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>> sandra: after probably not much sleep kevin corke is live at the white house for us this morning. kevin, the president called on both parties last night to come together in this speech. how did it land from the white house's perspective? >> listen, i have to tell you. it was a late night for a lot of us. you folks put in work all day long. the president did, too. they were beaming this morning talking about the fact the president was able to hit on themes important to him. if you had a chance to watch the speech to the folks at home, there are a number of powerful moments during the address...

>> i think most people graded it around a c, the democrats. people in the hall doesn't make sense to me why they would sit down on key issues. it actually we were in the room watching the speech and marking it up and tweeting and everything and we looked down and said they didn't stand up for things when the president said in god we trust. didn't stand up when the president mentioned we should stand for the national anthem. they refused to stand up when we talked about jerusalem being the capital of israel which the senate voted for unanimously and in addition mr. gutierrez walked out of the h...

Just 38%. historically low for an american president in the first year of their presidency. so why is a president who is so successful so unpopular? donald trump's job last night was to turn that around. he had an opportunity. >> sandra: did he? >> he seized the opportunity. his job was to go out and make the pitch to the -- millions of americans out there who like his policies but are not necessarily trump supporters. and to turn them around and get them -- he did that very effectively. he reached out to the other side and was bipartisan and engaged the other side on a host of issues from wor...

On tuesday night? >> yeah, he's going to pitch his immigration plan in this speech. as you mentioned, we know his immigration framework calls for granting a path to citizenship for 2 million young immigrants in exchange for $25 billion for his border wall. he also wants to end family-based immigration and the visa lottery program. and the framework, the preview of the framework, includes what the white house says it wants to see in a bill offering permanent protections for the young undocumented immigrants known as d.r.e.a.m.ers, and remember the fight over the daca policy is what led to the g...

State of the union on tuesday. >> what they've talked about is this speech is going to be about bipartisanship and unification, so i think that's what they are trying to do in terms of getting the trust back from these lawmakers. one of the issues they've discussed is infrastructure, where both sides can come together, but really the lawmakers that, you know, that felt like they had lost the president's trust after this immigration deal and then also during the shutdown, it's going to be hard really to win their trust with just one speech, so that will be interesting to watch if that changes. ...