and then i hear this guy that does not know me at all. by the way, did not interview me for three he said he interviewed me for three hours in the white house. it didn t exist, okay? it s in his imagination. president trump responding to a reporter s question at camp david on saturday about his early morning tweet that day defending his mental state. joining me now is the chief of staff for president bill clinton in the first term. mack, welcome. return your greetings. what a start we re having. fire and fury indeed. this is a president saying basically i am not out of it. i was referring to the championship game tonight. alabama, georgia, i know you were. no, this is unprecedented. it s a continuing telenovela. you would kind of think it was the last thing the president would want as he came off his tax reform win which at least gave him the basis for the new year.
build consensus in the past but i think fresh off this tax reform win and being able to work cooperatively with the legislature that he feels very i guess positive about it. no, i think you should. everybody knows we need changes in these areas. everybody has been trying for so long to do something about immigration, one of the biggest things he campaigned on and i think there s going to be strength going forward, strong economy and job numbers, gdp. tax reform is going to help pushing those results forward. immigration is going to be a tough one, i think health care is more doable now that what happened with tax reform. greg: dana, take it all home. talking about how today going from the most progressive president to probably the most conservative president since reagan.
are attacking each other and terrified of what might happen in the midterm elections in november. they re worried an undegreesingly unpopular president and a series of missteps could see them removed from power later this year. i want to start with sara murray. sarah, the blame game and the second guessing has already begun. yeah, that s absolutely true. we know even the president s own allies outside the white house warned him, great, you passed tax reform, that s not going to be enough to save your party s control in 2018. we know the leadership in both chambers, we ve been talking about the house, concerns about keeping the house. now that has moved to the senate. control of both chambers, leadership is concerned. rana mcdaniel, the head of the rnc, was handpicked by the president for that role. this is according to politico warning him, look, the party s support with female voters is collapsing. this is a real problem. so, yes, the president got his tax reform win. he s sort of r
he said cnn. just because they don t highlight you in a way that s good for you, in a way is that why it is fake? he said no, they don t have an opposing view. they had mark cuban on and i said what s going on? he said trump should have known this is how tv works. i said, when you bought the dallas mavericks, were you a great owner the first 100 days? you know, mark cuban kind of understood at that point. we all have high expectations. i think you argue you might get a health care win very soon with donald trump. a tax reform win with donald trump very soon. he said i m really pushing for that and said this is where we will be able to do it. he pushed back on chuck schumer
that, i don t think, makes for a great presidency, and won t make america great again. just think about it, on average, we re going to have one major piece of legislation per year by this president so at the end of this we re going to be saying he was a great president with four pieces of legislation? come on, i don t think so. lauren: all right, he chipped away at obamacare with this tax reform win in 2017. gina, i m also thinking deregulation, that certainly helps the economy, for instance. what else do you see as big winners for the president this year? yeah, it s impossible to pick because there s honestly so much. to call it one piece of legislation is really just to highlight the fact that the democrats have been wholly uncooperative with anything to boost our economy and tax reform. the president has done things without them like deleg ration like you mentioned. i love that because that s