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little elf and chuck him across the potomac. >> tell me the story of watters world. >> it's like a movie of kevin costner. >> never heard of that fairytale. >> he's a pretty cool guy. you know i used to watch him. me and my friends used to watch him. >> and what did watters do? >> this is my world. >> jesse: so i lost to my 11 year old daughter playing ping-pong over the weekend. here's how it went. the only reason i really lost is because we played to 11. if we had played to 21 i probably would have come from behind and beaten her. the way i set up the table was a little cockeye, i had a lot to drink the night before and i've given her tennis lessons so she's pretty good. aim not making excuses she beat
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to the president of the united states. jake, let me go back to you. >> thanks, wolf. we're just watching the house chamber as so many americans. there of course the new speaker kevin mccarthy with the vice president kamala harris. jamie, these speeches, these state of the union addresses often are known for having an emotional moment. we remember it in president trump's first address to congress there was the gold star wife of a fallen marine. are you anticipating any this evening especially with the family of tyre nichols in the audience? >> no question about it. and just to go back, that's an actually for those of us to remember a relatively recent thing for guests who served with ronald reagan when he had i think lenny sputnik who had rescued someone from the plane crash out of the potomac --
there was a bystander who dove into the water and did rescue a woman, though. it got national attention, that bystander's name was lenny skutnik and president reagan, the former hollywood actor with a bit of a flair for showmanship and his team saw an opportunity in that and two weeks later at the state of the union address, here's what happened. >> just two weeks ago in the midst of a terrible tragedy on the potomac, we saw again the spirit of american heroism at its finest. the heroism of dedicated rescue workers saving crash victims from icy waters and the heroism of one of our young government employees, lenny skutnik, who when he saw a woman lose her grip on the helicopter line, dived into the water and dragged her to safety. [ applause ] >> and with that, andrea, a
ahead of the president's address tonight, steve kornacki is looking at some of the unique state of the union moments from past years and including how the tradition of presidents inviting guests began. joining us now nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki. steve, take us back to how this tradition started. i was there for this one. >> this is quite a story. we all know how this goes, right? it will probably happen tonight at some point during the speech, the president will recognize somebody sitting up in the gallery, maybe an everyday american, maybe a prominent person, but somebody whose story dove tails with the president's message, with the president's agenda, with the policy proposal, or maybe just designed to sort of lift the national spirit a little bit. where that began, what it all goes back to was january of 1982, ronald reagan's state of the union address, just two weeks before this state of the union address, there had been a tragedy, an air florida jetliner crashed into the potomac. there were dozens who were killed.
skutnik. dove into the icy potomac when the plane crashed there to save people. he pointed him out and here's just a piece of that. >> just two weeks ago in the midst of a terrible tragedy on the potomac we saw heroism at its findst finest. rescue workers saving crash victims from icy waters and we saw the heroism of one of our young government employees. lenny skutnik when he saw a woman lose her grip on the helicopter line dove into the water and dragged ler to safety. [applause] >> bret: there he was. from that moment on. every president has used people in the chamber to tell stories that tied into the speech. >> you know, you are a great communicator when everybody copies the way you comin indicate and that's what ronald reagan did. it worked because reagan was so emotional and good at it.
she is officially a egot, viola davis. speak to swift these everywhere as taylor swift wins best music video for "all too well." everyone loves taylor swift, the first artist to win the award and directing own music video. harry styles taking his first album of the year award for harry styles and one direction member taking home the best pop local album bringing his total to three grammy's since he broke off from the popular boy band but in the meantime, another for chris and potomac "god is with us," scott spoke on the red carpet and sharing quiet hope for king and country's nominated number is so good. >> it is such an important message and about the bringer of