kelly o'donnell joins us from the white house. also with us, msnbc contributor paola ramos. >> politico white house correspondent eugene daniels and washington bureau chief for black press usa april ryan. >> it's great to have you all with us. >> kelly. >> first, what's on this agenda for the president's first meeting with congressional leaders? >> well, certainly, the president wants to talk about moving some of his policy ideas into legislation now. >> and we've seen already in the initial sort of celebratory responses related to the inauguration, a lot of support from republicans. >> now it's about the work. and he's got speaker johnson, who, of course, has been an ally leader thune in the senate, who has also said they will work together to get the agenda done. >> so it has to do with a whole range of issues, keeping the tax cuts that he passed originally that are set to expire, working on that, trying to get what the president likes to call one big, beautiful bill that would launch a lot of his early agenda items. also, we'll be looking to see just some of the initial reactions of this. >> moving from the campaign phase is now long over. the transition is over now. >> it is actua