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WTTG Fox 5 News 630 February 20, 2017

Is blocked by courts. Speaking of that the president is expected and may be back in washington and touchdown here soon after a working weekend at his club in west palm beach, florida. Administration is preparing for a busy week include what is expected to be new executive order on immigration and border control. And were told it will temporarily ban travelers from the same seven country and theres a lot of questions about green card holders and dual card citizens and those who hold visas and hes likely to expand enforcement to de port illegal immigrants. And you get indication of what is at stake coming in this executive order. Lets move on. Meantime this president s day was marked by protests,ant eye trump activists spilled into the seats across the country and thousands demonstrated in la, chicago, new york and d. C. For what some called not my president s day ralryes. Organizers at the d. R. Rally are calling upon people to come together in what they deem is rhetoric and actions of Current Administration and lets get you out to fox5 ronica cleary that starts us out live today. Hey, ronica. Jim, shawn, protesters were out in force today in washington d. C. And they started Dupont Circle and ended right here in front of the white house. And you know the message that they brought forth today think said president s day is of course about honoring past and president president s and present president as well and they do not feel that this president embodies ideals of the president that they would believe in or support noting that there have been president s that they liked and president s that they did not and they feel President Trump crosses a line that theyre not comfortable with. You isnt pep dut sfts care ought weing by covering protests sense trump was lektsed and took office over this past month. The question on my nd spoke to the protesters what do you want to see happen. If you keep coming out here what is the goal to make you feel that your time here accomplished something. Take a listen. Its with a wide variety of ideas from impeachment to just feeling heard. Take a listen. I think he needs to be investigated and look at the russian connection and see if anything up improper or illegal is going on. Thats the best way quickest way to maybe having anymore impeached. I dont want him impreached because im afraid of mike pence also and the world just needs to know this is not what we stand for. Today i just want to talk to people like you and you know get that message out and this is just a rally on a nice day where were out and Building Energy for struggles to come. You heard a variety there and we covered this in the 5 00 hour. I asked viewers to weigh in on they said protesting trump whether you love or hate him said its a waste of time and another person said they like to go to protests to show their hate for the president. So, again, showing a very wide range of emotions and feelings about what brings people out to the streets to share their voice. We have pictures from todays protests if you want to see them. And also weigh in use that 5 at 6 30 this show is about interaction when want to hear from you. Back to you, jim, shawn. Indeed it s tweet us now. Thanks you. Right to peaceably assemble. Pro or ants eye whatever you feel. Thats beauty of america. And president has been in office exactly one month and shaking up washington no doubt about that rattled fathers. Three days ago he signed 24 executive orders. Tom fitzgerald is there to breakdown what the president accomplished in the First Movement fitz. Shawn, jim, i dont know if you heard this but the president is none too pleased weeks in office. Every now and then we hear that. He mentioned it occasionally. Mentioned it again in florida at that rally. You know, you heard this. Fake news. You know, other kinds of Different Things this white house said making no secret of the fact they dont like the way theyre being covered. So, early this morning while the president was down in florida, just about every reporter who covers the white house got this in their inbox today. What is this . Turns out this is list of 25 things that the white house says they have accomplished in this first month in office that they feel has not been covered. Were not going to go through all 5 things but ill give you highlights here they say that the fact that the president pulled out of the tpp Transpacific Trade Partnership and he green lighted Keystone Pipeline to go forward and told general mt i in whatever the new air force one will be and he also is signing executive order to get strong immigration and you know down here he also says look we named a new Supreme Court justice to replace Justice Scalia they are not getting enough attention ton that and they want to reduce the impact of Affordable Care act obamacare. And all of this, all of this, is aimed at what the white house is now treeing to do which is go over the heads of judicial Mainstream Media and talk directly to the american people. Because as you heard this white house is declared sort of on war on media. President himself tweeting this statement the other day that media is the enemy of the american people. Whether it works or not we know this, they appear to be sfoing their base. Theres polls in the recent days asking trump loyalists and trump voters how hes been doing in office the oath of office here on capital hill and so far it appears to be working. The 42 that got the Trump Administration into the white house appear to be sticking with it. In those polls frumps base as republican majority basa peers to be think what hes doing is the rights thing. And so far there appears to be absolutely no waivererring of the people that road victory to danald trump to washington in november. Back to you. All right. Fitz as you go through the list its 25 things the president ial press office has put out saying what they accomplished and anything out there that stands curiously out to you on that list there . Well well start with air force one okay . Message about air force one came long before president was in office. And that was something he tweeted out. Thats when he said. Thats where he said he wanted to cancel the order right . Right. And you know then we have you know event the the president was saying god bless bowing. Theres items on there covered widely similar to the list of terrorist attacks we got the other day. Tore wrist ataxz they said the media never covered 7 were covered widely and we have this other incidents over the weekend. I cant figure out the angle when you started naming things i thought wow we covered that i know weve seen the networks and no motor what they are covered all the stories were not covering it enough is that what it is . One of the things the white house is trying to do aing they were vick tiping of fake news and pointing out instances of real news problem a lot of things pointed out that need to be covered have been widely covered all fou had a live cut in broadcast the night neal goish was announced. Its hard to believe that didnt get News Coverage it was on every television you can find that night we have it a fromto from today. Thank you, fits. Speaking of polls a new poll found americans are fed up and want democrats and Trmp Administration to Work Together for give country and Harvard Harris inaugural poll found majority of voters want compromise and Trump Administration 62 and work with democrats. And friend here at 5 or 6 0 breaking it all down has compromised seems to some is bad word im not sure how much this poll disproves that. It it is fascinating because theres different ways to read it. On the one hand they have this clear majority who wont compromise. Ach its broken down by Party Affiliation and roughly half of democrats dont want party to compromise president itemp and see him for republicans. So we are in interesting moment and i think this question of whether compromise is politically rewarded is still on question. And narrow bama administration with republicans in control here we are with republicans in control of both houses again and also republican president. Are there any signs of compromise that youre hearing from your sources or whats going on on capital hill. One of the interesting things shawn is were already seeing protests both against republican lawmakers in terms of holes f showing up and also the energy on democratic side would appear to be on the left for the politicians like senator Bernie Sanders and senator Elizabeth Warren non compromising and there may be certain issues compromise can be reached and people have spoken about things like tax reform and overall spit of the times i dont think is very compromising at all. You mentioned town halls and i think back to the tea party town halls several weeks ago we saw moderate republicans im thinking off the top of my Head Congress Michael Castle delaware everybody thought he would be shoe in to be senator and Christine Odonnell pushed by tea party de felted by chris kunz and the reason im bringing it up voters have said the Republican Voters and democratic voters to some extend say this is what we want. We dont want somebody wishy washy and we want somebody that stands for ideals. Thats a great point, jim, and this is something that even some democratic pointing to Claire Mccaskill senator from missouri she ands shes may get primary challenge from the liberal or democratic equivalent ever the tea party and i personally dont think its a very healthy sign for our democracy or nation that it is becoming so poll arizeed and reality its becoming polar riseed thats where Political Energy appears to be. Thats sad for us in general. Well see where things go. Certainly we is a long way to go there. Thanks for joining us. Thanks, guys. All right. Well lets put it this way. Democrat republican we can all agree we cant if you have anything wrong with this weekend theres something wrong with you. I agree with you lets check in with sue palka. Sue the weather was great and we can all agree as jim said how were going to continue out through the west rest of the week. Theres no right or left just east and and east winds cooler temperatures well top out tomorrow in the mid 50s. Well have cloud cover around. In fact it will probably be similar to the even cooler than this. Temperatures dropped now and we are headed for a night in which well see mostly 30s and 40s later tonight and its 54 gaithersburg and frederick and 54 culpeper and dropped to 59 in d. C. And still 60 squant coand fredericksburg. And beautiful evening and we have a frontal boundary coming through tonight from north to south it will cool us off and well be cooler and a little cloudier on tuesday. So, maybe a jacket will come in handy tomorrow morning. Heres something to help you plan your tuesday. 8 00 in the morning about 43. That will feel chilly compared to where we have been and noon hour 52 and 4 00, 56 with a lot of clouds around. You know what 70s back in the forecast and you only have to wait until thursday and friday to get 15 to 20 warmup back on this 7 day. Well see a little later with shawn, jim, back to you. Thank you, sue. President trump is defending comments about sweden over the weekend. And he imnrid there was some sort of incident or attack there due to sweden immigration policies and what do you think. We want to hear from you. Tweet us using that 5 630 president s day well talk about mike penceness wrestlinglees today deepening relationship with European Union and except six over Foreign Policy of new administration and over weejd vis press mike pence voiced strong support for nato which was a bit of topic during the campaign when trump suggested other nato countries contributes more along the way. So. He suggested they pay fair share possibly United States may take someor in not be a part of it. And the president implied there was an attack in sweden this weekend because of country immigration policies. Only problem there was no attack of any kind. Listen to what the president had to say you look what is happening germany and what is happening last night in sweden sweden who would believe this they took in large numbers they have having problems that they would never think possible and they reached out to the state department to confirm that Nothing Happened and sweden for Prime Minister reacted to the comments sweden terror attack . What has he been smoking referring to president. My statement to what is happening swede sent in reference to a story broadcasts on fox news concerning immigrants in stweeden. And it accuses the please of spreading fake news. He called it to be enemy of the american people. Well during a pretty contentious news conversation with reporters last week President Trump said he was eager to meet with Congressional Black Caucus. Some say he stumbled when he pressed an africanamerican reporter to the kawng us listen. You want to include the cbc in your conversations with your urbana again day as well as Congressional Black Caucus. I will do you want to set up the meeting are they friends of yours. I dont have the rapoport. I know some of sglem lets go set up a meeting i would like to meet with the black caucus i think its great the congregational black caulks us i think its great. That was april ryan from urban Radio Networks it has reached out and never heard back. Maryland congressman Anthony Brown a member of the cbc jo us with status of my meeting he wants to address escalating spription drug cost and president is not invited to eli jaw hes a straight shooter he has not been invited to speak. I can assure you not having spoken to elijah when given the opportunity he will sit down with President Trump why . Because he wants top address the issue of escalating Prescription Drug sgloingts as far as your knowledge is right now no meeting is scheduled at this point. Not that i know of. Congressman Anthony Brown there from maryland. There was talk last week and im trying to look for it now that the Congressional Black Caucus i believe was working and i thought it said could possibly have a meeting as soon as next week. Im not 100 sure on that well keep you p meantime conservative Political Action conference uninvited ul ra conservative writer to speak at the conference. He was supposed to be keynote speaker and video clip shared yesterday by conservative blog of vnohpolis saying relationships between older men and teenage boys can be beneficial and he responded is saying he was not in support of pedophilia and it was edited. And just about an hour ago simon and schuster who had a book deal with him decided not to publish the book at all. Thats not moving forward. Theres speculation tonight he may lose his job of a result of this he was saying once again it was cut wrong and it was not necessarily even reflecting his actual views but you remember a couple weeks ago two we saw in berkley, california they protested and department want him to speak. The president said do we withhold federal funding for not going on and express his free speech. Cpac uninvited him to speak. Meantime politics and comedy have a long right history and few elections have given hate night hosts so much ammunition how President Trump administration is helping one late night host get a dramatic ratings boost this is one of those 120r stories you wail wonder what this has to do about anything the wife of a red hot chilly pepper will not be charged for attacking scott baeo. You see him he rnc over the summer. Scott beat him and be rated him and torrey county das office rejected the case saying the assault was not that bad. What . Okay. Thats what the da office said. President trump meantime ratings for the late show with stephen colbert. He talks about politics a lot on the show and seems to be working with him. At the ratings lead and topped the tonight show last week. His rival jimmy fallen tends to stay away from outright political statements and in the meantime cbs is taking advantage of movement and colbert will do a live show next week after President Trump sfeech joint section of kong greg. And remember when he came from Comedy Central he had a fake right wing talk show host and he really tapped that down he had to appeal to both sides and once you saw the ratings you saw some advantage in going political. Did that. Its relentless for sure. Its working for him. President bax is guest high parks in cspan president poll he got these high parks in the poll. Its first time hes been eligible for this well tell you where the former commander in chief ranked on this list when we come back [car engine failing to start] [clicking of ignition] uh wha woof eeh woof wuh [silence] [engine roars to life] [dog howls] dramatic opera music swells from radio [howling continues] were going to close out with history day. C span revealing ruts of president ial historian survey it asks historians to rank former president s in order of popularity. Now that president obama term is over he can be included. 99 historians were asked to rank president s along 10 qualities of leadership. Including setting and ajen do and also relationships with congress and crisis leadership and public persuation. P

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