right here on the fox news channel. you can be sure the president will certainly talk about the historic success that he has had over the last two years. and the economy is on fire. and that is a direct result from this president getting rid of regulations, pushing through the tax cut legislation, wages are up. unemployment is down. you are going to continue to sight president push for policies that help continue the economic boom. you are also going to seat president call on congress and say, look, we can either work together and get great things done or we can fight each other and get nothing done. steve: in other words, are you going to help or do i have to do this by myself? ever since 1982, and if you are old enough you remember that terrible crash in washington, d.c. when the air florida plane crashed on the 14th street bridge. a guy who worked for the congressional budget office, lenny shut neck was watching from the bank and saw a
autocrat. that is the behavior if you saw it in the third world country, you would say that s the guy who runs the giunta, runs the dictatorship, who is instituting martial law. that s what we re seeing and itwhy it s so disturbing. many are saying if we see the collapse of democracy over time and the rise of autocrats in america, it won t be by somebody bringing tanks across the 14th street bridge, it won t be by junta seizing television stations, it will be by the continue erosion of madisonian
union. presidents washington and john adams went to congress to do this, but jefferson to his great credit, said, a, i don t like the sound of my own that and th narc can i cal for the president to stand in front of and lecture the legislature. he sent his thoughts in writing. all subsequent presidents did that until woodrow wilson. the loot of so much mischief. mr. wilson who obviously thought it impossible that the country could hear too much from him and who obviously wanted the presidency to be as powerful as possible began the process of giving it in person after his stroke, he didn t. harding the next president came along and did the same. that s fine. and we all understand that ronald reagan by taking lenny skutnik who obviously had been heroic after a plane crashed into the 14th street bridge, put him in the gallery and we gan to get the spectacle we now have.
reporter: very much so. people are staying off the roads. if you will just take the camera and look ahead here we will give you some sense of what s going on. this is 4:30 eastern time. normally in the district of columbia rush hour would just be beginning and you would see a lot of traffic on this 14th street bridge going back and forth. of course we are not seeing that today. the government s closed the schools are closed and you know unlike kentucky where you have seen a lot of people trapped in their cars we haven t had that here in the washington, d.c. area but what we have had is a lot of cars trapped and in bad situations rollovers, that kind of thing. the real problem is you get cars stuck on the road because of the road conditions. this all started something like 24 hours ago when rain began in the district of columbia. it rained all night long making it impossible for crews to put down salt to put down sand and treat the roads before the snow
protesters who had cardboard coffins stopped chanting. in washington, d.c., protesters flooding the streets, flooking the busy 14th street bridge. in boston, the annual downtown christmas tree lighting turned into a protest. black lives matter! hands up, don t shoot. reporter: while in chicago, they swarmed lake shore drive. eric garner s daughter says she appreciates the multiracial support. this is not a black and whitish sh white issue. this is a national crisis. reporter: demonstrators say they will continue to march for justice. wolf? jason, we ll stay in close touch with you and see what happens on the streets of new york city. we re also watching the protests here in washington, d.c. let s check in with cnn s athena