that? absolutely. i think he could. i think if he gets to the beginning of some change that has so more broad brush appeal just to his hard-core supporters, i think they ll be okay with that. at least he s doing something. i think that s the line you ll hear a lot, well, at least he s doing something. my own view is not surprisingly a little bit different. i think donald trump made a series of very specific promises that his supporters expect him to keep. and i think he doubled down on those promises again and again and again. and his supporters stood and cheered when he did that. you know, there s a rule in this town that you can get almost anything done if you re president and your approval rating is high enough. but if he starts adding his supporters to the list of people who don t like and don t approve of the job he s doing, he s going to have a very difficult time getting congress to do anything. the voters who put him in office first and foremost want something to happen, as
in the blank. it s a wait-and-see approach, i guess, still. i apologize. i think he s doing fine. i think everybody has got their hair on fire. everybody needs to chill out. he ll be fine. all right, steve, i have a feeling your view might be slightly darker. a little darker, and that s probably not surprising. i think the interesting question in washington is the extent to which the republicans in the senate, in particular follow him or fight him. there s already some evidence tonight that some of the maverick senators like senator rand paul and ted cruz are going to fight him a little bit. lindsey graham, john mccain, jeff flake, ben sasse. he s got some people that he s got to try to keep in line in his own party. and i think that s going to be at least as much of a challenge for him as trying to get democrats in line. kim, do you think he will relish fighting with the republican establishment more or the do you think he will relish fighting with the democrats more? i thin
least many of those things were missing in his pronouncements so far. and i don t think you re going to see any of them in the next hundred days or the next six months or the next four years. all right, steve and kim, i would loved to have time to speak to you both about the state of the democratic party, but unfortunately, that is a very long conversation and it would have made steve weep openly, like nicole wants to see ann coulter weep no, i just steve mcmahon she wants to see it. steve mcmahon and kim alfano, great to see you. we ll be right back. at outback, steak and unlimited shrimp is back! for just $15.99 for a limited time.
tell your doctor your medical history. taking victoza® with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. the most common side effects are headache, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. side effects can lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. now s the time for a better moment of proof. ask your doctor about victoza®. welcome back. we re bringing in two friends of the show. and they also happen to be brilliant political operatives. steve mcmahon, a democratic strategist and cofounder of purple strategies in washington, d.c., and kim al nonno, a republican strategist, she s also in d.c. that s fantastic, both in the nation s capital. good to see you both. kim, you have have had varying views about donald trump over the course of the campaign. at this moment, your view of president-elect trump at this moment, your view of president-elect trump is fill
a good thing. in other respects, it s a very dangerous thing. because there are some voters that put him into office that expect him to keep the promises that he made. i think the decision he made about secretary clinton is a smart and wise one. i think the affordable care act is going to be a lot more difficult to unwind than he thought. and i think that building the wall is ridiculous and always has been, but he seems to have stuck with it, through the campaign. i think he s abandoning it right now. kim, what do you think about that video? i said earlier that it made minimum look a little bit like a conventional politician for maybe the first time ever in his life. what was your take on that video? i would say two things. one, it s what he can the in the first hundred days, all by himself. so some of those campaign promises that he talked about require, you know, action from the congress. and i think what he s trying to say is,time going to pick off the stuff i can do all by myse