we are joined by darlene supervalu from the -- superville by adam weaver. if you look at the papers this morning, this is from "the wall street journal," that the president is expected to soften the tone on the speech as far as tomorrow's presentation. darlene, what do we get a sense as far as tone eating into the speech tomorrow? guest 1: the white house has said he is going to speak in more optimistic tones tomorrow. contrast that with the inauguration speech he gave a year ago when he talked about american carnage and painted this very dark picture of the united states of america. he is looking to do a little bit of the opposite and be softer, more optimistic, more hopeful in talking about immigration and some of the other issues that we are going to hear him speak about. eaver, not only will he address america, but the members of congress, what is he trying to sell to them on both sides? guest 2: a couple of things. the white house has been talking about an infrastructure deal. they wrote out this $1.7 trillion figure the other day that they said the wh

host: darlene superville, anything to add? guest 1: there is supposed to be some mention of opioid crisis in the remarks tomorrow night. host: on top of all that, you mentioned the plan for infrastructure, the desire to see that happen, do we see any more details of what we have seen floated? guest 1: i think you might. the white house was not very specific on that point when they briefed reporters on what the president would say. the senior administration officials kept saying they did not want to get ahead of what the president would say, but i think you will hear more detail. host: one of the things that have been floated as far as the ,ublic and private partnership is there something that both sides can come together on whatever track it goes down? guest 2: it depends. mark short was on the sunday shows talking about we are going to have this 20/80 slid on infrastructure, federal to state and local. i think that is going to be something to look for. is likely note going to get a 20/80 split. tois going to be interesting se

host: darlene superville, anything to add?uest 1: there is supposed to be some mention of opioid crisis in the remarks tomorrow night. host: on top of all that, you mentioned the plan for infrastructure, the desire to see that happen, do we see any more details of what we have seen floated? guest 1: i think you might. the white house was not very specific on that point when they briefed reporters on what the president would say. the senior administration officials kept saying they did not want to get ahead of what the president would say, but i think you will hear more detail. host: one of the things that have been floated as far as the ,ublic and private partnership is there something that both sides can come together on whatever track it goes down? guest 2: it depends. mark short was on the sunday shows talking about we are going to have this 20/80 slid on infrastructure, federal to state and local. i think that is going to be something to look for. is likely note going to get a 20/80 split. tois going to be interesting see

. >> host: darlene superville, is the version of the wall that the white house currently sees the version they started off with in the campaign? >> guest: well, the way the president described it during the campaign made it seem like it was going to be a contiguous, 2,000-mile along the u.s./mexico border. lately he's saying he never intended for it to be a con tillous wall because you have the river, some mountains in some areas, lots of natural areas along the border. he'sal talked about see-through elements where you can see to the other side who's trying to come over, who's trying to toss drugs over. and there are some, i think, half a dozen or so prototypes that are up town on the border, andar he's supposed to make a tp at some time down there in short order to go and see the models and maybe weigh in on which version he hikes better. he likes better. but to go to the caller's question, i think part of the issue with the daca children right now is that the president has ended the program that provided them with protections and allowed them to work in the country without fear of bein

darlene superville. >>> gearing up for us. the political firestorm that fired up this exact time on sunday night involving that woman. >>> oprah would be really fun. her last week and she had donald trump and my family. it was very nice. i like oprah. i don't think she's going to run. >> thanks, everyone. >> i don't think she's going to run. i know her very well. >> the president today dismissing the suggestion that he might go head to head with oprah in the 2020 presidential election. for her part, oprah gave this emotional stemwinder of a speech at the golden globes sunday night before a national audience which she might have suspected would stir talk that she was running for something. this morning her best friend gayle king didn't exactly say absolutely not. >> i absolutely don't think that her position has changed, i don't. you know, i was up talking to her very late last night. i do think this, though, guys. i do think she is intrigued by the idea, i do think that. i also know that after years of watching the oprah show,

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monday morning, a look at the week ahead in washington stoeshted press white house reporter -- darlene superville weaver. then irs tax advocate olson implementation of the new tax law. be sure to watch c-span's life at 7:00 rnal morning.ern monday join the discussion. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] night president donald trump gives his first state-of-the-union address to nation.s and the join us starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern, and then the live of-the-union address at 9:00. following this speech the democratic response from congressman joe kennedy. we'll also hear your reaction and comments from members of congress. president trump's state-of-the-union address tuesday night live on c-span. live on the free c-span radio app and available live on desk-top, n your phone or tablet at c-span.org. u.s. conference of mayors held its annual winter meeting in washington this past week. the event included virginia senator mark -- talking about the

however, jonathan lemere and darlene superville, both of the associated press, said president donaldrump remained out of sight, suppressing his instincts to make himself part of the story by making a deal or picking a fight. tonight other friends of our broadcast, ashley parker and josh dossey of the "washington post" co-authored a piece we mentioned earlier titled "white house strategy, keep trump contained." they wrote, republicans pursued a clear strategy to keep trump contained during the three-day standoff that ended monday. steve schmidt is here to talk about it and a political analyst. i see you're chuckling. is it best that our president be kept as far away from this deal as possible? >> no, they talk about him like they're hanging hannibal electric ter out. this is the president of the united states, commander in chief. extraordinary disregard with which this white house staff talks about their president. >> and steve, you are alone in public and media life by my reckoning in your use of the word "rigor." it's a terrific word. it speaks to a work ethic and a way of living, a

here to talk about all of it with us anita kumar, darlene superville, white house reporter for the associatedess, and dav david jolly. welcome to you all. also, anita, you look away for just one second and bannon is out of the picture and the president's talking about a bill of love. what is going on here? >> that's right. you saw a lot of conservative groups and conservatives outside the white house today really questioning what president trump was talking about, thought he was, you know, the bill of love, talking about granting preces to d.r.e.a.m.ers, things that they don't support. but, yes, the president had this meeting and he said he does want a deal on daca and was very much showing that he wanted to get democrats involved, that he was saying he'll take the political heat and they should just make a deal. >> darlene, i guess i'm asking you what we should think about this meeting. i know that some people inside the white house with a straight face said to some reporters, no, really. the president has always believed -- the shame of these meetings is the american people don't get to see

we are joined by darlene supervalu from the -- superville by adam weaver.