After a twoweek delay because of a Government Shutdown, the annual speech now just 12 hours away. The theme reportedly choosing greatness. Hell be speaking infrastructure, trade and Prescription Drugs, before diving back into what has become the defining issue of his presidency, the border wall. To every republican, if you dont stand behind this president , were not going to stand behind you. This is the defining moment of this presidency. Its not just about a wall. We begin today with federal investigators going all the way back to the beginning. Demanding documents connected to the president s more than 100 million inauguration. But whered all that money come from . More importantly, where did it go . I have a great team to break all of it down. Specifically the legal implications. But first, let me explain exactly what we learned last night. Late monday, the u. S. Attorneys office for new york Southern District issued a subpoena for documents relating to President Trumps 2017 inauguration. Part of a criminal investigation they opened last year. If youre not sure where that fits into the big picture, youve got to remember that this is separate from Robert Muellers investigation into the trump campaign. Second to the investigation into the trump organization. And separate from the new York Attorney generals investigation into the trump organization. This is something entirely different. This new subpoena covers all the documents related to the inaugural committees donors, vendors, including documents relating to the filings in which the committee disclosed its donations. It also seeks records related to any benefits or receptions that donors received in exchange for their contributions. Remember, the Trump Inaugural Committee raised a huge amount of money, 107 million, that is roughly double, double the previous record from obamas first inaugural back in 2009 and of that 107 million, the Trump Committee spent nearly all of it. However, trumps committee only had to publicly identify its top vendors which account for 61 million. And according to tax filings, its not provided much in Additional Details so theyve got questions. Prosecutors want to know where all the money came from, how it was spent and whether the committee was playing by the rules. According to the New York Times, people familiar with it say theyre looking into donors in exchange for political favors, a potential violation of corruption laws. Theyre looking into whether foreign nationals illegally donated to the committee and whether Committee Staff knew those donations were illegal. They also want to know if they were disclosed or if anybody lied to the fec. I want to bring in Kristen Welker at the white house and nbcs investigations reporter tom winter. All right, are you getting any reaction at the white house to all this . Well, steph, were just starting to get early reaction to this development. And of course the reaction is what you would expect. They expect the innaug ral committee to cooperate with investigators. Comely anne conway was asked about this. Her key focus today, the state of the union. Instead, the first question to her was about this latest controversy. Take a listen to how she responded. I saw there was one individual named a gentleman who apparently had been a fundraiser for both Hillary Clinton and president obama, secretary clinton. Trying to get inroads into the trump inaugural since i assume that important like most obama and clinton supporters never thought he could win. I only know what i read about the subpoena. Im sure everybody will comply as we have with any such request here. Also to be clear, they do expect the inaugural committee to comply. What the white house wants to be talking about of course the president s second state of the Union Address, which hell deliver in just hours from now. Kellyanne conway saying hes been putting the finishing touches on all of that. It comes against this remarkable backdrop. Not only divided government. Of course hes going to be delivering that address with democrats now in control of the house. But with this new twist in the investigation out of new york and the russia investigation of course still looming large, steph. Whats the significant of the subpoena . Sure, sure. I think it tells us a couple things. The inquiry is in the initial stages. Anybody who thinks muellers finished this is separate . We want to make cheer abolea this. This is led by the Southern District of new york. However, muellers name has come up in an investigation tied to this inaugural committee. Sam patton, who pled guilty, we found out about this individual the day before the Labor Day Weekend in august. In his statement of the offense and the criminal information associated with his guilty plea being it said he arranged for the straw purchase of two tickets for the Trump Inauguration for russian businessmen and he agreed to cooperate as part of that investigation. That was something we were told at the time came out of Robert Muellers office. It was a case prosecuted by prosecutors in washington, d. C. So similar here to new york where you have another district or another part of the Justice Department thats taken inquiry into this. We dont know whether or not the subpoena is a result of information Robert Mueller learned. We know the donations to it have been on law enforcements radar. Theres been no suggestion the inaugural committee committed some sort of crime or theres fraud surrounding it. Obviously people commit straw donations violations and the committee didnt know about it, thats not on them. I think whats interesting here is this is a really wide subpoena, which is typical. Its kind of a big kind of fishers net if you will to gather up the documents from this. They would have had reason to get it. They have a reason they were able to go after this. Its different from michael cohen. When Michael Cohens apparentment and offices were searched, at that point, i thought they mutt be ready to charge at that point. Thats a good indication that, hey, they have a strong belief that crimes occurred and theyre pretty close to that. When you see a subpoena like this, what it tells me is theres some reason to believe theres some things to look at here. But they really need to get their hands on this document and start to look at and see if theres some evidence that matches up with some things they may be hearing. I want to bring in joyce vance, former u. S. Attorney and professor at the university of Alabama School of law and msnbc contributor. And my friend matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice debt and msnbc security and justice analyst. We laid out a bunch of potential i have to remind everyone, potential violations. From what youve read about the subpoena, where do you see the focus of this investigation . I think it could be an incredibly big deal and tom does a really good job of laying out the point that the investigation is at. This is early days. Theyre gathering information. They have a basis for believing crimes have been committed. Theyll take a look at what comes back and then assess whether they should move forward. We already know an important detail about this investigation from pattons plea in the district of columbia. He acknowledged he arranged for donations from ukrainian and a russian to the inaugural committee knowing that this was illegal. And its very unlikely that he kept that knowledge to himself since he filtered at least one of these transactions through a cypriot bank. There will be somebody on that side who would be aware of the illegality as well. A bank in cyprus. Remember whos closely tied, wilbur ross. Matt, how hard is it to prove a quid pro quo . In this case, somebody getting access for a specific reason because they made a donation . I mean, historically dont lots of rich and influential people go to things like the inauguration and give a lot of money to go . Proving a quid pro quo is one of the hardest things. Just buying access is of itself not illegal. People can buy access to politicians all the time. What you cant buy is an official action in return. So when you look at what the prosecutors seem to be probing here, obviously theyre looking at how the money came in, whether there was illegal foreign money that came into the inaugural committee. And they seem to be looking at how the money is spent. Its illegal to not properly disclose money. In terms of foreign donations, the first order of question i think for prosecutors is did any foreign money illegally make it into the inaugural committee. The second question is, if so, what were those donors trying to buy. Were they trying to buy access to the trump team or trying to buy policy decisions from the new administration and if so were they successful . At some level, thats been the underlying question of all the probes into trump from the beginning which is did people get anything exchanged for money, for favors, for other things they sent into the trump organization, into the trump campaign. This inauguration was far more expensive than any inauguration in history. More than obamas in 2009, more than bushs in 2005. I want to hear what bushs Committee Chair said when he heard how much money trump spent. So they had a third of the sta staff and a quarter of the events and they raised, what, at least twice as much as we did . So theres the obvious question where did it go. I dont know. No ideas . No ideas. What do you make of that . So i think matt and joyce have done a terrific job laying out what potential crimes could be looked at here. Another thing they could face is was there proper accounting being done with respect to this committee. And so one of the things you look at, as he just said in that sound, was hey, youve got, you know, this was a scaled down inauguration. I remember talking about that leading up to it. You have massive expenditures. What did this all go to . Rick gates said at the Paul Manafort trial that he had some financial improprieties as far as how he accounted for certain things he spent with the inaugural committee. As we know, hes been cooperating and continues to cooperate according to court documents. What things does rick gates know about as far as how things were spent and how things may have accounted for . We have this gulf, as you accurately and clearly laid out, of 100 plus Million Dollars in expenditu expenditures. Thats a significant gap there as far as where did that money go and what could that have gone to. I think there are some questions not only on money coming in but perhaps money going out. Where did it go . How wases it accou it accounted . Obviously here we might be in a situation where either theyre going to ask for or maybe they already have received the bank records for this committee. Also the involvement of the chairman of this i think raises some interesting questions as well. Ive not seen where hes publicly commented on this. I dont think he has. Joyce, tom hits on fascinating points. Key players in the Mueller Investigation who were tied into this. Rick gates was part of the Planning Team for the inauguration. Michael cohen actually had the information that got this whole thing started. Its fascinating were seeing this case prosecutored not by mueller as part of special counsels office but independently by the Southern District of new york. Demonstrates that mueller is exercising great restraint. His mandate was to look at connectivity between the campaign and russia and whether that was an effort to influence the election. But also anything he developed as a result of that investigation. Prior independent counsels might have held on to this and kept going for years. But not mueller. Theyll have access though to all of his cooperators and information theyve developed. In this subpoena, we note that prosecutors are also looking for evidence of Money Laundering, which i think is the most interesting piece weve got here. Is that Money Laundering by russian or ukrainian oligarchs sending money into the Inauguration Fund or something else, but thats the piece to look for. I want to play what Chris Christie said about this last night. Ive always thought that was the biggest problem for two reasons. One because the Southern District has no restrictions on their purview. Bob mueller has a task. Its russian interference and potential collusion. Southern district of new york is whatever the heck you want. Pick your poison, i dont know if youre a star wars fan but its like deciding whether to fight the death star or the death star base. Both can blow up your planet. Im not sure id want either one. The investigation makes clear how much exposure the president had on all fronts. This wasnt an investigation that was referred directly from paul mueller but in some ways its his grandchild. That investigation produced this new information and i think the problem is joyce was alluding to. Now the president has exposure across his campaign, his white house committee, his white house. You have witnesses who can be who are turned in one investigation, rick gates is the perfect example, who can now be used in another. Hike michael cohen. When you have exposure on so many fronts, you have to win on all of them and its difficult if youre the president. Last point . Two quick points. One, its interesting to me, a lot of people raised concerns that a trump picked u. S. Attorney would not investigate people close to trump or people involved with trump. Yet you have the Southern District of new york bringing a very substantial case. You have the Southern District Prosecutorial Office who has had no problem going after also now his inaugural committee. A lot of people raised questions about that. I think when we look back at it, we see that the Justice Department here continues to be independent, at least outside of areas of washington, d. C. And the attorney generals office. Thank you, all. Massively important conversation. I dont know, matt. I know one thing, i dont want to be handcuffed or chained to jabba the hut. Were hours away from the president s state of the union. 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President trump will deliver his second state of the Union Address. His first under a divided government. With the House Speaker nancy pelosi seated right behind him. Along with Vice President mike pence. And despite getting out of the longest Government Shutdown in u. S. History, and the bitter battle over funding for a border wall, the white house says the president will call for optimism and unity. Hes expected to talk about a host of issues including transportation spending, lower drug prices and border security. At the same time, Senate Republicans are urging the president against declaring a National Emergency during this address to fund his border wall. Nbcs rehema ellis is live in atlanta. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is live in iowa in a county that flipped for President Trump in 2016 after historically voting democratic for 60 year. What are people in iowa hoping to hear tonight . Good morning, stephanie. Trying to what do they want to hear . Well, its interesting, as jeremy just told me this is sort of the melting pot of the midwest, a Longtime Union town, but theres also a great amount of agriculture just on the outskirts. A lot of the individuals, we just talked to different folks here in dubuque, and several had been republican and then voted for Hillary Clinton. You also have those who are locktime democrats who did vote for the president. And what they want the president to do is continue to move forward and continue to press on immigration. What the one line of commonalty was, this is what the state of the union is. Right now, the state of the union is i think extremely divided. And thats the number one word. Its difficult to have conversations with people. I think the economy is doing well. I think congress is broken. Thats my state of the union. I would like to see something more centrist. I would say the state of the union is dysfunctional at best and Congress Needs to step up to the plate. Workers are struggling to make ends meet and we cant afford health care. Stephanie, that commonalty you heard was dysfunction. Of course, different folks are blaming whether it be the president or nancy pelosi or congress or republicans in the senate as a whole. But what the one line of commonalty was, the message that washington should understand, is they want action on the likes of immigration, on health care, on infrastructure. There are things they want action on. What they could see among these, there are a lot of distractions at play. Whether it be the white house dysfunction, the Government Shutdown. A lot of dysfunctions taking the l eye off of. Border wall is not in the top ten prpriorities. Is security of the country, yes. But she says there needs to be more focus on what helps this country going forward. Jennifer, making a good point. Theres a vast difference between a border wall and security. Rehema, youve been speaking to voters in virginia and that of course is ahead of democrat stacy abrams, her response this evening. What were hearing over a cup of coffee, im doing decaf and our guest whos with me is alexis, shes doing the real stuff, that octane stuff. Were at the silver skillet diner in atlanta. What do you want to hear tonight in the state of the union . Short of i resign, im not really certain. I have low expectations really of what he plans to share. You said low expectations . I really do. He hasnt met them in the past. I wish he would get off social media. I wish he would stop with the rhetoric. Just really understand that it is tone at the top to bring this country together and to truly work together. Is there any one thing he would say that would make you think hes now moving in the direction you want him to move in . I dont think so. I honestly dont. Ive been surprised before. Certainly by politicians. But i dont think so. I think hes in over his head. He has dug a really deep hole with the russian investigation. And he just continues to bully, bully, bully. But if there was an issue hes going to talk about some issues tonight. What are the top issues for you . I mean, the Government Shutdown was ridiculous to say the least. Because its just its dirty politics. And Stacey Abrams, i have to tell you quick before we wrap this, big star here in atlanta and georgia. She is. What do you hope she will say in the democratic response . I hope she has a positive message which is wont be too difficult to do compared to trump because hes always so negative. Just be positive and bring this country together again. Thank you very much. I should tell you, talking with some other people, immigration, health care, education, foreign policy, all issues people here inr are saying they hope the president will touch on tonight. If you care about income inequality, youve got to care about education. I want to get my panel in. It is an excellent one. Msnbc contributor and Washington Post opinion Writer Jonathan kaypart. Democratic congresswoman mikey sheryl from my home state of new jersey. And msnbc con trub biter, former director of strategic communications, of hillary for america, adrian aron. And a. B. Stoddard. You leave us and get on a train to d. C. For tonights state of the union. What do you expect . What do you want to hear . I really want to hear a uniting message. I think what weve heard from people from dubuque to georgia, that they are feeling that this countrys really divided. I want to hear about a united message. I want to hear about infrastructure. Im incessantly talking about the gateway tunnel project which we need in new york and new jersey. I want to hear about bringing Health Care Costs down and how we can have an agenda thats going to do that. My guest will be someone who suffered a tragic loss from the opoid epidemic. I want to hear about that. Unifying messages that can bring the country together. If he puts forth these messages knowing who he is and what he does and the tweets that could follow or the policies, are you willing to believe that . I think were going to work in the caucus and in the house to execute what he says hes going to do and hope that if we pass good legislation, that he will sign it and we can move the country forward. A. B. , republicans, republicans are urging the president do not declare a National Emergency. What are the risks if he does so . You talk to people around the country, theyre not talking border wall. Its anne coulter and Rush Limbaugh who talk border wall. If you look at the polling around the shutdown, around the wall, and around the National Emergency, the National Emergency members that get the most opposition, its just really a bad trap for him. But it seems from reporting around him that he finds its the republican senators have made it clear starting last tuesday, the majority leader met privately with the president and said were going to get a resolution from the house. The law requires it. The National Emergencies act. And were going to have to approve or disprove your emergency. And likelihood is its going to be rejected and our own republicans are going to vote with democrats. It doesnt pass constitutional muster. We have the power of the purse. It sets a terrible precedent. The next president could come in and call anything an emergency. So hes really in a worse corner than he even appeared in last friday. The Supreme Court could. Yes, thats right. Senator cornyn said yesterday i think its going to fail in the courts and hell be right back where he started from. The president , though, is a performer. He knows how to put on a show. Its how he got elected. Its what made him a famous business man more than a successful businessman. The New York Times says hes ready for this kind of spectacle. Its what he does best. Yes, its what he does best. Its going to be very interesting to see if he stays on script tonight. If he actually adheres to the teleprompter. The difference between President Trump in 2019 giving the state of the union and President Trump in 2018 is he had a disastrous midterm election. I understand why his team in the white house is saying let vaes a unifying message here. Hes losing support within his own party. Hes losing support among his base. I dont think he has much of a choice than to try to strike a conciliatory tone. The question is are people going to believe it. The Associated Press said this is the president s moment to reset after two years a bitter divide. Can he actually do that . At this point, we know who he is. He doesnt want to have a reset. Right. No, i dont think its possible for him to have a reset for all the reasons that have been explained by everyone whos answered your questions before me. The president standing in the well of the house of representatives fits with what the president likes. The pomp, the circumstance, the admiration. The difference between this years state of the union and last years state of the union is that a majority of that chamber will be democrats. It is president , as weve seen on the campaign trail, as weve seen in his rallies as president , he loves applause. He will do anything to get that applause. Thats what im going to be looking for tonight. The other thing im going to be looking for is how will republicans bend over backwards to deliver the applause that the president desperately wants . How shameless are they going to look to try to prop up the president . And he can say all the nice words, you know, be make calls for compromise and everything, but we have all seep this movie before. He reads the teleprompter well. He might even adlib and say a few things that are incendiary. Within hours, he will tweet something, say something, do something that obliterates the mood and the tone he set in that speech. Congresswoman, i want to be the house optimist. Lets say he does attempt to reset. Lets say he opens his mind and opened his heart. Are you there with an open mind and an open heart . Knowing that theres a far left portion of your party whos not having it no matter what he says . You know, i think in our party we want to get stuff done for the American People. We are going to be there to legislate on things the people care about. We need him to sign that legislation. Whether were driving down Health Care Costs, whether were having good infrastructure projects, whether attacking the opoid epidemic, were focused on what the American People need. Were not in the game right now of dividing the country. We need to unite the country so we can get our agenda passed. Youve got pelosi sitting behind the president. The last time the two of them faced off, i mean, she crushed him. It was a meeting in the Oval Office Just before christmas. He led by saying nancys in a tough position. She doesnt have much to say here. In fact she didnt. I think youll see leader pelosi take a very stoic approach to tonight. She will probably not be standing up very often because i think she will disagree with the words that come out of the president s mouth. Jonathan made a good point. More democrats for the first time in that chamber than republicans. I think youll see a lot of people bending over backwards. Especially the conservative republicans who still stand with trump, bending over backward tossing drown out any sort of boos or lack of applause that come from the democrats. Are they bending over backwards for what trump has done or what Mitch Mcconnell has done right . The Mitch Mcconnell school of the Republican Party have gotten lots of things they want done. Theyre sticking tight on heres what you want to do in syria, i dont think so. Money for the wall, no. Do they stand with President Trump or, behind closed doors, do they stand with Mitch Mcconnells agenda . Several things have happened to sort of shift the tide on the republican side. Starting with midterm elections. Looking at 2020, a bunch of senators are up in states where they could face serious battles next year. Texas, florida, iowa, North Carolina and arizona. Mcsally will defend the john mccain seat she basically lost in election there a few months ago. This is really fascinating, pushing papush ing back on the emergency declaration. Pushing six republican senators out on the shutdown vote to side with democrats to show the president he was bleedi ining support from his own side. Over on the house side, theyre going to make sure they have a lot of applause for the president tonight because they need to show a lot of enthusiasm for the president. The democrats who are the colleagues of the congresswoman should be stoic like the speaker and keep themselves on the high road. I think a lot of anger at trump is suitable for twitter but not for the well of the house. On the night of the state of the union, he can come out and do whatever he wants but as liedeas in the majority, they should keep the decorum up and not shout out things that make fundraising commercials and appeals. Do you agree, congresswoman . Because a lot of people during the shutdown were mad at the president but they were mad at government at large. Thats exactly right. Thats why a lot of us are focused on what we can do to help the American People. People have a lack of faith in our government institutions. We just heard that from a lot of the speakers. I personally noted how many times people said congress wasnt working. We need to get back to work. So thats good legislation. Thats uniting the American People behind the idea as we all care about like lowering Health Care Costs, like infrastructure spending. These are Critical Issues and if we just have our partisan battles over shutting down the government, we are not going to move forward in the way thats going to help people in this country and were going to continue to face the battle of showing the American People that they can rely on us. Are democrats united . Because youve got Stacey Abrams giving the official response but youve also got Bernie Sanders in the mix. I can tell you in congress were fairly united because a lot of us who helped to win the majority in congress ran on issues like infrastructure. Ran on issues like getting Health Care Costs down. These are things were ready to move forward on right away and things were excited to get to work on. What do you want to hear from stacy abrams . I want her to deliver a message to the American People today that she was delivering to georgians during her Historic Campaign and that was one of making it clear where she as a democrat is separate from the president s agenda. And the party want to lead the country. The president is on the periphery. But theres big issues that the democrats want to tackle. As the congresswoman was talking about. Infrastructure, health care, the opoid crisis. You can go on down the list. Plenty of things to talk about wut g without getting into a knockdown dragout point by point with the president. One thing you can be sure of, the president is going to speak about tonight, the economy. Were going to break down some of the president s favorite economic exaggerations that you can expect to hear in money, power, politics. But do you take something for your brain. With an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in Clinical Trials to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. 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The most common side effects are swelling of the arms and legs and confusion. We spoke up and it made all the difference. Ask your parkinsons specialist about nuplazid. When President Trump takes the house podium for tonights state of the Union Address, it is likely he will take the opportunity to celebrate the economy. Frequently we hear from the president how this is the best economy ever. Talking about the lowest unemployment rates and how manufacturing is making a comeback in the u. S. , how the tax cut was the biggest ever, and resulted in higher paychecks for everyone. Of course he reminds us that he is negotiating trade deals around the world to benefit the united states. Some of that is true. Some of that is a flatout lie. Here with me, u. S. Editor of the financial times, my dear friend brendan greely. Lets start with the president calling this the best economy ever. We heard it in his preinterview at the super bowl, we heard it from sarah sanders. I think you could make the case. The things that matter the most to people are do they have a job. The unemployment is at 4 now. And wages are growing. The problem is but theyre growing at the same pace they were before the tax cut. They were growing when president obama was in office. Thats right, theyre actually growing a little faster than they were before. You and i have had this conversation, why are wages stuck at 2 growth. That was a while ago. So fun. Crazy tie times. The problem is we need to draw the distinction between cyclical and structural. We have wage growth. Structurally, that wage growth is not where it was in the last several cycles. Businesses and consumers get confidence together, then they lose confidence. It comes in, it goes out, its a tie. Wages are not growing the way they did in past expansions. Its better than it was before. We used to see 4. 2. These are numbers we saw in previous expansions. Thats a structural problem. Independent of the cycle. We havent fixed it. What policy has the president put in police that lace that is in having unemployment rates as low as they are . Unemployment has been ticking down since obama took office. Its been a steady move. We heard from President Trumps daughterinlaw a month ago. Everyone knows its President Trump who turned the economy around. He didnt turn the economy around. If anything, were on the same trajectory. Its hard to see where the trajectory changes in any of the data. I think a lot of us were surprised at the extension of the expansion. The tax cut was a kind of a stimulus. Its possible that jacked up our deficit. Did all sorts of bad things. But its possible to say this might have extended this expansion. But its also important, you know, again if were talking about unemployment, a really good measure of employment is workforce participation. If you take people in working ages, 16 to 54, and see whether or not they either have a job or are looking for a job, right. Again, that measure is up, but you cannot see where it changes where trump takes office. More crucially, its down over time. Its not as high as it was in the 90s and 80s. That has a lot to do with the structural problems. Something else you and i talked about, how difficult it is to hold a fulltime job and raise children at the same time. Women are not entering the workforce at the same rate as they did in the 80s and 90s. We dont have affordable child care. We spend a much smaller percentage of our gdp on child care than any other economy. There are no jobs that work with a school schedule. Cant even get into this. Ill pick up my tambourine, youre singing my hymn. Tell me how americans feel because the argument with the tax cut was people will be paying lower taxes and theyre going to have more money in their paychecks and theyre going to be feeling good. How is it actually translating . Because sort of the birth of that trump voter, was that american would said i got screwed in the subprime crisis. The banks got bailed out. Im still under water in my house. Iexecutives are doing much better. If you owned stocks during the obama administration, you were kicking it. For everyone else, they were left out in the cold. Being stos acks and a house. One thing we saw during the obama recovery was if you had a house or stocks, they both increased in value. Good news for people would had some wealth. Very few people own stocks outside of their 401k. So were talking about housing values increasing. You have to have owned a house to get benefit from that. Very few people actually own stocks. Wheres that trump base in this . When he touts the economy, what is his base saying because its his base that got him elected. I think we process the economy as voters in a very strict level. Everything we know about how people voted says did you get a wage increase in the six months before the election . Thats all that matters. If were seeing 3. 5 or even 4 wage growth a year from now, it might be a really interesting story. It will be great if we did. We need to get more money in their paychecks. Brandon greely, thanks. Check out his latest piece. Comparing the president to kelly slater. You got to read that. Up next, were hours away from the president s second state of the union. What he could say about isis and what did means for the military and our future in the middle east. Ohn deere 1 series tractor. Because changing your attachments, whether its for this job, this job or even this job, should be as easy as. What about this . Changing your plans. Nothing runs like a deere. Yeah. Run with us. Search john deere 1 series for more. Get your 1 series for just 99 a month at your john deere dealer. 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Some of which have lasted over 20 years now. However, we cant have a precipitous pullout of a place like syria. We have allies on the ground. We caught our nato allies by surprise with that tweet. Our nato allies should never be caught by surprise in our war zones. Weve been fighting side by side with the kurds. We owe to it them to make sure we have a stable exit. So i think this kind of immediate withdrawal notion displays a real lack of understanding of how we prosecute wars and what it will take to end the wars. Alice johnson will be with the president. She was granted clemency. When you were elected you said criminal Justice Reform was a big priority for you. Can you work with this white house on it . I am happy to work with anyone on criminal Justice Reform. I think thats how most of us feel. To give you an idea of the breadth of people working on this, the Koch Brothers and aclu are aligned on the first step act. I was happy to see it passed. As the name implies, its a first step in all the work we need to do in criminal Justice Reform. Who are you bringing tonight . Donna from my district from wayne, new jersey. She suffered a tragic loss when her 22yearold son died from an opioid overdose. What do you open you want her to participate. The president is going to talk about drug pricing. Do you see a path hes going to do something . Well, i think obviously when were talking drug pricing and we have to bring drug prices down, and then were talking the epidemic of opioid abuse across this country, its in the same area but slightly different, and i think what i am hoping is that we as a country come up with a plan to move forward on addressing the crisis that the nation is facing with the opioid epidemic. That is something that has bipartisan support and we need a longterm solution. There are certain states like vermont coming up with plans to address it. We also need to get drug pricing down. Thats something critical a lot of us ran on on this election cycle. Were looking for a path forward on that. Bipartisanship and a path forward is what you are looking for tonight. Youre trying to bring it to congress. Well leave it there. Well take a quick break. Coming up John Hickenlooper will be here on what he hopes the president says tonight, and im sure hell be asked will he be running for president himself. E. Jardiance asked when it comes to managing your type 2 diabetes, what matters to you . Lets see. Most of you say lower a1c. But only a few of you are thinking about your heart. Fact is, even though it helps to manage a1c, type 2 diabetes still increases your risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke. Jardiance is the first type 2 diabetes pill with a lifesaving cardiovascular benefit for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease, jardiance significantly reduces the risk of dying from a cardiovascular event and lowers a1c, with diet and exercise. 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Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you have any medical conditions. Isnt it time to rethink your type 2 diabetes medication . Ask your doctor about jardiance and get to the heart of what matters. You know how we end this show no matter what theres always good news somewhere and we think good news ruhles. In indiana tess is a bomb sniffing dog who served along an army veteran during his tour in iraq in 2013. Joseph loved tess so much he had her i. D. Number tattooed on her arm. They were separated when his time ended. They were apart for six years, at least until saturday. After he spent years trying to adopt the dog, the two were finally reunited over the weekend. I love that. Dog is a mans best friend. Tess and john together again. Coming up right now, more news with hallie jackson. Big day, state of the union. Huge day in washington. Thank you. I am hallie jaxen in washington. Today President Trump will walk into the chamber that may ultimately end up impeaching him. With the state of our union today divided. What the president will say tonight. What americans say about him. Why republicans are nervous about something the president could say and how what democrats say after his speech could matter or not. We break down what you should be watching and listening for. Subpoenas over the 2017 inauguration. What investigators want to know about who picked up the 107 million tab. In virginia both the states top leaders are under fire. What the governor is telling staffers about his potential resignation and accusations the man next in line is
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