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President s state of the union lowest rated ones we have seen in the past 20 years. is it still must see television? absolutely. even if we have a sense already of what the speech is going to conta contain, we have a sense of what the look and feel of the events is going to be, because they tend to be pretty similar year to year, it s always important to spend sometime at the beginning of a year listening to the president of the united states, whether you support him or not. outline his priorities for the coming year. this is the one moment really when the congress absent some kind of crisis or dramatic event, when the full congress will assemble and the american people tune in to this degree. even if the numbers sliding over the decades, there s still a lot of people watching and listening to hear what the president s agenda is going to be. michael, help us a little bit with the i guess state of the union 101. do you start with no matter what you do, don t do blank? no matter wh ....
Be a laundry list and then it always is. that s the advice from everyone. and then the end of the process because there s a lot of cooks and ground to cover, it ends up pretty similar in form every time. this is a speech that gets a lot of attention from the president and his senior staff, from several weeks now leading up to this speech but there s really not much evidence that it has large and lasting effect on public opinion. bill clinton was the master of these speeches as jeff knows and 98 speech did make a difference, but that was a real exception. for the most part, there s not much influence from the speeches. so the number that we have here from the quinnipiac poll, 53% now don t believe that the president s government is or is running a competent government. what i heard from michael, jeff, a speech like this doesn t turn anything around like that. if there s a rise or a fall, ....
Over the several years, it s only been maybe a 2% increase in approval ratings one way or 2% drop the other way. so, i guess what can you really expect to turn around in a speech? should that be your expectation going in and starting to write a speech is to shift public opinion? look. these guys have been around a while, this president has been in office a while and the polling data goes back decades as michael indicated. i don t think anybody in the white house expects that you give this speech and suddenly, magically your approval ratings rebound by 10 or 15 points and sustain that indefinitely. i think there s a sense of realism in the white house of what the speech is, can achieve and can t. there s some function every year laying out the priorities in the clear fashion as possible and many ways the real test of the speech is whether the themes, policies are maintained f. you give the speech and go on with ....
The business, you might not as gip the speech. beginning or advancing an argument under way, and he continues to pursue the policies and get something done along the lines, well then the speech will have helped in the very small way toward those goals. you ever write something you regret, michael? i don t remember anything i regret but that s the problem. i don t really remember much about the six state of the union addresses i worked on. i think the president has a political point here he needs to make. he needs to give democrats a message going into the midterm elections. he is facing a tough political moment. the prospect of losing the senate, the effective legislative end of his presidency. he needs to craft a message that democrats can carry into the next few months and hope flynns make absurd mistakes as they often do. they have three opportunities to do so, it appears. is there a curse of the republican response? we know the official response by ....
accusations and in a new interview as the u.s. considers the criminal case against him. speech is coming along and the president will continue to refine it over the coming days. you ll have to wait and see what s in the speech. the state of the speech. days before the president s addre address, one of the top goals after a year lost to shutdowns, surprises and scandals, we are live at the white house. killing pain with pot. a new push to allow me sis nal marijuana use in the nfl. does the league need to mellow out a little bit? we ll talk live with former bron donate jackson. no more needles. 160 years since the invention, one man developed a needless vaccine. we need to begin at the top of the hour with new details in the deadly mall shooting in maryland. police identified the gunman as 19-year-old darren your marcus aguilar. police said the teen was armed with a shotgun and crude explosive devices. we had come across in the store backpack that contained ex ....