protect the illegal immigrants. the president took a minute to remind chuck schumer that his rank thinned in the mid-term elections. we have the lowest unemployment we ve had in 50 years. 50 people of the republican party are losing their offices now because of the transition. people are not nancy, did we win the senate? we won the senate. when the president brags that he won north dakota and indiana, he s in real trouble. i did. we did win north dakota and indiana. the democratic leader came back here after that meeting to continue drilling down on their talking points about government funding. it seems like the president has already moved open for the afternoon tweeting about james comey and the fbi. shep? shepard: order is restored. peter doocy live on capitol hill. let s get more from the hill.
today marks exactly one year since donald trump won the american presidency. the president celebrated the victory this afternoon tweeting, congratulations to all the deplorables and the millions of people who gave us a massive 304-227 electoral college landslide victory. adding a photo of himself giving a thumps up a along son-in-law jared kushner. hope hicks, steve miller and other staff members. democrats congratulated the president by giving his party and brand of politics a thumping at the polls yesterday. let s take a look back at the year of trump in the words of the president himself. i pledge to every citizen of our land that i will be president for all americans. this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. probably almost everybody in this room voted for me, but i will not ask you to raise your
passing bills in congress. mcconnell told people back home in kentucky that the president s early timelines are one reason this congress has a reputation of not getting anything done is. our new president has not been in this line of work before. i think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process. so part of the reason i think people feel like we re underperforming is because too many kind of artificial deadlines. shepard: the president responded this afternoon tweeting senator mitch mcconnell said i had excessive expectations. i don t think so. after seven years of hearing repeal and replace? why not done? let s turn to a.b. stoddard, from real clear politics. it s really easy to know why not done. because within the republican party, there s this side and that side and there s no meeting
back insisting she wasn t out of the loop and that her statement jived with sean spicer s. both were true. the president is very loyal. he s a very loyal person. and by night s end michael flynn had decided it was best to resign. he knew he d become a lightning rod and he made that decision. reporter: later this afternoon tweeting i serve at the pleasure of @potus. his message is my message. his goals are my goals. uninformed chatter doesn t matter. kellyanne s fumbles front and center over the past few weeks. president obama had a six-month ban on the iraqi refugee program after two iraqis came here to this country, were ral calized and were the mastermind behind the bowling green massacre. it didn t get covered. reporter: conjuring up a made-up masker before saying she misspoke and drawing ridicule for her twisting of the truth. sean spicer our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that. but the point is wait a minute. alternative facts? alternative facts are not f
trade center came down during bush s time. you can t blame bush for that. he was president. don t blame him or don t blame him, but he was president. the world trade center came down during his reign. jeb bush angrily responded friday afternoon tweeting how pathetic for donald trump to criticize the president for 9/11. we were attacked, and my brother kept us safe. joining me now, anchor from the blaze, amy holmes, and ellis henican. ellis, so often i ve been wrong about the donald, i thought for sure when he said what he said about john mccain, we like who don t get captured, going after megyn kelly on fox, i thought this is the death knell within the hard core of the gop and yet it wasn t. does this finally harm him or not? no. why not? listen, if he can get through megyn kelly, which is ground zero to the gop, he will get through poking at the bush family who are not all that popular. it has to be deliberate that he s willing to go after these icons of the republican e