like a cabinet or anything like that, but i do think this obviously reflects a mindset, and to a certain extent, reflects his intentions. so we ll see. obvious la, what happens. let s get him in office first, but this is not, you know, this isn t a working-class cabinet. you know, it reminds me of what i read about eisenhower when he was setting up his cabinet. he had a saying, he didn t want anybody working for him who could afford to work for him. he brought in a lot of corporate leaders. i didn t actually know them. he heard about their reputations, heard they were good business people and brought them in. it looks like that s the direction trump is doing except he knows the people. unlike ike, who didn t trust people he knew to work for him, trump is going in the opposite direction. gene is right, it s not populist, not working class. policy matters more than anything else.
campaign season. it will be an important signal about what direction trump will choose. whether to push some of those more divisive proposals thad meat him a hero among his base or try to work with democrats on an infrastructure, even bernie sanders suggesting he could be open if donald trump were to pursue such an approach. but, donald trump may also push talk about pushing the repeal of obamacare. and that could enrage the left, while it unites the republican party and while that repeal may have a chance of passing congress, passing a replacement bill will be much, much harder because of senate procedures requiring 60 votes to get anything enacted. carol? okay. we re in for quite a ride. manu raju reporting live for us this morning. thank you. still to come in the newsroom obamacare on life support now that donald trump s heading to the white house. but what does that mean for the millions of americans who are enrolled in obamacare? and will the president-elect talk about tha
some changes in direction here, it seems, from this new administration. white house press secretary sean spicer asked today what it all means. what should the american people make of these shifts and are there any policy areas that are nonnegotiable? well, i think, you know, respectfully, i think you can look at what you re referring to as a shift in a lot of ways and if you look at what s happened, it s those entities or individuals in some cases are issues evolving toward the president s position. so spicer trying to downplay the idea of shifts here, but we have really seen in terms of the policy trump is pursuing some major wholesale reverses from some of the most memorable statements and promises that he made back on the campaign trail. in many cases, these were responses that drew criticism from establishment republicans during the campaign. they were very nervous about the direction trump was talking about going as a candidate. it was candidate trump who
it s mighty twisted and mighty fascinating. well, you may be onto something in a sense. i think it s a little different than the way you interpreted. i think by her coming out and doing this no matter which direction trump goes in, he gets to seem magnanimous and doing things in the interest of the greater good. if he doesn t it says look, the grass roots elected me to do one thing and not go back to the politics or brian. or it s the aids pullying trump who doesn t believe anything as far as we can tell. he sold it to us in both directions. now that this government of rivals maybe government of back stabbers. i m telling you, whatever you think it is, it is probably nine other things at the same time.