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The world. we're rebuilding our military. we're rethinking trade agreements that have been costing american jobs. then here at home the president has rolled his sleeves up, literally, not just 100 days, chuck, but since the day after the election, the president has been out there fighting for american jobs and in 2017 alone more than 500,000 jobs have been created. you see optimism among job creators in america, enthusiasm among consumers across the country. it's just i think -- i think we went through a difficult time the last eight years but america's backnd president donald trump. >> but in...

Pullback on nafta a little bit, what he has said about china. it's all fallen into the washington conventional wisdom. >> i don't really share your perspective on that, with all due respect, chuck. on the international scene, here is a president who said that nato had to change, that our nato allies had to begin to step up, to begin to share the burden of the cost of our common defense. and they are. they're also changing the mission of nato to focus more on terrorism. that's exactly what the president called for. i mean, he didn't change on nato, nato changed. >> but nato changed years ago. n...

The election, the president has been out there fighting for american jobs. in 2017 alone, more than 500,000 jobs have been created. you see optimism among job creators in america, enthusiasm among consumers across the country. it's just -- i think -- we went through a difficult time the last eight years, but america is back under president donald trump. >> but in many ways, he has found himself -- it's almost like washington has either moved him or has defeated him so far. would you accept that? i mean, you look at his positions on nato or even the pullback on nafta a little bit, what he has s...

President is going to go through a period of time where they have to learn how difficult the job is. is the criticism of him for these comments fair, do you think? >> well, i think there's definitely been a lot of snark about the idea that being a reality tv show star is not as challenging as it might be to run the leader of the free world, but certainly he also was a very successful businessman and ran a very large company and so -- but these are all things that generally speaking, conventional wisdom in america is this is one of the hardest jobs in the world. it is full of incredibly tough d...

Financing of donald trump's campaign. in any case, the -- it's an interesting situation where you have similar interests, similar ideas developing on both sides of the atlantic. whether that will lead to closeness or not, it certainly is going to lead to a difference in france that's going to amount to very close to the same thing as the difference you're starting to see in the united states. >> david, conventional wisdom suggests le pen will lose i guess in the final vote, but the pollsters we know were wrong about brexit and donald trump. are you expecting a possible surprise or is it certai...