anytime there s a unilateral ban you re sending the wrong message to people being displaced by war. these battles are not always won and last on the battlefield. how would you advise the president of the united states? what would you tell him? we can win any battle on the ground. what s harder and more important is to win an ideological fight. my father is a war refugee. this country, america, is a beacon of light on a hilltop for a lot of people in the world. and when you talk about a travel ban, you re talking about children like that. those are the people who are being excluded from this country. we this country has not been attacked by people who have come over here 9/11, of course, but people who live in this country have not attacked us from other countries, right? you wrote in an article that says how donald trump could stop being a coward.
and prosperity we re seeing after we dug out of the worst economic downturn since the great depression. bill: chief washington correspondent james rosen live on the hill. james, how are you doing, good morning to you. good morning, bill. bill: they re promising something different. what does that look like? reporter: bill, good morning, aides to the president say there will be no laundry list of policy proposals this time around. instead mr. obama will use his seventh and final state of the union address to take stock of progress made in the obama era and also outline the challenges that the next president will inherit. one novel twist tonight in the first lady s box of seats shall remain empty, signifying victims of gun violence the white house says. other guests include syrian war refugee and illegal immigrant who joined military and went on to serve in afghanistan. for his part, paul ryan, governor of wisconsin invite
water is so bad. kids are complaining about their stomachs hurting and not being able to eat. he is one of a million children who are refugees from this war, and they are the majority of this war. in fact, the true face of the syrian war refugee is not only a child, it s a child under the age of 11. so what happens to them? because things are not they re going to get worse before they get better. well, it s a very difficult scenario because on top of everything else, david, they are traumatized. many of them are morning people who have been lost. their family members have been killed in the war. one little boy, 7 years old, talked to me about how the fighting is as close as i am to you, how he was crawling on his belly to escape the war, that he was scraping up his knees, that he had witnessed himself seeing his best friends cut down, sliced by. he said he described very descriptive words and words i probably shouldn t say op a broadcast. nevertheless, he experienced them at th
stomachs hurting and not being able to eat. he is one of a million children who are refugees from this war, and they are the majority of this war. in fact, the true face of the syrian war refugee is not only a child, it s a child under the age of 11. so what happens to them? because things are not they re going to get worse before they get better. well, it s a very difficult scenario because on top of everything else, david, they are traumatized. many of them are morning people who have been lost. their family members have been killed in the war. one little boy, 7 years old, talked to me about how the fighting is as close as i am to you, how he was crawling on his belly to escape the war, that he was scraping up his knees, that he had witnessed himself seeing his best friends cut down, sliced by. he said he described very descriptive words and words i probably shouldn t say op a broadcast. nevertheless, he experienced them at the age of 7, witnessing his friends killed in this
he is one of a million children who are refugees from this war, and they are the majority of this war. in fact, the true face of the syrian war refugee is not only a child, it s a child under the age of 11. so what happens to them? because things are not they re going to get worse before they get better. well, it s a very difficult scenario because on top of everything else, david, they are traumatized. many of them are mourning people who have been lost. their family members have been killed in the war. one little boy, 7 years old, talked to me about how the fighting is as close as i am to you, how he was crawling on his belly to escape the war, that he was scraping up his knees, that he had witnessed himself seeing his best friends cut down, sliced by. he said he described very descriptive words and words i probably shouldn t say on a broadcast. nevertheless, he experienced them at the age of 7, witnessing his friends killed in this way. the girls were outside playing house.