top of the republican/trump list? i think health care, tax reform and then and by health care, you mean not just repealing obamacare but also replacing it. right. what you have to understand is that the fastest diminishing commodity in washington is a president s political capital. it s going to be going down every day that he s in office. i think if they don t show some big movement pby this summer, te inertia of washington is going to take over and they re not going to deliver on this remarkable reform opportunity that they have got. mary, i would argue what you re going to see is early victories with the confirmation of a supreme court nominee and a lot of regulatory repeal and those will be early victories they can rack up. yeah, i think you re right. that s something that he can offer too to republicans in congress, especially that supreme court nomination absolutely immediately. but also, paul, also there s a big deal to be done on tax reform. not just with republican
and senate are mapping out an ambitious agenda with tax reform, regulatory relief and, as you just heard, the repeal of obamacare topping the list. so will president donald trump sign on to the republican plans or does he have some of his own ideas of how to proceed? joe, so paul ryan s plan in the election the year before was i m going to map out an agenda, get all the republicans in the house to sign onto it and that means we re going to take off on day one. is that now what s going to happen? i think we re going to find out obviously. is that, do you think, going to be given a try? whether what paul ryan has done is built a remarkable consensus within the republican conference around six areas of policy, whether it s tax reform, energy, health care. the house has been awfully dysfunctional for the last four years with a lot of different factions. now you ve got a big majority for some of these ideas and as far as we know, donald trump has
said i m on board with this, certainly on taxes, certainly on health care. do you see any potential differences, mary, potentially emerging between the trump agenda and the house or senate republican agenda? and not just policy details, but priority lists? well, i think for donald trump, trade as we talked about in the previous segment is a big issue. he wants to punish companies that go abroad. that could bring him into conflict with the house. there s questions about the timing of obamacare repeal and replace and the form that that s going to look like. but i think those are both right, but will trump want to do something more on immigration restrictions, for example, put up that wall as one of his first acts as opposed to the republicans on the hill who want tax reform, obamacare replacement. i think it depends on what the wall actually is. trump has shown some flexibility on immigration. just look at his comments on, for instance, the dreamers where he seemed to indicate th
disagrees with the historic positions of donald trump on russia. jim mattis much more skeptical of vladimir putin, and also on the budget. he ll want to expand the military and nick mulvany is a skeptic of military spending. i think jim mattis and donald trump will have many interesting conversations. joe. my person to watch is chuck schumer, new york democrat and incoming senate minority leader. a lot of democrats are calling themselves the resistance. they re going to oppose donald trump and all his works on everything. chuck schumer is not by nature or temperament the resistance. he s a transactional deal maker. and i m wondering if he s going to make some kind of compromise with the trump administration, whether it s on infrastructure, immigration, or tax reform. but could he end up being run by elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, instead of him running
there. so i actually think trump might show more flexibility and willingness to compromise with democrats than we might give him credit for. and yet a lot of his supporters, dan, are going to want to see something happen on immigration. it looked to me pretty early, i think, and trump and steve bannon in the white house and some of those populists are going to be inclined, jeff sessions, to try to push something maybe faster than republicans on the hill may want. you know, paul, there s only so much a president can really do in the first 100 or 150 days. there s a big agenda here. you re talking about immigration, let s not call it reform, but a wall. a tax bill. financial deregulation. repealing and replacing obamacare. look, congress job is to grind through the details of that policy. the president s job is to provide leadership and leverage where necessary. he can either make congress a partner or it can become the bermuda triangle for his presidency if he tries to push too muc