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But hes also being likely dismissive of this as if its a distraction when its the voice of the president of the united states. people take it seriously and hear what he has to say. i think its a lot of wishful thinking. >> this is a case where i wouldnt argue for north korea refrained from provoxative actions. he had policy stuff in there and diplomacy. he was offering an off-ramp out of the crisis. i dont think that the fact remains the product of the people around the present. he almost got th...

Should underscore, goes with the larger communication strategy we have seen since day one. at least from the president himself has been focused overwhelmingly on general his base. >> real policy stuff is happening too. a bill weapons on tax reform. you say tax cuts not tax reform. >> what they said was they wanted permanent tax reform. it requires them to raise money to offset the tax cuts. theyre not going to get anywhere near that. there is no remote indication this white house has the dexteri...

The president tweeted about that. you dont have enough votes to actually win. steve: he actually, in a primary, keep in mind he is a sitting u.s. senator. he was trailing by 26 points as of the last poll. so he was not going to win re-election. brian: but it gives chuck schumer and company and all the enemies of the president and there are many, fuel to the fire. he went out and overwhelmed the presidents message of tax reform yesterday and so far that i could see the president has not tweeted a...

The finish line. engaging in this kind of a tweet war with bob corker. i mean, look, if thats what the president wants to do with his time, thats obviously his prerogative. but hes also out there saying look, the republican senate is not helping me pass my agenda. part of the reason why the republican senate is skeptical of him is because of incidents like this. now, i would also argue to you, chris, that while we obviously are paying a lot of attention to this very personal kind of back and for...

Ambassador, because we talk about the relationship of rex tillerson and the president, and we talked about the impromptu news conference sparked by reporting of tensions with rex tillerson, but the policy stuff is critical here. because you have senator corker, the head of the foreign relations committee, and the guy that oversees and has the jurisdiction with the state department here, and he said to reporters that secretary mattis and secretary tillerson and chief of staff are keeping this ed ...

President trump, and to my own house, i cannot be there all the time to yell at everybody. you have to have generals backing you up. i think that that is where that comes in. you almost need someone that strong. >> kennedy: it is interesting, because that is traditionally the role of role of the chief f and the white house to act like a general credit is interesting that he literally is putting a general in charge. but the thing that i think is curious about his choice to take the position, abby...

Policies affecting the largest military in the world with them. but i think both the transgender policy stuff that he tweeted and also that super like bordering on violent anti-immigrant stuff hes been doing, i mean you put those two things together and youre pretty close to a portrait of the things that matter to jeff sessions as a politician and the things that might excite a pro-jeff sessions, trump-supporting base member. so i think especially if you see those two things together, i think he...

Natured assemblage of mini nationalist groups. mini independence movements from around the world. and one of the groups they hosted at their dialogue of nations group was, yes, california. yes, california. you heard about this after the election. they got a little flurry of attention after our presidential election. californias legislature was getting a lot of attention for how that state might take an aggressive, strategic approach to outflank the new trump administration on policy stuff, parti...

How that state might take an aggressive, strategic approach to outflank the new trump administration on policy stuff, particularly on immigration. but beyond that, there were also these almost human interest politics story about california seceding. this new tech savvy slick, kind of appealing, vaguely liberal sounding yes california movement. that was calling for california to not just resist the u.s. government under trump but for california to become its own country. and, in fact, yes califor...

Everybody he said he was doing. he has been consistent. nothing new there is what donald trump said years going back. >> two issues i think that imee gerly anticipated are tax reform and how he going to repeal parts of the affordable care act. thats where he has to reach across the aisle and work to -- >> think on the policy stuff, any think i think connected to tax reform, less revenue, he has to ask congress for money. he has to go up to the congress with -- omb -- >> you have daughter going t...