KEITH: Was there anything about this speech that was surprising, like on a policy front, or was there anything that jumped out at you and you were like, whoa, I wasn't expecting that? And you could kind of feel that in the mood in the building leading up to today. This year was no different than that it just felt a little bit more enhanced in that Republicans were more animated and Democrats were totally flat and at times, particularly when the president was talking about immigration, outwardly hostile, booing and hissing the things he said. So what was it like?ĭAVIS: You know, there's always a bit of - sort of two Americas - right? - inside these rooms, where the party in power tends to be more enthusiastic about the president's speech, and the party out of power tends to sit there a little bit more glumly. Sue, you are over in our spacious booth on the House side of the Capitol, and you were there in the chamber for the speech. MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: And I'm Mara Liasson, national political correspondent. I cover Congress.ĭOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: I'm Domenico Montanaro, political editor. KEITH: We've got an all-star team here to walk through the big speech - literally, very big. TRUMP: Because Americans are dreamers, too. But embedded in it all, there were hints of the division that dominated Trump's first year in office. KEITH: The overarching theme was a call for unity. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The state of our union is strong because our people are strong. President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. It's the NPR POLITICS PODCAST here with another special late-night edition. (SOUNDBITE OF THE BIG TOP ORCHESTRA'S "TEETER BOARD: FOLIES BERGERE (MARCH AND TWO-STEP)")
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