one of the people who symbolizes that is is marc fogel. of course, he was released. he was a russian prisoner, a pennsylvania schoolteacher. he was released here at the white house. and his mother, 95 years old, she will be on hand tonight. and she is someone who advocated directly to donald trump. in fact, last summer, at the same rally in pennsylvania, where there was the assassination attempt on his life, that's where she met with the president and said, please, if you're elected, sir, please do something about my son. and then, of course, marc fogel was released. so that's certainly going to be a dramatic moment. as well as the mother and sister of laken riley, of course, she's the georgia student who was murdered by an illegal, um. immigrant as well as well as several other people who have stories of crime and loss and whatnot. so we know the president likes a moment, but i think that marc fogel moment certainly will be one. >> yeah. and that was obviously such a moment here at the white house when he came in, the american flag draped around his shoulders, still

at the democrats not clap for marc fogel a free american hostage standing beside his 95-year-old motherast summer, i promised the 95-year-old mother that we would bring her boy safely home. after 22 days in office, i did just that and they are here tonight. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> kayleigh: and then trump announced the capture of a terrorists coach is someone who killed 13 heroic americans in afghanistan. and we can't stand for that. >> three and a half years ago, isis terrorist killed 13 american service members. tonight i am pleased to announce we have just apprehended the top terrorists responsible for that atrocity. and he has right now his way here to face swift sword of american justice. [cheers and applause] >> kayleigh: how about the murder of student, laken riley question working we get out of our seats for that? >> laken riley was stolen from us by a savage illegal alien. a gang member arrested while trespassing across biden's open southern border and then set loose into the united states under the heartless policies that failed administration. with us this evening

from marc fogel, who president trump was finally able to reunite with his family and his beautiful 95. to peyton mcnabb, whose heart-wrenching story motivated president trump to end men and women sports. and to allison and lauren phillips, the mother and sister of laken riley, who president trump honored by signing the laken riley act to ensure her name will live on forever. and other amazing and surprising moments, president trump honored the life of jocelyn nungaray, who was brutally murdered by illegal alien gang members, ensuring joslin will not be forgotten by renaming a national wildlife rescue in her home state of texas to honor her life and in one of the greatest surprise moments of the night, d.j. daniel, an incredible 13-year-old boy, who is beating brain cancer, so his dreams fulfilled by president trump when he was made an honorary secret service agent. and finally, after nearly four years, president trump delivered justice for the families of 13 american heroes who were cute not killed at abbey gate in the biden-botched afghanistan withdrawal which is one of the worst eva

he said talking about butler and he talked about marc fogel and his mother being there and how she'd come up at the rally. and that's why he had spent this time to free her son from prison. and then he said, i was saved by god. talking about being shot in butler to make america great again. i believe that now, the new york times says that that moment nancy pelosi leans over to steny hoyer and goes, oh my god. um, this is what is a moment like that? >> i'm sure that's an emotional moment that connected with a lot of people. i just want to 160 years ago tonight, abraham lincoln gave his inaugural his second inaugural address. he said, with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness, firmness in the right. as god gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. what a different spirit that was. and that was after a civil war. so it's one thing to mine our differences. it's another thing to try and heal our differences. and that is, you know, that that's the difference between real leadership and political expediency.

as fate would have it, marc fogel was born in a small, rural town in butler, pennsylvania.ave you heard of it? where his mother has lived for the past 78 years. i just happened to go there last july 13 for a rally. that was not pleasant. and that is where i met his beautiful mom right before i walked on to that stage. and i told her i would not forget what she said about her son and i never did, did i? never forgot. less than 10 minutes later, at that same rally, gunfire rang out and a sick and deranged assassin unloaded eight bullets from his sniper's perch into a crowd of many thousa thousand ts of people. my life was saved by a fraction of an inch. some were not so lucky. corey comperatore was a firefighter, a christian, a husband and devoted father and above all a protector. when the sound of gunshots pierced the air, it was a horrible sound. corey knew instantly what it was and what to do. he threw himself on top of his wife and daughters and shielded them from the bullets with his own body. corey was hit really hard. you know the story from there. he sacrificed his li

as fate would have it, marc fogel was born in a small, rural town in butler, pennsylvania.ave you heard of it? where his mother has lived for the past 78 years. i just happened to go there last july 13th for a rally. that was not pleasant. and that is where i met his beautiful mom, right before i walked onto that stage. and i told her i would not forget what she said about her son, and i never did, did i? never forgot. less than ten minutes later, at that same rally, gunfire rang out, and a sick and deranged assassin unloaded eight bullets from his sniper's perch into a crowd of many thousands of people. my life was saved by a fraction of an inch. but some were not so lucky. corey comertore was a firefighter, a christian, a veteran, a devoted father, ask above all, a protector. when the sound of gunshots pierced the air, it was a horrible sound. corey knew instantly what it was and what to do. he threw himself on top of his wife and daughters and shielded them from the bullets with his own body. corey was hit really hard. you know the story from there. he sacrificed his lif

nearly four years ago, amid rising tensions, a history teacher named marc fogel was detained in russia and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony. rough stuff. the previous administration barely lifted a finger to help him. they knew he was innocent, but they had no idea where to begin. but last summer, i promised his 95-year-old mother that we would bring her boy safely back home. after 22 days in office, i did just that. and they are here tonight. [ applause ] [ applause ] to marc and his great mom, we are delighted to have you safe and sound and with us. as fate would have it, marc fogel was born in a small, rural town in butler, pennsylvania, have you heard of it? where his mother has lived for the past 78 years. i just happened to go there last july 13th for a rally. that was not pleasant. and that is where i met his beautiful mom, right before i walked onto that stage and i told her i would not forget what she said about her son, and i never did, did i? never forgot. less than ten minutes later, at that same rally, gunfire rang out and a sick and deranged assassin unloaded eight

nearly four years ago, amid rising tensions, a history teacher named marc fogel was detained in russia and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony. rough stuff the previous administration barely lifted a finger to help him. they knew he was innocent, but they had no idea where to begin. but last summer i promised his 95 year old mother, malphine fogel, that we would bring her boy safely back home after 22 days in office. i did just that and they are here tonight. o mark and his great mom. we are delighted to have you safe and sound and with us, as fate would have it, marc fogel was born in a small rural town in butler, pennsylvania. have you heard of it? where his mother has lived for the past 78 years? i just happened to go there last july 13th for a rally. that was not pleasant. and that is where i met his beautiful mom right before i walked onto that stage. and i told her i would not forget what she said about her son, and i never did, and i never forgot less than ten minutes later, at that same rally. gunfire rang out and a sick and deranged assassin unloaded eight bullets from his

you have marc fogel, corey competore. you have an auto worker, steel worker and americans with great stories, president trump will tell their story. >> brian: elon musk will be there, advisors and secretaries will be there. there are special guests and you gave me idea you might weaken and tell me who the surprise guests are. have you decided to tell me? >> karoline: i will not tell you, president trump can tell you later. there will be special guests. there will be mothers of jocelyn nungaray and laken spaz riley. vast majority of americans are supportive of this. >> brian: border is almost shut down, no one expected this success even better than first time. yesterday the president announced pause in ukraine aid, could a call from president zelenskyy change that? >> karoline: that is up to president trump to decide. he wants to make a deal. it appears president zelenskyy is unwilling to talk about a real peace agreement and in order to negotiate peace, you have to bring both sides to the table. any good deal, both sides

but it was the story of marc fogel and his 95 year old mother, malphine.erican school teacher in pennsylvania, released from a russian prison last month that opened the door to a reset relationship with russian president vladimir putin. that certainly captured the evening. the emotion, as well as some young cancer victims as well. so now, as the president ends, enters his 44th day of his presidency, there's no question he's going full steam ahead. but the open question on legislation will republicans in the house and senate so divided? will they be able to enact his agenda? of course, that's what we'll see next. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. >> and the war in ukraine. also a notable touch point in president trump's address to congress, in which he said that he is, quote, working tirelessly to end the fighting there just days after that explosive oval office meeting, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy taking to social media to describe the fiery exchange as regrettable. according to mr. trump and zelenskyy are still in communication. here's what t

capturing terrorists, biological men in women's sports, taking down porn on the internet, fogel marc fogelt finding out he was accepted to west point. and talking about the 13-year-old diagnosed with cancer and donald trump makes him a secret service agent. watch. >> president trump: in 2018, dj was diagnosed with brain cancer, the doctors gave him five months at most to live. that was more than six years ago. tonight dj, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all, asking our new secret service director to make you an agent of the united states secret service. [applause] [cheering] >> steve: there is the director. >> ainsley: watch this hug, so cute. >> he flashes his bag. he's been through so much, that little boy, he's goings to hug shawn. >> steve: a long embrace, it was great. >> steve: at the doocy house, i watch speeches the next morning. my wife watched in its entirety as she's done for 30 years. best moments according to kathie, cancer kid gets secret service badge and young man whose dad was a cop killed trump tdz he is accepted to west point. this is on a super mom notep

return of marc fogel, let's not stand for that revenge porn let's not stand for that the first lady ishting for that hhow about the capturing of isis terrorist happened at abbey gate. not stand for that student getting accepted into west point that doesn't get any democrat to pay attention except john fetterman he tweeted this out. a sad call have a slide self-owns and petulance only makes trump look more presidential and restrained. we are becoming the met fork call car alarms that no one pays attention to. it may not be the winning message. stephen colbert among people. david axelrod among democrats, i'm embarrassed by that behavior. what was that? these were american stories. not trump stories. everything in politics now they link to trump. it just can't be a moment to unify the country and they just seem to have lost their minds when it comes to donald trump that they completely broke them they can't do the honorable thing just stand there. applaud sit there peacefully and not disrupt a joint session. we showed you some of the polling yesterday, voters are going to reject this kind

nearly four years ago amid rising tensions, a history teacher named marc fogel was detained in russiabut last summer i promised his 95-year-old mother mall feign that we would bring her boy safely back home. my life was saved by a fraction of an inch but some were not so lucky. corey comperatore was a firefighter, a veteran, a christian, a husband, a devoted father. we're joined by corey's wife helen who his high school sweet heart and two beloved daughters alison and kayleigh. our first lady is joined by two very impressive young women. haley ferguson who benefited from the first ladies for terg the futures initiative and elseston berry who became the victim of an illicit deep fake image. he tragically lost his dad who was a los angeles county sheriff's deputy when he was just a boy. and now he wants to carry on the family legacy of service. and his greatest dream is to attended u.s. military academy at west point. [cheers] i'm pleased to inform you that your application has been accepted. you will sooning joining your core cadet. [cheers] >> d.j. daniel is 13 years old, and he has a

an american, our government will do everything they can to bring you home and they did that with marc fogelce: they certainly did. meantime zelenskyy posted this, kind of back to this because that's why we brought you on, kiron skinner, i would like to reiterate ukraine's commitment to peace. none of us wants an endless war, ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. nobody once peace more than ukrainians, my team and i stand ready to work under president trump strong leadership to get a piece that lasts. i mean you read this a couple of times and are like that's an apology. without saying the word sorry, that's an apology. >> that's as close as a world leader could ever come and he did it. what i found truly remarkable about his post was that he used the language of trump. endless wars, we don't want an endless war, that we want to negotiate peace. this is the language that trump has been using all along. and more intensively since he reoccupied the white house. so zelenskyy is embracing the very position that he was resisting just

he views as accomplishments since inauguration day, including the negotiated release of american marc fogel from a russian prison. fogel, one of the president's invited guests tonight. mr. trump is also expected to give an update on the rare minerals deal with ukraine following an explosive oval office meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky, followed by trump pausing military aid. then zelensky today saying he wants to make things right. also top of mind tonight for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and many americans. the trade war launched by the president with china, canada and mexico. >> another thing that he's just done is start a trade war with canada and mexico. i have never seen such an important policy that affects so many people, and their costs come into effect with so little thought, so little analysis. it's amazing. >> these tariffs are oriented around a specific objective in this case to reduce the amount of fentanyl coming into this country across our northern and southern borders. and you know, so these tariffs i think are hopefully temporary. >> for their pa

president who attend inside the house chamber, and he will also have guests tonight, including marc fogel from russia as a part of the early diplomacy that the president engaged in. >> also. >> a woman who represents those who believe that women only should participate in sports. stephanie diller, who is a widow of a police officer killed in the line of duty, and then the family of the man killed at the butler assassination attempt. he will his family will be present tonight. and that, of course, is very significant because that again, brings the president into a place where he can talk about the risk that he went through during the campaign season. it's one of the pivotal moments of his public life, and he'll be shining a light on that as well. they did so at the convention, and now he's putting it into the sphere of governance. with his first address to the congress in this second term. chris. so, peter, the administration is promising surprises. they're promising. and i'm quoting here, made for tv moments. what are your expectations in terms of optics and tone? >> well, look, you know,

priorities and some of his life experiences, and some of what he has accomplished in office, including marc fogel, the american teacher who was released from russia after years in prison there. so it is to certainly to give the president an enormous platform to talk about the things he is trying to accomplish and to sort of set a course going forward. and so expect it to be a lot of congratulations to his team. and then what will be interesting to see is what he calls on congress to do in terms of immigration, in terms of the economy. and certainly i would expect that he will also make some references to the larger world in which he's operating, where, as you pointed out, canada is distressed and there is not the quick resolution to the war in ukraine that he said he'd be able to get done in 24 hours as a candidate. that's been proving more difficult as we're all watching that. >> i'm wondering, kelly, on the subject of tariffs, whether the stock market is whether there's any reaction from the white house to the stock market. usually that's an indicator of what donald trump wants to do or what he

as fate would have it come out marc fogel was born in a small rural town in butler pennsylvania.is mother has lived for the past 78 years. i just happened to go there last july 13th for a rally. that was not pleasant. that is where i met his beautiful mom right before i walked onto that stage and i told her i would not forget what she said about her son, and i never did, did i? never forgot. less than 10 minutes later, at that same rally gunfire rang out and sick and and deranged assasn unloaded eight bullets from his snipers perch into a crowd of many thousands of people. my life was saved by a fraction of an inch. but some were not so lucky. corey comperatore was a firefighter, veteran, christian, husband, devoted father and above all a protector. when the sound of gunshots pierced the air, it was a horrible sound, he knew instantly what it was and what to do, he threw himself on top of his wife and daughters and shielded them from the bullets with his own body. corey was hit really hard. you know the story from the air. sacrificed his life to save theirs. two others, very fine