from the chamber. so this was a very rowdy opening to this speech that went on to do a lot in terms of listing some wacky doge spendings and much more. >> and you see the president shaking. let's listen in here. thank you. >> get this place going. all right. thank you so much. >> thank you sir. it's a great honor. >> thank you. thank you, mr. president. thank you very much. mr. thank you much. appreciate it. >> you know the democrats protest actually started before the president entered that chamber. the democrats on the bipartisan escort committee, the group that walks the president in, did not show up for that job. you know, the president touted the almost 100 executive orders, the 400 executive actions in 43 days that he said restored common sense. he spent a pretty good amount of time, as you mentioned, going through the specifics of what was found in

doj's the department of government efficiency, singling out elon musk listing listing the millions that were found in detail, and many of the democrats held up signs saying musk steals and faults. but the best moment, emotional moment was dj, who's battling cancer. he wanted to be a police officer and during the speech, the president said the secret service has made him an agent. even in that moment, you know, the gallery was split. there was a major announcement on shipbuilding. and actually during this speech, china announced a 7.2% increase in chinese defense spending for this year. that's almost 15% over the last two years. he didn't single out china, but he did say they're close to a deal on ukraine and russia. >> so we are back with our panel, brit hume, dana perino, harold ford jr and larry kudlow. there's also a letter from zelensky, which we'll get to in just a moment. but brit, let's get your thoughts. this was the longest speech he has now. the record holder for the

longest speech to a joint session of congress beating bill clinton. >> back in pennsylvania. >> this was the most boisterous, the longest, the most partizan speech i've ever heard a president give in this kind of setting. and i go back about maybe 50 years on this. i also think it may have been the most effective. i mean, if you ever doubted that donald trump is the colossus, the political colossus of our time and our nation this this night and this speech should have put that to rest. the democrats seem to be falling into trap after trap after trap as he as he recognized these people and celebrated people he pointed to in the gallery and their stories, while the democrats sat glumly on their hands. through all of that, it was a terrible look. al green's attempt to disrupt the speech was a bad look for the democrats. this was this was a i think, politically speaking, this was pretty powerful stuff. as powerful as i think i've

heard. >> let's listen in just a second as we hear them. >> congratulations. >> treating each other. >> speech ever. thank you. that's fantastic. thank you. mr. >> mr. president that was a great that was awesome. highlighting why it was marjorie. >> taylor green with a hat that says trump was right about everything. is the hat that she is wearing in the chamber there? harold, your thoughts on the speech democrats reaction where we are? >> i think that brit nailed it. i'd say this to my party. we have to win on ideas. the disruption was was not a good look for the congress and its passion. and as congressman greene may have felt, that was not the right moment to do that. the litany of things this president did during the speech from the young man you mentioned, i think he even let a young man in the west point. yes, tonight, whose family was there, he talked about police officers who had been slain in

their their loved ones who survive us. it was a far ranging speech. it reminded me a little bit of the everyday people that that we saw in milwaukee, where they saluted and lifted up the stories and lifted up the heroism of those who have been so great to our country. he didn't really try to bring the country together with rhetoric. he really tried to bring the country together around stories about people. the real work will start tomorrow and we'll see, see how it goes. but congratulations to the president tonight, dana. >> democrats could have brought people together if they had stood up in some of those moments, which should be things that everybody can celebrate. but what really stood out to you tonight? >> well, at the beginning of the speech, he started off by saying, there's nothing i can say that is going to make you clap for me. and then they proved him. right. now, many democrats did not defend al green as he was escorted out. they didn't fight that. many other democrats left during this and went and did little videos. but i think that what it showed is that the democratic party still has no common sense. they have no

ideas and they have no heart. they couldn't even stand for the most inspiring moments of this speech, larry. >> there were multiple times where he talked about tariffs, and that's obviously a rocky road. if you look at the markets over the last couple of days and people talking about it in that, he said, there will be a little disturbance, but we're okay with that. but i heard your reaction when he also talked about tax cuts and expenses for businesses. >> you know, this is such a colossal, positive, upbeat. it's like america has no limit speech. and i love the fact that he unleashing prosperity through tax cuts. in fact he said we're going to make them retroactive to january 1st on the business investment side, which is going to be so well received by companies and the stock market tomorrow. and i think the tariff thing, bret, you have to put it in the context of all the other things he talked about. he talked about drilling and liquid gold.

yes, the tax cuts. he spent a lot of time with cutting spending with doge. he hit all those. he's sort of saying, look, we have an economic policy that is unlimited. we're going to carry the country forward, whether you believe him or not. i think it was just an incredibly optimistic vision. >> okay. we're seeing the adjournment of the house right now. we're going to have more with our panel and get ready for the democratic response. after a quick break. >> the house will be in order. >> businesses need shipping software that keeps up with their growth. with shipstation, you can automatically sync inventory and manage returns across all your sales channels so you fulfill your orders accurately and ship the right products to the right customers. shipstation makes it easy to manage everything on one platform with the lowest carrier rates. no matter how big you get, keep your business growing. go to shipstation. com to start your free trial today.

young ethan, he wasn't breathing and i knew that we had something that could help him. >> we've been trained on the life pack and i knew had the device in my car. >> what happened when you had to use the life back? >> got a call for a five year old boy choking on a piece of candy about two rounds with a life pack, and he was back to normal. gave me a thumbs up. >> how frequent do we get a choking call? >> a minimum once a week, right? >> so i think you would get that many calls. and now we're starting to see that many seats. >> go to life net or call (877) 543-3822. >> all right. so we're waiting for the democratic response. but we have a couple of minutes here to get a little bit more feedback from the president's speech tonight. and harold, he did move the ball forward with president zelenskyy. said he received a letter from him that he wants to would like to sit down at the negotiation table. >> his tone about that was very different than the tone we saw over the over the weekend. it

signals to me that the president was sincere about having read the letter and frankly, realizes this is his chance for peace. >> all right. let's go to senior national correspondent aishah hasnie live on the hill as we get ready for the democratic response. good evening aisha. >> good evening to you, brett and martha. so we're talking about elissa slotkin. she is a first term senator from the great state of michigan. and at just 48 years old, she is the future of the democratic party. in fact, leader chuck schumer in the senate said that she is a rising star. now, she comes from a battleground state, that she won a beat, a competitive republican there, she performed better than vice president kamala harris last november, and she did it by courting those trump voters. so you will probably not hear any of the progressive outcry tonight when her rebuttal. instead, we expect her to lean in hard into those common sense topics, viewpoints, that messaging that's working really well for republicans. right.

>> on the hill. aisha, thanks. back with the panel, dana. these are tough things. we said it before with brit. when you have a response, you're coming off of this big moment in front of the house chamber. and we understand elissa slotkin, the senator, is going to be in michigan. we don't know exactly where, but we've seen these before. >> it's so isolating. there's no response. there's no audience. usually you're not going to i just think they should skip this altogether. i honestly would do away with it for both sides. i don't think that is necessary. and also it's 1108. >> the longest speech ever. >> so often, you know, they'll find like a diner or a place we saw last year, katie britt, the senator in her kitchen, you know, whispering it's a difficult it's a difficult task. >> as a former cia agent which makes piques my interest okay. >> i bet i'll make the bet that this is a focus on the economy. and she is coming from a state herald.

>> that tariffs. >> and tariffs and car makers. it's going to be a focus on economic issues. >> and she just won a tough election. >> against mike. >> rogers in michigan. and so she and she won. and so i do think she's great. although she just broke my rule. my rule is never say yes to this. >> brett i have 10s to your thoughts. >> well, i think as you suggest, it's a hard assignment. and at this hour, on this night after that speech, i think it's i think it's an almost impossible assignment. >> well, there you go. let's see how she does. michigan senator elissa slotkin is ready to give the democratic response. let's turn it over to her. >> hi, everyone. i'm elissa slotkin. i'm honored to have the opportunity to speak tonight. it's late, so i promise to be a lot shorter than what you just watched. i won't take it personally if you've never heard of me. i'm the new senator from the great state of michigan where i grew up. i've been in public service my entire life because i happen to be in new york city on nine

over 11, when the twin towers came down before the smoke cleared, i knew i wanted to make a life in national security. i was recruited by the cia and did three tours in iraq alongside the military. in between, i worked at the white house under president bush and president obama, two very different leaders who both believed that america is exceptional. you can find that same sense of patriotism here in wyandotte, michigan, where i'm speaking from tonight. it's a working class town just south of detroit. president trump and i both won here in november. it might not seem like it, but plenty of places like this still exist across the united states. places where people believe that if you work hard and play by the rules, you should do well and your kids should do better. it reminds me of how i grew up. my dad was a lifelong republican, my mom a lifelong democrat. but it was never a big deal because we had shared values that were bigger than any one party. we just

went through another fraught election season. americans made it clear that prices are too high, and that the government needs to be more responsive to their needs. america wants change, but there's a responsible way to make change and a reckless way, and we can make that change without forgetting who we are as a country and as a democracy. so that's what i'm going to lay out tonight, because whether you're from wyandotte or wichita, most americans share three core beliefs that the middle class is the engine of our country, that strong national security protects us from harm, and that our democracy, no matter how messy, is unparalleled and worth fighting for. let's start with the economy. michigan literally invented the middle class, the revolutionary idea that you could work at an auto plant and afford the car you were building. that's the american dream. and in order to expand and protect the middle class, we have to do a few basic things. we need to bring down

the price of things we spend the most money on groceries, housing, health care. we need to make more things in america with good paying union jobs and bring our supply chains back home from places like china. we need to give american businesses the certainty they need to invest and create the jobs of the future. and we need a tax system that's fair for people who don't happen to make $1 billion. look, the president talked a big game on the economy, but it's always important to read the fine print. so do his plans actually help americans get ahead? not even close. president trump is trying to deliver an unprecedented giveaway to his billionaire friends. he's on the hunt to find trillions of dollars to pass along to the wealthiest in america. and to do that, he's going to make you pay in every part of your life. grocery and home prices are going up, not down. and he hasn't laid out a credible plan to deal with either of those. his tariffs on allies like canada will raise prices on

energy, lumber and cars and start a trade war that will hurt manufacturing and farmers. your premiums and prescriptions will cost more because the math on his proposals doesn't work without going after your health care. meanwhile, for those keeping score, the national debt is going up, not down. and if he's not careful, he could walk us right into a recession. and one more thing. in order to pay for his plan, he could very well come after your retirement. the social security, medicare and va benefits you worked your whole life to earn. the president claims he won't, but elon musk just called social security the biggest ponzi scheme of all time. while we're on the subject of elon musk, is there anyone in america who is comfortable with him and his gang of 20 year olds using their own computer servers to poke through your tax returns, your health information, and your bank accounts? no oversight, no protections against cyber attack, no

guardrails on what they do with your private data. we need a more efficient government. you want to cut waste? i'll help you do it. but change doesn't need to be chaotic or make us less safe. the mindless firing of people who work to protect our nuclear weapons, keep our planes from crashing, and conduct the research that finds the cure for cancer, only to rehire them two days later. no ceo in america could do that without being summarily fired. okay, so we've talked about economic security. how about national security? let's start with the border. as someone who spent my whole career protecting our homeland, every country deserves to know who and what is coming across its border, period. democrats and republicans should all be for that. but securing the border without actually fixing our broken immigration system is dealing with the symptom and not the disease. america is a nation of immigrants. we need a functional system keyed to the needs of our economy that

allows vetted people to come and work here legally. so i look forward to the president's plan on that. because here's the thing today's world is deeply interconnected migration, cyber threats, ai, environmental destruction, terrorism. one nation cannot face these issues alone. we need friends in all corners and our safety depends on it. president trump loves to say peace through strength. that's actually a line he stole from ronald reagan. but let me tell you, after the spectacle that just took place in the oval office last week, reagan must be rolling in his grave. we all want an end to the war in ukraine. but reagan understood that true strength required america to combine our military and economic might with moral clarity. and that scene in the oval office wasn't just a bad episode of reality tv. it summed up trump's whole approach to the world. he believes in cozying up to dictators like vladimir putin

and kicking our friends like the canadians in the teeth. he sees american leadership as merely a series of real estate transactions. as a cold war kid, i'm thankful it was reagan and not trump. in office in the 1980s, trump would have lost us. the cold war donald trump's actions suggest that in his heart, he doesn't believe we're an exceptional nation. he clearly doesn't think we should lead the world. look, america is not perfect, but i stand with the majority of americans who believe we are still exceptional, unparalleled, and i would rather have american leadership over chinese or russian leadership any day of the week, because for generations, america has offered something better our security and our prosperity. yes, but our democracy, our very system of government, has been the aspiration of the world. and right, right now, it's at risk. it's at risk when the president decides you can pick and choose what rules you want to follow when he ignores

court orders and the constitution itself, or when elected leaders stand by and just let it happen. but it's also at risk when the president pits americans against each other, when he demonizes those who are different and tells certain people they shouldn't be included. because america is not just a patch of land between two oceans. we are more than that. generations have fought and died to secure the fundamental rights that define us. those rights and the fight for them make us who we are. we're a nation of strivers, risk takers, innovators, and we are never satisfied. that is america's superpower. and look, i've lived and worked in many countries. i've seen democracies flicker out. i've seen what life is like when a government is rigged. you can't open a business without paying off a corrupt official. you can't criticize the guys in charge without getting a knock at the door in the middle of the night. so as much as we

need to make our government more responsive to our lives today, i don't for one moment fool yourself that democracy isn't precious and worth saving. but how do we actually do that? i know a lot of you have been asking that question. first, don't tune out. it's easy to be exhausted, but america needs you now more than ever. if previous generations had not fought for this democracy, where would we be today? second, hold your elected officials, including me, accountable. watch how they're voting. go to town halls and demand they take action. that's as american as apple pie. third, organize. pick just one issue you're passionate about and engage. and doom scrolling doesn't count. join a group that cares about your issue and act. and if you can't find one, start one. some of the most important movements in our history have come from the bottom up. in closing, we all know that our country is going through something right now. we're not

sure what the next day is going to hold, let alone the next decade. but this isn't the first time we've experienced significant and tumultuous change as a country. i'm a student of history, and we've gone through periods of political instability before, and ultimately we've chosen to keep changing this country for the better. but every single time, we've only gotten through those moments because of two things engaged citizens and principled leaders, engaged citizens who do a little bit more than they're used to doing to fight for the things that they care about, and principled leaders who are ready to receive the ball and do something about it. so thank you tonight for caring about your country just by watching you qualify as engaged citizens. and i promise that i and my fellow democrats will do everything in our power to be the principal leaders that you deserve. good night everyone. >> michigan senator elissa

slotkin, an up and comer in the democratic party. former cia agent. i said she was going to talk about the economy. she did a bit, but she talked a lot about foreign policy. i said that as a cold war kid, she was happy that president reagan was the president and trump would have lost the cold war. she called the oval office meeting with zelensky a bad reality television and said foreign policy cannot be a real estate transaction. she pointed on that foreign policy focus. >> yeah. in the beginning, though, she talked about she tried to present herself as someone who is a unifier and a reflection of her party on the whole. she said, my parents are republican and democrat. she said, when i was growing up in michigan, you would want to be able to work in the car factory on the car and be able to buy it as well. but then she slammed the tariffs. it's interesting that the canadian premier is threatening today to cut off electricity to parts of michigan because of this tariff deal, but she was trying to pull people together a little bit, be a unifying, moderate voice. i think for democrats to give them a new direction.

we'll see if she succeeded. >> yeah, again, it's a tough job. that response we just heard the motorcades leaving. the president is now back at the white house. thank you for watching our fox news coverage of president trump's joint address to congress. the longest ever. >> the longest ever. a special edition of hannity is coming up next. thanks for being with us tonight, everybody. good night from washington. >> all right. thanks, brett. and martha, welcome to hannity. and yes, we are live. we are in washington, d.c, where only moments ago, president trump wrapped up his first joint address to congress of his second term. coming up, we got a lot of reaction analysis from several people who were inside the chamber. senator ted cruz will join us, house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan, our treasury secretary, scott parson and house speaker mike johnson, and many other special guests. also, check in on our friends in the democratic party who continue to make just utter fools of themselves with their little props and disruptive outbursts and coordinated smears, and even some vigorous

cane waving. take a look. >> we won the popular vote by big numbers and won counties in our country. >> usa. usa. usa. usa. usa. >> small business optimism saw its single largest one month gain ever recorded, a 41 point jump. >> now other. >> members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the house and to cease any further disruptions. that's your warning. members are engaging in willful and continuing breach of decorum, and the chair is prepared to direct the sergeant at arms to restore order to the joint session.

>> all right. a lot more on these antics in just a moment. but while democrats, they play stupid games with their performative stunts, president trump is on the move. the nation saw that tonight in all of its force, if you will. and only six weeks. six weeks. we have seen more action, more results from the oval office than almost anyone thought possible. let's take a look. >> i return to this chamber tonight to report that america's momentum is back. our spirit is back. our pride is back, our confidence is back. and the american dream is surging bigger and better than ever before. and we have ended weaponized government. where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me. how did that work out? >> not to engage. >> not to. within hours of taking the oath of office, i declared a national emergency

on our southern border, and i deployed the u.s. military and border patrol to repel the invasion of our country. and what a job they've done as a result. illegal border crossings last month were by far the lowest ever recorded ever. to unshackle our economy. i have directed that for every one new regulation, ten old regulations must be eliminated. just like i did in my very successful first term. and i have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in america. >> it's back. >> we've ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government and indeed the private sector and our military. and our

country will be. woke no longer. i also signed an executive order to ban men from playing in women's sports. and in the near future, i want to do what has not been done in 24 years balance the federal budget. we're going to balance that. >> on top of all that, president trump created doge to identify waste, fraud, abuse, corruption now rampant inside our federal bureaucracy, including social security fraud. take a look. >> 1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159 and over 130,000 people, according to the social security databases, are age over 160 years old. we have a

healthier country than i thought, bobby. including to finish 1039 people between the ages of 220 and 229. one person between the age of 240 and 249, and one person is listed at 360 years of age. more than 100 years. more than 100 years older than our country. but we're going to find out where that money is going. and it's not going to be pretty. >> and of course, the bobby kennedy joke, one of the big lies of the night. of course,

the democrats in the room did not celebrate doge. in fact, they couldn't even bring themselves to stand and cheer for president trump's pledge to remove taxes on tips and overtime and social security. take a look. >> very, very big part of our plan. we had tremendous success in our first term with it a very big part of our plan. we're seeking permanent income tax cuts all across the board and to get urgently needed relief to americans hit especially hard by inflation. i'm calling for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on social security benefits for our great seniors. >> democrats tonight were so pathetic they couldn't even stand for lake and riley's family. jocelyn gary, his mother, a slain officer's wife, stephanie diller. they couldn't even stand for a beautiful 13 year old cancer survivor who dreams of being a police officer. and tonight became a

secret service agent, dj daniel. he said, this is my fifth time. at a joint address from president trump, and sadly, there is nothing this president could do or say that would make these democrats stand and cheer. this has now become a party of rage and hate. a radicalized party reduced to a collective temper tantrum, sitting on their hands, doing nothing for the you, the american people. but tonight, this is also a defeated party. no solutions. no coherent message, no plan for the future. simply reduced to political stunts and smears and outright lies. and they were holding the little signs that read save medicaid. even though president trump promised to protect it. others held signs smearing elon musk. congresswoman tlaib brought her very own whiteboard. karl rove will be jealous, presumably so she could make it up as she goes along. but tonight's speech wasn't about the angry democrats that have no vision for our country on the left side of the chamber. as a

matter of fact, it wasn't even about politicians on either side of the aisle. as always, president trump's speech was dedicated to you, the people that make this country great, the american people. moments ago, the president highlighted the courage of one brave young man from texas. this was quite a moment. take a look. >> joining us in the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police. his years old and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. but in 2018, d.j. was diagnosed with brain cancer. the doctors gave him five months at most to live. that was more than six years ago. since that time, d.j. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and dj has been sworn in as an

honorary law enforcement officer. actually, a number of times. the police love him. the police departments love him. and tonight, d.j, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i am asking our new secret service director, sean curran, to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. >> how great was that? joining us now with reaction. he is the speaker of the house. he was standing for a big part of the night behind the president. mike johnson was with us. america's back. america's golden age is here. the american dream is unstoppable.

and pretty amazing night, i would argue. probably donald trump's best speech. >> i loved it, sean. it was not a speech for the mainstream media. it was a speech for the american people. and i'm sure it was received as well at home as it was there by the republicans and the audience up in the gallery. it was really shameful what the democrats did. i mean, they really it was quite a spectacle. they brought shame on themselves and their party. but the american people are following what the president is delivering and they are appreciating it. and we certainly did tonight in the chamber. >> mr. speaker, the democrats sat down the entire night. they could not even stand for that young man. they could not stand for lincoln riley's family. they could not stand for jocelyn unger's mother. they couldn't stand for anybody. no tax on tips, no tax on on overtime or social security. do they stand for anything? oh, no. >> not even the terrorists that we've apprehended now that masterminded the disaster at

abbey gate. it was really quite a spectacle, you know. and if they're going to use a 77 year old heckling congressman as the face of their resistance, then bring it on. but we're not going to tolerate that on the house floor. and i don't think the american people are going to tolerate that either. >> mr. speaker, the speaker of the house, what happens to somebody like al green when he pulls off a stunt like that? >> well, we escorted him off the floor. he couldn't behave himself. it's quite shameful. it brought shame on. i'm sure his constituents are not proud of that tonight, but i suspect that there will be a censure resolution brought on the floor to discipline him. we have to do that inside the house. we have to maintain decorum. yeah, yeah. >> president laid out to i mean, a vision for the country. he he not only talked about all the things that he did, you know, getting out of the w.h.o, the paris accords, the un human rights council. et cetera. getting rid of the ev mandate, you know, but he also free speech is back. woke is dead in america. end of di crt doge. he

spent a lot of time on the waste, fraud, corruption, abuse and he went on and on and on about balancing the federal budget, passing tax cuts and reciprocal tariffs. the lake and riley act, protecting police officers. i mean, that's just off the top of my head about, you know, what is shocking or i think to this city where i am tonight, what's your reaction? and juxtapose it to where the democrats are. >> well, you know, the thing to remember is that all of that was accomplished in less than 50 days. i mean, imagine that he's accomplished more in this short period of time than most presidents do in a four year term. and as he said tonight, he's just getting started. we cannot wait to codify this. the house and the senate will be working in lockstep with him in unified government. the republicans have a mandate from the american people, and president trump is using it. you know, the democrats don't

have a leader. they don't have a vision. they don't have a platform they can run on. so all they can do is this, you know, making a spectacle on the house floor. but we're going to govern, sean, and we're going to move the ball forward for the american people. and it is going to be a new golden age for america. and president trump is leading it. and we are so excited to be a part of it. >> well, i think it was a big night for the republican party. you have will you have the votes to get this economic plan and plan passed quickly, which i would argue, you know, anytime you're going to have an economic recovery, you need a little time for that recovery. will that happen? and when do you think you can complete that? in conjunction, obviously, with the senate, which has kind of, you know, more difficult rules and a process when you use reconciliation? >> yeah, we've laid out a very aggressive schedule. we passed the budget resolution last tuesday night. the democrats in the media said it couldn't be done, but the republicans in the house stuck together and got it done. that opens the door for the reconciliation process. and the one big,

beautiful bill that the president keeps talking about, and we keep insisting upon sean. we put it on a very aggressive schedule. we will get that done. if we stick by that schedule by the end of april. the president will sign it into law in early may, and that will be enough time for the american people to begin to feel the effects of that before the midterm election in 2026. so economic help and recovery is on the way. and all these other promises are as well. we're going to deliver for the american people. >> all right. speaker mike johnson, great to have you. and we'll be following that progress very closely. all right. joining us now on set, texas senator ted cruz. senator, how are you? good to see you. god bless texas. amen. and god bless your big win this year. >> look, this was fantastic. tonight was incredible. this is the fifth state of the union address i've seen trump give. it was by far his best. it was. we're just over a month into it. and he had a litany of victories that we've already won. one after the other. after the other. listen, i thought he was joyful. i thought he was

forward looking. i thought he had the promise of america front and center. and i got to say, the contrast. i have never seen such a disgraceful display as the democrats put on. i've been to 13 state of the union addresses all together since i've been in the senate. i've been to every one. i've never missed one. it started from the moment he walked in and was introduced. the president of the united states, not a single democrat stood. not a single democrat applauded. not one. i've never seen that happen. every time joe biden walked into that chamber and they introduced him as president of the united states, i stood my butt up and i clapped. every time barack obama walked in. i stood up and clapped, even when i couldn't stand their policies. even when i was horrified at what they were doing. i respect the office of the president of the united states, and i respect the american people. the contempt those democrats had, they wouldn't stand, as you noted, for the mom of jocelyn dungaree, they wouldn't stand for lake and riley's family. they wouldn't stand for the 13 year old kid who survived brain

cancer. they didn't stand for the young man whose father was a slain police officer, whom trump admitted to west point in the middle of the speech. they wouldn't stand for him. even the joint chiefs applauded to the kid going to west point. but you know what? the speaker got something slightly wrong. he said. there was nothing they applauded for and stood for. that's not correct. there was one thing the entire night they applauded for that. we sent hundreds of billions of dollars to ukraine, and they all stood and cheered that we sent money to ukraine. but they will not applaud for america. i found it horrifying. more than once, i turned to the folks next to me and said, what the hell is wrong with these? >> what has happened? i mean, this is not the old democratic party. this is a radicalized party that is full of rage and hatred. and it was on display tonight. they looked petty, they looked small. they looked diminished. they looked defeated. that's what i saw tonight. and. and if they want to be the party of men

championing men and women's sports, they want to be the party of putting the rights of illegals over the safety of americans. they want to be the party of endless wars. if they want to be the, you know, the party of, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars wasted abroad for their radicalism. i'm okay with that. >> look, you use the right word. it is rage and it's hate. i got to say, tonight the democrats also destroyed my favorite state of the union game. so i actually came up with a game to myself. so what i like to do is look at the opposing party and see when they choose to clap. and it's actually fun. you would look at like a joe manchin and they'd be like, america is good. and manchin would stand up and applaud. and it'd be, we support our troops. and they kind of half stand and think about it. my game is gone because they don't applaud for anything. >> so i think this explains sort of i call the state run media mob, but it's also the democratic, radicalized media mob. so was this a concoction of what chuck schumer and the leadership and hakeem jeffries and they said, nobody's allowed to stand. >> i don't think it was

orchestrated. i think. really i don't know that. and they are a command and control authoritarian party. so it could be. >> but how do you not stand for mothers that lost their children? how do you not stand for a 13 year old cancer survivor, or this young man who got into west point, as you point out, or the mother of a slain officer? how do you not stand for these people? >> because, look, this this party is in denial. they don't recognize the incredible mandate that came from election day. al green from my home state of texas. as embarrassing as that was, what did he stand up and disrupt the whole thing on saying you don't have a mandate. >> i'm going to impeach you. >> i mean, it's utterly absurd. as the president rightly pointed out, he won all seven swing states. he won the popular vote, we won the senate, we won the house. and no democrat is recognizing that. now, listen, i was very glad you and i both know alexis, jocelyn's mom. >> i talked to i interviewed

her, i mean, i want to cry every. >> she and i did a show. >> with him together. >> so? so alexis. >> was great, by the way, to that family. and i think everybody at home needs to understand you've done you have done a lot. and i think a lot of what happened tonight was because of your hard work. thank you for that, because she's this little brave 12 year old girl who fought for her life. >> renaming the wildlife sanctuary after joe was beautiful. so alexis was going to be my guest tonight, and i invited her and she was coming, and the president invited her. i was very glad to have her sit with with melania instead. and actually alison berry, who was. >> saying she will be joining us in a few minutes. awesome. yeah. >> alison berry, who was sitting right next to melania. she is the 15 year old girl from texas who was victimized by deepfake porn. >> right. >> the legislation that the president referred to, the take it down act is my bill, i wrote it. it's my legislation that passed the senate 100 to nothing. and yesterday the first lady came to the senate and did a roundtable with me and with alison, this 15 year old girl who's really stood up

and showed incredible bravery. and i was really proud. the president called on the house to pass the take it down act. i told both alison and francesca mani, who is another 15 year old girl from new jersey who was similarly a victim. i told both of them, we're going to be in the oval office for the signing ceremony. you're going to get one of the pens the president uses to sign this, and you're going to protect other teenage girls and women across the country. i hope also that alexis is in the oval office for signing the justice for jocelyn act that requires that illegal aliens who are apprehended be be detained and kept in detention. that would have saved jocelyn's life if justice for jocelyn had been the law. >> the idea that they will put the rights of unvetted illegals over the safety of our citizens in light of known terrorists, murderers, rapists of cartels, gang members, other violent criminals and not support deporting them. okay, they have lost any moral clarity or compass that they might have once had. senator, i'd never get to see in person, it seems.

it's great to see you. and although i want to get back to my free state of florida, it's great to see you. great night. god bless texas. thank you senator. all right. now, a lot of president trump's speech tonight focused on immigration. in just a few short weeks, he has completely reversed the border crisis. he wanted the nation to know that. take a look. >> since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in american history. and we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded. thank you. the media and our friends in the democrat party kept saying we needed new legislation. we must have legislation to secure

the border. but it turned out that all we really needed was a new president. >> thank you. >> and joining us now, he is the head of the very powerful house judiciary committee. ohio congressman jim jordan, great to see you in person. how are you? i'm doing fine to see you. good to be with you. by the way, if you talk to president trump ever, he's going to say he only lost one match in all the years he wrestled at ohio state. >> president trump won a big match tonight. that was phenomenal, wasn't it? >> i never saw anything like it between, you know, the sulking temper tantrum of the democrats juxtaposed with a president that is moving at the speed of light and then some.

>> yeah. the intensity, the i mean, just leadership. and you contrast that with joe biden when he gave his i mean, all his. >> year ago. >> what a contrast. this is real leadership. i love that when he said doers, dreamers, fighters and founders. and that's the american people, the doers, the dreamers, the fighters, the founders. they loved what they saw in their president and what he's doing, doing what he said he would do. what a contrast. from what we've seen for the last four years. it was a phenomenal night for the president, i think a great night for the country. >> and riley's mom, jocelyn, gary's mom, we talked with senator cruz about this, this young 13 year old boy that had overcome cancer. and he became a secret service agent tonight, which is so cool. the young man that got into west point tonight. yeah, the mother of the slain officer they couldn't stand for. they can't stand for them. are you kidding me? >> yeah. the country sees past that, though. the country loves. what? you're right. that's the democrat party today. but i don't think they

even stood for helen hughes, whose husband saved her life. their daughter's life. i don't think they stood again, if that's what they want to do. okay. but i think the rest of the country said we appreciate president trump's leadership. we appreciate the fact he told us what he was going to do. plus, i also like the list, the list of that he did. the list of all the stupid. >> are very good at lists. >> well. >> we're both listers. >> i call it the common sense list. yeah, like, let's have a border. let's let's let boys compete against boys and girls compete against girls. i mean, let's not have die. let's not have critical race theory. he just like, let's just get back to common sense. and then of course, the list on the doge cuts and all the people who are getting money, who are like 140 years old, we don't know. that whole list was. >> great to a lot of i'm guarantee when we get into the weeds, we know it's hundreds of billions of dollars. when did the democratic party become the party of die wokism, transgenderism, lgbtq plus, and the green new deal of money in other countries? the fact that the president took so much time out of his speech tonight to go

through it. by the way, i did not know what i'm going to have to look down, put the camera on mr. jordan here for a second. what was it? oh, transgender mice. that was not on my list. >> i know. >> that when i'm back, back in the control room. >> i think we're in a whole new framework. i call it the doge framework. now, where we see all the ridiculous spending that's taking place, itemized out. and the democrats are all upset about it. and instead of dealing with the ridiculous spending, they want to attack elon musk. they want to attack the president instead of just dealing with the crazy spending. but again, i think the american people see it for what it is. and let's let's go in there and get rid of some of this crazy stuff we're spending money on and actually help the. help the. >> economy have something to it, says fifth state of the union address. and no matter what i say, no matter what i do, this side is not going to be happy. yeah. and then they fulfilled every, every single worst instinct that i think a politician ought to have. ted cruz rightly pointed out when,

when joe biden was introduced, mr. speaker, the president of the united states, they stood up. >> yeah, i stood up. i've been to 18, 18 of these. i've been, you know, more more, more democrats than than republican of these. and i tell people this is the closest thing to pageantry we have in america, and it's a good thing for our country, and we should be there and respect the office of the president. >> i've had to suck it up after. >> of course, you. >> have a few elections that i didn't go my way. >> of course it's part of part of our great country. but tonight we saw a leader. we saw a leader who is more than any person i've ever seen in politics. he is doing what he told the american people he was going to do. i say this all the time. we make this job too complicated. it's simple. what did you tell the voters you were going to do? if you get elected, go do it. and for 40 some days, no one has done it with the intensity of this guy. and then further laying out the vision where he wants to take the country. that's what presidents are supposed to do. that's what leaders of great

nations like ours, the greatest country ever, are supposed to do. >> president trump just get passed? >> yeah, it has to. >> it has to. >> it has to. because again, we have to help president trump deliver on the message he ran on, got elected to do. the country wants us to. and if we don't if we don't, with a $36 trillion debt and all the crazy things that the left wants to do, we have to get it done. >> we're going to play a big part in it. yeah. good to see you. >> well, you play a big part too. thank you for all you. >> do i don't nobody. good to see you. thank you. all right. another major part of tonight's speech focused on the economy and the president's plan to use tariffs to negotiate a fair trade for american businesses. take a look. >> american steel worker. fantastic person from decatur, alabama. jeff dennard has been working at the same steel plant for 27 years in a job that has allowed him to serve as the captain of his local volunteer fire department, raised seven children with his beautiful

wife, nicole, and over the years provided a loving home for more than 40 foster children. so great jeff. >> thank you jeff. thank you jeff. >> stories like jeff's remind us that tariffs are not just about protecting american jobs. they're about protecting the soul of our country. tariffs are about making america rich again and making america great again. and it's happening. and it will happen rather quickly. there will be a little disturbance. but we're okay with that. it won't be much. no you're not. oh. and look and look where biden took us. very low. the lowest we've ever

been. >> all right here now joining us is treasury secretary. secretary scott benson is with us, sir. how are you? great to see you. >> good to see you. >> you know, it's so critical. let's put it this way. president goes through all the doge waste, fraud, abuse, corruption. then you think we have nearly $40 trillion in debt? then you think the average american only makes 66 grand a year? okay, it's unfair. and we're stealing from our kids and grandkids. >> sean, i couldn't agree more. that's the reason i got came out from behind my desk about a year and a half ago, because i was just shocked. shocked when the last administration did. to us, this is the biggest deficit that we've had when we're not at war and not in a recession. 6.7 6.8% of gdp. and they just blew out the spending. and now president trump has a plan to bring it down slowly. and it's what i call we're going to reprivatize the economy. we're going to bring reinvigorate the private sector, shrink the government sector. >> all right. so when i listen

to people and they usually tend to have a political agenda and they hear him say tariffs, he says reciprocal tariffs because we're already being as he pointed out tonight, india, china, canada, mexico, the european union, they all have massive tariffs on us. and is he not negotiating do they. not after all these years know that donald trump is always negotiating. >> he's always negotiating. but i think they also know he means it, that he'll pull the trigger and. >> pulled it today. >> yeah, yeah. and look, i'm open to the idea that either the other side can drop their these big tariffs that they've got, they can drop them or they know president trump will put up the tariff wall and then we'll see. >> so i call him little justin justin trudeau. he's got 42 million citizens in canada. we have 340 million here. he wants to pick that fight. what do you think is going to win? he's going to get hurt the most. >> well sean you know he's

already a lame duck. he's he's dead man walking. and so i don't think anybody ever took him seriously. i think he's kind of dangerous. we'll see. and my guess is that next week mark carney's the prime minister. he's a little more reasonable. we'll see. >> it's simple. the president wants the border secure. he wants free and fair trade across the board. nobody taking advantage of us. and the president would like fentanyl to stop coming into our country. if they do those three things, tariffs go away and they get rid of their tariffs. >> yeah. exactly. so the current 25% tariffs are about securing the border about fentanyl. and then on april 2nd we're going to see the reciprocal tariffs. >> yeah it's really not that complicated. do you like the new job. how do you like this this swamp. >> well i don't know about the swamp but the cabinet is great. the president's amazing. the every day is. >> a force of nature, isn't he? >> oh my god. and he's. >> a physical force. >> he's on a roll. and that speech tonight was incredible. and, you know, i think that.

>> i've known him 30 years. i think it's the best speech he ever gave. >> i think it was fantastic. and the democrats are flailing because you can't just be the resistance. you got to be force something. and they haven't coalesced. they have no idea what they're for. they're just against donald trump. and he continues winning. and they're just off balance. and you know he's in there every day for the american people. >> well congratulations on your new position. we're looking forward. we got to turn this economy around as quickly as we can get interest rates down, inflation down. i know you'll do a big part of that. >> we do it every day. thank you. thanks. >> all right. when we come back, more reaction to president trump's joint address. plus the mother of joscelin nunnery will be here. democrats wouldn't stand for her. we'll hear from riley gaines. also, after the president's promise to keep men out of women's sports. kellyanne conway, much more straight ahead. >> hi. mike huckabee here. having spent many years in politics, i can comfortably say that the current climate is enough to keep any of us awake

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themselves. here now, with more fox news contributor kellyanne conway, along with fox and friends weekend co-host charlie hurt and fox news contributor ari fleischer. kellyanne, we'll start with you. you know, i got to know from john solomon, our mutual friend. he said, the democratic party may have died tonight. trump's speech exposed them for hateful, intolerant, petty elitists that they have become. the video optics were devastating. if you can't applaud a kid who survived brain cancer. there's no humanity. he's not wrong. >> he took the words out of my mouth. they got rid of joe biden. they kicked him out, but they haven't been able to shake him. this is a party that has been beaten down and hollowed out by donald trump. they promised people promised them a year ago, sean, that donald trump would be in the big house and never again the white house. and there he was tonight as commander in chief, president, united states with the world watching, with so much crisis and chaos everywhere we look. and they couldn't even show respect to the office of the presidency.

the scowling, the sclerosis, sclerosis. but they gave us the ads that we need for next fall. you can just see this adorable 15 year old boy who survived cancer, now a secret service agent. you see jocelyn gurney's family, you see all these different folks who represent the pain and the suffering of the biden administration and the best of america in this great golden age. and they couldn't think of a single time to reward that. look, i used to have this in my portfolio working on the state of the union, the guests and everything. president trump takes us so seriously in. the first lady enjoys so much meeting those families, meeting those folks, weaving it into the speech. i've spoken in the mosaic. >> i've spoken riley, rachel morin's. >> family, of. >> jocelyn, gary's mom. why can't they? >> kamala harris never said their name. don't forget that. would not say their name. would not say the name of the 13 who fell in afghanistan because of her and her boss. >> you know, ari, let's stay on that point because it is a party. they love to pride themselves on a monopoly of

compassion. and i just saw a collective temper tantrum of radical extremists tonight, full of rage. and i've never seen anything like it. i mean, if i see a kid get into west point, if i see a kid that survived cancer, if i see mothers that lost their children, i'm standing. i don't that's not about politics for me. >> and if you see the president of the united states walk into that house chamber, you stand as well as republicans did for joe biden. look, that speech tonight was a disaster for the democratic party. if that same speech had been given 10 to 15 years ago, every single democrat in that chamber would have stood up for all those people donald trump cited. bute today, donald trump cited. but today almost all of the democrats in congress are the squad. you don't have to just be aoc, it's infectious and has spread throughout the party. it's a disease and they can't shed it and it will kill their party