What Past State of the Union Speeches Tell Us About the Future

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🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In his first State of the Union address since losing control of Congress, the president repeatedly spoke of bipartisan unity. But a history of these speeches suggests that it’s everything else he said that will best predict how he actually governs. Guest: Mark Landler, who covers the White House for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:02.2	This is The Daily.
0:03.7	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:08.6	Today, in his first state of the Union address,
0:12.7	since losing control of Congress,
0:14.8	the president repeatedly spoke of bipartisan unity.
0:18.6	But a history of these speeches
0:20.9	suggests that it's everything else he said
0:23.8	that will best predict how he actually governs.
0:27.5	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:32.9	It's Wednesday, February 6th.
0:35.8	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:38.1	Mark? Yeah, Michael?
0:39.7	Hey!
0:40.7	How are you?
0:41.4	Good, happy state of the Union.
0:43.1	Same to you.
0:44.3	I really don't like this language people use so too.
0:47.4	Yeah, it's really awful.
0:48.8	So, let's not use it.
0:49.8	It's kind of a dismal evening anyway,
0:51.8	and calling it so too just sort of...
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