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To could not believe that what they were watching and witnessing. it did go on for 76 minutes. >> jesse: the reporters couldnt believe what they watched and with itted on election night either so they dont have the best judgment. >> true. >> jesse: larry, to be fair, judy said it was like a tricycle with the wheels falling off. the guy has done a lot so far. in terms of deregulation, the mining announcement, hes staffing up the cabinet, got a supreme court deal done, sanctions on iran, the borde...

Witnessing. it did go on for 76 minutes. >> jesse: the reporters couldnr believe what they watched on election night either so they dont have the best judgment. >> true. >> jesse: larry, to be fair, judy said it was like a tricycle with the wheels falling off. the guy has done a lot so far.al in terms of deregulation, the mining announcement, hes staffing up the cabinet, got a supreme court deal done, sanctions on iran, the border wall is being expedited, pipelines are being expedited, hiring fr...

Had my lunch with the president, do you have a good joke i can tell him? reagan always had a fresh joke. he always had something and bush -- he had all the policy stuff. he just needed to be armed with a couple good jokes. >> david, can he -- >> youre the pesh i go to. >> can pence learn from h.w. on the issue of saying his own mind? remember in his debate, he was against -- opposite side of trump on issue after issue yet here he is, youre saying walking in his shadow and not stepping on -- >> a...

Republican candidates with democrats picturing themselves with ronald reagan on there. >> i think thats one of the interesting things, i dont know if we know about donald trump. my sense is he will be picking up the phone a lot. he may not be in the weeds on policy stuff. >> right. >> but my sense is, hes somebody who likes to give it some -- >> they will give him a briefing sheet if it says, you know, you need to call so-and-so. hell do it. more the point, hell figure it, himself. >> you are sa...

Proposals up here. he spends an awful lot of time, picking up that phone and calling these people. and they began to feel the heat. the political heat. went along with it. by 1986 when interestingly we lost the senate, i cant tell you in the white house political staff, how many times i was presented with literature from outraged republican candidates with democrats picturing themselves with ronald reagan on it. >> one of the interesting things, i dont know that we know about donald trump, my se...

And not undermining them going forward. even when you look at policy stuff, so the trump administration appoints someone who may be described as someone maybe pro-settlement with israel, the next day john kerry announces and follows through with the speech basically undermining and scolding the new administration for doing what frankly the people in this country have elected them to do. trump was clear on israel throughout the campaign. now hes just following through. >> peter, there was a honey...

All of those are yiinstruments. the central thrust are going to be the scandals. >> when you say the total contradiction of everything he ran on for a year, you view that as a sideshow, because youre concerned that this purpose will actually be corruption and bilking the government by trump? >> i dont think, i think he tends to bilk foreign governments more than the american government, bilking the american government is hard, its got a lot of safeguards and legal sanctions. so hes not going to ...

Governments more than the american government, bilking the american government is hard, its got a lot of safeguards and legal sanctions. so hes not going to transfer yosemite park to his own bank account. that would be dangerous. but to use his position as president to direct flows of foreign wealth to himself and his family. and without his tax returns its going to be very hard to know thats happening and hard to enforce. the policy stuff, some of its pretty good, actually, but its not the poin...

Problems that down-ballot republicans are worried about but also, what is the republican party in 2016? what are you voting for? what are you getting when you vote for this party in 2016? >> its funny because people talk about a three legged stool of conservatism. trump has kicked out all three legs of the stool. he does not run on social issues at all. its not at all clear if youre a serious social conservative hes your guy. hes abandoned the conservative positions on trade, the economic aspect...

Positions on trade, the economic aspects of immigration, doesnt talk about taxes very much, doesnt embrace the bush vision of foreign policy. so if you take away all of the policy stuff, all you have left is sort of this anger. and thats what donald trump has run on and its left the down-ballot ka down-ballot candidates a little bit awash as well. >> in 2012, the ryan budget was a manifesto and more than that, an operational document that was actually a plan for what the priorities were and they...