than before november 8th? >> i'm way more involved. i'm not falling asleep again. >> reporter: a repeated refrain of determination across three blue states to derail a presidency. kyung lah, cnn, in california, maryland and massachusetts. >> important perspective there. we want to thank our international viewers for watching. for you, "cnn newsroom" is next. for u.s. viewers, "new day" continues right now. >> we're not looking to pick a fight, but don't give us a reason to have one. >> president xi is doing everything in his power to help us with the situation. >> it is imperative that the united states talk to the north korean officials. >> did not understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn. >> all of that clearance was during the obama administration.

>> before rushing through a health care bill. >> passing health care has fallen short again. >> we are making good progress. >> president trump is making fools of the congress. >> during the first 100 days, i lay a foundation. i give us an "a." >> this is "new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota." >> welcome to "new day." warning of a major conflict with nblg north korea is possible. despite the words, the president said he hopes a diplomatic effort prevails. >> meanwhile, the president unable to deliver on the signature promise to repeal and replace obamacare. house members will not vote on the bill today or anytime soon. the president making a candid admission on the presidency and the life he left behind. let's start with joe johns live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning,

alisyn. blunt messages from the president and secretary of state in the much more muscular approach to north korea than in the past. the president suggesting a face-off is possible. the secretary of state saying direct talks are possible too. >> there's a chance we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea. absolutely. >> reporter: a sobering message from president trump warning about the possibility of escalation with north korea in a new interview with reuters. cautioning the u.s. would love to solve things diplomatically, but it's very difficult. mr. trump praising china's president for putting pressure on pyongyang to stop the nuclear tests. >> i established a very good personal relationship with president xi and i really feel that he is doing everything in his power to help us with the

big situations. >> reporter: and even offering surprising insight. almost empathizing with the north korean dictatodictator. >> his father dies. he took over a regime. say what you want. that's not easy. especially at that age. i'm not giving him credit or not giving him credit. that's a hard thing to do. as to whether or not he is rational? >> reporter: the remarks come as secretary of state rex tillerson indicates a major shift in diplomatic policy. telling npr the administration is open to direct talks with north korea as long as the agenda is right. >> it's all scenarios on the table. it really is all up to north korea. we're not looking to pick a fight, but don't give us a reason to have one. >> reporter: the north korean threat is one challenge the administration is facing as it reaches the 100-day milestone tomorrow. domestically, republicans now conceding they don't have the

216 votes necessary to move forward with the bill to repeal obamacare. >> you see in the gop haste to pass the bill and trump trying to cram it down in the last 100 days. i think president trump is making fools of the members of congress of his own party. >> reporter: democrats threatening to pull support for the must-pass spending bill to avert a shutdown if republicans are moving forward with the health care vote. president trump telling reuters if there is a shutdown, there's a shutdown. this as it sheds light on the reversal of pulling out of nafta. >> deciding rather than terminating nafta which would be a big shock to the system, we will renegotiate. >> reporter: the president telling the post he was all set to terminate the trade deal and looked forward to it until he abruptly changed his mind on wednesday after persuaded by advisers and leaders of canada and mexico. 14 million american jobs depend

on the trade deal. president trump reflecting on the presidency and realities of governing. >> i loved my previous life. i loved my previous life. i had so many things going. i actually -- this is more work than my previous life. i thought it would be easier. >> reporter: the president goes back to the road today traveling to atlanta to deliver remarks of the national rifle association and then tomorrow the 100th day of the administration to pennsylvania for a campaign-style rally. alisyn. >> joe, thank you very much for that. if you are just waking up, there is a development to tell you about. rhetoric between the u.s. and north korea. cnn's will ripley is live in pyongyang, north korea. the only western television journalist in north korea. wat is the latest, will? >> reporter: alisyn, just as president trump talks about the possibility of a major conflict. we are getting the rhetoric ratcheted up in pyongyang as well.

let's read the comments from kcna. in case a war breaks out on the peninsula, the u.s. will be held wholly accountable for it no matter who made preemptive atta attack. this is where we see the large scale military exercise with long-range military fire. we saw a chilling new propaganda video showing a simulated attack on the white house and capitol in washington. and we saw the "uss carl vinson." you have the officials on the ground speaking defiantly rea reacting to the news from china. china is more willing to work with the united states to rein in kim jong un. officials are telling us they trade heavily with china and china is a major source of the country's oil supply, they say if china were to pull the plug, they will still continue to build nuclear weapons and

missiles and continue to test them. they feel they are entitled to have the weapons to protect national sovereignty. they filed complaints the united nations security council. secretary of state rex tillerson chairing the big meeting with the security council. north korea will watch it all closely. chris and alisyn. >> we appreciate it. you are in the right spot right now. stay safe. joining us now is david gregory and maggie haberman and editor at large chris cillizza. maggie, as we learned back in the days bouncing in the bars, you let the unstable guy talk. >> i beg your pardon. >> i remember that life. >> i knew you then. a couple of places. you let the unstable guy talk. you don't get him worked up. >> right. >> that seems to not be what the white house is doing right now. do we believe this is a tactic to force triangulation or hot

words? >> i think it is a combination of the two. when he was candidate trump and business target. if this is his target, he overshoots by a half mile. there are a lot of nations you can do this with. north korea is not one of them. saying something like what he said last night can have -- or yesterday, whenever he said it -- can have serious consequences. i don't think they were fully prepared for. i think you see mop-up of that today. >> the mop-up with a strong win. >> that was great. we had gordon chang on. he studied north korea and he says the tough talk from president trump is getting north korea attention. in a good way. it may be effective at including the relationship president trump seems to be forging with china. that is getting north korea's attention. it may be working. >> i think there is a combination of and it is totally

possible because we see it in other areas where president trump went too far of major conflict and dial it back. i think he wants to ratchet it up. the administration is working hard to negotiate. you have the two prongs. i think the pressure, to your point, chris, they dealing with a madman. i did not know that was a whole thing. let the guy at the bar talk. in this case, the pressure is about china. china can solve this and has always been able to solve it. the last thing that china wants is for war to break out or preemptive strike. they don't want refugees. it would be a disaster. so in that way, i think there is a method here and the president is not playing within well recognized lines here. i think what worries me is the

cynical aspect of this. does he see a political upside to the potential of a preemptive strike as the big strong leader to solve a problem nobody else has been able to solve. that is really dangerous. i hope they are into the going there. >> cillizza, the basic proposition the president refers to all the time. is this winning? what is winning with north korea? you have the hot talk. that's scary. you have tillerson saying china just told north korea if you test another missile, we will sanction you. we have gordon chang saying we will sit on your hands if a targeted strike. tillerson saying we may negotiate directly with north korea. which was almost laughed at when senator markey brought it up a couple weeks ago. what is winning here? >> beats me. i will tell you i think you are seeing trump in some ways make

good on what don trump jr. outlined when they were trying to recruit vice president candidates. donald trump sr. wants to be the face. he wants to be the public face. he wants to say stuff as maggie pointed out. say things. he will not do the intricate diplomacy. he will talk tough. then a second channel that operates separate from him. typically they move no cin conc. tough talk and tough negotiat n negotiation. we're on day 99. i continue to think we in the political media especially are forever in search of a narrative and story arc and what does this presidency mean? the possibility is the only arc is unpredictability. >> you have to have a strategic focus. i brought up truman before.

the outbreak of war. the discussion of how does this jive of what we are trying to achieve in europe and the rest of the world balancing the interests. i worry there is not enough focus of what korea means for the administration's position vic vis-a-vis the rest of the world. >> i don't know how this works out as a plan. i think you have a president who likes talking to the press. who wants to say it is not as bad you have said it is for the last 100 days. i did not probably prep for every outcome. >> that leads me to this, nikki haley with the u.n. now the state department wants her comments cleared through them before she says something. is there a feeling that she has somehow after syria gone rogue or she is not best representing the white house position? >> i think there is a feeling there needs to be harmony. i don't think it is not she is

not best representing the white house's position, but you can't have three voices on the same issue. you saw it around syria. 24-hour period with rex tillerson saying one thing and nikki haley say one thing and the white house say a third thing. they all need to get together. >> cillizza, let's play a little sound of what donald trump revealed about his feelings about the presidency. >> all right. >> during the first 100 days, which as you know, i have been saying there's an extreme emphasis placed on the 100 days, joanie. it's not quite as big as they're saying. we have really laid a foundation. >> i loved my previous life. i had so many things going. i actually -- this is more work than my previous life. i thought it would be easier. i thought it was -- i'm a

details oriented person. i think you would say that. i do miss my old life. i like to work so that's not a problem. this is actually more work. >> all right. mr. editor at large. we have a divided table on what this means. you have good for him. he's acknowledging what he thought was wrong in the past. >> is that maggie's position? >> i think it is possible to have both thoughts at the same time. seriously. >> are you hedging? i'm trying to set up a divided table. >> i'm doing a 360. >> i'll debate. >> is this something to be applauded or points out legitimate basis for criticism? >> can i take the third way? bill clinton style? thank you. thank you. i'm taking it. i just thought it was strange. it's weirdly reflective for him. he is not a tremendously

introspective person at least in public life. it's odd to me that you would find the presidency like this job is hard. if i had to name a difficult job in the world, other than political reporter, obviously i would say president. it's a clearly difficult job. i think for whatever he says about the 100 days and it doesn't mean anything. it means something for the things he wants credit for. i think this is a moment in which he is reflective. maggie is right. he is sitting down with a lot of reporters at the moment. he is thinking about it. to me, the way i heard it was man, i had a good life. things were great back then. which is a little strange. again, i don't necessarily say good or bad. strange to hear from the president of the united states to say, man, my old life was great. you're the president. >> he shredded up our political process. broke the seal of the presidency and came in. >> exacerbated tensions and gave

people legitimacy for feelings hostile and negative around the world. now he says, maybe i was wrong. >> he didn't say that. >> with china, he said it was more complicated than he thought. health care, more complicated than i thought. nafta. >> it is not okay to do that and say, wow, i did not realize it is a lot of work. you have to give him credit for being a listener. if you judged him harshly. he is not doing those things because he is listening to people. >> two things are true. it is true he is listening to people and making changes. we talked about this in last hour. as chris says, this is unusual. that is where i was trying to go before. it is unusual to hear a sitting president say this. you had president obama make clear he was ready to move on with life. that was after -- that's what i'm saying. after he had been in the job for more than a couple hundred days. it is a reminder for the claims

he thought he would win and knew he would win. i don't believe donald trump thought he would win and he did not put thought into the presiden presidency. >> president obama in the first 30 days actually said to a group of reporters. i was in the room. turns out i'm pretty good at this job. arrogance has its difficulties as well. >> i think these windows into the president is fascinating. the way i hear it is he was a very transactional person. when he wanted something done, he picked up the phone and it got done. i hear him saying is oh, this is different. all of the skills i brought, this is different. >> alisyn, i would say, too, remember everything on the campaign trail was it's going to be so easy folks. we'll get this done. the reality is whoever covered washington or politics knows it is not true. i think he might have thought it

was true. >> look, i've known donald trump a long time. he is a very savvy guy. he knows what works. what he did and it is worthy of legitimate criticism. he told people who were negative on situations what they needed to hear to really cement that position and get behind him. now he is saying point after point -- >> is that what most politicians do? >> that is how he distinguished himself from the field. he went deeper and darker in feeding the understandings. it took him to the top. he has to own the reality. if he says i was wrong about these things, everybody wants to applaud. >> cillizza makes a good point. political reporter and television journalist. very hard job. >> yes. >> if we take nothing from the segment. lettuce take tha let us take that. >> this is really hard work. this is what you see them do. this is not what voters

necessarily want to hear their president say. that's all. >> panel, thank you for the lively discussion today. very great to talk to all of you. in the next hour, senator bernie sanders talks about the north korea comments and we ask him to rate president trump's first 100 days. all right. did a top house democrat break the rules by releasing new documents to spell more legal trouble for michael flynn? republican congress member will heard joins us next.

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honestly i do not understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn. i don't get it. after the president fired him. for lying. they should be bending over backwards to help us. it does not make any sense. >> democrat elijah cummins saying if they don't give us the information, why should we? we now know the inspector general is going to look at whether or not the former

national security adviser michael flynn broke the law by accepting payments from turkey and russia. the trump white house in an interesting move is trying to blame the obama administration. saying flynn was their problem. they gave him the security clearance. joining us is congress member will hurd. he is also a former undercover officer. mr. hurd, pleasure to have you on the show. first, what elijah cummings said and the decision to release documents? >> chris, i'll be limited on the response on the topic partly because of my role in other investigations. i'll say this. i have firm confidence in the inspector generals. having an inspector general do a review, they will do a thorough

and detailed review. >> all right. i'm saying cummings move. what do you think of his move? >> you have to ask cummings that and the reason for showing the documents. i have not had a chance to sit down and review what elijah said and provided. again, if the inspector general is involved in something, that is a good sign. you though it will be thorough and detailed. >> the idea of who is to blame for knowing about michael flynn taking money from russia and turkey and if it was right or wrong. what do you make of the white house saying it is obama's fault? >> the person to blame is the person who may have or haven't taken the money is what i would say on that. let's make sure we have all of the facts and again the inspector general involved is a good thing. >> right. i get it with the inspector general part, congressman.

this is about the political accountability here. michael flynn was the national security adviser for president trump. one of the closest aides. they were insistent on bringing him into the administration. don't they own the responsibility and accountability for the decision? >> so are you saying for every person that may work under you, you have responsibility for everything they have done in the past? this is an important issue we get to the bottom of and understanding where it is. i think the right person to make sure we have all of the facts is the attorney general -- excuse me. the inspector general. this is something that once we have all of the facts, we can make the decisions about where to place blame and who should have known about this and when they should have known about it. >> right. what else do you need to know about the simple nature that you should do a background check on someone who is your main national security adviser. this is not number seven at the

agriculture department. this is a close quarters situation. you think you would have known. especially with the speculation going on about russia. they would have been reasonable questions to ask. by the way, flynn wasn't keeping it secret. >> vetting is important when it comes to senior national security adviser and people. i cannot disagree with you there having spent nine years as an undercover officer. i value the vetting and background checks and what you need to make sure that you do not have any potential problems in someone's background or creating political problems that take you away from your mission. >> you are slow to criticize the white house on this. why? what else is there before you make judgment? >> chris, i haven't looked at and haven't had chance to review all of the things my friend elijah cummings has said.

having been involved in other investigations, i'm slow to comment on activities because of those investigations. >> all right. let me ask you about something else. we had homeland secretary the other day. i'll tell you what scares me. the electronic attacks here and the ability to infiltrate our devices. it keeps me up at night. secretary kelly said. what is your take on that? you understand the area very well. >> i think secretary kelly is a real professional. there is credible and real information suggests that bad guys are trying to use all kinds of things to attack us. we're the biggest target. we're the thing and they all want to do and the fact that secretary kelly is charged with protecting our homeland and he has to make decisions about potentially inconveniencing passengers versus taking care of our safety. those are difficult decisions to make. i'll say this. the men and women in tsa and men

and women in department of homeland security are doing everything they can in order to find the right balance between inconvenience and safety. it is a tough job. seeing and understanding and realizing the number of threats we have to homeland is significant. we have to have people willing to make tough decisions. >> it goes beyond the airports. you have the modernizing government technology act you bring up. every agency and system is vulnerable to hacking. you have to get ready for that. what will you do with the proposed law? >> the law that we're introducing today is simple. it will give the agencies the ability if they save money, they can use it in future years. to modernize systems. this is going --troduce the latd greatest technology and defend

the government with american folks. whether it is the department of education or the u.s. census bureau. this will give tools to the chief information officers to make sure you can introduce that technology. >> congress member hhur sdrd. thank you for being on. >> thank you. who is to blame for michael flynn? the white house says it is obama administration's fault. members from both sides debate next. ♪ ♪

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who is responsible for not better vetting michael flynn? press secretary sean spicer pointing the finger at obama administration for not thoroughly vetting president trump's former national security adviser. listen to spicer. >> his clearance was last reissued by the obama administration in 2016 with full knowledge of his activities that occurred in 2015 as you point out. obviously, there is an issue as you point out the department of defense and inspector general is looking into. we welcome that. all of that clearance was made during the obama administration

and knowledge of the trip he took. >> let's debate this. joining us now to discuss is jason miller. president trump's former campaign adviser. general sokey. former obama white house communications director. great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> jen, let's bring up president obama's watch if you look at spicer's logic. forced out by the obama administration. they had concerns of him. in october of 2014, he is warned by government officials against accepting foreign payments from russia. in december of 2015, he goes to russia and is paid to speak at the russian tv event. there is video of that. here is the moment that spicer is hanging his hat on. spring of 2016. michael flynn's security clearance is renewed. why is that not on the obama

administration? >> alisyn. it is important for people to remember that michael flynn was fired by president obama for doing a terrible job at d.i.a. later on, for president trump when he was the nominee, considered him as a vice presidential running mate. to go back to the facts of how security clearance works. this is not done by political appointee or career officials at agencies. what we don't know is if the security clearance was revoked when he left his job and if it he started from scratch. >> in spring of 2016, the security clearance was renewed. that is when obama was in the white house. if they knew he had gone to russia and made the paid speech. why was it renewed? >> alisyn, i don't know what he disclosed at that time. these decisions are not made by political appointees like myself. they are made by career open officials who served through

different administrations and different presidents at the helm. this is an absurd blame game here. the vetting. the responsibility on vetting is on the incoming administration. that wasn't done. >> on the flip side, jason. there were enough red flags about michael flynn by the time president trump chose him as his national security adviser and the trump campaign should have vetted. >> take a step back and turn down the hyperbole. i did not view spicer as blaming. >> he said it was on the obama administration. >> that is a statement of fact. he left the job in 2014. he makes the trip in 2015. his security clearance is renewed in 2016. that's a statement of fact. i didn't see that as a blame game. would you have top secret clearance, you have that clearance until there is a reason to go and revoke it.

when you encounter foreign officials and overseas trip, you have to go back and report it. that is the reason the d.o.d. knew the general had done it. here is where the responsibility lies. with general flynn to report all that information. clearly he reported the fact he made the trip. he did not report he had taken money to speak at the event. that's on general flynn. that's not on the administration. you have the former head of the d.i.a. retired general. that's up to him. >> you know, jason, the irony is that president trump believes in extreme vetting. just not for his own cabinet and staff. it would not have been that hard to find out these things. he was embarrassed 20 days later in having to fire him. >> that was regarding his not being forthright. >> about this stuff. >> going back to it. keep in mind, general flynn's top secret authorization was renewed after he made this overseas trip.

look, it is not as though people didn't know that he made the trip. he is wasn't for tthright with e details. he needs to come forward and explain the story. i don't think you can put this on the current administration. >> you don't think they should have known more about the person named as security adviser? >> a man with top secret clearance. if we can't trust the d.o.d. to get this right on the top secret authorization, what are white house lawyers going to find out that d.o.d. and the intelligence community doesn't know? >> jen? >> brief elieve me, there was n secret meeting at the white house. we thought general flynn was the right choice for national security adviser. there is a lot of public of the troubling handling of positions. it is interesting with the passing of the buck. the current president chose him. the current presidnt and his team did not vet him. frankly, what i recall is a

loosy-goosy information on documents. that is what you should focus on. >> top secret authorization renewed. why didn't your former boss, president obama, why didn't the administration go and stop that if it was such a problem? >> jason, first of all, this is a troubling trend from trump officials and trump supporters of trying to pass the buck on to the last administration. the fact is that it was done by career employees. we don't know all of the details of the information they had. right now, we should talk about why the current white house is not providing all of the information that they are being asked for about flynn. why they are not providing information to the committees on the hill. >> they haven't invoked any executive privilege. >> hold on. jason, don't you think they should provide whatever investigators are requesting? >> they have. >> they provided everything the congressional investigators are looking for?

>> yes. they provided -- for what has come to them. obviously if there is a question about the speaker's bureau that general flynn was ougat. if there is a question of the d.o.d., it will come from the d.o.d. when we started the interview, we should not play the blame game. it is up to general nieflynn to come forward. i think the white house is compliant. >> there you go. jen, jason, thank you. chris. we have seen president trump has had a string of realizations now he is in office. we see a new and very significant reveal on the eve of his 100th day. we have two reporters who spoke to the president and he told them something that was something surprising. next. rave m evens. ur testimony. mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv.

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president trump making big headlines this morning in the series of interviews with reuters and "washington post" ahead of the 100-day milestone. joining me is phil rucker. the white house bureau chief and jeff mason with reuters. jeff mason. set the scene.

in the oval office. what was the atmosphere? what did you perceive in the president's demeanor? >> it was a relaxed atmosphere. it was conducted by myself and my colleagues. we walked in the oval office. a couple of friends of his seated in front of the desk. he invited us to visit with them for a while. w sat down and visited with them for 10 or 15 or 20 minutes. they departed. we started the interview. he was confident. he was relaxed and he was straight forward. we had a couple of other people come in during the interview. vice president pence walked in. chief of staff reince priebus walked in. it was a casual element about it. >> jeff, beyond the atmosphere, what surprised you? what was the headline to you? >> there were a few headlines. the biggest news that came out of it were the comments on north

korea and saying a possibility of a conflict with north korea. also him signaling the united states would be tearing up or terminating the free trade agreement with south korea and comments about taiwan as well in relationship to relations with china and the friendship he developed with president xi. we asked him if he would have another direct phone conversation with the president of taiwan. he basically said no. he did not want to mess things up with president xi. it was interesting. it was interesting when we asked about the 100 days and what he missed about his previous life. he said that is driving. >> he misses driving? >> he made the remarkable comment this job was more work and harder than he expected. >> we have the sound. let's play it. >> okay. >> i loved my previous life. i loved my previous life. i had so many things going.

i actually -- this is more work than in my previous life. i thought it would be easier. i thought it was more -- i'm a details oriented person. i guess you would say that. i do miss my old life. i like to work so that's not a problem. this is actually more work. >> that's very interesting. let me pivot to you, phil. this is something you both experienced in different ways in your interviews. for jeff, this is harder than i thought it would be. for you, it was issue specific on nafta. that once again, we see with the president, like with health care, like with the situation with china and north korea. now nafta. oh, this is more complicated and different than i thought it was. >> that is exactly right. in my interview with the president, i wanted to understand why he changed on nafta. it had been a signature campaign promise to get rid of nafta and

terminate nafta. he thought it was a bad deal for years. he decided to renegotiate with canada and mexico and hit the pause button. that was a sudden shift in the deal. he is looking forward to terminating nafta. on saturday, he would make a big splash and decided not to because he had phone calls with the canadian prime minister and mexican president. he felt like doing so would setoff a bomb on their relationship. they would have such tension between them. he could not do it. >> that is fascinating, philip. he sometimes is susceptible to the last person he talks to and certainly with the nafta illustration that you given us in your reporting, that holds true. jeff, back to you. the president gave you something. a prop to prove a point. you have it? what was it? >> it wasn't such a prop.

interesting how we were talking as i mentioned about president xi and that relationship and then he sort of interrupted himself and handed out this map of the electoral college and said these were the latest figures of the areas in the country he won in 2016. there were three of us in the interview as i said. he had a copy for each of us. so it was clear that the election even five months later after he is in office nearly 100 days and gone through the transition remains very much on his mind. >> was it about his feeling of successor did you feel that he still feels he i think that's a good question and it is hard for me to answer that. i think he wanted to relish in the fact that this map looks good for him and he said, you know, the red is obviously us and the red are the areas in the

country that he won. so he's very proud of it and whether that's rooted in a sense he still has to prove that he won or that he's upset that the media got it wrong in terms of the predictions ahead of time, it is hard for me to say, but he certainly wants people to know and he enjoys looking at that map himself and sharing it with others. >> the map was big for you, too, phillip. wasn't that what someone showed him on the map about what these millions and millions of jobs were? >> that's right. the secretary of commerce presented a map to president trump to show so many of the red states, if you will, would have an adverse impact if we were to terminate nafta. but i have to laugh about the map that he held up because the president gave me the same page and encourage me to take it home and show the america people how

big his victory really was. >> is it on the front page today, phillip? >> it is not. >> because you probably knew about the electoral college. >> i think everybody knows how red the map turned out. >> what surprised you? obviously, you have done other interviews with him, so what surprised you other than his flip on nafta? >> i think the ease with which he is comfortable being flexible on these issues. a lot of politicians feel they have to be ied logically pure, if they promise something in a policy, the voters expect them to follow throuew through with . he feels he could weigh the current atmosphere and determine what he thinks is best in that moment and it is a difference from the other politicians we deal with. >> also, there is a little bit of a reckoning that's going to

come to pass and the things he said in miscasting a lot of issues that he's going to have to reverse. jeff, tomorrow night is nerd prom. >> we don't call it that. >> that's because you are the head of the association. but the president is not going to be there. how do you reconcile him doing more interviews to reach out more to press. he's not calling us fake and insulting us as much. but with him not showing up and holding a rally, what is your take? >> it is just a really interesting dichotomy. this president has said very, very negative things about the press. he called the press the enemy of the american people which is something that we head-on reject completely. but he has also been very accessible and those are things that we want. for white house correspondents we're happy to see him taking

questions and able to see him govern with his aids. it is kind of an interesting dichotomy. i can't explain it. i think the signals he chooses to send are signals only he could speak to. we will be celebrates the first amendment and lifting up our scholarship award dees with or without the president of the night, those values are the ones we will project. >> there you go. thanks so much for sharing your reporting with us. >> thank you. >> pleasure. >> in that interview with routers, the president outspoken about north korea. was it that plan or something that the white house is going to have to walk back. we'll get after that right after the break. stay with "new day." like snoring. does your bed do that? the dual adjustability of a sleep number

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what are you seeing? >> we are going to see some warm temperatures. d.c. could hit 92 degrees tomorrow. we are close to 80 degrees in boston, new york city hitting 83 by saturday. those temperatures, though, will come down a little bit on sunday with some rain fall. but that heat is really building across much of the south and the east. we do still have that flood threat, though, across portions of arkansas, missouri and spilling into the ohio valley. you can see those rain fall totals. we could see six to ten inches of rain fall across these regions. so flooding is going to be a huge concern, as well as the severe threat for today for isolated tornadoes. >> we are following a lot of news, including a live interview with senator bernie sanders. what do the democrats need to do? let's get to it.

>> we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea, absolutely. >> the chinese informed the regime they did conduct for the nuclear test. china would be taking sanctions actions on their own. >> this is front and center on our national security radar. >> all scenarios are on the table, so it really is ul up to north korea. >> when it comes to felt care, once again republicans have fallen short. >> i say to republicans in the house, you will pay a huge price in the 2018 elections if you vote for him. >> this is more work. i thought it would be easier. >> this is new day. >> good morning, everyone. it is friday, april 28th, 8:00 in the east. president trump warns that a major conflict is possible with north korea. and despite those ominous words, the president says he