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Hey, with us right now.

The Dean himself, Ed Rollins, the greatest political analyst, who's run the biggest

best presidential campaign, has been in the White House with our greatest presidents.

Ed Rollins, how you doing?

Good morning.

How are you?

Very good.

Now, normally they would say this is the honeymoon period for the president, but the way the media goes after him, does he even have a honeymoon period?

He doesn't have a honeymoon period as far as the media is concerned, but he certainly has a very aggressive schedule.

He's now in the same category as FDR and Lyndon Johnson of pushing legislation and pushing change up, who are two historic presidents of Democrats, obviously.

But I think he's considering he's been one month and one day, a lot's going on internationally and domestically.

Yeah.

There's one thing I'd suggest to him, and obviously he's got his right arm there,

who's basically out there doing all the work, his billionaire friend.

But, you know, he's got the Office of Management and Budget,

and OMB is the president's arm.

It's no one else's arm.

And these are 400 people who are basically experts on every government element.

They help put the budgets together.

Every kind of speech, everything that the cabinet secretary does, they have to get their permission.

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