election day. how does all that translate? joining us now, karl rove, and scott jennings. welcome, good to have you here. i am interested in all the right enemies, and, scott, what you mean by that? is that working for president trump in terms of getting things done? i think the policy news coming out of washington, d.c., these days his head is spinning. we get a lot of different stories in any given day of the week. if you are an average voter out there, you are probably not following 50 beltway reporters on twitter. you are watching this a little more passively and you can assume that president trump is still doing what you want him to be doing because the people who are mad at him are still the people you don t like. the new york times , the washington post, chuck schumer, yes. then, donald trump must be doing the things i sent him to washington to do. i think the press needs to separate president trump from his base but i don t like the story lines they are creating will be
a karl, how does that translate into wins on the g.o.p. side? i think scott is absolutely right. i thought it was a great piece. trump does have the right critics. i d make the point that in addition, i wish she was spending more time developing the right allies. this is the point during which a president takes his election number, which was 46% of the electorate for trump, and grows it in the initial stages of their administration, 250 some odd, 60 some odd, and uses that early period to establish them throughout the rest of the year. i am with scott. don t worry about the critics. those critics will reinforce your base. i wish the white house would pay more attention to how can we develop a broader support. his approval rating is 43%. that is less than a percentage he got on election day. it is the lowest, no president has ever been at that point at this point to the presidency. i would like to see that higher. martha: when you look at some of the breakdowns i knew that a to a pe
it ran. health care reform, tax reform, anything, where trump can build back some of those support he may have lost a couple of tricks on his own infrastructure. martha: the pool of molasses, that doesn t sound like it is going anywhere quickly. karl, last thought. this idea that you got to get something done in the first 100 days is ridiculous. it goes back to the new deal and franklin roosevelt. martha: it sure helps, karl. it helps the story lines. obama got stimulus, bush got the tax cut, you want to put something on the ledger. you want to put points on the board, no doubt about it. the failure to get repeal and replace is going to hurt the republicans. i agree with scott. they need to show movement on tax reform, on obama repeal and replace, on limiting the size of government, strengthening the military, securing our borders, all the things that trump talked about. there needs to be progress. and there will be progress. but this is why the failure to get repeal and replac
is working inside of a hostile government that doesn t want that known. the final thing that i think that is so dangerous about this, americans are caught up in this fervor about civil liberties, and they tend to take the efforts of the government to the worst possible extreme every time this sort of thing happens. one concern we have to have, there will be this public outcry to push back, or cutback, or eliminate some of these surveillance methods that have been keeping us safe. martha: dr. mitchell, thank you so much. i was good have you with us, sir. still ahead, a major reversal add to the so-called first place of free speech. ann coulter gets ready for a showdown at berkeley. plus, new questions of whether the media is making too much of president trump s so-called flip-flops and what that means for the grand old party. two bush white house insiders, karl rove, and scott jenny, here were totally different takes on who is to blame on capitol hill
middle east, where people are working with us who don t want it known or may be an asset that is working inside of a hostile government that doesn t want that known. the final thing that i think that is so dangerous about this, americans are caught up in this fervor about civil liberties, and they tend to take the efforts of the government to the worst possible extreme every time this sort of thing happens. one concern we have to have, there will be this public outcry to push back, or cutback, or eliminate some of these surveillance methods that have been keeping us safe. martha: dr. mitchell, thank you so much. i was good have you with us, sir. still ahead, a major reversal add to the so-called first place of free speech. ann coulter gets ready for a showdown at berkeley. plus, new questions of whether the media is making too much of president trump s so-called flip-flops and what that means for the grand old party. two bush white house insiders, karl rove, and scott jenny, here