facts. did he really put what he sees on tv over what he should be learning from intel briefings? >> all of this as the senate intelligence committee asked the federal agencies we are now at day 32 of the trump administration on this day, this monday morning, let's begin coverage with athena jones live in palm beach florida. good morning. >> good morning, the president had a busy weekend and he took a break between meetings to have that campaign style rally in melburne where his offhand remarks left a lot of people confused. donald trump doing damage control after seemingly suggesting a terror incident occurred in sweden during his

campaign style rally in florida. >> you look at what's happening last night in sweden. sweden, who would believe this, sweden they took in large numbers and are having problem. >> the comments sparking confusion worldwide. the president later saying it was something he saw on tv tweeting my statement as to what's happening in sweden was in reference to a story broadcast on fox news concerning immigrants and sweden. that fox news report, an interview with a film maker that accused of government of covering up violent crimes committed by refugees aired the night before the rally. >> swedish officials out ranged and saying we look forward to

informing the u.s. administration about policies. they're not referring to a specific incident. mike pence trying to reassure european alabama lice of the u.s.'s support for nato. this as the senate intelligence committee tells the trump administration to preserve all records related to russia. as they investigate russian medaling in the u.s. election fbi director holding a classified briefing on friday. the white house chief of staff denying any collusion between the trump campaign and russian operatives before the election and knocking down reports of constant communication between trump aids and russians. >> they have assured me that that story is not only inaccurate but grossly overstated and it was wrong. >> all as president trump is still searching for a new

national security adviser after firing michael flynn from his meeting about his communications with russian officials. the president meeting with several candidates for the job over the weekend. amid stories of dysfunction and chaos in the first month of his administration. president trump escalating his war with the media. >> i also want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news. >> suggesting on twit their the media is the enemy of the american people. the president's attacks on the free press drawing sharp rebuke from politicians on both sides. >> if you want to preserve democracy as we know it you have to have a free and many time adversarial press. >> the president may have more meetings here before heading back to washington where this week he plans to unveil a new executive order on imfwrags.

this as questions remain about the other big campaign problems on day one like repealing and replacing obamacare, chris. >> appreciate the reporting. lots to discuss. let's bring in jason johnson, politics editor and professor of politics and journalism at morgan state university. cnn political analyst and washington bureau chief. thank you for coming in on a holiday monday. on the day that we celebrate the birthday of president washington, birthday is actually two days from now but close enough we do it on this monday a man seen as a pillar of integrity we are dealing with a press conference where he talked about the truth and talked about not letting the media get away with it and then did what he sa said. now they say it's about the crime that comes when you let in

the refugees we don't know about. is that a fair case? >> here's the thing, he might have been unintentionally right. >> i'll take it. i'll take any kind of right. >> the most recent terrorist attack in sweden was by the norric resistant movement. a neonazi group that attacked a refugee shelter. the larger issue is this, it is uncomfortable, it is dangerous, it is problematic to have a presidency steeped in lies and whether that comes to attacking the press or delivering wrong information you can't run a country if people don't believe what comes out of your mouth. >> it was peter alexanders question to you, biggest win since reagan, not correct. so. >> well it is if you forget about president george h.w. bush. >> so he's only one off.

>> so the question still remains given what he said about sweden it's like if you give this information to the public how is the public to trust you? >> yeah, no, he has a very casual relationship with the truth it seems. i'll try to help him out as best as i can with the sweden thing. he didn't say terrorism. he said you look at what happened there last night, well, three weeks ago there was a story, cnn reported on it, where two afghan refugees allegedly gang raped a sweed. a swedish girl and that was a fairly big story. now it didn't happen just last night. it happened three weeks ago. i didn't see this fox news story that donald trump watched but clearly he just watches the shows, watches tv and thinks that everyone is sort of watching the same things he is so when he says it happened last night this is a bizarre defense i'll grant you but i think that's the best interpretation

of what he said. i don't know that it was an out and out lie this time but it was really bizarre. >> lie again, you know how i feel about that word. if you proved he was being deceptive then you can apply it. it goes to something else and i think that by and large his base is going to agree with him. you let in the refugees and migrants you'll start to have trouble and yes you can study the numbers all you want, sexual assaults are really high in sweed and i know if you research it they'll say they change their law. it's about reporting. it's about how they do each individual case for an allegation. he is still making a point that a lot of americans, refugees and migrants spell trouble. >> that's not true. that's the problem. this is a great example of something candidate trump frankly could have gotten away with but president trump should know better because when candidate trump says it we all

fact check him and we move on with our lives. this time you have the embassy of sweden calling the state department to find out what the president is talking about so there's very real world international implications for when he just watches the tv and then says, then does kind of a short hand version in a speech the next day as the president of the united states. the words have consequences. words matter. >> yes. let's move on to russia. two pieces of news. the senate intel committee issued this letter on friday specifically saying, looking into preserving records more than a dozen agencies and individuals related to the investigation of potential russian interference in the election and you add to that the piece, we heard president trump saying not that he knew of as far as any trump aids during the campaign in touch with russia. add that to the weekend on the sunday show saying just because i'm looking into it done mean

it's there. where are we on all of this? >> this is terrible. there's no nice way to put this. why, think about it on a functional level. the fact that we're less than a month into the presidency and we have to determine as to whether or not this man may have gotten into office with the assistant of a nation. it's a state for us to be in from a constitutional and sovereignty perspective. if we jump ahead he's not going to get impeached but what it speaks to is his inability to establish trust and if we have members of the cia and national intelligence that think these guys are too nice to the russians it makes it difficult to keep our nation safe and that's why these investigations are dangerous. >> reading into everything i created a whole time line about the record. do you have any concerns with all the facts now that mike flynn was made a scapegoat for the administration. that they basically sacrificed

him as someone that would own the russia problems? because the more you look at the facts there, i don't know why they forced him to re-sign. >> it's a little bit confusing, right? so would mike flynn have taken it upon himself to call the russian ambassador and to talk to him about sanctions? that made it possible, you know, but it's also possible that he was directed to do so or that other people were involved in that decision to do so. so right now it's very isolated. michael flynn. i did notice that on one of the sunday talk shows yesterday, he was going a little bit tough on mike flynn saying, you know, sort of saying he wasn't shooting straight with them. he was misleading them and i wonder about pushing mike flynn too far on the way out the door because does he ever talk? is he going to be brought before congress at some point?

that could be very interesting. >> so just quickly, you know, picking up his vacancy right, national security adviser we know over the weekend president trump had a couple of these guys down interviewing potential candidates. a couple of them are now out, when did this get filmed. >> one of these things is not like the other, that old saying, he is someone that really has the antithesis of what donald trump said his foreign policy would be. this is someone very pro-iraq war. neo conservative interventionalist. he has a lot of allies inside the administration. we'll see who ends up getting it at the end of the day but that one doesn't make sense to me. >> professor johnson gave you the buying eyes so we'll save them for our next segment. stay with us.

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on day one i am going to be swiftly removing criminal, illegal immigrants from this country. >> he talked the talk. is he walking the walk? president trump like a lot of politicians made tons of promises in the campaign. he's a month in. he signed 23 executive orders and five bills into law. that's a lot of activity but is he making progress on his promises? >> promises, promises. let's bring our panel back. jackie, we'll throw up all of these different promises he made

going through the top tiered one and first on the whole restrict travel for certain countries, as early as tuesday the revised travel ban will be out. and apparently he's going to keep temporary travel restrictions so my question to you is what is the biggest difference? >> we haven't even seen what the new version is going to be. we have to be careful because in the past these things have in fact changed between drafts. the bottom line here is the biggest thing trump has done since coming into office that's been successful is nominating neal gorsuch as supreme court nominee. that's going to make the biggest difference to the people that support him and to some republicans that are on the fence. that's going to give him a lot of credibility. >> matt, you know, they're not correcting something that was a

significant problem with the ban. i'm not talking about legalities. extreme vetting. they're not going to put procedures in place at this point. why are they not checking those boxes. most of this so-called travel ban are actually a pause, three or four months. presumably the immigration would begin again for most of these countries except for syria, how do you make sure that people who come here six months from now are legitimately refugees and not potential terrorists? that has to be a top priority. >> what about moving off of that and on to repealing our place on obamacare. this is something you ran on. this is something republicans can be talking about for several

years. and saying he hopes to have a draft for replacement sometime next month. does that jive with the time line we're hearing from republicans? >> it does not because i think that we will see repel and replace on wednesday november 9th of 2018. that is exactly, i don't think they're going to touch the aca until after the midterm elections. it's not like we don't know but there's too many people like it. and even at republican districts they're facing push back and they're going to delay and delay and delay. >> you don't think they'll say this is why i voted for you and you promised, you promised. >> if i lose this i didn't think you guys are going to do it. >> they can also show progress without any punishment and a lot of people using obamacare, spikes for some and not most so

they have to be careful. it's also not a signature line that got them in the office. she'll be on later today talking about her trip down to appalachia. it's filled with trump people and they all said where is my tax cut. that's a hard thing to get done quickly but that is probably if you're going to pick one thing that people are look for, that's it. how big is it? >> so here's the thing. it's like obamacare in that you can't get a republican congress who agree on tax reform right now so there isn't a plan that everybody can really get around. these things are going to take time and where trump made a mistake on the campaign trail is acting like all of these things are simple to do. they're not. they're complicated. everybody has what they're going to have to work through through the legislative process.

>> you think, just thinking this is jobs and economy and tax cuts, this is what really helped compel him into this position now 32 days in. looking at republicaning him being on boeing on friday and the people in melburne florida and the economy and beyond and do you think we'll see more of that from the president. >> i think he needs to be out there among the people. it's good for him psychologically. it's very good. politics it works. he's obviously not the first president to do this but keep him out there. keep him on campaign mode. you have to get stuff too. it's a two pronged approach. keep him out of washington. keep him on the trail. then you have to put points on

the board eventually. >> you have motion but what they're looking for is momentum. we have this stuff, we have this stuff, we have this stuff. that's what they're looking for the problem. jackie is right it sounds a lot easier than it is. >> one thing is there's no competing plans on the big ticket items from the democrats. they're looking to get their act together. a big part of what would please their party so before the vote, we're going to moderate a primetime debate to learn more about their vision for the party's future. when? wednesday night, 10:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. >> also here, defense secretary mattis. a live report next here on new

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breaking news this morning, james mattis makes an unannounced trip to iraq. breaking with president trump on the idea that the u.s. should take their oil. ben is live with the breaking details. what has happened? >> he arrived a few hours ago in baghdad. he went to the green zone where he met with his iraqi counter parts as well as coalition officials. it's important obviously at this point to reassure the iraqis of the american committee against the fight against isis. there's military personnel in iraq supporting the operation in the northern part of the country as well as the involvement of u.s. led coalition aircraft and

hitting isis targets in the country. 10,000 until now according to a statement put out by the coalition and also in baghdad beforehand he sent a message of reassurance that contrary to what we heard from president trump during the campaign and after the inauguration, the united states has no nothing on iraq's oil. >> paid gas and oil all along and we're not in iraq to seize anybody's oil. >> of course what we're also hearing from northern iraq is that iraqi forces launched these operations less than 48 hours ago are now very close to taking the airport in the southern part of the country and earlier on in

this operation. >> you know the area so well they said it would take many weeks to get full control of mosul. we remember the difficulties that american men and women had fighting there. we'll stay in touch throughout the morning. also breaking severe storms carving a path of destruction in texas. home december stroied thousands without power in san antonio. officials are trying to determine if a tornado touched down. jennifer grey joins us with more. so far they have been lucky in terms of human costs. what is looking their way. >> a few minor injuries as far as the storms are concern but crews will be out in the last half hours. crews will be out looking at that seeing if indeed it was a tornado and if so how powerful. you should see the same line and had a train derailment there so

a lot of destruction in the path of the storms. these storms started late yesterday evening and marched to the east. look at all the lightning strikes associated with them and then approached the san antonio area around 11:00. these storms will continue on their east ward journey. the severe threat is starting to go away. we don't think the tornado threat is going to be as high today. there's a lot of rain associated with the storms. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. the terror attack that was, you heard a lot but all that matters are the facts of the situation. is there any basis for what the president said is going on in sweden, next. what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts.

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sweden who would believe this, sweden, they took in large numbers, they're having problems

like they never thought possible. president trump naming sweden and a list of countries impacted by terrorism hasn't looked at the facts. is it about fear or fact? later on the president tried to clarify the situation in a tweet it was a report. there was a political argument made. so is this a reflection of the president having trouble getting things right? or is it about a larger dynamic going on? let's discuss. cnn political commentator former national press secretary for bernie 2016. you know the record of facts here and the facts are not necessarily in the favor of the president in terms of what is going on with sweden but this

seems to be him tapping into a larger dynamic of the fears that refugees and migrants present. what do you think the case is for the president's statement. >> well, look i think he saw that segment on fox news friday night and there is a case to be made that there is some sort of link between the refugee and the rise in crime. some people might dispute that and say it's linked to changes in swedish laws but there has been an increase in violence. we know there's been terrorist attacks in germany carried out by refugees. angela merkel admitted there's been flaws and he has a case to be made and the way he structured the sentence might not have been clear to some but it was clear to others. i was at the rally and the person next to me said he's talking about something that happened last night on fox news. >> do you think that's it? it's a question of interpretation. >> no, i don't.

i think the way you structure a sentence is extremely important when you're the president of the united states. president trump should not just assume everyone is watching fox news. the larger issue here is the fact that president is loose with the facts and you cannot make things up about another country and that's what i heard when he said that friday night. >> everything is context, right? do they have problems in sweden -- the raw numbers say they have one of the highest -- now the reason some people would say, the reality is they did change their laws. they're one of the most aggressive in seeing sexual assault for what it is. and you also have a culture of reporting there that is impressive and they report every incident individually. so that if a woman says for a month my boss has been, that's 30 days of reporting depending

on which month it is. do the facts matter and should the president have been more responsible with him. >> the facts matter. >> police showed him no go zones where police refused to go. not only that but swedish police said there's been hundreds of people that left sweden in a mass exodus to go to syria and two came back and were arrested and we should all be enraged because one incident is too many. if one person suffers violence on the hands of a refugee that's one too many because we have a right to life and safety. >> that's the sea of the argument that you need to deal with. maybe we don't have the numbers right but one is too many

powerful medicine for people afraid of the possible sweden is having many many problems and are illuding to the fact that they have consistently taken in refugees and are slated to take in between 25,000 or 45,000 this year. that's an issue. we can't fear monger and again we're not on the campaign trail anymore. >> when you look at refugees, you look at crime, you look at migrants and crime and you know what the counter arguments are.

why isn't that purr persuasive. we had a flaw in the immigration system. it wasn't the refugee system but people say if it can happen it will happen so why not do a 90 day or 120 day until we figure out what is going on in ensuring that american citizens are safe. i understand other things are more likely to happen and the fact that we could is a good answer. >> the difference in safety is a function of your procedure. this ban supposed to come out again this week we're expecting

it won't have new procedures in place. how important is it? >> i think it's extremely important. look i think the policy that we have seen -- again, we don't know what this new policy will look like so we have to be careful about speculating but it is the procedures that matter and will make the difference and if the president and the administration would like to make the case that they wanted to make america more safe they'll have to show us how they're going to do that. just keeping everybody out and saying you can't come in doesn't keep us safe. it's going to be key that we can see and the american people can see what the differences are. >> thank you for coming in on a holiday. important points. thank you. >> president trump again taking aim slamming the media as quote the enemy of the american people. how dangerous is that rhetoric? we'll discuss that with media experts ahead.

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>> president trump doing what he likes to do most. attack the media. this time in a tweet fake news media. it's not my enemy it's the enemy of the american people. >> the enemy of the american people. so lawmakers on both sides do not agree using powerful words over the weekend. >> if you want to preserve democracy as we know it you have to have a free and many time adversarial press and without it we would lose so much of our individual liberties overtime. that's how dictators get started. >> let's start there with our cnn media correspondent. great to see both of you all.

>> never mind year two or three. >> we have scum already out there and disgusting. >> it's poisonous behavior to be injecting in this day after day. >> his base has animosity and president trump got lucky finding his way into a real

feeling of desperation and anger toward institution. it's real. it's aimed at us and aimed at a lot of things and often with good reason. >> literally i believe he fell into that. i don't think it was his original plan. who is he hurting his with exactly. >> obviously the people that already believe that the media is something they don believe in. >> they love it. >> what's the risk. >> i think that's part of the strategy to make the media back down. that's not going to happen but his language also speaks to he doesn't have any regard for what he says.

it just throws this out there. >> i am worried. i'm worried because somebody that can take action against a journalist at a rally or a more private setting. >> but that's what i am saying because i said this during the campaign, it's going to happen and i don't want it to. >> that's what you mean. >> somebody is going to get hurt. it's a question of time. it starts to become a call to action. somebody is going to get hurt. >> what is he going to say.

>> it's a mentally deranged person. you can't take the fact that he's using the rhetoric. it will be this individual action. >> it's responsibility. >> it's just a matter of time. that's how this stuff works. it works with adults when they're in a bar drinking and it works with our president who is intoxicated by the idea of beating up the media. he thinks it works for him otherwise he wouldn't do it. >> the polls indicate that is correct. it is effective within his base. >> they're really talking about it. >> lack of trust in the media. that means lack of trust in the media among republican conservatives and independents that lean to the right. that's where it exists. he said some people, some trump

fans have opted out of journalism. now they would disagree. but the idea that the lack of trust is a real problem for america but it's concentrated among trump's base and it's where the challenge exists. he said don't watch them. they're fake and their bad and also in the numbers column. >> that's true here. and we see all of them i don't

think he has given tremendous opportunity. what he tells you about any policy. fact has a new value. it is brian comes on and he wants to do more taxes. bill comes on and he says more taxes are a problem and now it's contact fact analysis. the president made that the main occurrence. >> isn't some of it superficial. we're talking about what trump is saying and tweeting. >> that goes to how you cover it. allison beats me over the head about that all the time. should we talk about every tweet? no. but he's giving you an

opportunity. for our u.s. viewers, are you ready to get after it? >> you look at what's happening in germany, in sweden, who would believe this. >> the comments sparking confusion worldwide. >> we are not going to let the fake news tell us what to believe. >> essentially views the first amendment as an enemy of the people. >> we inherited one big mess. >> president trump continues his search for a new national security adviser. >> if you don't hit them hard you will be in power in russia. >> preparing an investigation into the trump-russia connection. >> they're going to destroy the

document. he says it's from something he saw on tv. >> all of this as an intelligence committee asks federal agencies to keep all the recorded related to russia for their hacking investigation. meanwhile he continues his search for a new national security adviser. we are 32 days into the trump presidency. let's begin this morning with athena jones live in west palm beach florida. good morning. >> good morning, the president had a busy weekend but