and let s get a deeper analysis now of this speech we are joined here in the studio by tori intel sake she s with the brookings institute a washington nonpartisan think tank she is a specialist on u.s. foreign policy welcome to the program. you know this this president he build this speech as one that would unify the country of course we have you know divisive politics as recently especially given the government shutdown in washington and how did you see it. well let s remember state of the union addresses are meant to do two things one to bring unity to a country and second to outline the primary policy proposals put forward by the president however we have to remember the context that the speech was given this is at the end of a unprecedented thirty five day long government shutdown and it was given by an incredibly divisive president who is constantly calling out democrats for being a disservice to the country and who just hours before the speech braided democratic