welcome to "inside plikds." i'm john king where, thanks for sharing your your day with us where, we're waiting to see scott pruitt, the director of the environmental protection agency. we've been dipping in as the new members of the trump cabinet say hello to their employees. we'll go in just a moment to see his message today. an important stop and message today from president trump at the african-american history museum. >> we're going to bring this country together, maybe bring some of the world together, but we're going to bring this country together. we have a divided country that's been divided for many, many years, but we're going to bring it together. i hope every day of my presidency we will be honoring

the determination and work towards a very worthy goal. >> plus, the administration plans a new travel ban soon, and just today new steps to ramp up deportations and other immigration enforcement. >> people come in that are going to love the country. not people that are going to harm the country, and i think a lot of people agree with me on that. >> and it's day one on the job for the president's new national security advisor. >> i look forward to joining the national security team and doing everything i can to advance and protect the interests of the american people. >> the atlantic's molly ball, cnn jeff zellaney and molly hemingway of "the federalist." we're standing by for scott pruitt to address the employees at the environmental protection agency. we'll take you there live when he starts to speak. meanwhile, today's other top stories, the jewish community center association says 48 senators in 26 states and one province received just shy of 60 bomb threats last month.

you might recall president trump got testy last week when he was asked about an increase in anti-semitism, but this morning after a tour of the smithsonian african-american history museum, the president spoke out. >> this too is a meaningful reminder of why we have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms. the anti-semitic threats targeting our jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful, and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to rout out hate and prejudice and evil. >> strong words from the president there. even after this statement, some of his critics and maybe some of his critics will never be satisfied saying, you know, too late. why didn't you speak out sooner. ann frank center putting out a statement saying the president's

acknowledgment is a band i had on the -- that has infected his own administration. >> i don't think it's ever too late when a president speaks out about something. it's a very good thing. i think it's hard to find out anything to quarrel with what he said this morning. i think the next thing is what action will he do about this? will he direct as a department of justice to look into some of these, actually go after, you know, what obviously is a rise in hate crimes out there? i think what comes next is more important than what he did this morning. certainly a positive step. >> he is growing in the job, and the critics will never like anything. he is not comfortable with the presidential moments. you see them after mass shootings or tragedies. here at the press conference seemed to take it personally.

>> it was one of the low points of that press conference last week. the question was offered in good faith, and he took it as an insult, and this is a much better response for him to get. crimes against jewish people have been a problem going back for many years. the department of justice keeps statistics on hate crimes, and jews are the most targeted among victim groups, and this is not just about the last month. this goes back for my years. >> if you are going to bring up something like this, beneath what people are getting at is an attack on him and the way that he has campaigned and the way that he has focused on other things. >> as opposed to being president and unified, again, he has been very defensive in those kinds of moments. >> molly makes an important point that this is not new.

there is a lot of people saying there's been an increase of late. whether you attribute to that the political climate. we don't know the answer. >> the vast majority of hate crimes committed in this country as molly said going back many years have been against jews, and, you know, there has been a feeling in the community i guess, among people like david duke, who are open anti-semites that trump has been wink and nodding to them throughout the campaign by the way that he has had trouble disavowing people like david duke and the feeling from trump is why do i have to disavoi these people? they can like me or not. that doesn't make me one of them. he has had a really hard time with the idea that what is required is for him to tell them to back off, him to excommunicate them from his movement so that they don't feel like fellow travellers. it's just not been something that he thinks he has to do. >> especially now that he is president.

during the campaign he felt that. why do i have to do this? i'm not associated with these people. why do i have to push them away? i never pulled them in. when you are president, the burden is different. he was asked a question last week by a reporter from a jewish publication who prefaced the question by saying other people in my community might disagree. zoom what we haven't really heard from the press is an update -- address in an uptick in the anti-attorney general iet -- >> he said he was going to ask a simple, easy question. it's not. it's not a simple question. not a fair question. sit down. i understand the rest of your question. here's the story, folks. number one, i am the least anti-semitic person that you have ever seen in your entire life. number two, racism, the least racist person. we did very well relative to other people running as a

republican. quiet, quiet, quiet. >> to the point you made earlier, testy, angry at that reporter there. this is a difference between being the new york city street brawler, who is donald trump, but had great success politically. that has helped him. he took that question personally. it wasn't about him, but he took it that way. >> the reporter later said he took no offense to the way the question was taken. he said there's a lot of support for donald trump in his community. we push these narratives about donald trump having a problem with jewish people that aren't necessarily based in fact, and that there are -- he has a daughter who is jewish. he has an ambassador nominee to israel who is considered very strong supporter of israel. these -- there are other things that need to be part of this thing that we talk about as we talk about it. >> i think it has nothing to do with the subject matter. if you ask donald trump a question about do you like puppies, sometimes he just takes it -- i don't mean to be flipant about it, but he takes questions that people are looking for a presidential statement to help unite the country or say something as the president, and

he is always thinking in the back of his mind, you are trying to somehow say i'm responsible for this. >> i think it is part of a growing in the job as president. that is something that we see all presidents do, and there are some of his advisors -- i asked him after that -- they aren't totally sure that he heard exactly everything that was being asked there. it is a big room in the east room. it's -- who knows? i think going forward you can't just go to the african-american history museum and say this one time. i think his actions, again, will be sort of judged on this. my guess is he will have to direct the vast resources of his government now to do something where. >> you mentioned his daughter. she's a convert to judaism. she tweeted out last night. this is not new. here's just three of the places that we know have had these bomb threats called in, and we should be clear, none of these have

come to any fruition. they're hoax calls, but they're still scary. it's new jersey, cincinnati, ohio, milwaukee, wisconsin. also some jewish cemeteries vandalized in recent days as well. as the problem persists, this pressure on the president and any president will tell you sometimes they don't feel like they should be, but they are compelled because of the job to step in and talk about things. >> again, it's because of what the narrative was during the campaign and, you know, his -- whether it's his twitter account or whoever is running his twitter account retweeting whether knowingly or unwittingly, you know, white supremacist groups or memes that were anti-semitic. i think it is different that donald trump is not necessarily that person. you know, he has talked for a long time about the fact that he grew up in new york. he has more socially tolerant or liberal views when it comes to things like gay rights, you know, people in the workplace, all that. i think that is a different thing, but i think that as jeff was saying, when you are

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welcome back. the trump administration today released new guidelines that taken together signal a much morrow bust enforcement of immigration laws. the call, for example, to hire more ice and border patrol agents and officers. they call for an expansion in the number of people deep deported through ek pedestrian ieted removals and pushes for a series of changes to the so-called catch and release policy again with an emphasis on deporting people more quickly. those steps come as the administration also prepares a new travel ban to replace the

executive action that was blocked in federal court. >> we have to have a safe country. we have to let people come in that are going to love the country. this is about love. this building is about love, and we have to have people come in that are going to love the country. not people that are going to harm the country, and i think a lot of people agree with me on that. we'll have various things coming out over a period of time. you'll see them as they come out and we'll let you know exactly what they are. >> still waiting for the new travel ban. the lawyers are working the language sog they think at this time they'll stand up in court. let's focus on what we got from the department of homeland security today and what we think the meaning is. if you fault the campaign, the president's critics will be horrified, but we should not be surprised by this. this is what the president ran on. he said he was going to do it, and this is the department of homeland security said nothing new, just enforcing more aggressively existing law. >> there are criticisms of the policy and then a set of criticisms of the execution, and

the criticism of the travel ban was both, right? there are people who thought it was bad policy, about ut there were a lot of people who thought there would be a way to do this in a way that fulfilled the president's campaign promises, but also was not quite so messy, disruptive, and possibly illegal, and that's why it got knocked down in court. >> the department of homeland security secretary feels that way. >> exactly. so to the extent that this administration can do -- can set out to achieve its goals deliberately, they are still going to be controversial. they are still going to be a lot of people whoo us hair is on fire about the things that he is setting out to achieve. if the execution is smoother, i think he will get less blowback and be more effective. he will be less likely to have a judge, for example, stop him from carrying things out. >> silence. >> the execution of that executive order was where the problem was. anybody can disagree on immigration policy, what's a good judged, bad idea. as we saw, it was popular or

certainly not as unpopular some people with like you to believe, but the execution was so arbitrary, capricious, and that's where nobody was willing to fight on that ground. you will note that donald trump said that they would see you in court, and instead we are just getting a complete pullback and a rerelease. that's actually smart and prudent and totally different than the rhetoric we saw. >> he is starting to listen to secretary kelly, homeland security, says who said at the munich security conference over the weekend, we're going to roll it out. the way they did this today, these memos go out not only to federal law enforcement agencies, but to state and local people too saying if you come into contact with an undocumented and setting new standards for what sometimes is just the catch and release. you catch them and document it and let them go. in this case now unless you can prove you've been here for two years, these new guidelines say they're going to move towards deportation. >> without a doubt hard line things in here that i think we're going to have to see how these are executed. the local law enforcement agencies aren't equipped to sort of deal with all of this. i mean, it's just one of the problems in the first place,

right? i think one of the other things i'm watching for today as this rolls out are the dreamers. he is basically leaving the docket exactly the same for now, and that's been controversial among some of his supporters because they wanted to see a change in that, but he is saying for now that he -- i think the comment this morning, we have to bring people here who love this country. >> how do you test the -- >> how do you tee fine that or test that? a lot of these people -- these refugees go through extreme vetting already or are certainly heavy, heavy vetting, so i think that that is something that is more difficult than finding someone who loves this country. >> i think this issue among the many, many -- people get fired up. actually a factual, rationale comment on immigration, which is often rare in our politics. >> i think in recent years the truth has gotten lost in a lot of our debates. the fact is that the obama administration deported more

people than anyone in our history. the fact is that we have a much more secure situation at the border than we did ten years ago. now do we need to keep going? do we need to do better? absolutely. do we need to solve this immigration puzzle once and for all? the american people are tired, chris, of this debate. it's literally been ten years since mccain kennedy. we need to act. >> mccain-kennedy, path to citizenship. there's no mood in the country for that right now, and the president has given other answers. when you listen to that, it's like might we, might we actually be able to have -- you are shaking your head already. you know where i'm going. a conversation with people say, look, to the democrats howling at president trump now, obama deported a lot of people. the president said they're fooding across and it's a problem. we need to deal with it. the numbers are actually down in the last decade. can we have a rationale decade.

>> i think what you have heard him build a case for, is immigration reform, and it got 68 votes in 2013. it's unlikely they're going to come back to that point. i think maybe they did, and i think it's anything short of a path to citizenship. that is the underlying problem and issue when it comes to immigration. the difficulty of getting into the country for anything short of having -- >> can you do incremental immigration reform. it's never going to work here in washington, especially after the obama care experience and after the last immigration taem at this. you're going to have pressure from republicans from farm districts saying we need a guest worker program. republicans from high-tech areas saying we need to fix the high-tech visa program. can this be done in pieces or once you start this debate, do we go off the rails? >> a lot can be done by enforcing current laws and moving towards enforcing current law. there's a lot of room for compromise just using what's on the books right now, and that's what's interesting about it today as memos are coming from the department. a lot of people want change, and it doesn't require necessarily a

huge legislative overhaul to just use the toolds that are already there. the fact that previous administrations didn't use those tools. it never plays a part, but it doesn't need to keep people from using. >> you wind up using the stuff that's politically popular, so if you did obama care piecemeal, you would have only done preexisting conditions and kids staying on their parents' insurance. >> you did guest worker and the high-tech visa, at least can you get people who disagree on the big stuff in the room where they actually -- you know, i can trust this guy. you know what, i can respect this person. maybe when we get to the tougher stuff, we've at least started having conversations, and i at least respect you more. >> it hasn't been tried in this town for a long time. for all the executive orders, the president is signing, much harder to sign a bill into law. much harder. i think that, you know, he is one person who might be able to bring people together on this. i'm not saying it's going to happen, but i think there are a lot of conservatives, republicans out there from farm communities, farm areas who are going to feel this pinch and

something needs to be done here. high-tech as pessimistic. >> that's the real question and where the conflict is going to come. if you were talking about -- if you were talking about expanding the guest worker program, you are talking about letting more foreigners into this country and donald trump's platform in his campaign and jeff sessions and steve miller and steve bannon, their whole idea is that you let fewer people into this country legally, and that is going to be a conflict between that trust and the business community, and says that it needs these workers, although some disagree with that. the real conflict is going to come. it's similar to the tariff issue. when you have old school, you know, what used to be the republican party before donald trump came along and what the chamber of commerce and the business community want versus the types of policies that trump promoted in his campaign. >> the america first policies. this is a tough one here. one thing that will work for the president's advantage is the

fact that secretary foreign general kelly heads over homeland security. they disagree with the policy, but we talked at the top of the program, scott pruitt is the new e.p.a. chief, and he was very controversial in his confirmation hearings because democrats call him a denier of climate change. we like to dip in. you get to meet the new faces of the administration. this is scott pruitt moments ago speaking to employees at the environmental protection agency about his agenda going forward. >> i seem to be a good listener. those of you that have been here for quite some time whether it's an area of area or whatever area that you may be in, i look forward to spending time with you. not just to address stern issues, but really spend time and dig down deep with respect to how we're going to do business in the future and get to know you personally and how i can be a resource to you as you do your work. i think that the story of listening, you can't lead unless you listen. i seek to listen, learn, and lead with you to address these issues that we face as a nation.

>> that's certainly a good way to get started as a leader. promising to listen. rex tillerson speaks to the state department, and a similar note there. this is going to be one of the flash points of this town because democrats, he this think, are going to ease regulations on the energy industry. they're worried about clean air and clean water, and democrats say he is a climate change denier. he said in his confirmation hearings, he said there was definitely human impact and people debate about the severity. we'll see it going forward. >> without a question. i think this is one of the series of cabinet secretaries we've seen sworn in who are basically at odds with a lot of the viewpoints of the people that they'll be working for. he has filed how many lawsuits? 14, 15 against the e.p.a. certainly starting off on a optimistic note, high note. >> whoever is sort of advising these secretaries, i think that they've done fairly well here, but a lot of people did not want him to be confirmed on the democratic side, and we'll see how many leaks are coming out of that agency, if any, about what he does from here forward.

>> i'm going to listen to you guys. it's sort of like a place holder to say give me some time, give me a few months. i don't have anything to tell you about the mission of how we are going to go forward with all this, but i'm going to listen. let's -- let's not have a totally antagonistic relationship right off the bat, but i think jeff is right. there are probably going to be a number of leaks out of some of these agencies, and i don't think that was a strong a speech as rex tillerson -- he brought it down with a lot of humor and, you know, understanding that professionalism is important and matters. the book is still out on how scott pruitt will interact with the e.p.a. >> we have reports coming out of the e.p.a. that employees are encrypting their communications and so they won't be able to be -- you can't -- that's a threat to journalists and a threat to their actual supervisors in the administration.

yeah, this was, i guess, a bit of an olive branch, but there should be much more alarm about the dangers inherent in people who aren't accountable to anyone, being able to set policy or engage in leak campaigns to subvert the people who are actually elected to lead the country. >> they did win. they did win. you win, you get to take over the agencies. we'll see how this one plays out. take two on -- from the take two of the travel order and take two at the national security council. an army general is known for challenging his bosses. ingredients. ficial kind never had to. we've used real ingredients, whole nuts, and natural flavors from the very beginning. give kind a try.

welcome back. president trump has a new national security advisor replacing the general who was forced out last week with a very different general. >> general h.r. mcmaster will become the national security advisor. he is a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience. i watched and read a lot over

the last two days. he is highly respected by everybody in the military, and we're very honored to have him. >> general mcmaster is considered one of the military's sharpest minds, and his -- sharp criticism of vietnam era commanders for not standing up to president johnson. >> i just like to say what a privilege it is to be able to continue serving our nation. i'm grateful to you for that opportunity, and i look forward to joining the national security team and doing everything i can to advance and protect the interests of the american people. >> what a difference here in the sense. no disrespect to general flynn who has some issues with investigations ongoing about his russia contacts, but a guy who was in from the intelligence community mostly and loyal to trump in the campaign. here's a career military guy, a battlefield commander. he doesn't really give a hoot about politics. >> it was really striking the extent to which this selection

was praised across the spectrum. you had democrats. you had never trumpers. you had john mccain. you had all kinds of different republicans. even flynn supporters. it was very hard to find any opposition to this, and after the firestorm surrounding general flynn, that has got to be a huge relief to people who are hoping for a little bit more stability and a little bit more of a chance for this administration to actually start doing things as opposed to being consumed by these constant personnel conflicts. however, the russia issue remains we still don't have a firm sense of where this administration is going on russia. mcmaster has been a hard liner towards putin, and we don't know if trump is coming around to that position or not. >> that's an interesting point. very different from general flynn in terms of his views on russia. also different from the president in the sense that he is for increased military spending or morrow bust military, but thinks a lot of it

needs to go into the cyber world and the quick response world, what the president has talked about tanks and ships and planes. >> he has been a brilliant strategist by everyone we talked to. the words of leader come up, non-political. this is one of the reasons why being in the government and governing is different than campaigning. it's not always wise to affiliate your entire government with people who were with you on the campaign. this will be the most notable example. he is there to reset all this. i think beginning of the second month of the presidency here it's going much different than the first month. we're just one day in here, but i think it was one of the strongest hires he probably has had. >> you can't be completely non-political and, you know, rise -- >> it's a different kind of politics. not republicans and democrats. >> exactly. being able to figure out how to rise your way to the top in a big organization and within washington, and part of that is that skill is going to be really

important in the trump white house because you know what trump likes. he likes somebody who can stand in a room who can make a presentation, who can be -- have a big personality and mcmaster, by all accounts, is somebody who is known for his blunt talk, who will tell you like it is, give the information that he thinks is necessary and important and can kind of stand up in a room of a bunch of people that can do the same thing. >> the national security advisor is not there to give his opinion on paper, anyway. the national security advisor's job is to take it. what do the generals at the pentagon say? what do interested parties say and distill it, and hopefully from that bring a recommendation. if there's a dispute to give the president a good briefing and say, sir, your call. >> that synthecizing of information is so important, and people don't quite realize how important this approach that mcmasters has was for trump winning this presidency. i mean, he really went hard against both republican and

democratic foreign policy the way we fight wars, the way we have the lengthy times in country without having clear strategy and vision. when you read what mcmaster has been saying -- having a clear end to your war fighting claims and communicating that to the american people. these are things that haven't been done in a long time. it matches well with trump. >> he commanded a tank unit in the iraqi battle. that's the first persian gulf war. he wrote a book criticizing -- he led a regiment in 2005 in the battle over a key iraqi town. this was part of the troop surge, part of the new effort at the end of the bush administration. he helped develop the counter insurgency doctrine, clear, hold, and build strategy. challenges orthodoxy. i covered the first persian gulf war. that tank battle, you was outgunned, outmanned as they say in hamilton, and he was viewed as a stud. me still studied the way that was done.

an interesting change. you see the video from the dan rather piece from the 1991 gulf war. that maneuver was key. these tank maneuvers were key to changing the whole composition of what turned out to be a very quick and aggressive win in that war, but having a battlefield commander now down the hall from the president, an interesting perspective. >> without question. -- they don't have much of a relationship at all. if you saw on the video there, you can see the president holding up his bio in front of him. this is somebody he knew general flynn. he got to know him and trust him in the many months on the campaign trail. this is someone who he has known about 48 hours and known of for about 72 hours. i think their relationship obviously will have to work, but he is not political, perhaps, but he knows how to navigate washington and boy, will that be ever needed. the national security council now is ribboned with all types of suspicions about this white house and my guess is his first order of business is calming all that down and telling people get back to work.

>> what does it tell us about the president? a very different -- in the course of a week, the president goes from one national security advisor to a person who is very different in his world views, especially on the russia issue as you talked about, and just what does it tell you about the president? during the campaign, the president would make mistakes. he would make a mistake and recalibrate it and adjust. he never says i was wrong, but gets it to a place where he wants to go. >> the question particularly -- >> what does he decide to do? he has a quirky sense of which information he is presented with that he decides is believable or not based largely on his internal on his gut not necessarily based on the evidence and so, you know, you do have a -- he likes big men, he likes the guys he thinks of as alphas. guys like tillerson and mattis, and kelly i think as well. all of them have reportedly been frustrated with the administration so far because they don't feel that their views

necessarily have purchase in the white house. you know, general mcmaster, all of the establishment love in the world, but if he is not getting anywhere with the president in terms of making trump see the world his way or making trump see what he believes are the facts, then that's going to be tough for him. >> very important. jury of one. everybody, sit tight. up next, who is going to save me? an emotional exchange in a town hall. just the latest tough moment for a lawmaker back on home turf. mom, i just saved a lot of money on my car insurance by switching to geico. i should take a closer look at geico... you know, geico can help you save money on your homeowners insurance too? great! geico can help insure our mountain chalet! how long have we been sawing this log? um, one hundred and fourteen years. man i thought my arm would be a lot more jacked by now. i'm not even sure this is real wood. there's no butter in this churn. do my tris look okay? take a closer look at geico. great savings. and a whole lot more. and her new mobile wedding business.tte

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>> welcome back. democracy in action. well, it can mean some difficult moments. even for the most seasoned of politicians. senator chuck grassley made his name going county to county talking to voters, and he ran

smack into one of those uncomfortable exchanges earlier today. an afghan man living in iowa told grassley he worked as a translator for the united states military, and that works means he would risk his life by going home, but the gentleman went on to say he is now having trouble getting paperwork to seek asylum here in the united states. so he asked senator grassley point-blank, who is going to save me? senator grassley, just watch. >> trying to give the american people safe, but i am a person from a muslim country, and i am a muslim. who is going to save me here? who is going to stay behind me and -- [ applause ] >> i've been road bomb side -- road side bomb once, but nobody care about me, but i was with the united states armed forces back in afghanistan. i didn't -- because of my mom

and dad. >> senator, answer his question. >> i'm going down the list, and when we're done with that list -- >> no. >> answer the question. >> who brought it up? >> i did. >> awkward moment there. the senator saying i'm going to go down my list, and after my list, however, we should note that after the event -- after that senator did not directly answer the question right there after the event. he did pose for the gentleman with a picture. we assume maybe some accommodation, or conversation between senator grassley and that man. this comes up. let's come back into the room. this comes up as members of congress are home this week. we know -- this is organized. you have democratic groups, progressive groups who want to pressure them on obama care. want to pressure them on other issues in the trump administration. i think they should all hold town halls when they're home. some avoid them because of this and everything like that. when you see this, it's heartening to see them out there taking the heat. >> first and foremost, even though he didn't answer, at least senator grassley is holding town hall meetings.

regardless of how heated every summer this has been, he has always held meetings. that said, he didn't answer the question. this is in iowa falls, iowa. iowa falls is a community about an hour or so north of des moines. it had an immigration issue for a long time. these are not issues that are sort of new. these are engrained in communities there. i think that the question is will any lawmakers come back and change their mind over this? the reality is probably not because things are sort of locked in here, but when you were saying before about immigration, the worker permits and other things, i do think that hearing from your constituents could foster some type of compromise here. they're hearing earfuls on health care and other things. from democrats mainly. not entirely, though. republicans and trump supporters -- i don't know why things aren't done already. you said they were going to repeal obama care. you have it. >> we can show you some pictures outside of a town hall. lawrenceberg, kentucky, the

senator majority leader mitch mcconnell is back home. you see there welcome home, mitch. there from progressive groups greeting the majority leader. you'll get that. you expect that if you are mitch mcconnell. you would expect the democrats to organize to get in your face, but there are a lot of conservatives who just today the immigration policies don't deal with the dreamer issue. they say why not? why are we waiting so long now? >> i think presuming all the republicans have problems. i think democrats would love to have these types of problems. >> controlling the house and having all the governors in the state lelk tour as well. obama care is a deeply unpopular law, and people do want it repealed. we're getting, you know -- despite the fact that there's a lot of anger at trump and we saw that poll last week from pew that showed that there is unprecedented opposition to donald trump. we're hearing a lot from the opposition. i think we should also be paying attention to those -- that huge chunk of people who just didn't even vote this year.

they have almost no voice in the media. there's the electorate that actually voted for trump and probably are willing to give him more than a month to fix some of these problems. they're probably a little more patient than the opposition. >> the president sometimes doesn't show the patience of his voters understanding these things do take time. >> it is true if congress feels it has gotten very little direction from the white house or conflicting signals about these big priorities, about things like repealing obama care and what to replace it with, virtually no progress has been made on that, in part, because they do not feel the president has been focused on this issue, and indeed, if you wanted to, tomorrow he might tweet something or make an off hand comment that would completely upend all of the work that's been done so far, and those efforts -- it has only been a month, but it has been very hard for congress to decide on a path forward on these big ticket issues. they do have a great problem to have. they have consolidated republican governance that ought to mean that they can move forward in a big way with big

policy priorities and it's just been a lot harder than they thought, in part, because these things take time, and in part because they don't know where the white house's head is. >> there are month more of you, and then you have competing ideas, more ideas. this is going to take a while. >> our reporters share from their notebooks, including one prom innocent republican senator passing up a slot.

let's close by heading around the roundtable and ask our reporters to get you out ahead of the political news. molly ball. >> senator rand paul was invited

to cpac this weekend and is not going to attend. he is going to be spending time away from d.c., i am told. this is the second straight year that rand paul is not attending cpac. last year he was focused on his re-election, which went pretty smoothly, but it's a real change for cpac, which for a long time was very heavily libertarian and really belonged to rand paul and to his father ron paul and to the legions of young libertarians who loved them. now, you know, rand paul won the cpac straw poll twice. the last time it was ted cruise, and ted cruise will be at cpac, and in a way i think he has become more of the standard bearer for that movement if it still exists. >> many cpac with the pauls. miss that one. jeff. >> a week from tonight the biggest speech yet from the preez. it won't be a state of the union address, but it will look like one on television. the president will be addressing a joint session of congress. he has already been working on his speech, i'm told, and his advisors desperately want him to continue what he has really done over the last couple of days or

so,ing and continue that to reset button, if you will, and that speech next week talking about lowering taxes, health care, keeping it focused on issues, not campaigning. we'll see how he does. >> interesting first big moment for the president out on capitol hill. look forward to that. >> taking it forward to saturday and the new democratic national committee chair race taking place in atlanta. at this point someone to watch and not because they're likely to win, but because of their constituency, jamie harrison, the south carolina congressman. he has had a significant block of potential voters and depending on where they wind up going, that could actually throw the race. expect multiple ballots and expect that, you know, tom perez at this point, the fortunatelier labor secretary under obama, seems to have the inside track. of course, keith ellison, the more populist minnesota congressman is his main rival, but you have to wonder if keith ellison is there, a member of the cbc, congressional black caucus, why so many have thrown their support to harris. >> interesting to watch.

a big debate. molly. >> a bunch of democratic attorney generals worked together very well to fight president trump's immigration ban, and even though more than 30 states opposed president obama's immigration policies, only one state filed an amicus brief to help out the trump administration. i'm talking to people in the attorney general's staffs at these 30 states and former attorney general staff and they're talking about how if opposition through the courts is going to be a main strategy of the opposition, how they need to work together to support the trump presidency. >> work together. those who opposing, try to make a name for themselves as well. not just in court. future balance logts maybe. thanks for joining us and inside pliksz. soon the white house press secretary sean spicer is taking questions from reporters at the white house. we'll go there live when it happens. wolf blitzer standing by after a quick break. your insurance company

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hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 9:00 p.m. in mosul, iraq. wherever you are watching from around the world, thank you very much for joining us. let's begin with the breaking news. take a look at this. we've got some live pictures coming in from the white house briefing room. we're only moments away from the white house press secretary sean spicer taking to the podium. he will undoubtedly face a barrage of questions about the trump administration's new immigration orders just announced and his new national security advisor. we are following a developing story. dozens of threats and attacks in recent days and weeks against jewish targets across the united states, including a jewish cemetery in missouri. president trump reacting this morning during his visit to the national african-american history museum here in washington. >> the anti-semitic threats tarlgting