The hunt and lies also fed into a deranged Conspiracy Theory about jews bringing migrants into the u. S. It also brought violence to a walmart in el paso where 20 people were killed and more than two dozen injured by a man whose racist hatred was aimed at immigrants and latinos. I will immediately terminate president obamas illegal executive order on immigration. But after the inauguration, he seemed to soften. He was getting a lot of private counsel that ending daca would be a total disaster. Daca is very, very difficult subject for me, i will tell you. As early as january 9, 2018, President Trump had an opening during a bipartisan white house meeting on immigration. Were here today to advance bipartisan immigration reform. Reporter democratic senator dick durbin was seated right next to the president. He was saying things that did not fit into the republican platform when it came to immigration. Republicans were not going to vote for a bill that simply gave legal status to the dreamers without something in exchange for it. Ill take the heat, he says, ill sign it, send me a bipartisan bill. And thats exactly what senator durbin and senator Lindsey Graham did. But when they presented it to trump two days later at the white house, everything changed. They get to the point where it comes to talking about, haiti and parts of africa, and trump stops the conversation and said, well, why do we want all these people here from shit hole countries. That was the end of the meaningful conversation when it came to solving this immigration problem. Ultimately when it came to the president and immigration the hard line views would win out. And while the dreamers future is uncertain so is the zerotolerance policy that many thought was done. According to lifelong republican turned biden supporter miles taylor, the former chief of staff at the department of Homeland Security under trump, the president has wanted to reinstate the zerotolerance policy. He said he wanted to go further and have a deliberate policy of ripping children away from their parents to show those parents that they shouldnt come to the border in the first plac place. Something the actor director of Homeland Security chad wolf denies. Its politic and nothing more. Theres no debate as he approaches the 2020 election President Trump still prioritizes hard line policies on both illegal and legal immigration. Hes still selling the wall that he once said mexicans would pay for. Were up to 122 miles. Only 5 miles of new wall has been built where no wall existed before. The rest is mostly replacement wall. And no, mexico is not paying for it. It has been paid for in part by congress and in part by reallocating military funds. Ken cuccinelli is actor director of u. S. Citizenship and immigration services. Looking back on it how has President Trump delivered on this important pledge of his to his voters . He has delivered on that promise, whether its building hundreds of miles of the wall system that is proven effective where its from this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward its going to be only america first. November 10th, 2016, days after the election, president elect donald trump traveled 230 miles south to the white house. Momentarily the president elect donald trump will arrive at the white house. Its assumed the president and his team will help give their successors a good start. Try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president elect is successful. From the getgo, president elect trump was warned by the outgoing president that north korea was going to be a major headache for him. And he was agitated about how to handle that, and so you would see him lashing out because of that anxiety. Breaking news this hour, just hours ago north korea launched another missile. North Koreas Nuclear ambitions are becoming more dangerous by the day. The president is at his new jersey club. Typically when wed go with the president to his golf club on the weekends, we dont ever see him. They dont hold events unless Something Big has happened. So they invite reporters in to see the president. He is asked about north korea. North korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. These were not preplanned remarks, and you can kind of see the looks of the faces of people next to him. Not just melania trump, but Kellyanne Conway and the other officials are kind of like and im not sure even his own staff knew what to say. I thought initially it was pursuant to a strategy, and that unlike the obama administration, which after eight years of strategic patience, had left north korea much closer to achieving its objective of deliverable nuclear weapons. What i found when i arrived at the white house was it wasnt part of any strategy at all. It was just the way he felt on the days he made those remarks. Trump soon upped the ante in his first speech at the united nations. If it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. Rocketman is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. Well, there is something to what was referred to during the nixon era as the madman theory. You can gain strategic advantage by being seen as kind of a madman. For them not to know what youre going to do next. The folks at foggy bottom who were there eons prefer to go very, very slowly and steadily. The idea that President Trump has been unpredictable, a lot of longtime diplomats obviously are not a fan of it. They take him much more seriously because he does things that others talked about but never do. Theres no comparing how trump operates to any other president. It is completely disruptive and different than anything youve ever seen before. Such as in israel. First moving the embassy to jerusalem and thus recognizing it as the capital of israel. Administration after administration after administration had pledged to do that. We had a president that was able to do that because he was not constrained and bound by the more traditional norms, if you do that, our adversaries are going to be upset. The president said were going to do it because its the right thing to do. Thats not all he was able to accomplish with israel. We finalized a Peace Agreement between israel and the united arab emirates. Nobody thought this is something that could happen for a long time. How important do you think this is . The israeli uae agreement is the First Agreement of its kind in 26 years. Due to the president s leadership and his patience and vigilance, in changing the dynamic instead of talking about ageold conflicts, what hes trying to do is do things other president s havent done. So the theory goes, might disrupting the status quo work with the unstable north korean dictator . What he wanted to do repeatedly was get in a room with kim jongun and negotiate with him. I thought it was a bad idea. The meeting was a gift to kim jongun. It provided him visibility. Legitimacy. Trump and kim not only met three times, but exchanged letters. He wrote me beautiful letters, and theyre great letters. We fell in love. They got straight into Donald Trumps brain, and hes convinced kim jongun is his friend. There were people in the nationality security apparatus, commentators and former officials, who thought Everything Else has been tried. Lets give this a shot. There he is on north korean soil. We gave north korea 2 1 2 more years to achieve progress in its nuclear and Ballistic Missile program. Well invite him right now. The president yanked the rug out in part under our south korean ally. By among other things unilaterally agreeing to the suspension of large u. S. south Korean Military exercises. By some estimates, north korea may have doubled its arsenal during the trump presidency. All in all, north korea looks at these four years and they go, not bad at all. Particularly with the damaged relationship with u. S. Allies. It upset our allies in the region. I dont think its much of an exaggeration to say that the president gets it upside down or backwards in how he treats allies and how he treats adversaries. Justin trudeau, nice guy. But theyve taken advantage of us for so many years. The European Union sounds so nice. Right . They are brutal. Whether its bullying or badgering allies or pulling out of Strategic Partnerships in longstanding trade agreements we just officially terminated tpp. I withdrew the United States from the horrible onesided disgusting iran nuclear deal. We will be today terminating our relationship with the world health organization. Even hinting one day he might pull the u. S. Out of nato if allies do not pay their fair share. What this misses more than anything else, jake, is the great strategic and structural advantage of American Foreign policy. We get up every day, and what we have are dozens and dozens of allies and partners in europe, asia and around the world. Allies President Trump has neglected and in some cases abandoned. We are going to be leaving and were going to be bringing our soldiers back home. Such as u. S. Troops in northern syria. Were policing. Were not fighting, were policing. Were not a police force. In the face of widespread criticism that he abandoned a reliable u. S. Ally, the kurds. America first. The president looks out for whats in the best interests of our country. It doesnt mean america alone. It means the president is thinking of whats in the best interests of our country. The president took office in early 2017, and the situation he inherited was daunting. American Foreign Policy had made mistakes. All of that is true. But before you tear things up, before you disrupt them, youve got to be sure that you have something better. And in some cases trump did get something better, such as replacing nafta with a new trade deal between the u. S. , canada and mexico. The usmca is the largest, fairest, most balanced and modern trade agreement ever achieved. Even Democratic HouseSpeaker Nancy Pelosi agreed. There is no question, of course, that this trade agreement is much better than nafta. And when it comes to nato we are also getting our allies, finally, to help pay their fair share. Why did all these president s, you ask, promise to make the nato countries pay more for the common defense and hes the one, President Trump is the one that has 130 billion more from those countries to provide for the common defense . It might not have been pretty, it may not have made any friends, but it benefited our country and our workers, so i think theres a balance. But its a balance some worry might swing in the wrong direction. President trump, if reelected, will be one of the most consequential president s in american history. And he will have done more than most of his predecessors to have changed the world, and as a result, to have changed the United States. And my fear is that it will be for largely for the worse. Time will tell trumps legacy and the u. S. s new standing in the world. One issue which continues to leave that in question is russia. Trump and putin when we come back. Businesses today are looking to tomorrow. Adapting. Innovating. Setting the course. 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On the campaign trail, trump cheered on the hackers. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. His former Campaign Advisor and longtime friend roger stone hinted he had advance knowledge of the email releases, raising questions for the first time of possible cooperation between Trump Associates and russia. Theres no telling what the october surprise may be. Indeed, on october 7th, 2016, the same day another story broke. Hello, how are you, hi. The infamous access Hollywood Tape of trump in 2005 caught on a hot mic making crude, vile comments about women had surfaced. Minutes after that news steady drip of stolen emails being released. Reports of another bombshell. Wikileaks published the emails stolen by russian agents. This is the first time wed ever seen anything quite like that. There is plenty evidence linking trump allies and moscow. The release of an email chain from last june between donald trump jr. And this man. During the 2016 campaign, donald trump jr. , jared kushner, and others on the trump team met with a russian lawyer at trump tower. The russian lawyer was offering dirt on Hillary Clinton and john don jr. Very famously said, if its what you say it is, i love it. It was not, i dont want to know this. In addition, the republican chaired Senate IntelligenceSenate Committee says trump Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort was a, quote, grave Counter Intelligence threat to the United States and had shared inside information with a russian agent. During the transition, the president began discussing his first meeting with Vladimir Putin. And some of his officials around him were concerned. They just intervened in the election, you dont just go and meet with the russians early in the presidency. We wanted to ask President Trump about his relationship with president putin, but he turned down repeated requests for an interview. Then what happened with general flynn was troubling as well. Just three weeks after entering office, talk of russia intensified when the president fired National Security advisor Michael Flynn. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about the nature of his contacts with russia, but later claimed he had been pressured into a plea deal by prosecutors. In may 2017, fbi director james comey, who was leading the investigation into moscow meddling oh, and there he is. Was fired by President Trump. Hes become more famous than me. Comey had not seen it coming. Welcome to donald trump. You know, he changes his mind. The president had blind sided his own press secretary at the time, sean spicer. Lets just relax, enjoy the night. We rushed it out. We had no one to back it up. We didnt have a strategy to do it in a way that was effective, and it showed. All of a sudden, then, bang. Now were wide awake. That made inevitable some kind of independent inquiry. An inquiry to consider whether President Trumps behavior constituted a possible threat to National Security, and whether the president might be secretly working on behalf of moscow and president putin. That sparked the appointment of special counsel robert mueller. He said, ive heard you were part of the resistance. Andrew mccabe replaced jim comey. Mccabe says he met with the president the very day comey was fired. I said to him, im not sure what you were referring to, sir. I heard you were one of the people who didnt agree with jim comey. And i said, no, sir, thats not true. He was looking for me to adopt his false narrative. The president s false narrative that comey was fired for mishandling the Hillary Clinton email probe. We had to consider, was he truly fired because the president didnt want us to continue investigating this idea of russian collusion . Investigators felt confident of that after President Trump said this on primetime tv. And, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story. Its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. Its ridiculous. Its ridiculous. With the probe. A ridiculous probe the president attempted to discredit in an extraordinary moment. Mr. President , i will give this ball to you and now the ball is in your court. It was july 16th, 2018. Being in helsinki for President Trumps press conference with Vladimir Putin is one thing i will never forget for the rest of my life. When he says that he talked to Vladimir Putin, that he believed him. He just said its not russia. I dont see any reason why it would be. Vladi