andrew sullivan speaking to all this. it's one thing to rail against the disaster of amacar quite another, it turns t, to replace it. all the right's political power depended on being in permanent opposition and never having to actually implement something. they're caught between trump's desire to borrow even more to finance his tax cuts and the gop's resolute insistence throughout the obama years that the debt was an existential threat. trump expressing frustrations with congress today. >> it's just a very, very bureaucratic system. i think the rules in congress and, in particular, the rules in the senate, are unbelievably archaic. and slow moving. and in many cases unfair. in many cases you are forced to make deals that are not the deal you would make. you would make a much different kind of a deal. you are forced into situations that you hate to be forced in. >> another word for that is compromise in a democracy. this is the democratic system that is testing not only the president but the republicans in charge of those

i'm joined now by andrew sullivan, a contradiibutor to n york magazine. first, mr. sullivan, welcome. >> thank you, todd -- chuck. >> that's okay. i've been called my father and grandfather our whole lives. that's what happens when you have two first names, sullivan -- sully. this issue of conflicts of interest, there's a ton of them here. we've all talked about them. there doesn't seem to be concern in washington about them. why do you think that is? >> because we're overwhelmed, right? i mean it's like there used to be a moment in a presidency, say, one moment where you could say this looks fishy, or does this person have a conflict of interest here? is there some conflict with money coming in and so on and so forth? and we could focus on it. it happens every day. >> and he's not the only president where there have been questions of this, and we focused very hard, whether it was dick chaeneycheney's secret task force or bill clinton in those coffee klatsches in the white house or selling of the lincoln bedroom. but there seemed to be accountability for those issue

andrew sullivan has been writing again. njoys good writing and politics, whether you agree with andrew or not, probably enjoys having him back. his latest trying to decipher donald trump, he writes this. you can try to argue that trump has simply pivoted to the center like so many other presidents before him. but the statements he has made in the last six months and the policies he has pursued for the last three have gyrated so wildly, have so little consistent city and make so little sense there is no assurance that in another three months he won't be back to where he started. and it seems to be what everybody is trying to figure out this week. andrew sullivan said, stop trying, don't decipher, just know this is trump being trump. >> i think there is a lot to that. trump is about one thing and it's about trump. he's a narcissist, a textbook narcissist. so whatever will bring him love, whatever will bring him acclamation, that's what he's for at that moment. he doesn't have any sense that politics is the clip you just played

. >> here's how andrew sullivan, here's his take, new york magazine.on earth is the point of trying to understand him when there is nothing to understand? he has no policy in the next 24 hours, no consistency at all, just whatever makes him feel good about himself that second. also whatever bizarre thought he can cook up in his addled head. obviously a harsher response. andrea? >> i think he likes to win, and he sees that he wins when he listens to jared kushner, when he listens importantly to mattis, to mcmaster. when he's listening to these advisers and not steve bannon and now that mike flynn is gone, that is the biggest change. there is a reality check here, and he's seeing that some things work. now, it's not complete, it doesn't always work. he still tweets after angela merkel leaves and insults germany. so it was not just the campaign, senator. it was also the transition and the early weeks of the presidency. but i think the health care failure really influenced his decision to turn to some wiser heads. >> well, there's been a lot of talk about

i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin and brian sullivan. joe is off today.at the u.s. equity futures a strong day yesterday for the markets. major averages saw their best day in about seven weeks. you saw the nasdaq closing at another record high. this morning equity futures are indicated up once again. yesterday the good news was the french election, as far as the markets were concerned. they looked at that as a good early indicator of the polls being right for the first time in a long time. this morning building on those gains with the dow futures indicated up 43 points. s&p futures indicated up 3 points, the nasdaq up six. let's look at what happened overnight in asia. you're going to see at least when it comes to the nikkei that -- first we'll

i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin and brian sullivan. joe is off today. let's look at the u.s. equity futures a strong day yesterday for the markets. major averages saw their best day in about seven weeks. you saw the nasdaq closing at another record high. this morning equity futures are indicated up once again. yesterday the good news was the french election, as far as the markets were concerned. they looked at that as a good early indicator of the polls being right for the first time in a long time. this morning building on those gains with the dow futures indicated up 43 points. s&p futures indicated up 3 points, the nasdaq up six. let's look at what happened overnight in asia. you're going to see at least when it comes to the nikkei that -- first we'll look at the u.s. dollar versus the canadian dollar. again, all of the things that have been happening with that potential trade war. tariffs being slapped on canadian lumber. we will talk more about that in a moment. take a look at what happened in the asian markets. the nikkei ended up by 1%. the hang