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How to Watch the State of the Union
President Trump will make his first SOTU speech Tuesday night
President Donald Trump will make his first State of the Union address live from the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 9/8c. Here are the ways you can watch this major political (and television) event.
On TV
The broadcast networks will be devoting most of the evening to State of the Union coverage. CBS, ABC and NBC will cover the speech and the Democratic response (to be delivered by Rep. Joe Kennedy) from 9 to 11 p.m. ET, while Fox's coverage will end a half-hour earlier.
CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, Telemundo and Univision will also be airing the speech, while MSNBC, Fox News and Fox Business will be devoting their regular programming to covering it. Rachel Maddow and Brian Williams will be anchoring MSNBC's coverage from Rockefeller Center.Neil Cavuto will lead Fox Business' coverage.
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Online
CBSN will be streaming and live-blogging the speech, as well as fact-checking what the president says. You can also watch the SOTU on ABC News and Twitter.
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