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Abby: that was from just this past wednesday with prime minister shinzo abe. some words there about north korea. now did they respond. >> responded well. republicans a plus, independence a b and democrats even gave it a c. they like the president being tough on national security and tough on north korea. he is going to have conversations but is he going to walk away if its not in our best interest. people buy that about him. i will tell you something if the democrats continue to obstruct on pomp...

Negative because its -- you have the whole country watching. the highest rated political event of the year. and so and then you saw that in the audience last night. you also saw by the way that independents and republicans loved the speech. steve: yep. >> democrats generally didnt like the speech. thats because yall did the other morning this thing where you interviewed the students about how they thought about the speech the night before. brian: before it happened. >> before it happened. they k...

Responding. i also think he understands, and this is something reagan came to understand, last night was a home run. you dont need to go out and also sell popcorn and also go down and sell beer. you need to be the star. i think he has got to do some media. i think he is going to be down at the green briar, for example, talking to the congressional republicans in their retreat. steve: tomorrow. >> i think he has got to drive these themes. but i think he ought to stay presidential. he was very goo...

Congress, he looked at the lawmakers and said if you are going to spend our tax dollars, make sure you are giving it to countries that support america. put america first. he really is winning. if you look at the tax reform, if you look at the memo being released where people who are doing wrong things, its going to be revealed and he is shedding light on that. if you look at the democrats being defeated when the government shut down because he didnt want to give them what they wanted with daca. ...

Great. i thought the speech was fantastic. the energy and enthusiasm on our side to hear that message from the podium was raucous. it was disappointing, sad, this is all democrats have. they are going to sit down at some great american moment as the president was calling out some wonderful people, there they sit, just in protest, thats how lame their party has become. steve: sean, when you were a congressman under barack obama there were times you didnt stand. >> i didnt sit the whole speech. th...

Infrastructure, things like that, unity. but he was able to tell the stories of people who are in america, ordinary americans, including what happened to the otto warmbier family what about the cop down in albuquerque they adopted that little baby girl whose mother was addicted to heroin and it goes on and on where people like them and the families that fell to losing a child through ms-13, these were stories that you want to hear the rest of. we have seen guests of the president before up in th...

Mr. speaker, welcome. >> good to be here. ainsley: spent a lot of time in that building. brian: would have you stood for that line. >> sure. even if a democrat said it. part of the art of the state of the union is to say things that guarantee that people have to stand and part of what you saw last night and my particular favorite minus letter today talks about speaker pelosi who i believe if you took all of the pictures of her last night and put them together in one package you would know why yo...

We have seen over and over sometimes that blue line you cant see it republicans gave it an a. independents an a. democrats a c. this was really really a surprise to me. i didnt expect democrats to respond so favorably and they did. steve: the headline for me is the number of independents that are back with the president and the republicans. watch the line when the president was talking about the economy. watch the independents. they are up there with the republicans. >> the great news for americ...

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....

Our hands on our hearts for the pledge of allegiance. and why we proudly stand for the national anthem. brian: that was looked at as a shot at the nfl. people thought why did he do that? others loved it. >> they loved that. that story about the little boy republicans a plus. independents a minus and democrats a c. steve: for them to be drifting back towards the republicans, what does that say to you? >> it says to me that the democrats are going to have it tougher than they expect. i think the d...