and the senate, are the ones who will bear the largest responsibility. that's just a fact of life. >> mr. secretary, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> always good to have him here in the situation room. that's it for me. thanks for watching. erin burnett out front starts right now. admitting the meks government will not after all pay for trump's wall. also saying some of trump campaign promises on immigration were uninformed. and the president already bragging about cognitive test scores saying that's why he is the president can deal with north korea. then trying to limit testimony to return investigators. let's go out front. good evening i'm ergt out front tonight the breaking news it's official. the white house admits the mexican government will not directly pay for trump's wall.

you heard me. and you don't have to listen to me say it. i'll let you hear john kelly president chief of staff say it as he did moments ago. >> in one way or another it's possible that we could get the revenue from mexico, but not directly from their government. >> okay. that is a break of a signature promise. one repeated almost daily on the campaign trail. >> i'll build a great, great wall on our southern border, and i'll have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. >> it will be a great wall. mexico will pay for the wall. >> mexico is going to pay for the wall. >> mexico will pay for the wall. >> and mexico is going to pay fort wall and they understand that. >> mexico is going to pay for the wall, believe me, 100%. >> and who is going to pay for the wall? who is going to pay for the wall? >> who? >> mexico.

>> who? you. all right. kelly today, not just admitting that, right. that obviously the mexican government isn't going to directly pay for the wall. he is now saying, and said behind closed doors to lawmakers, that the president has evolved. and moments ago on the president's favorite television network, here is what kelly said? >> he has changed the way he's looked at a number of things. he's very definitely changed his attitudes towards the daca issue. and even the wall. >> daca and the wall. kellys points coming after a government shut down looms. a shut down that the white house today says democrats are to blame for. >> president certainly doesn't want a shut down. and if it happens, i think you only have one place to look, and that's to the democrats, who are holding our military and our national security hostage by trying to push through other policies that have nothing to do with the budget.

>> she is referring by those policies to the d.r.e.a.m.ers, to dac a. but she's wrong on a crucial point here. it isn't just democrats. there are democrats and now some republicans tonight who are demanding that resolving the fate of the estimated 700,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers must be part of a deal to avoid a government shut down. and, frankly, the president with his evolved views seemed to be on board just a week ago. you remember that see on the screen, that was bipartisan negotiation session at the white house, televised for nearly an hour. sitting between democrat leaders chosen for the statement. talked about the need for everyone to come together and said they were close to a deal on daca and immigration reform. >> should fb a bipartisan bill. this should it be a bill of love, truly, it should be a bill of love. and we can do that. >> a bill of love. and trump went so far as to say that if democrats and republicans came up with the

bill, he was on board with whatever it was. >> when this group comes back, hopefully with an agreement, this group and others, from the senate, from the house, comes back with an an agreement, i'm signing it. i'll be signing it. i'm not going to say, oh, gee, i want this or that. i'll be signing it. >> that was last tuesday. of course, it was just two short days later that the meeting came heard around the world. the same president went from a bill of love to s hole questioning why the united states was taking people from s hole countries in africa in. so whatever caused trump's change of heart, it seems to have happened very quickly. here's how very perplexed lindsey graham who attended both of those meetings with trump skries t describes the about face. >> by the time we got there, something had happened. so tuesday we had a president that i was proud to golf with,

call my friend, who understood immigration had to be bipartisan, you had to have border security as essentil, you had border security, with the wall, but also understood the idea we had to do it with cam pages. i don't know where that guy went. i want him back. >> now, the white house has insisted that trump was not swayed by immigration hardliners and he is the one quote running the show. but if he is running the show he has managed to leave the senate majority leader completely in the dark. >> i'm looking for something that president trump supports. and he's not yet indicated what measure he's willing to sign. as soon as we figure out what he is for, then i would be convinced we are not just spinning our wheels. >> as soon as we figure out what he is for, that is from the republican majority leader. pretty stunning thing to say about the president. and adding to the confusion,

chief of staff john kelly telling members of the congressional hispanic caucus today that trump was quote uninformed about some of the issues during the campaign. so mr. president if you are running the show what is your position? every hour, every minute now counts as the shut down looms. and jeff sell knee is out front at the white house. and jeff senator mcconnell says they have not figured out what the president is for which is one of the most stunning things if you take a moment to think about that. does the president know what he's for? >> erin, that certainly was a very blunt message from the republican senate majority leader. again the republican senate majority leader. house speaker ryan said similar thing. what is going on vacuum of leadership. no one is taking the lead here. and to be fair, senator mcconnell is also trying to avoid a bit of the spotlight by saying it's basically up to the president. so at the end of the day as this week moves along as the shut down approaches, potential

approaches, he says he wants some kind of wall. of course we heard from the chief of staff mexico will not pay for it as the president indicated several times they would. but the fact of a wall simply is now more of a barrier in some places. they also want an end to chain migration and end to the visa lottery system and dealing with the doca issue in some fashion. but no specifics about what the president would sign. of course a week ago he said i'll take the heat and sign anything. that of course changed very quickly. so at the end of the day the republican president, republican speaker of the house, republican senate majority leader are still not all on the same page. because the republican party is still divided over this issue. democrats are saying that they are going to hold fast here and not vote for the spending plan. so what we have is a 48 hour mess here. once again starting another year in washington, erin. >> thank you very much, jeff. and out front now i want to go to democrat congressman member of the hispanic caucus and was

with john kelly chief of staff today. let me ask you by asking you congressman your response what he said moments ago in that interview. pretty significant add miss, right, saying the president has evolved on the wall. but what he actually said there in terms of admitting that the mexican government would not directly pay for it, that is a massive admission. it's an admission of fact we all know but not something that the president has admitted to. how significant is it? >> well, as the late governor marr marrow komo always said, so very often lots of things said during the campaign but when you reach government there must be a consensus building effort to ensure that all sides are heard and that a consensus is built to move forward. and i think this is what's happening. what's happening right now is the president is realizing that there is currently three bills on the floor. there is the d.r.e.a.m. act

which is bipartisan piece of legislation that has over 200 cosponsors. you have the heard aguilar bill called the u.s. act which emerged a few weeks ago. and you have the tram work that was considered and put into place by the six senators, including senator graham and durbin and menendez. so these are the three rails we must take to make sure we reach a consensus. and finally once and for all take care of all the issues pertaining to the dreamers. >> so on this issue of taking care of the dreamers as part of the bill, the effort to keep the government running, putting these two things together, republican leadership tonight say they have the confidence that the stop gap that would keep the government open, that they have confidence they can get ta done without attaching, without resolving the dreamer issue. what's your response to that? >> well, i voted against the cr last time and i'm voted to vote against the c.r. again. and i see lots of members who

want to take care of this issue. because the public sentiment over 80% of the americans feel these young people should stay here. they like them. you look at their young faces and energy and their feelings about america, and you grow to love them. and so 80% of americans, whether they live republican districts or democrat districts, want this resolved. so i'll be voting against any continuing resolution or spending bill that doesn't have a rest lugs to the dreamers act. >> so you just heard the white house chief of staff john kelly in an interview saying the president has evolved on his view in many things including immigration. and you were with john kelly today. and in that meeting sources tell us he said some of the president's campaign promises on immigration were uninformed. so the chief of staff, john kelly sits there with the president every day is admitting that his boss was uninformed. is that what you heard? >> i heard something to that effect. i'm not sure if they were exactly those words but that was

the tone of the discussion. and who pays for the wall is one of the campaign promises. mexico always said they would not pay for wall that was a rhetoric, campaign rhetoric that became very popular among his ranks and led the campaign chants. but at all times mexico said they would not pay for the wallment aen here we are a year into the administration and we realize mexico is not paying for the wall. >> were you surprised at all kelly seemed open to on some level criticizing his boss or admitting his boss didn't know what was going on? were you surprised to hear that from kelly? >> i'm glad he was there and good faith effort to hear us out, to hear the congressional caucus present our views on d.r.e.a.m.ers on enforcement and the wall and issues pertaining to immigration.

and i think he was genuine incoming before us and hearing us out. we presented the ideas that we had, as i said earlier, three tracks, traditional dream act that i'm cosponsor of, the herd and aguilar, and also the framework that was developed by the gang of six at the senate. so these are three real pieces of legislation that are on the table right now. we should not in vent something new or throw toxic amendments that would make it further difficult to reach consensus. >> i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. and up next president trump boasting the results of his physical saying that he has mental capacity to solve the north korea problems when his predecessors did not. plus a senator does his rhetoric to stall lynns. fair. and meeting with investigators. what did he say?

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breaking news president trump bragging about being smarter than obama clinton and bush. he says it's the reason he will solve the north korea crisis when they failed to do so. singing praises on his perfect score on cognitive, he said, quote, i guess they had to leave it to president who scored

highest. who spoke to the president. you sat down with him today for 53 minutes. and i shared one quote there that he gave you. he told you he's better equipped to deal with kim jong-un than past presidented based on the particular test doctor gave him at his particular physical. >> he didn't specify that test. we talked earlier about the glowing report that he got from his doctor. but he said he scored highest on the tests so it could have been the medical test or if he was referring to his education or social test. but he said that he scores the highest on tests so that's why the north korea issue had to be left to him. >> so this conversation you also pressed him on the bipartisan immigration meeting where s hole comments were made. and i want to read part of what he told you. he said, quote, i'm not going to get into what i said. but i'll tell you it is a tough

meeting. i love the people from hiaiti. i campaigned and went to little haiti. what else did he tell you? he did not deny at all. did not try to deny what he said in that meeting. >> he said he wouldn't go into it. we tried to get to what he actually said. he said he wouldn't talk about what he said in the meeting. and i did ask him specifically, did he think that the u.s. at this point is bringing in too many people from african countries or from haiti? and he said that he doesn't want to focus on individual countries. he wants to focus on the individual. and as you said, that he loves haiti and that he felt that people from haiti were good workers and that he had these campaign events and they were very warm to him. so that's what he said about that. but he also made clear that he hated the bipartisan deal that was brought to him. and that he used tough language. but he wouldn't say what the tough language was. >> right. even though of course in a tweet

he tried to deny t but i think it's obviously very significant. but now when you had a chance in interview to do so, he did not try to do that. thank you so much. as we said, spoke to the president today for 53 minutes. and out front our reporter with us. so it's interesting, he had scor scores wells on test. the quote i guess they had to realize they had to leave it up to president that scores highest on tests. so that's what it comes down to? >> yes, and this is a president that likes to measure things. right. be it the size of his hands or the nuclear button that's on his desk. be it a test that he was given by his doctor about his cognitive ability which really is attest to determine whether or not he had dementia or showed signs of dementia or brings that up in that interview. pretty broad interview talking

about any number of things. obviously this deal with, or no deal around daca, in plain court. in reading the articles that came out of it, in some ways it felt like has this president been president for the year? he's sounding the same notes, the same threats to north korea, same threats to china, and still seems like he's kind of a bystander president and going into vague i'm not going to tell you if i talked to the leader of north korea. or maybe there will be a war or maybe there won't be. that's what struck me. >> like a flirtation he likes to have. i want to again he used the word tests plural. he did take a cognitive assessment. i want to give you a sample. you have to connect the dots. and maybe you get extra points.

the point that i'm making here in a funny way i admit is this is not intelligence test. it's to determine if you have predementia. that's just the reality. although i'll play it for you, to his point, he does love to talk about how smart he is. >> yes, he does. you know, he is so good at the game of poker, international poker, that he has managed to mick a man who ordered the murder of his stepbrother, kim jong-un, look reasonable. donald trump's policy has managed to make the north korean regime look reasonable because of the steps it has taken to have a dialogue with south korea. now, that to me is not the sign of an intelligent american policy. and yet the president promises us that he's smarter and all of his predecessors and that he will figure out something that none of them has figured out up to do. it's dubious because he never gives us details.

it's always these grand statements without detail. >> right. and to this point when it came to kim jong-un, he would not say whether or not he spoken to kim jong-un. as she referred to. and he said, no, i don't want to say as to whether or not we've had communication. but, okay, we'll see how this plays out. and hopefully it can be done in a peaceful way but it's possible that it can't. and this is significant because he had a fight with the wall street journal to a that. >> and he wants to leave it out there and play could i. and meanwhile north korea is closer to strg a nuclear weapon they can deliver to american shores than they ever had. you had condoleezza rice come out in an interview saying they are pretty clever in their

approach to south korea, breaking up what had been in previous administrations a multi lateral talks. north korea and japan. china and russia. and so, yeah, i mean he can sort of say all of these things and play coy, and in the meantime kim jong-un is doing what he wants. >> he also on the s hole countries, okay, he had a chance here to either admit it and say he was sorry, which he doesn't apologize, so it wouldn't be consistent, but would have been the right thing to do. or to go ahead and double down on tweet where he denied saying it, which of course wouldn't make sense at this point because we know what happened. but it was interesting that he chose to do neither. he chose to avoid it. >> what he chose to do is be confusing. because he ran promising that the united states would have a country based immigration policy. remember what he said about mexico? remember what he said about people from muslim countries? now he's saying he wants immigration policy based on individual merit.

that's something entirely new for him. that's not what he ran on. that would actually be a lot better for the united states, so it's not clear to me, and i don't think it's clear to a lot of people watching this, what the president's new immigration policy is except that it's not a bipartisan compromise. his hard line republican allies have told him it's bad for business to do it. and i don't see what he wants instead of it. >> neither does mitch mcconnell. >> right. and mitch mcconnell who needs to know in order to get it through congress has said publicly which is pretty strong admonishment. he doesn't know what the president's view is. thanks. and up next on the party. >> american president who cannot take criticism and must distract and find someone else is to blame is charting a very dangerous path. >> and more breaking news, trump's chief of staff saying the white house did not instruct steve bannon to invoke executive

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down of u.s. president by senator from own party. senator flake ripping into trump comparing the president rhetoric to that of stalin. warning the daily attacks on media are putting american democracy at risk. >> it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words spoken by joseph stalin to describe his enemies. and american president who

cannot take criticism who must distract, who must find someone else to blame, is charted a very dangerous path. >> up front now, bill crystal editor at large and former communication director. senator flake making an impassioned speech. this is a point of moral clarity. second such speech he has done. this one about president's thin skin antiques on government agencies and media. says threat to democracy. why is jeff flake so wrong? >> i think he's wrong, first of all talk about dictators. only thing that dictators jeff flake is familiar with are the castro brothers in cuba. that is someone who suppressed free media and didn't allow

religion. so the comparison is extreme and the senator is trying to get attention. my understanding is he only had two other senators listening to him speak. he's trying to use the trump model and say outrageous things so people pay attention to them while the rest of d.c. is trying to solve daca and the bugtd. ditz traction. gave him 15 minutes hand let's move on at this point. >> bill. >> i think it was a good speech. i think flake was courageous and staying. it's his decision and life and easy for me to sit here and say he should have run. but serious people concerned about what trump is doing to this country. and i guess the thing that occurs to me watching senator flake and talking to a lot of other people is that it's really time to fight. i mean, governor, one quick story, governor called me yesterday, i don't know him that well, but called and seen something i said about immigrants being deported, i

this i about the detroit airport, guy been here 30 years, wife, kids, and he said what can we do about this. i said you are a governor. i do nt know what we can do, but if you and other governors say this is an out rage and talk tour law enforcement departments and go tour senators and congressman say what is going on, you can do something. so i'm a little tired of elected officials saying gee is trump is a bad guy and not acting in congress to pass daca or governors to change things. >> brian, to this point though when you talk about comparisons to dictators i want to ask you the point about empowering them. when i have conversations with people overseas, sometimes there is pretty crazy conspiracy theories thrown out there. and first thing they say to delegit moo

delegitize fake news. the venezuela president who is rolling back democracy blamed the global media for all kinds of false things saying this is what we call fake news. and in russia, brian, foreign minister hasten tire website, look at it, big fake on the top of it, and they just put stories they don't like on there. there is only one guy who came up with this branding and did this. does that at all to you seem like a problem when people like those people are empowered by it? >> it's very concerning. i mean, what you are talking about, there are communists, dictators, who are suppressing individual freedoms. and that is very concerning to me as an american. to me as somebody in the community. >> and using it using donald trump number one excuse? >> i'm uncomfortable with t i'm not going to argue anything differently. but at the end of the day what the president is doing here in the u.s. matters a little bit more than sort of the interpretation of his words in the international community. and he is fighting to change

washington d.c. there is a power structure that has left a vast majority of america behind and fighting to represent those people. and criticizing the media. no one is free of criticism. cnn makes mistakes. >> not just criticizing the immediate yachlt he criticizes anything he doesn't like or anything he's criticized which i think the point is jeff flake was making. bill? >> i'm to the going to agree. go ahead, bill. >> no, the criticism is fine. media can take care of themselves. they are big institutions. >> agreed. >> but what about a week ago in interview president says two fbi agents who texted things not so flattering to him traitors, president of the united states calling individuals traitors. that is something we have not experienced in our time. joe mccarthy did it and censored for doing so. it's unbelievable kind of abuse of rhetoric and dangerous. you don't really want people calling other people in the government traitors when there is no charges against them. incidentally these people work

for the fbi who is directors pointed by president trump. if they are lelly traitors in the fbi maybe they should go after them. but throws around those terms and with that respect i do agree with what erin is imreplying it does do damage that he uses terms in this way. >> brian i want to get back to this point. doesn't he bear responsibility are now using his term to demean and deride and dis misevemiss e story they don't like? >> everyone does it. president obama foreign policy that allowed them to be aggressive in their approaches. look what happened with russia and ukraine. so dictators will be aggressive whatever president we have. >> you have to admit this is different. any conversation i have with someone overseas, they throw fake news, that has become intellectually enough for people to say i no longer have to think

about it or deal with it. this is not something we have ever seen before. and it is poempowering people n open to ideas in their society? >> i don't see how the blame is on president trump. you talk about countries, they would have done this under hillary clinton. did it under obama and bush. this is what they do to divide their powers. we need to be pro-active in how we address what dictators do. how to open up the press and more freedoms in this country. i think we need to be pro-active. and that's where america has been beacon to that. language the president uses and dictators are sort of clinging onto is uncomfortable but that just means we have to double our efforts over there. and there is an issue with the media sort of being inconsistent with the truth. i think we have seen the last year of it where people have

come up with anonymous whispers or sources saying these things are happening and no way to re-butte it. the president gives a statement says this didn't happen and yet he is stuck having to respond to anonymous when anonymous whippe anonymous whispers. >> the truth problem very cloorly in this country we have one in the white house and i think anyone who disputes that has an issue, whether you are defender of his or not. >> this bothers me to say, but i think we have a truth problem in the media. conservatives talking about this for a long time. now an issue hit a mainstream. there is a problem with the truth in the media. itsd how they tailor the specific messages. and that gives trump and his supporters the oxygen to say fake news because the middle america is focused on different things. >> bill, i just want to to the

point that brian is making, jeff flake today obviously said that some of the words trump uses, compared it to stalin who of course killed tens of millions of people. >> sickening. >> the national committee responded to him in part, saying, you've gone too far. does she have a point? or was jeff flake right? >> technically right about the use of the term. freedom is the bipartisan put out a study. and donald trump is not helping for that. he is not fighting for that around the world. he likes dictatorships in china and russia philippines and elsewhere. so i wish we had a president who fought hard for american rights. there are lots of media outlets. some do better and worse. only one president he has to be held to higher standard. if donald trump, if the

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house working behind the scenes to limit the testimony to congressional investigations into the russia investigation. this is according to multiple sources. strategy becoming clear yesterday when president trump's former chief strategist steve bannon refused to answer multiple questions about transition in the white house sighting executive privilege. amazing though because moments ago trump's chief of staff denied bannon was told to do that. >> did the white house tell him to invoke executive privilege? >> no. >> no? >> steve has had very, very little contact with the white house since he left. he left the white house and certainly never returned to the white house and with the exception after few phone calls here and there, very, very little contact with the white house. and i certainly have never spoke to him since he left. >> sara murray out front, what

is going on here? >> certainly at the white house for more details. but looks like a game of semantics here. maybe he's saying they didn't speak directly to steve bannon, instead conversations with steve bannon lawyer or maybe he's saying the white house hasn't asserted executive privilege. but here is what we do know, steve bannon was behind closed doors and testifying for nearly six hours and throughout that testimony he took breaks. and while taking breaks his lawyer would confer via telephone with the white house council office what he was allowed to say and come back with the guidane he could not talk about tran sticks or tenure in the white house. and in fact when sarah sanders the press secretary answering questions about bannon appearance today she didn't dispute the notion that these phone calls were going back and forth. instead she said it was totally normal for that to be happening. take a listen. >> that's the same process that is typically followed. sometimes they have a white house attorney present in the room. this time it was something that

was relayed via phone. and again was following standard procedure for an instance like this. >> so what we know is the white house has been working behind the scenes to limit what some of these witnesses will talk about when they go behind closed doors. but it kind of remains unclear what happens next in all of this. we did secordry lewandowski. he was on the hill today when he was asked behind closed doors about anything that had to do with his time since leaving the presidential campaign, he punted, but he said he was unprepared to answer the committee ea committee's questions. the white house viewed nothing wrong. maintaining precedent. democrats seeing it as effort to muscle important witnesses. one thing about steve bannon appearance he left that room infuriating lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. >> right. the rare thing to unify them on that particular committee. thank you. up front the special assistant to mueller, michael zelden, let me ask you, the

white house reporting limit tchl that anyone is going to give to congressional investigators. are they fully cooperating here or not? >> well, it seems that they are cooperating with mueller and not so much with the congressional committees. and they face the same sort of ability to be charged with lying or obstruction of justice for failure to cooperate with the committee. so i don't understand why they would do this dual strategy. but that's what it looks like from the reporting we have had tonight. >> right. as you point out repercussions would be the same. today cory lewandowski former campaign manager for trump, and has bannon tried to do, he also tried to refuse to answer questions. he said he was not prepared. he knew this day was coming. going up against in

investigation and says he's not prepared. >> right. i used to try that in the 6th grade but mr. koran would accept that as excuse for not doing my homework. it's n it's not acceptable to have lewandowski saying this is something he's looking forward to. and now coming in with some claim of spurious claim of executive privilege or the dog ate my homework and i'm not prepared to testify. alice adventure in wonder land curious is only way it makes sense to me. >> it does seem like alice in wonderland. all comes back here to if there is nothing else to see, put all your laundry out. >> that's right. next white house getting defensive today about the president's health after a test shows the president has heart disease. and yet another public office seat long held by republicans just won by a democrat, this in wisconsin. is it part of a nationwide trend or not?

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>> so tell us about the test results, the ones that focus specifically on heart disease. >> well, there were several types of tests to try to parse out evidence of problems with the heart, cholesterol tests. his cholesterol has gone up, despite medication. and his weight. the one that came out in questioning is coronary calcium test which is looking for evidence of plaque and narrowing of the blood vessels that lead to the heart. listen to how it was described. >> he does not have heart disease. >> he had a ct scan that showed calcium. >> i think, so technically, he has nonclinical artsz row scler

otic. he had a coronary calcium done in 2009. it was 34. he had one done in 2013 that was 98 and we did get a calcium score from this one. it was 133. >> that o13 tlae numb 133 numbe can be mild heart disease. you heard the doctor say it is not heart disease but the president has coronary athero

sclerosis. there is evidence of it. >> is there anything unusual about having that test done? obviously the doctor, he mentioned it, when you brought it up and gave the results. not only did he have it done last week but also had it done at least two times from 2009 on. >> usually you get the test because somebody has enough concern that says let's look for heart disease. because of cholesterol levels or lifestyle. nine years ago was the first time he had the test done. and at that time the number was in the 30s four years later in the 90s and now it is 130 range. cause for concern to say hey, let's follow this. we don't think the president is actively having problems with his heart right now, but these tests are predictive. you order these tests to be predictive and you look at the results to gain information. >> obviously very crucial.

and given the trajectory where it is going, that could spark the concern. the state of california versus president trump. >> this is a movement that is not going to stop. the president cannot win. this bar's made with delicious cranberries and almonds. so, guess what? we call it cranberry almond. find your favorite and give kind® a try.

a shocking victory that republicans fear a sign of

things to come. a democrat beating a republican for a wisconsin state seat. this has been a seat that has been held by republicans for 20 years. and wisconsin is not alone. democrats have flipped 34 legislative seats and republicans only flipped four. that is nationwide. one state where the resistance of trump can be the strongest and that is california. and our miguel marquez is out front tonight. >> reporter: the california republic versus pruch. >> the resistance is legion. >> reporter: one year into his administration. the world's sixth largest economy fighting on everything.

>> california is not waiting for trump. we are not waiting for all the deniers. >> reporter: and the escalating fight over immigration. >> we are going to fight and we are going to win. >> reporter: california now an immigra immigrant sanctuary state. welcoming drivers to seemingly, another country, the land of illegals. the acting head of immigration and enforcement said -- politicos here are not worried. have you ever seen the enmitty between california and d.c. like it is today. >> i wouldn't cull it enmitty.

california will fight night. >> reporter: the immigrant community finding its voice. >> we are working harder and galvanizing more people. >> reporter: a daughter of mexican immigrants saying the president's policies have emboldened her community. >> this is a movement that is not going to win. the president is not going to win. we are going to win. >> reporter: equally galvanized is the entertainment industry with its deep pockets. >> change the way people think and change what people are for. that is what we are fighting for. >> ceo of one of the largest talent agencies saying president trump represents an idea.

>> incredible privileges we have to be raised in the country, to live in the country. we all see that, you know, how fragile it can be. >> reporter: cheryl conte an activist in the tech community says it is a fight over principals. >> you are doing to find californians to be unapo una-apologetic. >> reporter: to give you a sense of where things are between the trump administration and california right now, president trump is the first president not to visit the golden state in his first state in office since dwight eisenhower. all of their energy, and technical skills will go to

midterm elections not only here in california but across the country. >> thank you. thanks to all of you for joining us. ac 360 starts right now with anderson. good evening. tonight keeping him honest on immigration, the border wall and how the white house was directing how steve bannon did or did not do in front of congress. president trump's own chief of staff speaks out on central campaign policy to build a wall. candidate trump's pledge on the wall was uninformed. joined by one of lawmakers who were in the room when kelly said that. more reporting on something steve bannon let sli