That was a s--- show,” CNN’s Dana Bash said. “It was a train wreck. But it was the making of one person,” NBC’s Chuck Todd said, referring to the president. And one news report after another characterized the president as “arrogant” and “un-American.”.

Debate has endured for years as to what should be done to bridge the gap that interrupts Interstate 49, and conversation has heated up again with a series of public comment sessions held in late January.