our people eighteen years ago violent terrorists attacked the u.s.s. cole and last month american forces killed one of the leaders of that attack. and. we are honored to be joined tonight by tom were away whose son navy seaman craig were really was one of the seventeen sailors we tragically lost tom we vowed to always remember the heroes of the u.s.s. cole. ah. ah

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a country we will not overt our eyes from a regime that chants death to america and threatens genocide against the jewish people. we must never ignore the vile poison of anti semitism or those who spread its venomous creed with one voice we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs just months ago eleven jewish americans were viciously murdered in an anti-semitic attack on the tree of life synagogue

in pittsburgh swat officer timothy mattson raced into the gunfire and was shot seven times chasing down the killer and he was very successful timothy has just had. his twelfth surgery and he's going in for many more but he made the trip to be here with us tonight officer mattson league. was a who was

a who was . thank you we are forever grateful thank you very much tonight we are also joined by pittsburgh survive judah salmon he arrived at the synagogue as the massacre began but not only did judah darley escape death last fall more than seven decades ago he narrowly survived the nazi concentration camps today is jude is eighty first birthday. a he.

got. behind her a period thank you very well he. gave an.

eval they wouldn't do that for me judah i. hear to say as he can still remember the exact moment nearly seventy five years ago after ten months in a concentration camp when he and his family were put on a train and told they were going to another camp suddenly the train screeched to a very strong halt a soldier appeared. judy his family braced for the absolute worse than his father cried out with joy it's the americans it's the americans.

thank you a second holocaust survivor who was here tonight joshua accountant was a prisoner at dhaka he remembers watching through a hole in the wall of a cattle car as american soldiers rolled in with tanks to me joshua recalls the american soldiers were proof that god exists and they came down from the sky they came down from heaven i began this evening by honoring three soldiers who fought on d.-day in the second world war one of them was hermann zaitchik but there is more to herman story

a year after he stormed the beaches of normandy hermann was one of the american soldiers who helped liberate doc out. thank you thank . god. he was one of the americans who helped rescue joshua from that hell on earth almost seventy five years later herman and joshua of both together in the

gallery tonight seated side by side here in the home of american freedom herman and joshua your presence as evening is very much appreciated thank you very much thank you. thank you. one american soldier who said that beneath the dark skies over the english channel in the early hours of d.-day nineteen forty four they were

just young men of eighteen in one thousand hurtling on fragile landing cramped toward the most momentous battle in the history of war. they did not know if they would survive the hour they did not know if they would grow old but they knew that america had to prevail their cause was this nation and generations yet unborn why did they do it they did it for america they did it for us everything that has come since our triumph over communists our giant leaps of science and discovery our

unrivalled progress towards equality and justice all of that is possible thanks to the blood and tears and courage and vision of the americans who came before think of this capitol. think of this very chamber where lawmakers before you voted to end slavery to build the railroads and the highways and defeat fascists. to secure civil rights and to face down evil empires here tonight we have legislators from across this magnificent republic you have come from the rocky shores of may and the volcanic peaks of hawaii from the snowy woods of wisconsin and the red deserts of

arizona from the green farms of kentucky and the golden beaches of california together we represent the most extraordinary nation in all of history what will we do with this moment how will we be remembered. i ask the men and women of this congress looked at the opportunities before us our most thrilling achievements. are still ahead our most exciting journeys still await our biggest victories are still to come we have not yet begun to dream

we must choose whether we are defined by our differences or whether we dare to transcend them we must choose whether we squander our great inheritance or whether we proudly declare that we are americans we do the incredible we defy the impossible we conquer the unknown this is the time to reignite the american imagination this is the time to search for the tallest summit and set our sights on the brightest star this is the time to rekindle the bonds of love and loyalty and memory that link us together as citizens as neighbors as patriots this is our future our fate

and our choice to make i am asking you to choose great dance no matter the trials we face no matter the challenges to come we must go forward together we must keep america first in our hearts we must keep freedom alive in our souls and we must always keep faith in america's destiny. that one nation under god must be the hope and the promise and the light and the glory among all the nations of the world thank you god bless you and god bless america thank you of the thanks and that was u.s.

president donald trump delivering have second state of the union address. a speech that we have to say when considerably longer than what the white house had told us forty five minutes was the predicted length and i think we're looking at. william correct me if i'm wrong but i think we're looking at one that was wanger than last year's hour and twenty minutes or an hour or an hour in ten minutes was last year so i think he did i think he did himself this year the u.s. president began his speech he went immediately into the divisive politics of what he called the politics of revenge in washington and he called on both sides of the aisle to embrace compromise and to embrace the common good. and it was interesting to.