and gop budget hawks see a golden chance to reign in spending and balance the budget. the president doesn t seem to share that urgency. so a balanced budget is fine, but sometimes you have to fuel the well in order to really get the economy going, and we have to take care of our military. our military is more important to me than a balanced budget because we ll get there with the balanced budget. a lot of kumbaya. we re all you know, whether you want to use cliches, the devil is in the details or the rubber is about to hit the road, there are a lot of problems here in trying to get things done, get the president and the congress in agreement. spending, spending, spending. i think we re going to hear a lot about spending for matter whether we re talking about the wall, infrastructure. obama care. obama care. how these things are paid for, i mean, i am old enough to remember when republicans said
leaders were shocked. they thought the election was going to go the other way. one of the things that concerned them is the overriding theme. as lisa said, a lot of people around trump, close to this president, very loyal, say don t take him literally. he is trying to send a signal with his words, but then follow his actions, but these words right here in this inaugural address, this is what a lot of people inorld capitals, friends and foes, are sayi, wait aminute, is the united states about to make a big retreat from the world stage? every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit american workers and american families. we must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries, making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs.
suggesting? american states and trust in united nationss all kinds of institutions. not just government and the media and the it s an all-time low. they re the bad guy. you know, the media is easier. yeah. look, one of the reasons donald trump is president is because he ran against a bad candidate. another reason donald trump is president is there are a lot of voters out there who think this town it the china shop, and he is the bull, and they want him to break things up, and we ve seen a lot of china broken the first week in office. we ve also learned, though, that this president likes to talk about crowd size, he likeso talk about ratings, he likes to be loved. listen to him here talking about remember the campaign? remember the campaign how tough donald trump was on listen. what amazed me is that i was vicious to him in statements. he was vicious to me in statements, and here we are getting along.
anti-abortion, and that got huge applause from the crowd here. last year they had a blizzard. it s kind of hard to compare it to last year. the weather definitely got in the way, john, but just from my vantage point on the mall, just to tell you, i m about right next to the washington monument. there are people really on all three sides here opposite the stage. there is a lot of energy here. whether you agree or disagree with the goal of these marchers, it has been, for many years, one of the biggest events here in washington d.c. the annual march for life. the determination of those marchers should not be ignored, whether you dwrae or disagree. let s come back to the conversation here. again, there s so much happening this week. it s hard sometimes as we re following so many interesting and newsworthy events to put things into context. to have a vice president of the united states let me wind back a little bit. normally when a president has a supreme court pick, the official line at
have to learn too. this will have to be a two-way street or there will be a lot of misunderstanding. i think there s more pressure on may, especially back home, to deliver here in the next three hours. if this does not go well for her, the press, her own party, and the british public may be very concerned that she rushed over here before really understanding the new government, the new administration and may not walk away with the ashussurances she needs to say we still have brexit, but we still have the americans. everything is going to be okay. she gets the protester iej of being the first world leader to get the first face-to-face. one of the big questions here, the european alliance has, is what about all this talk from donald trump about being more friendly with vladimir putin? kellyanne conway has said in a television interview this morning that easing sanctions against russia is one of the things being considered at the white house. the western alliance leaders don t want th