. >> reporter: we're joined by political correspondented david shuster and another professor at political science. the original word out of the white house was this was going to be focused on his accomplishments of the it felt like we were going back to 2004 and the speech that launched him into the area. >> yeah. it was going to be a different kind of speech, an unusual state of the union address. i do think to a certain extent it was different to what he has done in the past and most presidents do, but you're right. he seemed to be the old president obama who was running for office. we heard that particularly towards the end. i was really struck by as i think he did two difficult things. he tried to present himself as the head of the democratic party who wants to make sure that he gets a third term, if you will, with the election of a democratic president and potentially taking the senate, and he also tried to cement his legacy at the same time to say this is where i stand on big issues confronting the u.s. a hard line to walk. i think he did a pretty good job of walking it, but, of cou