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And he's not going to start out with something that is going to force republicans to compromise on some really important things for them. so, they went with a strategy that i think seems reasonable given that they have majorities in the house and in the senate. the problem for trump is that he ran kind of outside of the ideological pair paradigm in washington. you have a candidate in trump who is not a sort of, like, tea party republican, he's not a establishment republican so it's harder to figure out who his allies are on the hill and republicans, many fof them who are in power right now hav...

>> well, i think the way that you have look at it, to go back to the conversation we were having in the previous segment, is how does he approach these problems? before -- or during the campaign, he campaigned as somebody who had a huge disdain for washington. who had a huge disdain for people who have actually spent their lives trying to deal with these problems. he now has come here and has understood and you could see it in what he said recently about, oh, this job is a lot harder than what we thought. what we're seeing is that the reality show candidate turned president who campaigned in f...

100-day list, you can always find things to nitpick. look how he changed the culture of washington, started to do things that are different, that's where you're seeing the protests come from. i think the epa website that says "this is being updated" is a perfect metaphor for exactly what's going on in washington right now. of course you're going to have protesters. no one out there is protesting for jobs. >> should he be reaching out to the people -- tens of thousands of people out there who are part of this country, too. >> those climate change protesters need to understand they are why they ...

Stream of attacks on the media about what president trump calls fake news. especially over the march of stories about possible russian ties to his circle. this president has undeniably pushed forward at a breakneck pace and perhaps many of his promises will yet come to pass. faced with a string of protests and a plummeting approval rating, his first 100 days, as he, himself, has hinted, have been more complicated than expected. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> our thanks to tom foreman. up next, the highs and the lows of the trump administration's 100 days. and you're looking at live picture...