quickly to america first, to saying that americans are dreamers too. to policies that are quite divisive. and i think he s gotten a little more adept at doing this. and we see that in this speech. but i think the question that people will have is, what s going to happen tomorrow? who is donald trump going to be? and my producer, brian rokus came up with this, which is that after the president gave his joint address on february 28th last year, which a lot of people thought was great, on march 4th, he tweeted about obama wiretapping him in trump tower and lost all of that goodwill very quickly. so we ll have to see how this, how this plays out. but there s a lot in there that particularly on immigration, it didn t seem to me like he was extending much of an olive branch to democrats. david? i agree with what s been said
too. to policies that are quite divisive. and i think he s gotten a little more adept at doing this. and we see that in this speech. but i think the question that people will have is, what s going to happen tomorrow? who is donald trump going to be? and my producer, brian rokus came up with this, which is that after the president gave his joint address on february 28th last year, which a lot of people thought was great, on march 4th, he tweeted about obama wiretapping him in trump tower and lost all of that goodwill very quickly. so we ll have to see how this, how this plays out. but there s a lot in there that particularly on immigration, it didn t seem to me like he was extending much of an olive branch to democrats. david? i agree with what s been said. i thought there was a lot of
stuck with him through the course of all these, you know, so-called scandals. that s why it s a very powerful tool as we have this political discussion going forward regarding thursday s hearing. paul, what s your response? well, you know, i wear so many different hats. as a democrat who s not the biggest trump supporter, i think it s great. as a commentator who s going to cover this, i think it would be great. if i can set those two powerful urges aside, let me disagree as a former white house official. he s often look, he s great at distracting, at moving the news away from the story of the day. i m not sure you can do it on comey day, but maybe. nobody is better at this weapon of mass distraction than donald trump. the problem is he s often very, very tactical and not strategic. when jeff sessions, for example, recused himself, it was a terrible story for donald trump because it got us back to russia. that s when, on march 4th, donald trump tweeted that barack obama had wireta
on the night of january 27th, president trump had dinner with james comey where he reportedly asked for the fbi director s loyalty, and comey refused. three days later acting attorney general yates was fired for not defending the travel ban. hours after the washington post reported that yates warned the white house pout flynn, president trump fired the national security adviser. that was on february 13th. in the oval office on the following day, february 14th, trump asked comey about letting the flynn case go. according to the fbi director s memo. but through it all, comey continued to show his independence. on march 4th, trump tweeted, accusing president obama of wiretapping him. the next day, the new york times reported that comey pushed for the department of justice to publicly reject the accusations. later that week on march 8th, comey said he would serve his full term as director less than
this proposal also could possibly benefit his children. that is right, they would avoid paying a 40% estate tax when they inherit mr. trump s estate. again, total benefit for him. again, it remains to be seen if he will follow up on his campaign promise to help the little guy. thank you, we noticed numbers showing a shockingly high percentage of americans believe president obama intentionally spied on donald trump and members of his campaign. this all began, of course, on march 4th, after a long frustrating week for the president at the end of which he suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere began a variety of tweets that started with quote, terrible, just found out obama had my wirings tapped in trump tower, just before the election, nothing found. this is mccarthyism, if that is