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applaud or sit in silence. 12 hours later this is what the house chamber looked like, an out pouring of support for gaby giffords' final bill. let's talk about the contrast in the last 12 hours. luke, you have been around for much of this stuff, the emotional impact not lost on anybody in the chamber from the feed we saw. >> and it's been in the back of the minds of a lot of members of congress from when the year started. it was four days into the session that giffords was shot. we had so much dispair and anguish then. today she walked up and hand delivered her resignation to speaker...

[ applause ] state of the union night. on this night with this speech, presidencies can be defined for generations to come. >> the great society asked not how much but how good. not only how fast we are going, but where we are headed. >> from this platform presidents take aim at critics, in times of national upheaval. >> i believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. one year of watergate is enough. >> it's here on this night that presidents try to inspire the nation. >> we do big things. from the earliest days of our ...

also the anticipated republican response from mitch daniels and it's pugnacious, we saw speaker boehner pre-butting the speech calling it pathetic, using very sharp terms, going after it. what are you thinking -- what are you seeing tonight in terms of the republican attitude toward the president at this point in the presidency and this speech? >> rachel, an objective statement since the day he was inaugurated they sought to stymy his program. what an ironic position they took, they wanted to display the fact he couldn't cross party lines, he couldn't cross the aisle to make deals, b...

the state of our union is getting stronger. and we've come too far to turn back now. as long as i'm president, i will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum, but i intend to fight obstruction with action, and i will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place. >> on these evenings, presidents naturally seek to find the sunny side of our position, but when president obama claims the state of our union is anything but grave, he must know in his heart this is not true. all right. good morning, everyb...

to bring jobs back home. but we have got to seize that opportunity. we have got to help these companies succeed. and it started with changing our tax code. it starts with changing our tax code. now right now, companies get all kinds of tax breaks when they move jobs and profits overseas. think about that. a company that chooses to stay in america gets hit with one of the highest tax rates in the world. that's wrong. it doesn't make sense. we have got stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs over seas and reward companies like conveyor that are doing business right here in the united ...