when michelle obama hosted melania at the white house just over a week ago, the two talked about the challenges raising their children in the spotlight. the obamas have also decided not to disrupt their daughter sasha s schooling, by staying here in washington, d.c., for at least another couple years. it could turn out the obama and trump children end up attending the same elite private school as many of the presidential children do. suzanne malveaux, cnn, the white house. thanks, to suzanne. joining me now, kate anderson broward, historian on this topic, she s the author of first women, the grace and power of american first ladies, the residence inside the secret world of the white house. melania trump and baron not moving into the white house, this is relatively speaking unprecedented. absolutely. martha washington didn t live in the white house, because it hadn t been built yet, and then also anna harrison didn t live in the white house, because her husband died shortly afte
if trump continues with other campaign promises and it calls china a currency manipulator, china will respond to that. that is where you get a trade war. that will be devastating. trump want to pursue bilateral trade deals. andrew stevens, thank you. that is rejection of the past 30 or 40 years of philosophy from both parties in washington. it is really a reversal of everything we know from the second half of the 20th century. it will be fascinating. this is what leaders are trying to get their heads around. do you take the campaign promises literally or is that a starting point and the conversation starts. part of a bigger negotiation. and the negotiation before the final deal is done. up next, a deadly school bus crash in chattanooga.
detractors. first of all, he s going for low-hanging fruit. these? somehings that are totally everybody wants to cure disease. yeah, maybe apple pie, i ll choose that instead. the main thing i took away from here. yes, first, definitely trying to calm people down and not try to lean into the most extreme of his proposals. he may still come back to those extreme proposals later on. and all i meant is those are the extreme things are going to be hard to get down. maybe he wants to do things again apart from curing disease that are hard to do. but the main thing i took away from that was he just sounded like just another politician in that video, which i think goes to your thing about, the point you made earlier about, is he going to just disappoint his fervent supporters right out of the gate by starting to seem very quickly like just another washington politician? you know who i thought of when i listened to that tape, and i ve now watched it three times, i thought of an
in his meeting with a japanese prime minister, the washington post reports that foreign diplomats have begun staying at his new hotel in washington. by all appearances, the candidate who ran against business as usual appears so far, at least, to be conducting his own business as usual. just a few minutes ago, trump tweeted about it. quote, prior to the election, it was well known that i have interest in properties all over the world. only the crooked media makes this a big deal. and when asked about it earlier today, trump s senior adviser, kellyanne conway said in so many words, nothing to see here, folks. i m very confident he s not breaking any laws. he has many lawyers, accountants, and advisers who tell him what he must do and what he can t do. sounds simple enough. as cnn s tom foreman discovered, the experts say it could be anything but. he joins us now. tom, what did you find? reporter: well, john, if you think about donald trump s empire, it is so vast and so valuable
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