If you want to keep your job . A president that seems to thrive in division. Whether those who hate him not my president. Or celebrate him. A look now at the moments that defined president donald j. Trump. Repeal and replace obamacare. These tax cuts will be fuel miners get ready, youre going to be working your asses off. The crisis he has faced. We will defeat the virus and emerge stronger than ever before. I was in the early meetings of the oval office. In the rooms where it happened. Why does he seem to like putin . This is a cnn special report, fight for the white house, Donald Trumps presidency. Together we will crush the virus. Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, President Trump was making his case for a second term. And from the looks of it, no real concerns about an extremely contagious and deadly virus. What the white house was trying to do is say, we believe covid is gone. You saw donald trump put lipstick on a pig last night. We will defeat the virus and the pandemic. Ive witnessed him make some of the most difficult decisions of his life. There may have been an accidental clue that this was not the whole story. Thanks to advances we have pioneered the fatality rate. Pioneered the fatality rate . In fact, President Trump and his administration have been pioneers of a mishandled response and flawed leadership from the beginning. New details on the deadly coronavirus outbreak in china and spreading across the globe. As early as january, President Trump was warned about the Novel Coronavirus according to bob woodward. Robert obrien told President Trump, covid19 would be the Biggest NationalSecurity Threat of his presidency. President trump says he does not remember that briefing. There were also briefings with other intelligence and Public Health officials. Josh dossey. Alex azar called to brief the president. They talked about it briefly and the president moved the question to vaping. He was quite frustrated. I was in the early meetings in the oval office. Kellyanne conway tells a different story. He did take it seriously. He banned travel from china in january. Nobody thought we should do it. Zero cases, zero deaths. It was not a full ban on travel from china. Tens of thousands of people were allowed to travel to the u. S. Even after it was ordered. Perhaps more importantly, President Trump was publicly dismissing the threat, with cdc efforts to come up with a test botched and no comprehensive effort to identify and isolate the virus nationwide still the president would point to partial travel bans to argue he was on the case. If you talk to experts, by the time the president put those in place, the virus is already circulating inside the United States. All of this is accompanied by a daily barrage of president ial lies. We have it totally under control, its one person coming in from china. We think we have it very well under control. The consensus among his own health experts, we needed to limit the number of illnesses and deaths instead of trying to block it from entering the United States. Trump was unwilling to accept that advice. Throughout february. Trump dismissed concerns that the coronavirus was worse than the flu. Flu has a ray tailty ratio of about. 1 . Correct. This has a fatality ratio of somewhere between 2 and 3 . We dont know exactly. And the flu is higher than that. It turns out privately weeks earlier he was saying something different. You just breathe the air, thats how its passed. Thats a tricky one, a more delicate one. Its also more deadly than your strenuous flues. Trump says he downplayed the virus to not panic americans. Something he continued to do into early march. It will go away, just stay calm. A message at odds with health experts. Cases kept increasing. And increasing. The coronavirus death toll jumped again today. Finally, the day tom hanks and rita wilson became the first high profile americans to announce they tested positive for coronavirus. And the nba shut down its season. My fellow americans. The president was uncomfortable heading into it. New York Times White House correspondent maggie haber man. The president looked unfamiliar with the material as he was reading it. It contained at least three errors. That speech was probably the single most important moment in the u. S. Response to the coronavirus. But for all the wrong reasons. Abby phillip. It really highlighted that the administration was not prepared to deal with the crisis. It was an historic day on wall street. The next day, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading for 15 minutes after the s p 500 fell 7 . The white house scrambled to try to fix the errors about travel bans and insurance coverage. Then one day later today i am officially declaring a national emergency. The country had lost two months to ramp up testing and production of key supplies such as ppe or ventilators. He had that at his fingertips. President trump says president ial historian could have nationalized the response. And invoked the defense production act to immediately force companies to manufacture what was needed. He had an opportunity with covid19 to use the enormous power of the presidency in a moment of national crisis. Governors were left to fend for their states. It was mass pandemonium. Larry hogan . It was a 50 state strategy. Some states doing better than others. Hogan secretly sourced half a million tests for his state from south kree why ya. I asked the president about that at a briefing we had. Could have saved a lot of money. He had been assuring testing was amazing in the United States. And the question was, well, if thats true, why is the governor of maryland having to go to another country testing was lagging far behind despite the president s spin. Anybody that wants a test can get a test. Thats what the bottom line is. That was a lie. Experts agree, one of the singular reasons we still have so many cases and so many deaths is because the u. S. Lagged in its ability to identify the virus through testing and isolate it. I said earlier today i hope we can do this by easter. Trump then tried to pressure governors to open up their states and their economies. I do believe a lot of the governors should be opening up states. What mistakes do you think have been made by the president . Allowing some of the governors to make decisions and mayors to make decisions about whether and when to lockdown and how the lockdown also made this more fraught. It was not a health strategy, it was a political strategy, allowing the white house to blame the governors, no matter what and accept zero responsibility. This while the president also sought to undermine dr. Anthony fauci for telling the truth. Including acknowledging the fact that the president s delay in action cost lives. Obviously, you could logically say if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saves lives. No one is going to deny that. The president tried to control the message. Minimizing the risk. Young people are almost immune to this disease. Pushing unproven drugs to treat coronavirus. Including hydroxychloroquine. What do you have to lose, ill say it again . What do you have to lose . Take it. I see that disinfectant can knock it out in minutes . Is there a way we can do Something Like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning . The president s briefings ended for a while, and he let the experts take the lead. He pushed guidelines on social distancing and wearing a mask. And he finally wore a mask himself. The Trump Administration did eventually invoke the dpa for key supplies such as testing swabs. The Trump Administration is optimistic about developing a vaccine. Dr. Francis collins who spent deck 5ids at nih has said hes never seen vaccine therapeutics come together so quickly in the way they are. The facts speak for themselves. The u. S. With less than 5 of the worlds population has a much higher case count and death count than the rest of the western world. The worst response of any western wealthy nation, according to this data. And its not even close. And recently the president seems to be back to undermining efforts to save lives. Whether its Holding Events with seemingly no social distancing or required mask wearing or even mocking joe biden for wearing a mask. Again did you ever see a man that likes a mask as much as him . We wanted to ask President Trump about all of this and more, but he turned down repeated requests for an interview. He views this virus as standing in the way of him being reelected. Covid19 was not of his making, but covid19 was his opportunity to be a great president. He looked at covid19 and backed away not wanting to take a chance. The quality donald trump values the most, that when we come back. Take the good, with the bad live the life you want to have send it off, with a bang whistling and all the moments you havent hi love, cant wait got the ring yes and with jared it doesnt have to youre on it. Exercising often and eating healthy . Yup, on it there too. You may think youre doing all you can to manage type 2 diabetes and heart disease. But could your medication do more to lower your heart risk . Jardiance can reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults who also have known heart disease. So, it could help save your life from a heart attack or stroke. And it lowers a1c. Jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration, genital yeast or urinary tract infections, and sudden kidney problems. 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I cant wiat to share at ts big 5g news. shouting through the glass at t has nationwide 5g . Yup and thats faster . Faster, yea but is it reliable . Ah huh and secure you should consider making a big deal about it bigger . I said bigger oh, bigbigger deal bigger than what im doing . Its not complicated. A 5g Network Needs a 5g device. Now everyone including existing customers can get a free Samsung Galaxy note20 after tradein. You know, some of these people have a 10 loyalty, meaning if they sneeze in the wrong direction they got loyalty. Good morning, welcome to your new day. Its monday december 19th. Texas electors sealing the deal for donald trump. To make Donald Trumps victory official today. It was the day Donald Trumps win was officially certified by the electoral college. He was reportedly celebrating with top aids in palm beach, florida. The conversation turned to whom he should hire. They focused on Campaign Advisers and supporters who had been loyal to him during the 2016 campaign at a time when most republicans were trying to distance themselves from him. The dinner has been consistent with everything weve seen from this president. Hes been obsessed. Obsessed with loyalty. He always has been. Here he is in 1980. I learned that there were some great loyal people, and i learned there were some people that could have been more lawyer. Those people i discarded totally. Once donald trump became president he didnt just look for it, he demanded it. Its a tradition that president s bring a little cliche with them. Loyalty is not new in the white house. But trumps brand of loyalty was new. The trump people said, essentially, if we can ever find that you publicly posted something negative about the president , youre very unlikely to get a position. Ive never heard of that kind of vetting of people for negative comments about the president in their past lives. His early hires were loyalists throughout the campaign and in the early months of the presidency. He did hire a few one time opponents who have been loyal since. Thank you, mr. President. Including ben carson secretary of housing and urban development. Our president makes promises and he keeps them. And secretary of energy, former governor rick perry. Mr. President i know there are people who say you were the chosen one, and you were opin n opinion. But it would not take long for president interrupt to learn others loyalty was fleeting. I have a very good idea who the leakers are in the white house. Anthony scaramucci was hired six months into trumps presidency to weed out disloyal leakers. There were three or four people that were the biggest leakers, he wanted them gone. The loyalty goes one way toward him. This demand for loyalty could be a problem when it seemed to supersede ethics. Loyalty means you do what i need you to do, even if its unethical. You work for me. That may be a good strategy if you run a small private business. But its absolutely unacceptable for a constitutional officer in a republic. He immediately tests you to see if you are going to be on his side. If youre going to be his enemy. Mr. Mccabe what do you say it was an unfamiliar situation for Andrew Mccabe then acting director of the fbi. He had served four administrations at the fbi for both republican and democratic president s. As career Government Servants dedicated to the constitution and the rule of law, those folks are not going to simply exceed to the president s will. Does working for President Trump ultimately mean you have to agree with him all the time if you want to keep your job . I think thats the case. Theyre going to do what they think is their job. Thats a tough decision for people to make, and its one that will likely bring you great personal pain and sacrifice. If youre committed to doing that work youre likely going to run headlong into a conflict with President Trump. I have now decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in anyway to the campaign for president of the United States. Jeff sessions an incredibly loyal guy, but made one decision, and thats it, hes dead to President Trump. He could run you over with a steamroller at any time, i need you to do things, and i need you to be willing to take the blame for me when things go poorly. Perhaps contributing to unprecedented turnover. 89 of his senior staff have left. Thats more turnover than all of the past five president s had in their first terms. Trump has had top aids replaced more than once. White House Press Secretary sean spicer. There were some people that werent qualified but they had been loyal to the president. When people found themself, several formers found themselves speaking out against President Trump. It was challenging for me to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesnt read briefing reports. The only person in the military that mr. Trump doesnt think is overated is colonel sanders. The ultimate betrayal for trump who resorted to name calling. Former National Security adviser john bolten a wacko, jim mattis, the worlds most overrated general. Former secretary of state rex tillerson, dumb as a rock. He would turn on them in a really aggressive way in a way that ive never seen or heard of president s doing before. I think turnover is natural in any white house. David urban . I think this Administration May be more high pressure. More issues that are pressing. A demand for loyalty for what trump hoped to be his first big policy win. Repealing and replacing obamacare. We have so many unbelievable alternatives. Donald trump believed that his iron grip on Republican Voters would get him all republican votes. Who months after the inauguration, the republicans had a bill that would dismantle obamacare. While the bill did make it through the house. The senate posed some issues. I think the bill would have to be fundamentally changed. The senate bill was known as skinny repeal going into that vote in july 2017. Trumps hopes for success rested with Arizona Republican senator john mccain whom trump had attacked for years. Hes not a war hero. Hes a war hero. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured. Senator mccain was sick and he was heading out to arizona. I made the suggestion, maybe we should go out there and see him on one of these trips that we were making. And the president did not want to do that. In the early hours of july 28th, mccain arrived to vote. A singular 340emotion that left Senate Chamber agast and the white house reeling. It was incredibly personal. President trump holds on to grudges, he wants loyalty. He probably will never let that moment go. For the rest of mccains life and long after his death trump would attack him. I was never a fan of john mccain and i never will be. Something that trump would do to any republican who turned against him. Im not a fan of mitt romney. Jeb bush is a puppet to his donors. He has effectively chased many of his critics out of the republican party. The president has defied political wisdom in big the party along with virtually everything that he has done for over four years now, since he was a candidate. And he requires that loyalty. Loyalty that would carry interrupt through many issues and crisis in his first term. We want lower taxes, bigger pa