actually, i'm proud to know you. and congratulations. this is not a manufactured crisis. at 90% of heroin coming from our southern border. we will be here in d.c. tomorrow night, let not your heart be troubled, we are always not the hate trump media, laura ingraham is right next door. >> laura: hey -- what? >> sean: do not i love? you know why tonight's speech was so powerful to me? you give great analysis. because the president has the success and after eight years of garbage, look at what happened in two short years. >> laura: i think he laid it out perfectly, we are going to analyze that on the show tonight and at such a disconnect. i was checking in on some of the other commentators on the other networks and boy are they not capturing the way -- the way the american people view this. fantastic analysis tonight and we will see you back here tomorrow night. >> laura: before and after, great job as always.

>> laura: thank you, i'm laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle. washington still buzzing from the state of the union tonight. he laid out his agenda, counting his successes in taking on partisan investigations briefly and revenge politics. we will analyze all of that, plus, how the other networks, as i just mentioned, are pathetically spinning it. senator david purdue and democrat congressman brad sherman are both here. plus, matt schlapp, byron york, frank luntz. raymond arroyo and many others. but first, just some of the highlights of a speech that sent a powerful message to the country and her elected officials. >> there is a new opportunity in american politics, if only we have the courage together to seize it. victory is not winning for our party, victory is winning for our country. but we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance, and

retribution, and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good. together we can break decades of political stalemate, the decision is ours to make. we must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, incredible progress or pointless destruction. tonight i ask you to choose greatness. the u.s. economy is growing almost twice as fast today as when i took office. and we are considered far and away the hottest economy anywhere in the world. think of this capital, think of this very chamber where lawmakers before you voted to

end slavery. to build the railroads and the highways and defeat fascism, to secure civil rights and to face down evil empires. together we represent the most extraordinary nation and all of history. what will we do with this momen moment? how will we be remembered? >> laura: joining me now is matt schlapp, chairman of the american conservative union, byron york, chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner" and polling guru frank luntz, who was in the chamber while trump was speaking tonight. frank, you were there in the room, and seemed despite a bevy of the democratic members, some of them were actually more receptive than a lot of us might have predicted earlier on in the evening or earlier in the week when things were so tough after that shutdown.

>> i had an amazing seat so i could see who was up who wasn't. and anywhere, i give him credit, he was up, the women behind him would not applaud, they would not stand, there would not show any recognition when trump talked about having the most major impact on african-american employment, latino employment, the women stayed put. >> laura: to have that quick? i want to show that. so when the president was speaking about the unemployment numbers, again, record or near record low, this is what happened, i think we have it. >> an economic miracle is taking place in the united states and the only thing that can stop it our foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations. if there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. it just doesn't work that way.

>> laura: that's a different bike but you get the point. the investigation. >> he was up, he showed respect to the president nancy pelosi sat down and i'm convinced that tomorrow nancy pelosi is going to call him out. >> laura: mad. and i thought there were not enough times where we were seeing the panning of the crowd. i know this is a pull camera, i thought it was really important to see who did not stand for record low unemployment for african-american -- all the successes for women and sex trafficking, we are seeing the president coming in now. but when people don't stand for record low unemployment, what kind of a country as this? >> exactly right. if that was one of the spark parts of the speech that was designed to appeal to everybody talk about the creation of jobs for everybody. if you talk to some of the republican members, one of the parts they really loved in his speech was he talked about how socialism has ruined venezuela

and he said we are hearing calls for socialism today in the united states and we should never have that. at some the democrats did not applaud i did not get up. >> laura: this one we have. let's watch this. >> if only we have the courage together to seize it. [applause] >> socialism in our country, america was founded on liberty and independence and not government coercion, domination and control. we are born free and we will stay free. tonight we renew our resolve that america will never be a socialist country. >> laura: okay, again, we keep cutting it.

nancy pelosi sat and then she stood, and then you see the whole thing people in the audience. >> republicans believe the trumpet basically just proposed a socialism test and a significant number of democrats entailed them i failed it. in terms of partisan driving back and forth you will hear a lot about that and you will probably see it in some political ads. >> laura: there were moments where i thought gosh, this is something obama could have said. whether it was on the sex trafficking, opioids, lloyds. >> criminal justice reform. >> laura: criminal justice reform, getting the middle class back to work, obama, clinton and it was trump. and he was up there showing and when he said this is a day where we can forge new alliances and again one of the populace, supposed to be antiwar party, what happened to the left being antiwar? they wouldn't stand for that either. >> this is right, if you actually take away all of israel, the people who just hate, have animus towards trump, if you actually look at his

policies they are common sense policies. the border, we have already 600 miles of barriers, he wants 200. if you look at what he's talking about, the economy, to know he's talking about? middle class families having jobs and greater economic opportunities. third trimester abortions, horribly unpopular ocean that you could have abortion. really the presidency, and other talk about post delivery abortions. if this is kind of insane talk. his policies actually are common sense, so i agree with your analysis. there's a lot here for people who are really involved in the partisan fight to light. >> laura: and that's why, and we are going to get to that later on, some of the shocking instant polls. i know some people discount instant polls, they don't really matter. >> not when they all say the same thing. >> laura: we will get into the numbers that i think when you saw the faces of anchors on the other networks, when they had to report on these, it was priceless. i want to play this moment. this was trump on the women succeeding in the country and,

frank, because you are there to, i want you to react, it's a little bit of a longer clip, but let's watch. i think we have it. >> no one has benefited more from a thriving economy than women who have filled 58% of the newly created jobs last year. [applause] you weren't supposed to do that! thank you very much. don't sit yet, you're going to like this. and exactly one century after congress passed the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote, we also have more women serving in congress than at any time before. [cheers and applause] >> laura: frank, these are

women who, many of them have said, have called him a racist, called him a misogynist, said he should be impeached and he gave them props there, they are wearing white for the suffragettes. i thought that was a brilliant, own the room moment for this present. >> i think they made a mistake because they did not stand firm in virtually every case they sat on their hands, even when it was something that they themselves would have been proud of if this had been barack obama. can i give you one line? we must reject -- this is trump -- we must reject the politics of resentment, resistance and retribution and embrace balanced, potential, cooperation, compromise and the common good. as a language person, that's awesome, that's a start. and that's what this president did today. he delivered a speech that the base will love and those were still undecided, you can see by the polling. >> laura: and yet, byron, we will get to the polling in a moment, especially on the issue of immigration, with the president said tonight, again talking about wages, the middle class, crime.

he did it in a little slightly different way but i want to play, this is about 20 seconds but this is the president on that stark divide, the elites versus the rest of america on immigration, let's watch. >> no issue better illustrates the divide between america's working class and america's political class than illegal immigration. wealthy politicians and donors push for open borders while living their lives behind walls and gates and guards. >> laura: a friend of mine was fairly liberal, let's just say he lives in beverly hills, he messaged me, i was shocked. he said i'm not one of these guys who would stand for this, this was a home run, and he said and i'm not the audience. these are the kinds of text from getting, no joke, no exaggeration. and i thought the speech was a little long. i thought it was a great speech. but we are sitting in here in the studios, other people across

the country are hearing it in a completely different way and i'm telling you, i have not gotten this kind of reaction from people across the country like i did tonight on the speech. >> member this is a speech given in the context of the spite over immigration, the threat of yet another government shutdown. we had it tonight instead of last week because the speaker of the house disinvited the president from giving the address over this border barrier. so this was the president's absolute best chance to make his case for this. on january 8th he did that address to the nation, which did not move the needle at all. but now he had all the pomp and all the ceremony of this event and he really seemed to make very, very good use of it. >> laura: and smart decision on his part. a lot of us were telling him go into a state of the union at ellis island or go -- >> or deliver it in writing. >> laura: i never would have said that.

but it shows you again, for all the complaints about he tweets too much or he trashes john mccain as he did apparently at a meeting with journalists today for his boat on the health care, but put all that aside. he has a really political instincts. his political instincts, for someone who didn't spend his life and politics, pretty darn good. >> he knows his own mind and i don't think were going to have to hear anymore about losing this little dust up over the invitation to get the state in the union. he held his ground, he had to modify, he held out and i think tonight he really set the stage to talk about why he should be the president for four more years. >> laura: frank, again were going to get to stacy. she painted a picture that was very starkly different, america basically has been down on his luck at the middle class, can't get capital for businesses, unlike what? you can't get capital for businesses apparently. what's a wealth confiscation going to do for that?

>> there's another line, together we represent the most extraordinary nation in all of history. trump is prepared to say that america is number one, the best ever, the democrats aren't. watch, that is going to be a key campaign point in 2020. >> laura: fascinating, thank you so much, panel and tonight's democratic response to the state of the union was delivered, as i mentioned, by stacy abrams. remember, she's the former georgia house minority leader and former gubernatorial candidate. of course she lost in that attempt but she attempted tonight to provide a contrast to the president on the issue of the economy, on the issue of immigration, abortion and others and of some of these issues it was a very tough sell, let's watch. >> the republican tax bill rate the system against working people. rather than bringing back jobs, plants or closing, layoffs are looming in wages struggled to keep pace with the actual cost

of living. we know bipartisanship could craft the 21st century immigration plan but this administration chooses to cage children and tear families apar apart. compassionate treatment at the border is not the same as open borders. we must all embrace that from agriculture to health care to entrepreneurship, america is made stronger by the presence of immigrants, not walls. even as i'm very disappointed by the president's approach to our problems, i still don't want him to fail. but we need him to tell the truth and to respect his duties and respect the extraordinary diversity that defines america. >> laura: here not to respond, georgia senator david purdue. senator purdue, wow, stacy abrams, i think she did an able job. always difficult to follow the president. she seemed very conversational, started off with kind of a hardscrabble story about her father and given a code to

somebody who was in need, which is a nice story not much or how that related to today's economy but nevertheless america still is dogged by racism, wealth inequality. that's where we are going in 2020. >> what you saw tonight is a president that landed his speech, one of the most historic speech as i can remember. he laid out a vision for america that build on successes of his presidency so far and the results he's achieving right now. the response builds on a per false narrative that's not built on any reality of fact. this is the greatest economic turnaround in our history. we have the highest median income in u.s. history, the lowest african-american unemployment in history, loss of employment 50 years, this economy is rocking the cause of the policies that president trump has implemented over the first two years. >> laura: senator purdue, stacy abrams said in georgia and around the country people are striving for a middle class where a salary truly equals economic security but instead

families hopes are being crushed by republican leadership that ignores life or just doesn't understand it. >> this is a totally disconnected democratic mission here. this is a false narrative. there's no facts that they are basing this on. i can tell you having spent a lot of time running around the country in the last few months and certainly in my home state in the last few weeks, the economy is moving, people are getting jobs, incomes are rising. this is a situation where optimism in america is back after a decade of the lowest economic performance in history. >> laura: and senator, the issue of immigration of course, the president feels so passionately about it. incredibly powerful stories tonight. again, people have lost loved ones, crime, depressed wages and the power of legal immigration. he made sure to mention that, which was really important. tonight, that issue seemed to connect, even after the pain that some suffered in the shutdown, what can we expect, if anything in congress with the

shutdown looming again? >> i'm hopeful but i'm less than optimistic. i think the ball is in nancy pelosi's hands right now and frankly i think we need to see a proposal for them. for 35 days during the shutdown we didn't get one single proposal from the speaker of the house. the president put forward several. this off-ramp that we are in right now, the three weeks, off-ramp gives us an opportunity with this committee to work out a result. i'm hopeful they will do that. but nancy pelosi has a historic opportunity right now to be a partner with donald trump. he's looking for a -- >> laura: were you watching a? what nancy were you watching? she was like leaving her teeth, doing the jumble or the crossword on her lap. i don't know what she was doing during that speech. she looked like she just sat on a pinecone for most of that speech. she was like trying to figure out whether to stand for no socialism. wait, should i stand? it was fun. i'm sorry, but there was some unintended probably comedy and all of that. one of your former colleagues in

the senate claire mccaskill was on another network tonight. essentially saying the president is threatening democrats, let's watch. >> the weirdest thing for me was the line he put in about there cannot be legislation -- essentially what he said is there cannot be legislation if you are investigating. basically threatening congress. >> laura: is that what he did tonight? >> of course not. this is the false narrative. when you can't talk about your policies and the results that they have achieved this is what you do. it's a false narrative not based on any reality. >> laura: what was it like in there tonight? we were all watching -- they were all in white. it was kind of a stunt. the president kind of stole the joke from them. with the suffragettes. he kind of had that whimsical mustang congratulations, good for you. >> what you saw as a president hitting his stride, buoyant on the results that his agenda is retrieving and it's disgusting, frankly to see americans sit on their hands when you talk about the lowest african-american employment. >> laura: how about ice?

the hero's advice. >> absolutely. it's disgusting. it's the hypocrisy of politics. >> laura: socialism still growing among samples, young people find socialism preferable to capitalism, what does that tell you about republicans and the job may need to do to educate a new generation that is propagandized to it, in public schools and in universities in mexico you're exactly right. the university still today of the academic position, of course socialism now is the new way. >> laura: what do you guys do? to business leaders do? >> we have to talk about the results of capitalism, free enterprise system, how does this work? >> laura: get the show that works. >> we are doing that right now, this president has delivered the best economic results in u.s. history, this turnaround is the best one we've ever seen. >> laura: end of february, possible second summit it looks like in vietnam, again the president with kim jong un, what can we expect?

>> i was in beijing when kim jong un was actually meeting with xi jinping and without that relationship between president trump and president xi jinping i don't think we would be sitting there today talking about a summit, a second summit between our president and kim jong un. i think this is historic. if president trump is a dealmaker. i expect this to continue onto the empty nuclear relation. >> laura: tough not to crack there. don't know if he is kind of helping or hurting in certain circumstances but they want those tariffs gone so there might be some layering of the issues there. senators, great to have you on. as always, thanks for staying out. a california democrat comes in and takes on the president and in a moment he's here to take on me as well. congressman brad sherman here next. >> together we can break decades of political stalemate, the decision is ours to make. ♪ my experience with usaa has been excellent. they really appreciate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else?

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we must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, incredible progress or pointless destruction. tonight i ask you to choose greatness. >> laura: but will those calls for unity actually work? cynical washington says we will see despite a more conciliatory tone, the democrats couldn't even muster up laws for the president's calls to end human trafficking, watch. >> now is the time to show the world that america is committed to ending illegal immigration and putting the ruthless coyotes, cartels, drug dealers and human traffickers out of business. [cheers and applause]

>> laura: wise kamala harris shaking her head, driving the human traffickers out of business, we don't want to do that, what? joining me now to react, congressman brad sherman, democrat from the great state of california, glad he's here tonight. congressman, i really appreciate you spending some time with us and sharing our perspective. on the issue of human trafficking, i've 's only democs talk about the scourge of human trafficking and we all as americans -- it's just not a partisan issue, so why didn't the women in white and kamala harris get on their feet and say good on you, mr. president ? we may not agree with you on a lot but that is good stuff? >> he begins his speech by threatening us and saying that if we do what the constitution requires and exercise oversight and investigate what's going on in his administration that he's going to hold the country

hostage. >> laura: that is so weak. i saw someone else say that on another network so that must be the democrat talking point tonight and i want to play something because i think this maybe will change the way you're approaching this. these are the instant polls that were taken right after the speech, two networks, not big fans of the president, cbs and cnn, let's watch. >> a very positive reaction from the speech tonight. 59% very positive, 17% somewhat positive. wendy 3% negative. >> following the president's state of the union, 76% of speech watchers said they approved of what they heard, 72% said they approved of the president's ideas for immigration. >> laura: does that make you think twice about taking away just the whole street was about threatening congress? the present was written across the aisle and you guys were sitting on your hands. >> this poll is of those watch the speech.

>> laura: so no democrats care about the state of the union? >> we care about the state of the unit but we've soured on the present so my president, without him a racist declarations. >> laura: how is that going to recreate a single drop? i get the talking point. he could have handled charlottesville better. i get it. >> all people in the district to watch the speech, those who wanted to watch watched. we don't live in north korea we are required to watch for that. >> laura: thanks for that education, i appreciate that. congressman on the issues, opioids, aids, human trafficking, criminal justice reform. women empowerment summit tomorrow for economic empowerment here and abroad. these are things that i remember -- been here for 30 years, your party has championed, but this guy says it and you guys are like he's attacking congress, how dare he say these things? >> we stood up and cheered dozens of times. >> laura: not on a lot of the issues you guys like.

>> i stood up and cheered more often than the last time i was at a dodgers game. we stood up and cheered dozens of times, not as often as the republicans did. we cheered more than obama was cheered by republicans. we cheered 20, but you can't stand up after every half a sentence and give a standing ovation. you can always find -- spewing human trafficking in women on employment. >> we stood on women's employment, we stood on border security. >> laura: there's the reaction right there. there's the reaction on women's on employment. there's the ghost gals. now they start -- i did when one of them said we are here, that's good. the president said its historic. >> it is historic. >> they wouldn't be there if it wasn't for donald trump. he does deserve credit. see all those democratic women? they might not be here if it wasn't for donald trump. >> laura: honestly, i think of the party of jfk. i think of the party of low taxes and lower regulations, robust military, obviously

pro-life. and i see this democrat party today, the party of infanticide, the party of late-term abortion, 80% of the country believes late-term abortion is wrong. and i thought what happened to the democrat party? the little guy, the party of the little guy, what happened? >> we are standing up, that's where we are winning in the polls, that's why we won by huge margins last november, that's why in spite of everything we carry the popular vote and we carried overwhelmingly. >> laura: how are you going to grow the economy let's say greater than 3.7% gdp? with the path for doing that? >> you first look at the fact that the last two years of obama created more jobs than the first two years of term. >> laura: what happened to the stock market the day after the election? >> those who wanted-corporate profits invested in the stock market and the stock market went up. >> laura: their 401(k)s, pension funds.

>> the vast majority of stock is owned by the top 5%. it is true that a lot of americans bought a very tiny amount of stock indirectly but the fact is that when you increase the deficit by $2.3 trillion, that's an additional debt -- >> laura: so now you are a deficit hawk? >> i'm against -- >> laura: i am too, by the way. you guys were against budget caps. you didn't want to do the budget caps. obama was dragged kicking and screaming for the sequester caps. i was all for those. a lot of big spending. >> the level of spending is consistent with the levels it was under the reagan administration. >> laura: what did obama do for spending? the only reason you got it under control as they had to do the sequester caps because we were blowing through it. >> we couldn't afford these fact on my tax cuts. they want overwhelmingly to the top into the giant corporations and they impose an additional $30,000 of debt on the average family of five.

>> laura: i think a legitimate criticism of both parties is wages have been stagnating, really median income stagnated so "the washington post" is a piece last september that say finally the recovery hits middle america. blue-collar wages rising. these are "abc news," this is "washington post" ," even "the new york times" has to admit that. if that also obama? that's not donald trump's deregulatory moves? >> instrument became president, really wages for those without college education has gone down, not up. because without inflation. you say oh, wages are -- >> laura: the fed just said inflation is basically nonexistent. that's why we are not raising rates. >> we've averaged 2% inflation and with averaged 2% wage growth cleared >> laura: he basically say the economy is not historically strong? >> the economy is providing jobs, which its continuation of the obama administration. >> laura: 300,000 jobs. >> fewer jobs in the first two

years of trump than the last two years of obama. those of the statistics you may not like. >> laura: blue-collar wages manufacturing jobs. over 400,000 jobs created. if obama had the answers, why wasn't he able to do that? he kind of laughed at the idea of all this manufacturing. >> we had faster job creation -- >> laura: manufacturing job -- >> and higher wage growth for those -- >> laura: higher -- >> look at the last two years of obama, the first two years of trump. >> laura: 's you actually think -- >> the only way you get the lower wage growth is if you ignore inflation. it lower than obama than it was under drum. >> laura: i want to get this straight, brett sherman tonight, i so glad you are on because you are very nice person. you are saying the economy was stronger under obama than it was right now? >> the last two bought years of obama -- it's a continuing trend. if you create jobs -- if you create jobs under obama, the new create -- >> laura: what is second, why would fox con not come into like

wisconsin and put like 10,000 jobs in there. if obama had the secret sauce on the economy, why weren't all these foreign companies -- >> we created more jobs in the last two years of obama than the first two years of trump. >> laura: you're not answering the question, why did fox con, one of the biggest upgraders in the world, -- >> you're asking me one company -- >> laura: one of the most important ones, they make the iphone, pretty important. we want that stuff made here? >> we want the job growth, and let the lower chart growth in the trump administration. >> laura: even trump's political enemies have to concede, you are not conceding tenant. >> is building -- >> laura: so it's obama. >> he's building on obama's success. >> spoke the economy starts to go down it will be obama's policies, it will be trump, correct? trunk at win either way. >> if you can outperform what obama -- >> laura: you can't say there's no -- >> we didn't say 2018. >> laura: donald trump wasn't

on the ticket, watch what happens in 2020 but we will see. >> once a year you have me on, only once. >> laura: you can come on anytime you want. >> are you getting? we have called you 20 times. >> laura: the door is always open. >> no it's not. >> laura: thank you so much. the liberal media span on the state of the union. dental much sooner. it was a very life changing experience... and it felt like i was me again. that's when i realized i hadn't been for three years. at aspen dental we're all about yes. like yes to flexible hours and payment options. yes to free exam and x-rays for new patients without insurance. and yes whenever you're ready to get started, we are too. call 1-800-aspendental today.

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>> i thought that is a psychotically incoherent speech with cookies -- >> shall trump, the strong white dome a great win trump pretty >> gas letting the american people. >> a divisive speech, low energy. it was not well delivered. >> laura: back with me, match left, byron york, also joining us as horace cooper, cochair of project 21. horace, van jones, who i just praised last week for x reporting -- even though he says almost horrific things about yours truly, i praised him for putting politics aside, i think he must've gotten too much heat for that because i was praising him. tonight it's basically dog you know what speech. classy, nice going. >> actually don't know what speech he watched. it's remarkable, but a chance to work with this president and they did a lot with criminal justice reform but tonight's speech was probably one of the best speeches the president has

delivered. >> laura: delivered and positive, optimistic. he got some digs in, but i think the democrats -- you see those clips there, poorly delivered, they are really grasping for something to criticize and i don't know, i'm really trying to look at it objectively. again, i thought the speech could have been edited, it was a little long for me but i always say that the people seem to love it. this is so much better than the super bowl, this is my super bowl. you should see the stuff on social media and the poles that i cited earlier again, they are instant balls, only the people who watched, that's true. but they are overwhelmingly positive. >> a couple of things, if you watch cnn and msnbc a lot their reaction to it is entirely consistent with the way they talked on my talk about trump every single day at a sparse democrats are concerned. a lot of people came into this speech to hate it. and it's hard to change gears if in the middle of the speech its 80 plus minutes long, it was too long, you're right.

it's hard to change gears and say actually he sang some pretty good stuff. maybe in the next day or two -- it takes a while for these things to sink in, we will see a little more balance commentary. >> laura: never. this was anderson cooper, matt, after stacey abrams wrapped her response. let's watch. >> the response given by stacey abrams, former gubernatorial candidate in the state of georgia. i like that one better. that's the best response, democrat or republican i can remember in some years. >> i did watch that speech. it's hard because you're not speaking to an electric room. they had the rather wooden panel of people behind you or which were expressionless. why do democrats think it's good to have a zombie appearance on your face at these speeches? chuck and nancy just looking straight at the camera. i thought that was a little odd. on the trump piece i want to

disagree. i think it's good he went wrong because most people believe that with a speech from a teleprompter that he is impatient and want to cut it all back. if ice think about the speech and i've through it a couple times, he really needed to say almost all of that. if you can quibble with the words and everything else but those things were critical and the other thing is this, this is a big, big moment for the president. it's a big moment for him to try to once and for all, in the final part of his term, capture people that aren't in his face. i think this speech gives him a chance to do that. >> laura: horace, my goodness, personal stories tonight. i got teared up like three or four times and the holocaust survivors story at the very end, which i think it was the most beautiful moment i'd seen in the state of the union, liberator and someone who survived sitting side-by-side. you think of the lives they've

like, the things they've seen in the pettiness, the pettiness of politics, and we are all kind of guilty of it and what they went there for freedom. >> when you see cbs reporting 80% of americans who watched this speech thought it was amazing, thought it was remarkable, what you could see and what i could see, this is a man who loves this country and his infectious love of this country allowed him to weave a narrative using the lives of real americans. this was quite reagan-esque and how he was able to build this narrative and that something that you can't do without a genuine affection for your country. >> laura: it's interesting that horst mentioned that because another theme i kept heg and seeing on social media is you can see the president believes this. these are just words on a teleprompter. every president gets help with his speech, by the way. i do want to hear that he didn't

write. every president gets help but he felt -- these are his issues. nato, pay your fair share, everybody deserves a second chance. get government out of the way. these are kind of basic things. but he owned the words because this is what he is believed. >> he does believe those things and when you talk about you're trying to bring americans together, you talk about the great things that america did. he did something tonight which we are not going to be able to do for much longer. he said in the room with us tonight we have two men who stormed the beaches on normandy. you're not going to be able to say that that much longer and he made really great use of that and the republicans i talked to tonight thought that he had made better use of the people in the balcony than any other state in the year and they had seen. >> laura: we had nancy pelosi's first on tape reaction. it's going to be a doozy, let's watch. >> when he acknowledged it was the largest number of women, he forgot to acknowledge, 15

republicans and 91 democratic women in the congress of the united states. where's your bringing this up. >> laura: that's it? is that the best you got, san francisco? that's it? it's why it was a nice moment. if you think trump doesn't know that they are mostly democrats? he was actually doing what they claim they want him to do. bipartisan acknowledgment. good for you, you guys are here, the anniversary of women's suffrage. i thought that was a brilliant moment in the speech and she knows -- she knows it's brilliant, that's why she has to kind of in that little sniffy way. >> i know it's in the house chamber we added several really great conservative women to the g.o.p. majority in the senate. that does get dominated by this big pickups by the democrats in the house. but the 53 seat majority in the senate is a big deal as we move to fillmore judge openings as we try to get these nominations

backlog. if you ask me the bargain, which were and what i like a little bigger conservative majority in the senator reid was in house, i would've liked both. >> laura: we are out of time. elizabeth warren's new controversy kind of snuck in today. nice timing. she did state native american heritage in her texas bar application after having said she didn't really use it to get ahead. you can argue that you're getting had come up the bar application, but nevertheless is this going to hurt her? >> she's not really going to make it. if she's not going to be able to go forward. if this problem is crippling her. >> she can't seem to shake this thing. she make mistakes on her own with the dna testing. >> that was awful. >> laura: one word, toast, i don't see much of a future there. the panel, thank you so much, fantastic analysis tonight. next we have some fun analysis from the evening, the chairs, the chairs, the snares and a lot more. the breakdown is our hysterical visuals tonight next.

♪ >> laura: trump's state of the union left washington buzzing with some of the best reactions of the night happening right during the speech. joining us now to break it all down, the sounds, the sites in the body language from the night, fox news contributor

raymond arroyo. everyone was texting me is raymond going to do bodily which? you are now the bottom line which expert. >> because i body language. not a good night of a democrat tonight. the president came in, he dominated the room. key moments, two of them i want to show you when really the rising star alexandria ocasio-cortez and nancy pelosi showed their discomfort with some of what the president was saying and it showed. >> we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good. >> anything but focus on the president. look at her face. she's practically pouting through this. and then there was another moment later in the conversation where nancy pelosi is snarling

when the president talked about the child tax credit. she was snarling at moments during this period >> laura: like she wasn't reading or doing the jumble or whatever it was. >> they don't realize the language, the message they send is we are being uncooperative, we won't play at all. his complement and women -- watch. >> to pass the united states reciprocal trade act so that if another country places -- >> she puts it down. >> on an american product we can charge them the exact same tariffs on the exact same product -- >> she was so worried about everything going on, she was reading along and forgot to sit down. >> laura: first of all, you don't sit there and read, whether it was the speech -- >> you don't know what -- >> laura: she's probably looking at her own portfolios, done pretty well under trump. done really well. up 40%. >> she was thrown off her horse a little bit. i think they were flummoxed by

the grace, poise the president had, he dominated the room and during the speech -- >> laura: they did stand quite a bit. >> amazing come on my feet crying. the connection that he made i think the middle america, fake voters with this moment when he mentioned abortion on demand and wanting a late term abortion ban, watch. >> i'm asking congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late term abortion of children. [cheers and applause] >> the republicans are on their feet. look at the ladies in white. watch the shot. not a moment of applause. the stark contrast the president drew in this moment will carry right on into 2020. >> laura: he mentioned ralph fort northam's name and said ralph northam would execute a baby born, would execute.

>> it was stark language in that reaction, we will remember that moment. >> laura: i think it's great that they wore the white because it really made them easy to pick out in the crowd. >> i didn't know if there were a nursing class from johns hopkins or a new liberal nonstarter. they like the little polyester suits. i didn't quite know what they were. they costumed, they wanted to go as a block, they did, but that visual reminder, voters will remember. i think you connected with women, people of faith. >> laura: where the never- never-trumpers tonight? they want more war where they want more illegal immigration -- who are the last standing never never-trumpers? >> it's increasingly hard to brand donald trump and his movement erases movement when you're pointing to people, african-americans that he helped either commute the sentences or release from jail as part of his criminal justice reform. >> laura: nancy pelosi facial

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♪ >> laura: it never gets old, even for some of the cynics in this town of washington, d.c. to hear moments like this. [applause] >> members of congress, the

state of our union is strong. [applause] >> laura: that is all the time we have tonight, don't forget, my podcast, a new episode launched today. ken cuccinelli, the northam description discussion, everything approaching the state of the union card go to podcast one.com. ed henry and the fox news at 19 take it from here. >> ed: i've been waiting for a president to stand up and say things are not that strong. >> laura: i will wait to see that. >> ed: great show. we begin with a fox news alert. president trump going into the lion's den, entering the house chamber for the first time with democrats in charge. fresh off the longest ever partial government shutdown, still locked in a bitter border battle, initially suggesting he rose to the occasion, but even mitt romney admitting it was