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Argument? >> short answer, no, the 96 bills he signed into law fall fall short of his predecessors going back to dwight eisenhower. its an odd metric to fix. hes done major accomplishments for conservatives. can talk about the tax bill. allowed for drilling in alaska. he has 12 circuit court judges. supreme court justice that have all been confirmed. these are things republicans would like to focus on. not necessarily the numbers particularly when they fall short. these are not all major legisla...

To 250 bills in office. and john f. kennedy signed 684 bills. so president trump has quite a ways to go to beat the records of his recent predecessors, alisyn. >> abby, thank you very much for all of that reporting. joining us now cnn political director david challian and jonathan martin. great to see both of you. this is a new wrinkle with roy moore. not only he never conceded, now he is saying and submitting a letter to the secretary of state that he has, he thinks, election evidence of electi...

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>> you know, what people dont understand, we have signed more legislation than anybody, broke the record of harry truman. >> reporter: now, theres a lot that president trump can point to in terms of what hes been able to do. he talked a lot about that tax bill. he probably could have talked about some other things and rolling back regulations and neil gorsuch supreme court nomination but that figure that he mentioned in that clip is just simply untrue. he signed 96 bills into law this year. that...

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Broken out by party, 60% of republicans see the bill as benefiting the middle class, the way the president and republicans in congress say it will. only 27% of republicans say it is a bill for the wealthy. take a look at the democrats there. nearly every democrat in the poll, 95%, say this bill is skewed to help the wealthy, guys. >> the approval ratings for the president on this, you know, he gets this legislative win but how much does he and party actually win? the president at the lowest appr...

Side with maybe just a few tweaks, a few modest changes. perhaps the time has come to put aside a few of the twitter battles. i like the tweets but not all of them. now its time to humanize the agenda that youve been fighting for. you see, your predecessors barack obama and bill clinton were masterful, they could turn on the machine, they could bear hug at the drop of a hat. while they were often all emotion, they were at the same time often no action. i would say its possible to do both. i was ...

Tackles each day as an hour-by-hour battle for self-preservation that is fueled by a steady stream of cable news, twitter, and a dozen diet cokes a day. all of this, according to interviews with more than 60 advisers, associates, friends, and members of congress. joining me now is one of the reporters for the story, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york time times". i dont even know where to start. this is the best article i have read in the longest time. so compelling. ...

Interstate highway and dangling from an overpass tell part of the story. an ntsb emergency team is on their way to the scene to piece together what happened. president trump reveals his national security strategy. its a document every president in the last three decades has published, outlining threats to the united states and how to respond. president trumps plan builds on his america first campaign slogan and in a speech the president just slammed his predecessors over immigration, trade and...

Beautiful, strong companies. so thats going to be very, very important. i guess its very simple. when you think you havent heard this expression, but we are making america great again. you havent heard that, have you? >> but in order to buy that claim that republicans are finally rescuing an economy thats been allowed to languish for years, you have to willfully ignore the entire past decade of history. because this president would not be enjoying the favorable conditions hes taking credit for n...