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Personal pocketbook or for businesses, the president seems to be wanting to flood the zone next week, saying theres progress on health care, progress to keep the government moving and tax cuts. so it seems like he wants to give us a grab bag of things to follow for next week. >> let me follow up with you a little bit on that point about tax cuts. of course, thats sort of one of the other big headlines today, that the president said he thinks he can get a plan out by next wednesday. im hearing sk...

And cuba. >> what about ethiopia in the 80s? >> he was being absolutely serious because hes earnest about his fitness, he thinks ifl changes, you have to have a varied a structured life. theres not a great deal of structuring that happens in north korea and cuba, the single party communist countries, its like saying that starvation is a cure for obesity the way drowning is a cure for swimming. >> tucker: famine helps too. thats tough to top, can you? >> i love that story, i sought or earlier, yo...

>> what about ethiopia in the 80s? >> he was being absolutely serious because hes earnest about his fitness, he thinks if you are going to make behavioral changes, you have to have a varied a structured life. theres not a great deal of structuring that happens in north korea and cuba, the single party communist countries, its like saying that starvation is a cure for obesity the way drowning is a cure for swimming. >> tucker: famine helps too. thats tough to top, can you? >> i love that story, i...

>> tucker: what about ethiopia in the 80s? no? >> he was being absolutely serious because hes earnest about his fitness, he thinks if you are going to make behavioral changes, you have to have a very structured life. theres a great deal of structuring that happens in north korea and cuba, the single party communist countries, its like saying that starvation is a cure for obesity the wayy drowning is a cure for swimming. >> tucker: famine helps too. thats tough to top, can you? >> i love that sto...

Know. the chair of the freedom caucus, mark meadows, who is here from north carolina, has been working with the white house. they seem to be making progress. i think there is logical sense that so much of the health care reform policies are intertwined with the tax code, that getting health reform do, which i think they will, the real and replacement of obamacar will lead to tax reform. thats always a heavy lift because somebodys ox is getting gored. there are some winners. there are some losers...

Disapproval still high at 49. you look at the cross tabs. independents moving toward the president. is this a sustainable model for the president? getting popularity through the show of strength? they seem ambivalent what they did in syria. >> i see it a little differently. >> how so? >> i think the american people love the president. they want to see him do very well. i think the liberals are looking forward to the tax cut and restructuring of the code. it is simplification. i think what is hap...

Have in the first 11 weeks in office. steve bannon the presidents chief strategist named in the early days of the administration was suddenly on wednesday removed from that programs committee. this is saying general h.r. mcmaster, is kpexerting his influence, bannon taken off the committee and two other people put back on restructuring the national security counseling. dan coats and general joseph dunford are returning to the national security council. steve bannon stepping aside. this again is ...

Has been spent criticizing china on currency manipulation to the trade imbalance that exists with that country. with regards to trade specifically, what are expectations and how realistic are those expectations? >> the trump administration had a fundamental misapprehension of the nature of the problem. they thought and president trump regularly criticized china for devaluing its currency to get a trade advantage vis-a-vis the u.s. and other countries. this was a problem historically. in the last...

Now, at the end of the day, you know, we know now that on capitol hill especially, they are going to now look into how of these identities came up in the public arena and whether there was any culpability inside the white house at all. but we dont know that and, again, going back to several things that the president said in that interview in "the new york times," now were almost 100 days in. we know that hes not going to change but we also know, based on the restructuring he did today, based on ...

His ability to seek informed view points. the myth that hes operating in a silo is just that. >> jared kushner is involved in the china discussions tomorrow. hes set to broker middle east peace and hes also overhauling the federal government, working on a plan to do that. is there too much on his plate? >> i think were seeing a radical restructuring of a power circle in front of our eyes. a president always has a cabinet, a circle of advisers. weve never seen somebody like jared kushner take on ...