We're going to get some political perspective now on the president's speech to Congress and on what comes next.

For that, we're joined by Tiffany Smiley, a former U.S. Senate candidate in Washington State, and Jamel Bowie, a columnist for the New York Times.

Welcome to you both. Thanks for being here.

Thank you for having us.

Let's just start with your reactions to the president's remarks last night.

Tiffany's President Trump riding high. His party controls Congress. He's pushed through a staggering

number of executive actions, just 44 days into the second term. What did you make of the way that

he addressed the nation last night? Yeah, I saw bold leadership and strength, a piece through strength on the world stage from President Trump, very different from 2017. He seems untethered, unburdened. This is a different Trump in the sense that he knows how to get things done in D.C. now. And he has been delivering for the American people for the last 43 days,

promises made and promises kept. Not only that, he really painted a picture of a vision of the

golden age, right, of America, of where we're headed, of what we can be as far as our economy

in this country. But the number one thing that he touched on and his guest, you know, really

backed up. I think the reason that he won the election was securing our southern border and

stopping the flow of fentanyl, protecting families. And he is already delivered on that tenfold.

I think, you know, ICE arrests of illegal criminals is up like 600% compared to the last

four years. I mean, those are huge numbers. Jamel, what do you think? What did you take away from

last night? What's interesting about these events is that they're supposed to be the president

going to Congress and asking the Congress to pursue the president's program, usually a legislative

program. And what was striking about last night was that there was very little of this.

The president doesn't really have a legislative program. The reason the president spent so much

time talking about executive orders is because I think the president and his administration

are more than aware

that they don't really have either the leeway or perhaps ability to get through an actual

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