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And he, you know, so he was a president who was reaching out to republicans saying i get what you're saying, i understand it, but i'm playing the long game here. i care about the future of this country as do you. so we have to figure out a way to do this together, and i think it's something the public will respond to. on the republican side, though, i think they could use a little bit more of that vision. we know they want to cut the deficit. we know they want to cut the budget. but what's that for? where is the larger vision? i think that's still the challenge for the republican party and may...

Let's get started with eric ericsson is here. democratic strategist cornell belcher. candy crowley. former george bush press secretary ari fleischer. david gergen and gloria borger and paul begala, as well. david, this was the president's first state of the union address since the midterms. how do you think he did? >> ironically, the shellacking may have helped his presidency. i think he's pivoted off where he was. he gave a very different speech than last year. last year was what government was going to do for you. >> were you reading old speeches from president clinton? >> i just think he's ...

Released publicly. i don't know why he didn't talk about it tonight. >> eric, what did you think about the fact there were two republican responses. >> i've been chuckling during michele bachmann's responses. she was looking into the camera for the tea party express, which probably didn't work well. but there was a big narrative from even republicans but a lot of the media that this was going to be some sort of diametrically opposed speech to paul ryan. i think their speeches played very well together. michele bachmann, in her speech, here are a few suggestions for fixing the economy. stop the...

Mr. ryan has told us but he didn't tell us in his speech. he wants to privatize social security. kill medicare, make it a voucher program that insurance companies would be in charge of, which would cut medicare by 76%. then he wants to raise taxes on everybody in america who makes between $20,000 and $200,000 but almost eliminate taxes for corporations and almost eliminate them for the wealthy. wow, that is specific and courageous. but it is not i think in the main stream of american thought. maybe that's why he didn't put that out in his speech today. but it's in his budget plan he released p...

whether he has the answers they seek. and also how people reacted to the president in real-time tonight, phrase by phrase, moment by moment. it's always fascinating, dial testing it's called. we'll have that coming up in this hour. tonight, the president called on lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to help him rebuild the country, retool technology and reboot education. he promised to do that while reforming the tax code and winding down two wars. he painted in broad strokes but as john king mentioned, it was a very political speech. positioning himself in the center of contentious...