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I mean there were years holding up the crutches obviously a compelling picture did the u.s. president did he use personal tragedy to build political capital in that moment but its a very emotional story if somebody comes and shows you know what what happened to him and the picture he paints of course is the picture of victims which you know appeals to people its emotions so he does this and in a very smart way and in doing this he you know prepares people to think even worse off could be out nor...

Company. couldnt she have been going come on, this wont get out. not really meaning anything nefarious about it. >> then heres the thing. why are you so worried about it? obviously they were concerned it coming out would have an impact. whether its public opinion or the investigation. they believe something bad was happening. theyre traying to stop it from coming out. thats a problem. >> shepard: so this goes to obstruction. how big a deal? >> absolutely. a lot of commentators are saying its not...

We like to see security, meritocracy, 2.4 million new jobs. democrats voted to make jerusalem the capital of israel but they couldnt stand for tha that. infrastructure, investment. i think the president faked them out. they were hoping, and i think her speech was written for a different president trump than the one they saw last night. >> shannon: there were commentators last night, and we know dictate last night, who were disappointed. they said essentially this isnt really him. we cant contrac...

Appears to people its emotions so does this and in a very smart way and in doing this he you know prepares people to think even worse off could be out north korea and how to deal with that so its a busy preparing as if some commentators today said that they felt the speech was preparing the nation for some type of conflict. did you get the impression with that i mean i think that is an option i wouldnt read too much into the fact where theres going to preparing the nation for conflict but pickin...

Research and development. opioid addiction. i need that infrastructure. i never saw a pothole that belonged to a democrat or republican. we both get blamed for that one. we got to fix this stuff. ainsley: i understand if you stood on your hands out here. >> no one told me you guys were going to be out in the element. brian: we thought you from west virginia were tough. ainsley: listened to our commentary after the speech and then you had the democrats had mr. kennedy on giving their speech. and....

The media today has abandoned fairness for activism. you talked about "the new york times" reporter jim rutenberger. i find this interesting. talking about where he comes from, if you believe all of those things, you have to throw out the textbook of american journalism. this is his viewpoint. approaching a way that you have never approached anything in your career. if you view the presidency as something dangerous, your report willing reflect that. you will move closer than you have ever been t...

Angry. you know, trump, one thing funny about trump is he has too enjoyed his role as divider. everybody who obviously runs for office is dividing in a way. theyre dividing between the people i got and the people who obviously dont like me. then you win and bring everybody together. he never learned that part. he stays as the divider. his people love him. thats very nice. i dont think theyre abandoning him. that said, he hasnt reached out. tonight hell try to be persuasive in that way. its a lit...

>> i dont know. hi doesnt regret most of the fights. the common denominator in your comments is people with institutional knowledge in our government, in the intelligence services, the fbi, who are deeply troubled by the way that this president is politicizing the intelligence services and the fbi, that is the current running through all the commentators who are former government officials is that he is somehow debasing the institutions that we rely on to be nonpartisan and credible. and hes pli...

Commentators. what are you expecting? >> im not expecting a speech makes any difference on the unity front. >> a lot of boycotdemocrats are boycotting it. >> i can tell that you theyre fighting about it three hours before the speech. theres a republican congressman from arizona who called the capitol police and said please check everybodys immigration status going to the address. and the republican senator from arizona came out to slam him and many the republican from my district came out to sla...

All sorts of trouble in the courts as you can remember. and they have allowed it to go partially through after a lot of changes. thats only sort of a partial win for the administration. and immigration, yeah, deportations are up, but there is no wall, mexico hasnt paid for it and comprehensive reform still flapping in the breeze. look at the approval rates for the past six presidents at this time in their administrations. you can see, for all of his wins and losses, hes certainly trailing everyb...