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Dana bash joins me live on capitol hill. what are republicans saying ahead of the speech? >> i've been standing here, talking to republican lawmakers walking back and forth and the most moderate republicans who don't have a lot of, you know, tense anger towards the president, are kind of rolling their eyes and shrugging their shoulders. that was the house speaker walking by. a nice segue to tell viewers about a breakfast he had. you and i were both there. he made very clear that he sees this as a political event. much more so than before the past states of the union because the president, he b...

All on the record. so we took as diligent note as we could. he said he expects the president tonight to have five or six straw men in the speech. he expects it to be a glossy rendition of the past seven years. and that he thinks that the president is going to night, going forward, try to bait the gop into fights with him so that they look like angry reactionaries according to paul ryan, going forward to try to set the path for he thinks, hillary clinton in the democrat ic party. interesting to hear speaker ryan say he thought the state of our union is quote, a mess. bill: just reading your not...

Well, the president will be there delivering the state of the union address a little later tonight. we just received excerpts from that speech, here is one. the future we want, opportunity and security for our families a rising standard of living and a sustainable peaceful planet for our kids. all of that is within our reach but it will only happen if we work together. it will only happen if we can have rational constructive debates. it will only happen if we fix our politics. be we're back with the panel. charles? >> i think that's an excerpt from 2008. thats what the obama hope and change. r...

There's real pessimism and real anxiety and he's got the opportunity to reframe the debate. >> paul ryan, speaker of the house this morning at breakfast said this -- the president will have five or six straw men in the speech and i'm sure he'll present a glossy rendition of the past seven years, he'll set verbal traps and it will be a political and pointed speech. he went on to say he thinks the president going to try to bait republicans on a number of issues to try to paint them as angry, revolutionaries. >> well paul ryan is always an optimi optimist. so he thinks there will only be five or ...

>> i hate this. >> i'm alife member of ducks unlimited, a life member of bass angler sportsman society, a member of the wild turkey federation. in fact maybe i should add another g to god, guns, grits and gravy, game. because god gives us game that we shoot with guns and serve with grits and gravy. good. there are so many straw men in this book that i was afraid to read it near an open flame. huckabee explains a war on christians by citing protests against chick-fil-a and claiming they were inspired by the company owner's comments on a radio show to make liberals look easily outraged. it would...