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Extent to which the republican party, the party in washington, decides what party it is. is the freedom caucus going to have a veto power or not? what about the moderates? are they going to try to fashion themselves into a governing trump coalition. until the mid-term election should they change the control of congress, it's all up to the republican party. the republican congress is going to slide the legislative side of the trump years. >> matthew, when you look at this in foreign policy terms, do you think that trump is morphing into a traditional republican and in that sense a lot of the am...

Much. >> matthew, to me what's striking about this first 100 days is certainly historical terms does strike me, the number of reversals. i may be wrong but i cannot recall any president who has reversed himself so fast on so many fronts so effortlessly. is that good or bad? >> i guess i'm not sure if i see them as reversals. this is an unusual president, first president we've had without experience in political office or in the military. so he made some broad statements on the campaign and i think once he's come into office then it's been up to his team, really excellent team he's built, to ki...

At yale. and in south bend, louisiana, matthew kranig joins us. shirley ann, let me ask you, we talk about 100 days of course because of franklin roosevelt. why? what is the importance of it? >> good question. franklin roosevelt thought that in that first few months of his administration he could -- and he saw that his role as the new executive would be to take the reigns and run with them but he would have to acraft the legislation that congress had been completely unable to do. it's that movement forward that we see that the administration has now its roots. >> tim, when you look at other th...

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