american public wants to see is the president being presidential. what does that mean for him? he needs to stic to work on stig with the teleprompt. in the naturalization ceremony, he is very received when he does that. punumber two, other global issu, what s happening with north korea and the conversation with china, those are going to affect more americans than any of those other issues and i think the public and our allies want to hear from the president on those issues. and the president did that in the oval office address on immigration. yoyou re certainly right he s focusing on the messaging points. the final question would be, there s always a tendency for either president to talk about your accomplishments for the last two years. this president has a lot to talk about with the economy and other matters. but you say get this focused on
different ways of doing this. different ways in doing it. joining us now, white house reporter for the washington examiner, steve nelson. good to have you with us this morning. let s start with that spending bill and the fact that the president reversed course on it in regards to vetoing the measure when there was some indication that he was at least trying to threaten to veto he it. what was the white house s thinking with getting on board with the plan despite thats massive price tag? you know, president trump shocked everyone when he tweeted he was considering vetoing this $1.3 trillion spending bill. he left everyone guessing for a couple of hours and ultimately signed it. it seems more than anything, this was an opportunity for president trump to hit a few messaging points. he blasted the deal nationally for not having a daca the deal and fought having border wall funding and objected to the price tag and the fact that no one read it. he sought to reassure the community and fi
reporting ever tell anyone what to think. never once. i m extrapolating on one of his major compelling and successful messaging points throughout this whole campaign which is don t let the establishment define you and tell you. that was the magic in the primaries. you combine ted cruz, donald trump, they were against establishment organizations. don t let people tell you who can win who and who can t win and what to think and what to believe. look at what s happened in the last couple weeks. i really appreciated joe on the set yesterday and you, as well, mika, calling out some of your colleagues in the media. not by name saying you ve been cheerleaders and not reporters the last couple weeks. where do these stories, particularly in print by the way and repeated on tv. the race is over. she s going to have a landslide. people don t like that. for many americans, for them it s the most important thing they ll do in the next five
when you got up from that table, it was done. that s what nancy is able to do. that s what the president is able to commit to. interesting to hear the vice president pull out the partisan knives at the same retreat earlier this morning. you were mentioning at the top of all of this that there are some candidates on the balance lat that don t necessarily want the president out there with him campaigning. we did hear that from a democratic source last week. it will be interesting to see if he says the same thing at the retreat in maryland. they are saying that the president is going to be doing a lot of campaign fund-raisers. if they don t want him on the stump, they want him raising money. what kind of questions, peter, will lawmakers ask of the president? these house retreats are for messaging points, talking
the epa nominee a few weeks ago, a few months ago back, some questions. what should we be asking her? they do actual strategizing and research for a lot of the things to really try and stop the president s agenda and try to stop things from moving forward? that s what they re doing. it s exactly the agenda that you would think they would have. and they try to come up with these very nifty messaging points to win the narrative. they think they lose the narrative again and again to the left and to progressive groups. so they spend a lot of time thinking what is the right words we can use. and one exchange of what one set of memos that we posted, they talk about, you know, when you say conservative republican tea party, to minorities, that connotes racism. so we need a different name for ourselves. we should call ourselves frederick douglass republicans. one problem is they spelled frederick and douglass wrong. they