markets yes we're seeing losses. keep it into perspective. [closing bell rings]. measly 1 1/2% clip off the dow of the less than that on nasdaq. looks like the subpoena will be lower by one full percentage point. we haven't seen that for quite some time. that is it for the claman countdown. hand it over to the closing bell. david: the dow seeing its first back-to-back losses of the year, ending down about 361 points. melissa: that's a big move. david: after the 7,000 point run up since the election, today's loss is one 1/4% a lot less than otherwise. s&p and nasdaq ending less than a percent lower. the dow and s&p are on track for biggest monthly gains in two years. nasdaq even longer than that. glad you could join us. i'm david asman. melissa: i'm looking at numbers settle out. i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell" on the president's big speech.

first trait to nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. what is fueling the selloff? >> there is selling across the board. the stock market is up 42% since election today but today is a big selloff. we're not normally seeing this kind of move. this move, the dow dropping 361 points. a loss of 1.4% roughly. this is the big offloss for the dow jones industrial average since last may, since may 17th. you are seeing a two-day selloff accounts more than 2% for the week, right? it is only tuesday. we'll see what happens tomorrow. that being said, early before the stock market could open, all 30 dow components all in the red. we had a story trending on health care, story on energy. let's break it down. first back-to-back losses we've seen for the dow of this year. don't forget we've had the s&p 500 having the best start to any year since late 1980s! we've had a great one but these two days have been tough.

10-year bond yields. as we watch treasury yield jumping moving higher, highest level since 2014 that crushes equities just in itself. you have a big story in health care. amazon, jpmorgan, berkshire hathaway. they are getting together to try to service over 500,000 employees on health care. put something out, that they can have better health care for cheaper prices. what did that do? that plus united healthcare, 4 1/2% almost which took off 100 dow points. cigna, aetna, anthem, humanitarian also dropping in a big way. there are some pharma companies who also dropped. big picture we saw selling across the board. had been down 411. with the dow down 362 points. melissa, safe? melissa: nicole, thank you. david: bring in the market panel today. james freeman, "wall street journal," fox news contributor and kevin kelly from benchmark investments. james, i will begin with you and bring in a big conspiracy theory talked about a lot, that

jeff bezos and warren buffett wanted to sour the president's first state of the union and therefore they announced this deal, knowing that it would tank the insurance stocks and bring down the market. what do you think about that conspiracy theory? >> i am not going to endorse that. this is an interesting announcement. we haven't seen a lot of details , but buffett and bezos, maybe they get together, maybe they bring in democratic governor and start applying to washington for waivers from obamacare? probably they could get pretty good media coverage on that kind of venture. david: i'm sure they would. >> might be good for the country if they start experimenting, pushing the edge of the envelope. david: i think so although -- they ban this to be non-profit. i think if the profit motive is in there, it might actually be more effective, but, kevin, the president clearly has bragging rights over the economy,

notwithstanding a downturn today in the market. does this take some edge off of those bragging rights though? we know he loves to talk about? >> yeah, i don't think so. one of the reasons question were in overbought conditions this is just a natural, healthy pause. one of the ways i can see that, if you look at dow transports that actually shows a healthy economy. if you look underneath the hood in the dow transports saw united airlines was up over 2%. same with jetblue, delta air lines. they're trading 10 to 12 pes. the market is trading 20 times pe. people are rotating sectors into that. get back into health care only conspiracy is opaqueness of supply and demand. what jamie dimon and his friends are doing will be good for the market. right now we're seeing higher incident of chronic diseases and illnesses. gm went bankrupt because of their health care obligations. david: pull back, james, there is still a lot of good things happening in the economy. low unemployment rate and huge

bonuses an salary increases taking place because of tax cuts, et cetera. nancy pelosi continues to say that the tax cuts are a dark cloud hovering over the capital. do you think that image will resonate with the public? >> i think she is referring to her november prospects. i think she was thinking, her next speakership is in the bag and but tax cut makes it less, less certain. so, no, look, the impact is better than really anyone could have expected. melissa: yeah. >> we saw investment and better productivity in the u.s. over the long term. i don't think anybody thought including the white house that you would see the impact this quickly. it is amazing. melissa: two big announcements from two companies, exxonmobil investing billions in the u.s. ryder systems will give bonuses to its next month to employees

that don't already get employees. house leader nancy pelosi there, is no silver lining with this tax law. listen. >> the tax bill is really the dark cloud that hangs over the capital. they sell it as middle class tax cut. 86 million americans, middle-class families will pay more in taxes as a result of this bill. melissa: so the tax policy, center which leans left says 80% of families will get a tax cut for nancy's math and their math to be correct the country would need a much bigger population. >> which i would be okay with bigger population, maybe not that big. no, this is why this tax bill is going to get more and more popular, it will pay more and more dividend for republicans. you look at polls, this misinformation campaign has been so effective, many people in this country think their taxes are going up. in fact as you said, almost the entire country is getting a tax cut. >> he say i need to get in here,

the only dark cloud happening to the economy was regulatory capture from the previous administration. that our businesses were actually not competitive on a global scale. 35% corporate tax rate? hurts small and medium sized businesses. she is completely delusional that the fact it flowing through into the real economy. that was the dark cloud. now we have a competitive tax rate on a global scale. i'm sorry, the large corporations that are her biggest donors would have benefited from tax rate back then than the previous tax rate. melissa: the only thing she did manage everybody's expectations way down. so you thought the tax plan would be terrible. this positive surprise all of sudden you're getting a bonus back, getting a tax cut. wait a second, i didn't expect this, this is awesome! could end up really back firing on them. >> we have seen a lot of bonus announcements from big public companies, seen wager increases at smaller private companies you don't hear about as much. melissa: yeah. >> you mentioned exxon

announcement, more investment into west texas and new mexico. that will not just benefit exxon. a lot of big businesses and suppliers benefit. >> guys, thanks. david: we're five hours away from president trump's first state of the union address. as the president is expected to strike a bipartisan tone many are finding ways to protest his speech already. blake burman live from the white house. what can we expect from the president and people listening to the president tonight? reporter: this is fine-tuning period for the state of the union speech. the president is working on this speech for about a month. he got his first draft on the way to davos aboard air force one. the president has been to the white house throughout the day. he will meet some of the visitors accompanying the first

lady on capitol hill. expect a heavy dose to tout the economic successes he and administration have been pointing to for the last several months. in fact when he was asked about the state. union speech yesterday, at that was the very first item he pointed to. >> we worked very hard. covered a lot of territory including our great success with the markets and with the tax cut. it is a big speech, an important speech. reporter: there will be a handful of democratic rebuttals after the president's speech late every tonight on the senate floor, rather, earlier today, the top democrat in the senate, chuck schumer gave what could be seen as a potential preview to some of those speeches as he downplayed president trump's role in the economy. >> president trump was handed an already healthy economy by his predecessor. like many things in his life, he inherited the healthy economy. here are two words, we won't hear president trump say tonight

about the copy. thanks, obama. reporter: presidents in the state of the union address try to strike a bipartisan tone. earlier in the white house when president trump met with network and cable anchors he tried to do just that. saying quote, i want to see our country divided. no the just under president obama or president bush. i remember the impeachment of bill clinton. tremendous divisiveness not just over the past year. if i could unite this country i would consider it a tremendous success. the david? david: blake, thank you very much. here is noelle nikpour, republican fundraiser, richard fowler, radio show host and fox news contributor. noelle, i don't often agree with chuck schumer, in this case i do. i don't think we'll hear thank you, obama from president trump, do you? >> no, i do not. it is really sad because we have lot of good things going on in the country and, president trump

doesn't even get a modicum of respect here. you know it is really disheartening. i'm hoping with this speech dave, we are going to see him kind of weave in a lot of the things that he's done. i think that since the democrats did not get on board this great tax reform bill, a lot of americans, working class americans are seeing an increase in their paychecks, i think the next thing we're going to be touting is the infrastructure bill. if the democrats don't work together, you know, with the republicans to get on board and take a little bit of credit for a infrastructure system bill, then they are going to be missing out once again on some good stuff just like they did with this tax reform. david: richard, this is a business channel. we talk to a lot of business people and i have to tell you, almost to a person they say that the president's deregulation policy itself, of course that was done primarily by executive order, not by any help from the congress, was responsible for the increase, tremendous

increase in the profits that companies are making, not just big corporations but smaller companies as well who don't have to deal with a whole host of regulations. doesn't the president deserve at least credit for that? >> here is the thing i think the president deserves credit for economic growth but i think what chuck schumer was saying on the floor couple days ago, as you know, david, a economy doesn't exist in a vacuum. the economy didn't start a year ago when president trump put his hand on bible. david: of course not. >> the economy was in slump when he took it over eight years ago. david: it was still in a slump. >> that is not true. david: it is. you know what the economy, just a fact, i hate to let facts get in the way of your argument. >> i have facts too. david: you know what the gdp ended at last year obama administration. it was one 1/2%. >> it was one 1/2%. david: 1 1/2% that is not booming economy. >> remember when barack obama took keys of this economy we were negative gdp growth. david: right, right. >> number two, barack obama had six consecutive years of job

growth. president trump has added to the job growth. david: he has indeed. >> but barack obama did have six consecutive years of job growth and president trump is benefiting off what obama did to begin with. david: noelle, when i think of the american people looking what is happening, i know they're getting a steady stream of anti-trump stuff from media, mainstream media as well as democratic party, however they look at these companies increasing their bonuses, raising their salaries, in february they will see their paycheck probably increase, most of americans probably will in terms of their weekly paycheck, who are they going to believe their paycheck which they get every week or nancy pelosi when she talks about this dark cloud hovering over the capital? >> you know the democrats are on the wrong side of this argument and the proof is in the check. the proof is, in the hardcore numbers that they're getting back. you know, richard said something to me just not true. look, when president trump became president, if you will look at this, when tax reform,

when it passed, these corporations are putting billions and millions of dollars back into the united states economy because of this bill. so the economy is doing fantastic and that had to do a lot with the fact that we had a healthy, you know, corporate taxes cut and that is one of the reasons that you're seeing president trump reap benefits of this economy. david: richard the fact is, people can count. one 1/2% is a lot less than 2 1/2%. it is that simple, isn't it? >> i agree there, but one, this tax reform bill is very early in the stages. only one-month-old. david: that's true. >> we have to see what happens. number one the stock market downturn is indicative of we've got to see what happens? david: after 7,000 point gain? >> but can't count your chickens, can't count the eggs before you hatch, david. david: a lot of people are counting chickens because they have hatched. >> number two, we also know while yes some bonuses gone out

to some employers we've seen major layoffs. kimberly clark the company -- david: don't add up to number of jobs added. >> walmart laided off thousands of workers. at&t layed off thousand of workers. the point i we talk about the optimism, there is not all peaches and cream. david: you always talk about the net in terms of job growth there is net increase. got to leave it at that gang i assume you will be watching. i hope to hear what you think about it all. thanks very much for being here. >> good to see you, david. melissa: we want to hear from you, what is the most important issue the president should speak about tonight? we've been tweeting it all day. go to twitter. "after the bell." you can vote there, follow us. and you can also see the results at the end of the show. david: i want to see those results. i will stick to the end. we're expecting a big focus tonight on immigration reform. the president making it clear he is willing to work across the aisle but does it work in both directions? an update from georgia

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melissa: breaking news right now. bipartisan group of 22 senators are right now meeting trying to forge a deal on daca right at this hour. so this is just hours ahead of president trump's first state of the union address.

hmmm. we'll bring you details just as soon as we get them. david: meanwhile democrats are crying foul as house republicans are voting to release a memo apparently alleging surveillance abuse by the fbi against the trump campaign. democrats saying this memo tells only one side of the story. here is arkansas congressman rick crawford. he is a member of the house intel committee. i assume, congressman, you have seen this memo about which we have heard so much. democrats as you know say any release of this would risk harm to national security to which you say what? >> i would say this the fbi director on sunday got ice on our memo, four-page memo, fact-based memo, looked at it, two of his top staff related to fisa and counterintelligence. they had opportunity to per use that or no factual inaccuracies, other than they believe they would prefer it not be released this is part of the problem,

that we have a responsibility as members of cons guess, particularly as it applies here to exercise oversight to make sure things like this doesn't happen. when they do happen, we call attention to it make sure it doesn't happen again. david: interesting that democrats are so secured about national security with the leak being that happened last couple years with democrats coming out on stuff, whole fuss over hillary's emails what started a lot of these problems at the fbi but some democrats, nancy pelosi, in particular getting kind of nervous and snappy about all of this, even with former allies. here she is with chris cuomo from cnn. take a listen. >> let me just say this with all due respect, you really don't know what you're talking about right now. >> didn't christopher wray look at it or no. >> i can't say whether he did or not but he did not -- in order to redact you have to have the people -- >> i'm not saying redact if these concerns are so sharp and obvious -- >> they already said not to

release it. david: congressman if she can't sell her story to cnn she is in real trouble, right? >> that sounded like a last-ditch effort to try to block something that, look the reality is, that the doj doesn't want this out there because it will reflect poorly on doj. the chips will fall where they may. we have responsibility to exercise oversight over these agencies. i sat on the ago committee and intelligence committee and transportation committee as well. if the u they are engaging in bad acting and exercise appropriate oversight. doj and fbi are not i am mean to oversight. david: apparently details of this memo are explosive. fbi director wray went in on sunday to read the memo. previously he said if there was any attempt to get rid of mccabe, fbi, his deputy he would resign. after viewing the memo, on monday, we look at time frame of

this, on sunday he saw the memo. on monday the mccabe was gone. one would assume this stuff is strong enough to releasing mccabe? >> i won't make any assertions there. i will let people make their own assertions whether or not there is correlation. it appears there probably is. that is for people to decide once they read that on ire own. david: frankly can't wait to read it. just one other thing you were asking for from the fbi. there was april 2017 meeting between andrew weissmann, a doj lawyer. now working with mr. mueller, he is one of the lead investigators for mr. mueller. a meeting with between mr. weissmann and major media organization. what is that all about? >> i'm going to withhold any comment until such time as the memo is placed in the congressional record. that will take place once the president had time to examine that document and say yes or no.

he has a five-day period to say yes or no. i assume he will say yes. at such time it will be entered into the congressional record on next legislative day. david: what have you heard about mr. weissmann meeting with a major media organization? was he trying to sell the trump dossier or not? >> i could not comment on that. that is not something i'm prepared to make a statement on at this point in time. i will say there will be some clarification with regard to that at some point in time. but i can't say any specific names. david: okay. when you're ready to, please come back and see us, let us know, public has a right to know. >> they will be given that right. as they insert in the congressional record. not necessarily being declassified. being put in the congressional record. folks have opportunity to make assessment themselves. david: congressman rick crawford, thank you very much. >> yes, sir. melissa: finding strength at the

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melissa: we are just hours away from the president's first state of the union address where he expects to tout many of his accomplishments over the last year as president but is that what the mainstream media will focus on? joining me howard kurtz, fox news media analyst, "mediabuzz" host, author of a new book, "media madness, the war over the truth, whatever the

truth is at this point." state of the union, i feel it is negative no matter what. >> good at given scripted speeches. media love bipartisanship. he spoke to congress last year and hasn't been bipartisan. nobody in the media will talk about the speech, new russia story, new bombshell, president will tweet and these things have shorter half-life than they used to. melissa: you talked about how much the media has really changed. can feel it out there. gotten so entrenched between him and mainstream media? who is getting hurt by that? maybe both side are being helped? >> collateral damage on both sides. people in the press fail to understand, negative press helps donald trump. he dominates the news agenda. melissa: even when it is bad is it? >> even when it is bad.

it convinces his supporters who don't trust the main stream media, who think the mainstream media view them with condescension. he is fighting for them. they are not on the side of people that actually voted for donald trump. ironically, melissa, the organizations, you tune in at night, mostly anti-trump stuff, newspapers as well. melissa: yeah. >> cash registers are ringing. they are making money playing to the anti-trump crowd. you know what the president did today? had background lunch and network anchors and others accuse of fake news. on so level, even though he resents the coverage would like to win them over. melissa: both of them profit, that is what we've seen, people have realized, everybody across the board, let's pitch to a certain group, rather than be broad and going no one goes to. checkers side of it, everybody has their thing.

who has been hurt. how does it hurt from mainstream media? >> damage for the president, hard to get above 40% to appeal not already firmly on his side. he contributes when he punches down at cable news hosts he contributes to distractions from the agenda. agenda what he would focus on. his aides would like that. here is the real problem, i come out of the news business, i love the news business, i believe in fairness he, i think the reek an shun, negativity is the president not just idealogical, there are conservatives that don't like the president, it is visceral, it is cultural, and personal. ultimately a day when donald trump no longer president, media has suffered so much credibility loss seen as one-sided, seen as relentless and negative. donald trump can't get a break and he plays golf somebody writes he is cheating that the damage willing long-lasting. melissa: what does that mean?

is there a day that maybe things soften, they come back together. what if this goes on eight years? year seven, everybody comes back together and big healing no? >> year ago trump said to network anchors, biggest surprise when i became president your coverage didn't improve. i thought for a time there would be cease-fire at least for a time. melissa: they thought he would stop tweeting, and he wouldn't attack at same level. a lot of people said that? >> he may go too far on occasion. he is entitled to punch back, hit back what he sees unfair coverage. the two side are so entrenched we could look at years of constant warfare especially running up to the 2020 election. loser is, we don't have common set of facts anybody can agree. nobody trusts the press to be fair arbiter. a lot of self-inflicted wound, a lot of mistakes retracted last year. that damage is long-lasting. >> i don't know if there was common set of facts, reagan, i

don't know how much we harken with days are fair and every. i'm not sure that existed. heard mitch mcconnell say today, politicians on both sides used to say the ugly things. you didn't have instant coverage. >> pretwitter age before toxicity of social media and fact-checking. fact-checkers said it. nobody believes fact-checkers. i don't celebrate this. we live in our own bubbles now. melissa: howard kurtz, thank you. >> great to see you in person. david: interesting breaking news. the worker who sent out the false ballistic missile alert in hawaii has been fired. it was sent out early morning hours of january 13th, sparked chaos in the state. this worker reportedly had history of making mistakes. top leader from the hawaii emergency management agency also resign following the backlash. melissa. melissa: preparing to make history. the president hoping to make a case for immigration reform, his first state of the union address, but is any deal possible? we'll talk to republican congressman buddy carter.

that is next. how important is this speech to the president's again -- agenda? former gw bush press secretary ari fleischer is coming up. go to twitter "after the bell," vote on what you think the most important top i can tonight should be. >> we're really excited about talking about our successes of the first year, but even more so we'll accomplish over the next seven years. you know what they say about the early bird...

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melissa: here is another look where the stocks ended the day at the tonight's state of the union address. the dow fell over a little 1% seeing first back-to-back loss this is year. of all major averages they are still on track for their best month in years. so there you go. david: got to keep that in mind. a history-making moment. president trump set to make his first state. union address with big push on key issues like immigration, right now, capitol hill, a bipartisan group of 22 senators are meeting to forge a deal on a daca fix. republican congressman from georgia, buddy carter, joins me now. good to see you, congressman. i have to say, after senator schumer had to eat crow with a government shutdown, he was lambasted by the left-wing of his party which seems to control the party right now, for trying to make any kind of deal on immigration, i don't see any deal coming before the election,

do you? >> that is heart to say. it is up to the democrats. the president already put a proposal out there, which i this is, is surely a starting place that they can accept. david: more than that. >> i would agree. david: the thing about the president's position, he now puts 1.8 million people in the category of "dreamers." explain to me by the way, for years now we've been thinking that the "dreamers" are 700,000 people. that is kids brought here by their parents and grew up here. how did it go from 700,000 to 1.8 million? >> that is beyond me. i've been asking myself that same question ever since i heard the proposal. so i don't know where that came from. i can tell you there are going to be a lot of conservatives in our party who are going to have trouble with that. david: i can tell you a little bit. there is a left-wing outfit that focuses on immigration, that claims there are over 3 million

"dreamers." that would be a third of the illegal population. i can't imagine a third of all illegal immigrants being "dreamers," can you? >> no, i can not. i have to question the accuracy of that figure. once. david: once this gets laid out and president lays out its position how can the democrats possibly say he hasn't bent over backward in order to meet them on immigration? >> it is beyond me how any democrat could call his initial proposal anything but fantastic for them. again, i can tell you, i have spoken to a lot of my counterparts, a lot of my colleagues, i should say in the republican majority, a lot of them have a lot of trouble with that figure and with the idea of the "dreamers" being allowed you know, a pathway to citizenship. david: we've been talking a lot about the senate. that is where they're meeting on immigration. you're in the house. it is in the house, that rules of impeachment or charges of

impeachment are initially broad up, if they're brought up at all. you and i both know that is the golden ring for democrats. they want to impeach donald trump. that is the main reason, in my mind why they want to win the house back in november. in order to do that, i don't think they would, again getting back to my first point earns i don't think they want any deal at all with this president before that election. >> one thing is for sure they will not do anything to help him, we know that for certain. i would agree with your analysis, they are not going to help us. look to the schumer shut down. that is what they were trying to do, to disrupt things and be uncooperative as they possibly could be. david: the president wanted this to be upbeat, positive state of the union. it put as pal over that -- a pall over that, doesn't it? >> it will be update, upbeat

state of the union, we're so excited. and why wouldn't we be. look what is going on in this country right now. david: yeah. >> the economy is doing wonderful. the state of the union is, is bright right now, so we've got a lot to celebrate. david: there is a lot of good news. buddy carter, thank you very much for being here. appreciate it. >> thank you. melissa: putting border wall prototypes to the test. will they protect the border? apple is under investigation, why they might take a major bite out of their bottom line. how do you win at business? stay at la quinta. where we're changing with stylish make-overs. then at your next meeting, set your seat height to its maximum level. bravo, tall meeting man. start winning today. book now at lq.com start winning today. my name's dustinhey, dustin. grab a seat. woman: okay.

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melissa: expected to be one of the president trump's key points during his state of the union address as u.s. border patrol agents are doing everything in their power to make sure the border wall prototypes are effective, trying to climb them

themselves. here live from the u.s.-mexico border, fox news correspondent william la jeunesse. william? reporter: the border patrol is trying to find the next generation border fence. they tested eight prototypes. call it a fence, call it a wall, doesn't matter, designed to accomplish the same thing which is detour or stop illegal immigration. >> 150 i don't crossovers. >> san diego before the fence. >> 60 after. reporter: apprehensions down 95%. >> yuma before a fence and after, illegal traffic down 90%. >> that is mexico on the other side you have a secondary fence. reporter: critics claim fences don't work. those who work here say they do. >> reduce the amount of traffic migration and flow of drugs

coming across the border. reporter: the evidence shows barriers work. homeland security teams took jackhammers, saws, torches to the latest fence prototypes. >> when you walk up to the prototype, you see a 25 to 30-foot wall it is daunting. tactical teams tried climbing the wall. all failed but one. will they scale it, tunnel under it yes? if you discourage as much as you can from the on set you're dealing with a smaller portion you have to push technology, manpower and other assets. >> based on topography, they will extend exists fence, replace a old fence, add a secondary wall, allowing agents to apprehend immigrants in enforcement zone. >> let experts do their job. the experts will not say a wall across the entire border. reporter: what areas, no, it is probably not cost effective. in urban areas like tijuana, yes. that rusting fence that is 30 years old. the gray one is about 20 years

old. according to agents, illegal immigrant can jumped one, cut a hole in the other, less than two minutes, make it more difficult and expensive, should reduce illegal immigration in theory. back to you. melissa: interesting, william la jeunesse. thank you. david: report. apple facing more issues, the sec and doj is expecting that the tech giant issuing a software update that deliberately slowed down older model iphones to improve performance. we all suspected this was going on. the probes reportedly center around whether the company violated securities laws not disclosing this information to consumers and investors. we all knew it was happening, right? melissa: the state of the union, the state of the trump agenda. the commander-in-chief is gearing up for historic evening. a lot on the line. ari fleischer, former white house press secretary sounds off. ♪

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david: breaking news on what the white house says is fake news. sarah sanders is responding to a cnn report suggesting that president trump wants the controversial fbi memo released immediately. sanders denying the report saying quote, contrary to a published report there are no current plans to release the house intel committee's memo. the president has not seen or been briefed on the memo or reviewed its contents. melissa. melissa: hmmm. taking its place in history, president trump hours away from delivering his first state of the union address, a speech hopes will strike a unifying tone on critical issues. here is ari fleischer former george w. bush press secretary and fox news contributor. what advice would you give the

president tonight? >> unify our nation. state of the union is rare speeches. tens of millions will not watch unless he does something wrong and does oval office address. once a year he will. he needs to rally america. make people feel united. give people higher purpose. that is what state of the unions do. for donald trump personally, give the approval numbers up. the base alone is not enough. he has to expand the base. melissa: how does he expand the message? what would unify people at this point? >> if you listen to the white house it, will be unifying speech, uplifting speech, a speech talking about the accomplishments president trump had that is good for the country. people getting more money in their paychecks, feeling better about the economy. those are important things. he will talk about infrastructure. he will talk about immigration. those could be accomplishments in area that would help as well. it is tone, message, patriot system. concern for the fellow citizen.

we're all one country. those are things that people like to hear in the state of the unions. melissa: yeah. >> i recognize he is different, but he shouldn't be that different. state of the union is important to unify. melissa: no, it would be a relief. there just has been so much angst and agitation and, it would be a relief to hear something that was unifying. it is also interesting to note, i was just looking, i don't think he tweeted in about 26 hours. i don't want to jinx it, but would you lay off the twitter buttons especially afterwards, not step on the message? >> absolutely. the president needs a little good momentum. the speech could give him that. his poll numbers have been proving. his poll numbers were down 21 points before tax reform. he is still upside down. it would be good to move it. melissa, the bigger picture here the american people elected a disruptor. they sent him to washington not just to disrupt but to get things done. that is the ultimate test of the

trump presidency. can the businessman different from everybody else, warts and all get things done in washington? if he sets out a path that shows he will get things done, he can turn this around and become a positive leader where people look up to him. melissa: what do you think the about six responses real quick? can you believe there are some responses? >> well, everybody needs to get on their own channel, don't they? melissa: i guess. >> what does bother me is the democrats who are boycotting. they have never given him a chance since he was elected. that is not fair, that is not appropriate in our system. they boycotted his inauguration. they boycotted tonight. that goes too far. there is too much rancor on the left. melissa: actually it plays into his hand. that is exactly, you know, sort of what he holds out the mainstream media, not giving him a fair shake. all that stuff. ari, thank you for comming on, appreciate it. we'll be watching it tonight. sure we will. david: can you think of a state. union that brought america together? i think after the shuttle

disaster 1986, long before you were born, ronald reagan gave this, only time they delayed the state of the union for about a week. they delayed it until the funerals took place. gave a wonderful coming together moment for america after that. and then, they got into the contra hearings. the whole thing got tough again. we are contentious lot. melissa: one little moment. david: president trump is preparing to address the american people. there is still time for you to vote and your voice to be heard. on twitter go to @after the bell. participate in the poll. results coming up. ♪ when disaster strikes to one, we all get together and support each other. that's the nature of humanity. :

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but again, i just wonder on what issue listed there is there going to be any agreement between democrats and republicans? >> none, but you can't talk down money. as people have more money, they got to be happy about it. there you go. "risk & reward" starts right now. >> there is no denying that the economy is certainly better under this president than it has been under the previous administration. >> the state of our union is strong. we have jobs coming to this country, wages are going up, unemployment is at a 17 year low. >> we're really excited about talking about our successes of the first year. >> i hope he asks the question that ronald reagan asked? >> are you better off than you were four years ago? >> i don't think we need to be honored. >> i don't think tonight is the night to play political games. >> i hear the president is going to give a great bipartisan speech and democrats aren't going to be there to hear it. >> this is the renewed optimism