those men and women has something in his pocket that he wants or she wants. so there s either an amendment or a promise for the future and he s going to have to make good on these promises or satisfy these desires for amendments or he s not going to get these votes. you know, he campaigned on being the ultimate deal maker but do you think his deal-making skills are working in the white house, in this government capacity? no. i don t see it working so far. and the big illustration of that is we re still now in may waiting for his big legislative win. he hasn t had a single one. now, it s true that he signed a couple dozen executive orders. he s got a supreme court pick through although one might say that that was mitch mcconnell s doing. he needs this victory. he needs to demonstrate that he can get the job done. i think if this happens and it breaks something for him, we ll
so that s pretty impressive. but that was back in the early 1990s and now he s got twice that many or almost three times that many republicans in congress that he has to negotiate with and each one of those men and women has something in his pocket that he wants or she wants. so there s either an amendment ar or a promise for the future and he s going to have to make good on these promises or satisfy these desires for amendments or he s not going to get these votes. you know, he campaigned on being the ultimate deal maker but do you think his deal-making skills are working in the white house, in this government capacity? no. i don t see it working so far. and the big illustration of that is we re still now in may waiting for his big legislative win. he hasn t had a single one. now, it s true that he signed a couple dozen executive orders. he s got a supreme court pick
south korea. i want to move to the white house where peter alexander stands by. foreign policy experts have been shocked in the last 24 hours, hearing president trump say he d be honored to meet with kim jong-un. the white house, among down playing lots of things, are trying to down play this. can they? the bottom line here, stephanie, is that the president believes his deal making skills would even apply to those conversations and deals to be made with the decembnorth korea. sean spicer tried to clarify the comments, saying the meeting, if there were to be a meeting, would only happen under certain conditions that had to exist right now. most notably, north korea curtailing its provocative behavior in that region. obviously, we haven t seen any curtailment lately. most notably, the fact there was another ballistic missile test within the last week. so the white house trying to suggest that this was his willingness to have
government of any president in american history. and yet again, it s always anecdotal, i haven t tossed it to thousands of americans, but a lot of the republicans i ve talked to, hugh, still trust his deal-making skills. they still think he s now sort of figuring out how washington works, that he can still pull it off. i want to go to all three of you because so many americans are looking to say, what is washington going to get done? and since bill brought it up, taxes, health care, infrastructure. by the end of the year, hugh, what progress will have been made, in any, do you think? i think there will be a lot of legislation by tend of 2017. and i have to correct my friend, joen thank, jonathan with f things. the relationship with president s sisi has improved. i think people generally on my team are happy that he s moving towards this center. he s not deporting children who
president trump s deal making skills says they may stick with the north american trade agreement after all saying i received called from the president of mexico and dan asking to renegotiate nafta instead of terminate. i agreed. if we don t get a deal good for all, we will then terminate nafta. if and when i win we will renegotiate the disaster known as nafta. a trump administration will renegotiate nafta. if we don t get the deal we want, we will terminate nafta and get a much better deal for our workers. there has never been a trade deal as bad as nafta.