CBS News - State of the Union - 2007-01-23

Name: CBS News - State of the Union - 2007-01-23
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[0:02] This is a CBS [music] News special

[0:04] report.

[0:06] The president's State of the Union

[0:08] address to a joint session of Congress.

[0:11] From Washington, here is Katie Kurrick.

[0:15] >> Good evening, everyone. This is the

[0:17] sixth time President Bush is reporting

[0:18] to Congress and the American people on

[0:21] the State of the Union. But it is the

[0:23] first time he's appearing before a

[0:24] Congress controlled by the opposition

[0:27] party, the Democrats. And another first

[0:29] tonight, a woman is presiding over this

[0:31] joint session of the House and Senate.

[0:33] The new Speaker of the House, Democrat

[0:34] Nancy Pelosi of California. We're told

[0:37] the president will acknowledge this

[0:38] moment, this very special milestone in

[0:41] history. In just a few minutes, back

[0:43] there at the capital, she'll officially

[0:45] introduce the president. Mr. Bush will

[0:47] lay out his agenda for his final two

[0:49] years in the White House. He leaves

[0:51] office 104 weeks from today. The

[0:54] president is facing a tough audience

[0:56] tonight. at a Congress opposed to his

[0:57] Iraq policy, an American public that

[1:00] says the country is heading in the wrong

[1:02] direction.

[1:04] Bob Schiffer is our chief Washington

[1:06] correspondent who has covered countless

[1:09] states of the union, if you will. And

[1:11] Bob, he is facing a very tough crowd,

[1:14] including members of his own party

[1:15] tonight.

[1:16] >> Absolutely. This is a very different

[1:18] kind of audience for George Bush. For

[1:20] one thing, the majority now is held by

[1:23] the Democrats. Uh this uh This group

[1:27] assembled here tonight is very very

[1:29] skeptical of the president's war policy.

[1:32] Uh tomorrow the Senate Forei