the conservative line and he appeals to the voters who struggle on the same line with the progressive policies and the conservative ones. They have this gut reaction to the president that they want to support him and his agenda 100 . This is exactly what we were saying earlier. What you said is exactly what she was hearing, that when he says he is going to blow everything up, when he says everything is terrible and there is carnage in america, his supporters seem to love it. When he gives a more optimistic speech, like tonight, they had what he said about Infrastructure Spending and replacing obamacare, they still like it . They think he is for one saying in plain, straightforward language, the insecurities that america feels about the way the government works. We also saw the republican president tonight, we saw a president who got up tonight, we saw a president who got up before congress who laid down his injured. I think that is what people enjoyed here. His agenda. Injured. I think that is what people enjoyed here. His agenda. There was a political poll out today, they found that 56 of americans felt that donald trump was actually delivering on his campaign promises. Almost two thirds of them felt that he had actually gotten a lot dumb in his office and stay true to his ideology. The question is, what is is ideology . His . It does baffle us is ideology . His . It does baffle us and flummoxed us, he is not a traditional republican. He is not sticking to traditional things. But the traditionalist dont stick to party lines necessarily either. In pennsylvania, some people who were once democratic are voting republican. They are crossing party lines and mixing everything up. They seem to like that donald trump is doing the same. It is almost an attitude and a cultural response as It Isa Attitude and a cultural response as it is a policy response. Lets have a quick listen again to what the president said on the affordable ca re president said on the Affordable Care act, obamacare, he called it a disaster. Tonight i am calling on this congress to repeal and replaced obamacare. Replace. With reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower cost a nd that expand choice, increase access, lower cost and provide better healthcare. One third of the counties have only one insurer, and they are losing them fast. They are losing them so fast costs. They are leaving, and Many Americans have no choice. There is no choice left. Remember when you were told that you could keep your doctor and keep your plan . We now know that all of those promises have been totally broken. Obamacare is promises have been totally broken. Obamaca re is collapsing, promises have been totally broken. Obamacare is collapsing, and we must act decisively to protect all americans. Action is not a choice, it isa americans. Action is not a choice, it is a necessity. President trump speaking about healthca re it is a necessity. President trump speaking about healthcare reform. The irony of course is that he goes into detail of negotiations, knowing that it into detail of negotiations, knowing thatitis into detail of negotiations, knowing that it is more popular than ever before. Democrats are embracing it, and 22 Million People got coverage under obamacare and they are nervous about what will happen. That includes republicans. Perhaps the brilliance of what we had tonight, he said we want to make sure those who have pre existing policies are protected. That is the number 1 about coverage. Also, look at what he is saying about medicaid expansion, having a safety net. These are not traditionally conservative positions that you are going to hear. That is why a donald trump is not a typically republican politician and why a lot of people said he did a good job tonight. There was not a lot on Foreign Policy . There was a very strong endorsement of nato. He said nato allies have to pay their memberships, but he said we are fully committed to that alliance and that the alliance has done a lot to protect peace in the western world . In his convention, he called into question whether the United States would continue to support nato. That has been a question in his presidency, saying in his speech that we wholeheartedly support nato, that we wholeheartedly support nato, thatis that we wholeheartedly support nato, that is surprising. It is definitely a change in his attitude, certainly from his campaign where he questioned nato and how much money we we re questioned nato and how much money we were spending. It has been an interesting couple of weeks. Mike pence went to europe, as did some other key members of his cabinet. They said that while the United States believe that nato members should pay 2 of their gdp on defence spending, they said very clearly to their American Allies in europe, we remain committed to nato. I think europe, we remain committed to nato. Ithinka europe, we remain committed to nato. I think a lot of American Allies had been fairly confused about that, and they wanted to hear it from the president. It is the first time they will have heard that directly from the president. If you think about who is speaking for the white house and for america at the moment, there has been some confusion. Did he clarify that this evening . Yes, i think this is very reassuring for europe to hear that he is behind them. He is going to stand with nato. It has been a question in re ce nt nato. It has been a question in recent weeks, especially with his close relationship with vladimir putin. There was also no mention of russia, and none of the middle east. There was talk of immigration. Resident ron spoke about immigration and border security. President trump. We believe in Immigration Enforcement and border security. By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions of dollars and make our communities safer for everyone. We want all americans to succeed, but that cant happen in an environment of lawless chaos. We must restore integrity and the rule of law at our borders. Donald trump speaking about immigration. The whole issue of immigration, from the Executive Order banning people from seven will some countries muslim, that has almost been the most dominant feature of his presidency. Did he go somewhere in this address to clarify what he wants to do on immigration, to clearup to clarify what he wants to do on immigration, to clear up some of the chaos that has the roundabout . Not tonight, but i think we will hear it tomorrow or next week. I think he will issue another Executive Order dealing with immigration. I think the time he took tonight was very smart. He is trying to be more conciliatory, approachable on issues of immigration where he has been heavily criticised. I think he did what he needed to do and i think we will see a lot more details in the next week. He also had some special guests in the audience, they were people who had lost Family Members to illegal immigrants. Ifelt it people who had lost Family Members to illegal immigrants. I felt it was a dual message on immigration . M was really striking. The big news going into this speech was the interview he gave way he talked about how he was now for immigration reform. He also talked about wanting to see a merit based system applying to see a merit based system applying to the United States. That would be a huge change from what he was saying in the Campaign Trail. He said he just wanted to build a wall and deport everybody. He implied there will be a path to citizenship or illegal status for those 11 or 12 Million Immigrants that we have in the United States. It was a very disjointed speech in that sense. You have this, horror of the horror of the stories of people who had been killed by Undocumented Immigrants, by the way, the rate of crime done by the way, the rate of crime done by Undocumented Immigrants is comparatively tiny to the rest of america. Then you had this whole section in the Policy Section of the speech saying, maybe we will find a way to allow these people to stay. Some confusion. If you had to sum up this address to the union, to me it felt like a very different donald trump . We dont know how long that will be the donald trump that we carry on seeing, i suspicion is that he will get good reviews. carry on seeing, i suspicion is that he will get good reviews. I think you are absolutely right. And i think donald trump, whether he is listening to his Vice President or his cabinet, or to himself, saying, i had his cabinet, or to himself, saying, ihada his cabinet, or to himself, saying, i had a rough 30 days, i need a different approach. We saw that this evening. Thank you both very much for joining evening. Thank you both very much forjoining us. Donald trump, giving his first address to congress. Laying out what he has done so far and what he plans to do in the future. This is a president who went into the address saying that he gave himself and 84 achievement, but only a sea for communication. This was an attempt to improve that great, i suspect the reviews will be good tomorrow. That brings to a close our coverage of Donald Trumps address to congress. He brought forward a whole range of issues, you have them here an a for acheivment. Hello. There was a bright enough start to the day. It didnt last, we we re start to the day. It didnt last, we were driving belts of weather down from the west and South Of Scotland towards the south and east. Low pressure the dominant feature. Obviously something Waiting In The Wings to the west of us. That doesnt arise just in time to stop temperatures dribbling away. Some ice as well. If you can avoid the showers, plenty of sunshine to be had across northern britain. Things changing as we get through the afternoon. Across the Southern Parts of england and wales, turning increasingly wet. Eventually very windy as well. Some detail for the middle part of the afternoon, There Isa Middle part of the afternoon, there is a condonation of sunny spells and showers. Breeze coming from the west rather than the north, it may feel a tad mild, but not much. Some patches of sunshine, some showers across the north of england. Hiding up across southern and western ireland. Sunshine will not be the case across Southern England and wales. Cloud producing some heavy rain. The strength of the wind may cause some real concerns. Some gust at least a gale force across exposed parts of Southern England and wales. As the rain moves further north, over the higher ground, the intensity of the flora may cause a bit of a problem across the highest ground. That combination could cause some disruption to your travel plans overnight on wednesday. On thursday, less in the way of rating initially. The Weather Front driving further towards the north. A lot of sunshine around. Late in the day, some uncertainty about this feature. We suspect something will run in on the noticeable wind to the west of wales with some hillside. A half decent day on thursday. On friday, it probably wont be in the south. Low pressure throwing its way over towards the north. The pace of advance, open to some conjecture. We think that is going to be the major player of the weekend. Sitting very close by to the British Isles through saturday and sunday. Perhaps Northern Scotland and ireland seemed the best of the weather, but the general theme of the weather is quite a bit of cloud around and quite a bit of cloud around and quite a bit of cloud around and quite a few spells of rain. Take care. A very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. My names mike embley. Our top stories a Rallying Call to the American People in his first address to congress President Trump declares the time for small thinking is over. All the nations of the world, friend orfoe, will find all the nations of the world, friend or foe, will find that america all the nations of the world, friend orfoe, will find that america is strong, america is proud and america is free. He called for a merit based system of immigration and extreme vetting to prevent terrorists entering the United States. We cannot allow terrorism to form inside america, we cannot allow our nation to become a sanctuary for extremists