quickly. >> the more he courts strong men around the world is not a good trend. >> when it comes to human rights, the issue is enough. the issue on the table is north korea. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and kwaalisyn camerota. >> good morning. this is "new day." we start with breaking news. shutdown averted. democrats and republicans agreeing on the spending plan to keep the government funded through september. the agreement contains no money for the border wall and does provide full funding for some programs he vowed to cut. >> the administration is hoping a new bill to repeal and replace obamacare will get a vote this week. remember, this is crunched. congress is going on another vacation or recess. all of this is going on as our president invited a world leader with a terrible record with human rights issues to the white house. let's start with suzanne

malveaux on capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning, chris. certainly prisurprising news to wake up to monday morning. members of congress working to hammer out the deal to fund the government beyond this friday through september. this comes after weeks of tense talks with democrats and republicans who seem equally determined to avoid a government shutdown. rare bipartisan agreement on capitol hill. over a $1 trillion spending bill. it includes billions in defense spending and $1.5 billion for border security. not a single dollar for president trump's border wall despite the insistence that a wall is necessary. >> we will build a wall. go to sleep. go home. go to sleep. rest assured. that's the final thing we need. >> reporter: also left out. bill, federal cuts to sanctuaries cities and money for deportation force. two of the president's other campaign promises.

>> at the heart of my administration's efforts to restore the rule of law has been a nationwide crackdown on criminal gangs and that means taking the fight to the sanctuary cities that shield these dangerous criminals from removal. >> reporter: the spending bill includes some victories for democrats. including no cuts to planned parenthood funding. a nominal cut to the epa budget. a $2 billion increase for the national institute of health. which the president targeted for budget cuts. and $295 million to help puerto rico continue making payments to medicaid. a democratic demand the president has spoken out against multiple times. the bill also includes millions to reimburse local law enforcement for extra security for the president and first family when they travel to florida and new york. other victories include $407

million in wildfire relief for western states and extension to a program that provides health insurance for coal miners. a key constituency for donald trump. >> the miners finally. we're taking care of our miners. we love our miners. >> reporter: votes on the funding bill are expected to go to both chambers by the end of the week. at the same time, house republicans are determined to revive the health care plan to repeal and replace obamacare. alisyn. >> suzanne, thank you very much. the trump white house hoping to build momentum on the gop latest health care bill. meanwhile, the president is under fire for inviting the philippines controversial leader to the white house. cnn's joe johns has more from the white house. good morning, joe. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. the president and administration trying to raise expectations and reduce them at the same time on

health care beginning the second 100 days of the administration. also trying to reduce the focus on the calendar even significug it could take the end of the year before a bill could get to the president's desk. >> i think healthcare reform and repealing and replacing obamacare is just around the corner. i think we're close. >> reporter: the white house expressing confidence in the gop latest health care bill. president trump trying to spin the administration's efforts saying they are not pushing for a vote. >> i said relax. don't worry about the phony 100 day thing. take it easy. take your time. get the good vote. >> reporter: despite calling outlou out lawmakers by name. >> i'll be so angry at congress member kelly and congress member marino and all of the congress members in the room if we don't get that damn thing passed

quickly. >> reporter: the president falsely claiming it covers though with pre-existing conditions. >> pre-existing conditions are in the bill. i mandated it. i said it has to be. we are going to have lower premiums. >> reporter: when in reality, the draft bill allows states to opt out under certain conditions. the trump administration is under fire for inviting the philippine leader to the white house. rodrigo duterte has led a deadly crackdown on drugs that left thousands dead. >> if we don't have all of our folks together. good folks, bad folks, people we wish would do better in our country. doesn't matter. we have to be on the same page. >> reporter: the white house arguing the u.s. needs the fi philippines to combat the north korean threat. it has human rights organizations responding with outrage. the white house raising eyebrows questioning if russia is responsible for hacking during

the 2016 campaign. >> if you don't catch a hacker, okay, in the fact, it is very hard to say who did the hacking. with that being said, i'll go along with russia. could have been china. could have been a lot of different groups. >> reporter: offering no evidence to discount the conclusions of the fbi director and 16 other intelligence agencies. president trump marking his 100th day in office over the weekend with a campaign rally with attacks on his favorite foe. >> i think we would all agree the media deserves a very, very big fat failing grade. >> reporter: new this morning, it is looking more likely there would be another change on the national security front at the white house. sources telling cnn that sebastian gorka, controversial national security aide at the white house is likely to leave his job. chris and alisyn.

>> thank you. let's bring in our panel. david gregory and host of cnn smerconish. michael smerconish. and salena zito. she interviewed president trump for the examiner. let's put up the list of what is in and out of the spending here. this is spun, david gregory, as a good day for democrats. the border wall is not in there. the money that goes to planned parenthood is in there. the big increase for the nih. politically, what does this mean about what is being forged in d.c.? >> i think what is important is that congress run by republicans did not have a government shutdown. that's number one. the white house could not handle that. the republican leadership could not handle that. before we throw a big party for them, let's remember they still have not passed a budget. democrats could not do it. republicans could not do it. in this case, you have the white house holding its fire on issues like the border wall and giving in democratic demands on

spending. it is steady as she goes. big fights over health care and tax reform. you don't want to get mixed up in going to the mattresses over a stop-gap spending measure. >> michael, let's look at what is out. what is not in there. chris talked about it. there are no funding cuts for planned parenthood. things you heard from so many republicans on our air here and beyond. it didn't materialize. planned parenthood will be funded. there's no money for president trump's deportation force. there's no federal cuts to the sanctuary cities. you know so many mayors had really railed against the idea of those cuts. no funding for the border wall construction. this does seem as there is an acquiescing to what democrats want. i guess the question is why. >> why? he wants to win. i think the only constant, alisyn, about the first 100 days

is the inconsistency to the first 100 days. the president and i would say to his credit, has not governed in a rigid fashion. he said a lot on the campaign trail that is belied by conduct. syria or cozy up to russia o or nato or china. i could rattle off a dozen th g things on the campaign trail that have not come to pass as president of the united states. i think he is grown frustrated with the lack of legislative success. this gets us to september. i think he wants to continue to be forward moving and could not afford another setback like a government shutdown. >> he got it done, salena, for morning more than a week. in terms of winning, how does this get defined? >> well, i think this was a win

for everyone. sort of the saying this is not the hill we want to die on. i think it was a win for democrats, republicans and the white house. as david said, there's a lot more going on with the next couple weeks that the president wants to take on. this will -- he is very explicit in saying i'll still get this done. i didn't want to get into this mess right now. you know, one of the things that he prides himself on is his flexibility. one of the things we need to remember if we listen to what his voters said. they don't mind compromise. they want to see things get done. so, if they lose a little here and lose a little there, but gain in the larger picture, they are happier. that's what they told me as i'm out here in the country talking to people that supported him. if you look at my story in "the new york post" i found a guy in

ashtabula, ohio. he didn't vote for trump. he likes the way he approaches the presidency. he is willing to think about him for 2020. >> david, let's move on to health care. at least the repeal and replacement of obamacare because we hear it might be ready. it might be baked enough for a vote this week. one of the things that everybody is watching to see if it is in the improved version is will there be coverage for pre-existing conditions. president trump was asked about it. here is what he said. >> pre-existing conditions are in the bill. i mandated it. i said it has to be. >> one fix discussed pre-existing was optional for the states. >> in one of the fixes. they are changing it. >> what is the development? it will not be left up to the states? everybody gets pre-existing? guaranteed? >> the states will have a lot to do with it. which want to get it back down

to the states. the state is going to be in a much better position to take care it is smaller. >> i'm not hearing a guarantee pre-existing conditions. >> we have a clause that guarantees. >> is it up to the states or not? >> i don't know. i don't think the president knows in the final analysis. we will find out. this is a fluid process. just because the president says it doesn't mean it is so or it will be so. that's really just the function of grinding out whatever the final compromise. the danger is this sounds a lot like what we heard before about pre-kp pre-existing conditions. now they are taking a second bite. coverage is a huge issue. once we get past the fine points of whatever is in the bill, who is covered and how many covered? this is a political issue and policy issue. itreimbur

reimbursement and how people use the system. this is a real danger of coverage nose diving as a result of what they are talking about on the hill. >> michael, there is a complicated waiver system to give the states more flexibility. they can opt out under certain conditions. it is not a straight line. for the president -- that's what dickerson was getting at. it is not 100% in there. that is reality. it is a wishes li list. coverage versus care. the concern is the main promise the republicans made is more people can get care. the aca card is worthless for too many people. they are jeopardizing that by compromising on pre-existing conditions. if there is flexibility in that, a lot of people will not get care. >> i see it a little bit differently. the issue here is whether the business model can sustain

itself by affording care to people with pre-existing conditions. unless you say everybody has to have insurance. >> the mandate. >> chris, yeah. in other words, the way you afford to pay for people with pre-existing conditions is if you get a guy a stud like chris cuomo and he shelthe is healthy him into the pool. >> why do you do this? >> i love this part. >> unless you get the young invincibles in the pool. i never understood the republican opposition to the mandate. at the core, it is a matter of personal responsibility. everybody ought to have insurance. if we all have insurance, we afford care for those who are pre-existing. >> that's why obamacare was having such difficulty. the young invincibles would rather take the penalty. i would be clear, cuomo is not that young. >> true. i'm actually older than he is.

>> i thought you were going to say which way to the pool? that way. >> i don't want to rip my jacket. >> salena, this controversial invitation from president trump to president duterte of the philippines. duterte is a lightning rod. what is president trump doing? >> he is trying to build alliances and sort of the show of strength in asia against north korea. he talked about diplomacy during our interview and how important it was to get something worked out. especially with china. he wanted to have a show of strength over there and isolate north korea. i think that is what is part of this. unfortunate unfortunately, president duterte. that guy. he is a bad dude. >> yeah. on that note, we will leave it there. michael, i'll never forgive you.

chris will be insufferable. >> we are following breaking news. police want to know what led a gunman to open fire at a pool party in san diego? police say a woman was killed and six others hurt. cnn's vermilipaul vercammen is the scene. >> reporter: chris, behind me detectives are still taking photographs with their cameras. the flash bulbs going off in the early morning hours. trying to figure out what happened here. by police accounts, the gunman using a high caliber semiautomatic fired away at guests at the apartment complex. they said he had a beer in one hand at one point and sitting on pool furniture. police exchanged fire. peter sellers here in the san diego area was killed.

also killed was one of the victims. many others in the hospital this morning in critical condition. wes also had a man running away who broke his arm. no motive yet. police say all of the victims were people of color. six african-americans and one hispanic. it was revealed in the san diego tribune that the shooter suffered from bankruptcy and crushing debt. alisyn. >> what a tragedy. keep us updated, paul. another tragedy. u.s. soldier killed over the weekend in iraq. officials say 25-year-old first lieutenant weston lee died when a bomb blew up outside of mosul. all right. a failing mike leads to an unforgettable moment in edmonton. you have singer brett kissel.

he is sing the national anthem. the mike dies. he asks for a little help from several thousand of his closest friends. listen to the reaction. >> let's sing it together. ♪ o say can you see ♪ by the dawn's early light >> whole crowd. one voice. the microphone resumed working for the canadian national al th anthem. >> it sounded like the mike was working. maybe he needed help from the crowd. >> it was really great. a great energy in there. >> that's beautiful. everybody should sing every game. wonderful. the white house is pushing for a health care vote this week. member of the freedom caucus tells us why this version of the bill is, in fact, new and improved.

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we'll build a wall, folks. don't worry about it. we'll go to sleep. go home. go to sleep. rest assured. that's the final thing we need. >> congress did reach bipartisan spending agreement to keep the government funded until september. there will be no shutdown to worry about this week. it adds billions for military and border security. no money yet for the border wall. the president did not get the cuts he wanted for the nih and planned parenthood. how is the president feeling about the plan and what is the state of play in d.c.? let's talk with jim jordan of ohio. a member of the freedom caucus. how do you feel about it? >> look, money goes to planned parenthood. money continues to go to

sanctuary cities. no money for the border wall. i think you will see conservatives against this plan this week. >> how did it happen? >> why did we do a short-term spending bill if we were not going to fight for these? if this is the deal we get, we should have done the bill for the year. we specifically held a vote for -- a short-term spending bill so the republicans control the government, we can do the things we campaigned on. this doesn't do that. this maintains, chris, for every new defensive liollar you spend, you give the democrats in non defense. that is not what we campaigned on. you will see conservatives with concerns. >> you see democrats coming out and hailing it. you did not hear from the republicans. mcconnell or ryan. what happened? >> i wish we would have pushed harder on the issues we talked about. i think the american people

would. there is a shutdown concern. i feel the white house can do good things on the border without the specific funding for the wall. i talked to the budget director mulvaney on that in particular. there is another budget process coming up. we should have fought now. i said this before. we make this job too complicated. we told voters we could fight on these issues. now it looks like we are not going to do that. that's a problem. >> you won't vote? >> i won't vote for it. a lot of conservatives have a problem with it. >> the health care bill? >> i feel this is a pretty darn good bill that we made better because we engaged in the debate. i think that the tax increases are going away. the tax increases are going away in the bill. able-bodied adults in medicaid,

a work requirement for them. seek to get out from under the key obamacare regulations driving up premiums for middle class faemilies. this is the best bill to get out of the house. we should be clear and this is not repeal of obamacare. if it was repeal, you would not need the option for a waiver for states to seek. we have to be clear with the voters about that and continue to work on it. >> the president was trying to say the pre-existing conditions stay in. that is not true. states can get out with a waiver under certain conditions. >> states can get out of the regulations that drive up premup. pre-existing are covered in the legislation. there is $125 billion that goats goes to the states for the pre-vision for high risk pools. they need that set up first

before they seek the waiver. >> it is not the same. >> if you maintain continuous coverage, you cannot lose coverage and coverage cannot jump up if you have a tough illness that happens to you or your family. what we are trying to do is reward responsible behavior. maintain coverage. you don't get bumped up. >> are you concerned if you do compromise pre-existing conditions protection, the health care companies have every reason to cut those people. >> republicans are not doing what we told the american people. we won in 2010 and 2014 and 2016 on repealing obamacare. this doesn't get all the way there, but the best step out of the house right now. what i'm concerned about is what obamacare is doing to families middle class families who have seen premiums go through the roof. if they afford the premiums, they cannot afford deductibles. >> is that true in arizona, people like to cherry pick arizona as a state.

they did not expand medicaid. if they has taken it, they would have had more choice. >> we expanded medicaid in ohio and people are increases. i talked to the fourth district. never forget. we started this debate ten weeks ago. we talked about this on your show. all of the false information americans were given about obamacare. like your plan. keep your plan. like your doctor. keep your doctor. deductibles will decline. the web site will work. the web site is secure. we were told the co-ops were wonderful. all of the false statements. you have to get rid of it. we were elected to get rid of it. let's do what we can and fight to repeal it all. >> does it bother you the rate of growth of health care cost is less now than before aca? >> it is not perfect. >> you sound like it is dying.

>> i'm telling the truth. all of the architects of the obamacare, they said they misled the american people when she so they sold it. >> he said he missmisspoke. you got it. we had him on the show. he does not say that was the intenti intention. >> the new york times called him the architect of obamacare. i know what he said. they fooled the american people. misled the american people. >> the intent was not to mislead. >> he sure did. everything we were told about the law was false. let's focus and repeal. >> you seen at the town halls, it is not as simple as everybody wants repeal and replace. you know the polls show that. there is push back at town halls. do you think you can tell the american people we will cover just as many or more as under the aca right now. don't worry about it? >> i believe that folks who have the concerns with that will be fine. more importantly, those states

that get the waiver, coupled with what else we have done in the bill on the high risk pool, i believe premiums will come down for middle class families. that is the test. make sure you provide the coverage for those tough health care needs for families. also allowing states to get the waiver so premiums and deductibles can couple dome dow. we can bring back a market to the health care. >> without compromising the coverage. >> i believe so. >> congress member, more details we get, the more we discuss. appreciate it. the bipartisan budget deal appears to have more wins for democrats than republicans. as you just heard. what is in it that has one democratic leader really excited? he is here to tell us next. you do all this research

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congress striking agreement overnight on a spending deal to fund the government until september. one item in the deal permanent health care benefits for retired coal miners and families. our next guest fought for a long

time to keep the benefits. we have ohio senator sherrod brown. what took so long to get the benefits for coal miners? >> we had bipartisan support with senators manchin and casey and capito from my state. when we finally convinced them to make it a party position with both parties in the senate. speaker ryan spood in ttood in . it is part of the deal. it means thousands of coal mining families, retirees and widows of coal miners can rest assured there will not be four months health care coverage expires. imagine you get a letter in the mail and saying six weeks your health care coverage expires. they are likely to have health care problems than your average 40-year-old. this is a huge victory. i was in steubenville, ohio, a

couple weeks ago sitting around the table with mine worker and retirees. one said put yourself in our shoes. you have a bunch of members of the senate with good taxpayer funded subsidized taxpayer funded insurance that refuse to take care of miners. it is a plan in effect for seven decades. it is done right. >> good for you. democrats this morning are saying a lot of victories they feel in the pespending bill. planned parenthood is not cut. republicans said they wanted to. there is no funding for the border wall. you know was a mainstay of president trump's campaign. how did democrats pull this off with the republican president and republican-led congress? >> a couple of things. the public knows the government shutdowns are caused by republicans. it is fact. whenever there is a shutdown, it is the tea party that pushes for it.

they knew they did not want to do that. second, we have dollars in there for border security. we are not building that wall. it is hard to argue. you take money from the clean up of lake erie and take money from meals on wheels and planned parenthood and use it to build a border wall and members of the house and senate think it is absurd. in the end, that wasn't going to go. the public overwhelmingly thinks the border wall is silly. border security is more important. >> we had congress member jim jordan who said the republicans do not like the spending deal. are you certain this is reality? >> jim jordan is a friend of mine. i have known him from ohio. he is out of touch. his tea party views are out of touch with mainstream america. that is why planned parenthood is funded and meals on wheels. senators are protecting the clean up of lake erie. we know what that lake looked

like when we did not put federal involvement in it. >> i want to ask about nafta. this is important to you. president trump seems to have done an about face on his position on nafta. he had said he was on the verge of pulling out of nafta. then something happened this weekend where he changed his mind. let me play that moment for you. >> they said please would you rather than terminating nafta. i was set to do it. i was going to do it today. as we are sitting here, i would have to delay you. i would terminate nafta. they called up and said would you negotiate. i said yes i will negotiate. not able to renegotiate nafta. i will terminate nafta. >> where are you on the thinking? >> i don't know what is going on in the inner macinations in the white house. all four issues matter for a better trade agreement of canada

and mexico and the united states. the first is get up front commitments on buy america and o outsourcing provisions. you don't play one american worker against another. >> meaning? farmers and manufacturers? >> that's important that the president mediate that in the negotiations. i have seen that happen far too many times. you get workers at the table ones these provisions and make sure in the negotiations. >> i guess my question is what is good for farm irrelevaers ma good for manufacturing. >> that is why you have the president and you hire negotiators. the last provision is important that these provisions have something called investor state dispute settlement. it gives corporations more power to veto and overturn democratic rules and regulations. especially on the environment and labor end. i want to make sure workers have the same standing as

multinational kurp raticorporat the agreement. >> i want to ask about the environmental stuff. you spell it out clearly. let me read it. all countries with nafta must comply with environmental agreements. including climate and agree to negotiate fining disciplines with trucking and safety and tim p timber and fisheries. are you concerned with what the president has done about executive orders and where the president is on some of the environmental concerns? >> the purpose of the letter is to make sure the president stands strong on american laws. not on what his opinion is of american laws is, but what american laws actually say. the environment and workers standards. canadians have high standards. we have high standards and sometimes the mexicans don't. that is why the jobs are outsourced. the last 30-year america

phenomena. the companies shutdown and go overseas and take advantage of low worker safety standards and protections and get a tax break to do it. that is the business plan that too many american companies have founded. in talking about trade, i don't trade off worker against worker and company against company like many do. i want to see lifting up of standards. that is using environmental worker standards to raise standards in other countries. that makes us more competitive instead of pulling our standards down in the race of the bottom that some large corporations want us to do. >> senator brown, thank you for being here. chris. president trump says he will pay more under his own tax plan. is that true? christine romans crunches the numbers next. th t rule of being plant manager k of your employees. micromanage them.

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will the president ever release his tax returns? well, president trump says he never told treasury secretary steve mnuchin he had quote no intention of releasing his tax returns. the president is offering a clue as to when he may reveal them. he also offered a clue as to how much he would pay under his tax plan. chief business correspondent christine romans has numbers for us. >> keeping the tax suspense alive. when will he release his taxes? soon. hear is what the president said when the audit is over and what he will do. >> it could happen soon. i don't know. i think it is routine to be

honest with you. then i'll make a decision. >> here is why we want to see the returns. releasing the tax returns is more important. the first outline of the tax plan and it looked details. experts say the few things on the wish list could save the president tens of millions of dollars. we have a few pages of the leaked 2005 tax returns. a repeal of the amt which prevents the healtwealthy from g no tax. second, the proposed new business rate of 15% would saved president trump $27 million back if 2005. why? the majority of the trump empire is past businesses. individual rates. benefit from the death tax. that effects the estates over

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all right, so a fundamental question was raised in a heated exchange on cnn this weekend during president trump's latest rally. take a listen. >> 1,361 days and he's stilling if to be the moral midget you saw on that stand in harrisburg last night. >> i didn't like 99% things president obama did. i didn't call him obama or midget. >> he is my president but he is letting me down and the vast majority of americans -- >> the ways to criticize a president. the office, the man.

let's discuss. cnn political commentators ana navarro and jeffrey lord. ana, respect the man, respect the office. how do you balance those two? >> well, look, we live in america, and we have something called the first amendment, which gives us free speech so this is a country where we can actually say what we want about anybody including the presidnt of the united states. that's a good thing and that's a bad thing. in other countries, in places like cuba, venezuela and the philippines, that might get you killed. in the united states we can't. i think that we have to have civil discourse, we have to have respect for the office of the presidency and you i this that respect for the office of the presidency must begin, must be reflected by the person sitting in that office at that moment, by the president of the united states himself and when you have a donald trump, a president donald trump who calls elizabeth warren pocahontas, a person who

calls chuck todd sleepy eyes who throws ad hominym attacks, how can you seek respect and want respect if you're not willing to give respect to your american people, to the people that voted for you, to the people that are part of your country? i think it goes both ways. >> jeffrey? >> yes. well, chris, i have to say first of all, the first amendment is everything here in this country. so that's a good thing. secondly, i have to say there hasn't been a president of the united states in american history beginning with george washington that hasn't been dumped on by their critics. this is part of life, when you're in the white house. i listen to my friend paul begala in that clip you just played and i have to say, with all due respect, there were plenty of americans in the clinton days who felt towards president clinton more or less as paul begala was describing

president trump. this comes with the territory. presidents do things, harry truman said of a critic of his daughter, for heaven's sakes that he hoped not to meet him because if he did, he was going to, you know, punch him and hit him where he might need a supporter, and the letter went on at length and it was a letter by the way, it wasn't an off-the-cuff remark. this is par for the course here in america and gets more intense than at other times and you just roll with it. >> but at the end of the day -- >> jeff you got to get some coffee. you've given an entire answer and didn't mentioned ronald reagan. >> well of course i do remember that the protests of ronald reagan. how about that? >> look, i take the points, but i guess the question becomes, and look, this is not new. i deal with this every day, with people who want, you have two camps. one is do not normalize donald

trump. do not respect what he does just because he's president. it's about the man in the office. and then you have this other side which is well hold on, you cannot devalue what this office means, and once somebody has won it, ana, you must accord them the respect of that office, and if you don't like what they do, that's fine but there must be a line. >> well good luck with that. look, i saw some horrible cartoons, horrible emails come through when george w. bush was president, and horrible emails and cartoons come through when barack obama was president. i go back to my point, the person that has got to establish the precedent of respect, that has got to behave in a presidential manner is the president himself. that really sets a tone that i think makes a difference in america. when you are doing things like inviting a mad man oppressor, a corrupt leader of the philippines, to our white house, that is not presidential. and people are going to call you

names, because they are going to be offended, rightly so. >> so it's a little bit of the get what you give jeffrey, and is that something that must be factorred into this as well? donald trump won the office and he is president of the united states. he way he conducted himself and things that come out of him and the actions and the words generated this criticism. you get what you give? >> all i can say is chris, the other night i was at the white house correspondents dinner and right here in my adopted hometown of harrisburg was the president himself, and he gave that speech and i can only tell you the reports that i got, some of them that were being texted to me by a local reporter as the event was going on was that the folks who were there were thrilled with him. they love him. they love him to death. they are most unhappy with push push, d.c., most unhappy with the kind of folks with me at the

correspondents dinner. they wanted to make it known they love him for doing it. there is a disconnect but we have to work with that. >> jeffrey, does it bother you at all when the president says i want to change some of the first amendment protections because when they say things that are terrible and wrong, we should be able to get after them like in the uk, forget about the fact that the uk is moving some of their statutory principle to be more like us but the idea of because i don't like it, maybe i'll change the law to get after the media. do you like that idea? >> i confess thas a first amendment freak that bothers me a bit. i think give these things free reign no matter who they are. i know he genuinely he's spoken to me about this long before he was running for president. i know he feels strongly. we have to be careful here when we deal with the first amendment, absolutely. and one other thing, if i could say, chris, you know, people at

that dinner made, which was terrific and i was a guest of cnn, made a great deal about the first amendment but i didn't hear the words ann coulter anywhere at the dipper. here she was under physical threat from giving a speech at berkeley. that was a pretty noticeable problem and there were others. i didn't hear the names of other conservatives who have been attacked here and threatened. so i think that we've got it work on that. >> ana, while i have you, the first cuban-american elected to congress is going to retire next year. tell us about this great lidlad and what people should know about ileana ros-lehtinen? >> she's my congressman, friend, and first latina elected to congress, first woman to chair a foreign relations committee and also a sane, compassionate, moderate voice. she was the biggest winner, she

had the biggest swing district. hillary clinton won her district by 20 points and she won the same district by over 20 points. it was the largest margin in the country because she has focused on her community. it will be a huge loss in the environment today, such polarization and dysfunction i've been amazed by the feedback and social media announcing she's retiring. i've seen people from the left, from the right, democrats, independents,ing wi ing willgbt people, immigrants, speaker paul ryeon, even rosie o'donnell called her out for somebody who has done the right thing, ileana, mi amiga muchas gracias you're a woman with teenie feet but big shoes to fill. >> chris you're missing a question. is ana a candidate for congress?

>> oh, sweetheart, please, i couldn't afford it. they couldn't afford me. >> thank you both for the discussion. we have a lot of news this morning including what is in and out of this government new spending bill that stopped the shutdown? let's get after it. >> in many cases, you're forced to make deals that are not the deal you'd make. >> democrats and republicans agreeing on a spending plan that staves off the threat of a shutdown. >> we need the wall to stop the drugs and the human trafficking. >> donald trump has given us a graveyard of broken promises. >> they say we won't cover preexisting conditions. we cover it beautifully. >> he said he'd cover more people at less cost. his bill does just the opposite. >> i think health care reform is just around the corner. >> scheduling a meeting with duterte is not appropriate. >> it doesn't mean human rights don't matter. we need cooperation among our