>> the tax bill hitting a snag in the 11th hour. bob corker withholding his vote. >> our focus as an administration is to focus on middleclass tax cuts. >> middleclass families are going to get hurt. >> several senior senate republicans to end the russia investigation. >> rex tillerson appears to be

on his way out. >> when the president loses confidence in someone, they will no longer serve is in the capacity that they're in. >> it is a verdict we were not hoping for. >> zarate has been acquitted of murder. >> where is the sanctuary for kate steinle. >> it was used to catapult a presidency. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is your "new day". alisyn is off. erica hill doing yeomans work on a friday. the tax bill hit a trillion dollar snag. republicans are forced to make changes to their plan to win over deficit hawks who just can't accept adding that kind of number to the debt. so what is clear to a number of republicans now is that this plan is not going to pay for itself and it's not going to reduce the deficit.

these were big promises from the trump administration. >> the frustration with senators may be more than just about taxes. the president urged several republican senators, including the head of the senate intelligence committee to end the russia investigation this summer. with all of this going on, he is tweeting about the acquittal of an undocumented immigrant who killed kate steinle. suzanne malveaux is live on capitol hill with our top story. suzanne. >> reporter: good morning, erica. the president also tweeting about the tax bill. he is trying to desperately get a legislative win here. the trillion dollars and a question of how to pay for all of this, senate republicans continue to jockey over what gets in, what's taken out and whether or not they can get the votes. >> we're on the cusp of a great victory for the country. >> reporter: the battle over the senate republican tax bill hitting a snag in the 11th hour.

retiring senator bob corker withholding his vote after a new report on the joint committee on taxation estimates the bill would increase the deficit by $1 trillion over 10 years and would not produce enough revenue to offset the cost of the plan. corker demanding a trigger to automatically raise taxes if the bill fails to generate as much economic growth. as promised. but the senate rule keeper declaring such a proposal would not be allowed as written. a showdown unfolding on the senate floor as a group of republican senators huddled around holdouts, corker, jeff flake, and ron johnson. >> i submitted a simple amendment that simply said send the bill back to the finance committee and report back with a deficit neutral bill. a bill that doesn't blow a hole in the deficit. to call this a circus would be an insult to circuses. >> reporter: senator lindsey graham acknowledging corker's concerns are real but adds failure is not an option.

as mitch mcconnell can only afford to lose two republican votes. this as senator warren demanding to see the treasury department's economic analysis after steve mnuchin promised the american people this. >> we think there will be $2 trillion of growth. we think this tax plan will cut the deficit by a trillion dollars. that's a large number. >> reporter: the inspector general launching a probe after receiving this letter from warren questioning whether mnuchin misled the public or refuses to release the report because the analyses would contradict the treasury secretary's claims. >> it is almost criminal. it is a lethal attack on the middleclass. >> reporter: democrats continue to hammer the gop tax bill, asserting the bill will hurt lower income americans and benefit the wealthy. those earning 30,000 will be worse off by 2019. those making less than 75,000 worse off by 2027.

removing obamacare's individual mandate would also result in 13 million fewer americans having health coverage over the next decade. mitch mcconnell said they will resume voting at 11:00 this morning. they are looking at some changes, potentially rein stating the alternative minimum tax for some corporations. also potentially raising the corporate tax rate from 20% above after several years. we'll see if either one of those things satisfies some of these lawmakers. >> and the parliamentarian. this is a specific game they're playing right now in the reconciliation rule is to keep a simple majority. thank you very much. have a great weekend, my friend. a quick end to the intelligence committee's russia investigation this summer. one democratic senator calling

it inappropriate and breach of separation of powers. the white house insists the president has done nothing wrong. they use a very specific phrase to explain it. we will discuss it with jonathan martin, akaj. mart one of the co authors of the report. good to have you, my brother. thank you for being here. the phrase that the white house uses is undue influence, which makes every lawyer's eyebrow go up. it is a specific term of art, a level of conduct of an executive. that does the reporting reveal about how forceful, to use richard burr's word, the president was on this issue? >> this comes during the summer. you have to look at the context of what was happening during the summer and why this president felt compelled to bring up the russia investigation multiple times with senators of his own party. he was furious jeff sessions recused himself from the russia

investigation. he was stewing over the fact that he would assigned a major russia sanctions bill at a time he didn't have any other accomplishments, had to come down hard on moscow. and all of this time, more and more stories are leaking about the russia investigation, the mueller probe, questions about jared kushner's involvement, don junior's involvement. the russia cloud over his head. so what happens, chris, he will call senators -- he works the phones quite a lot. we will call senators and start talking about a different topic. but invariably, our reporting turns up in the course of the conversations with lawmakers. he would soon drift toward the topic of russia. he would start vent building why his allies on capitol hill weren't doing more to protect him or in some cases why they

wouldn't drop this thing. and talking to the senators, you know, senator burr makes the point that it's not totally clear to this president how you act in office and how you approach the congressional branch of government. he doesn't understand necessarily when you're the president and a different branch of government is investigating you, there are certain things that you do and don't do because he is new to politics. now, democrats will say, well, you can't keep using that excuse. i'm telling you if you talk to members of congress on the hill, that's what they will tell you. he doesn't understand how the rules work. >> what would be the alternative, to say the president of the united states is trying to strong arm them in a congressional election. that effect is what? what do you think it meant to senators who are investigating these important questions.

>> they were eyes are on them. the pair of eyes we're talking about are in the oval office. and he follows this probe very closely. and he is hopeful, in fact, beyond hopeful, he is eager for this thing to come to an end with all due haste. and i think he would like for it to come to an end earlier this year. i had one former white house aide say at first the president did not mind the investigation because he thought it would wrap up quickly and exonerate him entirely of any connections, any improper connections last year during the campaign with moscow. that clearly in hindsight was fanciful thinking. here we are the first of december. you have multiple hill investigations and the mueller probe all still going on. >> we have been searching lately for a little bit of insight into what's driving the president's behavior, especially recently. and you have an interesting

anecdote in the reporting about just how obsessive this need to explain to people where he is on the russia investigation is. tell us about it. >> yeah. so my colleague -- >> we'll put up an excerpt. mr. trump often vented to his own aeuides and declared his innocence to virtual strangers on his new jersey golf course. what? >> as you recall, chris, for a good chunk of august the president was on holiday at his golf course in new jersey. and, you know, as this president has wanted to do at his various resorts, he is glad to pat a back, shake the happens of visitors, show up at a wedding for a few pictures. he enjoys that back and forth. on our reporting, thanks to maggie haberman suggests he would meet people in the clubhouse that he was just meeting for the first time and he would quickly launch into the

fact that the russia investigation, you know, isn't on the level and i'm going to be clear, there's nothing to this. people were struck by the fact that he is having these kind of conversations, again, talking out of school about a very delicate matter in a way that you just don't expect for most presidents. even most major american politicians. especially for the president. >> does it take us into the substance of what could be serious obstruction? all right. jonathan martin, thank you very much. let's bring in cnn political analyst david gregg skpreu chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. you have had some robust debate with one professor about whether or not the president is able to obstruct justice when it is within his authority to start and stop investigations, to deal with the people who run them. these are his people at the tops of these agencies. and by extension him calling up

lawmakers and saying, i don't like what you're doing. i think you should stop it. it is well within his right. >> let's just talk about the general issue of obstruction of justice notwithstanding my beloved professor alan during, wits. he obstructed justice with the fbi even though the fbi works for him just because an agency works for you, you are not excused from obstruction of justice. in fact, you are more likely to obstruct justice because you have the power to fire james comey, which is what he did. one of the subjects is whether the firing of mueller was a legitimate exercise of his presidential power. it is different with the house and senate because they are a different branch of government. he has less leverage over them. but he doesn't have no leverage over them. there is a lot of interaction between the white house and the

legislative branches. so the fact that he is pressing these people to end their investigation is potentially evidence of obstruction of justice. it is not necessarily obstruction on itself but part of a full picture it is is certainly relevant to his intent. >> and the argument that we have heard skpufrp juand you were ju about, this is a guy who is not a career politician. this is what people wanted. he does things differently. the question there being, and david, i will throw this to you. how long does that last? how long can this administration say, you know what, we don't do things your way because we are not cut from your cloth and that's why you wanted us. >> all of that is absurd. the president doesn't carement a lot of grown ups who would tell him, i know you're upset about this. don't pick up the phone. he doesn't care.

he's going to do what he wants. he operates in a space where he says, look, wherever i am is where i want the storm to be and i will be in the center of the storm. i have no shame. i don't care how bad the pushback is, i'm going to argue my case, push around whoever i need to push around. i will fire the fbi director because i don't like how he is doing the investigation. and the consequence of that, he brought so much of this on himself legally in terms of the media scrutiny, in terms of congressional scrutiny. if not for his pair annoyy there may not even be special counsel. this is not about political naivety. this is disregard for any opinion other than his about how he is going to move forward. his paranoia is people thinking, oh, maybe i'm not legitimate if russia tried to influence the election. no. they didn't influence the election. they didn't influence the

outcome. but they tried to. they could ultimately have in fact, later on. congress has a responsibility to try to get to the bottom of that. the president doesn't care about that. >> let's pivot to something that makes all of this go away. if he can achieve his legislative agenda, if he can give for the american people, whatever political marks are on him because of what happened with russia, he will probably wiped up being fine. that takes us to the tax bill. david, where does it stand? the president came strong out of the box saying this is about the middleclass and paying down the deficit with growth over time. where do they stand on those promises? >> well, on the latter part, it is just speculation. now you have congress's own scorekeeper saying, no, it will bust the budget -- i mean, increase the deficit. and you have the dynamic of republicans, including those who are not up for reelection who are not going to be swayed by political pressure by republican leadership or the white house

saying, no, that is not going to work for me. even though they will have to dial back some of these tax cuts for corporations are maybe return the alternative minimum tax or they will have to find some other way to bring these, you know, these kind of deficit hawks on board. it's not clear to me what happens today. i do believe from a white house point of view they have to get there. failure is not an option. >> but remember this bill, it is unusual to have a tax cut bill that is unpopular with the public. this is a bill, that benefits go enormously to the more wealthy people in this country. and it may lead to higher medical costs, cuts in other programs. yes, it is important politically probably for the republicans to pass this bill. but, you know, be careful what you ask for. if middleclass people start to see their taxes go up as a

result of this, that's not much of an accomplishment. >> right. but you get a benefit in the short-te short-term. i would argue when you wake up every day, the stock market is going gang busters. you can make the argument you're going to make the corporations fatter. but a lot of people will have pensions that will be happy to see the headlines every day. there is return on that. and middleclass cuts become increases farther down the road. that is the price that will have to be paid that could turn a lot of voters off. >> gentlemen, appreciate it. have a good weekend. president trump is outraged and tweeting this morning after an undocumented immigrant is found not guilty in the 2015 shooting death of kate steinle. trump slamming the verdict as a travesty of justice. cnn's dan simon live at pier 14 where steinle was killed. it is very difficult to separate the politics from the case

itself. but this verdict should not be taken as a complete surprise. >> that's exactly right, chris. first of all, the president has already tweeted three times about the verdict. twice just this morning. the first one using it as a justification to build the border wall. the second one he is upset that the defendant's criminal past was not allowed to be brought up during the trial. meantime, we are on the edge of pier 14. this is where kate steinle was gunned down. it led to fiery rhetoric, rhetoric that will only escalate now that you have this a quilts. >> my opponent -- but where was the sanctuary for kate steinle? >> the case became a flash point during the presidential campaign and led to a heated national debate over sanctuary cities. at the center, jose ines garcia

zarate, an undocumented immigrant deported five times to mexico, seven felonies on his record. but none of that would come into play inside the courtroom. the only question was kate stein lu the victim of an intentional shooting or was it an accident? the jury finding it was the latter, acquitting the 45-year-old of both murder and involuntary manslaughter. his public defender addressing the steinle family. >> i hope that they do not interpret this verdict as diminishing in any way the awful tragedy that occurred that their family has suffered. >> and he also addressed critics, including president trump who treated that it was a disgraceful verdict. no wonder the people of our country are so angry with illegal immigration. >> for those who might criticize this verdict, the attorney general of the united states,

the president and vice president of the united states, let me just remind them that they are themselves under investigation by special prosecutor in washington, d.c. and they may themselves soon avail themselves of the presumption of innocence and beyond a reasonable doubt standard. so i would ask them to reflect on that before they commentpara case. >> kate steinle had been taking an evening stroll with her father when the bullet seemingly came out of nowhere. the defendant ditched the gun and fled the scene. there were questions whether zarate was ever intending to fire the gun. there was no motive established. and he had no history of violent convictions. kate steinle's brother expre expressing disappoint.

i'm not surprised. the system failed kate from the start of this chain of events. why would the verdict be any different? it is failure after failure. it handled three months after zarate was freed by the sheriff's office, let go after prosecutors declined to press forward on a decades old marijuana charge. instead of handing him over for deportation, the san francisco jail let him walk free, a recipe for a political storm. defense lawyers decry the. >> this case was used as a mean to foment hate. it was used to catapult a presidency along that philosophy of hate of others. and i believe today is a vindication for the rights of immigrants. >> reporter: well, garcia zarate could spend additional time in california prison for being convicted on a lesser charge,

being a felon in possession of a firearm. but because of time already served, it's likely he will be just a few months. so ultimately it will be back to mexico. they plan to deport him for a sixth time. erica. >> dan simon live for us there. thank you. major corporations stand to get big tax cuts if the gop tax plan passes. so will average americans see any of that cash come to them? we've been told it could happen. taking a closer look next. your insurance company

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capital and create jobs. >> reporter: how much will the average american benefit from tax cuts? will it really trickle down? even executives aren't promising. . "the wall street journal" asked a group of them if they pumped more money into their businesses in front of trump's own economic adviser. >> do you plan to increase your company's capital investment. just a show of hands, if the tax bill goes through. >> why aren't the other hands up? >> reporter: a tepid response, considering companies are also getting extra sweeteners, including a reduced rate on trillions parked overseas. if they bring that mope back home. but ceos of major companies say workers won't necessarily see more jobs or higher wages, at least not right away. >> what about jobs and wages? does that argument work? is that an area you focus on, invest in? >> i think simply it is not a

short-term change. it is not like there is a big box of money that gets reinvested in 2018. >> reporter: in fact, studies show the last time there was a similar holiday inn 2004, about 60 to 90 cents of every dollar went to stockholders, not investment. bottom line, the tax break was not an effective way to grow the economy, according to the congressional research as far as. and experts don't think it will be different this time around. >> how much of that $3 trillion is likely to come back to be used to hire folks, invest in research and development, build new plant facilities and manufacturing? i would think it is low >> reporter: but the fervor is helping fuel a santa claus rally in the market and you know that is making president trump very happy. look, the major question is do we need corporate tax cuts right

now? third quarter economic growth came in 3.3%. that's pretty good. the argument against these corporate tax cuts is why don't we wait until we really need a boost to economic growth, hold it in our back pocket and then cut taxes when it's really needed potentially in a down turn. >> christina, thank you very much. joining us now, two cnn political comment airports. commentators. steve israel, i saw a sour face come across your visage. >> first off, trillions of dollars over seas. everybody knows that. if you bring it back, if that money is parked over there in banks, if you bring it back, not all will be spent on creating jobs is. okay. true. i don't think anybody doubts that. but if it stays over there, none of it will be invested in jobs

and investment. it's a good thing. if it is helping retirees, pension funds, a lot of people. the idea that this is a bad policy because money oversees is not helping americans is ridiculous. >> but that's not your problem. your problem is that it adds to the deficit in a way that is unacceptable to many. >> that particular provision doesn't. >> no. i am saying that's your problem. they are not fighting about re-pate kwraeuting money. on the one side, this will blow up their deficit. they can't take it back home. it's not helping the middleclass. that's the problem. >> there is a fundamental difference, as we all know. and the folks who did the score on these provisions. i think republicans need to look historically. a lot of economists will say

these kind of tax cuts do simulate growth. the vast majority, a handful say no like bob corker and others. but most republicans believe these reductions in business taxes, reductions in taxes across the board are going to stimulate more economic growth. they are willing to take the risk that are doing so. there are a handful that are not and they have to be dealt with. >> this bill does not bolster the middle class. it skews to the very rich. it's funny, in washington two plus two usually equals whatever you want it to. the joint committee on taxation, for them two plus two has to equal four. they're not partisan. they stick with the numbers. their objective analysis is, as you have been reporting, that this tax bill creates a $1 trillion definite is sit. so we are borrowing from our children in order to give to

shareholders. it is less than one%. they stumbled at the finish line. they had to delay the vote last night. here's what's going to happen. they are going back to the drawing board and try to bring down the debt. but every time you subtract or add in trying to pass a bill, you potentially lose in the senate or back in the house of representatives. so this ain't done yet. >> a lot of pressure on what was promised and the proof they said they would provide. not a big player in tax discussions. he is a big player. here's what he said. >> not only will this pay for itself but it will pay down debt. >> he said he would prove it. and that he was going to come out with a report. there is no report and it doesn't seem it will be satisfied. >> look, i can't speak to that. all i can say is historically the joint tax, congressional budget, all the score keepers in

washington, d.c. have been wrong. and they have been wrong by huge amounts. the idea that we can sit down right now and project out the next 10 years how certain tax policies will effect the economy is ridiculous. >> why would we not believe the economists but we will the politicians. >> it is is a fundamental belief that reducing taxes, having people keep more money, having businesses. the criticism of the business tax cuts, corporate tax cuts is another i rolled my eyes at. the reason is we are losing jobs. democrats for years said we are losing all these jobs overseas. businesses are moving out of this country. that is because we have the highest corporate rate in the country. >> the practical rate, what they actually pay puts you right above. it's true. you can certainly do better. but is this the way? >> you don't have to believe the

joint committee on taxation, the talking points. but we should believe history. i was a democrat in the house of representatives when voted for the tax cuts in 2001, 2003. i was a minority in my party. the fact of the matter is between 2001 and 2008, those tax cuts actually drove up our defic deficit. we ended up going to wore washington or in iraq and afghanistan on tax cuts, didn't have the supplies and the equipment that our troops needed because we couldn't afford them. we had this massive meltdown in 2008. there is something to be said for the reality of history and what it teaches us when we do tax cuts not skewed to the middle class, that are skewed to the wealthyest and put us into a huge deficit ditch. that happened in the early 2000s. >> the tax reform that was done in '86 and saying there was tremendous to those two. >> but 2001 was very different.

>> you have to take things as they are. >> well, we had 9/11 happen after the tax cuts. that obviously had a huge impact on the economy. you can't say the tax cuts caused the problems. >> i don't understand. look, there are no question economists look at it two ways. but this reliance on the reagan era, you know he had to raise questions almost a dozen times because of that initial cut. i'm saying you've got to take it the way it lays right now. the question is whether or not the president promised too much. we'll see what they can get tkufpblt thank you for being here as always. both of you are good gentlemen. nancy pelosi now calling for john conyers to resign over harassment allegations. could these growing calls lead to him stepping down? we'll ask one of his democratic colleagues next. remember how the economic crash

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top democrats calling for john conyers to resign over sexual harassment allegations. >> the allegations against

congressman conyers, as we have learned more since sunday, are serious, disappointing, and very credible, very sad. the brave women who came forward are owed justice. we wish congressman conyers and his family well. but congressman conyers should resign. >> he has not heeded the calls. joining us is brenda lawrence of michigan. good to have you with us this morning. we have just heard nancy pelosi joinings the chore us calling for conyers to step down. you have not. why? >> i'm the mother of a daughter and granddaughter. and every time i hear me too, it is like a knife in the gut of my stomach. and my other career i have an eeo investigator. what we want in this watershed moment is accountability. we want transparency of this

process in congress. and we also want due process. we need to be focused on how do we change the culture in congress. congressman conyers is hospitalized right now. i'm standing here very focused. i have been in multiple meetings on what do we do to change the culture here in congress so we are not in a moment like this, where we are standing here saying resign, resign. how do we fix this? >> is that expectation of a safe work environment; that one in

which john conyers remains in that work environment? >> we have allegations that women are making allegations of sexual harassment. we demand that mr. conyers is subjected to the ethics process of being -- there's an investigation. that's called due process. mr. conyers, unfortunately we can say it all day. it is mr. conyers's decision. but it is our responsibility to investigate. he is still a member of congress. and i am going to stay focused on saying the women who have had the courage to come forward, that they are heard and that we investigate this and that there is accountability. >> one of the women who came forward is mary ann brown. she filed a complaint in 2014 and decided to break her mda.

here's what she said yesterday on the "today" show. >> some of the things that he did were different was sexual harassment violating, violating my body, propositioning me, inviting me to hotels with the guise of discussing business and then propositioning me to, you know, for sex. and and he just violated my body. he has touched me in different ways. and it was very uncomfortable and very unprofessional. >> do you believe mary ann brown? >> i don't disbelieve her. her conversation and her reporting is heartbreaking. it's heartbreak on a lot of levels. she's a woman, i'm a woman. i don't expect to come to the workforce and be treat thad way. but what do we want to do with a woman that comes forward and confronts us with this kind of treatment in congress?

we have a responsibility. it is easy to stand in front of a camera and say someone should resign, hoping they get to the right decision. it is leadership and it is transformational. when we come together as elected officials in this house. and change the process. this woman went through the process of filing a complaint. she is now coming forward. and we -- where did we go wrong in congress? understand what that is. it is an option for any member of congress, franken, other members of congress, to step forward in this moment and to resign. to me my energy is focused on

making this zero tolerance. >> let's look at how they are being handled so very differently. >> exactly. >> how how are they handled differently in washington versus corporate america? you can't ignore the headlines we saw this week. allegations brought to nbc. matt lauer, one of the most powerful men in broadcast journalism was fired, swift action was taken. we have seen that across the board. and it's getting quicker in the wake of harvey weinstein. it is not getting quicker when we look at washington. we keep hearing about, yes, there should be due process. yes, there should be an investigation. i get things work differently in washington. but the only day lawmakers are held accountable is on election day, the day of reckoning? >> that's why i'm here today because we should change that. there should be a higher standard for us as elected

officials. our process right now we are limited to a member of congress voluntarily resigning or going through the ethics process. i agree 100%. i agree with you. i agree. when i see the swift action that is happening in the industry and then we're confronted, what do we do when this is -- >> then why not call for him to resign? why not push a little bit more if you want to see things change and see the way things are handled change, stand is up and be "the voice" in a different way. >> john conyers is in the hospital right now. and i am standing here today as a member of congress representing the city of detroit as conyers did. and i'm saying mr. conyers, for me, has a period of time to return from the hospital, get healthy enough to make that announcement or make that decision. and we will be moving forward. you will be hearing from me. i'm not going to stand here

today demanding -- or not demanding but talking about resignation when we have work to do. i am -- my stomach is turning. this is real for me. i investigated eeo complaints. and so it is this moment where it's comfortable to stand in front of a camera and say he should resign. first of all, i will be making that decision. i'm giving myself and mr. conyers the time for him to do that, get out of the hospital. but secondly, i want us to understand saying that he should resign and then leaving the camera is not fixing the problem. are we here to fix this problem, or are we going to continue to have women come forward and stand in front of a camera and saying he should resign. >> we look forward to see what fixing the problem is. representative brenda lawrence,

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now to an incredible story of selflessness. a police officer was compelled to help in an extraordinary way. >> heroin and crystal meth controlled crystal champ's life. >> it is everything. >> the strangling grip of addiction has left her homeless on the streets of albuquerque, new mexico. >> i did give up, you know. i just decided this was going to be my life. >> living in a tent in the brush alongside a highway. >> i know how bad it is, you know. i am the first one to know how bad my situation is, and -- >> for crystal, the thought of a guardian angel walking into her life was unimaginable, but that's what happened when

albuquerque police officer ryan holetz found crystal and her companion, tom, shooting up behind a convenience store. he was not ready for what he noticed next? >> are you pregnant? >> it's not everyday i see a sight like that and it just made me very sad. >> how far along are you? >> eight months. >> oh, my gosh. >> he goes, and you are pregnant? >> why are you going to do that stuff, you are going to kill your baby. >> his words brought crystal to tears. >> how dare you judge me. you have no idea how hard this is. no idea. i know what a horrible person i am and what a horrible situation i am in.

>> in that instance, the moment changed. his entire being changed. he became a human being instead of a police officer. >> a crazy idea crept her ryan's mind. >> he was desperately wanting to adopt her baby, i heard god tell me tell her you will do it, because you can. you can. and so -- >> three weeks later crystal champs gave birth and ryan and his wife agreed to adopt the baby they named hope. >> i got tired of seeing so many situations where i want to help but can't, and in that mow i realize that i had a chance to help. >> hope suffered through withdrawals during weeks of medical treatment but is gaining weight now and doing well. >> her father and me love her, you know, very, very much, and

we did not give her up because we didn't want her. >> crystal remains an addict and admits she's in no place to care for a baby. >> i want to be safe and secure and be in a family and be loved and have a chance, you know. >> i am so thankful and blessed and humbled that we are allowed to have hope in our family. >> you think about what it took for all the stars to align for you to connect in the back of the parking lot, it's crazy, right. >> no coincidence. we will be there, whatever struggles she has, we'll be there and we'll work through it. and that's what makes me happy, that we'll be there for her. >> for ryan, it's proof that even in the darkest moments you

never know when love and hope will reveal itself. ed lavandera, cnn, albuquerque, new mexico. >> quite a story. >> i have to tell you something. we do these because we want to reinforce the nature of tkaolt and what that means for the men and women that do their job out there, and you do not see people like this, and we did not get to meet his wife, and this commitment to adopt had as much to do with her, if not more, than with him. holy cow, what an exercise of love and a faith and belief of what this child could be despite the circumstances she started in. >> and what a name, hope. why won't the man famous for saying you're fired take action? if he is so unhappy with rex tillerson?

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president trump owns several republicans in the senate. >> the president gets frustrated. >> the president aggravated he is not getting credit for his accomplishments and still annoyed with jeff sessions. >> the white house is considering a plan to replace tillerson. >> do you want rex tillerson on the job, mr. president. >> rex is here. >> it's clear he's not getting the support from the white house. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day." alisyn is off and