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First 40 days as success. after a month of the president largely going it alone ep acting policy by executive order, trump is also expected to turn his focus to the list of legislation he wants congress to bring to his desk. joining me now, eric boller, senior fellow for media matters, "washington post" opinion writer jennifer rubin, and msnbc contributor and "washington post" columnist e.j. dion. welcome, all. i just want to take a survey of the three of you. how likely is it that we are going to get an address from president trump that will be high on flourishes and imagery of america, a spe...

Complete disarray on both obamacare and the tax plan. i would be surprised if he gives specifics in that area. i think he'll talk in the same generalities, we'll give you something on health care that's better, cheaper, that's bigger, shinier, newer, with very few details because of course there's nothing that will meet all those criteria. i think there will be generalities, i think he will beat up on the press and i think he'll tout a lot of his immigration stuff, whether it's the wall or the new deportation rates. that's very big with his base. i think we'll hear a lot of that. >> eric, what...

Continues for month after month. >> eric, what about -- the perception of chaos, but then jennifer brought up the demonstrations, what's happening at the town halls, and what i'm fascinated by is we are a month into the trump presidency. there have been protests sort of every weekend and sporadically, various days, every day of his presidency. how long do you think that that energy and anger and activism will continue? and can it continue long enough for the democratic party to capitalize on it and turn it into electoral victory somehow? >> i think it will because it's in direct proportion to ...

This is kind of a way to create these monumental distractions. look, the problem for the speech for the press is going to be monumental, right. there's going to be a laundry list of falsehoods even if it is a more formal type of a speech. steven miller is writing it. it will be filled with falsehoods. the perez, we are so far beyond the point trump gaifs speech and then we fact check and that's kind of what we're supposed to do. i think that was okay for the summer of 2015. we are in a crisis at this point. we are in a crisis of governing. we are in a crisis of the free press. and i think the ...

Has a lot of the perez running around. frankly, when you have someone like darrell issa, the sort of inquisitor general on the republican side, calling for an independent prosecutor for this president, i think something is taking hold and i think if the democrats focus on first of all defend ong the specifics, forcing trump to come fort worth specifics, and secondly, really hammering him on the ethics and on the constitutional issues, they will make some headway. >> do you think, eric, they'll make headway? nigh think the key point is independents and yes, i think people are discouraged, trump...