much easier in the house of representatives where they have a dominant majority, much tougher in the senate where it's such a narrow one. i think the initial reaction from the white house is one of trying to take a bit of a victory lap and at the same time capitalize on what they believe is momentum to try to actually accomplish a few things in short order using that as, perhaps, a little lift in their sails. >> we also have our friend robert costa of "the washington post." your sources are telling you they were a bit surprised in the white house that the pundits were having such a positive reaction to donald trump's speech because the policy wasn't changing? >> that's exactly right, katy. i woke up this morning and connected with my sources inside the white house and said, what do you make of the reaction? they said, we're actually, frankly, surprised that different pundits on different networks and different papers are embracing this speech. some kind of toned down president trump. they said they set out to have a different kind of tone, an inside voice as one of them put to me, but when it came to his