move along the learning curve as president, new to public office, that will be on display this week? i don t know if it s on display this week but i look at the syria strike, developing relationship with china, additional pressure on north korea and have to give the president and his national security team exceptionally high marks. the other thing after this week, there s going to be a point where we can sit down with democrats. that never happens, by the way, the opening part of a presidency. i don t know of any president that s ever had bipartisan cooperation because they re busy trying to get through the agenda they ran on, which the other side opposed. tax reform certainly could be it, infrastructure. there will be an opening to deal with the other side. i think we have a president sophisticated enough to see it and use it. congressman tom cole, thank you very much. we greatly appreciate it. in just a few minutes, senate minority leader chuck schumer joins us on set. i may
six, seven directions you get nothing done. the second, as we ve been saying, a master of domestic policy that knows how to pass things in congress. mike pence, great guy. he knows how the conservatives in the house works, they need somebody who knows how the united states senate works and can sit down and talk to chuck schumer and sit down and talk to mitch mcconnell in the same room and everybody laughs about old times. still worried about his base. still get stuff done. late sunday morning the president tweeted, eventually, but at a later date, so we can get started early, mexico will be paying in some form for the badly needed border wall. first of all, there s so many lies in that tweet i don t know where to begin. it s layered in nuance. is mexico going to pay for the wall? hello. is mexico going to pay for the wall?
also going to build a rocket ship by himself and fly to mars. invent cold fusion. any of those three projects any of those three projects by itself would test an up and running competent administration and putting all three on the table in one week. seems a little what s the word there. what i don t understand is, i ve had democratic business people and republican business people ask me the same thing, instead of a massive tax reform package, instead of a massive health care reform package, why doesn t he go to chuck schumer and say, you know, i m going to lower the corporate tax rate to 15%. check, stand alone bill. are you with me or not? good luck chuck schumer telling businesses in new york we re not going to have a tax code that s competitive with the rest of the world. they need to stop trying to eat the elephant in one bite and