my user name is brian stelter and i hope you will join us on cnn.com where my colleagues and i will be covering the day's biggest media stories and we'll recap the stories next week at 11:00 a.m. eastern. "state of the union" starts right now. are we there yet? today, 'tis the season to be jolly, and the president may have reason to be. >> we're moving in the right direction. >> is it for real? the lowest jobless rate in five years may mean a new political equation. a conversation with two top economists along with annie lowry. and -- >> for the first time in over a decade, we have halted advances in the iranian nuclear program. >> a deal one of the world's leading state sponsors of terror and what it might mean to the terrorism threat. mike mccaul and adam schiff join