Welcome in everybody. Welcome to Next Up. I'm Mark Kalperin, the editor-in-chief of the live interactive video

platform, two-way, the host of this ye-old program available on YouTube and as a podcast. And grateful to you all

for tuning in to be a nexter is to understand and appreciate what we try to do here, which is to tell you

what's coming next up.

You've got good judgment if you like this show, my mom says, and I'm glad to have you here.

First up today, next up will be my reported monologue.

Trying to make sense of this week where there's this weird dichotomy where almost every political pundit and strategists

will say President Trump needs to focus more on what's going on at home.

That part of what's ailing his poll numbers is over focus on foreign policy and national

security.

And yet President spent much of this week in Davos dealing with a bunch of foreign policy issues.

So I've talked to folks who've worked for past presidents who served two terms and talked to them about what causes a president to spend so much of second term focus on national security foreign policy.

It's an interesting story about the psychology and the practical realities

of being a second term American president. So I will bring my reporting to you there and eager to

hear what you think about what I found. And then later in the program, after that, two strategists,

smarties who will tell us what's going on in american politics their

perspective uh melissa derosa democratic strategist and mark bedner a republican a principal at monument

advocacy they will both be here and then michael knolls back on the program host the michael

no's show on the daily wire is going to talk to us about his perspective on life,

happiness, and other stuff. Anyway, excited to talk to all three of them, excited to do

that business, but also before they join us again. In just a moment, my reported monologue,

that's next up. If you're a homeowner in the

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