Tamara Keith

Domenico, President Trump has a way with his State of the Union addresses that there's a production value to it.

And that certainly happened tonight as he was talking about winning, about the country winning so much that you'll be tired of winning.

Let's hear a little bit of that.

And of course, in that moment when he was talking about winning and building and building, then he introduced the men's ice hockey team, the USA men's ice hockey team that truly, literally did just win at the Olympics.

And fall asleep because it was very late at night.

Yeah.

You know, Sam, as we're talking about Congress, he, you know, I've watched many State of the Union addresses over the years, and often the president comes in and he's got this laundry list of things that he wants Congress to do.

President Trump's list was short in terms of what he actually says he wants Congress, this Republican-controlled Congress, to do.

Do you think that they're going to be able to accomplish even that short list?

And the SAVE Act, just so people know, would require ID for voting, but also proof of citizenship to vote, which is where Democrats, that was one of many moments where Republicans were standing and Democrats were sitting down.

Can we just pause on the fact that right now there is a partial government shutdown, that the Department of Homeland Security lacks funding right now?

There are people, you know, TSA agents and others who are working without pay until something is resolved.

President Trump mentioned that briefly, as Domenico says, he called for the restoration of Homeland Security funding.

But I didn't really get any sense of a path to any sort of compromise or a path out of this shutdown.

Sam, what did you hear?

Mara, President Trump celebrated Olympic gold medals.

He handed out major presidential honors.

He awarded a Purple Heart, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Legion of Honor, Legion of Merit Award.

You know, the State of the Union is not typically the venue where these things happen.

What is President Trump hoping to accomplish with these awards and these moments?