we need better conservatives. you have black guys from poor neighbors concerned about police, and they speak up and you say i have got answers and jobs and work ethic for you, and criminal justice reform for you that republicans are leaning on, and you don't call them out, you call them in, and they are not doing it. it's a cure for the crazy. >> are your liberal friends telling you they are making them compromise beyond their comfort level? >> some say that and some recognize if you keep doing the same thing over and over again, and you will get the same result. that's crazy, too. >> the punitive head of the democratic party -- >> it should be called cure for the crazy. >> that will be the paperback version. >> we're following a lot of news. let's get right to it.

you say we are going to be okay as long as the adults are still there. that's extraordinary. e mcconnell and corker, the globalist click have to go. >> that should be a full stop. all traffic comes to a halt moment. this is a cry for help for the country. >> we have significant policy agenda problems and these feuds don't help. >> we will work closely with governor brown to see you through the challenging times. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. it's tuesday, october 10th. 8:00 in the east now, and the froede between donald trump and bob corker is getting worse.

the white house official tells cnn the president isn't finished with corker. meantime we are hearing senator corker tell a "new york times" reporter that the president's volatility is alarming. he seems to be questioning the president's fitness to hold office. president trump play into a different public spat, taking a dig of secretary of state rex tillerson, and the president says they may have to compare iq tests. we have it all covered for you. let's begin with cnn's joe johns live at the white house. what is the latest there. >> reporter: president trump and bob corker, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee have kept it quiet over the last 24 hours or so after their very public feud re-erupted if you will, over the weekend. we are told that's not likely to

last despite the fact that the administration cannot afford to lose republican votes on capitol hill if that it expect to get any legislation through this year. president trump is not finished with senator corker according to a member of the white house. >> sometimes i feel like he is on a reality show or something, and he's talking about the foreign policy issues. >> yeah. >> you have to realize that, you know, that we could be heading towards world war iii by the comments that he's making. >> former white house steve strategist steve bannon lashing out at corker last night. >> if bob corker has any honor or decency, he should resign immediately. >> signaling he is ramping up to

unseat republicans next year. >> a establishist globalist click on capitol hill having to go. >> a source tells cnn the president is frustrated over a stalled agenda, negative media coverage of the federal response to hurricane ravaged puerto rico and the defeat of the senate candidate he endorsed in alabama last month. most republicans are not taking sides on the bitter feud between trump and corker but nearly a dozen aids and advisers tell cnn what corker says many believes privately. >> when the president of the united states speaks and says what he does, the impact that it has around add the world and especially in the region that he's addressing, yeah, i mean, that is concerning to me. >> vice president pence and senior counselor kellyanne conway attempting to flip the

script on corker. >> world leaders see that. i find tweets like this to be incredibly irresponsible. >> not everybody in the president's inner circle thinks the public feud is good for trump. trump needs corker's vote to get legislation passed and the president already alienated another top senate republican, john mccain. secretary of state, rex tillerson, is expected to come here to the white house for lunch with the president today. as far as we know, it's the first time the two men have actually met face-to-face since reports surfaced that tillerson referred to the president as a moron and a newly published magazine article on forbes online, and the president denied tillerson said it, and he attacks him at the same time.

>> not sure he said it, but just in case, he will take a slap at him. >> david chalian, you can't make it up or write it, and no screen writer would have ever imagined we would live what we are living through. >> i read that quote as he is allowing for the possibility he said it. >> just in case, i am smarter than he is. i guess the question becomes is there value in monitoring this ongoing drama between him and at this point tillerson, him and corker? >> without a doubt. i don't think these just to and fro. that's not why we phumonitor it. tillerson is supposed to be out there implementing trump's

policy, his vision for america's role in the world and our relationship with our allies and our opponents. when rex tillerson is out there speaking for the president and for the united states, and then the president comes in and undermines him, that provides a strategic opening for people around the world that would like to do us harm, and that's -- that's why it's worth paying attention to. >> you use the word undermining. the president just talked about that, david gregory. there's curiosity about what the president's strategy is with north korea and he insults kim jong-un on twitter, and then rex is using diplomacy. here's to the new forbes interview. he said i am not undermining, i think i am actually strengthening authority. that speaks to the bad cop/good

cop theory. >> just as richard nextixon in latter stages of vietnam, he wanted to persuade the leaders he was unhinged. it's interesting trump will be speaking reportedly to former secretary of state, henry kissinger today, before he meets with tillerson. the pattern i think david is referring to that we are seeing with trump that seems ridiculous is his willingness to take on other people. what is absent from that is a strategic vision for how to govern or certainly a strategic vision for the world. that's what i think all of this highlights. maybe on the domestic front, maybe taking on corker, maybe this is trying to split into a

third party, and maybe it's not all that thought out. he's thinking about only winning the day. if he's even doing that, the remaining center of attention. it's not strategic as far as we can tell. >> let's give him a little bit of a nod as far as what is going on with bannon. breitbart starts beating up trump and the administration, and that kind of settles down. now you have pretty much the best defense of the president, and saying you guys are the problem and not the president. maybe there is strategy at play. maybe the reason these guys are so quiet about what is going on with corker and the president is because of what bannon is saying? >> i don't know i would give him that much credit. if donald trump were to strike up again talks with nancy pelosi

and chuck schumer over daca, breitbart would hit them over that. i don't think it's a permanent relationship you are talking about and it's totally dependant on defense. i think steve bannon is clearly employing a strategy, a notion that the republican party offester year is no more, and that cannot be, and it's not where the grassroots activism is, inside the party. it's here. here, this other wing of the party. donald trump gets that and he felt that on the campaign trail. steve bannon is trying to reshape the republican party in the image of the pop yao lizam. >> bannon was the biggest voice. >> i agree with that, chris.

i think that donald trump believes now and always has believed he is the new republican party. i think that is being informed and is being cheered on by somebody like steve bannon, who says you go your own way. he doesn't side with him, as david just said, when it comes to working with democrats on daca and the d.r.e.a.m.ersish, he'll hit him on that, but generally speaking, taking on anybody in the establishment is a good thing because he can defend that. and he has the idea, republicans come home, even if it's not his kind of republican. what you have got to show the rest of the party that it's worth coming home to. >> let's talk about harvey weinstein. he's had a fall from grace and is being accused of the most repulsive things you can imagine. hillary clinton last night spoke for 90 minutes at an event in

california. she talked about the nfl kerfuffle. here's what senator tim kaine told us this morning. obviously hillary clinton's running mate about how he thinks more people should speak out. >> nobody is press secretary, and i am telling you sexual harassment is unacceptable and it's low-life behavior, and hillary clinton speaks out about sexual harassment often and i am sure she will have a word to say when the time is right. >> you would recommend she do that? >> any leader should condemn this. >> is this too dangerous a territory for hillary clinton to speak about? >> no. i don't understand this at all. >> because her husband was accused of things and it gets into dicey territory for her to

condemn it so strongly against weinstein and then people ask why can't you speak out for the victims of president clinton. >> while there's a complicated history at home i don't think it's complicated and come out. >> why is she not doing it? >> i don't know the answer to that. barack obama, also, this is unconscionable to me, people with huge megaphones, and even more important because they did receive his donations and have been patronized by him, do not come out and speak -- >> isn't that the answer? you don't criticize people who you are close to the way you do with people you are not close to. let's be honest. this has been quiet, this story. there's another layer to it. we didn't really know.

no, we keep hearing everybody knew, everybody knew. that's their problem. if everybody knew and you delayed saying anything when it wound up being public, what is your defense? >> you are at least a hypocrite if you are going to step out and speak about people in the middle of all of this. if you are hillary clinton, what do you have to lose? is somebody going to criticize her? i think she can go out and if she wants to defend her relationship with him and talk about mistakes he's made, and we're living through a time where we have seen this kind of action before and people do need to speak out about it. >> she certainly won't call it a mistake. >> she has to speak out forcefully about it, even if she wants to stand behind her friendship. >> thank you both very much. we need to get to breaking news for it.

11 people have been killed in raging wildfires in northern california as tens of thousands of people are forced to evacuate. and we r there on the edge of fires burning. miguel, what is the latest? >> reporter: yeah, there's 11 dead. hundreds injured, and possibly 100 or more that are missing according to the sonoma county sheriff's office. this is what is left of the hilton sonoma wine country inn. it was a lovely hotel yesterday and today in complete ruins. this fire burned through neighborhoods incredibly quickly in santa rosa, california. one neighborhood in particular, the coffee park neighborhood. you see what it looks like before and after, just complete devastation. 32 fires burning across the state and 120,000 acres total. right now we have live pictures up over anaheim, california, south of los angeles near

disneyland where 5,000 acres burned, and several homes have been destroyed, and several thousand more are in danger of being destroyed. the only good news is that the winds have died down, and the humidity is going up, and the temperature has cooled down, so maybe firefighters can start getting on top of this thing and get the upper hand and start putting it out. chris? >> miguel, look, they have literally everything working against them right now and they have to pray for lower winds. there has been such a huge investment of personnel up there that they have triediying to bet back. if you have ever been around that situation, it'sty terrain, and the wind picks up differently and it can hop across roads. that's what is happening here. it's moving faster than they can. >> the conditions have been so dry. they were desperate for rain, and that becomes an incinerator

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a white house official tells cnn that donald trump is not finished with republican senator, bob corker. listen to what senator corker told "the new york times." >> sometimes i feel like he's on a reality show of some kind, you know, and talking about big foreign policy issues. you have to realize that, you know, that we could be heading towards world war iii with the comments he's making. it's like it's an act -- >> he said it was like a pressure cooker. let's discuss with republican senator, ron johnson, the senate of the homeland security

commission. senator, thank you for going to puerto rico so you can have eyes and ears of your own on the situation. i want to show you the president's tweet. i know corker is going on, and puerto rico mattered more to me and i am sure to me and to you. nobody could have done what i have done for puerto rico with so little appreciate and so much work. senator, you cannot go down there and look around and say, wow, this is a situation that deserves applause for the president of the united states. it's in crisis down there. what is your take? >> first of all, let me give credit on a bipartisan basis over a number of administrations of what we have done after katrina in terms of approving our pre-disaster response ahead of time. fema has done an excellent job. 70% of gas stations and tkpwraegrocery stores are on the island. it was not the devastation i

expected to see. we saw pictures of st. martin' every house flattened. again, my main reason of going down there was to assure the prae puerto ricans we understand their flight, and right now i think we are moving past the emergency response phase and removing the intermediate phase which is all about standing up the electrical grid so businesses and manufacturing operations can start to restart the economy. it's all about starting up their power so they have an economy to have a future for the island. >> but survival is their issue right now. you have less than half of that territory that has power and water. you can't live like that over time. you were down there, senator. they do not feel that they are

coming out of the woods there. they do not feel like they are turning a corner. that's the dangerous nature of the, boy, do i deserve appreciation. nobody is saying the first responders are not working hard. i saw it with my own eyes, they are killing themselves down there, but it's not enough to stem the need. >> it's all about power. the electrical grid was already very weak, which is why so many businesses and individuals have so many generators on the island, and they are powering gas stations and grocery stores. they have 11 to 12 p% of the gr up and operating. i think we're move into the intermediate phase. it has to be focuseded on powe. >> you have people up on the

mountain and they are worried about starvation. we will monitor the efforts of the congress. thank you very much on that topic, senator. go ahead and finish. >> again, we probably toured, i don't know, a quarter to one-third of the island by helicopter, very close to the ground. no doubt about it, you have isolated a number of homes together, two to three, maybe ten, and those homes are definitely isolated, but 78% of the municipalities are all accessible by road. again, they are getting out of that emergency phase and move into the intermediate phase of -- >> i hear the terminology. i am saying when you need food and water and you are still waiting on meals to be handed out, and they are inadequate, and you can call the phase whatever you want and it's a crisis. i want to ask you about

something else here. >> okay. okay. sure. >> how do you respond about the president's fit for office? you know bob corker and do you accept his appraisal? >> i have a lot of respect for senator corker and i have a good appreciation for the enormous challenges facing this nation. you know how concerned i am about the health care system and obamacare is not working and we have to grow our economy. from my standpoint i would rather have everybody put aside the squabbles. i am just trying to concentrate on the big issues on hand. so i went to puerto rico, and i want to assess it myself and reassure the puerto rican people we will not forget. i wish everybody would

concentrate on the enormous challenges facing the nation and we would be far better off. >> to give corker his due, and he is saying i am afraid this guy may start a war, that the president is speaking in such irresponsible ways to a madman in north korea, it could start a military operation. that's a legitimate concern, is it not? >> the president has surrounded himself by extraordinary individuals. he has excellent people, secretary tillerson, and i find greater comfort when we are briefed on the enormous challenges down in the secure briefing room, and he has people around him. >> senator, i appreciate you coming on the show and appreciate you going down to puerto rico even more. we will stay on the efforts to bring those people back. thank you very much, sir.

>> have a great day. >> alisyn. president trump's threats to north korea are stoking anxiety around the world. one reporter just returned from north korea and tells us what they think there, next. what's g your website with godaddy. get your domain today and get a free trial of gocentral. build a better website in under an hour. ♪ ca♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ well i'm gone ♪ can i kick it? ♪ to all the people who can quest like a tribe does... ♪

world leaders are trying to make sense of president trump's tweets. the washington post reports there's many foreign diplomats on edge. and our reporter just returned from north korea and, boy, does he have a story to tell. this is your third trip to north korea. what was different this time? >> there was much more military mobilization, and everywhere you go there are billboards showing north korea missiles striking the u.s. capitol. students are parading every day with these military marches. there's an element of menace in the air, frankly. i think what struck us the most -- i was with three colleagues. we were hosted by the foreign

ministry, and we were housed in a foreign ministry compound with rice paddies outside the city. we eventually realized this was to protect us from other elements inside north korea. the security courses or military who might not be onboard with having an american journalist in town. >> you were sensing more aggression from the people? >> yes. look, north korea is no more phau phaupb livic than -- hard liners are ascending in both capitals, which is scary. >> the feeling is of terror or optimism because they think

north korea would squash the u.s.? >> reporting in north korea you don't really know what people are thinking. they are reading from a script. you know that script. having said that, the script is they are not afraid of a war, and a war may well be happening, and they will win. it is kind of astonishing to hear officials and ordinary people speak about how they will not only survive a nuclear war, but they will beat the u.s. it's striking that north korea actually promotes -- publicizes some of the things trump says, and in particular his u.n. speech, talking about destroying north korea, and they are using those comments, and that fits into the north korean narrative

that kim jong-un is using nuclear weapons for defensive purposes to hold off the american imperialist that would attack north korea. >> are they also aware of secretary of state tillerson and him saying that he is trying to work diplomatically and establish back channel communications? >> ordinary people are not -- government officials are, but they are also acutely aware of american politics, and they were asking us if tillerson will arrive the end of the year, and whether nikki haley will replace him. >> first, here's what secretary of defense mattis said about the options in north korea. let me play this for you from yesterday. >> there's one thing the u.s. army can do, and that is you have got to be ready to ensure we have military options that our president can employ if needed. we currently are in a

diplomatically-led effort. >> having just returned from there, what do you think about the rhetoric coming out of the white house? >> i think president trump is trying to intimidate -- >> but are comments like that helpful? >> no, they are unhelpful, both because they fit into the north korean narrative, and also because -- we are already on a hair trigger and they put us on more of a hair trigger and there's a risk of an accident, north korea accepts a b-1 bomber, and a plane gets shot down and we respond. we have looked at military options since 1969 when north korea shot down a u.s. military plane with all aboard lost, and there are no useful military options. 2 million people dying in north

korea. >> what are those? >> this shows a fist hitting the u.s. capitol or -- sorry, u.s. missiles. it says u.s. can take a hard line but north korea will take a harder line. it says if the u.s. brings a conto the fight we will be a cannon to the fight. >> people don't see it as apock tau apock tau lippic as they

should. ? >> there's a tradition of dictators being misled by their own propaganda. the one thing they have in common is that intuitively they escalate confrontations. when both sides have nuclear weapons that's extraordinarily unhelpful. >> what do you think the situation is? >> i think there should be talks without preconditions. i think it's conceivable there could be a deal that would involve essentially what is a freeze for a freeze. north korea would freeze its nuclear testing and missile testing and in exchange there would be some reduction in u.s. military exercises and perhaps in sanctions, and then push things off and hope for a regime change down the road.

i am afraid these days there's no appetite in washington or pyongyang for that type of deal. >> thank you so much for sharing everything you saw on the ground with us. >> good to be with you, alisyn. >> chris? we have palace intrigue for you. a trump family feud. melania trump, or her spokesperson, firing back at avaughna trump, that's the president's first wife after she called herself the first lady. melania's comeback, next.

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time for the five things to know for your "new day." number one, the feud between president trump and senator corker escalating. a white house staff member saying the president is not done with corker. at least eleven people are dead as wildfires burn out of control in california.

president trump will likely discuss north korea when he has lunch today with secretary of state tillerson and mattis. and mattis warns the military, quote, must stand ready. investigators say the las vegas killer shot a hotel security guard six minutes before he turned the guns the crowd. a texas tech student is in custody after fatally shooting a police officer. officials say the 19-year-old suspect shot the officer in the head after police allegedly found drugs in his room. for more on the five things to know, go to cnn.com/five things. and then what has the first lady fired up? find out next. your next getaway?

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first lady, melania trump firing back at president's trump first wife, ivana. in fighting among the herum. the book "snl" predicted back when the couple split. >> you just wait until i write my book. >> now it's written and the book tour has begun. ivana talks to her husband two weeks, and i don't want to cause jealousy because i am basically the first trump. i am the first lady, okay.

>> with that little joke about i vaughna being first lady, she erupted. melania plans to help her title and role to help children and not sell books. there's clearly no substance on the noise from the ex. melania certainly seemed to be reacting, and elect the reality tv star and get the story. >> he and ivana have a pre-nup agreement. >> then it's a deal? >> if only the two wives could

share a pizza, and exchange notes on whom the man they both said, i do. >> if you are good to him, he's incredible to you. >> let's discuss with emily james -- >> chris is almost speechless. >> one question that will seem a little off topic but it isn't. the white house put out this statement, we don't know that melania had anything to do with it. with what we lived through, and she wants to use her title to help kids and not sell books. do we know melania divested from

all her private businesses or is her brand still on sale? >> i know there's a skin line that don't exist anymore. her website that existed was totally scrubbed after the convention. i am not sure anything melania trump is selling with her name on it. as you know, her husband has not divested of his interests. >> kate, you study first women and you have a book called "first women." what did you think in the past 24 hours when all of this started bubbling? >> i think melania is actually really involved with the statement. i think she wanted this out there. i know that, like her husband, she reads a lot and watches a lot of tv, and this is something she wanted out there. i don't know if her press aides wanted it out there. like trump's twitter, we are seeing an open book in the white house. usually statements from the white house are really bland,

and in this case she's coming out with really sharp jabs. no first lady in history has ever been so open about resentment. ronald reagan was divorced -- >> how did jane act? >> she was respectful, and she was a star on "falcon crest" at the time. and that they had a sort of frosty relationship but it was behind the scenes. that's the way it is usually done. this is a blended family and an opportunity for them to really showcase how you can make divorce work for your kids. i think it's a missed opportunity, really. >> it's interesting that if not for the response the suggestion by ivana that i don't want to cause any jealousy in the white house because melania is there, so i don't want to call, that would have been a laugh line, but then they pb spresponded as

there was some jealousy. >> it did come off as a joke in the interview, and she was laughing when she said it. i think there are no two people as similar as ivana trump, and president trump. it's about their brand, and look we are talking about her book on television. >> and andy cohen sees a golden opportunity here. listen to this. >> open invitation to the first lady to the honorary first lady, ivana trump, and i would like to get marla maples in there, and i think it would be great to have ivanka trump as well, and just

put me in the game. i can make this okay. >> i think that would really help civilization. >> yeah, we need that. >> okay, he says. that really says just about it all. is there a protocol here that should have been followed? the only news value in this is once again we see a white house that has a hair trigger in terms of what it decides to go after, even when it's the mother of his three older children. she still gets attacked. >> it's amazing how awkward this must be now, because ivanka is a senior white house aide and you have to see that melania sees her a lot and there has to be a relationship there and they have gone out of their way to say they have a good relationship, and thousanow it opens the doorw is this stepmother and stepdaughter relationship. i think people will be clamoring

to get i vaughna's book. >> it worked for ivana. thank you very much. that's it for us. cnn "newsroom" with poppy harlow will pick up after this quick break. we have new information about the vegas shooter's timeline. stay with cnn. oh, that's really attached. that's why i rent from national. where i get the control to choose any car in the aisle i want, not some car they choose for me. which makes me one smooth operator. ah! still a little tender. (vo) go national. go like a pro.

begin with important breaking news. deadly wildfires sweeping parts of california. 11 people have died and officials fear that number will rise. more than 100 people across california reported missing according to a sonoma county official. 17 active wildfires burning right now, and hundreds of homes have been destroyed. it's one of the worst fire storms in the state's history. let's go to miguel marcus in santa rosa. a neighborhood is unrecognizable. you are wearing a protective mask and we are seeing flames behind you. what can you tell us? >> reporter: winds changed directions and the smoke is blowing back on us.