welcome. i think that we heard the president express a little more frustration with what he thinks the media landscape is and led on to what he doesn t like about the current media landscape more than we usually do. fair? new? not new to you. his he really hates the su r superficiality of the media. he believes digging down in the issues and finding something had works. that s not something we find in washington. media tends to focus on it is a collective criticism even if it is a small group of media doing this. that s always frustrated me when i hear him make these criticisms. sure. i think that he understands that there is a role there, you know, the free speech freedom of the press he has respected. it is more when the press, small portion of the press, focuses on very much the politics of it. one joke that was than even a joke i don t think. ing the column about he
alan. arizona clearly has a big problem with illegal immigration. for those people who live with this every day, what is the general reaction to the law from people in the state? i mean, every poll you look at right now, there s very strong support for, if not the bill, the intention of the bill. even folks in arizona who do not support the bill express a very deep level of frustration with the situation in arizona. they think they have been forgotten, they think the federal government has not stepped in and done its job, so they re very upset about it. but at the same time, if you look at you ask folks about how they feel about the impact this is going to have on the hispanic community, they re extremely sympathetic. they do not want illegal immigrants leading productive lives in the united states to be kicked out, they don t want them to be harassed. it s the balancing act that makes it so difficult. how to reconcile both these positions, good luck. alan gomez with usa today
i think ultimately he s pragmatic in that way and that can serve him well. do i have concerns? absolutely. of course i ve got concerns. one of the things i advised him to do was to make sure that before he commits to certain courses of action he s really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out. reporter: he said in his meeting with the president-elect last week, donald trump did express a commitment to nato despite his rhetoric on the trail and is now rethinking what parts of obamacare he might preserve. i think it s important for us to let him make his decisions and i think the american people will judge. reporter: wanting to put some optimism there, even as a still shell shocked party picks up the pieces. the president saying reflection will be healthy for democrats and for donald trump. there are going to be certain