Blackwell of policylink and Michael Tanner of the cato institute. Ifill here with us now, as they will be throughout the evening, our own shields and brooks. Syndicated columnist mark shields and New York Times columnist david brooks. 7 so, gentlemen, put on your prognostication hats. What do you expect tonight . It wont be f. D. R. s new deal. Were not looking at the 100 days here. Were looking at modesty, theme of opportunity, discussion of the executive order. Immigration will be bigger, probably a few threats on the debt ceiling somake sure congress doesnt put us in default, but not look at a gigantic agenda. Im most interested in the tone. I think the president a nation that is severely pessimistic, has been now in the wrong direction rather than on the right track for 10 years now. The sense of pesmism is pervasive, and i want to see if the president can connect with people beyond the room tonight. Woodruff is there a defensiveness already setting in with this state of the union
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I think it is our job as government to minimize that possibility and to bring out into some light was going on. If senator booker doesnt know that this is happening to him, he does now. And he doesnt like it. Nailed mccaskill really something that could not be responded to. So we will continue on this track. I think it is serious and i think that it is the dark underside of American Life in which people make a lot of money and cause a lot of people to thereforen more and have even lower selfesteem, which is not the america we want. This hearing is adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] on the next washington journal, the likelihood of places life afghanistan, syria, and iran becoming military hotspots in 2014. After that, Richard Norton smith talks about president obama second term in office and how other second term president s fared in the past. We will also look at your comments. Washington journal
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