hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm isha sesay. >> and i'm john vause, we're live in los angeles, it's 11:00 on tuesday night. >> donald trump's first address to a joint session of congress

is being widely praised but more for tone than substance. but the softer, gentler style was not enough to win over democrats who kept the applause to a minimum. >> stark contrast to republicans who stood to applaud since the president listed his achievements since taking office last month and outlined an ambitious agenda. >> dying industries will come roaring back to life. heroic veterans will get the care they so desperately need. our military will be given the resources its brave warriors so richly deserve. crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, and railways, gleaming across our very, very beautiful land. our terrible drug epidemic will slow down and ultimately stop. and our neglected inner cities will see a rebirth of hope, safety, and opportunity. above all else, we will keep our

promises to the american people. >> and on the seventh day he rested. >> lots and lots to discuss. let's introduce our panel of experts. joining us here, democratic strategist matthew lipman, cnn commentator and trump supporter, john philips. >> also ron brownstein and mo kelly. great to have you all here. >> welcome to you all. >> big ideas from the president. small on detail. ron, the reality is, so far, there's no specifics from the president on how any of this will actually be paid for, and no plon an as to how this will e it through congress. >> yeah, i thought it was a more measured, controlled, at times more empathetic speech than we've seen from him before. but i think it's an emphatic mistake to view it as a reset. if anything, a doubling down on his determination to redefine the republican party around this populist, nationalist agenda, in

which he even opened a new front tonight, by going after not only his familiar target of undocumented immigration, but for the first time as president, indicating that he would support reducing legal immigration as well. if you look at the budget document that he put out the other day, in which he said that he wanted to increase defense spending by cutting domestic programs, which primarily aim at younger people, while completely exempting the entitlement programs for the elderly, which go more toward his constituency of older, and especially lower income whites, you have a coherent strategy here, john. that's the message for democrats. they are dealing with an opponent, an adversary who has a thee theory of the case, a coalition he's trying to build and an agenda that he's targeting toward them. that's the message i took out of his speech tonight. he knows where he is going, and the question is whether he can bring a majority of the country along with him. >> mo, to bring you in here, what did you make of the speech?

what message did you take from it? the president's saying the time for small thinking is over. >> it's nice that he said that, but i guess reality is going to be what's more important. we know that this president was presidential for all of one hour. one. on one day, across 40 days. so it's more important to see what he does on wednesday, what he does moving forward. because if he can't remain presidential. if something should happen that's negative, or someone should not agree with him like a justice, if he can't remain presidential, then this speech was only an insincere and inauthentic moment and not a turning point in this administration. i'm not sure we saw the true president trump tonight. i think we saw a momentary glimpse of a president. but i expect more of a petulant and petty trump going forward, because that's who he's been for 39 of the 40 days. >> well, mo, it was 16 minutes and 15 seconds. let's get into some details. on immigration, ron brought this up, the president floated the idea of a merit-based system

like in canada and australia. and also opened the door on immigration reform. >> i believe that real and positive immigration reform is possible, as long as we focus on the following goals. to improve jobs and wages for americans, to strengthen our nation's security, and to restore respect for our laws. >> so john, republicans in congress go for this? what about his base, they didn't vote for immigration reform, they voted for round themmum and kick them out. >> he was tough on immigration today. we're a country, not a flophouse, so i think the country will be behind him as he presses along with those programs. as a republican, i thought tonight's speech was so refreshing. i'm used to george w. bush giving these speeches which is like watching a drunk man drive down an icy road. what he did tonight will cause his poll numbers to shoot through the roofs.

those programs with that delivery is a winner. it should scare the democrats, especially the red state democrats, because they'll look at the poll numbers go up. ten of them are up for re-election in 2018 in states that he won. and when he would talk about things that were popular, he talked about bringing jobs back home and all the republicans would be cheering and, you could tell that nancy pelosi put the directive out to sit there stone-faced and every time the camera would cut to her, she would sit with the same expression on her face. it's hard to be the face of the movement, if your face has new movement. he's putting them behind the eight-ball if he can stick with this. >> i gotta bring in the democrat, you were twitching at points. >> did you see how i remained calm? [ laughter ] but let me just say this, you say trump's poll be ins are going to go through the roof. they're not. here's the biggest problem with what trump did tonight. he's already president. this was like a campaign speech, but he's actually the president. his plan on immigration reform, he's not going to have

immigration reform going through congress. his plan on infrastructure, where is the actual infrastructure plan? where is the tax reform plan? his plan on the affordable care act? he is actually president. he's been president for 40 days. put forward your plans. let's start to see what your plans are. he's not putting them forward. the american people are going to start to get angry, because it's not happening. >> one plan he did put forward, was bringing together this new group v.o. i c.e. take a listen to what he said specifically and we'll talk about the reaction. >> i have ordered the department of homeland security to create an office to serve american victims. the office is called v.o. i c.e. we are providing a vice to those

who have been ignored by our media and silenced by special interests. >> the groaning could not be escaped there. yeah, donald trump is trying to demonize immigrants. but here's the thing about donald trump. he's created -- he's saying there's this big problem on the border that has not existed for a while. immigration has been going down across the border for the last 16, 17 years. what he wants to do is create this big i.c.e. force, where he hires thousands more people. he wants to spend $25 billion to put up this border wall. where is the plan for the actual border wall? this is all huge government spending, 10% more for the military. these giant increases in spending, cutting taxes, but he actually, he's the president. where are the plans? put forward that budget, put forward the plans. he's not doing it. at some point, time's going to start getting short. we're already 40 days in, there are no plans. >> you mentioned the issue about obamacare. we did get some details of his vision for a possible replacement plan for the

affordable care act. this is what he said. >> tonight i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replace obamacare with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs, and at the same time, provide better health care. >> so ron brownstein, to you, is any of that going to happen? was it a good idea for the president to call obamacare a disaster and then turn to the democrats and ask for their help in trying to fix it? >> he's not going to get their help. but, yes, he has to intervene. the effort to repeal and replace obamacare has run into the mud in congress, because of, really at the moment, irreconcilable differences among republicans. the core problem goes back to what we were talking about before. the republican coalition, if you look at what they're become, they stand to lose on almost all

the ideas being put forward. the president talked about deregulating insurance, allowing it to be sold along state lines, and other ways try to reduce the cost of premiums. the problem is, if you do that and unravel the risk-sharing, the winners in that process are primarily younger healthier people when they're voting democratic. and the big losers are older, working-age people, at a time when a majority of donald trump's votes came from white people over 45. and that core conundrum of finding an alternative to obamacare that does not hurt their own voters, i think is a huge hurdle that republicans are facing in congress and all of the ideas that he put forward tonight such as selling insurance across state lines, would only compound that problem. it's not clear that they can find a way out of this conundrum, but he does -- if they are going to find a way, he's going to have to get his hands dirtier than he has so far. >> john, you hear what ron was

just saying. this isn't just an issue of getting democrats on board. can he even get republicans on board for the kind of obamacare replacement he outlined tonight? >> this isn't a curveball. he ran explicitly on repealing and replaces obamacare. m manu raju interviewed paul ryan. it looks similar to the plan paul ryan has been pushing. i believe there's commonality between congressional republicans and president trump than most people think. >> we heard from the president saying he would ask congress for a huge increase in infrastructure spending. >> we'll launch our national rebuilding, i will be asking congress to approve legislation that produces a $1 trillion investment in infrastructure of the united states, financed through both public and private capital, creating millions of new jobs.

>> mo, given that there's no plan to pay for this, and everything else the republicans are dealing with, and the fact that so many republicans are worried about the deficit and they don't like spending, again, what are the chances of this getting through? >> you basically took my answer, bill clinton said many years ago, this is about math. a trillion dollar infrastructure project, a $20 billion wall. tax cuts. how is he going to pay for this? it's not feasible. it's not even practical. it's not possible. look, ultimately, donald trump is showing us that he has an oversimplification of these issues. he just realized two days ago that obamacare and health care was very complicated. he has not put in the time, and he does not fully understand what is necessary in being leader of the free world and also commander in chief. >> matt, the president proposing a $1 trillion infrastructure project. someone will have to show him the money. >> here's the thing, he's not planning on spending a trillion dollars on infrastructure. he said a public-private

partnership. then pointed to what eisenhower did in the 'first. that was public money used to build the nation's highways. there's no money for private companies to make in that sort of thing. we all think, wow, infrastructure sounds great. we'll hire a lot of people. trump is talking about something very different. he hasn't told us what the specifics of the plan are, but there are public-private partnership doesn't work when you're building infrastructure projects. >> we're running out of time. i want to get to one of the last points from his address, and it was on national security and some tough talk from the president. >> we are also taking strong measures to protect our nation from radical islamic terrorism. it is not compassion, but reckless, to allow uncontrolled entry from places where proper vetting cannot occur. we cannot allow a beechead of

terrorists to form inside america. we cannot allow our nation to become a sanctuary for extremists. >> so, john, the president seemed to enjoy using the term yet radical islamic terrorism," even though his own national security adviser has argued against using those words. >> that's the threat. i don't know why we should expect him to pretend that's not the threat. this is not a curveball. it's a fastball. it's something he talked about again and again and again during the campaign. it's something that people who voted for him expect him to address and he put it front and center tonight. >> but the thing about it is, when we talks about the fact that we're not properely vettin. it takes two years for them to come over. we have an excellent vetting process in place. he's trying to create an enemy where there is none. we have a problem with terrorism, but he's speaking about it in a way that's completely wrong. >> a lot more to get to from the president's address. we'll take a short break.

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>> i am asking everyone watching tonight to seize this moment, believe in yourselves, believe in your future, and believe once more in america. >> u.s. president donald trump delivering his first address to the u.s. congress. let's bring back ron brownstein and talk radio host mo kelly. ron, to start with you, there is no doubt this speech was strikingly different in tone than the speech president trump gave at his inauguration. what did you make of it tonally? >> well, as i said, i thought it was more controlled, more empathetic at moments.

but it was also a speech that featured a large number of threats that he identified. the essence of conservative populism, the kind of populism that has propelled him from the beginning is the idea that you are defending the middle from forces from above and below that would threaten them. look at all of the threats that he pointed to in this speech. undocumented immigrants who are committing crimes. legal immigrants who might be stealing your job. muslim terrorists. radical islamic terrorists. foreign competitors who would be taking your job. basically he identified a world of threats that were challenging the security of voters that he argued that he would protect. now, there's a lot of power in that argument, as he's demonstrated. the risk to him is that many americans hear that as excluesary, as bias, as rejecting a tolerant inclusive society. i think that is the fault line more than any other, on which the trump presidency will be fought out, and ultimately the political verdicts will be

rendered in 2018 and 2020. is it about involving and protecting all americans or dividing new lines between us and them at home? >> there was that moment out the gate where the president acknowledged the attacks and the threats to jewish community centers. also he did a call-out to the racially motivated shooting in kansas. listen to this. >> recent threats, targeting jewish community centers and vandalism of jewish cemeteries, as well as last week's shooting in kansas city, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms. >> so mo, a lot of people say that was a long overdue, but yet positive moment for the president. but just hours before this, president trump was implying that, you know, the people behind the attacks at the jewish cemetery, may have been doing it

to make him look bad, even i implied it could have been done by jews. >> yeah, we've set the bar so low. this is the same president who also said tonight that education is a civil rights era of our time. that couldn't be further from the truth. this was the same man caught up in one of the biggest civil rights cases of our time in terms of the housing discrimination case against him in the 1970s. he has yet to prove that he's sincere in what he has to say about african americans, and other people of color. he still went down that road of rhetoric, talking about african americans being disenfranchised, disadvantaged, poor, crime-ridden cities. he doesn't really understand what it means to reach out to someone as opposed to offering platitudes and photo opportunities. >> ron, one person he did reach out to was the widow of ryan

owens, the navy seal who lost his life in the operation in yemen. it was a striking moment. take a listen. >> yeah. >> i just spoke to our great general mattis, just now, who re-confirmed that -- and i quote -- ryan was a part of a highly successful raid that generated large amounts of vital intelligence that will lead to many more victories in the future against our enemy. ryan's legacy is etched into eternity. thank you. >> his wife was clearly very emotional. you see her there, karina owens there, tears streaming down her face. president trump even going on to quote lines from the bible about sacrifice. notable in that -- i mean, that i can recall, the first time we've seen him in that comforter in chief role. >> right, the first time we've

seen human empathy. rarely have we seen that from him. the part about her husband's heroism is not in dispute. pretty much everything else that the president said in terms of how the raid unfolded and whoa it produced is in dispute. but there's no question that this was, as i said, this was a moment of empathy, and a speech in which he was able to display more empathy than he has before. that did not seem to be solely about him and his grievances and his desires and his needs, more about a kind of reaching out to others. but again, having said that, there were a lot of lines drawn in this speech, that despite a softer tone overall in some ways, it was still a speech with a lot of us and them. and i think the question -- that is the core question that confronts this president. do people see him as someone who is really working to make life better for all americans? or trying to, in effect, build walls at home, even as he builds

walls along the border with mexico? >> well, it was a speech which ended, though, with a call to unity. this is what he said. >> this is our vision. this is our mission. but we can only get there together. we are one people, with one destiny. the time for small thinking is over. the time for trivial fights is behind us. we just need the courage to share the dreams that fill our hearts. >> mo, was this a hard sell coming from a man who spent the better part of two years essentially insulting everybody around him? >> we'll see. i know "saturday night live" is coming back in four days and we'll get to see whether he's truly about unity, whether he's truly about putting petty things and small mindedness behind us. president trump, it's all up to him. he can be the president that he wants to present himself to be. but consistency is what breathes confidence. he has to be consistently the

adult in the room, as opposed to being petty and petulant. if he goes back to being petty and petulant at 3:00 a.m. tonight, because he gets a negative review about his speech, or he's watching cnn right now, which he's want to do, then we're right back to where we started and this speech means little, if anything. >> okay, mo, thank you so much. mo kelly and ron brownstein, thank you for being with us. we should also mention there are poll numbers in already. >> we want to show that. >> about the address to congress. >> it's being received very positively. >> 509 americans were polled for this, they watched the speech and it got positive reviews. 69% saying the president's policies will move the country in the right direction. >> we should also point out that since it's the republican president, those people watching this address could most likely be republicans, which may skew those numbers. >> yeah.

time for a quick break now. donald trump says america is ready to lead again on the world stage. just ahead, the president's plan for making new friends and forging new partnerships. better value

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what we are witnessing today is the renewal of the american spirit. our allies will find that america is once again ready to lead. >> welcome back to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. 11:30 here on the west coast of the united states. >> this is cnn newsroom live from los angeles. >> u.s. president donald trump has wrapped his first address to congress.

back with us to talk more, matthew lipman and john philips. >> and joining us also, matthew chance. >> it was all very much america first. listen to the president. >> my job is not to represent the world. my job is to represent the united states of america. >> that's a pretty clear message coming from the president. what are the implications of that? >> well, first of all, we are the leader of the free world. so part of his job is to represent the world. we are the leader. that's why he's building that military budget, boosting it by 10%. we also are in nato, which he's talked very poorly about in the past. but we need to be leading nato as well. so i think there's all this confusion around the world that these cabinet members have to go to morocco and brussels. they're like pooper scoopers for trump, trying to clean up his

mess all over the place. part of terms to fighting isis, seems to be a continuation of barack obama's foreign policy, but i think it's a terrible thing to take a step back in terms of world leadership. >> u.s. allies will be wondering, can they rely on the u.s., especially when you hear comments like that? >> speaking as the voice of the sanitation department, i can say that a very smart american politician, tip o'neil, once said, all politics is local. donald trump, he's a first-time candidate, he's a businessman who's now a politician, understands that. and sometimes politicians, presidents in particular, can lose sight of the fact that they have to deal with the nuts and bolts of domestic policy first and foremost. when they start getting involved in conflicts all around the world, they take their eyes off the prize. tonight at this speech, he reaffirmed his support for nato, said it's a very important part of our international alliances

and he's committed to making sure that succeeds. gave them a tip of the hat for destroying communism and fascism and other international victories they have produced. so i thought it was a great speech and i thought our allies have something to be happy about. [ all speak at once ] >> sorry. two things, one you said he reaffirmed his support for nato. he affirmed his support for nato. >> he never said we'd pull out. >> last year, he did say pull out. for you to say that a president shouldn't be able to concentrate on domestic and foreign policy, a president needs to be able to walk and chew gum. you are the leader of the free world. i know he said health care may be more complicated. this is way more complicated. >> he also said he was in the business of making new friends. >> america's willing to find new friends and to forge new partnerships wrrks shared interests align.

we want harmony and stability, not war and conflict. we want peace wherever peace can be found. america is friends today with former enemies. some of our closest allies, decades ago, fought on the opposite side of these terrible, terrible wars. this history should give us all faith in the possibilities for a better world. >> and by "friends," that would seem to be russia. matthew chance joins us live from moscow. matthew, the president didn't actually say russia, but that's how it's being read here in the united states. how is it seen there from moscow? >> reporter: well, it's certainly being commented on widely in the russian press, that the word russia wasn't uttered by president trump. you get the sense that given the critical remarks from various elements of the trump administration in the past couple weeks, there's probably some relief about that.

but in fact, this continues the idea that there's mixed messages coming from the trump administration, when it comes to its policy toward russia. on the one hand, trump affirmed his support for nato, that's something that won't be welcomed very readily here in russia. of course they're opposed to nato expansion. they were hoping trump would be opposed to that as well and would see it from their point of view. but also this idea that america's willing to find friends and forge new relationships. perhaps in a bleak reference to the idea of cooperation over international terrorism, it's something that both the united states and russia do have coinciding national interests about. and i suppose for people here in russia, that still see president trump or want to see him as pro-russian in some way, they'll draw some comfort from that. >> matthew chance live in moscow, appreciate it. matt lipman, how did you read the comments? did you read them as an oblique

reference to russia? >> of course. he's not mentioning russia because he doesn't want to be attacked by everybody. everybody questions his alliance with russia. we don't have the same goals as russia. that's why we're not aligned with russia, right? so we both like to fight terrorism. but in syria, what russia is doing is trying to boost assad. that's not something that the united states is doing. he doesn't want to mention this, because we've been finding out that his campaign had a lot of back and forth with people in russia. and there are going to be investigations in congress, and donald trump won't release his tax returns, so we don't know how much russia has invested in trump's businesses. but there's a lot of back and forth in congressional investigations that are going to be happening about trump's relationship with russia. so that's why he didn't mention the word russia tonight. >> i saw it as meaning a bunch of different things, including russia, including countries that could be helping in the war on terror. and i would throw in international trade. we wants to re-negotiate nafta and other trade deals. i think he's looking for allies,

not just when it comes to defense, but when it comes to trade. >> okay. >> funny how you have different reads. what a surprise there. >> matthew chance in moscow and matt lipman and john philips, thank you. >> thank you. we'll take a short break. when we come back, donald trump did not mention syria or refugees during his address to congress. so we'll speak to the aunt of a dead syrian boy who became the symbol of the crisis. she attended the address and will join us after the break. ♪ announcer: get on your feet for the nastiest bull in the state of texas. ♪ ♪ (crowd cheers) ♪

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>> this decision came late tuesday night after his address to congress. the president talked about taking strong measures against isis and not allowing the u.s. to become a sanctuary for extremists. >> as promised, i directed the department of defense to develop a plan to demolish and destroy isis. a network of lawless savages

that have slaughtered muslims and christians and men and women and children of all faiths and all beliefs. we will work with our allies, including our friends and allies in the muslim world, to extinguish this vile enemy from our planet. >> for more on donald trump's plans for defeating isis, congresswoman tulsi gabbard is with us now from washington. so to the congresswoman's guest at the president's address to congress. she's also the aunt of the little boy whose body was photographed washed up on a beach in turkey. he drowned along with his mother and brother trying to reach europe. the president only briefly talked about his plans to destroy isis, a plan which he says will rely on working with allies and friends in the muslim world. that would seem to indicate a

multilateral approach, which is similar to the obama administration, isn't it? >> well, thank you, john. one thing that i had hoped president trump would talk about was really a declaration to an end of current u.s. policy, which has u.s. taxpayers paying for arms and money and other support for armed militants in syria who are working directly with terrorist groups like al qaeda to overthrow the syrian government. this is a policy of a counterproductive regime change war that has caused such devastation, tremendous loss of life, and human suffering in syria. this refugee crisis, and has actually worked to strengthen terrorist groups like isis and al qaeda, that we should be focusing all our efforts, working with partners to try to defeat. >> we're about to hear from the president when he will issue a new travel ban. this time it's believed that refugees from syria will not be automatically rejected. even so, when the president's

talking about wanting to work with muslim allies and friendly muslim nation says around the world, what impact will this temporary travel ban have? >> honestly, it does hurt me a lot, when i heard this about the indefinite ban for the syrian refugees. all what i was thinking about, my family and other syrian people who lost their life trying to go somewhere safe. and, you know, to be honest, i am here, i was hoping to see president trump to stop arming the terrorists, stop supporting regime change, and this policy who caused million of the syrian, my people, to flee their

home. and no country wants them. so, stop bombing their country, they don't come to yours. >> congresswoman, with regards to the president's plan, you want him to stop arming the rebel groups within syria. you think that is doing more harm than good. but it does seem that the recommendations coming from the pentagon would see the kurdish fighters inside syria being armed, possibly even sending more u.s. troops there. if that happens, what exactly will be the consequences? >> well, first, it's important to make clear that there are two wars that we're waging right now in syria. the first war is the war that i've spoken about. it's this counterproductive, illegal regime change war to overthrow the syrian government, of which part of is that we are providing arms in support to militant groups that are directly working with al qaeda. this is what we should stop. the second war is the war to

defeat terrorist groups like isis, like al qaeda, and this is the war where we are working with the kurdish fighters on the ground who have proven to be the most effective fighting force against terrorist groups like al qaeda. we should continue that work and we should continue to focus our resources on defeating these terrorist groups and working with partners to do so. >> as somebody who's directly impacted obviously by the civil war in syria, what do most people there want? do they want the united states to continue to focus on regime change? or would they prefer more of a focus on isis? what's sort of the desire for the syrian population at this point, after such a long civil war? >> you know, from my experience, when i was speaking to the syrian people, the one i met, an example in turkey, in kurdistan,

those refugees, all what they want to go, they want to go home. we are outside if we don't talk to them personally, we don't know what's going on. i did talk to my people. i understand their language. they cry to me. and they told me, we want to go home. we need the world leader to help us and stop arming those, the jihadists in our country, and we want to just go home. >> okay, with that i think we'll leave it on that note. thank you both for being with us, teema curdy and congresswoman tulsi gabbard. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> time for a quick break now. coming up on newsroom l.a., how did mr. trump's speech stack up against his predecessor, president barack obama? a speech expert joins us to compare the two next. better value

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hello. how does the style of president trump address to congress compare to his past speeches. we are joined by elitta.

he stuck to the tell prompter and it it sounded like he was trying to be like a conventional president. >> it sounded like that. that might have been kind of the case. >> it was rehearsed to. >> he did. right now people are talking being him and saying he did so well. my feeling is he had a tell prompter. there was no ehissed emotion to walk in tell prompter he should do well in this environment. >> he has a particular speech

pattern with simple sentence as he makes the shift into being more presidential did he stick with that tonight? >> i think he did. he spoke in simple words. two syllable but not often. i think that's affective for him. more people understand him. they relate to him. they people like they is talking to them and not talking above them. so that works with him. he is an effective speaker. >> let's head back eight years for president obama first address to congress. >> if we come together and lift this nation from the departmeth this crisis, if we confront without fear the challenges of our time and summon that

enduring spirit of an america that does not quit, then some day years from now our children can tell i their children that this was the time we performed in the word that are carved into this chamber. something worthy to be remembered. >> now, let's compare that to inspirational moment from president trump. >> each america generation passes the torch of truth in an unbroken chain down to the present. that torch is now in our hands and we will use it to light up the world. i'm hear to deliver a message of unity and strength and it is a message deeply delivered from my heart. >> this is one of those moment when i thought donald trump was

outside of his comfort zone. he the guy at the end of the bar that talks like everybody else in the room and when we does this it seems awkward. >> it does. for the most part donald trump speaks authentically. he speaks off the cuff. what you're feeling is that doesn't feel authentic because you don't hear him speak that that often. >> it felt authentic for obama. >> yes, because obama spoke like that directly or if he was speaking in a speech. he didn't change depending on the circumstances. >> from tonight's speech where he takes a stabbing at --

>> when we fulfill this vision and celebrate our 250 years of glory we will look back on this chapter when this american greatness began. >> will his supporters like it? >> yes. he is a salesman. >> he is capable of changing. >> i think he is. he has the tools to be an effective communicator. whether he does that is up to him. the way he spoke tonight is what people were hoping for or expecting a month ago and he didn't do it. we'll see what happens from here on. this could be a turning point or tomorrow he could go back to --

>> twitter. >> we'll see. >> tomorrow is going to be interesting. >> absolutely. thank you, very much. all right, you are watching cnn room. i'm isa sin say. we'll return after a short break.

everything that is broken is our country can be fixed. every problem can be solved. democrats and republican should get together to unit fort good of the country. donald trump strikes a optimistic turn. but the speech did not get much applause from one side of the room. many democrats remain skeptical. because we will have reaction from hundreds of americans who watched the speech, hear what they think of the president's plans.