hours later, germany s foreign minister said of his country, a nato member, that if it increases its spending, it would turn germany into a military supremacy in europe and ten to 15 years from now, allies on the continent would not exactly be supportive of that spending. some democrats also reacting to the president s speech in particular when it comes to the trump administration s plan to cut foreign aid spending, this is from eight top democrat on the foreign affairs committee. america s role as a global leader in his plans to cut american diplomacy are downright dangerous. ultimately, i am more focused on the president s actions than his words, but if indeed he threatens america s standing in the world, congress must also act to keep him in check. the president says he s also willing to find new friends and partnerships around the world. in the past, that meant the administration the type of language they ve used to describe the potential partnership with russia, however the
successful president to get what they want to get done legislatively for their political futures. at the same time, i really put pressure on democrats to not be in the resistance. if they are in a swing district, now they have to deal with him. jon: chris wallace said after the speech last night, i m paraphrasing just a bit, he said, i believe president trump finally became the president of the united states last night. do you agree? yeah, i think he s made it much more difficult, not just for people on the left, but the remaining holdouts and the public and pendants to say this guy is not an authoritarian bent on destroying the country. they treat him like a normal president, and he was presidential last night. jon: let s talk about infrastructure. one of the things he hasn t said is that if he can grow the economy, if you can get gdp up a couple of points, you ll be able to pay for a lot of the tax cuts and other things that he is
reaction from the rest of the world. the president talking about foreign policy during his address, saying the u.s. is once again ready to lead. rich edson live at the state department with more on that. good afternoon. the president says the united states doesn t need to take more of a global leadership role, but he says the u.s. is going to have to do it with less spending on the u.s. state department and on foreign aid. he says the u.s. has spent way too much money rebutting other countries and we need to spend my money back here at home on u.s. infrastructure. he also reiterated the u.s. commitment to nato, the north atlantic treaty organization. but he says nato allies rely too much on the american military and need to increase their own spending. we expect our partners rather in nato, the middle east or the the pacific to take a direct and meaningful role in both strategic and military operations, and pay their fair share of the cost.
election day or since 20,000 until 21,000, apple, goldman sachs, boeing, broad range of industries there. talked about infrastructure spending, infrastructure stock purchase at a tear, look at dicom, u.s. concrete, talk about almost 20% today. also have defensive stocks climbing, no response, the promise to bump up defense spending. you might not have heard of a lot of those names, not like bowling or some other household lockheed martin type names you ve heard of, but still critical to our defense contracting in the nation and they are benefiting greatly. all-time highs logging today on the broad market on the dow in particular, you re looking they re coming up home depot, goldman sachs again, these companies really leading the way. back to you. melissa: rough like the expectation the economy is willey going to grow. thank you so much. jon: while this worker day on wall street shows investors like what president trump had to say, there has not been a lot of
snowfall out there. this winter, a lot of rain. that s catching us up for our rainfall totals. you re getting 8-10 feet and some of the higher elevations, and that has allowed us to really come back when you start to talk about drought monitors. this is taking you just back to december, obviously, huge areas of drought, now, as of right now, as of right this week, a lot of rain on the west coast. that s good news. it s causing a lot of problems out there as well, but we could be talk about flooding come this spring, but at least that drought is getting two of the better side. jon: adam, thank you. melissa: president trump s address to a joint session widely hails of a home run today. our next guest says that s good for all americans, with the exception of a few lawmakers. he joins us with his list of winners and losers from last night s speech, plus the pentagon s preliminary plan to speed up the fight against isis. at the top u.s. army commander