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Who are taking the fight to isis in iraq and syria. and the president's deputy national security adviser ben rhodes said president obama feels a very personal connection to the special operations forces community and he wanted to go there and thank them. so he'll be meeting with those troops before delivering the speech later this afternoon. as for the speech itself, as you mentioned, the last major national speech on national security. he'll use it to sum up his administration's record on fighting counterterrorism and make the case for a continuation of the same approach. we expect to hear hi...

Breaking news. >> that's right. on president obama's speech itself, i want to bring in correspondent jim acosta. what have you learned? >> anderson, i'm told by white house officials and democratic officials that the president will push back on the rhetoric from republican candidates on the campaign trail in his state of the union address tonight, and it won't be hard to figure out who the president is talking about. in a memo on tonight's speech shared by a democratic source with cnn, the president has been struck by the, quote, doom and gloom peddled by republicans. the white house says pres...

Conduct and that code of conduct in particular can include hate speech. >> even on a bus not on the college campus? >> has not said that. >> in 1988. >> the supreme court has not said people cannot get on a bus off campus and engage in hateful speech, racist speech and say, that they can be expelled for that. i'm surprised by that. no, of course they didn't rule on this particular incident. of course, they didn't do that. >> but the difference -- there's the difference between speech in a classroom on a situation where you are making a truly disruptive classroom. >> jeff -- >> speech itself, b...

Weapons. what do you do then about the speech itself, congressman? are you going to go? do you want your democratic colleagues to go? >> i'm going to go. let's be honest about this. the u.s./israel relationship always enjoyed broad bipartisan support. that's still the case. the majority of democrats and republicans are going to attend the speech to hear what the prime minister has to say. and the fact is prime minister is a close ally. whether or not this has any impact on elections in israel. we would all be wise to recognize israeli populous is very sophisticated and they'll make their own d...

Bathroom at a starbucks. it wasn't presidential. it was pubescent. >> how do you really feel? >> it was really moving at the end, but i felt like i was being used. >> it sounds like you feel like cory was being used as a human shield from criticism from people like us. >> he deserved the accolades. i think eric is right, the way it should have come back to something. and it didn't. >> and almost every state of the union, they always come back, and they always finish up on the state of the union. and it was kind of egregious in my opinion. >> what do you think, bob? should they have moved it up...