>> laura: congressman, that's congress. congress has to step up. but there is an addiction to spending in this place, in both parties. trump had to deal with the pandemic which was a huge amount of money but beyond that biden exploded the debt and he did not have a pandemic to deal with. >> exactly right. we can't cut our way out of this. we have to grow our economy. president trump has a growth strategy. the pricing stink -- pre16th amendment, let's get back to taking care of americans. >> laura: how would that do for the economy? panel, thank you. that's it for us tonight. stay tuned to fox for all of the coverage all night long. of president trump's a growth -- address to congress and remember thank you for watching, it is american now and forever, we have a lot of cool stuff behind the scenes up on social media. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: fox news alert, we are an hour away from the president's first joint address

to congress. trump is promising to tell it like it is. the theme tonight, the renewal of the american dream. six weeks into the job, 47 is walking into congress with the wind at his back. is approval ratings are at all-time highs and most voters think trump is already doing a better job than biden. the goal of the night, tout the early success and then lay out a vision for where we are going and what we need to do to get there. "politico" says without question america has been changed. >> you can expect president trump to tout action, a compliments. there's been a lot of that. may been no president since fdr has attempted so much so quickly. >> jesse: trump's ambitious because the american people voted for a complete up people, and here we are, a record 81 executive orders, the safest border in 25 years, hostages are coming home, high-tech manufacturing boom, auto plants returning stateside, and investments pouring in.

in just six weeks, the private sector has invested almost $2 trillion into this country and saves taxpayers over $100 billion. 2 billion alone in dead dei contracts. yesterday elon musk cut and 18 million-dollar per month contract to operate a migrant shelter with no migrants inside of it. federal workers are showing up to the office for the first time in four years. bureaucrats haven't seen the inside of an office in so long they are tripping over extension cords, forgetting wi-fi passwords and getting stuck in conference rooms. but they will get used to it like the rest of us. instead of the government working for themselves, the government is being put back to work for you. but democrats want to go back to doing things the old-fashioned way. 86-year-old congresswoman maxine waters, no relation, tried to hand-deliver a letter to the secretary of housing, which was really just a weak attempt at break-in. >> we would like to deliver the letter to you. [indistinct]

>> delivered on your behalf. >> we will make sure he gets a letter. >> let me just understand. i know you can deliver it,. [indistinct] >> he's not here? >> he's in the room right now. >> are you refusing me? >> i'm not refusing you, he's in a meeting right now. >> reporter: democrats have been suing and singing in the streets but nobody noticed, so now they are attacking tesla dealerships. >> investigators have been elaborated on what evidence they found here but say they have reason to suspect the fire was intentionally set. >> we are going to notify the state fire marshal. >> reporter: police said fire investigators are collecting evidence and surveillance video, trying to piece together who may have set fire to several tesla charging stations top-mac behind a shopping complex.

seven in total were torched. first responders rushed to the shopping center on constitution avenue around one in the morning monday. the fire burned for close to an hour. >> jesse: biden spent $7 billion to build eight charging stations in the democrats with them all on fire. the mainstream media is not even covering the liberal arsonists. this is the third violent assault on tesla dealerships and it's being covered up. the u.s. marshals are now being forced to cover elon musk because a majority of the country once d.o.g.e. 83% of voters support cutting spending. political consultants say d.o.g.e. is today what the wall was in 16 and it's winning over the battlegrounds. the main reason trump won the election was because he put the american people first. and tonight the white house will be honoring some of these americans. >> the first lady will be in attendance in the guest list you put together and president trump put together is phenomenal.

there will be every day american heroes in attendance, stephanie diller how you mentioned who lost her husband and the line of duty at the hands of an illegal immigrant, you have mark vogel who of course because of president trump's peace through strength efforts were returned from russian captivity, cory who lost his life protecting his family in butler, pennsylvania. you will also have an autoworker, a steelworker and you will see exceptional americans with great stories. president trump will be telling their stories. >> jesse: trump has forged an unbreakable bond with them working men and women of the united states and they will have the full focus of his agenda. >> i think over the medium term, which is what we are focused on, gets a focus on main street, wall street has done great, wall street can continue to do fine. but we have a focus on small business and the consumers, so we are going to rebalance the economy, we are going to bring manufacturing jobs home. we are going to continue the

surge in small-business competence that was at a record level when president trump came in. we are cutting red tape, cutting regulations and we are going to get bank lending going again. >> jesse: the last six weeks abroad radical change but the white house isn't satisfied. president biden left a gaping hole in our border for four years and tonight 47 is expected to ask congress for more money to accelerate the deportations. the border has been sealed but the removal force needs to be beefed up. the trade war is also officially underway. trump has targeted our three biggest trading partners, mexico, canada and china with tariffs in order to achieve fairness. tariffs have already helped stop human and drug trafficking and gotten some hostages home. and persuader companies to invest and build in america. but it's going to be a bit of a rocky road in the beginning but we expect to win in the end. tonight also comes at a critical moment in the peace process. zelenskyy's disastrous meeting

with trump is still fresh and the mineral deal hangs in the balance. the majority of the country thinks the war should end, ukraine, europe and russia all agree it's time to negotiate. here's j.d. vance on hannity. >> this cannot go on forever. there aren't enough ukrainian lives, there isn't enough american money and there isn't enough ammunition to fund this thing indefinitely. the only realistic pathway to bringing this thing to a settlement is president trump's pathway. we encourage both president zelenskyy and president putin to follow that path. >> jesse: the path to piece is never easy. deals blow up and they get put back together all the time. we expect a peace deal this year in ukraine. it's in america's national interest to end the war. but democrats would rather prolong an endless unwinnable proxy war just so they can call trump a traitor for stopping it. >> they are going to be running for reelection in a couple of years or next year. i wonder if they are going to want to run with vladimir putin as their running mate because

right now that's how donald trump is heading things up. >> jesse: world peace should not be political but democrats haven't settled on a leader or even a message about anything. they are still stuck on anti-trump. even though that message hasn't gotten them anywhere. members of congress say they may walk out of the chamber during the speech. >> i mean it will look different for every member. this go around. we should not be surprised if we see walkouts, we should not be surprised if we see that kind of coordinated effort in dressing a certain way to send a message. we should not be surprised if we see people might even react to some of the lies that we know he is going to tell about the work that his administration is doing in the harm that it's causing the american people. >> jesse: the ladies of the view want to see more, or maybe a little less.

>> what should they do, should they sit and listen, should they get naked and dance around? what should happen? or should they all wait until the end when freshman senator elise lot nick gives the democratic response? anybody? >> i think they should walk out en masse. >> naked? [laughs] >> naked could be interesting. >> they should walk out. >> we past the point of no return with him and we need to stand up to him big time. >> jesse: some democrats are bringing props, noisemakers, signs, empty egg cartons, red cards i guess for soccer and hand clappers, whatever those are. loud, up noxious stunts to get attention aren't what americans want to see from the democrats, they want to see cooperation or at least a better idea. democrats have not done either. house minority leader hakeem jeffries is begging them to stop. he says no props.

he says don't create a spectacle that could be seized upon by the g.o.p. we will see who listens. the party has a 36% approval rating, a record low. they are out of touch and their priorities are out of whack and they haven't even laid a glove on trump since he's been sworn in. they can't even decide what to wear tonight. the women's caucus is wearing pink, the ukrainian hawks are wearing blue and yellow, and the congressional black caucus is wearing black. democrats used to have a well-oiled machine fighting for their propaganda. now they've collapsed and they've been reduced to this... >> when i win i will immediately bring prices down starting on day one. >> that's not true. that's what you just heard. since day one of donald trump's presidency truck -- prices are not down, they are up. >> since day one of donald trump's presidency, prices are up, not down. >> that's what you just heard. >> since day one of donald trump's presidency. >> prices are up, not down.

>> and that is the truth. >> jesse: telling voters you are a puppet won't put you back in power. speak freely and think independently and then maybe you will have a shot. trump has a mandate to change washington. no matter how much will left is in denial. >> he won the popular vote by 1.5%. one of the smallest upper. and he won the general election by less than 50% so what kind of mandate is this really? >> it is a mandate and i will explain why. i don't mind the question but let me be clear, i'm no supporter of trump, i'm a supporter of the truth and facts. the man's one every swing state, he increased in terms of his voter turnout in his favor from the standpoint of blacks, latinos and young voters, he increased his numbers in that regard from 2020. 89% of the counties shifted to the right. that's a mandate. i don't understand how people can look at that and say there's no mandate. >> jesse: donald trump reignited a sense of american

ambition, that nothing is impossible without a little hard work and common sense. we are on the cusp of an artificial intelligence revolution and a new era of american expansionism. independent media, bitcoin, drone tech and private space exploration are all new frontiers that america is barreling towards. with a fresh sense of confidence. the president, who dodged the bullet in prison, feels blessed by god to take this country to the future and beyond. and the fact that he's not running for reelection means that this isn't political, we are just trying to make history together. the founder of patrick that david is here now. a big night to night. what do you expect from 47? >> i think he's going to be on attack mode off the bat. you have to realize this, when you think about the first 43 days, 44 days of a president being in office, there has never

been a leader that came in with the level of disruption, at the speed, at the pace, where the opposition does not know what to do. if it isn't one thing, it's the next. in the next story in the next. meeting with zelenskyy, doing it the log style, we are getting a chance to see how zelenskyy is negotiating behind closed doors. you see j.d. come up and fight against him, the comments being made, and now comments he's talking about, you know, he wants to have our crypto reserve and then you are seeing what d.o.g.e. is doing. every day we are learning something new. this will be a scary one. i would advise hakeem jeffries to not do what his former example of a leader did. i highly recommend him not doing something like this because it's not going to be a good look for this guy because he's going to want to negotiate with this guy. don't do what nancy did a few years ago. >> jesse: he's not going to do that but he has no respect over his caucus. they say there's going to be props, there's going to be walkouts.

what's that going to look out -- like for americans watching at home? >> i hope they do that. i sincerely hope they do that. think about it this way. there is stephen a. smith who is a sports guy for espn is more being talked about right now sounding like common sense than any other candidate they have today. they are voting for preventing boys from competing in women's sports and they voted 45-51. even think about the democrats who are sitting there, they want to vote democrat because their parents were for jfk, their parents were for hey we are going to land on the moon, their parents were all about what kennedys were. they are sitting there saying honey, what are we talking about right now. the democrats still want boys to compete in women's sports. i thought the democrats were for women. i thought they were for no war. why do we still want to fund zelenskyy? what happened to the democratic party? i hope they do exactly what they are saying they are going to be doing to try to disrupt, to make it difficult, to try to agitate.

i hope they do that because it shows so much weakness. i can't wait for them to do it because they are so predictable. >> jesse: the president is going to give them a little jazz as they walked out or do whatever they do. you said in the beginning that the president will be on attack mode and you made some references to places where he can exploit, women's sports, things like that. do you expect kind of a sharp partisan attack to really press his advantage or do you see him kind of rising above it the way historically presidents do in these bigger moments? >> this is not like the previous presidents we've had. we've learned one thing about president trump, he has been himself for 78 years, he trusts himself, he's going to ask his advisors for what they think but that guy got here individually when even his own party gave up on him, so the man's instinct, his intuition, his trust in himself is very high.

he has nothing to prove. is going to get up there and present to the people he's speaking to an say look, you are upset. a famous president a few years ago said elections have consequences. i hope he uses that line because the american people said they wanted him. seven states, we are not talking five, not two, not three, seven states said we want to president trump, guess what, you can cry about it and say whatever you want, they wanted him as their president. >> jesse: things are happening really quickly and you and i follow this for a living, it's what we do, we are all plugged in and see it happening every day and we build off of it. most americans can't even keep up with the pace, it's so fast, you get whiplash. does he need to come out tonight and just explain what he's done, how he's done that, why he's done it and how it's going to deliver success? >> yeah, i don't think if it's what he needs to do, it's what he's going to do. one thing he's very good at,

he's very good at stating his victories and what they are doing. and doing it over and over and over again. >> jesse: he is good at stating his victories, that's what he's best at, that's probably true. >> that's right. he's a promoter. it's very hard to have a tv show be a number 1 hit for 15 years and you want to be in all these movies. he's going to make sure everybody in america watches where he says while you were busy taking care of your wives, your kids, your husbands, your families, doing your job, paying your bills, i've been doing my job as a president, keeping on the promises i gave you. we are getting there, stumbling on some of the stuff but we will do our stuff in the future looks bright. he will give a message like that. >> jesse: all right, good to see you. always a pleasure. thank you for joining us. >> likewise, thank you. >> jesse: any moment donald trump departs the white house. a live report, next. ♪ ♪ oya)♪ there are some things that work better together.

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>> jesse: fox news alert, you are looking live at the white house where president trump will soon depart for his joint congressional address. this just in, trump's staff pregame and with mcdonald's. peter doocy, did you get a big mac? >> it looks like they've got mixed doubles and it's funny that you put that up because as we were coming to air i had this post that you are showing on scream sent to me by a former biden calms official who wrote, pizza is the better play. so we are at the point of coverage where if there are no excerpts we might start individually counting mcnuggets and fries, which we can do depending on how things go. we do believe president trump is going to be talking a lot tonight about tariffs and he's going to try to squeeze some

money from these congressmen and women in the building. he's going to try to squeeze some border money out of them. and he's going to have at least a few unannounced special guests. we don't know what exactly -- at which point in the program that will be but in addition to the people they've told us about, there will be some surprises. i've also been told there were some wires crossed this afternoon about the possibility of the u.s. ukraine rare earth minerals deal coming back to life. everybody i asked at the white house was telling me they did not want to get ahead of the president. there could be an announcement about really burying the hatchet after friday's trump zelenskyy blow up in the oval office. something else that is new and different, at least a year's had president trump did not do any formal prep for this speech. i called karoline leavitt earlier and asked her what she could tell us about the prep and she said there is no formal prep. as you can see, some of the motorcades are staging, that

could be vance or trump. no formal prep. we know from the past administration the past couple years, for days ahead of a big speech like this they would set up a podium with the prompters and a presidential seal either here or at camp david so that president biden could be surrounded by advisors, telling him how to say certain things, how to use his hands, how not to, how to be prepared for an interruption, which he was from marjorie taylor greene last year. donald trump does not want to hear from his advisors about any of that. it will be in his voice, he was a big part of the crafting of the speech but he's not been in their doing, like, a big prep session with people telling him what he did wrong. >> jesse: you know,, the last time they bragged about not prepping was the debate with kamala where he said they were eating the cats and eating the dogs. >> now they are eating the mcdonald's. >> jesse: and now they are eating the mcdouble is. you alluded to something.

i want to see if i'm reading your right, are you saying there's a chance that zelenskyy might be a special guest tonight? and that they might announce the mineral deal with him is the surprise cast? >> yeah, i saw a big 5-foot cake, i assume he will come out of it. no. i've specifically asked if zelenskyy is going to pop up and i was told that is not something that the white house is tracking. >> jesse: it's not like beyonce is going to perform during the dnc that kamala pulled, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. enjoy the mcnuggets, count them as you pop them, save me some barbecue sauce. >> thank you, jesse. >> jesse: let's bring in republican candidate for ohio governor, might as well just call him governor already, the back from a swami. the spirit of the country has changed significantly since the last administration. the theme is the restoration of the american dream. what do you think he's going to hit tonight?

>> talk about the contrast from a year ago. i think that's what donald trump should and will hit. a year ago when biden address that body, we had open borders, the largest influx of illegals into this country in american history, rapid inflation and wars around the world from ukraine to the middle east that were still escalating at that time. now look at where we are just a few weeks into this presidency. sealed the border, rampant downturn in the number of illegal encounters at the southern border, great a economy that heading in the right direction, in those wars are de-escalating and on their way hopefully to resolution. i think donald trump has made tremendous progress. he's a human being, not a magician. that means we were left with a major mess coming up of the last biden-harris administration. the reality is that is still going to take a bit of time to dig out of and i think you should be frank with the american people who are going to be patient with him, who are behind him, who gave him that mandate for sweeping change. i love the theme centered on the american dream because is not

just about what we are cleaning up or what we are tearing down, but also what fills that void and what takes its place. the idea of economic empowerment and educational empowerment for americans across the country, i think that's a great way to kick the next chapter off. >> jesse: these scenes are hard to run against if you are a democrat, it's hard to run against common sense, putting canada first, restoring the american dream. do you expect him to step on the democrats' neck tonight or do you see him saying come along with us, let's do this together? >> i think it's going to be a bit of both. a bit of holding the other side accountable. but at this point we have control of both the presidency, we have both chambers of congress, we have a conservative majority on the supreme court. the fact of the matter is it's now or never for saving the country and i think it's with that attitude the donald trump in this new administration has moved beyond just the past of joe biden and kamala harris, but the question is now what are we running to, what are we chasing,

what is our future. i like the idea of restoring this idea of the american dream. notice how we haven't even talked about that, verbalized the idea of the american dream over the last several years in our country. that is changing. what is the american dream? the idea you can look your kids in the eye and tell them and mean it that you get ahead in this country with your own hard work and commitment and dedication, that you are free to speak your mind at every step of the way without censorship. things that we took for granted when you and i were growing up. things that we could not take for granted in the last several years. so i do think that this marks a bit of a moment of a transition tonight from holding the prior administration accountable to say we are turning the page on that, we are done with that chapter, now we are moving onto our vision of what we actually stand for. not just as republicans, but as americans. i was with donald trump over the weekend, i'm really proud of his sense of self-confidence and leadership style. he's at a level that even exceeds that first presidency of his. it's the second time in history

you have a president who took a break for four years, had a chance to reflect and then comes back to take the country to the next level. this is historic tonight. only the second time in history you have a president coming back to be able to address a body like this after four years away. i think he's ready for that task an end then some. >> jesse: we are looking live at some of the video of the white house at the president is about to get in the motorcade and head over to the capital. you said you've never seen the president so confident. many people see the president as the most confident person they've ever seen in their entire lives. you are saying he has even more confidence. >> i think it's a justified confidence because the reason for that is look at the turnaround he's been able to implement in a few short weeks. accomplishing more positive things for the country than i think president biden did in literally four years in office. i think president trump has exceeded those expectations. but as time passes we are going to be talking less about biden

and more about what we are actually -- actually accomplishing. one of the things i love about president trump is he loves to keep people on his toes. i would expect him to have a few surprises woven into night just like we will have positive surprises over the next couple of years. i think that's what people love about him. he's spontaneous, authentic. that's what we voted for. we did not vote for incremental change, we voted for sweeping structural change and that's what he's delivering and i think it's going to take the country to a really -- i mean this not in a fake politician way but in a true way i mean this, our test -- best days are still ahead of us. that's where he will lead us. >> jesse: thank you so much, we are looking live at the beast right there. the president's motorcade. keeping the car idling, ready to go over to deliver the speech. thank you. there he is. the president of the united states with the first lady melania trump. walking into the presidential limousine, they call it the beast, it's indestructible. making himself comfortable after

a few big macs or quarter pounders with cheese. probably a law -- large fries and diet coke. got about a ten minute ride over to the capital where he will be delivering his speech to congress. let's bring in kid rock who we spoke to during around the inauguration i believe. what's that been about 43 days? a lot is happened since then, kid. >> where you want to start? [laughs] >> jesse: i don't even know where to start. where do you start? i don't even know if i could give this speech in three hours there's been so much to talk about. >> it's been unbelievable to sit back and watch, somebody who comes into this from complete opposite of a politician, from a business standpoint, makes a list, tells people what he's going to do and while, he goes out and starts doing them, just checking the list off one by

one, basically kicking ass and taking names. >> jesse: so they really got the democrats struggling and we are hearing there's going to be some stunts tonight. you know a thing or two about studs, grabbing attention, causing a ruckus. anything you are thinking up that they could possibly do, any advice for them? >> maybe just shut up, sit there and learn something. i mean how did that work when nancy did her little -- tore up her little thing? just collector things from your office, put a basket on your head and walk back to where you came from, that's what i would say. >> jesse: you told me the last time you actually played at president obama's inauguration, so you are someone who respects the office. isn't this just about respecting the office these nights?

>> it should be. absolutely. they are obviously still butt sore because their message has been so terrible for the last four years. move down the list. it's the old talking point but it's common sense, just to hear common sense coming from a group of people who are in there. i've never been more excited about the group of people that are surrounding the president, that he's put into office. i've been fortunate enough to know a lot of them personally. just being at the daytona 500 it was like catches sitting there with mutual friends it was like it feels like america, we are celebrating america, all the things that are great about our country. it really does. america is back, baby. >> jesse: we are so back, there's no doubt about that. you mention running around with some of these people surrounding the president. have you seen elon musk

recently? he's been a little busy. >> i saw him sunday. i was golfing with the president and elon showed up the last few holes with his mother who could not be sweeter. we had so much fun. he showed me this new thing he's got. it's like this app that you go and it's got this mode called unhinged. this guy has balls. put this thing out, it's beyond fun and funny. if you don't mind if you curse words here and there and something going hard in the paint as an ai thing, it's bananas. >> jesse: unhinged mode. of god to get into that. all right, i will see what i can find thereafter the show. that sounds like a great round you had. maybe i will hear more about that afterwards. i know i'm not allowed to go to your parties, i was banned from the inaugural party at your hotel room, but maybe you can fill me in later. thank you so much.

[laughs] >> god bless. >> jesse: all right. podcast hosts join us. you guys are just a bit differently. where is your hat? >> we have to class this thing up. first of all we are following kid rock and then look at this place, nothing but the best for fox news. >> jesse: did you play golf with donald trump and have kid rock show up with his momma the last full? >> you can't beat that. an invitation you can't decline. >> jesse: so you guys have seen these before. we keep hearing about a special guest, a surprise guest. any idea who that could be? >> it's president donald trump, it could be literally anyone. the one take away that when you are in the venue that is hard to completely encapsulate on tv, just how small everything is. if you are going to get stunts out of democrats, it's very personal. this as a capability, of democrats say what they are

going to do or they are actually going to do, it could really backfire on them. >> jesse: you can smell bernie sanders' breath, that's how close you are. >> and you know it's going to be terrible. donald trump will be so bold tonight and what i'm watching for is what you are talking about, how democrats react. some people say noisemakers, some people say they will walk out of the chamber. i don't know why they are walking in if they are just going to walk out but americans know they've been walking out on them for a generation and they will be surprised if there walk of tonight. >> jesse: hakeem jeffries is begging them not to walk out. he says no props, no noisemakers. if they do that, does jeffries lose all of his streak read? >> i think the problem is that his colleagues seem to have a humiliation fetish over the last six weeks. literally everything you would not want them to do they've done in spades. he tells them not to walk out. i have no doubt they are going to do something because they can't help themselves. >> jesse: the audience watching at home, they can't keep track of what's been going on, we keep track of it for them

but even we have a hard time. i have like 13 producers. every day is like another slew of achievements. would you tell it like a story, you know, this is how we started, this is where we are, this is where we are going or do you want to just rattle off a list? >> i think it's a good way to do it. i think the president will have plenty of stories tonight. he's got a handful of special guests with very important stories of their own that they weren't able to tell during the last administration. >> jesse: we have a van's walking in right now with i think senate majority leader thune back some of the senators here. >> it's going to be a great night. you know that president trump is going to put on a show. nobody is better at entertaining the american people and he will do it tonight. >> jesse: we see the senators walking in, johnson, scott out of florida. a lot of these guys look very similar. the fact that i'm noticing who they are is pretty amazing. [laughs] >> big d.c. guy now.

>> jesse: pretending at least. so the tax deal, that looks like it's moving. a lot of people are saying trump, you have to focus on the economy, the democrats are saying what about the prices. we are looking at a tax and regulation cut that is coming within a couple weeks. [simultaneous talking] >> jesse: and there we have liz warren. >> i expect that to play a big role in tonight's speech. he has to focus on the economy. attacks piece of course a signature achievement. they will want to get that done and communicate to the rest of the world that the american economy is back in a big way. i expect that to lead the way. >> jesse: do you expect any sort of bipartisanship? some of these democrats look like they are enjoying themselves. they be they had a glass before they got there. >> you would like to see it but these democrats have voted against as president time and time again. on the border for example. that's a big thing he will be talking about because he has accomplished a lot in his first

month. border crossings are down 95 percent, the arrests are up 600%. >> jesse: and if you tout that, how were democrats not going to applaud? >> that's a problem that they have. in six weeks they voted against deporting absolute criminals from this country and then last week they voted to have men in women's sports. it's time and time again. you would like to see the bipartisanship but if the voting record is any indication, i don't know. >> jesse: there you have the president arriving at the capital in quite a significant motorcade. looks like they enjoyed the quick ride. they clear traffic, no traffic for the president. >> green lights all the way. five-minute ride. >> jesse: this is his fifth one. he's not new at this. biden came in, not the greatest delivery. >> terrible. [laughs] >> jesse: the last one we covered, he was like 20 minutes late. we thought there was a medical emergency. senators walking in, thune,

vance, shaking hands. everybody once their photos taken when this happens. they lean and sometimes they fall over, that's marjorie taylor greene out there. >> sometimes you get house members who show up on the chamber -- at the chamber at lunchtime so they can stand next to the aisle and hoped to shake hands. >> jesse: camping out. >> autograph signing in the aisle. >> jesse: they don't have anything else to do for the american people. thank you guys very much. let's bring in former nascar driver and host of the pretty intense podcast, it's a pretty intense podcast. great to see you, how are you? >> good to see you, jesse, i'm watching the beast come in and wondering if i will ever get a chance to drive the beast. [laughs] >> jesse: the beast was at the track the other day. i don't think it went very fast. more of a show horse. anything is possible with this presidency. you might be able to take it for

a few laps in a couple of years. >> well a long time ago i did drive the madden bus to start off the nfl season around indianapolis motor speedway so i think that beast would be quite an upgrade even though it's still heavy. not an actual boss. that would be pretty fun. even better if he was in the car. >> jesse: obviously. i'm sure he would talk your ear off. do you know what this is like? you are new at this, you've just kind of become politically awake recently. you kind of got involved in this campaign. how does this feel for you? >> i mean it's like now every day i watch the news, i want you to keep up with what's going on and thank goodness you have 13 producers to keep you informed because that helps keep me informed. but i'm just realizing that it's important and that what happens inside the government really matters. i feel like proud to be on the

right side of it and to be promoting these positive things. just for instance the fact that we are trying to get, you know, men out of women sports, things like that. these are important issues that affect people for real. and it's exciting. i kind of like d.c., i've been a few times and i don't know if you like it but i get good vibes in d.c. >> jesse: i like to visit and then i like to leave. like most places. i like to leave right afterwards. great to talk to you and it's exciting that you got involved in this process and more and more people are getting involved. that's what this is all about, bringing people in and doing this together. we really appreciate it, thank you so much. >> thank you, jesse. >> jesse: guy benson and aaron elmore. this is where the action happens, guy, everybody gets down into the aisle and starts

shaking hands and getting selfies. and then the big night. what is this, about 30 minutes away, what do you want to see? >> i think at a lot of these things it's about the agenda moving forward, a laundry list of things a president might want to do. i think we will get plenty of that. he will go i bet more then an hour. but i think what we are going to mostly see and what his team is going to lean into, this is just a guess on my part, is a recap of the last six weeks. shock and every single day and i think he's got this opportunity to talk directly to tens of millions of people saying we hit the ground running, here's what we've done already. i think there will be some ragging and deserved bragging on a lot of it before they move on to what comes next. >> jesse: because when you hear about the accomplishments, especially in the wake of an administration that did not do a whole lot, it is kind of inspiring. if you are not a politically attuned person, to hear that this is a government that does stuff. >> cutting the red tape. the victory lap that

president trump will take around washington is going to be so fast you won't have time to say drain the swamp. i think these acknowledgements speak for themselves. the american people said we want to change in the changes donald trump. we see dei out of the federal government, men out of women's locker rooms, restoring america to greatness domestically and abroad. we don't have a president anymore that his handlers that have to walk into his mark and give a lifeless beach on a teleprompter, we have someone who takes charge, can speak for hours on end at a time the american people don't get a politician, they get someone who's talking directly to them and is achieving objectives. >> jesse: and elon musk, a special guest as the d.o.g.e. administrator there tonight. i don't think he has a son on his shoulders this evening although that would be pretty fun. we just saw j.d. vance who's made quite a name for himself, especially after the last oval office meeting in the munich speech with johnson it was able to get that mega maga

bill across the finish line. >> at least so far. that was a big step one in a victory lap last week, speaking of victory laps. what a change of scenery from the joe biden kamala harris nancy pelosi images of some of those states of the union and then it's going to beat trump, vance, johnson, a whole new cast of characters and a very new direction for the country. >> jesse: we are going to have johnson gavel this in and then you are going to have the joint chiefs of staff come in, we may even see some of the justices in robes follow that. there's nancy mace with senator ted cruz. i'm sure they are just talking about football and, you know, what they did on saturday night. there is ben shapiro. looks like a special guest of speaker johnson i believe. these guests at that the president is bringing in, what kind of story do you expect him to tell with some of these people? >> we know that president trump hates the mainstream fake news media and some of these journalists who have stood up for him are the new era, we are

ushering in a new time in america where people who are street journalists, that have done blogs and podcasts, are in the building tonight. i think that speaks volumes. donald trump is the president of the people, he's a populist and people like ben shapiro, they've had great movies, they started with the daily wire, they are out there in that new generation, new era of journalism. >> i saw a riley gaines sitting with them and i would not be surprised to see the president lean into the protecting women sports issue because senate democrats just last night voted unanimously against a bill to protect women sports and that's an 80-20 issue in the other direction for them. >> jesse: you see nancy there, it looks like she has a ukraine flag, wearing pink, she won't rip anything up tonight. will she applaud when the president talks about getting men out of women's locker rooms? >> no. >> jesse: she won't. what does that tell the audience, that you will have a woman that powerful not stand with women? >> there was an analysis done on

another network by some polling gurus. they said that the executive order on that issue that trump signed a few weeks ago may have been the single most popular thing he has ever done in terms of public opinion and the democrats seem to be lining up locked, stock and barrel on the other side of it, which is certainly a choice. >> jesse: that is one of those things that you can see as a viewer. if you are going to have the president talking about let's just say banding paper straws or getting boys out of girls sports or closing the border, these are common sense popular ideas. if the democrats don't show a little gumption, stand up, maybe just a golf clap, how about a golf club. >> i don't think that will happen. i think they will be defiant like an insolent toddler. we might see some of the nancy clapping and some sort of outburst because they are having a hard time coming to jesus about what has happened. this is a mandate in washington and beyond. it should really be sending the

democrats time for a moment of contrition, they aren't doing that and i think that's why donald trump should say we are back in better than ever. i got all of my cabinet secretaries through, it's completely stacked. pete hegseth, pam bondi, eric k junior. we are winning on every front and washington and it's about time. >> jesse: thank you, good to see you. let's go to senior national correspondent. what do we have cooking down there? >> hey jesse, it's a pretty cool seeing here. i wish you could be here we saw a bunch of senators go in lead by vice president j.d. vance. i believe we are now waiting for the supreme court justices to walk through the hole on their way into the chambers. we are waiting for them. this is really going to get going because the president i believe is now here at the capital. as we watch these people walk in, really all eyes tonight are going to be on the democrats and what they are going to be up to during the speech. of course years past you will remember we've seen, you know,

then speaker nancy pelosi tara president trump speech right behind him, we've seen plenty of democrats booing him in the middle of his speech. we are waiting to see what they do. we have heard a number of plans and things that they've talked about, some of them might be wearing the ukrainian colors, ukrainian flag, might be waving that because they want to show their support for ukraine and aid for ukraine. we've also heard people that might walk out in the middle of the speech and people who might say something, might shout something if they feel like, you know, the president has said something that they have an emotional reaction to. a lot of different people are also going to boycott this. aoc has said she's not going to be here in the room, she's going to be live tweeting about this instead. we are waiting to see how they respond and react. something they've already done earlier, i know you've seen it as well is some of our viewers, are these videos they put out on social media about 20 different

senate democrats got together and basically read the same script, used some expletives and trashed the president's campaign promises ahead of tonight speech. that is what we are looking to, to see how disruptive the left is going to be, or if they are going to be strategic about this because look, this is the president who won this election fair and square by a large majority of americans and so would it serve them to actually be disruptive? i'm not sure their leadership would agree with that. >> jesse: thank you. i'm so excited to see what props they have in store, it's like carrot top. i don't know what to expect. i'm on the edge of my seat. let's go to outnumbered cohost and former white house press secretary kayleigh mcrnany. i hear you got it sneak be that the expert -- sneak peek at the excerpts. >> this is not going to disappoint. i am incredibly impressed with what i've seen. i was a little nervous because stephen miller has a new role

and he's the best speechwriter i think we've ever seen in this country in some time but these are incredible, what you are about to hear. particularly, you know, my concern today was i really hope he hits the economy. as some have said, the media focuses on d.o.g.e., on ukraine, that's all great and well and good but this president can only economy, this president has seen a ten-point swing in the direction the economy is going. this president has seen the best numbers on the economy since before joe biden, and i think is going to give the american people a history lesson. we had the worst inflation in the last half-century other president joe biden. he's working to flip that and he's going to get into those remarks and tease the golden age of america. these are uplifting, they are not caustic, they are not fighting words from what i've seen, as we see mike johnson gabbling in. this is a president is ready to tout is more hunt -- more than 400 executive actions. >> jesse: there is how

speaker johnson gabbling us in. i believe we are going to have some of the going chiefs come in. let's listen. >> the gentlewoman from michigan, miss mclean, gentlemen from north carolina, mr. hudson, gentlemen from pennsylvania, gentlemen from utah, mr. moore, gentlewoman from indiana, gentlemen from oklahoma, gentlemen from new york, mr. jeffries, gentlewoman from massachusetts, ms. clark, gentlemen from california... >> jesse: so it's smart to really contrast where you've come from. barack obama did that basically the entire presidency. this is what i came out of, they got us into a ditch, i'm digging us out, and we heard him blame bush for the entire eight years. so you are saying what we should expect tonight is not just list the accomplishments of the last 40 something days, tell us where we have been and how much is going to take to get us out of

this hole. >> that's just it, this is contrast messaging at it's best. this is a president that's been there for six weeks and what he's done just in six week is a stark contrast to the last four years. the polling shows that. it's worth reflecting too on the moment for president trump. president trump, the last time he stood at that dais you are looking at, he was standing there on the brink of covid in 2020, a pandemic was about to ravish the nation, he just been through the impeachment over a perfect phone call and then he had no clue that down the road there would be these trials, that the democrats put on, and here he will stand tonight as a president reelected, a president with a majority approval rating according to cbs and harvard harris, so i think you are going to see a victory lap from what i've read, but a contrast with the four years of darkness the american people have been through as we enter what president trump calls the golden age. >> jesse: have you any idea

who the surprise special guest is? i think they are just teasing me. >> they brought rush limbaugh in a moment. we will see who they bring tonight. maybe zelenskyy. i like that out the cake. >> jesse: maybe i was right about zelenskyy. i don't want to ruin the surprise that who knows, that would definitely be very dramatic to get that mineral deal done with zelenskyy in person, especially after that not so great as we describe it oval office meeting. thank you so much, that is all for us. brad and martha are going to take over our special coverage. -- bret >> that was really smooth, what a great transition. >> you guys are just teasing me now. you are making fun of me