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Term. he's pected to focus mainly on the economy and middle class americans. for more now on the speech we're joined by a former speech writer for president bill clinton and michael gerson, former speech writer for george w. bush. thanks for being here. >> good to be other. >> it seems like the white house han been flooding the tone in terms of messaging, news conferences, tweets on guns, immigration, sequestration as well. what's the kind of strategy leading up to a speech like this? >> i think the president is going to move from the poetry of we the people in the inaugural to the prose of it...

Trains will be running. >> reporter: that was a very personal question. >> it was. >> reporter: i forgot you lived in connecticut. >> thank you, sir. on tuesday, the president will deliver the first state of the union address of his second term in between guns and drones, immigration and unemployment, there is certainly no shortage of topics to talk about. joining me now, white house correspondent peter alexander. pete, how is the president going to be preparing for this speech and what can we expect to hear? >> reporter: yeah, that's a good question, and having some conversations this after...

And earlier this morning on one of the sunday shows, we heard from stephanie cutter. she is a former deputy campaign manager for the president's re-election campaign. and here is how she described what we should look forward to hearing. >> the economy will be central to this speech and how we grow the economy so that everybody can participate, you have a fair shorkts pay your fair share, but there are other things that he does lay out. he'll lay out the looming deadline on the sequester, the tough choices that we have to make around it and the consequences if we let this sequester go into effe...

Familiar. the last thing a president wants is to have coverage that says that he's abandoning what he used to stand for, and he's adopting something entirely different from what he was elected and re-elected on. >> michael in, his 1996 state of the union speech president bill clinton delivered this memorable line. >> the era of big government is over. [ applause ] but -- but we cannot go back to the time when our citizens were left to fend for themselves. >> michael, the era of big government is over. is there a trick to the trade of crafting moments like these in state of the union addresses?...

Cantor said this week that he supports children of illegal immigrants having a pathway to citizenship, but when asked about it on "meet the press" this morning, whether or not he supports the dream act specifically, listen to what he had to say. >> these children were taken, again, due to no fault of their own. it seems to me that's the best place to start. >> so, you would support the dream act? >> i have put out a proposal. i don't know what the dream act at this point is. what i say is, we've got a place i think all of us can come together, and that is for the kids. >> so, it sounds like he...