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Takeaways and Reactions From Trump's Second State of the Union
Anita Kumar, White House correspondent and associate editor at Politico, and Ali Velshi, MSNBC anchor and business correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, offer analysis of Pres. Trump's State of the Union address and the Democratic responses from Stacey Abrams and Xavier Becerra.
Then, listeners call in to react to President Trump's State of the Union speech.