i'll make sure that we send something up that the republicans can support and they're going to want to make sure they send something up that the democrats can support so our great country is booming like never before and we're thriving on every single level both in terms of economic and military strength in terms of development in terms of g.d.p. we're doing unbelievably i will tell you our trade deals are coming along fantastically the u.s. m.c.a. and. south korea's finished. u.s.m.c. has gotten rave reviews are going to lose companies anymore to other countries they're not going to do that because they have a tremendous economic incentive it's meaning it's prohibitive for them to do that so it's not going to be like nafta which is one of the worst deals i've ever seen although we've made some other pretty bad ones to now is the time for members of both parties to join together put partisanship aside and

keep the american economic miracle going strong it is america would doing so well and i've said it a lot of rallies some of you have probably heard so much you don't want to hear it again but when people come to my office presidents prime ministers they all congratulate me almost the first thing on what we've done economically because it is really amazing and are still industries back our aluminum industries starting to do really well these are industries that were dead our miners are working again. we must all work together to protect our military have to do that to support our law enforcement secure our borders and advance really great policy including environmental policy we want crystal clean water. we want beautiful perfect air air and water has to be perfect at the same time we don't want to put ourselves

at a disadvantage to other countries who are very competitive with us and who don't abide by the rules at all we don't want to hurt our jobs we don't want to hurt our factories we don't want companies leaving we want to be totally competitive and we are and right now we have just about the cleanest air the cleanest water we've ever had and it's always going to be that way we insist on it so environmental is very important to me and with that i'll take a few questions if you'd like whoa. i don't know what happened but go ahead john. that was a lot of hands shooting up so. there's a lot to talk about. mr president you talk to lives just now about bipartisanship the presumed speaker of the house nancy pelosi talked about it last night i'm sure that's encouraging for the american people but do you really believe given how i now for viewers just joining us right now we've been listening to us president

donald trump give his first reaction in public to the midterm election results president donald trump told the press gathered there that midterm elections defied history he took credit for g.o.p. gains in the senate and minimized the house all losses president bush started off his address by blaming a special interests a hostile media coverage for the disappointing result in the house of representatives he went on to say that those republican candidates who embraced him won and called out those by name who did not embrace him by naming and shaming basically and this saying that that was the reason why they lost and most probably most notably also is that the president has said that he hopes to work with democrats on trade and the economy so much to unpack are here with me still in studio is heading erica head of the transatlantic relations program at the german

council on foreign relations where to begin initially i thought he looked a little bit sad but then i just noticed he was just reserved and maybe behaving in a way that a lot of people wanted him to behave on the campaign trail i mean this wasn't like a toned down speech and he was. of course he wasn't he was. attacking fiercely. the democrats but he was boasting so much about his own. part in that success the. he claims and i found it appalling how how he he made it all an election about himself he did this before he said. look what we've done in very disadvantages. get pains. where i showed up and then suddenly think it's a very good indeed to us really go out of your way settle scores and people buy any

he lost and you didn't want me to come over and you didn't support me now you've lost so. it's not a big personality speaking here he says that message of course if. he doesn't surprise you he claims this is a successful horse well let's talk on the positive side if there is a silver lining in all of this very conciliatory tone towards an all of branch almost being handed over to nancy pelosi of all people as speaker of the house well after having having beaten a bit on the on the democrats and. their methods of doing policy and reminding the people of heaven though and how we dislike that then he came over and said look and suppose we with him and her with with respect and called her and he identified a couple of areas where he would expect the house democrats being willing to cooperate because on health care if you didn't try to. replace

the repeal obamacare but try to improve and reform health care he might find open ears on the democratic side if he wanted to to bring about. real progress in infrastructure spending in investment that would also be necessary would help the economy the democrats are wanting this foot for a long time and were blocked by the republicans in. the last presidency now so these are areas where he can cooperate and he said quite smartly when we find a compromise. in the house with the democrats there it will be easier for us to bring this through the senate because the democrats there they have fewer and they will find it for the more difficult to actually oppose a compromise that has been negotiated by the host democrats so there is something to it but it means making compromises they have means not like chorusing others to follow your line but actually to to negotiate really and then again he said i can

do this better than anyone else. stand by because i hear we can go to washington d.c. to alexander out fine and naaman and there you are alexander i keep wondering where you are but there you are alexander what jumped out at you. well i have to say i wasn't very surprised but what the president has i have to say and how he presented himself himself you write that he was sort of presidential restraint a teleprompter trump rubber. at the same time he started to put the blame on the verse for the losses of his party in this in these midterm elections saying that it's the hostile media coverage that is to blame and the circumstances and as you just said he then went on to mock his fellow republicans

candidates who lost in these midterm elections by saying that they would not have happened if they had raised him so basically saying i am now the republican party so he was bragging about warts he called he story wins no it's taking the blame and then stressing that it was actually him who deserve credit for what's happened with the senate's alexander hold that thought because i think we've isolated that very moment where he is i think it's fair to say boasting for what he has achieved on behalf of the g.o.p. let's take a listen. this election marks the largest senate gains were a president's party in the first midterm elections since at least president kennedy's in one nine hundred sixty two there are been only four midterm elections

since one thousand thirty four in which a president's party has gained even a single senate seat as of now we picked up it looks like three. could be four perhaps you could be two. who picked up a lot. picked up a lot and he's right xander i mean we we have to give credit where credit is due at some point and i'm sure you've noticed this as well towards the end he was mentioning america's booming economy and america's economic miracle it almost struck me that that message came a little too late coming from him that's what he had to say during the election rallies leading up to these midterms. well that's true and many experts here say that it was a mistake and now it's to mention it's nuts to talk about its chief men in

terms of this growing economy here a topic that was important for many of his supporters and many experts here say that it would have been better for the republican party to put this put this topic on top of their agenda at the same time we have to add that it is quite the usual that in this times of growing economy a pile ruling party really have to see losses and that really we have to see a major policy shift in washington despite the booming economy right now the other he did a one he did a couple of one eighty's but one of course that really made us sit up alexander here in the studio was when he mentioned the need for bipartisanship a very conciliatory tone we haven't heard in a very very long time talk to us about that. now is the time for members of

both parties to join together. put partisanship aside and keep the american economic miracle going strong it is a miracle we're doing so well. right that was president trump speaking in that conciliatory tone or urging the democrats and republicans to work to get there what did you make of that well i mean it's possible in certain areas and he was talking about health care or he was talking about the interest and actually we know that he in the past actually favored the democratic plan for infrastructure reforms however i also have to say that this is not the first time that we hear presidents try talking about the need to get to go over to unify the country to put partisanship aside to work with democrats

and they were as i remember a number of occasions in the last two years were the democrats when the democrats and the republicans were quite close to work together for example on the issue of dhaka on immigration and it was the president he who seems not to be very interesting in sort of closing the deal so it will be very interesting and i am a bit skeptical whatever we are really going to see action. saying that he's ready to put partisanship aside now right now alexander i've got twenty seconds left before the end of this show what was a little jarring is he started off by blaming a hostile media and i just saw from the life feed that there was a hostile exchange between him and jim acosta from c.n.n. that is still playing

a major role. yes and it is going to play a major role in the future who we saw it during the heat it's really it's always media that is to blame for whatever it's happening in this country all right that hasn't changed in the meantime always out of an almond thank you so very much an angry could thank you for your analysis and thank you for spending as part of your day with us. after a year in the hospital power of the french president emanuel macro is getting more and more unpopular nothing he does seems to stop the slide my guest here in london is the french m.p. alexander holroyd a member of the president's all mushed party he has a seat on the parliament's finance committee how can the president of boost to soon reach behavior of crucial elections to the european parliament next year.

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