President Donald Trump and where he stands on tHe Economy, reproductive rights, immigration, foreign policy, and the state of democracy cnns Abby Phillip takes us through What The trump White House enacted during his four years in office and looks at what he and his allies have promised to continue or to change if elected to another Term Nafta has been a disaster for the United States, a complete and total disaster it was april 20, 173 months into Donald Trumps presidency. And he wanted to withdraw the United States from nafta. The north american free Trade Agreement he would say repeatedly in the Oval Office to E Everyone Whwho had was s s there ripping us off they take advantage of america, were suckers and losers. Its been very, very bad for our companies and for our workers he heard lots of concerns when he was out campaigning from bluecollalar supporteters thes food fight, nafta had taken jobs from America Trump wanted to announce their withdrawal on Hihis One 100th Daday in offic
trump campaign, and the russian government. and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia s efforts. it would later be revealed that trump had demanded loyalty from comey, and repeatedly pressed him to end the investigation into trump s first national security adviser, michael flynn. after he refused to do so, trump fired comey in shocking fashion. in a remarkable oval office meeting the following day, the day after he fired him. trump told russian diplomats that by firing comey, the previous day, quote, i faced a great pressure, because of russia. that is taken off. around the same time, he all but admitted to lester holt that he had fired comey because of the, quote, made-up russia investigation. with comey gone, andy mccabe became the acting fbi writer director. in one of his first actions, the very next day, was to open up a counter intelligence investigation into the president, in his ties to russia out of fears that he too would be fired. and
we have an entirely different show planned for tonight, but the business the former fbi director, james comey and his former deputy, andrew mccabe. both of whom president trump saw as enemies. both of them faced rare, supposedly random, but highly intensive irs audits. you may remember back when then fbi director james comey oversaw the early stages of the investigation into ties between the trump campaign and russia. in the summer of 2016. with questions swirling about those ties, as trump took office, comey dropped a public bombshell in the early days of the trump presidency. i ve been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi, as part of our counter intelligence mission, is investigating the russian government s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign, and the russian government. and whether there was any coordination between
officially add unhinged convicted felon who snapped after he lost the 2020 election to the list. that is how the current leader of the free world, president joe biden, describes his rival and his first expansive remarks taking down donald trump post trial, post conviction. the president taking the presumptive republican nominee on head on, for having made history in all of the wrong ways. for becoming the first ever ex-american president to become a convicted felon and for being the first convicted felon to then try to become president again. current president telling a crowd at a fund-raiser in connecticut last night that the 2024 election campaign had entered, quote, uncharted territory, with trump s criminal conviction. adding that as if the guilty verdict isn t disturbing enough, quote, more damaging is the all out assault donald trump is making on the american system of justice. echoing remarks president biden made last week, he called out trump s claims of a rigged just
The coffin for President Trump to fire him. Bret tonight, new questions. Did the president hint at comeys firing a month ago . We will see what happens. Its going to be interesting. Bret What Happens Next in the russia investigation . Catastrophically compromise the investigation. The investigation going on in the intelligence committee. Bret we have all of the angles covered. A Special Edition of Special Report starts right now. Good evening. Welcome to washington. I am bret baier. The Reality Tv Star Billionaire Businessman who made you are fired a catchphrase used it this afternoon and what is turning out to be one of his most controversial moves yet. President trumps dismissal of james comey has rocked washington. Democrats tried to link the action to the investigation of a possible connection between the Trump Campaign and the russians before the elections. Demands for a special prosecutor are louder tonight and democrats are jumping to watergate comparisons. John roberts starts u