Ayes have it. We remain adjourned until 10 00 tomorrow. Announcer with the house in recess we are waiting the democratic response from the Democratic Party. The designated survivor went to an undisclosed location. Justices thomas, alito and , the be a secretary in washington earlier today. We open our phone lines in just a moment to get your reaction to the president s speech which ran just over an hour. In comparison, resident reagans speech in 81 ran about 30 minutes. Ran 42 minutes. Bill clinton tying President Trump for just about an hour. Peter . Peter in just a few minutes, we are going to hear from former Kentucky Governor steve bashir with democratic response in louisville. Cheers and jeers as former Kentucky Governor steve bashir prepares to take the national stage. At the capital, is National Exposure is seen as an opportunity to spot like kentucky or as an embarrassing reminder of what is wrong in the state. I am really excited and proud and all kentuckians ought to be proud said attorney general in the bashir, the governors son. Attorney general bashir will join his father life on facebook to answer questions after his response and Republican Senate majority leader damon fair in kentucky is also planning a Facebook Event of his own in response to mr. Bashir. Is bad dont disagree it to spotlight kentucky, but we are spotlighting a failed governor in my opinion. A live picture outside the lexington diner and as soon as the remarks begin, we will have it for you here on cspan. This is a former Kentucky Governor, he is 72 years old. The president today making reference to with regard to the affable care act. For7488920 is the line democrats. 2027 48 8921 is the line for democrats. A live look at the east front of the capital. The president on his 40th day in the white house delivering remarks to a joint session of congress outlining a broad agenda on tax reform, the economy, foreignpolicy issues and the threats we face from terrorism and the challenge to move the front country forward again. In a moment, we will have the official democratic response from the former Kentucky Governor steve bashir. Following the response, our phone lines are open, a chance to react. Powerful speech is available on cspan. Org. Later tonight, prime and for the west coast a chance for the to see the president s speech in its entirety live on cspan. Come in coming up in a mormon moment, the democratic response. I am steve bashir. I was governor of kentucky from 20072015. 20s i am some 400 miles from washington at a diner with neighbors. Democrats and republicans, where we just watched the president s address worried i am a proud democrat, but first and foremost, i am a proud republican and democrat and mostly american. And like many of you, i am worried about the future of this nation. Look, i grew up in kentucky in a small town called dawson springs. My dad and granddad were active preachers. Family owned a funeral home and my wife jane and i have been married for almost 50 years. I became governor at the start of the global recession and after eight years, we left things a lot better than we found them. By being fiscally responsible. I even cut my own pay. We balanced our budget and deficits into surpluses without raising taxes. We cut our Unemployment Rate in half. He made huge gains in High School Graduation rates and we found Health Coverage for over half a million kentuckians. We did that through trust and mutual respect. I listened and i built partnerships with Business Leaders and with republicans in our legislature. We put people first and politics second. The america i love allowed the smalltown preachers kid to be elected governor. It taught me to embrace people who are different from me, not vilify them. The america i love has always been about looking forward, not backward. About working together to find solutions, regardless of party. Instead of allowing our differences to divide us and hold us back. And we democrats are committed to creating the opportunity for every american to succeed by growing our economy with good paying jobs, educating and training our people to fill , giving our business is the freedom to innovate, keeping our country safe and providing health care that families can afford and rely on. Mr. President , as a candidate, you promised to be a champion for families struggling to make ends meet and i hope you live up to that promise, but one of your very First Executive orders exit harder for those families to even afford a mortgage. Then you started rolling back rules that provide oversight to the financial over industry and safeguard us against another economic meltdown and depict a cabinet of billionaires and wall street insiders who want to eviscerate the protections that most americans count on and that help level the Playing Field. Thats not being our champion, thats being wall streets champion. And even more troubling, you and your republican allies in congress seem determined to rip Affordable Health insurance away from millions of americans who most need it. Does the Affordable Care act needs some repairs . Sure it does. Every republican idea to replace the Affordable Care act would reduce the number of americans covered, despite your promises to the contrary. Mr. President , folks here in in kentucky expect you to keep your word because this isnt a game, it is life and death for people. These ideas promise access to care, but deny the importance of making care affordable and effective. They would charge families more for fewer benefits and put the Insurance Companies back in control. Behind these ideas is the belief that folks at the lower end of the economic ladder just dont deserve health care. That it is somehow their fault that their employer doesnt offer insurance or that they cant afford to buy Expensive Health plans. But just who are these 22 million americans, including 500,000 people right here in kentucky, who now have health care that didnt have it before . Look, they are not aliens from some distant planet. They are our friends and neighbors. We sit in the bleachers with them on friday nights, we worship in the pews with them on sunday morning. They are farmers, restaurant workers, parttime teachers, nurses aides, construction workers and entrepreneurs working at hightech startups. And before the Affordable Care act, they woke up every morning and went to work just hoping and praying they wouldnt get sick because they knew that they were just one bad diagnosis away from bankruptcy. You know, in 2010, this country made a commitment, that every american deserved health care they could afford and rely on, and we democrats are going to do everything in our power to keep President Trump and the Republican Congress from reneging on that commitment. But we are going to need your help by speaking out. Another commitment now being tested is to our National Security. Look, make no mistake, i am a military veteran myself and i know that protecting america is the president s highest duty. Yet President Trump is ignoring serious threats to our National Security from russia, who is not our friend, while alienating our allies who have fought with this sidebyside and are our friends in a dangerous world. His approach makes us less safe and should worry every freedomloving american. Instead, President Trump has all but declared war on refugees and immigrants. Look, the president can and should enforce our immigration laws, but we can protect america without abandoning our principles and our moral obligation to help those fleeing war and terror, without tearing families apart and without needlessly jeopardizing our military men and women fighting overseasoverseas. You know, another republican president , Ronald Reagan, once said in america, our origins matter less than our destination. And that is what democracy is all about. President trump also needs to understand that people may disagree with him from time to time, but that doesnt make them his enemies. When the president attacks loyalty and credibility of our intelligence agencies, the court system, the military, the free press, individual americans, simply because he doesnt like what they say, he is eroding our democracy and that is reckless. Real leaders dont spread derision and division. Real leaders strengthen. The unifi, they partner and they offer Real Solutions instead of ultimatums and blame. Look, i may be oldfashioned, but i still believe that dignity, compassion and honesty and accountability are basic american values. And as a democrat, i believe that if you work hard you deserve the opportunity to realize the American Dream regardless of whether you are a coal miner in kentucky, a teacher in rhode island, and autoworker in detroit, or a Software Engineer in san antonio. Broken. Tical system is it is broken because too many of our leaders think it is all about them. They need to remember that they work for us, and helping us is their work. Progressmade real while i was governor because we were motivated by one thing, helping families. Democrats are trying to bring that same focus back to washington, d. C. Americans are a Diverse People and we may disagree on a lot of things, but we have always come together when we remember that we are one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. The former democratic governor of kentucky Steve Beshear in lexington, kentucky delivering the democratic response. D the spanish democratic response. All of our coverage available on cspan. Org. We want to get your reaction from the former Kentucky Governor and also from the president delivering his first speech before a joint session of ongress. 2027488920 for democrats. D 2027488921 for republicans. Peter has been looking into reaction. Trump lays out broad vision for america. Trump outlines an ambitious american. Drudge report says dreamers may get their dream. Trump dealing on immigration and finally heres the huffington post. Don on a leash. Steve . Steve gene is joining us from illinois. What did you hear from the president and whats your reaction . Jean i thought President Trump did a great job with his speech. He seemed to cover just about everything. And he believes in infrastructure. He believes in so many things. And i was so well, im just so ashamed by the democrats sitting there in those white uniforms, those women. It was pityful and most of time the democrats sat there. And this president has got a heart out for all people. And these democrats just cant seem to see that. I was with donald trump from the very beginning and i have loved him ever since. And oh, by the way, theyre showing tillison, the secretary of state. People complain about these billionaires that he has chosen to be his cabinet. Ll, let me say these men and women worked hard to get where theyre at. So why put some flunky in there that doesnt know anything about anything which we have seen in just a few years ago . Steve let me jump in and ask you a question because he said its time for the democrats and republicans come together. How does he do that . What is the path to that . Caller you know, thats a good question. I think the democrats should come to work every day with an attitude. They should come together. Were going to work with the other side. And were going to split our ideas. They come with an attitude all the time that pelosi shes a disgrace to women. And besides some of these people say theyre christians. And how can you vote for people that believe in abortion . Thats another big thing. God bless mr. Trump. I dont want anything to ever happen to him during these next four years, some crazy man. But god willing he will be able to come across and brings these i dont want to say these people from the other side together. May god bless them and god bless the republicans too. So we can steve thank you for the call. Ell move to a democrat. From brooklyn, new york. What was your reaction . Caller hey, hard to follow that one up. But i i got a little tripped up listening to her. Steve did you watch the entire speech . Caller yeah, no, i watched the entire speech. My biggest takeaway that he was able to read from the teleprompter a little bit better without wearing a red tie. Steve lets go to jacob from mc allen, texas. Caller hello, im from mcallen, texas. Im a libertarian, actually. And i approve of President Trumps speech this evening. I actually thought it was very well spoken. And i approve with his immigration platform as being from mcallen, texas, i witness a lot of the drug cartels and the immigration crossing illegally across the rio grande and it just costs a lot to the city and the rio grande valley, mcallen, texas a lot of money that they cannot be reimbursed and its costing my taxes and other peoples taxes for the plans. And i also approved of his Infrastructure Spending that he was well spoken of that the need to spend the money for fixing our roads, our rails, our dams just like the Lake Oroville in california desperately needed it. Those are programs that will create jobs for this country. Want to message out to my congressman. I hope you showed up to the address as you boycotted the inaugural. I hope you showed up to this address and understood what the president is trying to say that would benefit every american especially the people in your district. Steve which congressman are you referring to . He is a democrat, Vicente Gonzales of the 15th district. I did not vote for him. I did not approve most of what he advocated. He just seemed to be a complete opposite of what the residents of the district advocates for. Most of the district is predominantly catholic and prolife. He seemed to be a prochoice democrat that just did not rethrite the people of the district. Steve thanks for the call. East front u. S. Capital. David on the republican line from hawaii. Good evening to you, sir. Go ahead, please. Caller yes, you asked the question of how the democrats are going to, you know, how is he going to get along with the democrats . They dont want to get along with donald trump. I thought it was a great speech. And it just looks like what ive seen over since 1958. One side stands up. The other side doesnt. I think thats the major problem with politics. And i think finally this president is going to bring common sense. Thats what were lacking. And i think everybody understands that the government has gone crazy. They dont have any common sense left. Steve david, was there a line from the speech that youre going to take away from President Trump tonight . Everything i thought just brought common sense. You know, we just dont have common sense in anything we do anymore. I think hes going toe take a going to take a look at everything. You know, throughout government and bring common sense back. Steve david, thanks for the hawaii. Ohio Mitch Mcconnell took on governor beshear. It continues to harm kentucky even after hes left office. Here is senator herono from hawaii. You cant govern in cliches and thats all weve heard. Senator from california, repealing obamacare would be a disaster for millions of americans. We must amend the law, improve it. Not eliminate it. And running commentary via twitter from an coulter. She supported donald trump back in the primaries. She said this is the best speech shes heard from washington. She said the medias job tonight is to keep trumps numbers from skyrockets tomorrow. And finally this one, i love when democrats pretend to be the alt of the earth, straw head hayseeds. The president ial motorcade heading back to the white house. You can see the flashing lights along pennsylvania avenue as the president and the first lady make their way back to their residents. Michelle from fort worth, texas as we look at this live picture along pennsylvania avenue. Good evening, michelle. Caller good evening. I have a comment on both sides. I have two boys in the military army. And i appreciate President Trump bringing back the strength of the military. The other thing that i have is against the democrats, the women that were protesting wearing white. I everybody has their own standards and what they support. But i did not agree with the three women that stayed seated during the applause and standing ovation for the jam that passed away. That was so disrespectful and thats whats wrong with the democrats is they are very disrespectful. They believe its for them and only them and with the obamacare, i have a friend that lost his job. He cannot pay for obamacare. The way that i see it is the people that fight for obamacare theyre the ones not paying for it. You have a job so its affordable. The people that dont have a job, its not affordable. And its not the best care out there. I have a job. And ive had it for 10 years. And my insurance went up because of obamacare. So i hope and i pray for donald trump sorry, President Trump to have all the support that he can get to get the democrats to understand its not all about them. Its about the United States and the people. And thats why theyre in office is to fight for the people, not for themselves. Steve michelle, thanks very much for the call. A live look along pennsylvania avenue. We saw earlier the wife of the navy seal who was killed in yemen. A tribute by democrats and republicans, a standing ovation. Even the president making a comment of just how long the trib