Trump's First 100 Days

donald trump is halfway through the first one hundred days of his presidency and k mcintyre and today on k pr presents how's he doing the dole institute of politics at the university of kansas kicked off a new series this week the subject trump's first one hundred days this group will meet every other wednesday through march april and intimate led by political insiders and husband and wife team cj jackson and joe haddow mascara cj jackson is a reporter for politico where he covers politics elections and campaigns joanna masco worked in the obama white house where she served as director of press advance jackson unmask are both graduated from the university of kansas william allen white school of journalism and mass communications in two thousand for they stopped by the k p our studios this week to talk about the dole institute's new series and trump's first one hundred days before we talk about president trump let's dig into the historical significance

of these first three months as i understand it the whole first one hundred days goes back to fdr president roosevelt right yeah in terms of the modern presidency will you have the first hundred days didn't matter as much to the user and george washington or her thomas jefferson's of these people but i am under fdr you know you had this year and the first time that a president really took the first hundred days and viewed it as served his time to make a big impact and since then we've sort of accepted serious received wisdom that that an antenna make sense that the first time for summer days in mina are the time when the public is still focused on the newness of their president and also in their ideas are still fresh in their mind and nothing has happened globally weren't really that has it in theory affected their their popularity to the point where they wouldn't he'll persuade people to do it today they want to do for the country aren't

so i you know with each week with each i feel like with each passing presidency we put more emphasis on and what's happening immediately on their mascara reflection of our you are the dishes and technology and media that we've had here since fdr biting into living getting ready for this discussion series i look a little bit you know how each of the union some in the first hundred days of the recent presidencies in iran you know the thing that struck me is is how quickly president get thrown off their message and so how important these first hundred days really are in terms of actually accomplishing things because i no time congress will get bogged down by other things because ants will can intercede end i mean they know focusing on you know some piece of legislation you know the president signed his precious and and it's it's hard to serve thousands perished but you know we're right in the middle of you know what were you worried

you can't predict what will be the most consequential period presidency but we know this is definitely a very important part of president trump's presidency the other thing that's important is present trump actually about why he expected for the first hundred days so we actually have that you know undocumented and so he has goals there and you know the public can watch cat for how much he's accomplishing so i think that's a little different as well and that he was really specific back in october before he even won the election he said this is what i'm going to do in my first one hundred days of us office so how's he doing you're absolutely right in fact its number one was an amendment am for congressional term limits thing that i felt you know i am i am i actually eat would support so you know new ideas a new congress in sochi i was curious how much how hard he would push on that you what

you're already seeing is a morphing of some of these ideas or drain the swamp was congressional term limits and last night it was getting rid of federal employees which is a are different because in a way it was you know it was this drain the swamp is well we're going there you know a freeze federal hires and subsequently there just get all you know we're gonna drain the swamp which is different than what it was which is congressional term limits to try to get people who are acts to action oriented in washington in congress and so whilst see and when i was looking back on pres obama is two thousand nine addressed by the same time they actually pass the stimulus bill and a lot of his set his what he was talking about a word that they had with the stimulus bill they were saving jobs if you remember you know that starting in two thousand and two thousand and we have we were laying off teachers we were laying off law enforcement officials the world is in a very different for us economy was in a very different

situation of the points i think it's a real ambivalence that a president trump has had to be able to shift his and his first one hundred days and fit it into the year that their rhetoric already low power lines make america great again with the woods what's interesting i think is you see and you know rhetoric is very different than governing and so the question is then you know whether you can go in front of congress and say that you want tax reform everybody wants tax reform the question is whether you get it done so we're going to jailing into that was a lot of our gas to have expertise on these issues who have been there who've covered multiple administrations will have passed guess what guess from other administrations including george w bush's administration either republican and folks were very familiar with washington as well as democrats and you can really look at the actual items where that he's accomplished in these first one hundred days so going back to that october two thousand sixteen speech

where he outlined what he wanted to get and you mentioned a congressional term limits were some of the other things he said he wanted to get done in those first one hundred days that either are going somewhere are not going anywhere well he i mean leslie yummy earlier this week president trump made a tree click is that he felt like he accomplish a lot of things that he had such a colonia one of the themes that we were told before his speech was that he was going to talk about the promises made promises kept i would say among the things that he's he's made clear that he wants to accomplish early in his presidency or you know or some kind of repeal and replace obamacare at this point and that's going to do that's in torpor in congress not really going anywhere i he studies are thought about immigration actions and end there we can point to a lot of you know anecdotal evidence and also executive orders that show that he is doing exactly you did as he said he would

there are other aspects of his you know in terms of his executive orders where he taught and he talked in his speech that his first hundred days how he would sew your limit federal regulation is that actions to do that he talked about we're slimming down government and where do we use he's taking actions that that move toward that goal but one scene said to me out compared to other presidents use that i've covered another presence is that i've studied is on you know it's early in his presidency that though the lack of legislative movement for his agenda especially because some of them is more ambitious ankara goals require congress you know construction infrastructure spending repealing obamacare these are things that he can do with his pen and so you know what's notable to me is how little his congress has gotten done and that's particularly notable because congress's is you know

controlled by republicans in the house and republicans in the senate senate democrats are doing a historically good job i'd always good as like a carnival this third the ring very successful in slowing down president and cabinet sawyer adds a lot of pressure from democrats and that's one of the things were and talk about is our nation is so divided right now and it's almost like it's more kind of man would treat politics like an athletics are like sports teams where we will only root for our own party and not for some of their shared objectives as an obama talked about this a lot in fact it was involved and we opened up one of their sessions he had that was supposed to be closed press with republicans we opened it up that last ninette and he when in an address to republicans and said some of you were my friends in illinois you worked with me on legislation and now you can't come within you know and at ten he hired you didn't come anywhere near me and because you're up

for reelection in and that's that's not smart for either of us so you know i guess we were at your play you're saying you know but it's it's it's probably not good for any of us that we are this divided we probably do need to come together so to that extent i was grateful that last night we saw a president who was behaving presidential aide who was you're talking about some of those shared goals and where we can agree one of his first real moments as a president when he honored to there's a you know the navy seals kill an arena in yemen that was just kind of a moment that you president president sees are often defined by moment as much as they are defined by you know legislative goals and then you know you could see insanely that that was going to be a moment that the president from poorer member you know and eddie had tears in the eyes of other fallen soldiers widows are not you know i mean these are kind of the cinematic

qualities of the presidency that they come to define leaders so next it's the most painful part that i i mean you had the obama we were involved when a family wanted to open up a dover time when there are nearly under remains come to ireland to dover reopen out of the past when they when the family wanted it to be open to the person because some families were asking for these things to be covered and those are some of the most painful moments that a president has i mean obviously you know president obama had to meet families whose children were gunned down in school and that's another one of those moments that there is nothing you can do to repair the paint their family has suffered burns and you're particularly on a raid that you can get you to you i guess at the outer secular way when you know there they had the ultimate blame and responsibility goes to you

now ultimately you're always trying to protect the interests of the american people and so are those men and women who serve our country so in that way is that's one of the things that i don't think there's a single person who is in politics he doesn't absolutely you know and you know how crucial this service of our men and women in the military as this past week president trumka said in an interview with fox and that he had done and i'm quoting here just about more than anybody in his first four weeks in office i would say that objectively that is not true by the time president obama gave a very similar speech to present trump he had passed an enormous stimulus bill that he had signed his own array of executive orders are real ones that were not as politically

loaded as we're presently percent but he had to me and then i'm only picking one president here you did it i mean there are your heroes get accomplished things in the legislative branch in this entire cabinet confirmed he had changed their spouses boundaries that were it's also just it's a unique personality quirk of this president that he is very focused on quantification of his own accomplishments on we know this is during the twenty sixteen campaign you know any you know it's it's not necessarily a negative attribute that it's just something that you know this was president trump is that he's very fixated on you know giving it and it's part of his communication strategy on giving a sensitive of what he's doing and in quantifying you're in hyper rule is that only a tool in his room for all our arsenal i don't think it made its response i mean is are as a journalist i would never say this person has

done more but i don't think that trump can say categorically and it completely grounded in fact that he's done more in his first thirty thirty some odd days i found it interesting in that same interview he gave himself a c on messaging which is interesting because i would actually say you know that i'm with and make america great again with you know things that are pretty day but ultimately you know can inspire people all one direction or another i would say that he has communicated it had it with big goals that haven't actually been accomplished so i would say that day communication skills are wired slacking it varied they are communicating it's just a matter of what have you actually done you can you know and that's part of the problem is the focus on inauguration crowd size for example that doesn't help any of us that's not moving the

needle forward no but it's a pretty good example of you know with president trump his core challenge and i think it's been his core challenge from the moment he was elected and air was an event that sort of surprised a large segment of publishing is their fiercely defending the legitimacy of his presidency and in the sense that it on crowd size does matter is that means data he feels like someone's going to diminish the power of the presidency to him and so when you talk about you know him wanting to qualify his accomplishments that falls into the same category i it's it's very important to his public persona and and you know just communicating to his lawyers and that he is get busy year that ceded kind of governors with a story and how has this base of support president trump took office way of low approval ratings around

forty four percent of the not mistaken and by most accounts has approval has dropped since then how is that affected what he can and can't get done in these first one hundred days in this is that what we're talking about is the honeymoon period there hundred days the honeymoon period you have you know people all rooting for you you just won an election and it's a it is when you go out and see you can't tweet about nordstrom dropping year daughters brand for example you lose some of that the enthusiasm news political idealist we're wasting political capital on sunday it doesn't matter so you know in that in the sense that he has a low approval ratings i think that's isn't doing i think you know i'm in and i know that day that they say you know they said we know for a fact that more people voted for hillary clinton than donald trump and ultimately none of those things matter we know that president trump is going to be the president say you're

rooting for and now all day he added gave a good and well received speech last night my hope is that he can set about getting congress to work with him on some of the things which is ultimately that's i think what both of us have said it is you can say you're further tap tax simplification and thirteen attacks or form but the question is that whether you're for again so the question is whether you get it done and how much you get done because there's all sorts of you know people's interest that they're bouncing in politics and especially weapons congress so if it what i'll say is when president back in and we had all the approval to get a lot done and we didn't have our base wasn't calling their congressional representatives every day asking for more to be done and ultimately that's what would happen every innocent couple weeks it's a oh we need to go re energize you know are basing and have them you know speak directly to congress and he says already was president trump saying oh you know i'm gonna speak

directly to the american people and they're going to come through for me and so i think that almost every president says that was always it doesn't work out quite the way he expected to that's that yeah and that that's where it was interesting in and you know the day that was hillary clinton was saying you know a lot of land what's done is actually in washington they have to compromise now these people have been elected and they have to come to some consensus so i'll be interested to see you know he does still have the support of his base so that they are so active now you have a democratic base that's very active search oh why oh what's going to happen with both sides in a stirred up so much how much can you accomplish that something were to be covering during this first hundred days discussion and i'm sure journalists will be covering beyond speaking of journalists you know i will i was a man i worked on access issues with said the white

house i was a director presidents for president obama it was often negotiating internationally on behalf of our press corps and we have a white house correspondence association that's the phenomenal success historical organization and within the white house it's always worked with the white house on a press access you know this is what's really hard because so many people are so worked up on all sides to figure out ok what is really unprecedented and what is not unprecedented you know and a lot of times what set trump administration will say they'll say oh president obama did this so it's like david axelrod had to go on the day after in and they said steve bannon strain and s e and this is because david axelrod always involved in the nfc and and david axelrod had to go up and be like i am i'm fake news this morning that's not true i didn't i was in it in this position in the ways corresponds association there's a group of reporters who constantly

are the paul for president or any president and what i have been most disturbed and the first hundred days was the friday baghdad all that they did and when they were iron in selecting and journalist i find that most disturbing because they again said the advisors haitian you know the fox out very different actually there's a couple things we never cut them out of a gaggle of briefing the white house briefing press briefings always have it's a eight when you do a round robin and you have differences of agreement with fox then you don't do a round robin with fox that's very different than doing a gaggle and i didn't hear it can you define rome robin young for a round robin is hand when you set out on all the networks to interview the president which we did frequently we would say abc cbs cnn and fox and nbc are you know

we're we've are is that by our love of npr are several i've listen npr since conception ones is a round robin it is typically you know a series of tv interviews and said their words there were times where fox because because we had a lot of questions on fox says in a statement that they were fair balance and we hired an illustration officials have a lot of conversations with them and that they would that not necessarily be included a gavel that does not mean we did not interact with fox every day in fact some of my closest friends still are fox producers we worked with them all the time josh earnest was just talking last night about he called on fox every day so i'm david disturbing component wised up oil as defined by the white house correspondence association an expanded boys typically you know members of poor plus the network representative there's like pretty clear definitions whenever we would have an extra seat on air force one or when that when we would not have taxes seats we would typically work with the white house correspondents

association to fill those seats there were times that we would do interviews with liberal blah others but it was in the sense of you know cutting out members of the pool and county and liberal bloggers that's a very different scenario so you know the one that's one of the things we will be covering is the very important role that the media play in our politics in our government and in giving us the information that we need to consume i think a lot of people right now are choosing on what kind of media they wanna consume and that's dangerous for all of us because if we're not operating off of the same factual basis we are doomed to fail i think it's fair to say that one of the hallmarks of these first months of the trump presidency has been his stormy relationship with the media you're both journalists you both attended the william allen white school of journalism here at the university of kansas tell me about that relationship that a president has to wear the media and and the importance of that in terms of our

democracy in and how president trump is playing into that were not well it's fascinating to me because so much of fruit president trump is as a person in terms of his public persona has relied on media coverage throughout his career i think that when you look at the relationship that with this for president the press know president i mean i can't think of a single president who is always who is happy with his coverage who enjoys the i mean most people do not enjoy the process of being asked question after question in a poignant way but i think that it was a neo i came across a quote from president kennedy there was something to be effective i don't i don't like the press but democracy completely falls apart without them i certainly feel that way as a journalist and i think that when you get to a point where the president is is going beyond all of all have a contentious relationship with the press where he's

actually in general are demonizing people doesn't work and he certainly you know calling calling the crest fake news and dumb you know and in some of the earlier casting aspersions on people's motives for for doing their job when they're professionals and i know what they're doing and doing what they're doing that gets into a room where i'm not you know i have been hearing for president obama had his own fights at the media his own fights of the year time series of votes as not to use plenty of them on the end but i never heard him call me an enemy right and so that is unique unique an answer of challenging place to be with or with the president united states come but but i do think that one thing i would say is a president trump of all people on planet earth knows the importance of media coverage in terms of conveying his message i think that he's an avid consumer of media that's obvious from his tweets that's obvious from the fights

that he picks with the media on the ensuing years helm eighteen so in some ways his rhetoric as a justification for what you do in a sense that you know that is if he's disinterested or you're doing you know that it's important you know whether whether you appreciate what he's saying about you or not he says you will get them present all presidents relationships with the press and you know that it's contentious on a local level bit the relationship is that i'm just going to give you all my emails like that let me just give you access see it you know to all our emails you will get you know present fire all of the various town halls we had early on where he said we're going to negotiate healthcare for c span cameras week it turns out you negotiate healthcare inferno c span cameras it's at its precarious because he you have to get a lot of the various interests of all these different people and the lines on something they can move the country forward pass

plays that age awesomely important role in our democracy and i saw it firsthand so i was traveling around the world with the president and the united states of america as the only place with the white house correspondents association truly has their own seat at the table when they're saying you know we need editorial presence in something like this are you won't cover a nato summit the first major summit i ever went to was just forgotten biden very first year of our presidency ends and nato countries from us we're used to just taking a camera feed uncovering off of that the united states of america are journalists do not do that the integrity of their reporting is very important and so they have to be in the room and see what's going on to cover it there's certain rules that have governed the white house correspondence association relationship with the white house for a long time and i think every administration them more you learn about it earlier on the better off you are i was very lucky at that first nato summit to time meet the

woman who had minor on the cote ministration who had worked for jimmy carter who had been there and knew the various dynamics of the person and knew that i mean it's with you know you typically doesn't allow anyone in the room to do to cover for editorial presence we actually managed to get a member of the press in all rooms where there were cameras at every nato summit that i was part of and that was a really a very big accomplishment because then those could be covered by or oppressed or a what i was most disturbed at that over the course of the time that the white house was really is diminishing by jets men that they weren't able to cover the president fully it was very a parent because they're thirteen seats aboard air force one dedicated to press organizations and not all thirteen seats were full that's very important because if they're not covering the present a united states that means we're not covering state and local elected leaders and i think going back to you know when i was

leaving the white house are looking for what i wanted to do next i joined the la times because i truly believe that newspapers are crucial to our democracy and that that kind of long substantive reporting is crucial to our democracy you know i it still adamantly believes that and so you know the do what we're going to see now is a lot of areas and our guests will have that focus will be able to speak to the changing dynamics in media and how that affects our politics and what we can do together to maybe change that so that we do have the reporters with him dead longevity in their roles to give us context to what we're seeing and so that we're better informed citizens do those attacks on the media did does resonate with voters with the public some some public at the average person doesn't have all the time in the world to

follow politics and to be honest if you just watch cnn all day i don't even know that you'd be that well informed so some of them are kind of unfortunately accurate because cable news has had changed their coverage and it's a lot of punditry vs hare investigative reporting which i will say you know i still love sixty minutes i love head you know like i said pbs newshour is fantastic npr i listen to you all the time ends i'm you know without you get real thing that i think are news media have a responsibility to step up and say it really give us that in depth coverage that we're seeking and craving i do believe that people need and that information that you're seeing a lot of energy on both sides saying you know they dont like necessarily when you're talking about the up or down and that you know and actual isaac it what was what we want is to what's the actual substance what does it mean that we pulled out of

the tpp and what does that actually mean if we you know change our trade dynamics for the average worker in america so you know it's a bad sense ie you know agreed with there were journalists right after trump called everyone feet news saying this is not the story guys don't focus on the story let's focus on you know the real substantive facts and that's i think what some news organizations are doing that's really resonating and i hope that the millennial generation and that all of us who are interested in having our government for the people by the people can step up and support the news organizations that we so crucially need to get us that information to be their well informed citizenry to vote i find a fight between the president and he had to be pretty warren i don't one i read about that i worry about what he's doing that's impacting our country or work or how he's announcing his policy

and i feel like the same way that i feel about president attacking the media or the myriad think the president has been them as the same way a voter feels which is basically like guys take this outside i don't really you know it's not something that is going to change the way someone in berea ohio those that their day or someone in you know a time the nazi or anywhere else you know it's it's you know in my profession you know there is no i mean there are very few professors we live in los angeles and so maybe in hollywood we have a capacity for for navel gazing the way the media does but like it's a real i mean it's an affliction of of the media that they're interested in what they're doing because stories that involve the media tend to be covered by the media pretty closely i would say that president trump's rhetoric on in terms of the way he talks about the media is unique and sharper than any

president that i've covered in most politicians that i've covered but at the same time it's important to put in context ceo because then you get into a situation where you cry wolf every time he says something mean and then you have a situation where you know five news organizations that paid tens of thousands of dollars every week to cover the president are denied access to a basic off camera gaggle of this was to be informative and that's it you know not that the continent is get those important but you know the principal in there is much more important than whatever whatever kind of insults each side can cross back and forth in each the questions that are asked are important as one thing i also as all that has the ability to this country's air and the ability of a free press to ask to question power to speak truth to power and to shine light on your own any other places and if you deny it sounds really trivial but if you

deny linear times or cnn the los angels times seat to ask the white house press secretary questions about the president's agenda you're basically forcing darkness on his organization i should say the political was also one of the news organizations that was denied access to the guide also have a new personal stake in this flea i said sir i'm no longer with the los angeles i'm so you know it is dan rather naive narrator for it i can stand back and look at this this fight and think this is it this is bad for our democracy so when i was traveling around the world i saw hugo chavez was followed by prospective it's pavarotti it's all these people who are going to make him look good and his people ends it were is terrifically deserving and they would say you know that they needed the same press access that we needed rape ultimately though they'd they didn't those press weren't asking tough questions as you know i was going to say i was involved in us getting a question and when we went to

china we did a press conference with the chinese president and it was a long struggle to get a question of the chinese president because that's not normally how a press conference is done there and we did get a question on that we gave its senior times than your tie and i asked a question i remember i had a feeling a little frustrated because what happened and so president obama was able to address this question and then you know mom mark landler had asked other chinese president and sound the chinese president actually didn't answer and i'd seen this once before actually in senegal where the president hollande bears i did not lie answer the question it was about gay rights and so he wore waited until he was done with his question and then circled back to where you saw all these reporters tweeting oh my god this is so embarrassing for the white house the chinese president refused to answer the question in actuality what happened is like a circle all the way back around so the chinese president waited insert his own question and

then circle back around to our question it's not perfect scene in getting free press and getting these questions and getting you know the ability to ask these tough questions as the perfect and some of it is you know really ugly politics in you know all these things by that kind of ugly relationship can actually create some really beautiful day coverage and can help our country move forward and so ultimately we have to all americans continue fighting for new free and fair news organization sick over and give us the news in you know a fair way back to the whole first hundred days of trump's presidency presidents usually enjoy a honeymoon period woods beat you mentioned joanna i am both with the american public and with congress but trump's relationship with congress and i said and the republican led congress in both the house and the senate has been off to kind of a rocky start in i mean i think

this is we talk a lot about oh they're all these factions in the democratic party like there's the people who support bernie and there's the people who support hillary and there's the people it when we don't we stopped talking about that when brock obama was the president but we still have those factions within our you know our own coalition they're republicans just because they have no word doesn't mean there aren't factions within the party in fact i would say there are probably a lot of really compassionate conservatives in kansas who does agree wholeheartedly with a ban on bread fiji's who are in desperate situations and me together this country i think what you what you see is that he bought a lot of different factions together to say ultimately win election but they may not all agree and so this is the precarious challenge he has ahead of him is not how much he can talk in front of congress by how much he can bring these coalitions together and hopefully democrats went where democrats can agree to

actually get policies passed that will help us really make america great again that is that's ultimately what he wants to do which i don't think there's anyone who doesn't want a great america in congress or in politics might my sincere hope is that they all want america to be great you look at the tension between president trump and congress and its it's been there for two years so it shouldn't surprise anyone that just because he was elected president you know he's done some he's done some work here and i think that his relationship was improving in the sense that he's hired on a few former chief of chiefs of staff from congress to work in his white house to sort of build a bridge between your down pennsylvania avenue from from the white house to the capitol that president trump when he was candidate trump made congressional republicans uneasy because their you know by nature risk averse and varied much much more susceptible a national candidate to

political winds and so it's not surprising to me that if he enters office low approval deb congress are skeptical of him and also you know i think one of the things that that this congress wants is to be a lead on some of these issues and president trump has so far largely on your governed by edict he's written written some exhibit words that did not have a ton of rum of input from capitol hill and i think that this is changing but he's talked about obamacare as repealing obamacare is parity without your pudding for a plan year he's are relying on congress to do that and i think congress gets incomes are away and when they feel like they're doing all the work and that goes for from both parties the other thing is that he didn't have a huge you have a plan for president chose first one hundred days but you know there were there was not a

significant amount of white papers and legislative proposals created by the the trump presidential campaign the way there was in georgia the russian two thousand where they had huge policy shop in austin texas i'm more or brother rahman two thousand eight where you basically had legislation that was more or less ready to go from from the first day of his presidency so there's not you know congress isn't the situation where it doesn't have something substantive to work with but it does have a guy on an m into a guy who generally they agree with and through on prisons a generation opportunity to get some things done for the other thing is the president from his picks three or four things that have tremendously ambitious rearranging the american healthcare system again after a huge as the years after rearrange the first time tax reform which is a way well that pretty much every republicans jason's jack kemp came to congress your readers to be honest we talked about tax reform simplification

attacks and then everybody gets reformers agree until they tend to reform tax and that the whole thing about complex exactly end and healthcare is you know if you want to do something with health care obamacare was tremendously complicated to pass her face and you know it's it's there been problems with that era but also the urban features that people loved need or italian need an enhanced dramatically affected them were people covered in the united states that saturday even if you go back to the same exact speech that president obama gave in two thousand nine he talked about every thirty seconds an american was going bankrupt because of a lack of health care coverage because their work protections of people were understanding the fine print in their healthcare policy and so the real question is not whether you can repeal a law we're pull out of tpp or do those things say it kind of

changed the dynamic of the progress of the previous administration for what is that that you're going to replace it with so that we aren't in the dire straits that we were before we're americans were losing their home is because they didn't have the health insurance that they thought they did and then faced terminal illness or an illness of their child and you're never going to want you never going to stop getting care for your child so it is so easy to say repeal or replace is much more difficult to actually replace walls and ending to return to president trump's relationship with congress you know and congress tends to be a very above the slow and very pragmatic ways it's a place where people can you know consistently making deals and an agreed to concessions in order to get something passed by foreign thirty five or a hundred people who don't agree on everything or as a president

is always a guy or gal with a big picture goal end and they don't necessarily government in the year that president trump talks about the art of the deal and negotiating but present sense of the big picture people who govern in new government senses whereas congress governors and enter a whole paragraphs from the federal register and so reconciling those two things having most presidents for boys do we expect too much of our presidents in their first one hundred days of office you know we may not only expect too much but we also let them take all the responsibility the government is for the people by the people we're all have a responsibility i often tell people that you have more ability to change your community by getting involved with your city council in your marriage and your local government then you

do in you know they ain't getting in arguments about their present a united states and that they're present in the united states has any but extremely important role in the country ends and nina president by matt a think we probably were victim to some of our own expectations which is why i think it's interesting that donald trump is probably setting himself up for the same because we fed the edo de president obama was can bring the change that we need and the change that we can believe in in that we were going to be able to fix these problems and i will say that our administration tried and did align their formal care act was not perfect but it did something for stimulus was not perfect but it gave back jobs to communities and if you actually look at the really deep coverage of it now years later you will see that actually there was job being enhancement it i believe that you know our infrastructure is something that we very

much need to look into it something that president obama was talking about but they can't do it alone and the party politics in the sense that we've become you know the sporting teams where will waive whatever flag anybody gives us that any compress as long as it's for our guide is actually bad for our country so you know as much as i will i'm playin suit you know oh yeah you know stand against him you know when he is doing something that's that's so good i'm going to give him credit and say we should support him on you know this because it actually could be good for us so i hope that we see more of that in our politics and i think it'll be interesting this an engaging with a lot of youth at the university because they're probably expecting a lie or maybe a night live ends that what i wanna say to them is that the pendulum

swings i remember i was doing for al gore when i was at the universe in kansas i went over to see him in kansas city and are so excited and then we lost and george w bush became president and for eight years you know i am one tape aired an optimistic present and i wanted someone who was going to move us forward who's going to talk about all the interesting things that has obama was talking about which is you know we need it and have clean energy we need to have a head at a better economy we need to be it's a dive into tack we need set you know work with this in a way that it's safe for people and in a way that ignores our lives for it and so you know the i'm glad that as obama talked about that i don't think that his legacy is over i think we're going to see on his legacy could live on with young people who are going to hopefully get involved the question was about whether the you know we put too much of the president's first hundred days yes and no because i think that the first hundred days of many presidents come to define who they eat we can learn a lot about who they are and how they're going to govern were that's

for forty years but in terms of like actually accomplishing things every president at some point comes to this junction where they realize that the scope of their inhibitions it didn't use to be curtailed or they need to develop new tactics for her passing what they weren't pass over and doing what they were doing and i'm sure every president you know it's like five years ago first four minutes of the basketball team you ask or a hundred points right away you know you're really excited to play and then your eyes are this is a you know is a forty minute basketball game here right like there's a lot going on and he had a pace yourself in terms of the dispensing your political capital he have do you know yet the pace yourself in terms of making asks of congress and asks of the american people in terms of believing in your ear he have to decide what you believe is the most important thing and you can

always do that in a you know in a hundred days or a year or two years or in you like to return to president obama he was always very engaged in the issue of on prison reform and that was not something that he could really actively move on and soul the end of his presidency he eastern to see a wave of mass quantities for for nonviolent drug offenses and that was not something that congress can buy a car that on capitol hill and there is there's a pot of lawmakers that haven't risen above it was in some of the economist to move on and so on that you know every prison or was that there are things that he cannot do in his first hundred days or his first year and in that something that i'm watching for us ethan coen of fuel closely you can see things start to slide off of trump's agenda that you know maybe were more on that for congress this is more a lake and you know it so great a vacuum

cj jackson and johanna mask there are leading a discussion groups and trump's first one hundred days at the university of kansas dole institute of politics the first session was this past wednesday tell me about this discussion groups it will continue every other wednesday as they take it through the beginning of may tell me what to expect of this discussion goes whoa julian and i have recruited some of our former colleagues and other people in government and media who we just think are going to be all that hope was going to cold what's going on and i'll bring tentatively unique perspective here to campus when you'd travel away from your seed kansas i found people really like have this or a fascination with lawrence even if they've never been here with me for it without really excited we're really seeing the military i had a more than i have since a couple of former national security staffer is for our present obama common

and touches know it's like to be in a situation room during an international crisis and how to write how you how you put together a presidential speech you know when something is literally on fire i mean i have my job my former iron my predecessor in george w bush's administration and it is going to join me on march twenty nine and to talk about that the transition that he had had when he ek man am as a new administration member for president george w bush from the clinton transition and then of course i got the transition from him and so that'll be aired an interesting session where we have you know i have a bipartisan conversation about what what this is like i know there a march fifteenth though you're coming back we haven't a great guest samantha tubman has come forward at the white house social secretary i'm nancy department official who's going to talk to us about you know the importance of sir blank for saw how government transitions from nc and worked on president

obama's campaign from day one and then went through a presidential transition and then into the white house is using the thought had this unique window into how you translate energy for political campaigning to governing but also you see and produced some of the presidents state dinners and some of them is most important diplomatic meetings already have a really interesting discussion about you know how those events come off whether the matter how the matter why the euro why those things are an important part of the presidency that's march fifteenth that was another you know we haven't seen for we see a little bit of president diplomat with a few of these world leaders coming but we have yet to see is for a state dinner or him really operate on the global stage and that something that seems to be doing and that is something we have to look forward to over the you know the first hundred days and trump so march fifteenth that samantha tubman and cj march twenty ninth is i am myself

and ends greg jenkins who is director of advanced for presenters of the push nasa director president and then we have a i mean it brought my very ambitious agenda i think were here three weeks and april and they will be announcing more gas i am as we get closer to the dates and i think they're that way students can expect is a really fair discussion where we want it now hear their questions and we laugh we have these discussions are we wanna bring their expertise and how to tell them the story of how a day hike in north korea the why washington dc and can and then flying around the world with the president ends and you can get to do these incredible things where they feel like they've actually had an impact and picking out our guests one of the things that we wanted to do was make sure that we have people who i am are excited to see certain

share their story of how they got to where they are in addition to serve decoding what's going on on both of a scheme to be received kansas i think not imagining that our careers we take this to the places that i did and so what my hope is is that beautiful members lawrence community and yankees intercom every guess is going to the perspective of how they got to where they are and then make it seemed plausible for for students already too late you can run you can run for office and you can get involved in your thumb and that's you know i think people in our seeking their way that they can help which is a really good thing and so we're hopefully going to be able to provide a little bit of our inside it's not without a lot of personal sacrifice sally roberts i might have a highly i spent many a very obama christmas think that ends you know sees and i had we welcomed our son out to the world

and while i was on email with nato and sees the greatest trump card ever visited famine and i'm a laborer sunday keep this brief visit i need you video i am you know ultimately i am you know we've man's set to support each other we fell in love at the university and as we got married and we lived in iowa i weave a you've been on this journey together which has been pretty extraordinary and i think an ad that story is one that hopefully we can connect with some cinnamon help them and get to live their dream as we feel we have stories of our freezers in every trade group's claims what is going on and put it in context with some people who have lived through before they can tell you you know the question i get so much with president trump is a very sincere question of is this normal as this president is is something we've seen before

and the guess that were bringing in are going to be people who can tell you that with a sense of authority and so like you know the difference between an old dust up between the president and the press and something that has escalated more you know how like talking again about you or president trump's decision to were arrayed in yemen like how that process works where you have a really cool guest terri says clients who has the president obama's director of speech writing for the national security council touches about how that nic works howell how presidents make big decisions like that and then the aftermath you know so you know and we're going to tell you how he got to where he was but you know if you're more interested and serve the drama of the presidency writ were an employee of that we have really exciting guest so we're thrilled to do this with the dull institute you know that's been the

greatest privileges you have so much respect for the people who have come before you when you're in that position of authority and that position of you know if the world is very gray so you realize that and it and love that the doors to two provides this handy a place where we can have non partisan and bipartisan end you know completely you open discussions it's it's the greatest thing that i'm any leader can encourage says discussions so we're thrilled to be that once you were thrilled to be back at the universe the kansas rock track where just a little bummed that we can't do each one together because we do have that five year old grandma is probably going to welcome us backward our planet's cj thank you so much for coming in today we were really looking forward to your discussion groups she now the dole institute's new series trump's first one hundred days

kicked off this past week and will continue through march april an intimate led by c j jackson of politico and joe had a mascot former director of press advance in the obama white house the series is free and open to the public you can find out more at dole institute dot org i'm kay mcintyre kbr presents is a production of kansas public radio at the university of kansas if you missed last week's keep your presents an interview with pulitzer prize winning author geraldine brooks and the degree of radio documentary in the time of the butterflies by julio alvarez it's now archived at our website at art like a you got a