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You know, in terms of policies, by the way, and policy differences not to mention his style, president trump's style. jeff flake, when he was on the floor, mentioned two issues in particular, immigration and trade, on which he vastly differs with the president and where trump's positions are a lot more populist than traditional republicans like flake. i think the question that has to be asked of guys like jeff flake though is in light of the influence of president trump now exercising on the party, do you bow out like jeff flake did, or do you stay in the party and try to pull it back in the d...

Really meets the road in treating people because some people reject treatment. a lot of addicts reject treatment, or they go in for a little period of time, and then they drop out. now, there's a way to do things. there's a way some of the drug courts, for example, will expunge your record if you complete rehabilitation and they have different steps, but as she points out, if this is going to be successful, we're going to have to address the issue of sort of benign paternalism and coercive treatment for people that refuse it. david: kate, everything gets embroiled in politics these days, and t...

♪ ♪ david: well, just as president trump gets set to kick off his first trip to asia, chinese communist party this week affirmed president xi jinping's status as the most powerful ruler since mao tse-tung, handing him even greater control over the world's second largest economy and setting the stage for him to dominate politics in that country for decades to come. in a tweet late wednesday, president trump said he called xi to congratulate him on his, quote, extraordinary elevation. the two men also discussing north korea and trade on that call. let's bring in author and asia analyst gordo...

He's done a lot on the deregulatory front. he's right that he has accomplished a fair number of things. his approval rating should not be -- and i think it is almost entirely attributed to these tweet storm fights with people like senator corker. it is a complete distraction, david. david: bill, what will the republican party look like at the end of the trump administration or at least the first four years? will he succeed? because, clearly, he's trying to shake things up inside the beltway. >> right. david: will he succeed or will they succeed? >> well, i think the big question is on policy. ...

Are still not exactly known. are we adding more to the tax code instead of subtractingsome. >> i don't think so. i don't think that's going to happen. there's no taste, i don't think, no appetite for raising the highest rate. it makes no sense east, i mean, you can't hate job creators and love jobs. and if you want middle class prosperity, you've got to make the employers happy to hire these people, to give them jobs that they otherwise wouldn't have had, to raise the wages that we all want for the middle class. that also requires the cooperation of the upper class and lower. i mean, you know,...