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Line back in 1859. thats the great divide here. republicans believe we have to get government out of the way for people to make themselves. and the democrats believe we have to have a government safety net. youre going to have this clash with these policy differences. for him to go into sputnik and his version of sputnik is to make solar panelled cells for house roofs, that fell flat on me. >> heres my beef with the speech tonight. this is his third state of the union and its time to judge him o...

Ever before, weve got to up our game. were going to need to go all in. >> reporter: and what better place to make that pitch than in wisconsin, a town where a piece of sputnik crashed to earth almost 50 years ago. >> i couldnt have made this up. it wasnt until i was on my way here that i found out that a chunk of metal came crashing down to the earth right here. i promise you. we did not plan this originally. press wont believe me. >> reporter: white house aides say the real reason for the visit...

Pretty sharply, so that gives him the opportunity for people to say, maybe theres a new barack obama, not the guy we saw before the last elections in november, but a new barack obama. wheres he trying to go and whats the major theme and emphasis. the real question tonight, can he change the conversation of the country to come to what hes calling this generations sputnik moment. that is given the international global competition, the disappearance of american jobs, can we renew this economy and m...

>> and as we mentioned in the last hour, the facts were mostly all in order last night, just like the civility. not only were the speeches pretty civil last night but they also got most of the facts right. still our fact checkers here at cnn threw a few penalty flags as we were going through the addresses. lets start with president obama. as you recall a big part of the address was devoted to the presidents called for a sputnik moment with investments in education, innovation and infrastructure....

The science wasnt even there yet. nasa didnt exist. after investigating in better research or education, we didnt just surpass the soviets. we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and millions of new jobs. this is our generations sputnik moment. >> innovation was a key theme of the state of the union address. here is a word from portal.net. the bigger the word appeared, the more it was used in the speech. you can see, new, jobs, and people loom quite large. which is was con...

By tomorrow or the next day, these things tend to be forgotten. >> they do, except for those moments. and i think the white house would like to think of this as sort of the sputnik moment, if we remember it that way. but i think what they went out of their way to do this time, with a great degree of success, is to not make this just another laundry list of were going to pass this or im going to do that or veto this, although he did say he would veto earmarks. they wanted to elevate it, and i thi...

Beginning. >> yeah, but the president wants -- >> the stimulus created jobs even if its not true! >> so did dustin hoffman in "rainman" i have to give him credit for saying the same thing over and over again. >> the president wanted a more civil tone and at the end of the day though, while the president says that, the two parties are really far apart on stuff. something else the president called for is we need to spend more on education, and he talked about this being our sputnik moment. which, ...

Responded. >> the science wasnt there yet. nasa didnt exist. but after investing in better research and education, we didnt just surpass the soviets. we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and billions of new jobs. this is the generation sputnik moment. >> republican senator coburn says before government spends more borrowed money, important to address fiscal issues first. >> great for to us have a sputnik moment, but we have to remember a lot of the sputnik moments we hav...

Its becoming a familiar if not winning theme for president obama, the old soviet satellite "sputnik" and the space race it launched with the united states. he mentioned it in last nights state of the union and once again today. a chunk of metal came crashing down to the earth right here. i prom you. we did not plan this originally. the press wont believe me. it was part of a satellite called "sputnik" that landed right here and that set the space race into motion. so i want to say to you today t...

To see whats shaking. >> they are over it. a lot of the city in the northeast have seen between 20 and 30 inches of snowfall above average so far this season. we are going to add to that number. a storm system is mooching through this morning and now we are going to expect a second wake in the late evening hours. we r expecting accumulating snowfall. we are having problems at the airport, ground problems at newark. delays pushing three hours. >> at least it is a fast mover. we should be done in ...