David E. Sanger

And in this dramatic moment, we simply can't yet tell.

Hey, Michael, we're back again.

Oh, yeah.

It was an hour and 47 minutes.

You know, for years, we thought that Bill Clinton set the record at 99 minutes.

Right.

And people couldn't believe how verbose he was.

But Donald Trump has shown consistently he can go longer.

Yep.

Well, he had a lot to get done because a year ago, he was coming in fresh from a big electoral victory.

People were kind of tired of the Biden years.

Now he came into this one with polls showing that voters have turned on President Trump pretty severely, that more than 60 percent are saying that his priorities are not their priorities.

They're concerned about affordability and inflation.

They're worried about tariffs and were a little bit relieved when the Supreme Court seemed to step in and say the president overstepped his authority.

They're concerned that we've put a good percentage of our Navy and Air Force off the coast of Iran for what may be an invasion that people are still pretty apprehensive about.

And there's a midterm election looming and a lot of very nervous Republicans who have backed President Trump sitting in that audience worried about what it is that they'll be stuck with come November.

So he had a lot of hurdles to go across tonight.

So the president walked in with the usual introductions, each one of which leads to a burst of applause.

There are protests among some of the Democrats.

But, you know, he immediately diffused the big issue, which was how would he deal with the Supreme Court that he had denounced as unpatriotic just days before.