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Bring the american public on board with what he is doing and a skeptical congress. >> this is what is so interesting. you got into this a little bit with mike emanuel earlier. there are several different audiences for this speech, and it is often the case that the audience most important is the one across the country, millions of people watching across the country. of course, we have seen president trump use innovative ways to reach beyond the media, around the media, and this would be one of th...

>> jenna: we will take your help here you served our countrys in many ways already. im curious, one of the reasons you decided to continue your service is to be part of the conversation about issues like this, defense spending for example. what are your thoughts about the number that president trump has proposed and whether or not our military needs that number? >> military absolutely needs more support on the battlefield. when you look at the way that some of our aircraft infrastructure is so d...

It will be very interesting to see how president trump reacts to that if he gets that kind of reaction from democrats. >> jon: the president typically does not like to use a teleprompter. he did most of his campaign without one. when he stays on the teleprompter, his speeches tend to be a little less, shall we say, interesting. would you expect hes going to stay on the prompter for the entire thing tonight? >> i think it will be hard for him to stay on prompter. a lot of times come he does add l...

Ground have everything they need so they can come home safely, and i take that very seriously. >> jenna: speaking of being a ground pounder, im sure with every step you take, you are reminded of what it takes to serve in the sacrifice and the enemies that were being faced, but youre dealing with people in positions of power at making big decisions that do not have the same experience. how challenging is that to explain the threat that we are facing and the needs that our military have? >> you ma...

That is a very, very serious conversation. that is exec were why we need more veterans here in washington, d.c. i think we are on the right track to do that. beyond that, one of the most important things that comes out of having veterans in washington, d.c., they are very bipartisan. we are used to serving with people from every single background, serving on behalf of people from every single background, and we put one thing first, country above everything else, that is where our sense of duty l...

Viewers a bit about yourself. my understanding is you actually followed in your fathers footsteps, he also served our country, tell us about that. >> that is exec the right. i always knew i wanted to be in the military. my father served a long time ago, i served the u.s. monetary in afghanistan, had the honor and privilege of serving in the one of the highest level of operations, i was a bomb technician that resulted in the loss of two legs and a finger, but i can say this about every moment of ...

>> good afternoon, the theme for this speech is a renewal of the american spirit, the present will lay down abroad agenda to put forth a vision he laid out in his inaugural address a little more than a month ago, there also billing this as real solutions for real problems facing real people, things like job creation, regulatory reform to improve the economic picture here in the united states, repealing and replacing obamacare which the president says it needs to happen because a year from now, t...

Or medicaid, but even speaker of the house paul ryan says at some point down the road, there has to be a long-term solution to reforming those entitlement programs because they continue to blow huge holes in the budget, even the presidents new im beat director when he was a member of congress mick mulvaney said you cannot get out of $20 trillion worth of debt unless you take an ax to entitlement. the president has other business to do this afternoon, signing a couple executive orders, one on the...

They show people being taken out, these are people that are -- we are looking at the bad ones. i said that from day one. i said from the day i am president we are getting rid of the bad ones. a lot of people understand it. >> doesnt believe he needs to do a better job of getting the message out, one of the big ticket items into knights speech increasing the defense budget by $54 billion. its going to have to be spending cuts and other agencies to pay for it, but the president insists that some o...