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Said, can we open the door, please? and they said, yeah, lets open it. and it was seen as a symbol of, were going to have a new day. and we began inviting reporters for dinner. they needed to spend time with the president and understand theyre professionals too. it gradually healed itself. >> so can the relationship between this white house press operation and its press corps be healed? >> i think theyre less interested in getting to a better relationship with the press than they are in using th...

In! >> photographer douglas mills is with "the new york times." >> and it is, what is going on, helen? she said, theyve locked us out, damn it, theyve locked us out. it was a tough time. >> the door stayed locked for months -- >> im deeply honored. >> until david gergen joined the clinton administration. >> i went to the clintons and said, can we open the door, please? and they said, yeah, lets open it. and it was seen as a symbol of, were going to have a new day. and we began inviting reporters...

Happening any time soon. so, this could last a while. >> interesting in the comments from the president there in iraq, trying to bring nancy pelosi sort of to the forefront in this thing. it looks like somebody there who is looking for a foil. you think back to 2016. we talked about this last night, that very narrow margin of victory that trump had in 2016, how crucial -- the crucial ingredient there was how unpopular hillary clinton ended up by the end of that campaign. last two years -- the ne...

Mcconnell. now mitch is still there, but now hes got to deal with nancy pelosi. and remember, congress has the power of the purse. and that is -- you know, its the article one institution. its congress is important. and i think were going to see just how important and just how powerful in the coming months. >> what do you think? how do you think that dynamic, that trump/pelosi dynamic -- we got a taste of it in the oval office a couple weeks ago. how do you think thats going to look in the next ...

That were there. she was composed and tried to stay on message and asked them not to do it on camera. the president loves nancy pelosi at the foil because she is a great foil for republicans. but i wonder if there was more to it, too. >> more to it meaning that he took it personally and that because of the way she behaved. >> maybe because of the response she got and the feedback on her in that oval office meeting. >> it helps, but i have to be honest. i always thought she and the president got ...

Knows what he did, and obviously members of the military know how much money they make and how much they made three years ago and five years ago and a lot of them have been there through the duration. i any we are going to see a lot of messaging about things that he has done and things democrats have not done, and we will have to fact check all of them as we head now back into washington and into this shutdown season, and there will be an effort for the president to paint democrats as the reason...

Especially for republicans? >> yeah, nancy pelosi has been a foil for the republican party for the last decade. the only person they like attacking more than nancy pelosi is hillary clinton. you see that consistency in the attacks. but what i do know is house democrats are going to put $1.6 billion on the line to re-open the government on january 3rd, and it passed the senate that same amount before, and we are trying to get the government back working and the president of the united states want...

Never cracked 50%, not even in the early days of his term, what they used to call the honeymoon period. the challenge for trump is that the path he took to victory in 2016 was unusually and incredibly precise and narrow. everything had to go right for him to win and it did. but if hes going to try to make that happen again in 2020 then he can afford no slippage. everything will have to go right for him once again. just the right number of votes in just the right places. and thats why he needs a ...

Throughout the 2016 campaign. his job approval rating rarely makes it out of the low 40s, thats on a good day, and hes never cracked 50%, not even in the early days of his term, what they used to call the honeymoon period. the challenge for trump is that the path he took to victory in 2016 was unusually and incredibly precise and narrow. everything had to go right for him to win and it did. but if hes going to try to make that happen again in 2020 then he can afford no slippage. everything will ...

President believes democrats running the house for the next two years will provide him with foils that he can position himself against heading into 2020. this is, of course, how its worked for a few recent predecessors, bill clinton playing off newt gingrich in the republican congress to bounce back from the midterm drumming of 94 and win reelection in 96, and barack obama doing the same with the tea party congress after 2010 to win in 2012. whether trump can replicate with nancy pelosi and the ...