can be sued for acts that occurred before he was president. >> that's probably more important than anything else in this case. gentlemen, you make us better. thank you. we have an interview with democratic congressional candidate from georgia who is getting the attention of president trump in a big way. so what do you say, let's get after it. >> for 40 years presidents have released their tax returns to the public. >> i think the american public knows clearly where he stands. >> i think it would be a good gesture on his part to release them. >> i want more transparency. i want more information. >> there is no military resolution in north korea. >> all options are on the table and there they will remain. >> we could use coherent policy to present to the american people. >> i don't want to telegraph what i'm doing or thinking. i'm not like other administrations. >> the manhunt for 37-year-old steve stephens expanding nationwide. >> we're not going to stop you believe he's in custody. >> you out there listening, turn

your self in. >> this is "new day" with questions cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day." we begin with trump offensive on the defensive over its lack of transparency. the white house refusing to release the president's tax returns once geb aagain and now president is sued to have visitors logs from the white house made public, something he has argued in the past should be public. >> remember donald trump promised to, quote, drain the swamp if he made it to the white house. ethics efforts call his administration the least transparent in decades. it's day 89 of the trump presidency. let's begin our coverage with joe johns. he's live at the white house. good morning, joe. >> good morning, alisyn. it is tax day when millions of americans have to have their taxes in and a reminder president trump has not released his tax returns. he ran on this issue of transparency, obvious used it as

a political weapon. now that he's the president is going to release his tax returns? >> we'll have to get back to you on that. >> the white house on the defensive facing mounting criticism over the administration's lack of transparency. >> we're under the same audit that existed, so nothing has changed. >> press secretary sean spicer again citing routine audits to justify president trump's refusal to release any tax returns except an irs audit does not prevent disclosure. this lack of transparency now jeopardizing another trump key campaign promise, an overhaul of the tax code. "new york times" writing democrats are uniting around a pledge not to cooperate on any rewriting of the tax code unless they know specifically how that provision would benefit the billionaire president and his family. a growing number of republican lawmakers also calling on the

president to make his returns public. >> i think it would be a good gesture on his part to release them like all other presidents have. >> some lawmakers are being shouted down at town halls over trump's taxes. >> as far as i'm aware the president says he's still under audit. >> the president himself downplaying the issue in the face of nationwide protests this weekend. >> tweeting, i did what was almost an impossible thing to do for a republican, easily won the electoral college. now tax returns are being brought up again? the administration facing scrutiny for refusing to disclose who is golfing with the president and for reversing an obama era precedent of making white house visitor logs public. >> we recognize there's a privacy aspect allowing citizens to come and express their views. >> press secretary sean spicer saying such disclosures would be

harmful and unnecessary, adding obama white house redacted some visitor names while acknowledging the trump administration will not release any. >> frankly the faux attempt that the obama administration put out where they would scrub who they didn't want put out didn't serve anyone well. >> this policy change inconsistent with trump's past criticism of obama who he labeled the least transparent president ever, tweeting vaguely in 2012, why does obama believe he shouldn't comply with record releases that his predecessors did of their own volition. hiding something? today president trump travels to kenosha, wisconsin. he's expected to sign an executive order making changes to the h1b visa program. that's a program that brings in highly skilled american workers. the administration says this is an attempt to promote the president's plans to hire more american workers. alisyn and chris. >> joe johns. appreciate it.

bring in our panel, reporter and editor-at-large for cnn politics chris cillizza and alex burns and patrick healey. gentlemen, welcome to all and each of you, editor-at-large, you wrote a piece yesterday saying, yes, president trump won, even though he didn't release his taxes. he did not win because he didn't release his taxes. distinguish? >> basically what they are saying and kellyanne conway said this, donald trump said it in the tweet joe just went through is, well, donald trump won the election. therefore, people are not interested in his taxes. those two things are not necessarily true. there's a poll conducted right before he was inaugurated that said 74% of people thought he should release his taxes, including 49% of people who supported him. so what i would say is what is true is donald trump won the election and his tax returns were not an issue most people voted on. true and still true. donald trump is not going to

lose the election in 2020 -- >> why should we care about him not releasing his taxes, what should it matter? >> there's more on whether it's good politics or not. this is the single most powerful person in the country, maybe the world. we don't know sort of his financial portfolio. there's a reason every president in the modern era released taxes to give some sense to the american public who pay his salary, fyi, what he's worth, where his investments are, what debts, if any, he owes. it's not a full financial picture but something of a financial figure. there's a difference. it doesn't hurt him politically. that doesn't mean not releasing him is the right thing to do. >> i don't know if you're right about that. that remains to be seen. the latest polls just a couple weeks ago, a quinnipiac poll taken march 30th through april 3rd. should trump release his tax returns, 68% say yes, 28% say

no. then it goes to this question, this is a new gallup poll, americans who say mr. trump keeps his promises. people do vote whether or not you keep promises, now it's dropped. >> you think that's about taxes or health care? >> who knows? if it all goes into one big pot of the narrative, maybe it will -- >> it could. >> a fully rounded pick of what we want to see from a president. what we wanted to see from a candidate. we want to know especially for a billionaire who is about to take offices and making large claims about taxes and his ability to sort of run the country, fix the country's economy, you want to know what their financial record was. the reality was over and over geb he kept citing an audit that he was under and sort of taking protection under the cloak of irs boogie man that a lot of americans could relate to. now it feels like it's kind of a charade. >> personally, i can't believe

he dropped 15 points over the taxes when nothing has changed in his position. i think there are other things that happened in the 80 plus days that are shaping that narrative. you have the deeper issue than politics. you have the conflicts. are the taxes dispose tiitive o what his business interests are? >> no. >> they would be helpful in the analysis. the committees can probably get them, can they not? >> various congressional committees if they want to, republicans in charge -- >> we have heard they are reluctant. >> another way they could come out is if certain avenues of litigation with the president could be released through discovery in a civil suit of some kind. democrats are trying to engineer that outcome. look, the big picture, ingall sin h -- i think alisyn had it right, probably not an issue if he runs for re-election. i know what republicans in washington are worried about is

this broader idea that builds of its own momentum and sets in. we saw it in that clip of tom cotton's town hall where voters are worked up about this. it's not that people are angry about the taxes on their own, it's the larger narrative of the president is not being level with you. a president hiding. >> his credibility numbers were in the basement when he was running. again, you could say it was written off to cillizza's point. >> he was running against an opponent who also for a lot of americans had honesty issues. >> but chris, this is the part that really confound me, the visitor logs to the white house. the white house is the people's house. frankly i didn't understand the obama policy of redacting names, too. what are they keeping from the public? what's so classified in the visitor logs? >> alisyn, remember that the obama policy was much more transparent than all the policies before it where the white house visitor logs weren't made public. >> the problem i have with sean

spicer's argument that some transparency, imperfect transparency, which is what the obama administration practiced. they did not release everything in an absolutely transparent manner, that some transparency is worse than no transparency. that's a tough sell to make. you know, the argument that people have a right to privacy when they come to visit the white house, i always remind people, we pay literally -- literally we the taxpayers on a day like today pay the salary of the people who the president of the united states, vice president of the united states. so i understand you want to get the best people, the best advice from the president and maybe if you're making those things public, some of those people might not come. but it seems to me that in the public good argument, it would do well to know, well, that's interesting that so-and-so or so-and-so came. what does that tell us about who he's listening to. >> you know who agrees with you? trump.

trump said about president obama, why are you fighting releasing these logs, the least transparent ever. when is that going to start to matter. we always bring up these tweets about what trump has said that is creating a complete hypocrisy on what he does right now and it doesn't seem to get any heat. >> he says these things during the campaign. he said during the campaign in 2012 when he went after obama. >> citizen trump. >> but that's in the past. >> approval ratings are sky high. what do you mean what is it going to matter? >> i think in any other circumstance, if i can show that you said the exact opposite on this issue, and you're saying right now you're going to be in a bind. >> in all seriousness, the sort of one by one gotchas with him have not had impact. a lot of people that supported it, yeah, he freelances, makes stuff up, isn't always

internally consistent. there's a deeper consistency to his belief and deeper authenticity to things he's going to do as president. the reason you're saying numbers go down now, imjust talking about pool who voted on this matter they are questioning deeper reliability, authenticity. >> that was a tight space for him, only won by a point and a half. >> people voted for him, didn't love him, but thought he would repeal obamacare. >> jobs, north korea. >> let's talk about that race, patrick, in georgia. this is tom price's seat. the democrat there, though he's young and basically a neophyte could win. >> right. >> is this a barometer on mr. trump's popularity? >> the issues they are fighting over, yes. in terms of both sides. but the broader issue right now is that trump barely squeaked

out in this district. in terms of this candidate at least, in terms of a very large field of republicans, none of these people are ultimately trump. it's very hard to sort of look at the ballot and saying three months in to a presidency, this is how i feel about president trump right now. >> trump seems to be worried about it. he's tweeted about it twice in the last half hour. he's attacking this guy jon ossoff with everything he has. >> he loves politics, that's the thing. >> i can't believe he spent a lot of time learning about ossoff but it does show where his head is. didn't have a big win certainly compared to the president. why does this matter so much? >> because trump follows media narrative more than any president we've seen. he watches more cable television. he consumes more news about himself than any modern president. because of technology, has the capacity to do so. he understands the race is being

painted as a referendum on him. whether it is or not, he understands that it is. therefore, he is going to go out and do everything he can to try to prespin it. you have to think of donald trump in a way -- i know he's president of the united states, but in a way he's sort of a political hand. he's a guy -- he likes to watch politics, comment about politics. that's what got him into this in the first place. he follows this stuff really closely. that's why you've seen four tweets, five tweets in the last 36 hours on georgia six. >> gentlemen, thank you very much for the analysis. so are special elections like the one today in georgia going to be a referendum on the president. what are voters looking for as they head to the polls? we debate that. think again. this is the new new york. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment.

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the white house under fire for withholding the president's taxes, and now the white house visitor logs. >> the same audit exists so nothing has changed. >> is it time once and for all to say the president is never going to release his tax

returns? >> we'll have to get back to you on that. i said i'll have to get back to you on that. of course he's still under audit. the statement still stands. >> is the white house falling short on transparency? let's see what our guesses think. political commentators, former secretary for bernie sanders and jeffrey lord former reagan white house official backed by popular demand together again. >> stop laughing. >> don't say anything crazy, jeffrey, stick to the facts. referring to martin luther the analogy jeffrey lord made between martin luther jr. and donald trump. jeffrey, do you want to say any more on that point before we move on? >> not really. look, no. there's a whole long discussion you get into and it's not on the agenda today. you know, i'd be happy at some

point to do it. but i just think this was wildly misinterpreted. i think for some reason i just don't agree. that's all. >> got it. we will move on now because there's lots of other stuff to talk about in this news cycle, jeffrey, what is it president trump doesn't want us to see in his taxes. >> i don't know, i am one of these people who thinks the whole thing is bogus from start to finish. the income tax came in from wilson to lbj. we had plenty of presidents whose taxes aren't out there. >> in modern times. since president nixon everybody released their taxes. in fact, it was donald trump who really pressed mitt romney to do so for the sake of transparency, so now what's going on? >> i think the whole thing -- because this stuff is now used as a political gotcha. i will say this, if we're going to go down this road people of

influence, president of the united states or whomever then everybody should do it or everybody of influence. it was interesting, i asked a prominent member, a former administration who was advocating whether he in the administration had released to the public, not senate committee or public and he couldn't remember. my point is that, dpee, you know -- >> everybody is not the president of the united states, jeffrey. the bar is extremely low, let's be frank, for donald trump. i do think there'ses a real issue with the lack of transparency. what does the president have to hide? release the damn tax returns. our national security could be at risk. i'm not the president of the united states i'm a bald black girl from nebraska. >> the reason i think your argument doesn't exactly hold water is because it was donald trump before he was president who beat this drum all the time.

let me remind you, jeffrey, about some of the things he said about transparency. listen to this. >> president obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country. >> why do we want to see president obama's college records? >> transparency. does that make sense to anybody? seriously, transparency. >> what does that mean, transparency. >> it means there are so many hidden things we don't know about our president. >> there's a total lack of transparency. this is a very, very sad day for the united states of america. >> that was 2012. jeffrey, if it's not about transparency, isn't it about hypocrisy in that case prof ali, did we see any of those things donald trump private citizen was asking about. >> yes, we did. it's called a birth certificate. president obama did -- >> the college records. >> because donald trump so many times on it president obama did it. >> did we see the college

records? >> jeffrey, jeffrey? >> no. no. >> you are talking about tax returns. >> critical that donald trump said all that about transparency and now doesn't want to be transparent. >> again, i think this has become a gotcha. >> no. this has become what people do when you say you want to stand up and serve the people of america. donald trump is like the ultimate hypocrite on everything. he came at president obama for golfing and donald trump has spent more time on the golf course than he has actually running the free world. he beat not only president obama but mitt romney over the head about transparency. now we actually have the least transparent white house i think since nixon. >> not to put too fine a point on it but donald trump won the election. this was an issue in the election. hillary clinton said -- >> 400 million more votes than donald trump got. just because donald trump is the president of the united states does not mean he gets to upend the rules and rewrite history.

that's something folks need to remember. you especially, jeffrey. >> to that point about how he won the election. i hear you. but now americans, even then in all the polls and now a recent polls, they do want him to release his tax return. he's president of all americans, even those that didn't vote for him. 68% of americans want him to release his tax returns, why not do it? >> i think it's a political gotcha game particularly somebody as wealthy as donald trump. >> we don't know what it is. >> hold on. just to follow that logic, it's a gotcha game, we're going to find something in there people don't like and mr. trump will be in trouble. >> he could have given all his tax toss goldilocks and they would have found a problem wit. trust me, i know how this game works. >> let me show you something, jeffrey. tom cotton went home and had one of these town halls. >> sure. >> this was the response he got from his constituents. let me play this for everyone.

>> as far as i'm aware, the president says he's still under audit. the president is under audit. this is not secondary or aside the campaign. hillary clinton in her campaign repeatedly criticized president trump for this. as far as your points about this relationship overseas i'll make two replies. first, every federal office holder, every candidate for office filed a financial statement. >> jeffrey, how do you explain there senator cotton's constituents in arkansas want to see those taxes? >> first of all, i'd like to know how many are paid activists who paid them and will that

person put out their taxes so we can see them. >> so you think all that jeering, just to be clear, all that jeering or much of that jeering that we heard were from paid actors and activists. >> yes, i do. yes, i do. >> well, let me help you, jeffrey, when the midterm elections come around, everyone saying these folks at these town halls and really red places all over america who are asking, begging their elected officials to please, uphold the law, please be transparent, please work for us, they had a rude awakening. those are not paid actors, paid activi activists, these are concerned people. >> not all of them. >> yes, all of them. who are you to judge people showing up at town halls. first of all, i want to know who is paying for protests. i've never gotten a check for putting my body out on the line or showing up at a town hall. you republican folks out here saying these people are paid protesters, you're missing the point and you're going to end up

empty handed and without a seat come 2018. >> jeffrey, how about the visitor logs, why can't they be released? what's so nefarious about them? >> the visitor logs are a different breed here. that's a government situation. i use them when president obama was in the white house. i'm now seeing stories they were, in fact, manipulated themselves and they are not on the up and up. i would like to know the truth with that and get to the bottom. >> do you want president trump to release the visitor logs? would you like to know who is visiting the white house now? >> if they are saying there's a security reason, maybe there is a problem. >> you are a hypocrite. you are a hypocrite. this is extra hypocritical. can we just be frank and say that apparently the rules applied to the first black president of the united states do not apply to the most unqualified president we have ever had. release the tax returns, show me the visitor logs, go to work, donald trump.

>> let's get those visitor logs released. and in return, let's get the phone calls, whatever phone calls and relationships and business between nancy pelosi and congressman schiff -- >> this is a reach. how about we find out who else from the trump campaign and the current trump administration were speaking to the russians. this is about transparency. this is about doing what's best for all of the american people, not just the republican base or donald trump's voters. >> that's the last word. i did hear for jeffrey lord to call for the visitor logs to be released. thank you both for the debate. >> in return for the other. >> got it. thank you both. >> all right. this other story we're following this morning, the murder suspect accused of posting a video of the crime on facebook. the man on your screen is still at large. our law enforcement expert says this fugitive wants to be caught. why does he think that? you'll hear it next. your insurance company

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nationwide han hunt intensifies this hour as police search for suspected killer accused of shooting a

grandfather on easter. before then posting video of the crime on facebook. investigators releasing chilling 911 calls and the victim's family is speaking out. sara has all this live in cleveland. what's the latest, sara? >> alisyn, steve stephens is on the fbi's most wanted list as police in cleveland are searching every abandoned building in the city. the manhunt continues as investigators say the killer could be anywhere. the manhunt for 37-year-old steve stephens expanding nationwide. police warning residents across five states that the alleged killer is considered armed and dangerous. >> we're still asking steve to turn himself in. if he doesn't, we'll find him. >> cleveland's mayor announceing a $50,000 reward for information. a cell phone ping in pennsylvania turned up false.

stephens on the run after shooting and killing 74-year-old robert godwin and posting a video of the crime on facebook prompting horrified neighbors to call 911. >> listen to me. what's your address? >> lord have mercy. seconds before the killing, stephens asked godwin to save the name of a woman telling him she's the reason why this is about to happen to you. that woman says she is overwhelmed by the tragedy, telling cbs news steve really is a nice guy. he is generous with everyone he knows. he was kind and loving to me and my children. police confirming that they did make contact with stephens after the shooting, remarking that he has deep, deep issues. >> steve, if you can hear this, please understand there are people who care and we really want to make sure that you are safe, that you get the help that you need.

>> the victim's family grieving their unspeakable loss. >> each one of us forgive, healer, murderer, we want to wrap our arms around him. >> if i didn't know him as my god and savior i could not forgive that man. i folly nor animosity against him at all. actually i feel sadness in my heart for him. i do. i feel real sadness. >> all of us. >> now, court documents giving a glimpse to steve stephens background showing financial troubles. meanwhile police say they did recover several items that are aiding them in the investigation from a home in the area where he was believed to have lived. his employer, beach brook behavioral agency now says this morning they will reopen but with additional security out of concern for the people who work there. chris. >> all right, sara, keep us on

it. any developments let us know. joining us cnn law enforcement analyst and former washington, d.c., police chief and philadelphia police commissioner charles ramsey. sir, good to have you on the show. you're in cleveland coincidentally. what do you think the chances are that this suspect is still local. >> that's hard to say. my experience has been people tend to not go too far from areas they are familiar with. it's been three days now so he could be anywhere. i suspect if he's not in cleveland he's some place he has some association or ties to or feels comfortable. >> there was a big push to get him on the fbi most wanted list. why? what does that create in terms of resources? >> well, it does create a lot in terms of resources. this is a high-profile case. we're talking about it because of the facebook aspect of it, neff a lot of support from federal agencies.

the fact this individual killed a person in a totally random nature really does send off a lot of alarm bells. i was chief in d.c. during d.c. sniper. i remember those three weeks. it was a highly tense period of time. this can be different as this goes on. >> i remember you in that scenario as well. there has been a lot of talk about the issues has he, some type of mental health situation. how does that play into the analysis along with time and more than 40 plus hours into the manhunt. what does that do in terms of developing theories? >> well, i mean, he may have psychological problems, police are looking to bring him in so he doesn't hurt anyone else. someone else will figure what's going on with him in terms of his mental situation. right now they have to find this guy and get him off the streets before he can kill somebody else.

>> is it unusual this period has gone by and no one has come forward saying they heard from him? whether he says he's okay, where he's going, whatever he wants to say, there's been no word. >> he's gone under ground obviously. he could have changed his appearance. he could have certainly changed the tags on that car if he's still, in fact, driving that car. so there are a lot of things that could lead to the fact he's not been found yet. it is not that unusual. what's unusual is the fact this is a case that wound up on facebook. he identified himself early on. normally it takes a while before you develop suspects in a case. i thought maybe this was because he wanted to get caught. now i'm starting to doubt that. maybe this is his way of taunting police. who knows what's on his mind. right now the focus has to be on apprehending him. hopefully nobody is helping him right now, because they are going to be in very serious trouble if they are. >> certainly it's a felony to

aid and abet with a wanted fugitive, this type of crime. the idea he would turn himself in, what goes into that kind of calculation? >> well, i mean, you always hope that's the case, that he may turn himself in. if he was going to do that, he probably would have done it already. a lot of times people have remorse after they have had a chance to think about what they just did and really just want to get it over with and turn themselves in or in some cases they commit suicide. it's been almost three days now and he hasn't turned himself in. he's made no contact we know of. i doubt this going to be a situation where he surrenders voluntarily. but eventually the police will track him down. you've got a lot of very good people on this case working around the clock. >> national attention to be sure. of course his decision to turn himself in is a function of whether or not he's in his right mind to begin w charles ramsey, thank you very much for your perspective. alisyn. >> our dana bash just spoke with

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we are following breaking news from japan. vice president mike pence leading with leaders in tokyo and saying provocations by north korea are, quote, the most ominous threat. cnn's dana bash just spoke exclusively with the vice president.

she joins us live from tokyo now. important timing here, dana. we've heard some very inflammatory rhetoric from the north koreans in response to the vice president. >> reporter: and that's exactly what i asked the vice president about, chris. the fact that just hours after the vice president was at the korean dmz, the north koreans in new york at the u.n. came out and really struck back hard rhetorically at the vice president talking about fact that he and the administration in general are potentially going to start a thermonuclear war. that is part of what i asked the vice president about. >> the north koreans have noticed the things you've been saying while you've been here in asia. in fact, the deputy ambassador to the u.n. from north korea said that you and the administration, but clearly responding to your words, are creating a dangerous situation

in which thermonuclear war may break out at any moment. would you like to respond to that? >> my hope is that the wider world and the leadership in north korea is listening to what president trump and the world community is saying. the time has come for them to abandon an dismantle their nuclear and ballistic program. my presence here, the president strongly urges at this point in time to strongly differ that message. we've really moved beyond the era of strategic patience. we've moved beyond failed dial ocean of the past. we've moved into an era where president trump is absolutely committed to marshalling the image of the world community, countries in the asian pacific to use economic and diplomatic power to isolate north korea and

achieve the goal of a nuclear-free north korea. >> they are listening. the ambassador says it sounds like you and the administration are insisting on gang sister-like logic. the idea of an invasion of the sovereign nation, talking about your remarks early about syria and afghanistan decreases the likelihood this can end peacefully. are you concerned that what you are saying is being taken in north korea as saber-rattling despite you're also talking about diplomacy. >> i think what the president is concerned about, what countries that we've visited are concerned about are the reckless and irresponsible actions of the regime in pyongyang. another failed missile attempt notwithstanding this weekend, an unprecedented number of ballistic missile tests, testing nuclear weapons twice in the last year. the time has really come for

north korea to get the message. as the president says, it's time for them to behave, to listen to the world community and to set aside their nuclear ambitions, ballistic missile ambitions and be willing to join the family of nations. from my part, in some-odd way, it's encouraging that they are getting the message. my hope is that they will continue to get the message, not just from the united states and here in japan and south korea but on an increasing basis from china and countries all over the world that long ago committed to a denuclearized korean peninsula. >> so getting the message is one thing, and the vice president is trying to look at this as a glass half full moment that north korea is understanding that the administration and the u.s. and its allies here in the

asia-pacific are going to put a lot more pressure on north korea. but it's really unclear, chris, whether they are hearing, which is one thing, and getting the message which is a whole different thing. chris. >> really getting very interesting about what actions good morning to come about from all these hot words. dana bash, another key interview. thank you very much. alisyn. >> okay. back here at home there's a big cooldown for the northeast while storms are brewing in the midwest. cnn meteorologist chad myers has our forecast. hi, chad. >> hi, alisyn. on sunday you were 87. today you'll be almost 25 degrees colder than that. so whatever happened to summer, i don't know. this weather brought to you by purina, your pet, our passion. even where we were yesterday, a beautiful 74, today 62 in new york city as that cold air comes back down. now it's not as cold as the air ahead of minnesota, i get it. it is snowing there this morning. i know the snow word shouldn't

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destroy your health care and flood our country with illegal immigrants. i need you to get out to the polls tomorrow april 18th republican. >> that was a voter call to fill tom price's seat. the race is seen as referendum in mr. trump. polls show the democrat john ossoff leading the field of 18 candidates. and he joins us now. good morning, mr. ossoff. >> thank you for having me. >> what is it like to have president trump using your name to voters in your district there? >> well, i appreciate the president's interest in the race. although, he is misinformed with respect to my priorities. i am focussed on going to washington to get things done for this community, to cut

wasteful spending so we can grow the economy. >> but do you see your race as a referendum on mr. trump's popularity? >> this race is about local economic issues here and values that you night people in the community in georgia before it is about the national political circus. everyone is looking for national implications, but all politics is local. >> well, yes, but i think you have to admit. yours has garnered a lot of attention because it is seen as somehow connected to mr. trump. and, in fact, is what mr. trump is doing in washington part of your motivation for running? >> well, there are folks here in the community who have serious concerns about the direction of things in washington. myself among them. but fundamentally i'm focussed on running a positive campaign, to bring for jobs to this community and we are building a

broad coalition by focussing on an economic division in atlanta. >> you do or do not talk about donald trump out on the stump? >> i'll always voice my concerns about what's happening in washington. that includes my concerns about the administration, whether it's on the environment or civil liberties. i'll work with anyone in washington who wants to get things done and i'm willing to work across the aisle on infrastructure, tax reform or immigration reform. i'm focussed on getting things done, rather than ge done. >> he has two new tweets about you. let me read them to you. he says democrat john ossoff will be a disaster in congress, weak on crime, bad for jobs and wants higher taxes.

say no. he also says republicans mes get out today and vote in georgia six. force a run off. democrat ossoff will raise your taxes. very bad on crime and second amendment. your response? >> once again i appreciate the president's interest. it sounds like he's misinformed about my priorities. if he wants to learn more, he is visit the website on line and learn where i stand on the issues. >> yeah. i'm sure he will be running to your website to focus on your issues. but, i mean, do you think it's possible that the president is actually only increasing your name recognition there? >> i don't know. look, it is election day here. we're not focussed on what's going on in washington. we're focussed on getting out the vote. and what i'd say to folks in georgia is whether or not you are voting for me, it is an important day to exercise your rights as a citizen, to get out and make your voice heard.

i am offering a fresh leadership focussed on our local community, rather than the same partisan. but i appreciate you having me today. >> you have 18 rivals. there are 18 other people, i believe, running for that same seat. what makes you think you have a chance to win? >> well, the polling and the early vote numbers show that we're within striking distance. we are certainly going for an outright win here today. but a special election is special. it is difficult to predict. it will come out to turnout. because it's all about turnout, the most important thing people can do is get to the polls. they can go online and find out where their polling place is. >> is it true that you cannot vote for yourself? >> well, i grew up in this district. i grew up in this community.

no one knew there was going to be an election coming. i have been living with my girlfriend. as soon as he concludes her medical training i will be back into the district where i grew up, but i want to support her. >> so when are you going to mary her? >> i think i could reasonably say that's more of a personal question. i'll give you a call when i have something to announce. >> please do. perhaps say an election day proposal would be good. but i guess your point is that you don't live in your -- the district in which you are running. so you will not be able to vote for yourself. >> well, i grew up in this district. i grew up in this community. it is my home. my family is still there. i am a mile and a half down the street to support alicia while she finishes medical school. i am proud to be supporting her career. as soon as she finishes her medical training, i will be ten

minutes back up to road where i grew up. >> we will be watching what happens with you professional and personally. we are obviously very interested in this race. thank you very much for being on "new day." >> it's my pleasure. thank few your having me. >> tomorrow we will be speak with the republican candidate in georgia's sixth district. we're following a lot of news this morning, so let's get right to it. >> i think the people understand how successful the president has been and how much he's paid in taxes. >> why doesn't he release his tax returns? >> as far as i'm aware, the president says he's still under audit. >> this whole tax reform idea is going to go nowhere. >> north korea will do well not to test his resolve. >> when the president says america first, does that mean without our allies. >> we'll see what happens. i home there is going to be peace. >> we a