HELLO.
JEFF: THANKS FOR JOINING US.
TOP STORY PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLED
FOR UNITY TONIGHT IN HIS FIRST
STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS AS
POLLS SHOW THE COUNTRY IS
DIVIDED.
ELSA: HE CHALLENGED
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS TO
WORK TOGETHER ON IMMIGRATION
REFORM AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
POLITICAL REPORTER DAVE BRYAN
HAS MORE ON THE PRESIDENT'S
SPEECH.
A POLL TAKEN TONIGHT ABOUT
THE REACTION TO THE POLL IN THIS
SPEECH OF UNITY SHOWS THE PUBLIC
DIVIDED.
THERE WERE LOUD CHEERS BUT ALSO
BOOS WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS
OUTLINING THE FOUR PLANKS OF HIS
PLAN.
THERE WAS PUSH BACK FROM
DEMOCRATS AFTER THE SPEECH.
AMONG ISSUES WERE IMMIGRATION
AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: TONIGHT I
CALL UPON ALL OF US TO SET ASIDE
OUR DIFFERENCES TO SEEK OUT
COMMON GROUND AND TO SUM ON THE
UNITY.
REPORTER: PRESIDENT DONALD
TRUMP OPENED HIS FIRST STATE OF
THE UNION ADDRESS WITH A PLEA
FOR UNITY AT A TIME OF DIVISION
AND HOSTILITY.
THE PRESIDENT CALLED ON
DEMOCRATS TO JOIN HIM IN
APPROVING A PLAN TO REBUILD THE
COUNTRY'S INFRASTRUCTURE.
I'M CALLING ON CONGRESS TO
PRODUCE A BILL THAT GENERATES AT
LEAST $1.5 TRILLION FOR THE NEW
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT THAT
OUR COUNTRY SO DESPERATELY
NEEDS.
HE PREFACED HIS IMMIGRATION
PLAN WITH AN EXTENDED MONOLOGUE
TO FINDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AS
WORKHORSE ARE TAKING JOBS AWAY
FROM AMERICANS AND GANGSTERS WHO
ARE KILLING AMERICANS.
FOR DECADES OPEN BORDERS HAVE
ALLOWED DRUGS AND GANGS TO POUR
INTO
COMMUNITIES.
THEY'VE ALLOWED MILLIONS OF LOW
WAGE WORKERS TO COMPETE FOR JOBS
AND WAGES AGAIN THE POOREST
AMERICANS.
MOST TRAGICALLY THEY HAVE CAUSED
THE LOSS OF MANY INNOCENT LIVES.
PRESIDENT TRUMP PUT A
SPOTLIGHT ON FAMILIES WHOSE
CHILDREN WERE MURDERED BY A
GANG.
SIX MEMBERS OF THE SAVAGE
M.S.13'S GANG HAVE BEEN CHARGED.
TO MAKE HIS POINT ABOUT
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
HE INVITED HERRERA A DREAMER
FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO BE
HIS GUEST AT THE STATE OF THE
UNION ADDRESS AND SHE WAS NOT
HAPPY WITH SOME OF PRESIDENT
TRUMP'S LANGUAGE ABOUT
IMMIGRANTS.
IN MY COMMUNITY THERE ARE
HARD WORKING PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO
WANT A BETTER FUTURE.
WHEN THE PRESIDENT FOCUSED ON
HIS IMMIGRATION PLAN THERE WERE
BOOS.
A SINGLE IMMIGRANT CAN BRING
IN VIRTUALLY UNLIMITED NUMBERS
OF DISTANT RELATIVES.
UNDER OUR PLAN WE FOCUS ON. . .
MASSACHUSSETTS JOE KENNEDY
III SAID THIS ADMINISTRATION IS
CREATING ANGER.
A GOVERNMENT THAT STRUGGLES
TO KEEP ITSELF OPEN, RUSSIA,
KNEE DEEP IN OUR DEMOCRACY ALL
OUT WATER, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
ROLLING BACK CIVIL RIGHTS BY THE
DAY.
REPORTER: LAWMAKERS INCLUDING
MEMBERS OF CONGRESSIONAL BLACK
CAUCUS BOYCOTTED THE SPEECH.
A PHONE CALL INDICATED THAT 48%
OF THOSE WHO WATCHED IT SAID
THEY HAD A POSITIVE FEELING
ABOUT THE SPEECH.
SO THAT'S HIGHER THAN THE
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