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00:01:11.000So that was the President's State of the Union address.
00:01:13.000We'll keep the camera on there to watch, but it seems like he is just shaking hands with people and we're having applause, but we'll keep an eye on that.
00:02:09.000We'll definitely get a screenshot of what happened there.
00:02:13.000Cliff, we'll get your reaction in a second, but I think.
00:02:16.000The first thing we want to do, we want to replay the part that is emotionally closest for all of us, and that was when President Trump shouted out Charlie and he got everyone in the House to stand for it because he linked it to a call to end all political violence.
00:02:40.000I'm very proud to say that during my time in office, both the first four years and in particular this last year, There has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity, and belief in God.
00:04:07.000In Charlie's memory, we must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political violence of any kind.
00:04:41.000Cliff, what were you feeling when you saw that?
00:04:44.000Yeah, I mean, I think it's obviously a beautiful tribute.
00:04:46.000I love that he was finally able to get them to stand and applaud together on the idea of, you know, hey, let's all say no more political violence.
00:04:54.000I mean, I think for all of us, that was the one thing, you know, I'm not going to speak for you guys, but, you know, through all the conversations with people in Charlie's orbit, I still think the number one thing that was just so shocking was the response from so many people on the left.
00:05:09.000And to see Democrats at least acknowledge, hey, Let's take a pause and all agree to no political violence.
00:05:15.000I just think that was a powerful moment.
00:05:17.000I'm glad that obviously Erica got the recognition, and to have them chanting Charlie was pretty cool.
00:05:57.000Part of this goal is, of course, political.
00:05:59.000I think he did a good job of highlighting that Democrats are very loopy on some very important issues.
00:06:05.000He did that on the border, on illegal immigration generally.
00:06:08.000If you weren't hearing the president's remarks, you may have also seen I saw Rashida Tlaib had a F ICE button on that was just lovingly displayed there.
00:06:17.000Throughout the address, we got some nice images of Ilhan Omar glowering really angrily.
00:06:24.000And he, of course, even highlighted the Somali fraud, which I thought was a long shot on my bingo card, but I did pretty bad on my bingo card overall.
00:06:32.000But that was one that actually appeared.
00:06:35.000I did not score a full bingo, which that's okay.
00:06:39.000You want to have some long shot ones, make it a little bit of a challenge.
00:07:36.000That's the truth So that was like taking off on Twitter.
00:07:55.000But anyway, I just think he does this for every, every, I mean, if you ever like listen to this guy, this is one of those Democrats where you wonder how in the world do these people get elected and it's incumbency protection, et cetera.
00:08:07.000Like once you get in, you never can get out.
00:08:09.000He doesn't make sense with anything he says, right?
00:08:13.000He's just kind of this cartoon character.
00:08:15.000And it's just surprising to me that the Democrats don't, you know, the leadership step up and say, hey, why don't we not do that this year?
00:08:21.000Because I just think it makes him look totally out of touch.
00:08:24.000Yeah, was it last year that he was yelling that he wouldn't leave and they had to like fully escort him out?
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00:10:18.000Like one other point when you brought up that he went into the Somali thing.
00:10:23.000I mean, the camera, by the way, kudos to whoever the camera crew is.
00:10:28.000I don't know who, if it's through the house or if it's the White House, they did a phenomenal job at based on certain points going to the person that even if they weren't named, they would have them in the screen.
00:10:41.000And I mean, her reaction and sitting next to who was it, Tlaib?
00:10:44.000I mean, they just look like children screaming at the president.
00:10:48.000I mean, she just went irate in that moment.
00:11:05.000That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords.
00:13:00.000It's like the only time that the State of the Union is like the only time that the cameras in Congress are on par with Sunday Night Football, where they have the camera ready for every eventuality and think they just have impeccable timing.
00:13:15.000You can picture the studio go, put it on Ilhan, put it on Omar.
00:13:19.000Well, this reminds me of when they were having the whole vacated speaker.
00:13:24.000Matt Gaetz talked about this a lot how it was actually kind of awesome to watch C SPAN for once, because instead of just the shot, you know, a lot of, let me break the secret here, and all the members of Congress will get mad at me, but they typically have the shot where the camera's up high, pointing down, so that people can't see that they're debating in an empty chamber, right?
00:13:42.000And so this is like the one night, like you said, where the control room is they've got everybody kind of pinpointed and where they want to be.
00:13:49.000And obviously, once they get, you know, a pre recording of the speech, Then they're probably mapping it out, you know, like a producer would do to figure out where they're going to go.
00:13:56.000So, I, once again, kudos to the cameramen and the camera crew here.
00:14:02.000And I think that was part of one of the best parts is Trump just calling them out straight to their face multiple times, especially on the transgender issue when they refused to stand for that girl that transitioned, where became a guy and then went back to being a girl.
00:14:16.000And he just like looked at them and was like, you guys are crazy people.
00:14:20.000That's something that he didn't do last year that I feel like.
00:14:23.000Actually, kind of helps just calling them out straight to their face.
00:14:27.000With the transgender lawmaker right there.
00:14:29.000Yeah, and then they showed the dude in the dress or whatever.
00:14:34.000Yeah, the best part is that Trump actually said, I put up a video on this, and it was like he actually said to them, I'm going to ask you to stand up if you agree with this.
00:14:46.000He took a pause, went into his statement, and that way it wasn't just, oh, look, they're not standing.
00:14:51.000Even though I said something that 90% of Americans agree with, he gave them the opportunity to stand.
00:14:57.000And I honestly think, guys, I think this is going to be the biggest moment or the biggest message that we have to control the narrative on for the 2026 midterms, which is do you think that the duty of the American government is to first stand with American citizens over illegal immigrants and to have not one Democrat stand up?
00:15:18.000I just think that's extremely important.
00:15:20.000Cliff, we have your clip on this from a few minutes ago.
00:21:12.000He appointed JD, the Somali fraud investigator at large for America, which I think will be a rather thankless job, but it is an important one and a good one.
00:21:23.000And finally, there was a job created that wasn't given to Marco Rubio, who also got a shout out.
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00:23:48.000Which award did he say he would give him?
00:23:50.000Is it the Presidential Medal of Honor?
00:23:52.000What award did he say he would give himself if he was able to?
00:23:56.000I think he was saying he would give himself the Medal of Honor if he was able to, if the loophole closed or if the loophole opened or whatever it was.
00:24:03.000But they told him he can't, and it's for valor in the armed forces.
00:24:08.000So I think that's just kind of the usual Trump cheekiness.
00:24:12.000I don't think people got too upset about that.
00:24:42.000I do think that the quips and kind of the ability for Trump to handle himself, to obviously go off script at certain points, not in a bad way.
00:25:15.000So on a night like tonight, when so many non political people, people that are just trying to pay their mortgage, take their kids to basketball practice, he had that audience tonight.
00:25:24.000And I think his demeanor really carried well to connect with that crowd.
00:25:28.000And some stuff where he might have been amped up.
00:25:32.000He didn't get as combative as you might have thought.
00:25:37.000He did mention the Supreme Court on the tariff case, but considering how clearly close to his heart that was and how he was pretty peeved, he basically just said, Oh, you know, it wasn't a ruling I cared for.
00:25:46.000Like he was disagreeing with it, but it was not hyper aggressive.
00:25:49.000And then he pivoted to what I think you'd want, which is he's saying, We're still going to get the same trade deals with countries that we're achieving what we wanted with the tariffs.
00:25:59.000With the tariffs that we imposed in the year past.
00:26:23.000They let the press have all of their devices, and for some reason, you know, the guests that have been invited there don't get them.
00:26:30.000But inside, it was amazingly electric, honestly.
00:26:34.000And I was kind of peering right over at the vantage point I had, looking right at Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, constantly throwing out random comments.
00:26:46.000Most of the time, you couldn't hear them because the chamber was drowning them out.
00:26:50.000But it was actually, I don't know what it was like on TV, but.
00:26:55.000Actually, live in the venue, they literally would not shut up.
00:26:58.000They just kept yammering on and on and on and throwing out references to Alex Freddie and Renee Good.
00:27:08.000And I kept hearing them say, You're killing American citizens, which I was assuming meant them.
00:27:13.000But it was just a really raucous crowd inside.
00:27:16.000I think the two standout moments for me were the U.S. men's hockey team.
00:27:22.000It was just, I mean, literally the energy and the volume of it was.
00:28:42.000I mean, you know, there's a lot of yelling, there's a lot of like whooping and hollering.
00:28:46.000And, uh, the members down on the floor, you know, they get really into it, you know, and, uh, and you can hear people across the, the, the chamber talking, you know, I, I'm assuming that's by design, you know, when it was built.
00:29:00.000People needed to be able to hear each other across the room.
00:29:04.000Like I was actually on the other end from Erica, but, you know, I felt like I could kind of wave at her and see her and she could wave back.
00:29:12.000And, you know, it was, you know, I saw Michael Knowles like a couple rows away from me.
00:29:17.000And it's just very small, it's just very intimate.
00:29:21.000And so when people are having open conflict and shouting at each other, I mean, it's, it's, it's, you know, intense.
00:29:28.000I saw Steve Scalise try and rip out Al Green's, you know, Black People Are Not Apes.
00:29:34.000Little troll protest, tried to rip it out of his hands.
00:29:37.000I saw the congressman from New York, Malatakis, tell another congressman to shut up.
00:29:43.000It's like, I mean, it's really in your face.
00:30:08.000Actually, so we came in through the Canon building, and then there's a tunnel, and they tell you you have to get in by like 7 30.
00:30:17.000And then they take your phone away, and then you sit in there for, you know, I don't actually know what the start time was because I couldn't look at a watch.
00:30:24.000I didn't have my phone, and you're just kind of sitting in there.
00:30:27.000And then, you know, it's quite a process.
00:30:31.000But then the vice president filters in, and then the Senate, and then, you know, and then the kind of on and on it goes.
00:30:38.000But, I mean, you have to get there well in advance.
00:30:40.000I mean, I was having a conversation with my seatmates, my seat neighbors.
00:30:44.000You don't know who you're going to sit next to.
00:30:45.000So, you know, there was a union boss from a steel union boss from Ohio there.
00:31:29.000Yeah, you know what was interesting, Blake, and we talked about this on the show quite a bit, was that he went straight at those Fabrizio polling points, right?
00:31:38.000He hit the stock ban, stock trading ban in Congress.
00:32:23.000It kind of echoes back to that no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security.
00:32:27.000It's these kind of anchor tentpole items that give kind of normal Americans, mainstream Americans, Street Americans who aren't following this stuff every day, something to kind of be like, oh, well, you know, President Trump helped me and something I can point to.
00:32:40.000So it was that to me was interesting that he did that.
00:32:44.000You know, I thought, you know, the other thing I was looking for, Blake, honestly, because you have brought it up on the show so many times, is, you know, how's he going to sell Iran?
00:32:52.000And I thought he did a very interesting, you know, presentation of that, kind of weaving in the dead protesters, the fact that it's been American policy for, you know, decades that.
00:35:01.000You know, I just was kind of the most of the time I was honestly just looking down onto the floor to see kind of what the Democrats were doing, you know, to see who was willing to clap.
00:35:13.000I mean, it's really stunning how rare it is for them to stand, you know, and I think that's an unfortunate reality for our country.
00:35:22.000So, yeah, I mean, Knowles was kind of the standout.
00:35:26.000I was pretty focused on my immediate proximity.
00:35:30.000But, you know, it was just a very interesting perspective to just be looking down, watching them react.
00:35:36.000And frankly, I just have to say one more time Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tully were very disgraceful in the way they just kept interrupting.
00:35:46.000And then eventually, you know, they walked out probably five, 10 minutes before the helicopter pilot received the Medal of Honor.
00:35:56.000So, I mean, it was honestly a relief when they left.
00:35:59.000But again, it makes me sad as an American to see the ranks on that side of the aisle dwindling as we go here year by year.
00:36:08.000Yeah, I mean, that, and I think one of the craziest parts is how they all stayed seated Democrats when Irina's mother was in tears and they were, Trump was just crazy.
00:36:18.000Yeah, and they were all staying seated.
00:36:20.000And I think, was that when he turned to them and said, You guys are crazy, or was that on a separate thing?
00:37:11.000So I knew that that moment hit powerfully at home and on TV.
00:37:17.000Because in the room, it was definitely an elevated response.
00:37:20.000I'm actually curious what you guys thought watching it from your perspective, you know, not in the room, what moments played the best on television?
00:37:29.000That's kind of what I'm curious about right now.
00:37:31.000Yeah, I think definitely that played the best.
00:37:34.000And then also just Trump calling them out to their face on when they would refuse to stand or clap.
00:37:41.000Like we played a clip of Cliff earlier reacting to them just refusing to clap and stand up for our country.
00:37:48.000And Andrew, I'll give you a little more on that.
00:37:51.000The clip we played is when he literally said to them, I'm going to give you an opportunity to stand to show your support for this statement.
00:37:58.000And his statement was just, you know, hey, as the American government, our first priority is American citizens.
00:38:05.000You know, I might be getting a little excited, but that got me pumped up, right?
00:38:24.000I actually kind of didn't hear it right at first.
00:38:27.000And then I didn't know what he said because it was a novel way to approach an applause line in the, in the, You know, in that speech.
00:38:37.000But then I, you know, I saw from the reaction of the members on the floor that, you know, a gauntlet had been thrown and he was leaning into it.
00:38:46.000And then I leaned over to somebody and I was like, what did he say?
00:38:48.000You know, and I kind of gathered that it was like a, you know, do you stand with America moment?
00:38:53.000And that we need, you know, government's compact with its people is that we put them first.
00:38:57.000And yeah, I think that's a powerful line in the sand and it's something that's going to be brought up again and again and again.
00:40:20.000And to prove that point, to prove that point, here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud the men's gold medal Olympic hockey team.
00:41:11.000that's the first time I've ever seen them get up and actually not all of them did get up but they beat a fantastic Canadian team in overtime as everybody saw as did the American women who will soon be coming to the White House.
00:41:52.000But that was one of those moments where the gallery erupted in applause as Trump was still talking.
00:41:58.000So I actually couldn't make out what he was saying.
00:42:01.000The acoustics in the room are such that you can't hear.
00:42:03.000You just kind of hear him reference the hockey team, and then everybody starts exploding in applause.
00:42:09.000So it was actually great to hear kind of how he finished that off and he powered through the applause.
00:42:14.000I think it made the moment even better for you guys watching it at home and in the studio.
00:42:19.000Because I couldn't hear any of it, but I just, you know, I knew we were celebrating the hockey team, so I just lost my mind and started shouting and whistling and clapping.
00:42:30.000I had a report from some house interns that you tried to steal one of the gold medals and the hockey team actually knocked one of your teeth out.
00:42:41.000I'm going to have to take a day off from the show tomorrow to get some dental work, but it's a good thing we are in America because we have the best dentist.
00:43:14.000You saw the intensity of emotion, the full display of the American people from champions to heroes to families of the fallen, you know, a hero from Camp Mystic.
00:43:27.000It's just all over the country, so many different things.
00:43:34.000You look at this, and it's like, if you're some normie, just to finish the point, if you're some normie who's watching this, you're going, I like that team.
00:48:15.000You finish the mission, even in a situation where you probably could have died or did die.
00:48:20.000And this is why so many medals of honor are, of course, awarded posthumously.
00:48:24.000And in addition to that, you need two witnesses to be able to do so.
00:48:28.000And I had actually heard this story about the Maduro raid.
00:48:32.000I don't even know if it was all public, but the fact that they did shoot up the leg of the helicopter pilot on the way in, the pilot of the Chinook.
00:48:40.000So, I mean, the entire mission could have been a failure.
00:48:43.000Every single soldier could have been killed on the infill, so on the way in.
00:48:49.000And he refused to allow that to happen.
00:48:51.000He refused to let down his fellow men.
00:49:08.000And one of the things, just on a personal level, I think has always touched me is that no matter what rank you are, If you see someone wearing the Medal of Honor, even if you're, you know, 100 pay grades above them, you are still required to salute the Medal of Honor no matter who wears it because of what they did and what that award stands for.
00:49:33.000And the mission he did was interesting.
00:49:35.000He shot down four Soviet MiG fighters in a classified 1952 operation.
00:49:41.000It's like Top Gun, but in the 50s, basically.
00:49:44.000Very, very impressive guy, very impressive moment.
00:49:48.000As usual, like we said, Trump, very aware of the stagecraft.
00:49:53.000We were joking as he walked out that he had the puff on his hair, but I think everyone forgot about that pretty much the moment he started speaking, which I think is a good measure of how the speech went.
00:50:04.000Overall, I don't think we have too much to say extra.
00:50:30.000He didn't bring up foreign policy until about 90 minutes into the speech, only stayed there for a little bit.
00:50:38.000You know, you could see him making that sort of pitch that Iran is this hostile actor, that they are a hostile force, that, you know, obviously, like we talked about earlier with the Sword of Damocles that's out there.
00:50:53.000You know, I said going in that the White House would have a challenge of being able to come up with ways to get beyond the Sword of Damocles.
00:51:00.000Not only did they surpass it, they destroyed it.
00:51:03.000You know, they were able to create through these moments, through these made for TV moments.
00:51:09.000A way to get people to focus on the stories through showing the personal, you know, just the individuals who are involved in them.
00:51:20.000And of course, you know, Erica being there with the mother of Irina Zarutska, I mean, just an incredible moment, you know, regardless of your politics.
00:51:31.000I mean, that's got to make you tear up when you see the two of them together and realize what they both went through in the same period of time.
00:51:38.000And, you know, I went and looked it up, Charlie's last tweet.
00:51:41.000Charlie's very last tweet, two hours before that bullet rang out, was about Arena Zarutska.
00:51:48.000And, you know, he'd been tweeting quite a bit about it that day and in the days prior.
00:51:52.000So, you know, this was something that was on his mind.
00:51:56.000And the fact that the two of them came together is phenomenal.
00:51:59.000You think of the logistics of getting everyone together, let alone getting people from a war zone all the way to the State of the Union.
00:52:06.000It's just an incredible job by the White House all around.
00:52:33.000Ann Girl says I loved Speaker Mike Johnson's facial expressions throughout the speech supportive, congenial, and appropriately disapproving at the right moments.