i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. guess who joins "new day?" sam nunberg. we will see you tomorrow. grand jury subpoena is not an invitation to a birthday party. >> i have no problem complying. what i'm not going to do is sit her 15 hours. >> he's going to look at this, you don't show up, we will and you're going to jail. >> he has proven himself to be unstable. >> trump may have done something during te elections with the russians. >> i can't speak to the lack of knowledge he clearly has. >> i think we pretty much explored that today. >> the republican party is not willing to follow him on tariffs. >> our country on trade has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world. >> there are real consequences that he doesn't seem to appreciate. >> announcer: this is "new day". >> we want to welcome your

viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day." it is tuesday, march 6th, 6:00 a.m. in new york. how will president trump respond today to claims made by one of his former campaign aides in a series of bizarre interviews yesterday. nunberg is angry over a grand jury subpoena requiring him to turn over thousands of e-mails. it is unclear ifunbe will cooperate. what does this tells about the focus and scope of robert mueller's investigation? also, the strange interviews leading the top democrat on the house intel committee to call for nunberg to testify in front of committee. the leading republican on the committee is throwing cold water on the idea. >> the house intel probe is a partisan mess. president trump is digging in on imposing tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. house speaker ryan is speaking up, kind of.

asking the president to back away from this idea. why? because the fear is that the tariffs are in essence attacks on consumers and therefore undermine the recent tax cuts. trump says he is not backing down. president, however, in his own way may be leaving room open to back down by striking a deal with canada and mexico. we also have a new development in this stormy daniel's saga. the president's personal attorney mwas complaining that e had not been reimbursed. the bank used by cohen flagged the transaction as suspicious. we have a lot to cover. let's begin with abby phillip live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, chris. it seems that the special counsel robert mueller's investigation is taking its toll on trump associates. sam nunberg a former trump aide is becoming the first to say he

wants to defy mueller. these bizarre interviews he's given in television and print outlets left the whiteouse in a little bit of a state o shock. former trump campaign aide sam nubberg threatening to defy a grand jury subpoena to testify this friday and daring special counsel robert mueller to testify him. >> they want me over at the grand jury. screw that. why do i have to go? why? for what? >> reporter: mueller's team has subpoenaed all communications nunberg had with ten different individuals, including mr. trump. nunberg later signaling he may be open to talk. >> maybe i'll give them my e-mail password. what do i have to go -- >> then you're going to comply. >> then i would comply, yes. >> so now you're saying you might comply. >> i have no problem complying in itself. what i'm not going to do is sit,

erin, for 15 hours. >> reporter: nunberg says he's already spoken with mueller's team once, making a series of explosive claims about the investigation. >> trump may have very well done something during the elections with the russians. they know something on him. jake, i don't know what it is. perhaps i'm wrong. but he did something. >> reporter: at other times nunberg insisting the trump campaign did not collude with the russians. >> the idea that we were the man dhur yan candidate, gloria, we were a joke. everybody was laughing at us. the idea that we were colluding with the russians, give me a break. >> reporter: nunberg making this unub stan sheuated claim don j and russians promising dirt on hillary clinton. >> do you think that's true? >> no. >> you don't think that's true? >> no. jake, i've watched your news

reports. you know it's not true. he talked about her a week before. >> nunberg seemingly referencing these remarks from two days before the meeting. >> i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week. and we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. >> reporter: that speech never materialized. >> is that because the trump tower maybe didn't produce what he hoped it would produce? >> reporter: the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee telling cnn he hopes to interview nunberg about the claim but the republican leading the committee's investigation signaling otherwise. >> your expectation this is winding down? >> i said earlier, we're closer to the end than we are the beginning. >> reporter: earlier in the day, the white house rejecting nunberg's allegations. >> he hasn't worked at the white house. i can't speak to him and the lack of knowledge he clearly has. >> reporter: but inside the west wing, sources tell cnn multiple

officials were closely watching nunberg's free wheeling interviews calling them bizarre and nuts. nunberg attacks the white house press secretary in another interview. >> sarah huckabee is going to start debasing me. she's a joke. okay. fine, yeah, she's not attractive, she's a fat slob, okay, fine. that's irrelevant. the person she works for has a 30% approval rating. >> reporter: cnn's erin burnett asng nunberg very directl ste. >> tng t you. >> yeah. >> i have smelled alcohol on your breath. >> well, i have not had a drink. >> you haven't had a drink. >> no. >> so i just -- because it is the talk out there, again, i know it's awkward, let me get you the questions. you haven't had a drink today. >> my answer is no, i have not. >> anything else? >> no. >> no? >> besides my meds. >> okay. >> antidepressants, is that

okay? >> well, we should note that sam nunberg was fired by trump in 2015 and been a figure that's been off and on, in and out of this orbit for several years now. this is coming at a really awkward time, yet another headache related to this mueller investigation at the time when the eyes of the world are obviously on this white house and president trump is hosting the swedish president here at the white house today for a news conference. we're sure he'll get some questions about this and other things this afternoon when we see him. >> that does seem like a safe bet, abby. thank you very much for all the reporting. let's discuss with jeffrey tuben and john avlon. jeffrey, sam nunberg is an interesting character. >> you think? >> i do think. what it sounds like to me is that he doesn't want to have to go through the hassle of turning over thousands and thousands of pages of e-mails and correspondents with former campaign officials. he doesn't want to have to do that. at some point he said to erin, i'll just give robert mueller my

password and let them do it. >> right. >> he could probably do that actually. >> then he avoids jail time, right? if he refuses to turn over what robert mueller is asking, then he does face jail time. >> and refuses to testify. this is not just a subpoena for documents. this is a subpoena for his personal appearance. >> what if his counsel puts in a suggestion that he'll plead the fifth. >> then it's all over. then the controversy goes away -- >> not to be a human bucket of cold water on all this delicious -- >> mr. wet blanket. go on. >> if they then -- then he can't refuse to testify on the grounds of taking the fifth. so that would delay the confrontation, but it wouldn't necessarily eliminate him. >> why would you immunize such a side bar guy with such limited knowledge? >> all the more reason to immunize him. you're not giving up a prosecution. >> you're not worried about setting a precedent with more serious people coming in.

i want that too otherwise i won't speak. >> only the best people. this was a spectacular rolling meltdown. this was the full nunberg. he was not well. >> the full nunberg. >> that will live on. >> but he really was not well. and i think the question what's motivating him? loyalty for roger stone. were there outside elements affecting imiringis judgment? he says no. viewers might come to a different conclusion. >> when you say he's not well, he's angry. he says he was mistreated by trump. he says he was treated terribly. he's angry. he wants to tell his story. so, you know. >> look, he was able to get on every network on the world yesterday. but i don't think this was somebody who was making decisions from a strategic perspective. this was more impulse control issues. he's close to roger stone. and he says he's motivated -- >> there was a serious element

to this, which was mueller is asking about roger stone and hacked e-mails. the 13 defended case that was indicted a couple weeks ago was the case about russian manipulation of social media. mueller has done nothing yet about the hacked e-mails. he hasn't charged any russians. he hasn't charged any americans. i think the fact that he wants to talk to nunberg now about stone and hacked e-mails suggests mueller is moving on to a possible case against someone and not necessarily stone to be sure but against the people who hacked john podesta's e-mails and hacked the dnc e-mails and that would be very significant. >> you see the focus there because he's asking for is this correspondence. >> correct. >> that's an important point. the white house can credibly say, look, he never worked here. he only worked on the campaign early on and is a stone prodigy. the play is what does roger stone know?

roger stone has been connected with wikileaks. he denied it different times. there's been evidence otherwise. and the dnc hack. if it's a play towards that, that becomes very significant and nberg could have evidence. >> let's assume it's real, why woul we come to that conclusion when it's such a big group of people that may or may not have anything to do with e-mails? >> because we know more than just the subpoena. we know the office interview he had with mueller's office where he talked about the kinds of questions he was asked and he keeps saying, they're out to get roger stone and i'm not going to help them get roger stone. >> he also said they have something on trump and said stuff about carter page. >> he says that mueller thinks trump is the candidate. i discount that completely. he has no idea what mueller thinks. he does know what questions he

was asked. he was asked questions about roger stone. his only real connection is to the whole matter of hacked e-mails. and that is the next subject logically that mueller would be turning to. >> well, now lots of people think that sam nunberg is the key to something and may hold some answers. adam schiff of the house intel committee is intrigued. this is what he said yesterday about wanting nunberg. >> that speaks he teed up, take place after the trump tower meeting, he never gave. is that because the trump tower meeting didn't produce what he hoped it would produce? we don't know. but certainly mr. nunberg has light to shed on what the president knew before the trump tower meeting, we would be interested in finding out. >> that is an interesting point. you know, we never know -- we never found out -- he did hype up this big meeting about all -- this big speech about hillary

clinton's misdeeds and then the speech never happened. now, it could be just that the chaos of the trump campaign the speech didn't happen. but the timing does suggest that the failure of the trump tower meeting to produce incriminating information may have had something to do with it. sam nunberg didn't work for the campaign at that time. so how he would know that is hard to fathom. >> that's why it's arguably a bank shot to stone. stone is not working with the campaign either but a long-standing relationship is a stock and trade, one of the more colorful people on the fringes of politics. that is clearly sort of the larger game. does he have evidence? does he have communications with stone that maybe shed light on the larger questions. >> look, my interest in this guy is that let's assume he knows nothing about any of these things and everything he is saying is nonsense. >> yeah. >> okay. still, he is a great window into who trump had around him in a very formative phase.

josh green's book, right, we'll recall -- you heard this before but the context is sharper for you now that you've been introduced to nunberg, he and stone and bannon were the fundamental group that came up with the wall as a way to keep trump as a candidate on track and talking about immigration because they knew that immigration was making the base they were trying to access. >> they came up with the wall. roger stone and i came up with the wall, according to nunberg. initially trump seemed indifferent to the idea. but in january 2005 he tried it at the iowa freedom soummit. i will build a wall and the place went nuts. >> the line works, but it's not good enough. why? because it's not about him. warming to the concept, trump waited a beat and then added a flourish that brought down the house. nobody, he said, builds like trump. and then once he heard applause for his name, boom, he was in baby. that's all we heard for the next 14 months.

>> thus american policy is made. >> so nunberg, you want to sub miss him. >> and the presidency he was fundamental, not just the campaign. >> the guy you saw on tv yesterday the guy who birthed this entire idea. >> they want to gaslight the president and the white house with this. this was not a good day. the rolling reality show set up by the president, late in the season 1 unexpected character reemergen reemergence. >> i only hire the best, only the best. if the guy had a pet monkey on his shoulder, he would be more legitimate. >> that is a great addition for season 2. gentlemen, thank you. >> can't make it up. can't make it up. esident trump refusing to

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what we're dealing with trump and the tariffs. we know that it was supposed to be bait. but the president is refusing to back down on these tariffs on steel and aluminum impos. what is the real chance that there's any progress on a deal? we now have the speaker, paul ryan, getting involved. he said he's worried about a trade war. will the president listen to ryan, a growing chorus of republicans? it would be a first. let's bring back john avlon and joining us now jackie kucinich. good to see you. >> like wise. >> great to hear about the baby. why am i being skeptical like that? because they have come to trump before and said, this is a bad idea. don't do this. and you can fill in the blank with 15 or 20 different things. he has done it any way every time as far as we know. do you think that ryan and others saying don't do the tariffs. we'll find another way. don't do this. you screw up our tax breaks yorks you screw up everything. >> it's hard to say. he has gary cohen coming at him this week with executives that

would be affected by an aluminum and steel tariff. we'll see. who is going to be the last person in the room with him, which we know. but it's not necessarily untrue, right? >> no, it's not at all. it's an absurd way to make policy. >> but here is the problem, all congressional leaders can do is talk at this point because this is legitimate presidential power. they can in theory pass something brand new, have him veto it. but this congress, that's a tall order. >> if he makes the national security case. >> if he does. >> that's their back door, he only has these 232 powers under this 1960 whatever law if he shows it's national security. >> sure. >> notably that was the argument essentially they were making on the sunday shows. nation needs the ability to produce its own steel or aluminum otherwise we're at a disadvantage from a national security perspective. trump is pretty dug in. ryan is trying to find a spine on this issue. but his number one issue is deficit and debt and he rolled over on that.

so why is this the one you want to fight and die on. a trade war on top of tax cuts, on top of heated economy, that's a bad -- perfect storm. >> here is how paul ryan himself puts it. this is the statement he put out for a spokeswoman. we are extremely worried about the consequences of a trade war are and urging the white house to not advance with this plan. the new tax plan has boosted the economy and don't want to jeopardize those claims. insidehe white house, president trump was a little skiddish after watching the turmoil of the stock markets but then on monday the stock markets seemed to rebound and recover. >> but it rebounded because the market -- who knows. but it seemed that less likely that this was going to happen the way trump outlined it would and then the markets rebounded. >> well, he was encouraged by that sign so now he is back at the tariff table. >> right. that's again why you have these congressional leaders. they will probably look at him and bring charts.

that's one way that advisers communicate with him. >> is that the polite way of saying they'll use crayons and construction paper. >> chart, charts. i didn't say puppet show. >> i imagine they're a little more sophisticated than that, but i've been told they use charts to explain things to him sometimes. when you look at the midterm elections. let's take my home state of ohio. someone like a brown is on board with the president. he has a race like someone like mike dewine. >> we talked to michigan, epicenter of these issues. she said that she wasn't sure yet how to feel about it. she had to study it more, but would this plan bring back steel plants? >> it helps democrats. >> they're not going to pull a lazarus on an entire industry which has been in retreat since 1980, but in you look at the

core states that trump flipped to win, wisconsin, michigan, ohio, iowa where he had huge gains, these are states with huge manufacturing bases. a lot of the elected reps to jackie's point want to see this kind of action. puicans s't be surprised. he ran on a protectionist platform. they just assumed they would be able to win them over by being the last person in the room. he is sticking to his guns on this and there's a political base playing argument to suggest it's a good idea. it's a violation of everything the republicans believe in. >> it's odd that he's playing to a democratic issue and going against his own party. it's all based on something that's just not true which is it's tariffs. it's trade imbalances that have drained our manufacturing jobs. it's automation. that's what's drained the jobs. and it feels like he's setting people up for disappointment by saying if i do this, the jobs will come back. it's just not likely. >> that's what you'll hear.

he's going to hear from these executives presumably from car companies and the like that are saying, you know, not only that, this is going to hurt jobs that are already here. he's talking about taxes on european cars as a way to retaliate. well, if you drive through the south, there are just off the top of my head, mercedes, bmw. >> greensville, south carolina. >> totally. those are all american jobs making european cars. not to mention all the parts that are steel and aluminum and everything. so i think that's what he's going to hear from other job creators. now, you're right. there is this sticking point because he promised to bring back the steel industry and fulfilling campaign promises that he made on the stump have been very important to the president and some of his advisers who will hold him to that. saying, you made this promise. and you need to deliver to the forgotten man. >> yeah. look, youngtown, ohio, where my mother is from, he flips it, it goes hard for him. the absence of the steel mill gutted those towns.

it gives them hope. the real undeines a.i. and what's the resnse for working folks who are poise to be more pain because of that. where's the policy to deal with that. >> he could have given them a real tax cut. that's how he sold the tax cuts. this is a middle class tax cut. you can't find an economist who says this is a middle class tax cut. he didn't do that. i just feel like i don't get what the long-term play is for him here. they'll know real soon whether or not this changes their lives. next topic, stormy daniels. natural segue. so, it turns out that the bank that michael cohen used to transfer $130,000 to her flagged this as a suspicious transfer because it was suspicious. >> right. >> so michael cohen we also know had complained from reporting that he was never reimbursed. so other than michael cohen being out $130,000, does this story advance? does this story make a dent

anywhere? >> you know, depends on if -- i know common cause left leaning group has asked for a doj to look into this because it could have been considered an inkind donation. >> violating campaign laws. if it does change the outcome of the election and you could argue that's why they paid her in order to change the outcome of the election because people might have been swayed. >> it doesn't have to work. if you show that trump knew about this and that it was done in order to help the campaign, doesn't matter. >> why doesn't he have to know? couldn't michael cohen know? >> michael cohen said he did this because of my own desire to help trump. >> so he broke campaign laws. >> what's significant is that what this report says is that cohen delayed payments because he was trying to get in touch with trump and it was hard during the final days of the campaign. that's new information. that connects trump. >> if true. he says it's not true.

s answer were two words. fake news. >> of course. that's also code for uncomfortable fact. let's just be real. >> i like that reckoning, just for our own purposes. >> here is the other major issue behind this. who in their right behind believes that michael cohen purely on his own, out of the goodness of his heart decides to give a six-figure sum to a porn star. there's no scenario where that happens absent of trying to shut somebody up or come up with a credible one for me. >> it's okay to want to shut the person up and that's why you did it. >> before he ran for president. >> try to protect donald trump. >> right. >> donald trump doesn't have to know about that. >> but it's to protect him to cover something up that could be politically damaging and also the information -- >> that's why cohen says he did it. >> cohen is saying that he believes stormy daniel's denial. he was just suring things up. the question, he is out $130,000

and trump isn't -- >> because he believes in trump and trump has been so good to his family. this is what he says as to why. could that be untrue? you would have to show. you would have to show that trump knew that trump said he was going to pay him back. >> for what? >> good question. >> we'll discuss in the break. this is not important enough to warrant more time. >> thank you. there is major breaking news. that's why we're cutting this conversation short. the north is saying -- this is korea we're talking about -- will north korea halt nuclear missile tests even temporarily in favor of talks? we have a live report with new information out of seoul next.

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we do have some breaking news to report right now. south korean officials have announced that north korea would halt nuclear and missile tests if it can hold talks with the united states. cnn's andrew stevens is live in

seoul for us with all of the breaking details. tell us about this development, andrew. >> reporter: this is a significant step forward, alisyn. it really is. this is coming from the blue house, the part of the president's house in south korea. from that recent meeting in pyongyang which kim jong-un was himself at and there's a series of points. it says the north is committed to denuclearization of the korean peninsula. committed to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and says there's no reason to retain a nuclear program if the threat to north korea is resolved and north korea's security is guaranteed. listen to this, they expressed a willingness to talk with the united states in an open-ended dialogue to discuss the issue of denuclearization and to normalize relations be with north korea and that's what plays into while those discussions are going on, there is going to be no resumption of strategic provocations like the

nuclear tests we saw last year, like the missile tests we saw last year. they will be off while there are talks on going with the u.s. there's also going to be a summit meeting between the two leaders of north and south korea. that is going to be towards the end of april. this is also interesting having a summit meeting, going to be the third one that the two countries have had. but the last one was back in 2017. there is a major step forward, a breakthrough in the deadlock between north/south korea and of course the united states. so, chris, this is significant news. we're jt waiting to get further details. >> absolutely. whether or not is even true in terms of north korea's promise, this is progress for the trump administration enable to coax a little bit of a step toward some type of discussion rather than just threats. thank you very much. appreciate the reporting. bad weather to talk about. another nor'easter about to slam the east coast, parts of new

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happening with democrats in that deep red state. cnn's ed lavandera is live in texas with more. tell us about it, ed. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. democrats here in texas once again talking about a blue wave taking over this state. people are skeptical of that in a lot of circles, but over the last few months little known congressman from el paso turns out has raised a lot more money than republican senator ted cruz in the senatorial race. cruz still has more than a million dollars of cash on hand, but nonetheless, this striking news of this little known congressman outraising ted cruz is making this race a lot more interesting. >> hey, everybody! >> robert o'rourke has campaigned in almost every one of the 254 counties in texas, even in places we're finding a democrat is harder than hunting big foot. >> this community voted for donald trump 73%. not the place you expect to see a democrat in the first place.

>> why do you hit those places where the likelihood of you getting many v is pretty slim. >> listen, my philosophy is everyone deserves to be heard. it's to my benefit to listen to every single texan that i seek to represent. >> i share the story of el paso. >> reporter: o'rourke started in politics as a city councilman in 2005, elected in congress in 2012 and around town is simply known as -- o'rourke faces a daunting task. this was the sea of red in texas after the 2016 presidential election. president trump won by nine points. lloyd benson was the last democrat to win a texas senate seat, the grainy video gives away that was a long time ago. >> texas highways are littered with the political careers of democrats who thought they could win in this state, right? >> yeah. >> what makes you different? >> they're also really strong

memories of people like lbj. >> reporter: here o'rourke tells the story of campaigning in a small town that hasn't seen a senator there in 70 years. he's banking on the idea that if he can meet you face to face, he'll win your vote. >> so listen, that doesn't mean that we win. it just means that we're getting back to our roots of how we used to win. the way that we used to run campaigns when we were successful. ♪ >> reporter: bento o'rourke wasn't a politician back there, he was road tripping around texas to his own sound track as the shaggy-haired guitarist of a punk rock band. >> we were able to track this down. >> i love it. >> this took a lot of work. >> yeah. good for you. there are only 500 made. >> only 500 made. >> o'rourke says he brought that punk rock spirit to this campaign. >> we're not doing the corporate stuff.

the dnc, the dfcc, the pa, corporations, special interests. it's just us. this is as punk rock as it gets. >> reporter: without much help from the democratic party, he's gone to social immediate y. >> good morning from tyler, texas. >> reporter: live streaming the campaign every chance he gets. >> we don't have folks who produce slick messages for us. we have an iphone and it's a late model iphone at that. >> reporter: how crucial has that social media aspect of your campaign been to your success? >> it's great. it's the most direct, honest way to connect with people short of actually being there in their community with them in person. >> reporter: the el paso congressman supports providing legal status to many undocumented migrants, legalizing marijuana, pro choice, supports a ban on assault weapons, not the kind of issues that get strong support in texas. and republican ted cruz seizes

on that every chance he gets. >> they would love to see the state of texas have a proamnesty, liberal democrat represent it. now, i don't think those are the values of texans. >> reporter: republicans who seen him campaign, tim o'hare, a republican county chairman aren't nervous. >> i know democrats like to think they've got a chance and they do this every two years. >> bento is going to lose. it's the same song, different dance. ♪ >> bento o'rourke knows making punk rock mainstream in texas isn't easy, but he'll head out on the road again hoping to make it happen. now, we requested an interview of ted cruz on this piece. his spokesperson said they would not be able to schedule an interview with us for it. democrats the idea of the blue wave, republicans highly skeptical they say it's hard to imagine a blue wave when they have yet to manage to turn this

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you've been following what's happening in west virginia. there's a state-wide teachers strike there. nine days in. you have about 227,000 kids, maybe even more, who haven't been in school all that time. it's not just about the school, it's about food. so many of the kids in that state, i think 1 in 4 live under the poverty line. so that free breakfast, that free lunch matters.ion leaders will continue indefinitely until

teachers get a 5% pay raise. joining me is president of the west virginia education. good to have you, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> tell me if what we have right and what we have wrong. my understanding is that the legislature down there, you had the house put through 5%. the governor said 5%. then the senate came back and said no 4% and now you're at impasse. are those the simple politics? >> well, we have a conference committee right now going on. there's three senators and three house members who are trying to work out the compromise deal. the compromise is simple, it's 5%. it's what was promised and it's what we'll take. but let me make one thing clear, as soon as we announced that the work action was going to take place, teachers and service professionals across the state started working with churches and other community leaders to make sure that our kids had food. our teachers and service professionals are feeding kids

throughout the day. they're making sure that they have food for their backpacks full of food on the weekends and now it's extended over the week. we're providing some day care for parents who are having trouble getting day care. our teachers and service professionals are doing what they do everyday and that's rgia.g care of the kids of west >> understood. we've seen the video. and it's very important aspect of this. so thank you for relaying that to the audience. the question becomes, what is this about? what has changed that makes this fight so important to the union? >> well, there's so much distrust of the legislature and the senate has shown in their actions for the past three days why that distrust is there. we've been promised for years and years and years to make education the forefront. our governor decided to make an investment in education. our house decided to make an investment in education. and it's right now two senators

who are preventing the students of west virginia from being back in the classroom. >> what is it about? just about the amount of money? is this about money and salaries? is this about health care costs? what is creating the urgency on your side? >> well, it really has been four issues throughout the whole time. it's the salary. we're 48th in the nation in pay. it's our health care. we've seen rising costs go on. it's anti-education bills that are being introduced in the legislature. and it's the attacks on the union. the health care, the anti-education legislation and the attacks on the union have all been addressed and taken care of. we have a task force that will begin actually in two weeks on the 13th of march to really look at our health care plan and make recommendations and will have public hearings in all 55 of our counties to ensure that everyone's voice is heard.

but the issue right now is the salary. the governor in the house says it should be a 5%. we made an agreement that it would be 5%. and you're only looking at about $12 million in a $4.6 billion state-wide budget. that's what's keeping our kids from being in the classroom right now. >> well, you look at it two ways, right,dale? you can look at it two ways. only $12 million. they should find the money if education is a priority. and then on the flip side, it's only $12 million trust they'll figure it out. get back to work so the kids aren't comprised this way. how do you see it? >> we've had trust for years and it's gotten us to 48th in the nation in pay. that trust is gone. and the senate proved to us with their actions over the weekend that we can't have that trust. that's why we're staying out. we're going to make sure that this is passed and signed by the

conference committee. we know the governor will sign it when it gets to him. we're making sure all three senators and all three delegates have to sign it. we have to make sure that this conference committee report is signed before we're going back into the classroom. >> we know that at least one of your u.s. senators is getting involved as well. we have joe manchin on the show later on, senator from west virginia to talk about why he thinks this strike needs to end and what needs to happen to make that happen. thank you for your perspective, dale lee. appreciate it. >> thank you very much. thanks to you our international viewers. for you, cnn talk. for our u.s. viewers, we have major breaking news about north korea. let's get after it. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news -- good morning. welcome to your "gold zone." it's tuesday, march 6th, 7:00 a.m. in new york. we do begin with breaking news. south korean officials announced that the north is willing to halt nuclear and