This was the last day before the Trump Presidencys 100th day. And congress put in less than half a day because there is no trump agenda item alive in congress right now. There is no bill moving anywhere in congress now. No legislative vehicle that is a trump agenda item. We have never seen a 99th day like this for a president. Every president s busiest legislative year is the first year. Its when their power of persuasion over the congress is at its highest. And it only goes down after that. What a president accomplishes in his first year is usually most of what the president will accomplish in his first term. This is so clear historically that when bob woodward chose to write a book entitled the agenda, he decided to focus entirely on a president s first year. And he picked a president with a loaded first year agenda, bill
clinton. At this point in bill clintons first year, the congress was working overtime. At the same time, congress was working on nafta, a giant tax bill which was i
The policy. Nor is he selling it to his own good advice to President Trump from senator santorum. Thats it for the lead. Im jake tapper. Tune in for state of the union. My guest will be samantha b. It all starts at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. I turn you over to cnn tonight with don lemon. Thank you for watching. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. North korea tests a Ballistic Missile in a show of defiance against growing pressure from the Trump Administration. Are they also testing the new president . This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Pentagon Officials Say the test failed, the missile growing up over north korea territory. The launch coming hours after President Trump warned of a possible major conflict with north korea. Meanwhile, tomorrow marks the president s 100th day in office. The stakes are high for a president who made a lot of promises and has been feeling
the pressure to deliver. How does he feel about holding the highest office in the land . Well discuss all of that, but i