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Executive branch? >> look, the overwhelming majority, the 535 members, will be there. i don't think it tells us a lot about what's happening. that said, trump's been president for a year now. i don't think this speech is going to do much to unify the country or change impressions about him. what the polls show is between -- showed us for a long time now, is between 35% and 40% of americans approve of trump and between 50% and 55% disapprove of him, and that's been a longstanding trend since about septr and i don't think the numbers are going to change. that's kind of where we are, trump has a ...

Was a very different person from the fat old ben stein now. now i've seen a lot of damage the media can do. the fat ben stein saw richard nixon as a peacemaker, got brought down and tossed out of office by a wildly irresponsible media, so i've never, ever seen anything quite like that and don't want to see it again. >> looking youthful and trim in california, ben stein, thank you very much for the time. >> flattery, flattery, thank you, sir. still ahead, president trump under fire after reports he tried to order the release of a classified memo. reaction before the president's first state of...

Write a speech for the president of the united states, and do you suspect it might be more difficult this time around? >> mr. nixon was the most reasonable person in the world and an extreme intellectual. if the history books are fair to him, which is a very, very long shot, they'll agree he's a big intellectual, where president trump is the least intellectual since maybe andrew johnson. it's going to be very hard to tell him that he doesn't know anything. this is a man who is a great man in many ways, but doesn't think there's anything he doesn't know and he doesn't know better than anybody e...

Help people elsewhere to improve their lives by coming here? and that is a difficult question to answer, which is, of course, why you're seeing so much stagnation and frustration and chafing on capitol hill. >> perry bacon, to you, when you look at folks saying they are not going to be in attendance to the speech, what does that say about the quality of discourse surrounding this issue in particular? how much of a log jam do you see on the issue of immigration as we approach a very real deadline here in a few weeks? >> in terms of immigration, what i see is i think the issues we've talked abou...

Ed gillespie, the republican candidate for governor of virginia, still maintaining an advantage, a lead over ralph northam, the democrat, candidate. 51.7%, 47% for ralph northam. gillespie is up by 12,906 votes right now. you can see a slight advantage, still early. only 11% of the vote in, but it's coming in relatively quickly. we'll have a lot more numbers coming in. much more ahead. more election results. we're going to bring you the president's big speech, a major address in south korea after he tried and failed to visit the heavily armed demilitarized zone. we'll be right back. another da...