president trump won by 20 points. it is sure to make republicans a bit anxious about the november midterm elections. lamb is already looking ahead. but saccone is not giving up yet. >> you know we're still fighting the fight. it's not over yet. eer going to fight all the way to the end. you know i never give up. >> we celebrate regaining our voice and vote in governing this great country we love. thank you. >> joining us now is the conor lamb. good morning. >> good morning. >> i hesitate to call you congressman-elect because it feels a tad premature because the votes are still being counted. why are you so confident? >> one of my strengths is we have leadership by local people.

this is a local race run by local people. they have seen a lot of elections here. they feel confident how it is going to turn out. >> there is 1,398 absentee and provisional ballots still being counted. couldn't that swing to our opponent, rick saccone? >> it's possible. i don't know what the exact numbers are at this moment. we feel confident based on the way we have done this and our experts to get absentee ballots. >> saccone said he is not giving up. have you heard from him since you declared victory last night? >> no, i have not. >> what do you think when he says i never give up. we're fighting the fight. >> well, we have known we were

in a tough race for the last five months. we expected to have a good fight on our hands. we are willing to wage a good fight ourselves. >> so what do you think allowed you to have this incredibly close race and this probably narrow victory in this, you know, consistently red district? >> well, we've been very hard. you call it a red district. i call it western pennsylvania. we worked extremely hard to get out and campaign in person over every square inch of this district. and i think just through talking to people, looking them in the eye, figuring out what the issues are for them and trying to come out with solutions, we seemed to have reached a lot of people. we saw huge turnout on both

sides which is great. people around here are engaged. >> as you know, president trump came to your district to campaign but he did mention you a few times during that speech. let me just remind everybody what he said. >> i mean, nancy pelosi, you can't have that. and conor lamb. lamb the sham. lamb the sham. he is trying to act like a republican. he won't give me one vote. i don't know. looks like a nice guy. i hear he's nice looking. i think i'm better looking than him. i do. i do. and he is slightly younger than me. slightly. >> there's a lot there to parse. why do you think lamb the sham didn't take hold?

>> apart from that, there was a lot of foolishness in this election and cartoonish campaigning. by the time of the president's visit last weekend, people were tired of that entire approach. i had people, especially elderly people come up to me and said, i hate those ads against you. it's not right. it's not worthy of us. i think there is a little bit of burnout on that type of campaign before the president ever got here. >> do you think the president is better looking than you? >> i have no opinion on that. >> strange. do you think it says something about donald trump, the narrow victory? >> not really other than to say there are plenty of people here who are still pretty supportive of him from what i can tell. i think his visits -- he came here twice.

i think they probably did contribute to the turnout. i was at a lot of polling places that had president trump's bumper sticker on their cars. he's a popular person here. but i think what happens when you campaign in real life, those divisions go away. i know people voted for the president and voted for me. i thank them for hearing me out. i'm looking forward to fulfilling my promise of actually representing them. >> look, as you know, you see this race as very individual and it's about you. a lot of people look at it as a bellwether and symbol of something. they are trying to figure out if you're the model of a democrat that can win in a district that liens red. so, you know, your positionins e interesting. you are not straight up and down the democratic platform. you were, i don't know -- you can characterize it yourself.

you're anti-gun control. personally pro-life. how do you explain your position within the democratic party? >> well, i found that most people would rather talk about things on a case-by-case basis. and so we did that. and i did it honestly. i describe myself as a pennsylvania democrat looking to get things done, especially to be for and represent working people. people understand what it means. we will work with the other side if that's what it takes to bring jobs here or protect our people. that seems to be what most people want around here. >> you know you have to do this again in eight months. >> that's true. it is a special election and special experience. let me tell you that. >> does that mean you're going to immediately hit the campaign trail again?

>> well, no. i made a promise to serve them and them alone. i plan to spend the rest of this year fully representing the people of this district, fulfilling the promise that i made. we'll let the rest of it shake out. there is a lot of work to be done just in trying to bring solutions to the problems we talked about in six months. >> conor lamb, we'll be watching very closely as these roughly 1,400 absentee ballots continue to be counted. thanks so much for being on "new day". >> thank you. >> chris? >> all right. joining us now is cnn political analyst david gregory and editor at large chris cillizza. david gregory, conor lamb is as far from donald trump as a tv persona as you can get. alisyn is a master of trying to

get the personal tidbits and moments of levity. he ain't having it. >> he wasn't falling for my charm. >> i think that served him well. he oozes integrity. he served his country with distinction. as a prosecutor. he was selling people on the proposition, i'm for you. i'm not about any of this other stuff. now it looks like it may have worked for him. trump raised an interesting point, dave. we didn't hear lamb address it yet. do you think this type of democrat may vote with republicans sometimes and what does that mean for the evolution of the democratic party? >> yeah, right. well, as you were talking earlier this morning, he harkens back to when democrats actually survived in the congress who had more conservative views culturally but democrats on taxes and entitlements that and kind of thing. i think what he said to alisyn

was a lot if you unpack it. he talked about president trump and his support in that district, a district he won by 20 points, yes. now it may actually fall to a democrat. that's huge. that's a huge development. and it still talks about the persistence, the persistent potency of white working class voters who have shown up since trump came on the scene and did so again. and that's important. but these are at some level local elections. that local energy, democratic energy can go for a democrat with the national state of mind. it is funneled and filtered through who is this guy and do i know him? do i have a sense of where he or she is from. and we're seeing, as we saw in virginia and other parts of the country where you have special elections where they're not the kind of democrats, per se,

that's on the ascent if you think about the demographic coalition. they are pulling off the special elections. >> it is still too close for cnn to call that race. but there are still all of these provisional ballots. there are 1,400 absentee votes being counted. however, how do you see what happened last night? >> well, obviously we focus on who won and who lost. that's what matters in the end. it's either a seat for republicans they held or a seat the democrats picked up. but i think it's really important to put it in the broader context. democrats should not even come close to sniffing at this district. there are 114 districts less friendly for democrats than this one. more freundly, rather. more friendly. 114 districts where donald trump did worse than in this district.

that's a big problem. this is effectually a tie. it's effectively a tie. but a tie is telling in a district like this that remember the republican nominee who was forced out amid a sex scandal, tim murphy, he didn't have a democratic opponent in 2014 or 2016. this is not a seat anyone circled when it came open and said look out. this is going to be a barnburner. yes, lamb was a better candidate. saccone did not raise the money he should have. this is a six to ten-point rick saccone win. that it isn't that is hugely telling. where are the lessons here?

what does it tell them they need to do? they seem to have a more obvious case study f. lamb wins they can say, okay, we have to have candidates in the locality where they are running. we can't have a cookie cutter candidate. how do you see it? >> i think, you know, to chris's point, it's about what they do and don't do. they did tax cuts. that's going to be important if you're conservatives in conservative districts saying we got this through. tariffs play conservatives. here's the big point. this big national issues. health care. the iraq war. they have created huge waves. what do we have now? we have hurricane donald trump.

policy. threats from overseas. and this dark cloud of the russia investigation. that is enough combined with angst, anxiety, anger and more among democrats to say we have to show up. show up in huge numbers. they are elements of a wave that is a lot bigger than what republicans can do at this point. >> go ahead, chris. >> just to add, i think it is fundamental, david is exactly right. it is about his popularity or lack thereof. no question he was more popular in this district the than he is nationwide. in a district he won by 20. he will fall marginally short.

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tillerson's abrupt firing via twitter yesterday may be only the start. the president signaling he may be ready to dismiss more senior officials. abby phillip is live at the white house with more. what are you learning, abby? >> reporter: president trump is one year into his administration and it seems he is ready for a do over when it comes to his cabinet. he wants to bring in more people aligned with his america first agenda. an official said this week we could see more staff departures and rivals coming to this administration. >> i'm really at a point where we're getting close to having the cabinet and other things that are that i want. >> reporter: president trump hinting more senior officials could be on the chopping block after abruptly firing secretary of state rex tillerson on twitter. sources tell cnn that national security adviser h.r. mcmaster could soon be headed out the door and that president trump has been pursuing potential replacements for chief of staff

john kelly, despite praising him on tuesday while speaking to marines. >> i think he likes what you do better than what he does, but he's doing a great job. he misses you. >> reporter: sources say the president has also grown irritated with david shulkin and is making plans to remove him. mr. trump eyeing rick perry as his replacement, citing foreign policy disagreements with tillerson as the main reason for his firing. >> we disagreed on things. when you look at the iran deal, i think it's terrible. i guess he thought it was okay. i wanted to either break it or do something, and he felt a little bit differently. so we were not really thinking the same. >> reporter: by contrast, mr. trump praising mime pompeo, who he has chosen as tillerson's replacement.

>> we are always on the same wavelength. the relationship has been good. that's what i need as secretary of state. >> reporter: pompeo will enter the state department void of senior leaders. at the cia, current deputy director and 30-year veteran is his pick, which would make sure the first woman leader of the agency. she played a role in the agency's destruction of tapes of torture of terrorism detainees. >> she implemented orders and was doing her job. gina is a solid professional. she has great experience. >> reporter: president trump also firing husband long-time personal assistant john mcentee.

sources say he was escorted from the white house on tuesday, but shortly afterwards the president's reelection campaign announced that he will be joining as a senior adviser. tillerson and mcentee are just two of many officials who have been leaving in several weeks. the process seems to have been accelerated. the president putting his cabinet on notice that more of them could be on the chopping block soon. he is waking up in los angeles before heading out to st. louis to visit a boeing plant. he will return back to staffing his government later tonight. chris? >> abby, thank you very much. joining us is former defense secretary leon panetta and sevened as bill clinton's chief of staff. good to see you, sir. >> good to be with you, chris. >> do you remember ms. haspel in your time in the cia? >> i do. she worked as an officer when i was with the cia. >> is it fair to come under

scrutiny with her leadership role when it came to the tahai interrogation center and the types of operations that were carried out there? >> i would hope that the senate could look at her entire record. she was a good officer, served the cia well. obviously at that time is circumstances coming out of 9/11 i think people need to look at the situation as it was at that time. those approaches were stopped when president obama came in. they need to look at her full record. i'm glad they have a first woman as head of cia. and i'm glad that it's gina because she is, frankly, someone who really knows the cia inside and out. >> so you support the nomination of haspel even though they oversaw those kind of programs

that even under the operations that you ruled improper? >> she ought to be judged based on her entire record. and i do believe when you look at the entire record that she is somebody who can serve at the cia i think with distinction. >> why is it unfair if somebody gets on her case and says i don't want somebody who is doing those kinds of things? what is being missed in that criticism? >> when we had 9/11, people were very concerned what attacks would occur next. there was a lot of effort to see if we could determine where terrorists are located. i understand the mentality at the time. i don't agree with the standards that were put in place. but at the same time, i think we just need to think about that time and the way we approached

the threat to the country. just look at her entire record. that's all i ask. >> if leon panetta says haspel is a good choice for the cia, it will resonate with some of the people who might criticize her in this nomination. what is your take in general? the president says this is me getting comfortable with the way i want it. i like this kind of disruptive thing, bring people in, bring people out. what do you make of it? >> well, you know, i think the president of the united states can't be surrounded by a bunch of yes people. i think you have people in the cabinet and the white house who may disagree with the president from time to time. but a president has to be big enough to be able to listen to those views and then make the decision that the president wants to make.

i think the president needs to be willing to have people who disagree with him on policy and still be loyal to them. i thought the way he handled the firing of rex tillerson was really disgraceful. as president of the united states you want to at least have the courage to face people directly and tell them why you may not like them or get along with them. but give them an opportunity to resign with a degree of dignity. that was not done here. that unfortunately is a reflection of how this president operates. >> that's interesting. that's something i wanted to get your take on. thank you for bringing it up. this is a man who is known for his catch phrase you're fired. but he shows time and time again he does not fire people to their face. what is the effect on leadership in your experience? >> i think if you're a leader, you've got to be somebody who is willing to deal honestly with

the people that serve is you. by the way, you are the one who selected these people. it's not as if someone else selected them. the president selected them. >> and he said we would bring in only the best. we have never seen this turnover in any administration. >> that's right. this is his decision. he's the one that bears responsibility. but as a leader you do have to have the courage to deal with people honestly and truthfully and to just tweet out that you are going to fire the secretary of state very frankly i think that demeans the office of the presidency. he's got to have the guts to be able to look at people in the eye and tell them honestly if they are going to lose their job and not try to hide behind a tweet. that is the way presidents are supposed to operate. >> his commodity thus far has been an improvement over president obama because trump is strong and obama was weak, that he was looking to be conciliatory with countries and

trump is about being muscular in his foreign affairs. have you seen that carried out? do you think it's a meaningful distinction? >> well, what i'm worried about is that this is a world in which we're facing a number of flash points that are very dangerous to this country. and a president of the united states has to deal with all of those threats in a way that provides a policy approach that fits what the united states wants to do to protect our national security s. i don't see that larger strategy here. i think this president ad hocs his decisions on most things and operates by the seat of his pants as opposed to taking the time to develop policy, to go through the discussion that's necessary on serious issues and then come to a decision that he and his team support. he is constantly rejecting the advice of his national security team. he's got a very good is national

security team. he ought to listen to them. because frankly they understand the impact of these foreign policy decisions. if you're going to bring on good people who know what they're doing, for goodness sakes, listen to them because these issues are not something you want to deal with casually or erratically. >> i'm out of time. let me get you on record quickly. do you support is the nomination of mike mpompeo based on what yu heard about him from the cia? >> i know mike pompeo. he's done a good job at the cia. he's a good manager. he has the trust of the president, which that's important. most importantly, he's got to restore the state department to what it was. he has to hire people who are experts. we operate in this country by power, but we also operate by diplomacy. i'm afraid the diplomatic side

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i made a promise to the people of this district, the 18th district, that i would campaign for them, that i would listen to them. if given the opportunity, that i would serve them and them alone. so i plan to send the rest of this year fully representing the people of this district and fulfilling the promise that i made. and we'll let the rest of it shake out. >> all right. the democrat conor lamb is claiming victory in the heart of trump country in pennsylvania. cnn is not yet calling the race. the tight margin marks a major swing in a district that president trump won by nearly 20 points. joining us now is charlie dent of pennsylvania who is retiring at the end of the year. good morning, congressman. >> good morning, alisyn. great to be with you.

>> great to have you. what do you make of what appears to be conor lamb's victory at this hour? >> well, conor lamb clinics to this 600-vote lead, and he may, that would be quite a political earthquake. we have seen about four special house elections this year, kansas, montana, south dakota, pennsylvania, now georgia. each of those races have seriously underperformed the president with the exception of georgia. they all under performed the members who preceded them. it is pretty clear to me we are running into a very major head wind. kwhaoeul it is a plus 20 trump district, a lot of that vote -- you could call it minus 20 hillary district. people didn't like hillary there. we have to be careful looking at these margins. it is not simply about the president's performance. the president won in part because of his popularity and

because of how unpopular hillary clinton was. hillary is not on the ballot this november. but members of congress will be. you can't take comfort in whatever his margin of victory was, particularly if it was a large manager discipline how nervous are republicans this morning? >> i think most republicans realize they are running into a serious head wind, hurricane force winds. it's coming. and we have to be ready for it. some of our members in the marginal districts, swing districts, are better prepared for these fights than members in safer seats. if you're a republican member in a pretty safe seat, that's where i would be nervous. they are not used to running these types of competitive situations. that is really what is going to i think really be the big issue. these guys in the safer seats, i think this is a wakeup call for them. >> what do you think this appears to be a victory by conor lamb says about donald trump?

>> well, this election i believe is really more about the national political environment certainly in pennsylvania as well as across the country. this election is going to be a referendum on our party. and particularly the president of the united states and his conduct in office. that will be the driving theme, just as it was in 2010 when it was about the democrats and barack obama. this is the same type of dynamic. sure, there were differences in the candidates. i suspect a narrative will be out there that our candidate wasn't the preferred candidate. conor lamb was their preferred candidate. it was a little less about the candidates and a lot more about the national environment. >> is and does this mean that independents are souring on president trump? just connect the dots for me. >> well, yes. i have seen polling data in this district as well as others where independents are moving against us a bit more as republicans.

that is certainly the case. i have seen that in polling data all over the country, in this district and nationally. so that is true. and so i think if you're a republican running in this election cycle, you better be able to develop your own brand and sell yourself. if you try to run on the president's coattails or the national environment, you will get swept up and swept out. >> the president went to this district to campaign for rick saccone? should he continue to do that? do they want president trump to campaign for them? >> if you're a member of congress, a republican, representing a swing or marginal district where the president didn't do particularly well, you don't want to the president to come in and campaign for you. that won't help. where he might be some help is in ruby red districts. again, those shouldn't be in play anyway. again, in the marginal seats in

philadelphia, my districts, over to new jersey, new york, i don't know that the president coming over to the suburban districts will be helpful. >> secretary of state rex tillerson was fired yesterday. it came as a surprise to him, he says. does that shakeup cause you concern? >> yes, it does. >> rex tillerson is a good man. he was dealt a very bad hand. he didn't play it particularly well. he he was never set up for success. he walks into the office and he gets a 30% proposed cut to his budget. he can't hire anybody. he was always in a tough spot. the state department right now we don't have enough qualified people there because many of the top republican foreign policy officials and national security establishment types are disqualified from serving because of comments they made

about candidate trump. i'm concerned. i didn't like the way rex tillerson was fired. i thought that was deplorable and unfortunate the way it happened. so there is a lot of chaos and anarchy. more of this type of in stability and uncertainty is really not helpful for america or the administration. >> congressman charlie dent, thank you very much for being on "new day". >> thank you, alisyn. great to be with you. >> chaos, anarchy, in stability in the white house. that's what a republican congressman said is going on with the trump administration. big development today. students across the country are going to walk out of class for 17 minutes in a show of solidarity for the victims of the parkland school massacre. what's life like for students a month after the massacre? that's next.

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school. the students will be reflecting on those they lost but also everything that they've accomplished in the last month and what they plan to do in the future. >> it makes me feel like we're making an impact and doing something. >> we will not be silenced. >> reporter: the students of marjory stoneman douglas high school say they want to go down in history as more than just survivors. they want to be the force behind gun reform. >> it is crazy that it took something like a school shooting for all of this to happen. but it's now or never. >> reporter: with relentless unapologetic activism. >> that us kids don't know what we're talk about, that we're too young to understand how the government works, we call -- >> reporter: in the wake of unbearable personal pain. >> it has been hard sometimes. i'm in grief sometimes. sometimes i'm in anger. >> reporter: the impact so far

is summed up with the stroke of a pen. florida governor rick scott signing several gun control measures they demanded into law just three weeks after the shooting. >> not to be, i don't know, cocky or anything, it's because we went up there and we were fighting. if we didn't do it, no doubt that it would not be passed. >> start at state and move it to a national level. >> we are going to get universal background checks. >> reporter: but their efforts to sway washington hasn't moved at the same pace, if at all. >> we know our legislatolegisla is not going to happen. we understand that. that's because we're educated and because we're, you know, we understand the way the law works. >> it's hard to not feel a little upset by the reaction in washington, but we're going to be there. >> enough is enough! >> reporter: most students haven't had face time with

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expected to testify, as well as a teacher and parent of one of the children who were killed in that shooting. the alleged gunman will be back in court today and prosecutors said they do intend to seek the death penalty. >> dianne, so good to still have you been on the ground in parkland bringing that reporting to us. thank you. united airlines is apologizing for the death of a dog after a flight attendant ordered a passenger to put her pet in an overhead bin. a three and a half hour flight from houston to new york and the animal was found dead. th >> what was the flight attendant's duty? an accident and mistake are not the same thing. >> that was awe mistake. >> an accident is if you step on the dog by mistake. that's an accident that is a mistake. but if you say i'm sorry is,

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let's discuss with democratic congressman seth moulton of massachusetts, campaigned with conor lamb last weekend. i guess it's because of you, if he wins. you picked the right horse in this one. what do you think of this race and its overall meaning? >> first of all, we have an extraordinary candidate, a true humble public servant. when i was walking around knocking doors with him in his district this past weekend, you could see how genuine he is and how much people trusted him. people said you're the kind of person i would trust to take care of my kids and to represent my interests in washington. having a great candidate matters, having someone there truly there as a public servant. people can see that. >> extraordinary you say. extraordinary in this context could also be defined as not your typical democrat, doesn't check a lot of the boxes you do as a traditional democrat, was

outspoken in saying he would not back pelosi if the house was overtaken by the democrats. is this an indication that your party has to start picking candidates that match the people in the districts where you want to run? >> chris, first of all, by your criteria, i'm not a traditional democrat either. i think the point is both conor and i are trying to represent the people we're charged to serve. that's what i heard on the ground. when we were talking to one woman, she said, you know, we just need change in washington. we need change in both parties. i think that that is what conor represents. that's what we need to bring a new generation of leadership to washington. the status quo isn't working, and it's not just the republicans. it's the status quo on both sides of the aisle. >> listen, a fair point for you to make. we have tom perez coming on. to size you guys up against one another, you are not pro life,

right? >> correct. >> he is. >> you favor changes to gun control that might include restrictions of certain weapons. he does not. these are big signature issues for democrats. if you guys did overtake the house, you haven't said you wouldn't back pelosi, right? >> i was actually one of the leaders who stood up and said we need to have an opportunity for other people to run. i've actually been strongly identified with someone who is saying it is time for change in our house leadership. >> i'm just trying to make the point when tom perez comes on, he's going to say we've always been a big ten party, all these different kinds of voices. that's not really true. if you look what happened over time and why democrats lofthouses, one, you lost a ton at the state level but led to redistricting efforts and that wound up playing into different house seats that you lost. but also it's because there has

been one kind of candidate coming out of the party and you have to make a decision on whether that party is going to be centrist meaning that you have candidates that suit their jurisdiction, their district, or does the left win out in your party and everybody starts to have somewhat of the same views? >> you're referring to what a lot of people are asking which is nah as the centrist part of the party going to win or the left? the reality is if we're going to retake the house, be majority party, we need to include both. we need to include people who represent their districts. you brought up two issues where conor and i have differences. that's healthy nks f. that's good. that means we have representatives in touch with their districts, not just in touch with what the party tells us to do. i think this is a healthy sign for the party, that we are diverse, we can represent districts all across america. one of the things this race shows is when we're willing to put forward candidates

everywhere -- so many people said this is an impossible district, conor didn't have a chance of winning, trump had beaten hillary by 20 points in this district and we shouldn't even try. conor got out there as someone who is down to earth and can represent the people that he knows, that he grew up with and he did well. if we're willing to do that in races across the country, i think we'll take back the house because we show we're a party that can represent a wide variety of americans. >> it will be interesting to see if the party takes that direction. let me get your take on what's going on in the uk right now. we hear word that theresa may may make a move to expel russian diplomats in that country. it's not out yet, not official yet. we got very mixed message from our own white house. we back our allies was the word from the white house, but they never mentioned russia, sarah huckabee sanders, as to whom had been called responsible for the

poisoning. theresa may had already come out and said they thought it was russia. now she's taking this step. do you expect this president or do you call on this president to name russia and to take action? >> i absolutely do. i call on the president to simply listen to his own officials, his own administration which has said from the very beginning that russia is an enemy of the united states who has meddled in our democracy and is trying to counter us all across the globe. when the president refuses to acknowledge this, he's refusing to acknowledge his own intelligence professionals, his own military, his own department of defense. that's frightening for the united states. that's frightening for our national security. i don't know what putin has over trump's head that makes trump seemingly subservient to everything putin wants him to do but we ought to find out. it's endangering our country's security. >> seth moulton, thank you for coming on and speaking on this

matter of national security as well. >> thank you, chris. we're following a lot of news. what do you say? let's get after it. >> good morning everyone. welcome to your "new day," it's wednesday, march 14, 8:00 in the east. we have special election results. democrat conor lamb declaring victory in pennsylvania. lamb performing strongly in the state's 18th congressional district which donald trump won by nearly 20 points. earlier on "new day" lamb told us how he's feeling this morning. >> i was at a lot of polling places yesterday with cars parked outside that had president trump's bummer sticker on them. he's a popular person here. i think what happens when you campaign in real life as much as possible is that those divisions go away. everyone gave me a fair shake. and i know there are people that voted for the president who also voted for me, and i thank them for hearing me