look at the speech itself, a new americican momoment, says the washington post using a quote .rom donald trumpn the speech it was supposed to be a uniting speech for republicans and democrats. that is what the white house had promised and that is what the president probably believes he delivered. from our vantage point, things were very different. on my left, republicans, on my right, democrats. the only unity was among republicans. that is news in itself because this is a divided party and has been for the entire time of the donald trump presidency. they seem to have warmed to the presidency. there were a lot a standing ovation on his tax cuts and on his plan for immigration, his plan to build a border wall, just some of the examples that have republicans very fired up last night. on my right, democrats, some of whom had decided before hand to not move a muscle. to sit in their seats stoically and not once get up and applaud the u.s. president, whatever he may have said. a few moments from democrats of applause but very few. the u.s. president was addressing a very divided u.s. congress and a

and the fire squad that was 2017 will look like a scene from the rom com compared to what's ahead of them. >> we know with donald trumpesn't change, he's been the same man for many years and the same president for a year now. and i fully expect for 2017 to have its ups and downs but to continue to see the chaos that we saw last year. >> and paul rucker, you have witnessed the political operation, which seems like not even a story, because you have had multiple reports now, but it's a narrative where everyone seems to avoid the elephant in the room which is the president. >> the white house is trying to get a sort of more robust political climate -- if you look at alabama, where both of the candidates that he campaigned for and endorsed lost. they want to turn that around, they want him to be a powerful force out on the trail. he wants to be campaigning for republicans running for senate and house and they need a better operation at the white house to try to manage that and make some of these decisions and there's a lot of discussion under way with the president and his other advisors about who they might bring in to h

donald trump than nancy pelosi. there are more voters who are polarized about trump than polarized about pelosi. this might work in your redder districts, but districts that went for mitt romn 2012 and then went for hillary clinton in 2016, i don't see that tactic working. >> it's funny you say that, they did use pelosi in georgia 6. and this is a red leaning district, that it would be a disaster if republicans lost this because donald trump's actually visited the district. >> you know, i think the view generally is if it's a nationalized election at the house level or even sometimes at the senate level, that's not going to be good for donald trump, that means that the president is the focus of scrutiny. and it's hard to think that republicans tried this with ted kennedy, it didn't work. >> democrats have been runni-- f you make the most sipelosi atta decision as a republican -- >> you do not want to make this a race about donald trump when he's got a 35% approval rating. you want to make it about local concerns, you want to have the candidate distance himself not just from donald trump but from local republicans and run a race that's localized. >> mitt romney is finally g