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He took one call from the Fox News anchor, Brett Baer.

But it was really just quite amazing to see how...

chaotic, frankly, the Oval Office can be.

And we've reported on how this unfolds.

But I think sitting in the Oval Office for an extended period of time and watching it up close really gives you the sense of how Trump makes decisions, how he thinks, and how his world operates.

I think there's a good case to make, yes, because voters actually weighed in on how he was doing.

And I think we've seen a lot of polling, but it's different when people actually go to the ballot box and register their feelings and their feelings were overwhelmingly opposed to the broader Republican Party at this point.

Yeah.

I mean, I think one of the things that Democrats are excited about is that they were able to win over these voters that were a long part of their base and had been slipping away.

These coalitions that parties have relied on for decades are just way more movable than I think they had been.

Right.

Which gives both parties opportunities, but also has warning signs for both parties who were relying on voters to turn out and support them and are not reliably doing so in the same ways.

And to your point, I had a conversation just before the election with Steve Bannon, one of President Trump's longtime advisers,

who was very concerned about the president's hyper-focus on foreign policy.

He's meeting with foreign leaders multiple times a week.

He's done a lot of global travel.

He has not been traveling at all really domestically outside his homes in Florida and New Jersey.

And some of the president's longtime advisors are saying you need to get back to focusing on the American people.

And Michael, just to add on to that, it's very reminiscent in some ways of Joe Biden's presidency, because Joe Biden

passed all this legislation and promised that the economy was going to get better, but said that it would take time.