No action. How will his message play, across america and inside the capital . I hear your voice, and i promise you, i will deliver. Now arrives the hour of action. Live, from the nations capital, a president ial address to congress. Now reporting, george stephanopoulos. Good evening from washington, where the president is about to enter the capitol, and address the congress. And look at the light, as the president reads his speech to his family. The president ready to go, hes been working on the speech all day. Weve been told hes been adding a lot as well. And there you see the speaker of the house, paul ryan, Vice President mike pence. Members of the Supreme Court. Justice anthony kennedy, and Melania Trump. Its been no honeymoon for the president the first 40 days. And democrats galvanized against him. Jon karl is in the hall. The republicans looking for some direction from the president. Theres no question about that, on one hand, theyre ener because the republicans for the first ti
Officially called the state of the union the first time around for a new president. Inside the house chamber, First Lady Melania Trump has just taken her seat, were told, along with ivanka trump and jared kushner. We want to show you this extraordinary picture recorded a little while ago, the president seen on camera practicing his speech or at least thats what he appears to be doing inside the beast, his president ial limo. A lot of buzz over what the president might say including from the president. We learned a potential nod, a compromise on immigration may be afoot. Chuck todd is here with our team. Chuck, this suddenly came up with Network Broadcasters today, maybe ill talk about the immigration bill. He talked about what he might do about socalled dreamers, kids brought here by their parents, not on their own. It felt almost offthecuff at one point. He said maybe the time is right, maybe theres a point where you could do a big immigration bill, as he called it. He used the word c
Homeland security, which is charged with carrying out the order, intelligence analysts are still split on the threat. Former and current government source say the dhss Intelligence Unit is so divided, some employees are considering asking for protection as whistleblowers or hiring lawyers. Thats because their conclusions do not match those of the white house. Last week, this internal dhs intelligence document was leaked to the media. It determined citizens of the seven banned countries were rarely implicated in u. S. Based terrorism. Even though the document was prepared by experienced intelligence officers, it was rejected by dhs leadership. And the white house pressed for a new assessment. Sources say the contributors do the original document refused to work on the final product, concerned that the process had been tainted by politics. Spokesperson told us that other federal Law Enforcement agencies did not agree with that leaked document. Scott, dhs officials believe the document la
Reporter House Speaker paul ryan insisted the holdouts will come around. There was also a lot of churning today over the president s proposal to cut foreign aid and move that money to defense. In a letter to congressional leaders, 120 retired military officers argued diplomatic dollars are critical to preventing conflict. Former air force general richard hally. The last thing we want to do is go into a place, break a bunch of glass and not have any clue how to put it back together. Reporter he found a powerful ally in mitch mcconnell. Do you think the senate could approve a budget that slashes state Department Funding by about a third . Probably not. I, for one, just speaking for myself, think the diplomatic portion of the federal budget is very important. And you get results a lot cheaper frequently than you do on the defense side. Reporter just yesterday, mcconnell said his agenda and the president s were exactly the same, but clearly they diverge on this, scott, and mcconnell told m
For a new president. Inside the house chamber, First Lady Melania Trump has just taken her seat, were told, along with ivanka trump and jared kushner. We want to show you this extraordinary picture recorded a little while ago, the president seen on camera practicing his speech or at least thats what he appears to be doing inside the beast, his president ial limo. A lot of buzz over what the president might say including from the president. We learned a potential nod, a compromise on immigration may be afoot. Chuck todd is here with our team. Chuck, this suddenly came up with Network Broadcasters today, maybe ill talk about the immigration bill. He talked about what he might do about socalled dreamers, kids brought here by their parents, not on their own. It felt almost offthecuff at one point. He said maybe the time is right, maybe theres a point where you could do a big immigration bill, as he called it. He used the word compromise. A big immigration bill. He said, maybe ill mention i