has kept his campaign promises. we ll begin immediate construction of a border wall. reporter: but he s done so with chaos in the background. he faced backlash for putting steve bannon on the national security council. and the rocky rollout of the trump travel ban was panned even by his close allies saying he wasn t well-served by his advisers. the president has a structure in the white house with three folks who are predominantly in charge of the operations, bannon, kushner, and priebus. some conceded missteps. we ll concede some of the niceties were not fully
trying to win women voters? last night, you saw that and the answer was no. we saw on social media respond critically to that. that wasn t well received. i don t know how that helped him. it was interesting. she was poking him at that moment. she made a not subtle jab on donald trump in not paying taxes. his response was not in a vacuum. the response comes in an environment where he is heavily criticized for his treatment of women and attitude toward women. when you say something like that, the alarm bells go off everywhere. it was instant. sure. this is a guy who cut his teeth with the media and new york tabloids. my friend, the gossip columnist, used to get voice mails that are akin to the tweets. one day he came after you and
give it to him enough. i ll show you who s tough what s the plus/minus on that move? good big or go home. i think he s ready. the biggest thing you can fall into, if you try to preplan a zinger, an attack, a one-liner, that can get you in trouble. it can fall flat. it can look like it s prepared. your best chance to go after trump, if he wants to do that, it will be a strategy, he s ready to go. it has to be a reaction to something donald trump said that wasn t well said or planned out. donald trump says a lot of things you should be able to attack him on. can you jump in there at the right time and do it? i think he thinks i have nothing to lose tonight. if i do somethin t do something will it matter? alex?
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perpetrator. the reaction was palpable. it s not going to do any good to take revenge on somebody like this. but treating the narcassism is extremely unlikely. i see people get better in addiction treatment because if they don t, they die. they are very motivated once they breakthrough their denial and nonsense. maybe this will do it. i guess it s because of the legal issues and danny pointed out so vividly, he can t talk because if he says anything about how he s feeling, maybe he wasn t well, maybe drugs were he doesn t know anything. it s all allegations, maybe. we don t know anything at this point. we have their reports. we re closing in on two dozen witness accounts. you have to think of the motivation of someone to come