theme of the president's state of the union address this year will be the great american comeback according to white house officials and that's of course the way hold the trump administration it's you and he's president and the president is accepted to tell us his economic achievements to new trade deals that he was able to sign he will be talking about he's achieved many how he has been trying to bring jobs back home how the economy is growing this talk market is up and you asked has their record low unemployment so this will be the most important topic in his speech and white house officials told me that we should expect presidents trying to strike a pose it to tone that his speech is going to be a speech full of relentless optimism and it will be of course interesting to see if he's going to reach out to the democrats to ask them to work with him to get over

as you mentioned and he is entering this chamber off only 48 days after the house of representatives impeached him and only one day before the senate is expected to vote and the senate impeachment trial. will you know want to turn you know we heard those terms bring this optimism is that the kind of tone you're expecting here from the president well we're certainly a far away from his inauguration speech and just 17 about american carnage she he is able to strike a positive optimistic note when he wants to of course in the sense that he takes all the credit as alexander just pointed out the economy is doing well unemployment is low americans are feeling into according to polls anyway that things are looking up people are feeling positive that these are all things that donald trump likes to take credit for speaking of the president that is president donald trump entering the chamber. he will be addressing the chamber shortly for his 3rd state of the

union address let's take you now live to capitol hill. listen to. the 1st lady there along a trump calling as well force william there is a lot of pomp and circumstance as this entire ceremony gets underway there is these stars and as you can see a lot of members of congress members of his cabinet there wanting to get there their t.v. time shaking hands with the president alexander i want to ask you as we have you there now we know of course in utah a fan of the president is hoping to avoid this this speech will be taking place on the eve of the verdict of his impeachment trial how do you think the impeachment trial might affect this speech that we expect to be hearing any moment. well i think that the most important or interesting question question for all of us

is whether president trump is going to talk about impeachment or whether he's going to stick with his script and not talk about it and for me it will be also interesting how he is going to interact with the speaker of the house nancy pelosi they haven't spoken since october so it will be interesting to see whether they are going to shake hands or knowledge that we might be high in that moment right now so dads and we see president trump now with nancy pelosi standing to his left and did not look like we're going to get a handshake there but it doesn't look as if the president is preparing is handing over a copy of the speech to his vice president and soon as he palosi him to do so i think you just saw that that was the time to the handshake. does look like present trump is about ready let's go ahead and take you down into the chamber.

thank you thank you. thank. you thank the members of congress the president of the united states. thank you thank you strain the republicans. thank you funny business throughout the night from the publicans of course are in control of the senate and then to the right of your screen will be the democrats

will of course anticipate some moments they'll be applauding in some moments they may even just stay seated. thank you very much thank you. thank you very much. madam speaker mr vice president members of congress. the 1st lady of the united states. me thank you my fellow citizens 3 years ago we launched the great american comeback. tonight i stand before you to share the incredible results jobs are booming incomes are sorry poverty is plummeting crime is falling confidence

is surging and our country is thriving and highly respected again. was america's enemies are on the run america's fortunes are on the rise and america's future is blazing bright the years of economic decay are over. thank

the days of our country being used to take advantage of and even scorned by other nations are long behind us thank god 2 of the broken promises jobless recoveries tired platitudes and constant excuses for the depletion of american wealth power and prestige in just 3 short years we have shattered the mentality of. american decline and we have rejected the downsizing of american says destiny. we have totally rejected the downsizing we're moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago and we are never ever going back.

was i am thrilled to report to you tonight that our economy is the best it has ever been our military is completely rebuilt with its power being unmatched anywhere in the world and it's not even close our borders are secure our families are flourishing our values are renewed our pride is restored and for all of these reasons i say to the people of our great country and to the members of congress the state of our union is stronger than ever before was. was

the vision i will lay out this evening demonstrates how we are building the world's most prosperous and inclusive society one where every citizen can join in america's unparalleled success and where every community can take part in america's extraordinary rise from the instant i took office i moved rapidly to revive the u.s. economy slashing a record number of job killing regulations in acting historic and record setting tax cuts and fighting for fair and we separate go. trade agreements thal our agenda is relentlessly pro worker pro-family pro growth and most of all pro american

was . where advancing with unbridled optimism and lifting our citizens of every race color religion and created very very high since my election we have created 7000000 new jobs 5000000 more than government experts projected during the previous administration. thank the unemployment rate is the lowest in over half a century thanks very incredible ie the average

unemployment rate under my administration is lower than any administration in the history of our country thank you thank you if we hadn't reversed the failed economic policies of the previous administration the world would not now be witnessing this great economic success. thank you unemployment rate for african-americans hispanic americans and asian americans

has reached the lowest levels in history thanks african-american youth unemployment has reached an all time low. you'll african american poverty has declined to the lowest rate ever recorded thank you unemployment rate for women reached the lowest level in almost 70 years and last year women failed 72 percent of all new jobs added thank

the veterans unemployment rate dropped to a record low. thank you unemployment rate for disabled americans has reached an all time low fuel workers without a high school diploma have achieved the lowest unemployment rate recorded in u.s. history. a record number of young americans are now employed.

under the last administration more than 10000000 people were added to the food stamp rolls under my administration 7000000 americans have come off food stamps and 10000000 people have been lifted off of welfare were over it 8 years under the last administration over 300000 working age people dropped out of the workforce in just 3 years of my administration 3500000 people working age people have joined the workforce.

you'll since byelection the net worth of the bottom half of wage earners has increased by 47 percent 3 times faster than the increase for the top one percent thank you after decades of flat and falling incomes wages are rising fast and wonderfully they are rising fast is for low income workers who have seen a 16 percent pay increase since my election. this is a blue collar boom it was. real

beady and household income is now at the highest level ever recorded. since byelection u.s. stock markets have soared 70 percent adding more than 12 trillion dollars to our nation's wealth transcending anything anyone believed was possible this is a record it is something that every country in the world is looking up to they have buyer. consumer confidence has just reached amazing new highs all of those millions of people with 4 a one k.'s and pensions are doing far better than they have ever done before with

increases of 607-080-9100 percent and even more. jobs and investments are pouring into $9000.00 previously neglected neighborhoods thanks to opportunity zones a plan spearheaded by senator tim scott as part of our great republican tax was was. was. in other words wealthy people and companies are pouring money into poor neighborhoods or areas that haven't seen investment in many decades creating jobs energy and excitement was this is

the 1st time that these deserving communities have seen anything like this it's all work in opportunity zones are helping americans like army veteran tony rankin's from cincinnati ohio after struggling with drug addiction tony losses his house and his family he was homeless but then tony found a construction company that invests an opportunity zones he is now a top tradesmen drug free reunited with his family and he is here tonight. tony keep up the great work tony was a thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you. thank you thank you tony.

karon economy has for the 1st time ever given many former prisoners the ability to get a great job and a fresh start. this 2nd chance at life is made possible because we passed landmark criminal justice reform into law everybody said that criminal justice reform couldn't be done but i got it done and the people in this room got it done. he be. thanks to our a bold regulatory reduction campaign the united states has become the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world.

with the tremendous progress we have made over the past 3 years america is now energy independent and energy jobs like so many other elements of our country are at a record high b.p. we are doing numbers that no one would have thought possible just 3 years ago likewise we are restoring our nation's manufacturing might even though predictions were as you all know that this could never ever be done after losing 60000 factories under the previous 2 administrations america has now gained 12000 new factories under my administration with thousands upon thousands of plants

and factories being planned or being built. i'd companies are not believing they are coming back to the usa cause. the fact is that everybody wants to be where the action is in the united states of america is indeed the place where the action is thank one of the biggest promises i made to the american people was to replace the disastrous nafta trade deal while. they tracked unfair trade is perhaps the single biggest reason that i decided to run for president following nafta is adoption our nation lost one in 4 manufacturing jobs

many politicians came and went pledging to change or replace nafta only to do so and then absolutely nothing happened but unlike so many who came before me i keep my promises we did our job while 6 days ago i replaced nafta and signed the brand new us mexico canada agreement into law the us m.c.a. will create nearly 100000 new high paying american auto jobs and massively boost exports for our farmers ranchers and factory workers. thank you it will also bring trade with

mexico and canada to a much higher level but also to be a much greater degree of fairness and reciprocity we will have that fairness and ressa part prosody and i say that finally because it's been many many years that we were treated fairly on trade thank you this is the 1st major trade deal in many years to earn the strong backing of america's labor unions. thank you i also promised our citizens that i would impose tariffs to confront china's massive theft of americans jobs our strategy has worked days ago we signed a groundbreaking new agreement with china that will defend our workers protect our intellectual property bring billions and billions of dollars into our treasury and open vast new markets for products made and grown right here in the usa

thank you for decades china has taken advantage of the united states now we have changed that but at the same time we have perhaps the best relationship we've ever had with john and including with president xi they respect what we've done because quite frankly they could never really believe that they were able to get away with what they were doing here after year decade after decade without someone in our country stepping up and saying that's enough. thank you now we want to rebuild our country and that's exactly what we're doing we are rebuilding our country. as we re store. american leadership

throughout the world we are once again standing up for freedom in our hemisphere. that's why my administration reversed the failing policies of the previous administration on cuba. ah we are supporting the hopes of cubans nicaraguans invent venezuelans to restore democracy the united states is leading a $59.00 nation diplomatic coalition against the socialist dictator of venezuela nicolas maduro.

maturer is an illegitimate ruler a tyrant who brutalizes is people but maturer his grip on tyranny will be smashed and broken here this evening it's a very brave man. who carries with him the hopes dreams and aspirations of all venezuelans joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of venezuela one. mr president i was least take this message back years because i was. because i thought .

i thank you mr president great honor thank you very much. please take this message back that all americans are united with the venezuelan people in their righteous struggle for freedom thank you very much yes. thank you thank you. thank you very much. socialism destroys nations but always remember freedom unifies the soul. thank you safeguard american liberty we have

invested a record breaking $2.00 trillion dollars in the united states military. thank god. we have purchased the finest planes missiles rockets ships and every other form of military equipment and it's all made right here in the usa . thank you we're also getting our allies finally to help pay their fair share.