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Trumpâs Legacy Through The Eyes Of Those His Presidency Hurt
From inciting violence to separating families, the repercussions of the Trump administrationâs policies and rhetoric will be felt for a long time.
By Elise Foley, Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Alanna Vagianos, Hayley Miller, Rowaida Abdelaziz, and Chris D Angelo
01/15/2021 05:45 am ET
Updated
Jan 15, 2021
One week into his term, President Donald Trump devastated tens of thousands of people with the stroke of a pen.
Throughout the campaign, Trump had vowed to enact a Muslim ban. His fifth executive order effectively made good on that promise, banning people from seven countries â all majority-Muslim â from entering the United States.Â
going on down there and the question is is the administration making it worse. elise, i want to turn to you, have you marry what s going on on the border in washington, d.c. i m going to read a tweet from the president. the democrats are forcing the breakup of families at the border with their horrible cruel legislate of agenda. any immigration bill must have full funding for the wall. go for it! win! are we seeing an evenness when it comes to policy response? well, it s interesting because there s been a lot of outrage about the family separations and the house republicans who are working on one of those immigration bills said that they were going to put something about family separations in the bill.
the mueller investigation into whether donald trump had any role in coordinating with the russian election interference effort because paul manafort came to the campaign with russian connections, he parlayed other russian connections, offering private briefings to an oligarch and i believe that s what robert mueller wants him to talk about. we just had a conversation about immigration with elise foley and talked to mariana atencio as well. i want to get a sense of how isolated this white house is on the issue of immigration. we played it back and forth what president trump said in the morning, versus what the deputy secretary said later in the afternoon about what the president supports and what he doesn t. as these images continue to come out of the border, the white house continuing to uphold this policy, even as they try to
and the vice president and his wife dr. jill biden are down in rio de janeiro. nobody here but us chickens but we re here on the full court press team to keep our eye on what s going on. big news that michele bachmann, the craziest person ever to serve in the united states house of representatives has said eight years is enough. she is running for cover. joining sarah palin as the latest of the g.o.p. quitters in action. of course, michele bachmann insists it has nothing to do with she s being investigated by the federal elections commission, by the office of congressional ethics and by the fbi. and also eric holder now saying he is sorry that he spied on so many journalists and he wants to make amends by meeting with all of the bureau chiefs of the news organizations in washington, d.c. as long as those meetings are all off the record. and most. reporter: s are saying no way and most reporters are saying no way. all of that and more here on current tv. the young turks