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Blitzer and jake tapper a lot to watch for. >> there is. new reporting that the speech might not be unifying at all. the president has been complaining the speech is too soft on democrats and he wants to hit them a lot harder. at the center of this the president's insistence on the border wall. he stood firmly on his demand. jake, what's your take on the message we can expect to hear? n >> it's tough to say. this is a president who doesn't like being challenged. in addition to the fact lit be a bakers dozen of democratic senator who is are running for president, he will be seeing 235 democrat ...

Speaker of the house. that respondent said drama and suspense. >> dana bash is outside the entrance to the house chamber. >> reporter: i spoke to a source who said he, meaning the president, is setting up another shutdown if, in fact, the president delivers a much more fiery speech than we had been led to believe or his aides hoped he would give until the president started to change it. what this source said to me was that the house speaker, today, with a group of reporters, including me and also earlier in the week had been making more clear that she is open to a physical barrier and that by ...

Somebody stand up -- what do they call those things? >> ronald reagan started it. >> ronald reagan started that tradition. there will be criminal justice call outs. >> it's the best moment of the speech. >> i agree. >> trump in the past has done a good job, unlike other presidents that waited to the end, he sort of moved them into the speech and did a really nice job of that and actually one of the things that republicans aren't very good at is humanizing their policy and their message and he did an excellent job of that. i expect he will do that again tonight, and that can be lasting. now, i ...

Down and applauding very vigorously. >> we were talking with mia love. she was talking about how it's kind of annoying to have to constantly stand and sit and stand and sit and also the kabuki of who stands and who sits and what do you do. there's senator chuck schumer. the democratic minority leader of the senate. >> he and the president have really gone after each other over the past 24, 48 hours. no love lost there. >> senator schumer gave a speech bemoaning the state of the union and president trump sent out a tweet saying he hasn't heard the speech. why is he attacking me. in senator schu...

I'm hoping that the window stays open for more of this but very tough. >> we see speaker pelosi sitting behind the president tonight, is that going to be odd for him and also he sees a lot of democrats staring back at him more than he's seen before. >> at least he has some democrats because most of them boycotted in the past. i'll give them credit for showing up. he congratulated her right after. i thought he was gracious. i don't think that will be an issue for the president. i think the president will go out there and deliver a speech that the country is doing pretty well. the state of the u...