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After a two-week delay because of a government shutdown, the annual speech now just 12 hours away. the theme reportedly choosing greatness. he'll be speaking infrastructure, trade and prescription drugs, before diving back into what has become the defining issue of his presidency, the border wall. >> to every republican, if you don't stand behind this president, we're not going to stand behind you. this is the defining moment of this presidency. it's not just about a wall. >> we begin today with federal investigators going all the way back to the beginning. demanding documents connected to the...

He would basically stake a flag down and keep giving a speech waiting for everybody to come to him. there was not in his mind, in his makeup, the sort of give-and-take that lbj, fdr, ronald reagan give-and-take. >> definitely not in his personality. you don't see any indication of it. all the people who love him and are closest to him still believe that he had the professor idea. he had all the right ideas but none of the execution and it really wasn't going to be possible after they were talking earlier in the program about the democrats all being together with long faces. republicans got tog...

Captures how democrats feel about donald trump. it's not -- it is truly apocalyptic. that's how they feel about it. i think a lot of them emotionally don't feel like they want to show up on the day and actually watch it because it would be too much for them. that's how it feels here. >> i have some dear friends, really dear friends who have -- this has hit them emotionally and very personally. and a couple are i won't say suffering depression but they are -- >> down. >> really down about this, really concerned about it. they are concerned about what it says about this country. >> i felt that w...

And yet what he said about trump being illegitimate because russia was actually not born out by the facts, objective facts. >> not translated -- >> and what he said about this being the first time he's ever missed an inauguration, because he sees donald trump as illegitimate is not born out by the facts. so donald trump needs to be quiet, but the press needs to do its job and stop asking windy questions. >> erasing the past when they feel like it. >> as i've been saying time and time again, they have to provide proper context. it's something you can read all the papers. they are miserable prov...

Behind you and supporters and voters behind you as well, that's a very different proposition from coming in and feeling that support is not there in terms of members of congress around you. i think there's also something about donald trump -- you talked about everyone comes in and wants to do it different, donald trump above everybody else wanted to do it new. he wanted to be a different president. he wants to tweet, be pugili pugilistic. the inauguration, this is a scaled down inauguration, the pomp and circumstance of the office. he may be making a miscalculation. the american public, you ha...