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And procedures they're allowing today. i mean they're up for emergency room operations, but other than that, do you know if that has been changed since it seems to be dialing back right now, the tenor of things? >> reporter: it does seem to be dialing back, but again, there are a lot of streets down here that remain closed to either vehicular or pedestrian access, so those elective surgeries, the hospital had put those off. again, if you didn't have to be in this area, you really didn't want to and that was probably something that they were doing to sort of keep in mind the safety of their pat...

Into that isolationist, nationalist mode flanked by steven bannon or steven miller and not necessarily those working on health care reform, tax reform. >> yeah. so i mean, i take a little issue with that. i don't know who you spoke to inside the white house saying those kind of things but i would say to those people you spoke to is dial it down a little bit and coagulate around the team and around the mission, coalesce around the team and the president. i hear this sort of national stuff, nationalistic stuff about steve bannon but he is one of the smartest guys in washington if not the country...

Orders to make a point to the people that i am going to do things one way or the other and i think those trade orders that saw yesterday are an example of that, and you know, but the administration has also said, and working with ball ryan and others in the house and nate that they want to get tax agenda going now and they want to get an infrastructure shift going now so those are part of the promises they made in the campaign and i think that the president feels very strongly that every week he wants to show progress on the promises that he made. leland: as the wall street journal reported, t...

They want a long-term relationship with the united states and we'll see how things go with the discussions, but it's very measured, not quite as hyperbolic as things are on our side, but i don't think that there's going to be issues regarding china's currency manipulator and some of the other things. >> you think some of that will be dialed back? >> i think so, yeah. >> do you think when you look at something like immigration, for example, will there similarly be a dialing back? because again if you are going to start deporting the numbers that trump talked about during the campaign, it will h...

He has a right to say that, but to give comfort to the enemy, which is the hardline in iran, i think was shocking. just shocking. and i'm very surprised john mccain signed the letter. >> he's having second thoughts. all you have to ask john mccain about the letter and he gets wobbly on it right away. he also said this -- >> beth, the guy every once in a while is honest about these things. >> he's supposed to be the lion of foreign policy for republicans up there. >> except when there's a snowstorm coming. >> what really struck me about this is when john mccain is dialing back, even rand paul a...