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Are connected. ken, let me start with you and do the ticktock on the yemen raid. couple of phrases, highly successful the president used, significant amount of intelligence, it seems that no one is willing to use that kind of adjective to us when we've asked about this. >> absolutely. i've been talking to people all day about this, chuck, as if colleagues in the nbc news investigative unit. we're hearing there has not been significant intelligence gleaned as of yet from the take of this raid. >> back up. the raid was designed to do what? there's been confusion on there. is it there a target a ...

Abortion, things like that other than gorsuch. a lot of conservatives noticed that last night on social media. problem? >> for rank and pile conservatives, gorsuch, the bases are loaded, no outs so there's a real chance for a grand slam. i think if there was dissatisfaction with gorsuch, then we'd have a problem. >> he papers over all of it. >> i think he solves that problem for the president right now. >> karine, let me ask the social issue question the other way, since he didn't talk about a lot of social issues, is that a few less issues for the left to be able to beat him up on since he di...

Always a pleasure to have you on and have you share your views. >> thank you, chuck. you got it. let me bring in tonight's panel. senior advisor and josh, politics editor with the national journal. old colleague of mine. welcome all. josh, i want to start with what we saw from the president, the message was exactly the same. everything he said, which was the point i want to make. and it is sort of interesting, people were cringing at the cpac speech, worried about what's going on all he did was change words and round off the edges and now they love it. >> the point is tone matters. public re...

Terminated deal and they'll come back and we'll make a better deal. none of these big quagmire deals that are a disaster. >> folks in the end, president trump changed his tone, but not his tune. can that make his policies less unpopular? perhaps. make no mistake, the substance of the president's message remains exactly the same. even though it was packaged slightly differently last night. and can he keep this new tone? we've seen a before during the campaign. mr. trump would often turn to these tell prompter addresses like last night as a way to reassure anxious republicans, but the calm never...

Bit in there, at least, at least something other than, you know, gorsuch. >> yeah, i -- >> school choice and a lot of social conservatives, that's -- >> that is an important -- >> that's true. that's true. especially now with the education secretary in place. and what's been happening the last couple days. >> the other thing that surprised me, some of this had to do because of the coersation a bunch of us had with the president before the speech was not a lot of national security, josh. >> yeah. >> i mean, there was some, but for instance, nothing on north korea. north korea feels that the pre...