by Laura Ingraham on her Fox show The Ingraham Angle. And yes, full disclosure, I was on the show. But what instantly attracted Laura's attention was the hilarious reality of the media and how they played the Pelosi shutdown of Trump. There was one media figure after another lauding Pelosi for taking a stand against Trump by doing something that had never been done -- canceling the State of the Union.

ARI MELBER, MSNBC: Speaker Pelosi playing hardball. SUSAN PAGE, USA TODAY: She's playing hardball. CHRIS CUOMO, CNN: Speaker Pelosi flexing her constitutional muscle. DON LEMON, CNN: Nancy Pelosi flexing her muscles today. MARY BRUCE, ABC: This bold power play by Speaker Pelosi JOHN AVLON, CNN: She's got a PhD in needling President Trump. JOHN HEILEMANN, MSNBC: This ishesitation, rallied to her side. It clearly occurred to neither that once he understood their State of the Union game, Trump would find a way to reply in kind, using his version of the same kind of serious symbolism that Pelosi used.

This brings another Reagan memory. Reagan, like Trump, had a serious television and media background. On one occasion at a similar time period in the Reagan presidency, the Reagan economic recovery of tax and budget cuts, while passed by Congress had not kicked in. The recession still lingered. But curiously, there was the President out there with crowds at events that were well choreographed by Reagan's TV wizard and top aide Michael Deaver.

CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl ran a tough report on one of these events - and