Thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you for the inspiring version of the national anthem. Thank you to my wife and my entire family and in particular to my motherinlaw. The original treaty kindle. She tells me her first 100 years in washington have been pretty great. [applause] i would like to welcome our new legislators in our ranks. May you all do good work here. President , mr. Speaker, madame chief justice, distinguished justices of the court. Numbers of the legislature. State and local government officials. Members of the council accord. And most importantly, my fellow washingtonians. I am honored to stand before you once again to report on the state of washington. Because of the work we have done years,r in the past five our state has made crucial investments in our schools and colleges. In our highways and transit systems. In our health care system. The minimum wage was raised for washington hard workers and last year we passed the best paid Family Leave Program in the United State
Oh, well, then i am preaching to the choir. I was going to tell you, i was looking at the Pulitzer Prize winners announced and there are five books nominated or that won Pulitzer Prizes. I was talking to frank reese, our partner in this, and i understand you know frank, we only have three of those five to show. And one of those was poetry and we dont do a whole lot of poetry. I told him we better do better this next year and get all five. Chris whipple is no stranger to awards. He is a filmmaker, writer, journalist. He started his career in washington d. C. With richard hol brook at Foreign Policy magazine. A correspondent for life magazine and the thing i am very envious of is 20 years at 60 minutes and at abc news and won multiple emmy and pea body awards. He won a columbia du pont journalism award. He is the executive producer of programs like spy faster, the cia, and the cross hairs. And the the gatekeepers how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency which lefthand
Oh, well, then i am preaching to the choir. I was going to tell you, i was looking at the Pulitzer Prize winners announced and there are five books nominated or that won Pulitzer Prizes. I was talking to frank reese, our partner in this, and i understand you know frank, we only have three of those five to show. And one of those was poetry and we dont do a whole lot of poetry. I told him we better do better this next year and get all five. Chris whipple is no stranger to awards. He is a filmmaker, writer, journalist. He started his career in washington d. C. With richard hol brook at Foreign Policy magazine. A correspondent for life magazine and the thing i am very envious of is 20 years at 60 minutes and at abc news and won multiple emmy and pea body awards. He won a columbia du pont journalism award. He is the executive producer of programs like spy faster, the cia, and the cross hairs. And the the gatekeepers how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency which lefthand
Here before . I am preaching to the choir. I was going to tell you i was looking, the Pulitzer Prize winners were recently announced. There were five books nominated for a pulitzer or won Pulitzer Prizes. I was talking to frank reese, our partner in this and i said i dont know. We must be slipping. We only have three of those five to show and one of those was poetry and we dont do a lot of poetry. I told him we better do well this next year and get all five. Chris whipple is no stranger to awards. Hes a filmmaker, writer, journalist, he started his career in washington dc with richard holbrook, Foreign Policy magazine. He was a correspondent for life magazine. I am very envious. He spent 20 years at 60 minutes, he was that abc news, won multiple emmy awards and peabodys, an investigative journalist, the journalism award, he is executive producer of programs like spymaster, cia and crosshairs and the gatekeepers how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency which led to th
Ayes have it. We remain adjourned until 10 00 tomorrow. Announcer with the house in recess we are waiting the democratic response from the Democratic Party. The designated survivor went to an undisclosed location. Justices thomas, alito and , the be a secretary in washington earlier today. We open our phone lines in just a moment to get your reaction to the president s speech which ran just over an hour. In comparison, resident reagans speech in 81 ran about 30 minutes. Ran 42 minutes. Bill clinton tying President Trump for just about an hour. Peter . Peter in just a few minutes, we are going to hear from former Kentucky Governor steve bashir with democratic response in louisville. Cheers and jeers as former Kentucky Governor steve bashir prepares to take the national stage. At the capital, is National Exposure is seen as an opportunity to spot like kentucky or as an embarrassing reminder of what is wrong in the state. I am really excited and proud and all kentuckians ought to be proud