washington. harder than he thought it was going to be. it s a beast of a job. listen to president trump as he reflects on kind of miss my old life. this is more work than in my previous life. i thought it would be easier. i thought it was more of a i m ea details oriented person. you can say that i do miss my old life. i like to work so that s not a problem, but this is actually more work. the president sees complicated. i m being a little snarky. it s always interesting to hear from a president. whether you voted for him or didn t, he s still learning a lot. never been in government. particularly because this is someone who s never been in government before. used to being in charge and having what he says go. that s not what happens here. what happens with executive orders kind of in some cases. not always. but certainly not with congress. he didn t have to work this hard
a primary, particularly in deep red districts. but at the same time these are national numbers that you re looking at for paul ryan, for mitch mcconnell. these people are still popular in their districts. voters voted for donald trump, but they didn t vote for the republican congress. they voted for their republican congressman, their republican senator. a lot of those guys have higher approval ratings back home. donald trump trying to make nice. he campaigned about paul ryan, against washington. many republicans disliked the republicans in congress to begin with. that s why trump became the nominee. they were already halfway. it i think there s danger on both sides. there s danger for trump making his foil his own party in congress because then how do you actually get things done. but when you look at the polling the interesting thing that stuck out to me this week is in the washington post cbs poll people believe he cares about them. the number is low but guess who s lower? eve
between-of will of ties between russia and trump s associates. so that story will retake the headlines. and president trump never ran against washington. president trump is part of the establishment.idea that he was draining the swamp was always an illusion. now he s in the swamp and he has to figure out if he makes it deeper, if about there is some way out. right. almost time to take a hard look at his tactics and what will succeed. what has he learned from are this possibly or what do you hope he s learned from this? i ll leave to your viewers to decide if president trump ever actually learns or if doubles down on his bet. i think the question is what might be advisors has learned. we know the white house has been slit between a pragmatism wing and hard line, fire breathers like steve bannon who are just full speed ahead. i think that they will have to rein in the hard right ideologues and think about working with congress and a lot more groups besides this it.
you re great here too. you write for a living. multitalented. bill: what do you think of the word, the choice, the prose you just heard? never had an inaugural address like that one. he started, and prior to that was a scathing indictment of the people sitting behind him, former presidents of both parties, and it was, it was as much an indictment of george w. bush and republicans sitting behind him as it was of democrats. it was sort of a transpartisan diatribe against washington and the way washington works. the blame he is fixing on those people, then he did something really, really interesting which was, when he went inside for that luncheon he was as sweet as sugar. he was as nice to those people. he had hillary clinton stand up for a standing ovation from the room. he said very kind things about working together. he was very chummy. you will see trump an outside game and inside game.
he does indeed, brooke, he s already ticking through them. we ve seen a couple high-level announcements made already today, the head of the transportation department, the secretary of transportation as well as health and human services. he has done those picks. he is actually doing pretty well in terms of ticking through the potential cabinet secretaries. you re right. chairman mike mccaul is one of the leading contenders to be the homeland security secretary, we re told. it s so interesting, after watching this long campaign, against washington, the people walking through the lobby of trump tower are by and large from washington. the chairman who is a republican from texas, is the latest example. bob corker, the senator from tennessee, also potentially in line to be secretary of state. he also is from washington. so a very largely traditional cabinet up until this point, by and large from washington, which certainly is interesting given the tone against washington during this campai