. >> congratulations, mark halpern. it's a whole new world, mr. halpern.ontributing editor of "time" magazine and msnbc political analyst and former aide to the former george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is here with us. and in washington, washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. columnist and associate editor for "the washington post" david ignatius all joining us onhis very big week in politics, inaugural week. in a moments we will get to revealing poll numbers of trump's presidency days before he takes off. yesterday, mike allen interviewed the president-elect for axios and he writes this about trump's demeanor. he says, in part, quote, we found the incoming president unusually subdued and loring expectations and acknowledging some of the messy realities of governing and walking back some of the more provocative statements that he had made only days before. a top adviser told us the sober tone reflects a bumpy few days inside trump tower and the realization he is days away from running the nation. mike will joi

>> and jon meechaacham and back new york, mark halpern.he show this monday morning. >> second weekend just extraordinary. i don't think we have seen back-to-back weekends with the women's march last week then what happened this week. i just don't think we have seen that in a very, very long time. >> we had quite a weekend here trying to bring it altogether and fully get the scope of what is happening, talking to people on both sides of the aisle. why don't you tell us a little bit about that and then i'll get to the news. >> we met with the president yesterday, but the night before, met with members of barack obama's foreign policy team. democratic senators who i'm surprised by the democratic senators' reaction to this, as well as speaking to members of the president's foreign policy team that has gained, i think, almost universal acclaim. and i think the biggest takeaway this weekend from all of the discussions had to do from that foreign policy team who said, basically, we hope the young staff members at the white house enjoyed their tim

bush deported. >> mark halpern, that was a record number, right?>> barack obama? >> barack obama. and donald trump wants to just build on that. same with border security. president obama but a lot of resources at the border and donald trump wants to do more on that. he has got a mandate to do it. i know a lot of people in the country are unhappy with what is he doing but he ran on nothing more clearly than he ran on doing this. the symbolism is involved but there is also a lot of principle involved. and i have no doubt the republicans in congress, again, paul ryanaying the same thing, deal with borde security, deal with deporting the bad, clearly bad people first. then you move on to harder stuff like people overstaying their visas and people here a long time, the dreamers. in the short term i think he has a pretty strong mandate and he is going to do it. >> willie, just like yesterday when he brought up these topics were people concerned about but topics that fit right in with what donald trump promised he would do as president of the united state

mark halpern?who marched this weekend and wants this week to impact what is going on in washington. not running for school board down the road. what would you like people to do immediately to affect the current debates in washington? >> i would like them to go on my website and volunteer for my campaign! >> yeah. >> she is honest. >> which, of course campaign has that has been run in state that donald trump by how many points? >> 1 or 19 he won by. >> yeah. >> no, i'm kidding. but i'm not kidding. >> exactly. >> organizing matters and if especially if you live in a small community, if you live in a rural county in america, you should begin today to try to find other people in your community that are willing to talk plainly about what really is going to happen in the trump administration. i was up on that diocese. i'm not sure any big donors invited to the congressional lunch. i looked around and i saw names i'm sure most americans would never recognize, but they are billionaires in our country. all

mark halpern and john heilemann here and msnbc contributor and columnist -- >> did you see that tweet last night? >> i loved that. >> what do you do new year's eve? >> not a whole lot. just chitchatted. also have contributing editor two "time" magazine msnbc political analyst and former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan. >> soon to be legendary. >> photo shop? >> i do that myself. >> you got the photo shop out and doing a little new year's day photo shop? >> you know a lot about computers. >> i love that stuff. >> i use couriers now. >> look. you got to see that tweet. incredible. >> did you like that one? >> it was great. if i could have retweeted it twice, i would have. >> did you retweet it once? >> of course. >> mike barnicle, you may not have seen that. >> take your time. it's a three-hour program. >> show the class. >> legendary right there. hello? oh, i got to retreat it! here you go. what is mike barnicle, everybody? >> legendary! >> that is awful. >> you put him in the background of vermont or something. >> looks like the state of new j

managing editor of bloomberg politic and wearing his kornacki casual this morning, mark halpern. >> role model. >> professor of the university of school of public college, from the great state of tennessee, former congressman, harold ford and in washington kasie hunt. the senate took the first step to repeal obamacare and voted 51-48 that allows repealing major parts of the law with a simple majority. that means senate democrats cannot stop them through the filibuster. afterwards, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell spoke to the press. >> we are going to move forward with the obamacare resolution first and take the second step a little bit later. >> president-elect donald trump appeared to caution his party about this tweeting earlier republicans must be careful in that the dems own the failed obamacare disaster with its poor coverage and massive premium increases like the 116% hike in arizona and deductibles so hard it is practically useless. don't let the schumer clowns out of this web, trump wris. massive increases of obamacare will take place this year and dems are to blame for th

halpern? >> buy soybeans today is all i'm saying. >> by the time we reconvene this morning mark halpern said the house republicans who in the closed door meeting the day before tried to completely gut the ethics panel. mark halpern, how do you do that thing that you do? >> i want almost zero credit for this because it seemed the most obvious thing in the world it was not distainable. >> yesterday, we had the majority leader here. he actually said that he was going to vote for it and you could see everything falling in line that actually, you know, not only kevin mccarthy but paul ryan and everybody was falling in line and following up. as bob costas reported, the phone calls started coming. >> the guys in the closed door session on monday night, it was like they cut through the screen of the back door to break into the house and they got caught on the porch and they fled. >> what a stupid way. you're like a republican going, okay, well, this is the most historic lead we have electorally since

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daniel halpern, new york post. >> are you enforcing the mandate or not. >> first question goes to theump new york post. a local tabloid. specifically with their reporter who wrote this book "clinton incorporated, the audacious rebuilding of a political machine." trashing the clintons before the election is who gets the first question? that guy goes first? the first question of the trump era goes to "the new york post." the second question of the president trump era went to the christian broadcasting network. [ inaudible ] what message is he sending here? does he see the elimination, reduction of abortions as an american value and here at home can americans expect his signature on legislation that will be -- >> the first four questions of the trump presidency just for the record, let's just note on day one, is he going to build that wall? how exactly is he going to gut the affordable care act? what about banning abortion and we are going to defund planned parenthood, right? they planned all the hits. the white house press secretary got around to taking questions from the mainstream out

. >> and mark halpern shows it's not about us.king about the sean spicer press conference and we are talking about falsehoods, lies, untrue. whatever you want to call it. but most americans took out of yesterday, i will say this. i remember saying this in the campaign about people in scranton not skaerg abocaring a in the blank. i forget what it was. people said how do you know it? i know the takeaway for most americans yesterday was this guy is fighting for american jobs and he is fighting for u.s. steel and he is fighting for u.s. carmakers. he is even talking to the unions. republican talking to the unions. that is the big takeaway from yesterday. it's hard to sort out, though, isn't it? as mike said, so much happened. >> we have a responsibility to hold them accountable and this administration when he says things that aren't true and has to continue. i think a simple way to decode it and it works for the inaugural speech, people want change. if someone says nato is not working or says i'm a republican but i'm talking to unions

there is this incredible moment at the iowa state fair that halpern and heilemann told us about on setd said they were all following hillary clinton around in a scrum. >> she had ropes around her and you had to get there. >> 200 people and wherever hillary went, everybody went and she was the center of the political universe. and they said suddenly, you heard this sound. you heard a helicopter coming. and everybody, including the secret service, looked up and there was that helicopter and heilemann said everybody just whispered, trump. said it was like out of a movie! that this guy -- the perfect metaphor for the entire campaign! everybody was scrambling and fighting on the ground. here this guy was helicoptering over everybody else playing by his own rules. >> i was there for that. there was a fence where he landed the helicopter across from the fence. he had a bunch of little kids ran up. he took the kids on on the helicopter ride and played it the next day on the show. the helicopter landing! and he knew exactly what he was doing and i remember chasing him in a golf cart through int

i'm reminded of the words of mike's favorite author, mark halpern, as long as you have life and breath more belief to his work than mike pence. no one believes more deeply in our country and her people. no one believes more deeply in our capacity to do great things. he is a happy warrior. the president could not have chosen a better partner for this work than mike pence. so, mr. president, mr. vice president, we raise our glasses to you, to karen and to your beautiful family. may you have every blessing and success as the 48th vice president of the united states of america. >> cheers. >> well, the theme of today's inauguration is uniquely american. there are some words that come to mindn you hear that phrase, big, bold, energetic, enterprising and resilient, always looking to the next horizon. sure sounds like our country and it sure sounds like donald trump. [ applause ] >> our president has surmounted formidable challenges getting to this moment. he's been underestimated often, but he never let it stop him from succeeding. we're wishing him similar success as he turns to the charge o

reminded of the words of mike's favorite author, mark halpern, as long as you have life and breath, believepeople. no one believes more deeply in our capacity to do great things. he is a happy warrior. the president could not have chosen a better partner for this work than mike pence. so, mr. president, mr. vice president, we raise our glasses to you, to karen and to your beautiful family. may you have every blessing and success as the 48th vice president of the united states of america. slante. >> the theme of today's inauguration is uniquely "america." there's some words that come to mind when you hear that phrase. big, bold, energetic, enterprising and resilient. always looking to the next horizon. sure sounds like our country and it sure sounds like donald trump. [applause] our president has surmounted formidable challenges. getting to this moment. he's been underestimated often. he never let it stop him from succeeding. we're wishing him similar success as he turns to the charge of governing. to face many challenges, but we've been challenged before and emerged stronger. we live in cha