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What he wants to do. he says he wants to do something with infrastructure, immigration, daca. all of that will require bipartisan support, will it not? >> it sure will. but i would allege that there's one president, there's donald trump, and he's multifaceted. he's different can, that's for sure. unconvention isal. he confounds his enemies and gives great hope to those who support him. but as we move into 2018, i would urge the viewers to take close look at the january 30th state of the union. that'll be a road map of where we're going to go prior to the midterm elections. and i agree with dou...

>> thank you. >> jon: president trump keeping a low profile today after yesterday's visit to a florida fire station. he maps out his 2018 agenda. rich edson live in west palm beach florida. rich? >> good afternoon, jon. president just returned to mar-a-largo. he spent the last couple days on the golf course. soon the focus will be on 2018. the legislative agenda. the white house says the president will be meeting with paul ryan, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell at camp david the first week in january. the white house is expected to push a infrastructure proposal, a campaign promise for t...

Republicans in the white house on infrastructure. what is unclear there, how many democrats want to work with the president, which is a mid-term election year. congress still has routine business to take care of. the government is funded to the middle or latter part of january. so to keep the full government operating, congress has to address that and has to address other issues like the debt ceiling and the president on top of all of that has asked congress to fill a couple of other requirements like immigration and the dreamers. those that were brought to the country illegally as children. t...

When you look back on 2017, the narrative the entire year was republicans can't shoot straight and they end up the year with historic tax reform, 3.3% gdp that we haven't seen in years and judges. so you have an actual legislative and, you know, executive accomplishment record here. if he goes into 2018, if they can get on the same page, if they can agree to tackle infrastructure or as paul ryan wants to do, entitlements, they have to keep pushing. you know, the 2018 elections are coming fast and not looking good in terms of the polling numbers. they'll have to run on their record at this time...

Administration, though republicans do have to deal with shoring up some of these exchanges in january, a bipartisan everr effort. >> bill and alyson, thank you very much. it sounds like the president will be focused on infrastructure, he thinking that's a winning agenda item. he's scaled down his ambitious financial plan from 1 trillion to now $200 billion over ten years. what do you think the chances are for that? >> well, infrastructure is one of those things like mohr and apple pie that everyone wands, we at desperately need, but it will come down to several factors. to begin without even...