is is a speech of wishes. you said -- what was different about last night? can't president trump do as others before him have done? >> that's a fair point. and no every state of the union is a performance. no president is trafficking entirely in the realm of truth. we are fooling ourselves if we don't acknowledge the distance between controlled trump and unscripted trump is much greater than that distance with his predecessors like obama and bush. it's much greater. it becomes more difficult. if you watch trump over time to take a moment like last night. and say we have a clear road map to the legislation ahead. we don't. we saw trump in a moment in time and he's different at different moments in time. >> obviously it's a speech with promise and yet you have the election calendar coming up. historically more difficult for presidents in the second year to