We hear you. And we stand with you. We are steeped in the good evening, america. Im katie britt, and i have the honor of serving the great people of alabama. But tonight, ill be auditioning for the part of scary mom. And ill be performing an original monologue called, this country is hell. You see, im not just a senator. Im a wife, a mother, and the craziest [ bleep ] in the target parking lot. First and foremost, im a mom. And like any mom, im going to do a pivot Out Of Nowhere into a shockingly violent story about Sex Trafficking. And rest assured, every detail about it is real, except the year, where it took place, and who was president when it happened. And tonight, i am not just responding to the State Of The Union, i am also selling these bejewelled cross necklaces. Kitchens are where families have the hard conversations, like the one well have tomorrow about how mommy freaked out the entire country. To the American People who are struggling right now, know this, we hear you. We
woman to give the rebuttal address. her response is being called punchy. abrams didn t pull any punches last night. making livelihoods of our federal workers a pawn for political games is a disgrace. the shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the united states. one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people but our values. so even as i m very disappointed by the president s approach to our problems, i still don t want him to fail. but we need him to tell the truth. and to respect his duties and respect the diversity that defines america. her performance giving democrats a big shot in the arm as they look towards 2020. more immediately, pushing her legislative agenda and holding
any ice agents ever been prosecuted for any of these crimes that are being levied against them by the media or by the democrats? of course there has been incidents throughout history there may be a few officers that stepped outside the line like any other law enforcement agency. i can tell you i commanded this agency of 20,000 american patriots. these are people people out there right now where w. a gun strapped to the hip. putting their lives on the line. they are not getting paid. these are men and women trying to protect this nation. and you talk about gang violence. here is another fact that no one wants to talk about. nancy pelosi made a comment during her rebuttal address that families aren t a threat to this country. let me tell you something, when we came to new york city and long island we did operation matador target ms-13 members. 40% of those gang members we arrested entered this country as a part of a family unit. steve: tom, what do you make
state of the union address on tuesday night is going to be a tough act to follow. but the republican party is going to give it their best shot and their choice for the post rebuttal address, this year s chosen one is south carolina governor nikki haley. now, there s no question that governor haley has a pretty low bar for success given the most memorable moments from her rebuttal predecessors. they were not exactly moments that wanted that anyone wants to remember, but here they are. there was louisiana governor bobby jindal s response to the president s 2009 joint address to congress in which he was widely panned by many rebuttal watchers for the milquetoast response that fell far short of matching the president s soaring rhetoric. then of course my favorite, marco rubio, all anyone could talk about, the morning of at speech was what seemed like his unquenchable thirst. nevertheless, the gop s choice of nikki haley signals the party s high hopes for her ability to hold down not only
own party s coherent unified alternative to what the country has just heard from the president. or at least you used to be. because now republicans have come up with yet another innovation for this most ancient american political ritual. they were the first ones who came up with the rebuttal address in 1966. and now since barack obama has been president, they have come up with a new idea. the idea of doing not just a rebuttal to the president s state of the union address, but also a rebuttal to their own rebuttal. what? yes. for the third year in a row now, republicans are rebutting themselves as well as rebutting the president. what could possibly go wrong? the first year was 2011 when minnesota congresswoman and eventual presidential candidate michele bachmann gave not the republican party response, but the tea party republican response to the republican response to president obama s state of the union while making meaningful eye contact with something other than the camera that was