ali, what the president did anything, papered some significance positions and quote on quote squad and getting everybody on the same page. we ll see if that ll hold as we continue. nancy pelosi did not want to get baited into the conversation of the squad about these four members of congress other than to say what the president did was incorrect. she was not taking any conversations or any questions that had to do with that continuing conversations. in other words, you are calling it paper over. she did not want that to be central of the conversation. reporter: division between her and the squad is not something she wants to talk about. there has been some incidents that have made members angry, some of them have been what the chief of staff have said on
from cnbc. kudlow knows that the markets are jittery. he s basically coming out on the driveway and saying, you know, maybe this trade war thing isn t really going to happen and we can do negotiations. trying to calm the markets. he s trying to prevent, you know ease the jitters. one prominent conservative i spoke to said he can t do it for long. the actions are the outcome. he can t paper over it by happy talk. lee zeldin was talking about the tougher approach, that this is all negotiating tactics. listen. ultimately, he is looking for leverage. he is the ultimate deal maker. he made relationships beforehand. he has the right people around him for a battle like this. i m hoping it ll yield the results we re looking for. the big question here is what is the negotiation that president trump is ultimately trying to get out of this? he s talked a lot about the trade deficit with china. the united states has hundreds of billions of dollars in trade
i spoke with people this morning who want tax reform. in-line with the president on immigration policies. high want infrastructure. and, yeah, they worry that this week is an indication that the chaos inside the white house is going to kind of hamper their agenda items but also, there s strong reason for them to try to continue to push both on capitol hill and among republicans and with this white house to try to get their agenda done. the other thing that happened this week was that, you know, the president spoke at the boy scout thing and the next day a campaign rally in ohio. just announced doing another one next week. so i think there s a sense that he s sort of checking out. a sense that he s going and doing the one thing that brings him joy. be in a big crowd of people who love him, and the rest of the republican party is sort of realizing it s time to go if alone. time to just try to just shut out the noise. pretend he s not there. let him do this thing, travel around the coun