i m going to do this. he s going to reverse executive actions. all of president obama s executive orders. there are certain things he can do on day one. i bet that those are the things that he will do on day one. i think it s also going to be interesting to watch how the democratic party reacts to him because it s not unlike barack obama. when barack obama came in, he was kind of a celebrity and so is donald trump. he had control of the congress and so does donald trump. and i think that what obama did was saying he wanted to be a transformational president. people who come into office very often overinterpret their mandate. i would argue maybe barack obama did that. and we ll have to see what donald trump does, what he s able to achieve with his own party and how the democrats react. because the republicans from day one, mitch mcconnell said our first job is to get rid of barack obama.
the healing process as we go along? well, i think bernie sanders has, as we saw in the primary, he has been a voice for values that are shared by the majority of the american people, social and economic justice, dealing with wealth and income inequality in this country and i think what you ll see from bernie sanders is what you ve always seen from him which is principled opposition to policies that he believes are going to be hard for working people. did democrats become obstructionists kind of like the republicans were accused of doing with president obama? i think the big losers last night were the republican and democratic establishments and i think there need to be some real soul searching in the democratic party about the future going forward. we obviously suffered a very devastating loss last night. i think there s a lack of understanding by people in washington about what s going on out in the real world. i think things certainly i saw during the primary campaign, until
saying we have long memories, we all remember wthe republicans felt that wy about barack obama. well, they didn t feel threatened. i m not so sure. you have a lot of people who feel personally threatened. women feel they are going backwards. i m not so sure a lot of people didn t feel that way about barack obama. i m not so sure they expressed it as publicly. you remember all those critics, all the haters of the president who didn t even think he was legitimate because he supposedly wasn t even born in the united states. that was a pretty high percentage of that. you remember who led that birther movement? barack obama never sort of involved i may take away some of your liberties, i may attack you on things that are very precious to you. i just feel like this is a very different environment than what we went through. let s see if the president
donald trump, even with all of his shortcomings when it comes to temperament and character still won by such a convincing margin. the democratic team has been decimated. the legacy of barack obama is destruction of the democratic party and it has a lot to do with his policies. you can t all these democrats tried to say obamacare has been a big deal. my family is on obamacare we have increases coming from $789 a month right now to $1200 next year. that pain is real and republicans have a huge opportunity to fix these issues for the middle class. i want to pause this conversation just a second because jeff zeleny is on the phone. he has more information about what hillary clinton is going to say in just about an hour s time. what do you have for us? carol, i m outside the new yorker hotel in midtown manhattan and i can tell you there is a steady stream of campaign staffers and advisers, supporters and donors going into the hotel now. the campaign manager sent out a message this mor
emerging market leaders very worried about the trade war which could have really devastating effects on the u.s. economy. let s talk about renegotiating these trade deals like nafta. is that a simple thing? oh, absolutely not. i mean, if you just think about how complicated it is to negotiate a trade deal, let alone getting out of one, you then have to deal with what will be repercussions from other countries. you know, i think one thing that s going to be very interesting is what happens if obama tries to in a lame duck session push forward trans-pacific partnership, tpp partnership. it is then going to use that as populist rhetoric around trade and then provoke other countries to come in with trade barriers. these are the kind of things he really needs to avoid. he s got to show that face that he showed a little bit in the acceptance speech and really work with some serious economic policy advisers, hopefully from both sides of the aisle although i m not holding my breath.