robert: yet steven miriam is out there this week as a spokesman for the administration.dan, is the president retreating to this populism from the campaign or sit part of a strategy? dan: with this president, it's always hard to say there's a particular strategy behind it but i think there are core principles and it ebbs and flows with him. there are times at which it looks like he's strayed completely from the campaign agenda and then he comes roaring back to it and what we've seen over the last 10 days to two weeks are a remind they are those are core issue that is connected him with the people who brought him to the white house and he is remaining true to those issues and to them. it's a combination of this america-first notion, the sense of national identity. the social and cultural issues, beyond the economic issues. the social and cultural issues that have bound him to a part of the electorate who remain quite loyal. robert: let's talk about the other end of pennsylvania avenue for a moment. president trump's low approval numbers have rattled members of his own part