We start with reaction from the state of the union. President trump walking a fine line in his first state of the union speech last night. He held fast to the toughtalking populism he emboldened in year one, while making some effort to reach across the aisle. The hour and 20minute speech, the third longest state of the union ever, behind two bill clinton speeches. The president touting the economy, defending his America First approach, and even taking a bit of a jab at nfl players for not standing during the national anthem. The president pushed for his bipartisan immigration deal that includes a border wall and a path to citizenship for dreamers. As president of the United States, my highest loyalty, my greatest compassion, my constant concern is for americas children, americas struggling workers, and americas forgotten communities. So tonight i am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties, democrats and republicans, to protect our citizens of every background, color, religion, and creed. My duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber is to defend americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American Dream. Americans are dreamers, too. [ applause ] there were emotional tributes. Among those honored, a Police Officer and his wife. They adopted a baby from a mother addicted to heroin. The parents of teenage girls killed by ms13 gang members, and the parents of otto warmbier, the College Student imprisoned by north korea. He fell gravely ill and was released and returned to the u. S. Days before he died. The First Lady Melania Trump broke from tradition, arriving alone at her husbands speech to very loud applause. Shes been out of the spotlight lately since news broke of a reported payoff to a porn star to keep an alleged affair quiet. The president and first lady did return to the white house together after the speech. Democratic congressman joe kennedy of massachusetts gave the democratic response. He called out the president on the russia probe, civil rights, school shootings, and charlottesville. He also said this bullies may land a punch. They may leave a mark, but they have never, not once in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a People United in defense of their future. There were four other democratic reactions, as well, last night. Lets discuss this with deputy online editor of the Weekly Standard. In atlanta, good to see you, sir. Good morning. By and large, it was a pretty standard republican state of the union speech. Solidly delivered. What was the emotional support peacock in the speech . What surprised you . What made you think, wow, i didnt see that coming . Im not even going to try to play off of that, man. Thats a good segue. Well done. I think i think the emotional peacock, if were sticking with the metaphor here of what happened last night, was definitely some of these anecdotal stories. I think one of the things that we have learned about President Trump and i think that hes actually captured this relatively well as far as a messaging aspect goes, we saw it last night, was trying to put a human touch on a lot of what it is that he wants to achieve in terms of his agenda. So when he talks about the baby who was the baby of the heroin addict who was adopted and is singling out how its a cops family that did that and talking about Otto Warmbiers family, hes talking about the north Korean Defector, all of these things are putting a lot of faces on particular policies that he wants to advocate. Its definitely a lesson i think has been taken from democratic playbooks. Theyve been good at this in state of the Union Addresses where they use the human stories to try to relate to what it is the president wants to get out of washington. I think you have to roll those up inside of a larger package of what he accomplished last night. Surveying the response this morning. You know, the new american moment is what he proclaimed. An appeal to unity and bipartisanship. The wall street journal saying this, the president was playing a different role last night, playing the role of optimist. Do you think this helps him in any of his poll numbers . I mean, i know that our polling right after showed the people who watched the speech, 48 , said that it was very positive. 22 said somewhat positive. Can he get a bounce . Can he get momentum from this . All depends on how it translates to legislating translating to legislating. We always hear that state of the unions are laundry lists. First of all, i dont know anyone who keeps a laundry lists that are 5,000 words long. These speeches tend to drag on so long and incorporate so many policies that try to hit them all we saw this last year is borderline impossible. Health care took up almost the entire year. Tax reform, a massive undertaking, pushed across the finish line at the last minute. You want to get to infrastructure, Prescription Drug prices, the opioid crisis, a lot of this requires the passage of bills that meet a 60 passage in the senate. It takes time. Thats where the proof is going to be, in the pudding. The president has a positive economic message to take to the voters. Given that, what do you make of the five different democratic responses last night and this moment where the president talked about the record low black unemployment rate. They cut to the congressal black Congress Congressional black caucus. You see a smattering of applause at best. What do you make of the resistance . Well, i think a lot of members knew what the president was trying to do. I mean, its unfortunate in this time, but so much of what we see when it comes to rhetoric like this is shrouded in politics. Shrouded in partisan messaging. You know, you can say that there are going to be certain wonky economists who make note of a number like it and take it as a positive step in terms of economic progress. If you put it in the robe of politics, its going to be interpreted a different way. Thats kind of the moment of what these state of the Union Addresses are. I think thats where the members are coming from, the democrats giving responses were coming from last night. Dave and i noticed bright and early when we were talking about the speech together, a republican president state of the union, usually you hear something about deficit, debt, fiscal responsibility. Not in this speech. The Washington Post has an editorial about what was missing. Mr. Trump did not mention some of the biggest threats, the fiscal crisis worsened by his tax bill, threatens future generations. The world continues to warn russian meddling poses a threat to u. S. Forces. Sadly the morning after a long speech, none of that is going to look any different. From your perspective, what was missing . I think the debt and deficit thing is a noted absence given the fact that this is still paul ryans house of representatives and a congress that has this policy impell grant all over it. Weve heard for the longest time ryan talking about the entitlement cliff thats going to come. Actuarial warnings coming from, you know, medicare and Social Security trustees for the longest time. The fact the president didnt want to touch that during the campaign and has continued it now definitely a noticeable absence from the speech last night. Especially if you talk about infrastructure where theres disagreement between the president and even members of his party about how to fund an infrastructure, you know, bill. Would the government take on more debt to have some seed money in there . Its unclear. Right. Well check back in about 30 minutes. Thank you. President trump said the u. S. Must modernize and rebuild the nuclear arsenal, public interesting to north korea. Pointing to north korea. Perhaps someday in the future there will be a magical moment when the countries of the world will get together to eliminate their nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, we are not there yet. North koreas reckless pursuit of Nuclear Missiles could very soon threaten our homeland. We are waging a campaign of maximum pressure to prevent that from ever happening. Past experience has taught us that complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation. I will not repeat the mistakes of past administration thats got us into this very dangerous position. A north Korean Defector was a guest of honor last night. The president describing how a train ran over his limbs after he collapsed from hunger as a child. The president said he travelled on crutches across china and Southeast Asia to freedom. He brought the crutches with him to washington. Now pyongyang is promising a new show of force. Lets get the latest from will ripley live in seoul, south korea. I just have to imagine that having the north Korean Defector at this important and visible event with the president of the United States certainly sends a message to north korea. Reporter and one that the north korean regime will be very angry about. Keep in mind, this defector has called for a regime change repeatedly and is not somebody that north korea would like to see standing next to the first lady of the United States, getting a standing ovation from members of the house and all of the United States lawmakers who were present in the room. Thats one thing that was going to irritate the north koreans. President trump also being ambiguous about the possibility of a preemptive military strike. Something that the nowformer candidate for u. S. Ambassador to south korea, victor cha, said in an oped for the Washington Post. He told the administration he strongly opposes, thinks it would be disastrous, it could cost tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of american lives. And cha believes that may be why he was dropped from consideration consider that post of ambassador and still no ambassador to south korea more than a year into the Trump Administration. Also my sources are telling me next week, north korea planning a huge show of force, allowing up to 100 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 100 missiles and rockets together. This would be a dramatic message on the eve of the Winter Olympics in pyeongchang. He sources saying it is not out of the question that north korea may consider a missile test either before or during the olympics to send the message to the United States that they are unhappy about the tone of the discussions involving the north and south interkorean talks and the fact that there are u. S. Naval assets and military troops that continue to be assembled in the region. A reminder of what a dangerous, tricky, and precarious position it is. Thank you for walking us through it. Thanks. While the russia investigation was not addressed in the state of the union speech, as you might expect, what was the president saying about a controversial memo that could affect the probe . Find out next. 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Lets go live to moscow and bring in fred pleitgen. Theres new reaction from moscow this morning . Tell us. Reporter yeah, certainly is. A reaction from the spokesman for vladimir putin, dmitry peskov. We asked if there was a thaw between the u. S. And russia, he said unequivocally that is not the case. He said the word thaw or perspective of a thaw doesnt current bilateral relations between u. S. And the u. S. The russians still angry about the list published yesterday with the name of joligarchs. There were members of the Russian Administration that said yes, it was better that russia was not mentioned more often than it was. Of course all of the issues around the alleged election meddling still going on. Weve found out that apparently last week there was a highlevel delegation from the Russian Intelligence Community actually in the United States meeting with the cia. And of course that has a lot of people in washington asking questions about who exactly went to the meetings and what exactly was said. Especially in light of the fact that one of the members of the russian delegation may have been the head of their Foreign Intelligence Service who has been sanctioned in the u. S. Since 2014. Thank you. When it comes to the war on terror, the president said this in his state of the Union Address our wtroops in afghanistan have new rules of engagement. Along with our heroic afghan partners, our military is no longer undermined by artificial timelines, and we no longer tell our enemies our plans. Those remarks come amid a new surge of violence in afghanistan. In particular in kabul where youll find Senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh live for us. The longest war showing no end in sight. Reporter certainly and those tweaks to the Trump Administration policy, a start criticism of his predecessor obama who said when it would be ending. I dont think this will transform a difficult task overnight. Weve had a bloody ten days in kabul leaving many insecure. Were seeing the Trump Administration being quite clear that they dont now believe this is the time for peace talks. It was a farfetched prospect but key tenet of the military strategy that you would pummel the insurgency enough that they would seek a political accommodation of sorts. That isnt likely to happen at this point, but its certainly off the table in sellers of u. S. Policy in terms. U. S. Policy now. What is on the table and publicly announced is the fact that there are going to be hundreds of u. S. Trainers coming here, Training Afghan troops on the front lines. Imminently were seeing elements of the ways you can gauge success or victory being classified. One being the number of afghan troops killed or injured on the battlefield. Stark, dangerous times ahead. Sure are. Thanks. 18 minutes past the hour. President trump touting the economic successes during his first year, soaring stocks, low unemployment, and how some Workers Benefit from Corporate Tax cuts. Roughly three million workers have already gotten tax cut bonuses. Many of them thousands and thousands of dollars per worker. Dozens of companies have given bonuses. A small fraction of the billions in Corporate Tax savings. Trump also credited slashing regulations for rebuilding industry. Now he wants to rebuild infrastructure. We built the Empire State Building in just one year. Isnt it a disgrace that it can now take ten years just to get a minor permit approved for the building of a simple road. The president called on bipartisan support for 1. 5 trillion in infrastructure spending. A planned combination of government and private contributions at home. Abroad, trumps trade talk once again turned tough. We will protect American Workers and American Intellectual property through strong enforcement of our trade rules. 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