Chief White House Correspondent john roberts to set the stage for us from the north lawn. Good evening, john. Bret, good evening to you and to you as well, martha. I think its safe to say that the president s first year in office was tough partisan issues like obamacare and tax reform that he needed to get his own party on board to pass as you saw didnt get very far with Obamacare Repeal and replace. Year two of the trumps presidency were told by the white to issues that he thinks he can get bipartisan support on. Throw down the gauntlet to democrats to Work Together with him for the good of the country. First and foremost among those issues will be infrastructure, the president thinks there is a Good Opportunity to have democrats work with him on that. He also wants to get a deal on daca, his sort of a starting point for broader Immigration Reform. No question thats going to be a tougher lift than infrastructure. As for the democrats, no sign at this point that the leadership is willi
Chief White House Correspondent john roberts to set the stage for us from the north lawn. Good evening, john. Bret, good evening to you and to you as well, martha. I think its safe to say that the president s first year in office was tough partisan issues like obamacare and tax reform that he needed to get his own party on board to pass as you saw didnt get very far with Obamacare Repeal and replace. Year two of the trumps presidency were told by the white to issues that he thinks he can get bipartisan support on. Throw down the gauntlet to democrats to Work Together with him for the good of the country. First and foremost among those issues will be infrastructure, the president thinks there is a Good Opportunity to have democrats work with him on that. He also wants to get a deal on daca, his sort of a starting point for broader Immigration Reform. No question thats going to be a tougher lift than infrastructure. As for the democrats, no sign at this point that the leadership is willi
Wish they could give which is we are doing well. Im looking forward to hearing what he is going to be talking about doing this year. Born in the u. S. A. I was born in the u. S. A. I was born in the u. S. A. Steve live from 101 constitution overlooking the u. S. Capitol. This is fox friends live from the maul for the state of the union happens tonight 9 00 p. M. Welcome, folks, to washington, d. C. Where it is 38 degrees and snowing. Brian right. And we are on the roof. We were here first. Anyone who wants to come up and take the roof over, we called it will. Steve martha was here last night. Brian she is part of our team. Im talking about other news organizations. Steve while you are looking at us, while we are cold, some member of the crew actually came up with the idea they have installed heating pads on our chairs. Ainsley they love us so much. Thank you all. Thank you all. It is great to be back in d. C. We spent a lot of time here during the election. Now we are back for the pres
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The democrats are already shooting down. Good evening to you. Votes are set for thursday in the senate, one proposal from President Trump, the other on a plan in the democrats favor, the bottom line, the Senate Majority leader is selling the president s plan. To reject the proposal, democrats would have to prioritize political combat with the president ahead of federal workers. Ahead of daca recipients, ahead of Border Security, and ahead of stable and predictable government funding. But mom cant only had seven democrats to vote yes for the 60vote threshold. And the Senate Democratic leader says that his side was not consulted. Let me say that again, there were no serious negotiations with Democratic Leaders or any democrat to produce the proposal. The president did not ask what democrats needed in the bill to achieve our support. He simply laid his proposal down on the table and proclaimed it a compromise. To speak of the plan offered byy the president includes 5. 7 billion for constr