Our goal is to provide a behind the scenes look at the state of the union, live coverage of the address, interviews with members of congress, political analysis, and most importantly, your reaction to the president s speech. First off, to help us with the next and bolts of tonights thath, we are pleased wilson bill livingood and donald a. Ritchie are here with us. If we could begin with the u. S. Constitution, this is article. Wo, Section Three of those the words from the constitution that bring us to this table tonight . Very short. The constitution was more like an outline for the government to fill in. It doesnt say what do you mean from time to time . , president have done Different Things with the state of the union. Seeing what would work and what fit them. Today, we think of it as a ritual. It is the same every time. It has changed very dramatically. George washington came and gave a message in person. When it got to Thomas Jefferson, he did not like being a public, so he sent a
And our nation. Well sure everett be safe and strong and proud and mighty and sri thank you and God Bless America goodnight thank. You. And if youre just joining us you are watching our lives special coverage of the first state of the Union Address by u. S. President donald trump he just completed that address going for about eighty minutes longer than most people were expecting and highlighting parts of his agenda that work spectate but also bringing to white items that i think a lot of people will agree which we will talk about this evening were not expected to be high on his agenda as you can see right there the u. S. President is now speaking with guests he had invited to be a part of the audience as well as of all makers as members of his cabinet so you were there. And. This will probably go down in history though as tyson barker hes here at the big table with me as weve been watching this this will go down in history as one of the longer state of the Union Speeches which is which
Meaning to the word cool this one of a kind shallow was in chanting audiences across italy and theyve got to catch a concert soon before it melts. Im serious almost on a thank you for joining us President Donald Trump has called on the country to unite behind him to create a new american moment during his first state of the Union Address trump also challenges lawmakers to support his plans for renewing the countrys aging infrastructure and to overcome the impasse on Immigration Reform here are some of the highlights. The president of the United States. Not surprisingly they gave the president a heros welcome the big question ahead of Donald Trumps first state of the. Union address with the leader of the free world adopt a more president ial term on twitter trump or teleprompter trump a lot of change he said over the last year but one refrain from his Election Campaign remained constant. A new tide of optimism was already sweeping across our land each day since we have gone forward with
It. If there is a challenge, we came tame it. If there is an opportunity we seize it. Lets begin by recognizing that the state of our union is strong, but our peopl because or treatment ar treatment are people are strong. Trish it was optimistic, and up lifting. It was a speech that wove in a lot of different stories about a lot of different people, helping to demonstrate the issues at han. The domecrats just wrapped up their rebuttal, their message, not so fast mr. President. We have more on that, but first we go to white house we have our 1own blake buhrmann standing by. It was a speech that was delivered in a way, it was compassion. And a languag a long speech,n hour and 20 minutes. There was a host of issues, that president wove through over the course of 80 minutes, leading into it two main policy topics to see where president would lay the marker down. That is dealing with infrastructure and immigration. President on immigration, talked about four main pillors he wants to see, a
The priorities President Trump laid out earlier. That is live at 8 00 a. M. On cspan2. Newsbobternoon, cbs schieffer joins a panel to break down the president s address. We looked at the history of the state of the union. President Donald Trumps first state of the Union Address will begin in about an hour. The democratic response will follow. President and mrs. Trump will depart. Cspan cameras will show you the departure. Tonight our goal is to provide a , behind the scenes look at the state of the union, live coverage of the address, interviews with members of congress, political analysis, and most importantly, your reaction to the president s speech. But first off, to help us with the nuts and bolts of tonights speech, we are pleased that wilson bill livingood and Longtime Senate historian donald a. Ritchie are here with us. Mr. Ritchie, if we could begin with the u. S. Constitution. This is article to, Section Three article two, Section Three. Of those the words from the constitutio