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The president doesnt like personally will he hit back ten times harder without thinking it through? i wake up nervous because his temperament, he doesnt have the temperament to be commander in chief. he demonstrates it over and over again when he publically shames women. thats what he does when he feels attacked and his masculinity has been attacked. he cant do that as president. >> for the gop there is agenda work, policy work that needs to get done. having a president thats great at distractio...

Right? andy card was like johnny apple seed. he was just laying the seeds, doing the policy work. you know what im getting to. >> yeah. >> right now george w. bush is popular as barack obama. do you think that would have ever happened if andy wasnt just waiting patiently? what about that. george w. bush -- >> hes a good person, and he has demonstrated the capacity to lead during tough situations and is being recognized for it. and yes, i saw president bush the first, number 41, and hes doing gre...

With all respect to ivanka trump this is a problem that is going to be solved by detailed policy work, people inside the government. there are more than a dozen job training programs. this white house has talked about streamlining it and it require a tremendous amount of coordination between private industry between community colleges, the states have to get involved. there is a meeting of governors of the white house later in the week that has been scheduled. this is its very intricate policy w...

Power to put pressure particularly on china. china plays a real role in facilitating this regime. without chinas assistance, this regime would not survive and so china has the ability to play a very important role in ending this potential conflict. i think the president has to keep pressure on china to do it. some wonder how much china can actually do in terms of directing the regime. i think the answer to that is a lot. so we need to kind of keep pressure on the chinese to do all that they can ...

Dial back the heated campaign rhetoric and govern from the center. we know this. ronald reagan said he was going to eliminate department of education. it never happened. we said -- we heard george h.w. bush said read my lips, no new taxes. he raised taxes. when youre president, the reality sets in and nuance is important. and i think whats happening here is a lot of west wing staffersre saying, weve got to figure this out. we have to roll up our sleeves and actually do policy work and the campai...

What do you make of his decision to just move on? >> i think it was a terrible experience for him this past week. the week did not start out well with discussions. the russian involvement in our election, with the hearings on capitol hill. it just got worse for him as time passed. so i think he was pretty glad to get to friday night. where he goes from here, hes talking about tax policy, thats almost harder to do than health care. the details may be a little easier for him to sell. this is anoth...

What happens there. youve done a lot of good work with the escapees. 200 from north korea. eric: i want to show this exhibit. these are the paintings weve been reporting on. wounded warriors and others. the remarkable book and actually remarkable gift from the heart for the president of the united states. >> president bush has said that he will spend the rest of his life serving those who have served. we wanted to make sure that this was more than just an awareness campaign and the president cam...

The white house and mnuchin is in the agency, it raises questions. >> i talked about the tweets and shaming of public companies and said is he embarrassed by it? its not the he embarrassed by it? its not the public stance that goldman would have taken. apparently hes hunkered down, focused on the policy work. is he having to call up the ceo of boeing and nordstrom and make nice. didnt get an answer. but my understanding is hell do what he has to to smooth things over. >> the first week gary cohe...

>> political unit did confirm that, that dhs, certain individuals, as well as those working in justice did not get that heads up. is that that opening that hillary clinton, that you on the democratic side, had wanted here? now that you have faces that are kept at airports, stories, you could potentially work harder to work against this executive orderer. >> as a former clinton staffer, nobody want this had to happen and we tried to make it clear to people that we should take donald trump literal...

America. i believe president obama held a press conference on january 20th and he will parton people. that is the way or system works. its funny that the governor-elect fussed that we tut back his appointments to about where they were in the last democratic governor. he sponsored a bill cut being appointments down to 100. he helped pass it. people have to be held accountable for their actions and hold us accountable. of course there is politics involved, but there is good policies passed this we...