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Acknowledge that. >> reporter: for president trump serving his first time in elected office, his frustration set him apart from recent predecessors. its not clear he likes his new job, which seems far more difficult than he so often described. >> were going to start winning again. were going to win so much that you people are going to be angry at me. >> reporter: there is anger at this president, probably not the kind he was thinking about back on the campaign trail. at this point of his preside...

Days, the defining moments of most presidencies come far later. >> i can hear you! >> reporter: for president bush the terror attacks of september 11th and the iraq war still months away. >> oh, i know we always dont agree, but were beginning to get a spirit here in washington where were more agreeable, where were setting a different tone. >> reporter: president clinton may have been frustrated by grid lock. >> i learned that things are not going to change as fast as i wanted them to. >> reporte...

Where the plan is matchers will actually, theyre permitted to actually encircle the perimeter of the white house. but right now, getting lots of star power there with actor leonardo dicaprio. all right. after frequently bashing the governments jobs report, while on the campaign trail, the numbers were seeing now are going on president trumps record. so far, more than 300,000 new jobs have been added in just two months. a much better start than his four predecessors. but trumps lofty goal of 25...

Better deals i was able to get into manhattan. the republicans are not exactly flourishing like ronald reagan was also a democrat. over the years your views just change. president donald trump describing how his political philosophy has evolved over the decades. he reaches his 100th date milestone. most and foremost he is a person of common sense. so how does that describe the decision making and thus far and what will we see in the next 200 or 300 less days. in all fairness in the the first 100...

Remarks? at the very least, sort of brutally honest, arent they? >> its typically trump. after his first couple of marriages, he said, you know, marriage is so hard. youve heard of the high maintenance wife, youve heard of the low maintenance wife. i want the no maintenance wife. apparently he seems to have gotten that with melania so this is a typical m.o. of donald trump, to be kind of nostalgic about a situation where he doesnt have to work so hard. the other thing thats unique about the pres...

Congratulate you and your entire family. president trumps first 100 days were also marked by controversy. he was pilloried for his immigration ban and fired his national security adviser and spent weeks defending a claim that he was wiretapped by president obama. he placed the political director in the national security council only later to take him off pretty spent much of his first 100 days at war with the media accusing them of fake news. they are going to tear up the history books when it c...

>> i think hes a dealmaker, a successful one, and i think youre going to continue to see him work with members on both sides of the aisle to get things done. >> reporter: but the tax reform plan offered zero sweeteners, no funding for infrastructure spending many democrats had hoped n. for a president who said hes going to shake up washington, get things moving, hes going to do things differently, he could do it in a way that other presidents were unsuccessful because of his deal-making abilitie...

Times" -- far more fair than his predecessors. >> one of the things that i think is he doing better than barack obama are these press conferences. and his outreach to individual reporters. even for organizations like my own that he criticizes. trumps free ranging press conferences, i think are a lot more democratic than the way that obama conducted them. pete: thats not precedence. i believe its predecessor. abby: i kind of like it that way though. pete: we will keep it that way. here to weigh i...

Bush and clintons 22. >> no administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days. >>, but unlike his recent predecessors, the president so far has no legislative accomplishments to point to. allen lickman was virtually alone in his early prediction that donald trump would win the presidency. >> i think its been a pretty troubled first 100 days, not because he hasnt done anything, he has done a lot. this has not been a do-nothing presidency, but done almost all of it through executive order....

>> i donald john trump do solemnly swear. >> he signed three executive orders, withdraw from the trans-pacific trade deal. trading and mexico city, and ngos that provide abortion. and authorized building a border wall and the military, and ill-fated order on the immigration ban which was immediately challenged in the courts. >> they will do anything they can to keep the broken system in place. >> compared to his recent predecessors, president trump has been particularly prodigious with executive...