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CSPAN Washington Journal March 1, 2017

All three hours of our program today will be devoted to getting your reaction to the speech, including democratic reaction to it. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can post your thoughts on and also on morning our Facebook Page as well. Here are the headlines. Reaction to last nights speech. Statesman this is the Chicago Tribune who chooses the same headline. The Columbus Dispatch with the headline lets get the job done is how the Detroit Free Press uses their headline this morning. The new york daily news, dawn hits reset, takes brighter tone before congress. Reset. Hits democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Ndependents 2027488002 plenty of reaction overnight to the president s speech. First come of the numbers courtesy of politico. There were 84 applause lines. Five mentions of obamacare, one mention of the wall along the u. S. Mexico border, one mention of the media, one mention of radical islamic terrorism and zero mentions of Hillary Clinton. It was the longest first president ial speech to congress in recent memory, just beating bill clinton, compared to Ronald Reagan and the nearly twice as long. Ronald reagan, it was nearly twice as long. 3 million tweets last night or jointsession. The most retweeted tweet came from the president s account. The president said we are one people with one destiny. Retweets,er 22,000 nearly 64,000 likes last night and counting this morning. We will get more reaction on the program today. Host some reaction from our viewers on twitter we will start our calls this morning from las vegas, this is paul, republican line. Years to waited 45 basically hear a president say it is time to put americans first. Weve helped everyone, now it is time for us to help ourselves. If we can help ourselves and we become great again, we will help the rest of the world. I think it was extremely refreshing. I feel extremely proud and im very optimistic about the future of our country. Host what parts of last nights speech reflect that america helping itself theme . Caller basically, if we are so busy trying to keep ourselves from falling apart, then the rest of the world is going to suffer. We cannot do that. If we are united and we have one all focusedwe are on moving forward, the rest of the world is going to benefit. If we fight amongst ourselves, the rest of the world is going to lose. With donald trump there, stating what he said, if Congress Fights moving Forward Together as a country, we can have our differences, it is ok, but we are going to move forward, the world will benefit and it will be a better place because of what hes asking for. Host patricia in illinois. Independent line. Caller good morning. I see asrified by what an effort to create scapegoats that will detract from the reality of his presidency which will be built on militarism. This increase in defense spending is outrageous. Anduld have been thrilled might have been prepared to put aside some of my differences with this man if he had said something about investing money doing away with poverty in our own country. Man who beats the drums of war even as he speaks about america and peace. With the verynted prospect or philosophy of these. Of peace. This enormous buildup he is speaking of will be coming out of the mouths of the poor. How does one propose to pay for all this . If this is all he has to say, i beg america to i impeach this president. Host janet in washington. Democrats line. Caller i agree with president the united to do for states but like you said before, we will have to save every dollar we have to be able to do it. Why take away from the poor, the working man, the handicapped, the ones on Social Security . We need to go to the billionaires or millionaires and raise their taxes so we can have gettingey instead of every dollar from the Social Security and the medicare. Im handicapped from working and i suffer a lot of pain everything will day. I need back surgery, i had an elbow operated on and my hands are going bad. Why should we give up our medicare when we worked so hard to get it with low wages . We need to go to the rich man, the billionaires, the millionaires and the wall street. And was bush that put us in a war that he was responsible for the people getting murdered because of the war that he lied to congress to have been joint of dollars and spent trillions of dollars. President trump talked about protecting the American Homeland last night. Some news on his controversial travel ban President Trump will not sign the new travel ban until later this week. He was expected to sign that new executive order today. He had initially planned to sign it last week. Said he was holding up to make sure that when we execute this, it is done in a manner that is flawless. Cnn reporting the same thing overnight last night. White house officials have scrapped plans for President Trump design that new travel ban executive order on wednesday per Senior Administration officials. Ap with some details on what that new travel ban is expected to look like. It will remove iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary u. S. Travel ban , citing the latest draft in circulation. Yakimaibya, some other sudan, syria and yemen will remain on the travel ban. Somalia, sudan, syria and yemen. The officials also said the order will not include any explicit exception for religious minorities in the country targeted by the travel ban. Theics have accused administration of adding that limits to help christians get into the night states while excluding muslims. Pennsylvania. Paul. Go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. I am an 80yearold guy up your watching cspan every morning. Speech and the high point was when he introduced brian owens widow. And when he talked about our veterans. I have a lot of friends who are veterans. They been forgotten. The low point was the reaction on the other side of the aisle. , but lastthose people night, they did not respect our president. From falls church, virginia. Independent line. Caller good morning. I did not see the speech, i had heard it on cspan. Thisng is this country, there are certain things that have been embedded in this country. Racism, separate people come and inequality, disenfranchisement for certain people. Done, he hasp has only added to those negative things that have been embedded. You cannot talk out of two sides of your mouth. He has to understand that. What he ran on in his campaign, the things he said, how he said them, you are sending a message out and the message is very negative. You cannot then come back around and try to clean it up. Maybe tweak it a little bit to make it sound not as negative, not as hard. Host you are saying that change into tone was the thing that concerns you the most from last nights speech. Caller at the end of the day, he is still saying the same thing. He just tweaked it a little bit. You have people concerned about what you read your campaign on. Did he do that to try to appeal to democratic members and some republicans that may not be fully on board with his whole agenda . Caller probably so. I would not doubt that. If you has any ounce of common sense, i would think that he would think that. The people working with him would have to bring that to his attention. We need to change this up a little bit. If your agenda is still going to be this particular thing, how are you going to have everybody on board . I am a black female, 58 years old. Stamps, i do work, i am try to be a productive citizen of this country. Day. See inequality every i see it all the time come every day. I dont see anyone representing me. How do you think you should have addressed that idea inequality . T what would have changed your mind . Caller im not really sure. He would never be able to identify with me. Hes never had to struggle. Who waiting for someone would be able to say i understand what it means to maybe have a low point in life where you could not figure out how you were going to get by or bill. Are of a i dont know what he would have been able to say. He will never be able to identify with me because hes never had to struggle the way ive had to struggle. I will give credit because im a fair person. I think he has some good intentions, but on the flip side of it, how you send your message out says a lot. If you say more negative than positive, if you are not thinking before you speak, you will cause a problem. Host donna in falls church, virginia. The caller was mentioning number onee was the take away from the speech last night according to axios. Some distance by his most president ial. Untrumpian, is how they described it. The president spent the day of his first address to the joint assion of Congress President s have before, revising or reworking and rehearsing. The first paragraph was edited as late as 5 00 p. M. Yesterday. Most in the white house never saw the remarks before he delivered them. He began practicing in the president ial limo on the way over. Host delaware. Republican line. Hello, jim. Caller i think he is our modernday bruce the tallest man in the room just out of his demeanor. He had great body language. He seemed confident. I believe he gave a very positive message. People against him will be against them because they are not right. His point is Economic Growth is what is going to save this country. I think it was marvelous. I went straight to bed after the address and i came away with a very positive and hopeful attitude from it. I hope people are able to understand what he was trying to say last night. Host was there a specific policy he targeted that made an impression on you . Caller when he said he is not a president of the world, he is president of the United States. I thought that was a powerful statement. He came across as pulling together the kennedyeque, reaganesque attitude about how to fix america. A rising tide does bring up all boats. He talked about how the illegal immigration is depressing wages. For the poorest of us. And how he can help the poor people by allowing more opportunity because it will cut down on the competition from people who arent supposed to be here. He talked about the need to get infrastructure straightened out. I live in delaware and it is one broken highway after another. It is a pain in the neck to get around this state. Even though we are very small. Like you are traveling across texas because it takes a long to get anywhere. Aboutmed to hit all bases what his plan is. The biggest thing i didnt think he talked about what we are on running into a hole with all the deficit spending going on right now. He could have emphasized more about that. If his plan to grow the economy works, that problem will cure itself. Host jim in new castle, delaware. He talked about the topic of infrastructure heres a bit from that portion. [video clip] pres. Trump dwight d. Eisenhower initiated the last truly Great National infrastructure program, the building of the interstate highway system. The time has come for a new program of national rebuilding. [applause] pres. Trump america has spent approximately 6 trillion in the middle east all the while, our infrastructure at home is crumbling. With the 6 trillion, we could have rebuild our country twice. And maybe even three times if we had people who had the ability to negotiate. [laughter] [applause] pres. Trump to launch our national rebuilding, i will be asking congress to approve legislation that produces a 1 trillion investment in infrastructure in the unites states financed through public and private capital, creating millions of new jobs. [applause] pres. Trump this effort will be guided by two core principles. Buy american and higher american. Hire american. Caller hello there. How are you doing this morning . Host im fine, thank you. What do you think about last night . Caller i thought mr. Trump gave a very good speech. When they first go in as president , they go into an of what the former president and his staff have left him with. I would never, ever take that job. Mr. Trump did a very good speech. Thatoke of a young man stood for his country and lost his life, like here in quarter lane, we have a young police , he was greg moore gunned down by a young man and he was a very loving officer. Trump spoke of medicare i n medicaid, state medicaid they need to look at that and get these young girls off of it. My daughter was on it. ,fter having so many children they need to get into some kind of training program. Promised this and promised that, growing and changing america. What is mr. Trump going to do for us Senior Citizens . I worked for the School District for over 18 years. Years. Cna for 18. 5 back the best i can. I have a heart condition and im doing without groceries and im doing without things to make ends meet. That is my question to mr. Trump. Host lets go to sean in washington, d. C. Independent line. Ou are on of the speechnion last night was just smoke and mirrors. I dont know how to take the sky. This guy. He sounded good and he sounded different from all his other times, but what is he really about . He will say one thing and do another. Militarypending on the , what about people without jobs . He doesnt need to cut the epa, either. Washington, d. C. Laura on twitter says sigmund saying alan in brooklyn, york. Independent line. Caller im on the democratic line. I had a number of points. He spoke about the woman who was handicapped by a rare disease and the special heroic efforts her father took to research the best science that was available faster than the fda would approve it. Prolonging her life. I applaud that attitude about allowing the best science to come to the floor as rapidly as possible. That is utterly inconsistent with his attitude about Climate Change which he did not mention once in the months of record storms and heat extremes when it was the very first president ial address since george h. W. Bush in his last term when the issue of Climate Change was not discussed seriously by a president ial speaker. I also think it is unusual that he refers to the new Supreme Court nominee in the tradition of scalia. Helia is noted as saying doesnt go off the reservation in terms of what is traditionally done in american law. Were alivescalia this past year and watched what was done in his name to hold the nomination not only from approval but from consideration and from hearings muska leah would have said this is not conservative, this is not originalist. Hearings, scalia would have said this is not conservative, this is not originalist, this is not. Host dave from pennsylvania. Republican line. Hello. Caller good morning. Thank you for having me on. I strongly disagree with your previous color, the one from new york caller, the one from new york. We are facing a 21 trillion deficit. Global warming has not been proven. Some of the more practical things we could do for global s notng, business i interested in doing. Sending money to france for studies is a waste of time. Annald trump did i excellent job, it was an excellent speech. Is one of the first president s ive heard in 20 years who said i love this country. I wish the Mainstream Media would give him a chance and get off his back. It is so obvious that they are against him because he is a republican and he is conservative. The gloss over president obama he could do no wrong. They needed to give this man a chance. He gave an excellent speech. For the democrats that call in and come home and him called in with an open mind and complement and him, they want to give the man a chance. News highlights the part of the speech in which the president gave honor to william ryan owens, the navy seal. [video clip] pres. Trump we are blessed to be joined tonight by the widow of u. S. Navy special operator senior chief william ryan owens. Ryan died as he lived, a warrior and a hero, battling against terrorism and securing our nation. [applause] pres. Trump i just spoke to our great general mattis just now reconfirmed that ryan was that generated large amounts of vital intelligence that will lead to many more victories in the future against our enemies. Etched intoy is eternity. Thank you. [applause] host that portion of the speech got a lot of reaction, not only in the papers, but on the internet and other sites. We showed our viewers a portion of the standing ovation. Official twitter handle other public and marty noting lastedl standing ovation one minute 41 seconds. The official twitter handle of the Republican Party noting. Senator tom tillis said it was a powerful moment in the address. God bless the owens family. A republican from illinois said there were several others who tweeted about that moment, including chris murphy, democrat from connecticut. Senator murphy referring to this story in the hill. President trump appeared to blame the generals for the raid that resulted in owens death. And a 75 were killed million ws aircraft was destroyed after it crashed. 75 Million Dollar u. S. Aircraft was destroyed after it crashed. Certainly that moment perhaps one of the most tweeted about moments and talk about moments from last nights speech. Host mechanicsburg, pennsylvania. Republican line. Dave, go ahead. York. Ng, new independent line. Caller good morning, sir. With thelly impressed widows composure and all the emotion she went through. I want america to unite like falls in thea hero battlefield. Do not politicize it. Donald trump was accused of being divisive for the last year. Yesterday, for all that of his come he proved once against that he is president ial. It is up to the congress to work with him. If they want him to fail, they can hide, they can do a lot of things. The American People are watching. Him. E with we are not going to spend our time organizing day after day, denouncing this man. To him, we need to give him a chance. His speech was right on the spot. If he repeals obamacare, we must be sure that we have health care to benefit all americans. If he doesnt do that doesnt do that, it will be very bad for him. I hope you will do right. Host them across line. Ernie, hello. Democrats line. Caller its been a couple of decades since ive called in to cspan. To get through has made my heart race. I appreciate some of the things the president said last night. I dont agree with most of his positions. One of his en

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