chuck todd and andrea mitchell are with us from washington. chief foreign affairs, andrea mitchell. okay, chuck. you can go first. we were going to hear a lot of conciliatory, that it was a unifying message he wanted to send. if that was an attempt at unity, he has a lot of boring to do. while the beginning of the zpeech a good job saying those words, when you look at how he led with immigration. he led anydivisive way. then there s gitmo. it got a standing ovation.
used to bang your head. why don t they bang your head on the roof of the car when they put them in the car. his whole thing is about bullying and getting the little guy, the weak person in the room when they know the protests are are outnumbered. it s always about playing your strength against the little guy. now he says he s mr. conciliatory. i ll give you a little vignette how democrats feel about that will little token of friendship that he s going to extend tonight. pelosi was in a meeting today and she said look, if you don t have anything nice to say are you going to yell out, you think you can t contain yourself, don t comment. that s how so many democrats feel tonight and chuck schumer is already on the record within the past few weeks saying that he just doesn t feel like he can deal with him anymore. he s not an honest broker. the dance that was done on than daca deal and the humiliation of democrats coming down the road to the white house thinking they
people are saying this is the goldman sachs gary koen speech not the steven miller speech. this was a nod to the community. he said we re doing really well, that s good for the rest of the world too. he also said, he talked about the tpp countries, the president famously pulled out and said we would talk to the countries separately or together about a trade deal. that s something that the people at the davos meeting liked to see. maybe he ll try to be more of a conciliatory on that front. looking at the numbers, fact checking them for us, u.s. added 7 trillion in wealth since electric. 2.4 million jobs. biggest most significant tax reform in american history. i wouldn t say the biggest most significant tax reform, biggest since the reagan administration. you talk to the companies, they love the tax cuts. and i would say this, a lot of economic numbers there he was throwing around, they were true. the economy is doing well, the stock market is really doing
together on this dak daca and immigration reform for phasion is a stretch. it is a stretch. there s a lot more that has blg to be talked about. disaagreements between republicans and democrats on this. but this was a fascinating meeting. shepard: it was. it was. almost an hour of being able to see a president really sit as the manager of a meeting where there was a civil conversation about fundamental disagreements. if you want to change the discussion, if you want to move it away from talk about your mental stability, this is the way to do it. shepard: the president was compromising, he was in charge, conciliatory, he was charming, happy, he was inclusive. it was wonderful. yes. it is what americans kind of hope washington, it s the way that americans kind of hope that washington works, there is a meeting where you can voice your disagreements and you can begin
the u.n.. we won t take any of the talks seriously if they don t do something to ban all nuclear weapons in north korea. we consider this to be a very reckless regime. we don t think we need a band aid. we don t think we need to smile and take a picture. we think we need to have them stop nuclear weapons and they need to stop it now. so north korea can talk with anyone they want. but the u.s. will not recognize it pr acknowledgment knowledge it until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons that they have. joining us now from london, live, nbc news chief global correspondent bill neely. you spent time in north korea and south korea. how easy would it be for kim jong-un to drive a wedge between south korea and america to washington s detriment in this negotiation? reporter: well, i think that is what he s been trying to do and that was in a way the tone of his new year s message, conciliatory towards south korea, aggressive towards the united states, trying to as you