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Administration? >> your guess is as good as ours. >> youre not supposed to say that. >> it changes by the hour. it changes by the minute. it changes by the tweet. this is a president who has not that many political core convictions. hes willing to compromise, hes willing to make a deal. he is now with some democrats who, you know, have been reluctant, you know, with an angry base, to give him any sort of win. so i think theres a little danger here for schumer and pelosi, too. social certainly da...

Lot of discussion on this, people around here talk a lot. i kind of learned to wait and see what they do. >> there you go. so whats the deal on the deal to be made or the deal to make a deal? tonight, "the new york times" explains how this deal went down. apparently over dinner, the president asked some version of whats in it for me? schumer respondsed with a litany as what we saw as mr. trumps presidential sins according to two people with direct knowledge of the interaction. those included pul...

We saw that as you mentioned with president obama then house speaker john boehner when they were talking about fiscal negotiations. it becomes a new challenge once that deal heads to capitol hill. . with this new daca agreement, its really only a framework. house speaker ryans comments were revealing a tof the state play in the house gop, remains more hardline in some respects to the house freedom caucus than president trumps current position. it will be interesting to see how speaker ryan handl...

Ryan mcconnell didnt work. lets try chuck and nancy. has this previous relationship with schumer. i remember talking to people in the r early days, maybe two, three days after the really fiery inauguration speech and the early press conference saying, well, there go -- people saying there goes any hope of him working with chuck schumer, working with the democrats because a lot of people in washington saw that as a really natural alliance. and he went the other direction and now hes being, you kn...

Leader. combined with the positive response hes gotten for the most part for his coverage -- his response to the hurricanes. the presidency, the president feels like he has a little bit of momentum and that he is, at least for now, wants to make across the aisle, reach across the aisle, make these deals. i dont think any democrat necessarily thinks this is going to be a long-term proposition. >> robert, i was just going to say that schumer is, according to a lot of people in his life, what lbj u...

I dont think any democrat necessarily thinks this is going to be a long-term proposition. >> robert, i was just going to say that schumer is, according to a lot of people in his life, what lbj used to call one of those good government types. he does have a side to him that looks like he just got elected student council president in high school. he does believe in the process. cagy, partisan, inside player, yes, but i think you just heard chuck schumer in chuck schumers own words. thats what he s...

Deal. he is frustrated, deeply frustrated with mcconnell and ryan. he has no personal connection with them, he feels like. he feels like they let him down over health care. feels like they let him down by not shielding him from the russia probe. when chuck and nancy come to dinner, he finds people who speak his language in terms of senator schumer, a fellow new yorker, and feels like this is people, perhaps, i can work with. now, it certainly risks alienating some of the base. certainly some of ...

Monthly thing, or a quarterly thing or for the rest of his administration? >> your guess is as good as ours. >> youre not supposed to say that. >> it changes by the hour. it changes by the minute. it changes by the tweet. this is a president who has not that many political core convictions. hes willing to compromise, hes willing to make a deal. he is now with some democrats who, you know, have been reluctant, you know, with an angry base, to give him any sort of win. so i think theres a little d...

Relationships. hes trying to figure them out. ryan mcconnell didnt work. lets try chuck and nancy. has this previous relationship with schumer. i remember talking to people in the r early days, maybe two, three days after the really fiery inauguration speech and the early press conference saying, well, there go -- people saying there goes any hope of him working with chuck schumer, working with the democrats because a lot of people in washington saw that as a really natural alliance. and he went...

Administration. and the president is dealing with another missile test from north korea, the aftermath of a category 5 hurricane, and the prospect of brokering a big deal on immigration. first, military officials say north korea fired a ballistic missile this evening that flew over japanese airspace and crashed into the pacific ocean. after mr. trump returned from florida where he handed out sandwiches in a food line in naples. when air force one took off for florida today, it left behind hope, ...