>> thank you. we are following a lot of news on this monday morning. let's get right to it. >> this is not what this country needs to re-establish any global stature. >> we want fair and reciprocal trade. >> you want to do these kinds of things with a scalpel not a chain saw. >> they're all talking about internal staff struggles and not talking about their agenda. >> he only creates half the drama, the other half is caused by staff killing each other. >> if i may be so honored to have all the female nominees stand with me -- >> it's this possibility of the status quo not having the status quo any longer. >> the changes are being driven by the powerful sound of new voices finally saying, times up. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. it's monday march 5th, 8:00 in the east. alisyn is off.

erica hill is joining us. president trump defending his decision to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum despite fierce resistant. he's tying those tariffs to issues with canada and mexico. they will come off if the new nafta deals is signed. could they hurt republicans in the mid-term elections? >> the white house is down playing reports that the gary cohn is reported to leave. jared kushner would even be in the room when the president meets the israeli today at the white house. we begin with caitlin collins live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning. president trump seems to be welcoming the idea of a potential trade war and rebuffing the concerns of those u.s. allies who are worried that those proposed tariffs could have severe impact.

but according to the president the united states has been on the losing end of those global trade deals for just too long. >> the president was quite clear. we can't have a country that can defend itself and prosper without an aluminum and steel industry. >> reporter: the trump administration defending its stiff proposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum despite threats of reta willation from key american allies who will be disproportionately hurt by the policy. >> sure they may well be some sort of retaliation but the amounts that they're talking about are also pretty trivial. >> reporter: white house adviser peter navarro telling cnn the president isn't planning on issuing any exemptions. >> as soon as you exempt one with country, then you have to exempt another country and so, it's a slippery slope. >> reporter: british prime minister theresa may calling mr. trump sunday to express deep concerns after officials from the european union vowed to

impose taxes on u.s. goods, including harley-davidson motorcycles, bourbon whiskey and jeans. president trump appearing undeterred responding by threatening to tax european cars and tweeting, steel and aluminum industries are dead. sorry. it's time for a change. but mr. trump's advisers appearing to leave room for the president to change his mind. >> whatever his final decision is, is what will happen. what he has said he has said. if he says something different, it'll be something different. i have no reason to think he's going to change. >> reporter: a number of republicans speaking out publicly against the president's proposal. >> this trade wars and dividing us from our allies makes no sense. >> china is winning and we're losing with this tariff regime. you're letting china off the hook. you're punishing the american consumer and our allies. you're making a huge mistake here. >> reporter: on the heels of a chaotic week, the president making light of it telling

attendees, i like chaos. it really is good. now the question everyone keeps asking is, who is going to be the next to leave? steve miller or melania? and taking a jab at his embattled son-in-law, before i get started i want to apologize for arriving a little bit late. you know, we're late tonight because jared couldn't get through security. the president also joking that vice president mike pence starts out each morning asking everyone, quote, has he been impeached yet? mr. trump making light of china's decision to scrap presidential term limits in a conversation with donors saturday. >> he's now president for life. hey, look, he was able to do that. i think it's great. we want to give that a shot some day. >> reporter: now the president and the first lady will welcome the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu and his wife here to the white house today and it's worth noting that there are no scheduled photo opportunities at the moment but one thing to keep your eye on is if jared kushner is going to be

involved in that meeting after he was stripped of his top secret national security clearance last week. >> that's the rub. the president can give that kind of classification. it's really anyone he wants. it'll be interesting if he bucks kelly's own determination but there's a lot of politics there. thank you very much. joining us now josh green and jonathan martin. good to have you. erica just did this great interview with steven moore. he and larry cudlow and another economist got together to put their conservatism on display. this is the wrong thing for trump to do. jonathan martin, why is the president doing it any way? >> because he is a long time believer in protectionism. if you look at the arch of his public life, the one consistent view he has had is on the fact that america is somehow getting hosed when it comes to its trading, that we need to get

even or even get revenge with some of the folks reportedly taking advantage of this. this goes back to the early 1980s back then. the bad guy was japan and korea but now it's china or the eu. this is consistent trump, but this is the one real moment where substance actively he appears to be bumping up against conservative orthodoxy. moore saying the vast majority of gop members of congress feel the same way. you don't start trade wars. this is a -- it is who trump is and it's always has been. >> i like steven moore saying to you my advice to the other countries is don't retaliate because you know how trump is. he may double down. really? that's what other countries should take into consideration. this guy may go crazy on us so we won't protect our interests. >> we'll suck it up and go with it.

>> in terms of retaliation that's a big question. we saw the reaction of the eu. peter navarro was just asked what about retaliation, here's what he said? >> who cares? we got the politicians. everybody in the swamp is rising up against it. at the end of the day, we're geing a bad deal and the president has said quite clearly and quite correctly that these countries around the world running huge trade surpluses with us, we're shifting our wealth offshore, taking our jobs and factories and all we're trying to do with our trade policy is to get a fair and level playing field. >> so josh, does that back snier. >> i'll tell you who cares, mitch mcconnell cares and paul ryan cares because the european krun were looking to applying retaliatory tariffs on bourbon and harley-davidson motorcycles which are made in wisconsin in paul ryan's district. the idea that you can slap these

kind of tariffs, broad tariffs without any harmful retaliatory measures that will have real effects on american workers and consumers is folly. part of what's so upsetting to mainstream economists about these tariffs is not the fact that trump imposed tariffs at all but how broad they are. these tariffs hit mainly hit u.s. allies. if you look at importers of steel to the u.s., two of the top three are canada and south korea, both u.s. allies. china isn't even in the top ten. if you look at the aluminum tariffs, they hit canada hardest. they hit russia harder than they hit china. so part of the frustration here is that it's this ad hoc broad brush approach that isn't even really going to hit the countries that most deserved to be slapped with tariffs. >> trade imbalance.

we don't have a trade imbalance with canada if you take into services and metrics that they look at and automation is the big reason we're losing manufacturing jobs. and the president keeps ignoring that, what's your point? >> peter in that clip was talking about how the swamp is rising up against this. sure, there is a bipartisan consensus that trade wars and tariffs are generally bad. there's an important point to make here. the trump coalition across basically the entire american south is going to be against this. here's why? those states in the south depend upon agriculture and auto making in a huge way. if you drive through basically the scc you'll find european or an asian automaker in every state starting in south carolina going all the way to mississippi. those are foreign automakers but those are american jobs. what do you think the eu is going to do if we do these kind of tariffs and the impact at those auto plants across trump

country? the governors in those states in trump allies will be put in a tough spot. >> not only is it those jobs, we know since this was first announced, this is a tax on american families in that op ed from steven moore and others in terms of what they called a regressive tax on low-income families. so in some ways, the president has to balance, yes, i'm keeping a campaign promise, yes, i said i'll protect the steel industry and, yet the broader impact on millions and millions of americans, their jobs and the things they pay for, how does that weigh out that it's better to go for the campaign promise and 140,000 jobs, skrosh? >> one of the frustrations among orthodox republican politicians and also economists on wall street, this doesn't seem to have been carefully weighed out the pros and cons. one of the other groups that's going to be hardest hit are farmers and agriculture communities.

farmers are some of the biggest u.s. exporters who primarily are in the kind of rural areas in red states that voted overwhelming for trump. so i think the knock on effects of these tariffs could come back and really hit trump voters hard and trump areas and we're heading into a mid-term election if the effects of these things start to be felt, if the narrative around this becomes -- not that i'm standing up for steel and aluminum companies but imposing all kinds of taxes and job loss on my own base voters, could be yet another problem the republicans -- >> the big fact for people to remember we have a lot more workers that are in factories and in businesses that have to buy these materials than those that produce -- i want to ask you about a different topic but you can talk about whatever you want. this big meeting with netanyahu today, do you think jared kushner is at that meeting?

>> i think it's possible. i'm not sure. >> it's possible i lose weight in the next two days. it's not probable, though. what do you think? >> yeah. i'll give the fact that his portfolios bringing peace to the holy land my guess is yes. >> these are highly confidential situations. it would raise that question of whether or not he has the clearance to go to the meeting, josh? good job. well played. >> clearly they've had a face-to-face meeting. now whether that was because jared doesn't have the security clearance, i couldn't know. i would expect him to be there just by virtue of the fact that he's supposed to be the administration's chief middle east peace negotiator. >> that's what i just said. who knows? >> he's got to be there, exactly. >> of course, there's no photo op. there are a lot of questions that likely neither official

there feels like addressing at the moment, so -- >> it just goes to chaos again. you put john kelly, you deal with the security clearance. then he has this big meeting and if his son-in-law is there he waived away all of this new strictness, so it's chaotic. there it is. josh, jonathan, thank you very much. so could president trump's decision on tariffs and his position on guns turn off conservative voters? we discuss next. so we know hot anything. even a "red-hot mascot." [mascot] hey-oooo! whoop, whoop! [crowd 1] hey, you're on fire! [mascot] you bet i am! [crowd 2] dude, you're on fire! [mascot] oh, yeah! [crowd 3] no, you're on fire! look behind you. [mascot] i'm cool. i'm cool. [burke] that's one way to fire up the crowd. but we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪

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tariffs are good. raising the age for buying weapons. that's good. these both came from president trump. they fight conservative orthodoxy and then you have this political concern of the chaos in the white house. what are conservatives to do? let's ask one. matt schlapp the chairman of the conservative union. good to see you. >> you too. >> what chaos? make the case for why there's no chaos in the white house and while matt does that i want you to run our list we have of all the zany stuff that has been going on in just the last week. you tell me, why is there no chaos? >> there's a lot of activity and energy and announcements coming from the white house. i think the news media seems to be focused very much on some kind of chaos amongst the personnel at the white house and of course there are stories there too. i find my interactions to be pretty level in that they have a

good system. there is no question that this president wants to see activity and especially when you see republicans and congress especially in the senate moving at that slow glacial pace, i think that makes president trump uneasy. he wants to push his agenda every day. >> i understand what he wants to do but this is about the method and the madness. there's two parts to the expression and i don't know how you can look at this white house just in all the talent they've sweated in one year alone, matt. we've never seen anything like this. we've never seen the amount of scandals, the amount of turnover, the amount of drama, of all these different levels. how can you deny that reality? >> i agree with you that especially this white house started off that way, but i think under general kelly, i think things have gotten more orderly -- >> we just had the porter scandal. kelly's right in the middle of it saying he didn't know these things which is so hard to believe, matt. >> i don't think you should call

the general a liar, i don't think that's appropriate. >> did you hear that word come out of my mouth? >> you used the euphemism. it's hard to believe had a he's saying. >> if i want to call you a liar i'll do it right to your face and they'll be a smile on mine. it's about the fact, the fbi reports that the white house counsels office, they have plenty of reasons to know, then the situation starts to come out. it's all rhein. if it happened in another administration you'd pb gone nuts. >> let's look at the facts. there's no question the general said we haven't covered ourselves in glory over how they've handled this. the way they set up the clearance process at the very beginning of who got what level was clearly flawed. they're fixing a problem and it's, you know, once again, he inherited a white house that decided to say we'll take the conventions and the rules that other administrations usually followed and we're going to do it our way. what you see is that there was some rational for previous

policies so that you didn't get into these problems and they're trying to iron those out. >> ewe're making the same point tarif tariffs. you with the president on that? let's slap some tariffs and see what it does? >> we'll look at it carefully. the aspect of this which did not get teased out very well over the weekend is the national security impact on the fact that we have so few factories and there are some high level military industrial complex needs that come from especially the aluminum and steel industries and we have to make sure we're not just going to be relying on overseas importers of these products. there's an aspect of this conservatives want to hear out. a tariff is a tax and that means the consumers pay more for consumer goods. the other side of that is donald trump wouldn't be the president today if he didn't have a

position when it comes to these big trade arrangements. he has a different point of view than what republicans have run on in the past and it's one of the reasons why he won in states like wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania. >> but his promise was to make the deals better. >> he did. >> not to create more stress for the american workers which you would argue that's what tariffs would do. let's be very clear. >> i don't know about that. >> we'll discuss it in a second. just to get the premise right, the president has to make a national security case for these tariffs because that's what triggers the legislation that gives him the power, section 232 is obviously reflective of legislation that puts that in there. so it's not that, you know, let's just keep the apple and the cart in the right way in terms of how it's going, the horse and the cart. now in terms of substance of. >> if they'll make the argument on the national security grounds, they need to have their prominent security voices out there. >> and they don't. >> i think conservatives

definitely are giving donald trump the benefit of the doubt on most things because on the things they care the most about, you know, he's batting near 1,000. ronald reagan used these authorities. george w. bush used these authorities. this is not something that is unusual for republican presidents to use -- >> what happened with bush when he did the tariffs in 2000? >> eventually the wto ruled them ill-legitimate. >> right. >> the point was made which is the following, which is at what point do presidents stand up for american industries and that is a very legitimate question. i mean the wto hasn't exactly been the most favorable outfit for the american worker. i think it's okay for us to examine these questions. we have thousands of tariffs on the books as you know. they come in all shapes and sizes. it would be improperly reported to say somehow this is coming out of nowhere. we actually -- this is a tool that is a legitimate tool but we

have to be honest. it has a negative impact. >> i would differ with that. i don't think its a legitimate tool at all. we've never seen it work for u.s. labor. we've never seen a trade war work for u.s. labor. >> tariff is not a trade war. you jumped the tracks. >> i'm not. that's how you get to one is you put in a tariff, there is retaliation and now you have a war and you have people asking our partners not to retaliate because trump's unstable, you don't know had a he'll do. not a great rational. >> president trump is stable and he's been very clear -- we all have to be honest. there's clarity about his point of view on these questions that he wants to use these powers to make sure that the american worker and these american industries have a big -- >> i'm asking you because the method that he's choosing here flies in the face of conservatism and i wanted to see if you would step up about that. another one that doesn't is he position of raising the age on guns from 18 to 21. you with that? >> i'm dubious of raising the

age on gun ownership -- >> what does that mean? >> let me be clear here. people have to be able to protect themselves and i'm the father of five daughters and unfortunately, people do bad things and women are often stalked and i would hate to think that a woman who is not quite the age of 21 can't protect herself by getting the gun she needs to take care of someone and give her security. i think the question of raising the limit on guns. i want to make sure people can always protect themselves in those situations. we have a system -- basically a statewide system on the right to conceal/carry. that's an awfully important system for states to be able to continue oversee. >> if trump pushes raising the age limit does he lose conservative, or no? >> these big questions where the president had these bipartisan meetings at the white house, you know, my perspective is an individual is i want to hear what the packages are, what's in them. there could be things i very much support. there could be other things that

i think i'm less fond of. but that's the legislative process. if you want to do something on background checks and such, you might have to accept something else you don't like and it's a question of can we still do that in america? can the left and right, democrats and republicans, sit down with this president and hammer out some big questions? if i veto everything, chris, because there's one little thing in i like then we'll never get there. i think that's something we have to consider as a country on these big questions, i like the fact that president trump is saying, look, let's at least talk about them and see if we can get there. there's nothing wrong with that. >> all right. let's see how it gets and you feel about it then. >> they are dreamers living in fear. >> this is one big chess game for them. >> today was the deadline. any action in congress appears illusive. a live report on the fate of dreamers next.

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have we forgotten the dreamers, the daca, the young people who came here? they're not even in the news any more. we can't be taking these kids who have been here for 20 years and ship them out of the country

for political reasons. >> ohio governor john kasich trying to keep dreamers on the national agenda. their fate remains uncertain. today's deadline imposed by president trump passing. sara sidner is live with more. >> reporter: this was the deadline for dreamers but then the court stepped in and now it's more of a political embarrassment since all the polls that have been done on dreamers say 80% of americans say, look, we think the dreamers should have a path to stay here. now the dreamers are again in legal limbo. these are the faces of dreamers. one of 2,500 daca recipients born in india. oscar is one of 544,150 recipients born in mexico. monday was supposed to be

doomsday for the program that allows them and nearly 700,000 others to be in the united states legally. president trump set march 5th as the end of the daca program. >> i have a love for these people and hopefully now congress will be able to help them and do it properly. >> reporter: but they didn't. he says he has a heart but then he ended the program. what does that tell you? >> he has a heart that beats but that doesn't mean anything. everyone's heart can beat, but can he relate to us? >> it almost feels like -- like we're just a game. this is one big chess game for them. >> reporter: according to a lawsuit filed in new york against the department of homeland security the march 5th memo would have met 1,400 daca recipients would lose their legal status every working day but the supreme court stayed out of the dispute which allowed a fra court ruling that the memo cannot be enforced to stand while the case goes through the courts. it means daca recipients are left in limbo.

a second mother to her sister and an income earner all while attending college and dealing with pain. >> like, people think just because we're here we have all these benefits and we're leeching off the government but it's like we don't have -- half of my mouth is rotting. >> reporter: she is not eligible for government medical insurance programs or federal financial aide for school. >> i'm emotional because some days it feels like our sacrifices aren't enough and our trauma isn't enough. >> reporter: oscar was his high school class president but then his father got deported. since then he's had to work up to four jobs at a time to help his mother feed a family of six. >> i worked in the taco stand. i worked in a food restaurant. just about anything just to make sure my family has food on the table. >> reporter: now he manages work and college. when do you sleep? >> hardly ever. >> reporter: christine got into the college of her dreams.

her father tried to pay for it but that dream eventually died with no financial aid. >> every time i see him write the amounts on the check, just seeing that i just couldn't any more. >> reporter: at 25 she now works at the korean resource center hoping to make a better life for other immigrants like her. she says politicians have failed them. >> it's quite tiring, exhausting, people are playing with your life. >> reporter: and when it cops to what they do next, their next biggest deadline is their work permit deadline which comes up every couple years. they say they will continue to fight and go to washington to try to change the minds of politicians to get them to do something for the dreamers. chris? >> it's all really dicey still. the deadline was supposed to be today. it's arbitrary. they have two federal courts holding it in abeyance. those can be litigated and loss.

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this isn't just an aberration for victims. this is going to last a lifetime. constant fund-raising and impacting people in a positive way. >> smart move. lisa, back to you. what kinds of needs are you seeing? what did you expect and what did you not expect? >> yeah. when we first got our applicants applying it was clear to me that a lot of these survivors, what was happening is post traumatic stress, complete shock and trauma which brian and i know all too well and our first check was really special because there was a woman, her name's colly and she was pregnant at the event and she had to scale a ten foot wall while being shot at to survive. she had a 2-year-old at home. she was single mom. after this event she couldn't work. she was literally bedridden and basically giving up and she was one of our first recipients of

our checks and we just said, we are not going to let you fall. we are family now and we ended up making sure that she had her bills paid for, that she could just have that baby and relax and just let her know that we are family and we're not going to let anything take away that joy of having that baby after surviving such a tragic event. >> how's the baby? >> the baby's not here yet. >> but everything's going well with the pregnancy. >> the baby is fine. the pregnancy is fine and you can imagine the stress on her and we wanted to make sure that we carried her. thank you for asking and caring about that. many of the survivors we've given checks to are so special because they tell us they want to help out. they want to support us supporting other survivors. we're basically survivors helping survivors. >> lisa, what is it doing for you personally? i know you're still processing. you lived through some really horribly frightening moments of that night. what does this work do for you?

>>, you know, i felt like getting a second chance at life. i had to do something really big with my life and this really is healing and i just know that we're here for a purpose and a reason and i want to be the voice of people as well as -- if that was the night that i died, i would hope somebody would be that voice for me and want to make a difference for the world. bringing hope, support, change, strength and love is the biggest thing for me for the rest of my life, that is what my focus will be. with my team. my team is incredible. they worked tirelessly. they are -- they have full time jobs and they are putting hours and hours into this so we're really excited about other survivors helping survivors pulling together to make the world a better place. >> brian, when we met you were dealing with some heavy questions about why you're still here and what you would do with this opportunity and what this event would mean going forward now we just lived through another one. what have you come up with for

yourself in terms of answers? >> well, first off, i want to thank you publicly, chris. i've never done that. you were incredible covering the vegas shooting. you were very heart felt and genuine and that meant a lot to lisa and i and you brought lisa and i together that day, if you recall -- >> you brought kroufrz together. this is very nice of you. thank you very much. we're happy to do the job but you guys had a commonalities, you had a shared sense of purpose and sometimes horrible things even happen for a reason and you guys came together and you're helping other lives. that's what matters. have you answered any of these tougher questions because i'd love to know the answers myself? >> let me tell you this, i'm still very angry about the shooting and as i was dodging bullets and saying to myself hearing these automatic weapons, poppop poppop pop, i still hear them, man, if i do live, i have got to do something to eliminate assault weapons.

parkland, parkland happened. i didn't sleep for three nights. i could not sleep because i felt the helplessness of those kids in the classrooms, the administrators. we have no chance against assault weapons. make no mistake about it. i saw your prior guest talking about let me look at the proposal for gun control. let me speak to the country on this and for myself, as a survivor, you have no chance when you're in a shooting where there's an assault weapon. chris, i'm telling you, if we don't get gun reform through legislators then -- they already have blood on their hands in my opinion. but then we've got to go through the private sector and dick's sporting goods and i'm going to call distributors, retailers, that's going to be my next mission. i personally will call these companies and ask them to not sell assault weapons. i read an article over the weekend, stunning. a lot of people don't know that these bullets used in these

assault weapons, they are so much more devastating and destructive to your bodies. it's what called yawing. they go into your body is-chris, and they explode inside your body. i'm still angry because we live in a society, we purport to the world that we are the most civilized society in the world but we're not. we are not because we allow people access to these destructive weapons and this destructive ammunition that does nothing but ruin lives. it has to stop. >> it's a big fight and i keep teg people who are doing this, politicians, many of them are good men and women but the way their system is designed is they don't often act out of conscious, they act out of consequence. and if things don't change in terms of who votes on this issue and who doesn't, you're not going to see a lot of legislative change. we made you a promise that day when we met you, and i say we because it's not about me. you deserve to be heard. your efforts warrant being

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and what a difference a year makes to see his accusers on stage instead. ashley judd who was the lead of that original "the new york times" story on stage saying, a mighty chorus is saying times up right now and i thought it was important that these actresses are just at the beginning. change is going to take time. the most strike statistic for me from last night was that 39 people were on stage accepting awards. 39 winners of the oscars. only six of those winners were women. hollywood has a long way to go in terms of gender equality and it was very visible and obvious. >> not just gender equality but for all of the uproar that we saw over oscars so white, they are trying, right and there was talk about this. he with all need inclusion writers. we need to make sure there's diversity both on screen and behind the screen. not only was it oscar so white, we so oscar so male. there's a lot of catching up to do. >> hollywood talks the talks but doesn't walk the walk.

last night for example, jordan peele was the first black screen writer to win for "get out." an incredible movie. huge night for him. we're talking about those kinds of firsts when it comes to racial and gender parity. it's a reminder that hollywood and other industries has a long way to go. this is a self-congratulatory night. there were signs of those barriers that still need to be broken. "shape of water" won for best film. allison janney had a wonderful speech. gary oldman won as well. the issues of gender and racial equity very visible on stage. >> good to see you. thank you. time now for cnn "newsroom" with john berman. good morning, everyone. john berman here. nothing like jumping into a once in a generation trade war by the

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