recess. it is primary day in five states. colorado, maryland and new york, oklahoma and utah vote. among the notable races, mitt romney is likely to win the seat along with mike kennedy. and in new york, michael grimm is fighting to get his old seat back after doing time in federal prison for tax evasion. oklahoma voters with a ballot measure to make their s the 13th state to legalize medical marijuana. there are runoffs in mississippi and south carolina. the president was in south carolina last night to back incumbent governor henry mcmaster. asian stocks falling after president trump s trade policy back fires on harley-davidson. the company shifting jobs overseas. those are retaliation for
incivility calling waters as a low iq person and tweeting be careful what you wish for, max. the president saying this last night in south carolina. they are good at one thing. what is the term? resist. it is the party of maxine waters, do you believe her? no, no. this has become the party of maxine waters and nancy pelosi. maxine waters is trying to clarify her original remarks. i believe in peaceful, very peaceful protests. i have not called for the harm of anybody. this president has lied again when he is saying that i called for harm to anyone. waters dialled back after criticism from democrats. nancy pelosi tweeting trump s daily lack of civility is provoking responses that are
for the $25 billion he wants for his southern border wall. so, look, it would be a mistake to hang too much importance on one speech, but the stakes are fairly high. you have a president with historically low approval ratings, the persistent cloud of the russia investigation hanging over this white house, so the president we re told is going to try to use this speech, the megaphone that is the state of the union address, to make an appeal that extends beyond his base of supporters, yasmin. maybe the bigger question, what is he going to say after the speech? or tweet after. or tweet, exactly. nbc s jeff bennett with us, thank you. also with us, victoria defrancesco from the university of texas. victoria, i m going to start with you. 48 million people watched obama s first state of the union. is trump going to seize on this opportunity to sort of appeal beyond his base or at least try to? i think so. i think we re going to see a very presidential trump, not the tweeting trump tha
tweeting trump because they show two different sides of him. the fact that this teleprompter trump speech was so bella kos, was so i m going to say i may way with rocketman and threats of destroying a country, with the use of the word sovereignty more than i think probably any world leader has said that word before the world nations. what does that mean to you? it means america first, america primary. that he understands the role of countries promote their national interests, not solely but primarily. and the notion of america as a sort of exporter of american values, as a champion of human rights around the world, that s just in regimes that we don t like but in regimes that we like but know can do better on human rights, it s a transactional universe that he lives? putin would love it.
will make his final decision with, quote, a big heart. that is not all donald trump s undoing from the obama era. the administration cutting obamacare s advertising budget by 90% or $100 million, democrats not happy. chuck schumer tweeting trump is deliberately sabotaging our healthcare system whenever the insureds drops, american people will know who to blame. dramatic video capturing the moment several florida officers on the scene of an accident are struck by a second crash. the driver going too fast, crashing, no one involved was seriously injured. another intense scene caught on camera security footage showing