abby: that was from just this past wednesday with prime minister shinzo abe. some words there about north korea. now did they respond. responded well. republicans a plus, independence a b and democrats even gave it a c. they like the president being tough on national security and tough on north korea. he is going to have conversations but is he going to walk away if it s not in our best interest. people buy that about him. i will tell you something if the democrats continue to obstruct on pompeo, it s not going to play out well for them. ed: for the republicans to give him on c on anything shows he is doing well. there you go. ed: jim comey out there on the book tour. let s play a clip on him. is donald trump unfit to be president? yes. but not in the way that i often hear people talk about it. i don t buy this stuff about people saying incompetent or early stages of dementia. strikes me above average intelligence. i don t think is he medically unfit to be
negative because it s you have the whole country watching. the highest rated political event of the year. and so and then you saw that in the audience last night. you also saw by the way that independents and republicans loved the speech. steve: yep. democrats generally didn t like the speech. that s because y all did the other morning this thing where you interviewed the students about how they thought about the speech the night before. brian: before it happened. before it happened. they knew what they were supposed to say. i hated the speech. he was really terrible. ainsley: what does the president need to do going forward. we have seen the polls. some democrats were giving it a c. some of the points at least a c. normally give it an f what does he need to do going forward? i think the most important thing he could do is stay on message, at least through the sunday talk shows, avoid all the temptation to go off and tweet about something irrelevant. avoid all the effort by the
responding. i also think he understands, and this is something reagan came to understand, last night was a home run. you don t need to go out and also sell popcorn and also go down and sell beer. you need to be the star. i think he has got to do some media. i think he is going to be down at the green briar, for example, talking to the congressional republicans in their retreat. steve: tomorrow. i think he has got to drive these themes. but i think he ought to stay presidential. he was very good in ada votes being president of the united states. steve: very good. he was very good last night being president of the united states. he doesn t need to revert to being candidate trump. steve: does that suggest to you in the first year he has learned obviously there is a lot of on-the-job training but he has grown as a president? yeah. i think he said this to the news media sometime yesterday when he said, you know, i have had to learn that a lot of the things do you as a businessman ar
congress, he looked at the lawmakers and said if you are going to spend our tax dollars, make sure you are giving it to countries that support america. put america first. he really is winning. if you look at the tax reform, if you look at the memo being released where people who are doing wrong things, it s going to be revealed and he is shedding light on that. if you look at the democrats being defeated when the government shut down because he didn t want to give them what they wanted with daca. i mean, it s truly a different g.o.p. brian: right. if the president in year two can moderate his tone a little bit he will go a long way to maybe forcing the democrats to get involved. because, last night, the ones that did show and about 12 didn t, the minute it ended, they headed for the exits. but the series of things that they did not stand for are staggering from veterans healthcare to the stock market success, to infrastructure, to the deal for dreamers, to low african-american unemploy
great. i thought the speech was fantastic. the energy and enthusiasm on our side to hear that message from the podium was raucous. it was disappointing, sad, this is all democrats have. they are going to sit down at some great american moment as the president was calling out some wonderful people, there they sit, just in protest, that s how lame their party has become. steve: sean, when you were a congressman under barack obama there were times you didn t stand. i didn t sit the whole speech. there are things that barack obama would say that i would agree with and i could applaud for that right? not everything. but democrats there is a whole section they just go we are going to sit down. we brought all our kids out to the inauguration for barack obama because it s an american moment. i think that s what ricky really did here. is he reminded everybody this isn t about republican. this isn t about, you know, democrat. the state of the union is about the union. ainsley: you talk about