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Dial back the heated campaign rhetoric and govern from the center. we know this. ronald reagan said he was going to eliminate department of education. it never happened. we said -- we heard george h.w. bush said read my lips, no new taxes. he raised taxes. when you're president, the reality sets in and nuance is important. and i think what's happening here is a lot of west wing staffersre saying, we've got to figure this out. we have to roll up our sleeves and actually do policy work and the campaign rhetoric that actually won the presidency readily admit is not going to work when it comes to ...

You have to make decisions and you have this grave responsibility, all of a sudden the reality sets in and that's what we're seeing here. >> right after the election, ron, president obama gave some advice to president trump, listen to this. >> this office has a way of weighing you up and those -- those aspects of his positions or predispositions that don't match up with reality, he will find shaken up pretty quick because reality has a way of asserting itself. >> president obama gave him some good advice. >> the place where that's most obvious in the recent flurry of activity is on china where...

Russia probably is not that happy about. there's no sign of sanctions being relieved or anything like that. and i was just on line on twitter, of course, what else, and there is an official that we often quote. he is a russian official. tweets a lot. he is a member of parliament. he said, in english, he said vice president pence says that he is watching russia. and that's as russia is watching the united states. a lot of mutual watching. so there is a little bit of pushback now from the russians as reality sets in. >> on that, on everyone watching one another and the violence in ukraine, jill,...

So he reluctant to change and it's tough to answer when he says look, i have played it to here. i'm reminded of a extregs george w. bush said if you're the president why don't you do that. >> reality sets in there are 800,000 young kids who came out of the shadow at president obama's question, the dabbing ta order. if you throw them back the number will drop more. i have a bill to give him a 3 year legal status -- >> what durbin means, you can

And off into life as private citizens, trump will be off to the inaugural lunch in the capitol. then to the parade from the capitol down pennsylvania avenue and even swinging by trump's own brand-new d.c. hotel they'll go. settling in front of this grandstand in front of the white house. it's the breather of sorts before the partying. ♪ the inaugural balls which if tradition holds, will last long into the night. the final respite before reality sets in. donald trump now has a country to run. >> and erin, while friday will obviously be the main event, there's actually a lot of chatter in wash...