a deadly roadside bomb that took chris's life salomone was the iranian regime's most ruthless butcher a monster who murder awarded thousands of american service members in iraq as the world's top terrorist cell a money orchestrated the deaths of countless men women and children he directed the december to salt and went on to assault the u.s. forces in iraq was actively planning new attacks and we had a very hard and that's why last month at my direction the u.s. military executed a flawless precision strike that killed solemn many and terminated his evil reign of terror forever ah was

a message to the terrorists years earlier you will never escape american justice if you attack our citizens you forfeit your life was in recent months we have seen prouder rain ians raise their voices against their oppressive rulers the arabian regime must abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons stop spreading terror death and destruction and start working for the good of its own people because of our powerful sanctions the iranian economy is doing very very poorly we can help them make a very good and short time recovery it can all go very quickly but perhaps they are too proud or too foolish to ask for that help we are here let's see which

road they choose it is totally up to them. was . ah as we defend american lives we are working to end america's wars in the middle east in afghanistan the determination and valor of our war fighters has allowed us to make tremendous progress in peace talks are now underway i am not looking to kill hundreds of thousands of people in afghanistan many of them totally innocent it is also not our function to serve other nations as law enforcement agencies these are war fighters that we have the best in the world and they either want to fight to win or not fight at all we are working to finally end america's longest war and bring our troops back home was

more places a heavy burden on our nation's extraordinary military families especially spouses like amy williams from fort bragg north carolina and her 2 children 6 year old eliana and 3 year old rowan. amy works full time and volunteers countless hours helping other military families for the past 7 months she has done it all while her husband sergeant 1st class townsend williams is in afghanistan on his 4th deployment in the middle east amy's kids haven't seen their father's face in many months amy your family sacrifice makes it possible for all of our families to live in safety and in peace and we want to thank you thank you amy thank you

thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you you was putting me. there is one more thing tonight we have a very special surprise i am thrilled to inform you that your husband is back from deployment he's here with us tonight and we could be pivotal in the longer it were to o.t. get want to get

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sun is still rising god's grace is still shining. and my fellow americans the best is yet to come thank you god bless you god bless america thank the in the of the. i want to find president trump libbers the state of the union address your. news as president trump makes his way out of the chamber we have live coverage for you our d.c.

bureau chief alexander for naaman is with us from washington here in studio with me believe no glue craft i want to start with you alexander you were listening and you're watching that speech along with us what are your 1st thoughts. well i think that we have to talk about this 1st quite awkward moment when president trump declined to shake. the hand of nancy pelosi the speaker of the house this was quite on the usual and a quite unusual beginning of his state hopes to union address and then i would say that this speech reminded me of the state of the union address that i heard last year the president went on praising his successes his foreign policy successes as and he's achievements with regards to trade agreements growing economy and it was quite interesting to see the reactions in the chamber mostly

democrats not applauding but it was not a bill that said the president just went on with his speech we. oh it's to do democrats asking them to work with him together as if nothing happened in the last months as if there weren't weren't pietschmann and the pietschmann proceedings and congress certainly no mention of the at that impeachment proceedings that impeachment trial that still actually going on now was something that where there we were speculating about whether or not the president would would mention impeachment there there was nothing and perhaps with that litany that long list william of economic success he wanted to tout it's no surprise that he didn't well on the negative he went right for the positive from the very beginning talking about the economy there's no need to talk with you piece for he knows is going to be acquitted tomorrow night it's a done deal as far as he's concerned he has republican backing and the republicans

control the senate so he can move right along to his agenda and this speech made very clear that what the iowa caucuses already show was that the 2020 campaign is very much underway this was basically a campaign pitch sort of an opening shot you could say of his official campaign if you want to call it that he would break this down into into 3 sections he he was focusing on you know going to his base with immigration and guns are going to working class people want health care and trying to appeal to black voters by talking about prison reform and education opportunities these are things that have clearly been well focus grouped that the polls show these particular groups want to support and trump is trying to paint a very broad brush as he heads into the 2020 campaign does that sound right so you alexander you were in iowa you were covering the campaigning there by the democrats

was this perhaps the 1st shots fired from president trump as this campaign gets underway. yes i would also see it as a sort of him being in full campaign mode there in the chamber praising his achievements and of course appealing to his space look at mean what i have achieved and i'm promising cue that if i promise something that will keep this promise therefore he also invited special guest to his state of the union tonight. top border patrol agents so he could talk about his immigration policies about the border wall that he claims he has been building for from day one he was of course talking about the 2nd amendment and that he is the president who is promising to keep this 2nd amendment and this was definitely marking the come pain that

is not starting today it's already underway it is underway and of course it's going to be a long campaign season in fact we're still waiting for the following day it's going to be the iowa caucus. now william i want to talk a little bit about more about what president trump had to say about the economy because he really just hammered after this point again and again in fact what he called a comeback for the entire country want to take a listen now to a bit of what trump have a say in the beginning of that speech let's take a listen 3 years ago we launched the great american comeback tonight before you 2 share the incredible results jobs are booming incomes are sure. poverty is plummeting crime is falling conferences. and the.