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Resurgent democrats, a potential showdown with robert mueller over the russia investigation, and a host of policy changes? lets get the scoop from keef correspondent and garrett haake. peter, first to you, you wrote your extraordinary piece looking back over this past year and how president trump has been doing. what do you think he brought to the table to put his own stamp on the white house? >> i think we spent a lot of time talking about how the presidency might change him or had changed him ...

>> presidents by the nature of the job are just unlikely to ever shed any of the executive power that their predecessors have accrued to the office. every president since jimmy carter has expanded the powers of the presidency. and when president obama ran for office, he had as part of his pitch as a candidate, what was wrong with the expanded executive power that was asserted by the george w. bush administration, especially on national security issues, things like torture and secret prisons and ...

Reform. >> exactly. >> this reshaping of the federal government, there is lot of doom and gloom. im old enough to remember the doom and gloom of when reagan did something similar in trying to shrink the government. is this as doom and gloom as some people say it is. or does it depend on the department? >> we were in high school during reagan. fair enough that we might have gotten a few things wrong. wasnt getting the "new york times" or the "washington post" in those days. >> im glad you menti...

What about those lower courts. how do judicial nominees stack up against predecessors. it wouldnt be new year without ste steve rattner and the chart. not quite anything. were going to chart this anyway. >> im sure you could. >> well try. i put successes in a quote. underneath north korea and tax bill and all the stuff that has gotten attention, he has had amazing success. and very careful success on in a moment nominating judges. he and president obama each have gotten one judge appointed. my...

Iran deal and considered blowing up the deal in some format and obviously still thinking that through. president obama didnt have the iran deal at the beginning of his administration, but by the end, very much his goal was to try to get to a place to do diplomacy with iran. i think what you see now is a real question about whether president trump can bring european allies around to what he is trying to do which is to exert more pressure on iran. even if its outside of the nuclear deal even if it...

>> sandra: a fox news alert, 20 dead after massive protests, supreme leader lashing out saying the enemies of the islamic republic are to blame. welcome to a brand-new hour of americas newsroom, i am sandra smith. >> eric: hello, sandra. and i am eric shawn and for bill hemmer. good to be with you. president trump is making sure his approach to iran will be a bit different than his predecessors. a few hours ago, the president tweeting this, iran is feeling at every level despite the terrible dea...

President. that is what i think is driving comey, hubris. >> eric: what if it is not hubris in his point of view, what is the service of the nation, having been in vietnam, prosecutor, he is sticking to the law, and he sees it as is his duty to uphold the constitution? >> he is also the guy that has an awkward timeline in his testimony to congress, who decided, it that mrs. clinton was innocent, supervising and fbi, all of these things that are coming out taking place, uniquely responded to the ...

So with the first calendar year of the trump administration in the books, the "new york times" took a look at how this president is re-inventing the office. quoting his chief of staff, john kelly, saying, he very seldom asks how other presidents did this. its true. for a chief of staff view bringing order to a chaotic white house that, certainly, has been a unique challenge. think of the presidents use of twitter alone, setting him apart from his predecessors. president trump is creating this un...

Donald trump has a dozen. his a dozen paired his predecessors whether barack obama, george w. bush, have not reached that number. is this a product of intentional focus saying the judiciary for better or for worse has been shaping the future of our country and if we want to maintain fidelity we need to pay down guys and gals in these courts as fast as possible. >> thats exactly right. this is a concerted plan that the administration had to hit the ground running from day one. theyve achieved thi...

Team is promoting american global leadership, returning it to a world stage. and what theyve been advocating is peace, security, prosperity. they spentç the entire year reassuring allies of the same. in the indo-pacific, in the middle east and also in europe. and theyve also demonstrated -- they havent had a lot of crises, but theyve demonstrated a willingness to confront our adversaries in a way that their predecessors, you know, were not willing to do. so i definitely think contours of a tru...