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Speaker 2: It just amazes me that there's not more support out there.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

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Speaker 2: It's Stay the Union Day in America. Nice to have

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Speaker 2: you with us on the forty seven Morning Update. And

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump is aiming to sell his first year successes

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Speaker 2: in a crucial address to Congress ahead of the midterms.

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Speaker 2: So what is the President going to talk about and

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Speaker 2: what are the accomplishments that the media doesn't want you

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Speaker 2: to know about. I'll break it all down for you

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Speaker 2: right now, live from Washington, d C. It's the forty

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Speaker 1: Now story number one.

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Speaker 2: As I'm here in Washington, d C. For the Stay

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Speaker 2: before the State of the Union is the briefings that

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Speaker 2: you receive. And I have the opportunity to sit down

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Speaker 2: for breakfast with Speaker Mike Johnson, Mike Johnson talked a

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Speaker 2: lot about what had been accomplished in the last year

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Speaker 2: under the leadership of President Trump, especially having a one

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Speaker 2: But the President has got to convince Americans on Tuesday

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Speaker 2: And that means come the mid terms, if you want

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Speaker 2: the Trump doctrine of America First to continue, you've got

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Speaker 2: for conservative candidates that Trump has endorsed. Now a lot

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Speaker 2: of people are asking what is going to be in

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Speaker 2: the state of the Union. That's exactly the question that

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Speaker 2: I asked Speaker Johnson as well as the Treasury Secretary

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Speaker 2: And here's what I have for you. Number One on

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Speaker 2: the present's going to be talking about the economy. In jobs,

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump will put economic performance front and center, calling

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Speaker 2: the US economy strong, booming, and growing better than before.

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Speaker 2: He's expected to highlight his tax cuts, his wage increases,

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Speaker 2: also consumer price trends, as well as American job growth.

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Speaker 2: He'll also frame much of his agenda around continued economic

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Speaker 2: that has just become a reality in this country. The

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Speaker 2: President will also spend a significant amount of time talking

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Speaker 2: about your safety. That includes the major issue of border

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Speaker 2: security and immigration. Border security and immigration control is going

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Speaker 2: which have virtually gone to zero, as well as stricter

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Speaker 2: also national security. Oddly enough, with the recent cartel explosion

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Speaker 2: for the President to remind the American people of what

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Speaker 2: our secure borders are now keeping out. And then we'll

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Speaker 2: talk about trade and tariffs. He is expected to defend

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Speaker 2: American manufacturing and trade fairness, despite his recent challenges of

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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. Trade policy will be framed as part

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Speaker 2: of building his national economic strength for all Americans. Foreign

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Speaker 2: using international developments as evidence of American strength. There's also

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Speaker 2: expected to be emphasis on crime reduction in this country,

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Speaker 2: Real GDP growth is surged. Jobs has also outpaced the

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Speaker 2: day one. The President will also talk about what's about

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Speaker 2: Previous administrations had massive amounts of regulations across climate, DEI

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Speaker 2: there will be, no doubt, a celebration of the policies

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Speaker 2: showing skepticism among some Americans about President Trump's performance, especially

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Speaker 2: it's so important that every American understands what already has

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