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With this new chief of staff, can jeff sectiossions, at least were learning from politico that the general has a closed door policy in the oval office, hes trying to put normalcy and discipline into the white house but do you see it happening? >> i think general kelly has a really tough job ahead of him. the good news is that it cant really get worse, he cant help but be an improvement on his predecessor, reince priebus. the president has more respect for him, the president despite his bluster u...

Whats being rolled back with the regs and epa. what about the big ticket promises during the campaign? obviously theres going to be a temptation to measure the effectiveness by the big tickets. >> thats right. i think theres an irony here. we had steve bannon talking at the beginning of this administration about dismantling the administrative state. what were seeing is where trump is getting things done is almost exclusively through what the administration state can do, undoing regulations here ...

And mexico. and in the case of our neighbor to the south, the transcripts also reveal that while president trump repeatedly tweets disdain for the media, he cares what the press thinks. "the washington post" obtained the transcript to the presidents phone call with mexican president enrique pena nieto in january a week after the inauguration and so let me read part of how this transcript goes with that conversation. president trump says, "the only thing i will ask you, though, is on the wall, yo...

Who tell me they dont mind paying more in taxes. >> melissa: all of that is bluster in the sense that kevin brady did a fantastic interview with bill hemmer yesterday in which he answered that specific question and talked about the fact that youre not hearing that from steve mnuchin who is the presidents representative on this, who weve all heard has a 100 people chained to their desk and treasury working on this around the clock, no matter what everybody else is working on. i would point to tha...

We always talk about these losing hands or who has the upper hand. the truth is that the russian government doesnt have all that many tools in this proverbial tool box to use. this move was delayed in order to expel diplomats. that was something that was a holdover from sanctions put in place during the obama administration. there were hopes it would change under trump. moving forward, its kind of a lot of talk and a lot of bluster, but theres not so much that vladimir putin can do except for, o...

Other than 140 characters or less of bluster toward kim jong un. >> what he needs is to talk to the chinese and say, look, you can support north korea or you can do business with the united states but you cant do both. if we are able to say that and have the chinese believe us, then i think we can push beijing in the right direction. up to now, they have not seen political will out of the united states when it comes to north korea and they havent taken us seriously and this has been the case for...

Hillary was because he was authentic. he is back out there on the campaign trail. hes an authentic person. it resonates. >> yes, but one, when he goes after the media, i feel like its how he is going after sessions. f apparently jeff sessions is blowing it off and ignoring it. i think the media is too. trump actually does like jeff sessions. they will probably make up at some point. he does likes the media. he did an interview today with the fake media. he likes to have them around. to me, this ...

>> one of the reasons trump beat hillary was because he was oughtentic. -- authentic. he is back out there on the campaign trail. it resonates. >> yes, but 1, when he goes after the media, i feel like its how he is going after sessions. apparently jeff sessions is blowing it off and ignoring it. i think the media is too. trump does like jeff sessions. they will probably makeup at some point. he likes the media. he did an interview today with the fake media. he likes to have them around. this is ...

>> one of the reasons trump beat hillary was because he was oughtentic. -- authentic. he is back out there on the campaign trail. it resonates. >> yes, but 1, when he goes after the media, i feel like its how he is going after sessions. apparently jeff sessions is blowing it off and ignoring it. i think the media is too. trump does like jeff sessions. they will probably makeup at some point. he likes the media. he did an interview today with the fake media. he likes to have them around. this is ...

Much as much evidence to suggest hes just saying this stuff about sessions because he wants to get rid of sessions. >> right but theres another point, chris, too, which is that he knows one speed. he knows whats worked for him. >> thats right. >> he knows to cuomos fight taking the fight to washington, to republicans to the sewer thats the one thing thats worked and in his mind, he may be right, he can fight this russia investigation and all comers, maybe he runs on this for re-election and mayb...