for those families. if anybody near them can reach out to them and show them love and thank them for their service and thank them for their sacrifice, and for loving my brother and fighting with him. >> those are beautiful words and i am sure they will matter to those families and everybody listening to them right now. again, will, the best to you. >> thank you. we are following a lot of news this morning. let's get after it. >> a relationship with this gentleman is outstanding. >> we cut your oxygen off, mitch. it's a season of war against a gop establishment. >> i can understand fully how bannon feels. >> and donald trump is playing mitch mcconnell and bannon against each other perfectly. >> it's unpatriotic. >> if you look at other

presidents, most of them didn't make calls. >> why does he make stuff up all the time? >> this is about expressing condolences for the fallen heroes. >> our president doesn't have a commitment to the puerto rican people. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. it's 8:00 in the east. up first, trump facing backlash after saying president obama did not call the families of those soldie soldiers killed. aides to obama are lashing out. >> they are coming after president trump for suggesting president obama did not take time to call families of the

fallen and he mentioned other presidents, as well. john mccain got an award and took a big swipe at president trump without saying his name. calling out america's retreat on the world's stage as unpatriotic. let's begin with joe johns at the white house. >> reporter: chris, they are running out of time to get a big victory on capitol hill and the president is trying to compete with factions in the republican party, trying to clear the air with mitch mcconnell and trying to keep the peace with his stormer chief strategist, steve bannon. >> we're probably now, i think, as least as far as i am concerned, closer than ever before. we are fighting for the same thing. >> donald trump trying to put up a united front with majority

leader, mitch mcconnell. >> i will not blame myself. i will be honest, they are not getting the job done. >> and the anti-establishment wing of the party spearheaded by his former chief strategist, steve bannon. >> this is not my war. this is our war. >> mitch, the donors are not happy. they all left you. we cut your oxygen off, mitch. >> mr. trump backing bannon's anti-establishment comments. >> i can understand fully how steve bannon feels. >> before vowing to pressure bannon to back down. >> steve is doing what steve thinks is the right thing, and some of the things i will try to talk him out of, because they

are great people. >> and then making a national plea against the champion by bannon. >> to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and the duty to remain the best last hope of earth, for the skaeubg of some half baked nationalism cooked up by people that would rather find scape goats than solve problems is an unpatriotic -- >> mr. trump also breaking his silence about the deaths of four servicemen in niger nearly two weeks ago. >> i have written them personal letters. they have been sent or going out tpoepbt >> the president making a false claim about his predecessors.

>> if you look at president obama or other presidents, most of them did not make calls. >> and a response showing president obama comforting a gold star family. aides remember specific times obama consoled the families of fallen soldiers. mr. trump also boasting about his administration's response to hurricane-ravaged puerto rico again, placing blame on local officials. >> it was in really bad shape before. i will say this -- >> people don't have drinking water. >> we have delivered tremendous amounts of water, and what you have to do is have distribution of the water by people on the island. >> his approve rating has dropped 20 points since september as a ma your tjority island remains in the dark one

month after the storm. for a second day in a row today the president is expected to take questions from reporters this time as a news conference with the prime minister of greece, and then this evening he is expected to give a speech to the highly conservative heritage foundation, and this audience will be very interested in hearing about the president's plans on tax cuts and other subjects. back to you. >> thank you. there's a new cnn poll out this morning, and it finds president trump's approval steady, and however more people say the president is leading the country in the wrong direction. dav david chalian, give us the information. >> we have seen him between 37 and 47% in the last four months,

but how does he stack up historically with his predecessors, and maybe not on this chart, he's down at the bottom, 37% for october, and the next predecessor was bill clinton at 47%. you can see trump is well below that. we asked americans, do they think things are going well in the country today? 46% of americans say they are. it has fallen below the majority mark, and it's back to where it was in february in those first chaotic weeks in the immediate aftermath of trump's inauguration. of course what has been front and center this week is trump's relationship with the republicans in congress. overall, when we ask americans at large, only one-third approve of how he handles his relationship with the gop congressional leaders, and 54% disapprove. when we ask republicans how they

feel about this, 68% of republicans approve of president trump's handling of his relationships with republicans in congress, and only 22% of republicans disaprf. we see a similar trend when we ask who do you trust to handle the major issues, and 30% say trump versus saying 47% trust paul ryan and mitch mcconnell to handle the issues. among republicans, president trump is crushing his congressional competition. 63% of republicans trust trump to handle the major issues, versus 29% of republicans who trust their own leaders in congress. it's this advantage that donald trump knows he's pressing day in and day out with mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. >> it explains this from mcconnell and ryan when it comes to stepping up and countering what he says through the magic

of tv. let's bring in reporter and editor at large for cnn politics, chris cillizza. let's give a little attention to why the president did what he did yesterday. he had to know or should have known that presidents call the families of the fallen, but he did it anyway. why do you think? >> because he has a compulsion to be the best, the first, the only in every situation. whether he knew or not is sort of beside the point. i feel like we have that debate all the time. did he know what he was doing? the outcome is still the same. you are raising questions about past presidents. we focused on president obama, but bush as well, did do things to acknowledge the fallen. remember, it's the most

exclusive club in the world. you see tremendous camaraderie with the past living presidents with the exception, right now at least, with donald trump. >> i am still issuing with this issue, and put aside the false claim that his predecessors did not make these phone calls. why the delayed response? why did it take two weeks and even after the tragedy of the "uss john s. mccain" crash? >> there's a chief of stap that may be saying that, but we know donald trump operates on his own in many ways. what i find so confounding is why is this a moment to compare yourself to your predecessors. why is this a moment to be concerned if somebody is asking what you perceive to be a

critical question. we have four american service members who died, and this is the commander-in-chief, and there should be nothing here but a moment of the discussion people of what happened, and expressing on behalf of all of the american people the sympathies that need to be expressed to the families and loved ones, and i don't know why he thinks that's a moment to compare himself to his predecessors. >> we just had will wright on, the brother of one of the green berets that were laid to rest, and he said they could not have handled the phone call. that's a different consideration. i have a full page from president donald trump about

benghazi, you can't hide and delay. what about now? that's the answer to your question, david, why talk about that when i can do what my base loves and bad mouth obama and make it about me being attacked. spaourious. illegitimate. not what it appears to be on its face. >> i was going to say to david's point, he only compares himself. he finds definition by comparing himself to others. that's how he views everything. everything is a competition. whose build something bigger. whose show gets better ratings. who got more votes in pennsylvania. who got more electoral votes. you can go through it all. but to david's point, i am less concerned about the timing, necessarily, of the call than recognizing it, sort of saying to the public, we lost these people, and here's why i thought it was important to do this, and

then the thing he did yesterday, i think, is something that you really can't explain other than through the lens of donald trump being donald trump, which is everything is seen through the lens of how do i compare to everybody else who ever held this job to everybody else in the world and how can i figure out how i did it best, first, or highest in some way shape or form. >> i rarely heard obama era officials using as strongly-worded tweets as last night. >> eric holder tweeted out stop lying, and i saw obama comfort the fallen families. >> the top aide said that's an fing lie. he's a deranged animal. i mean, they felt as strongly

and as angry as possible about his words in the rose garden yesterday. >> it's factually untrue, and so you could understand the anger from some former obama officials who want to get the record straight and make sure that, you know, their former boss is not bou maligned with the untruth with the sitting president in the rose garden. >> yeah, it muddies the water and brings up what people don't like. the president has a unique talent for identifying that. that leads us to what senator mccain did last night. he got a big award and he used it as an opportunity to call out something he sees as spaourious. >> the fear of the world we organized and led the three quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we advanced around the globe, and our duty

to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked spurious national almost, cooked up by people who would rather find -- >> i am sure that is now one of those words that is looking up. but they should. it's probably the perfect word from his perspective. but we are not hearing what he says echoed by many of the leaders of the gop or in congress in general. is that potentially linked to that one panel you just showed us of how much more people trust the president than members of his own party's leadership? >> yes. this is president trump's republican party that is ascended right now, prevailing. not mccain's republican party. that is not to say mccain does not represent a point of view that is prevalent inside the republican party, but it's not the prevailing energized

dominant strand of politics inside the republican party, and this is precisely the divide we have been seeing. this is, you know, the bannon versus mcconnell, if you will, divide that plays out day in and day out in washington right now. john mccain, corker, others, clearly trying to -- with their words and positions trying to steer back something they think is off course, but that's not where the energy and fuel inside the republican party is right now. >> by the way, not an accident, john mccain battling brain cancer and corker retiring and jeff flake in deep trouble against a conservative challenger in arizona. that tells you everything you need to know about who is willing to speak out and what the political consequences are. that's why you see people talking. >> is there a way to placate steve bannon and mcconnell at

the same time? can trump thread that needle? >> that's an easy one. no. you can't placate or find a third way when one person wants to destroy the other person. steve bannon's goal is to unseat mitch mcconnell and every republican establishment figure like him. it's hard for mcconnell -- donald trump to say there's got to be compromise. there's no compromise when the only goal of one of those two people is to rid washington of mitch mcconnell. it's just saying two things that are directly contradictory. >> it does show president trump's need -- he needs both. he's out there saying how he needs to get a big legislative accomplishment on his desk to sign so he understands intellectually he needs mitch mcconnell for that in some way, but this is not something where

you are going to make both parties happy. this is the president's conundrum. he needs the fuel and fire from his people and base but he also needs the establishment folks on the hill to get him a bill on his desk. >> hence the phrase political skill that usually you need to navigate these situations. thank you. president trump saying obama did not call the families of fallen soldiers, we debate the obama legacy next. let's see how quickly you can read through all their awards. kelly blue book 2016 best resale value... u.s. news best cars for the money 10 best blah blah blah 2015... only about 90 more to go! oh gosh... that's a lot of awards! great, now i'm going to have to go buy a new car. get 20% below msrp on most 2017 malibu, cruze and trax models. that's over $7,000 on this chevy malibu.

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president trump facing backlash after claiming his predecessors never called the families of fallen spokeroldier. >> i will at some point during the period of time call the parents and the families, because i have done that traditionally. the traditional way, if you look at president obama and other presidents, most of them did not make calls, a lot of them did not make calls. >> earlier you said president obama never called the families of fallen soldiers? >> no, i don't know if he did. i was told that he did not often, and a lot of presidents don't.

president obama, i think, probably did sometimes and maybe sometimes he didn't, i don't know. that's what i was told. all i can do is ask my generals. >> let's discuss this with our cnn political commentators. what did you think when you heard president trump say that yesterday? >> i would say i was shocked, i was not because lying has become a favorite past time. i worked for obama for eight years, and not only did he call the families, he welcomed gold star families to the white house, and he visited walter reed every month, and visited dover and welcomed and honored the bodies of fallen soldiers. i would ask whether president trump is doing any of those things. honoring soldiers or military and families is part of what we focused on nearly every single day. i know that was the case for

president bush as well. it's disheartening and i find it pathetic. we did not publicize all these visits, and neither did bush or his predecessors. >> why did he do that? >> i think the question he was getting, he felt like he was on the defense as if there was a criticism of him. and the white house clarified it, and he was told they did not always call. the part about the story i hate the most is it's taking away from these four men specifically that lost their lives in this controversy where i think the president's point is, look, i was going to contact them and i wrote letters over the weekend, and not every single time a soldier passes away in action do presidents call them. unfortunately, this has turned into a political talking point.

>> let's be clear. he did that by throwing his predecessors under the bus. >> i think his point was -- again, the white house clarified it later. his point was they don't always call every time. >> you are trying to come up with the logic of why he would say that. why is when he is criticized he will throw past presidents under the bus like that? >> with the second part of the statement when he is asked the question again by the press -- >> he says, i was told he didn't often, he says about president obama, i was told he didn't often. a lot of presidents don't. >> those aren't true. >> if you look at how many died under the bush administration and under the obama administration, and the wars in

iraq and afghanistan, i think it's pretty obvious that they didn't call every single time. again, i go back to this. i think the president was trying to clean it up the second time when he was talking about there. i go back to that i hate this is taking away from the four family members. i think the white house press secretary tried to clean it up clearly in the day. it's unfortunate it has turned into a political talking point. >> i am happy to see you and chris are honoring these men who served and died for our country. that's not something that we have seen from this white house. ben is right there were more soldiers and members of the military that died in the past during the bush administration and early parts of the obama administration, but that has not changed the fact he has not

called these soldiers' families shocking. there's a protocol that happens through the department of defense that notifies the next of kin. there's no excuse that he has not called them earlier. >> let's be clear, though, alisyn, let me say real quick -- excuse me. the president said clearly, he is going to call these families -- >> i heard him say he was going to send a letter. >> he also said he was going to call. he wrote a letter, and he said they would have gone out yesterday or last night, but the president said he was going to call the family members. you just had the brother of one of the fallen soldiers on again, and i hate the politics of this because it takes away from their sacrifice -- >> i understand that you hate that. >> the president, to somehow criticize the president now saying he has not called yet and you think your timetable is x, y and z, and the family member

said they were looking forward to the phone call, and two, they could not have handled the phone call earlier than now as of this morning, and that's where we should not be crediticizing the president because it's a political criticism. >> how about just addressing it? how about acknowledging it? never mind the phone call and what the right time for that phone call is? how about addressing it? how about tweeting it out? why did it take the president almost two weeks to do that? >> i have no problem with the criticism that you just said there. i think that the president's obligation and his duty is to always honor the men and women who give the ultimate sacrifice in protecting and defending this country. i think as soon as you find out that a man or woman has passed away serving this country and it becomes public in the news, that you immediately, even if you don't announce the names, you

send out a -- >> why isn't he doing that? did he do it on this occasion? why the belated response? >> i don't know why the belated response, unless he knows more behind the scenes than we do, and i think you will see a change on this moving forward. this is a point i will say again, let's be careful not to try and score political points attacking the president when the real story about the men and women who died -- >> yeah, and jen, why do you think he's not doing it in a much more timely fashion? >> i think there's a pattern here, alisyn. i wish i had the answer to your question on why he didn't do it earlier. we saw earlier this year when we went to visit the cia and the wall that is the memorial to the people who had fallen, and he talked about crowd sizes.

his instinct is not in align with the past presidents, so why does he do it? i don't know. it may be part of the fabric of who donald trump is, and that's disappointing when that's the person sitting in the oval office. >> he talked about how it is for him, and how hard the phone calls are for him. he did say that. >> that's something every past president has felt. there are things that are the right thing to do and the right way to handle the men and women who have served. i would love to see him welcome wounded veterans more frequently to the white house, and i would love to see him go visit troops who are recovering at walter reed. i would like to see him call gold star families. those are things i would encourage the white house to do because everybody president should be doing it. >> let's leave it there. thank you very much. president trump on another important front, health care. he declares that the affordable

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affordable care act. affordable care act. president trump says obamacare doesn't exist anymore. take a listen. >> it's gone. you shouldn't mention it. there's no such thing as obamacare anymore. i said this years ago, it's a concept that couldn't have worked and in its best days it could not have worked. >> the affordable care act is the law of the land. we have no idea what is going to replace it, if anything, anytime soon. joining us now is the former acting administrator of the center's for medicare and medicaid services. what am i missing? i guess he is saying that politically, i guess, they are going to move away from this. what is your take on that

message? >> it's hard to know what he means when he says things like that. look, let's start with what is important. we are two weeks out from open inrollment. >> you think that's part of the reason he's saying it? >> who knows? >> we know he closed the window and pulled back on marketing money, and he is trying to kill what the aca does, but do you think that's part of the effort? >> i worry that it is. it's very unhelpful for him to say that. on the other hand, the part of truth there is to saying, by two to one americans now believe that what happens from here on in is his responsibility, not as he tries to make it the past president's responsibility. so given that, we are in trump care land with the actions he has taken last week to butcher the law even further, and make the markets work not as well, and coverage is available. he's just got to realize the

american people think he owns what happens here on out. by the way, for better or worse. >> in terms of what he did last week, the way you characterize it, the cost-sharing revenues, he said the federal government won't pay them anymore, and the law, which he says no longer exists, mandates the providers gives those discounts, and the question becomes how do they pass off the costs? this was a move of political bravery because it forced congress to do something about the law and specifically those cost-sharing revenues. we do have lamar alexander with a bill that would keep them. was this the right move for the president? >> well, if he means what he says, what he really needs to do now is he needs to support, not only senator alexander, but getting the bipartisan bill through both houses of congress, particularly with the caucuses so divided. if we see him actively involved

over the next several weeks, pushing hard to get a bipartisan bill done, and getting people to compromise, that would be a good sign. it's hard to take one statement and understand where he's going with it, and i think it's very important for hem. i think the democrats never left the center, and senator alexander is still at the table and they need his support? >> to be honest, the democrats are not in control, but they are driving the ball forward. there's a little wait and see, and a little standing on the sidelines, and a little watching it burn going on with the democrats as well. that has to change. but the way i read this bill, it would re-establish the revenues and put in block grants shoring up aspects of a law that the president just said is dead. i don't get it. >> right. >> look, it's all about compromise, and what we need is a true compromise, and we need something that preserves the ability to get health care and brings premiums down.

from what i have seen of the bill, a think there's a real chance it does this. will more people pay less money for insurance, there's a deal there. i think senator alexander and murray are really having that conversation in good faith. it's going to get more complicated as the politics get involved. that's where you need the leadership from the president saying, guys, focus. we just did everything that will make premiums go up, and we just did things in the executive order that are bad and let's fix those things and make it work better. it would be a good sign. >> one thing they can do to bring down premiums, what would be that? >> what they have done is raise the deficit projections by $200 billion, and that's a great opportunity to take some of the money and invest it back in things that can bring rates

down, like a reinsurance program, and they can commit to a marketing, reaching out to the american public and letting them know coverage is available. if they did those things as part of any kind of compromise, that would be a good step forward. >> that would bring premiums down or bring more people into exchanges where they are not getting enough competition or proper pricing? >> both. the people harder to reach are the young and healthy people, and so if you don't reach out to them, what we found is the people -- the only people that sign up, the first people to sign up are people that can a current illness, so the outreach is important not just because of the law, but important because it keeps the prices lower. >> some people don't accept that premise that we are all in it together and the healthy have to pay a little more so the infirm can have an affordable health care.

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this comes after "washington post" 60 minutes story shows moreno pushed a deal that made it more difficult for the dea to crack down on prescription opioids. the swiftness with this happened is surprising. >> he said he would look into it. moreno was out of considerization because of what he did in congress, and yet according to the president's tweet, he's a great congressman. i don't fully understand how those two things square. >> how did he make it at the top of the list for drug czar when he championed a bill that made

it harder to cut down on the prescription drug opioids. >> the vetting process for a lot of trump appointees have not been the most thorough and substantial that we have seen in history, chris. i don't think it's new to this white house to be a bit of a vetting problem and not fully exploring the ramifications of the person you are nominating for a certain job. >> what is complicated here, the president just announced next week he will make an announcement calling the opioid crisis a national emergency, without a drug czar in place, what does it mean? >> he said he is moving forward with the announcement. you know governor chris christie of november has been heading up a task force for trump on the

opioid crisis. this is a real crisis that made its way across the country. alisyn, you heard about it in talking to trump voters, this is a priority number one for a lot of people that donald trump counted on support for and came across on the campaign trail. i doubt we will see any dim tpheugs in effort to get hands around this crisis. >> some we spoke to lost children to an opioid overdose, and they voted for trump because he told them specifically he would fix it immediately. they waited ten months and are ready for something to happen on this. >> could have done it right out of the box, too. we have a documentary, and i keep telling you, this friday at 9:00, and we spent time with the firefighters that trump put his

arms around, and they are still waiting. it's big pharma, and doctors and dumping on the streets from prescriptions. this law that moreno championed did a lot to hurt the law enforcement og enforcement agencies from happening. you can't make it up that this is the guy they wound up looking at. >> i will ask the white house today why the president still considers him a great congressman where he was weakening the regulatory structure around it. >> who proposed moreno and why? let's see if they answer that. >> david chalian, thank you very much. we have more breaking news. two wildfires are raging out of control further south in santa cruz and los angeles county. that's what you are looking at right now.

these are live images. this is the bruce fire near the mt. wilson observatory. the blaze began last night in santa cruz as a house fire so it's not a extension of the blaze they are dealing with, but it did spread forcing 150 evacuations. we are joined with the meteorologist about the conditions in the area. we no santa cruz, you are dealing with a lot of sappy trees up there, and fires love to feed on those things. how are they looking in terms of wind and wetness? >> the key going forward the next few days is the temperatures, and that will help the firefighters tremendously. we will see the temperatures drop in northern california. santa rosa going from ten above degrees today, to 15 degrees below average on thursday. this particular forecast brought

to you by purina. your pet, our passion. we have rain, this next system making its way through over the next two days. we do have a lot of rain expected from washington and oregon, and even some of that is expected to creep into portions of northern california. it's fought going to be much, alisyn, but they will take any rain they can get. >> absolutely. they are desperate for it. thank you very much for that. these fierce wildfires trapped a california couple in their home. we have their incredible survival story about hiding in their swimming pool coming up. whoooo.

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tripadvisor. 41 people have been killed in california wildfires, and others have run for their lives. one couple missed the warnings to escape and they woke up to flames racing towards their santa rosa home. they tried to flee but it was too late, so they jumped in their swimming pool praying that would save them from the flames. daniel joins us now. daniel, thank goodness you are alive. we're so happy to have you. tell us this story. did you always have a plan if there were wildfires to go to your swimming pool or was that just instinct? >> i saw something on television a long time ago about how to survive a wildfire. we tried to apply as many of the principles we learned from that show as we could. yeah, we sort of new once we could not get out that the pool

was the plan. >> daniel, some of us are so naive as to think hop in your pool, problem solved. but what was it like during that time in your pool? >> well, it was extremely hot at times when the house was burning down. actually even before that, i think the most important thing was actually to stay in the house when the initial wave of fire went through. that's what prevented us from getting any harmful stuff. we jumped in the pool afterwards when most of the vegetation was already burnt. >> how were you able to stay in your house during the wildfire? >> the house protected us from the fire. the house caught fire, but it took half an hour -- it did catch fire but it took half an hour before it was bad enough it forced us out of the house. >> tell us what was it like in

the pool, what was the sensation? were you above the water or under the water? what was it like? >> we would be in the water up to our necks, and it was frigid cold from the neck down, and then it was boiling hot from the flames from the neck to the top of our head. >> oh, my god. do you know what the water temperature was in your pool? >> probably about 50. it was pretty cold. >> were you trying to stay submerged, your whole head underwater and coming up for air, or were you just staying neck deep? >> well, when the flame was at its worst, we would have to dunk down under the water every five seconds or so just to cool off. and then take a breath or two, and then dunk back down. we did that for maybe 15 minutes or 20 minutes, just to keep

ourselves cool. >> how long did you hide there in your swimming pool? >> probably 90 seconds or so we are estimating. the middle 30 is the worst part. it was the difficult part to make certain that we were keeping cool at the time. >> where there times in the 90 minutes you thought you would not survive this? >> no, i don't think we were ever quite in that level of danger. we were fortunate, you know, the pool was big and we were saved from the blaze going through initially. >> there was another couple that did that and the wife did not survive this. thank you for sharing your story, and thank goodness you saw that tv show on how to survive a wildfire and followed that to a t and survived, and thank you so much for being on

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