donald trump and 53% believe a trump administration will take the country in a right position and 52% say trump s policies will help the economy and that cnn poll found that 73% of respondents believe he likely will be successful in repealing and replacing obamacare. 64% say he ll succeeded at renegotiating nafta and 60% are confident he ll create jobs in challenged areas. chris cillizza, what do you make of the numbers? well, i should say for a traditional president-elect, these numbers are predictable in that this is a honeymoon. you look better after you ve won then when you re in a midst of a campaign. despite everything else, we re a generally optimistic country. we like to believe that things can and will get better. that said, this is an opportunity for donald trump. these are the best his numbers have been on any of these things
that put that together. he would be a phenomenal asset so any administration. evelyn, what do you think? general petraeus? i think he s clearly a solid candidate. the only problem is his sharing of he s a solid candidate. the he shared classified information and donald trump as a candidate was very vociferously railing against hillary clinton s sharing of classified information which paled in comparison to what he did. if he picks general petraeus it will bring to light that friction. because it s holiday season, and in the spirit of peter keane, i won t say it paled in comparison. that s your characterization. thank you. merry christmas. we re not quite there. i wonder, frank rooney, do you sideline one of the great
tim cook and he s stressed that he wants to succeed. i m doing this to do a good job. for those of us who oppose trump s election, it s not time to let down our guard and stop drawing red lines where necessary but for moderate republicans and democratic business leaders, they need to dive in now and try to pull him toward the center for a meeting between the news maker and this news organization that has covered him without fear or favor, the lunch was fairly relaxed but not without some jousting. asked if he read the new york times, trump said, i do read it unfortunately. i would live about 20 years longer if i didn t. did that capture the general mood in the room? i think that s very fair. absolutely. i think tom writes there about something very important which is you did get the impression that donald trump is very influenced by the last people he s talked to so maybe the strategy to put him on the right course is president to make sure the last person that has his ear is the
i can t think off the top of my head where he moved to the right since being elected, but i can think of climate change, some of these selections, some opponents, and other issues. torture. obviously. that was a big, big move to the center. it seems so far that most of the trend lines are to the center. i haven t seen where he s starting right. if this is a steady trajectory. we saw donald trump during the campaign. there was a lot of zigzag. this guy can be erratic. let s see how the country is feeling about this. new national polls show americans are positive about donald trump s job so far for the most part. cnn/orc poll 53% say trump will be a fairly or very good president. 66% say yes when asked if trump will be able to change the country. 32% say no. a quinnipiac university poll of registered voters says that nearly 6 in 10 are optimistic about the next four years under
him. the thing i learned about mitt romney that day is he s a terrific student. he really thinks deeply about policy issues. he has a lot of substantive knowledge. one of his faults was if he didn t know everything top to bottom, he wouldn t comment on it. that s one of the things unlike rudy giuliani who comments too much, the other thing about mitt romney, jeremy peters, is he is a company man. he does not if donald trump selects him as secretary of state, he works for president of the united states. when he steps off that plane in beijing or moscow, he s only going to say what the president of the united states wants him to say unlike a lot of recent secretary of states that we ve had. that loyalty is part of the reason he s considering this job so carefully. you have a number of people in