Going to get rid of nafta for once and for all. Americans not impressed with how President Trump is handling his job. Our brand new cnn orc poll has him at the bottom of the heap of newly elected president s. Plus, shes the most highprofile woman in the trump white house, a top adviser to the president and unofficial ambassador but is ivanka trump good for women . Well discuss. Right to the president s new poll numbers tonight. Cnns john king is at the magic wall for us. John . Don, our new cnn orc poll shows donald trump is the least popular president in modern times at the 100day mark. Lets take a look at the numbers. 44 approve of the job hes doing as president and 54 disapprove. This one is not so bad for the country. The country evenly divided. 48 say good job and 52 say poor job, and question of hows hes doing, keeping his Campaign Promises, heres where the president is in a bit of trouble. Big issues, economy, healthcare, immigration, his standing down from our poll just seven w
Muslims entering the United States. This is not a muslim ban. This executive order was meanspirited and unamerican. A judge has just blocked our executive order. Were going to fight this terrible ruling. Good morning. Happy saturday. Were always so grateful for your company. Spending the first of last 100 days here, first 100 in washington of course. Im christi paul. Seemed to be the right place to be. Im victor blackwell. Good morning from a crisis on the Korean Peninsula to his coming victory lap in pennsylvania tonight busy 100 day in office for President Trump. The executive orders, the promise, how people who voted for change are feeling 100 days in now. First, though, we want to talk about the act of defiance from north korea another Ballistic Missile launch. President trump responding on twitter now saying north korea disrespected the wishes of china and the highly respected president when it launched, though, unsuccessfully a missile today. Bad. A navy strike has arrived in the
Rates for corporations and reducing the number of tax brackets and doubling the standard deduction for individuals. The skeletal outline would benefit wealthy americans and devoid of details of what it would cost and how it would be paid for. This is paid with growth and with reduced reduction of different deductions and closing loopholes. Reporter many economists are challenging this as a magic wand of growth saying the cuts could increase the National Debt by trillions. A reality that would make trumps tax goals a tough sell with fiscal hawks in congress and goes against the pledge to reduce the deficit. It will simplify the tax code. It will grow the American Economy and all of this does not add to our debt or our deficit. Reporter democrats calling the administrations bluff. They are saying the growth in the economy will cover it. It never has. Its a plan to help the wealthy in the country. Wealthy corporations in the world at the expense of the nations deficit. Reporter one of the
Opened this investigation into flynn this month. We are also learning about newly declassified documents that the dia warned general flynn not to take payments from foreign governments three years ago. These revelations coming from the top democrat on the House Oversight committee. The Ranking Member here, elijah coup cummings lashed out. The white house a absolutely refused to produce even a single document, not a single document in response to the bipartisan document requests that i said we needed. Not one syllable. I watched sean spicer make all kinds of excuses about how hard it would be to comply with our requests. Come on, man. Obviously you do not understand why the white house is covering up for Michael Flynn. I dont get it. After the president fired him for lying. So the president fired him for lying about his communications with the Russian Ambassador and should be bending over backwards to help us. It does not make any sense and makes the American People think the white hous
Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead, day 97 of the trump presidency, a pivotal day for him as commanderinchief and tax cutter in chief. The white house gave the public details on a tax proposal that the treasury secretary called the biggest tax cut in u. S. History. It would, according to the u. S. Administration, reduce the number of tax brackets from seven to three. It would create bigger breaks for child care costs, repeal the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax, and end most itemized deductions. What we do not know, what many republicans still dont know, is the effect it will have on the 19 trillion National Debt. This is all happening at the same time that nearly the entire senate is headed to the white house for a special and perhaps unprecedented briefing on north korea. Lets start with this major announcement on tax cuts. Cnns jim acosta live for us at the white house right now. Jim, one Top Republican aid is already saying that this