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Hello and welcome to News Air from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And coming up today, what will people in Spain learn about the attempted coup there in 1981?
Official documents relating to that historic moment have just been made public.
Also why the rapper Snoop Dogg is twirling his towel with the swans.
That's coming up later.
But we are going to begin today in Washington DC in the annual State of the Union address that the President gives to Congress.
For Donald Trump it was a chance to reflect on his first year
since his return to the White House and he did so at some length.
A record breaking one hour and 47 minutes in which it was less reflection,
more a combative hard sell of what he claimed was a turnaround for the ages,
particularly when it comes to the economy.
But it's a message that he's struggling to land.
Mr.
Trump's own approval ratings are in the doldrums, and according to one recent poll,
a majority of Americans say they feel worse off than a year ago.
We'll talk about that and what it means for a Republican party with its eyes now on November's midterm elections in a moment.