it may terry treatment --inmate harry truman into a national figure -- it made harry truman into a national figure. recommended a great lawyer named hugh fulton. and every place harry truman explains how the truman committee work, he thanks robert jackson and hugh fulton. 9th dimension, jackson was much more a law man than a warrior. roosevelt's ultimate design for him was the appointment to this court in 1941. it was part of a complex triple play on the end of the term. roosevelt already had one vacancy and then chief justice age required him to retire. roosevelt wanted to appoin t jackson chief justice of the united states but with the world were coming and an interest in -- with the world roosevelt elevated a republican appointee to be the chief justice of the united states. he appointed a southern senator to replace reynolds and he appointed jackson to be a junior justice to be the successor to step in the seat -- to stone in the seat empty by stone's elevation. my third topic. rooseveltn and relationship. he described fdr and numerous -- he describes fdr in numerous roles. his book was

harry truman signed around 250 bills in his first year, according to his presidential library. in fact, mr. trump has signed fewer bills in his first year than any administration in decades, and you've got to go back to the eisenhower administration at least. that hasn't stopped donald trump. it's a claim he keeps repeating. here's what he said last friday. >> legislative approvals, for which i'm giving no credit for in the media. harry truman had more, and we beat him, for which i get no credit. >> we have the are professor of international politics at city university in london. >> good morning. >> is it true? has he broken the record? what is the actual fact here? >> the key factor is that president trump has his own style and the first thing he does every morning i think is throw a big one toward the mass media. it's a claim which he knows is unsustainable. but it gets everybody focussed on president trump and what he's been doing. and it takes away attention from other things he might be doing, which could be much more negative. that could be appraisals of where has he got

and my granddaughter caroline, was harry truman. [laughter] other good friends were franklin roosevelt. the night of a gathering for the parents, these little people came out there in gave a wonderful account of who they were and what they did and why they should be known about. and all of us were just amazed! and i know for certain, that not one of those children will ever forget which president they were. it will be with them for the rest of their lives. that is the kind of thing that can work wonders in many ways. i think we need to bring what i call the lab technique, to teaching history more than we have in this is true all the way through high school and college. get them involved in a project where they have to do the work. they can dig in and get their hands dirty and do the research. we should not just hand them everything and say here's what you need to know, here is why this is important. all of this and all of that. it will be on the test. number get them pumped by getting involved in the detective case aspect of it. and

caller: also, harry truman took jews and sat them on top of the palestinians, now today? our problem now what is our problem today? you are absolutely right. harry truman did do that, again, are a loti know there of praying people out there, let's pray we don't go to war nd have the strong belief that the war is not going to solve anything. japan, ook at germany, south korea and vietnam, we're at wars with all these korea just outh because of the korean war and countries are our largest trading partners. what that tells me, if we trade companies afterwards, why don't we trade and put the war to the side and work on trade, i think everybody >> tonight, president trump announces a formal recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. congressman greenup introduces articles of impeachment. and senate intelligence committee chair richard burr gives an update on the investigation of russian investigation -- russian interference in the 2016 election. at the white house, president trump annnc

he references harry truman, who comes to your mind, if anyone? >> well just harry truman created the c.i.a. the joint chiefs of staff. the national security council. the pentagon, the department of air force. the secretary of defenseship. i could go on and on. what did donald trump create this year? what is he going to be remembered for? i mean john f. kennedy in his first year in office, michael, did some bold things, he said we're going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade and he started getting money put into states like huntsville, alabama and houston, texas. infrastructure money on technology that worked with the space program. kennedy created his first year, the peace corps, alliance for progress. what's trump known for? all over the world he's seens a bully. that's the net take-away at the end of the year. and perhaps a bigot. and so it's very hard to see why history is going to be shining a great flashlight on a president with a 35% approval rating, the lowest since polls have been taken. whose big home run was the tax bill.

record of harry truman, he said. we have crunched the numbers. he actually signed less legislation than any president. president trump 96 pieces of legislation. obama, 124. you can go down the list. here we go. the truman presidential library got back to us. it was 240 to 250. he didn't break the record. >> not even a little bit. that's just the president has been misinformed about somebody. or it is simply an extension of the fact that he always wants to be the biggest and the best but he is not in this measure even by a little bit. what he may have been confused by in his first 100 days he was on a record pace. that fell apart really quickly. if you do the apples to apples comparison, not even close. bottom of the barrel. >> that is probably where the confusion lies. in the first 100 days he signed the most regulatory rollbacks, stuff like that. he is touting it as his first year accomplishment. not true. however, for people who support him, he has done a lot in terms of rolling back regulations. i think that's wha

harry truman had more legislative approvals than any it is aesident and record long-held. and we beat him on legislative approvals, for which i get no credit. and a lot of people said he needed this, because he had no legislative approvals. if you look at eva accountability act as many other bills having to do with a ba, having to do with the military, we have more legislative victories than any other president. , but this is this er -- because this is the biggest tax cut and reform of all time. it is an honor to have you with us and we will sign this right now. this is something i'm very proud of your it it is great for our country. great for the american people. thank you all. so, we won't do the whole thing, but this is a sickly what it is. that is your bill. shutters] and i want to thank some people in particular that are not here, because again we expected a formal ceremony in two weeks, but mitch mcconnell has been fantastic. he worked so hard. we would speak at 3:00 in the morning, 2:00 in the morning, when ever we had to speak. and the samehard exact thing was said

he says, we broke the record of harry truman. i was talking to presidential historian douglas brinkley. he was invited to mar-a-lago to meet the president. he asked have you read any biographies. he said no, that's for guys like you. he's proud of that. he set a record for the least amount of legislation signed, david. >> yeah. just going out and speaking a complete untruth about this continues to surprise me even following donald trump for a couple of years now. i think perhaps he is trying to con flit legislation from the totality of paper that he had signed, whether executive actions, rolling back regulations. he was trying to give the scope and how much name to paper he's done. but clearly those who track presidential signing of legislation of bills just proved what the president was just saying is not true. >> let's put the numbers up one more time. he did not even beat president obama's 118. the closest i guess is bush 43, 102. president trump's is 96. jonathan, your thoughts? >> yeah. this is precisely the reason why i thi

harry truman had more legislative approvals than any other president. a record long-held. and we beat him on legislative approvals, for which i get no credit. in a lot of people said he needed this, because he had no legislative approvals. you look at v.a. accountability act as so many other bills having to do with the v.a., having to do with the military, we have more legislative victories than any other president. not including this, but this is the cap are -- capper, because this is the biggest tax cut and reform of all time. it's an honor to have you with us and we will sign this right now. this is something i'm very proud of, it's great for our country, great for the american people. thank you all. so, we will do the whole thing, but this is basically what it is. that's your bill. and i want to thank some people in particular that aren't here, because again, we expect the formal ceremony in two weeks very mitch mcconnell has been fantastic. .e worked so hard we would speak of 3:00 in the morning, 2:00 in the morning, whenever we had to speak. it works so hard, and the

second now is harry truman. harry truman had more legislative approvals than any other president. on legislative approvals, for which i get no credit. this of people said he did because he has had no legislative approval. if you look at the v.a. accountability act and some of the other bills having to do with the v.a. and the military and many things, we have more legislative victories than any other president, not including this. but this is the cap or because this is again the biggest tax cuts, biggest reform of all time. so it's an honor to have you with us and we will sign this right now. this is something i'm very proud of, great for a country, great for the american people. thank you all. so we won't do the whole thing, but this is basically what it is. that's your bill. and i want to thank some people in particular that aren't here because again we expected a formal ceremony in two weeks, but mitch mcconnell has been fantastic. worked so hard. we would speak at 3:00 in the morning and 2:00 in the morning and we would speak whatever we had to speak, but he worked so hard and

justice jackson, told her, was appointed by harry truman. harry truman did that by executive order. he apparently did not think you to submit justice jackson's name to the senate and of course not all positions the executive can hand out are high offices requiring senate consent. what can be done about that? i think congress can pass statutes that are double duty of various sorts. congress has long had a statute barring some retired military from serving in a civilian of capacity within the department of defense. that bar was lifted so general mattis served as secretary of defense, right? there is a statute that said if you have served in the military for the prior seven or 10 years you cannot service secretary of defense. congress had to wait that statute. congress has the authority to waive that qualification on who could serve as secretary of defense, they can process insert a statute saying if you have one office you weren't eligible having any other office. if you are a federal judge from -- in any other capacity. so they get past that and it would deal with the problem of doub

justice jackson, told her, was appointed by harry truman. harry truman did that by executive order. he apparently did not think you do submit justice jackson's name to the senate and of course not all positions the executive can hand out our high offices requiring senate consent. what can be done about that? i think congress can pass oftutes that are double duty various sorts. congress has long had a statute barring some retired military from serving in a civilian of capacity within the department of defense. that bar was lifted so general mattis served as secretary of defense, right? there is a statute that said if you have served in the military for the prior seven or 10 years you cannot service secretary of defense. congress had to wait that statute. congress has the authority to waive that qualification on who could serve as secretary of defense, they can process insert a statute saying if you have one office you weren't eligible having any other office. if you are a federal judge from a cancer and any other capacity. so they get past that and it would deal with the problem of d

we broke the record of harry truman. if we get this tax bill, because that's the legislation of all legislation, that's the biggest there is, but that included the repeal of the individual mandate which is a disaster. that's why you. [inaudible] are saving a lot of money. many thought it was unconstitutional. we repealed it. we had a lot of legislation passed. here's an example of something that we signed. they said if we get this one done we would've exceeded the other session, but i believe you have to ask those folks but i think they know the real answer. we have more legislation passed including the record was harry german. a long time ago and we broke that record. in addition with got a lot of rules and regulations. [inaudible] a lot of the regulations were voided and now you can go back to work and do your job. in the case of builders and farmers and some of the others. [inaudible] we have the record for stopping ridiculous regulations were very proud about. will. it's a record level. we had the stock record hit a

, he references harry truman who comes to your mind if anyone? >> harry truman created the cia, the joint chiefs of staff, the national security council, the pentagon, the air force, the secretary defenseship. i could go on and on. what did donald trump create this year? what's he going to be remembered for? john f. kennedy in his first year in office, michael, did some bold things and said we're going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. he started putting money in places like huntsville, alabama, houston, texas, infrastructure that worked with the space program. kennedy created the first year, the peace corps, alliance for progress. what's trump known for? all over the world he's seen as a bully. that's the take-away at the end of the year and perhaps a bigot. so, it's very hard to see why history's going to be shining the great flash light on a president with a 35% approval rating. the lowest since the polls have been taken whose biggest home run was the tax bill. that doesn't really excite people. it is a success at the end of t

second now is harry truman. harry truman had more legislative approvals than any other president. a record long held. we beat him on legislative approvals for which i get no credit. we have more legislative victories than any other president. not including this, but this is the capper. this is again the biggest tax cut, biggest reform of all time. >> it's a big day. with us to share their reporting, sarah murray. cnn's manu. let's start with that moment and expand out to what it means for the big effort moment. the president spending his holiday. why did they do it this way? why not a big signing ceremony. he could have scheduled it differently. >> it was funny and normally you would be with leader mcconnell. you would be signing the bill and offering them pens. he offers the pens to members of the media who were in the room and he didn't have his partners in this legislating process with him. it was a bizarre way to do this, but the president wanted to get this done before he left for florida and it seemed like an opportunity to be honest and dodge questions from the press. wheth

is harry truman. reporter: the president will spend the night at mar-a-lago. president trump wants to get bipartisan by-in so infrastructure will most of likely go first. president trump: infrastructure is easy, people want it. reporter: immigration and welfare reform will be a much harder sell. democrats are expected to give the president little or none of what he will ask for. the 2018 elections were front and center the same day president trump celebrated the passage of tax reform. sources tell fox news the meeting grew heated when lewandowski rangt alarm that the president wasn't being well-served by the political operation at the white house and changes need to be made. reince priebus told the president the same thing. a gop operative tells fox news there needs to be better coordination on communication. when the white house is in a political knife fight, it needs air cover from the rnc. one source said the rnc is a disaster. the president needs to dump that place and start over. republicans fear

it was in a sense of harry truman's gift here. it was america's gift. >>> we're leaving our american history tv programming for a briefing with house republicans reacting to passage of tax reform legislation this afternoon. the vote on the bill was 227-203. it will now head to the senate for consideration this afternoon. >> chairman. here, here. >> good afternoon, everyone. when house republicans began this journey, we had two goals in mind. we believed the americans deserved a tax code built for growth. for the growth of their jobs, they paycheck and america's economy. we believed america could leap forward for that next new job and next new business. today we achieved those goals. and as we go forward, i want american taxpayers to think of three dates and keep them in mind. new year's day, america will have a new tax code for a new era of american prosperity. february 1st, look at your paychecks. because you'll see the tax relief we delivered today. on april 15th, you will for the last time file your taxes under this horrible te

we'll be back tomorrow night >> we have signed more legislation and broke the record of harry truman. if we get this tax-cut, that is the legislation of all legislations. >> hundreds of thousands will flock to times square to watch the ball drop, expect the most security ever for the event. >> disneyland, walt disney's original theme park which calls itself the happiest place on earth hit with major power outage -- ♪ jillian: good morning from new york city. on thursday morning, hopefully all of you had a great christmas. we begin with a fox news alert. breaking news, 35 are dead and dozens injured after bombing attacks, three explosions. as she ate muslim cultural center and afghan news agency. many victims are students, no one has claimed responsibility but tell a man denies involvement. breaking overnight vladimir putin calling a bombing at a st. petersburg supermarket terrorism. a homemade device with shrapnel injuring 13 people. no terrorist organization has claimed responsibility either. earlier this month, thanking donald trump for tips that helped stop other bombings in russ

harry truman had more legislative approvals than any other president and a record long held and we beat him on legislative approvals, for which i get no credit. a lot of people say he needed this because he has had no legislative approvals. well, if you look at va accountability act and so many other bills having to do with the va, having to do with the military, having to do with many things, we have more legislative vict victories than any other president. this is the capper, because this is again the biggest tax cut, the biggest reform of all time. so it's an honor to have you with us and we will sign this right now. this is something i'm very proud of. great for our country. great for the american people. thank you all. so we won't do the whole thing, but this is basically what it is. that's your bill. and i want to thank some people in particular that aren't here, because again we expected a formal ceremony in two weeks, but mitch mcconnell has been fantastic, worked so hard. we would speak at 3:00 in the morning and 2:00 in the morning and we would speak whenever we had to speak,

say under his administration more legislation has been passed than harry truman. fact check. is that true? do we know? >> probably not. >> tax reform -- >> what's interesting, though, is that this is something he's been saying, pamela, since his first 100 days. it might have been truer at that point when you're considering all of the small pieces of legislation and bills that we don't necessarily pay attention to at the national level, but it's not true any longer, certainly. yet he keeps saying it because once donald trump latches on to a line he likes, he use it is over and over again. >> he said it just before he left for mar-a-lago, too. >> he was in the clubhouse, just finished his round of golf, he was watching the show and heard you making gun of him playing golf instead of working. he quickly put on the suit -- he had a quick turnaround, hustled over to the fire station. there he is in his work attire thanking first responders. who can dislike that? cnn reports and the president responds. >> when i think of leadership, i think of leaders being selfless, once again we

second now is harry truman. >> he will look ahead to the 2018 agenda with immigration and welfare reform. he wants bipartisan buy in so infrastructure will go first. >> infrastructure is the easiest. we will have tremendous democratic support. >> immigration and welfare reform will be a harder sell. in a combative election year democrats will give the president little or none of what he will ask if. -- for. the 2018 elections were front and center. the president huddling with the chief of staff john kelly, and kellyanne conway and the communications director and the political director and former campaign manager lewandowski and the digital director. the meeting grew heated when lewandowski rang the alarm that the president was not well served by the current political operation at the white house and changes need to be made. a day earlier former chief of staff told the president the same thing. lewandowski also told the president that the republican national committee needed to do better. a gop operative tells fox news there needs to be better coordination on communications. when the whit

we have more legislation pass, including the record was harry truman. that's a long time ago. >> most recent analysis says that statement is just not true. examination of congressional data by npr found trump in last place in the number of bills signed going back to jimmy carter. even rough estimate from the harry truman library says trump is 150 bills behind the 33 president at this point. npr looked at significance of legislation trump has signed and found more than a third modify existing program. 16 repeal a rule or regulation and more with short-term or less consequential impacts. only three relate to new policy, including sanctions against russia and last week's tax bill. >> don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. >>> amid reports of turmoil at state department, secretary of state rex tillerson has a piece in the "new york times." year end recap of sorts promoting trump's policy vision and detailing views on where things stand in the world today. touches on the strategies aimed at north korea and iran and victories made in isis. also d

. >> we have signed more legislation than anybody and broke the record of harry truman. saying if we get the big tax cut because that's the ledgislation. it included the repeal of the individual mandate. that's where you have the privilege of paying a lot of money so you don't have to buy health insurance. >>reporter: president trump obviously riding this wave of victory. as for the notion that he's been more productive in the white house than previous occupants, that one doesn't hold up to fact checks. in fact he has signed fewer bills than any administration dating back toiz eisenhower. >> on wednesday, it was a little bit tougher, a big white box truck suddenly appeared to block the shot. unclear who commissioned it, but not any pedestrian. seems particular sensitive about images of president trump on the golf course. >> all right. president trump trying to bolster his claims of passing the most legislation by setting his rollback of legislation. >> a lot were avoided. in the case of builders and farmers and so many others, they can now go back to doing their jobs. we

he reminds me of harry truman. harry truman at the end of the day was one of the great presidents of this country. he wasn't at the time. trump undid all the junk obama did that most of people didn't understand. every day something new comes out pushing the iran deal. lou: this not a single instance in the obama presidency in which tbailsd an issue he did not decide on the side of the radical islamists. is there not an exception to that that i have been able to find. ed: he came into office as a social work and spent every day working as a special worker. trump came in as a businessman and every day he's acting like a businessman and a leader. and people around the world may not love him but they respect him and that's a very good place to be. lou: up next, we are awaiting the senate vote on president trump's historic tax reform legislation. >> new year's day america will have a new tax code for a new era of american prosperity. in february, february 1, look at your pay checks. you will see the tax relief we delive

second is harry truman.>> reporter: the president will spend the week in florida looking ahead to his 2018 agenda. which includes rebuilding infrastructure immigration reform and welfare reform. trump wants to get bipartisan buy-in so infrastructure will likely go first. midterm elections in the first- term are historically difficult. publicans fear a bloodbath next november if something isn't done to change the strategy. -- republicans. >>> stocks close modestly lower ahead of the long holiday weekend. dow jones fell 28. nasdaq lost 5. s&p dropped 1. the run-up in prices slowed at the end of the week with the passage of the tax bill.>>> a new task force has been created to look into a dramatic increase in the number of homeless people who died. how santa clara county's plan is meant to save lives.>> reporter: at st. james park in san jose.>> we have a group that stays here.>> reporter: safety is on the minds of these friends who pulled money together to stay in a hotel last night including betsy enriquez.>> the shelters are almost worse. i feel safer out here than i do inside which i

touting a record of any successful record ever, breaking harry truman's record. that turns out it's so far from true, it's laughable. this is a look at the flowchart here, and he has signed the fewest going back to truman, and jfk holds that record, but trump does not eclipse obama or bush 43. we join in mr. ferguson and aa a navarro. >> say it in spanish. >> speakitry to defend what the president said yesterday. >> certain times, facts are just facts. i don't know if he was implying the executive orders he signed and undone what president obama had done, and the numbers you looked at and the numbers about actual legislation, and clear he he did not sign the most legislation, and i don't know if he was talking about all the times he has signed through executive order, which he has done an awful lot of that in his first year to do so many of the executive orders from barack obama, and maybe that's where he got his total number from. >> you can say the crime rate is the highest ever in a certain place because it feels right, and let's look at the promises kept and

harry truman said if you want a friend in washington, buy a dog. my point about people taking anti-friendship pill, i thought i had strong alliances with people that in fact i did not have. as a result of the fact that once they were in power they were building borders to secure and protect their power. i think that is very, very dangerous. i can tell you candidly the president does not like that. the president likes a team oriented culture. that sort of in fighting which was taking place i would say threw the period ending july 31st was something he didn't like. he wanted to have the end and i helped him put an end to that. >> he was betrayed by some of your friends. have you seen the white house in the past and decided is thes with the president dukeing it out for influence. >> we haven't seen it in modern times. there is enormous chaos that goes on on a regular basis. john is laughing over there, but no denying it. there have been more departures from a white house. look at scaramucci, he served a whopping 11 days in office. that's unprecedented

>>> we have more legislation passed including the record of harry truman. a listening time ago. we broke that record so we have a lot to thank. >> hard to hear a little bit but it's not true what president said just there. historians, fact checkers rebutting that false claim of >>> we have more legislation passed including the record of harry truman. a listening time ago. we broke that record so we have a lot to thank. >> hard to hear a little bit but it's not true what president said just there. historians, fact checkers rebutting that false claim of president trump. he said it today and made the same claim last week when he signed the tax bill. here is the actual deal, mr. president. a lie is still a lie no matter how many times we tell you and we'll show you why you should know it's a lie. 94 bills signed since taking office, historic low compared to his 9 press december sos and topping harry rue than record, untrue. take it from the truman library saying we don't have a figure but 240 to 250, according to statutes at large. congress passed 292 bills in the session. you could

we have more legislation passed, including the record was harry truman, a long time ago, and we broke that record. so we have a lot -- in addition, we have a lot of executive orders. a lot of the rules and regulations. you people suffered from that to a certain extent in all fairness, but a lot of regulations were avoided, and now you can go back to work and do your jobs in the case of builders and farmers and so many others. they can go back and do their job. so we have the all-time record for stopping ridiculous regulations, and we're very proud of that. that's one of the reasons the stock market is up at a record level. we broke it 84 times this year. the stock market hit a new high 84 times since we won the election november 8th of last year. so that's something we can all be proud of. and that makes you all look very smart. and your families say, oh, are you a great investor when you have your numbers go up and your stocks go up. when the stock market goes up, that affects everyone. you think of the rich, the big factors. it affects everybody because people own stocks, whether it

. >> we've signed more legislation than anybody and broke the record of harry truman. it was like, if we get this -- because that's a legislation of all legislations. we have more legislation passed including the record was harry truman and we broke that record. >> according to govtrack president trump has signed the fewest bills into law dating all the way back to eisenhower. be right back. whoooo. when it comes to travel, i sweat the details. late checkout... ...down-alternative pillows... ...and of course, price. tripadvisor helps you book a... ...hotel without breaking a sweat. because we now instantly... ...search over 200 booking sites ...to find you the lowest price... ...on the hotel you want. don't sweat your booking. tripadvisor. the latest reviews. the lowest prices. you or joints. something for your heart... but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. >>> welcome back to "hardball." it's been n

harry truman signed about 250 according to the truman presidential library. nothing to see here, folks. a day after cnn cameras catches the president hitting the lynx, a mysterious truck shows up to block their shot. what's going on? we will try to show you, next. >> obama ought to get off the golf course. >> i'm going to be working. i won't have time to play golf. >> he played more golf than tiger woods last year. >> remember that go to attack line from the president? then candidate trump during the campaign. we do. for all that criticism he directed to president obama for playing golf, there are some facts about this president, president trump's own time on the lynx since taking office. 88 days in all. cnn cameras were able to capture him golfing at trump international again today after something really mysterious happened on wednesday. a large white truck appeared out of nowhere and blocked the view of journalist who is had gathered on public property from getting another shot at the president. when cnn attempted to move the camera, the truck moved again,

harry truman had more than double that. when we pull back the lens even further, president trump had fewer things get through congress than any modern president going back to jimmy carter who had the most. a strange statement for the president to make when it's so easily fact checkable. and also an odd statement for a conservative to make. an odd thing to brag about, how much the government is getting done. typically, you have conservatives wanting to say we want our government doing less. one thing to talk about rolling back regulations, rolling back things that were done by previous administrations, but to be bragging about how active your government is sort of out character for a nominally conservative president. >> although, garrett, i think the white house, in my conversations with officials there, i think they are frustrated with what they've seen as a narrative of this president not having done a lot legislati legislatively. maybe he's pushing back on that. i want to bring tom and josh back with us. as garrett pointe

truman. this photograph we are looking at is at the 1945 inaugural. if you look closely at it, fdr is not in really good point at this point. in fact, he dies three months after this photograph is taken in april of 145, and he is succeeded bihari truman who is standing to his left in the photograph. shortly after the inaugural, fdr departed on a 7000-mile journey to yalta, in the crimea, which is the final of the great conferences as he attends with the big three, stalin, churchill, roosevelt. after the conference, fdr returns to the united states, and he appears before congress in march of 1945 to deliver an address reporting on what he had done at the yalta conference. what is extraordinary about this speech to a joint session of congress is that roosevelt delivered this speech from a seated position and he did it because he was exhausted and suffering from poor health. in the course of that speech, he directly acknowledges his disability for the only time in is presidency. president roosev

second now is harry truman. harry truman had more legislative approvals than any other president. and a record long held and we beat him on legislative approvals with which i get no credit. >> it's worth noting that president trump is behind other presidents in the first year when it comes to signing legislation into law. bill clinton at this point by december 22nd had 208 pieces. george bush 102. barack obama 121. donald trump 96. we don't know when the president says something what he's referring to because he said it was the biggest tax cut in history. it is not. putting the lies aside, the delegislate mitization of the presidency and the institutions and the attack on the fbi, this is out of handbook and done before with disastrous results following. >> that's exactly right. and it's clear that donald trump is a wannabe despot or the despot's apprentice and wishes for a system of no independent fact checkers, no independent media, no checks and balances that functioned or challenged him and why he's trying to attack and demonize the enemy of the people. called them a stain on

. >> we have more legislation passed, including the record of harry truman. i broke that record, so we have a lot done. >> keeping them honest again, the president has rolled back plenty of regulations and he did sign a deal of executive orders and he does have the tax bill to his credit. however, when it comes to the number of bills passed, the president is not in fact the best since harry truman, he is the worst, in fact, since dwight eisenhower, the dwiworst in hal century. phil mattingly joins me now with more. phil, the president said he broke that record for signing legislation. is there any way, any technicality where he could make that argument? >> the short answer is no. the 96 bills that he signed into law in his first year in office falls far short of his predecessors going back to at least dwight eisenhower. it's an odd metric to fixate on. he has done things that are major accomplishments for conservatives. you can talk about the tax bill which also repealed the obamacare individual mandate and allowed drilling up in alaska. he's got 12 circuit c

we have signed more legislation than anybody -- we broke the record of harry truman. >> reporter: the president sied he took office. that number is hundreds fewer than the 700 pieces of legislation one bill-tracking website counts signed by president kennedy. president clinton and george h. w. bush signed 200 bills into law. mr.trump took to twitter taking credit for an 83% increase for arrest for members of the ms 13 gang and reducing isis fighters in 35,000 to 1,000 since he took office. >> the secret service and police in west palm beach, florida say they are not using a box truck to block news cameras from recording the president playing golf. this is video from cnn. the secret service tells the cable news channel the agency quote is in the business of protection and investigation not in commissioning vehicles to blood the -- block the media's view yesterday the truck blocked their cameras from recording the president while he was golfing. >>> how the new tax overhaul could discouraging people from giving to charity. >>> california is just days away from legal pot sales. coming up

. >> we have more legislation passed including the record a was harry truman. >> reporter: the president said he holds the record for stopping what he called ridiculous regulations and credits those roll-backs for helping boost the stock market. the president has been tweeting meriopmism for businesses in the new year. he's also predicting republicans and come together to create a new healthcare plan but analysts say that is unlikely >> his promises will ring hollow given there isn't a republican coalition that e expand health insurance. >> reporter: they will face a number of ranging from the budget to immigr cbs3 "eyewitness news." >>> new jersey's govern chris christie sign executive order for 2018 new jersey residents would like to pay the taxes before a $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions goes into effect. that provision is part of the tax reform law signed by president trump this month. new jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation >>> five juveniles are under arrest at the cherry hill mail. police arrived on scene and found approximately 700 to 1,000 unaccompan

harry truman had more legislative approvals than any other president, a record long-held. we beat him on a legislative approvals, for which i get no credit. a lot of people said he needed this because he had no legislation approvals. if you look at the v.a. accountability act, bills having to do with the v.a., having to do with the military can we have more legislative victories than any other president, not including this, but this is the er, because this is, again, the biggest tax outcome of the biggest reform of all time. so it is an honor to have you with us, and we will sign this right now. this is something i'm very proud of. great for our country, great for the american people. thank you all. won't do trump: so we the whole thing, but this is basically what it is. and i want top: thank some of people in particular that aren't here, because again, we expected a formal ceremony in two weeks, but mitch mcconnell has been fantastic. worked so hard. we would speak at 3:00 in the morning, 2:00 in the morning, whenever we had to speak. but he worked so hard. and the exact

harry truman signed between 240 and 250 bills into law. eisenhower signed 514. and john f. kennedy signed 684. president trump at 96 is really near the bottom of recent history here. it's unclear why the president keeps repeating this. maybe he's thinking about the regulations that his administration has targeted across the federal government and rolled back. but as we all know, civics 101, that's not the same thing as signing a bill into law, poppy. >> it's not. thank you for the class in that this morning, abby phillip. we appreciate it. >>> let's discuss, former republican congressman kingston is here and former hillary clinton campaign manager felicia doyle and selena doyle. you worked with the team on some issues. why come out and say something that's not factual? itch signed more legislation than anyone since truman instead of just sayinging i got neil gorsuch on the supreme court, the lower court appointments, a partial obamacare repeal and, you know, and by the way, i got tax reform done which no one's been able to do in 30-plus years. i have a hard time understandi

we broke the record of harry truman. they said if we get this big tax break, because that's the legislation of all legislations. but that included anwar, as you know. it included the repeal of the individual mandate, which is a success. that's where you have the privilege of paying a lot of money so you don't have to buy health insurance. most people thought it should have been unconstitutional. we repealed it and we got anwar, which is one of the great building sites in alaska. we had a lot of legislation passed and here's an example of something too that will be passed and signed. yeah, we're going to fix it. we've been fighting for that for a long time. a lot of legislation passed. they were saying if we got this one done, we would have exceed xceeded. we have more legislation passed including record was harry truman. a long time ago. we broke that record. so we have a lot. in addition, we have a lot of executive orders. a lot of the rules and regulations -- people have suffered from that, too. a lot of the regulation

not quite according to data from the harry truman library. it found president trump signed roughly 150 fewer bills than president truman did in his first year. and npr crunched numbers against his past six president sesseay predecessors and he came in dead last. the president has reached a record in his first year and eli stokal points out today in the "wall street journal." we haven't seen this amount of west wing turnover in 40 years. the president lost the national staff, two directors and a cabinet secretary. and that's just is a handful. hey, a record's a record. right? >>> we'll be right back. i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. every day we hear from families who partnered with a senior living advisor from a place for mom to help find the perfect place for their mom or dad thank you so much for your assistance in helping us find a place. mom feels safe and comfortable and has met many wonderful residence and

it was in a sense of harry truman's gift here. it was america's gift. >>> we're leaving our american history tv programming for a briefing with house republicans reacting to passage of tax reform legislation this afternoon. the vote on the bill was 227-203. it will now head to the senate for consideration this afternoon.

. >> we have more legislation passed including the record a was harry truman. >> reporter: the president said he holds the record for stopping what he called ridiculous regulations and credits those roll-backs for helping boost the stock market. the president has been tweeting his optimism for american businesses in the new year. he's also predicting republicans and democrats will come together to create a new healthcare plan but analysts say that is unlikely >> his promises will ring hollow given there isn't a republican coalition that exists that wants to expand health insurance. >> reporter: they will face a number of issues ranging from the budget to immigration. cbs3 "eyewitness news." >>> new jersey's govern chris christie sign executive order for 2018, new jersey residents would like to pay the property taxes before a $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions goes into effect. that provision is part of the tax reform law signed by president trump this month. new jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation >>> five juveniles are under arrest at the cherry hill mail. pol