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Okay? >> this is one of the most fascinating relationships in american politics. evangelicals are a big part of the president's base and they talked about his character, even that his lawyer paid a settlement to a porn star. the president is not a churchgoer, he doesn't speak their language, but he is filling the lower courts with federal conservative judges and he did fund planned parenthood and the like. he's paid them on the policy front in order to look over the political front? is that fair? >> this is one of the most fascinating dynamics in the trump era, this line between the evangelica...

I would really be more concerned about our lack of policy frankly than i would about the way the briefings are presented. i think there's questions about what is our policy towards russia, how are we holding them accountable, and how are we deterring future attacks, which are ongoing now and will have an impact, i think, in the 2018 midterms. >> well, on the policy front, does it give you any pause that we seem to not be enforcing the russia sanctions that were passed overwhelmingly by the congress, that were not aggressively pursuing a cyber strategy focus on russia, that we're not using the ...

Earlier. he said he has to maintain the strength in him that makes him different. that's the line he will have to walk tonight, tucker. >> tucker: the president, and the state of the union addresses. do you have any idea what he will cover there? >> i think obviously he has a great store tore to tell about isis and what happened with isis in iraq and syria. he will talk about our commitment in afghanistan about the problems with pakistan. and north korea will be a central focus of the foreign policy part. and throughout the night, there will be moments that people will remember and you may see...

And just very grateful that train was able to stop. and also, because there were a lot of children on the train, that they're okay. they were quiet. they weren't -- it wasn't -- but they weren't screaming. they weren't crying. fortunately they had their parents with them to console them and they're okay. >> lawmakers' children, staffers' children? >> i'm only aware of lawmakers' children. you have many members -- you have almost all of the republicans in the house and the senate on the train, including leadership, not everyone, but almost everyone. many do bring their spouse, a bunch of others...

On mer it. should not be a color-blind test. >> what carrie is trying to do is keep it often policy because that's what we all want to do. >> that's not what the president did. >> that's what she's trying to do. don't think she is trying to excuse his bad behavior. >> i agree. >> i don't think we can have that policy argument in the face of the kind of ugliness you see from the president of the united states. because it isn't honest about what he said and why he said it. so it's hard. and is the problem he then under mines his ability to be effective on a policy front by speaking this way. >> ...