part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera the controversial leader of islamic jihad. one of the most one internists in history is really coming to terms on his alleged extra judicial killings by israeli intelligence and mossad the sense of being caught in the last post the outcome is only this if someone tried to. immediately superintelligent was shut down the border kill him in damascus at this time on al-jazeera world. do solemnly swear that it was one year ago at this exact moment in washington d.c. that the united states of america began inaugurating its forty fifth president

donald j. trump he is a man who has shocks and outrages his critics as much as he thrills and galvanizes his supporters he has turned political norms on their heads. in the way leaders speak to their people most often in two hundred eighty characters a few it over the next hour we will look back on one here with the u.s. president without precedent. wherever you're watching around the world welcome i'm come all santamaria this is an al-jazeera news special trumps first year as we say at the exact time that don't trump was being inaugurated last year noon eastern standard time seven hundred hours g.m.t. here is what we've got coming up for youth out. thousands of people getting ready

for what is effectively round two of last year's women's march the largest single day protest in u.s. history marches are happening across the country including the capital washington d.c. further afield from north korea to jerusalem it's been quite a year as trumps foreign policy created shock waves across the world we will ask what is it ministrations foreign policy is actually trying to achieve domestically trump presides over a divided country as rifts have deepened race relations have worsened thousands of immigrant families risk being torn apart so will dissect trump's contentious immigration policies his legislative promises his remarks on race and a year of so-called fake news and alternative facts this really has been a whole mark of his presidency the claims of being unfairly treated by the media we'll analyze this tumultuous relationship between journalists and the so-called tweeter in chief but any celebrations donald trump had for this first anniversary

have been overshadowed by a government shutdown in washington d.c. by the moment friday ticked over into saturday the senate had failed to pass a funding bill leaving the u.s. government officially underfunded immediately the white house released a statement blaming the quote obstructionist losers in the democratic party for tying the future of eight hundred thousand immigrants in the u.s. to the short term funding of the government and trump's first tweet of the day on saturday morning maybe this sums it all up he said this is the one year anniversary of my presidency and the democrats wanted to give me a nice president democrat shut down so instead he is in washington which is where kimberly how good is. white house correspondent good afternoon to you kimberly what state is washington and the government in now with this shutdown. i think it's fair to characterize it as a state of confusion the president as you pointed out was behind me at the white house that's not how he was expecting to celebrate this one year anniversary in

office he is expected to go to mara lago in florida that was canceled us a result of the fact that the government has now not been funded and what happens for federal workers come monday remains a big question mark the senate now getting into session and both democrats and republicans in congress trying to work out some sort of agreement but at the moment you can't ignore the optics that we are marking this anniversary for donald trump not with a republican celebration of sorts as he had hoped but instead with confusion about the future of funding the u.s. government can be just so you know we are looking at some pictures on the screen right now wolf the senate so i guess this means that things are happening again and there will be efforts to try to get the government open again. certainly there are going to be efforts but what seems to be happening is that both sides have drawn a line in the sand we're expecting some sort of update from the white house we've

been promised that for hours it has not yet come but the position seems to be that republicans at donald trump feel that the government must be funded before the issue that's important to democrats can be addressed democrats on the other hand feel just the opposite they say no government funding unless it includes the protections for daca recipients those are deferred action for childhood arrivals essentially children that were brought to the united states years ago have grown up in the united states but they were brought here illegally don't have any sort of documentation the democrats say they're not going to have any discussion or any government funding deal without protections for those people some three million we are told so clearly don't trump wanted to be as he said at mar a lago in florida he is instead in the white house behind you are on a clear there are a lot of other people on the ballot in washington today for the women's month as well. that's right i think there were it would be fair to say that donald trump was probably hoping to avoid these marchers but it will be protesting en masse in full

view of the white house on the national mall this is certainly something that we saw one year ago it was as you pointed out the largest protest by u.s. standards and it's not just happening here in washington it's happening in cities all across the united states and around the world getting set to take part now this is become a bit of a movement if you will given the fact that not only have we seen this push back one arm of the resistance to donald trump but also to has evolved into the hash tag need to movement where there are many that are putting on social media their concerns about the abuse of power particularly with respect to women kimberly a final question for you and this is in your capacity as white house correspondent you've held that position for a year now at al-jazeera how is it being what's it been like reporting on this white house being in that principle in that person because inside there. it's been a test of my skills as

a reporter after being here almost twenty years covering has politics i'll be honest and it's also been emotional i think i remember a year ago covering the inauguration it started out with me being punched in the stomach by a protester who was trying to prevent people from attending the inauguration and it's been this sort of a lack of respect for people who have difference of opinions whether it is in the public whether it is on capitol hill whether it is here at the white house that i think has been most troubling across the board is this lack of understanding and reason and it's all about winning and we're seeing that right now with this weekend the lions being firmly drawn refusing to find the common ground americans when they elected donald trump were demanding this and yet the media i think we can be included in all of this the politicians are everyone is not in my view and this is can really hold it's personal view in their lesson and i think it's it's going to

take some some more hard knocks before we get this figured out in the meantime it's very painful and i challenged you as a reporter to remain objective and to distance those feelings that obviously we all hold dear kimberly you do a fabulous job as our white house correspondent looking forward to more from you in twenty or twenty. well events like the women's marches taking place have gone with a lot of this support online so we've got leah hot in here with us to take a certainly i think the well you tell us the depth of feeling still one year on oh it's stronger when you're on i would say the hash tag power to the polls and women's march are trending worldwide with protests in the u.s. the u.k. and even in the west african country togo but women are not the only ones marching men and members of the transgender community are protesting as well now as the group behind the march says it's a walk to make women's rights human rights these numbers from last year show the nearly four million people spread out all across the country on line i've been

asking you to send us videos telling us why you're marching here's what some of you had to say i'm going to encourage all women to register to vote and i'm going to encourage women to run for public office at all levels i believe that what happens in vegas will be heard her home the world it is truly a beautiful beautiful gathering have amazing women and then to return that are easy for me to do and then we're taking these giant steps backwards since trump became president and i want to be part of that i want to learn how to get people to the polls dick specially during midterms when people aren't as interested in this aspect about voting as they are journo presidential election. women's issues have been the inspiration behind several protests this year on the streets and online like the hash tag need to with women coming out and saying that they too were the

victims of sexual assault and the hash tag time's up it's an online campaign to support victims of sexual assault and assault by paying their legal fees it's already raised more than sixteen million dollars times up was brought to life when hollywood a listers wore black to the golden globes earlier this month but perhaps the takeaway headline that night was oprah winfrey speech and people's hopes that she would run for president each of these movements have had different beginnings but they're all calling for women's equality from hollywood all the way to the white house. thank you for that we've got more from a little bit later on in this broadcast as we've been hearing disagreement between republicans and democrats over immigration provoked this us government shutdown the issue was at the heart of trump's campaign it has been the most divisive policy of his presidency let's go to john heilemann who is live in tijuana near the mexican border with the us john as you. yeah as you say

though i'm on the board with the u.s. united states into one and you can see behind me the prototypes for the border will now that's been held up at the moment but in the early a months of the trumpet ministration there was a lot of talk from officials about the trump effect and they said that the president's rhetoric on migration together with plans for the wool and also for more border agents were really reducing the number of migrants were making the trip to the united states and there was actually a record low for about seventeen years and now that trump effect seems to have been wearing off the number of migrants heading north is again going up and that could be big cruise planned for the border will has been held up as i say you can just the prototype there is so far but it's also really a testament from the people we've been talking to there are trying to make that crossing about the fact that they've got a little choice they coming from countries where there's

a lot of for oil and there's a lot of economic necessity so they say that they really have to flee and head north now inside of the country president trumps had a lot more success in an acting some tough migration policies as you'll see in our report. ah you ready. it was always going to be an ambitious promise we will. build the first anniversary of donald trump's presidency so far this is all there is prototypes on the mexico u.s. buddha but while his signature pledge has been held up the president of the migration promises all bearing fruit. like a ban on travelers from several loosely majority countries in the revoking of temporary emergency visas for hundreds of thousands of haitians he could argue ins and salvadorans that had been continually renewed under previous administrations to

his support says it's all about protecting u.s. jobs and secure it's something that i love them and think is doing the right thing so we have americans on welfare because we have illegals here taking their jobs we have lower wages because we have a legal work in their jobs the u.s. has been increasing border security and deputations few years but trumps opponents say his rhetoric and policies are much too far it's been cost as a fight for america's soul caught in the middle of those like on a from el salvador she has had job and family stateside but when the temporary visa program ends in september two thousand and nineteen she faces deportation to one of the world's most violent countries for what it is so if i go back out fighting for my life because they think of money and kidnap my children are my grandchildren that's why i ask that caught at the authorities take into account a situation. the threat of the victim also hangs over the dreamers seven hundred

thousand young people stateside illegally as children president trump says they have his sympathy this pushing for any deal for their future to include funding for more security especially his signature project. politically president trump. feels he needs the will to satisfy his base but with a third of the border already covered by a fence the actual usefulness of a structure that's going to cost at least twenty one billion dollars has been questioned where it is sort of a waste of money and a waste of everyone's time is to build a wall or a fence in the middle of the desert where you know all the wall really ultimately does to a determined border crosser is slow them down for a few minutes. but the wool as with the rest of the migration issue has become too important for either side to give way and the fight has already spilled into the president's second year. john homan with that report as we say from. the mexico u.s.

border so let's talk more about immigration issues joining us from washington d.c. sarah pierce she is an associate policy analyst at the migration policy institute thank you for joining us sara. how would you describe the past year how it's been for an immigrant in the united states it seems they would have been basically nervous at every turn yeah i think it's definitely been a very anxiety inducing year the president has been extremely active awning and gratian and especially anxiety inducing is the president's actions on deportations he's increased deportations significantly from the interior of the country and made ivory and authorized immigrant effectively a priority for deportation which we've definitely seen that increasing individuals . in the country just to be clear though because every time we talk about deportation. i hear an argument that says will barack obama deported or his administration was deported a lot of people as well what's house things changed from administration to

administration which. so it depends on what type of deportation you're talking about i would divide deportations into deportations that occur along the border and deportations that occur from the interior of the country at the end of the obama administration there are many individuals being deported from the border and less so from the interior of the country president obama was very narrowly going after individuals with significant criminal records and individuals who had recently crossed into the country now under president trump he's kind of blown up those priorities and really effectively every unauthorized immigrant is a priority for enforcement and that's allowed him to increase deportations from the interior of the country so when you compare first year with obama's last year interior deportations have increased by thirty seven percent and so he says that building a wall along the border is the way to go now regardless of whether it's going to be funded or not with mexico's pride whether it will even happen or not what are your thoughts on how effective that could actually be. i think there's

a lot of questions about how effective a wall will be it was very effective as a campaign slogan but as an actual policy i think it's very questionable there are other options for increased border security including increasing personnel along the border or increasing technology to monitor the border but there's also the issue that a lot of the author unauthorized immigrants who are approaching our southern border are seeking asylum in the united states so it doesn't matter how much border security we have because those individuals are going to purposely approach a border patrol officer and declare asylum in the united states one more thing to ask you about sir and that is the travel ban it came very early in the piece it was dubbed the muslim band very early on that met resistance through the court system but there is a version of the travel ban in place now again how do you expect that to play out over twenty eighteen is that still a priority for the president. so the travel ban

and has been included in the president's overall goes on increasing vetting of individuals coming into the united states so the idea was in this third inner area duration of the travel ban countries whose nationals are restricted from coming into the united states aren't providing the u.s. with enough information i think this issue is going to remain an issue for our judicial system that the case and whether or not the travel ban is constitutional is still moving through our court system so we'll see further progress on that this year sarah pearce from the migration policy institute a pleasure talking to you thank you. thank you let's talk foreign policy now since coming to office donald trump's managed to offend close u.s. allies forged new alliances attack old enemies and reverse key american foreign policy decisions our diplomatic editor james bays looks back at a turbulent year abroad under the forty fifth president of the united states is the

world a safer place one year after president took office the answer is almost certainly no but is that the trumpet administration's fault the situation on the korean peninsula is more dangerous because of north korea's nuclear test and missile launches but many believe president trump's responses including at this podium in september made things much worse. the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to turn only destroy north korea if you look elsewhere around the world it's not a positive picture the one success for the administration was dislodging eisel from the territory it held in syria and iraq but that was achieved by continuing policies put in place by president obama and where was the wider policy to deal

with the civil war in syria president trump intervened in april with a military strike on the side airbase in response to a chemical weapons attack but that was a one off and there's been no punishment for consistent attacks on civilians in the country the president talked up peace between the israelis and palestinians saying he hoped to reach the deal of the century but his actions recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital have made that aim impossible for now as well as visiting jerusalem president trump went to saudi arabia a visit that saudi authorities may have felt gave them the green light to blockade their gulf neighbor cattle to intensify their campaign in yemen and to launch an internal crackdown with many princes put under arrest experts say it's part of a wider pattern countries no longer fear us condemnation on human rights in the way they used to trump is not a leader on human rights he has talked about pulling out of the un human rights council and although he talks

a lot about abuses in venezuela and syria and sometimes empathizes with suffering trolldom in the middle east there's no substance that the united nations itself has felt the effects of a trump presidency the u.s. pulled out of the cultural and educational agency unesco it pulled funding from the un population fund which promotes family planning the administration force the overall un peacekeeping budget to be cut and in the last few days it withheld funding for the un agency that helps palestinians. let's talk more about this with mo and bashar al jazeera senior political analyst joining us from london my one when i say to you the words trump first year foreign policy what is your immediate reaction what is that first thought that comes to your lucky mostly he didn't have a nine eleven in his first year he didn't have global and american financial crisis

in his first year he didn't have the collapse of the soviet union in his first year like his three put this ss so in a sense he was lucky learned on the job as and as much as he could learn but the other word that comes to mind is inexperienced it's was it was rare in american history that there was a man so it so inexperienced in questions of government and foreign policy although he traveled around in his personal private jet but certainly it's rare to see in history someone so ignorant of international affairs and the third word that comes to mind is both megalomaniac and lazy meaning on the one hand he thinks he knows everything as he put it he knew more than the generals and proved to be completely ignorant but yet he's lazy it seems to learn and read about questions on foreign policy depending mostly on what he considers to be his personal charm in dealing with foreign leaders you listed the things there that he didn't have to

deal with in year one arguably the things he did have to deal with with the ones that he created the issues to do with well let's start with jerusalem for a start. well yes i mean one question of jerusalem you have to understand you know he once again what he spoke about drawing the swamp you know i don't know in the recent memory of a president who was more responsive to washington d.c. or built way lobbies than this president in the sense of foreign policy in jerusalem he certainly listen to abided by the israel lobby and the event joe to be on the question of jerusalem but that wouldn't have been enough if the saudis and the egyptians and the amount of these and others were not accommodating to him meaning he wouldn't have there are no american president would have there losing the entire arab and muslim world by the can i was in jerusalem but this president

on the one hand he was able to accommodate the israel and the evangelical lobby in washington on the other hand not lose america's allies like egypt and saudi arabia and others because they continue to be accommodating even after that it was an issue of jerusalem a skeptical israel let's talk about north korea now ma one it is the one which grabs the most attention especially when he said something like we would have no choice but to totally destroy north korea how much of this do you think is rhetoric him trying to match kim jong il and how serious do you see the north korea issue in twenty eighteen. by the way just as a point of clarification a lot of questions that any president in his first year faces are also a result of previous presidents because there's a president and then there's america and it's history so in the book and the nuclear question his predecessors failed in curbing north korea's nuclear

development and they succeeded in curbing iran's nuclear program but president trump while in terms of language in terms of tweets was quite they have all they can quiet you know sensationalist about rocket man and about the ayatollah as an iran and source software but in concrete terms he totally and utterly failed to do anything about either about the nuclear deal with iran and about north korea developing both its nuclear program you clear weapons as well as the missiles to carry them so yes we've heard a lot of steam on we've seen a lot of steam coming out of the president's mouth but nothing really in terms of actionable results well and we're talking a lot about the president about donald trump and his foreign policy the fact is he does have a secretary of state rex tillerson and this is supposed to be his department is the state department even relevant anymore when we're talking about foreign policy

american foreign policy and donald trump. what to be a bit more specific in fact foreign policy has been over the last four or five decades exported export prieta if you were away from the state department and into the white house national security council and at the white house national security council there is the defense department the treasury as well as the state department and others under the national security advisor interestingly i think american policy making it more of a question of strategy and why ties diplomacy with the secretary of state really being more of protocol and the civilian face of the american government. the other quite remarkable thing that happened in terms of the strategy of foreign policy and diplomacy is the third the three men in charge men in charge of american strategy at the national security council our generals so we have mcmaster

we have kelly a homeland security and we have mattis at the. defense along with rex tillerson and the three generals are the ones that are making policy along with rex tillerson once again we have a very inexperienced president who couldn't even tell you whether they what they're giving him to sign or what they're giving him to do to stay to say as in his speech on. american such as you know moving forward they are the one who is making it i for one and i think most americans would have rather had civilians in charge of american foreign policy rather than just generals but no republicans trusted tromp and strong who trusted no republicans really from the establishment to be in charge of foreign policy foreign policy analysis with mo and bashar our senior political analyst known as a pleasure thank you. it is one year of president donald trump

a. new special including this. moment in pennsylvania a state that was won the by i don't know chump in the presidential election in a place where the two biggest cities voted for hillary clinton. the deep divisions that still exist in america. became president i am going to. doesn't trust the me here and has instead relied on twitter to get his message across we're back.

you know without zero home the one year anniversary of donald trump's inauguration i'm kemel santa maria a divided country with the american public splitting the popular vote forty eight percent to forty six percent between hillary clinton and donald trump yes of course it's divided but don't trump first year in the white house seems to have only accentuated that divide rarely in recent years has the u.s. appeared quite so polarized a correspondent alan fischer traveled to a state trump unexpectedly one in twenty sixteen pennsylvania to see how deep the divide truly runs. america's political waters have not run smoothly over the past twelve months the separation the divisions are very obvious some find it hard to clear the support for the president but even with a badge with his name i will wear to events you know republican events but to wear it out you know people sometimes treat you a little different we've spoken with many on stan's a few times over the past year and the early trump supporter she still believes

he's doing a great job all we did was campaigned he told people what he wanted to do some people didn't like what he wanted to do and you know everyone expected that hillary was going to win and it was a shock to everyone that she didn't win so i think this was a much harder part of loss and i think that's why you know there is more of a divide and you pull published to mark one year since the inauguration shows the problem of one nation under trump divided three in four americans say the country is clearly divided six in ten say they don't have trust in the political system and six in ten say racial tensions have increased the divide is most notable with women more tend to vote democratic among people of color are less likely to support trump but bitter division is nothing new i generally point to the election of eight hundred which i think is perhaps the most contentious of of all of our elections i think with perhaps. some of the harshest dialogue and discourse that we've ever had

in a presidential campaign we definitely have these periods of a real polarization and and and then we do we are able to come back from that are you finding people are engaged for money the rise of donald trump has made them confront the idea of political power and influence and to work together at the community level to change outcomes in this political moment where we are literally fighting for our lives where we are fighting to maintain any of the games that have answers we've made around health care or the environment. or or or any kind of. oppression efforts that were working towards i think it only apple fires the urgency of now in just a few weeks there will be a special election in this part of pennsylvania for a vacancy in congress it will begin to get a great deal of national attention it will be seen as a referendum on donald trump's presidency and it will again expose the deep

divisions in america's politics. donald trump has repeatedly said he wants to bring all americans together to work for the greater good well there's no evidence of that happening called reality as you are to begin alan fischer al-jazeera pittsburgh so let's have a discussion about this joining me from washington d.c. we have steven rogers and chris lewis steven is a member of the donald j. trump for president advisory board he is also a former advisor to the trump presidential campaign while chris served in many roles for president obama including white house cabinet and deputy secretary of labor he is currently a senior fellow at the university of virginia miller center gentlemen thank you for joining us on this one year anniversary stephen if i can start with you how do you feel divisions in america look now as compared to november the ninth twenty sixteen when donald trump was elected and as i said there was that forty eight forty six percent split. well maybe we should get you some facts number one is the

division is not as bad excuse me as the mainstream media is leading people to believe look we're always talking about polls that is the mainstream media they are going down the same road that they did during the election of trump versus clinton i'm out there on the streets i'm out there were teams talking to people and i could tell you the difference between what we're seeing and what mainstream media is reporting is the pulse pulse of the american people and it's beating towards bringing this country together on their president donald j. trump so the polls they were wrong before they're wrong now ok so i'm not going to talk about polls own numbers or what any media mainstream or otherwise says what about charlottesville what about events like that which have shown. and i'll use the word again divisions within society here at the women's march again which we're going to see happening today it looks more prominent at the very least look

we've had a history of people protesting and and they have a right to and we encourage that that's on the first amendment but when we get back to charlottesville total misinterpretation of what he what he meant the fact of the matter is when he said there are some good people there he was taught the residents i know people there they agreed with him the people who live there with the good people he was talking about not the protesters whether the left or the right but i know you don't want to talk about mainstream media but you go back to reporting facts on al jazeera i got to commend you all know all i'm hearing is good journalism you're not trying to push people to believe in this or believe in that and that's where the mainstream media is failing in this country so what my point is this if we get the facts and we stop interpretating what people are saying in this case president trump are saying and let people decide what he's saying you're going to find we're much more united than we are divided and i'll take that compliment and say that we're doing our job let's bring in chris they're also in washington d.c. you'll thoughts on the divisions in society in the united states now. well look

you're one hundred percent right this has been an unprecedented time of chaos and turmoil and it's not just the retreat of the u.s. leadership that your panels have been talking about it's what's happening here in the united states we had something unprecedented last night twelve hours ago first federal government shutdown when both one party controlled both the president and congress and that shows you not only the deep divisions in congress over policy but really where our country is and you've talked about the racism in the divisiveness and the incivility and i think that's what really offends someone who people in this country look i may not like donald trump's policies and that that's my prerogative as a democrat what really offends me in so many people are his attacks on the press on facts in the democratic norms in this country do you think the media what we have seen the media fight back and we're going to be talking more about this later in our broadcast but is that contributed to the problems that we're seeing. well look

if you look at the last couple of presidents even the one that i worked with i don't think we always love the media coverage that we get certainly president bush didn't love it either but we understand the important role of the media we were specked the freedom of the press and you've seen an unprecedented assault by this president on the media he has one t.v. station that he apparently gets all of his news from that he caters to but look as your people have said all along here a lot of what has happened over the last year really are self-inflicted wounds if the president would really stop tweeting stop giving these inflammatory statements i guarantee you his approval ratings would go up gentlemen i want to pause just for a second and talk about the economy because the u.s. economy is booming donald trump tells us this quite often and he's been taking credit for it the stock markets have done well very well compared to the last year in fact a couple of days ago the dow jones closed about twenty six thousand points for the first time unemployment is down from nearly five percent a year ago it's down to four percent now and one hundred seventy four thousand new

jobs on average have been added each months stephen let's bring you in on this one i'm sure you'd agree with donald trump's assessment that he's been responsible for this but wasn't he already on an upward tick things were improving towards the end of the obama. well not necessarily because i could tell you in the state i'm in a new jersey many companies are leaving because of the taxes manufacturing plants closing down so indeed president trump is responsible for this growth in our economy and look these tax breaks are historical more americans from all levels are going to be getting more money in their pockets i could tell you i go back to the state i live in new jersey companies are expanding they're giving bonuses to their employees so there's a lot of good coming out of this and it seems to me on fortunately that every time donald trump makes a step forward we go back to the same song and dance that it was obama that created

this he's the president of united states if we're going to say that president owns all these troubles then we better believe that he owns all of the successes and we are becoming a wealthier nation as he promised chris stephen mentions the tax breaks which is something i did want to bring out what's your view on those on say something which quote unquote all americans are going to feel or a majority of americans are going to feel certainly the tax bill will provide some limited relief to all americans what's important to understand is that tax rates will go up for the majority of americans the next couple of years and then you add on top of that the changes that they've made to the affordable care act which will essentially take health care away from thirteen million individuals that will raise premiums by ten percent you already have a republican congress that saying hey to create the fix the debt that is that occurred over the last couple of years we are going to have to cut entitlements so it's not just the amount of money that comes back to people in the way of tax cuts it's the whole basket of what they end up paying for and what they spend on

a day to day basis chris lewis and steven rogers joining us from washington d.c. thank you for your time maybe we'll have another chat and another you pleasure being here thank you very much. now donald trump says he has signed more laws then any other president in modern american history that is contestable shall we say in fact if you compare his first year with the last six u.s. presidents as we've done here you'll see he's only passed ninety six bills into law the fewest by any president not just of these six but actually since dwight eisenhower and he's had major trouble getting some of his big campaign promises through congress as well let's have a look at some of them what's going to be obamacare repealing and replacing it remember this was trump a signature campaign promise it hasn't happened because he failed to get enough support from elements of his own republican party what about his campaign pledge of pumping a trillion dollars into rebuilding america's infrastructure and creating millions of jobs not a big red cross on that one there's also as we've discussed already the grand plan

to build a wall along the border with mexico that one is also stuck in a legislative logjam then we've got the promise to renegotiate nafta the north american free trade agreement that pitted him against canada and mexico one year on that one is still stuck as well but let's be fair this is what president trump has done and we just talked about this with chris and stephen he's managed to pass his tax bill which is his most significant legislative victory so far he's also kept a number of campaign promises things like withdrawing from the paris climate agreement there's also abandoning the t p p the trans-pacific partnership which you also saw as unfair to the united states there is banning aid for abortion providers overseas that's a big one huge consequences really for women right around the world and he removed protection for transgender students as well there's a lot to unpack there we're going to do it now with allan lichtman joining us from

washington d.c. he is a professor of history at the american university he is the author of the case for impeachment and he is correctly predicted the winner of every u.s. presidential election since one thousand and two. to allan it is lovely to see you again i say that of course because you were here with us and on election night given everything that's happened to al jazeera was the one network that wasn't surprised donald trump victory because i told you i remember it well and it was very late in the night a very early in the morning and i do remember it well was standing in a sperry spot as well anyway let's talk about this past year i've just run through a whole list of things and we have to give credit where it's true that some of those promises the campaign promises the big things have actually happened how would you sum up his legislative wins and losses in this past year well i think you quite accurately indicate the legislative losses are far greater than the legislative wins of all his signature initiatives in congress the only one that

succeeded in passing is the big tax cut bill that's props one out of four or five major legislative initiatives that he promised in the campaign and the beginning of his presidency in contrast look at the great liberal franklin roosevelt who pioneered the idea of the first hundred days he passed in one hundred days fifteen major pieces of legislation a president who controls or a president whose policy controls the white house and the house of representatives as the senate on paper he should be able to do a lot more get things through congress a little more easily why is that not happened. he should have been able to do everything with unified control of government like franklin roosevelt had in one thousand nine hundred thirty three there are two problems number one the republican party is not united there is still divisions within the republican party between

moderates like susan collins well linda murkowski and the great bulk of the republican party which today is father to the right than the party has been any time in recent years secondly the president has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator this was supposedly one of his strong suits i know how to get things done i know how to make a deal he's been awful in making deals for a couple of reasons one you can't trust a man just in a matter of a day or two he totally flip flopped on what he would accept with respect to legislation to keep the government open so you can't make a deal with someone who changes his mind unpredictably and of course he has no political capital his approval ratings are the lowest after one year of any president in the history of polling in the united states there's somewhere between thirty five and forty percent that gives him no leverage and his party has been

losing election after election including in places where they should be winning like in alabama deep red or just a couple of days ago in a rural wisconsin state senate district that trump won by seventeen points the democrat won by about ten points alan your book is cold the case for impeachment so i can see where you stand and a lot of people would argue there are many cases already we've seen for impeachment the thing is the process of impeachment it's pretty complicated and certainly with republican control in the house and the senate right now not likely surely. well i've posited two scenarios i predict that within the next six months or so the special counsel bob muller is going to come up with a shocking findings probably in three areas the russia connection obstruction of

justice and i think financial crimes as well i don't have any inside information but i've been following these things for decades then one of two things happens either the republicans do the responsible thing and actually begin the impeachment process which starts with an investigation by the house judiciary committee or they continue to be enablers and ignores in which case they're going to lose control of congress the democrats will take over and they can start the impeachment process in two thousand and nineteen without any republican input what about's the other scenario that he isn't impeached that he stays then what are his chances of reelection well it's pretty early to say and as you know i'm a real contrarian when it comes to real action and my theory that's been right for thirty some odd years and that you know made al-jazeera the one network that knew that donald trump was going to win is based upon the strange and performance of the

party holding the white house so it's not based necessarily on donald trump as an individual but how the american people evaluate his governance right now that evaluation is pretty dismal but there are three years to go and i'm not ready to make my call yet but i'll tell you it won't be based on the polls and it won't be based on the pundits we'll get back to you then when we allan lichtman joining us from washington d.c. correct if you're we'll. donald trump has coined the phrase fake news to discredit journalists and journalism that he simply objects to it appears in his tweets in his news conferences in his interviews with extraordinary regularity and just last week he even awarded his own fake news awards to the media he felt was most fake richard gere's but now host of al-jazeera is the listening post with his take on a turbulent relationship between the us president and the media follow the forty fifth president of the united states on twitter and these are the kind of insults

that you and his nearly forty four million followers will see him her ill at the american media calling stories fake news has become routine for donald trump according to a count compiled in november of last year by political fact he has used that term more than one hundred fifty times since coming to office even accusing author michael wolff of publishing fake news in the form of a book i consider it a work of fiction and i think it's a disgrace trump has labeled the most major u.s. news outlets like c.n.n. a.b.c. c.b.s. and n.b.c. the enemy of the american people and his attacks on media go well beyond name calling trump has threatened to revoke n.b.c.'s license to broadcast in the us sometimes the american media have made it easy for him the chief investigative correspondent at a.b.c. news brian ross was recently suspended after incorrectly reporting on allegations of collusion with russia and c.n.n. also failed to fact check one of its stories on donald trump jr such mistakes just

add fuel to the president's fire and fury did you see all the corrections the media's been making but what effect has donald trump's war on the media had on the american news consumer while the poynter institute a journalism school in florida conducted extensive research into that very question and the results will not have pleased the president well more than two out of three americans sixty nine percent say the media do tend to favor one side. the exact same percentage sixty nine percent also said news organizations keep political leaders from doing things that shouldn't be done moreover says pointers since donald trump took office americans overall trust and confidence in the news media has actually increased to the highest level measured since nine eleven more than fifteen years ago one outlet mr trump has not taken issue with is fox news fox has never really been fair or balanced regardless of what it claims no matter how unhinged trump's tweets may be or how disturbing the stories of leaks from the

white house appear to be fox has stood by this president it has been so loyal to trump that other news channels have taken to calling the rupert murdoch owned network state run television and the president returns fox's loyalty with his own white house sources say he watches the channel a situ asli often tweeting his approval of fox's output within minutes of that material going on the air here is what the other network c.n.n. and m s n b c included tend to leave out of their reporting on donald trump in the us media the context from the early days of the election campaign all of the networks not just fox were addicted to trump giving him eight years of air time because he was a sound bite factory and more importantly he was a ratings machine a revenue generator i humbly. grateful and gratefully accept. your nomination trump was happy to write all that free coverage and has since grown allergic to the scrutiny that followed he is not the first american president to

take issue with the coverage of his administration at sixteen hundred pennsylvania avenue manipulating the media is part of the job it comes with the territory but no one has done it quite like this before because it's not just the facts that donald trump is calling into question it's the institution journalism itself but as that study by the pointer institute showed underlined by the record breaking increases in subscriptions that news outlets like the new york times say they're getting it may turn out that this president is exactly what this industry and it's broken business model need donald trump is out to shoot the messengers in fact and according to the numbers he may be saving them wouldn't that be ironic. richard from the listening post and the harding with me here once again to look in to donald trump on twitter because there is no doubt he uses it effectively we sit here pretty much every afternoon wondering we do when going to wake up what's he going to say next and then he wakes up and we follow that story that's kind of how

it's been working for us as last year and as a journalist one of the best ways to make sure we don't miss anything donald trump says is to do exactly that to keep a close eye on his twitter account the so-called tweeter in chief has tweeted more than twenty five hundred times since taking office mostly though he's been doing it from his i phone his top ten tweets sparked conversations all over the world his number one tweet is about one of his number one photos c.n.n. and the video he tweeted it shows him taking down the network wrestling style there you have it there he posted this video in july and it has more really tweets than any other post from the potest many of his other top tweets include foreign policy like this one about north korea it's the second most popular tweet and he says why would insult me by calling me old when i would never call him short and fat oh well i try so hard to be as friend and maybe someday that will happen he also tweeted

about saudi arabia and qatar before and just after the saudi led the sea blockade that of course came on the coattails of his first trip to the middle east as president now back in the u.s. we've been speaking to many of you online about what you think of trump's first year in office tweets and all. i think he's done very well especially by bringing a business executive produce to government which i think is sorely needed with a country like ours where he's done very well removing the regulations that have restrained our economic engine and also by providing tax relief to millions of americans so we can keep more money in our own pockets i think we can do better with our money than the government can and i did support him and i will continue to spoil him first year in office was pretty tumultuous and he's doing a little bit better than i thought he would but there's still quite a bit of room for improvement i was never a trump or a republican and i definitely stand by my third party vote and now trump has also

given the late night shows much to talk about you could say one of the top conversations this year involved a lot of confessed say. you know what i don't know about america but donald trump has definitely made towards a great again say what you want to say would you want and i'm just going to enjoy this moment i don't care coverage i'm all covered i don't get people were searching fair fair on the internet of course the internet lost their coat over this why did the president type that it was the new what color is the dress what is that of a white versus blue it was sleepy versus a stroke. donald trump deleted that tweet just six hours after he posted it now president donald trump ends his first year with one of the lowest approval ratings in recent history he's hovering at around thirty eight percent when it came to barack obama's last year in office he had a sixty seven percent approval rating there he has kept you very busy this year on

the air is another given me a job new if they come in twenty eighteen thank you very much. so that is it for this one year anniversary special on president donald j. trump's inauguration and his first year in office by this time three hundred sixty five days ago we were officially into the trump era and what an ear it's been so far we're going to leave you now with some of the key moments the ones which have really affected the united states and indeed so many places around the world left us wondering just what will twenty eighteen bring i'm kemal sons of maria on behalf of leah harding and the whole team here thanks for joining us for this new special the news hour from london is coming up next right here on al-jazeera thanks for joining us. so how big graduations was.

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