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>> plus a rousing homecoming for members of congress. it's great theater, but will it change big debates like health care. >> keep fighting and keep the faith, and i'll be right there every step of the way. >> inside politics, the biggest stories, sourced by the best reporters now. >> welcome to inside politics, i'm john king. president trump addresses a joint session of congress tuesday night, his approval ratings are dismal, but he claims a bold first mandate. >> there's no such thing as a global anthem, or a global currency, or a global flag, this is the united states of america

that i'm represents. i'm not representing the globe, i'm representing your country. >> this is also take two of the travel ban, take one defeated in court. >> we are going to keep radical islamic terrorism terrorists the hell out of our country. we will not be deterred from this course. and in a matter of days, we will be taking brash action to protect our borders and to keep america safe. >> audience: do your job!

do your job! >> 2020 you're gone. >> i'm an angry constituent, you work for us. >> >> audience: shame on you! shame on you! >> feisty week in the rear view mirror and an important week ahead of him. we saw him at the end of the week, at the political pep rally, playing to his base, some issues going forward, how important is it for the president, it's not a state of the union because it's a new president, but he get this is second chance if you will to make new impression. another a time when you look another it, his approval rating is under 40%, his disapproval

rating is 55%. >> i think it's an opportunity for him to demonstrate that his support goes beyond his base. not necessarily changing the details of it. but presenting it in a way that feels more inclusive. not like the speech he gave at cpac. to talk about a sort of long-term agenda, and the kind -- it would be perhaps the first time that he's had an opportunity to be specific about what he wants to do, to be broad and to sort of be more forward looking and visionary and to not do some of the other things that he tends to do, which is talk about his political opponents, talk about things that are totally unrelated to his

governance agence da. >> the question is can he do those things. we should give presidents credit when he gives fidelity to his campaign promises, his critics, to abbey's point is, what about us? when you are you going to reach out to us? he did reach out in his -- so there's been some small doses of it. but he haven't seen any big outreach from this president. they've been pretty clear about their political strategy. >> this is going to be an opt m mystic and positive, but optimistic and positive are in the eye of the beholder. and the white house believes that he has a mandate.

so i wouldn't be surprised if he didn't talk about his election victory. but one thing different about this, the room is not just filled with his support es, at cpac, that felt like a campaign rally. this is half democratic, half republican. and he does not mind a fight on some of these things, it fires up his base, i'll be watching what democrats are going to be doing about these things, a chuck schumer, working on some of these things, we're in a different place right now. >> we know the big ticket items, he wants to repeal and replace obama care. the president has been very clear he wants to build a wall, he wants to have an american

first economy, and you mentioned the democrats, a lot of people boycotted his inauguration, it will be interesting to see if somebody boos the president, or if they sit on their hands. >> the one thing i'm watching the sort of under the element of this between republican -- is now republicans on capitol hill act in the long-term. for 50 we'years, since watergat we have seen less aimed toward the executive. if jeb bush were the president, he would have 500 pages of policy descriptions for the department of education or something, if this president is not driving an agenda beyond what you just showed, those sort of four big ticket items, that

give s speaker ryan and mitch mcdonnell -- looks for like what ryan and mcconnell want. sure, they're going to be applauding on tuesday night, but how much are they working with the white house and how much are they making their own plans because this president has not dug in on specific policy iss s issues. >> he's not going to reach across the aisle to the democrats and say he wants to be friends. but when the devil's in the details come into the picture, when you come out with a sort of anti free trade rhetoric, there's still a lot of republicans who want that.

how he actually explicates what he wants to do, whether he loses that republican audience ask key, and we haven't soon him talk about anything of substance. >> usually somewhere in the ballpark for an hour, this president usually doesn't go on for an hour, bill clinton was famous for going an hour plus more and he would be criticized by the media and the people loved it. the question may have been pretty clear that they're going to talk,their cam pain promises, they're going to focus on the campaign themes. but at least it tries to dire direct -- to your point to get the big things done, but does he care about this? a maris poll out this past week,

58% are embarrassed by the president. 40% say that president trump grasps the complicated job of,president. so far we have seen we have our 40%, we're going to keep our 40%, and that's where we're going to focus. >> i have to say, these numbers are really interesting and it's interesting the degree to which it has not mattered. the americans have canonsistent said do you think that trump is qualified for the job, and by and large they said no and he won. i think voters, not just his voters, but independents and moderate republicans have valued his ageneral da items over his personality or even his character, i think that the white house is actually scenely

aware of that. they're aware that americans are uncomfortable with his twitter habit, the way he dealses with conflict with his opponents, but his agenda can potentially trump that and i think it trump that in the elections, so these numbers are not all they're cracked up to be, because americans are making value judgments, like one, two, three, four, what is important to me. he doesn't get high marks on character, but it may rise to one or two. >> d does the economy go that way, and does he shake up washington, which is why a lot of people who had reservations said let's send them n how much does he call the democrats out for parts of the problem. i want to help you here, or does he do it in a confrontational way. much more on the president's early success and struggles

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we're in a unique moment in our nation's history. years from now they're going to study this time in american history. and they're going to ask the question of all of us, where were you in 2017 when we had the worst president in the history of the united states. >> tom perez's introductory speech as chairman yesterday and he made a big show of trying to show unity. brought up the other challengers on the stage. number one, how much does this matter? the democratic party has been in

a ditch. they won two presidencies in the last two years, but otherwise they have been swamped. i don't know if you call it discontent or suspicion about other people in the country. >> this is a party in transition, this is a party that's trying to figure out what's next, what is it's identity. and better th and the fact that bernie sanders lost this election, is -- this is going to be a much longer process, i was out in sacramento, just after they had some local party caucuses, and everybody was shocked at the number of people who showed up. and they were all bernie sanders supporterings and they had elected their own sort of delegates who would go to the convention on this.

and maybe if this process had been a little faster, the outcome would have been a little bit different. it's reminiscent of a number of states when ron paul ran and took over a number of his state parties, in places like nevada and arizona, the state infrastructure fell apart. this is a long process, this did not end yesterday, it's a reinvention of the party that's taking place. >> the progressive energy, some of it is negative, some of them are mad another their own party, a lot of them, all of them are mad at donald trump. this is someone swus of the event telling senator feinstein, hold regular town halls, endorse

keith ellison for international chair or step down. work for progress or step down. this energy for the democratic party is tugging it more to the left. but also the grass roots level, the republicans and senators have to make tough decisions, but back home, they're saying, donald trump wants eggs for breakfast, say no. >> can they take back the presidency, that involves appealing to a lot of more traditionally to some extent light voters in pennsylvania, wisconsin and other places where trump had these surprising wins in the last election. there's been a lot of energy focused on the difference between keith ellison and tom perez, who's further to the left and who better represents the progressive wing of the democratic party. both are left of center, one is

a hispanic american, another one is a muslim american. so his unity bid really is important for a couple of reasons, they need to align the progressive race, but they also have to find the message about jobs, amend that's perez's strength, jobs. >> it's also a central question of how much the national parties matter now, really year by year by year, i think the importance and the strength of the national parties has declined, if donald trump decides he wants to be a force on the outside, he'll be more visible than the dnc, but they need to start at the ground legal, state legislative seats and that's what he's doing. he can deliver a fiery speech, and it's not like he's right of center, he's pretty left of center himself, so it's a

wilderness moment for the democrats. >> all the things that democrats can do here in washington, raising money, they need to fichbds good candidates. >> that's why it's not just about four years from now, it's about what's going on in 2018, beyond just state legislators and governor ships, but congress really matters in when democrat continue have the white house. democrats, their problem is they can't get their people to show up in midterm elections, if this changes toward other democrats or toward donald trump, it may be a big benefit. new democratic party tom

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. make no mistake, we were ahead of the curve with the beachhead teams, we were ahead of the curve on the transition, i think we're doing a phenomenal job of staffing the white house. >> it's the white house press secretary's job to be optimistic. no offense to sean spicer, but if you look through the jobs in the administration, the president has a problem. at the cabinet level, he's now nominated his cabinet. he's still having trouble getting people confirmed. you see the highlights, that means they have been confirmed.

some of these trump nominees have also been late getting their paper work in. so a problem at the cabinet legal. but this is where the problem in government is striking, the stepity assistant secretaries, the people who make the day by day, minute to minute decisions about the government. let's look some more, you see no facings in any of these jobs because the administration hasn't named anybody to these jobs, these are the people nominated and confirmed. at the cabinet level, eight still awaiting confirmation, four 14 have been confirmed. additional key positions requiring senate confirmation, 12 waiting cfirm mags, 51 --

below that nearly 3,500 other jobs, political appointed cabinet affairs, we're six weeks in now, a lot of the government still has obama holdovers or transition administrations trying to manage affairs, the question is how much do all these problems. >> that's going is going to break the buckets. that's the intelligence, the department of holds, the second i refer to, wilbur ross at comment. people are rethinking how we're going to reconstruct our trade arrangements around the world. the third, broadly, line of work is deconstruction of the administration state. >> deconstructing the administration state.

>> you heard there steve bannon, a very rare public appearance. very coherently object tyly laying out -- the federal bureaucracy, even if a republican president says do x, the bureaucracy decides what to do. the day to day management jobs still open, six weeks in. >> one of the reasons i'm told, i talked to several republicans on capitol hill who want these jobs there,'s a loyalty test, first and foremost, if you said anything negative against the president then you're out. it's a very rigorous process. one of the things is the lobbying ban, people don't want

to work in the administration because of the lobbying ban. there were a lot of people who were not supportive of trump in the beginning and now they're not welcome. >> i actually think stephen bannon and president trump by extension doesn't mind that these positions are unfilled. because deconstructing the administration states are also means not allowing the federal government to do certain things. when you talk to squeftconserva that's the biggs -- particularly this kind of republican administration, they don't want the government to do things. and sometimes the way to not get the government to do things, is simply not to have people implementing regulations, you know, running basic functions and as disruptive as that seems, i think that's what they're actually going for. >> rolling back what the obama administration has done and what the republicans find so

objectionable about the obama administration, is going to take some very active work. there is a congressional review that allow s congress to act lae in the administration. to roll back a lot of the environmental regulations and a lot of the land use regulations, especially out west, senior officials at the interior, senior officials at all these sub cabinet agencies, in a lot of cases, the irony is to roll back regulations, you need to promulgate new regulations, the obama administration didn't promulgate these rules late in the day because they just thought of them. it literally takes years to get these things through the pipeline. it's going to require time and if they skip anything in the

process-- >> if they don't have somebody from the new administration telling them they're going to do something different l the white house says to the degree there's chaos, it's the kind of chaos that people the president likes, so you saw publicly, steve bannon and the white house chief of staff reince priebus say everything's great. >> he's very consistent and very loyal to the agenda and is a presence that i think is very important to have in the white house, and someone that i work with every second of the day and actually we i cherish his friendship you kn friendship. >> you know, i can run a little hot on occasion, and reince is low ski but it's determination,

that's the they thing works, reince is always kind of steady. >> all is well, you covered the white house. >> they're bestities. they do have different firms, so they're not kpeegt against each other and they're not vying for the guy who gets to keep his personality. that old adage keep our friends close and your enemy closer, but they really represent two different wings of donald trump's support. >> they're not taking sides, they're openly candid about it. heee, we're going target a lot. so what? >> it doesn't work once without the other, without reince, there's no lifeline to capitol hill, there's no security safety net with mitch mcconnell and paul ryan and all that. without steve bannon, there's

not that administration energy and enthusiasm that trump needs personally to get excited. if they can can work well together and weep other people in the white house from dividing and conquering. >> there's a lot of stephens skeptics of whether this controlled chaos can work in this setting. you'll see, i want to add kellyanne conway to the mix. her colleague said she said some things in interviews that were viewed as counter productive. she said somebody inside the white house is trying to get in her way. >> and somebody's trying to start up trouble. but, look, about 5% of what i'm asked to do in this council roll is tv.

and that's right. because he's the president now and he's his own best messenger. there's some resentment on the outside and folks just trying to use me as click bait in the headlines. >> just trying to get in the way. >> that perfectly encapsule lkcs what's happening in this white hou house. they try to put on a good facing for the public, but kellyanne conway and other officials are warring behind the scenes about some of these issues, there was some genuine -- people were genuinely upset that she would go out early in the morning, say one thing without necessarily consulting people in the white house with the what they wanted the message to be that day. but she does that in parks to sort of demonstrate her independence from that process

and from that chain of command. the one thing that a lot of observers say about this white house, is that there doesn't seem to be very clear hierarchies, and that the change of command ask very flat. everybody is on the same plane, trying to vie for -- reince prepus is the keeper of the clocks and the person who makes sure that the trains run on time. one of the benefits of that partnership, is that steve bannon doesn't get blame for all the other stuff that's going on in the white house. reince rebus do. more presidential attacks on the media. and the white house chief of staff asked the fbi for help and was told no. i was wondering if an electric toothbrush really cleans...

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i'm just try to set your partisan instincts aside here. the white house asked the director of the fbi to -- the republican chairman of the committee's investigating russian meddling in last year's campaign say yes, when the republican white house asked them for help when talking about key details of their ongoing investigation. they were wrong. >> if this had happened in the obama first, this town would be on fire. the chairman of the house

government -- investigated hillary clinton's email server for so many months and the investigation still ongoing. >> just for con text, if you haven't been following the news, the white house officials tell us, it was the assistant director of the fbi who brought this up, and reince priebus engaged in a conversation with him. but the rules say don't do it. when it comes to the chairman, there are allegations of russian meddling, how you can now say they're independent investigations when in the early process of the investigation you west out and helped the administration spin stories? >> it's incredibly problematic. you can darrell issa is in a bit of a more liberal district, says there should be a special

prosecutor now. the fbi thing just added fuel to this fire, so it's going to be a problem for them. and senator richard burr, chairman of the senate intelligence committee is also having issues because she was willing talking to the russiaru. never senator he'll need to vote for him. >> and the ranking democrat on the intelligence kmerks when he saw chairman burr and chairman nunez, and by partisan commitment to follow the facts, and i will knnot accept any process that is undermined by preliminary interference. you're the chairman, there are other members that can step forward to do this.

i know they zront the expertise, they're not the chairman. here's how i do this. remember your own words just month ago. bill clinton gets on the plane with loretta lynch, president obama goes on 60 minutes, says that hillary clinton doesn't undermine national security. >> it democrnstrates how little they care about appearances. and they don't seem to be mindful that every one of these things continues to erode their credibility over the long-term. it builds up, so they're putting themselves at risk here, and they're doing it very flagrantly and defiantly, and that's very troubling, considering that we are not very flooralong here.

>> i you see that on cnn, if you see that in the "new york times," don't believe it. that will not sustain itself. a they have a supercompute never their pocket, they can figure it out themselves and there's a thing called gravity. >> i'm not ready do describe nefarious effect to any of this. if trump really wants to keep an independent investigation off the table, because this just raises more questions about whether these chairs have the ability, not just to be independent themselves, but to kind of go deep and to have the correct to go where they need to go. look, if we hear any hint or whisper that this administration is laying heavily on the fbi, on the cia, on other agencies to reach conclusions that they haven't reached, that's one thing. i think this is a sort of ill conceived communication, if

they're telling them all the stuff that's going on behind the scenes could -- push back against plans for, yes, repealing and replacing obama care. and republican governors just might be on board with that plan.

welcome back. we surround our tables with reporters not pundits on purpose. >> trump's immigration actions this week, they try to enforce it by introducing new guidance. but it's been raising mentions in the local law enforcement

agencies that they need to help them carrying out the immigration orders. and some of the raids are actually starting to impact. and people who are not undocumented immigrants and some of these tensions are rising to the level of congress who are hearing from local officials, mayors, police chiefs, about the trouble that some of these raids are getting them, this is one of those case where is immigration enforcement is going to bump up against the law enforcement in the local level. but it's a tough spot that this is putting local law enforcement officers in. >> speaker paul rye yang and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell have a date with the white house on monday, they're

going to get a briefing of the speech president trump is going to give on tuesday evening. they're still trying to get some things into his speech. they desperately want him to talk specifics, at least a couple more about health care, particularly paul ryan, wants to sort of endorse the brought out lines of the house plan, but they are also unsure, what does he think about the border adjustment tax. that's something his administration has not been completely clear on. he has expressed support for it in some places and not in other places, they're hoping that does not come up. but they do want to get him to tuke a little bit more about health care. >> sticking with the health care theme, the national association of governors is here with the trump administration. and too much priority with them is the affordable care act and what's going to come next.

president obama's most famous achievement is left wing governors who are -- without that money, their states are going to have billions of dollars in budget holes, or they're going to have to kick thousands of people off their health care coverage. you're going to see a lot of republicans defending obama care because they don't want to go home and kick al of people off their coverage. >> deep your eye on h.r. mcmaster, the president's national security advisoadvisor will be the first full week on the job. so, look, last week we not only had all this full staff meeting, he had applause, laugher, kind of had them eating out of his happened. covered the bases from islamic

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