trying to steer his policies, but also moderate his tone and his image and work with jared kushner and ivanka trump to try to bring that moderation into the trump white house. >> i want you to talk, phil, about what you wrote about this incident that happened in the past week about president trump's plans after his trip to michigan. explain what happened there and is there a sense one side is winning this war to get the president's attention at this point? >> the short answer to your second question there is yes, but i'll explain what happened last week. on wednesday the president went to detroit and faced an auto event and faced the deliberation of where he would go after detroit, would he go to nashville, tennessee, to pay homage to andrew jackson, or would he go to new york to see a play and justin trudeau had invited him to join him in new york for "come from away" which celebrates the generosity of foreigners and immigrants and the new yorkers in the white