way we're covering them could be tainted by political motivations. that's not a new argument to republican voters and conservatives. >> i will note that the obama administration at one point directly referred to fox news and said we should treat them as the opposition. if you're in the white house, you don't always like what's reported about you. carl, this week's executive actions that betsy was just talking about, just because he signs them, it doesn't necessarily mean they all come to pass exactly the way they were described this week. other things will happen. but, and, and but, what it shows is that the president understands the stage that the white house provides him. president trump may be, more quickly even than president obama did, has learned what people will watch and what people will pay attention to with the power that he has. >> he understands more than the stage with these executive orders. he understands that he has enormous power within these orders to make huge changes, not necessarily all that he wants to, but an awful lot of them.