brink of a constitutional crisis, at least once. eroded americans faith and democracy and shattered peoples trust in the electoral system. yet, despite all of that, a significant portion of the electorate still believes that he deserves another four years in the white house. trump has made it clear that he s running a campaign of retribution and vengeance, promising to enact hard-line policies that could run afoul of the law and even saying that he wouldn t be a dictator, except for on day one. that s a direct quote. he s already plenty of reports out there about the kinds of draconian plans that trump and his close allies are preparing for a possible second term, including a crackdown on immigration that involves sweeping raids, giant detention camps, along the border, and mass deportations of millions of people each year. trump has made it well known that he intends to weaponize the justice department against his political enemies and critics in an attempt to stifle descen
Good mng the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. A twitter storm from president the Russian Election meddling in the 2016 election which is in. Ing to the white house. Brook silvabraga ha good morning. Good morning, annemarie. He took special interest in the news that the senior fbi counsel was removed after it was discovered that he had sent antitrump prohillary emails. The president used that story to make some broader criticisms about that. He wrote in part the reputation is in tatters, worst in history. The president of the fbis Agents Association responded agents act with unwavering integrity. This sparked a tweet on saturday that sources tell cbs it was actually crafted by mr. Trumps lawyer. It suggests the president knew mike flynn lied to the fbi before firing him. Some suggestion if he did know that and then asked director james comey to drop it, that might have led to. A dialogue the president disputes. He twe
The 2016 election which is in. Ing closer to the white house. Brook silvabraga has more. Good morning. Good morning, annemarie. He took special interest in the news that the senior fbi counsel was removed after it was discovered that he had sent antitrump prohillary emails. The president responded agents act with unwavering integrity. This sparked a tweet on saturday that sources tell cbs it was actually crafted by mr. Trumps lawyer. It suggests the president knew mike flynn lied to the fbi before firing him. Some suggestion if he did know that and then asked director james comey to drop it, that might have led to. A dialogue the president disputes. He tweeted sunday, i never asked comby to stop investigating flynn. Just more fake news covering a comey lie. Would say this as president. Theres an ongoing investigation. Comey may be part of it. You tweet and comment at your own peril. Flynn fleeding guilty friday to the fbi is now cooperating with Robert Muellers investigation into russi
Sites, over 100 years ago. So what with what happened tods thel president will sign orders to drastically reduce the size of the Bears Ears National monuments are consensually break them up into much smaller monuments. There are still can be very large pieces of land that are protected but may be that bears his monument, the one barack obama designated will be about 1 7 its original size. It would be ballpark to want a thousand acres. And the grandai staircase will become three monuments, totaling about 1 million acres. Host whats relationship between, giving these tracks of Land Protection and their ability to be mine for the Natural Resources . Guest thats the question everyone is thinking, about. In the cases of the Grand Staircase that was designated in 1996. Largely motivated to keep the Coal Resources in the plateau from being mind. It seems pretty clear that the redraw of that monument is being done to allow these, that cold to be mined. Whether it gets might or not thats a diff
Monuments man, a picture of President Trump at a signing, tell us what took place here. Guest well, President Trump flew to Salt Lake City yesterday on a day trip, and he reduced the size of two National Monuments that are both in southern utah. He slunk, he took shrunk, he took about two million acres out of them. So its the biggest reduction of National Monument protections in history. So it was a pretty big deal. Host what was justification of Trump Administration for doing this . Guest ing he said that, President Trump said that previous administrations had overreached, that it was bureaucrats in washington, d. C. Who were, you know, taking over the rights of we werers who should have more local input westerners and that the monuments were just too big. So he said they needed to be smaller in order to protect the actual areas that needed protection. Host and previous administrations meaning the obama administration, what was the decision for expanding the monuments at the time . Gu