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Response, stacey abrams slammed the trump administration for that. listen. >> the shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the united states. one that defied every tenant of fairness and abandoned not just our people, but our values. >> all right. joining us now, maggie haberman, white house correspondent "the new york times." it's great have you here. sort of a visual tease coming into the segment. it's great to hear from you. >> thanks, john. good morning. >> there was some real interesting visuals last night with nancy pelosi sitting behind the president, the new members of congr...

Tradition. he delivered what were themes of a re-election in the manner that, you know, any other president has used this speech at this point in their tenure to do. i think the problem for this president is he has so few hearts and minds that he can change and when he says things like he did about the investigations last night, remember, some of that is about democratic house controlled investigations. to be clear, investigations have been going on perhaps at a lower level and with less intensity. but investigations in terms of russia and campaign activities were going on under republican con...

Chuck schumer, senator from new york, thank you so much for being with us. before we get to the president's words about you which happened before the speech, let's talk about this speech itself. for you, if you are looking for something nice to say about it, what would you say? >> well, i would -- there's very little nice to say about it in the -- it's sergeant of like dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. and he -- the excitement, enthusiasm was all in the mr. hyde parts. i think stacey abrams showed the president what real leadership was last night. she was thoughtful, she was caring, she talked about he...

Listen. >> we have spent more than $7 trillion in fighting wars in the middle east. >> now putting aside the fact that afghanistan's not technically in the middle east, that $7 trillion static is just false. it's not the first time he's made that claim. the congressional research says the operational cost for the wars in iraq and afghanistan were 1.6 trillion, between 2001 and 2014. that's serious cash. but a cnn analysis found that to get to 7 trillion you'd have to add projected spending for the next 35 years. perhaps the president's confusing it with how much he's projected to balloon the n...

So when he comes back and says something that's accurate it's harder to take it seriously. >> like countless americans murdered by -- >> correct. he used a line last night he was talking about isis and talking about territories that have been quote unquote liberated in the middle east. that's actually true what he said, it's just that it reminded me of something that he has said about towns that are have been liberated by homeland security because they're facing the threat of ms-13. that's another of the exaggerations that he does that makes it harder to focus on his rhetoric. the other point ...