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Usually, you do a shakeup because you know that you have a problem or you gaps and you're going to fill those gaps.
Amy Walter -
Donald Trump is an unconventional president doing unconventional things. And the Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan is not something that the traditional establishment would see as a good idea to do, especially when there's not necessarily a policy behind it.
Amy Walter
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The ones who are in the Senate have to have a position.
Amy Walter -
The only problem with the "children of Reagan" line is it reminds you that Marco Rubio is the young candidate.
Amy Walter -
The Donald Trump call in the president of Taiwan and of itself, as Henry Kissinger said, hasn't created some tremendous trouble in China. But what we don't know is whether this is just posturing or whether this is a policy change.
Amy Walter -
Most important, you can have a war room, you can have a war plan, but if your general - in this case, it's Donald Trump - isn't following the plan and is tweeting or is going and giving interviews that contradict the plan, then none of this really matters.
Amy Walter -
The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.
Amy Walter -
It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves from you.
Amy Walter
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I still think there's some tension . But it's pretty clear that, when the president made his statements as a candidate, he's following through with those as a president.
Amy Walter -
Hillary Clinton is got to make the case for herself that nobody else can make, and for voters to see somebody who looks more three-dimensional, that's not simply a caricature that had been sort of a part of the American dialogue for the last 25 years.
Amy Walter