what happened to that? well, here s the thing i think that scott gets a little bit wrong. while the president would look good politically in a situation where he comes up to capitol hill and brings everyone together and cuts a deal, the fact is that even though he has represented himself in this presidency as a deal maker and as a candidate as a deal maker, he hasn t really cut those kinds of deals when it s come down to it. he really has played to the base. he s tried to energy his base, and the major legislation he s passed, you look at tax reform, it passed with republican votes, not with democrats. so this is an opportunity for the president to establish himself as a deal maker. but what we saw, for example, when chuck schumer went down to the white house and there weren t going to be any republicans in the room, was that republicans got nervous because they didn t trust the president to negotiate first of all in good faith, but second of all in a way that would be advantageous t