Speaker hatfield, majority leaders, thank you. Members of my cabinet, members of the bench, and all of those who serve our state, thank you. I must say everyone is looking fantastic tonight. [ applause ] but this year i want to get one thing straight. This is not the red carpet, so please, i urge you, focus on the substance of my speech. Its about issues, not appearances. [ applause ] i mean, i dont care how distracting the senators outfit is. Cut him a break. Thank you. For your sense of humor. Tonight, i have the honor of both speaking on behalf of the people of michigan and directly to the people of michigan. So whether youre watching from home or you are in this room, welcome. I am glad that you are here. Im especially pleased that my family is here, mark and sherry and sydney. I couldnt do any of this without them. And i also want to acknowledge the dedicated Michigan Army and National Air Guard members who are serving overseas. [ applause ] as they represent our state and defend
Decemb december k putting together two companies that in terms of programming are similar. Its not like were going from one network that does reality or that type of programming to sports or lots of scripted work or whatnot this is putting those two things together the question is are you better off putting those two together or in this new age of media trying to go into scripted gore into a premium thing scripted. Scripted. But this has been bandied about. For a long time they were two sort of theyre not like outliers that deserve to get together. If it was going to happen, would put these together for scale thats where the synergistic value is some analysts would question this how much more power does a discovery scripps together have in terms of carriage agreement Going Forward . How much value proposition, if you want this channel you have to take this channel that was more scripps problem than a discovery problem zaslav yesterday admitted we are managing through the new times, dau
Unquote, full faith in u. S. Intelligence agencies, that is certainly at odds with the remark he just made which came out at a Cabinet Meeting later in the morning. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. Is russia still targeting the u. S. , mr. President . Thank you very much. Lets go. Make your way out. Lets go. This as the urgency grows to know what exactly President Trump said to russian leader Vladimir Putin on monday during their First Standalone summit. Russias government speaks of military agreements being made, but thus far out of the white house on that one, and others crickets. What will we learn at the briefing . Stand by for that. Also, President Trump failed to mention any agreements during the Cabinet Meeting, only good things about his relationship with putin. Were doing very, very well. Were doing well, probably as well as anybodys ever done with russia. Theres been no president ever as tough as i have been on russia. All you have to do is look at the numbers, look at