>> i'm he certainly supports the victims of domestic violation. >> he said very strongly that he's innocent. >> the president doesn't say one word about the lives that have been scarred. >> it's just not believable when the president wants to get a message out, he does it. >> we learned of the extent of the situation last tuesday evening. >> if somebody did know the full extent. >> i'm the president, i want to get rid of him. >> we're going to have the strongest military we've ever had by far. >> president trump outlining a budget that would balloon the federal deficit despite steep cuts to social programs. >> one of the motivations was to stop the obama deficit string, now the republicans are doing just as bad. >> everybody says congress is spending money like a drunk sailer. that's not true, a drunk sailer stops when he runs out of money. >> announcer: this is "new day." >> we want to welcome your viewers in the united states and around the world.

this is "new day." it's tuesday, february 13th, 6:00 a.m. in new york. here is our starting line. the white house insists president trump supports victims of domestic violation, except that's the opposite of every public statement and tweet from the president expressing sympathy only for the accused. one week into this scandal, around one of the president's top aides, the white house still refuses to give any details about when top officials learned about the abuse allegations against rob porter. nor will they say if the president believes his ex-wives. instead, the white house wants you to believe that they only learned about the extent of the porter scandal last week, but cnn has reporting that the white house's top lawyer knew about the allegations a year ago. porter's first ex-wife whose black eye photo exposed the harsh reality of porter's allege abuse. there's so much more going on down in washington. president trump's $4.4 trillion budget is getting a lot of

scrutiny from his own party. deficit reduction be damned seems to be the motto for trump and conservatives are blasting the spending binge which is expected to add trillions of dollars to the deficit. the president is up and tweeting saying this is the last chance to fix daca. that after march 5, it is over. the question is, will brinksmanship work? that deadline is an artificial one. the senate cleared the way to begin open debate on immigration. republican leaders could force democrats to show their hand and early by limiting the debate to only a week. the question will be can the republicans get the 60 votes to advance any legislation to the house and protect dreamers? guess what, we have it all covered. let's begin with abby phillip live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, chris. we are one week into this rob porter scandal that has royaled the white house and top

officials still won't say or maybe they're unwilling to say what they knew and when. >> the president and the entire administration take domestic violation very seriously and believe all allegations need to be investigated thoroughly. >> reporter: press secretary sarah sanders defending president trump after she expressed sympathy for abused domestic abuser rob porter but said nothing about his alleged victims. >> the president supports victims of domestic violence and believes everyone should be treated fairly with due process. >> reporter: sanders reading a statement that she says was dictated to her by the president. but that's not what mr. trump has publicly said. >> obviously tough time for him. it was very sad when we heard about it. and certainly he's also very sad. now, he also, as you probably know, says he's innocent. i think you have to remember that. we absolutely wish him well. >> reporter: sanders also addressing this tweet from the president a day later calling

for due process for the accused. >> he's not taking a side necessarily one way or the other on any specific issue here. he's talking about mere allegations shouldn't be the determining factor for any individual that there should be due process. >> reporter: the conflicting remarks leaving several party officials who spoke to cnn confused about mr. trump's stance. a former campaign official telling cnn, i don't understand why the white house is hedging on condemning domestic abuse. a member of the central park five, who was wrongly convicted of raping and beating a jogger in 1989, accusing the president of hypocrisy for demanding due process for alleged abusers but calling for the death penalty for the central park five defendants. >> what we're seeing is clearly there are two separate americas. one another for people of black and of color and another for white and affluence. >> rob porter's ex-wife calling the responses to the allegations. writing in an op-ed, while i

cannot say i'm surprised, i expected a woman to do better. siting conway's statement that she is not concerned about white house communications director hope hicks who was in a relationship with porter. >> i'm sorry for any suffering this woman has endured, but in the case of hope, i rarely met somebody so strong with such excellent instincts and loyalty and smarts. >> her statement implies those who have been in abusive relationships are not strong. this, as the white house continues to insist that senior officials only learned about the, quote, extent of the allegations last tuesday. cnn has reported that white house counsel don mcgahn knew a year ago that porter's ex-wives could present damaging information on him to the fbi. and chief of staff john kelly learned about the allegations last november as porter struggled to get approval for a full security clearance. >> mr. president, do you have a vetting problem? >> reporter: sanders blaming the fbi for the backlog of dozens of

white house staffers continues to work without permanent clearances. we'll be looking at president trump's twitter feed to see if he uses it to say what he beliefs about abuse victims with his own words. he's tweeting about infrastructure and daca this morning and has a couple meetings on his agenda. one with sheriffs and one to mark african-american history month. >> thank you all of that. for all of that, let's bring in alex burns and ab stoddard. let's start with this very messy message coming out of the white house. sara sanders says the president supports victims and the abused. >> the president has not said it. >> he has not said it. she wanted us to know it was, quote, dictated from him. we know he's down the hall and obviously loves to talk to the press when he wants to.

but also it's worth pointing out to everyone, friday seems like a long time ago, but he was not caught on the tarmac. they brought the cameras in and the reporters in knowing this would be a question and he defended rob porter and said it was sad and that he had a great career. >> and did not mention them. >> he did by implication of saying a lot of this stuff is false. a lot of people's lives are ruined. >> the tweet on saturday was a disaster. that's why kelly ann rushed to the cameras on sunday to say that women have done well in this economy and on and on because they knew that mere allegation ruins lives tweet on saturday was such a mistake. >> right now. especially because of the context, alex. you know, we've been covering the metoo stuff very much inappropriate stuff work matters has to change. we haven't seen the systemic change we have to. domestic abuse is another thing.

people die because of this. he knows this. he ignored it on purpose. it's not an open question. does he support, does he not support. the answer has to be no. he tweeted twice this morning. he could come out and clear it up when ever he wanted to. victims of domestic abuse, not on my watch. he hasn't done it. what other explanation can there be other than he does not want to? it's bad for him in some part of his mind? >> yo. i don't know that there is any explanation. it does feed the further questions that the white house has tried really, really hard not to answer about how much the president knew, how much the people around him knew and how much did they choose to ignore about rob porter. if the president were to come out and make a big statement to the effect of we have absolutely no tolerance for this kind of thing, it's unacceptable in society in any form, then you really, really have to answer the question, how long did folks at the white house even have an inkling of this going on.

>> that's a red herring because due process, of course, matters in the criminal justice system. this is a man who has no hesitance about putting out a statement politically which is within his right now and role as a leader, you don't have to wait for the system here especially with the facts you have. >> chris, my point here is that it appears that the system turned up this information about rob porter well before he was terminated. >> sure. >> by the way, well before he resigned from the white house. how does the president claim zero tolerance if that's your actual record? >> kellyanne conway over the weekend talked about whether or not she worried about hope hicks. hope hicks is still involved with rob porter. who knows. but that's the reporting. and so she was asked if she -- the ex-wives have expressed fear for hope hicks because he's -- they don't believe a changed man. and how would he be if you haven't had counselling. >> his last girlfriend who works in the government also reached out to don mcgahn and said you should be careful about hope

hicks. >> aull of them are sounding ths siren. kellyanne said hope hicks is a strong woman, implying at least as the first wife heard it, if you're strong, it would never happen to you. so here is a little portion. she wrote an op-ed to "the washington post." i walked away from that relationship a shell of the person i was when i went into it, but it took me a long time to realize the toll his behavior was taking on me. obviously victims often feel that way, that they are stripped of their dignity during this. >> kelly anne conway could sell me swampland. i remember listening to her on sunday, tell that to jake, and thinking that is really -- what it took also for that woman to write that, to answer back. and talk about her experience is unbelievable. this is not going away and they haven't found a way to contain it. it's not only such a powerful issue we talked about the

silence and ak wee essence not understanding how loud this speaks about them as well as the white house. you can really tell they were admitting this has been completely mishandled. and sarah huckabee sanders not only didn't know how to handle this but they don't actually have the timeline figured out. she said 40 minutes or kelly said 40 minutes then she said 24 hours. and this is just -- i see no end in sight particularly because of something like that editorial she wrote last night combined with what chris is saying, she is adamantly refusing to touch it. >> it's too big a deal. we have a documentary coming out in a little bit about this. the way that women shake when they talk about this years later. the fear they have that the

system doesn't respect this. you know, now you have the president of the united states literally being the physical form of that system and never saying, well, yeah. at least kellyanne said i have no reason not to believe these women. one woman with a black eye -- >> that's called due process. getting an order of protection is due process. >> this is a man who has every bit of comfort jumping to a conclusion when it suits him. in similar situations -- although frankly we've never seen him botch something as egregious as this when he's going after allegations of women to say it's inappropriate conduct, he jumps right now out there to defend them. not here. to this moment, he said by the way, i think womens of domestic abuse the penalty has been harder. he hasn't said it. >> no, he hasn't. >> and he won't would be my guess. now he can't. >> it would be surprising the

pattern with him also is that not only does he not want to say things like that to begin with. when they demands him to say something, he clams up. i do think it's striking now the divergence between the public message that the white house as an institution seems to be putting out on this and what the president himself will say. and it's just the latest illustration of the reality that at the end of the day there's only one person who speaks for donald trump. and if his surrogates and aides are out there saying he believes x, y and z, if it doesn't come out of his mouth, how much does it count for? >> it's the latest illustration of how the president is behind the times on this. things have changed since the president was elected. things have changed. the world has shifted. the harvey weinstein thing happened after that. the metoo moment, all of this national conversation. the idea that he's sticking to his original talking points, which are so off kilter sounding now of, well, there's good people on both sides, you know?

that thing that he does. there are very fine people on the other side that we have to protect. that's the wrong message right now now. >> one in four women experience some kind of domestic violation. one in seven men. this is a different magnitude of what's happening in society. he's playing on the exact fear. again, i'm just fresh into this stuff because of how steeped we are in it right now now for this documentary. if you punch somebody in the face, you probably go to jail. if you punch a spouse in the face, you probably do not go to jail as long as -- there are states that don't have these types of law. he is playing on every point of weakness in terms of what these women need to help them and some men as well. it's not a male problem. trump supporters are pushing this point, why aren't you talking about the men? and they're bringing up all these other b.s. concerns to help defend him. i think that is the real fruit of the poisonous tree in terms of him not coming out strong on the right now issue.

>> what's so outrageous, axios reported behind closed doors they say he is a sick puppy. men who beat their wives cannot be rehabilitated. and of course when steve bannon, the former chief strategist was in the white house who was once accused of roughing up his wife in some way, he nicknamed him bam-bam which i guess was funny at the time. whatever they're doing in leak internal conversations to show that he is disgusted and what alex says the divergence of that and total silence and then these robotic statements from women in the white house saying they're speaking for the president. it's just not working. >> and makes no sense. so the white house is proposing a budget. it adds 7 trillion dollars to the deficit over the next decade. that is not typical gop think. what happened to fiscal responsibility? we'll tell you next.

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all right. conservatives not happy at the president of their party. why? $4.4 trillion budget proposal, tons of spending, ballooning the deficit in a way that we haven't seen in a long time. 7 trillion is expected to be

added over the next decade. nearly a trillion to the deficit in the next year. an increase of 89% from last year's projections. no matter what numbers you throw out, they ain't pleasant. let's bring back alex burns and a.b. stoddard. when you have the pursestrings, you tend to spend more. what is the theory of the case from the white house about why the spending and the deficits are worth it? >> well, in fairness to president trump, he did, of course, in a trumpian fashion some point in the campaign he could balance the budget in a couple of years. but that was -- that was an entire campaign built on the fact that he was going to offer a deeper safety net, never touch entitlement spending which is the driver of our debt and

really broke with our republican party on that quite emphatically. he never promised them what is sort of the doctrine republican government shrinking and budget cutting policies whatsoever. he has toned down the talk about it. they've gotten through a failed effort to repeal and replace obamacare and through tax reform, but he has not committed in any way to the freedom caucus mission to a fiscal rectitude. so this break in the party is really interesting because you see people trying to blame congressman jim jordan is trying to blame it on paul ryan. all of the freedom caucus people mark meadows super tight with trump. so they're angry and outraged, but is it trump's fault? are they going to blame it on congressional leadership? >> in terms of broad brush strokes of this plan, it would add a lot to the military defense spending and it would cut social programs like food stamps, like federal housing assistance, and so what's the thinking? >> student loans.

>> sure. what happens in this case? if you need food stamps, then what? >> realistically is the white house puts out this document. they talk about it for a week and then it goes absolutely nowhere, right now? this is now a ritual we've seen it under democratic presidents and republican presidents. the white house puts out its draft spending plan. congress says, thanks. we'll take it from here. each one of the programs they proposed cutting has a powerful constituency on the hill. last year the president proposed eliminating all these original authorities and then you had governors from red states and mitch mcconnell saying absolutely not, that is helpful to us. in reality, most social programs have a constituency in both parties. they don't want to hurt their voters. the president was the genius of president trump in the republican primaries is recognizing that republican

primary voters don't want to cut spending for themselves. and it is in a lot of ways the role that president trump has played in essentially making the republican party more honest about what it is and what it's voters stand for. there was this, you know, sort of pose for a long time that this was a party of fiscal responsibility when in reality it's an anti-tax party. >> now as a result, though, you wound up having a one-two punch here. you had resistance to taxes. they lower the taxes. that's going to create less revenue for the government. that's going to create more borrowing, more debt and bigger deficits. on top of that, now they have the spending. it's a one-two punch and they're trying to get the conservatives to swallow it. will they? so far it's been yes. they swallowed blowing through the spending caps. and the tax cuts that ballooned the deficit. they got the conservatives to swallow that as well. >> well, on the tax cuts people

like rand paul say i vote for tax cuts and vote for spending cuts right now after. because he didn't get them, he didn't support the spending bill and a lot of freedom caucus members as well. mark lavigne is disgusted. again, president trump got it through. he's going to claim it as a victory because he wanted to increase military spending. this is where the agenda gets stalled. i posit without any solution on immigration they can't get to anything else on the agenda any way and they're in quick sand. there's no infrastructure. unless you're willing to not have a majority of the majority on the house floor and do bills with democrats with thus far the leadership has refused to do, you're not going to get criminal justice reform, or infrastructure or anything. and that's something they haven't been willing to do. they want the freedom caucus on

board. they want to do bills with the majority of the majority. you're not going to get infrastructure and you're not going to spend money again the government doesn't have. what is the rest of the agenda for 2018? cultural wars that donald trump likes to stoke thinking it will galvanize his base to turn out for republicans in the fall. >> this morning he's talking about ill grags. here is what he just tweeted in the past hour, negotiations on daca have begun. republicans want to make a deal and democrats say they want to make a deal. wouldn't it be great to solve the daca puzzle after so many years. this is the last chance. there will never be another opportunity. march 5th the deadline. >> imagine if he doesn't extend that deadline, if they don't get a deal. >> that sounds like what he's saying. >> it's all on him. >> we'll see. a court has issued an injunction blocking the enforcement of that deadline for now. that's not indeficit but this pretense that march 5th is a hard deadline, that's not currently true. it could become true again but it's not currently true.

it is to me the whole daca saga is a tale of political mismanagement by the white house. a year ago the president had said you give me $25 billion for the wall and you can have your daca program. democrats would have voted for it and it would have seen from a master stroke from a guy whose signature programs was laughed at and laughed and now i have that. >> i want to challenge that. you think a year ago democrats had appetite to give 25 million for a wall they hated? >> no, democrats don't want to fund the wall. but at this point they're dying to fund the wall. >> they folded pretty fast. they're saying the dreamers are their priority. but now they keep adding more and more things. these four pillars. three of them are not the dreamers and all three of them are really offensive to democrats. >> and to a bunch of republicans, too. this proposal can't get -- it's very unlikely this proposal can

get 50 votes in the senate let alone the 60 it would need in the house to pass. >> thanks very much. so now to this, a record-shattering day at the winter games. american chloe kim now the youngest female snowboarder to ever win olympic gold. oh my gosh, look at her. a live report from the games and all the excitement next.

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while she was sleeping and her dad had driven her five hours north so she could snowboard. 17-year-old first time olympian chloe kim becoming the youngest woman ever to win gold on snow at the winter olympics. the crowd favorite, crushing her competition with back-to-back 1080s in her final run. garnering a near perfect score. kim, now the third u.s. olympian to win gold in freestyle snowboarding events at these games. >> i'm so hyped to be here and to land the runs i did today. it's just been such an amazing honor. >> reporter: 31-year-old shaun white making his debut in pyeongchang taking first place in the qualifying run for the men's halfpipe. hoping to secure his third gold after a disappointing fourth place finish in sochi. american luger summer britcher finishing the day in ninth place

after a near disastrous first run and austrian skier herscher winning gold after a thrilling slalom show catapulted him to the top of the leader board. adam rippon addressing his refusal to meet with vice president mike pence. >> i don't want my olympic experience to be about mike pence. i want it to be about my amazing skating and being america's sweetheart. >> reporter: japanese speed skater becoming the first athlete to be suspended for failing a doping test. he insisted the violation was unintentional. let's get you your medal count on this new day. norway still leading the way with nine. germany, netherlands and canada hot on their heels with seven. usa rounding out the top four

with six overall. mikaela shiffrin will attempt to defend her olympic gold in the women's slalom. we have to show you trending on bleacher report.com, warriors head coach steve kerr taking an easy night last night with the sons. he handed over his clipboard to the players for the night. let them run the huddle. he let them coach veteran players like andre iguodala drew out plays, discussed strategy, the motivation tactic seems to have worked. the dubs blew out the phoenix suns by 46 points. but chris, chloe kim became a megastar overnight. we'll hear a lot about her. you know what she wanted to eat for her victory meal? pizza and a latte. sounds like a preworkout meal, brother. >> that's the way you eat, never. >> appreciate it, my brother. be well. enjoy yourself. white house counsel don mcgahn is very much in the

spotlight right now now. what did he know about rob porter? when did he know it? and what did he do about it? this story that they found out recently is b.s. let's dig in next.

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knew at least a year ago that porter's ex-wives could present damaging information about him to the fbi. how do we know? porter told him. here is what press secretary sarah sanders said when pressed about this -- >> again, i can't get into the specifics. i can tell you that we were in the process for the background was on going. and the white house had not received any specific papers regarding the completion of that background check. so i can't go any further than what we've already said on that front. >> we're hearing all this language. we want to get into the specifics. you don't want to. you can. the full extent of allegations they're saying, we didn't receive papers about these things. this is what you see as a coverup in process. cnn contributor walter schab, the senior director of ethics

for the campaign legal center. walter, i do not make these types of suggestions lightly, but the evidence here is damning. there is almost zero chance that the idea that they only knew what they needed to know recently and acted with ill lackrity is honest or am i wrong? >> those weasel words were getting a workout in her presentation and rob shorts. they're the words like specifics and details and fully and, as you said, paper. they're entitled to zero benefit of the doubt when they won't share details. because as you pointed out, it's not that they can't, it's that they won't. and we've got multiple sources and multiple news outlets reporting that mcgahn knew for a year and in one of them in the washington post they say he's quibbling over exactly how much he knew. but give me a break. he knew there was something.

he knew it involved the wives. he knew it involved domestic abuse. so if he doesn't -- the specifics of we didn't have the full details because we didn't see the photograph. you know, it's as if he's saying, hey, why are you asking me? i just work here. he's the counsel to the president. that job is like the life guard at a swimming pool. he's supposed to keep people out of trouble. time and again we have don mcgahn either pleading ignorance or no one will talk about exactly what he's doing. >> he's been on both sides of the ball. don mcgahn saying to the president, i won't move on the instructions you're giving me about the special counsel. it's a mistake. you have to pick your battles sometimes. how about this pushback line, did he know? yes. porter came to him and said this may come up. but he also denied it. he also said, you know, with that denial he did not get confirmation from the fbi for

some relevant period. is it wrong for him to not act on the mere suggestion from porter himself, which is denied? it sounds reasonable that he wouldn't say, oh, they may bring this up and you say they're false. i'm firing you any way. >> right now. and contrary to what the president is claiming in his tweets, i don't think i or anyone else is claiming that you should immediately fire anybody the minute anybody raises any sort of an allegation. >> true. >> but what we have here is in the end a photograph, two witnesses, an inability to get a clearance for over a year and a protective order issued by a county court. maybe he didn't know all of those things, but even if he knew some, he could have done some proactive looking into this. they keep saying, well, we were waiting for the security clearance adjudication clearance process finished. first of all, don't say it's normal for about 30 or more people to not have their clearances yet a year. >> that's exactly what jared kushner's counsel said yesterday

that people of his sophistication it can go on as long as two years. suggestions otherwise are pernicious, spears you and are just more fake news. >> yeah, that's crazy. and in fact, you're talking about somebody who is the son-in-law to the president, in an assistant to the president position. they move heaven and earth to get things done for the white house. i watched it for years. the business that somehow, oh, this is just a backlog. he's in the front of the line. and again, mcgahn didn't have to wait for the clearance process to end. because there's two things here, there's the security clearance adjudication but there's also the question of are you suitable for federal employment? outside the white house, that's actually a formal process involving a suitability determination, but inside the white house, you still have the same question any employer faces. does this guy belong working here? and mcgahn is an attorney with more than 20 years of experience as a lawyer. he could have sat down and cross-examined this guy. he was approached apparently in

november by an ex-girlfriend who expressed similar concerns. so he certainly had enough to know more was done. and the silence from the white house is really telling because they're not claiming he actively did anything. and you know that fits a pattern because he's gotten a little too much credit for this standing up on the mueller firing thing. if you read the reporting carefully, it never says that he actually confronted the president. the story is that he just said, well, i'm not going to do that and the president will probably forget. i don't think we have any kind of showdown from the guy who asked sally yates why the doj should care if lynn was lying or was involved in the comey firing or any of these things. there's a consistent pattern of being hands off and indifferent. this is not a guy that's shown that he's there to play the role of life guard. >> look, i hear you. and you are entitled to that opinion. in the absence of facts proving that, i give him all benefit of fairness. and as we fill it in with the facts, the noose gets tighter and tighter.

walter shaub, appreciate having your perspective. thanks very much. now to our omarosa news, our daily segment. she's spilling more about her days inside the white house to her house mates on "celebrity big brother." here is what she says about vice president mike pence. >> we would be begging for days of trump back if pence became president. that's all i'm saying. >> that's not all she's saying. there's more. we'll play it for you. it's time for the 'ultimate sleep number event' on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. does your bed do that? right now, our queen c2 mattress is only $699, save $200. ends soon. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you.

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olly. president obama met with former fbi director james comey in january of last year to discuss sharing information about russia with the incoming trump administration. a source now tells cnn that president obama wanted to know if there was a national security reason to limit conversations about this with the trump transition team, meaning the obama administration was expressing concerns about some members of the incoming white house staff being compromised. a scare for vanessa trump, the wife of donald trump jr. police say she opens a letter addressed to her husband and it contained a suspicious white powder. she called the police. she said she was feeling dizzy. tests found the substance to be non-hazardous. thank god she was unharmed as were some other people who were with her at the time. the kids were not there.

vanessa trump tweeted her thanks to authorities for their quick response. the letter reportedly had a boston postmark. the nypd, secret service investigating. now to our omarosa news. former white house aide turned "celebrity big brother" contestant issuing a warning to people who want president trump impeached. >> can i just say this, as bad as y'all think trump is, you would be worried about pence. i'm just going to say. everybody that is wishing for impeachment might want to reconsider their lives. >> absolutely. >> we would be begging days of trump back if pence became president. that's all i'm saying. he's extremely -- i'm christian. i love jesus. but he thinks jesus tells him to say things. jesus ain't say that. >> is this all the "celebrity big brother" has become?

people turn into these shows for a diversion, not for more talks of politics. >> the poor people sitting on the house. >> they're trapped. >> i thought it was like that i hurt this disk in my back. i think constant shaking of my head, i hurt my spinal cord. >> that might be permanent. >> omarosa, she will be in the lawsuit when i eventually have to find out who did this to me. the first democrat has announced a run for president in 2020. his first campaign aired in iowa just recently. congressman john delanie is going to tell you why the time is now. one of the latestbuy samsung galaxy phones get a samsung galaxy s8 free. yahoooo! ahoooo! plus, unlimited family plans come with netflix included. spectacular! so, you can watch all your netflix favorites on your new samsung phones. whoa! join the un-carrier and get a samsung galaxy s8 free. all on america's best unlimited network.

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♪ president trump is proposing a $1.5 trillion plan to repair and upgrade the nation's infrastructure. $200 billion of that would come from federal funds. the burden for the rest would be up to state and local governments and private investors. president trump tweeting about it this morning, saying, quote, our infrastructure plan has been put forward and has received great reviews by everyone, except of course the democrats. after many years, we have taken care of our military, now we have to fix our roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and more. bipartisan make deal dems. let's bring in democratic congressman john delanie who long had a plan for infrastructure and announced he's running for president in 2020 which we will discuss in a moment. welcome, congressman. we have a lot to talk about. >> we do. >> you put forward a bill about infrastructure a year ago. you thought a lot about this. what do you think of the president's plan? >> well, look, i think the president's plan is a deregulation bill dressed up as an infrastructure plan.

>> what does that mean? >> well, that means basically he's talking about putting $200 billion of federal money into projects but actually taking money. there's a whole variety of estimates. some people think he's taking more money from existing infrastructure programs to put it in his. think about him creating a few new programs and funding them by defunding other infrastructure programs. >> so it's a shell game? >> it's a shell game as it relates to the money. it won't really result in my judgment and increase in our investment in infrastructure, something we desperately need. then he does a bunch of deregulation, most likely of environmental regulations in the bill. so that's kind of the thrust of the bill. and i think he's kind of -- the shiny object he's trying to put out there is $200 billion, 1.5 trillion, but that's not really real new net money. >> everybody says they're for infrastructure. >> right now. >> and it does seem to be a bipartisan topic. >> right now. >> why hasn't your bill gotten more traction over the past year? >> look, my bill, what i did is

something truly bipartisan, 40 democrats, 40 republicans on a 40 plus infrastructure program but it had new money. the new money i had proposed was coming from a fix of our international tax system which was, in fact, fixed in the tax reform bill. but what they did, they fixed the system as a way of creating incentives for money to come back to the united states. that generated revenues. they used those revenues in the tax reform plan to lower taxes. what i said we should do, pair that international tax reform with infrastructure and it was kind of a double bottom line because we end up with more infrastructure and we fix our international -- >> why hasn't that gotten more traction? >> because my republican colleagues want to just cut taxes. right now? so here is a way of thinking about it. you know how they cut the corporate tax rate to 21. >> yep. >> every 1% of corporate tax rate reduction is $100 billion. for decades the business community argued to lower the corporate tax rate to 25. that's the rate they said would make us competitive. for reasons i can't begin to explain, they took it way past that goal of the business

community all the way down to 21. wouldn't this tax reform proposal been much better if they would have cut the business tax rate from 35 to 25, like the business community asked for for years and put 400 billion new dollars in infrastructure when you count third party lenverage you get that trillion and a half, two trillion. >> do you have any republicans who agree with exactly that and can you get it passed? >> prior to the tax reform bill, there was a huge bipartisan coalition which i led for infrastructure and tax reform together. again, in this tax reform plan which they were entirely focussed on cutting taxes, they used a lot of the revenue sources. i call -- listen, even a few weeks ago, i called for them to basically go back to that deal, open it up, raise the corporate rate from 21 to 23. that would create $200 billion to fund this plan. putting aside other aspects of this plan, that would be $200 billion of new money. we would end up with more new net money in infrastructure,

something we desperately need if we want to rebuild our country. >> you're busy. it's 993 days away from the 2020 election and you launched the first campaign ad of the 2020 election for the super bowl. >> i did. >> let's play a portion of this for the viewers. >> john delanie said a dirty word. then repeated it in des moines. and sioux city, too. in fact, he's been saying it all across this state. unabashedly telling people he's a firm believer in, well -- >> bipartisanship. >> bipartisanship. >> it might be a dirty word. >> so that's clever. >> you're laughing. >> i am laughing. >> that's positive. >> that's a clever ad there's a dirty word called bipartisanship. why are you launching your campaign so early? >> the president is degrading our society, degrading our culture, degrading our standing in the world and we have to start early in terms of thinking about what the next chapter is. he's a punctuation of several

decades of terrible politics where hyperpartisan politics have divided our country in ways we could never have imagined. i think it's time to turn the page on that. get back to talking about some of the things we agree with each other on, right now? get some things done for the american people. and i think we have to start the conversation now. >> and we just did. congressman john delanie, thank you for being here on "gold zone" great to have you. "new day" continues right now now. the president and the entire administration take domestic violation very seriously and believes that everyone should be treated with due process. >> he's say, hey, look, let's not rush to judge. he strongly said the same thing in back in 1989. >> there should be moral leadership from the white house. >> they have another 30 or 40 persons who have not received security clearances. >> this is a process that doesn't operate within the white house. it's handled by our law enforcement and intelligence community. >> the long-awaited immigration