Name: Acosta: A state of the base speech, not a State of the Union speech
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but I want to go Jim Acosta at the White House right now with reaction there.

I mean, I think this was a state of the base speech, not a State of the Union speech.

The state of the trump basis, strong to save the union is deeply divided.

That was on display tonight, and we're just getting some reaction to what happened inside that hall.

I will tell you, I talked to a White House official just a short while ago.

Responding Thio House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripping up the president's speech as soon as he was finished, right in front of the vice president, Mike Pence, and this, White House officials said, For such a really big night, she sure behaved pretty small.

But I will tell you, Anderson, I talked to a Trump advisor just a short time ago, just a few minutes ago.

Who speaks with the president regularly, who said, You know, the president missed an opportunity here.

He had a chance tonight with a deeply divided country watching to extend a bit of an olive branch, and when Nancy Pelosi reached out to shake his hand, Hey snubbed her and in the words of this adviser, that was a missed opportunity.

And so I think this just really sets the stage a CZ you all have been saying for the for the months to come.

Yes, the president had some heartwarming moments during this speech, but he was also engaging in some deeply divisive rhetoric aimed at immigrants aimed at Latinos.

And while yes, he was trying to make appeals to the African American community, it can't be forgotten that he was awarding the Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh, who has a history of making derogatory comments about African Americans.

And so I think, you know, overall, it's a wash.

And as David Axelrod was saying, the base pays a lot more attention to what the president says at these rallies than what they do at the State of the Union speech.

Anderson very much from the White House back now with our panel of Rickman cover.

Yeah, First off, I would I would just say that this was the best delivered speech that I've seen the president give.

This was the most presidential speech Donald Trump was ever given.

He I mean the idea that this was a base speeches.

If this was some sort of rally speech, it was not a base speech.

I mean, yeah, he talked about things he was he his administration is doing and wants to D'oh.

Just like every president doesn't you don't go out and say, Well, that's a base speech.

It means he's putting forth is just like Gretchen Whitmer talked about the thing, so I think that's a complete mischaracterization.

The presence rhetoric is really hostile to minorities.

The reality is in his rallies, he talks about African American unemployment.

He talks about, you know, he talks about youth poverty in African Americans.

He goes through the litany at the beginning of this speech, where he talked to that You know the facts of all of the different statistics of how well different groups of people wage earners, manufacturers, blacks, Hispanics in the context of all the other things he's doing opportunities.

This present believes that his policies and what he's trying to accomplish is a different path.

School choice is a different path than the liberal status path that the Democrats have laid out for the African community and who's making that pitch, and he's not going to stop.

And that's why no justice reform was so important to him.

Now you may say it will know he'll never work.

He's gonna go after that vote, and he's got a little good What, what, what?

I think it's what I think it is clear to me is that Democrats are gonna have to work harder to explain why our pathway is better than Hiss.

Listen, African Americans gave 99 black women 96% of our support.

That's as close to unanimous as you get into the democratic election anywhere in the world, families hire, but the closer you get and there is a is important, I think, for Democrats support to point out that that's a worthwhile investment to make in this party.

But I mean, Trump, you've been taken for way.

No, that's what I'm trying to say is that there is a liberal bubble that just dismisses all of it out of hand.

And I think we are gonna have to sharpen our argument.

That's it, Um, his attacks on the Latino community.

I know you say he's only going after illegal immigration when illegal.

White men are much more violent and create much more crimes than the group he's talking about, but he's picking this group out for a reason.

He's picking this group out to demonize them and to hold them up for a fall scrutiny and getting going in going after sanctuary Cities sanctuary cities When Secretary cities are safer than non sanctuaries way, haven't even the governor can.

This is speech was delivered all in the context of somebody who has lied now 16,000 times.

And you remember when Obama was president and wanted to tout the gains in the economy.

He was very sensitive about how people were feeling things on the ground, not toe over state stuff.

And so tonight, he says, you know that he's got the created more jobs, five million more jobs than the Obama administration.

And people across the country who are in these communities that have been hurting, particularly manufacturing communities.

There is a manufacturing recession happening.

He cannot go 1/4 and claim that everything is rosy when individuals are not feeling that on the ground when he when he brags about the stock market.

40% of Americans a lot of them in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and a lot of the Southern states to the poor communities that they 40% do not even have $400 in the bank account.

So you cannot continue to say everything is great.

It's wonderful when the rial GDP of everyday citizens is not that and then one other thing I want to say, because he spent a good amount of time on health care, and I know we disagreed about this at the beginning.

But truly he has put forth a budget that is proposing to cut Medicaid by over $800 million Social Security to stand up there and say I'm gonna protect all of your health care is just not true.

I could go through the litany of things that he said that we're not true.

Drug price negotiation Hold up drug I mean, it has been declared by PolitiFact to be a lie that drug prices have gone down.

The Democrats have passed a drug price cutting bill.

It is sitting on the 275 stack that is on Mitch McConnell's desk.

Same thing with infrastructure is, is I want to pass an infrastructure built Broadbent.

And tell it in a way that resonates with what people's real experiences across the country.

Well, pre existing conditions is another issue.

I mean, you could attack everyone a Medicare fall on.

You might have an argument to make about that, because the Democrats are arguing about that and he talked about the socialist takeover, and I know you're gonna argue with me on this, but but but you have a Justice Department that is fighting the protection of pre existing conditions.

And you say you want to protect preexisting conditions?

If he really wants to protect preexisting conditions, why doesn't he do something about Okay, well, first off, there's a law in place called Obamacare that protects precinct she's trying to undo.

That happens to be one small part of the way they do care deeply about it.

But by the way, most states already had a protection for precinct position prior to the federal law.

So I don't understand what and with all respect to Jake, it's not a lie.

The president has from the very beginning said I will not do anything to take away protection for pre existing condition, and so I would tell them they are trying to repeal a broader in law, all of the Legislature, and he did wrong.

Because they all want to united because they all want to replace.

We want to improve if you want to replace Bernie.

Sanders wants to replace the one Once the health care Hebrew just once they all want, they'll want to fundamentally different building.

None of their proposals would leave people with preexisting condition.