President trump will enter and deliver his first state of the Union Address for joint session of congress. This is a moment of history and high drama here in washington, an embattled president under investigation, a congress mired in partisan conflict, a government that Many Americans believe is kregsincreasingly un to function for the common good. Donald trump has been in office for one year and ten days, and given the controversy his presidency has taken so far, there is high interest in what he has to say tonight on the economy, on immigration, on north korea and so many other issues. Here with me tonight are my nbc news colleagues, savannah guthrie, chuck todd, dreandrea mitchell, megyn kelly and tom brokaw. Savannah, a year ago it was a new administration addressing congress. There was so much looking president ial. That was a year ago. What are we looking at tonight . Now we have a year to talk about and what a year its been. It was substantively consequential, big ticket items b
Collusion. Rocket man. We are building a wall. Very fine people. On both sides. Hes fired. Hes fired. Announcer now, tonight, what will his message be to a divided congress and polarized america . Finally, we are putting america first. Announcer live from the nations capital, the state of the Union Address and the democratic response. Now reporting, george stephanopoulos. Announcer good evening, and welcome to abcs live coverage of President Trumps first state of the union. What a year it has been. Its been a year of conflict and controversy. Both for President Trump and the country he now leads. Its been exciting and exhausting, unusual in so many ways. With a president unlike any weve seen before. Tonight, a turn to tradition. Trumps chance to put his stamp on the year past and set the agenda for the year ahead in this most formal setting. And that was the moment, just moments ago when the first lady, melania trump, came in, as has become the tradition. Shell be surrounded by the pre
Amateur athletic governing bodies to report sexual abuse allegations to law enforcement. Another bill dealing with Small Business access to capital after natural disasters. Of course tomorrow, state of the Union Address with live coverage here on cspan. The house live at 5 00. Here on cspan when they gavel back in until then, the News Conference today, the briefing from the white house, including a number of questions about the state of the union. Ms. Sanders good afternoon. Over the weekend, the white house released a framework for responsible Immigration Reform that will protect our people, put the interests of American Workers first, and provide a permanent solution to daca. Our framework includes four pillars, border security, daca legalization, ending chain migration and eliminating the visa lottery moving us toward a meritbased system of immigration. We look forward to working with congress to pass and sign legislation that addresses each of these four pillars. Looking ahead to t
The National Security team in washington. How big news is this . Leave in expected to early march or midmarch when he became eligible for pension. This is a surprise. It is earlier than expected. Ofhas been a longtime target not just the president but republicans for his past role in the overseeing of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and for donations his wife got from virginia democrats when she was running for virginia legislative seat in 2015. Shery what is the president saying about this resignation . Far he declined to take a shot at questions when the news was breaking. We will be looking at the White House Press briefing. We are also chasing sources of the fbi to get them to make an official comment. It sounds like he has decided to step down from the post but is not actually leaving the bureau until he becomes eligible for pension in march. David this is news. Willnt know right now, this affect the investigation into russia tampering with the election . Reporter the spec
Will confirm the economy is growing up at a nice clip. When interest race back up it is reflection underlying economy. Well look at the pros and cons in the next couple hours. Well take a look at some data that supports stocks continuing to run up. As i just said, investors seeking out safe alternative like bonds. Whether this is the day to do that, hard to say. This much is not. Enough to weigh on stocks. A backup in rates enough to say for a lot of folks to say, maybe, maybe, we should step back a little bit from this party. But every time they have done that, they have regretted doing so, because people pounce right back in. Record number of individuals pouring money into this market. Better than 32 billion solely into equity fund. If you want to include etfs and the like, that much is north of 60 billion. Obviously individuals are coming in. There is contrarian argument, when individual come into the market they miss the party. That is not always true by the way. A lot of individua