Leader nancy pelosi. Plus [ chanting ] all usa, usa battle at berkeley. Is free speech being silenced . Robert reich and ann coulter are here. Good morning. Washington is a town obsessed with milestones. All week, its been all about President Trumps first 100 days. But for all the hype around that, as it turned out, day 100 of Donald Trumps presidency looked and sounded a lot like day one. There was the president delivering a hardedged America First speech. His tone and his message as dark and foreboding as his inaugural address. If you tried to illegally enter the United States, you will be caught, detained, deported, or put in p it will happen. And just as they did on day one, protesters filled the streets of the capital. This time, demanding action on climate change. The 100day marker has been an on segs of those in power and those writing about power since that pole yoens days ended in waterloo after 100 days of emperor. For the americans, its been a marker since fdr passed a blizzard of bills in his first 100 days during the depression. But lets face it. President trump is right when he calls 100 days a ridiculous standard to measure a presidency. He escalated that importance in a Campaign Speech at gettysburg, no less. The truth is, history will little note nor long remember any 100day judgments made in the midst of all that is happening right now. N president , Abraham Lincoln eulogized another president saying quote, the presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses. No human being can fill that station and escape censure. The true measure does not come many the midst of political bat. Its not found in the polls. The true assessment comes in the calm light of history. So, in this show, today, we wont waste time with 100day report cards. We will look to the next 100 days. Or maybe the next 1360 days until the next president ial inauguration. We begin with the biggest challenge facing President Trump at this moment. North korea. Continuing to test missiles despite repeated warnings. Backstage in harrisburg, abcs katherine falder the president. After the Missile Launch . Youll soon find out, wont you . Are you planning military action . Youll soon find out. Joining me now is Reince Priebus, white house chief of staff. Welcome. Thank you. How is the u. S. Going to respond to north korea . First of all, the administration and the country and the president always seex peace. The president is someone who has made it very clear that hes not going to telegraph his next moves. Not going to put out the plan for North Carolina in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Hes working with general mattis. With rex tillerson. With general mcmaster and his team. In making determinations of now move forward in a pretty delicate, complicated matter. The president has interesting remarks about kim jongun this week in his interview with reuters. Is could see him in direct talks with kim jongun . Im not sure about that. I dont want to get ahead of him or the Foreign Policy team on that matter. Certainly, we have a situation where lots of administrations before us and many others have just watched this transpire. Watched knot korea build the capability it has today. Watch them put missiles into mountainsides. And here we are today. Weve got a president that mean business. And hes used his, i think, negotiating skills very wisely. Befriending and becoming very close the president xi in china. Working with china to put pressure on north korea. Working with our allies. Yesterday, he had a conversation with the president of the philippines. Today, hell talk to singapore and thailand. He keeps in close contact with the president in japan, president abe. This is a missiondriven president ho time talking to allies and talking with our experts. I want to ask you about the call with the president of the philippines. Rodrigo duterte. White house put out an official readout of the call praising duterte for fighting very hard to get rid of drug in his country. This is a president of the philippines that so many say has blood on his hands. Since the inauguration of president Rodrigo Duterte and his call for a war on drugs, fip peen National Police officers and unidentified vigilantes have killed over 7,000 people. His outspoken endorsement of the campaign implicates him and other senior officials in possible incitement of violence, instigation of murder and in command of he said obama was the son of a whore. Why is President Trump honoring president duterte now with a visit to the white house . Im not so sure its a matter of honoring this president. Its matter for a potential of nuclear and massive destruction in asia and the potential, at least according to north korea, to developing an icbm that could, at some point down the line if we do nothing, could potentially reach the United States. This is a different level of cooperation we need from our partners in southeast asia. Does that mean human rights dont matter . Absolutely not. It means the issues facing us, developing out of north korea, are so serious that we need cooperation at some level with as many partners in the area as we can get to make sure w does happen in north korea, we have everyone in line backing up a plan of action that may need to be put together with our partners in the area. Help me understand how the president sees this. When youre look agent the list of priorities when youre dealing with a Foreign Policy. A foreign country like the philippines, where does human rights, promotion of democrat okay circumstances all those things that reagan put center, george w. Bush put front and center in Foreign Policy, where does that stand if the list of priorities . Look, it stanlds high at the top of the list. Was it even mentioned . When you have north korea, and you have them flagrantly talking about developing nuclear war heads, which they have already done, and wanting to putting up videos of how theyre going to launch these things to the United States and across the globe, that has to remain at the highest level. When it comes to human rights, his team did in syria. I mean, that was matter of human rights. The president said enough was enough. He wanted to make a statement assad and the rest of the world that there are some lines you dont cross. The president s shown his willingness to stand up for human rights. Lets to back to the official readout of the call with duterte. It praises him for working very hard to rid his country of drugs. This is somebody with an abysmal human rights record who has been accused of basically mass extrajudicial killings. Did that not come up in the phone call . I didnt sit through the entire call. This is something that the president in the phil peens is saying hes working towards. Obviously, we want to encourage him to do bet person this call, the purpose of this call is all about north korea. The purpose of all of these calls, as you have seen on the schedule. I know you watch every little mo should, thats your job. Hes been speaking a lot to all of our partners in southeast asia. The issue on the table is north korea. There is nothing facing the country and the ridegion more important than whats going on in north korea. Whether theyre good folks, bad folks, people we wish would do better in their country, we have to bonn the same page. You unveiled the outline of the president s tax plan. You have heard critics say, this is a giveaway to the rich. I want to ask you, are you open to a compromise that would actually raise the top rate, raise the rate on the very wealthiest in the country to, say, 40 . Is that something you would be willing to do as part of a final compromise . Im not going to get ahead of where were at. We have to talk to people the country affected by whatever tax plan is signed into law. If you look where this tax plan is going, while the top rate is lowered to 35 , theres also a lot of deductions that have been taken off the table. A person like donald trump or a person like our some of our folks that like Steve Mnunchin and others are not going to see a big reduction. The president could see a big deduction. A lot of the deductions they enjoy are taken away. Its a massive Tax Deduction and what the president cares most about the is middle class. This is a targeted Tax Deduction for the middle class. Its also targeted at attracting business in the country and making sure businesses can pass on savings to their employees so people can put more pun in their pocket, enjoy the american dream, put their kids through college, and retire like people used to do like back where i grew up, you could work 30 years at american motors of chrysler and have a great life. Thats the way things used to be. The president cares about the middle class, the american dream. Thats whats in his heart. I remember quite well, many times over the course of the campaign, candidate donald trump talking about how he was going to raise taxes on the the Hedge Fund Guys. As he called them. He said the Hedge Fund Guys are getting away with murder. Now i want you to look at how the tax plan was received when it was released this week. Reuters, first bumps at heng funds over trumps tack plan. Tax plan silent on carried interest, boon for the very rich. Axios trump plan would lower taxes on some Hedge Fund Managers. It looks to me, at least initially, that the Hedge Fund Guys are still going to be getting away with mu popped pretty quick. Stay tuned on that. Carried interest is on the table. This is the loophole that allows the Hedge Fund Managers to get a much more the president wants to get rid of carried interest. That balloon woeld stay inflightinflight wont stay inflated. I want to ask you about the president s own taxes. Secretary treasury secretary mnunchin peeking about whether or not the president would release his tax returns, said the president has no intention of releasing his taxes. Was he speaking for the president there . Until then, i had been hearing you all and the president saying he needed to wait for the audit to be done. First of all, audit . No audit. When the audit is done, hell look at releasing his taxes. Lets go back for on the table for the American People. They didnt care. I hate polls suggest they would like to same polls said he would lose and he won. Hang on. You care. Other people apparently that are involved in in the news and journalists. I dont want i dont want to debate this. The one tax release that was released showed that our president paid 38 million. Did the president release it . Someone released it. That he paid 38 million in his taxes. No, the president didnt release it. Someone obtained it illegally. He paid 38 million in taxes. Such a big night for msnbc. No, i remember well. I remember well. He paid a lot of taxes in 2005. Spent 38 in taxes. About a 25 rate. And everyone said, aw, shucks. He paid a ton in taxes. I want to clarify the president s position on i asked sean spicer two weeks ago whether or not, lets play it. You always talk about, under audit. The president says under audit. Is it time to say once and federal, the the president is never going release his tax returns . Um, well have to get back to you on that. You wont i mean, really . Really. So he may . No, i said i would have to get back to you on that. I want to clarify. But thn up. We never have to ask you again spp he never going the release his taxes, with or without audit, no audit. Is it now the policy he wont release the taxes . The president has said hes under routine audit. When the audit is over, hell look at releasing his taxes. Heres my other point. Nobody cares,than. You care. Dont the American People have a right to know how the tax plan will affect the president personally . This issue is litigated before the American People. The American People issue adjustment in november. President trum most historic president ial victories in the history of our country. The only people asking me this question are people like you. I think youll hear some in congress ask you as well. Like who . Nancy pelosi . Chuck schumer . The democrats are saying they would like to see you make this a condition of tax plan. You need democratic support. And the Democratic Party is in the worst shape its been since i want to move on. We have a segment coming up with ann coulter and robert reich. I want to ask you about two things the president has said on related issues. First of all, there was what he said about opening up the liable laws. Tweeting the failing new york i times has disgraced the media world. Gotten me wrong for two solly years. Change the libel laws . Is he going to pursue that . I think its something we have looked at. How that gets whether it go anywhere is a different story. You have articles out there that have no basis or fact and were sitting here on 24 7 on Cable Companies writing stories about con stakt contacts with russia. You think the president should be able to sue the New York Times for stories he doesnt like . I think that newspapers and News Agencies need to be more responsible with how they report the news. Im so tired. I dont think anybody would disagree with that. Its about whether or not the president has the right to sue them. I already answered the question. The president is looking at it. As far as how it gets executed. Where we go with it. Its another issue. I think this is a frustration of unnamed sources of things that the fbi has told me personally is complete b. S. , written in a newspaper article, written in my office, one on one, this, here, is not true. And guess what . Page. So how is it possible . And what do we have . 24 7 cable about a story about intelligence that the actual Intelligence Agency says is not true. You deal with it every day. The other thing he talked about is flag burners should possibly go the jail or have their people need to stand up for our flag. Is he going to pursue that . The one thing we have in common as americans is our american tlag. Its something that is again probably going to get looked auto. Our flag should be protected. Donald trump talks about that issue. Its a 70 issue in the country. He wins every day and twice on sunday on our flag. Thank you for spending part of your sunday with us. Up next, on College Campuses around the country, there is a debate raging on freedom speech. Well talk to the woman at the enter of the most recent flare up at the university of california berkeley. Conservative coulter and berkeley Professor Robert reich. Thats up next. Happiness is powerful flea and tick protection from nexgard. A delicious chew that protects for an entire month. Ask your vet for more information. Reported side effects include vomiting and itching. Nexgard. The vets 1 choice. Try new flonase sensimistgies. Instead of allergy pills. Six key inflammatory substances. Most allergy pills only block one. New flonase sensimist. We asked people to write down the things they love to do most on these balloons. Travel with my daughter. Roller derby. Now give up half of em. Do i have to . This is a tough financial choice we could face when we retire. But, if we start saving even just 1 more of our annual income. We could keep doing all the things we love. Prudential. 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In month, berkeley cancelled a speech by conservative fire brand ann coulter citing fears her appearance could lead to a violent backlash. Joining me now, ann coulter and berkeley professor and former clinton labor secretary robert reich. You and ann coulderter agree on basingly th but you said berkeley made a grave mistake for canceling her speech. As you said. I dont ever remember agreeing with ann coulter on anything. I do believe in the First Amendment. Ill fight for her right to say what she wants to say. The First Amendment is and freedom of speech is the corner stone of our democracy. And, whether its College Campuses or somebody burning a flag or its the newspapers having a right to say whatever they want, we cannot toy around with the First Amendment. Its absolutely critical. Ann . Well, thank you, professor. For allowing me my constitutional rights. But, i mean, i must say, i think this debate has, first of all, has divided leftists in the country from those who believe in the constitution and those who dont. I think we have seen this thuggish violence at university after university after university, mario stood up in the 60s and yelled free speech at berkeley. That was free speech for lefties. Like they say about democracy in the third world. One man, one vote, one time. As soon as lefties took over the the university, thats it. Free speech is shut down. But any way, i think that hill, when we have owe what, elizabeth warren, Bernie Sanders, and bill maher, among others, all saying of course you should let ann coulter speak. Were done with that hill. Lets move on to the hill where its considered, i mean, some of these people, not you, professor, keep saying, well, of course, its hateful. But hateful speech is allowed the exist. Im sorry, im engaging in a ploik policy debate. That is not hateful speech. I think those are the lefties we need to discuss with next. These are important issues of public policy. But, ann the reaction of students at a place like berkeley cant surprise you given some of the things you have said. Lets take a look. You have said that getting rid of womens right to vote is a personal fantasy. You said of one group of 9 11 widows and i quote, ive never seen people enjoying their husbands deaths so much. And then there was the tweet that you put out just the day before the election saying, if only people with at least four grandparents born in america were voting, trump would win in a 50state landslide. I mean, on that one, by the way, neither donald trump nor mike pence would be able to vote. Um i okay. Lets just take that one. We can go through all the greatest hits of much of my commentary. I watch roughly 24 hours a day, the hispanic vote. The hispanic vote. How the browning of america. And how are africanamericans voting. How are women voting. I describe one demographic and say how it would come out. And thats hat telling me how hispanics are going to vote. Youre talking about rhetorical flourishes. Maybe you think youre smarter than the founding fathers. They did not put an asterisk on the First Amendment. No rhetorical flourishes. No jokes. Well, we finally found something, after all these years, where i agree with ann coulter. That is there is no hate speech exception for the First Amendment. So, i want to ask you about the similar controversy that we saw at middle bury over Charles Murrays attempted speech, which, caused violent protests. He ultimately was unable to speak. A student at middlebury explained the situation to the New York Times this way. For too long, flauded notion of free speech has allowed individuals in positions of power to spread racist pseudoscienc i institutions dehumanizing and subjugating people of minorities. Are you concerned that there is a growing view among young activists that freedom of speech simply does not apply to offensive speech . There is that asterisk . Jonathan, to the extent that there is that view at berkeley or any place else, i am concern period one of the purposes of a University Education is to be provoked. To examine what the evidence is. If something says something offensive, that is not per se, you know, a violation of any kind of university norm. In fact, quite the opposite. I tell my students all the time, the best way to learn something is to talk to people who disagree with you. It forces that forces you to sharpen your views and test your views. You might even, might even come out in a different place. A university of all places is the we want to have provocative views. We want to have views that some people find to be offensive the. Ann, can we find another place where the two of you might agree . I want to ask you. I talked to Reince Priebus about what the president has said about opening up the libel laws. He said theyre still looking into this. In other words, giving the president the ability to sue the New York Times or other news organizations for coverage he doesnt like. Can we agree . I have always thought there should be a pure truth falsity standard and a limit on damages. Universities ought to be places where im not the only conservative most institutes will hear in four years of claej. It shows this radical insulated left on the college s. And the entire left wing, including president obama and bill maher on the other side and what useless institutions our universities are. The prices are up 3,000 since the 70s. Is the education better . No. Its worse. The lefties are on the side of the thugs. I dont think anyone learns anything about college anymore. Its a fouryear vacation. People ought to be looking at that. The taxpayers are supporting the universities. Not just the university of california but with federal grants. Every university in america. If i can just get to your question, jonathan, the libel laws should not be widened. We really do need a free press. One thing that concerns me about the present administration is the willingness to not only talk about widening the libel laws and also criminalize flagburning, but, even the president of the United States last night, using an opportunity supporters and to criticize the press once again. This is dangerous. If we believe in the First Amendment, we believe in a free and independent press. All right, Professor Robert reich and ann coulter, in a debate you couldnt have seen at berkeley. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Thank you. The First Amendment was celebrated last night at the annual white house correspondents dinner. Coming up, the president of the white house correspondents, jeff mason. And nancy pelosi. Depression is a tangle of multiple symptoms. 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And theres House Democratic leader nancy pelosi giving her grade of President Trumps first 100 days in office. Thank you for being here on this week. We heard you give President Trump an f minus. What is your frad for democrats during the first 100 days of the trump era. Oh, my gosh, in terms of unity . 100 unified. Thats how we were able with an outside mobilization channeling the energy of the American People to defeat their drastic, horrible health care bill. If you look at our latest abc News Washington post poll, twothirds of those polled say the democrats are out of touch. Isnt the Democratic Party a bit of a mess . No, it isnt. We have walked the walk. We havent talked the talk. All we do is fight for americas working families. Against special interests. That the republicans represent. But that has not come across. Youve said you think the democrats can win back the house. Yes. Lets do the odds. Somewhat the percentage chance that you are reelected speaker of the house . Its not about me. The democrats. Its about the democra history is on our side. As you recall when clinton was president , the republicans won. When bush was president , the democrats won, when obama was president , the republicans won. Its nothing to be taken for granlted. We feel again, history on our side. I have never, in my years in politics seen so much enthusiasm. Lets imagine for a minute that you actually win. Democrats retake the house. Mmhmm. How tuz a Democratic House and you as a democratic speaker work with this president . You look a lot like a party of no right now. I dont think that at all. Hes proposing a bill that had 17 support in the public. Were looking for the infrastructure bill. We welcome them with here to work with the president on. We welcome some of his ideas about he said in the campaign about work and home balance in terms of child child care. We look forward to working with him. We said we would work on a tax rorm for fairness and transparency. But, what did he put out but a wish list for billionaires. I see everything as an opportunity. And, i never have seen so much willingness to help win. And winning means winning for the American People. That either we win or whoever wins understands the priorities of the American People. And they are not the president bush excuse me. So sorry, president bush. I never thought i would pray for the day that you were president again. But praying iffer the day that president bush is president again. . So you asked the question, how would i work with a republican snt the way we worked with president bush. We got great deal accomplished. We opposed him on the war in iraq vociferously. We opposed him on privatization of social security. Issues. Tax bill that helped lowincome working families. That we wanted and he wanted to be big. The list goes on and on. Let me put one hypothetical out there. You have clear aand will oppose funding for the wall. Yeah, yeah. No question. Is there a possibility for a grand bargain on immigration, where democrats agree to support money for the president s wall, to support money for Additional Border security, more i. C. E. Agents and the president agrees to support a path to legal status . Is there a possibility for the two sides, even on an issue like immigration to come together . Money for the wall but also a path to citizen ship . No. No . No. You wouldnt even we had a bipartisan bill out of the United States senate. It failed. Its gone. It didnt fail. The house bring it up. It would have won had they brought it up. It did not lk law. We dont have to pay for us to do the right thing as a country and overwhelmingly, the American People support a path to citizenship. For the people who are in our country. We have to protect our borders. That is our responsibility as a nation. No offense. Why not a wall, which was his central pam pain promise . He never said, did you ever hear him say im going to charge the American People tens of billions of dollars. Opportunity costs, the education of our children. Of infrastructure throughout our country. Investments in biomedical research, which is he is cutting so we can have this immoral, ineffective, expensive, unwise wall. No. President obama came back out on the public stage. For a speech at a wall street conference. Are you uneasy with the idea of president obama taking 400,000 from wall street for a speech . Heres the thing. President obama led the way on dodd frank, which did more to curb the influence and greed beyond greed, almost some of it criminal, in terms of what they were doing on wall street. He has standing to go any place and say ive done i have done. And accept im not big on the on hair i dont speak to who gets what for what. What is important is what we do that affects the lives of American People. President obama is no longer president. President trump is. And he has surrounded himself with a cabinet of wall streeters. After he said, in the campaign, im going fire wall street and then rehire them in my cabinet. So, lets talk about what matters to the American People. In terms of policy if you want to talk about wall street. How often do you talk to the president . I have no complaint that i dont talk to him enough. So you hear from him with regularity . No, i wouldnt say i talk to him enough. I have spoken to him. Ive spoken to his administration about issues. We have a courteous, cordial respect for conversation. But i always grant people their position. I respect what you believe in. What you have come to do. Im not suitly sure what he believes in yet. But if its reflected in his budget, well fight that. But he knows that. And so i think we have i think we have a shall we say, an understanding. Leader nancy pelosi, thank you very much for joining us. My well be right back with the roundtable and a look at President Trumps next 100 days in office. We gotta ard the elephant thats not in the room. [ laughter ] the leader of our country is not here. And thats because he lives in moscow. Sit a very long flight. It would be hard for he cant just make it on a saturday. Its a saturday. As for the other guy, i think hes in pennsylvania because he cant take a joke. Comedian Hasan Minhajs night. Our roundtable joins us now. Kaitlan collins. Jeff mason. And perry bacon jr. Let me start with you, jeff. The president became the first president since 1981 not to go to the dinner. That was romd reagan. He had just been shot. So he had an excuse. You had a big interview with the president. Did you get the sense talking to him that he regrets this decision in any way . I didnt get the sense that he regretted the decision. I certainly got the seps he was still thinking about it and thinking about the issue. He talked about potentially coming the following year. He was following it closely. Was interested but he didnt say anything about regretting his decision not to come. This was an extraordinary move not simply that he decided not to come. But the fact that there was essentially a boycott by the entire white house. None of the white house staff. It was unprecedented that the rest of the white house staff was i think essentially not allowed to come. They were said that they did that in solidarity with the president. I know that there are plenty of white house staff and others if the administration who would have liked to have attended the dinner. What was the message he was trying to send, the white house was trying to send . Its a little artificial. He said he didnt want to come. There would be natural tension to think they could come and enjoy the dinner and not be hypocritical. But, he lambasted the press and last week, he was interviewing the president. So hes obviously cozy with him. In private, such a mediafriendly president. He sat down with him and had an intervie the dinner that he hosted. It seems a little artificial to me that he didnt go because he didnt want to seem to cozy with the press. I disagree with the word cozy. I think they have a didchotomy and an irony. The Trump White House has been very accessible to the press. That is something that the Correspondents Association wants and purrs for. Nen you have this other rhetoric about how the press is the opposition party. The enemy of the people. He regularly criticizes the New York Times and the Washington Post but when his bill didnt have enough sport, those are the first two organizations he called. You call and they will them what really happened. Look, perry, i have been covering on and off donald trump for like, a couple of decades. Since i was a reporter for the new york hes always been accessible and media friendly. He may criticize and lash out. Essentially a media friendly feg your. You heard from Reince Priebus saying theyre serious or looking into the idea still of changing the libel laws. That was a strange thing he said, to be honest. I was very surprised about that. He said, were looking into it. I wasnt convinced he actually is looking into it. I took it more that theyre not going the walk that back. Donald trump tends not to apologize. It seemed like the staff is doing that as well. Im not going to party with the swamp. Im going to be out there with my people, not with the reporters in tux sedos. That filled his message that hes going to have a different relationship with washington than previous president s. Thank you very much for being what was the president s main message last night . It sounded like a throwback speech to me. Definitely. It was like we were on the campaign all over again. I would like to touch on reinces idea of looking at the libel laws. You would need a constitutional amendment, right . I dont know why he said that. Its misinformed. Last night, he was this was hard edge. This was America First. This was vintage Campaign Donald trump. Exactly. Thats right. I think he wanted to go in that direction. It was a contrast he wanted. He listed. He wanted to say, aye done some of the things i said i would do. If you look at his immigration policy, think he has. The number of border crossings is way down in the last few months. He wanted to list what has he done, how has he met his promises. The media has suggested he failed in a lot of wa health care. The message is, here are the things im doing. Here are the check marks. I was struck by nancy pelosi saying not interested in a compromise on immigration. The idea of the president getting money for his wall, which hell get back later from mexico in exchange for a path to citizenship. My sense is within this white house, there are obviously different views on immigration. This is a sense that a compromise like that is something that the president would be open to. Maybe not citizenship. But comprehensive Immigration Reform in exchange for security. He said he might not get funding for the border wall until september. I think hes softened his stance on immigration a lot. As a ca get rid of daca and he said barack obama defied federal law when he signed those. He has said dreamers can rest easy. Im interested to see how the president s supporters will react to that when they see hes not cracking down on it like he said he would. You already see it. Daca is in place. Right. This was something he talked about doing away with on day one. Its still in place. Exactly. Is he getting blowback from the right on this . I dont think hes getting enough. Ive asked him repeatedly. When he had the reception for conservative media last week, i was there. People were asking him easy questions you could tell he wanted to answer. I raised my hand and said, do you still think daca is ig legaled . His supports care about it. He said, his usual answer, which is that he has heart. And hes not going to deport children who came to the country take the stance that he had at multiple rallies. Jeff, you gotta say that flexibility has been one of the e do ning conta defining con t characteristics. I thing its interest dog see how his supporters react. He seems to be unique, as a candidate and as a president , to be able to change his opinion without necessarily getting blowback from the people who put him in office. So far, the polling tells us no one has changed his mind about donald trump. His base is with him. The people that hated him on january 21st, they still hate him. The way they have enforced policy on trying to deport people at courthouses. The Latino Community is concerned that some on the right say hes not been aggressive enough. Some of the left say hes been too aggressive. The policies are complicated. Hes moved on som its hard to figure out where he stands and where hes going to go. I have to ask you. We had the tax plan released. Or at least the outline of the tax plan. 19 bullets. Thank you. I didnt count. Where does this go . Do they have chance of seeing something by the end of the year pass that incorporates most of those . Thinks thats his dream. He wants to emulate Donald Reagan and have something significant passed in the first year of his first term. The tax rate bigger than ronald reagans. Exactly. It took them 20 minutes to brief reporters on the outline of it but its the biggest one. No specific miss the bill. I dont think well see this by the end of the year. I think you have to see how will republicans accept an increase in deficits . And why would democrats give support of this . Let me play something quickly. Nancy pelosi. Tax rate. Listen to this. I think we could probably split the difference between the 35 and the 15. We have always been for lowering the the corporate rate. You would agree to a22, 23 . Somewhere there. You think there could be a deal on taxes. Oh, absolutely. What do you think . I think the gap, the proposal suggests a large decrease in taxes on the wealthy. Ly be very surprised if elizabeth warren, Bernie Sanders feel like theres a lot of other elements that would be controversial. They can probably pass it and use reconciliation. Reince priebus made news with us. Saying hes going to close the hedge fund loophole. Thats a on the front lines of health care, there are always new challenges and opportunities. At unitedhealth group, were built to help with both. Providing employers with data and insights to improve outcomes. Ensuring seniors have stability and working with governments to expand access, lower costs and improve quality. To all those with a passion to improve health care, our question is how can we help . Unitedhealth group. Built for better health. Before we go, i want to ard a comment from the president this week that touched off an avalanche of criticism and mockery. President trump said of his job, i thought it would be easier. Commentators, journalists, the president s political foes pounced on those words. How could he have thought it would be easier . Its true that as a candidate, donald trump said over and over again that it would be easy to fix americas problems. But before you mock those words of President Trump, consider the words of john f. Kennedy. When dwight d. Eisenhower 100 days into kennedys presidency. Its a story recounted by historian Steven Ambrose and a story nancy pelosi brought up to meed a the end of our interview. Kennedy told eisenhower, nobody knows how tough this job is until hes been in it for a few months. Mr. President , if youll forgive me, i think i mentioned that to you three months ago. Kennedy responded, i certainly have learned a lot since then. 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Sharyl what are your reflections so far on the medias treatment of donald trump under his presidency . Frank senso this is a different ballgame. Weve always had an aggressive press, weve always had a political press, weve always had a snarky white house press. This is different. Hes declared war on the press. Pres. Trump we are fighting the fake news. Sharyl yet there seems little doubt that the media is breaking away from its traditional role when it comes to President Trump. Brian stelter i get a ton of emails. Sharyl it seems like there has been an unprecedented blurring an accepted blurring of the lines between reporters who report the facts and those who then editorialize. Howie kurtz President Trump has been obliterated because it is deemed acceptable in many quarters to say negative things about this president , to say sn