chess. there are people who think that the president is actually done a very good job. that he hasn t necessarily done it in the way they would like him to. they like the economic numbers and rolling back regulations, they look at the tax plan that was passed and they do see his first year in office as successful. the problem is it s just not enough people and you can understand why it is so frustrating for this president because historically, i don t think voters would have given barack obama the previous president the credit for an economy that s booming under a current president. it doesn t happen all that often. it s a huge frustration for trump. he fuels about it. can the president have a productive legislative success? very difficult to do it and this moment poisons things even more. so much ill will that you re feeling right now coming out of this i don t think anybody s going to be in the mood to do
columnist joe clemens believes he s been burned by president trump s burning desire to roll back regulations. they want to get rid of experts and scientists. by muzzling the scientists and the experts you take out the number one voices that are trying to stand up for the good of the american people, not industry. we re in the way, essentially, of their agenda. when president trump entered office, clemens was director of the policy office at the interior department. a main focus was helping to save alaskan villages from melting into the sea. scientists blame climate change. they re on spits of land, they re essentially land bars, locked into place by permafrost. over millennia they stay there.
down, intimidated, the weight of public opinion brought to bear. he governs with a plurality of plurality. he has most people inside the stronger of the two political parties. he can leverage that into real power. so what you are saying about republicans, i want to touch on that. it seems as though republicans in congress are happy they are getting their long awaited tax reform done. something is going to happen with immigration. they re rolling back regulations. if donald trump is the vessel, so be it. that s the deal that they are making. but you think it is is more dangerous? that is the deal they re making. the price goes up and up and up. not just that you look away when the president makes wild remarks. he is demanding that the public be his partners in shutting down investigations into, for example, the intervention of russia in american politics against which the united states is still defenseless. donald trump, in order to conceal his own wrongdoing, has
rolling back regulations. he is the deregulating president. during a ceremony in which he literally cut a strip of red tape with a pair of giant gold scissors like a true performer, president trump ripped on what he repeatedly called job-killing regulations. for many decades an ever-growing maze of regulations, rules, restrictions has cost our country trillions and trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, countless american factories, and devastated many industries. but all that has changed the day i took the oath of office, and it s changed rapidly. you ve seen what s happened. sure, companies like people want less rules, less regulations their way, but for facts sake, do regulations in and of themselves hurt economic growth? president trump makes no bones about taking down u.s. regulations. in 2017 his administration
week. great to be here in this first week of the new year and even with most of congress still away for the holiday, it was an eventful week. to say the least. a new tell-all book on president trump s first year in office, warts and all, has everyone talking. but nothing this president does can hold back the markets, which is exactly where we re going to start. the stock market hit new heights with the dow jones industrial average crossing the 25,000 mark for the first time ever. that s a gain of nearly 25% since president trump first took office. the white house marked the occasion by posting a cnbc news clip on little official website detailing recent gains in share prices and job numbers. nothing investors see coming out of the white house, no matter how lurid or how disturbing seems to worry them. they like the gains trump has made. tax cuts, rolled back regulations, if you put it that way, the market has a lot to celebrate in 2018. something i like to look at is the vix in