and minor children. daniel lippman is co—author of the us daily newsletter politico playbook and joins us via webcam. thanks forjoining us. what has been the reaction they are to the speech? generally, it was pretty good. this was not a doom and gloom speech that characterised his inauguration speech when he talked about american carnage. in the congress, democrats applauded him on multiple occasions. the issue is as long as he has those types of speeches, everything goes well. but when he gets back to the white house and gets back to his fallen, he tweets lots of things that stalks controversies. he has a good night one night, but most of his presidency has not been marked