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And ill be back for more special coverage at 1:00 a.m. eastern. our line up includes reverend william barber and many more. i hope youll join us. "hardball" with chris matthews is up next. so lets play "hardball." ♪ good evening. up in new york. two hours from now the president will deliver the state of the union address, hoping the spectacle of him before the supreme court, cabinet, diplomats from around the world will reclaim the glory of his office. the man who took the oath talking about...

Predecessors. at this point, all of his modern predecessors hat been at or above 60% at some point in their first term, and there have been considerable ranges there. look at trump sitting 45 at the peak. 35 at his low. you know the pattern. he gets a wave of trouble with something like the shutdown and goes down into the 30s. the new cycle moves on and comes back to the low 40s. that is fund mentally different than any previous president. it may be that trump is incapable, not interested in or ...

Not some things -- i mean that in some of a trumpian sense. some of the ways that the president has handled the trappings of the presidency was different from his predecessors. this was a departure from the state of the union you might have expected from other presidents, except one exception. there was one strange moment in the address early on that did not connect to other portions of the speech. it was received oddly in the room. nobody was quite sure what to do with it. it was a moment in wh...

Sarah sanders said he has a different leadership style than his predecessors and the results speak for themselves and thats something that we can all agree on. >> take for example, south korea agreeing to boost its financial contribution to the cost of keeping u.s. troops there to nearly $1 billion. as long as the job is getting done, should it matter what the presidents schedule looks like. >> no, its just a question. i agree with you. if you are producing in your way own. so be it. i dont know...

Until 6:30 at night he would go home and have dinner with his family and spend time with his kids and then work typically into the early morning hours because he would take a big raft of documents and briefing papers back with him to study so he would be prepared for the next days meetings. everybody has a different style. im not suggesting that the way barrack obama did it is the only way to do it, but you do want a president that is reading and absorbing information and meeting with people who...

It seems, to bring troops home though. >> he is. he has changed the conversation on china, on trade, on immigration. he is changing the conversation on foreign policy, too. repudiating the more interventionist policies of his two predecessors. but the president needs to one worry, bret, about isis being resurgent if we leave too precipitously. he doesnt want a benghazi happening in the midst of his reelections campaign like it did in the midst of president obamas? why did benghazi happen? among ...

Tonight. >> reporter: president trump returning to washington late last night, was hunkering down today, prepping for the state of the union. but his white house tonight is grappling with that unprecedented leak of nearly every day of the presidents private schedules for the past three months. trumps private schedules leaked to axios, the washington d.c. news organization, reveal nearly 60% of trumps scheduled time has been spent in unstructured "executive time." only 15% in formal meetings, les...

Presidency. how has this happened or was it inevitable? >> well, brian, i think it was inevitable and its not entirely new, to be honest. you know, this is how president trump has decided to conduct his presidency and conduct his time in office. he has a very different routine during the day than his predecessors. he treats the intelligence services as you just got into very differently than his predecessors, and at this point, hes unrestrained. he has a new chief of staff, acting chief of staff...

Some of the past presidents? coming into their year three state of the union address, this is how president trumps predecessors were doing. he showed president bush. that was during the gulf war, 91. george w. bush, this country was on the verge of war with iraq. they were at the top there. you see mixed results. ronald reagan won reelection overwhelmingly. you wouldnt have known it at this point in his presidency. trump is also near carter. carter lost reelection. it shows you year three can be...

Which broke records at the time. what was still sort of in line with what other presidents had spent in recent years. theres a reason the trump inauguration raised so much money. because while there are no legal limits on contributions to inaugural committees, candidates have traditionally imposed their own. president bush capped off $100,000 for his first inaugural committee. president obama outright banned corporate contributions and limited individuals to $50,000 for each -- for his first ina...