were not did you not come away from the speech disappointed anita sharp eyed viewers will note the president just said drain the swamp. he said we don t need the advice of the washington ds rrmt based swamp how is the swamp drain annual coming along. not well. in a lot of different ways. i mean the drain the swamp thing was it meant so many things. it meant he won t have the washington insiders, the elites, the business people, the traditional people. and he also wouldn t do the traditional things. and while he isn t traditional in his personality and how he gets his message out a lot of what he has been doing is traditional, the way it s the way it s been done. i mean business people influential people wealthy people have a say in this kwhous. that hasn t changed. he has spent a long time off teleprompter he is now back on teleprompter. he just got a round of applause for what has been credited to him as the major achievement in
shutdown over funding for his wall. i do think that that is a hill he would like to die on. he has made it very clear that he will wants to see the funding for this wall. that is one of those key deliverables he needs to show to his supporters and if you re going to pick a fight with your own party over funding your key campaign promise, that s really not a position that you want to be in. you want to be in a position of being able to show that you can get along, that you can govern. now all you can do is shut down the government. anita, he s now giving the portion of the speech that could be given by any president of the modern era, reminding the crowd we re the nation that dug the panama canal that, put a man on the moon. the problem is, everything that comes between that in the speech last night, excuse me, was interesting because he did admit that his decision process
him tonight if if most americans are probably not they re peshl not going to follow the speech. but you know if this is the theme that donald trump continues to hit this this you know notion that the system is corrupt it s beaten him down, it s beaten you down. the people, the elites they don t take you seriously. they mock your values and i m here to stick it to them. that s what he won on. if he continues to push that i think he ll do quite well with the core support sfleers anita what happens when fres comes back in town? oh it s going to be really interesting. what he did tonight and what he is basically doing every day in telling the sfat, telling mitch mcconnell, telling congress how to act is not going to help him. i mean none of the things are helping berating members, going against some of them, you mentioned jeff flake. but tonight he just had an opportunity not to do that.
i ll make a prediction, i think he s going to be just fine, okay. and, he was actually convicted of criminal content. it will seem to be a tough argument to make that you re not a racist when you re about to pardon a man who is been found convicted who was racially profiling latinos. well our popular with the base no, this is a man who s been found guilt for profiling latinos, donald trump said i like that i think he like the base that the he didn t officially say he was going to pardoned. let s see what he does. he didn t officially say what he ll do. dave, to bring you in here. john, also keep making the point this was about the base, this was about the base. is the speech the right way to go about holding that base together? look, looking through purely
legitamacy here and it s an example of lack of legitimatesy with american voters actually with respect to polls right now. john, to you as a republican, this was a speech should the president, once again struggle to let things go. he brought up charlottesville again and all the statements that were made and seemed very very angry. is this the speech you expected from donald trump on this night? it was. this is classic trump. i would call this the back to basics trump. i m glad we saw this trump tonight. he was starting to drift. tonight he one back to the thing that got him elected. talk about, we re going to do whatever we need to do to build that wall. in fact if it requires shutting down the government that s how important to me to build that wall. he talked about jobs, immigration numbers to be done. he was hitting all the points. yes, he was talking about fake news. this is a standard rallying point.