the reality, though, he has created all this. one thing that was absent from that friday meeting, which was incredibly animated in the oval office right before he went to florida, was any sense of something that he can change, that he can do differently. i think that is the issue here. he is furious at his attorney general who is very he supports and likes him, but he did not think that he should recuse himself. if you think back, this is stuff that he has said for a long time and gotten a ton of press for it, but he is president now. she realizes, of course. that s the only difference here. it should take some responsibility. it was saturday morning twitter tyrade that has gotten him off message, and i have talked to some republicans on the hill in the last couple of days, and they are frustrated to say the least. you heard mitch mcconnell say a couple of weeks ago, stop tweeting essentially because you take us off message. what do the republicans on the hill want to do? focus on
possibly replacing enrique pena nieto, and he sounds both like trump and the anti-trump. he talks about the mafia of power, the mafia politicians and is doing really well in gaining traction there. it will be interesting to see how he does in terms of campaigning for the presidency. he has run twice before. there s a whole new ballgame now with trump. new playbook to copy. there is some skepticism and some objection to the health care bill. well, this is going to be the first sign and the test of how strong the trump movement actually is. he is not traveling this week, which i was not surprised. at least he is not scheduled to travel. at some point when there is opposition, what will he do specifically to urge them to vote for this? this is not one thing we have seen him use, the power of the presidency for. i am told that he is going to use it, and he is going to convince some of these reluctant
start doing things that are relevant. things that are relevant to the people out there as opposed to making wreck it is allegations. we have seen so far glimmers of that. obviously with his speech on tuesday, they thought they were going to be able to ride that through the week and right into momentum for this week in terms of all the issues they want to be talking about. i mean, clearly some good numbers for him in terms of the economy, and i talked to one republican early on. she agrees largely with what karen said. this idea that he has to do a few things around obama care. tweak it, repeal it. reform it. whatever around tax reform as well. maybe some sort of a wall. i mean, maybe it s probably going to end up being more like a fence, but so far he hasn t been able to get out of his own way, and hasn t been curious enough in terms of engaging with congress to get some of the stuff done. changing, and getting things done and changing washington would go a long way in helping im
justification,ing no explanation, and, you know, again, atmospherics do matter, though they do not have technical legal significance. this will be much more associated with cabinet members rather than the president announcing it, and that is all helpful in the atmospherics of the legal case. jeff, before i let you go, during our conversation, the new york state attorney general, a democrat, says who has been a trump critic, released a statement saying his office is now going to review this new order, look at the details, but that he stands ready to litigate. i assume by the time you get to have lunch today, someone is going to be in court challenging this. i think that is as safe an assumption as you can make anywhere. jeff tuben, our senior legal analyst, thank you so much. we ll come back to you as developments warrant. politically, this is important for the administration, but clearly, clearly, one interpretation of this is this is a signature issue of the trump campaign
in the wake of conversations about russia. . he nunez has been very concerned about the leaks. he said that any law has been broken right now, it s possibly the fact that classified information has been out there, although some of the something has been leaked is not classified. nevertheless, that s where at least republicans some republicans want to put the focus of this investigation as much as the trump contacts. up next, some new poll members that are favorable for the president and his agenda. cheese for over 100 years like kraft has, you learn a lot about what people want. honey, do we have like a super creamy cheese with taco spice already in it? oh, thanks. bon appe-cheese! okay.