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00:00No pressure, you're opening the program this evening, so let me start by asking you this.
00:05If you were to write President Trump's report card for last night, what score would you
00:09give him for that 100-minute long speech?
00:11Tom, I thought it was a B-plus type of speech.
00:16First of all, as someone who has to watch the speech for work, I do media here and of
00:20course overseas with you folks, I had to stay up and watch the whole thing.
00:23Two hours is a really, really long speech.
00:26We're hearing some indications this morning that it might be the longest joint address
00:30of Congress in history.
00:32That's a little bit tongue-in-cheek, but I prefer less is more type of speeches.
00:37I thought he did a decent job of handling the heckling early on.
00:40I thought he did a good job of addressing the domestic issues.
00:43If I had one criticism of the speech, I thought it was short on foreign policy.
00:47Foreign policy, by the way, that's not unusual.
00:48Ordinarily, American voters don't care that much.
00:51American public doesn't follow foreign policy that closely.
00:54It's just the virtue of our history and our geography.
00:57But that being said, the meeting with Zelensky last week in the Oval Office was so high-profile
01:02and garnered so much media attention that I thought we might get a little bit more detail
01:07last night on foreign policy in general, on Ukraine in specific.
01:11But the reports here are pretty good.
01:12The polling is in the overnights, and the approval ratings of the speech across all
01:17political spectrums are the high 60s, low 70s.
01:20It's pretty good for any politician in this divided environment in my country.