Mara Liasson

I'd like to meet the person who had that conversation with President Trump.

It seems to me that he has this artifice that he creates, this framework, often about these kinds of stories that people are saying to him, generals saying, sir.

Crying.

Can't believe they're crying.

They want to kiss him.

This is a, you know, it's a thing that he does for the flair of the dramatic in saying that it's real.

But clearly, look,

This is what Trump is about, right?

I mean, it's about, quote unquote, winning.

And I say, quote unquote, not because it's the quote that he's saying, but because it doesn't matter if you're actually winning.

It matters if you're presenting it to people in a way where you're winning the argument about potentially winning or not.

And the first time in 46 years that the U.S.

men's hockey team, since the miracle on ice team in 1980...

had won the gold medal, certainly quite the moment it captured the country.

So why not, right?

When you're a president who is facing some really negative feelings, some baked in negative feelings from voters across the country, you know, why not try to get some of that Olympic gold to maybe rub off on you and do it in the first half hour of your speech before people turn it off?

I counted roughly half a dozen substantive asks to Congress, and they're not the kinds of things that you would associate with

major legislative agenda.

And to Sam's point, you know, this has been a president who has gone about in this last year consolidating power in the White House.

The things that I heard him ask for were things like codifying his most favored nation's, you know, drug prices, about lowering drug prices.