it's it's a promise made but not a promise kept and that was a major talking point for the president in 2016 that he promised to end america's endless wars to withdraw troops from the middle east but in fact that it's ok kimberly i'm afraid i'll have to cut you off kimberly i'm terribly sorry we're going to head across to hear the democratic response to the state of the union let's me to listen it's a good respond to what the president just said so instead of talking about what he is saying i'm going to highlight what democrats are doing after all you can listen to what someone says but you know the truth watch what they do michiganders are no different from americans everywhere we love our families and want to good life today and a better life tomorrow for our kids we work hard and we expect our government to work hard for us as well we have grit and value loyalty and we still root for the

detroit lions we and all americans might be weary of today's politics but we must stay engaged our country our democracy our future demand it we're capable of great things when we work together we cannot forget that despite the dishonesty and division of the last few years and that we heard tonight from the president of the united states to gether we have boundless potential and young americans are proving that every day by taking action that's what i want to focus on tonight money scott is 13 years old and lives in muskegon heights michigan money street was covered in potholes they were ankle deep and he got tired of waiting for them to get fixed so he grabbed a shovel and a bucket of dirt and filled them in himself. during my campaign people told me to fix the damn roads because blown tires and broken windshields are down right

dangerous and car repairs take money from rent child care or groceries and we the democrats are doing something about it in illinois governor j.b. pritzker passed a multibillion dollar plan to rebuild the roads and bridges governor phil murphy is replacing lead pipes in new jersey all across the country democratic leaders are rebuilding bridges fixing roads expanding broadband and cleaning up drinking water everyone in this country benefits when we invest in infrastructure congressional democrats have presented proposals to keep us moving forward but president trump and the republicans in the senate are blocking the path when it comes to infrastructure money has tried to do more with a shovel and a pile of dirt than the republicans in d.c. have with the oval office and the us senate bullying people on twitter doesn't fix

bridges it burns them our energy should be used to solve problems and it's true for health care too for me for so many americans health care is personal not political when i was 30 i became a member of the sandwich generation that means i was sandwiched between 2 generations of my own family for whom i was the primary caregiver was holding down a new job caring for my newborn daughter as well as my mom at the end of her brain cancer battle i was up all night with the baby and during the day i had a fight my mom's insurance company when they wrongly denied her coverage for chemotherapy. it was hard it exposed the harsh realities of our workplaces our healthcare system and our child care system and it changed me i lost patience for people who are just talk and no action so as a state senator i worked with

a republican governor and legislature to expand health care coverage to more than 680000 michiganders under the affordable care act today democrats from maine to montana are expanding coverage and lowering costs in kansas governor laura kelly's working across the aisle to bring medicaid coverage to tens of thousands in new mexico governor michelle who hunger in stride protections into law every democrat running for president has a plan to expand health care for all americans every one of them has supported the affordable care act with coverage for people with preexisting conditions they may have different plans but the goal is the same president trump sadly has a different plan he's asking the courts to rip those lifesaving protections away it's pretty simple democrats are trying to make your health care better republicans

in washington are trying to take it away think about kids like 17 year old blake carroll from idaho who organized a fundraiser to pay for his mom's colon cancer treatment or 19 year old ebony meyers from utah who sells art to help pay for her own rare genetic disorder treatment no one should have to crowdsource their health care in america but the reality is not everyone in america has a job with health care and benefits in fact many have jobs that don't even pay enough to cover their monthly expenses. doesn't matter what the president says about the stock market what matters is that millions of people struggle to get by or don't have enough money at the end of the month after paying for transportation student loans or prescription drugs american workers are hurting in my own state our neighbors in wisconsin and ohio pennsylvania and all over the country wages have stagnated while c.e.o.

pay has skyrocketed so when the president says the economy is strong my question is strong for hope strong for the wealthy who are reaping rewards from tax cuts they don't need the american economy needs to be a different kind of strong strong for the science teacher spending her own money to buy supplies for her classroom strong for the single mom picking up extra hours so she can afford her daughter soccer cleats strong for the small business owner who has to make payroll at the end of the month michigan invented the middle class so we know if the economy doesn't work for working people it just doesn't work who fights for working hard working americans democrats in the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi and democrats pass a landmark bill on equal pay another bill to give $30000000.00 americans are raised by increasing the minimum wage and growing breaking legislation to finally give

medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices for america's seniors and families those 3 bills and more than 275 other bipartisan bills are just gathering dust on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's best senator mcconnell america needs you to move those bills. meanwhile democrats across the country are getting things done pennsylvania's governor tom wolfe is expanding the right to overtime pay michigan is too because if you're on the clock you deserve to get paid nevada governor steves to select north carolina governor roy cooper are working to get hard working teachers arrays and speaking of the classroom wisconsin governor tony eve or you know a letter only increased school funding by 65000000 dollars last year and colorado governor jared polis have an active free all day kindergarten and in $29.00 states

we've helped pass minimum wage hikes and a law which will lift people out of poverty and improve lives for families that's straight that's action democracy takes action and that's why i'm so inspired by young people they respond to mass shootings demanding policies that make schools safer they react to a world that's literally on fire with fire in their bellies to push leaders to finally take action on climate change they take on a road filled with potholes with a shovel and some dirt it's what gives me great confidence in our future and it's why sometimes it feels like they are the adults in the room but it shouldn't have to be that way it's not their mass to clean up it's ours the choices we make today create their reality tomorrow. young people i'm talking to you and your

parents and grandparents democrats want safe schools we want everyone to have a path to a good life whether it's through a union apprenticeship a community college a 4 year university without drowning in debt we want your water to be clean we want you to love who you love and to live authentically as your true selves and we want women to have autonomy over our bodies we want our country welcoming and everyone's vote counted 2020 is a big year it's the year my daughter sherry will graduate from high school it's also the aircel cast her 1st ballot along with millions of young americans the 2 things are connected because walking across a graduation stage is as important as walking into the voting booth for the 1st time her future all our kids' futures will be determined not just by their dreams but by our actions as we witness the impeachment process in washington

there are some things each of us no matter our party should demand the truth matters facts matter and no one should be above the law it's not what those senators say tomorrow it's about what they do that matters remember. listen to what people say but watch what they do it's time for action generations of americans are counting on us let's not let them down thank you for listening god bless america goodnight. and we've been listening there to michigan governor gretchen when he gave the democratic response to donald trump states of the union speech speaking to us there from lansing in michigan she referenced how she was brought in and i'm quoting here

to fix the damn roads and she referenced at the top verse speech of importance it is to build bridges not burn them seeming to be a direct response to president trump's preferred methods of communication through twitter and that space is very domestically for a lot of mentions of health care concerns a lot of mentions of education and noticing real achievements on a local level she was also referencing young people and climate change this is certainly the topics that the americans do well on the other noticeable thing in that speech of course was how she referenced women it was a very females focused speech there talking about how teachers in the u.s. are having to crowd funds for supplies talking about soccer moms talking about the middle classes and referencing her daughter there as well so

a very female focused speech let's get more on that from our white house correspondent kimberly hawke it is back to our friends at capitol hill kimberly this gretchen wit merges is not a household name in many countries in many countries around the world how significant would you say it was for this individual to be giving the responsibly take away all those. female mentions in the speech that she just gave. she's not a household name even in the united states it's a tremendous honor and it certainly shows that she is somebody that the democratic party recognizes this is an up and comer but in terms of beyond that what i think you can take from the democratic response is this speech that was given there just now by the governor was very much focused on kitchen table issues if you will on health care of the personal story about her mother fighting illness and being

denied coverage that would be life saving and even talking about her daughter and the significance of the moment that she will vote when she comes of age how pivotal this is not just for her family but also for the american voting public i think what we saw there was an attempt by democrats to try to continue to hold on to what has typically been there are issues that terms of. jobs in terms of wages in terms of things that appeal to the ordinary american in improving the quality of life so i think that's what we can take from that is that we're very much in campaign mode now not only did we hear from the president what is likely to be the theme in the tone of his speeches moving forward but we also heard it on the democratic side there in that response. it's in response our big we also had to response the 1st mention all of impeachment the cvs thing and that was one of the

governor. posts peach by drawing attention to the fact that u.s. president. hasn't been impeached and there is a rather critical votes happening. yeah there is no question that again this is something that democrats are going to focus side and this is a stain on the u.s. president the fact that he had to deliver the speech in the chamber where he has been impeached we know for a president who's particularly thin skinned that this is certainly something that is going to bother him moving forward even as we expect he will be acquitted in the u.s. senate i want to top more about some of these things by bringing in our guest a face familiar to al-jazeera viewers steve clemons of course host of the bottom line and steve is we're talkin about impeachment we're all washington moves forward very quickly and we know that it's now going to be the focus on that all important

vote in the u.s. senate but even though the president didn't talk about impeachment in his speech it very much looms large and temperature was hot nancy pelosi the speaker right behind him ripped up his speech twice dramatically sending a signal that she does not buy his message that this is not over that there are many people we had we had a tim ryan a congressman from ohio who tweeted out that he couldn't take it anymore and that he was leaving that he thought that this was a farce and so the tensions continue to be very high in the u.s. congress right now over president trump this is not done and you saw both parties even in the governor of michigan's comments that she she is from a state that the democrats want to win for the 1st time because a battleground state they're having their convention in milwaukee wisconsin another battleground state the democrats are trying to reach out to the average person the average family the average working woman an average working man and that is who donald trump went after in this speech and so there is

a tug of war over those those people and many are trying to say the dispy to many many critics of president trump were messaging me tonight saying they were shockingly surprised by how effective this speech was but we had a lot of other people who just rejected it face value since there's no. bearing in the truth in this another tug of war i sighed tell me if you bring out the battle for the voter of color in the united states and we saw the president making a number of over charles acknowledging a weakness in his campaign well i think they're in the super bowl last right the most watched signal of fent is not the state of union address it's the super bowl and the super bowl ads reaching out to black men people of color he did that tonight again and it shows that he is trying to he is trying to you know basically take that community and bring it towards him he's not been able to do it before because his he looks at the black community in the democrats' ambivalence words beat me to judge some support for joe biden but joe biden is limping in the

campaign right now and donald trump is making a play for that community but that's a community that has been really left behind by the president's policies in the past and there's no question we're in campaign mode now like we're looking towards november and it seems that the president how to cite some one particular democratic presidential hopeful in terms of the nomination bernie sanders those mentions about socialism talk to us about that well i think that you know i mean i think it's very strange in a way because it one of the special guests tonight was quite out there and he called in the legitimate leader of venezuela and then begin talking about socialism essentially implying that socialism doesn't work in venezuela and it doesn't work in america and around the time he began talking about health care and delivering lower cost health opportunities to americans and attacking the high cost of prescription drugs he still said the way forward is not exposure lism essentially implying that that's what the democrats are bringing to the table so he's trying to show a 4 way all the difference between what he's putting out there and what he sees as

his challengers and this was really him an amazingly interesting speech because some people are you know in this hall are calling it a kitchen table speech and they're very frustrated with it but if you go through what he talked about tonight these are kitchen table issues there about the quality of life of the average working. americans have how to improve it and that is exactly what bernie sanders and elizabeth warren have been talking about this could have been with some differences if you took rush limbaugh a lot out and some of the other references this could have been a bernie sanders speech and that's what's interesting you know what else was interesting and i don't know what you might have to say about this but the talking about the united states putting a flag on mars or that came out of nowhere for me well i think the president is has been fascinated by space he wants us to go back to the moon he wants a woman to go on the moon and he has been tech and he's launched the u.s. space force so we have

a new division of the of the military isn't fully organized yep it's called the space for space force and i think that he is sort of looks at this is his kennedy moment of saying i'm not only about what's going on here but we have a greater aspiration take it or leave it i think it's his way to say i still believe in science i still believe in national aspiration and mars is the next frontier a friend of mine elon still find it was the former chief scientist at nasa now heads the national air and space museum one of the most trafficked tourism sites and in the united states she's all about going to mars and so i kind of applaud that element of the president's speech it feels like he's reaching out to young people a little bit with that too because let's be honest he's an old president right he doesn't he's never going to see us go to mars. and i also think it gives him something you know donald trump is looked at as a i mean i had put it but a real estate guys come in he's going to deal with a lot of issues he took out you know a couple about terrorists and he sort of has this way of operating which is highly

transactional talking about going to mars is a very different lift for the nation and for him and it gives i think him a sense of greater purpose and makes it him feel as if those looking at his administration has more gravity toss than it otherwise would i want to ask you. just give me your sort of bottom line at the name of your show at al-jazeera the bottom line right the high point and the low point of the speech in your view i think the high point was the end very aspirational language i thought throughout he kept the the his comments positive and he kept sort of he acted as if he was hearing in listening to americans and their struggles we can debate whether or not his comments on health care are ones that are stale and have done and played and whether they are even in sync with reality the low point was the dark very foreboding and dark part of comments about the border border security and the

negative way in which he talked about immigrants and those who come to the nation i think another negative is going to be that as he was trying to reach and i think he was really trying to reach out to americans who are both undecided independents and people who are just struggling i think the rush limbaugh moment was a big fail he took this superstar of the far right in radio in america but a real i can of the right wing and gave him the presidential medal of freedom tonight and bestowed by molony a trump so a very good t.v. but very it really need the members to democratic members in that hall angry and i bet it made a lot of other americans angry to rush limbaugh is not someone behind whom there is a consensus that that is a great american who is sitting next to a well decorated military person who had put himself on the line for the nation over and over again we've probably got with that about 3 minutes left little bit less talk to us as we look forward now because there's no question that donald

trump is going to be very angry about his speech being torn up behind him even as he goes to this vote in the senate to appoint him how do you think this tone is going to be moving forward the fact that impeachment is still out there at donald trump is a regular pattern of people which we think about to go. some people were praising his element of control that he didn't talk about impeachment that he didn't go after individuals that he didn't you know add live tonight but know that people have said that donald trump has never shown himself able to maintain that order we'll see what he tweets tonight we'll see what he tweets in the morning to see who scalps he tries to go after and who he will try to get revenge from the certainty i mean the idea is a regular pattern of the president there no matter how well scripted he was right now he's never been able to hold that pattern once his handlers and everyone are not around him and i think that the list he has of people to go after is long people finance he palosi in adam schiff the john bolton so people on the right

people on the left that he feels led him to this moment of embarrassment where he is going to be in history books forever as the 3rd united states president impeached and it was in nat environment which he gave this speech i would normally give the president very high marks for maintaining that demeanor there but we have not seen him able to maintain that sort of posture and essentially a magnanimity of approach to americans saying let's move beyond this let's talk about getting to work and figuring out what we can do on infrastructure health care all these other issues that are out there but the president has not shown himself to have that discipline so in other words donald trump if he gets any good reviews with regard to the speech is going to step on his own but headlines and seen that before him does it regularly i would put money that he does that again i'd be i wish he wouldn't i think it would be healthy and good for the country to begin talking about what americans really need and to have an honest contest between both sides of the aisle on how we can fix

a lot of problems in the country but right now there's a lot of rage a lot of anger you can feel it in this room a lot of frustration i was listening to senator chris murphy other senators who are coming out that were furious about the rush limbaugh moment and furious about the kitchen table approach for various about you know the vapid way and the artificial way. he went after black americans to certain degree in this so i think we're going to see more of that churn in the american but this is not going to be a period in american political order steve clemons host of the bottom line and al jazeera we appreciate you joining us thank you insights as always as steve mentioned this is certainly something that is going to get a lot of play especially how that speech was torn up by house speaker nancy pelosi right after donald trump finished it a lot to talk about as we continue to cover this here on al-jazeera. thank you very much indeed that's kimberly hall could joining us there from the white house we'll be back with you after this very short break springtime more of donald trump state of the union keep it here on al-jazeera i'll see you very soon.

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