Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, it is Wednesday, February twenty fifth, the
Speaker 1: best State of the Union ever. And with that, welcome
Speaker 1: to this episode of Amy and TJ. I should make
Speaker 1: a distinction here I said best State of the Union ever,
Speaker 1: not best State of the Union speech.
Speaker 2: Just the production itself.
Speaker 3: Wow, it was, you know what?
Speaker 2: It was worth not getting a lot of sleep for.
Speaker 4: We stayed up and look, you know me, I fall
Speaker 4: asleep pretty much watching anything after nine pm. I was
Speaker 4: up the entire time. It was highly watchable and dare
Speaker 4: I say, entertaining.
Speaker 3: And historic and long.
Speaker 1: Folks, if you didn't stay up, and maybe you didn't,
Speaker 1: but you missed the longest State of the Union speech
Speaker 1: in history, surpassing a record only set by mister Trump.
Speaker 1: It didn't feel like it was that long, I'll be
Speaker 1: honest with you.
Speaker 2: Didn't, you know?
Speaker 4: And that is why it was so watchable, because it
Speaker 4: wasn't just watching someone talk and talk and read prepared remarks. No,
Speaker 4: it was interspersed with poignant moments, things that even brought
Speaker 4: tears to my eyes, funny moments. I got a kick
Speaker 4: out of watching the two fellas behind Trump the entire time.
Speaker 2: Per usual, And yeah, it was. It had everything you'd
Speaker 2: want in a television production.
Speaker 1: It was a reality show, it was a game show.
Speaker 1: There were reveals, there were surprises, reunions, awards.
Speaker 3: This was a TV show the likes we've never seen.
Speaker 1: When we say this was the best day of the
Speaker 1: I'm saying this, I don't know how you feel about it.
Speaker 1: This was the best I've ever seen. Not having to
Speaker 1: do anything with that. This is not where we're going
Speaker 1: to get into the politics and the back and forth.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got that fact checks. He was lying about this
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff we've heard before. Anyway, robes, there
Speaker 1: was a production value, and we were watching a showman
Speaker 1: last time.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that is what made it so fun to watch.
Speaker 4: It wasn't just listening to what he had to say,
Speaker 4: or yes, what he was touting as his accomplishments.
Speaker 2: For the year.
Speaker 4: No, it was all of the stories that he created
Speaker 4: and his team created throughout the night, interspersed in his
Speaker 4: speech that kept you watching.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's be clear, a lot of people who
Speaker 1: are just anti Trump are going to look at this
Speaker 1: and those statements are going to be out there. It
Speaker 1: was meant to be a distraction. He didn't have a
Speaker 1: real record to talk about. So he filled it with
Speaker 1: all these little moments and filled it with all these
Speaker 1: Americans and highlighting exceptionalism for the United States. And this
Speaker 1: was all just done as a show. This wasn't a speech.
Speaker 1: He did not tell us the state of the Union.
Speaker 1: We get that criticism understood. This is not politics. We're
Speaker 1: talking about Rose and I. We are simply talking about
Speaker 1: the effectiveness of moments. He had robes that were genuine
Speaker 1: with genuine people. They did not feel, at least to
Speaker 1: me necessarily, so you know what, they were authentic moments.
Speaker 1: And if you couldn't feel a hundred year old guy
Speaker 1: finally getting a medal of honor, if you couldn't feel
Speaker 1: a reunion between a woman and a family member who
Speaker 1: had been in jail, if you can't feel good seeing
Speaker 1: the US hockey team up there, forget politics, forget what
Speaker 1: you feel about Trump. Those were very cool moments in
Speaker 1: which we all related to and were proud of the
Speaker 1: people that were being recognized.
Speaker 3: And that's just truth.
Speaker 4: Yes, you summed it up perfectly. That is exactly why
Speaker 4: we watched. You know, we were hoping for a show,
Speaker 4: and it exceeded all expectations. I have to say, I.
Speaker 1: Was worried it was going to be nastier than it
Speaker 1: got between some of the hecklers.
Speaker 2: You pointed this out last night.
Speaker 4: Even as we were watching, and even as he was
Speaker 4: calling out democrats, he was he was doing it lightheartedly,
Speaker 4: if that makes any sense. Whereas when you read his
Speaker 4: true social posts and a lot of the vitriolge we
Speaker 4: hear and read from him seems very mean spirited and
Speaker 4: heavy handed. This was all very light and almost fun
Speaker 4: and funny. Dare I say, like even when he was
Speaker 4: saying things that were anti democrats and calling them out
Speaker 4: for not standing up, you were kind of laughing, like
Speaker 4: it wasn't It didn't feel mean at all.
Speaker 3: That's true. He was performing.
Speaker 1: He was a showman last night, and we said at
Speaker 1: the very big he's he's on tonight.
Speaker 2: He was well rusted.
Speaker 3: Yes, it felt like he had a bounce in his step.
Speaker 1: And to your point, again, I don't that it was
Speaker 1: a couple of mean moments people can point out in
Speaker 1: some of the context of the speech, but he was
Speaker 1: on now. I said to you at one point, Wow,
Speaker 1: he's been on for an hour, and it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: that way. But it ended up being almost a two
Speaker 1: hour speech. That's a long speech.
Speaker 4: An hour and forty nine minutes. Yes, as you pointed out,
Speaker 4: the longest State of the Union speech in history, and
Speaker 4: the previous record was an hour and forty minutes sent
Speaker 4: by set by Trump himself last year.
Speaker 1: And he set us up with this. He told us
Speaker 1: ahead of time, it's gonna be a long speech. I
Speaker 1: have a lot to talk about. And it was all
Speaker 1: he you know what, he didn't talk as much as
Speaker 1: he awarded.
Speaker 3: He was a host last.
Speaker 1: Night, directing things in that spot. Let's start though, with
Speaker 1: the entrance. This is always fun funny and sometimes you
Speaker 1: could say ridiculous to see these congressmen and women falling
Speaker 1: over themselves, clamoring, trying to get a handshake or a
Speaker 1: picture or a selfie or whatever with the president robes
Speaker 1: they were.
Speaker 3: It's I don't know, it's tradition.
Speaker 4: It turns it turns adults into little screaming teenage girls
Speaker 4: finding a member of the Beatles.
Speaker 2: Like that's what it looked.
Speaker 4: Like actually in moments, running trying to get selfies with
Speaker 4: the president.
Speaker 2: Completely as you you would.
Speaker 4: Be bortified having a camera trained on you while you're
Speaker 4: running after the president trying to get a selfie with him.
Speaker 2: But yes, we saw grownadult's doing.
Speaker 3: That, so we see it every time. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: It's tradition.
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny, it's kind of silly, but they do.
Speaker 1: And who was the guy, I don't even know who
Speaker 1: he was, the one that had the Trump tie on.
Speaker 2: That was hilarious. I don't know who it.
Speaker 1: Was last night, but yeah, the guy's trying to make
Speaker 1: his way to give a big speech. One guy tried
Speaker 1: to do a selfie and didn't you know, we've all
Speaker 1: been there.
Speaker 2: He couldn't get his right.
Speaker 3: Yes, like you're holding up the president.
Speaker 2: Dude, and everyone's watching you.
Speaker 1: Okay, And everybody was watching the moment. What did you
Speaker 1: think of it? Robes anticipating what is he going to do?
Speaker 1: Is he going to walk past members of the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court that he just ripped in the past several days
Speaker 1: for their decision. I thought he held it better than expected.
Speaker 2: I thought it was better than expected, is a good
Speaker 2: way to put it. I was worried that he was
Speaker 2: going to.
Speaker 4: Be petty, and he greeted them all as he walked by.
Speaker 4: He he gave him a little verbal lashing when he
Speaker 4: got up eventually to give his speech, but almost in.
Speaker 2: Again a funny way.
Speaker 4: He was obviously and is clearly upset about the Supreme
Speaker 4: Court's decision on his tariffs, and he did call out folks,
Speaker 4: but again it didn't feel mean.
Speaker 1: But after the anger we saw immediately after their decision,
Speaker 1: he went after several of them in a very nasty way.
Speaker 1: He had the opportunity to do so. Last night people
Speaker 1: were wondering will he with them sitting feet from him,
Speaker 1: is he going to be able to keep from going
Speaker 1: off on him?
Speaker 3: And Rosey kind of did.
Speaker 1: He just acknowledged a disappointing decision, a terrible does it whatever,
Speaker 1: and moved on.
Speaker 3: He didn't single anybody out.
Speaker 4: The only thing that was awkward about it was the
Speaker 4: camera choices that Network's made. They were actually like close
Speaker 4: up of the different faces of the Supreme Court justices
Speaker 4: as he was saying things, and their face stoically vacant,
Speaker 4: you know, trying not to have any expression or emotion
Speaker 4: as he's eviscerating them.
Speaker 2: That was awkward for me who.
Speaker 1: Had the They did a good job of not having
Speaker 1: an expression, But there's one I'm thinking about, which one?
Speaker 3: Did you notice one that did.
Speaker 1: No Elena Kagan to me, Oh really, Amy Cony Barrett.
Speaker 3: I give her credit. She was stoic, she knew that
Speaker 3: was the moment. Yes, and let me keep it cool.
Speaker 1: It was like the Award Show when they have five
Speaker 1: nominees for Best Actor and you know you have to
Speaker 1: be cool. When the reaction comes, it's not you. It's
Speaker 1: like she knows the camera's on her and she did not.
Speaker 1: She gave us nothing.
Speaker 2: You said she did a great job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she gave us nothing, just a complete vacant like
Speaker 4: you will not be able to read my emotion right now.
Speaker 2: You cannot tell what I'm thinking.
Speaker 3: Moment of the night. It had to be the hockey team.
Speaker 3: Would it be for you the moment of the night?
Speaker 4: I well, there were several, but it was in my
Speaker 4: top three for sure.
Speaker 3: This was a nice moment.
Speaker 1: And look, the US men's hockey team the heroes for
Speaker 1: the rest of their lives for what they pulled off
Speaker 1: and the way he had them enter. We got word
Speaker 1: ahead of time that the hockey team was going to
Speaker 1: a I didn't know if they were going to sit
Speaker 1: there the whole time, which I thought would be really,
Speaker 1: they're gonna sit through that whole thing? No, he had
Speaker 1: them walk in stand a presentation gold medals, Robes.
Speaker 3: I thought it was great. They had the great sweaters on.
Speaker 3: It was a great moment. I don't know how to okay,
Speaker 3: he used them as paw. People will criticize what he did.
Speaker 1: But for that team to get that honor, that recognition
Speaker 1: on that night, I have no problem.
Speaker 4: I thought it was really cool and I love that
Speaker 4: he gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the goalie.
Speaker 4: We all watched that incredible save that absolutely gave tm
Speaker 4: USA the victory, and he specifically mentioned watching that save
Speaker 4: and giving him that high honor, the highest honor.
Speaker 3: And trope Rose. We almost told you Trump, Robes. We uh.
Speaker 1: We looked at each other when it happened and he
Speaker 1: talked about the president the highest civilian honor to a goalie.
Speaker 3: We both looked at you. O that damn okay with that.
Speaker 2: Yep, it was a cool moment.
Speaker 1: He was special then the Olympics and he is absolutely
Speaker 1: a American hero now at the very top. It didn't
Speaker 1: last long. How long did a representative Green last in
Speaker 1: the room? Five minutes?
Speaker 4: If that you kept saying, when's he going to get
Speaker 4: taken out? When's he going to get taken out with
Speaker 4: his sign.
Speaker 1: Yes, Representative Al Green who got kicked out last year,
Speaker 1: he got censured last year, did he not?
Speaker 2: He did?
Speaker 1: He had he said last year was spontaneous. He had
Speaker 1: a cane and got up, started yelling as the president
Speaker 1: that kicked him out. This time, this was a planned demonstration,
Speaker 1: for sure. He came in with signs.
Speaker 4: He came in with a sign that says black people
Speaker 4: are not apes, referring to, of course, President Trump reposting
Speaker 4: that video that at the end showed the Obamas as
Speaker 4: apes with Lion King playing in the background. So yes,
Speaker 4: he you can't make that up. Trump did not apologize
Speaker 4: for it, did take it down, but yes, Al Green
Speaker 4: making his point with his sign.
Speaker 1: You know I was supposed to have a sign. You know,
Speaker 1: I was supposed to have a pro so he was
Speaker 1: not following the korum if you will. He got escorted
Speaker 1: out once again. The only ugly I don't know whereas
Speaker 1: if we call it an ugly moment. But he did
Speaker 1: make mention in the speech. We got a heads up
Speaker 1: that this was one of the nastier or divisive moments
Speaker 1: of boy, he's calling out what the what's happened to
Speaker 1: fraud in Minnesota and specifically calling out the Somali community,
Speaker 1: and you could expect ilhan Omar, who represents that state.
Speaker 1: She started yelling.
Speaker 4: She started yelling, liar, you should be ashamed. She said,
Speaker 4: you're a murderer. You've killed Americans. Yes, and she was
Speaker 4: screaming at him while he was talking.
Speaker 3: That was an ugly moment.
Speaker 1: I don't know how Democrats supposed to handle last night.
Speaker 1: What do you do with this guy? Oh? Yeah, we
Speaker 1: didn't even mention. The count is somewhere between fifty and
Speaker 1: seventy Democrats boycotted. They didn't even show up to the
Speaker 1: State of the Union. They have their reasons, they have
Speaker 1: their feelings they have I mean, maybe they think they're
Speaker 1: doing the right thing. I don't know, you show up.
Speaker 1: I wish they would show up, but they have their
Speaker 1: own way of doing things.
Speaker 2: Look, I appreciated the folks who did show up.
Speaker 4: You did see a lot of empty seats on the
Speaker 4: Democrats side, and of course you saw Trump point out
Speaker 4: every time Democrats.
Speaker 2: Didn't stand up.
Speaker 4: This is very typical, but he did it often and
Speaker 4: in certain points where he was baffled or seemingly baffled
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't you stand up for that, for that person,
Speaker 4: for that honor.
Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with politics.
Speaker 4: So yes, if you did choose to come, and you
Speaker 4: were a Democrat, you were faced with that decision when
Speaker 4: do I stand up?
Speaker 2: When do I not stand up? That is that is tough.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they didn't seem like they had a meeting about
Speaker 1: it ahead of time.
Speaker 2: No, because it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was varied, because there were times and broke.
Speaker 1: I think he called it out. There were moments that
Speaker 1: everybody in the country we all agree with, but it's
Speaker 1: coming from him, so we can't applaud it. That is
Speaker 1: what it felt like in the room, like, well, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I can't remember her his name? The parents,
Speaker 1: So the young lady killed on the train, the murdered.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, I remember her name.
Speaker 1: But YEH pointed out the parents. The mom has tears
Speaker 1: running down her eyes. A lot of Democrats sat on
Speaker 1: their hands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tough. I don't know why that made they
Speaker 2: made that decision.
Speaker 1: It's I don't He even said some of them didn't
Speaker 1: stand up for I think it's right.
Speaker 3: The hockey team.
Speaker 4: No, he absolutely said that. Yes, he said, how do
Speaker 4: you not have some of you stood up, but not
Speaker 4: all of you did. How do you not stand up
Speaker 4: for the US hockey team?
Speaker 1: Yes, and he kind of set them up. And the
Speaker 1: biggest trap he set robes. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is good politics, good theater, if it was petty, if
Speaker 1: it was unfair, even but what do you do? He
Speaker 1: asked Democrats a question that, oh, yes, The answer should
Speaker 1: have been yes, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, it was Robes.
Speaker 1: It was a trap. He did set them up, and
Speaker 1: it looked bad. But I don't know how it's being
Speaker 1: viewed today. But he's asking them the question, Robes, stand
Speaker 1: if you believe the first duty of the US government
Speaker 1: is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.
Speaker 3: It was a trap. It was an absolute trap.
Speaker 1: Half the room stood up, applauded soundly, and you see
Speaker 1: the other side of the room when asked, is your
Speaker 1: job to protect American citizens over illegal aliens? And they
Speaker 1: didn't respond to that.
Speaker 3: It was a trap. It was a set up. Maybe
Speaker 3: it was unfair, but to a lay person it looked bad.
Speaker 2: Maybe it did look bad.
Speaker 4: But I understand their dilemma because they're in their heads.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they're thinking, you know, what, my job is
Speaker 4: to protect all humans who are in this country, and
Speaker 4: so you know, not separating people based on their immigration status.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm thinking was in their heads. And by
Speaker 4: standing up, you're valuing one life over another.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think it's a tough call for them, and that
Speaker 4: might be why many Democrats chose to boycott, because they
Speaker 4: were anticipating getting set up and putting.
Speaker 1: A spot that would actually make sense. How do you
Speaker 1: handle that, though, Robes? I mean, what is should we
Speaker 1: be asking that question? You know, it was worded in
Speaker 1: such a way, it was carefully done. It made it impossible.
Speaker 4: It was impossible because, yes, if you were somebody who
Speaker 4: has stood up to protect the lives of folks who
Speaker 4: are here who are undocumented, how do you stand up
Speaker 4: and value legally like legal status over illegal status.
Speaker 2: That's tough.
Speaker 1: And then the question other plenty of folks his supporters
Speaker 1: will look, how can you tell me that it's you're
Speaker 1: looking out for me and as an American citizen, just
Speaker 1: as much as you're looking out someone who crossed the
Speaker 1: border illegally that works in his base, that worked in
Speaker 1: certain parts of the country, And that was a I
Speaker 1: give them credit for the setup, but it was a setup.
Speaker 1: It was an absolute setup. The other parts, there were
Speaker 1: two Metal of Honors, meals of honor given out last
Speaker 1: night pros.
Speaker 3: These were highlight moments.
Speaker 4: They were because you asked if my the top moment
Speaker 4: was the US men's hockey team, and that was among them.
Speaker 2: But seeing these men in very two different parts of
Speaker 2: their life or fronts of their military service, one who
Speaker 2: was one hundred years old correct.
Speaker 4: And then we had the helicopter pilot who was injured in.
Speaker 2: The Venezuela raid. That was phenomenal.
Speaker 4: I didn't even realize that someone was so injured and
Speaker 4: someone so pivotal to the mission in getting Maduro. But
Speaker 4: the fact that he was described as piloting this this
Speaker 4: helicopter with bullet wounds in his his legs where his
Speaker 4: bones were fractured and he was in incredible pain having
Speaker 4: to pilot the helicopter using his legs.
Speaker 2: It was remarkable. They hear this.
Speaker 1: Story and then to see the guy come in using
Speaker 1: a walker and his wife with him.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Amy and Eric, I mean.
Speaker 2: Eric, that's my brother's name is Eric. So it was disturbing.
Speaker 4: Eric.
Speaker 2: I don't think he listens to the podcast.
Speaker 4: But they kept saying Amy and Eric Amy and Eric
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh my god, are Eric and amiens? But
Speaker 4: that's like my mom and dad telling us to come
Speaker 4: to dinner weird.
Speaker 1: So that was the only part that got weird for Robot.
Speaker 1: Her daddy Trump kept calling Eric Amy. But it was
Speaker 1: cool to see him standing there and the big guy,
Speaker 1: tough guy, this military uniform. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: knew the honor was coming, but as they were putting
Speaker 1: it on him, you said, he is trying to keep
Speaker 1: it together.
Speaker 4: Oh, he had tears in his eyes. I don't think
Speaker 4: he saw that coming. He did not know he was
Speaker 4: getting the Medal of Honor. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: And then the one hundred year old guy, Eve Royce Williams,
Speaker 1: World War two vet, they honored him. He was sitting
Speaker 1: next to Belaonnia Trump last night and they I think
Speaker 1: he mentioned him earlier in the night and then came
Speaker 1: back to him to give him the Medal of Honor.
Speaker 1: They put it around his neck and that's just a sweet, wonderful,
Speaker 1: adorable moment that you you cannot help but feel that moment.
Speaker 1: The other one Robes that had people in tears, or
Speaker 1: Alexandra Gonzalez, this is a young lady whose uncle ran
Speaker 1: for office in Venezuela but was locked up by the
Speaker 1: mad Maduro camp. This young lady apparently didn't know the
Speaker 1: fate of her uncle. Trump is telling this story, announcing everything,
Speaker 1: and es said that jail, we've closed it down, and
Speaker 1: those political prisoners have been freed. But then he went further.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the next couple of things coming, No.
Speaker 4: He said, Alejandra, I am pleased to inform you that
Speaker 4: not only has your uncle been released, but he's here tonight.
Speaker 4: We brought him over to celebrate his freedom with you
Speaker 4: in person. And then you see the two of them
Speaker 4: see each other. I don't know how long it had
Speaker 4: been hugging on live national television. Again, an incredible reality
Speaker 4: TV show moment, brought to you by President Trump.
Speaker 3: It was great TV production. Ropes.
Speaker 1: We have worked in television for a long time. How
Speaker 1: many surprises and things we pull off on morning shows
Speaker 1: before we know a good one.
Speaker 3: When we see one.
Speaker 1: It was a good one. Well, folks, stay here. We
Speaker 1: told you a lot of Democrats left or boycotted. Well,
Speaker 1: we will tell you one of the best answers we
Speaker 1: heard for why one Democrat decided to show up. Also
Speaker 1: a couple of other darl moments, including one little girl
Speaker 1: who's gonna have a law named after her, and another
Speaker 1: reunion between a rescuer and the little girl he rescued.
Speaker 1: All right, continue here on, Amy and TJ. We'll get
Speaker 1: through these last few things here. There was so much
Speaker 1: last night. I'm trying to remember Robes, all the stuff
Speaker 1: we got to get to do. You need to mention
Speaker 1: he did have the parents of the guards, the Sarah
Speaker 1: Bestrom twenty years old killed in November. She was the
Speaker 1: young lady part of the West Virginia National Guard who
Speaker 1: was there on patrol in Washington, DC, had her parents
Speaker 1: their nice touch, nice moment. The other guy who was
Speaker 1: shot shot in the head told his story. He was
Speaker 1: there as well and looked good and gave him a.
Speaker 2: They both got purple hearts. Purple hearts.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I almost started crying watching that.
Speaker 4: And then to give it to Sarah Beckstrom's parents as
Speaker 4: well posthumously that just her father you said, his lip
Speaker 4: was quivering. You could not help but feel their pain,
Speaker 4: but also just the gratitude you were feeling towards these
Speaker 4: parents for the service of their daughter. It was it was,
Speaker 4: it was a real tear jerker moment.
Speaker 1: All of these moments and again rolled I think he's
Speaker 1: done things before in speeches where he recognized somebody that
Speaker 1: is partisan, right, that's somebody that's with the left or
Speaker 1: excuse me, with the right. But last night these none
Speaker 1: of these seemed like partisan guests, right.
Speaker 3: This look. He put on a good show last night.
Speaker 3: The other moment Rose was wonderful.
Speaker 1: Scott Ruskin, Coastguards swimmer who was a part of the
Speaker 1: rescue teams that were down in the historic Texas flooding,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty five rescues he performed. One of
Speaker 1: them was of a little girl saw again for the
Speaker 1: last first time last night they were reunited at the
Speaker 1: Stale Union for the chills.
Speaker 4: That's amazing, total chills, yes, and the two of them
Speaker 4: together standing up smiling. It was it was again another moment,
Speaker 4: like there were so many moments that you would wait for,
Speaker 4: like it was kind of like an Oprah or I'm
Speaker 4: just thinking like what would be the equivalent in daytime
Speaker 4: where you saw all of these beautiful reunions and it
Speaker 4: was all heartwarming.
Speaker 2: It wasn't Who's the Daddy.
Speaker 4: It was, you know, just all emotional with just this
Speaker 4: like it was a feeling of joy and purpose, and
Speaker 4: it was like the best of America.
Speaker 2: He was highlighting the best of America, and it was a.
Speaker 1: Diverse group of Americans to a certain degree, including little
Speaker 1: Delilah Law. Yeah, let's do you one better. This adorable
Speaker 1: little girl. Now I didn't know her story when I
Speaker 1: saw her. Oh she's sweet. What's her story?
Speaker 3: Well, her story.
Speaker 1: Is she was not expected to be doing well or
Speaker 1: even to survive after she was in a car accident.
Speaker 1: She was hit by someone who was in the country illegally.
Speaker 1: That's the point he was making. And now they're gonna
Speaker 1: name a law after this little girl. Dahlailah Coleman is
Speaker 1: her name, but she's getting a law named after her.
Speaker 1: And to see her bouncing on her dad's leg last night,
Speaker 1: another great TV moment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, her smile was so sweet you could see. I mean,
Speaker 4: just the struggle. He talked about, all the surgeries and
Speaker 4: all the struggles and how she wasn't expected to live.
Speaker 4: But yes, now this law, undocumented folks cannot get commercial
Speaker 4: driver's licenses. But before I didn't realize they could if
Speaker 4: you were in this country illegally. I had no idea,
Speaker 4: you could go to the DMV. I can't even get
Speaker 4: my real idea if I don't have my Social Security card,
Speaker 4: so I'm confused how that was even possible. But no
Speaker 4: longer can those folks who came here illegally get commercial
Speaker 4: driver's licenses.
Speaker 2: Kind of seems like.
Speaker 1: That was already Yeah, all right, other few other things here.
Speaker 1: Abigail Spamberger did the Democratic response. She had an audience
Speaker 1: in there with her, which I said, was probably a
Speaker 1: good move to make sure there's you break it up
Speaker 1: with applause. At least the audience at home knows that
Speaker 1: what was supposed to be a hard hitting line.
Speaker 3: I can't remember another one that had a crowd.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was. It was, you know what it
Speaker 2: made it.
Speaker 4: It was still a little awkward how they abruptly stopped clapping,
Speaker 4: like at very orchestrated moments, So that was kind of
Speaker 4: funny and weird. However, it was a lot less weird
Speaker 4: than seeing somebody at their kitchen table, or Marco Rubio
Speaker 4: guzzling water because he didn't.
Speaker 3: Get into the law zips. It's just a guzzle.
Speaker 4: Do you think about sometimes the infamous rebuttals, This one
Speaker 4: was not. It was.
Speaker 2: It was fairly well done.
Speaker 1: How'd you like the Nancy Pelosi joke? I actually smiled
Speaker 1: a little bit, yes, because again it wasn't mean he
Speaker 1: was smirking. Again, if you're listening, and if you don't
Speaker 1: like Trump, you didn't like anything he did last night,
Speaker 1: If you could just look at it objectively for a moment,
Speaker 1: this was not one of his worst or meanest moments.
Speaker 2: No, it wasn't. He joked about Nancy Pelosi saying they
Speaker 2: stood up. I can't believe it. When did he was saying?
Speaker 2: When was he saying they stood up?
Speaker 1: He was talking about the law they want them to
Speaker 1: pass in which there's no insider trading or whatever. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: they can't benefit lawmakers can't benefit from.
Speaker 2: Correct, So he points to the Democrats. They stood up.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it. Did Nancy Pelosi stand up? If
Speaker 2: she's even here.
Speaker 1: And she was, she was there, I swear I think
Speaker 1: was it the biggest applause line he got We ended
Speaker 1: DEI in America. It was a very big applause line.
Speaker 1: He had a lot of energy when he delivered that line.
Speaker 1: We do want to mention Epstein's survivors were guests didn't
Speaker 1: see them. Actually during a lot of the coverage or
Speaker 1: anything pointed out or talked about last night, Mark Kelly,
Speaker 1: they showed him several times.
Speaker 3: It's with some looks on his face.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought that was kind of mean spirited by
Speaker 4: the cameras. They were in a super close up of
Speaker 4: his face. And obviously he has been absolutely the target
Speaker 4: of President Trump, and certainly Pete Hegseth, who was there.
Speaker 4: They kept showing, by the way, just this you just
Speaker 4: you see these characters in the Trump administration obviously depicted everywhere,
Speaker 4: and there they were all sitting together, Pam Bondi, Pete
Speaker 4: hegg Seth, Christine Nome, they were all there together.
Speaker 2: They kept showing that picture.
Speaker 4: But yes, they kept going into a close up of
Speaker 4: Mark Kelly and just obviously he had a look of disdain.
Speaker 2: Maybe on his face for most of the evening and
Speaker 2: they just kept zooming in on it.
Speaker 1: We do want to mention the mom Donnie moment. He
Speaker 1: did mention the mayor of New York complimented him and say, hey,
Speaker 1: he's a nice guy, but then talk about how bad
Speaker 1: of a job he's doing. He used them and again
Speaker 1: this was funny to me. Where he's making a point
Speaker 1: about you all don't want voter ID. And there have
Speaker 1: plenty of problems with the voter ID law that they're
Speaker 1: trying to pass.
Speaker 3: We get that.
Speaker 1: The point here is he said, how are you all
Speaker 1: going to be against someone showing ID to vote when
Speaker 1: you're requiring two photos, two forms of ID, and a
Speaker 1: Social Security card for shovelers in New York?
Speaker 3: Which is true.
Speaker 4: Yes, And he made a point, and it was funny.
Speaker 4: It wasn't necessarily mean spirited. It was based in fact,
Speaker 4: and it was funny.
Speaker 3: Listen to us, we almost sound relieved. It wasn't mean.
Speaker 2: Yes, honestly, that's where the bar is right now.
Speaker 4: I mean it's low low, it's like, please, please, please,
Speaker 4: don't be mean spirited. I mean, yes, your jobs and
Speaker 4: have some fun with it, which, honestly, it actually felt
Speaker 4: a little bit more like and I know he hasn't
Speaker 4: actually even attended, but the White House Correspondent Center where
Speaker 4: the President gets up and is a little self deprecating.
Speaker 4: Now that Trump is self deprecating, he was quite the opposite,
Speaker 4: but having a little fun at at typically serious topics
Speaker 4: that have created some pain and frustration. And so anyway,
Speaker 4: it all felt very lighthearted and that was just a
Speaker 4: welcome shift in town.
Speaker 3: The last thing here.
Speaker 1: Damned if you do, Damned if you don't, what are
Speaker 1: you supposed to do? Do democrats not show up at
Speaker 1: this thing? Plenty in the majority did? Of course.
Speaker 3: I don't know. To each his or her own, of course,
Speaker 3: I don't know what you do.
Speaker 1: Do you honor the office? Do you respect the office?
Speaker 1: Even if you don't respect the man? I don't know
Speaker 1: what the right thing is to each his or her own?
Speaker 3: But I did hear a CNN was.
Speaker 1: Reporting Elizabeth Warren obviously is no fan the President Trump.
Speaker 3: That No, I think that's.
Speaker 2: A fact, right, that's definitely a fact.
Speaker 1: Yes, we have good sources on that. She attended last night.
Speaker 1: And I can't remember which scenem reporter was saying it,
Speaker 1: but said talk to her like, wow, you don't like
Speaker 1: this president. Why did you show up? And this is
Speaker 1: kind of what she said. I'm here to represent the
Speaker 1: people of my state of Massachusetts. And if the president,
Speaker 1: we know he's gonna lie, but he's gonna lie, I'll
Speaker 1: come and make him lie to my face.
Speaker 2: It's a good answer.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the best you can do. I mean,
Speaker 3: you're there for what.
Speaker 1: I don't know, rogues what you do here, but it
Speaker 1: was a display of where we are last night. This
Speaker 1: was not a State of the Union dress. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what the state of our union is, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure how I know how the president.
Speaker 4: People were hotter than ever before, hot over the hottest country.
Speaker 2: We were dead, but now we're hot.
Speaker 3: We're bad.
Speaker 1: That's what we got out of it. Also, hockey team
Speaker 1: is awesome. That's what I got out of it. But folks,
Speaker 1: again we say it, please don't misunderstand. It was the
Speaker 1: best show we have ever seen at a State of
Speaker 1: the Union. Yes, the best show. The speech, I don't
Speaker 1: even remember much of it if you can get that
Speaker 1: other places. But folks, we appreciate you is always spending
Speaker 1: some time with us. I am T. J.
Speaker 3: Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Robot, who will
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