they're going to stay here and they're going to stand up for this extremist view of the second amendment that will say there are going to be no restrictions, which is pals and they know it's false. but they keep pushing because they hope to shut the debate down. they can't do it now. look at citibank when they joined a whole host of companies who said we're going to make changes to respond to these kids, respond to this movement. that's what's happening. there are big changes outside of washington. they are fleeing the nra. they are changing their gun policies. now that has to be felt here. and after this march, when hundreds of thousands of kids show up, students and parents from all around the country and marching in 800 cities, they will start to feel the pressure in this chamber, and that is going on to continue into november. >> yeah. i'm just being a skeptic because we know the process. when they start making changes to push for these kind of changes instead of ones for their bottom line, then we will

see. it is going to be about vote issers. it always has. it always will. we will see what happens up in midterms. >> the lobbying power of the kids, the strength of their voices resonates so much more strongly. it is so true. people listen to them and understand what they're lives have been like because of the policies, because of the inaction congress has year after year after year endured. we don't take that anymore. their right to march and congress has to listen. >> i hear you. ted deutch, thank you very much for making the case on "new day". all right. hey, thanks to you, our international viewers for watching. for you cnn talk is next. have a great weekend. for our u.s. viewers, though, we have big headlines. what do you say? it's friday. let's get after it. good morning. we're getting after it right now. welcome to your "new day".

alisyn is still on soeupassignm. erica hill is with me. president trump shaking up his administration. he just named his third national security adviser in 14 months. the three-star general h.r. mcmaster is out. and former u.n. ambassador john bolton is in. here's the big news. this could mean major changes for how the trump white house deals with north korea, iran, and russia. >> there is also a major shakeup in president trump's legal team. john dowd, top personal attorney, resigning over a disagreement on how to respond to the russia investigation. he insists he still wants to talk to investigate orgs. breaking overnight, the federal government will not run out of money overtight. joining us now is cnn political analyst maggie haberman. always good to have you. obviously on this, we have to start with the shakeup we are

seeing in the white house. we had two yesterday. >> is right. >> i think starting with john bolton, which obviously had been rumored for some time, had been denied by sarah sanders as recently as i think sunday may have been the last time. >> around then, yeah. >> and yet we are hearing from john bolton from the announce. that, yes, this had been in the works. yes, the wheels were turning. even he was surprised when it came out yesterday afternoon. >> the president has wanted john bolton for a while is my understanding. kelly i think playing a more frontal role on that. kelly wanted mcmaster out for a very long time. kelly clearly got his wish on mcmaster on the time frame. he said he told people he hoped to stay through the summer. it became untenable after all of these reports that he was on the chopping block. he became in effective with world leaders. that is an understandable

position. john bolton is a loss for john kelly. he tried very hard to keep him out. the president is surrounding himself, as we are seeing with larry kudlow, bolton, with a lot of people who are not really inclined to tell him no. what you had with mcmaster, what you had with gary cohn, were people trying to serve as sort of moderating forces against the president's instincts and to try to present him on the other side of the ledger. john bolton had to make very clear coming in that he understands the president is the decider, that he is not going to act like a principle in his own right. we will see how that works. that will be hard for him. he is somebody used to being his own force. he add sraevocated a number of n policy. that is going to be interesting. >> one stroke of good luck they

will have is he doesn't have to go through senate confirmation. and that will be good news for mr. bolton and mr. trump. >> yeah. >> this man holds a lot of extreme views. i want to give you a taste of a video about bolton. this is him -- let's just play it. i want you to hear what he says. >> thank you for this opportunity to address the russian people on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the russian constitution. this document signaled a new era of freedom for the russian people and created a new force for democracy in the world. where the russian national government grant a broader right to bear arms to its people, it would be creating a partnership with its citizens that would better allow for the protection of mothers, children, and families. good luck on your journey into a new century of freedom. >> this is john bolton, okay. he is national security adviser

and he believes russia is in a new era of freedom? that is demonstrably false. it is a better way to secure their rights. that's not true. in our constitutional democracy, which is fairness under law, thank god, he said it's a great way to make sure he can always gather. >> he doesn't have to go through a senate confirmation hearing. you would find so many videos, tweets, columns that he has written on all manner of issues. he has been pretty critical of trump in terms of sanctions and the lack of imposing them on russia in the last year. so i think in terms of what he has said more recently, it's more in line with what you're seeing the foreign policy committee at large. but it's true he has taken positions that would come into question, and that would certainly be one of them. depending how aggressively people go after this and start

looking into his background, there will be weeks of this in terms of what he said in the past. unlike h.r. mcmaster, he has never served in the military. we keep talking about him as a warmonger and the positions he has taken is a cry toward war or march toward war. he has never implemented anything he has talked about. >> interesting too because he said everything that came before all of these positions we can dig up, we can see them in the wall street journal a little less than a month ago. the legal case for striking north korea first is how the piece is titled. >> yeah. >> he has these positions. but he said all of that was in the past. i served for you the president. i'm going to do this. but you can't ignore those things, to your point. especially as we are supposed to have this meeting. the president is supposed to have this meeting scheduled before may with kim jong-un. and someone coming in and saying the best way to do this, let's just go to war.

>> as we know, the president has had north korea in the back of his mind. it is one of the things that most alarmed him when he met about president on obama. that remains the case. i think he now has somebody who is going to -- let's pretend he didn't advocate. he has somebody who might be more receptive to saying go ahead and hold these talks. whereas almost the entire administration said that was a bad idea and another snap decision where he agreed to this meeting. we will see if it actually happens. but he agreed without any consultation. so -- >> and now what do we know? you are what you believe. you get brought in because of your beliefs. even to have the pedigree that would in any way satisfy the requirements for this job if it were not for the positions that trump hears him echo on fox news

all the time. it has to be about what's in his head. iran deal stands a better chance of being blown up. fair point. north korea will be dealt with at least as aggressively as it has to this point. russia remains an open question. he has been hard about sanctions. we'll see what happens when he gets in there and pushes a hard line on russia and gets pushed back. >> that will be the telling moment. again, we have seen people who pushed back on this president. it is true the president likes seeing people file the. but one of the biggest misconceptions is people in the administration will say he likes having two people lay out their views and he picks one. that's not true. he likes watching people fight. he knows what he wants and he wants someone who will tell him he can do what he wants. we have not seen anybody steer him on awe different direction on russia. we don't know whether he read

the briefing notes that told him not to congratulate putin. but he went ahead and congratulated him anyway. >> we were told he received an oral briefing he as well. >> as always, you hear two different -- well, maybe he d. it wasn't brought up on the %-pt brought up on the call if it wasn't. but we will see whether bolton will succeed basically where no one else has. >> if this whole latest tumult shows anything, just because they say something is not true, you can't putney stock in it. you can't. >> in fact, you can put the opposite. the the two things that happened yesterday, dealing with special counsel and dowd, those were two things that the president denied was happening very aggressively. especially about john dowd, the lawyer. he made a production of this on twitter. and look what happened.

it doesn't happen until he says it happens. >> there we go. thank you. two women, two bombshell interviews. both detailing alleged affairs with president trump. but there are legal cases surrounding these. it's not just a question of vanity and personal sex lives. this is legal action and what it could mean for the sitting president of the united states. will he remain silent, president trump, or will he say something about what has been on tv? maggie stays. we'll get the inside scoop next. jym. cellucor. force factor. mega men and women's ultra mega. only at gnc. gas, bloating, constipation and diarrhea can start in the colon and may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. only phillips' colon health has this unique combination of probiotics. it helps replenish good bacteria. get four-in-one symptom defense.

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understand because he is trying to protect his family, image, things like that. but it was definitely like, wow, you're going to lie about that? okay. >> the bombshell interview anderson coming up sunday when we hear from stormy daniels in that "60 minutes" interview. will president trump remain silent about these allegations? i want to bring back in cnn political analyst maggie haberman. i think the answer is, yes, the president remains silent here. >> this is funny for a couple of reasons i think he will remain silent. one, he has been advised do not weigh into this. there is absolutely no up side. i think he recognizes it will create more oxygen. i don't think this is making the first lady particularly happy. if you look at it that way, it is not a surprise. contrast that with the nine or so women who accused him of

assault, harassment, misconduct. those he has denied. they are something where he felt attacked. one of the most telling things i ever heard about donald trump is there was a famous new york post first page, the best sex i ever had. where his second wife marla maples said this to a friend. he loved that front page. most people would have been embarrassed, ashamed, cringing. it was some kind of a badge of honor. there was a degree to which these two cases are uncomfortable for him and uncomfortable from a legal parameter. i do not think it is the moral spousal parameter that is bothering him. >> is this is his morality, what he does in his private life, i would be pushing to talk about something else right now. however, the white house, if not the president, has denied these.

his counsel has denied what's going on with stormy daniels. as a result we have potential legal exposure to a sitting president of the united states. we know why with stormy daniels. we have heard a ton of that. we have to see where this case goes and what this interview is about sunday night. but on this one, this the a little bit of a tricky legal situation. she's telling her story. she's out there telling it. the idea of suing for the ability to tell the story winds up being moot, as they say. however, the idea, jeffrey toobin says i talked to mr. peckr from ami, the parent company of the enquirer who paid karen mcdougal. he said, yeah, i paid her off for my friend donald trump. now we have a potentially legally sufficient claim that i told you i wanted to tell my story and that's why i did this deal. that was my bargain for a change. you said you would give me that. you did it to help trump.

and maybe he knew. now we have a problem on our hands, at least something that will be worth talking about. >> i think that's right. that's what we have been talking about for some time in terms of stormy daniels. we have had reporting there were other cases involving ami and involving women who were suddenly put on the payroll or received something. that does open him up. there is legal exposure there. exactly what it looks like and where it goes, we don't know. as we know from the bill clinton/paula jones case in whatever year that was, '98, '99, this is the way in. once you start opening that door, all sorts of things can come out. i agree with you, if this was just about his marriage, personal life, it's his business. if it gets into payoffs, intimidation, third-party payoffs, we go into a different area of how the president has conducted himself and how he has conducted his business for many,

many years. his company was his bedrock for running for president. >> and there are questions how much of that has been brought with him to the white house and how much is filtering out. we don't hear a lot from the first lady, which is understandable in this. but out of nowhere he tweeting a picture yesterday of the two of them. that obviously getting a lot of reaction. all of these things happening as all of a sudden we have talked about, john dowd is out. that calls into question too. look at this shiny carrot over here. national security adviser. >> i haven't been told that, to be clear. you look at the timing. you know his penchant for diverting is not surprising at

all. this is a theory. you're heading into spring break. the president is expected to return to washington. i think the first lady will stay for the duration of their son's spring break, at minimum this sets the tone of, look, we're together. so when the president travels it's not under question of, look, we're not together. she is in an unenviable and awful spot. >> if the president dangled josh bolton as a shiny object, good for him. i'm going to attack it luke a striped bass. it is a hell of a lot more important to the american people if the legally sufficient situations are to arise in court. we will see. a long way to go on that. maggie, nobody knows better than you. thank you for being with us. appreciate it. we will talk to kellyanne conway. she is spearheading the white house efforts to fight opioids

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president trump replacing his national security adviser h.r. mcmaster with former ambassador to the u.n. john bolton. the fox news personality known for hawkish views. a source telling cnn bolton told the president, however, he wouldn't start any wars. good to have you with us as always. >> good morning. >> good morning. do you believe that, based on everything we have seen and heard and read from john bolton the last number of decades that he does not spwpbd intend to st wars? >> he doesn't have the authority to start any wars. but john bolton, being national security adviser, will push the president and the nation in a more dangerous course when it

comes to key international security issues. he's a hawk on north korea. he's going to urge the president to rip off the uranium nuclear deal. we will not be able to control where they end up. >> where does that push us? >> it pushes us away from diplomacy, away from international consensus and more on the direction of kinetic options where the only thing left on the table that you have to play is the armed forces of the united states. when john was announced yesterday i had the thought that i could not remember a national security in a view other than ambassador bolton. he is hawkish, as you point out. ideological. no one ever accused of of being

a consensus builder. now we have someone close to the president whose instincts are very much is like the president's. >> to your point there, one of the things we are hearing is he has made clear to john bolton and he has said to these terms that it is the president's words. he will say, yes, you're my adviser, but i'm not necessarily bringing in h.r. mcmaster anymore to perhaps offer different viewpoints to give me a better sense of what's out there. we are going with my way or the highway. >> isn't that the scary part, erica? the reason you have national security counsel staff, interagency process is tee up for the president a variety that

you can actually influence presidential decision making. but now you've got john, ambassador bolton, next to the president. i think their instincts are near identical when it comes to iran. they both want to be tough on north korea. the only key area of contention between their instinctive views comes on russia. despite that video that you all showed a few minutes ago, john actually is a bit of a hawk on russia. that will be an interesting dynamic between him and the president. >> he has called russian interference false flag operation. i want to get your take on this. the lone hacker who gave credit for giving wikileaks the e-mails from the dnc. but this was an officer of russia's military intelligence director.

what are you hearing on that front? >> yeah. that is just additional detail that confirms the plat line we knew was true all along. what happened after we began to discover what the russians were doing, they tried to cover their tracks, putting out this idea of trying to pivot off a hacker that did hack into american systems, who is now in a romanian jail. what they were trying to do is cover their tracks. but the russians didn't do it. now we know based upon "the daily beast" article that this individual was in fact, a gru officer, and it was part of the overall russian operation. >> we'll have to leave it there. appreciate your insight. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> all right. so we have breaking news. it's from france. there is a terror standoff at a supermarket in the south of

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early situation indeed. the latest information is a super u, like a walmart to some degree. there are varying different reports. we may be dealing with one potential hostage taker and possibly one policeman still inside there. i have to tell you the level of security measures that are being put in the perimeter and response from a cabinet level in france has many concerned. that is one key fact here. a according to bf mtv, isis have claimed responsibility for this particular attack. obviously, chris, as we have been seeing the past years, what an enormous note of caution here, we simply don't know if isis had anything to do with this. they are a much diminished group. having lost the caliphate back in the day when bataclan attacks in paris occurred. even the truck driving into pedestrians in nice. but still at this stage a great

amount of concern for how many hostages were in there, if any have fled. if any have been injured. the response from the interior minister. a big moment for pause. france, a terrible history of isis attacks randomly against civilians. but a great concern i believe here to at least establish the facts and hope it is smaller than people's worst fears. >> even with the ongoing police action and society in favor of security, they still have a big threat. what we know so far from nick paton walsh, whatever is going on, we know they are armed and there is deadly intent. thank you very much. keep us informed. >> we'll continue to follow that story out of the south of france. tomorrow nearly a million people

expected to descend on capitol hill as the "march for our lives" rally kicks off with students gearing up to make their voices heard. ice renewing their push for change. cnn's scott mcclain has more. erica, those people are part of a group that no one asked to be a part of. a group that understands the more errors of gun violence in the classroom. from columbine to red lake to sandy hook and plenty of others, these communities are steulg feeling the impact of their school shooting nightmare and still working to prevent the next one. >> 19 years ago, 12 students and a teacher were killed inside columbine high school, gunned down by two peers in a place they were supposed to be safe. tom mouser lost his son daniel that day. >> i don't know how i got through the first few days and even weeks. >> since then police protocols have changed. so have state gun laws thanks in

part to close the loopholes his son had ironically pointed out weeks earlier. >> that he was killed with a gun purchased through one of those loopholes. >> in colorado, background checks are now nearly universal. there is a limit on magazine size. but still no one has found cure to america's school shooting plague. >> we have to deal with this terrible illness that we have. guns are a part of that. >> even if you fixed all of the gun loopholes you might not solve the school shooting problem. >> no. we have to do a number of things to deal with the gun violence problem. we will have to compromise, sit down and talk this out and not scream at each other. >> he is still wearing his son's sneakers. >> i like to think by stepping into his shoes that i'm doing what he would want me to do.

>> columbine never asked for its new found notoriety, nor did it seek out this dream catcher, a gift from students in new my meant to ward off bad dreams after a collective nightmare. in march 2005, columbine passed it on to red lake, minnesota after a student killed seven people using stolen police-issued weapons. >> i saw evil that day. >> missy dodds was teaching when a student shot through her floor length window to get in her class. >> he started shooting and just went down the line. when they got to me, there was nothing left in his gun. >> but in a culture where hunting is common, the shooting didn't spark much of a discussion about guns. >> is this about mental health, school safety? >> it was shut it down and forget it ever happened. >> but dodds couldn't forget. she tried to convince them to use shatter-proof glass in

schools which she thinks would have saved lives. >> i went straight to where a shooting happened and was literally blown off. >> the country was content to move on without doing much at all until red lake passed the dream catcher to sandy hook. a lone gunman used an ar-15 to kill 26. 20 of them young children. michelle's 7-year-old daughter joey was among them. >> my oldest daughter just couldn't accept it. it just couldn't be. >> for months afterwards, a group of sandy hook parents unsuccessfully pushed for sweeping gun control legislation. they now push schools to be safer but doesn't push gun control. >> if we go and start mentioning hot-button issues or political arguments, we suddenly divide

the room in half. >> when the president says our main teachers is something we should look at, you don't dismiss him? >> we don't. we should look at everything. we should put everything on the table. we can't ever count on any one thing. >> there is no single magic wand that will solve school shootings? >> i believe if there was we would have found it and waved it by now. >> after the sandy hook shooting that dream catcher traveled to washington and townville, south carolina. on friday it was presented to students at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. but the students accepted it for 17 seconds and then they gave it back, opting to retire the dream catcher with the hope that no other school will have to relive their experience. chris. >> scott, appreciate it. thank you for the reporting. the president replacing two people at the white house. we know that. we want to show you the situation ongoing in south

wales, france. we know the following. there is a standoff surrounding a local market. the mayor spoke with a local newspaper that at least one person has been killed. we don't know how many gunman are involved. we do know there was firing on police who were at the scene. and we do know that at least one of the people inside has pledged allegiance to isis. we also know that france has had a history of trouble with islamic extremists. and we know what happened there with the bataclan in and around paris. the threat is very real there. we have a team in the area. we will bring you a live report soon. all right. we're also going to have kellyanne conway live on the show to discuss the white house efforts to stop the scourge of opioids. let's take a quick break. we have a lot of news for you. please stay with cnn.

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a worthy discussion. kellyanne, thank you for taking the time. >> thank you for having me, christopher and for shining a light on what truly is the crisis next door. the president in new hampshire on monday rolls out his policy plan attacking the drug demand drives on three major fronts. prevention and education, treatment and recovery, and law enforcement and enter diction. the president is tackling all of those simultaneously, not sequentially. he himself said he wants a massive public-facing ad campaign. we are deploying facts and figures and messages to people, sometimes shocking the conscience and someties warming the heart with stories of recovery. congress met the president's request to have significant funding, new funding for the opioid crisis. $3 billion this fiscal year. $3 billion next year.

a total of over $13 billion is the package they have been mentioning. with the guns we plan to beef up the enter diction and disrupt the supply of illicit drugs coming into our country. 90% comes through our southern border. 8, 9 in 10 say they start through prescription drugs. opioids starts in your family medicine cabinet all to be. and that little bottle bears say the family doctor and local pharmacy. treatment is important. this president is calling for lifting the 40-year ban on mental health facility. because now they are being used to treat people with addiction. if you fill that 17th bed you don't get medicaid reimbursem t reimbursement. we have a long list for people waiting for treatment and empty beds. the strides the administration has made are many. he is calling for one-third

reduction. we are 5% of the world's population and we consume 80% of opioids. we want to make is sure all are big into this. people can go online and go to crisisnextdoor.gov and share their stories. yesterday we shared a story from mitch in missouri. the president mentioned this on monday. it is a compelling story of a young man who is fighting back from his addiction. he's talking about how he got started, what the gateways were, how to spot the got sta start. if people don't know what fentanyl is, really educate yourself, this is a synthetic opiod being manufactured outside this country, being brought in through our mail, sitting in our sanctuary cities and it's literally killing us.

fentanyl is 50 times the potency of heroin and 50 times more potent than morphine. >> this is a good thing, the action being taken. now the debate to have, and the testing to do here is how much and where? you know, especially china being highlighted with the tariffs right now about intellectual property theft, true, they also make a ton of fentanyl, that gets brought into this country, sometimes the right way, sometimes the wrong way. but the push back is going to be this. >> the president has. >> if you want to be aggressive about something, that's something that could get all americans behind you. you're putting money into it, that's good. i know there was a documentary hi highlighting this drug in a way

that others aren't. we need to put a lot more money than you're putting in here right now. the death ratio is so much more than hiv and aids yet the funding of addressing the problem is nowhere near close, you only have 10% of the population that has access and the ability to fund treatment, if you did that with heart disease, we would have a plague on our hands with death. more money has to get into the local communities, how do you do that? >> we agree that more money needs to get to the local communities, this is a federal, state and local community effort. the president was a captivati captivatingcaptivatining speaker in virginia. and honestly, putting the fear into some of our youth from not buying that street drug for $10,

for not getting hooked in the first place, and yet recognizing so many people in this country are already suffering from this disorder with these drugs and helping them, now i want to say something about the money, that is congress's job to appropriate the money. this president declared a public health energy. congress has nixed the president's request, which was a historic request for new funding. no president's had anything close to this. and we know it does take money and it also takes lifting or changing these crazy rules that really prevent people from accessing and remaining in treatment. we also in our opiods cabinet, we have involved the department agencies and the cash net sbine , and we have also involved development of labor and hud, why? because we recognize that when people, if they're lucky enough

to be able to get into treatment and they're lucky enough to come out, there's still a small percentage of recovery. they come out and the only thing normal to them is the drugs. this president is committed to connecting pe ining people with needs, hud, my colleague over there in terms of housing opportunities. >> there's a whole contincontin. >> people become addicted for a lot of different reasons. >> but on fentanyl, i want to just say this, because it's incredibly important, most outlets are not covering fentanyl, so thank you. the department of justice announced the first two indictments of chinese nationals who were fentanyl traffickers,

they have also filed a statement of interest with a civil litigation that the statements have put forward, i went to the congress with jeff sessions. and also you see so of these companies now and so many states really and the pharmaceutical company saying we support the first prescription being seven days not 30. we're not talking about chronic pain sufferers, there's still people who need it. >> not everybody who takes pain medicine is an addict. there's a lot of stigma that goes on with this. there's a place for tough talk. and if you want to go after someone, go after the makers of these drugs. if you want to talk about kids, there's tough talk about how

addiction happens. you say let's kill the drug kingpins, you're not going to punish your way out of this problem, you know that right? the death penalty is barely a deterrent on any level let alone when it comes to addiction. and you're not going to punish your way out of the problem no matter how good that sounds. >> we have had a kingpin statute on the books for decades. >> but the president doesn't like it. >> the attorney general two days ago put out guidance to all the attorneys general, you can pull it up or your viewers can watch it. what the president is saying is, and he's absolutely right, we don't have tough sentences ga s because a lot of these sentences

go with the weight of the drug. he said many things, he said tougher sentences. >> he said kill drug dealers. >> he said in very specific cases. >> he said kill drug kingpins. >> there's a two page -- well, good. >> not good. i don't think that will get you out of the problem. >> he didn't say it gets you out of the problem. he's actually tackling it on these three major fronts and you know it. and the first lady who's take men this issue on. we have 25 babies being born addicted every day in this country. and if anyone wants to volunteer their time in their communities, go for it. it's a great cause. >> there's a lot of good thing that need to be done. >> it's a nonpartisan issue, christopher, this legislation should be passing unanimously. >> i wish i didn't not know as much about this problem as i do. i get it, i get how real it is, it's good what you're doing,

more has to be done, and the effort has to be very focused and we have to talk the right talk. that's why i'm checking you on this point. let me ask you this, all of this work that needs to be done here is compromised by the drama that's going on in this place. y and these women that are coming out, you know me, i'm not getting into people's private affairs, however, the way they're being handled are creating potential legal situations for a sitting president of the united states. how much of a distraction, how difficult is it to get the job done there, with these looming questions surrounding these women, and of course the political intrigue of all the shake-ups you have here? >> the answer you see every day, this is a very active president. look at everything that happened this week. he's hardly retreating into a cocoon. >> he's spending a lot of time with this. that's the tweets with joe

biden. >> no, no, sorry, he doesn't spend much time. like joe biden, and the name we don't say on your network anymore. why do they keep mentioning him and his voters and his election. >> he ran for president of the united states and the president brought him up. the president brought up biden. >> vice president biden went after him and talked about violence. >> only one. >> one was president for eight years and let's not talk about what happened for eight years. that man was vice president for eight years. i respect his public service, i honor his public service. however, if people in that kind of position, a former vice president, a former secretary of state and twice failed presidential candidate. they have platforms, why aren't they using them for more good. why didn't he call me for help

on the drug crisis? >> take us down the road. i don't care what she's doing. she's not in charge of keeping my family safe. you are. you're in power. >> that's why we now have funding for the wall, for the military, for school safety, for opiods, for so many of the president's priorities. this president was mocking the wall two years ago and now they're funding it. that's this president. >> i don't know where this president was two years ago when these guys made it up. >> the president just rolled two pages, everybody should read it. a very significant drug policy, then yesterday, he took action against china because the ustr said that we were losing innovation in the future and there ee's intellectual propert