From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is out this week.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

I got a call early this morning.

He said this was so great.

And that's Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,

describing to the New York Times Donald Trump's absolute elation at good press.

And he says what he said.

He said, do you watch Fox News?

I said, not really.

He said, they're praising you, meaning me.

But he said, and your stations, meaning I guess MSNBC, CNN, are praising me.

This is great.

This following the president's surprise deal last week with Democratic leaders on the debt ceiling,

which actually wasn't so much of a deal as it was an agreement to kick the deal down the road for three months.

And while that may sound like a punt, for the political press, it was a total game changer. When we come back, is Donald Trump

declaring his independence or just going rogue? He is in many ways the first independent to

hold the presidency since the advent of the current two-party system around the time of the civil war.

Trump is a former Democrat, and so it's almost like his natural habitat is to deal with

Democrats, but Republicans are just infuriated today.

So thrilled was the president with the press attention.

He scheduled a second date this week with Democratic leaders to discuss DACA and a

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