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mexico and canada and pushing for a vote. >> there is a poll to tell you about. president trump has the lowest approval rating of any elected president at the almost 100-day 345 mark. we have a lot to cover on day 98. let's start with cnn's joe johns at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. for an administration that has tried to downplay the first 100 days as a ridiculous standard, this administration is working hard to document and orchestrate the president's progress. even going as far as setting up a war room in the west wing to track it. now a flurry of activity in the final days. >> we have a once in a generation opportunity to do something really big. >> reporter: after much hype, the white house revealing a one-page summary of the tax wish list which includes slashing tax
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rates for corporations and reducing the number of tax brackets and doubling the standard deduction for individuals. the skeletal outline would benefit wealthy americans and devoid of details of what it would cost and how it would be paid for. >> this is paid with growth and with reduced reduction of different deductions and closing loopholes. >> reporter: many economists are challenging this as a magic wand of growth saying the cuts could increase the national debt by trillions. a reality that would make trump's tax goals a tough sell with fiscal hawks in congress and goes against the pledge to reduce the deficit. >> it will simplify the tax code. it will grow the american economy and all of this does not add to our debt or our deficit. >> reporter: democrats calling the administration's bluff.
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>> they are saying the growth in the economy will cover it. it never has. >> it's a plan to help the wealthy in the country. wealthy corporations in the world at the expense of the nation's deficit. >> reporter: one of the unknowns is how the trump businesses will deal with the cuts. >> the president has no intention. the president has released plenty information. >> reporter: the white house announcing the u.s. will not pull out of the north american free trade agreement after speaking with the presidents of mexico and canada. the president was considering an executive order to withdraw from the deal. the white house also eager to show progress on health care. >> the block we need to come over is the freedom caucus. some indications are that is moving in the right direction. >> reporter: republicans posting this amendment online for the
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house to review. it sis unclear if the moderates will sign on to the vote. looking to show a big push on wednesday when senators were bussed to the white house for a classified briefing on north korea. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say little was learned. >> it was an okay briefing. >> i felt i could have gotten that information by reading a newspaper. it felt like a dog and pony show more than anything else. >> reporter: one thing that seems not likely to happen is a government shutdown at the end of the first 100 days. stop-gap spending bill is introduced to bridge the government until the difficult details can be worked out. alisyn. >> thank you, joe. president trump's approval ratings in the poll are at historic low. the president losing ground on three key campaign issues. health care, economy and
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immigration. there are good signs as well. cnn political director david joins us now. help us, david. >> thank you. you are right, alisyn. look at the approval number at the 100-day mark. 44% approval. 54% disapprove. that is historically low. look at where trump lines up. he is at the bottom of the list of the predecessors going back as far as there is polling. you mentioned a couple of issues. let's dig inside. health care and immigration dominated everything. health care. 61% disapproval of health care. this is a 25--point deficit. last month was a 10-point deficit. on immigration. same story. 41% approve. 57% disapprove.
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it was minus 16. it had been minus 11. going in the wrong direction. a couple of interesting notes of republicans overall with him. 85% approve of him. where they are trending away is management style and appointments. do you have confidence in the trump appointments? now only 59% of republicans say that. take a look at this notion of the management style. effectively managing the government. we see a shift among republicans. 93% in november thought he would manage the government effectively. now 85%. his own party drifting away. you note there had are a couple of bright spots. are things going well in the united states today? 54% say they are. look at this. going back to october. it is a high water mark. same on the economy. how do you feel about economic conditions in the country today? 59% feel good about economic conditions today. going back to september, this is a high watermark.
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a couple of bright spots of optimism of the country and economy, but donald trump's numbers need a lot of work. alisyn and chris. >> david, stay with us. let's bring in senior political analyst ron brownstein and correspondent for the times david sanger. sometimes brevity is good. sometimes not. this tax wish list is one-page, ron brownstein. what does that tell us where we are with the move? >> the biggest thing that tells me that republicans are drifting away from the idea of permanent revenue neutral tax reform which is what you have to make revenue neutral to try to pass it for it to be permanent. they are moving toward back to page one of the playbook of unified republican control. that is a tax cut. what this document says to me is they have enormous difficulty finding agreement on ways to offset the cost of the cuts they want to make. they don't endorse the border adjustment tax.
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house republicans. the main idea they have in how to pay for these cuts in corporate and individual rates, eliminate the ability of state taxes. that is an assault on blue states. calculate from the community on responsible government. 2/3 of all of the state and federal taxes on taxes were from states that hillary clinton carried. >> fascinating. david, the tax cuts here from what little we know about trump's tax returns will benefit him. lose the estate tax. lower the top income earners down. lose the amt. it will hurt blue states. everybody hears tax cuts and gets excited. >> true. except the donald trump we talked to during the campaign. you go and interview him and the first thing you talk about as economic problem and national security problem is what he
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called a deficit that -- i'm sorry. a debt approaching $21 trillion. if you believe the numbers on this and it is so vague as chris pointed out. it is hard to fail, alisyn. if you believe the quick analysis of this, it could be $7 trillion in additional revenue loss for the government over ten years. that's a big increase if you are worried about a $21 trillion debt. >> look. one of the things that's remarkable about this is the lack of numbers. i've never seen any kind of proposal that comes to tax that wasn't completely layered with all of the rationale and numbers to impress you. david, this kind of reads and feels like a quick measure to get in under the 100-day mark that the president says doesn't matter. >> that's right. chris. the white house called it broad
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principles. they are trying to get one of the things out the gate of the key promises to show movement and continued commitment to it. this is not a piece of legislation. this is not close to that. what ron was talking about. i think we will see a big internal party battle among republicans for a little while before everybody just wraps around the notion they will do all of the goods of tax cuts, but not figure out elements of reform and how to figure out how to pay for it. you cannot rely on hoped economic growth to pay for this. there may be less concern of deficits in the republican party, but there are a slew of republicans that will have to come along with some notion of how it will be paid for. >> there is no chance -- zero chance they can find offsets they can agree on to cover anything of the magnitude of the cuts the president talked about
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yesterday. >> they say this is going to gin up the economy. it will be -- >> not to get too technical, unless the congressional budget office agrees, they violate the mechanism they want to use to pass it. the contradiction is speaker ryan and others saying it will generate the growth. if people know they can count on it. it cannot be permanent until it is revenue neutral. that is hard to do. this shows they could identify almost nothing in here they are taking back. easy to identify what you want to give away. harder to eliminate what you want to take back. conspicuous is the idea in the house which is core to their vision. taxing imports which is something i think starting with the two senators from arkansas and walmart. that is a non starter in the senate. i think this is very difficult
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to imagine how they pay for it. >> and it assumes we forgotten the lessons of the reagan era. >> what are those? >> the main lesson the cut would cause the growth just as you discussed. that is not always the case. there are a lot of other factors that step in how a national economy performs. especially was long as this economy has been growing. you assume this would be one of the longest ex-pappansions of american history. natural slowdown would not take place. >> i think we have to see this for what it is. i think there is a saleable thing politically, david chalian. i'm trying to do something. this is my first offer. the people in congress will go crazy and say it doesn't work. they are the problem, not me. i'm fixing your taxes
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personally. i'm freeing up business. i'm trying to grow the economy. people are simple when it comes to how they analyze taxes. am i getting a tax cut or not? how does he lose by saying he wants to cut taxes? >> i don't think he does. this is a winning issue for him at the outset. he will get involved now in the muddy congressional process. >> that's on them. doesn't he say, david, it's them. that's why you have to drain the swamp. i made it simple. one-page. that's how good i am. they gave me 10,000 pages back. >> he is on more politically popular ground talking about tax cuts and trying to get that through than repeal and replace obamacare. that got mired in congress. he is on grounds and stay where i want to cut your taxes. that say populis a popular mess >> i will disagree a bit, david.
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obviously, tax cuts by themselves are popular. when they are attached to spending cuts, they are dicey. you go back to the shutdown with clinton and the kutcuts. they cut medicare to give credits to the wethalthy. that is at the core what have he is trying to do since republicans came in in 2010. that is not guaranteed to be a winning argument. even attached to repealing the key provisions in the aca. i don't think this debate has fully played out. on its own, sure. when attached to the budget? not simple. >> david sanger, let's talk about it internationally. a pivot on nafta. a big meeting at the white house about north korea. >> two pivots on nafta.
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we were told by the white house staff yesterday the president was getting ready to pull out of nafta. seemed strange. then he gets on the telephone and tux both his mexican and canadian counterparts. i'm not getting out of nafta. i want to renegotiate provisions of it. we think the initial announcement was meant for leverage. it was classic trump. they gathered all 100 senators in the meeting at the white house in a room that is not usually secure. they tried to secure it for this for a briefing on north korea that several senators called me afterwards and said i learned less from this than i read in the new york times and in the washington post. >> did he mention "new day?" >> they just didn't get that far. what was that all about? that was about showing the senate they are not for getting about them as they head into
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this. the policy they are pursuing is not a strange policy right now. it is maximum economic pressure on the north koreans. try to get the chinese in and build up military pressure. what's that sound like? it sounds like what president obama tried and what president bush tried before him. >> and just quickly. putting out the tax plan on a day you back away from the idea of pulling away from nafta captures a bigger moevement. trump moving away from america first to the conventional republican proposal. including health care. >> gentlemen, thank you very much. we are seeing this beautiful contrast with when you look beneath the headlines of how you get things done and the shiny start. there is talk now. we think we have a deal with the freedom caucus. we believe they like it. health care is going to get done. what is the reality about where
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so two house republicans have come together to unveil a new amendment they believe is the key to repealing and replacing obamacare. can it work? let's bring back ron brownstein and david chalian and let's bring in april ryan. april, i'll start with you. this is tom macarthur. let me show you what is in the macarthur amendment. states can actually seek waivers to get rid of the pre-existing condition rules. states can seek waivers to get out of the essential health benefit rules. if those are sought, states must enact state high risk pools and that could lead to higher premiums for sicker and older enrollees. >> it depends. i was around when they tried to
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craft this. it was focused on wellness. this proposal seems totally upset the apple cart. when you talk about the waivers for some of the mandates like substance abuse, mental health, states getting waivers to not have to deal with this, the interesting piece is you know, during the election cycle, this past election cycle in the heartland. many cried out for help from the presidential candidates for help against drug abuse, heroin and things of that nature. now states are allowed to get waivers to take that off the insurance. it is really interesting to see the details about these waivers. when you go into the waivers about people with pre-existing conditions. companies can raise the rates higher for people depending on their health status and if they do that, they have to have a pool for at-risk or many health issues. that's very interesting. it is so polar opposite of what
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the initial bill was about. i really want to see if this really gets legs. i know a lot of the republicans are saying you are with us or not. many people in the heartland may cry out about this. >> in new hampshire this weekend, and what april is saying is true 100%. under water with the opioid epidemic. this will cover less people. it will take money from the states under the guise of giving them more options and how they deal with less money. it is moving to the right. that is what this is doing. >> the history as i said before. the history since republicans took over the house in 1995 is almost always get a big through the house by moving far enough to the right. the question is creating something in the process. this is on the margin. the question is whether they create any chance of coming
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forward out of the senate in the form. the core problem republicans have faced in the beginning. the version of repeal and replace kits hahits harder at t of the older americans. the idea you charge more for people with pre-existing conditions hits older working age adults before medicare. 78% of all americans age 50 to 64 oppose the idea in the abc washington post poll this week. those are core republicans. in kentucky, i was talking to someone recently. seven times people receiving coverage for substance abuse than before the aca. that is one quarter of all rural americans are now on medicaid. that is where the opioid issue is. if you expand, west virginia,
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ohio, nevada. some republican senators. can they vote for the rollback? it is very hard. you may have house members on the limb for a bill that doesn't become law, but have to defend in 2018. >> david chalian, the tuesday group and moderates. i took everybody at their word when they wanted to reform health care and better. based on what i did, it does not change my position. i was a no. i remain a no. why would they get rid of the one thing that was loved. no pre-existing conditions and why tamper with that one? >> it is be if you hfbefuddling. of course that would stay. this is the one thing that republicans touted so they can move on to different pieces. they understood how popular pre-existing conditions were. to opt out for increased costs
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will not play out well. alisyn, you are right to highlight charlie dent. should it get through the house is the administration, paul ryan will have to pick off moderates one by one. they will not move en masse the way the freedom caucus is doing. watch to see the sales plan one by one sand see if they peel of enough mainstream republicans concerned to get to 216. they do not yet have the votes. >> one political victory which is heading our way, april ryan, no shutdown. they will get a short-term deal. we are hearing the first week in may. it is still something. >> that's next week. is something. you still have to deal with it until the end of the year. this is a stop-gap measure for the moment. literally next week. you know, this issue is very big. you know, you don't have the wall there.
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that is off the table. that costly wall with the pretty door is off the table for now. going back to health care. nancy pelosi is trying to make sure in the cr if there is money to fund subsidy for obamacare or aca. it is interesting, chris, yesterday, i'm going back to the tax reform sheet. they are still trying to deal with issues of aca. i'm looking at something from the tax sheet that the white house gave out. the one sheet. repeal the 3.8% obamacare tax that hits small businesses and investment income. this goes again to funding subsidies. pelosi is trying to make sure is part of it. this all goes back to aca and defunding. >> as april pointed out. when you get to the opioid addiction. they believed you.
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they are waiting. panel, thank you very much. coming up on "new day" we will speak to congress member tom macarthur. he is behind the health care amendment. he will be tested. united airlines announcing chains changes in the wake of the flight fiasco. can they win back the trust of passengers after forcibly removing a passenger? that is next on "new day." hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec®
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all right. we are following breaking news. a huge explosion rocking the main airport in syria's capital. israeli strikes hit an arms supply hub near the damascus airport. this action is completely compatible with israel policy of preventing iran from smuggiling weapons through hezbollah. and parts of the u.s. anti-missile system in south korea will be up and running in the coming days. this is designed to shield the south from north korea's
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increasing military threats. some members of congress were reassured by the rare all-hands meeting on north korea, but no new information emerged about the u.s. standoff with pyongy g pyongyang. united airlines is adding to the we will no longer drag people off the plane policy. in addition to telling passengers, if you are already in your seat, you cannot be removed against your will. they will allow offers to customers up to $10,000 for voluntarily surrendering their seats. >> everybody now when they make the first offer of $500, say i think you can up that. >> true. i like the headline. the no punch in the face policy here on united. we went hit you to get you off the plane. comforti comforting. and peanuts. >> do they? >> no. the trump administration releasing tax cut wish list. who benefits the most? we debate it next.
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who benefits the most? let's discuss. we have kayleigh macieney. his effective tax rate would be 4% without the amt. the big question that comes out is we have to make sure the president is not self dealing. we have to make sure he is putting us first. that is why the tax returns came in. steve mnuchin stands up and says, by the way, he has never seen trump's taxes. he doesn't know how it helps him. he says they are not coming out. is this another place of a lack of disclosure? >> i don't think so. i think what we are seeing is these are conservative principles. cutting the corporate tax rate and eliminates the amt meant to ensure rich people pay taxes. now 4 million americans pay this tax.
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this is nothing out of the ordinary. of course, trump benefits. all american benefits. >> how they are paying for it will bite a lot of americans also. the only thing we see so far, but if you take away the ability of state and local taxes from people, it will hit them hard. most importantly, it will hit the blue states hard. it seems to be a little bit of open warfare. red versus blue. >> you are right you have to have a way to pay for it. you cannot pass that without the reconciliation process. the left should be happy. symone is probably happy about that. it will affect people in california and new york. the left should applaud that. >> not loopholes. dedu deductability.
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symone, are you happy? >> i'm not happy. we don't know the details of the plan. this is like your book publisher asking for your final manuscript and you hand in the book outline. we need to know how we will pay for this. right now, this looks like a tax break for the wealthy. that is a very unpopular opinion. the majority of americans do not want to see tax brakeaks for th wealthy. they want tax breaks for everybody. we will move to that tax system to benefit meddle claimmediat m. analysis says few middle class incomes benefit from that. i think we need more on this plan. we need to know how we will pay for it. i would like to know how donald trump benefits from this new proposed tax plan. >> who gets helped more? main street or goldman sachs?
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>> i think we have to wait and see the details. the middle class was asked making $60,000, will the taxes come down. there will be deductions for child care expenses. that's a good thing. if those policies get in and i personally believe in the reagan era tax cuts in bringing back jobs and inserting more capital. if you believe in the principles, you believe the middle class is helped by this. >> estate tax? >> i think it helps family farms. you have to sell the business. you cannot afford to pay the death tax. shouldn't be hit with the death tax when you die. >> symone, how do you stay deficit neutral to be considered a reform instead of a tax cut. tax cut can only go for ten years. reform is permanent. people can rely on it. what do you see is the biggest problem? >> part of the biggest problem is we don't have concrete
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details. donald trump campaigned on lowering the deficit. we are not sure if that will do this. i'm concerned about the middle class families and about what it means for young people like myself. people who work 40 or 50 or 60 hours a week who fall in the middle and could being hammered with more taxes under the plan. there is a problem with corporations. why are there so many tax breaks for corporations here? the wealthy an moppi y yy among pay least. >> who knows what the range of what it costs is, but if it is between $3 trillion and $7 trillion, how do you get hawks to pay for this? >> i agree with the reagan era idea of revenues increasing despite a tax cut. it is hard to prove that.
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you have to prove it to the cbo. a border adjustment tax which is controversial. >> doesn't touch it. >> it may have to be put in there. it has to are revenue neutral. >> chris, the other question is this. let's just say more americans have money in their pockets. the administration is saying this will stimulate growth. we don't know. americans could take this money and use it to pay down debt. that is what we have seen in recent years. there is no guarantee this will stimulate growth. administration needs to come back with a better plan. >> it is one-page. let's see what comes next. thank you. alisyn. chris, what do trump voters in key swing states think of trump's performance in the first 100 days? we speak to them. you might not ever just stand there, looking at it. you may never even sit in the back seat.
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cool new graphic. celtics are one win away from something really big. andy scholes has something in the bleacher report. >> good morning, alisyn. celtics fans in a panic after losing two straight to the bulls. all is well now after the third straight win. all-star guard isaiah thomas arriving to the arena with his son. i'm sure he was proud of dad after this one. 5'9" thomas with huge buckets. leads the celtics to 108-97 win. tonight, first round of the nfl draft. in philly on the iconic rocky
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balboa steps. the draft starts at 8:00 eastern. each team has ten minutes in round one to make a pick. michigan state football team in italy on a week long practice. they took in the vatican and saw the pope's address. then coach harbaugh met the pope and gave him a wolverines helmet and new pair of custom michigan jordan shoes. harbaugh saying this is the experience of my lifetime. do you think the pope wears the jordans? >> absolutely. absolutely. thank you, my friend. very good. so they are swing state voters. that's who wound up helping donald trump to the white house. what do they think of his performance 100 days in? next. 2017 ford suty.
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we spoke to voters who flipped from obama in 2012 to trump in 2016. here is our series. red, purple, blue. first 100 days. >> reporter: what do you think of his first 1 hundred day00 da? >> he is not failing. >> i think we are all screwed. >> reporter: ohio, michigan and pennsylvania and three counties flipping by the biggest margin. blue to red. what do the voters think now? >> i think he is sending the right messages in a way, but he doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut. >> reporter: tony is now owner of the vineyards in ohio's wine country. a registered democrat who voted for trump. >> is he perfect? no. >> you voted for him. >> he is the only guy that showed sign of change.
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>> reporter: nine ohio counties flipped from obama to trump. none by more than here. ashtabula county. trump did better than romney. beating clinton by nearly 19 points. that's a whopping 31.7 point swing. >> i voted out of rebilliellion what is happens in washington. >> reporter: a common complaints with the fighting with republicans and democrats. this is a new county commissioner here. swept in on the trump wave. >> first 100 days in office. how is he doing? >> um -- >> reporter: it's a question some republicans wrestle with. >> how do i answer that question? that is a hard question. >> reporter: he says it is his promise of jobs above all that trump will be judged on.
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>> we had a tough time. we lost a lot of manufacturing over the years. >> reporter: then tourist destination in lake county, michigan. solidly democratic. it was. >> i'm a trump believer. >> i usually go democrat. i voted for trump. >> reporter: 12 michigan counties flipped blue to red in 2016. lake county by more than any other. in 2012, obama beat romney here by just over 5 points. in 2016, trump trounced clinton by nearly 23. a massive 28-point swing. >> cut this tree down. >> reporter: 37-year-old sean munson never voted in his life ever until trump's promise to bring back jobs and fix health care. >> i took it as maybe he might try to do like canada. pay a little extra in taxes and get free health care for
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everybody. instead of whoever can afford it. >> reporter: bridget serves up beers and burgers at government lake lodge. >> you live upstairs? >> correct. >> you are here 24/7? >> yes. >> reporter: trump's promise to lower taxes and create jobs got her on board. >> he is very business savvy. that is what i thought we needed. >> how do you feel now? >> i like it. he is eccentric. i'm not a fan of fwitwitter. i don't care. >> reporter: john is the only democrat to survive a contested race in lake county. >> out of 848 votes, i won by 13. >> lucky 13. >> lucky 13. >> reporter: he can't account for why the county went so hard for republicans. >> this is a democratic county. >> has been for decades. >> what happened? >> i'm not -- that's a tough
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question. >> reporter: donna featherstone. a long haul truck driver, now ice cream scooper. she says trump scares her. >> if they can get things done, rhy i'm ready to give them a chance. >> reporter: now one in pennsylvania. one of three counties in the state to go blue to red. obama won here by 4.8 points in 2012. trump easily won the county by more than 19 points. a swing of 24.2 points. and ann marie has worked in the family business for 53 years. she flipped and likes trump's aggressive foreign policy. >> he is not going to say no baloney off anybody. he will be and he will kick it. >> reporter: richard and eileen volunteered and voted for obama.
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>> you are a democratic county council member for the county? >> yes. i'm on the executive committee for the democrats. i went to trump. >> he tried to go with the health care act which was a disaster. >> reporter: and at family bowling, we caught up with construction worker andrew coleman. he has a wife and two kids. they have insurance. he doesn't. >> i don't have insurance through my employer. i can't afford it. that's a big thing for me. that was the reason i voted for him. >> reporter: christine, a republican and mother of two gives the president so far an "a." >> i think the president is doing well. for someone who has not had government experience before. >> reporter: clinton voter and veteran darryl smith says trump's lack of experience still
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worries him. >> he is ticking off a lot of people. i'm afraid it will back fire. >> reporter: swing voters still sizing up the new president. expecting results soon. miguel marquez, cnn in pennsylvania, michigan and ohio. >> all right. thanks to international viewers for watching. "cnn newsroom" is next. for u.s. viewers, we are about to speak to a former adviser to trump's campaign. his name is carter page. will he testify before congress? can he make the case to you that there is nothing to worry about with russia? let's get after it. the first 100 days we have taken historic action. >> approval ratings at historic low. >> 44% of americans approve of trump's handling of the presidency. 54% disapprove. >> you have to negotiate from a position of strength. that is hard to do at 44% approval. >> we are returning power back
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to the people. >> this proposal is a gift to corporate america. >> under the trump plan, we will have a massive tax cut and massive tax reform. >> they are saying growth in the economy will cover it. the fact it is never has. >> we are not giving up on repealing and replacing obamacare. >> that is moving in the right direction. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and kwaalisyn camerota. >> the first item on the agenda, tax cut wish list. thin on details at the moment. agrees to renegotiate nafta and pushing for a vote on a new gop health care bill. >> recent polls show why the white house is on hop to show new gains. approval ratings show he has the lowest rating of any pre
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