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Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast here with another special late night edition. President Trump delivered his first state of the union address Tuesday night.

The state of our union is strong because our people are strong.

The overarching theme was a call for unity, but embedded in it all, there were hints of the division that dominated Trump's first year in office.

Because Americans are dreamers too.

We've got an all-star team here to walk through the big speech. Literally very big. It was now in 20 minutes long.

I'm Tamra Keith. I cover the White House for NPR.

I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress.

I'm Domenico Montanero, political editor. And I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.

All right, Sue, you are over in our spacious booth on the house side of the Capitol.

And you were there in the chamber for the speech. So what was it like?

You know, there's always a bit of sort of two Americas, right, inside these rooms where the party in power tends to be more enthusiastic about the president's speech.

And the party out of power tends to sit there a little bit more glumly.

This year was no different than that. It just felt a little bit more enhanced in that Republicans were more animated and Democrats were totally flat.

And at times, particularly when the president was talking about immigration, outwardly hostile, booing and hissing the things he said.

And you could kind of feel that in the mood and the building leading up to today.

Was there anything about this speech that was surprising, like on a policy front, or was there anything that jumped out at you?

And you're like, whoa, I wasn't expecting that.

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