peggy noonan, the great columnist for the "wall street journal." very sunday with avid interest. philip bump for "the washington post," and bezaz bezel michaels. let me start with peggy and we'll go to the guys. what is trump up to because he did lose in the popular vote because the house is the people's vote, and basically the number of people across the country as a country voted against him a bit. but yet, he acted like i have new power in the executive branch. i'm going to utilize it now against my enemies. >> it's -- i feel like he's getting either reckless or hard ball in some way. and i can't quite tell. i thought, by the way, that the house vote, the congressional vote, might be much more strongly a rebuke of 40, 50, 60 seats, than it turned into. maybe there was -- i mean, i talked to somebody at the white house who said we're relieved it was not so terrible. >> that is also clever politics to say you're relieved, as if to diminish a 40-seat loss. >> yeah, but i did some research on it. the average loss for a president in a midterm is 30-so

2nd rangers and d-day when reagan went over in 1984 and gave these incredible speeches given by peggy noonan and tony dolan but with reagan's wit and charm and sense of memory in these speeches -- >> one of the greatest speeches of all time. >> this was an opportunity for donald trump to go talk about world war i and the trans-atlantic alliance, about we will not tolerate belligerent nations. but he did not use it as a unity moment. he came off looking very small. and i felt very bad for general kelly. there he was standing at the service, kind of the replacement for donald trump, who just seemed to be out of touch, couldn't go 50 to 60 miles in a motorcade limo to do what we flew him over there to do -- >> let me put this up because i want you to finish your thought. this is president bush in 2002. this is just for comparison. okay? president bush in 2002. he's in the rain at the vietnam memorial. and then president obama in 2016 laying a wreath at arlington cemetery. however, this president observing the federal holiday holed up in the white house shooting off tweets. >> shooting off tweet

the national political reporter from bloomberg nurz and peggy noonan, columnist at the "the wall streetjournal," and the director for the clinton campaign and obama white house. gentlemen, i will give you the first dibs on this. we've been in this situation before, about 5:04 two years ago. a lot of confidence. >> not triggering anything. >> i don't mean to do that at all. >> rainy election day, chuck, in new york. >> democrats are very caulky rig -- cocky right now. >> you think so? i think all democrats are anxious. >> let me play for you nancy pelosi and you tell me whether this is anxious or cockiness. take a listen. >> this is a woman who knows politics. >> yes, i am. let me just say why i feel confident we will win, it's just a question of the size of victory. >> if democrats win the house today, are you confident you will be speaker? and does that hinge at all on the results of today? >> i'm not going to answer any questions. we'll talk tomorrow. but right now today every second is about winning this election, and that's what's important. >> i give her credit, being very smart th