send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and we ll come to you 808 to 14000 welcome to inside politics. i m dana bash, a manhattan courtroom it s again, setting the agenda for the 2024 campaign, right now. or jury is deliberating, weighing, and measuring the facts presented by the prosecutors and whether they ve made a convincing singh enough case to convict donald trump. the 12 jurors spent the morning listening to a court reporter read pivotal excerpts from testimony of michael cohen when and former tabloid publisher david pecker, donald trump is inside the courthouse. he s not allowed to leave the building until there is a verdict or the jury breaks for the day. so what s going through his mind? well, you might call it the freddie mercury strategy. he s convinced that nothing really matters and he actually believes that he will likely be found guilty. now, this is all reporting from our very own, kristen holmes, who starts us off outside the c
president in modern times that s lower coming into this point for state of the union was ronald reagan in 1983 and that s the big hope for trump. regan became a two-term president. if he could find something to galvanize the country, regan brought in veterans and the economy got an uptick and regan pulled himself out of that. trump is stuck at that 40% mark. regan said he needed to be about 50% to govern well. got it. susan, to you now. this is what a white house official is telling cnn the speech is bipartisan in tone. is that a reflection of the fact the president is going into this state of the union politically wounded? undoubtedly it is and frankly, that would have been the normal response to almost any president when faced with the rebuke of the midterm elections and losing one of the two houses of congress. you would have expected him to have already made this bipartisan play sometime ago but
much border wall down there, he should claim it and move on to another issue at this point. i ve been saying that. i m saying it s his and getting it done even though other administrations had already done it. correct me if i m wrong, he s always been i want to move to susan. his poll numbers and approval rating has always been under water. he s never been above 50% of the country, right? right now, don, the only president in modern times that s lower coming into this point for state of the union was ronald reagan in 1983 and that s the big hope for trump. regan became a two-term president. if he could find something to galvanize the country, regan brought in veterans and the economy got an uptick and regan pulled himself out of that. trump is stuck at that 40% mark. regan said he needed to be about 50% to govern well. got it. susan, to you now. this is what a white house official is telling cnn the speech is bipartisan in tone. is that a reflection of the fact