advisors. steve: what grade would you give last knight s speech. i thought it was an a a home run for president trump and he needed this kind of speech last night. steve: and marie. i would agree. i think we are grading president trump on a big curve here. he managed to. steve: you just gave mitchell an a. hello. i m giving mitchell a president trump a. and by that i mean he managed to stay on the teleprompter. he didn t manage to insult anyone or any large sweat of the american people and, look. steve: marie, i think your former boss had a teleprompter or two, too. he should take an a from marie. steve: we brought the two sides together. all right. donald trump had a good night. we will see if we are in trump 2.0 or not. all i heard was a. steve: we all heard that all right marie and lisa thank you very much. what did you think about that? email us at friends@foxnews.com. what happens when fox & friends goes into oval office
least unprecedented unorthodox. what was he going to deliver? actually mike allen s daily reader that comes out. his top ten points says that ivanka and steven miller worked on this along with the president to get out this messaging. steve, you brought this up the first hour, talking about telling a story, relatively complicated story but true, in nine years it s going to be 250th birth day of the declaration of independence which gave birth to this idea of america. so then you are talking about a guy with perspective, with vision, and with an agenda. and if you have if you are a if you are donald trump today and you flip around and you find people who want to rip this speech, they are un they are impossible to impress and they are not being logical in their analysis. because this is by the way i said it s douglass brinkley not david brinkley. eench historians. ainsley: whoever wrote it was wonderful. a plus for this speech.
you know, spend the money on automation, which is technology. are these coal mining jobs coming back, are these manufacturing jobs coming back or have they already gone the way of automation and there s turning back now? there s some level of both. also, you have business people now in the cabinet. one of the things the market likes so much is saying, well president trump s speech last night basically said, i ve got these ideas. re going to let these guys do the work. the people around them are extraordinary business people with business pragmatism and principles. that doesn t mean they can get anything done in washington. washington is where big ideas go to die. this infrastructure plan, tax policy plan, they re great ideas, we ve yet to see them executed. we ll see if this only helps the rich. so far it s looking that way. stephanie ruhle, thank you so much. president trump also talked about the border last night. so, what do those who live on the border think? we ll go ther
and this speech will be forgotten in a day or two, and where s the action? where s the actual doing things to helping working people? i think last night s speech was an important step to accomplishing the critical goal of finally, finally, finally repealing obamacare. it gives me great confidence that we re now going to be able to move this country forward. hopefully in a bipartisan way. republicans and democrats taking to television today trying to spin last night s presidential address. republicans looking at it as the starting point for health care reform and infrastructure deal thinking perhaps now they have a president who they can work with and finally get things done in washington. democrats not ready to get on board yet, they re saying they wonder how long the trump that showed up last night will stick around. and if he does, will democrats have to reign in some of their
by bees. that s the sound of the drove. did president trump s message about drugs hit home with workers in the rust belt? we go to kevin tibbles in ohio. he watched trump s speech last night with supporters. reporter: we re coming to you from janelle s diner in pemberville, ohio. we watched the speech at the century old opera house with a number of people we followed throughout the campaign and post-campaign. they voted for donald trump not because they re dyed in the wool republicans but they wanted change. one thing they noticed last night, they still believe this is a divided country and they don t like it one bit. are we a country divided? yes, we are. is that disturbing? it s terrible. it s terrible. the thing is, this guy is doing what he said he was going to do. he s doing things that the