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About this or whether it's just convenient for him to blame the spokes people for not being able to clean up the messes that he creates. you go back early on and donald trump said, well he gives the communications shop a c or c plus. that continues. this is just a narrative, a something we hear over and over again from the white house. the problem there is bigger than communications. >> even with the southern roots, chris, most of the year you are an american in paris, having said that this meeting was kind of fraught between these two leaders. they both have been critical of each other. macro...

The communications shop in this white house, under sean spicer, is sort of, priebus' area. jared and ivanka wing, has long wanted a different chief of staff. and long been frustrated at communications shop. you can see, that that is a feeling that a lot of times is shared by the president. whether he has been convinced by his daughter and son-in-law about this or whether it is just convane yeenient to blame the spokespeople for not being able to clean up the mess he's creates. go back early on. donald trump said well he gives the communication job, a c, c-plus. that continues. this is just a n...

Council on women and girls created by president obama in 2009. joining me is the president of the institute for women's policy research, heidi hartman. back with me now, "the nation's" joan walsh. first, how would you grade ivanka whether it comes to championing this platform of equal pay for women's rights? >> oh, i hate to give her a grade, but in everything she's tried to do, we don't see yet that she's been influencing her father much. so i guess i've got to kind of give her a c, maybe a c-plus for effort. >> do you believe her though at face value, heidi, that this is something that she i...

Change in behavior. >> he's the type of person who feeds off the response he gets. he loved the response he got from his joint speech to congress. when he gets hammered on a day like this and realizes there was wiretapping, it's publicly acknowledged, but it doesn't mean barack obama ordered it, directed it or it was criminal. he realizes he missed an opportunity to communicate better. he gave himself a c plus. >> fleischer, a plus. appreciate it. think, ari fleischer. still to come, the marines team up u.s.-backed forces in syria ahead of what is a major offensive to retake raqqa. what this...

>> reporter: rhode island ranks at the bottom. pothole infested. a new report by the american society of civil engineers shows that the overall grade for all of the country's infrastructure repairs a disappointing d plus. >> we need to invest $1 trillion to get roads and bridges an transit systems and commuter trails back into a decent condition. >> reporter: according to report, the current condition is barely making the grade. bridges, c plus, 40% over 50 years old and 9% structurally deficient. roads, d, one out of every five miles in poor condition. transit, d minus, $90 million in backlog...