“He’s single-handedly changed the party,” said Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind. Banks was sworn in as a member of the House as Trump arrived in Washington in 2017, when Banks said, Trump often have to deal with Republican pushback.

Interviews with more than a dozen people who have recently spoken with Trump describe a president-elect who views his power much differently than he did on the eve of his first inauguration in 2017.

America’s Newsroom’ opens the show with a montage of President-elect Donald Trump’s memorable moments leading up to his return to Washington, D.C.