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Good morning, everyone. I'm Chief Playbook correspondent Eugene Daniels. It is Tuesday, March 4th, and you already know what's driving the day.

At 9 p.m. tonight, President Donald Trump will speak to a joint session of Congress in his first major address since his return to the White House.

And here to chat with me more about what to expect from that is senior congressional editor,

Mike Dubonis. Hello, Debonis.

Hi, Eugene.

It's a big day for you and the entire political newsroom, especially your team on the Congress side.

No, see, I believe it's especially a big day for the White House team. Oh, yeah. They're the ones giving the speech. That's true. Your folks are receiving the speech. We're just sitting there and taking it. Yeah, taking it all in. I mean, for you guys, right, for your entire team, you guys have been talking about this for a long time and in the run up, I'm sure.

Let's talk about kind of the big themes.

What are you, what are the reporters on the congressional team?

Like, what do they expect to hear Trump say to me?

Oh, I mean, provocation, basically.

I mean, that's what he has used these speeches for,

is to rub it in people's faces.

And I would expect no differently. You know, his last speech in 2020,

literally weeks before the world ended,

was a remarkable display of theatricality and basically settling scores and trying to get the better of Democrats.

You'll recall that he was a day away from getting acquitted on impeachment charges.

He thought he was, had basically sealed his reelection and Democrats were in a terrible mood.

Dancy Pelosi ripped up the speech. We all remember. That's right. That's right. That's also the

state of the union where Rush Limbaugh was given the Medal of Freedom, right? Surprisingly.

Rush Limbaugh was given the Medal of Freedom. There was, you know, a military family was reunited in the gallery. It was, it was just, it was wild. So he's got, he set that bar and you have to assume that he's going to try and weep over it in some way. And, you know, and you talk about the Democrats and their frame of mind, it's not much better now

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