how about you, al weaver, what are you reading?st finished a bigbie ned colletti called "the big chair." it talks about his tenure at the los angeles dodgers. is great for avid baseball fans. it takes you behind the scenes through trades, negotiations, free agency. outside of the dirk hayhurst collection. great book, especially for baseball fans. >> i'm in l.a. today. that will play well with my l.a. audience. how about you seung min kim. >> i haven't had a chance to pick up a new book so i am going back to an oldie but a goody. "crazy rich asians." it is a funny, biting look at extremely weighty family based in singapore. i was on vacation last summer in charleston with my husband. i was up to 4:00 a.m. reading this book because it was that addictive. we could all use a fun brain break and read something like this. >> i have not heard of that. that's terrific. michael warren, what do you have to offer the panel? >> the big three volume by gravy of winston churchill. it's an old book. but i'm reading it for the first time and gaini

we're joining by darlene supervel, also al weaver of the washington examiner who serves as a political reporter. to both of you, thanks for joining us today. so let's start with state of the union. if you look to the papers this morning just even suggestions from the headlines, the president isat expected to softn theg, tone on the speech as fars tomorrow's presentation, and particularly what it does for immigration. darlene, what do we get a sense as far as tone leading into tomorrow's speech? >> guest: well, the white house has said that he is going to speak in more optimistic tones tomorrow. contrast that, for example, with the inaugust ration speech that he gave a year ago when he talked about american carnage andam painted this kind of very dark picture of the united states of america. so he's looking to do a little bit of the opposite and be softer, more optimistic, more hopeful in talking about immigration and is only of the other -- some of the other issues we're going the hear him speak about. >> host: al weaver, particularly those members of congress that are sitting there, t

host: al weaver, i want to play you a clip of yesterday's show. it is interesting to see how democrats approach this. here is senator bernie sanders. he was on "face the nation" yesterday. [video clip] should beverybody pleased when any worker gets a raise, but what we should also note that the tax bill should add $1.4 trillion to the deficit. at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, billionaires and large multinational corporations do not need tax breaks. it is the middle class and working families who do. host: al weaver, at the same time he talks about the price tag, he has to deal with the balance that if people get a tax break, i suppose them a credit still have to wrestle with this issue on a wide front. guest 2: i think senator sanders give a good representation of where democrats are, they are happy that you see citizens getting thousand dollars bonuses from apple and whatever, verizon, home depot. they still go back to this, eventually, it is going to go to the corporations. that is the line you are always going to hear. this po

al weaver of "the washington examiner" and services their political reporter. .on, you are on with our guests go ahead with a question or comment. dacar: in my opinion, started in 1986. had two -- hello? host: you are on. go ahead. caller: they have had two generations of children since 1986, i'm pretty sure. if you are only going to include 1.8 million, i would like to know how this retinal scanning fromming along to keep paper sharing. host: we will leave it there. aside from the last part, history always comes up in these issues. what does the president see far as how his proposals advance those things? guest 1: that is a good question. [laughter] this has always been a tricky issue politically. again, it goes back to, i think, just how much of an effort he puts into trying to sell it. immigration has always been a difficult issue. we have a deadline supposedly now of february 8 to get a deal, which seems a little bit unrealistic for an issue as complicated as immigration. i think time will tell. host: the deadline, how does that factor into these negotiations? guest 2: i think it i

host: al weaver, i want to play you a clip of yesterday's show.t is interesting to see how democrats approach this. here is senator bernie sanders. he was on "face the nation" yesterday. [video clip] should beverybody pleased when any worker gets a raise, but what we should also note that the tax bill should add $1.4 trillion to the deficit. at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, billionaires and large multinational corporations do not need tax breaks. it is the middle class and working families who do. host: al weaver, at the same time he talks about the price tag, he has to deal with the balance that if people get a tax break, i suppose them a credit still have to wrestle with this issue on a wide front. guest 2: i think senator sanders give a good representation of where democrats are, they are happy that you see citizens getting thousand dollars bonuses from apple and whatever, verizon, home depot. they still go back to this, eventually, it is going to go to the corporations. that is the line you are always going to hear. this poin

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silly in this part of the world weavers of traditional handmade carpets in gaza say they're struggling to keep their ancient crafts alive as al-jazeera as markham web reports israel and egypt located on the gaza strip is strangling business. weaving into traditional carpets is one of palestine's all these professions. it takes skill patients and a steady hand. so what's been doing it since he was ten now he says he's too old to be strained relatives to work on his looms hearing. has been a family business for longer than he knows even his family name so after means will . i am seventy two years old and i've done this work my whole life before me my father before him my grandfather it's been in our family for four hundred years or more maybe ever since the prophet muhammad we've done the same work. it's possible archaeologists have found the remains of wooden looms in this region that are thousands of years old the techniques have passed their beliefs down the generations like these not recording the order of colored stripes in a design. that mahmoud says things are not how they used to be mainly because of israel and egypt bl