is he eating? is she sleeping? well, you know, it s been very tough for her. you know, especially these last three hearings. it s been, you know, everything against her. so, you know, with literally her life hanging in the balance of what the decision is in the courtroom, it s very tough to sleep. she has been thinning down a bit too. were you, kurt, in court today when that lawyer called your daughter a sex-loving she-devil? yeah. you know, it was this particular lawyer, you know, even during the first trial essentially did the same thing. it was extraordinarily hard to listen to. it was even harder for amanda because, you know, she hears it all in italian and can understand it where i can only understand bits and pieces of it. i can see her wincing periodically. it was very tough for her. what i find very hard to believe is how this person can start calling her that when he s never even talked to her, never met her, and never really knows who she really is. that s t
these because the media tends to count the number of times they get applause. and compare that to past presidents. and the speeches are usually fairly undisciplined. but i think that tucson speech was a real model for him, particularly that personal tone and talking about individual people and getting back to the jobs scene. he should talk about people who have lost their jobs and personalize that more. those are the kind of things he did in tucson that he should do again. all right. craig crawford, columnist with cqpolitics.com. thank you so much. good to be here. you can see the president s state of the union address live right here on cnn, 9:00 p.m. eastern tuesday. and be sure to stick around for complete analysis after the speech from the best political team on television.
remains a very volatile situation that threatens to even further deepen the ethnic divisions that exist here. if parliament is not inaugurated tomorrow, that risks the done descending into chaos. if it is inaugurated tomorrow as the current representation stands, the risk is that the pashtun population could feel increasingly disenfranchised, alienated and possibly turn towards the taliban. arwa damon for us. thank you. it s possibly the most watched speech a president will ever give. of course i m talking about the state of the union. president obama gives his on tuesday. he ll lay out his agenda for the year, but it s a very different political landscape from a year ago. joining me now from washington to talk about the stakes for this speech is columnist with cq politics.com. good to see you. good morning, randi. good morning to you. first of all, what s different about this landscape. set the picture for us and why this is such an important speech at this time.
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