than he has been a tremendous supporter of women and families? >> look, i think, you know -- i think the best thing to do is to acknowledge some of the things that we all heard. >> you do? you think his daughter should say something? how does that sound? >> how does that sound? i know that during the campaign we heard and saw certain things that were very troublesome. they were very troublesome to me as his daughter as well, but that is not the donald trump i know. the donald trump i know who i've seen as a boss and a father is this and this and this. but, yeah, you've got to acknowledge it. don't tell them he is fit when we all have heard him not be. >> that is a good line. you might be eligible for first daughter. i'm sorry. we're out of time. >> not in this administration. >> thank you, ladies. we're following a lot of news. let's get to it. >> we all have a duty the confront in justice, even when it emanates from the white house. >> it's pretty easy to find a

left leaning judge that would block it. >> we are under in obligation to respect an executive order that violates the u.s. constitution. >> i see in information that general flynn complied with the law. >> knowingly falsifying or concealing a material fact is a felony. >> the question becomes now, was it a deliberate omission, or was it an accident? >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> president trump slamming another federal judge and court ruling after suffering a third legal challenge to one of his immigration orders. the president now vows to fight all the way to the supreme court after this judge's order is blocking his attempt to strip federal funds from sanctuary cities. >> all right. lawmakers say that trump's former national security advisor michael flynn may have committed a crime by failing to properly disclose payments from russia. this is a very busy day 97 of the trump presidency. let's begin with joe johns live

at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, chris. deja vu on the battle between the courts and the white house. the president had a couple tweets this morning criticizing the federal courts as well as the ninth circuit. also talking about ridiculous rulings. he said i'll see you in the supreme court. >> the white house blasting a federal court ruling after a san francisco judge blocked the president's kbektive action that threatened to strip federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities citing trump's own words in the decision. >> i don't want to defund anybody. i want to give them the money they need to properly operate as a city or a state, and they're going to have sanctuary cities, we may have to do that. certainly, that would be a weapon. >> in a scathing statement, the white house calls judge william's ruling an overreach by a judge who unilaterally

re-wrote immigration policies and had the blood of dead americans on their hands. >> these cannot take away our rights and they certainly can't steal our tax dollars. >> hours earlier reince priebus asserting the ninth circuit is going bananas, a far cry from the justice department's subdued response. this isn't the first time president trump has personally attacked a federal judge. >> somebody said i should not criticize judges. okay, i'll criticize judges. >> earlier this year he criticized judge robart for halting the administration's initial travel ban. and during the campaign then candidate trump repeatedly declared his judge of being unfit to handle a lawsuit against trump university because he claimed the judge was mexican. but he was born in indiana. >> he is hispanic, i believe, and he is a very hostile judge

to be in front of. this judge is of mexican heritage. i'm building the wall. >> this legal set back contend that president trump's former national security advisor, michael flynn, may have broken the law by not properly disclosing payments from russia. >> he was supposed to get permission and she was supposed to report, and he didn't. >> it appears as if he did take that money. it was inappropriate and there are repercussions for the violation of law. >> the white house pressed repeatedly about the vetting process for the president's first named advisor, who was always with him on the campaign trail. >> there is always going to be in the case of people who had a prior clearance between the time they filled it out and had it adjudicated they could have engaged in something and whether they updated that or not is always the onus is on the individual. >> the stepped up tempo at the end of 100 days continues at the white house. they are expected to roll out

their tax plan today as well. all 100 senators are expected to come over to the white house complex for a briefing on north korea. members of the house of representatives will get their briefing on capitol hill later today. >> let's bring our political panel. we have david gregory, chris soliza and david sanger. great to have all of you here. david gregory, you heard president trump is accusing this judge of egregious overreach, basically suggesting that this one judge is an activist judge and is threatening national security. >> you know, this is a highly charged debate politically, but also legally because the central question is not an easy one, which is do you have an ability in the executive branch to attach strings to federal money for cities and local jurisdictions and can they deny you or not? is it the executive's job to be

able to put those strings there or is it something that only congress can do? so that is an important, too. as a political matter you do have sanctuary cities that are seeking to deny the president and deny the executive branch on national immigration policy. and, so, that puts the president right where he wants, which is to have that kind of fight with who he will argue are activist judges in jurisdictions that are mostly liberal. so i think he wants this fight and it may as a legal matter go all the way to the supreme court. >> so he wins all day long on this, is that the political upshot? >> i think he does. it is day 97 as i learned from that graphic. and what's the biggest -- what's the biggest win by far, a thing i think democrats would acknowledge is a victory for him, neil gorsuch of the supreme court. if you go back, his best days are always when he is talking

about the federal judiciary, whether that's railing against them or nominating neil gorsuch and getting him confirmed because it is an issue tremendously unifying among a republican base, many of whom have severe doubts made worse by these first 97 days. so, yes, it is a fight he absolutely wants. it is why you see him lean in with three tweets this morning with a strong statement from the white house. my guess is he will talk about it any chance he gets today because they view this as a political victory, a day in which they could fight on ground that is good for them, which to be honest he's done about three or four days out of his presidency thus far. >> any downside to taking on this judge? >> well, first of all, i want to say that i'm glad to hear chris say that a good day is taking on the judiciary because he probably can't take on both the press and the judiciary on the same day. >> yeah. you never know. >> yeah, we could go for a

double header. baseball season has started. yeah, there is, i think, you know, one downside, which is that, you know, ultimately, i think he could well lose on this. there are, as david pointed out, significant restrictions on what the executive can do with money that is appropriated by congress for specific reasons under specific conditions. but as a political issue, i would agree this one plays very nicely. >> how about let's switch topics. now about flynn? politically, how, david gregory, does the white house separate itself from michael flynn and any accountability preventing a man that was not just begged to be part of the administration but one of his first guys, shoulder to shoulder with trump. >> that's the point, i don't think they can. there may be very specific areas where flynn was not forthcoming to those who were vetting him in terms of speeches made, contacts

made, et cetera. and we know that he was fired from the white house job because he didn't level with them about contacts with the russian ambassador. you had someone very close to the candidate and then the president who was influencing his view of the world and his national security policy with ties to a foreign power, the very foreign power that sought to manipulate our election. that is a big deal, and i don't know what's going to come of these russia investigations, but that is a real bruise against this president and this administration for which they have to be held accountable. >> now they have come out and said, i mean, in sort of washington speak that it appears that general flynn broke the law. although he said something to the effect of -- >> i don't see any proof he complied with the law. >> i like it better the he didn't not not break the law. yeah, i mean, yeah.

yes, it is -- >> yeah. so that was a bit of washington speak that you all speak, but is strange to the ears of other people. here is another bit of washington speak from press secretary sean spicer explaining why the white house didn't vet him for properly. >> then he asked for documents prior to january 20th. as you know through the constitution, we didn't assume the white house until january 20th at noon, so we don't have the documents prior to assuming the white house. and then the third would be they listed for every call and contact that he made, which is an extraordinary number that that's a very -- that's a very unyielding request. >> we're not going to give you the information. we're not going to defend flynn, and it is obama's fault. >> so their push back, to cut through sean is flynn was approved in 2016 under the obama administration. so put that aside. that's one point he's making.

here is what i do not understand. he's right. it is unwielding to provide the calls flynn made and receive. but to david's point, we're talking about someone who is extremely close to the president of the united states, influencing national security and foreign policy throughout the campaign and then was placed as the national security advisor, who now did not tell the truth to the vice president about contacts with the russian ambassador and what was talked about and he gave a speech and didn't properly report it, we believe. to me, you bend over backwards to make this clear. donald trump said this is all fake news. prove it. say we're going to cooperate fully with this investigation, and they continue not to do that. that's not an indictment. that is not proof that there is some there there. but it sure as heck doesn't helm make the case there isn't. >> this was a man who was dismissed by obama. so the idea they didn't have any reason to question anything that had gone on in his past is

suspect. that said, flynn very clearly from jump through his lawyers has said i did nothing wrong. i did disclose this. it was part of earlier conversations. people nknew. to be fair, i've seen that video. we've had this reporting since he entered the campaign about what he had done with russia today and the picture of him and putin and the money he had gotten. what do you make of this? >> well, a few things. first, mr. flynn, who was i think a very solid director of the defense intelligence agency when i covered him, would -- i think will go down in history as the only person ever dismissed by both barack obama and donald trump, which, you know, is something of a record. it strikes me that the white house is on pretty thin ice here for a couple of reasons. first of all, as you point out, chris, the connections to rt were known prior to his

appointment. but also the fact that he was doing some work that at least advocated for turkey was clear. in fact, on election day, he published an op ed that was in support of the turkish president, so that raised a number of questions as well. secondly, since they have already dismissed mr. flynn, it would seem to me that if they really wanted to try to cauterize a lot of these, they would give all of the records about flynn over. >> yes. >> in fact, flynn is in some ways the least interesting part of this story. the most interesting part of this story is what led to the timing of the release of many of the russian bots that ended up spreading disinformation and whether or not there was any connection to hack the campaign. and flynn is at this point having already been dismissed a little bit of a sideshow.

>> the investigations ongoing. gentlemen, thank you very much. >> another day, another big development. the trump administration is going to unveil it's tax plan today. just a few hours. we could get a preview in just a few minutes. mill mattingly live. what do we expect? >> reporter: deeply involved in this entire process. what we expect over the course of day is really principals and they track closely with president trump laid out in the campaign. that means dramatic cuts, particularly on the corporate side, proposing dropping the corporate rate from 35% to 15%, including kind of small businesses known as pasters from 39% to 15% as well. now, that is a dramatic shift and one that would cost a lot of money and potentially raise a lot of political problems on capitol hill. it diverging sharply from what we've seen from spauker paul

ryan and senators also working ong this. but it sets the tone and that's what i've heard from officials leading up to this announcement today as the white house is trying to get out in front of this and drive the conversation going forward. that said, politics and policies, if it diverging within your own party that's not necessarily a good sign for the future of the bill. there is a very long road to go. >> thank you very much for all of that reporting. so michael flynn is under fire. did he actually break the law? a member of the house intelligence committee shares his thoughts next. ink, not ink. printing doesn't have to be painful. now, during "hp savings month" at staples, get up to $180 off hp printers.

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as a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from russia, turkey or anybody else. and it appears as if he did take that money. it was inappropriate and there are repercussions for the violation of law. >> all right. that was the republican chairman of the house oversight committee suggesting that michael flynn may have broken the law for accepting payments from foreign governments without getting permission from congress. joining us now is michael kwigly. do you think michael flynn broke the law? >> well, if as discussed by the chairman and ranking member yesterday, he didn't disclose or

get permission, he certainly can be. obviously, this is ultimately up to the justice department. but i can't help watching those two gentlemen speak remember the general leadi ining chants of l her up, lock her up at the republican convention. if he's not in trouble as a part of law, he's probably in trouble in the court of karma. >> maybe that's what's coming back around now as it will do, as we've seen so often in life. what about the white house not knowing or claiming not to know these things that general flynn had accepted something like 45,000 from russian state run tv. did the white house not vet him properly or willful blindness on their part. >> as we recall, a lot of these confirmations were rushed. the white house wanted to move

forward knowing just what you said as well as the fact that he had been fired by a previous administration. here we are in the hockey playoffs, the general just needs to get fired by one more administration, and he has the dubious hat trick. they knew enough to know this was a problem. the question now becomes, what did they know and when that i haddy -- when did they know it from mrs. yates. >> when is she going to testify in front of your committee? >> i understand it's set for may 8th. she has been invited by the house select committee on intelligence. we're cautionly optimistic that testimony will take place just after that may date. >> i mean, part of the problem is that americans don't have a lot of faith that congress is going to be able to adequately investigate this. let me put up a poll released this morning. it is from abc news.

50% of americans say no. 42% say yes. why should americans have more faith in your ability to investigate this? >> i understand the frustration and distrust here. the fact of the matter is so far on the house side, as ways of distraction or obstruction, the white house in the middle of this said, hey, president obama wiretapped trump tower, which obviously turned out to be not true. they canceled a public hearing. the chairman went on a midnight excursion. i don't doubt -- i clearly understand why people have their doubts. just appreciate i still think there is a majority on both sides in the house that want to get this job done, to follow the facts wherever they are because the american public does have a right to know. >> how about a special independent commission? as you have just delineated all of the problems that make it seem as though certainly on the house side, your side, that it is tainted. >> well, i don't know that it --

it's been obstructed. it's not tainted yet. we don't have a finished product, and we're certainly working forward. all the while, though, all the documents i read, everything i have heard, the witnesses we've seen in public hearings and so forth has told me we absolutely need an independent commission. i don't think the two are mutually exclusive. i think they have different qualities. so i think there should be a house and senate investigation, as well as an independent commission and an inve den pent prosecutor when we get to that point. >> i want to ask you about the judges, the news this morning that a judge in california has blocked president trump's executive order about stopping federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities. i know that you have authored a bill or sponsored a bill trying to prevent this from happening, trying to prevent any federal funds to sanctuary cities from being stopped.

so how are you feeling today about where this is? >> i think the judge did the right thing. i think the proposal was grossly unconstitutional. i did it because i thought it was unconstitutionally, but blatantly unfair putting people at risk for a policy that's on the far right extreme. so, you know, we can't always agree with what the courts do, but i certainly agree with what they've done here. >> look, congressman, you know the argument on the other side. you say this puts people at risk if these federal funds to so-called sanctuary cities are blocked. on the other side they say talk to kate's family. she was put at risk by a sanctuary city they say. how do you respond to that? >> let's understand. people have gotten to this country legally or illegally, undocumented residents of this country commit crimes at a far, far, far less rate than other krit sevens. so i think it is a red herring.

i'm very sympathetic to any victims of any crime, but i don't think that the crimes that are taking place by people who are undocumented are in any way close to just regular citizens of the united states. >> but you know what the other side would say. how can you justify having a sanctuary city. why don't cities want to cooperate with federal immigration agents? >> i think they were trying to get to a point where we passed come prehennive immigration reform. i think the republicans would acknowledge you are not going to defort 11 to 14 million americans. it is not the right thing to do. it would crush the economy. so they can't have it both ways. recognizing this and recognizing that president reagan did pass relief to people who are in these situations, you know, the person that they look to most on such conservative matters did just the opposite of what they're doing now, president reagan. >> congressman mike quigley,

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president trump on offense this morning after a federal judge blocked his executive order that would have stripped federal funds from sanctuary cities. well, the cloud of russia looms large over his administration, new accusations about mike flynn. joining us now to discuss, chris collins of new york. thank you for being with us. is the president right in now he's referring to the judge and how he is arguing his case about sanctuary cities? >> i absolutely agree with him. i think america does as well, chris. and i think it goes back to a fundamental promise he made and why he was elected to protect the supreme court from being an activist court. he accomplished that in his first 100 days and certainly what we've seen with some of the other federal judges that have been installed over the last few years. we do have an activist court and

i think president trump over the next four to eight years is certainly going to clean that up and appoint justices like neil gorsuch, who believe in the constitution and are not going to be making activist rulings from the bench, as we have seen in the ninth circuit. i do think america is watching and the overreach of that ninth circuit is really confirming what many of us have been talking about for a long time. >> why is it overreach? the law involved, you know that the executive can't just play with where money goes unless it is tailored to a specific purpose. you guys did it before when you didn't like the aca, forum shopping, fair criticism. we've seen it on both sides. you went down to texas to fight obama's laws on immigration. it was a more friendly place to bring that case. why the umbrage now? >> i think right now the situation surrounding sanctuary

cities is something we have never seen in america, which are community cities standing up and saying to the federal government, we're not going to enforce the laws of the united states of america, putting their own citizens at risk, whether you are talking about chicago or some of the other more liberal cities. it is something no one could have ever anticipated and i think the president in saying you are going to pay a price for this on the federal funds is a reasonable response, as perhaps other avenues are pursued to enforce the laws of the united states of america. so i think this is a situation unlike anything we have ever seen with communities and officials that have sworn an oath to uphold the laws of the united states doing just the opposite and actually dragging about it. >> just to be clear, municipalities don't often enforce federal law. this is a one off situation in a couple of different ways and mostly what you're dealing with here is poor coordination.

this may be able to be fixed with timing. do you think this is the best way to go about it, pulling funding that may well hurt policing in those same cities, those same citizens you say you want to keep safe? >> the message is to the voters in some of these sanctuary cities, the people that they have voted and elected to serve them are not serving them and, in fact, are not enforcing the laws of the united states and it would be time to unseat these individuals in the next election. so i think it's a message because in every local municipality, the dollars come first. and if you want to change policy, the quickest way to do it is through the pursestrings. and, so, that's what the president is doing. it tends to be very effective and i think the main purpose here is to enforce the laws of the united states. >> you okay letting the president take your

responsibility about taxation there, too, in terms of how it goes to municipalities. you're okay giving him this leeway? >> in the case of sanctuary cities, yes, i am. >> where does it end? how about when he doesn't like the next set of monies that you put to a municipality and he decides to pull the strings because he doesn't like something that's going on there? >> you're into the hypothetical there. >> we're seeing it play out in real-time, congressman. >> we are. >> this is seen as an overreach by the judge. that's why they shut down the order. but you're okay with that. >> and we'll see when this is appealed how it plays out, much like the overreach of a judge claiming can muslim input on the border where he never used the word muslim in the order. i believe it is an overreach. we can always agree to disagree and ultimately this will go up to probably the supreme court and we'll see how that comes down. >> evidence of intent doesn't have to necessarily be in the

actual neexecutive order. we know that. his word calling that a weapon, played with the judge. him talking about a muslim ban. let me ask you about another topic. mike flynn, do you believe he broke the law? >> well, i don't know the details. i'm not on that committee. i am not somebody that's going to pile on, as many people know. i would call mike flynn a friend, somebody i have known. i am not someone that's going to pile on. he's resigned from the administration and certainly with general mcmaster, we've got a great replacement. at this point in time, i don't know the details, chris, and i feel bad personally for general flynn. i certainly wish him the best. it appears, you know, he'll have some questions he's going to have to answer going forward. but he is no longer part of the administration, and i'm not going to be one to pile on here. >> i understand your personal sympathies and to be clear, general flynn has said he did nothing wrong through his

attorneys. he says he disclosed the way he needed to. we'll see how that plays out. but congressman, the motion that because he resigned it no longer matters is silly, isn't it? it goes back to the white house and the accountability for who they put with the most important intelligence job, arguably right next to the president. doesn't that matter? >> well, as i understand the allegations, chris, it has to do with some monies he received for giving a speech. i mean, we just see right now president obama getting $400,000 for giving a speech. >> not for russia. not from russia when russia is being accused of interfering with the election and it is enough to warrant an fbi investigation and you make the man your head intelligence advisor and that's the same as president obama giving a speech somewhere for money? come on. >> people do give speeches and they are paid. the speeches occurred well before the election. so how the rules are interpreted

for former generals, somebody in the armed services, i'll leave that up to general flynn and his attorneys to deal with. i don't think this is a question of national security whatsoever. >> well, it's inherently a question of national security, though, right? because you at least own that if you take speeches and monies from russia it's different than taking it from somewhere else given the federal investigation that's going on right now. >> i view if somebody gives a speech, they get on an airplane and go home. >> but it matters who is paying, right? >> i think most of these folks are giving the speeches to pay their bills or otherwise for the income that they give and it is not a question then that somebody has an iou that the next time they call you are going to do whatever is their bidding. in that case, i don't make that linkage. so again we'll have to let this play out. general flynn is not part of the

administration, and we'll just see how it all plays out. >> of course, this is what led to his oust. congressman, appreciate you being on "new day". >> president trump slamming another judge saying he is ready to take his fight to the supreme court. who would win that battle? it's taking the best technologies out there and adapting them to work for you. the ultrasound that can see inside patients, can also detect early signs of corrosion at our refineries. high-tech military cameras that see through walls, can inspect our pipelines to prevent leaks. remote-controlled aircraft, can help us identify potential problems and stop them in their tracks. at bp, safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better.

time now for the five things to know for your new day. president trump slamming another

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the 100-day mark is upon us. but the headlines are not what they really hoped for at this point. you got another federal judge halts another executive order while the white house itself is trying to distance itself from someone who couldn't have been closer to the president, lieutenant again michael flynn accused of breaking the law. can trump get another win this week? let's get the bottom line with karl bernstein. where do you begin your bottom

line? >> well, it is the 100-day mark. it is a conventional way to measure the beginning of the presidency. what is unusual about this situation is that donald trump as president of the united states has not changed as a man. usually, the presidency changes the person who comes to office, especially -- >> no matter who it is? >> yes, yes, the learning curve. what we have seen with trump is he's really the same often out of control angry person. he still doesn't believe rules that apply to other people apply to him. look at his conflicts of interest. look at his family's conflicts of interest. look at what the fbi now believes is a cover up in the white house about russia. flynn being central to that cover up. donald trump calls it a witch hunt, rather than turning over the records that the fbi and congressional investigators need. he also has his family in positions that no president of the united states would permit in terms of conflicts of

interest of businesses. so what we have -- and he also doesn't do his homework, which is key to understanding prepresidential donald trump. you talk to people on the apprentice, they talk about how he comes to the set. he's not ready. he hasn't done the homework. we have to bring him up to speed. the same thing is happening in the white house. and a lot of people around him in the white house will tell you this is a real problem. a president of the united states who does not do his homework. >> the people around him in the white house have been a problem thus far also. i think that's probably doubling down on his own situation. >> he also has capable people around him. >> look at what happened this week, karl. >> he has had some advice that is -- he's got idea logs around him. he has slash and burn associates, including members of his own family, although they're quiet about their slash and burn

techniques. dobl trul's whole life has been about winning and he doesn't give a damn how he gets there. it's one of the reasons people like him, if you do. it's one of the reasons his following believe in him. he does not care how he gets from a to z and what you see with the judiciary, okay, you know, slash and burn, condemn, tell the people who follow him that judges are out of line, rather than looking at his own rhetoric about immigrants, rather than looking at his own mere hate speech and then he walks it back and goes to a jewish group or goes to a group and talks differently than his earlier hateful speech about immigrants, mexicans, et cetera, muslims. so the patterns are all there of his whole life. donald trump as president, the same donald trump we have always seen. >> let's talk about general michael flynn. he says that he did disclose

that he took money from a speaking engagement in russia and as chris has been pointing out there is video of it all over the place. the white house probably knew that he had this relationship. here's the video on everyone's screen. do you think he committed a crime? >> look, i think it's obvious that general flynn is in up to his neck in terms not just of possible crimes involving his speeches and whether or not he registered as a foreign agent, which he should have and didn't there. he is central to what the fbi believes is a cover up going on among people close to the united states -- to the president of the united states about what happened with the trump campaign and russia. the fbi, the congressional investigators, are trying to learn what happened. and flynn is almost like the ball of yarn that begins to unspool and is key to understanding it. and the white house, president trump, calls it a witch hunt of

flynn. it is not a witch hunt. he is impeding. the president is impeding these investigations by not turning over and saying to his people, give all those records about flynn to the fbi. give them to the congressional investigators. now, you have a situation today, a new deputy attorney general of the united states takes office. he's been confirmed by congress. he's known as a real straight shooter and he is going to go in and look at the facts now that sessions, the attorney general, as recused himself, and he is going to see, oh, my god, there is a cover up going on. the question is what is the deputy attorney general going to do? >> you think it's going to go that way, that the disposition of the white house thus far to either give over information -- >> let me tell you about something -- no. let me say something about what i say. the white house has obstructed these investigations, including the fbi investigation, but that doesn't mean in terms of a legal

obstruction of justice. it means for practical purposes, the agents and those at the top of the list, meaning the white house, is keeping them from learning what they need to know. and flynn is central to that. flynn's activities are central. his communications with the president, et cetera, central and that's what the white house, trump, is not allowing to be turned over. >> great to get your perspective, as always. thank you. >> all right. it's wednesday, hump day. how about some good stuff? >> let's do that. >> next.

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someone's life is a very good feeling. >> that is so beautiful. and her gratitude is so beautiful. that's the secret to being happy in life, oprah says. >> and you have to love the initiative. they want to help. they have the capacity and they help somebody put it to use. >> time for cnn news room with poppy harlow and john berman. >> don't make any line. you guys are beautiful. >> i have finally beaten you to the punch, 20 years later. >> we have some big news this morning, so we're going to jump right in. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> top of the hour, 9:00 a.m. eastern. good morning everyone. i'm popty harlow. >> the breaking news this morning, blocked on sanctuary cities, beaten back on funding for the border wall. what does the white house do this morning? it is going big on tax cuts. it says