that s a whole other level. interesting that you say this is something that the president wanted. there are a lot of people looking back on the last year, republicans particularly, who say this should have been what they did out of the gate. you talked at the beginning just about what we do know or don t know about the president s take on immigration. the same thing is true of infrastructure as well. that s evolved and eroded over the last year. if you want to get infrastructure done, including it and making it involved with tax reform would have changed the game. when it comes time to approving these big dollars for infrastructure, it s not a sexy spending and it s tough to get republicans to sign on the dotted line. all right, we re going to leave it there. coming up, hundreds of false or misleading claims uttered by president trump during his first year in office. but thanks to him, we also have not had any commercial plane crashes. 2017 was a gang buster year for the job ma
president trump has some pretty big boxes to check off in the last days of his first year in office. through it all, the russia probes loom. joining me now political commentators alice stewart, robby mook and from the examiner salena zito. thank you for being here. did anyone come from being out last flight or have we all slept? i got to sleep. plenty of sleep. i was saying to my team i can t believe we booked such great panels on new year s day. thank you for being here, one and all. alice let me begin with you. a big year for the president. he comes off this win on tax reform for republicans. he wants to get infrastructure done, health care done, he wants to get daca done, he needs democrats this time around. he can t do it all through reconciliation and get 51 votes. does the drip, drip, drip of the russia investigation, big piece in the new york times on papadopolous and his role in all
there. i think chuck schumer and a lot of democrats want to see infrastructure done, and i think this president will have willing partners with them. and he learned that he can t work with republicans who have not really governed and don t appear to know how to get things done in congress. judge jeanine: they said they were going to vote on it. when they got to it matter, they didn t vote for it. then you have got the mitch mcconnell thing. but haven t the republicans put the democrats in positions of strength by not supporting the president and his agenda. this one of the rare segments where you and chris are making the same point against the point i m trying to make. 53 pieces of legislation has been sent from congress to the president.
there. i think chuck schumer and a lot of democrats want to see infrastructure done, and i think this president will have willing partners with them. and he learned that he can t work with republicans who have not really governed and don t appear to know how to get things done in congress. judge jeanine: they said they were going to vote on it. when they got to it matter, they didn t vote for it. then you have got the mitch mcconnell thing. but haven t the republicans put the democrats in positions of strength by not supporting the president and his agenda. this one of the rare segments where you and chris are making the same point against the point i m trying to make. 53 pieces of legislation has been sent from congress to the
there. i think chuck schumer and a lot of democrats want to see infrastructure done, and i think this president will have willing partners with them. and he learned that he can t work with republicans who have not really governed and don t appear to know how to get things done in congress. judge jeanine: they said they were going to vote on it. when they got to it matter, they didn t vote for it. then you have got the mitch mcconnell thing. but haven t the republicans put the democrats in positions of strength by not supporting the president and his agenda. this one of the rare segments where you and chris are making the same point against the point i m trying to make. 53 pieces of legislation has been sent from congress to the