Democrats . Everyone knows they dont like trump. Are they offering an agenda for all of you . Were not going to stand idly by and shrug our shoulders when america is suffering. Chuck schumer says he has answers. What went wrong . What democrats need to get right . And the reporter whose interview are President Trump rocked washington this week. Maggie haberman joins our roundtable. Everything you need to know. Well break down the politics. Well smoke out the spin. The facts that matter this week. Good morning. Six months ago this week, President Trump took the oath of office vowing to make America Great again. He promised a border wall paid for by mexico. The end of obamacare. Tax cuts for everyone. S approva lowest of any president ever at this point. Though trump has kept a strong hold on his core voters. He can take comfort in a strong economy, with low unemployment. The stock market at record highs. One big promise the president surely has made good on, the promise to shake up wash
The Death Penalty in the case. Weintraub insists without the confession, that last buried victim would never be found. Now, robert dunham, a Death Penalty opponent, was quoted in the new york times. I want to read this real quick. He said, its clearly arbitrary that a quadruple murderer is spared capital prosecution because he was successfully able to hide the victims body, and the Death Penalty gets pursued against an accomplice in a robbery gone bad. Basically dunham, who was a Death Penalty opponent, whos saying if you can hide the evidence, youre better off than someone whos not able to do Something Like that. So, ed, would you have done a deal . I would have, for this reason. Its not just the closure thats very important for the victims, and i use that in a very broad sense here. Its the families, as well. Finding that body was important, but the other thing and this is where that quote you just read [clears throat] im going to question the sincerity of the opponent because hes re
Spicer, Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, iraq veteran congressman seth moulton and former defense secretary for two president s, bob gates. From abc news its this week. Here now coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning. A whirlwind week for our new president. 18 executive actions, 3 tv interviews, 3 speeches, a joint news conference, a blizzard of activity and controversy over the wall and who will pay for it, those unfounded allegations of voter fraud, and then friday it got real with an executive order that had immediate and profound impact. Im establishing new vetting measures to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the United States of america. We dont want them here. No surprise for anyone following the election. Trump has been promising this extreme vetting for more than a year, but still, it came as a shock. A 90day ban on travelers from 7 countries, syria, iran, iraq, somalia, yemen, sudan and libya. Even green card holders who thought they were free to come and go caught
Now, the truth is, the murder rate has generally you see there on the screen generally declined over the long term, going from 391 in 2007 to 277 just last year. However, murders are up significantly in the month of january, 37 compared to the january of last year. Its unclear if that trend is going to hold. But, ed, do you think that the president knew that when he said that, or is he just spouting out generalities, hes got chicago in his mind, and he just said something that he just didnt have any facts to base it on . My sense is that he paints in very broad brushstrokes. And then you go back, and you can start to parse what he has said. Hes put himself in that situation a number of times. Overall, i think anybody in a big city is going to complain about crime, is going to say that it is an issue. For him, that was certainly the case in the campaign. It worked for him very effectively. So, he does have a tendency to make statements where, when you go back and you start to take them
And the gop senator demanding changes to the bill. Plus, key Intelligence Committee members investigating russia. From abc news, its this week here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, it has been 15 days since President Trump detonated that explosive charge with saturday morning tweets. That he was the victim of an illegal wiretap ordered by president obama. 15 days later, we know two things. The president s charge is untrue. And he knows its not true. At least he should. His attorney general has not given him evidence to back up the claim. Nor has the fbi direct, the cia director, or the director of national intelligence. Trump may not have even asked them for the evidence. He did ask the house and senate Intelligence Committees to investigate. Heres what the top members of the house said this week. I dont think there was an actual tap of trump tower. We have seen no basis for that whatsoever. The leaders issued a joint statement we see no indications that trump tow