GREENFIELD:

Well, you're quite right. You know, Bill Clinton had the attempt to end the ban on gays in the military. John Kennedy had the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961, which really, you know, caused him to take a very serious rethinking of his relationship with the CIA. The spate of them, you know, the travel ban, the second travel ban that's in trouble with the courts, the hiring and firing of national security administrator Michael Flynn, the still-unanswered questions about Russia.

And I think this one goes to the heart of what people thought was going to happen, you know, right out of the blocks, he said, I'm going to — he now says he never intended to — never promised repeal of Obamacare quickly. Yes, he did.

And so, what the president is now facing is a challenge to the very premise of his election, as I said earlier, "I can get things done." And when you realize the health care repeal was the precursor to things like the tax cut plan, how are they going to do that in the absence of repeal? Yes, he is now facing — not to mention the approval ratings which are dismal, historically dismal — he's facing very tough road.

Just one quick thing, though — we journalists are the Olympic champions in the "jumping to conclusions" event. If this were September of '18, the Republicans would be facing a disaster. We've got a year and a half to go.