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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has delivered his State of the Union address.

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Speaker 1: The bulk of his speech was spent riving about his

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Speaker 1: achievements on the economy, declearing once and for all that

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Speaker 1: America is.

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Speaker 2: Back, Members of Congress, and my fellow Americans, our nation

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Speaker 2: is back, bigger, better, richer, and stronger than ever before.

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Speaker 1: Bo Erickson is Reut's US politics correspondent with US right now.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Bo, Hello there.

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Speaker 1: How much of the speech was grounded in reality?

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Speaker 3: You know, it was a long speech. It was an

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Speaker 3: hour and forty seven minutes. That is the longest State

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Speaker 3: of the Union address in history, as we can tell.

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Speaker 3: And a lot of the speech really focused on politics,

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Speaker 3: so we made a lot of political claims. He really

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Speaker 3: kind of treaded on some kind of older ground, though,

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Speaker 3: focusing on a lot of domestic issues like the economy

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Speaker 3: and what his administration's trying to address, some affordability issues

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Speaker 3: here in the United States, but really focused on like

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Speaker 3: some goal examples of immigration, trying to talk up his

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Speaker 3: immigration enforcement effort here in the United States. And there

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Speaker 3: is this time that kind of made my eyes like

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Speaker 3: a little wide open because he was referencing in gory

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Speaker 3: details the killings of several Americans by undocumented Americans, and

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Speaker 3: he was trying to kind of use these as an

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Speaker 3: examples to say why he needed to kind of put

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Speaker 3: kind of this tough, armed approach to immigration here in

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Speaker 3: the United States, which has been very controversial, to say

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Speaker 3: the least.

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Speaker 1: Now, obviously he's kind of positioned this as something of

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Speaker 1: a snump speech. Has any ahead of the midterms? Is

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Speaker 1: this actually going to convince any of the voters that

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Speaker 1: everything is absolutely fine?

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Speaker 3: You know, this speech is a big deal for voters

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Speaker 3: because not a lot of people are able to watch

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Speaker 3: what the president says on an every day basis. So

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Speaker 3: for even if there wasn't a lot of new Paulicy

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Speaker 3: in here, some of the things that President Trump was

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Speaker 3: talking about, like his tax legislation that was passed last summer,

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Speaker 3: and some of the small, smaller targeted initiatives kind of

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Speaker 3: like some of these home investments and some of these

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Speaker 3: what he calls Trump accounts investments for babies that are

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Speaker 3: born in the next three years. This is an opportunity

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Speaker 3: for him to kind of talk directly to voters. But

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Speaker 3: there also was a lot of red meat in this speech,

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Speaker 3: So voters who may not hear from him every day.

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Speaker 3: Really had to wait and sit through a lot of

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Speaker 3: the storytelling in that hour and forty seven minutes.

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Speaker 1: Good to talk to you as always, Boie ericson Reutter's

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