rachael: after the retreat i was expecting more talk about the state of the union. the republicans okay with the republicans laying out a path for 1.8 million undocumented immigrants to be citizens? it feels like the state of the union was two weeks ago. howie: even before the speech, much of the talk was about the russia investigation. mollie hemingway, some pundits made critical comments, but others said it was a reaganesque moment. but he's not really bipartisan. mollie: you mentioned the change in the "washington post's" headlines. i thought -- and a lot of conservatives were upset because they seemingly changed that under pressure. but a call for bipartisanship is a call you get in every state of the union. "a new american moment" captured it better. by the was a hugely successful speech. 75% of the country thought it was a good speech. when there is good coverage for trump, the press is eager to move on to what they are comfortable with, a lot of hostility for trump. howie: it strikes me as an example of the press judgingly giving this president -- grudgingly

he has a lot to work with and these numbers are all pre-state of the union. so i anticipate a smaller additional bounce from the state of the union. >> bill: a lot of contrast in the speech. i was alerted to a tweet from sarah sanders yesterday. i won't say the whole thing but the key line that i took from it. she said this, ari. now we'll see if democrats love america more than they hate the president. wow. what a statement that is. i'm a big image guy and i think about the images from tuesday night and wondering what the majority in america think. just 51% of americans think when you have half the room applauding for the country and the other half sitting on their hands, ari, what do you think of that? >> you know, when i watched the democrats not stand when the president said in god we trust and when he talked about standing for the pledge of allegiance it reminded me when barack obama said small town people cling to guns and religion. they won't stand for some of the most fundamental basic values because the democrats question the values and think they're

ainsley: this is your shot of the morning behind the scenes moment from two days of covering the state of the unionelfie. david bossie posing with corey lewandowski, sarah huckabee sanders and dan bongino as well as tucker carlson. steve: smile. here i am behind the set getting ready. here we go. getting ready with jason chaffetz. he joined us both days as well. great guests. brian: this was our set this ways reading scripts cold. we keep photographers way back. ainsley: speaking of cold. here we are wrapping up two jampacked days with a fantastic group of great guests. steve: there we are as well at the conclusion of the first day. brian: see trey gowdy pushing back there? is he signaling to us is he leaving the congress. i didn't realize that. steve: stepping away. brian: like a krueger film. steve: not exactly. with us is stuart varny. >> i was not with you in washington, d.c. i don't travel well. i'm on wall street. i handle money. brian: it was all about money on capitol hill. it was talking about the economy. because you are in a business wins and losses, ups and downs. we have numbers. why i

was not the forte of the president who has a thirty seven percent approval rating his numbers outside the united states are no better all the more reason to use the state of the union speech to reach out to america's allies and yet there was no mention of europe the mission of nato the words alliance multilateral were never uttered tonight we focus on the long winded president and the short shrift that he gave the rest of the world let's start with mr trump's main message. tonight i want to talk about what kind of future we're going to have and what kind of a nation we're going to be. all of us together as one team one people and one american family can do anything americans love their country and they deserve a government that shows them the same love and loyalty in return for the last year we have sought to restore the bonds of trust between our citizens and their government rations reverence for those who have served our nation reminds us of why we salute our flag why we put our hands on our hearts for the pledge of allegiance and why we proudly stand for the national anthem. of her and tonight sitting here at the big table with me are true to true transatlantic

the u.s. house of representatives where the speech is delivered is not the u.k.'s house of commons where booing and hissing cat calls and shout outs are a regular regimin the state of the union address should be a place for inside voices and making progress for our nation but this isn't just about being respectful of the speech of venue or of those in the room it's most importantly about doing the right thing for our nation and the only true way to make long term positive progress is to work with members of both political parties that's particularly important on an issue that president trump has touted all the way back to the twenty sixteen campaign infrastructure reform today the president and his administration has only provided six pages six pages of bullet points on infrastructure it's a trillion dollar plan for gosh six six pages come on that needs to be fleshed out with more detail and the state of the. tonight is an obvious opportunity to do so furthermore infrastructure is not a very partisan issue the policy debates around infrastructure usually center more around urban versus rural transit versus roads debates than partisan politics a davos teleprompter trump could

as far as as far a state of the union, the great question, barbara perry, last year he gave his stateof the union, which most people thought was like a regular state of the union address that a regular president would give them people were commending him for that. and then in coming days that the peaches come forward with speed praise for that sort of quality, it was bang, bang, bang, tweet about this, tweet about the other thing. the advice i would give his first of all know about your agenda for the coming year. this is an annual speech meant to set the agenda for congress and the rest of the government for an extended period of time. know what you want to accomplish during the coming year and don't just give this speech, they give the speech as part of a coordinated strategy of articulating the message and then reinforcing the message. that takes a kind of reining in of one's own tendencies to do what donald trump apparently does everyday and that is get up in the morning and turn on cable news talk, react to it in the go straight from here to his right index finger to his phone to

-- the united states of america, and it time to take again this total picture of the nation, put it in full perspective, and give the american people a realistic appraisal of the state of the union♪ no presidential task demands more time and more personal attention than the preparation of the state of the union message, and its companion, the annual budget message. for president johnson, work on this project began nine months earlier and now the address, barely two weeks away, the main thrust of his attention, wherever he went, whatever he did was centered upon the statement he would soon make to congress and the american people. still, in the midst of his accelerated schedule, he found time to personally present the minuteman flag to the 12th air force. this patriots emblem is awarded to organizations with more than 90% participation in annual savings bonds drives. at a time when not only america's will was being tested but the soundness of the dollar, these men backed their nation with courage. on the 7 of january, some very chilly citizens of san antonio gathered at the air force base to help president johnson welcome the prime minister of israel. ♪ visit to the united states

two is the democratic shutdown as i mentioned .3 has yet to be measured, about to be the state of the union. going forward he needs two things. growing confidence. second is to be normal. to have a normal presidency like the state of the union where the focus on policy and ideas and himself. the problem has gotten into is he's moving the ball down the field then he commits an unnecessary roughness penalty. all of a sudden, penalty flag comes in and he loses the yardage he gains. more discipline, fewer angry bursts, more policy, more accomplishments and he will probably be at a 50 percent job approval if he can do that by midyear. >>paul: we will hold you to that prediction. when we come back, the president offering an open hand president offering an open hand to democrats and his state the things we do rising before dawn. sweating it out. tough to do it all. but we can always find time to listen to great thinkers and explorers whose stories take us places our hamstrings can't. all we have to do is listen. download audible to start listening. >> tonight, i am extending an open hand to work w

very quiet and not happy. >> your statement after the state of the union, you said the state of his presidency may be perilous. stronger, better, safer, proud. ironically, he says that we are a better standing in the world. every polling data throughout the world shows that's not true and, in fact, respect to the united states and confidence in the united states has plummeted. that's dangerous not only for the united states but it's dangerous for the international community that they don't think they can rely on a steady hand of the leader of the free world, which is the united states of america. and in terms of again safer and stronger, you are not stronger if you don'thave healthcare. you are not stronger if you don't have some stability in your economy. we think that he vastly overstated the results of his presidency. after all, for six years prior to that there was more job growth. so when he says his greatesteconomic growth, that's not true. we are pleased that the hispanic and african-american unemployment has gone down, but it's been going down for some number of years. this president w

of money but the party was hoping no one would find out. democrats filing a federal election disclosure form for the month of december in the middle of donald trump's first state of the union next year, that leaves the party with just $400,000. todd: donald trump reaching 45 million americans in his first state of the union speech and a lot of it watched right here on the fox news channel according to nielsen ratings, fox news taking top spot for viewers during the address beating every other network for the first time ever, total of 11.7 million americans tuning in. jillian: last weekend, 50 ° and above, okay. this is great, not so much, back to reality. >> we will find out if winter will stick around tomorrow with the groundhog, it is groundhog day. it feels cold across the northern plains and the upper midwest, we have some nuisance snow across the great lakes in new england, we are not talking a big system but it will cause problems on the roadways. forecast windchill, the cold air moving in tandem with the cold front, some rain across ohio and tennessee river valley, mainly rain and lake effect snow. the next storm system moves into the northwest, mainly a rain event

the state of hillary clinton in the me too movement. what did you think of her explanation last night? >> it sounded to me like look, she probably thought this was her state of the unionke into the chardonnay cabinet and the rest is history. it was way too long -- >> tucker: drunk facebook again. >> it's going on facebook wanting to make it a little bit about her realizing she had been exposed for being the fraud she. this is the irony about hillary clinton. and the never apologized for shielding this man and disrupting the work life of this woman who was the target. he wrote in part, i did it because i didn't think firing him was the right solution to the problem and needed to be punished and change his behavior and understand why his actions were wrong. i thought this could happen without him losing his job. tucker, she's talking about her husband. this is the problem with hillary clinton. to react to sexual harassment and predatory situations she has to admit everything she's done in the past has been wrong and she can't do it. and hilary -- and i'm glad some of these women are realizing it, hilary is the last person they can rely on as the icon for enablers and it

that's the focus of tonight's angle. >> laura: last night in his first state of the union address, the president delivered what was perhaps the most robust defense of american exceptionism since reagan. >> the state of our union is strong. this, in fact, is our new american moment. you can dream anything. you can be anything, and together we can achieve absolutely anything. >> laura: wow. now, my question is, when we have this precious gift, liberty, that men and women fought and died for over the centuries, think about our flag, our country. why wouldn't everyone believe that it's all worth protecting and preserving? that our traditions and the american people are worth protecting? >> my duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities and their right to the american dream because americans are dreamers, too. >> laura: oh now, that last line sent the never trump media right over the edge. >> you saw a divisive speech. the wedge issue of immigration. the scare tactics of ms-13. it was

of the democrats it's a mess. the congressional black caucus who went to the state of the union some of them who didn't boycott said i'm good we're going to go we're going to stare hatred in the face i mean that's the that's the tone that's that's the feeling towards donald trump and by many on the left i don't see deals being cut this year at all where you're you are. you're probably right but it's such a cynical view. but but you know that's what we've seen your absolutes a polarized people have dug in heck they don't even listen to each other not talk and it took a lot for some of the democrats last night to you know clap for the for the flag i mean not that they're opposed they are they love america as much as any republican but i mean they were so upset with the press in the other leg and the anthem they couldn't bring themselves to clap for anything hardly and i mean joe manchin was the lone you know democrats they fell that time but again i think it's all politics and this isn't to say as much as i just don't agree with the democrats i'm not saying this is the republicans will do the same thing they're holdi

the state of the union, the bump has been gone. he also has decided not to pursue the usual caravan, the publicity tour that usually follows state of the union where he goes across the country and promotes those ideas. he didn't do any sort of major white house events today to promote them. in terms of this, they feel like the president has told people around him he feels like this memo is the latest sign that the fbi and the justice department, agents there, had been working against him. that he feels like it's another reason, as was mentioned last segment, that rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, could be someone that -- he could use this to discredit him. the memo is something the white house has. they've had it a couple of days now, it's in the care of the special counsel's office. they're weighing what to do with it. we heard chief of staff john kelly say today that he has read it and that the national security council legal team is now reviewing it to figure out what the next step would be. the president has told people a

president trump gave his first state of the union address last night. e speech was interrupted 115 times by applause and once by the pizza guy. [ laughter ] that's right. president trump gave his first state of the union address last night. and i have to say, he did all white. [ laughter ] i mean, look at em'. i haven't seen old white guys that happy since the last tom clancy book signing. [ laughter ] yup, president trump gave his state of the union address last night. and bernie sanders hasn't looked this unhappy since -- since the last time we saw bernie sanders. [ light laughter ] after the state of the union, president trump was caught on a hot mic yesterday saying he plans to release a controversial memo about fbi surveillance. incidentally, hot mic is something this man has never been called. [ laughter ] you mean hot mike? no, not him. following the state of the union address last night, eric trump said in a new interview that he was focused on the democrats during the event. as opposed to melania, who was focused as always on an imaginary spot 1

what treason means. >>> president trump mocking democrats for the stone-faced reaction to the state of the union address. the president addressing tax reform outside cincinnati on monday when he said this about democrats refusing to stand and acknowledge low black unemployment during the state of the union. >> they would rather see trump do badly, okay, than our country do well. that's what it means. it's selfish. even on possibitive news like t, they were like death. and unamerican. unamerican. somebody said treasonous. yeah, i guess, why not. shall we call that treason? why not. i mean they certainly didn't seem to love our country very much. >> somebody said treasonous. a classic trump word crutch. for the record, the constitution defines an act of war against the united states or adhering to the enemies in giving them aid or comfort. teaming up with the enemy. that is the definition of treason. >> the president's comments meant with blunt rebuttal from democratic senator sheldon whitehouse. >> maybe he is watching too much north korean television where everybody in the assembly stands up and

ranking member adam schiff, who discussed president trump's first discuss president trump's for state of the union with mike allen of axios. >> good morning. thank you for coming out to the state of the union post game. we appreciate the bank of america for making these conversations possible. we have a fantastic triple crown, tripleheader lineup this morning, people who were in the chamber for helping make the news and are going to illuminate it for us. axios makes you smarter faster on topics that matter, business tech, media, politics and our events follow the same format. they are quick and we start with what happens and why it matters. that's the formula you always get in the axios stream when you go on axios.com. every story starts as one phone screen, and in that what's new, what is happening, why it matters to make you smarter faster. i'd like to thank my axios events colleagues for pulling together this fantastic event, and thank all of you for being here. we're going to start. we have three guests today, and our first guest this morning who has seen 35 addresses to congress states ofunio

a day after the state of the union. >> timing can't be perfect. >> laura: ela rye who was introducing maxine. >> in case you missed the state of the union, spoiler alert, you missed nothing. we want to spend all of our time together lamenting the walking disaster that this the kkk's commander in chief. she delivers a rebuttal that will seal the lid on that [bleep] that donald trump calls a mouth. >> whenever he appears on tv, there should be a disclaimer that says this may not be acceptable for children. >> she should've had the disclaimer for the host of the show. we cut out some of the other things. where's her disclaimer? >> laura: did a child to make the backdrop for that set? what was that? >> i thought they wanted to live in the parking lot of the capital. >> laura: look at that, i didn't even understand that. there's always understatement, he will never be presidential. let's watch the next one. >> he's not presidential and he never will be presidential. he claims that he is bringing people together but make no mistake, he is a dangerous unprincipled

of the president's remarks. every fleischer served as press secretary for george w. bush. he is now a fox news contributor. welcome. one of the rules of the state of the union things you want to accomplish is set the stage for the agenda for the coming year. how well do you think the president did on that point? >> his agenda is the major initiatives he did really well. he left out tax reform in the can and infrastructure and immigration reform. he didn't do the laundry list. he did a major dry-cleaning. >>paul: usthat's interesting because i see - - i have watched too many state of the union addresses and one of the things you see is a little more substance. the president zero in on immigration in detail. but on some of the were almost one-liners. let's do something about prison reform, infrastructure, permitting, move on. not a lot of detail. >> and that is consistent with donald trump. he has not focused on a deep level on policy. it's much more about personality and about being the businessman that can go to washington to change washington. i remember during the campaign he went to o idaho to give a major energy speech and rounded out by holding a news

everyone seemed to have a rebuttal to the state of the union. activists. everyone got to have their say which is why we here at the daily show are pleased to turn now to our very own roy wood, jr. for this year's state of the black shit address. >> good evening, black people. people of color, and rachel dolezal. speaking to you tonight from harlem in new york city. and not the gentrified part where the white people have taken over with muffin shops, i'm in a church basement at 453rd street where it is blacker than a wu tang family reunion. and tonight, tonight black people, we're here to answer one question. where we is? let's be honest. being black in america in 2018 is a struggle. for the first time in awhile a white man is in charge. now we've had while presidents before. but but this dude is on another level. he messing with black reporters, black congressman, football players, rappers, all this guy does is come after black people. he like sickle cell that is good at golf. there is a silver lining though. a silver lining for black people. un

the united states is ms 13, i gained nobody that doesn't watch fox news has ever heard of. >> the parent of the two teenage girls killed by ms 13 gang members who attended the state of the unionon fox news last night. >> stop the violence. how much do we have to shed? >> read is not the only democratic senator, kamala harris also accused the president of inciting violence to push immigration agenda as well. >> kathy griffin blaming sexism for what happened to her with hollywood and her hollywood exile. >> reporter: she opened up to the hollywood reporter about her inability to get work after opposing with that now infamous picture with the trump mask. she told the hollywood reporter, quote, i didn't commit a crime, didn't rape anybody, didn't assault anybody, didn't get a dui, there are celebrities that kill people. when addressing other recent missteps, she said when you are a woman you get one believe up and it is over. if you are a guy you get chance after chance after chance. appearing to blame sexism for her current employment issues. >> a picture of isis, quite controversial. this is a great story to end with. schoolgirls, sarah sanders offered prayers from donald trump

but typically wouldn't we be talking about what's happening in the state of the union with the president be on the road, pushing forward his platform that he went through during the state of the union instead of, well, we're talking about the nunes memo. >> i was at the retreat where republican lawmakers wanted to be talking about the state of the union, which they felt the president did very well. they want to be talking about tax cuts, people are getting bonuses, it's being well received. instead all everyone was asked about were the memos. and so if you're a republican who is worried about keeping the house so that someone like jerry nadler does not deal with impeachment, you want to talk about things showing up in people's pockets the taxes ask president trump's state of the the union. but the memo is sucking up all the oxygen. republicans drove this themselves. they had a hash tag to drum this all up. so it's definitely sucking up oxygen from what they should be touting as their wins. >> and when you look at ameri n americans across the country, they are really looking at february 8

two is the democratic shutdown as i mentioned .3 has yet to be measured, about to be the state of the unionrward he needs two things. growing confidence. second is to be normal. to have a normal presidency like the state of the union where the focus on policy and ideas and himself. the problem has gotten into is he's moving the ball down the field then he commits an unnecessary roughness penalty. all of a sudden, penalty flag comes in and he loses the yardage he gains. more discipline, fewer angry bursts, more policy, more accomplishments and he will probably be at a 50 percent job approval if he can do that by midyear. >>paul: we will hold you to that prediction. when we come back, the president offering an open hand to democrats and his state liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. (whispering) with the capital one venture card, you'll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase,

the united states of america. thank you. [applause] >> some reaction to the state of the union address by senator susan collins of maine, steny hoyer of maryland, and intelligence committee ranking member representative adam schiff of california. this is just under one hour. please join the conversation this morning by using #axial's 360 on social media. please welcome our host, axial's executive editor mike allen. executive editor mike allen. >> good morning, happy morning after. thank you very much for coming out to the state of the union post again. i appreciate bank of america for making these conversations possible. we have a

the deadly train crash. more than 100 members of congress onboard. just hours after the president's state of the union, republicans on the train, including the speaker of the house, slamming into a truck. one killed, several injured. images from the scene. >>> also breaking tonight, the fbi urging the white house tonight not to release a secret memo reportedly critical of the agency. the fbi citing grave concerns. and this moment, audio of the president late last night, what he said about releasing that memo. >>> the deadly flu, and tonight, the new concern here over the supply of that rapid test used to diagnose patients. and tonight, word of a young mother of four from new hampshire, one of the newest victims. >>> the arrest, a student at virginia tech. authorities said he had an assault rifle and was trying to get thousands of rounds of ammunition. what else he was looking for. >>> the drowning danger. tonight, americans on vacation, nine drownings in less than two weeks in the same area. >>> and the deadly crash. the former nba player and a former "american idol" contestant who did not survive. >>

>> melissa: given the reception of the state of the union if you look at polls taken by cbs and people who watched the state of the union. they felt like the president was trying to be bipartisan. that he had extended that olive branch and had a lot of good ideas. he might say to the democrats my messaging is great. you have to follow up with legislation and namely i proposed a solution for daca. there is a deal in there somewhere. get it done. >> that's possible. we'll know what the president says in a couple hours i guess. but the tone we might see also is one the vice president deployed yesterday in west virginia attacking joe manchin and sort of starting the gun on the 2018 cycle. we could see the president take a whack at democrats even after coming off the bipartisan tone and we saw that in the tweets today. it seems to be where -- if the tweets are a preview of what the speech is going to be that's the president's mind set making a partisan attack rather than one of bipartisanship. >> melissa: republicans are dealing with a position of strength. they went ahead with the tax cut

for what will be really unrivaled political theater for a state of the union speech. as to the body language, not just the body language from the president as he delivers tonight's state of the union, but the members and hillary clinton, who will be in the hall watching. >> the speech would provide a brief respite from the chaos, and hour and 15 minutes with no mention of scandal or interns. >> he comes in just like nothing is going on, and, you know, we give the president of the united states the appropriate standing applause, but republicans, by then, were a little divided on whether or not we were going to stand for what he was having to say. >> an america that is continuing to rise through every age against every challenge. >> it was a typical state of the union address, and he got the applause lines where you'd expect it. you got silence from the republicans on issue and substantive matters where you'd expect. >> he would show no signs that the presidency was in jeopardy. >> president clinton was a charmer, no question about it, and he had a unique ability to com

as main applause lines as possible where both sides would stand up, and the fun part also of the state of the unionfor me is i believe great speeches are made of great stories and the only way to get some stories into the state of the union are those people who sit up with the first lady in the gallery, and some presidents in the past have used those as an opportunity to score political opinions and have people in the seats that illustrate their partisan agenda. the better ones, i thick if you're as old as i am and remember lenny cut nick, diving into the potomac river. the first one president reagan died, and he was a civilian, a first responder and saved lives diving into the cold potomac river and pulling people out and we have had a tremendous number after natural disasters this year, where everyday americans have done heroic things, and those are the kind of people i would put in the galley this year so everybody in the room can salute them and stand upping to and it's an opportunity to be unifying and draw on what is great but our country. >> one thing about -- when i was a kid, if the presid

so the state of our union is strong. the state of their union?complicated. ( laughter ) people are even speculating that melania may have been sending a feminist message with her all-white pantsuit, a color favored by those honoring suffragettes and hillary clinton. oh, snap! ( applause ) dressing-- ( applause ) dressing like hillary? the only thing worse would be to show up dressed as obama's birth certificate. ( laughter ) now, the rumor mill-- the rumor mill charning about melania's anger comes on the heels of revelations of stormy daniels and the hush money. apparently, "the reports of a payoff blindsided the first lady." not the sex, the pay off. ( laughter ) he never pays anyone. but, really? how could she be blindsided? i mean, just listen to trump's wedding vows. >> you knew damn well i was a snake before you took me in! ( laughter ). >> stephen: he's honest. the man is honest! as the day is long. right after the stormy hit, melania abruptly decided not to accompany the president to davos, switzerland. the official reason given was "sched

on tuesday our digital -- displaying the names of donors under a live stream during the president state of the union. democrats are energized. they thought it was theirs. they are coming back for the majorities. and we need to outmatched them. we need to know what is at stake. it is the reason we have been so successful the past year at the rnc. this is the heart of everything we do. they reached out to more communities. are on the frontline line of the movement you created. this is your moment, it belongs to you. we are here to drive this movement forward. instead we are creating history. america is a shining city on a hill. many of them who are part of this party. people like derek, a missouri native who grew up in a poor neighborhood, thinking he would never have a chance at success. realized democrats were doing nothing for his african-american community and turn to the republican party and found a pathway for a better future. an inspiring to become a volunteer. her baby would be born with physical abnormalities but kept her anyway. andcilla was born healthy became a passionate advocate for life

as you know, the president gave his first state of the union on tuesday. it was the most watched state of the union ever! but apparently the fake news is disputing that fact, saying that the last three presidents had more viewers. so the president has asked me to come out and present a list of the viewers who were not counted which would put president trump over the top. first off, neilson only counts american viewers, but we're confident plenty of russians were tuning in, too. next, pets home alone who step on the remote, still count as viewers. men in trench coats who were counted as one but were actually three small people stacked on each other's shoulders. it's happening. people possess bid demons, that's got to be at least two, right? time travelers who've come back in time to warn us about trump. aliens outside our solar system will get the video millions of years in the future. still counts. people with quados. again, half of all trump supporters have these things. right? don't worry, roger. you're getting counted. >> announcer: it's "the late show"

one reason is the success of the state of the union speech. her is the positive case he has to make in 2018. the economy is doing very well. that's the big piece of legislation they passed last year regarding tax reform and resulted in a bunch of businesses deciding to increase not only their investment but the pay of people in the united states including a couple of businesses who wouldn't normally side with donald trump. starbucks, apple, a couple others who have given him credit for the tax reform package. he has a positive case to make. the democrats are looking for a foothold. they don't know how to run against trump other than to attack him personally. looking for a policy reason they're searching. >> jon: those people who have received a february paycheck are already starting to see the results of those tax cuts. >> they are. that is as vince mentioned something he should be touting going forward. and, you know, maybe get over the coverage of the state of the union, move on to other things that he could get even more praise for. >> jon:

of the agenda. we have our fox news contributors here. on the heels of a big state of the unionress last night. members off to their retreat and hear from vice president pence and president trump. chris, this was a tragic event that happened today. you look at it today in your writing in the larger context of where they're going and what they have before them. the saying in politics you're never as far as you think you are or far down as you think you are. it's a good reminder for us. republicans have this big triumphant night and the bright lights and the fawning and adulation and a matter of hours later riding on their way to one of my favorite places in the entire world, i'd rather be there than almost any place else, life intervenes. have you to be able to deal with it and not just be good when it's all bright lights and makeup. >> martha: many ran to the aid of others and helping out. when you look at what they have in terms of what's cut out for them lying ahead, and you think with the fact that trey gowdy, announced today he will not be continuing charlie, there are now n

kind of a big development, that's next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: a lot of people were watching the state of the unionmade it a perfect time to put on comfortable news the media bloodstream. the perfect time if you are s hillary clinton. just a few minutes before president trump started talking last night, hillary clinton published a lengthy note on her facebook page defending her intervention to protect burns strider after he sexually harassed a member of her campaign team. "washington post" writer alyssa rosenberg announced she "was done with hillary clinton." tammy bruce is a new york radio host entry joins us to assess the state of hillary clinton in the #metoo moment. tammy, nice to see you. what did you think of her explanation last night? >> it sounded to me like she probably thought this was her state of the unionr address to e delivering angie broke into the chardonnay cabinet and the rest is history. it was way too long -- >> tucker: drunk facebook page for calista want to facebook, wanting to make it about her, realizing that she'd been exposed for being a fraud that she is. this is the iro

of the incident and they deny the claim. a wrenching story. >>> turning now to american politics, when president trump delivered his very first state of the unionght, watching from the balcony was the mayor of san juan puerto rico. that american territory is still struggling to recover four months after the devastating hurricane maria. the president barely mentioned it and today the u.s. government's emergency response department fema stopp allew shipments of food and the islan need them anymore. is that rue? mayor cruz is now back home in san juan and she joins me from there. mayor, welcome to the program. >> thank you very much for having me. >> mayor, what do you make, first of all, when you were in the congress listening to the president's state of the union. he briefly everyone innoned puerto rico and i'll play when he said to have you react to it. >> to everyone still recovering in texas, florida, louisiana, puerto rico and the virgin islands, everywhere, we are with you. we love you and we always will pull through together. always. [ applause ] >> you were a guest there last night. what went through your mind as you heard that? >> it is

of the day. massachusetts congressman and the grandson of robert kennedy delivered the democratic rebuttal to the state of the unionast night. and to the amusement of many on twitter, social media, his lips were kind of shining in the spotlight. it looked weird. here is what kennedy had to say about the ongoing mystery earlier today. >> twitter had a field day with your shiny lips. so did you bring your chapstick this morning? >> oddly enough, i decided to go a little bit light on the chapstick this morning. more on the coffee and light on the chapstick probably wise choice. >> sean: mystery solved, giving the rebuttal is always hard. but at least we didn't have to listen to nancy or chucky or any of those socialists like bernie sanders. all right. time for the hannity hotline. time for you to speak out. let's hear what you have to say. >> you kind of have become here lately awfully annoying grand standing punk. you need to tighten up, son. >> i want to tell you are doing a good job and hannity stands for honest authentic news no idiotic treasonous yuck. thank you very much for exposing all of this corruption on th

the democrats of it. that and the allegation that this time was somewhat different than state of the unions in the past, muchent past. let's take a look. >> the reforms i am proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. give small businesses the credit they need to stay afloat. each of these proposals deserves a vote in congress. [ applause ] >> rich, isn't this just what happens every time? >> yeah, i think the democrats were particularly stony. i don't think if they were like death, but they were stony. >> was that unamerican? >> you can be the president that made texas unifying, or you can be the president like at the rally who is enjoying himself and playing to the crowd. you can't be both. if he was just the state of the union guy, he would be at 40%. that's pretty high in politics, but instead he's constantly stirring the pot, angering the other side, riling them up for no good reason, in part just because he enjoys it. >> we should point out these comments were off the cuff. there were the prepared comments today about the tax cuts and the economy, which is what the whole thing was about,