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Perspective, strode out to the podium with two things in mind. two act. first act was a pheupb city state of the union address pushing against an unaeurbl negative media narrative ab how his administration has begun. he said heres how i see things talking directly to millions watching tv. the second part of it was the q&a. it was striking. open rhetorical war fare with the press throughout most of it. and the people who love him, the people who elected him, theyre watching that and they ate ever...

>> the reality is this president doesnt talk to democrats. >> he had democrats over to the white house for lunch just this last week. >> when you look at all the nominees that they put forth, when you look at what theyre doing in the first two weeks of this administration, the first act was to make it harder for first time homebuyers to buy a home. the other day they made it harder for people saving for retirement to do that. so this notion that theres been consultation with democrats, that cert...

Of experience in foreign relations as well as national security. he said hes going to defer to them. if you heard the speech that rex tillerson made today to the employees, his first act when he came in was to talk to the employees and to say safety of all of them and our representatives throughout the world is number one and then he also said that he understood that people differed in the election but we are one team now. it was very inspirational. so i think there are some really good points o...

Think he had a key role in the prosecution of basketball mcdonald the former virginia governor. which is a story we followed on this show. we know his first act was to rescind the order from sally yates the woman who was fired tonight from the president. which essentially means that dana bonte has ordered justice department lawyers that they must defend the trump executive order in court. how do you think that will play out? >> i dont think this is an order thats defensible in court ultimately. ...

We think he had a key role in the prosecution of the former virginia governor, which is a story we covered closely on this show. his first act after being sworn in tonight was to rescind the order from sally yates, the woman who was fired tonight by the president. which essentially means that dana ordered lawyers that they must defend the trump executive order in court. how do you think that will play out? >> i dont think this is an order thats defensible in court ultimately. the constitution is...

This is something britain has always understood. its why britain is the only country in the g-20 other than yours to meet its commitment to spend 2% of gdp on defense and 20% of that in upgrading equipment. [applause] it is why britain is the only country in the g-20 to spend 9. 7% of gross national income on overseas development. its why my first act of prime minister was to lead the debate in particliament that ensures britians nuclear determent and why i increase spending on defense in every ...

The idea of sort of procedure giving people a chance to defend themselves openly. it should be reformed. you dont do it in the middle of the night. you dont do it as a first act, and you dont do it without democratic support. its just plain stupid. >> bret: i want to get to the tweets on gm. today the president-elect, general motors is sending mexican made model of chevy cruze of cross-border. make in usa. pay big border tax. gm released a statement saying general motors manufactures the chevy c...

The idea of sort of procedure giving people a chance to defend themselves openly. it should be reformed. you dont do it in the middle of the night. you dont do it as a first act, and you dont do it without democratic support. its just plain stupid. >> bret: i want to get to the tweets on gm. today the president-elect, general motors is sending mexican made model of chevy cruze of cross-border. make in usa. pay big border tax. gm released a statement saying general motors manufactures the chevy c...

Fallout, especially on capitol hill now because we know theyre going to pursue apparently maybe even tougher sanctions? >> yeah. i have a different view than michael. i think what president obama is doing on all the fronts that you mentioned, on israel with the settlements, with what they tried to do with obamacare and with relations with russia is establishing a set of trip wires for donald trump. these are all areas where he knows that trump wants to significantly change the direction of u.s. ...

Stop defending it, it would make the obamacare insurance market untenable going forward. thats one big action they could take right off the bat. >> anne mentioned this. price has actually introduced a plan in congress previously to repeal and replace obamacare. it was called the empowering patients first act. walk us through. what did that do is that sort of an outline for what we might expect? >> it certainly fits the conservative model for replacing obamacare. one is the most conservative way ...