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Inspector general just came out with a report that is raising some very serious questions over whether i.c.e. has the staffing or the training to deal with the high levels of cases that they already have on their radar. those are some of the questions that are going to be asked of the secretary of homeland security and the attorney general a little bit later today. hallie, back to you. >> live for us there in san diego. thank you. and in the next hour, my colleague ali velshi talking with jeff...

Court, media would kill." mark murray over at the big board. so, mark, the president has eight days to go before day 100. walk us through how he really stacks up to his predecessors. >> hallie, when you look at simple pieces of law signed in. 28 pieces of legislation, which is the highest mark since harry truman in the 1940s. on that measure, he is actually stacking up pretty well. as you and i know not all pieces of legislation are not created equally. president trump sign under to law and anot...

You see the limits of that even in a district like georgia. >> a.b., lets look at the data in terms of what mr. trump accomplished so far. he signed 24 executive orders which are more than president obama. whom donald trump used to criticize mightily for signs executive orders and doing that end run around congress. about the same, i believe -- well, no more than predecessors. in terms of executive orders. he signed a lot of presidential memorand memorandum. obamacare. not yet. building the wall...

He mentioned this during the campaign. well see how it plays out. because ultimately you can have continuity and different tactics, but if it is another test you have to make a difficult decision. >> all of this set against the backdrop against the 100 day mark that president trump is approaching. he said yesterday that hes accomplished more than any president ever or something like that. but that is demonstratively not true. in terms of what he rate, hes signed more executive orders than his pr...

Critical and its not clear that our allies trust that the south koreans are very nervous at the moment. i think it was good that vice-president pence went to the region to reassure, but im not sure that anybody is quite reassured yet. >> john mclauchlin, the cia is known to work up psychological profiles to the extent that they can of foreign leaders, in certain ways foreign regimes to try to anticipate their reactions to certain things. what do we know about north koreas reaction to the kind of...

Known to work up psychological profiles to the extent that they can of foreign leaders, in certain ways foreign regimes to try to anticipate their reactions to certain things. what do we know about north koreas reaction to the kind of talk weve been hearing from president trump? clearly president trump is trying to sound more threatening than his predecessors. how does that land in north korea? >> well, one of the difficult things right now is that this new leader has never been met by an americ...

Police officers u and one to target drug cartels. by the way not to mention unlike his predecessors, president trump is actually now forging a relationship with china to help counter north korea and their aggression and their nuclear ambitions by placing exphik pressure oeconomic pressure on a to help resolve the situation. we are seeing the art of the deal play out before your eyes in realtime. the president is moving at rapid pace to put agenda in place. there is still plenty of work to be don...

Welcome back to "the lead. go the "sticking to our politics lead now. president trumps jobs push comes as we learn one of his goals of completing tax reform by the end of the summer seems to be in peril. treasury secretary steve mnuchin tells "the financial times" passing reform by august likely would be pushed back after republicans scuttled the health care overhaul. cnns jim acosta has more from the white house. >> reporter: on the road in wisconsin, a state he flipped red to help win the whit...

I know for a fact, president xi called after a follow-up to the mar-a-lago meetings that took place on the weekend, and indicated he is willing to work towards dean oakley rising north korea. hell start with economic sanctions. this will take some time to play out. this is a move in the right direction. he is another option that he will never talk about. that is to assassinate kim jong il and create a military coup or some kind of coup, another leader who is more responsible. whether that is pos...

Harmful and unnecessary, adding obama white house redacted some visitor names while acknowledging the trump administration will not release any. >> frankly the faux attempt that the obama administration put out where they would scrub who they didnt want put out didnt serve anyone well. >> this policy change inconsistent with trumps past criticism of obama who he labeled the least transparent president ever, tweeting vaguely in 2012, why does obama believe he shouldnt comply with record releases ...