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Booming. but where are we in terms of the trump agenda? he's trying to negotiate a trade deal with china, congress on the sidelines for that. he needs congress to pass his new replacement for nafta. can he get that done this year? forget about this. this was a priority in the first two years of the trump administration. we're not going to replace obamacare with nancy pelosi as speaker of the house. infrastructure. one applause line tonight most likely. build the wall. that is the big divide here in washington right now, and the president sometimes talks about paid family leave. republicans get...

Women who wear uniforms, they're making so much money and got so much in the bank they don't even know what they're paycheck is. >> well, it's more of a matter of fact the president of the united states doesn't care whether or not his lies or lack of facts are going over well with the troops or anybody else. sadly, one of the ways in which president trump is similar to other presidents is that he doesn't seem to have a problem lying to the troops or using them as convenient partisan and political pawns. this president is doing it in a particularly self-obsessed and trumpian way. when i talk to...

I'm not sure how he thinks he's going to get the goal of getting them to spend more money by picking on merkel and making it harder for her to go to the legislature and get that money. >> th >> which raises the question, does the president want the goal, the policy progress, or does he just want the fight? we'll come back to this on trade in a few minutes. but the president has a point. the nato allies have committed to spend more. this goes back several presidencies. under obama, it started to go up. that's the percentage of the gdp of these countries spent on the military. united states is 3...

Gets raves from the right. >> scott pruitt is himself unraveling a whole lot of regulations that obama's epa implemented. >> he is basically just taking a knife and whacking things from the epa that were implemented during the eight years of obama and he has become outside of trump the single biggest target. i hope scott pruitt hangs in. bottom line. >> we know where russia is. we have seen letters from conservatives to the white house and newspapers. is that it? is the policy progress in the president's view. from the president's standpoint implementing the agenda does that outweight what nor...

Internal discipline, discipline for how the policy is working, discipline with respect to leaks, discipline with respect to the messaging. i think all of that has been in many ways lacking and you think the reactions you're seeing, fundamental reactions to some of the things that have come in the wake of charlottesville but even before that, the lack of policy progress on the hill and certainly challenges with the president's communication and lack of coordination within the administration has been a real challenge. and i think you're seeing and feeling a lot of frustration certainly from even...