Former US ambassador: Trump acting amid court pressure

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00:00We're coming up to the 100-day anniversary of President Trump returning to the White House.

00:07I mean, when you look back on these last 90, however many days it's been, I mean, how much progress,

00:12what achievements do you think can be attributed to the Trump administration in this regard?

00:17This is a very difficult question to assess, in part because most of these steps that President Trump and his team have taken

00:32are under judicial pressures, if I could put it this way, suits and decisions by senior courts in the United States

00:42that have certainly frozen what they're doing, and some have even ordered undoing of what they have been doing,

00:53mostly in the domestic context, including the deportation of immigrants to Central America

01:00and other important questions for President Trump in light of the popularity he seeks to inspire,

01:12if we could put it this way, by handling the immigrant problem as he did in the electoral outcome,

01:19in which he attributes a good bit of his imputed success to dealing with immigration in a harsh, firm, and finalized manner.