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Lazy or weak to have an ugly situation. thats easy campaign talk, but once you get into the office, reality sets in and you find that your tools are really quite limited. now look, i think the president and his administration has done a pretty good job amping up the pressure on the north koreans. a little demonstration of american military power, a little pressure on the chinese, an awful lot of rhetoric and strong worlds. i think thats all good and frankly a bit of an improvement over the obama...

They intercept a target and we have the kill vehicles that are attached to these missiles. >> one of the best parts is getting reports from you. thank you very much. a real reality sets in for people covering this white house and i talked to national security official this morning and they said we dont come back to the luxury of getting to do clean up for the last mistake. we have to dive into the next crisis. >> for reminds us of the crisis that looms and it worries us to the extend of focus th...

That was during the campaign. >> he just called james comey a nutjob. that rubbed you the wrong way? >> it wasnt professional. >> b minus is what i gave him. going into it i was supportive. reality sets in and you start seeing the drawbacks and tweeting which i hoped would stop. as it boils down, i thought he would get out of his own way. >> what drawbacks? >> such as reality. you mentioned medicaid. $800 billion cut. he was on the campaign trail, he said he would not do that. basically as it ha...

Right now. many people say trump was kidding. i dont kid. well soon begin the construction of a great, great wall along our southern border. >> he promised that mexico would pay for it. you saw what happened in trying to talk about the budget and keeping government going would that be a concession, would u.s. congress agree to pay for it. does this demonstrate all talk and no action? >> when a person is running for office, ive worked for three presidents running for president, you say a lot of t...

Be of help. he tweeted a lot about it. sean spicer said the run-off result was a big loss for democrats. >> they said their goal last night was to win the race with over 50%. they spend $8.3 million. they didnt run for a run-off. they ran to win and they lost. >> shepard: spicer said the democrats threw everything including kitchen sink at this special election and didnt get it done. jonathan serrie is in the newsroom. jonathan, the run-off changes the dynamic. >> it does. it makes it harder for...

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...

You have to make decisions and you have this grave responsibility, all of a sudden the reality sets in and thats what were seeing here. >> right after the election, ron, president obama gave some advice to president trump, listen to this. >> this office has a way of weighing you up and those -- those aspects of his positions or predispositions that dont match up with reality, he will find shaken up pretty quick because reality has a way of asserting itself. >> president obama gave him some good ...

Russia probably is not that happy about. theres no sign of sanctions being relieved or anything like that. and i was just on line on twitter, of course, what else, and there is an official that we often quote. he is a russian official. tweets a lot. he is a member of parliament. he said, in english, he said vice president pence says that he is watching russia. and thats as russia is watching the united states. a lot of mutual watching. so there is a little bit of pushback now from the russians a...

So he reluctant to change and its tough to answer when he says look, i have played it to here. im reminded of a extregs george w. bush said if youre the president why dont you do that. >> reality sets in there are 800,000 young kids who came out of the shadow at president obamas question, the dabbing ta order. if you throw them back the number will drop more. i have a bill to give him a 3 year legal status -- >> what durbin means, you can

And off into life as private citizens, trump will be off to the inaugural lunch in the capitol. then to the parade from the capitol down pennsylvania avenue and even swinging by trumps own brand-new d.c. hotel theyll go. settling in front of this grandstand in front of the white house. its the breather of sorts before the partying. ♪ the inaugural balls which if tradition holds, will last long into the night. the final respite before reality sets in. donald trump now has a country to run. >> a...