♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity," coming to you live from washington, d.c., where president donald trump delivered his first address to a joint session of congress. newt gingrich will be here in just a minute. but first, the commander in chief laid out his vision for america. he reiterated what we already knew, that he was going to keep his campaign promises. but there are many forces now actively working against president trump, and that is tonight's opening monologue. ♪ on the campaign trail, then hyping candidate trump was very specific about what he wanted to do when he occupied the oval office.

we are not going to mention them all, but we will put a list on the side of the screen, creating jobs, reforming the tax code, repealing and replacing obamacare, renegotiating trade deals, rebuilding the military, and he also promised extreme vetting of people coming from countries that have ties to terror. he also promised to defeat isis and to nominate a originalist to the supreme court. this is what the president said about his promises. >> for too long, we have watched the middle class shrink as we have exported our jobs and wealth to foreign countries. we have ignored the fates of our children in the inner cities of chicago, baltimore, detroit, and

so many other places throughout our land. we've defended the borders of other nations while leaving our own borders wide open for anyone to cross and for drugs to pour in at a now-unprecedented rate. and we've spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while our infrastructure at home has so badly crumbled. then in 2016, the earth shifted beneath our feet. the rebellion started as a quiet protest, spoken by families of all colors and creeds, families who just wanted a fair shot for their children and a fair hearing for their concerns. but then the quiet voices became a loud chorus as thousands of citizens now spoke out together from cities small and large all across our country.

finally, the chorus became an earthquake, and the people turned out by the tens of millions, and they were all united by one very simple but crucial demand -- that america must put its own citizens first. because only then can we truly make america great again. [applause] >> sean: president trump is off to a very good start because he is going down the list on his agenda, checking off major promises one by one. he does, however, face major obstacles and challenges we need to be aware of. all coming his way, and administration i say it is coming from four france. they've got a liberal, crybaby snowflakes, the nuke of the paid protesters, now influencing the

democratic party to go so hard and i trump that they want to obstruct his agenda at every turn. even the job stink the democrats on the feet tonight. and then you have the alt left propaganda media, their bias is so blatant, it's only going to get worse. lastly, the one i personally fear the most, republican party establishment, because they have the ability to undermine everything that president trump said tonight he did tonight. a few simple questions here. what part of vetting refugees that come into our country is not conservative? what part of protecting our laws, our sovereignty, isn't conservative. what part of a jobs program that incentivizes businesses, going from seven brackets to three, 15% corporate tax, what part of this is not reagan-esque. what part of repealing and

replacing obamacare with free market solutions is not conservative? what part of sending education back to the states is not conservative, so that local communities can run education? don't we want limited government? what part of energy independence is not conservative? what part of rebuilding our military is not conservative? what part of nominating a originalist is not conservative? democrats cannot buy their way, they won't stop their petty nonsense. don't expect any help from them. the president is willing to act and stop the precipitous decline of this country and help the american people to safety, security, getting jobs, and a better future for their countries. and as for you whiny, cry break democrats that sat on your hands and didn't even clap when the president talked about creating more jobs for 95 million americs out of work, well, that is how

paid his income apart make and pathetic you really are. it confirms that there is nothing donald trump can do. they will never support him. republicans, you need to take notes. you are on your own. the democrats will be offering zero help even though, by the way, it is their failed radical liberal policies that president trump and republicans are not forced to clean up. joining us with reaction, or writer of "the new york times" best seller "treason," newt gingrich, has a fox news.com opinion piece coming out tomorrow. you have sat back there once or twice. >> once or twice. >> sean: what do you think? >> best speech of his career. better than inaugural, better than his gettysburg speech. he was in command. you were watching the president of the united states in a way that i thought it was very profound. he actually did get -- we were

sitting on the democratic side to watch him, he began to build momentum all evening of more and more democrats getting up, more and more applauding. he had a brilliant opening condemning anti-semitism and condemning the killing of the two indian-americans in kansas, and then laying out a case for people to look at talking about black history month. i think probably the democrats were startled. this is not what they expect from a republican president. but he went on to, i think, in many ways, unify us and lay down tough lines. you're exactly right on target fronts. one, there are left-wing democrats who are never going to be for us, that's okay. there are some republicans who don't get with the president is trying to accomplish, and they are sort of a nuisance. i had a very good chat with

speaker ryan before the speech. i think there is a very big desire to get very large things done, bigger than we did in '95 and '96. spit it that is saying a lot. >> it is. i say that quite deliberately. you start putting in serious immigration reform, is start putting in a very real effort, really profoundly shifting the health system. i had a very good talk today with dr. tom price, couldn't get a better health and human services secretary. i come out of tonight, i am a trump fan, i really wanted him to win, there was a brief moment early on when we were chatting, i thought, what if we were walking into listen to president hillary clinton? >> sean: by the way, i wouldn't have been there, but okay. you wouldn't have been there and i wouldn't have been there. would have been home on the couch drinking beer.

let's talk, trying to say that the republicans bear the burden here, it was obvious that there is nothing donald trump can do or say, i would say the best overwhelming majority, you make it joe manchin in the senate, you make it a couple of -- when he talked about the steel made in america, i saw some rustbelt -- they are not going to help on the overall agenda. >> i think it depends on how it develops. he is going to split the democrats and infrastructure. he may get half of the democrats for infrastructure. that was the first thing they really all stood up for. >> sean: government spending. >> a lot of them represent areas in terrible shape. highways don't work come up metro system doesn't work, the water -- think about flint, michigan. somebody comes along that says, i've got a program to save water

in flint. infrastructure will bring, i think, is substantial -- coatesville what are you worried about -- i'm worried about the price tag. this is what i was interested in. he talked about government and business partnerships to get the money. >> noticed the way he said it. a trillion dollars worth of infrastructure. if you apply the skating rink model where trump came in radically under the price of new york's getty, i think it was one sixth to one eighth the price. already talking about cutting the price on the f-35. whether it is going to space, mars, the moon, whether it is the f-35, infrastructure. building the wall. i certainly think on every front we will get a trump frugality. >> sean: like the roman rink. >> ahead of schedule, using

common sense. i liked his reference to fighting this terrible drug epidemic, terrible in terms of cutting, but in terms of helping human beings who may currently be addicted. i thought it was a very compelling speech across the board, and i was watching some old friends, i have known general john kelly for many years, along with general matti general mattis, these are professionals. i was watching their reaction. i think they are very pleased to have this commander in chief. you could see it during the evening is the speech went on. they really felt like they were part of the team create >> sean: the fact that, a, he keeps recommitting his promise to what he said, but i also think that the narrative that the left has been trying to advance, oh, he is crazy, oh, he is unhinged. he was as presidential,

including at the inauguration, as anybody. you precedent reagan, carter, bush. is there anybody you haven't seen? >> i've been around for a while. >> sean: how does he stack up? >> i think he would rival reagan. this is what people don't understand about trump versus normal politicians. trump is not a great oratory. reagan is a better speech delivery. but this was a speech that was a hammer blow after hammer blow after hammer appropriate talks about wanting to help the inner-city. everything with him is, what do we need to get done, how can we fix it, what is going to work. it is total common sense. this is the first pure entrepreneur we've ever had as a president. as you know, i am writing a book on understanding trump that will come out this summer.

partly based on that he is so different than anything we've seen. including me. i find myself every day studying donald trump and trying to figure out, what is he doing, because he is so much more complicated than i would have thought possible. >> sean: in a good way? >> in a good way. a smart, senior guy, solve problems his whole life, practical his whole life, proved with his cabinet he can recruit a good team. >> sean: remember the commission back in the reagan years? the biggest, best, smartest minds, they came up with ideas on how to run government more like a business. how many were adopted? zero. now you have somebody that is implementing them. >> but now you have a business leader who, first of all, is not afraid to make mistakes. this is part of what the news media doesn't get paid of course trump is going to make mistakes. doing more unique things than

any president in modern times. he knows as an entrepreneur, you make a mistake, you back upcoming learn from it, you move forward. other guys would sit around and plan for seven years. he would have done 600 things by the time their plan was finished. >> sean: if you are mitch mcconnell and paul ryan or if you were advising mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, what would you say to them? >> those were very smart people, and they are very good friends of mine. mcconnell knows more about running the senate than i will know in my lifetime. this will drive you nuts. paul and i were talking tonight. we may be the two most wonkish speakers in the history of united states. we both love public policy. i'm going to try to be helpful to him on tax policy and health policy. i am an optimist. it is going to be painful and difficult and confusing and people will yell at each other.

they did that when i was speaker. >> sean: slowly, over time, they chipped away your credibility and wear you down. >> i didn't have donald trump with me. >> sean: good point. stay write this. there. in his first address to a joint session of congress, president trump talked about the need to fix america's crumbling infrastructure. let's watch this. >> to launch our national rebuilding, i will be asking the congress to approve legislation that produces a $1 trillion investment in infrastructure of the united states financed through both public and private capital, creating millions of new jobs. [applause] this effort will be guided by two core principles: buy american and hire american. [applause] >> sean: here now with reaction as the transportation secretary, elaine chao. madam secretary, good to see

you. thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having with m. >> sean: can you explain how that is going to work? >> the needs of our nation to improve our infrastructure is so great that the federal government cannot assume the cost for all of it. so it behooves us as a nation to address the deteriorating infrastructure by thinking about new and innovative ways in which we can fund our infrastructure. and so president trump has so many really exciting and novel ideas about how to finance our deteriorating infrastructure so that once again we will become more competitive in the worldwide environment and so that america can be great once again. so public-private partnerships are a very important part of financing, of a new way of financing our roads and bridges.

>> sean: can you explain how it works a little bit? >> sure. yeah, i will. basically, we allow different kinds of money, private-sector money, to come into the united states -- i'm not saying foreign -- to come and fund, let's say, a bridge or a road, or it can be any kind of infrastructure. by the way, i should also add that the president's initiative on infrastructure will include probably energy, water, broadband. so it's not just roads and bridges. but it's to build the whole infrastructure that will make our country more competitive going forward. so public-private partnerships allowed private-sector money to come into the economy and fund public work. so far right now, there are so many impediments to allowing private-sector money to come in.

>> sean: madam secretary? >> yes. >> sean: if i'm hearing you correctly, what you're saying is, if a company were to rebuild a road, they might get their investment back by, say, having a toll on the road, this were the taxpayers don't pay a penny, it is a win-win? something like that? >> thank you for putting it that way. that is certainly one example of how that would work. now, i have to say, there are some people that may not support toll roads, but we had to take a look at all of these financing mechanisms because come up once again, the needs of our infrastructure are so great that the federal government cannot and should not be the only source of funding to repair our bridges, our roads, or energy grid. or to install new aspects of the infrastructure for a new america

of the future. >> sean: madam secretary, i think that's what speaker gingrich was talking about. donald trump thinks way out of the box and the country needs that kind of innovation. thank you for being with us. coming up, earlier with us, joint session of congress, dr. sebastian gorka, along with former speaker of the house newt gingrich going to be joining us, all of that and house freedom caucus members are standing by. >> the time for small thinking is over. the time for trivial fights is behind us. we just need the courage to share the dreams that fill our hearts, the bravery to express the hopes that our souls, and the hopes that our souls, and the confidence to turn thoseway.

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if we are guided by the well-being of american citizens, then i believe republicans and democrats can work together to achieve an outcome that has eluded our country for decades. [applause] >> sean: welcome back to "hannity" as we are broadcasting tonight from our nations capital where president trump addressed congress. i have a very hard time getting to -- how did they get to the conclusion that somehow, if somebody wants to be a guest in our country and they come from a country tied to terror that it is a horrible thing to vet them or protect our borders and know who is coming into our country. >> can tell from those statements, you are a right winger.

>> sean: and a racist, homophobic, a xenophobe. >> if you are a left-winger, you say, why do you have borders, why do distressed people created go down this list. the person i queued off of most was elizabeth warren. >> sean: i watched her too. >> every once in a while towards the end, she broke down and applauded. even when trump said stuff was an applause line that they relate -- she would manage to discipline herself. >> sean: the american people there -- >> with thatcher, much more like trump then reagan. the left responded to her so intensely that they went further and further and further to the left. finally, by 1987, at the press referred to them as the loony left.

all those left-wing activists watched the democrats, nobody jumped up and boot, nobody walked out, a couple of times, all of them got up and applauded. to have to go back and have all of these not cake activists say, why did you sell us out? >> sean: a plurality of democrats want them to work with trump created they may be got from their feet three or four times. >> this is the crisis they've got. the hard left will kill them. the ones who want them to work with trump are going to go fishing or to a football game. so you go back home, the people showing up in these areas, town hall meetings, are the hard left. this is why schumer, a natural dealmaker, they want to sit down and his fellow new yorkers and get things done. but schumer knows his left wing will kill him. >> sean: so he won't do it. >> this was so amazing.

if you go through and outline this -- be a great thing to do if a professor was going to beat semipro trump. if you wanted to outline this speech, the number of specific policies he got through in about an hour is astonishing. >> sean: it was all the promises he made which i go back to. here, you said he spoke to paul ryan, i had an interview with paul ryan recently. he promised, yeah, he supports the trump agenda, going to get all of this done legislatively, he believes, and 200 days -- in 200 days. then i talked to some of the guys in the freedom caucus, who are going to join us in a minute, they are saying, we haven't seen the bell, haven't read the bill. >> which is why it's going to take 200 days. here's my point. the most grind can do, and he is

extraordinarily brave, he can put together the benchmark bill everybody fights over, but he can't ram anything through. he doesn't have the muscle to ram anything through. furthermore, it would be bad government to ram something through. >> sean: also some complicated issues with reconciliation, revenue-neutral, i got back. >> let me give you an example of revenue neutral. allowing a congressional budget office to score anything is insane. the congressional budget office was off by trillions of dollars. it is a left wing, totally dishonest institution, they ought to get rid of it and go to a different scoring system. >> sean: if you wish speaker, you have the freedom caucus, the more conservative side, then you have some republicans, 20 or so, in districts where hillary clinton carried the district. how do you bring that and carry a coalition that will advance the agenda, get everything we heard tonight actually done?

we need the jobs, we need health care reform. >> you do two things. you listen and you listen and you listen until you can't stand it. in that process, everybody gets out then the open what you need. second, you say to each group, you tell me what you need in order to vote yes, you tell me what you need, you tell me what you can't live with, you tell me what you can't live with, and you build a box. >> sean: you think that's going to happen? >> i think it is doable. >> sean: good to see you. thanks for stopping by. also tonight, president trump used a term we have never heard the obama white house years. radical islamic terrorism. watch this. >> our obligation is to serve, protect and defend the citizens of the united states. we are also taking strong measures to protect our nation from radical islamic terrorism. [applause]

we have seen the attacks at in france, in belgium, in germany, and all over the world. it is not compassion but reckless to allow uncontrolled entry from places where proper vetting cannot occur. [applause] those given the high honor of admittance to the united states, we cannot allow our nation to become a sanctuary for extremists. >> sean: joining us now with reaction as the deputy assistant to the president, dr. sebastian gorka. protecting the homeland, that is tied to extreme vetting come up the ball and border security, and the president laid down a marker in the campaign.

tonight, this job is getting done. how quickly questioning >> you heard tonight, he said, we are going to build a great, great f. you can expect some news about the immigration executive order. >> sean: so they have read on the order? >> we have addressed all of the politically motivated issues that the court said were potentially problematic. most importantly, did you hear the phrase he said most clearly and most loudly? there was a lot of buzz in the left-wing media in the last 24 hours, oh, turmoil and the white house and arguments -- >> sean: by the way, it's just not true. >> it's not true. and what happened tonight? they expected us to dilute the verbiage. "radical islamic terrorism" paid political, did you hear it? "new york times," "washington post," cnn?

>> sean: you wrote the book and do believe we can defeat it. it's got to be a monumental task to achieve systematically. if you lay out the strategy and tactics to achieve that goal, how do you do it? >> you do it very simply. use the best military the world has ever seen, hours, to help defeat isis. we have to crush and kill that organization because they have done something no other john huddy jihadi group has done, the first to create a new caliphate. we have to take that down. with our muslim allies, the jordanians, the egyptians. >> sean: do you think the jordanians, israelis, can unite, and i know the president address this. spent $6 trillion in wars in the middle east. he does not have the stomach for

it, nor, do i think coming to the american people. what is our contribution? not going to be boots on the ground, i don't believe. >> of the biggest contribution will be leadership. he heard at the beginning, america is back, going to lead. it is not the vaunted obama coalition. it didn't exist, i was there, i went to centcom, the rhetorical muslim nations in the room. >> sean: what do you know about this developing coalition? i asked about the developing relationship with the saudi's, egyptians, jordanians. my interpretation is, it is deeper than anybody knows, certainly there would be an alliance against the iranian hedged hegemony in the region. i would argue this, excuse me, not trying to interrupt you. benjamin netanyahu has been

alone in understanding evil in our time. people forget stalin, communism,-ism, imperial japan, the killing fields, evil exists. all right. so evil does exist. its current form is called radical islamic terrorism, and their whole group of people in this country that won't even admit it. >> this is perhaps the most important thing. we are not going to talk about jobs for g jihadis. we have to understand that this is evil incarnate, whether you are a nazi running a death camp or a jihadi -- same thing. remember a word he used several times that we have not heard for several years, he used the word enemy. >> sean: he also said one

other thing, and i appreciated this. if we're going to fight, win, if got to win. >> let's take politics out of it. i the first conversation i had within 3 minutes, i knew two things about this man. a, he knows we are at war. b, he wants to win that are for. 20 such as the dedication to make that a reality. >> sean: coming up tonight in his address, president trump called on congress to repeal and replace obamacare. on "hannity," we are holding them accountable. will check in with congressman joining us next on-site as we continue from our nation's capital, washington, d.c. >> national pride is sweeping across our country, and a new

surge of optimism is placing dreams firmly within our grasp. what we are witnessing today is the renewal of the american spirit. our allies will find once that america is once again ready to lead. [applause]

>> tonight, i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replace obamacare. with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs, and at the same time, provide better healthcare. mandating every american to buy government-approved health insurance was never the right solution for our country. [applause] the way to make health insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of health insurance, and that is what we are going to do. obamacare is collapsing, and we

must act decisively to protect all americans. action is not a choice. it is a necessity. so i am calling on all democrats and republicans in congress to work with us to save americans from this imploding obamacare disaster. [applause] >> sean: that was president trump earlier tonight send obamacare must be repealed and replaced. for years, republicans have been promising you the american people they would do just that. now they have the house, senate, and presidency, no excuses. on this show, we have been holding washington accountable as a new segment, we're doing just that. joining us with reaction come up for coach eop lawmakers. -- four g.o.p. lawmakers. three members of the freedom caucus that have an announcement? they just invited you into the caucus. >> we have talked, i am joining

the freedom caucus. >> sean: i brokered the deal. >> sean: that means if got a car coming, american-made, of course. >> your integrated you are inv. >> he committed to me on this show that he supports the entire trump agenda that this president spoke about tonight and that he can get this done legislatively with a cushion built in in 200 days. you guys are worried you haven't seen the repeal and replace bill. all four have told me that. what are you worried about and what did you think about speaker gingrich saying is going to put all these things in a box and it will get adjusted after it gets scored? >> i've got to see the bill before i can agree to anything. i'd like to read the bill. 2010, we all said, if you elect

us, give us the majority, we will read the bills. back in, actually come in 2014, boehner had a bill that was going to be border enforcement, and when we finally got the bill two days before we were going to vote on it, it was a de facto amnesty bill. it's important to read the bill. >> new mexico one congressman jordan? >> what we have heard about the elite bill, going to get the medicaid expansion, except, we're going to give tax increases, going to reveal upon care except for this new entitlement called a refundable tax credit. that's not repeal. the real basic, real simple, the exact same language report on president obama's desk. >> sean: you want a repeal bill? >> same time, trigger different pieces of legislation.

>> sean: there is the discussion of the health and human services secretary that would, if it is not repealed, if there is another obama like the president, he would have discretion to put it back and play. >> i think that is why we have to have a full repeal, sean. secretary price, i trust him to do the right thing. at the same time, we've got to make sure we actually repeal it, we don't partially repeal it and partially replace it. i think we are all in agreement, whether it is moderates or conservatives, that we've got to repeal this thing and replace it. >> sean: congressman brad, ask to speaker if he is having regular organizations. i guess as a caucus, you meet once or twice a week. you guys specifically, and loui louie, that he wants to make -- why you're laughing.

louie gohmert was so kind to me. >> people were coming from all over the galley. >> sean: you invited me in 2014 to see obama. this was much, much better. so he says he wants to reach ou out. all of you individually seem skeptical. why? >> because we don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past. obamacare, had to read the bill first. number two, 300 million people in this country we care about. we don't want to worry about the big insurers and talk about an insurance problem. you had it right in our bill, what we have to do is bend the curve, right? everyone's premiums are going up 20% still. the first thing you've got to do is inject free market economics. paul ryan reiterated that too

with health care savings accounts, portability. believe it or not, it is a legal right now if you want to have a catastrophic plan. >> sean: mentioning those as talking points. if you are worried, when those insurance guys walked into the white house, they were both looking at their shoe leather. they were embarrassed. it was a creative 18 million more customers and they would get covered and they would make some monies, but they knew it was going to be a death spiral system in the long run that could lead to -- just the national health care. >> sean: you guys have your bill along with rand paul. here's the big picture for me. if the president is able to change the tax code from seven brackets to three, give us a 15% corporate tax, repatriation, invest in factories, centers here in america, if we become energy independent, it will be

like a tax cut if we do get rid of obamacare. the economy i see a growing and flourishing. >> i really believe it. >> sean: millions of americans in poverty, get out of poverty, back to work. >> jobs, not just small, low-paying jobs, it is great jobs. when you start to see a 4% or 4.5% gdp growth, it would be unbelievable. but the president knocked the ball out of the court tonight. he is deliver delivering on his promises. >> it really is going to come down to congress. are you guys confident -- coat our task is real simple. we make it too difficult. do what we told the voters we were going to do. he promised the people, we've promised the american people that we would build the wall. >> sean: i could be a peace negotiator. i feel like i'm talking to

groups that say the same thing, but you guys aren't communicating. >> there is one plan out there in health care that is exactly what we told the voters we were going to do create we haven't had ours scored -- 's the one but you know will score better? >> we are meeting with him tomorrow morning about all sorts of things. health care will be first on the -- >> sean: he said he wants to reach out to you. >> a meeting tomorrow morning. >> sean: what about his promise he thinks he can do it. >> you've got to understand, we are limited in what we can do because we are doing it through this mechanism that doesn't allow us to completely repeal. but, sean, this is exactly what we did in 2015. >> sean: that's a good point. congressman meadows? >> in the first few hundred

days, it can't just be about obamacare repeal and replace. it's got to be tax reform, strengthening our military. everything we talked about in the first 200 days. if it doesn't get done then, it's not going to get done. >> sean: you guys say they supported, maybe it is just me -- what is this -- >> the last six years, we said we are going to repeal obamacare, million of people like you are going to wake up with a heart attack if we replace obamacare with obamacare light. >> sean: you are worried about that? >> i am. they are going to say, that is not a repeal. >> sean: is it unrealistic for conservatives like me to wish that you guys could move at the speed of trump? is that unrealistic? >> no, we should be moving. what you said is bipartisan.

jfk got the tax cuts, 5% real growth. then it's reagan, tax cuts, 5% real growth. >> they got the contract with america done in 100 days. but he actually said tonight that this was a bigger bowler. >> by the way, i believe that. >> it happens. >> sean: i think the country is in a precipitous decline, i think if we don't do these things -- that is why i wanted donald trump to be president. that's i'm happy he reiterated his promises. committed to what you are doing. >> the thing i liked best about the speech was at the start when he said, america is ready to lead. think about the framework with that that we have been used to with president obama, the iran deal, his like relationship, that set the tone. >> sean: i've got to leave. louie is a new member of the freedom congress paid up next

tonight right here on "hannity"" >> my budget will also increase funding for our veterans. our veterans have delivered for this nation, and now we must deliver for them. >> sean: president donald trump promising to defend our nation's fats. that and more as we continue from our nation's capital.

♪ >> i am sending congress a budget that rebuilds the military, eliminates the defense sequester, and calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in american history. my budget will also increase funding for our veterans. our veterans have delivered for this nation, and now we must deliver for them. [applause]

>> sean: that was president trump earlier tonight talking about the need to help america's heroes, our veterans. a topic important to the 43rd president, president george bush, in dallas to talk about his new book. president bush shared with me some of the stories behind these paintings. take a look. >> that is a great picture there. you've done a number of self-portraits. >> it looked like alfred e newman. >> this baby girl is really cut cute. >> that is lilia from roswell, new mexico. this one, met mom and dad, and i was shocked when i looked on the roster of people that were going to play in our golf tournament, that lily was on the tournament. he was going to play, asked if he could bring his daughter by.

scar on his head points exactly to the little girl. his brother and arms -- it's an experimental painting in a way that i didn't complete a lot about it. >> sean: what part didn't you complete? >> like here. just the hint of shoes. the reason i did that, i wanted to emphasize the proceeds sis. and then i love that the two guys are arm in arm. both real good men. >> sean: we talked about how often you go to bethesda, if you had to gas -- >> six times a year, i would guess. >> sean: that's a great shot. >> new mexico and some of these guys are really great golfers. >> sean: this gentleman, lost both legs, now a yoga instructor, believes that yoga

is an important way for people to heal. and jay barclay lives in houston. here's scott adams. barkley lives in houston, 45% of his body burned, got a good job in the private sector. >> sean: you never told anybody you were painting them before you did it. >> no. >> sean: not one. a different style a little bit. >> it evolves. some have more paint than others. we also have a guy here that works for bell helicopters. this is the piece, 16 feet long, and bases, you know, except for these two guys, the uniforms were pretty uniform because they were all part of something. even though they were in different branches, part of something bigger than

themselves. >> sean: isn't this mural of heroes? >> it is, america, from all walks of life, but in uniform. so i tell people, what an amazing country. i want you to not feel sorry but we ought to be thankful and about to help them. that's i'm so thankful you came down, i want to talk about, to the vets that are listening, go to our web site, help you find a job and deal with the invisible wounds of war. if you are a citizen want to help, get on that web site, there are some programs there. >> sean: the book is phenomenal, each individual story is phenomenal, unimpressed. four year's income a pretty impressive. good to see you again, sir. >> sean: pretty impressive paintings of american heroes. that is all the time we have left this evening, from our nation's capital, will be back

in new york tomorrow night. a jam-packed shore. laura ingraham, and coulter, we hope you'll join us, and we hope you'll have a great night. ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to >> welcome president donald trump delivered his first address to a joint session of congress. newt gingrich will be here in just a minute. but first, the commander in chief laid out his vision for america. he reiterated what we already knew, that he was going to keep his campaign promises. but there are many forces now actively working against president trump, and that is tonight's opening monologue. ♪ on the campaign trail, then hyping candidate trump was very specific about what he wanted to do when he occupied the oval