Chuck Todd: Not in Trump’s ‘Nature’ to Admit Defeat

‘That’s always been a part of Donald Trump’

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TODD: "Right, and I think, look, that’s on one hand there’s always been a part of Donald Trump, you know, he wants to be accessible to the press, probably more so than his staff wants him to be accessible to the press, and I think that was -- that was one of those moments there. But it seems as if what seemed like the obvious thing to do last week when I asked Vice President Pence, you know, OK, you’ve got the setback, you have this, any thought about essentially rescinding the order and rewriting it? At the time, no, no, no, this had been properly vetted and they didn’t want to entertain that. If you look at the decision the 3-0 decision made, you now, they basically gave them a road map on how to rewrite it. So I think that it’s clear that that’s all the advice the president’s getting. I think at this point it’s, is he comfortable with admitting defeat? Right? Essentially, all right, got to hit reset, let’s do this again. That’s not in his nature."

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