jayapal: thank you.for more on the president's address to a joint session of congress tonight, let's bring in our white house correspondent laura barron-lopez and our congressional correspondent lisa desjardins. both of them on capitol hill. amna: laura, give us a preview of what we should expect to hear from president trump tonight. laura: we expect president trump to address this ongoing effort to strike a peace deal between ukraine and russia. one thing to watch for is whether or not president trump decides to continue to criticize ukraine. the president has repeatedly said ukraine has started the war which is false. the other thing we are watching for is how he talks about his deportation plan. that is something that is expected to be part of his speech. the president has been frustrated with the pace of deportations by his administration and tom homan said today that the administration needs more money from congress for flights and for beds to carry out their deportation plan. the president is expec

congresswoman pramila jayapal, thank you. you can feel free to text me. let me know if you end up deciding what you're going to do. >> you know. >> i appreciate your time. ken martin is the newly elected chair of the democratic national committee, and he joins me now. mr. chairman, you heard my conversation with the congresswoman. i want to pick up where she left off. there are actually there are real, real issues confronting the american people because of what the president and elon musk and all the folks that work for him are doing to dismantle the federal government. you have been on a tour across the country, a listening tour, talking to voters, democrats, republicans and independents. what are you hearing? what's bubbling up to the top? >> well, what. >> i'm hearing is exactly what congresswoman jayapal said is deep frustration. amongst the american people. you know, donald trump promised them that he was going to actually make their lives easier to live, and he broke that promise. in fact, he sold out working class people. also, he could give big ta

we want to discuss with a lawmaker who walked out on the speech, democratic congresswoman pramila jayapalashington state joins us now. congresswoman, thank you so much for being with us. i noted that you had high praise for senator slotkin response, in which she said that amid this second trump term, it's easy to get exhausted. but she called for citizens to stay engaged, saying, don't tune out. i wonder how you square that message to voters. don't tune out with your decision to walk out during the speech. >> well, i followed all of the speech, including after i left, but i can tell you that i went because i thought it was important for us as democrats to reclaim the chamber where donald trump fueled an insurrection, where insurrectionists came in and took over that chamber where i was trapped in the gallery. i felt like it was important for me to be there and to listen to him. and i stayed for a good hour, which i think is a is a good amount of time to give a president to get his message across. but unfortunately, what we heard was just lies. lies and more lies, more hatred, more divisiv

out, maxine dexter from maryland, andrea salinas from oregon, ayanna pressley, ilhan omar, pramila jayapal. we believe that's only a partial list. number of democrats left during the remarks. the president in his what we believe was ad libbing. we did not have prepared remarks from the president, which is unusual. white house is usually distribute prepared remarks. so we don't know what was digression from those remarks and what was outlined. but the president did repeatedly seem to be ad libbing when he was remarking on the expected impact of the economic decisions he's already made six weeks in saying that the american people would have to bear with him, that there would be a little disturbance, that there would be an adjustment period. and again, he said, a little disturbance, essentially suggesting that the roiling that we saw in the markets is something that he knows he caused. but he hopes people will not mind. for the record, the worst inflation in this country was in 1980. for the record. the economy that he was left by president biden was not a catastrophe. it was literally the be