. >> the president's guest include maury scalia, megyn crowely, jessica davis and susan oliver, widows of california police officers killed in line of duty by illegal immigrant. p. steve bashir, strong supporter of obamacare will deliver the democrats rebuttal. heather: i heard the democrats will bring guests of their own. clayton: president trump sat with steve and brian at the white house in an exclusive interview. take a look. >> you ran on repealing obamacare -- >> i think that paul ryan and his whole group have been terrific. i just left paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. you know, health care is a very complex. if you do this, it affects 15 things. don't forget, i have only been here four weeks. he hasn't done health care, they have been working on health care for 30 years, i have only been here, what is this, my fifth week, we are set to propose a plan and i will be talking about it as you know, tonight but we are all set tonight a plan and i think it's going to be something that's respected and really -- i think a lot of democrats -- well, if it were a fair process. >> watch more o

and jessica davis and susan oliver, who were married to california police officers killed in the line of duty in 2014. c-span's coverage of the president's address begins tonight at 8:00 eastern with a preview program with the president's speech at 9:00. next, a look at president trump's immigration policies from washington journal. r next adriano epresentative espaillat, joining us, democrat from new york, serves 13th istrict, including manhattan and the bronx and a member of foreign affairs and education workforce committees. morning. guest: good morning, thank you for having me on the program. host: thank you for being on the program. can you talk about your background, including immigrant xperience that brought you to the united states? guest: i came to the united states at the age of nine, with brother and y sister. visa and business overstayed visa, just like many people did back then. grandparents here, who paved the way for us years so we we got here, and overstayed our visa. we didn't have our documents. to go back to ad the dominican republic, where i was born, to get our gr

and jessica davis and susan oliver, who were married to california police officers killed in the line of duty in 2014.

and jessica davis and susan oliver, widows of officers killed in 2014 by an illegal immigrant. denisha merriweather. the first person in her family to graduate from high school and from college as a result of tax credits. you can see some themes the president will be weaving into the address tonight. we'll wait to see if we get specifics that you were talking about in terms of timing on taxes, trade, healthcare and the rest. my guess is that this is not a president who will load this up with a lot of policy specifics and details. that's not going to be the venue for this particular speech. a lot to of presidents have done that in past years. the way these things have been done over the years is that every agency of the federal government lobbies the white house to have its particular program mentioned in a particular line in the speech. i don't think this will happen that way at all. this is a president who doesn't like to use the teleprompter. we will see if the president varies from that tradition tonight as well. >> if we don't get those specific timings and policy specifics

>> bill: some of donald trump's guests tonight on the immigration front will be jessica davis, susan oliver, widows of california police officers killed by an illegal immigrant. also the father of a high school football star who was killed by an illegal immigrant. he spoke at the rnc in cleveland. do we have that, guys, from july? if we have it, we'll roll it. this was his message in cleveland just about six months ago. >> only trump mentions americans killed by illegals. trump will put america first. >> bill: that from july. brett bayer is reporting the lunch that's on going with the president some of the network anchors that president trump said it's time to push for an immigration bill where there's compromise on both sides. he will push for that tone in the speech and more to come on that. then what is more to come? >> on immigration? listen, he's already done a lot, right? he's come out very aggressively. he even called the deployment that he's doing with dhs to be a military style deployment domestically. that's one of the reasons people may be getting a little confused. he's using mi

we also see that jessica davis and susan oliver, the widows of officers killed in 2014 by an illegalmmigrant will be in the first lady's box. and denisha merriweather, a graduate of the florida tax credit system. she is the first in her family to graduate from high school and college. you get a sense of some of the themes that will be woven through the speech as he tips his hat to those people sitting alongside the first lady in the chamber tonight. this is a president who doesn't like to stay on the teleprompter. state of the union speeches or joint session speeches are so generally crafted. every line scrubbed. parsed for every possible meaning. this president likes to go on long digressions, so will we see that tonight? it's a lot to look at tonight. >> he won't call humor like the head clown, will he? >> i don't know. >> i don't know either. >> or cnn? i can think of so many things that could sneak in there. sometimes i think he says, you know what, i'm not going to do. i'm not going to do it. then in the middle of something he goes i'm going to do it. >> yeah. he gets up there,

discussing, and it will be reflected with some of his invited guests which include jessica davis and susan oliver illegal immigrant. and jamiel shaw, the student killed by illegal immigrant. president trump also inviting the widow of justice scalia, maureen scalia will be joining him on the first speech of the president to the joint session of congress. obviously the expectations running high. joining me now, executive editor of the weekly standard, fred barnes, good to see you on this auspicious occasion. your expectations tonight of the new president? >> i think it's going to be a different speech than we've heard before. i don't think he's going to give a campaign speech like he's given so many of, because he's got things to do tonight. he wants to sell his agenda, and i think we're going to hear a lot about it, i really didn't think immigration reform was going to be part of it, but you ow, he'she president. hean say whatever he wants. lou: and he is quite a president he is proving to be, i don't think we should neglect what he's already accomplished. >> even today. lou: today, two executive

we are talking about lisa michalski and susan collins, but the bottom line is the vice a historic vote. the first time the vice break at has had to tie. oliver andcher progressive base activated himself at the grassroots level to flood and and in the new senatorsand anyway offices. the second is all this is happening in a vacuum in which trumps executive orders regarding immigration has created a situation here in washington as well as the country in which they are is an intense divide. even silicon valley has come out against that. a -- say, we are expecting we could have a situation where president trump has to take his case to the supreme court. i want to play for you a clip about what secretary kelly said about what he said that are false rumors that trumps again order could be expanded. something where there were an additional 12 countries being considered to be put on the list for it is not true. good friends of mine that were on the list asked and i said it is not true. we are right now not contemplating no other countries. >> when you look at this, there were frustrations against republican aides. now, secretary kelly trying to get o