time ever. of course, this coming just a month after another record was broken in the dow crossed 20,000. today, the dow up more than 300 points. investors appear to be bullish about some of the things they heard when president trump gave that speech last night. msnbc anchor stephanie rule joins us now. stephanie, it s been this way for months, it seems to be a connection to trump. this one seems to be a direct connection to that speech last night. is it and what was it? it is a direct connection to the speech, it was a quieter, softer president trump. the fear on the markets has always been, who is this guy? how does he behave? the ties to a steven bannon, a steven miller, remember the speech he gave at the inauguration? american carnage, at the rnc, i and i alone, that s a different message. that s a different tone than we heard last night. tone has been the issue for so many investors, as far as policies, cutting taxes, deregula deregulating. this is a big positive. it s a big pos
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planned before he became president of the united states. that along with many other things were brought to him. that had a timing on it. it had something if you re going to go ahead and implement it, improve it, go with it, it s going to have to be right now. he was faced with that. i don t see anything inconsistent other than the word they and you could take that either way. let s talk about russia. the president seemed to have tougher talk for nato last night, more so than russia s leader. what s your take? say that again. i m sorry. talking on russia. last night during the speech, donald trump had tougher talk for nato and our allies than he did for russia or its leader vladimir putin. no, you re talking about having he had conversations with them. no, no, i m talking about last night in the speech, talking about nato and how they need to pay their fair share and america won t be oh, okay. that s a different issue. he didn t talk about russia at all. i can unde
points. brian: i used my gold car so abby huntsman could get a rental car. she is on my account so she could find out what people think about the address. abby, are you okay? what are the people like. i m okay, brian. you may not have car when i get back from this trip. it is beautiful out here. there is so much land. i m sitting here with richard gary richard, mark, and gary. we are all becoming friends this morning. two of you came out because you saw us on this morning. i don t think you slept because you watched the sleep last night. you woke up at 3:00 this morning, what was your response to it. i thought it was wonderful. brilliant. best speech of his career. it was right on target. he is doing everything he said he was going to do. that s what people like me appreciate. what do you do. retired army helicopter pilot. i work for the federal government in d.c. right now. good for you. whether a did you think about the military? that was a big message last night military
we are also taking strong measures to protect our nation from radical islamic terrorism. [applause] our veterans have delivered for this nation and now we must deliver for them. [app i m also calling on this congress to repeal and replace obamacare. [applause] ryan died as he lived, a warrior and a hero, ryan s legacy is etched into eternity. thank you. [applause] steve: standing ovation. and unlike the conclusion of the speech, there were actually a number of democrats