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Congressional republicans, members of the house and senate, feel like they won the election, too. trump didn't run on trimming medicare spending or says. social security. he didn't run as a deficit hawk. he ran as a populist. yet many conservatives in washington believe they can enact their own agenda. if you look at history, bill clinton's first term, even president obama's first term. when you have majorities and you're in your first term, you think you can roll through policy after policy. trump didn't have the mandate in his campaign for the policies being advocated by the leadership. >> t...

>> trump won the election. when i'm at the capitol these past fuse days, a lot of congressional republicans members of house and senate feel like they won the election too. trump didn't run on trimming medicare spending or social security or run as a deficit hawk. he ran as a populist. if you look at history, look at bill clinton's first term, even president obama's first term, when you have these majorities in your first term, you think you can roll through policy after poli. trump didn't have the mandate in his campaign for the kind of policies that are being advocated by the leadership. >>h...

>> big irony. >> the mistake, though, people make is assuming some stereotypes of trump. trump, if he doesn't care about an issue, they may be right. when he cares about an issue, robert, he cares about an issue. >> trump won the election. when i'm at the capitol these past few days, a lot of congressional republicans, members of the house and senate, feel like they won the election, too. trump didn't run on trimming medicare spending or says. social security. he is not a deficit hawk. he ran as a populist. yet many conservatives in washington believe they can enact their own agenda. if you lo...

Past few days, a lot of congressional republicans, members of the house and senate, feel like they won the election, too. trump didn't run on trimming medicare spending or says. social security. he didn't run as a deficit hawk. he ran as a populist. yet many conservatives in washington believe they can enact their own agenda. if you look at history, bill clinton's first term, even president obama's first term. when you have majorities and you're in your first term, you think you can roll through policy after policy. trump didn't have the mandate in his campaign for the policies being advocated...

That sort of interesting -- a lot of people thought it was a twitter hack when they started putting out these fairly candid tweets talking about how happy they were that trump was going to divest. of course, he wasn't divesting. it was very odd, but he seems to be pushing that way. you know, one of the interesting things, you want to put this in context, is that this is kind of moving away from the campaign mood in towards actual governing. regardless on how they may feel about the ethics, any sort of conflicts of interest that arise out of this, there's also a practical matter of being the pr...