And unity and compromise. It will be a night of comity with a t. They are talking about how the presid will rise above partis tonight, the presid is tweeting about a human then, mocks Chuck Schumer and festiv us begins. Tonigh was delayed when the presid himself decided to engine a 35day shut down over a border wall he promised to his politi base. The address is his threat to end congre and declare a national emerge dividing republicans. We will have more on that in a moment the white house said President Trump is going to call on congre to reject the politics of resistance and retribution tonigh thats absurd because if you have b paying attention for two years or four years or six years, you get my drift. Nancy will be seated behind tonight. A constant reminder of the failed midterm message that pelosi party. The president is going to act like everything is normal, despit his ongoing feud with the Intel Community and countl investigations into the staff and campaign and busine and even no his inaugu the white house says its going to be a traditional state of th union. How is that for comity with a t . The host of kasie d. C. And the chief correspondent for the new. Carol lee, National Political report msnbc contributor and msnbc analyst in a democratic pollst kasie hunt, let me start with you. There has been part of me that feels as if it is surreal. Woo are acting as if we are having a state of the union day and all the traditional lunche breakfasts and invita a response. And yet there is a fire going on outsid the city and we are all suppos not Pay Attention to it. Its actually pretty strange, i have to say. There little about covering this place. More normal than the white house, i think, just by virt ut of the traditions. Just when you think its resolv you are right that this every single time we do one of these. The red curtains and the cameras packed into statuary hall and people bringing guests and famili saving seats on the aisles youre right that here we are surrou by the normalcies of what is this pomp and circum the president , President Trump if he likes anything about governing, its th this. He enjoys the guilded traditions like all of the things that make him feel like hes at the story. The reality is that we are a week plus away from another potent shut down. The Democratic Party is i could not be more interesting in resist in retribution than they are right now. Peter baker, it seems to me, its as if the white house pulled off the instruction manual and you promised bipart and do all the briefi and spent 72 hours doing this way. Pay no attention to anything that happened in the previous 72 hours or the following. Does the white house realize that unless they really put elbow grease into it, they disapp in 24 hours . I think they understand. There a surreal quality to whats happening here. There something comforting about the ritual. This didnt happen. In a twoyear presidency that busted all sorts of norms, the yet that there wouldnt be a state of the union delivered in person and the two parties are so far apart, they couldnt agree on standing before the assemb lawmakers and giving a pitch for his program that wouldn happen. That would have been a pretty big disruption on top of two years of other disruptions. There something important about the fact that this is happen tonight, even though it does, as you say, have a surrea quality. Today, we got all these previe heres an excerpt from the presid togeth we can break decades of stalem and heal old wounds buiw soluti unlock the promise of americas future. Sounds great. Heres what Chuck Schumer said in response to this. It seems every year the presid wakes up and discovers the desire for unity on the mornin of the state of the union. President spends the oth 364 days of the year dividing us in a state of disunion. The blatant hypocrisy of this presid calling for unity is that h of the chief reason americans feel so divide now. For what its worth, we hear the sow iing certain instead of sewing schumer is already getting the state of the union speech. Too bad we were not given more credit for the senate win by the media. What . This will help. Comity think part of what chuck schume said you can apply to every president that every presid wakes up and decide they want to have this mantle, this tradition bestowed upon them and give the traditional type of speech. Its interesting that of all of this i one President Trump has decide he wants to stick with. He loves it. Becaus of the applause. Its about him and applause and there is no realtime respon its also just curious he didnt decide to go in the other direct which is what people who voted for him would have expect thats to get in there and shake things up a little bit and do somethdifferent. I cant stand teleprompte trump. Nobody elected teleprompte trump. Open the cameras. Let pelosi and trump hash it out. You get an hour. Go. Thats may state of the union. Go. I worked as a president ia speech righter. You know who takes state of the . There are months of memos about what should be in it. Do you thin that happened in this administration . No. People upon complaining its a laundry list. It does break norms. Who even know who is setting policy these departments and if there were policy statements in the speech, wou the presiden held t they held a shot for cancer which is what obama did in 2016. The mo was star wars. The president and reagan going with star wars in 1984. Nothin will matter and the explan too fractured and leader for anybody to thing speech was one of the few that the entire country watches will have any policy implications you cant show yourself to be too cynical. Whats the line. There new democrat who is said they would work with the presid what is the line that democrats have to be careful of . When you saw that statement from the state of the union, i could sworn i saw that in one of obamas statements. You mean the president himsel year. I want to see our country united the year before that, i look forwar to what we can do to come together. State speech 101. Democrats have to be careful as to not be partisan, but they hold all the cards. 60 of americans dont want this wall. The president s big thing is build a wall. Nearly 60 of people think the countr is headed in the wrong direct immigr is not the top econom concern for most of middle america, but it continues to be the focus of this presid the democrats from a policy standp the democrats have the policy advantage. The president can talk about unity and it falls on deaf ears. We know the day after he talks somebo casshould we get a sense fro the president which way hes headed this deal tonight in this speech . I dont think that the member of congress here are necess expecting to come away with something definitive unless perhaps he goes off script this i one of the things where everyb behind the scenes is trying desperately to convince the president not to light everyt is fire over this again. Even Mitch Mcconnell came to the microp was asked, is he tries Tell Congress put togeth deal that we know the presid is going to sign or encour them to come up with a deal . Instea of saying im not puttin anything on the floor that the president wont sign. We need a deal here. I would like to see them come up with a bipartisan agreement and decide to sign it. It was so far from the guarantee that there wouldnt be a shut down. I think the other piece of this, if the president is in this mode where he thinks abou doing the tradit state of the union, do you your headline to be presid vows another shut down over the wall. We have seen him go off telepr before and he not only seems to be more compelling off the teleprompt enjoys it quite a bit more. From that perspective, who knows. Your newspaper Editorial Board is from the new side. By many mshs polls are thriving. They think the country is on the wrong track and expect the number get worse. Congre is even more so. Presid prepares his delaye state of the union addres he might want to ask people why they are so unsettled. We dont have an economic recess and we have a politi depression. We have been in a recession for a deca and now we might be in. Does the white house realize how much t their ability to sell in a normal presidency a lay up . You are right about a politi recession. The only president who is came into the state of the union addres in recent times with number as low as President Trump were Ronald Reagan in the throws of a real recession. Econom people out of work. It was bad time. Georgebushs last couple of years when things were so bad with iraq. Nobody ever has been at this level in modern times. It is a larger phenomenon to which he contributed. It has been three president s since we saw a majority of the countr say they were on the right track. Since bushs first term, the countr consistentl said most of the country said we dont believ the country is going in the right direction. Bushs second term and all of obama and now so far a half term for trump. Thats not his strategy. He is not building a larger coalit he is trying to feed it. Its minority, but it got him there and the one he thinks will get him there in 2020. Bottom line, you have been chompi champi here. They dont know how they stand. The new hope and arguments and you make a case. They go well, hes the president and he know what is hes talking about. We will give it a shot and if he doesn well, numbers of suppor for those things go up. That is not trump seeks no to. The only people he wants to persua are people who already agree with him. Its a strange communication strate am i given this parade . More here, you know if you go back and look at it overti there is no three points of change overall between where a president is and where they are after an ark approval. They dont change the dynamics of your political trajectory one way or the other. Histor we are seeing that more part sans are watching their president than we had. Democr can get more democrats watchi you are speaking t Audien Audien will there be persuadables it is partisan audiences. How do you persuade someone when you Say Something in one moment and Something Else in the next. Part o people feel unsett they dont know what they are goin look at how he pulled out of syria. He keeps people on their toes and argued that thats benefi thats part of why we are seeing this. All of this pomp and circum for the state of the un feels like the string quarte titanic. Why are you playing . Keep playing. It sounds great. Good luck. Thank both. Stick around. Coming up, how 2020 democrats are sending a message to the presid someon who himself may be eying a possible bid and we will beche guest. Reagan made this first twenty do it and now there nott doesn have a guest. They will have to reach absurd levels when reagan did it, the guy who jumped in to save people from the plane crash, it was a startl thing. Now its like heres the tear jerkin ordinary american. Its a busy day and democrat from oregon and somebody who is a president ia candidate. Welcom your state of the union day. My first question this way. The president is going to make this call for working together and how obligated do you feel to at least give him the benefit o . Its never too late, if the presid a new leaf for the future of our country and abandons his effort to divide americans and wants to have a bipartisan plan on immigr im ready and willin to listen. He spent as much time as he did and assuming he does that, do you come out tomorrow semi enthus at take him at his word or do you assume or look at it skeptically and think i want to see a little bit more before. Want to see more because we have heard him talk about loweri drug prices before. He never put forward a serious plan t do so. I would invite him to look at my bill for lowering drug prices than the median price. Major countries. Lets tackle what he said about the issue of border securi and call for a wall and you have since the government reopen you said look, if there a case for new barrier, you are open to that. How should the president take that comment from someone like you. If you make your case for new barrie i will listen. I have been down to the border and Border Guards said there are places that would be helpfu to have a vehicle barrie or a fence. They said they do not need a wall. They do not need something they cant see through. They dont need a wall for a challe sensor Border Guards would mor. All the democrats have supported border security. Not the wasting of our taxpayer money and not a wall that the presid has turned into a racist symbol of division. So can you still work with him though if he gets barriers even though he tells supporters its a wall or because of the rhetor makes it harder to that . You may gree semantics, you but he may way you descri thaw didnt like. Ill look at the substance of what we are talking about. Someti the art of the deal is that people will describe it in differ ways. Thats fine. Border security is smart. I would like to see us go furthe we had a bipartisan bill and addres most of the major issues regarding people overst visas and increasing needed for a high tech economy and worked to say lets end the broken immigration system and if the president came out and said im tired of this and i want to fix the immigration system instea preserving a broken system its a conversatio to have. What is stacey abramss job tonigh what viewers lea on health care and housing and on education and infrastructure and jobs. Hopefu they will say we have to take on the corruption of our consti through gerrym and the dark manny destroying we the people govern democr want and believe in the constitutio and we have the you have been a cosponsor of. There a bit of a debate poppin up in the party that is a big part of the primary and a Health Debate in the party. You may participate and you may not. You havent decided yet. Medica for all. Realisgoal. Is the party overselling it or think its something the next presid can make happen . I think it is a vision that if we build enough of a Movement Toward it, it can happen. What we know is the Current System is price as expensive of that of other developed countr producing far worse results in medical terms and enormous stress for the americpeople. Maybe we cant take that leap all at once, but if we dont lay out the vision, how will we take steps at all out of our current expens corporate profit system that is expensive and stress be so much better it sounds like in the meanti what we have before you go all the way . I would like to see us build the momentum to enable every americ to have the opportunity to par in medicare for all. This i what i presented is not only supporting bernies bill, but a choose medicare bill where every said yes, i have choice medica i can carry it with me the rest of my life and get rid of the broken system we have right now. That would be an enormous step. You are considered a potent candidate. You said you were going to make a decision in november and backed off. You keep asking for more time. Whats missing in this field thaw are waiting to see before you decide . I want to see a field that is commit to three of the most diffic issues we face. One is restoring we the people democr and the second is rebuil foundations and health and th education and living jo taking on Carbon Pollution and climat chaos which we cannot wait for the next generation to tackle if you dont think a candidate is doingthat, you are jumpinin . Fair enough. Democr from oregon. We will be watching. Thank you vmuch. State of chaos. Virgin democrats are maying things difficult for democrats everyw these dpas appare we will talk about that. S appary we wil as apparentl we wil appare we wil democr are proving you dont have to be on the stage to delive a message. Tonight i want to take a few minute your time to respond to President Trumps state of. For the third consecutive year, senator and possible presid candidate Bernie Sander will be president. 2020 hopefuls are sending a messag to voters with their state of the union guests. Senato gillibrand will be accomp by a Transgender Navy o is child is a transg child, you know how horrib it would be to be demoni by the president of uni. Joined by government workers furloued by the shut down and senato booker will be bringing a former prisoner released by the recent bipartisan justice reformlaw. But the state of the union is not the only 2020 stage today after keeping a low profile. Beto o is taping an interv with oprah today. It will air later this month. I think we will find out tonight if he says something inter trav. We will be back with mtp daily after what do you make of the allega against justin fairfa allegations have to be taken seriou but it doesnt change the fact that the governor need. With the lieutenant governor, noef enough information. I w and we might have a comment at some point. A onetwo punch. They force democrats not just t allega of past sexual miscon with t Richmond Times impact. What do the democrats do now. There no plan c, is there . The clearly boxed themselves in and reached thi point where they have a governor and a lieute governor who qualify as damaged goods. They are clearly reaping the bitter fruit as you alluded of zero tolerance. This i another Election Year in virgin and the Virginia Senate and legislature up for grabs. The democrats need two seats in the se in the house to take back the legislature, but more to the point, restore comple large democratic contro of state government. One can only imagine the pent up demand for certain policies that could satisfy ie assuming they are restored. There seems to be in an extrao way they seemed to at least imply that democrats were doing it for him or prevent him from being elevated. What is happening in the democr party. Is there a leader who can they is enough . I dont kno that i would quarrel with the m here. This i an orchestrate smear and a reflection of what happen in a state in which a single i. Not as if there are differences among the characters and the differ tend to be am person slight with an actual take on significance this i when the system is out of balance. To set this right, i dont kno that there is anyone. Keep in mind that all of the politi f