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Beyond saying mexico could pay for a fen or wall. >> are we approaching a spot -- as i listen to rick perry i wonder are we approaching a spot where the test of serousness for republican presidential candidates is a speech like that. a speech that goes directly to and dismantles donald trump and shows you are not afraid of donald trump and declares the person giving the speech a real republican and donald trump isnt. >> i think the silver lining for the republican party, a year and a half before...

We have big differences and its caused us problems over the decades. but i think the end of the day if you dont like iran and you dont like what theyre doing is it better to have an iran with nuclear weapons or without nuclear weapons? an iran that does terrorism and has nuclear weapons or an iran that doesnt? and i think the answer is pretty clear there. now benjamin netanyahu is his own guy, right, and he gave this speech a year and a half ago. he gave exactly the same speech when they announc...

In the places that you dont visit. in your shining city. in fact mr. president, this is a nation -- mr. president, you ought to know that this nation is more a tale of two cities. than it is just a shining city on a hill. >> now governor kean you gave the republican keynote four years after this. so you know the kind of pressure and the spotlight that that was. you know it is interesting, after governor cuomo gave that speech a very famous speech taking ronald reagan on head-on. reagan went on t...

Some glee. whats now clearly important about that big speech a year ago, and about how the president approached this issue, everything he laid out in that big speech a year ago, everything he laid out in that agenda was something he could do without congress. congress is the one place we have to pretend that climate is not changing. but even though congress has gotten no better on it in the past year, actually, despite popular perceptions, a lot has changed around the politics of this issue. eve...

He said, its not that sexy. the whole long speech went off for an hour. it was punctuated by a plane flying over the president and drowning out his words because the venue they chose was on the flight path from national airport. they did not do a great job with the logistics at that speech a year ago this week. but the president did roll out that agenda a year ago. he reiterated it last night with some glee. whats now clearly important about that big speech a year ago, and about how the presiden...

Theyve won the -- they have turned the republican party far to the right. even establishment republican are now further to the right than they were two years ago. >> i dont think anyone in california thinks that neel kashkari has much of a chance but california republican reboot but theyve been trying for the past decade to restart what used to be a viable republican party in the nations largest state. is he the answer or at least stop the bleeding? >> probably not. condoleezza rice talked about...

Contributed to the 2008 state of the union address. good morning, guys. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> i think those examples show you how difficult it is to come up with something that endures beyond a state of the union, so when youre writing it, do you say, okay, this is the line, or all right, guys, we have to sit down and find that magic moment? >> well, usually the process is so chaotic that you rarely have time to think about putting a decent line in. the state of the union is alway...

Victor. it is traditionally the biggest speech a president gives each year. >> we have cleared away the rubble of crisis. and we can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger. >> reporter: as president obama gets ready to give a prime time address in front of congress and the nation, when it comes to his poll numbers theres not so much to brag about. >> that i will fatefully execute -- >> the office of the president of the united states. >> reporter: at his second inaug...

Look at that sunrise at the capital. good morning. are you waking up in d.c. today? partly cloudy skies for you. beautiful pink on the horizon as the sun comes up. 34 degrees little bit later. thats what youre going to warm up to. but were so glad that youre starting your new day with us here at cnn. over at the white house, president obama likely going to spend the day writing notes in the margin and tweaking and reworking parts of what could be his biggest speech of the year. his sixth state...

Are a really bad idea. >> true. but they disagree on how to avoid them. republicans want entitlement reform, the president asked for higher taxes and new spending programs. im announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, use our oil and gas revenues to fund an energy security trust. put people to work on our most urgent repairs. make high quality preschool to every child in america. redesign americas high schools so they better equip graduates. >> more spending because they c...