d.j. daniels is from the houston area.rying to confirm whether al green is specifically ej's congressman, but if that is the case, how is that? all the members we know, who is on the guest list? if d.j. is al green's constituent and you put up that show with disrespect and didn't have the respect to stay in the gallery to applaud him, it tells you everything you need to know here to there is an old saying, he has to say, well, if i dove in a river to save a drowning man, the headline would say, "can't walk on water." that is the playbook democrats are taking and it was a missed opportunity. i was texting with people last night watching between that bingo battles and the ladies in pink, which you were pointing out in the last hour, they blocked, tank transgender keeping biological men out of women's sports. yet, wearing pink to support women because trump is damaging them. it is literally a failure of epic proportions. i think is a democrats like david axelrod that were attacking the behavior at the very best child the best

earlier today newly minted secret service agent d.j. danielbig hug at the oval office. and yet the democrats actually refused to stand for that very touching moment. the lunatics at msnbc just had to make it political. >> this is disgusting. the president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who has thus far survive pediatric cancer, as if the president had something to do with that. >> i let myself feel joy about d.j. and i hope he's alive for another, you know, 95 years. >> we hope he never has to protect the capital against donald trump supporters and if he does i hope he isn't one of the six oh loses his life to suicide. >> jesse: that got picked up pretty quickly this morning. >> dana: the president was accused of not doing anything to unite the country. but those are the moments, as jessica said, everybody who's in that box was an amazing american and if you can't set your policies aside for a moment, or your politics aside for a moment, to stand for them. i don't know if that comment was just made off the cuff and it was one tha

[cheers] >> d.j. daniel is 13 years old, and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. heers] and tonight d.j., we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i am asking our new secret service director, sean curren to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. [cheers] >> ainsley: stand up. at least be bipartisan on those issues. >> steve: brian, when my wife and i watched d.j. daniels hug the new director of the secret service. we both had tears coming down our faces out of our eyes. it had to be like that at least half of the chamber that you were in last night. >> brian: people went crazy. i looked over to the left this is going to be the moment where people have to clap. >> lawrence: you have to. >> brian: for a kid who is supposed to be dead at 5. sitting there at 13. overcoming cancer, how can you sit instead they sat and looked indifferent. to me a lack of organization. i don't think hakeem jeffries set everyone sit down and ignore kids with cancer, really? you are ignoring kids with cancer? you are ignoring the survivors of a murdere

. >> and one involved a 13 year old d.j. daniel, who was given months to live after a diagnosis of brain cancer and has survived for years. the president made one of his dreams come true. >> and tonight, d.j, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i am asking our new secret service director, sean curran, to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. >> i just loved when you saw that look on his face. you can see that surprise and delight. he was given a badge moments later, and then he got to congratulate another member of the audience. >> i am pleased to inform you that your application has been accepted. >> that's jason hartley, a high school senior and son of a fallen los angeles county sheriff's deputy who just learned he's been accepted to west point. his family has served in the military for generations, and he will now get to continue that tradition and legacy amid applause. he gets hugs and even a high five from 13 year old d.j. daniel. >> a lot was said in tonight's speech, and that kep

d.j. daniel. he said this is my fifth time at a joint address for president trump and sadly there is nothing this president could do or say that would make these democrats stand and cheer. this has now become a party of rage and hate, a radicalized party reduced to a collective temper tantrum sitting on their hands doing nothing for you the american people. tonight this is also a defeated party. no solutions, no coherent message, no plan for the future. simply reduced to political stunts and smears and outright lies and they were holding the little signs even though president trump promised to protect it. others held signs smearing you en masse. they brought a whiteboard... presumably so she could make it up as she goes along. tonight's speech wasn't about the angry democrats that have no vision for our country on the left side of the chamber. it wasn't even about politicians on either side of the aisle. president trump's speech was dedicated to you, the people that make this country great. the am

d.j. daniels. the president making false and exaggerated claims as well, insisting that doge found hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud, which is a crime. he provided no evidence. elon musk's team is not claiming it found near $100 billion worth. the president is not taking his message on the road. vice president vance is going to tout the success cracking down on illegal immigration, traveling to the border today. the president will stay put here at the white house. >> peter, thank you. >>> turn to hallie jackson and kristen welker, moderator of "meet the press." let's start 30,000 feet and the tone. this was a very bold, very confident president trump. >> absolutely. he was defiant. this felt like a campaign speech. he reiterated, revived some of his old grievances. took aim at democrats and his political rivals. i thought it was notable, he spent the first 20 minutes leaning into the culture wars. that's one of the reasons i think why he was able to energize his base so effectively during th

. >> reporter: the president celebrating 13-year-old brain cancer survivor d.j. daniel who visited the oval office. honored, the family of laken riley, the nursing student killed by an undocumented immigrant last year. the president highlighting the low number of illegal border crossings since he took office. >> the media and our friends in the democrat party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation. secure the border. it turned out all we needed was a new president. >> a lot of moving pieces, gabe. we learned the administration is negotiating with hamas. what can you tell us? >> reporter: the white house confirmed those talks with hamas, which usually happened through intermediaries because it's a terrorist organization. late today, president trump demanded hamas release its hostages now, saying this was his last warning. >> gabe, thanks. >>> the impacts of the president's budget cuts reach far beyond washington. stephanie gosk reports some local officials are concerned about losing funding for programs that help people with necessities like food

a moment that just kind of got to your heart, which is there was a young boy, 13 year old boy, d.j. danielhas suffered from brain cancer, and the president anointed him a member of the secret service tonight. >> d.j., we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i am asking our new secret service director, sean curran, to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. >> so, i mean, i challenge you not to feel all the feels when you see something like that. and, look, i mean, this is the kind of thing, um, you know, sort of pulling at heartstrings and connecting to real people that republicans, republicans and democrats have done for a very long time. but in today's we were talking about this earlier in today's media age, where you have these viral moments, that was certainly one of them. how important is it from your point of view for these kinds of moments to go out? and how lasting are those versus the big impact, um, moments that will really determine how people live their lives? >> i think these moments are huge. one, most of the american public doesn't watc

look at the way they treated d.j. daniel.at the way they treated the family of that poor murdered girl. look at the way they behaved with their stupid signs which meant no sense to anybody, like a commoner in a college. look at everything they did and the walkouts and all the rest of it. if you are donald trump, you are watching that back today and laughing your head off. >> now, piers, the media, the kind of, you know, again, never trump media, they made it worse at times last night. this was a moment on msnbc with nicole wallis speaking of the child with cancer. watch. >> the beauty of that child is a tragedy of the trump presidency. he wants to be a cop. he knows what he wants to do. i hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer. but i hope he never has to defend the united states capitol against donald trump supporters and if he does, i hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide. piers, what was that. >> one of the most discussing shameful reprehensible things i have ever seen on the news in ameri

brian, d.j. danielncer survivor one of the stars the president made him hand area secret service agent. yesterday the d.j. show was not over. >> i am very thankful that donald trump invited us down here and i was not expecting for a lot of people to be. >> the president survived d.j. and his family with a visit to the oval office yesterday. >> what a good looking family. >> one more thing i got for you, a big hug. >> okay. good. that's very nice. look at that family you got, huh? >> democrats received criticism by not standing when trump honored the little boy whose lifelong dream had been to become a law enforcement officer. dnc offered this now famous hug to the director of the secret service after president trump made d.j. a secret service agent and d.c. and his father joined the show yesterday. >> i would like to say thank you to him. and i hope he got his cowboy hat because i bought him a brown one from texas. i'm not sure if they got it out of the thing where they check it. because the dog had to

the fact they couldn't stand up for d.j. daniel, a 13-year-old boy who has had 13 brain surgeries and for nicole wallace and rachel maddow to say the most odious and inhumane, one of the worst things i've ever heard on cable news which is saying a lot. this is a party that's taking its cues... and i have no leader and no compass right now. >> it's pretty disgusting and pretty despicable. i don't get shocked by a lot of it and i don't really care that they think the way they do when they say... to be honest that was heartless. that was cruel. that's nbc news. >> that's the mothership at this point where they have more employees than they have viewers at this point. >> i think you are probably right. good to see you. only come back mayors of the sanctuary cities grilled by republican lawmakers on capitol hill. we got the tape, we will get reaction. kristi noem will join us and governor greg abbott will joini. with details of this tour of the southern border with the vice president and also tonight secretary of state marco rubio will

his name is d.j. daniel.is 13 years old, and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer: i am asking our new secret service director, sean curran, to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. [cheers and applause] stuart: i loved that young man's reaction. i can't believe the democrats sat on their hands for that. anyway, they did. trump highlighted the story of mark fogel, an american teacher who was whereonfully detained in russia for four years, trump brought him home last month. ordinary people honored last night. >>> the democrats were committed to protesting everything trump did or said. watch. >> i look at the democrats in front of me, and i realize there is absolutely nothing i can say to make them happy or to make them stand the or smile or applaud. nothing i can do. stuart: he was right. again, i've got to say i think the protests fell flat and didn't have much impact. shannon bream will take that on. >>> the president spent his address doubling down on his agenda. i

and when you get a down to d.j. danielebrating him because he loves cops? why is that such an important thing? well, we just came, emerged from a period of time where all democrat politicians celebrated a guy that was a crackhead who got arrested for, you know, passing bad bills and celebrated the -- and blamed the cop and is burned cities to the ground in support of the crackhead and hating cops. and so you have a 13-year-old who loves cops and wants to be a cop, and trump celebrates him. and then it gets very substantive after that where he starts talking about the toxic brain cancer that he has, and he starts talking about bobby kennedy going after the toxins in our air, food and water. larry: i don't want to get hung up on this, but how could people of goodwill, democrats or republicans, not stand up and applaud that? okay? just explain that to me. >> i think i'm the wrong person to try to explain it. [laughter] i can explain a lot of things. last night, i don't understand that. i mean, it just -- if you cannot at leas

the president honoring 13 year old d.j. daniel, who always dreamed of becoming a police officer. >> d.j, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i am asking our new secret service director, sean curran, to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. >> and joining us now, nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander. also with us, ashley parker, writer at the atlantic, former republican governor john kasich from ohio. and symone sanders townsend, former chief spokesperson for vice president harris and co-host of the weekend here on msnbc. peter, what were folks inside the white house saying this morning about how the president's speech went last night? what they were saying about exactly. >> what you would expect them to say. caroline leavitt, the press secretary, who will be briefing reporters in the next couple of hours, saying that president trump absolutely owned the moment. of course, that's what you would expect. i will tell you what i heard privately, though, from a top ally to

home state of texas to honor her life and in one of the greatest surprise moments of the night, d.j. danielbrain 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 evaluations in the history of our country. president trump announced we have to take the monster who was responsible for that horrific attack. he was delivered to dulles airfield earlier this morning. on his first day in office, president trump national security team across the federal government prioritized intelligence gathering to locate this evil individual. president trump's team shared intelligence with regional partners such as pakistan who helped identified this monster in the border land area last month. mohammad confessed to his crimes in abbey gate, russia, iran, to the pakistanis. traveled to pakistan over the weekend where he again confessed his crime

his name is d.j. daniel. he is 13 years old and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. pplause] president trump: but in 2018, d.j. was diagnosed with brain cancer. the doctors gave him five months at most to live. that was more than six years ago. [applause] president trump: since that time, d.j. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true and d.j. has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer, actually a number of times, the police love him. the police departments love him. and tonight d.j., we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i'm asking our new secret service director, sean curran to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. [applause] president trump: thank you, d.j. d.j.'s doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger. since 1975 rates of childhood cancer have increased more than 40%. reversing this trend is one of the priorities for our new make america healthy again chaired by our new secretary of health and human services, robert f. kennedy jr. [appl

his name is d.j. daniel. is 13 years old, and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. but in 2018, d.j. was diagnosed with brain cancer. the doctors gave him five months at most to live. that was more than six years ago. since that time, d.j. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and d.j. has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer. actually, a number of times. the police love him. the police departments love him. and tonight, d.j., we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i am asking our new secret service director, sean curran, to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. thank you, d.j. d.j.'s doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger. since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40%. reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to make america healthy again chaired by our new secretary of health and human services,

his name is d.j. daniel, he's 1s dreamed of becoming a police officer. and applause] [cheering] but in 2018, d.j. was diagnosed with brain cancer. the doctors gave him five months at most to live. that was more than six years a ago. [applause] since that time, d.j. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true. d.j. has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer, actually a number of times. the police love him. the police department's love him. tonight, d.j., we are going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i am asking our new secret service director sean curran to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. [cheers and applause] [cheering] >> d.j.! d.j.! d.j.! >> president trump: thank you, d.j. d.j.'s doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger. since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40%. reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to make america healthy again chaired by our new secretary

his name is d.j. daniel. he is 13 years old and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. >> oh. >> thank you, sir. >> but in 2018, d.j. was diagnosed with brain cancer. the doctors gave him five months at most to live. that was more than six years ago. since that time, d.j. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and dj has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer. actually, a number of times. beast. the police love him, the police departments love him. and tonight, d.j., we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i am asking our new secret service director, sean curran, to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. >> thank you. thank you. you. >> thank you. d.j. d.j., doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger. since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40%. reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to make america wealt

his name is d.j. daniel. he is 13 years old and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. has. >> but in 2018, d.j. was diagnosed with brain cancer. the doctors gave him five months at most to live. that was more than six years ago. since that time, d.j. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and d.j. has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer. actually, a number of times. the police love him, the police departments love him. and tonight, d.j, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i am asking our new secret service director, sean curran, to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. >> oh. thank you, thank you, thank. you. very. >> thank you. d.j. d.j, his doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger. since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40%. reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to make america healthy again. chaired by our new secretary of health and human services, robert f kenn

his name is d.j. daniel, he is 13 years old, and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. [ applause ] [ applause ] but in 2018, d.j. was diagnosed with brain cancer. the doctors gave him five months at most to live. that was more than six years ago. [ applause ] since that time, d.j. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true and d.j. has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer, actually a number of times, the police love him, the police departments love him. and tonight, d.j., we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all, i am asking our new secret service director to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. [ applause ] [ applause ] thank you, d.j. d.j.'s doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger. since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40%. reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to make america healthy again, chai

mom, this d.j. daniel moment that is going to live with his base for months. this is going to energize him, and it's going to give them a little bit of patience as he figures out what he's doing with the economy. he knows that he's not there to win democratic votes. he's to keep the people who voted for him on his side as he tests this whole tariffs theory, which i think will be a disaster. but that's what he's trying to do. >> david, can i just one other thing he said towards the end. 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 ga

>> throughout his remarks, the president, recognizing everyday americans like 13 year old texan d.j. daniel, who's battling brain cancer and aspires to be a police officer. trump, making him an honorary secret service member. then the rebuttal democratic senator elissa slotkin of michigan, arguing trump's agenda will cost americans. >> americans made it clear that prices are too high and that the government needs to be more responsive to their needs. america wants change, but there's a responsible way to make change and a reckless way, and we can make that change without forgetting who we are as a country and as a democracy. >> now, slotkin also had a message for demoralized democrats imploring americans to stay engaged, arguing the stakes are simply too high, saying, quote, don't tune out. it's easy to be exhausted, but america needs you now more than ever. george. >> mary. bruce, thanks. our chief washington correspondent, jon karl, our senior political correspondent, rachel scott. jon, let me begin with you. you've covered so many of these addresses. we've never seen one quite like this.