there whereas work done in 2008 by the bush administration that was left to the obama administration and you are correct, cockman, that the -- congressman, that the work done in 2009 was accelerated by the agency. in fact something done in 2009 that in my estimation has never been done since and not before that event where they took work from the u.n. ipcc and transported it to the agency and accommodated that as the cor to the findings. there was a breach of process that occurred in 2009 that many believe was not handled the proper way, but the epa decision and the processes involved that involved both the bush anded obama administration that was short shrifted. >> i encourage you visit the finding document and get the report this career analyst put forward. it's fairly -- not fairly -- it's very damning on what they found. my second question, i have been told that you plan in some point in time to set up a red team/blue team review of pending regulations where you have scientists basically engaging in internal debate, pro the regulation, con the he can layings so you get a balanced

there was work being done in 2008 by the bush administration that was left to the obama administration. you are correct, congressman, the work done in 2009 was excel rated by the agency. in fact, there was something done in 2009 that, in my estimation has never been done since or before that event, where they took work from the unippc and transported it and adopted it as the core finding. it was a breach process that occurred in 2009 that many believe was not handled the proper way to mask the e.p.a. decision and the process involved both the bush and obama administration. >> i would encourage you to go back and revisit the finding document and get the report that this career analyst put forward. if you can't find it, let me know because i have it. it's fairly, not fairly, very damming on what they found. my second question, i have been told that you plan, at some point in time to set up a red team/blue team review of pending regulations where you have scientists basically engage in an internal debate probe the regulation, con the regulation to get a balanced scientific understanding o

the administration of the policy just isn't working.was able to launch another missile that is bigger and more powerful, we are not achieving our objective of denuclearization. i don't think it's true to say all options are on the table and we can walk through diplomacy, sanctions and a military strike. i don't think the administration has all tools in their tool kit. >> but, other than asking china to mediate this somehow, what are the options? >> well, i think you touched on china and president trump tweeted on thursday -- >> i think we have that tweet here, the chinese envoy seems to have had no impact on little rocket man. when you read that, first of all, what was your take on it? you don't understand why he's playing with an ally that can mediate for the u.s. on their behalf. >> it's counter productive for the following reason. it broadcasts trump with the chinese, korea and the 45 million twitter followers. and we know the chinese don't react well to being publicly chastised for a lack of action. we know president trump would lik

finally, on the legislative front, this administration, republican congress, have just delivered the most consequential and far-reaching tax reform package in 30 years. when other administrations -- when other sessions of congress couldn't get it done, we did. individuals will see their tax rates drop. large corporations that employ thousands paying pass-through rates will enjoy new sapt for investment, -- capital for investment, expansion and more. seemingly to the dismay of our democratic colleagues, businesses are already responding to the good news with announcements of bonuses and new ventures. and that's just the beginning. on top of it all, the individual mandate has been repealed and obamacare is now firmly on its way out. thank goodness. despite earlier difficulties, we are well under way toward repeal. as we move toward 2016 -- or 2018, excuse me, we can look forward to additional policy successes on everything from entitlements to infrastructure, to immigration. in conclusion, mr. president, i don't want to hear anyone claim that this president and this congress have not go

the trump administration. ike flynn was working against the interests of barack obama at the time that he was doing this. the whole thing is crazy. >> details. >> it's upside down. >> it's so inappropriate. flynn's own statement i thought was dignified. he served -- i served the country in uniform for 33 years. the proper thing for the trump white house to say is we respect general flynn for his service. we think it's very unfortunate he's had to plead guilty to lying to the fbi. we know nothing about this and obviously we don't think president trump has done anything wrong and look forward to the investigation being finished. the idea that you try to make general flynn, who was serving i believe in uniform -- he was a three-star general, sort of a creature of the obama administration. and den denigrate him, i mean, it's such a foolish spin it seems to me from their own point of view, it makes you wonder if they have any sense of what they're in now for. >> i don't know what they are -- their play would be othe

>> in a nutshell, the trump administration's anti- cve. they don't believe in community led initiatives. they don't believe in partnership to deal with the problem. there is still a top-down approach for government will dictate the approach and use -- surveillance, more the obama administration was trying to see if there is a role were communities can take the lead in our position was for any kind of policy, it has to be bottom-up, not top-down. it has to be government led. resilience building and healthy communities. obviously, the trump administration is far away from that. the trump administration feels it gives communities to much -- i see a feature it now -- i see future where we have heavy-handed mall horsemen and there is no committee trust or public trust. it basically diminishes american influence here inside communities and abroad. in other words, in terms of the foreign-policy front, me move to take the u.s. embassy is occupied territory. that is why you're getting resistance from christian .inorities and organizations basically,

administration? >> in a nutshell, the trump administration is anti-cve. they don't believe in community-led initiatives. they don't believe in capturing the narrative. they don't believe in partnership to deal with the problem of violent extremism. theirs is still a top down approach where government is going to dictate the terms onto communities and basically use more surveillance, more informants, heavyhanded law enforcement tactics. the obama administration was at least trying to see if there's a role where communities can take the lead and our position was that for any kind of policy in terms of countering violent extremism, it has to be bottom up, not top down. it has to be community led not government coming into communities and saying let's find the radicals in the community and figure out what to do with them. resilience and building healthy communities. pro meeting civic, talking about hot topic issues, finding ways to deal with mental health problems in our communities, done for the community, by the community. and obviously, the trump administra

he outlined the lawsuits as the data failed challenging the administration's policies on immigration and the environment. from washington, d.c. this is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] hello, everybody. i guess we will get started. good morning. welcome to the national press club and welcome to everybody watching online on the website and on c-span. my name is chris and i am a reporter at the "los angeles times" and i'm a new member of the press club. i'm happy to be here posting today's headline is bigger with california attorney general. many in washington are familiar with him. he served terms as a congressman from los angeles. he was a member of the ways and means committee and highest ranking in congress. up until a few weeks ago i was based at the sacramento bee c-euro-sign more familiar with his recent work in california. governor jerry brown appointed him as attorney general last year after his predecessor was elected to the u.s. senate. his political future is a constant source of conversation in california. next year he's running for his first full term as attorney g

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does the administration support the threshold set by the obama administration and supported by worker advocates or does it support the business community's position? >> congressman, thank you for the question. and let me note at the outset. when we talk about the overtime rule we tend to talk about it in the context of salary thresholds but if you look at the law passed by this congress, this congress did not say whether or not you are exempt or not exempt, whether or not you are sub to overtime or not is set by a salary level. but it set a very different test. so the salary level is in essence a shorthand way of getting to the law. now a federal court looked at this, and the federal court said that the way the $47,000 was set, and that level was not in accordance with the law. and so it's not simply do we support -- >> and you chose not to contest or appeal that decision. and you do believe that the -- that you have the authority to set the salary threshold; is that correct? >> so i was saying it is -- irrespective of whether we support or not and we cosmos not to support that level

that was what the past administration said. if that were the state of the objective, they failed miserably. >> i agree. >> across the country, on where the united states is, where federal jurisdiction begins and ends, and so there's a -- there's a process that we're going through to deal with the deficiency. there is a court stay against this 2015 rule that you're aware. and so our obligation is to provide a definition. and that process has begun in earnest and we should have a proposed rule by april of next year time frame. and we're taking significant comment on that, along with the withdrawal of the 2015 rule. so it's not deregulation, it's regulatory clarity so we know where federal jurisdiction begins and ends. >> sounds good to me. one of the arguments in favor of the obama administration, it is essential to protecting drinking water and public health would be at risk. the safe drinking water act has provisions addressing both the protection of source water, sections 1453 and 1454, and underground sources of drinking water

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as of today, there was nothing definitive from the administration. we've reached out to ask specifically why the president chose to take on this topic today and we've not received an answer. at the very least, brianna, this shows as we head into the new year, this administration remains focused on north korea and the president followed up a little later today with another tweet. this, a video, showing president bill clinton talking about north korea from 23 years ago and then video of the president himself before he got into politics and in an interview with "meet the press" where he talked about how in terms of foreign policy preventing north korea from getting nuclear weapons should be a priority of the united states. so the president showing that for a long time he's talked tough when it comes to north korea and as 2018 begins, when it comes to his foreign policy, that tough talk will continue. brianna? >> ryan nobels, thank you so much for that report. the president's new tweets come at a sensitive time with the south preparing to host the winter

days of the outgoing obama administration. ng to foreign governments about this. i was in the bush 41 administration after the clinton victory when president george h.w. bush decided to go into somalia. this was right around thanksgiving. it was clear the new clinton administration was going to have to deal with that. the bush administration made it clear. that's how you work this out. the incoming president has equities, too, and that's all they were representing. eric: we just saw jared kushner. saban said he has a unique transition team. >> the peace process crew hasn't performed wonders in getting an israeli-palestinian settlement. because of the threat of iran and the nuclear weapons program and its general effort to establish hegemony in the east, there are possibilities that old formulas would not necessarily turned up it's a huge uphill struggle. but the world in the middle east is changing rapidly. eric: that it is. ambassador john bolton, good to see you. arthel: the clock is ticking for republicans to get a deal done

the u.s. administration getting assistant united states will never benefit them. e hope and pray coming back from these long theories. and we are determined to protect and preserve the sanctity. in the declaration, you will find the resolution passed by the united nations, especially the reminders on resolution number 470 team. the united states has rectified this, which is very important. the secretary council are being harmed as well. and no other country can have confidence anymore. u.s. administration cannot unilaterally make such a decision. how is this even possible? they cannot be left in the hands are to the mercy of a country. al-quds cannot be left in the hands of a country that exponentially expands for women and children feeding on blood. you can see the pictures on the slides. these youngsters are being tormented. but get this. even more important than not, they have recently tormented a child suffering from down's syndrome. i think if we could have seen those pictures right now, it would have been much more striking. another picture, the soldiers star

they use this information to give to the bush administration so that the bush administration can get fisa warrant to spy on then senator obama. what would the mainstream media be doing right now? they would be asking for john mccain to be hung from the nearest tree. this is an outa rage. when mccabe was asked by the house committee for this collusion, this connect the dots of the trump administration -- the trump campaign and russian spies, all they could come up with, carter went to russia, went to moscow on a visit. this is outrageous. the real crisis here, we sounds like a banana republic. you are using the powers of the executive branch, the most of powerful agency probably in the history of the world, to actively even gang in a presidential campaign and undermine the opposition party. this is outrageous. gregg: the democratic media, it's sort of redundant. let me spread this out to 2018 in terms of the president's agenda. the wind is at his back with the tax cut package. the americans will see the benefit of it soon. but the wind can change very quickly. what do you expect in 201

i'm not indicting the entire obama administration. not long enough to enjoy it i'm herely saying this piece purportedly is based on interviews with dozens of people, it says, directly involved in this. there is an on the record piece of written testimony before congress obama treasury official saying that a specific d.e.a. operation, cassandra, meant to interdict cocaine shipments here was stymied on purpose. so is that true or not? it sounds like it is true. how is that not true? >> there are plenty of quotes in the article that also from people in the obama administration who said no, that's not true. the obama administration did not provide. >> tucker: i read the piece carefully. >> the white house did not attempt to curve the dea efforts because of the iran deal. that's a direct quote. >> tucker: because of the iran deal. there is not one line in that piece that says the facts are not true. it's a question of motive. they are saying look, this is complex. by the way there are truth in this. these are complex and he a lie just noted

international events drew the attention of his administration. the trump administration refuses to take a holiday from sanctioning north korea. the treasury department announcing sanctions to key leaders. in a statement "treasury is targeting leaders of north korea's ballistic missile programs as part of our maximum pressure campaign to isolate the dprk energy faithfully dean nuclear i korean peninsula." it follows friday's security council resolution that imposed new sanctions on north korea. a move north korea equated to an act of war. reports say the russian government is offering to mediate between the u.s. and north korea. state department failed to respond to requests for comment on the offer. secretary of state tillerson is that north korea must earn its way back to the negotiating table starting with a halt on its missile and nuclear tests. before leaving for his holiday, the president promised pressure on kim jong un. >> there is much more work to d do. america and its allies will take all necessary steps to achieve a denuclearization and

we had a decade starting at the end of the bush administration, the obama administration that never hit 3%. it.dy was talking about you want to understand what happened in the party 16 election, boom -- in the 2016 election, boom. back to strong levels of economic growth. a little biased. i was assistant secretary for the economic, energy and business bureau under secretary rice. i think this is more important than military power. this hints military power, and yet we have not been focused on it. what happened was, if you listen to the narrative, people saw this and were like, how do i explain that. started making excuses in my view. calling this the new normal. 1.5% gdp growth is america hitting on all its economic cylinders. to me it is one of the most dangerous narratives there is. iswe think that 1.5% to 2% it for the country, we will have enormous challenges and we will not be positioned for global leadership. my view is different. i don't think that is the future . i don't believe in the new normal. one of the privileges of being in the u.s. senate is you reject a smart people lik

the chair. welcome, administrator pruitt. my congressional district, texas 22, may be the biggest one in america. right now we have 850,000 people and growing quickly. the huge majority of these people want me to tell you thank you, thank you, thank you for making epa what it should have been, an agency in d.c. that works with local governments, local private sectors to get cleaner air. thank you for that. they're frustrated by the last few years. the epa became a combatant that kept us from getting cleaner air and water. they are thrilled to have you there. the technology is not available, yet it is demanded. they're tired of having lawsuits to sue and settle, and that's gone. thank you for that. there are many frustrations back home. one example, the rfs. as you know, sir, i have had long and serious concerns with the rfs. i hope this committee will act to make this matter -- to take care of this matter quickly, but in the meantime, until we act, guess what? you're enpoint and you have a lot of leeway going forward. my quest

what is the administration trying to do? is there anything at the executive level he thinks needs to be undertake snn sarah: i think that there are a number of different ways that we look to protect our citizens. every single day. one of the areas that the president has been outspoken about, not necessarily to those two instances but more broadly speaking in terms of national security and protecting individuals, certainly through border security, stronger vetting processes, and looking at whether or not there are other regulations that we could put in place that would offer protection. >> these weren't people who enter the united states. sarah: i said i'm speak manager broadly in terms of national security as a whole. s that president who knows that his number one responsibility is to look for ways to protect american citizens and we try to do that every single day and whether or not there's a regulation that could be put in place or not that could have prevented those things, frankly i'm not aware of what that would be but w

internationally the president asked congress to come up with strategies on iran, the administration iso longer certifying that iran is complying with the bulk of the nuclear agreement. it's an aggressive agenda, one that is supposed to take place in 2018, midterm election year. >> julie: for more on the g.o.p. agenda and how they're going to get it all done, i'm joined by the republican congressman of arizona. thank you very much for talking to us. some republicans obviously are eager for more legislative wins for the midterms coming off of a huge win on tax overhaul. president trump planning to host ryan and mcconnell at camp david. >> you are going to have several balls in the air at the same time. how do you fix some of the dysfunction, you have the debt ceiling. we need to step up and be adults. when you start to look at medicare and what's happening in some of the trust funds, we should start planning how we are going to shore those up. these are huge issues. we have everything from trade issues, there will be a tax bill. dozens of things are happening at once. the really interest

something the obama administration did not actually do. what do you see are the next steps the administration can and should take with regard to the russian menace especially in europes. nato at the moment in your view up to the task and the challenge and we have seen some increase in nato defense spending this year after tremendous pressure from the united states? >> these are the same russians we're supposed to be colluding with right? isn't it so interesting? look at every russian policy we've had in the last ten months. practically everyone has been bad and these are the people we're supposed to be colluding with. so yes. in recent months and years we've been some leadership come out of nato. especially the military side. for a man that hated nato allegedly we managed to get nato to commit to something we've been trying for 30-years to get them to do. to spend the requisite amount on defense. they agreed and this is the art of the deal. if you want to understand the president, read his book it tells you how he operates and it's very suc

the second was approved by the zoning administrator with a 7 foot restriction on the south side, and it restricts the overall expansion to just 96 square feet. the one on the right furlth reduces the backs expansion which was trying to get the support of the appellant. we can see the expansion on this fourth floor. originally it was 42 square feet and how it wnow, it was ro 18 square feet. one of the significant impacts you're going to hear is impact to air and light. that is not true. we conducted two light studies. the first one was submitted to the planning commission, and the second shows the planning and zoning administrator's restrictions. the total air and light impact to their property after examining all eight locations is between 0% and 2% of total annual impact to light. that's 0% to 2% total, and we have many, many pages that we can show you during every hour of every day of every season that shows that. the other thing that the appellant has done is he's circulated inaccurate designs. as you can see here this was a picture that was taken by the appellant. next to that is

administrator pruitt, i've got a -- during the last administration, toward the end of the last administration, there was a rule that was titled greenhouse gas phase two rule for medium and heavy-duty trucks. in my opinion, this had a lot of overreach in it, because it included regulating truck trailers as self-propelled vehicles. and i've introduced legislation to deal with this, and i just wanted to ask you, you issued a statement on this rule back in november. and in that rule, you issued a statement on the review of glider kits, but you didn't include anything about tractor-trailers. do you intend to do that? are you familiar with this at all? >> i appreciate -- actually appreciate you bringing that to my attention. i was aware of the latter that you mentioned, but not the former. so that's something i will definitely take a look at. >> okay. i appreciate it. because it is something that's very important to us, particularly to the tractor-trailer industry, which is a big industry down in our area, as well. also wanted to ask you, in my district, in the coastal region of georgia, the entire

in recent years, we've heard republicans warn repeatedly, especially during the obama administration, about the danger of ballooning the national debt, the threat that potentially presents to the united states in the long-term. you didn't hear a lot of that from republicans this time. bob corker was the most vocal republican in the senate who is raising these concerns. he ultimately voted against it, of course. but it really does feel like we're in a different era right now where republicans are no longer talking about the deficit, the debt. they point to this tax bill. they say, look, growth is going to be such that this isn't going to balloon the deficit, but as we see, you know, these studies show otherwise and we're not hearing the same alarm bells from the gop that we heard in previous years. so it's a pretty striking change in terms of what we're hearing from party leaders. >> sean sullivan, melanie zanona, stay with us. we'll be back to talk about more top issues in washington. >>> the day's other top story, michael flynn's guilty plea in the special counsel russia investigatio

and at that point, it was quite early, i would say, in the administration. on the job maybe three months. and so that is where it sort of started and it eventually snow balled into our first story in september. but of course it took a lot of work between one tip in may and then publication that came about four months later. >> so dan, tell me about that. whats with the process to get from the tip to publication. because obviously at some level, this is all public, the government is spending public money to charter flights, that is things that are public knowledge. it is not classified information. but shaking it loose could be pretty tough. >> it should be public. the distance between proving something that you know is out there and actually having something for publication, that took some time. so we put our heads together and we rattled all of the sources we had, inside hhs and adjacent to it, hoping for some clues as to not just where tom price was going, but how he was getting there, who he was going with and how the bill was being paid. it was possible,

we are seeing or not seeing coming out of the trump administration. >> in a nutshell, the trump administration is anti-cve. they don't believe in community led initiatives. they don't believe in countering the narrative. they don't believe in partnership to deal with the problem of violent extremism. theirs is still a top-down approach where government is going to dictate the terms to communities and use more surveillance, more informants, heavy-handed law enforcement tactics. the obama administration was at least trying to see if there is a role were communities can take the lead and our position was that for any kind of policy countering violent extremism, it has to be bottom-up, not top-down. it has to be community-led. communities building resilience and healthy communities. promoting civic engagement, ,alking about hot topic issues finding ways to deal with any kind of mental health problems in our communities done for the community, by the community. obviously, the trump administration is far away from that. it is interesting that the trump administration and the number of civil rights g

take the trump administration's attack on lgbt rights. these are lies, the lie that families led by a gay or lesbian couple don't provide a safe environment for children. the lie that allowing transgender people to use the appropriate bathroom opens the door to sexual assault. president trump didn't invent these lies, but he and his administration proudly repeat them. take the attacks on science, especially climate science. we now have enough evidence to conclude that climate change is real and it's manmade and it is a threat to our nation's security and a threat to the planet. defense secretary mattis knows this, and yet for years so-called scientists funded by industry have been hard at work casting doubt on the well-established scientific consensus. a recent "washington post" report revealed that the trump officials have prevented our premier research health institution from using evidence based and science based in budget documents. president trump didn't launch the war on science, but now he's leading the charge. take health care. pre

about recommendations from that administration. >> the trump administration is the one currently in power. what are they doing to make sure that russia doesn't successfully meddle or try to meddle in our elections in 2018? that's a year away. 2018 or 2020. >> i'm not privy to that information. i do know that the recommendations that obama administration's gave were not followed by his own administration. >> they were given at the end of the year. at the end of the year, right before donald trump took office, according to this "washington post" report. >> right. i understand. they must have learned from their mistakes, because they did nothing. >> -- before the inauguration. >> understood. they must have learned from their own mistakes, because they did nothing. >> maybe they did, but is this administration learning from president obama's mistakes? you keep saying that he's made. is this administration learning from it and taking steps to combat it? because they're the ones in power right now, michael. >> i certainly believe -- i certainly believe that the present administration, the

a momentous day, certainly for the trump administration. the president's former national security adviser pleading guilty to a federal crime here in court in washington. and while the white house today, and for some time, has tried to portray flynn as something of a freelancer here, in fact there is a lot of evidence in this plea agreement that not only was flynn keeping the trump transition informed of the conversations he was having and lying about, but that he was being directed in some of these conversations by very senior members of the transition team. and perhaps most important of all, we learned today that flynn is cooperating in the special counsel's investigation. >> reporter: tonight, the ongoing russia investigation has reached president trump's inner most circle. trump's former national security adviser michael flynn says that he is cooperating with the special counsel's probe into possible cooperation between the trump campaign and the russian government. flynn pled guilty to repeatedly lying to the fbi, including making false

the day first. something this administration has done away with. so that's why you'll see them going to other outlets across the room and you never know if you'll be the first one to get called on. you have to be very, very prepared in this administration, because what if they come to you, it's your day. got the top question and every network in america, cameras are rolling. >> one of the things, michael, when i was in washington, there would be certain kinds of information that would be released by the white house, even though you're sort of, you know, trained as a journalist to question, there are certain things you wouldn't question. like put out a schedule and say, oh, the president's going to be here at this time or going golfing, not going golfing. i feel with this administration, even the most basic logistical information just isn't accurate? >> yes. that's a fair thing to say. a lot of your basic things, you you know, white house logs, people coming in to see the president, things like that, stuff on his schedule. under obama you'd get a rea

the george w. bush administration. what's really concerning over the past year is the possibly development of the capability to strike the united states homeland with the development of an intercontinental ballistic missile. the reason he is seeking this capability is not to strike the united states but for regime survival. he's seen other reogue nate nations bite the dust. i don't think any amount of pressure is going to make him completely capitulate. which is one of the reasons i'm concerned about the trump's administration's maximalist approachdiplomacy. the only outcome that will be left is war. >> i want to ask you about increased pressure on china, specifically, when it comes to trade because in this new york times interview, president trump makes a direct and clear threat to china saying so china on trade has ripped off this country more than any other element of the world and history has ripped off anything. but i could be different if they are helping us with north korea. if they don't help us korea, i do what

i think this was something missing from the previous administration. erica really partnered in the eu and heading in a different direction and i was intrigued by your comments talking about russia's obviously destabilizing actions in the ukraine but in addition to that it continues to meddle is eastern europe generally through cyberattacks, incursions, disinformation campaigns and even evidence that they interfered in mont negative row's elections last october. it's for this reason back in june that mr. swaysi of new york and i introduce the fighting russian cooperation act, hr 2820 and one thing i'd like you to do today is if you could take a look at your legislation and give me your thoughts about it officially from the treasury. it sets up an anticorruption office over at state as a political matter to work particularly in the eu with our european partners about taking our knowledge, our capabilities that we have both in cyber, elicit finance and partnering with them to counter russian political meddling and i think it would be important because you

why did the administration lie to them? understand. >> congress definitely should have had all of the facts. >> tucker: but they didn't. >> there is plenty of legislation in congress right now that is anti-hezbollah that would help with the effort to confront hezbollah. and congress has the opportunity now, based on these facts and others, to vote in favor of that legislation. >> tucker: slow down, slow down. the deal is done, okay. first of all, all those narcotics came into this country and, again, 60,000 people died last year. so, you can't argue that it's not shaking american society to its foundation, it's drug addiction. it is. this is part of the problem. more than that, the iran deal is in place and decertifying it, undoing it, pulling out of it, has all kinds of other ramifications. like obamacare. once you are in, it's kind of hard to get out actually. why didn't congress know before approving this the whole story? >> we don't know everything that congress knew. i mean -- >> tucker: members of congress say -- >> th

at the very start of the trump administration on day one, sean spicer made clear what posture the white house would take towards the press. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. both in person and around the globe. these attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong. >> that moment, that remarkable moment in which a representative of the president, the press secretary himself yelled demon extraively false statements that everyone knew to be lies set the tone for this white house. a president who decried unflattering story as fake news and flat out lied over and over again. the trump's administration on the repeated attacks on the rights of the american citizens to know the truth about their government did not have its intended effect. the press was not cowed. it was invigorated. we'll talk to the journalists who helped bring about one of the most remarkable years of american reporting in memory covering one of the most hostile administrations in american history. we begin with national security contributor michael schmid

he was part of the inner circle of this administration in the early days. he's required under this plea agreement to share everything and do it truthfully or he will lose the value of the plea agreement. so i think the special counsel has a lot of leverage to make sure that michael flynn is truthful and accurate and shares everything he knows. >> all right, congressman cicilline, thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective. >>> coming up next on our special report tonight, the thorny legal issues facing president trump and his team now that michael flynn is cooperating with robert mueller's prosecutors. we know life can be hectic. that's why at xfinity we've been working hard to simplify your experiences with us. now with instant text and email updates you'll always be up to date. you can easily add premium channels so you don't miss your favorite show. and with just a single word, find all the answers you're looking for. because getting what you need should be simple, fast, and easy. download the xfinity my account app or go online today. >>> welc

particularly when the president reduces it to essentially his own personal agenda for the administration whether it's arm sales or reversing certain economic measures that he feels unfair for for the united states that that gives if you will a new meaning to america first that we have no we have not seen before although the term is not new but johnson in lancaster is it wrong to break with established global custom and practice well i don't you know the issue is that america first is in some sense a slogan but it also speaks to a longstanding principle of foreign policy which is a realist position which is that countries pursue their own interests in the foreign policy space now where trump may be new is that in his willingness to walk back from certain institutions that the united states has shaped in the trash sphere particularly in the post world war two era and so in that sense it's not necessarily good or bad but it is disruption of. established. well politics and from the united states' perspective that might make sense for the rest of us in the international community means degree

some that they wanted to do in the obama administration. in some or even singing out during the trump administration that they wanted begin to push and work on but all those details are outstanding in the early part of the year. there's is hopefulness around some bit of bipartisanship that happens at the beginning of the legislative or beginning of legislative years, and quickly falls apart. it's unclear. we'll have to see the details first. and other issues that have to work on as well. there's disaster relief spending and who still has to pass the full congress. also issues on immigration, the so-called daca or dreamers, those were brought to this country illegally by their parents, any of them are adults now. so those have to be worked out and republicans in the president are starting to scheme on that. back to you. >> lisa: thank you so much. cloudy. i'll give you quality. so let's discuss this a little bit because the republicans honestly have a huge win in passing tax reform and the president signing into law. what momentum does that d

under the obama administration were onerous. at are we doing calving individual target determination being conducted in the white house? that took in some cases weeks, the limitations of what you could and could not be had actually resulted in greater civilian casualties. >> to come in the military says less than 1,000 isis fighters remaindered remain commit mostly near the border here on the map in red. isis controlled an area about the size of ohio. pushing back on any criticism that the former president did not do enough to crush isis. >> this was a top priority. from the early days of isis the type of territorial they had in particular, there was a recognition of a safe haven for terrorist groups, terrorist plots that extend not just into the region, but into europe and into the united states. >> while isis continues to call for attacks around the world, today they call for fresh attacks in the united states, rick. >> rick: will these defeats have any effect on that ideology? >> the investor to the anti-isis coalition, they d

well this actually goes to why the trump administration including the president as well as the senior foreign policy team have been very critical of past approaches not just under the obama administration but the bush administration as well and yeah that goes to your point why would they because previous presidents in the united states and frankly other nations that are stakeholders in the situation have allowed north korea to get away with its behavior for far too long without sufficient consequences so of course north korea feels that the you know national community is not going to do enough is not going to take those necessary steps so they continue to do what they're doing and hence we see the trump administration saying we're not going to continue on the same path that previous administrations or the international community failed that previously let's talk about the obama administration's the next couple of minutes but to go to the obama administration was either according to its critics feckless and this policy of patients was never ever going to work. no i think at this partic