2016 did not end with facebook and twitter, it extend youtube and even pokemon go. one russian-linked campaign used those exploits. they posed as part of black lives matter. the accounts are currently suspended, but the youtube channel and website are still active. that will do it for "early start." n "new day" starts right now. have i just keep hearing repeal, replace, repeal, replace. well, we're starting that process. >> this is not a repeal or a replacement. this is undermining of obamac e obamacare. >> it is common sense. it will help to provide lower costsis and more competition for

people. >> it frankly max a situation that needs to be fixed much worse. >> it is is one of the most in competently drawn deals i have seen. >> who will trust america? >> if the president chooses to not certify, it will start a process of isolating us from our allies. >> as flawed as the deal is, i believe we must now enforce the hell out of it. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alyson camerota. >> we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is friday, october 13th, 2017. 6:00 in new york. president trump said he will immediately stop paying billions of dollars in subsidies that help lower income americans pay for health care. . late night announcement comes hours after the president signed an executive order allowing

alternative health plans. >> it is another consequential decision from the white house. in just hours, president trump will announce that he will not certify iran as implying with the nuclear deal. but the president will fall short of pulling out of the agreement altogether. we will tell you what is the apparent trump strategy for iran and what he is asking congress to do. north korea once again threatening the u.s. territory of guam, vowing its hand is closer to the trigger. this as the u.s. and south korea announced more joint exercises in the region. we have it all covered. let's begin with joe johns live at the white house >> reporter: good morning, chris. the president up bright and early this morning tweeting. i'll just read it to you. it says the democrats obamacare is imploding. massive subseu diddy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped.

dems should call me to fix. the last 24 hours, the moves the president have is made have gone a long way of putting his imprint on government-sponsored health insurance. and he did it without an act of congress. president trump upending the health care market, scrapping critical subsidy payments to insurers that help nearly 6 million lower income americans pay for health care. the payments, which will cost the federal government about $7 billion this year, set to end immediately. without the subsidiesubsidies, exchange premiums will rise 20% next year and increase the national deficit by $194 billion over 10 years. the move could force many insurers to flee the marketplace entirely. >> we pay hundreds of millions dollars a month in subsidies that the courts don't even want

us to pay. when the payments stop, it stops immediately. >> reporter: he has threatened to end the subsidies for months. the white house detkhraeuriclai the government cannot lawfully make the cost-sharing payments. insisting president trump will pay a price for this decision. house speaker paul ryan applauding the move, while republican congresswoman ileana ross late then cutting health care subsidies does the opposite. it allows people to buy cheaper, more basic plans, something that experts say will drive up the

premiums for sicker patients. >> this will cost the united states government virtually nothing and people will have great, great health care. >> reporter: president trump legislating through executive order despite repeatedly attacking his predecessor for doing the same. >> you have a president that signs executive orders because he cannot get anything done. >> he signs executive orders because he can't get long with the democrats. >> that deal is an embarrassment to the united states. >> reporter: president trump set to announce he will decertify iran's compliance with the nuclear agreement, a move that kicks the issue to congress but stops short of withdrawing from the agreement entirely. lawmakers would have 60 days to decide whether to rein state economic sanctions lifted under the agreement. the trump administration is not expected to push essentially for sanctions to be reimposed because that would, in all

likelihood, cause iran to walk away from the deal. instead, the president is expected to ask congress for parameters that could trigger in the event iran moved in a direction the united states does not want. the president is expected to seek a new plan on his ballistic missile he approach to iran. that likely to be laid out today at the white house. chris and alyson, back to you. >> joe, thank you very muchment what's happening with the iran deal very important. we will start with health care. the executive order is an act of political hypocrisy. that's nothing new in washington, d.c. christine romans here to break down the cost for us. the suggestion by the president that everyone will get great health care because of this, nothing gets lost, that's just not true. >> ending key subsidies will

cost millions of americans health coverage. who are we talking about here? nearly 6 million low income americans, earning less than $30,000 a year. families, less than $61,000. doesn't effect premiums but makes a huge difference for thyssen rollees. take a traditional silver plan. it lowers the average deductible to $255. without the subsidies, it is $3,600. that's why americans could see huge increases next year. the president threatened to stop payments for months. that cost many insurers to hike rates for next year, most by 20%. some have dropped out entirely. insurers that didn't price in the loss of these subsidies can

raise rates or sue. less than three weeks, three weeks before open enrollment. alyson. >> thank you very much. >> also wants to shorten the enrollment period. why would you do that? why give people less time to sign up? >> let's discuss all of this with our political panel, david drucker, a.b.stoddar and chris solizza. >> he's not going to paint it that way. the argument that they are making. and it has stood up in court. these payments are illegal. the court ruled so. the congress -- when president obama created these payments, they were not prone rated by congress who has the power of the purse. they were created by the

executive branch. a court case brought by congressional republicans put these things in peril. they have threatened to stop them saying they are up constitutional and illegal. this is going to be an argument as you can see in the president's tweet about bailing out insurance companies. but it is very clear that doing this will absolutely hasten the demise of the marketplace. the insurance places are already leaving. and if they cannot continue to cover pools that are older now and sick isser because young people can now do association health plans offered by the executive order that the president signed yesterday, you're just going to have skyrocketing prices that the insurance companies don't want to cover and patients can no longer pay. so it is definitely going to hasten whatever slow motion implosion is happening to the

law. and i think it is going to be politically very consequential for the republicans. >> let's uncrack that a little bit, david. the president sends the tweet saying obamacare is imploding. the reasons is because of what he is trying to do is and what has been done already. you get rid of the cost-sharing revenue, those subsidies will have to change the cost structure. he is trying to shorten the enroll werement. only one reason to do that. you're going to choke off the ability for people to sign off. he's cut and allowed his agencies to cut all kinds of money from advertising the plan and boosting the plan. so what is the political bargain? what is the political risk that he can get a deal done without paying the price for imploding this law that provides health care to so many people. >> the risk that the idea that democrats are still going to get

blamed for the problem for the health care system now that nine months in republicans are in full control of the government. this appears to be a play to exact leverage over democrats to force them to the table to work with him on health care. because if you squeeze voters and they're unhappy, lawmakers often move. what is interest about these cost-sharing deductions, they go to help reduce the cost for plans that so many voters that live in republican districts use. these hit battleground republican house districts and members of congress, republicans who help these districts, one example which i have reported on earlier this year is why republicans have talked to me about how concerned they are about the political fallout of this. hillary clinton won in florida

by 17 points. there are other battle grouped republicans in 2018 that are vulnerable that could get caught up in this. if the president doesn't figure out a way to work with his party to get to a point where they repeal and replace obamacare with something that people like, this squeezing of the insurance market and reducing of options and costs and the fact that things get less affordable unless they come around with a replacement is going to cause a world of mitt cal hurt. >> this is what's so interesting, chris, is that it may hurt some of the voters in the end. but he did run on this. and this is what he promised. this is what voters, so many of them, responded to. so it is this paradox. >> absolutely. he -- look, the guidestar for what most of what donald trump did is what did barack obama do and can we undo what barack obama did. this is the signature thing barack obama did. it literally has his name in it.

and i think that's what is motivating him. this is a promise made by the republican party and by him. he believes he said this, he tweeted this, that republicans in congress have failed to do it. this is miss way of speeding the process along, giving it a little bump. and under the belief that if you do these things, obamacare will fail and congress will be forced to act. so, you know, he's trying to force their hand while also making good on what he believes to be the fundamental campaign pledge that got him elected. >> a.b., where are the republicans in congress on this? because, you know, just to educate people to a fact, the private market moves a lot faster than the public market. so when you cut the subsidies, even though they're in for 2018,

they already signed up deals, they are going to change the cost structure is for people like us who get it from their employer which a lot of people do. the public side does not adjust that quickly. where were republicans's had heads in terms of the months, maybe over a year that they will be hearing from people, i got my care dropped, my premium just spiked. i'm not getting the money anymore. i can't afford this health care. are me thinking about this right now, or is their head just like the president's, short-term political gain. >> the congress agrees with the white house's decision and that he made no indication that they are moving to prone rate any money for cost-sharing reductions. that's why david's piece on this was so interesting. he goes through members who really matter, districts where hillary won, where these people

will be hurting because they are dependent on the csrs. the problem-solvers caucus in the house made of top republicans. they came up with a five-point plan. it is the were premise for the basis of the senate discussions under way between senator alexander and senator murray. it failed. now through the announcements about the administration to try to make sure congress will prone rate those cost-sharing reductions and do other things to help small businesses stabilize the marketplaces. obviously the administration's actions are making this much harder. i don't think they're going to give up. they are facing headwinds in terms of whether their leadership wants to bring anything if they can get enough critical mass to the floor and to the president's desk. as chris and everyone has been saying is shame the democrats to the table and it's a real gamble whether or not that will work. >> i think we have to note this

is not what he ran on, fixing health care. >> making it better, he said, and more affordable. and he is doing the opposite right now. >> and i think we can understand his frustration and his desire to try to squeeze congress and get them to act. when you although at what he did even with his executive order, we don't know what the rules are going to look like. they could be challenged in court and thrown out. we don't know how many people they will impact if they're not challenged in court because of the executive nature of what he did and the fact that it could run afoul of congressional authority. and so i think what the president has to sort of figure out here if he wants to get this done is how to get his party together around a plan that will actually fix the problems of obamacare that exist and the new problems existing because of the changes he is making from the white house to the law as it is is. >> just very, very quickly, in terms of executive orders, he hated them, as you will remember when president obama used them.

he has now doubled president obama's executive orders in the same time they were in office. >> you think hypocrisy matters any more? >> in. >> the way he conducts himself, the way he does business. >> no. i think hypocrisy in politics is a gigantic problem in politics. that is not limited to donald trump, by the way. >> right. >> no, i don't, chris. people get their news from sources that tend to agree with them. you can say he's making good on a campaign promise. he's only doing it white house the republicans and the democrats in congress can't do anything. you can always find ways to justify it. unfortunately people are looking for ways to justify it to fit their politics. >> panel, thank you very much. so, in just hours, president trump is going to do another major move. he's expected to decertify the iran nuclear deal. could that decision backfire and

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okay. so in just hours, president trump will decertify iran's compliance with the obama era nuclear agreement, but he will not pull out of the historic

multination deal. so what is the president's new strategy on iran? let's bring back chris solizza and bring in aaron david millar. it is so great to have you and your brain with us this morning. >> you too, solizza. good to have you too. that's the point. >> yeah, yeah, thanks. >> aaron, what is the strategy? what is president trump trying to achieve here? >> i think that was a way to split the difference between a president driven by his own personal version of having to certify his own politics, that this is the worst deal in human history and to satisfy his base on one hand with i guess you could argue the adults, tillerson and mattis, who were looking for a way to ensure that the president at least now would not walk away. so they came with this very clever strategy on not

certifying, which is essentially will kick the matter to congress. presumably congress will not impose sapblnctions at least immediately that will be related to the deal and ensure that the iranians will pull out. again, i work for republicans and democrats. i voted for democrats. this is not a partisan comment. it reads kind of like a term paper with a quote up top that says we must confront iran's efforts to sow death and destruction in the region. if you read that paper, what strikes me is that the paragraph of a four-page document is the only language that addresses the nuclear agreement. the rest talks about the evil supreme leader, iran's aggressive behavior in the region and seems to suggest that the administration in the four-page document will focus rolling back iran's influence in the region.

so it is kind of a strange deal. but my bottom line on this is mick jagger. obama got what he needed from this agreement, iran got what they wanted. and trump is determined to reverse that, the worst negotiated deal in history. >> chris, the politics at play here. one hollow line, which this is a terrible deal. that's what you hear. iran is a bad place. it's a terrible deal. the worst deal i have ever seen. now, it is is the only deal of its kind the president would have ever seen. he has never been involved in any kind of negotiation with anything like this ever in his life. so that's the plus argument. are people in congress on the republican side worried about going against their allies and letting loose iran to do whatever it were wants if this deal falls apart? that's the negative side of this move.

are they aware of it? >> i think they don't -- they got two things handed to them in the last 24 hours. one is do something about health care. make it work. the other is figure out something to do about iran. you know, there's some level of buck passing by donald trump. as aaron points out, he is trying to thread a very fine needle here. they believe this is about donald trump's personal politic. aaron noted it. donald trump doesn't have any iran policy. he didn't run on an iran policy. barack obama did a bad deal. we're going to do a better deal. it is like the paris climate accord. we're pulling out. we are going to hold the option open. we, the u.s., will renegotiate the whole deal in a way that is better for us. is it possible? sure. it is also possible the nats could ever win a playoff series. >> oh, boy. >> now you've gone too far.

>> oh, my from adm. this is in some ways like health care. what drives donald trump's reason to do this? part of it is base politics. it is about what did obama do? how can we undo that? it is not like donald trump has a detailed ways in which to deal with iran in mind. he doesn't. he just doesn't like this deal because it's the worst deal ever is and therefore we have to do something to renegotiate it. now whether that's possible or not, through congress or any other means, i'm quite skeptical about. >> so, davi now what does congr? >> they have 60 days to figure out how to continue to thread the needle. i'm not sure it's enough support basically in congress right now

it is quite paradoxical given the fact that this agreement was such a contentious issue in 2015. you have enough ds and rs that understand they don't want responsibility for overturning a nuclear agreement. no matter how flawed and imperfect, and it is flawed and imperfect. if in fact, what is driving donald trump is his personal aversion of anything but obama and his kphefbg politics and not sound policy, i'm not sure congress wants the responsibility for undermining an agreement that is however flawed is functional. one additional point. again, this is not my area. but the administration seems to be able to come up with adept solutions. it was the case for the paris

climate, the travel ban, some of the immigration issues. the fact is this agreement, however flawed, is keeping the iranians and buying time away from developing enough fissile material to make a bomb. and with north korean problem wide open, why? why would you want to open up another one? >> let's go one step deep other that, aaron. what are your concerns here? with your history and experience, what is your concern about what will happen if we continue down this road? >> we don't have an answer long term. 5, 10, 15, 20 years. 10, 15, 20, 25 years when this agreement is supposed to go into the sunset. we don't have an answer for when constraints are removed and iran has enough to weaponize should they want to weaponize. this was an effort to buy time

to preempt anis raily strike and make an american strike unnecessary. i would argue those same objectives are still sound. my concern is that once you start toying with the agreement. and congress could end up doing things, working with the administration, that will produce counter reaction on the part of the iranians. you get another reaction from washington. sooner rather than later, the cycle of dysfunction begins. i think that's one concern. and, second, that we really understand that you want to go to war with iran or its proxies in the region, you better be prepared to invest the kinds of resources, military, economic, and political resources because that is a battle frankly see afghanistan and iraq, that we are not going to be able to win.

they are squaring a circle that cannot be squared. we don't want to inflict another unnecessary and pointless wound. >> there you go. on that note, aaron david millar, chris, thank you very much. to the wildfires in california burning as robustly as ever, the death toll climbing. more than 30 people have lost their lives. there are hundreds missing. now, be clear, that is not an sump sun those people have been killed as well, we just don't know where they are because of the nature of this fast-moving fires. we are on the front lines next. ♪ stare with me into the abyss ( ♪ )

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history. cnn's ryan young live in sonoma with more. i see you've got the mask on here. we hear how thick and acrid the smoke is there. what are you being told? >> reporter: it is definitely far from over. as our crews walked outside today, we could feel a difference. we have seen firefighters battling this fire. as we watched the smoke roll down the hillside here you really get a chance to feel it. if you look at the edge of our light, it looks like snow here. that's the ash coming down from the mountaintop somewhere nearby us. the human cost here, 31 people have lost their lives. they think more people may be dead pause there's 400 people missing. we will show you this video from above. you can see the effects from the fire in some of these neighborhoods. the good news is people now know

about this fire. when they tell you to evacuate, people are not hesitating. this was catching people by surprise. this is no longer catching people by surprise because of the devastation, the impact of it is so widespread. even trying to buy a mask like this, you can't do it in the city because everyone is prepared. it will be interesting to see what happens today as the firefighters continue to battle these fires. >> we know you obviously have been trying to get the word out. let's hope the numbers go down. you can update us. we'll be back with you, ryan. will firefighters get any relief from the wind today? allison has the forecast. >> winds are not as bad, but you have to keep in mind it doesn't take much to spread the fires. close to los angeles, we have a critical threat today.

brought to you by humana, start with healthy. with the winds, it is air quality that can be affected. that's why so many people wear the masks. the red flag warnings you see here in pink, north to northeast winds, 30 to 35-mile-per-hour gusts. sustained winds 15 to 20 miles per hour. while it may not be as high as it was over the weekend, these types of winds as we go through the day, especially the evening hours and tonight, that's when the wind gusts will peak overnight. the eastern half of the country, quite a different story. cool weather is going to be pushing back in for areas in the midwest, chicago, st. louis, oklahoma city. it will arrive next monday. >> just to remind people, the reason we focus on winds when it comes to fire, it just temperature he bow charges them.

i have watched fire go from one hillside up over a road and into a separate community. it literally rides the wind. thank you for the update. we'll check back with you. another big headline, white house chief of staff john kelly making a rare appearance in front of the cameras with an ominous warning about north korea. why he says you must be worried next.

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that state simply cannot have the ability to reach the homeland. right now we think the threat is manageable. but of time if it grows beyond where it is today -- well, let's hope diplomacy works. >> all right. let's bring back a.b. stoddard and david drucker. let's just talk about seeing john kelly in the press briefing room which was notable. is he being fired, is he not, how much tension is there with the president. so he said, a.b., that he is not quitting. he is not being fired. in fact, let me play that for you when he was asked how he responded. listen to this. >> i will just offer to you, although i read it all the time pretty keufconsistently, i'm no quitting today. and i don't think i'm being fired today. and i'm not so frustrated in this job that i'm thinking of

leaving. unless things change, i'm not quitting, i'm not getting fired, and i don't think they will fire anyone tomorrow. >> he is sit anything front of a podium, just like rex tillerson was directed to to clear something up that bothers the president. >> he tried to shut it down. a.b., how effective? >> i think it was so effective the chief of staff upstates the president. and i wonder that the cost-sharing announcement that came out is to change the subject. he set out to do damage control. he is not so frustrated he is going to quit.

he made clear that he should not be judged on what people expect his aim, his goal of his job to be. >> of managing the president. >> that he cannot stop him from tweeting. and he can't manage the president. he's trying to control the flow of information. so i think it was reassuring to people. i think that, you know, he was, as i said, very measured but resolu resolute. comforted. he has a commanding presence. he said all the right things to just deflect from this really heated narrative of the week that the president is leading to things that could prompt world war iii, that people think he is a moron and he can't get through discussions and on and on. so it basically fulfilled the goal. he suppressed frustration which helps in defense of the president's frustration with the

press. he upstaged him. >> that last part that kind of raised my eyebrow, david drucker. if he wants to come out because the president told him to or whatever, that's fine. if he wants to put out the north korea stuff, which is certainly a grabby headline and will distract from intrigue, well played by them. but for him to say i encourage you to get better sources, do you buy that? do you question your sources? a.b., do you question yours and all the different outlets? we are all hearing the exact information to the closest quarters of this president? do you believe you're just off? >> well, look, chris, i think presidents -- all presidents, not just president trump but the politicians i deal with as part of my job, they complain about the conclusions i draw based on reporting from sources. people providing us with information to help us draw a conclusion about what is happening behind closed doors. when you're reporting on the white house, the only way you're

going to do this is to talk to anonymous sources who are close to information. often the sources willing to go on the record, as much as that can help the credibility of your story, often know less about what is going on. because if they talk on the record, people won't let them stay in the room as things are being discussed. they talked about the complaints the white house has with our stories was a respectful way and very normal way for politicians to complain. he didn't accuse us of making things up. didn't call it fake. he said i don't think you're talking to the right people. even if that was a little high grade spin, i thought it was perfectly within the bounds of complaints that politicians will always level against very accurate reporting and sometimes reporting that they may not be in agreement with based on the discussions they are having. >> we have a lot of news to get to. thank you very much for being with us. all right. so the president has other things to worry about.

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there's growing backlash over what president trump tweeted about puerto rico most recently. particularly his comment that fema, the military and first responders can't stay and help forever. of course that's true. you can never have temporary help forever. but why would you mention that in the midst of crisis? there is no abating. it is is not better there. some say he did this in response to the san juan mayor coming out and being critical about the government's efforts again. but would he really do that just for this political back and forth? our next guest just returned from puerto rico. new york city council speaker melissa mark. good to have you here. let's deal with the fact that should be most obvious but keeps

getting clouded over. did you come back from puerto rico saying, boy, that's a success story? >> definitely not. it it is level of disinterest to deal with this in a focused way. we have personnel on the ground. they're working hard. but we don't have the level of resources when i look at it at face value in the research and looking at the details. but what irma received, what florida received after irma, what texas received after harvey, the level of focus and attention, fema resources. >> the administration and supporters will say, no, no, no. we are doing more there. we are doing amazing things on the ground there. we have gotten so many meals, so much help to so many people. your not giving us credit for that. shame on you. >> it's not true. there are obviously a lot of reporters on the ground. but there are veterans who are in the middle of the mountains,

they are reporting what they are seeing. they are not seeing fema representation in the more remote areas. we have seen the reporting of the health care crisis. the hospitals are running on generators. and you cannot run a hospital 100% on citizen rarities. people that need dialysis treatments, cancer patients that need treatment are not getting the treatment they deserve or merit. we have medical evacuees, climate refugees, people leaving the island. it is a fragile infrastructure. we have 80% of people without power. more than 50% without clean water. people have died of infections because of drinking polluted water. we have to make sure this administration is focused.

what he said in his tweets yesterday was sadistic. >> what do you make of this counter narrative, whether agent like geraldo who confronts the san juan mayor and said where are people dying, i'm i'll go there now. i'm here to help.

we have to get people back on their feet, focusing on the electrical grid is important and making sure we have the experience to be able to do that. talk about the jones act, debt relief. most of the aid yesterday are loans to the island of puerto rico which is which economic crisis. there's a lot to do. congress needs to step up to the plate. the congress has a responsibility here too. and some of the talk i have been hearing needs a history lesson in the relationship between puerto rico and the united states. >> there is a package headed to the senate. that's the first wave. texas, florida, puerto rico, u.s. virgin islands. you will have multiple waves of need. >> yes. >> appreciate it, as always. the president making a major change to health care affecting millions of lower income americans. what does it mean for you? we have facts forward.

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this is an intentional effort just to undermine and sabotage obamacare. >> a few people benefit, but a lot of people get hurt. >> we're creating something that is freedom. >> the cost-sharing reduction payments around being made. that's the fault of the current administration. >> this squeezing of the insurance market is going to cause them a world of political hurt. >> the president has -- is deep in thought about iran. >> this is the worst deal. we've got nothing. >> i have to question whether the president has read the agreement or understands what's in it. >> he said first responders and members of the military will not stay there forever. >> every day is a survival mode for most people. >> this isn't politics. this is about saving lives. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alyson camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day". we have a lot of breaking news that came downover