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What to expect from president's State of the Union address

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    Ed Henry reports from the White House

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About 27 hours away from president Obama's first State of the Union Address of his second term -- White House correspondent Ed Henry tells us what we can expect to hear.

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Obama only use the word jobs twice in his inaugural address his team is now building Tuesday's big speech as a continuation.

Of a major push on the economy.

You will hear in the president's state of the union.

An outline from him for his plan to create jobs and grow the middle class the president.

Has always viewed the two speeches.

The inaugural address in the state of the union is.

To acts in the same play -- plays since the inaugural has featured lots of scenes with the president focusing instead on gun control.

Immigration reform and other issues.

Leading to headlines this weekend about the president pivoting back to jobs the -- Republicans say they've heard nearly a dozen times.

Since mr.

Obama first tried to pivot back from health.

Care the president spent most of his first term avoiding the issues Americans cared about the most.

What I'm suggesting is that you know do the same time.

Mr.

-- around.

White House officials -- the overall thrust of the inaugural address that was about helping the middle class and despite other issues popping up.

Jobs is priority number one.

There's no hit it -- The president's principal preoccupation since he ran for this office beginning in 2007 has been that you know what we need to do.

To make our economy work for the middle class and get the public appears to leave those efforts have fallen short with a quinnipiac poll finding last week.

53% of the public believes the nation is still in recession.

Another challenge for the president.

-- -- and you'll be more combative toward Republicans Tuesday night and we'll say very little about cutting the size of government.

Even though the latest Fox News poll found that when asked what issues they are extremely concerned about.

Number one was government spending just ahead of health care and the economy.

Despite democratic leader Nancy Pelosi claiming to Fox's Chris Wallace from Washington does not have a spending problem it is.

So almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem -- budget deficit problem that we have to address.

Now -- -- went on to claim that nothing brings more money into the US treasury than investing in education investing another word for spending.

So -- what are we hearing about whether the president will tack get tackled the deficit and -- speech ingesting because today Jay Carney said the president does believe there's a spending problem here in Washington until he seems to disagree with Nancy -- At least a little bit -- -- went on to say.

That he believes the problem is with spending on health -- something the president tried to tackle with the Affordable Care Act in Carty went on to say the president doesn't believe the government is too big right now when you compared to historic levels aside he's not going in all in on the deficit tomorrow night he's going all in on new investments Brett.

Look at Henry -- north lawn and thank you.

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