Special Report

CABINET TIMELINE PRESSURE: "Right now would be the time of year that it would be better for the President to potentially try and put someone else before the Senate. Now that Republicans have lost the Senate, getting confirmation for someone else in that position or any of those other Cabinet positions gets more difficult at the beginning of next year. You often see after the midterms people either leave or get fired, so it would not be shocking as the President himself said to make changes." @fran_chambers

NEGOTIATE FROM STRENGTH: "This is a direct message to Congressional Democrats who spent 48 hours threatening the President... President Obama said, 'I've got a pen and a phone.' President Trump says, 'I've got Stephen Miller, and I'm not going to be intimidated'... It also sets you up to negotiate from a position of strength, not of weakness—one of positive confidence and not of fear." @hughhewitt

A MESSAGE PICK: "The President likes defiance, he likes familiarity, he likes outraging Democrats, he likes loyalty, and he likes showing he has a sense of humor—and he was able to do all of that with one pick... But if he wants to deal with Democrats, who will be a majority within weeks, I think he’s made a mistake." @MarkHalperin

$12 BILLION ON HATRED: "We spend $12 billion trying to make each other sick, and we spend $7 plus billion trying to heal one of the most horrific diseases known to humanity... Wake up political leaders. Wake up consultants. Wake up strategists. We don't want to see this anymore. We're sick and tired of contempt... Americans want to be treated with dignity. Do that, and we'll sacrifice. We'll work. We'll volunteer... but not if we're going to be humiliated by our leaders." @TimShriver

GOVERNING VS. REVENGE: "Whether you voted for him or not, he said, 'I want to be the senator who embodies love your neighbor.' That's not a Democratic idea. It's not a Republican idea. That is a human idea... Did you get elected to exercise revenge against a party you don't like? Or did you get elected to build a country that is hungering, starving for solutions to critical problems that average Americans face?" @TimShriver