JEFF GREENFIELD:

You know, this is about the 450th "I can't believe I'm seeing this happen" in the last two years. Normally, it's just a photo opportunity. But the president decided to kind of negotiate in front of the cameras, and Nancy Pelosi, the presumptive speaker-to-be, kept pushing back on him on the facts, about the votes for the wall and all these kinds of issues. And remember that Trump has not had in the first two years any experience in dealing with the opposition party in control.

And that raises a broader point: we're going to look at a new Congress. The Republican minority in the House is going to be more conservative than it was, because it was moderates who lost. And the new Republican majority in the Senate is going to be more conservative, because Trump critics like Corker and Flake are gone. Meanwhile, you have Democrats in control of the House who've been waiting for two years to get the kind of subpoena power, the investigative power to look at everything from alleged collusion to now the sudden revelations about campaign finance law violations that have been raised by Mueller, the Trump Organization itself and how it functions, you've got a new York attorney general on top of everything else who says she's going to look at everything.

So you tell me how this atmosphere in January any notion of cooperation between the Democrats and Republicans and the president is likely. I just don't see that happening.