justice system. >> he is there to serve the american people. not to use his office for private gain. >> this is a direct attack on his policies and her name. >> those that think you could silence senator warren more wrong. >> this is about freedom of speech. it's about decor rum. 40 million people are effected by some type of warning. >> this is new day. >> welcome to your new day. didn't look like that just an hour or so ago. and slamming the northeast. 40 million people, 13 states. you're seeing it is starting to pile up and we'll keep giving you the relevant data throughout the morning. we're look at as much as a foot. >> listen up.

schools are closed this morning in places in new york, in massachusetts, in pennsylvania, in connecticut, and more than 2700 flights are cancelled across the country. we'll have much more throughout the program for you. >> why? because in a closed door meeting with democrats this judge allegedly said that the president's remarks about the judiciary were disheartening and amoral. >> the comments were made during the private meeting and now they're calling on gorsuch to go public with those statements and criticisms. so let's begin our political coverage with joe johns live at the white house. >> good morning. the president's critical come meants about the judiciary

putting his nominee for the court in a tough spot turning up the heat on what was expected to be a tough confirmation process. federal judges weighing his travel ban. >> after some back and forth he could say that he found them to be disheartening and demoralizing. >> in a private meeting with richard blumenthal, the president's nominee to the supreme court slamming the fighting criticism of the federal judge in seattle that halted his order. some republicans praising his comments. >> it sounds like he might be a good judge. he's not going to be politically swayed on one side of the aisle. >> it's a step in the right direction. >> they're still skept car length of the nomination. >> he has to come to the defense of the american judiciary strongly and maybe he is moving

in that direction. but it has to be much stronger and more direct. >> this as the president continues to lash out at the judiciary. >> we had a decision yet. >> it seems to be so political. >> rule any day on the immigration order. >> anyone understands. suspend the industry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants. >> mr. trump claiming he wanted to delay implemented the ban. >> what about a week. >> you'll have people with evil intentions coming in before the restrictions. >> the president is stoking fears about terrorism as he awaits the court ruling. >> believe me, i have learned a

lot in the last two weeks and terrorism is a far greater threat than the people of our country understand. >> his startling comment a departure from the messaging of the past president that urged americans to be vigilant and not afraid. meantime the president making it clear despite pledges to the contrary he's still looking out for the family business. mr. trump blasting the upscale retailer nordstrom for dropping his daughter ivanka's clothing line tweeting the company treated her unfairly and retweeting it from his official government account. >> to take out concerns with his policy on a family member is not acceptable and the president has every right as a father to stand up for them. >> but nordstrom is pushing back saying their decision was an economic one solely based on performance citing declining sales over the past year.

and the president weighing in this morning on the judge gorsuch controversy with the tweet that says senator richard blumenthal that never thought in vietnam now misrepresents which judge gorsuch told him with a question mark. we expect to see the president later today at the swearing in of his newly minted attorney general just confirmed last night. >> we heard the tweet and assessed and there's something in there that's relevant. let's discuss now with the member of the senate committee on foreign relations. always good to have you on the show, senator. >> thank you for having me. so blumenthal says it was demoralizing to hear the comments. he tweets blumenthal misrepresents what he told him.

the man that is leading communications for judge gorsuch confirms he did say what blumenthal said he says. your thoughts. >> i was in a meeting where they had this conversation. that's what his spokesperson said. it's highly unusual for a senator to disclose the entirety of a meeting after a private meeting like that and not believe that senator blumenthal and i would agree with judge gorsuch. we go back to january six years ago or 7 years ago in front of the joint session of congress and by attacking a decision they had made. he started it out with all due

respect and that's not true. this is the first time that a president used the power of the office to criticize a supreme court decision or justice or a judge. >> there's no question that you have the right. he has spun a couple of turns away from what i asked you though which is i know neither of us are party to the conversation but if that were the only basis for having an opinion about something nobody would ever talk about anything, right? we now know that the communications director says that gorsuch said what blumenthal said he says. and he misrepresented it and i'm asking you what is your response to the president calling something essentially false when everyone else says it is true. >> i have no reason to doubt

him. >> if it right to impugn the credibility of a senator when it seems by all indications he is telling the truth. >> i don't think it's right for the president to impugn the character of anyone. that's what we expect of our president but i also think that it's fair for us to have a discussion about what is happening in washington right now. when you mention the word impugn and i think what we have seen is a tremendous amount of hostility in a process that's changed dramatically from 1978. that goes to the cabinet confirmations and rule 19 as it relates to senator elizabeth warren. the fact is simple. democrats instructed the congress in the senate to an unprecedented level. to the first time since going back to 1789. a member of the senate spoke to

corey booker at a confirmation hearing. five cabinet members in modern history received 40 no votes for the first year nominations by a president. only five have received more than 40 no votes. three of them happened under this president. this is an unprecedented level of obstruction that we have seen and i think you're starting to see that frustration mount and it's mounting across the country with voters that elected this president and voters that have been forgotten by democrats as the elizabeth warren wing of the party takes charge. >> we heard the same thing several years ago when it was your party taken over by an extreme win of your own party. we dealt with all the issues. it will be interesting to see this time. i think you have a fair point that what democrats have been doing with these nominees is unprecedented and you know what their side of the case is, that the nominees are unprecedented

in their own either lack of being well acquainted for the office or lack of ethical preparation. >> i don't think republicans were excited yet they were both confirmed. >> true. >> this is something that is truly -- i think that what happened here is the democratic party has forgotten the reasons already why they lost the election. if you look at what happened on november 8th, the american people were tired of the status quo in washington d.c. they wanted to send a message to washington d.c. and now we have the doubling down on the strategy that caused their defeat this past november and i think they're forgetting the lesson that they learned. the american people feel like they have been forgotten over the past 8 years. still are saying the same kind of policies promoted by the left and they don't like it. it's politics at its worst. >> do you think that your party's apparent reluctance to call out the president of the united states when he says outrageous things and does things is adding to this

imbalance in washington. >> i have done everything i can to speak where i felt i was important to speak. >> you are not easy -- it's not easy to get you to take a position on what the president does. >> i took an executive position on the executive order and i have a hearing today on russia. it's a letter that says here's where we have to stand as a country against the overly aggressive. the illegal aggression of russia. >> do you mention that letter in how you feel as a collective or individual about this president of the united states creating a moral equivalence between the united states and russia. >> what i have said before and i said this publicly there is no equivalency between the united states and russia.

lead by a dictator and a person that uses a murder and all kinds of illegal tactics to promote his own self-dealing. there's no equivalency between the two. >> when you think about why the president was asked about why he seems to have an affinity for putin that was a killer and he said what about us? how did you feel about that response? >> i disagree but i think you have to ask the president about why he said that. i don't speak for the president but we're sending a letter and having a hearing. we're sending a letter to the president saying this is where we have to stand on russia. what they are doing in ukraine is illegal and we can't lift sanctions on russia until they stop their aggression and return crimea. what they have done it's

unacceptable. and if you want comments from the president and tweets from the president go to the president. if you want my response i'm standing up for the people of colorado. >> and obviously you would be a voice about what the president does and they're fighting in ukraine against the government because it seems to be unclear about russia's involvement and you behave well over here.

we can lift sanctions on ukraine involvement and russian involvement in ukraine if they get out of ukraine and return to ukraine. >> i look forward to having you back. >> thanks. >> coming up we'll have the man of the moment about his meeting with the supreme court nominee. he was present for the conversation. he should know what the judge said and we'll get his reaction to the president's attack on him and his credibility. >> meanwhile a massive winter storm is battering the northeast at this hour so schools are closed in several states. thousands of flights are cancelled. what will today look like across the country? chad myers is live. there's a ripple effect. what happens here stretches across the country.

>> it's philadelphia, d.c., and boston. 40 million people are under some type of warning. we had all the schools there. public schools, boston, new york, philadelphia closed for today and already now about 3,000 flights cancelled. the number keeps going up as the flights get cancelled from here in the northeast and it will be a cold snowy day. it won't be a cold snowy night t. snow is over by about 2:00 the snow moves away and it stops. it will be cold but they can plow it and get it going and get the airports back running again because they're not doing very well this is what most of the snow in new york city looks like. it's not there yet.

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my view is this has to be public, direct, explicit because he has to show the american people that will be independent more than just a rubber stamp. >> that was senator blumenthal revealing the opinion about the

judiciary. moments ago he weighed in saying senator blumenthal said for years it now misrepresents what he told him. joining us now is the senator from delaware. he is part of the delegation meeting from president trump today. senator thanks for being here. and his own spokesperson. last night confirmed that judge gorsuch did call it demoralizing. was confirmed by the spokesperson. >> this back and forth makes me feel like i'm back at high school. frankly what matters here is whether or not judge gorsuch that will be up for confirmation for the supreme court in

meetings with senators and then publicly demonstrates judicial understanding. it's one of the cornerstones of our constitutional order. and personally attacking or challenging judges who are delaying or may ultimately overturn his travel ban deserve respect. >> are you then calling for judge gorsuch to also speak out publicly about this? >> in my meeting i will also ask about judicial independence and we will ask him about that during the confirmation hearing but i don't think it's constructive for president trump to weigh in on this and level accusations against sitting senators and i think the more he stays out of this the better for his judicial nominee but this highlights why judicial independence is going to be so important for me and other senators as we go through the process of meeting judge gorsuch

and considering whether or not he should serve on the supreme court. >> president trump wants judge gorsuch. he can't criticize i think his own supreme court nominees so he goes after the messenger, senator blumenthal. so do you feel that he should and can publicly speak out and say yes i do find this demoralizing. >> i think we need to focus on the larger issue here rather than the he said, she said about what they did or didn't say. the larger issue is that judicial independence is at risk. president trump is not responding well to a challenge in his travel ban. district court judges in several districts across the country stayed that ban and challenged that ban and it's now being considered for an emergency stay of that order and i think

president trump is going to harm his chances of confirmation and his standing as president if he continues to undermine the independence of the federal judiciary. >> so today you are going to the white house. to speak with president trump. tell us exactly what you're going to tell him. >> we have not met in the white house before. i met him over at dover air force base last week when we received the remains of an american seal killed in action in yemen. i'm going to press him on the point that i think it was not well conceived and should be withdrawn and frankly he's challenging the independence of the judiciary and isn't helping and hope he might make more measured comments and understand the importance of the separation of power. i do continue to hope that we will find some way to work together on the problems facing america, strengthening manufacturing. you just had senator corey gardener on. we're introducing a bipartisan

bill today to help small manufacturers. there's things we could do together and in this style of tweeting constantly and upsetting our allies abroad and undermining i think our constitutional order here at home. it will be difficult for us to find a positive common path together. >> your fellow democrat said about judge gorsuch and about this supreme court vacancy, filling this stolen seat with any individual other than judge garland will destroy american's respect for the court. where are you on this? should you oppose judge gorsuch because he's not merit garland? >> all last year i said in the judiciary committee and on the floor that it was outrageous that mitch mcconnell and those in the senate refused to give him even a hearing and to do the

same thing back to republicans would be hypocrisy so i said he deserves a hearing. the hearing that judge garland never got. that allows my constituents to hear his background, experience and constitutional philosophy and i think we should have that hearing on the judiciary committee. after that i think we should see but i don't agree that we should simply refuse to even consider his nomination. >> very quickly, i heard you just called the travel ban from mr. trump illegal. it doesn't sound based on the oral argument that the 9th circuit court thought this was an open and shut case. >> i think it is an arguable case as are so many but as i looked at the details of how it was prepared and how it was implemented and what the impacts will be i think it goes against the immigration and naturalization act because it does discriminate based on nationality and religion and the way it was implemented shows it violates at least the spirit if

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joining us. what has made this a point of intrigue is that the judge probably did himself a favor and may have done the president a favor saying what so many feel about his comments about the judiciary but then the president tweets that senator blumenthal is misrepresenting the conversation but his own guy said he said it so what's going on here? >> he absolutely did the president a favor and the president has just refused that gift and the favor was that he refused this issue. of course it's going to come up in the course of his confirmation process how he feels about the president's open comments about the federal judiciary so he said what he said and it was heard by the person guiding him through the quarters and smoothed the path for his own confirmation but he

just can't help himself. he wakes up this morning and fires off the tweet and what he has done by saying the comments were mischaracterized is he has now set up where judge gorsuch is going to be asked in person and he's going to repeat what he said behind closed doors or disavow it. if he repeats it the president just misstated the fact. >> i think you're on to something but if he repeats what he said behind closed doors and what his communications director has confirmed then he'll feel it and that can't stand. >> what is he going to do? >> i don't know. he doesn't like criticism in public from any of his people. >> the pattern we have seen here

is one of just him the president not allowing any perceived slight to go unresponded to. a moment ago he said it reminds him of high school if you remember that name calling that is constant and never interrupting. what is interesting is many of the statements made that have been controversial go in the category and can't be proven true or false. this is not in that category. he's going to be asked whether he said that. and he's going to say either he will be telling the truth or he won't be. >> he can't go back on the comments. >> i'll take the other side. i don't think the president should be insulted by this because saying that the comments were demoralizing and disheartening is different than

saying the president should shut up or he is totally wrong so maybe it's a win-win for everybody if the president can stop questioning the statements. >> it would have been if he hadn't sent out that tweet this morning. if he could just remain silent on this issue to my original point he should have recognized it was a good thing if the objective is to be confirmed by the united states senate then it's a good thing that gorsuch justs diffused this issue but the president woke up and put it back in play. he should have said nothing. >> i think he does need to say something about the comments. president trump called the federal judge a so-called judge and he also said blame him if anything bad were to happen in

this country and also said about the ninth circuit court, you know, that any high schooler should have been able to determine it. >> they did more than that. they were saying, you know, the ninth circuit needs to be broken up. it's way too big it operates 20% of the population of this timing and he said i don't want to call the courts biased but he then said these courts are so political which is exactly that. >> something else. the conservative supporters of the president on this issue also are the first to thump their chests and regard themselves as strict constructionists or originalists. if you really are a strict constructionist or originalist you need to respect the third branch of government and the

independence of the judiciary and these sort of comments are at odds with a strict interpretation of the constitution. >> there you go. thank you very much. >> quick programming note. and tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern. advice for president trump. i wonder where on the list. just stick to what's true will be. >> that looks great. meanwhile our other top stories and massive winter storm hammering the northeast as we speak. 49 million people are in it's path. we have live reports and the latest forecast for you, next. this is not a screensaver. this is the destruction of a cancer cell by the body's own immune system, thanks to medicine that didn't exist until now. and today can save your life. ♪

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>> all right. the snow is coming down right now. as we speak. chad meyers is live in new york central park. how is it going out there? >> i'm noticing one thing allison that means that the low pressure that we expected is starting. the snow, the wrap around t low pressure that's going to get bigger because the ocean is warm that is beginning to happen as expected 40 million people under some type of winter storm warning, all the schools closed for today and many other schools in other cities as well other than that more cancelling as we speak. and it's just one after another

after another. this is over by 2:00 p.m. so what we see on the ground right now is probably five inches worth of snow. now there's not five inches of snow here because the first two inches melted when it hit the ground. the second two or three kind of went down into the wet stuff so we're not seeing the snow totals but you've seen the slow downs and the roads. >> strong point and key distinction there. what is the packability of the snow for snowballs and the sled effect? can you make a snowball? >> the snowpacking -- >> sure. absolutely. no problem at all. there's so much water in that. >> good to know. >> it doesn't fly at all.

this isn't going to blow around much but this will be a snowball fight. in fact we did see two of new york's finest have a small snowball fight off their car this morning just in case they get in trouble. >> he has an arm like a cannon and a steel jaw. let's go to jessica snyder live in new jersey. this is where this can get dangerous. how is it right now jess? >> we're seeing a few of these out here on the new jersey turnpike and this wet, dense snow. one of the lanes out here on the new jersey turnpike completely snow covered so we're headed

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time for cnn money now. a big tech company unveiling a huge investment in one of its u.s. factories while meeting with the president. is it all due to trump's policies or something else? the answer from chief business correspondent christine romans in the money center. it's like the bat cave. >> an interesting past few days for tech giant intel. on sunday it believed president trump's immigration order was unconstitutional. then announcing a $7 billion investment in a u.s. factory, he said that was due in part to trump's policies. the real story more complicated. intel announced plans to build a

factory with this guy, former president obama in 2011, saying it would put $5 billion into the arizona plant. obama even gave a big speech at the construction site. now a spokesman says that was just to build the shell of the factory, it was never completed, not enough demand for the product. now there is demand so the company says it's building out the rest of the plant. the president hosting another round of ceo meetings today. chief executives from delta, southwest, fedex and others at the white house later this morning. we ex-peshlgt them to discuss stacks and regulatory reform, infrastructure, airport improvements and modernizing air traffic control systems, chris. >> okay, christine. thank you for all of that. president trump's conflicts of interest are in the spotlight again after the president fired off tweets about nordstrom. saying my daughter has been treated so unfairly by nordstrom. a great person, always pushing me to do the right thing.

terrible. joined by norm eisen, a fellow at brooks kings institution and was president obama's white house ethics czar from 2011 to 2011 and brian stelter host of "reliable sources." norm, let me start with you. is there something wrong with president trump who he says is defending his daughter and calling out nordstrom by name? >> good morning, alisyn, good morning, chris, brian. yes, there is something terribly wrong with what's been going on. it's not just this bullying where trump is attacking an american business because they have the temerity, they say, ivanka's line wasn't selling and they made a market decision. then his press spokesman mr. spicer is pouring it on, claiming apparently falsely, that it was a political decision. that's not what american

presidents are supposed to do. he's blurring the lines between the government business and his personal and family business. his daughter has apparently maintained ownership of these lines. she stepped away from management. he may be invested in these businesses, and it's part of a long pattern of doing this. it's wrong. i believe it's against the constitution and american law. >> just one more bead on this. how is it against the law? you mentioned the california unfair comp law, the competition law. i looked it up. it does talk about unfair business practices that used to fall into the categories of, per se, defamatory actions. how is he doing that? how is this construed as a business act? >> chris, when you put together the tweet -- it started in mr. trump's personal twitter feed. it was retweeted by the white house and his spokesman's statements. they're making claims which nordstrom says are false. it's not a political thing, not

a question of fairness. it's a business decision they say. ivanka's line wasn't selling. he's essentially libelling that company, injuring them. that's exactly what the california unfair competition law captures. it has the broadest in the nation and nordstrom has a lot of stores there, the broadest in the nation definition 06 an unfair business practice. making up these allegedly false statements about a business and broadcasting them from the white house, if that isn't unfair, i don't know what is. >> also this grassroots effort called #grabyourwallet, reference to the "access hollywood" tape sexual assault. basically she put up a list online of every retailer and brand that does business with the trump brand.

any sense of whether or not that is what's behind this? >> l.l. bean and other companies have been named in this effort. they've said they've had some success, not a huge amount. there's also anti nordstrom efforts. breitbart promoting the idea that people are cutting up their cards. i wish i could go to a store and not think about the politics. we zoo companies maybe in the super bowl making choices. we see restaurants and grossers and retailers making these choices. >> either sales are down or they're not. that's going to be dispositive for nordstrom's decision. >> they say they were. >> it's interesting. obviously the president feels differently. he went out of his way in that tweet to say ivanka tries to get me to do the right thing, almost defending, don't blame her for what i do. >> as a dad, we understand that. president trump said he'd be more restrained with twitter once he was in the oval office. we've seen the opposite, less

restranlt. >> different opinions on this. norm eisen, i like the president being on twitter. i like getting the first-sense impression of the workings of the president's mind, good, bad and ugly on occasion. you get down to the same fundamental proposition. there is no law with all due respect, the extract of the federal trade commission act, that argument aside. this is about what is right to do and not right to do. people will say this is who the president is. this is who we expect him to be and people voted for him, end of discussion. >> chris, 75% of americans including most of his voters want to have his tax returns. why? they're worried about these business conflicts. every president, 40 years, has made a clean break with their businesses. trump's failure to do that is creating an overhang. it's good for us. i like reading his twitter feed as well. it creates a lot of media attention. i'm sorry brian can't escape politics in the dressing room at

nordstrom, but it's not good for the country, the presidency. everything he does have a conflict issue. even the muslim ban. turns out he wasn't banning countries where he's done business which have more terror threats. we're seeing a big scandal hangover. >> we need to talk about this other mini scandal. we've talked a lot about kellyanne conway's claim of a massacre, a terrorist attack in bowling green. she got a lot of heat for that. there is a similar claim from sean spicer that somehow we have not covered as much. he talked about another non-existent terror attack in trying to make his claim for the travel ban -- make his case for the travel ban. listen to this. >> what do we say to the family that loses somebody of terroristic, atlanta, san bernardino, or the boston bomber. too many of these cases that have happened, whether san bernardino, atlanta --

>> i don't think you have to look farther than the families of the boston marathon, in atlanta, in san bernardino, to ask if we can go further. >> what's the atlanta terror attack? >> still unclear what he's talking about. that was something "the daily beast" first noticed this time yesterday, three different mentions of atlanta over the course of 48 hours. maybe he was referencing orlando. this time yesterday i asked spicer what did you mean, did you mean orlando? did not hear back from him. abc news reported overnight, he says he did mean orlando, referring to omar mateen. if spicer is going to correctly hold the press accountable for mistakes, certainly we need to correct the record when we make mistakes, he also needs to be very careful in his words coming from the white house podium or in interviews. i think sloppiness is not a good look for any administration. >> if we did that, we'd be hearing about it from the president for days. you know what? rightly so. it raises a point. you know why he doesn't want to

say atlanta, they don't want to talk about white extremism. they want to talk about all extremism being muslim extremism. even though you have camerota on the case crunching the numbers, there's a much bigger threat from white extremism. >> that is what happened in atlanta, the olympic park. that was white extremism. >> that was rudolph. >> what about quebec? jake tapper asked kellyanne conway, no answer to that question about the silence of that particular incident of killing muslims while praying at a mosque. >> there is a lot of news. we have an interview with a man at the moment, senator richard blumenthal. what did gorsuch say to him and why did the president say he was lying. let's get to it. >> the courts seem to be so political. >> scathing comments coming from the president aimed at the judiciary branch.

>> judge gorsuch did say he found them to be disheartening and demoralizing. >> i listened to a bunch of stuff that was disgraceful. >> my constitutional responsibility to debate jeff sessions as attorney general. >> the bottom line is, it was long overdue with her. >> president trump attacking nordstrom for dropping his daughter's clothing line. >> this is less about his family business and an attack on his daughter. >> massive winter storm slamming the northeast. >> 40 million people are in this path. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day." you're looking at live pictures of a winter wonderland or a mack truck. 40 million people in 13 states are in the storm's path, and snow is beginning to pile up. some areas could get as much as

a foot, chris. >> the good news for people in this city and other big cities. you saw the hacks were out. new york, boston, philly, they canceled school preemptively. more than 2,800 flights are down. we'll have much more on the storm throughout the morning. again, 40 million people in the path. >> first, president trump responding to news that his supreme court nominee, neil gorsuch, is calling the president's attacks on federal judges disheartening and demoralizing. >> questioning the credibility of senator richard blumenthal, the senator whom gorsuch was talking to when he made his comments. the president tweeting that the senator misrepresented those comments. cnn's joe johns live at the white house with more. joe, controversy. >> reporter: absolutely controver