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Protectionist trade riff that he did on todays, in todays speech and you hear very little complaints, maybe a little bit under very quietly about the fact he is not taking a tough line when it comes to spending which is our entitlement reform issues, used to have a lot of residents at cpac. >> four, five years ago this was an, every speaker talked about gay marriage, abortion. he really did -- >> immigration, radical islamic terrorism, trade. >> he didnt talk about that at awe. at the end he sai...

Hard to believe his chief of staff h.r. mcmaster is right now. the one on tuesday is for congress and frankly a lot more americans will pay attention to. is there anything can he accomplish in that toe more aspirational that could make a pivot after what some described is a rocky first month? >> sure he could. hell have the nations attention, speaking in front of a joint session of congress. its a perfect opportunity. i dont know that he will and i have no idea how he will use the speech. it cou...

Better. its hard if youre a congssional leader or even a member of the rank and file, because what does that mean? what do you tell your constituents and if you do decide to tell them something does donald trump come out a week from this speech and say no, were not going to do that. thats the difficult thing with him. its not only the lack of specifics. its the wild, uncertainty and unpredictability that goes with that. >> which was the real challenge at the town halls not a lot for republicans ...

Kasie hunt, i appreciate it. i want to get to "washington post" colnist eugene robinson and ben weber. i want to start with a little more of what we heard from the president in his speech today. take a listen. >> our victory was a victory and a win for conservative values. >> a victory for conservatives for conservative values. how do traditional conservatives within the party view the president right now? he sort of tried to co-op the movement in one fell swoop. >> i think those skeptical of th...

Im pro. >> we anticipate the presidents remarks on tuesday into the country. what are you looking for? they promise an aspirational speech at the inauguration, it was darker than that. dont need a reminder about what his speech at convention looked like. >> speech today his cpac speech very ominous, too. sorry, susan. >> were looking for whether he gives clear signals to the republicans in congress exactly what they do for instance the affordable care act and to move on to tax reform. there is n...

That there were concerns. there may still be when you talk to people on the sidelines here some concerns about whether they would say yes donald trump is a conservative. they were all very excited to hear from him over the course of today. peter? >> and just to punctuate this point on anonymous sources and the like it was the president who today accused the republican basically of lying for its attribution to nine unnamed sources in their reporting about michael flynns conversations with the rus...

Odonnell the the white house and nbc justice correspondent pete williams, were going to get to all of you.. ill begin with kasie. i want to ask you about the president. he also hit on regulations, obamacare, tax reform, the keystone pipeline knowledge other policy initiatives. ahead of the highlight reel we showed a moment ago he focused on the media, which has obviously become sort of his foil roughout. >> reporter: it has, peter. aspposed to democrats, liberals, kind of the usual suspects who ...