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About this or whether its just convenient for him to blame the spokes people for not being able to clean up the messes that he creates. you go back early on and donald trump said, well he gives the communications shop a c or c plus. that continues. this is just a narrative, a something we hear over and over again from the white house. the problem there is bigger than communications. >> even with the southern roots, chris, most of the year you are an american in paris, having said that this meeti...

The communications shop in this white house, under sean spicer, is sort of, priebus area. jared and ivanka wing, has long wanted a different chief of staff. and long been frustrated at communications shop. you can see, that that is a feeling that a lot of times is shared by the president. whether he has been convinced by his daughter and son-in-law about this or whether it is just convane yeenient to blame the spokespeople for not being able to clean up the mess hes creates. go back early on. do...

Council on women and girls created by president obama in 2009. joining me is the president of the institute for womens policy research, heidi hartman. back with me now, "the nations" joan walsh. first, how would you grade ivanka whether it comes to championing this platform of equal pay for womens rights? >> oh, i hate to give her a grade, but in everything shes tried to do, we dont see yet that shes been influencing her father much. so i guess ive got to kind of give her a c, maybe a c-plus for...

Change in behavior. >> hes the type of person who feeds off the response he gets. he loved the response he got from his joint speech to congress. when he gets hammered on a day like this and realizes there was wiretapping, its publicly acknowledged, but it doesnt mean barack obama ordered it, directed it or it was criminal. he realizes he missed an opportunity to communicate better. he gave himself a c plus. >> fleischer, a plus. appreciate it. think, ari fleischer. still to come, the marines ...

>> reporter: rhode island ranks at the bottom. pothole infested. a new report by the american society of civil engineers shows that the overall grade for all of the countrys infrastructure repairs a disappointing d plus. >> we need to invest $1 trillion to get roads and bridges an transit systems and commuter trails back into a decent condition. >> reporter: according to report, the current condition is barely making the grade. bridges, c plus, 40% over 50 years old and 9% structurally deficient...

Are we safe standing here? >> we are because we installed temporary supports under the bridge to pick up the load. >> reporter: you have support beams over here. it looks bad. >> absolutely. and i think that goes to the whole condition of the infrastructure. not only in rhode island but throughout the country. >> reporter: chief structural engineer says repairs are long overdue. >> some supports are over two decades old. >> reporter: rhode island ranks at the bottom of system of our nations high...

Disappointing d plus. >> we need to investigate about $1 trillion to get our roads, our bridges, our transit systems, commuter rails, back into a decent condition. >> according to the report, the current condition is barely making the grade. bridges, c plus. almost 40% are over 50 years old, and 9% structurally deficient. roads, d. one out of every five miles in poor condition. transit, d minus. needing $90 billion in backlogged repairs. aviation, d. 24 of the top airports could face thanksgivin...

Giving up for lent. what else did you learn about how hes feeling about his job nearly two months into it. >> i went in to ask a lot of questions, and what i came away with was his relationship with the. the. it was ash wednesday. e but i learned a lot. the president has never been in his office. he calls sean spicer a lot. and on a day i was visiting him, he hadnt even seen the president. but we talked a lot about how the the president has been pretty critical of sean spicer in public. . the da...

Well respect them all the way till we kick their ass. >> allow me to give you some lessons learned from the bench. but first, you know my track record when it comes to the president. i was wrong about him ever running, wrong about him filling out even the most basic financial disclosures, wrong about the impact of the comments concerning john mccain as a p.o.w., wrong about the result of the "access hollywood" tape and wrong about the outcome of the election. the best i can say is ive been consi...

Done a great job. there is a reason that in his business people work for him for 10, 20, 30 years. he is a man who inspires loyalty. he inspires you to do your best. and he lets you know it. abby: he was on "fox & friends" earlier this week as im sure you saw. >> i did. abby: there was an interesting moment. ainsley: what grade would you give yourself a to an f? >> i think in terms of effort, which means something but i give myself an a plus, okay, effort. but thats, you know, results are more i...