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And procedures theyre allowing today. i mean theyre up for emergency room operations, but other than that, do you know if that has been changed since it seems to be dialing back right now, the tenor of things? >> reporter: it does seem to be dialing back, but again, there are a lot of streets down here that remain closed to either vehicular or pedestrian access, so those elective surgeries, the hospital had put those off. again, if you didnt have to be in this area, you really didnt want to and ...

Into that isolationist, nationalist mode flanked by steven bannon or steven miller and not necessarily those working on health care reform, tax reform. >> yeah. so i mean, i take a little issue with that. i dont know who you spoke to inside the white house saying those kind of things but i would say to those people you spoke to is dial it down a little bit and coagulate around the team and around the mission, coalesce around the team and the president. i hear this sort of national stuff, nationa...

Orders to make a point to the people that i am going to do things one way or the other and i think those trade orders that saw yesterday are an example of that, and you know, but the administration has also said, and working with ball ryan and others in the house and nate that they want to get tax agenda going now and they want to get an infrastructure shift going now so those are part of the promises they made in the campaign and i think that the president feels very strongly that every week he...

They want a long-term relationship with the united states and well see how things go with the discussions, but its very measured, not quite as hyperbolic as things are on our side, but i dont think that theres going to be issues regarding chinas currency manipulator and some of the other things. >> you think some of that will be dialed back? >> i think so, yeah. >> do you think when you look at something like immigration, for example, will there similarly be a dialing back? because again if you ...

He has a right to say that, but to give comfort to the enemy, which is the hardline in iran, i think was shocking. just shocking. and im very surprised john mccain signed the letter. >> hes having second thoughts. all you have to ask john mccain about the letter and he gets wobbly on it right away. he also said this -- >> beth, the guy every once in a while is honest about these things. >> hes supposed to be the lion of foreign policy for republicans up there. >> except when theres a snowstorm c...

To be dialing back, stepping away from reporting on the story and also stepping back from the woman who was at the center of that piece. >> after an article that prompted outrage at the university of virginia, rolling stone magazine has apologized for discrepancies about an alleged gang rape on the campus. editors said they made the choice not to contact key figures in recession to the jackie on jackies fear of retaliation against her. in the face of new information there now appear to be discre...

Container. he said i had to get that information out there because the families of the people who are missing deserve to know what we know but, yes, it could be just a shipping container, nothing to do with that flight. so disappointment with the australian government as well that they seem to be dialing back, all around no progress. the optimism that was here just 24 hours ago, the buzz is now really fading. >> so disappointing to hear because the pings from those black boxes, the batteries are...

Do we have in this situation? >> well i think what we should be doing and what i dont think the administration is doing is making it very clear to north korea that this behavior is unacceptable. weve done some -- weve taken some steps, which i think are visible in the past several weeks, but, you know, we are now hearing reporting, im sure leaked by the whi house, that we are dialing back, that secretary of state john kerry will try diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis. that is music to nort...