president on the charge of abuse of power. [applause] chief being ]layed ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [laughter] [applause] cheering] president trump: thank you, very much. .hank you [laughter] [applause] thank you very much, everybody. wow. we have all been through a lot together, and we probably deserve that hand for all of us, because it has been a very unfair situation. i invited some of our very good friends, and we have limited room, but everybody wanted to come. we kept it down to a minimum, and believe it or not, this is a minimum. but a tremendous thing was done over the last number of months, but if you go back to it really come over the last number of years. we had the witchhunt. it started from the day we came down the elevator, myself and our future first lady who is with us right now. [applause] and it never really stopped. we have been going through this now for over three years. it was people. it was corrupt. it was dirt
screen throughout next couple hours. the dow, boy, soon we could be talking about dow 30,000, right? we re at 29,300, up another 25 points. save that for a moment. blake burman is is live at the white house. this is the situation, blake, saying what type of remarks might we hear from president trump? we got a little bit after preview at the prayer breakfast. reporter: we got a preview at the president gave a speech at the national prayer breakfast in washington, d.c. this morning. normally non-partisan event. democrats, republicans show up. annual event. he did not hold back. at very beginning president walked in held up a couple of newspapers right off the bat, celebrating headlines of his acquittal yesterday from the senate on two impeachment charges brought over by the house. then after that, without naming nancy pelosi and mitt romney specifically it was very clear though that he leveled this blunt criticism at those two. listen here. i don t like people who use their f
About just how horribly he was treated, and that maybe people should pay for that. Melissa with the president do to speak any moment now after this historic vote, we want to bring in fox news chief political anchor bret baier, also anchor an executive anchor of special report. It has been fiery so far this morning. Speaker pelosi giving it right back a short time ago, saying, you are impeached forever. He will never get rid of that scar no matter what headlines you carry around. Bret, what do you thinks response is going to be here . [laughs] well, i tell you, melissa, itll be interesting to see. Because National Prayer breakfast breakfast, we didnt expect a lot of fireworks. But as he was kind of dismounting that speech, he did have a pointed comment. Not only aimed at pelosi but also senator mitt romney. Also at the beginning holding up that acquitted headline in the washington post. He is impeached forever, but he is also acquitted forever. He will probably make that point time and
Fortitude and strength to do what everyone knows was right. I dont like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor do i like people who say i pray for you when they know that thats not so. Speaker pelosi responding today with an attack against mr. Trumps state of the union speech for false statements in which she viewed as political stunts. A president using the congress of the United States as a backdrop for a reality show. The whole state of the union was beneath the dignity of the white house. I have tried to be gracious with him. Im always dignified. I thought that was a very dignified act compared to that. But we will not allow any president to use that capital, that chamber of the house of representatives, the peoples house, as a backdrop for him. Not all president s have guests, constant guests, that was not a state of the union. That was a state his state of mind. When the president commands the microphone at the white house momentarily,