there is a selfish motive. tight labor market. a war on for qualified workers. you want to make sure they have a level playing field to keep workers. thanks for joining i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. joe manchin reacting to the gun movement. >> he said he's going to go into a tailspin without her around. >> i don't think she was forced out. there's a shelf life in the west wing. >> jared kushner meeting with executives in the white house and then the companies are given very sizable mortgages to husband company. >> whose business is he doing what he's in the white house? >> jared kushner simply cannot continue in his present role.

>> some of you people are petrified of the nra. if you add concealed carry to this, you will never get it. >> mr. president, it is going to have to be you to bring the republicans to the table on this. >> with need to act. >> this is "new day" with chris como and alisyn camerota. >> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day". it's thursday, march 1st, 6:00 here in new york. here's our starting line. chaos president trump's west wing. one of the president's longest serving aides, hope hicks, abruptly announcing she is resigning. cnn has reported that president trump berated hicks after telling congress that she tells white lies on his behalf. special counsel robert mueller is investigating whether the president's efforts to oust jeff

sessions amounts to obstruction of justice. and an explosive story about the president's son-in-law, jared kushner kushner received is hundreds of millions of dollars for his loans for his family business after meeting with financial executives inside the white house. kushner's tenure in the administration continues to be dogged by conflict of interest questions. and a televised meeting between president trump and lawmakers has republicans scratching their heads. the president stunning members of his own party saying he supports comprehensive gun control, including stronger background checks, raising the age limit for buying rifles, and taking guns away from high-risk individuals. we have a lot to cover, and we have it all. let's begin with abby phillip live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, chris. it's been a wild 48 hours for this white house. as the president, one of his closest advisers and confidantes, hope hicks, decides

to leave this white house. it also comes at a time when the mueller investigation seems to be close anything on the president's inner circle. increasingly isolated after hope hicks, the fourth in the post, to step down. >> hope was one of the people he really, really trusted. with her leaving, there is only a handful left. he will feel like he's on an island. >> reporter: the white house downplaying the shocking announcement. hicks's departure came one day after she testified before a house committee as part of the russia probe, conceding at times she has told white lies for trump. this admission upset the president, who berated her after her nearly nine hours of testimony. special counsel robert mueller's team has been inquiring about hicks's remarks to the "new york

times" shortly after the election, denying any contact between the campaign and russian officials. a statement that has proven to be false. only a handful of president trump's original inner circle are now left in the white house as scrutiny of the president's son-in-law jared kushner continues to grow. the "new york times" reporting that the two companies that loaned him more than $500 million after meeting with kushner at the white house. >> you're seeing jared kushner meeting with executives in the white house. and then sometime after those meetings, the companies that those executives work for or run or help to run are given very sizable mortgages to his company. >> reporter: the "times" reports that kushner still owns the vast majority of interest in his company. but his attorney insists he has taken no part of any business, loans or projects with or for

kushner companies. he had his top secret clearance stripped by john kelly. all of this as the mueller probe intensifies. the "washington post" reporting that mueller's team is looking into whether president trump's efforts to oust and intimidate attorney general jeff sessions last summer amounts to obstruction of justice. >> i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office. >> reporter: the "post" adding that he is privately refers to him as mr. magoo, elderly, myopic. and with the other top members of the department wednesday night. as long as i am the attorney general, i will continue to discharge my duties with

integrity is and honor, and this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner. jeff sessions will be at the white house today for an opioid meeting. but president trump is at the moment not scheduled to attend. he will be, however, holding a separate meeting on school safety with senators, a private meeting. and we are expecting, wait to go see what the school safety proposals that trump is supposed to unveil as soon as the end of this week. chris and alyson? >> okay, abby, thank you very much. we'll get to jeff is sessions in a moment. let's bring in john avlon and chris cillizza. let's start with hope hicks. she's not the public face of the administration. so regular people don't know how significant is she has been for years to president trump. so what does her resignation mean, chris? >> well, it's another person that he trusts gone. and i don't think he can overestimate how important trust is to politicians generally speaking at this level. but to donald trump in

particular. remember, when he started running for president he was a punch line, literally. hope hicks, corey lewandowsky, they were with him. they are no longer with him. she is someone who could say i was with you in june 2015, so let's not freak out in june 2017. there's not that many people left who can do that. forget her title. it's not really about that. it is about her capacity to be trusted by the president of the united states. and when you shrink that down even further than it already is, you get someone i think who retreats into twitter and into some of his less good/worse -- >> he was doing that anyway. one of the layers of significance is, john, is whether or not she resigned, for whatever reasons, or she was pushed out. maggie haberman said she wasn't forced out.

this wasn't what happened at the hearing where she said i tell white lies for the president. does it matter and do you believe that? or is this another person on his wrong side that got kicked out? >> it matters to the extent that she has been loyal, she is familiar. if there was bad blood, a berating after the white lies comment, that would be significant. we always do did they jump or were they pushed? the loyalty, the familiarity, which is so important to trump, increasingly embroiled in scandals, most recently rob porter. this means dan scavino wins the survivor game in the west wing. the whole cast of characters who came in with trump is basically gone 18 months later. it is a sign of chaos.

it is a sign the president will get more. >> jason miller never wound up making it to the actual post and sean spicer was acting. still, he's been in office a year. >> what does that mean sean spicer was acting? >> oh, sorry. >> thespian. >> that's the best he can do. i can do better than that. >> acting communications director. >> his job seems precarious but says he's not going anywhere. here are a list of public insults that the president has lobbed at jeff sessions. in may, he called him an idiot. in july 2017, be league erred. then very weak. he was disappointed with sessions. december, he did a terrible

thing. yesterday he is disgraceful. >> the all caps disgraceful, which is the other level of disgraceful. >> this is the first senator to really come out in his favor in the campaign. nobody would even look at trump. >> the only. that is what is so extraordinary. step back for a second. this is the president of the united states berating his attorney general, who he could fire but doesn't feel empowered to do. on a consist can epbt basis, be littling him when he is the first supporter in the senate. it is astounding. and to see him push back. this is deep bad blood but utterly surreal circumstance. >> and he was having dinner last night with rosenstein. >> prescheduled. >> hold on. you know i like body language. >> what do you see here? >> i see three men. i see four men. >> you're spot on.

>> i see four men in business suits. what does that mean? >> leaving the justice department. >> are they hungry? i can't tell. >> rosenstein stepped in front and to the side. >> to the left. >> oh, wow. >> that's the critical metaphor. >> it's dark in washington. i mean, it was night. >> undercover of night. >> this is what's difficult. there is a tendency to be like, wow, he's really mean to sessions. but this is the degradation of the presidency yet again. he's bullying him. he is bullying him. if someone treated a kid like this at school, you would say you need to punch the kid in the nose. >> people say you're just being a softy on it. >> but it's not just that. because this is the person who

is the head of the -- he's the top law enforcement official in the country. >> yes. >> and if he is removed, rod rosenstein is no longer in charge of the russian investigation. this person, the person who is now in this office is not recused. >> why trump wants him to resign but not fire him. >> is he thinks potentially if you go into his mind and try to figure out what his plans are, i think there is a concern that if you fire sessions after firing comey, after reportedly wanting to fire mueller, now you start to get into, why is he trying to get rid of them. >> ding, ding, ding. >> in his mind i think he thinks, well, maybe that's a bridge too far. >> another institution of the democracy doesn't work. his initial insult is you can't have them look at this with fisa.

they have no teeth. forget about all the magoo stuff and all that, although that was a pretty good insult. i like a nice insult, make no mistake about that. the he president and i grew up in the same place. insults are high currency. they say you can't trust the people or the process. that's dangerous well beyond politics. >> this is how he treats his friends and earlierest allies. >> and institutions. >> that is the larger erosion in institutions. the call is coming from inside the house, the white house. >> you're too young. when you're home and the phone call from inside the house. the babysitter. >> sit terrifying. >> years of therapy. >> okay. according to the "new york times" i believe in early 2017 after the inauguration, a private equity billionaire started paying regular visits to

the white house. he was interested in a white house job. then in november of that year that private equity firm sent $184 million to kushner's real estate firm to refinance his mortgage. >> which was much larger than your typical bridge financing. >> it doesn't get swampier than that. paying for access. that is the definition, right? right? >> and the context, too, alisyn, the fact that we know, according to "washington post" reporting, four foreign countries said that kushner, because of his financials setup, is vulnerable to this sort of manipulation. let's remember he paid $1.8 billion for a skyscraper in the best city, new york. and continues to try to continue to get out from under it. again, the idea of bringing in people who you are related to is sketchy in and of itself. the idea of not having those people -- kushner made any

number of changes to his disclosures. this is why he doesn't have security clearance. >> downgraded. >> do the math. we are talking over half a billion dollars in this report. two loans that total over half a billion dollars. after meeting with someone in the white house. this is just exactly why we don't have nepotism. this is exactly why four countries thought he was an easy mark. this is why you don't have a security clearance. but there is something shadier here. half a billion loans. watch out, people. this is what it looks like. >> what looks like? >> he's get having meetings with people and then getting financial benefit. which is why you don't have people in the white house with business dealings. >> he is doubling down. >> one layer of defense is, guys, these are not government

lifers. these are not professional politicians. they're conducting business the way regular people do. jared kushner is way too sophisticated an individual. listen, this is a smart guy. he had a great reputation businesswise here. everybody has problems when they put money around the way he does. but he knows what this would look like. he knows what the risks are with this. that is an important part. >> let's play that out for a second. >> he's not a dummy. >> no. well, if he had known better, he wouldn't have done it. is it a -- it's not a business acumen to pay $1.8 billion on one single building? let's just put that through the reality. >> triple 6 is a coveted property. >> not that coveted. not $1.8 billion. >> you are not e.f. hutton. how do you know whether it's

coveted or not? >> they said he overpaid. if you know what it looks like, if you're savvy. if you understand the politics of perception, you don't do these things. but he did. >> on that note, john, chris, thank you very much. all right. coming up in the next hour, we will speak with the man hope hicks replaced. former white house communications director anthony scaramucci. what does he make on the impact and the implication of the president. president trump turning on his own party, or at least not going with with their talking points. he was on the side of democrats on gun control. where will he stand when he takes action? gun control next. people confuse nice and kind. but they're different. it's nice to remove artificial ingredients. kind never had to. we choose real ingredients like almonds, peanuts and a drizzle of dark chocolate. find your favorite and give kind® a try.

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are you going to leave that? you're afraid of the nra, right? this is not a popular thing to say in terms of the nra, but i'm saying it anyway. it doesn't make sense that i have to wait until i'm 21 to get a handgun but i can get this weapon at 18. i don't know. i like taking the guns early. take the guns first, go through due process second. if you add concealed carry to this, you'll never get it, guys. >> here's the good news about this. you don't have to be a lawyer to understand how scary that proposition is. not that you don't need to do something about guns. applaud the president for trying to figure on out what to do even though he is not talking about things not politically popular. >> for sure. >> check that box. however, let's take your stuff and then -- >> we'll work it out later. figure out the legal stuff later. >> due process.

ordinarily would jump all over this, particularly republicans, crickets. >> if you substitute donald trump for barack obama and he says that exact same thing, there is like an uprising. gun sales go through the roof. because for years, despite barack obama saying i'm not coming to your house to take your gun, there was always that fear. when he got elected, gun sales through the roof. after newtown, gun sales through the roof. it is remarkable. i always wonder with trump, does he know what he is saying in that regard. the best thing is watch john cornyn, who is sitting incomes to the president. he goes like this all the time. like, it's possible i misheard that. and sometimes he does this.

like i have seen a ghost. john cornyn, to your point, is republican orthodoxy 101. he's from texas. second amendment supporter. and you have the president of the united states being like we can do comprehensive. i mean, it's just like the immigration one. now, if you are a gun rights supporter, you should take comfort that it looked like the immigration meeting. two days after the immigration meeting where he said we will do comprehensive immigration reform, he vetoed all of it. >> i think this is president trump at his best. >> you said that during the last meeting. >> and i feel this way. he throws it out. he breaks the mold. he is unpredictable. it gets people back on their heels. it starts with his negotiation. he starts in a more, dream position and gets people all riled up and confused. then you don't know what he is going to do next, but he generally backs off. >> this is the best reality show out of the west wing.

there is a sieve you can value to this. let's open the doors. let's put the cameras in real-time. let's hear all of these great statesmen articulate. there is a real virtue to it. if you listen and look carefully, this is not necessarily a collection of the best and the brightest on the policy issue. but the president showed real willingness to skew the calculus. if he follows through, it could be really constructive. but he is articulating the most fever-dream nightmare of what they said barack obama wanted to do. now, whether he is able to move the ball forward, the most significant thing he said is, guys, you're not going to get cop sealed carry. don't attach it to the bill. you could see progress. but it was a debate amongst members of congress and the president on one of the urgent issues of our time in real-time. >> and we get to watch. >> it's a great thing if he shows some political capital spending willingness to do one

or two of the things. otherwise -- >> what you are celebrating about his tactic, you said at the last meeting. you were right then also. but then what happened? >> otherwise it's good to me. >> interesting from a sieve you can perspective, to john's point. >> the civic thing can't be underestimated. to see him try to be ape negotiator. his instinct is to try to move people to the middle. see if he follows through. >> his past views on guns prior to being a president are much more in line with what he sounded like yesterday than a traditional republican candidate. >> there was this extraordinary member when ben sasse releases a statement saying we're not changing our principles based on the last person who spoke to the president, which is another stunning statement. >> so where does it leave us? to alisyn's point, this is what he does well, shakes everybody up. we had manchin on the show, very

key player right now. he said, hey, did you put the h thing in your bill? they're like the what? did you put the h thing in the bill? they see, no, it's not in the bill. i didn't get a clear sense of is that on the table? then he says you should take the guns first. he is talking about people who are considered dangerous because of mental capacity, mental health. a lot of restraining orders that states have passed. california is one of them. >> and florida is considering it. >> due process is step for step with it. you are someone who is close to he me. you say, boy, he's losing it. you have to go to the judge. you have to make a show of clear and convincing evidence. and then, you know, through your response what you get off my social media, then they will take my gun. it has to go through due process to be constitutional. >> what we know is he would like to have a win. i think he would like to do something in a way he believes barack obama -- >> what is it? >> this is the he easiest thing.

>> is that a win to the kids down there and to that movement? >> it is not about that. >> they want more. they wouldn't consider that a win. >> it is him he holds it. who wants the pen? that's what he wants, the specifics of what -- i think the reason you have trouble nailing it down is because he doesn't know. >> the president's impulse isn't just to get a win. he wants to be nixon on china. like issues like this. the key question is does he use the political capital? the unbelievable influence he has over the house. will he actually deploy that to get something done? that's his legacy. this is our country. let's see if he follows through. >> john avlon, chris cillizza, thank you very much for that spirited conversation. seven students at stone man douglas high school tell me what it was like to return to their

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months and are now basically in service, or at least have been developed to the point they can be used, including a hyper sonic missile, that travels faster than the speed of sound, that can outpace the u.s. missile defense shield which is so vulnerable that the u.s. missile defense shield cannot keep up with it. he spoke about drones, underwater drones capable of carrying a nuclear pay load and quite extraordinary military technology designed to provoke some patriotism in the hearts of those that were watching the speech not just in the parliament about around the country as well. but also designed i think to deliver a message to the united states. you made very clear that the path to developing this technology happened over the past couple of years. he said it was essentially a response to the deployment of u.s. missile defense shield and military developments in the u.s.

he said this. they didn't listen to us then. listen to us now. a warning to the u.s. not to mess with russia and its new terrifying arsenal of nuclear weapons. >> matthew chance, thank you very much. important news indeed. the president criticizing attorney general jeff sessions once again. in fact, attacking the entire institution of the department of justice. is that helping robert mueller build a case of obstruction against mr. trump? a closer look at why and maybe why not next.

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fisa abuse? because that's what the ag does, by the way. will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on comey. suspect the i.g. an obama guy? why not use justice department lawyers? disgraceful. joining us now is former attorney general alberto gonzales. always a pleasure to see you, is sir. >> chris, good to be back with you. >> list for me some of your concerns when you hear the president assailing the doj to do an investigation. >> if the president is unhappy, he can express displeasure. so what we are seeing is really

different. even though the attacks seem to be focused on the attorney general, there is no way it doesn't effect the morale. keep your head down and do the work on behalf of the american people. nevertheless, it does have an influence of morale on the department. which at the end of the day affects the reputation and the viewpoint is of the american people of the trump administration. >> it is hard tore me to imagine this scenario. the first thing that would happen, a private conversation first beginning with the chief

of staff and the counsel to the president to the attorney general. as things escalate, it would be a private conversation between the president on the united states and the attorney general. if things don't get worked out, the chief of staff says it's time to leave. from my experience and based on my are view of history, this is pretty unprecedented. >> mueller looking at it as proof of a pattern that would lead to analysis of obstruction of justice. kwre s, no? >> i think it's possible. on the other hand, we all have to remember this is a pattern, a history that certainly has existed before the president got in the white house and is continuing today how president trump deals with lawyers, his lawyers. so the fact that this is the way that he is dealing with this

lawyer may simply refrequent a history, a practice and perhaps not the intent. as we saw from the response yesterday, he is becoming immune to it. he's used to it. he is going to continue to remain in that position. again, as to whether or not -- it's not surprising that bob mueller is looking into these kinds of actions because they are somewhat unusual, particularly in the face of an ongoing investigation that we have today. i'm not sure the evidence is there as of yet. but bob mueller knows a lot more about the facts than i do. >> the problem is the more the president tries to erode confidence in these institutions and the democracy, when they do come out with a report from the i.g. about phi is sa, when the doj does want to act on something, the confidence of the

public may be shaken. let me ask you something. on paper, the idea that jared kushner took meetings in the white house that resulted in one way or another him getting close to half a billion dollars in bones for his family's private enterprise, obviously political common sense tells you don't take a meeting like that at the white house. don't do that when you're working for the united states. but what could the potential implications of that be? >> well, of course there are possible violations of conflict of interest. but you're absolutely right, at the beginning, everyone is vetted at the senior staff level. the counsel has a conversation with senior members of the team to understand what their financial situation is, make them understand what their legal and ethical obligations are, what the expectations of the president is with respect to their ethical conduct. for example, if karl rove was involved in this kind of situation, he would have come to me and said this is the situation. is there a problem here. i would have given the advice

that, no, while it may not be legally or ethically a problem -- >> how is it not ethically a problem? if they give you a larger than usual book for their own portfolio, how is that not a problem? >> i'm not saying that. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> the appearance is bad. this is why we are talking about it today. and this is would have been something we would have handled from the outset to this would not have occurred. >> he doesn't ask for a loan with a private enterprise while

as attorney general or in that capacity. >> no one is going to give a loan in that amount, chris, to start with. but absolutely not. you have enough sense. your antenna immediately goes up. it just doesn't look right. it doesn't smell right. so you just don't do it. >> if it is such an apparent consideration you have to ask why did he do this? alberto gonzales, your perspective is always helpful. thank you for being on the show as always. >> thanks, chris. >> be well. coming up in minutes, we will speak with form or white house communications director anthony scaramucci. he will make a case to you next. coming up later in the program, a panel of gun owners half of whom who have second thoughts about their own weapons, including their ar-15s since the parkland massacre. >> i know why you want them. they make a lot of noise. they shoot a lot of bullets. very macho gun.

it's cool looking. i understand why they want them. but nobody can tell me why you need it. >> you don't have to need it. it is your constitutionally protected right. >> watch what happens when gun owners express concerns about their own guns.

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i spent the day in parkland, florida yesterday with students as they returned to their high school, marjory stoneman

douglas, who for the first time since a gunman murdered 17 of their friends and teachers. then we checked in with them on their way out of school and their experience being back in the building. they said how much has changed in the two weeks since they have been gone. including for some, their mission and their hair. >> how did it go today? >> it was good. really quiet, really laid back today. >> they're helping us heal. there was a lot of tears. >> it was nice to be with everyone again. the quicker we get back to things the better. therapy dogs helped a lot. that was nice. and the teachers are being really supportive and helpful. we're just coming back together as a family again. >> it was hard walking into my classrooms again and seeing my teachers and my friends and also walking to my classroom where i lost my friend. and just seeing her desk there

empty, knowing she will never be back. >> how will you cope with that? >> i will just have to distract myself and try to move on and know that she would want me to live a happy life and know that she is in a better place now. >> ever since everything happened, joaquin, obviously, you know, had bleach blonde hair. i looked at myself in the mirror and i thought i kind of want to make a change. i just bleached my hair. we're remembering him for who he was. he dyed his hair blonde. we said, okay, that's a good way to remember him and respect him. >> how are you guys going to move forward? >> i think i will be more positive and live my life a little more full for them instead of letting it drive me down. >> i have become an activist in every sense of the word.

i don't want this to happen in other schools. i'm going to make sure i feel safe, my friends feel safe. we will make sure we talk about mental health, common sense gun control, and make sure something actually changes in this country. >> do you have the energy to keep it up? >> yes, i do. the nra and everyone is betting we he won't have the energy, but we will have the energy. we're teenagers. >> what happens to the movement now that you are back at school? you're kids. you're going to be busy. what happens now? >> it's going to be difficult. we're obviously in school and we do a lot of stuff out of school. but teachers are behind us. they know what we're doing and they're really helpful with that. i think because we have the support with our teachers and parents it won't be that much of a challenge to keep working on the movement.

we want change to happen. i know it doesn't happen fast. there are more things that can be done. we are taking one step at a time. >> do you feel a sense of satisfaction? >> we don't feel like some people call us heroes. we're just doing this for us so it doesn't happen to my younger brother who is 12 years old who will come here in two years. we don't want it to happen to anyone else. that's really what we're fighting for. >> i liked that one kid -- i said how are you going to have the energy? he said of course we'll have the energy. we're teenagers. >> it's true. look, they are the impetus, they are not the end point. they shouldn't be held to account for the solutions and getting them enforced. that's for others to do. >> sure. and i think they know that. they still feel energized and activated. obviously we will follow their progress. >> you have to. otherwise, people will forget. >> definitely. and that would be tragic. thanks to international viewers for watching. if you cnn "newsroom" is next.

for our u.s. viewers, "new day" continues right now. >> hope is one of the people who really, really trusted. >> he's going to feel like he's on an island. >> this looks to me more like a white house in disarray. >> the president berated her for being dishonest. >> she is talking about leaving. i wouldn't blame her. >> he tried to oust jeff sessions. >> i wouldn't stay at all. i wouldn't be anybody's whipping b boy. >> that's what mueller is trying to get at. >> take the guns first. go through due process second. >> due process must be respected. we stressed this to the president. >> background checks work. we want it and we can't do it. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to our "new