infrastructure and the military. >> so, the president talked about overhauling health care and rebuilding infrastructure. he also said the time is now to compromise on immigration reform. president trump gave an >> it is day 41 of the trump presidency. let's begin our coverage with joe johns live at the white house, joe. >> good morning, allison. he was using the language and rhetoric and tone that the country has become accustomed to from its presidents. mr. trump certainly reaching for the reset button last night on capitol hill and a speech very well received by one critical audience, those congressional republicans that will have to try to push through his agenda. >> president trump striking a more presidential and optimistic tone. >> i'm here tonight to deliver a message of unity and strength.

>> in his hour long speech to a joint session of congress. >> it is a message deeply delivered from my heart. >> off the top the president condemning the surge in hate crimes since he took office. >> 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 in policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of it's very ugly forms. >> spending much of his speech laying out a very ambitious agenda. >> everything that is broken in our country can be fixed. >> his solution, an echo from his campaign america first. >> buy american and hire american. >> once again using national security as the basis for his proposed border wall with mexico. >> we want all americans to suck

seesz but that can't happen in an environment of lawless chaos. we will soon begin the construction of a great, great wall along our southern border. >> we are removing gang members, drug dealers and criminals that threaten our communities and prey on our very innocent citizens. >> and defending his controversial travel ban halted by a federal court weeks ago. >> it's not compassion but reckless to allow uncontrolled entry in places where proper vetting cannot occur. >> but signaling he might be open to compromise on immigration. >> the president told network news anchors that he's open to a legal status for millions of undocumented immigrant ifs they

never committed a crime. >> i believe republicans and democrats can work together to achieve an outcome that has illuded our country for decades. >> we would ensure that american with pre-existing condition have access to coverage. >> leaning on tax credits to make sure that americans can avoid their premiums. >> the president also announcing a huge plan to boost the nation's infrastructure. >> i will be asking congress to approve legislation that produces a $1 trillion investment in infrastructure of the united states creating millions of new jobs.

>> the president using this reference. >> radical islamic terrorism. >> even though sources say his new national security advisor told him not to use it in a speech. the president ending his speech with a very emotional moment honoring the widow of brian owens, a navy s.e.a.l. killed last month in yemen saying he was part of a highly successful terror raid. he is look down right now. you know that the bible teaches us there's no greater act of love than to lay down one's life for one's friends. >> and the administration feeling so upbeat about the speech last night that they have decided to adjust the schedule to let the buzz play out a little bit. they were going to roll out it's new travel ban today but they

decided to delay that. >> it's a good move for them. the president should have a good day. if you're watching mr. president stay off twitter. just listen to the praise that comes in because there was a lot of optimism in that speech last night. 78% of speech watchers say they had a very positive or some what positive reaction to the president's address. >> 69% of speech watchers say his policies will move the nation in the right direction. that number for context is lower than 2009 or 2001 when barrack obama and george w. bush did this. they had higher numbers in the early stages of their presidency. still for president trump these numbers are high. >> now as it's often the case when you do an instant sampling like this you'll have more of the party in power so it leans more republican but not to qualify it too much, a good

night for the president can he avoid the political disputes that come with this debate? that remains to be seen but this is a good start. >> it is a good start. that's within his own party. the guidelines on balm care were coherent but still gloss over the disagreements within the republican caucus around how you keep some of the popular consumer aspects of balm care while still gutting the program and repealing it. do you force young healthy people to get insurance that helps pay for older folks that are going to use the services?

tax and tax reform. still unclear how he's going to workout some of these differences we're seeing that in the stock market and a coherent view about how he sees america and the world. still leaving, still part of nato, still a world force that can bring stability but very clearly saying we are going to view the world in terms of what is good for the united states so

just to remind people of the different things he's saying in terms of communicating his vision. here is then and now. >> this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. >> i'm here tonight to deliver a message of unity and strength and it's a message deeply delivered from my heart. >> the wealth of our middle class has been ripd from their homes and redistributed all across the world. >> a new surge of optimism is placing impossible dreams firmly within our grasp. >> we'll no longer accept

politicians that are all talk and no action. >> solving these and other problems will require us to work past the differences of party. >> this has an effect. 69% of people that watched president trump's speech felt more optimistic. it has an effect on the listener when you use different language. >> absolutely. this was a tale of two speeches and i don't know that he changed many democratic minds to be perfectly honest but he may have changed the mind of republicans particularly those in the room it could pertain to his own party. that i'm going to be listening to today, the more conservative

members of the republican party. when they listen to that president do they have more optimism that they'll be able to get something done on obamacare and bring his own party together certainly this speech gave hope to republicans that a lot more is possible than perhaps they thought. >> and there's no question, david, he is benefitting from a low bar, for many when they listen to him speak i hope it doesn't give him a heart attack about something that's going to happen but still he probably impressed anybody that's listening in terms of coming across better than expected but he seems to have three major challenges. david gregory outlined the first. how does he deal with his own party and doing all the spending and not paying for it dollar for dollar. the second one is what jackie mentioned. what we're hearing about how they want to fix health care could make it more expensive and cover fewer people. that's a problem. the third one is going to be with democrats in any compromise on immigration.

he did still go last night on this issue and it still doesn't match the facts. he called it lawless chaos. that is not what the immigrant reality is on our criminal justice system here. they commit fewer crimes p per capita than citizens and you have a lot more rapists and killers that are citizens than immigrants. how does that play? >> stipulating that the president at any moment can drop a tweet and get back into a fight with his political opponents and media and stipulating there's a lot of details that weren't answered last night and a lot of promises hard to deliver on the speech was a home run and if you want to get people to follow you and workout the details you to give them someone to follow they can feel good about and that's what he did for the first time last night. don't forget, most americans don't pay attention to the president and what happens in washington on a daily basis. they're not paid to do it.

they probably last looked at the president closely around inauguration so they tune in and they see somebody that is heart felt and cares and when you couple that fact with the data that shows the president's policies have been more popular than him, if you can put those things together. a president people like a lot more and respect a lot more with policies they already like this could reset his ability to lead the country. it's also going to calm a lot of nerves on capitol hill among republicans because they have been concerned of course republicans had briselled

previously at something much less ambitious. paul ryan said when it was first suggested and there was half of that cost, 500 billion, he didn't like it. listen to paul ryan back in september. >> you help a president donald trump pass a $550 billion or more infrastructure program. would that be something that you would help him achieve? >>. >> that's not in the better way -- just so you know, we did pass the biggest highway bill. >> since the mid 1990s. >> in case people are just listening and not watching he was slapping his knee in hill lairty at the prospect of that and now it's double. >> look, paul ryan as house speaker has for years and going back to advised presidential candidate talked about a looming debt crisis that would effect america and indeed come home to america so conservatives do worry about the debt. they worry about it deeply.

they worry about populous measures like abandoning free trade and they worry about how the math works in terms of making these kinds of investments and how he negotiates with those people whose districts he still has control in. >> the president says we, we, we when it comes to health care and that's on ryan's plate but right now there's a lot of concern that what they're doing is going to make obamacare more expensive and cover less people. >> stick around if you would because we have much more to discuss. coming up in our next hour we have senate minority leader chuck schumer with the democratic reaction to the speech and then republican senator ron johnson. he will discuss his thoughts on

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we should help americans through the use of tax credits and expanded savings account. it must be the plan they want and not the plan forced on them by our government. >> all right now president trump urging lawmakers to repeal and replace obamacare in his address last night in congress.

we have david gregory and here as we understand it let me put up the principles of mr. trump's health care plan as we understand them. give governor's flexibility and bring down the cost of insurance and drugs. republicans have been calling with that for a long time and do you understand today where the republican plan is with repealing and replacing obamacare. >> no, those are all platitudes. the president deserves credit for putting them in a message where he lays out his principle in reforms.

what has been holding them up is a lack of consensus. they'll produce a number of bills and not just one big bill and what they need is this is my bottom line. let's fix that and if he gets involved then a lot of republicans on the hill complaining they don't like this plan or that plan are going to start to come in line. it's going to be hard work and there's a lot of political challenges but this is what remains to be done. the speech didn't answer that question but probably makes republicans on the hill a lot more comfortable that the president is going to finally be engaged. >> this is tricky stuff. it's hard to cover. it's hard to understand but there's no question, david has been reporting this out t ryan plan is even within his own party.

there seems to be an inclination to take money out of the plan and deliver it as part of the tax cut. that's going to create a huge burden on how you keep the same number of people covered and even if their own party they're fighting that that is a death sentence politically and how real is this issue? >> it's a big issue and this is a real divide between conservatives and progressives about how you manipulate the market. you don't want to just make coverage accessible, you want to make it affordable. >> forcing younger and healthier people to buy insurance under risk of a penalty if you don't do it is meant to balance out the system. the way you keep insurance premiums down is if you have young healthy people paying in the system but not using it as much as older unhealthier people. that bals oances out and that's

been a problem for obamacare is not getting people to sign up tochlt have a tax credit still has the potential to leave people dropped out of the program and if you have people on their parents policies until they're 25. >> jackie, next issue, immigration. it's hard to pin down where president trump is on immigration because he says different things at different times. yesterday before the address he sat down with broadcast journalists of all the major networks and they reported after this meeting that he suggested there could be a path to -- >> no, not a legal path way. >> but you could stay here and work. legal status. some of the 11 million undocument peemd that are here that have not committed crime.

that's not what he said last night. >> no, that's not what he said last night. >> that said when you actually look at the speech the immigration part was sort of the darkest part of the speech. there was a lot of fear. immigrants are going to take your jobs. the bad ones are going to commit crimes. that was an undertone. he also didn't really mention dreamers. in the gallery a lot of them were guests of democrats that were surrounding him and that's something he has a soft spot for and puts him at odds with the more hard liners in his party. so we have seen several presidents give speeches that include immigration, but how he tries to get this legislated is going to be the question and the master salesman is going to have some work to do. >> isn't he making it harder for

himself by continuing this falicy that the immigrants in this country are this base of lawless chaos? those were his words last night. the statistics don't bear it out. you have people in this country illegally that commit crimes and need to be thrown out. nobody disputes that but he created a notion of an environment of unsafety for americans that is just not in reality. how important is that to the analysis? >> right we saw democrats grow visibly irritated and audibly irritated when he talked about the new homeland security task force that's going to focus on crimes committed by illegal immigrants. there's another way to look at this as well. if the president could deliver on his security promises he could create the political space on the right that been very resistant to any comprehensive reform that's always going to involve some sort of pathway to citizenship to illegal

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president trump laying out his plans for the country in a major address to congress. so his plans going forward are only as good as the facts on which they are based. we want to talk about a couple of them right now. we have big numbers offered about the state of the economy. there was a big claim about the current state of the labor force. what did we see? we had 21 americans. let's listen to what he is saying. >> we must honestly acknowledge the circumstances we inherited. 94 million americans are out of the labor force. over 43 million people are now living in poverty. and over 43 million americans are on food stamps. >> you're going to hear a lot about these two numbers. they're going to be a big part of any kind of change. 94 million americans are out of the labor force.

that happens to be true. it's actually 95.1 million americans are not working but guess what, there's a reason for that that has nothing to do with the strength of the economy. about 92% of those people are retired, disabled, taking care of a family member, or in school or job training. so they're not really looking for work and not always for a bad reason so that claim is true but misleading. >> so now let's talk about poverty and what the president said. he mentioned here that more than 43 million people are on food stamps. that is true. as of last november that number had been going down though over the past two years. it's about 2 million people lower than in november of 2015 so it's going in the right direction. he also said 43 million people are living in poverty but the

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so there was a very emotional and tearful moment last night. president trump honoring fallen navy s.e.a.l. ryan owens that was killed last month in a terror raid in yemen and his widow was trying to process it all at last night's address. >> ryan died as he lived, a warrior and a hero, battling against terrorism and securing our nation. ryan's legacy is etched into eternity. thank you. [ applause ]

>> we're letting the applause play because it was more applause than i have ever heard in that chamber. nothing brings people together like mutual president for the veterans but this has some components to it that we have to talk about going forward. >> this is complicated. you can't get past her looking

up to the heavens for strength during that moment. it was right out there. all the emotions she was feeling and everybody was feeling. >> also joining us is cnn pentagon correspondent barbra star. this goes to the heart of all of us that want to believe that ryan owens did not die in vain and will keep the country safe. they call it highly successful but there's different reports on whether this was a highly successful raid. john mccain said no it was not. what's the feeling at the pentagon about why this is highly successful. >> you still have to start with this young woman. unbelievable that she is there and i would say quite composed.

this young woman widowed just 30 days. you look at those pictures. she is reaching out. i don't know too many of us that could do that so you see there the actual reality of the price that military families pay for the service of the lofed ones that do fall in battle. the question of whether the mission was in vain is two separate questions. the sacrifice is unimaginable for most of us. the question is did they get intelligence? what we know is they got a significant amount of intelligence and they got explosive manufacturing techniques about their training and about their recruiting. why did they go to this compound? why did they go into yemen? because al qaeda in yemen is the

one organization that has been able to reach out and launch attacks in the west. they are practicing and making bombs undetectable to a large extent by airport security. there's a much renewed campaign inside the military to go after this organization. military commanders will tell you, beginning, middle and end of the story that made the mission worth it. it does not mean that it's not under investigation to see what happened, how they ran into so much opposition when they went there. >> right and david as barbara often has to remind us the military doesn't look at loss of life as to whether or not something is a success. they see that as the price of these missions going into it. they don't not take on missions because there might be a loss of life and yet what we saw last night is this really powerful,

powerful stuff that can come up in politics. nothing galvanizes the american people and american politicians like the military but we have seen before where those men and women in that audience have gotten up and cheered and cheered for military and then not delivered for them. president trump is in a similar situation now. will he deliver on the veteran stuff? that's the easy part of the analysis. he blamed the generals for what happened on this operation. he said they lost owens so last night he was in the right place for this grieving widow. no question about it but what happen ifs there become real questions about the political process? the father of owens wasn't there last night for a reason. >> it is complicated. this is a president that gave an order to go into war. this is his first time. this had been in the claiming stages of the obama white house and as you said for the president to say i got the best

generals and it was really their plan. he's the commander and chief and he said before he knows more than the generals about how to prosecute the case in the battlefie battlefield. >> there's going to be more investigation into this kind of raid and it speaks to judgment, miscalculation all of which are brought to bear when you order these kinds of missions and any president has to bear that burden and there may be a lot more we know that didn't go well on a lot of levels as opposed to what the planning suggested could happen. >> i believe there's three investigations underway to make sure because as we know ryan

owen's father who himself a veteran, he had said that he has called it a stupid mission and it's not just that his son was killed. it's that the father believes this was a grand display at the beginni beginning. >> right he's asking for an additional operation. he wants a political investigation of the process by which this president made this decision to go. >> what's interesting in terms of politics is the president started out passing the puck on and he laid it on the generals and what he was able to do was take back and it appeared as if he was taking back responsibility for what happened with the mission even though only mentioned the positive parts of it. most interesting to me he relied on the secretary of defense as

somebody that's very reassuring to the public to prove that everything with the mission went well and was a success and time will tell and we'll see if the president gets more comfortable in his role as commander and chief. >> thank you for walking us through all of that. >> there was a deadly tornado outbreak across the midwest. threat may not be over. we have chad meyers on it, next. (man) hey, uh, what's rootmetrics? it's the nation's largest independent study and it ranked verizon #1 in call, text, data, speed and reliability. (woman) do they get a trophy? not that i know of. but you get unlimited done right. (man 2) why don't they get a trophy? (man 3) they should get something. (woman 2) how about a plaque? i have to drop this. my arm's getting really tired. unlimited on verizon. 4 lines, just $45 per line.

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our break news an outbreak of tornadoes ripping through the midwest leaving at least 3 people dead. winds so powerful some 20 junk yard vehicles were blown on to a missouri interstate killing a driver and injuring others. chad meyers has your forecast. what do you see my friend? >> same thing we saw yesterday. we talked about this. the potential for the tornadoes and they were there. 22 separate reports of tornadoes. this weather report brought to you by purina. your pet our passion. that weather continues moving to the east. cincinnati, columbus down to cleveland and nashville coming up in the next two hours as the storms continue to march to the east with their severe

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obamacare premiums nationwide have increased by double and triple digits as an example, arizona went up 116% last year alone. governor matt bevin of kentucky just said obamacare is failing in his state. the state of kentucky. and it's unsustainable and collapsing. >> president trump outlining his

plan to repeal and replace obamacare, kind of. there really weren't any details about that. his party still hashing it out but he did single out kentucky which saw one of the steepest decreases of uninsured residents after obamacare went into effect and it's part of the reason that the face of the democratic rebuttal was the former kentucky governor. he gave the response last night sitting in a diner as i recall. yes, governor. >> that's exactly right, chris. we figured that it was time to focus this debate is what is going on in this country on the people it effects. real people here in america. >> one point is usually the rebuttal, they'll have the future face of the democratic party. you guys went a different way which means either you're going to run for president in 2020 and that's why you did that last night or there was a different strategy at play.

what's the answer? >> well, chris, the first thing you mentioned is not the answer. i'm not running for president in 2020. why i think they picked me, probably two reasons. number one, i governed for 8 years in a state bringing democrats and republicans together and we had a success story here in so many ways. we raised our educational standards and graduation rates and created jobs and implemented the affordable care act and gave health insurance to over 500,000 kentucians. and i don't have a stake in this. everybody felt like when i talked about these issues people can be convinced i'm doing it from the heart. and last night as well.

and well, obviously i know that they're in the alabama ternty facts. we had some of the worst in the country and have had them for a long, long time. three years after implementing the affordable care act, our uncommon care rate for providers. people are actually getting health care coverage now and they like it and preventive care is kicking in and the statistics are showing that people's health is starting to get better so it works here in kentucky. we also have outside studies and

they concluded the same thing. i created 12,000 jobs in the first year that we implemented the affordable care act. it's going to have a positive impact on our budge. those are the facts now. the folks that don't like this don't like the facts. they're hoping if they repeat that long enough somebody is going to repeat them. >> last night the president looked over at the democratic side of congress and said it's time to period stop these trivial disputes. there was a lot of push back that these are anything but trivial and it was the wrong message. if it was anything but unity it was the wrong way, but why. >> >> i think democrats have always been ready to work

together. democrats are willing to sit down. take health care for instance. we know that there are things that need to be fixed with the affordable care act. some people's premiums are too high. there's some issues with small business. we need to sit down and make it better and we're willing to do that but our bottom line is simply this. in 2010, this country made a commitment to every single american that they would have affordable good health care in the future and that is our bottom line. whatever plan is put together we want everybody to have that affordable care and every plan we've seen from the republicans go in the opposite direction. it rips health care away from millions of americans and hundreds of thousands in kentucky. that's not acceptable but if you want to make this better. if you want to make sure that everybody has health care but that it's good, it's affordable and that it works we're willing to sit down and work with them. >> well, there's a counter

factual on that. there's a broader array of opinion in the republican party about what to do. so they have their own challenges but they all say the democrats have been told not to help. every time i ask are any democrats going to work with you on this one, they all say the same thing, no they have been told to lock it up for now. we'll see what happens going forward. so is there a little bit of institutionalized resistance from democrats right now? and every idea that he had, the republicans oppose. not because it might have been a good or bad idea but because it's the president's idea. i'm sure there's a little bit of resistance now with the democrats because that's the way they were treated for 8 years but ian