2012. losing to walmart and target and amazon. it declared bankruptcy in september. 33,000 jobs at risk here. it is bad for toy companies. toys r us is the last mega store dedicated to toys. without it, 10% to 15% of toy sales will be lost forever. that jingle. >> i'm a toys r us kid. >> it brings me back to braces and bubble gum. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. i don't want to now our closest allies will not know whether the president is speaking from fact. >> why did they ban together to screw the united states on trade? >> these documents suggest that the trump organization has been intimately involved in keeping

stormy daniels quiet. >> the president is engaged in behavior that is, a, immoral, b, possible illegal. >> i was just wondering where my dog was. >> this has happened on more than one occasion. >> he was a special dog. it is is sadded way he has to just leave. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> i can't get that dog story out of my head. it really makes no sense. >> we will talk about that on the program also. >> welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world. it is is thursday, march 15th, 6:00 here in new york. a truly stunning admission from president trump. "washington post" reports that the president boasted to donors last night that he made up facts in a recent meeting with canadian prime minister justin

trudeau. this is not one where he will come out and say fake news. this was recorded. and he threatened to pull out troops from south korea if he doesn't get what he wants on trade? president trump once said his cabinet was, quote, the finest group of people ever assembled. the president is now eyeing a purge of cabinet members because of all the scandals and misdeeds that he now considers these people deadweight. >> and the stormy daniels scandal continues. a deeper link between the trump organization and the $130,000 payment to a porn star. trump's personal lawyer long said he acted alone in what he called a private transaction. but it turns out another attorney at mr. trump's company in involved in the legal battle to silence stormy daniels.

and the white house and u.n. ambassadored has denounced russia's actions, so why not the president. what have you learned, abby? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. president trump was in st. louis campaigning for a republican candidate but spent much of the time talking about himself in that speech. in a closed door fund-raiser, it's his private comments that raised a lot of eyebrows here in the u.s. and overseas. it revealed the degree to which he is willing to push u.s. allies in ways that benefit the united states. the "washington post" reporting president trump admitted to making up facts in a meeting with canadian prime minister justin trudeau. >> he said, no, no, you have a trade surplus. i said, no, we don't. i said mr. prime minister, we do

not. >> reporter: the "post" reports that he added annan ebg do anec was false. >> we are looking for solutions for paths forward. >> reporter: the president blasting a number of america's closest allies, including south korea, accusing them of only caring about themselves on trade. the "post" reports that mr. trump seemed to threaten to pull u.s. troops in south korea if he didn't get what he wanted on trade. the veiled threat coming hours before a delegation arrives in washington to discuss kim jong-un. >> we have had a problem for years with north korea. let's see what happens. >> reporter: larry kudlow will soon join the white house despite opposing his tariffs plan. >> we don't agree on everything. in this case, it's good. he now has come around to a

negotiating point. >> reporter: kudlow's appointment comes as the president has been complaining that his cabinet fell well short of his expectations and he wants to cut the dead week. two cabinet members, shulkin and carson. betsy devos causing alarm after failing to answer questions about schools in public interviews. >> have public schools in michigan gotten better? >> i can't say overall they have all gotten better. i have not intentionally visited schools underperforming. >> reporter: anxiety growing over additional departures as new documents obtained by cnn directly link another trump organization employee with efforts to silence stormy daniels about her alleged affair with the president. the documents show jill martin,

a senior lawyer with mr. trump's company, filed an arbitration document against daniels last month. the president's personal lawyer, michael cohen, still insists he paid that in his private capacity as the president's lawyer and acted alone. martin said she acted as an attorney for cohen. so the attorney continues to unfold and unraffvel. editor-in-chief john avlon and cnn mark preston. we want to give the grist for the mill this morning. so here is the transcript from the "washington post". you will be trump. >> fantastic. >> and i will be trudeau. >> here we go. okay. trudeau came to see me. he's a good guy justin he said.

>> no, no, we have no trade deficit with you. we have none. donald please. >> trump said mimicking trudeau, according to audio obtained by the "washington post". nice guy, good looking guy, comes in. >> donald we have no trade deficit. >> he's very proud because everybody else, you know, we're getting killed. so he's proud. i said wrong justin, you do. i didn't even know. i had no idea. i just said you're wrong. you know why? because we're so stupid and i thought they were smart. >> i said, you're wrong justin. he said no we have no trade deficit. i said well in that case i feel differently. i had but i don't believe it. i sent one of our guys out, his guy my guy because they went out.

>> i said check because we have no deficit but that doesn't include energy and timber. and when you do we lose $17 billion a year. it's incredible. >> that's why you have to go to church. >> that was economics rodney dangerfield "back to school." >> so is look we know that the president flagrantly abuses the truth when it suits him. part of his persuasiveness and maybe his own sense of self inclusion. what does it mean for justin trudeau to hear this isn't what the president was talking about when they are still at the table. >> it's going to really help build trust. not that he is bragging about lyingment this is part of the

manhattan real estate developer persona, right? i'm going to riff these insults. and apologies. but it is the personal disrespect he has shown in justin trudeau. he is basically paying them off as a good looking guy who i just blatantly lied to is and i'm such a genius that i was proven right. look, presidential words matter. they do not matter to president trump. what's more, he brags about lying. >> i see it differently. >> go on. >> i see it as the best window yet we have had into his style and belief that he doesn't care about the details or the facts. they don't matter. he runs with a hunch. he has a feeling about this. i feel you're screwing me over. i don't need to know the facts. i feel that way. so he runs with it. ever since the time newt the gingrich told me on our show

that facts are intellectual, he will go with feelings every day of the week, that is what president trump agrees with and relies on. >> newt gingrich himself considers himself. ultimate incident you himself the ultimate intellectual. we know where donald trump is. it is that level of disrespect, the idea that he would go out and be so careless and reckless with his words to talk about another leader. not that he talked about another leader, a small group of folks that he is close with or his advisers, but the fact that he did it to a very large group.

>> when newt was talking to you, he was talking about the art of persuasion and working people in an election. i will go with feeling over fact because people off vote on that. fair point. but this, however, is the second part of you govern in prose. this suspect about convincing a group of people -- >> he will. he believes in going with his hunches. that's who he is. >> that's fine. it is fine who he is. but who he is is a problem policywise because he doesn't do on the international stage with other leaders because they are not used to this flagrant fact abuse. not that they tell the truth all the time. but he revels in it. >> geopolitically going with

your gut is dangerous. that's how we got into is iraq. facts matter when we're dealing with international diplomacy. and the american president, whose words really do matter. the larger problem isn't just politics, one of the bigger problems that is polarizing the country is should we go with feelings or thinking, right? and too many people on the extremes elevate feelings over thinking. that is how we have lost the ability to reason together. he becomes a poster boy for that. >> and you also don't know what to truflt. when somebody admits they're fudging the numbers, the truth, you don't know what to trust. that leads us to north korea and what the plan is and the entire korean peninsula. here's what the president said at the fund-raiserment i have to read it. we lose money on trade and we lose money on the military. we have 33,000 soldiers between north korea and south korea. let's see what happens.

>> let's just tay it apart. they have been there 4847. >> you're saying let's see what happens. >> he knows exactly what he's doing. i don't think he necessarily thinks about what he's going to say. but when it starts to come through his brain and go out his mouth, he knows what he's doing and that is very dangerous and reckless. >> that is a bigger deal, a much bigger deal than the first one. he is threatening to pull out troops over trade at the same time they are preparing to sit town with north korea, a nuclearized tyrannical state. it is not how you do things as president of the united states. >> fine point of criticism. it's fundamentally different as a proposition than the first one. in the first one he is just lying about what the truth is.

so the problem is everything he's saying his numbers are about right with the people he has there. and there is a deficit in terms of how we deal with trade with south korea to keep them free from the north. but the first one has to be harped on all day long. it has to be relevant because he will lie, then deny it, and then blame you for calling you out. if too many people of this country accept his rationale. now you have the latest example of proof where he is not telling the truth and he knows it. >> and no doubt. keep this phrase in mind as we move forward. gaslighting. look it up on google. that's what's going on right now. >> i saw the movie. hard to follow. >> i think the term is morrell vanity. >> i watched it. revealing new documents in the

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new documents reveal another trump organization lawyer is involved in the legal battle surrounding the hush money payment to silence stormy daniels. the president's long-time personal attorney said he did this. he made the $130,000 payment himself. nobody was connected to it at the trump organization. donald trump then didn't know about it. >> and he wasn't paid back, which is a critical piece. >> now documents reveal, no, in fact, there was another top attorney at the trump organization, jill martin. her signature is on one of the legal documents that establishes the llc or at least is connected to the llc. there you see her signature. so what does this mean now?

>> it makes michael cohen's explanation much less plausible. it begs the question of why are so many people connected to such a weird payment based on a relationship that she is claiming to have with donald trump. people in trump's orbit tan general challengely confirm that it has been dealt with legally. the more people that come into this, the more it raises legal questions for what this means in terms of trump's potential liability. if they were supposed to be paid back with campaign funds. it is a much less convenient excuse, that i'm not sure people were buying anyway. >> at the end of the day, who cares. maybe there was a violation. maybe there wasn't. it won't impact any way on the

president. >> people care about that. >> do you think his voters care about any of this? if we're talking about the broader population of voters, do you think this is what's going to color their perception of president trump? >> i don't know. an actual violation is something concrete. >> let's be honest. it is not the violation alone. it is the apparent fact of a secret payment to a porn star through delaware corporation by his lawyer. all of that is attention getting, as well as unethical, as well as potentially illegal. >> but you see the polls. a lot of that is baked in. do you think he had the affair? probably. how about the poll floating around out there now. trump people, do you think it's immoral if he had the affair? it's 50/50.

do you think this changes his fate? >> politically, it is baked in the cake. that's an argument that clinton's people trodded out. >> no question. the standard is different with this guy and his base. >> his popularity is low enough he can't afford to start having his numbers erode. >> they have chosen that over the old character argument. >> the more this becomes a legally sticky issue the less likely it is to go away. the more people have to listen to it, the more it becomes -- if there is a violation there, it solidifies it and makes it more difficult to ignore it. you get into legal situations.

and there's probably more that comes of it too to cover it up. >> just the fact that this is another unforced error that connects the trump organization and this payment is itself fascinating. there is a certain amount of muscle memory. >> let's talk about the cabinet. this is more than just a parlor game of who he is in, who is out. things seem to be happening. there's all sorts of reporting that the president was not satisfied with his original picks and these are the people who may be on the chopping block. and there are a lot of them. h.r. mcmaster, david shulkin, jeff sessions, john kelly, ryan zinke, ben carson and betsy devos. >> everybody is waiting to see where they turn next. tillerson dismissal was a big deal this week. and mcmaster's name started to be thrown about.

really the president has a choice. does he want to get rid of the people who bought expensive dining room tables and screwed up on "60 minutes", or go for the people who has been his antagonist on his policy whether it's sessions. he's really upset is at is sessions for recusing himself on russia issues. he feels that worsened his lot. or mcmaster, who he poked at when he was e overseas, to allied nations in germany. which way the president goes, i think in large part it is going to fend on what he feels the public blowback is. and he has a test with with the deputy fbi director. we will see what he determines in the next few days. >> some are embarrassments or distractions. many committed the sin of telling the president no. they tend to be from national

security or law enforcement. losing them is much more dangerous for the country. if he all of a sudden cuts off mcmaster, who has the guts to tell the president what he needs to know and replaces him with another tv cable host more inclined to say yes, that's bad for the country. they fire mccabe. they have the recommendation. that is a disgrace to fire somebody days before retirement, take away their pension for a petty and political reason. >> was it? >> yes. >> what if he did mislead the hillary clinton investigation. >> this is the figure leaf to the execute for the justice department. >> thank you very much. okay. listen to this. another p.r. disaster for united airlines involving the mishandling of a family pet. a german shepherd.

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its destination, the 10-year-old german shepherd ending up in japan. >> i instantly bust into tears wondering where my dog was. >> the family says irgo was suffering from an ear infection, made the 16-hour flight with no food or water. he was examined in japan and is flying back to kansas with an escort. >> he is probably so scared and freaked out and probably hurting too because he doesn't have his medicine. i'm hoping and praying that he will still be alive. >> united apologizing in a statement saying that an error occurred during connections in denver for two pets sent to the wrong destinations. the mixup coming one day after this french bulldog died on board a different united flight after flying three hours from houston to new york in an overhead bin. >> the flight attend ants came. she said you have to put him up there because it's going to block the path. we're like it's a dog, it's a dog. she said it doesn't matter. you still have to put it up

there. she took him out, opened the thing and got the dog and he was dead. >> united taking full responsibility. acknowledging that the passenger did tell the flight attendant that the dog was in the carrier. but explaining that the attendant did not hear or understand her and did not knowingly place the dog in the overhead bin. >> he was a really special dog. it is is sad the way he has to just leave. >> lawmakers are demanding answers. >> it is disgraceful. i can't imagine how the pet's owner feels. we need to get to the bottom of it. >> republican senator john kennedy introducing legislation to ban animals from being put in overhead bins. the department of transportation says 18 animals died on board united airline flights last year, more than any other airlines. this is one year after they

faced intense backlash after this video surfaced of a passenger being drag today off a flight for refusing to get off the plane due to overbooking. >> who can forget that story? united has announced start anything april it will issue brightly colored tags to passengers traveling with pets to put on their pet carriers so they can be easily identified by the crew. >> that sounds like a start. that might work. they can also listen to the passengers who are telling them the dog is in the carrier. and the dog is barking. >> that is legal language to cover themselves for what is sure to be a lawsuit. john kennedy, we have him on the show, represent senator out of louisiana, congress is moving on this right away. what happened with this dog, we have to figure it out. bills are being introduced. school shootings, not so much. but this dog and why? they believe that you act out of consequence, not conscious.

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nearly a million students walked out of their classrooms wednesday in a nationwide protest demanding action to stop gun violence. the show is of student solidarity coming one month after the florida school massacre in response to a lack of action by congress. >> give us concrete solutions and for once value our lives over your bank accounts. >> we will accept nothing else than comprehensive gun control.

if it is what it takes we will shame our policymakers into protecting us. >> what parkland showed us is this could happen in any one of our schools. we as students can't take this anymore. >> one student who took part in the national walkout, drew myers, joins us now. drew, thanks so much for being here. >> thank you for having he me. >> what was yesterday like? >> yesterday was pretty incredible. we had as many as 1,000 students show up to our walkout in brooklyn heights. what it showed is that students really care about the issue. and this is part of a national movement that we're out here on the front lines asking for politicians to listen to us because clearly, as you see by the laws they have been trying to enact, they haven't been meeting our demands and it is quite shameful. >> it was cold, at times there

were gusty winds. how do you describe the motivation that the kids around you have? >> it shows, especially for the kids that aren't 18 and can't vote, protesting is a way they get their voice out. so it just shows that everyone all around the world, in america, that students are willing to bear the cold to go out and protest one month after the shooting so we can see some change really happen. >> obviously there have been other school shootings. trapblg you cannily, they happen a lot here. so what was it about parkland? >> the students were so inspiring. they were incredibly inspiring. when they were speaking to legislators, wow, if they can talk one on one with politicians, maybe something new can happen this time that hasn't happened in the past. >> so what was your message?

what did you want lawmakers to hear? >> at least in terms of demands, ban assault weapons, research gun violence, increased background checks. we think a lot of laws on the books are absurd. this is common sense. we know that. why don't the politicians know that? and get people out to vote. protesting is awesome and it's great that so many students can come out. but you can't effect change unless you go to the ballot box this midterm election in november. i haven't been affected by gun violence myself, but a lot of people have been. who is to say that couldn't have been our school as well.

>> the nra tweeted on the day of the walkout. a picture of an ar-15. it says i'll control my own guns, thank you. what does that message tell you? >> when a lot of students talk about increased background checks and make all of these demands, it sounds like we want to take away all the guns. the nra members are concerned about that. we want just regulation. i want it to be regulated like a car is regulated. that's really what this is about. and the ar-15 is a gun used for war. we don't want that out on the streets. i'm a student. i'm not naive. i have seen these other events. it is unrealistic to think all guns will be banned. but the message the nra is putting out is just for their people. we need the youth to be energized like the nra. if the youth can get behind this

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all right. they were supposed to be the best cabinet ever assembled, and they're not. that is the estimate of president trump himself who is eyeing a purge of his embattled cabinet. the president wants to get rid of the, quote, deadweight. all right. let's take a look of what could be called some of the deadweight.

mark preston joins us. it is ncaa tournament season. let's have our own bracketology. we do not have the security guys. we don't have kelly. >> right. >> we don't have mcmaster here. mattis hasn't been discussed. they are important people. a different part of the analysis. let's stick with these guys. let's start with the least likely to go in this estimation. of these people who is least likely? >> anything we say could change in a matter of seconds if president trump is watching and tweetsous that he has since fired somebody. let's look at the education secretary. >> betsy devos. >> didn't quite understand, chris, that she needed to go out and look at low performing schools to understand how our education system works. we haven't seen a whole lot of her.

>> it was seen as a paid pedigree. shaky in terms of her chops and bad interview. so now that we get into the guys who have money problems. >> right. >> who is the least likely to go? >> you look at somebody like pruett. >> head of the epa. >> he has gotten into a lot of trouble from his spending "the daily habit"s around his office. still a trump guy. he was able to use the executive order and the guidance and advice by pruett to roll back regulations. >> now, again, another guy with

policy problems also. he has the paranoia vibe making sure people aren't spying on him and spending all the money. now the more vulnerable three. of these three, who survives? >> i would say it is a jump ball between ben carson. >> he was a huge pick. controversial for the president. gave him a lot of credibility in different ways. what's his problem? >> the fact that him and his wife decided to spend an exorbitant amount of money for a dining room set. for everybody out there to understand how egregious this is. you can buy a $150,000 home in

the united states with $30,000 down. that is a lot of money. people don't seem to have an idea or willingness to rein in spendng. >> it was also about lying. supposedly the carsons didn't know. what do we know now about what they knew and didn't know? >> e-mails went back and forth from one of their assistants said there were pictures presented to them. so they knew what they were getting into. >> they say the under voice. this bullet point about looking to strip anti-discrimination language from the hud mission statement, that is more important than you may think. this goes back to this idea that the reason there was a housing scandal is there was too much preference of people who were getting homes and they were given loans they shouldn't have gotten. you take anti-discrimination out of the hud mission and people who don't get housing because of

lgbtq issues or race issues, now you have awe problem. >> who is the winner and who is going to get knocked out? >> yes. >> it has to be the secretary is. >> ryan zinke served honorably in the military. but he's had problems. he was attached to what happened in puerto rico. remember the little company that got the power lines company that came from his home state. and then we got into money issues. >> talking about draining the swamp. zinke also sevened in the house of representatives. he understands the legislative side of things. $140,000 on office doors. you could buy a house or a condo. aoe skwraoepb

egregious spending right now. trump supporters, they don't seem to care. it hurts the rest of the country. it's very embarrassing. but trump supporters aren't necessarily waivering. >> now you get to ironically the cabinet secretary that may have the best reputation within his own agency, secretary is shulkin at the v.a. but there are two things this guy has going for him that could make hum the easiest to get rid of for the president. and those are? >> look right here. the fact of the matter is he is supposed to take care of our veterans. how do you explain this. they are paying for them to go to wimbledon. he is the v.a. secretary. last i knew he was not in charge of the state department or diplomacy. having said this, i do know when he was under consideration for this job, trump didn't necessarily take a jumping to him, a liking to him right away. he had to be convinced by those within the military circles to keep him on. as you and i spoke beforehand,

he is also an obama guy? he is an obama era holdover. that gives the president great political cover. and saying our veterans deserve the best. if someone goes he's in bad shape, the irony is the people in his agency like him and think he does a good job. mark preston, and so do you. >> congratulations, by the way, pal. >> thank you. i'll be seeing you soon. to our international viewers, cnn talk is next. for our u.s. viewers, there is a lot of news. let's get after it. >> even though they don't see eye to eye, it would be good if we were dealing with honest conversation. >> they announced kim jong-un would like to meet with president trump. let's see what happens. >> new documents show is a deeper link between the trump organization and payments to silence stormy daniels. >> this is a president who