not the wig, it's what's under it. >> i like the way he stops and digs, like he's going to come out with something, you know, and all of a sudden he says, terrific. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. >> terrific terrific. >> reporter: new york. >> what would they all do without him? thanks for joining us, anderson is next. >> good evening, thanks for joining us. the battle to repeal and replace obamacare is firing up again with a new amendment that could leave people with preexisting conditions without. i will begin that this hour. we begin with the latest and new trouble for president trump's fired national security advisor this one from the top watchdog at the pentagon over failing to disclose payments he received at a teach at a russian television event. newly revealed documents show flynn was warned explicitly about taking foreign money years ago. this comes days after the house oversight committee said flynn

may have broken the law by not disclosing the payments. depending how closely you followed the president's twitter feed remember him saying this about flynn and the investigation as a whole. mike flynn should ask for immune tin that this is a witch hunt excuse for big election loss. and it wasn't that long ago he was with then candidate trump as a shining example of one of the many great generals that supported him. >> general flynn, i met him at a ballroom because somebody was being honored. you know who it was, it was me. from the day i met him, he's tough and smart and great. we will get people like that very actively involved with us. >> how about general flynn? we love general flynn, right? by the way, we have great general with us, general flynn. >> where is general flynn somewhere? incredible guy. >> i want to thank general flynn

for being here. great guy. great man. >> michael flynn, general flynn is a wonderful man. i think it is really a sad thing he was treated so badly. >> as the white house continues to face questions about flynn under the spectra of investigations everything including its own vetting. details. >> reporter: president donald trump's former national security advisor now under investigation. >> we have no evidence, zilch he obtained permission from the secretary of the army and secretary of state to accept any foreign government payments, as required by law. >> reporter: new documents say the pentagon warned retiring general michael flynn in 2014 about accepting any foreign payments, suggesting he failed to get permission to travel to moscow. >> thank you so much for inviting me and having me here. >> reporter: where he was paid tens of thousands of dollars in 2015 by the kremlin backed news

station, rt, where he also dined with vladamir putin. now the defense department inspector general is announcing its own investigation into whether flynn broke the law, this after flynn also allegedly failed to disclose foreign payments on a security clearance form, a potential felony. >> do believe he may have broken the law? >> i don't know whether he did or did not. that's why we have an investigation. >> reporter: the thousand oversight investigation is now breaking down along party lines with democrats accusing the white house of stonewalling. >> i honestly do not understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn, i don't get it, after the president fired him for lying. >> reporter: the white house has refused to provide certain records it says are not relevant to the flynn investigation. >> why are they relevant to your investigation? >> spicer also said they didn't have documents, remember that? come on. these guys are playing games. when you see mr. spicer you can

tell him said that today. all these documents are relevant because they go to what his relationship was with the russians, what his relationship was with turkey. did they vet for the highest security position. we don't know. >> reporter: at the white house, spokesman sean spicer said the obama administration was to blame for providing the security clearance for flynn in 2016 and pushed back in coming attacks. >> all of that clearance was made by the obama administration and apparently with knowledge of the trip that he took. that's how the process works. >> michael flynn. >> reporter: democrats are calling for subpoenas to force the white house to comply but they are running into resistance from republican chairman chaffitz. >> do you regret hiring michael flynn? >> thank you very much.

>> joining us now, has flynn explained why he didn't disclose the payments? >> tonight, a source familiar with the case tells me that michael flynn did not file the proper paperwork with the state department acknowledging that fact but says this was not an intentional -- failure to disclose information, in fact, pointing out flynn actually did brief the defense intelligence agency before and after his trip that was paid for by that kremlin-backed network, rt. the question is what will happen to michael flynn if the government finds he did try to conceal this payment? one possibility is his pension could be hit and that could be very consequential to flynn because he lives off of his pension right now. at the same time, anderson, michael flynn's attorney, robert kelnar, putting out a statement saying the defense department was well aware this trip occurred and occurred through

the speaker's bureau. in that statement, anderson, does not say he sought permission for this trip and got permission for those payments as well. that's the central question in this investigation going forward. >> thanks very much. as you just heard white house secretary sean spicer is pushing off the blame for flynn not being properly vetted by the obama administration defending president trump's diligence, you pressed sean spicer today, what answers did you get? >> white house officials are offering up a new explanation pointing out the retired general had a security clearance reviewed during the obama administration last year. i asked white house press secretary sean spicer why flynn did not have an additional review before coming into the trump administration. spicer said that would not have been necessary comparing the security process for flynn to that of white house reporters like yours truly who receive their entry passes to the white house every couple of years and

spicer pushed back on this attack from congressman elijah cummings that the white house is in a cover-up. >> congressman cummings accuses this white house of a cover-up. >> i was taken aback by his comments because they're not true. the department of defense was the issuing agency for general flynn's fs 86. we referred them to the department of defense who owns and issued his security clearance and they got a copy of it. that's how the system works. the documents that he requested he received. >> there are no other documents that you have at this point that could be turned over to this committee that would be -- >> not that i'm aware of at this point. >> now, the house oversight committee is making it very clear, anderson, they want to see the vetting documents by michael flynn. i'm told by the whowite house

official they should seek out the trump transition office in washington apparently still open. if that's the case, why can't vice president mike pence help us with that information? he was after all in charge of the transition. >> would it be normal for a transition to do their own vetting. mike flynn was head of the defense intelligence agency. clearly he had a security clearance before. would it be incumbent on the transition team to reassess everything? repolygraph the guy? >> that is the argument you're getting from the white house. i talked to a white house official earlier today who said michael flynn in fact did a polygraph test during that security clearance review, re-upping of the security clearance conducted early last year during the obama administration. the question a lot of recorders had in the room today, yes, you went through that process about a year ago. might there be other questions

that could potentially surface throughout the course of the year to ask of a national security advisor before he comes into the white house a year later. according to the white house they're saying that was not necessary. at the same time, one official said, look, we're not going to defend that guy. that is a direct quote a far cry from what we heard from the president earlier this year when he said michael flynn was the subject of a witch hunt. joining me, general, i want to start with you, you obviously know general flynn and you filled out the same forms he did. you had a security clearance. what do you make of this? a, should he have been recleared to go to the transition team, to me, seems a little far-fetched. but also i don't quite understand how he could have told the defense intelligence agency he spoke at rt and went to this thing and yet not told them he got paid for it. >> it's tough for me to talk

about to be honest. this is a standard form 86. this is the form they're talking about. i filled it out multiple times in my career as did anybody else who gets a security clearance. it's not run exclusively by the department of defense by the u.s. office of personnel management. it's by anybody that grants a security clearance. in this file, it's very intrusive. you see words like this is your current and historical record, and they ask all sorts of questions about your personal background. you fill it out. when this is filled out the u.s. office of personnel management sends people around to talk to your relatives and your friends you list on here, friends of your friends who you don't list on here so they get a pretty good feel for the kind of person you are, if you have any debts, drug use, drunken driving, anything you don't report on. that's what gets you your security clearance. every couple of years, it's

renewed. when ever you go onto a new job, your security clearance is transferred to that new job. before you can do anything, that new position vets you. when i took command of u.s. army europe before i could go into my first skiff and get a first briefing, somebody said, hey, has the boss got his top secret security briefing. here it is here, here's the form. anything changed on this? noy nothing's changed. okay, great, let's move. that's how it works. there's something when you retire you receive an outbrief that says if you are going to do any of these things you might draw on your security clearance you can't deal with foreign governments. there's another act called the foreign registration act of 1938 they talk to you about. you fall under a clause we've talked about with the president. all of these things are part of this. truthfully, i do not understand how michael flynn, who processed these paper works as an

intelligence officer would have known not to tell somebody that he was going to talk or represent a foreign government. >> it's been a long time since i applied for a security clearance. one of the questions is are you an agent of a foreign government. any payment of foreign go. rt or turkish guy, all of that would be very foremost in michael flynn's mind. >> not only that when i was commanding europe every year when you had to update you had to say what countries you traveled to and what happened there? business, pleasure, did you get any gifts from anyone and you had to write those down. when i traveled to the 48 countries of europe i had to say all the countries i went to the following year to update the form. owl of this is part of it especially when you're getting payment. when i saw mike flynn appear at a banquet on tv, hmm, as the

weird, what is he doing there? i never would have suspected he was getting paid by rt. >> especially sitting next to vladamir putin. >> and getting paid for it. when i saw him do an op-ed in a major newspaper an sign his name lieutenant general flynn i would have never thought he was representing the government of turkey. this is very bizarre to me. >> we will take a quick break and continue our discussion with the rest of the panel. president trump has said what a horrible deal he thinks nafta is and now said he won't withdraw at this time from it. with advil, you'll ask what twisted ankle? what muscle strain? advil makes pain a distant memory nothing works faster stronger or longer what pain? advil.

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the white house watch tonight, security advisor michael flynn is under the microscope and he did that for rt, from the russian government and today trump was asked how he was vetted and fired. >> he wasn't fired by the president for lying to the vice president, would he be here? >> i will just say the president made the right call at the right time and it paid off. he continues to stand by that. >> back here with the panel. what do you make of what flynn

has done? >> i think that -- look, i don't know enough about the intricacies of either the laws he violated, as some democrats claim, or the way the security process is supposed to work to speak with clarity about what he should have done. the basics what i know this story keeps getting more complicated for the white house. you have seen the white house distance itself from flynn after standing by him pretty firmly through the president's twitter feed. it's hard to understand why he would not have been more declarative what he was doing receiving this payment and clearly knew what the rules were. this issue of being a foreign agent for turkey is complicated, tied up in a court case in federal court in manhattan. all of this is not great for a new administration certainly and does raise questions as asked at the briefing, if this had come up in the transcript that flynn

had not been candid about talking to the vice president about the russian ambassador would this still be there? this is going to be an ongoing distraction for the west wing for some time. there is no explanation that makes sense. what flynn's deferred say, rt, some others appeared there and get paid. they're not former generals and not the same. >> as someone who worked in the transition, i don't get why flynn who presents himself as a straight shooter stand-up guy would have said, especially when stuff starts swirling around, said to the people in transition, by the way i got paid that. did he to your knowledge give details in the transition team? >> not that i'm aware of. important to keep in mind from the campaign's perspective, here is a retired army general who

had active top secret clearance. as sean pointed out in the press conference not only did he have that, after coming back from his trip he reported to the department of defense he had made this trip and his top secret clearance was re-authorized. from the campaign's perspective and then transitioned to the white house i don't think that's something you can put on the trump organization or campaign or white house because he did have a top secret clearance in good standing. does he have some challenges in front of him? i think so. he has to come forward and explain what went on here. ultimately his not being completely forthright with the vice president that led him to the exit. from the president's perspective or white house perspective i don't see where they did anything wrong. >> van, what about it. not that he was some guy that had a top secret clearance, he did run the intelligence agency. >> it is in fact understandable the trump organization would assume the best about this guy. it turns out he's sketchy, turns

out he's terrible. that wasn't his reputation as some sketchy terrible russian loving dude. you can understand why in the mess of a transition, which are always difficult you may give the guy the doubt. i'm trying to be very charitable. what you cannot explain why you throw somebody under the bus two-thirds of the way or half of the way and then don't flush the toilet. what they should be doing right now is not what they're doing. they should say, we will give you everything about this guy and walk out with democrats arm in arm and say this sort of behavior from american gernls is not acceptable period point-blank, we're coming for him and anybody else. the reason you have this story going on and on and on because they want to throw him halfway under the bus. it's not necessarily political malfeasance to have some trouble in your transition. what you're seeing right now throws up alarm bells across the

political spectrum, if this guy is somebody you will defend partially he has done horrible things, there's something in that white house. >> i would push back and disagree with you, i don't think the white house is interfering with any sort of investigation. if you want his speaker records, go talk to the speaker bureau, you want his fs 86 form. >> why not just give it out. >> this is how you guys get yourselves in a ton of trouble. why make people walk all the way around the barn and walmart and mcdonald's to try to find stuff, put it out there so we can find the next story. this is the behavior that creates the level of suspicion and anxiety. >> the important thing, the committee sent these letters to the dodd and different agencies. if you're sending a letter to d.o.d., inside baseball that is called the fs 86 form, that's up to the d.o.d. to provide. >> if the white house has documents germane. >> the important point is the white house has not invoked

executive privilege over anything here and not stonewalling. >> elijah cummings, tough guy, strong partisan. he's not the type of person who will go running way downfield and break with his counterpart unless he's experiencing really serious opposition. what you saw elijah cummings do tonight and the challenge he laid down to sean spicer to let you know there is a big problem going on and it's senseless. >> the whole russia stuff, the white house said if they want to have an investigation let them have an investigation, it's never been to van's point we will do everything we can to make sure. >> if anything, going back to the earlier point about the president defending flynn early on i think there has been -- i'm not saying this is why this is happening, i don't want to connect the two, i want to take note some in the white house have been concerned about flynn has been around them a very long time. if flynn feels as if he is being fully thrown under the bus or whatever met for we're using,

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president trump's deal making skills says they may stick with the north american trade agreement after all saying i received called from the president of mexico and dan asking to renegotiate nafta instead of terminate. i agreed. if we don't get a deal good for all, we will then terminate nafta. >> if and when i win we will renegotiate the disaster known as nafta. a trump administration will renegotiate nafta. if we don't get the deal we want, we will terminate nafta and get a much better deal for our workers. >> there has never been a trade deal as bad as nafta.

nafta has been such a disaster. >> nafta has been a disaster for this country. >> nafta was a disaster. >> nafta is probably -- the worst economic trade deal ever signed in history. nafta is one of the worst trade deals signed by our country. nothing is bad as nafta. nafta is a bad bad bad bad deal. >> we are going to renegotiate nafta to make it better. if they don't agree, we will withdraw. >> that is what he's saying. these phone calls to mexico and canada, do we know these details? >> earlier in the day yesterday, white house officials were saying anonymously to reporters the president was considering signing this executive order to declare his intent to renegotiate or withdraw from nafta and then had these phone conversations with leaders from mexico and canada and then came this statement saying he would

not terminate nafta at this time. the president was insistent today he was not softening on this issue, here's what he had to say. >> if you check my campaign, my speeches i said i will either renegotiate or terminate. they asked me to renegotiate and i will. i think we will be successful in the renegotiations frankly would be good because it will be simpler. we have to make a deal that's fair for the united states. they understand that. i decided, rather than terminating nafta, which would be a pretty big shock to the system, we will renegotiate. >> anderson, i'm told in addition to those calls from the leaders from canada and mexico the president was also talking to cabinet leaders and business makers before making this decision. as you played in that long montage of clips the president clearly gave the impression during the campaign he did not like nafta and it would be out the door if the canadians and

mexicans did not agree to his terms during a new round of negotiations. if he decides to not renegotiate or withdraw from nafta we will have a situation where once again the president has a very big policy reversal on his hands. >> the reality of renegotiating the deal on nafta, how long a process would that be, do we know? >> it could take several months. it may take a congressional buy-in, that is not clear at this point. what we're told by a senior administration official is that next week we do expect to see the president take some kind of action on this to begin the process of renegotiating, as he said. this is one of those processes not clearly laid out in terms of how the president is going to be able to get a better deal from the canadians and mexicans and you're hearing from the canadians north of the border they will be tough when it comes to these trade deals, they feel there are some areas that need

to be renegotiated. white house press secretary sean spicer said there are other issues they want to talk about, dairy issues and so on and has the potential to make things very complicated for this president and congress. >> thank you very much. >> i saw a lot of people criticizing him on the changes, what he said is much like what he said on the campaign trail to renegotiate. he's not emphasizing how terrible it is but there is continuity there. >> it is not as dramatic a shift as some other issues. he took both positions, right, i will renegotiate and then scrap it so he can say he's doing both and he is sticking with one right now. the bigger question here is how incredibly big this all is. we don't really understand by what mechanism they're planning to do this, what it would look like. i was at a briefing for the white house where a senior

administration official said nafta is dead and i don't know what that will look like but conceded nafta is not zero sum as this person put it, there are benefits to the agricultural industry and the president is aware of that. you did not hear the president talk about that on the campaign trail. this does fit in the broader theme of we're getting ripped off the president has been talking about 30 years. that's not a surprise. the confusion is whether -- this is the problem with this white house and anonymous sourcing we all are aware of, not if this is crazy like a fox to bring this to the table or whipsaw approach. i know they're saying the president reached out to the leaders of mexico and canada. my understanding is they called him after this word got out and it was restructured back to a renegotiations. >> people are very critical of the president when he said the chinese premier had given him a 10 minute talk about chinese history and then realized it

wouldn't be as hard. it does seem like he is, you know, he hasn't radically changed on nap ta, clearly he's emphasizing something else, he's looking to renegotiate. is it fair for democrats to hammer him on this? you can argue he's open to changing or open to listening to other people. that's the nice way of looking at it. >> not only the democrats that hammered him on this, the people that came out quickly to defend nafta were actually republican senators. the ones that came out the quickest were border state senators like senator john cornyn and john mccain and jeff flake from arizona and texas. it matters to them. they know the benefits of nafta in their states. the point you were making, we see this over and over again from president trump here's the bottom line. we elected a government neophyte. he had never done this. he's a tv producer and real estate developer and brand maker and expert in that. he's learned in the last 100

days healthcare is complicated, nato is not obsolete and now he's learning that nafta, getting rid of it would be a shock to the system, as he says. i think what we're seeing is a guy who is learning as he goes along and who is hearing from a lot of people. that being said i always come to the table a lot of what donald trump does is a distraction mode, is a distraction tactic for a bad press day. he's also very good at that. >> you can either look at it chartbly as somebody who listens to other people and can alter his view or should have known that while he was running. >> harry truman was a neophyte, too, but he was not as appallingly like a neophyte as this president allows himself to be whether north korea or healthcare, things he could know better and holds himself out this way. nafta, i have no problem with the big montage and he was really hard edged in the campaign and says, look, we will

negotiate if we can get a better deal. i think he is taking a principled approach. this is an area he has thought about a long time and railed against a long time. what i don't like, i think this crisis management is ridiculous, we will scrap this thing and then it's a negotiations, that's bad. it's bad even if he gets a good deal out of it this time his word is starting to be suspect and that starts to apply itself to crisis, like north korea. >> we will take a break. 've struggled with non-24, a circadian rhythm disorder that can turn my sleep cycles upside down. it kept me from doing the things i truly love to do. sometimes i'd show up early; sometimes i was too late. and sometimes, even though i was there... i didn't really feel..."there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424 to learn more.

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this afternoon, president trump signed an executive order aimed at protecting whistle-blowers before his 100 day mark on saturday and at the same time he touted his team's work on capitol hill. >> during these first 100 days i've been saying a very extreme emphasis placed on these 100 days, joanie, not quite as big as they're saying. we laid a lot of foundation and

had a lot of legislation pass nobody understands, i think it's 28 bills. somebody said by the time it ends, it's 32 bills. tremendous legislation. >> by the way, in case you're wondering who joanie is president trump just mentioned, senator joanie ernston, a national guard senator at today's event. it is easy to point out the discrepancy between president trump saying this is an artificial benchmark it obviously is and also putting out during the campaign a 100 day plan what he would accomplish much of which has not been done. >> right. he's right you can place too much emphasis on this and have a very successful presidency whether he's successful now or not. he did put out this contract a lot which has not been accomplished. he was talking even at 90 days saying he was having a wonderful 90 days. it's something he focused on.

reality is out of the gate so much focus on the travel ban ate up their time unnecessarily and didn't have a lot of successes to point to other than the confirmation of gorsuch to the supreme court. >> very rare for a president to get that so early on. >> but most of the things he's done are executive orders and most are undoing things president obama did i guess is a promise that he made but it's not doing anything really new and he doesn't have any major legislation. he had a huge failure with obamacare. >> and for gorsuch they had to do that in the senate. >> the washington examiner, he grades himself and talks about his first 100 days. >> i gave us an a. i would say communication would be less than an a. i don't think we've gotten the word out what we've gotten done because i think we're so busy getting it done we're not

talking about it. >> i do think there are things they have been able to accomplish and they haven't been able to get the word out, the drop in illegal immigration predated him as well and been significant i've seen anywhere from 40 to 60% in the last three month of the trump presidency. a lot of not getting the message out is lack of message by the president himself. he does step on his own successes at times. >> if we take a step back and slow it down what this 100 days are about, yes, we got justice neil gorsuch through, really important. i think the biggest take away is something maggie touched on a moment ago, a return to these more populous trade policies the president has been talking about some 30 years. when coupled with things like the tax cuts, yes, they're being done by executive orderses and why folks voted for donald trump because they wanted to see these policies put in action. when he talked about the forgotten men and women in

america in his inauguration speech this is what he was speaking to. it's been slow for the media to catch onto this, the fact bringing these economic populus policies to front and center and security issues talking about canada and mexico. when you talked about nafta we were talking about a moment ago, if the u.s. wasn't getting screwed in this you wouldn't have the leaders in canada and mexico call him so quick, i think that was a great move by the white house. >> jason ignored the point about the president stepping on it. to that point, he has had -- the speech he gave to joint session of congress which was very well received got -- he stepped on it two days later, i think it was. >> i think it is in controvertible this president in the first two months had enormous problems staying on crack and focused. >> do you think it's calming down? >> i do. his quote about we've done well messaging or communications

we've done less well. you can close your eyes and that's barack obama saying the same thing about his own administration, he said versions of that. it is subtle because part of the problem of people seeing a change there's so much frenzy all the time like seeing a dust cloud go down the road. there is actually a change. do not underestimate the degree to which that wiretap tweet of his was a problem for him he realized was a problem for him and he has been trying to move away from slowly. >> we have to take a break and house republicans are scrambling to take another swing at obamacare and the tweaks they made for conservatives may be a tough sell for moderate republicans. we'll look at that ahead. that'll save you hundreds. and now the brand new samsung galaxy s8 is here. so what are you waiting for? hurry in to t-moile today.

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if you're still just managing your symptoms, talk with your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. day 100 for president trump is just a whisker away. one of his basic promises of replace and repeal obamacare. there is a new bill in play and the conservatives who helped torpedo the first one are now on board and this time the ball is in the moderate's court. >> reporter: tonight, republicans renewing their attempt to push through the healthcare preliminary and

replace they've long promised. >> we have a moral obligation to prevent people from getting hurt, to stop damage from being continued. >> reporter: now with the backing of the conservative house freedom caucus who opposed the original healthcare s we're gonna go when we have the votes. i would argue this is a bill that a moderate would want to short. >> reporter: the change, a new amendment negotiated by a member of the tuesday group. the amendment would let states apply for wavers that could weaken key obamacare reforms, including those with preexisting conditions. what benefits insurers must cover in their policies. >> my one and only goal in this has been to try to make this bill something that helps the health insurance market survive.

>> reporter: all eyes now are on the party's moderates who are far from supporting the amendment arguing it will leave more people without coverage. >> it doesn't help the people i represent. one of the criticisms i had about the affordable care act is it made insurance so expensive because the people who had it didn't use it because their deductibles and co-payments with high and people with preexisting conditions, we can't deny them coverage. >> reporter: democrats are seizing on that opposition. >> the new trump care will have to decide whether or not to cover americans with preexisting conditions. it's harder to come up with a crueller bill. >> reporter: and ramping up efforts to slow down the process all together saying they'll oppose a stop gap funding measure to keep the government open if republicans push for a

health care vote between now and saturday, president trump's 100th day in the office. >> what you say in the haste to pass the bill and trump trying to cram it down in the last 100 days, president trump is making fools of his party. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan is pushing back saying the blame for a potential government shut down will fall squarely on democrats. >> i'm confident we will pass a short-term extension and i would be shocked if the democrats would want to create a shutdown because they have been dragging their feet. >> do the republicans have enough votes? >> house leaders have walked into speaker paul ryan's to decide whether or not there is a path forward at all on this bill. that means a vote as soon as tomorrow. there's been a furious behind the scenes lobbying effort, a furious whip effort by the leadership to try to get the votes on board. the reality right now is up to this point they have been short and that could be fatal for even this new bill going forward. we will find out after this meeting, but there's no question there has been a late blitz to

move this quickly and get it underneath that 100 day mark for the president. the big question now is can they get there. i'm told optimism was flagging over the last hour or so. >> all right. thanks very much. ahead, gary tuckman returns to a county in texas where nearly everyone voted for donald trump and how they grade his first 100 days. whether you're after supreme performance... ...advanced intelligence... ...or breathtaking style... ...there's a c-class just for you. decisions, decisions, decisions. lease the c300 sedan for $389 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.

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trump presidency is almost here. before he took office he laid out an ambition to-do list for the first 100 days. we think it's important to hear from many voices as many voices as possible in this divided nation, so we want to hear from president supporters around critics. tonight gary tuckman returns to a town he visited a week after the election. >> reporter: roberts county in the texas panhandle is one of the most sparsely populated counties in the nation. fewer than 1,000 people live here. but it's number one when it comes to the election of donald trump as president. donald trump is now 100 days into his term. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: on a one to ten scale, what would you give him? >> i would give him a ten. >> reporter: 95% of voters picked donald trump to be president, the highest percentage of any county in the nation, but many voters we talked to in the county seat are concerned not so much about the

president, but concerned for him. >> he's been doing his job. congress has not been doing their job. >> reporter: concerned because of the establishment. one of his promises was he would drain the swamp. do you feel he's draining the swamp? >> the swamp's fighting back. >> reporter: many of the trump voters we talked with here tell us they believe the president won't be able to fulfill promises if he doesn't get help from others. who hasn't helped donald trump? >> lots of democrats and republicans. >> reporter: you think the republican led congress is not helping the president? >> especially the head of the republican congress. i don't think it's helped him. >> reporter: you're talking about paul ryan. >> i'm talking about paul ryan. >> reporter: you don't put any blame on donald trump? >> i put some blame on donald trump, but he is trying to do something than is better than what we had the last eight years. >> reporter: the act of trying means a lot here. >> do you feel he's kept his promises he made for the first

100 days? >> he's trying to. >> reporter: we asked about his contract with the american voters, where donald trump vowed to work with congress to introduce ten legislative measures and fight for their passage in the first 100 days. nine of them have not been introduced. only obamacare has been introduced and it failed. he hasn't kept his end of this contract. >> when has he had time? >> reporter: he said 100 days. >> he's had 100 days, but he he's the russian thing thrown at him. he has a big problem with korea thrown at him. he's not like he's doing nothing. >> reporter: is a promise a promise? if you don't keep a promise, is that a problem? >> a promise is a promise as long as you're working on it. when you throw your hands up and say i can't do it, it's no longer a promise, it's a broken promise. >> reporter: there are many trump voters who are concerned that his presidency hasn't gone as smoothly as they hoped, but

we haven't met anyone today who wishes they voted for hillary clinton instead. time to hand things over to jake tapper. >> thanks. maybe the fact that obama had fired flynn was all the vetting process trump needed." "the lead" starts now. a top democrat accusing the white house of a cover up and the pentagon is providing new information that makes the ethics of flynn's trip to russia look as cloudy as a bowl of borch. brand new poll numbers dropping this hour. how voters feel about commander in chief trump. his military moves and whether those moves have made america more or less safe. united nations ambassador nikki haley will be here for reaction. try again, rep