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election. >> it could be a completely different world by 2020. >> it's a long way off. >> i think it's far too early to make a judgment of that type. >> talk about what might happen in that time i think is premature. >> we have no idea who is going to run. whether the president runs again or not i think is very questionable, candidly. >> why wouldn't he? >> ah. i don't know. why would he? >> reporter: cnn white house reporter jeremy dimond is with us and julian zeleny and siraj ha ha hashmi. >> the relationship between the president and mitt romney is tumultuo tumultuous. is it surprising we haven't heard a solid position from mitt romney? >> he is following a long line of senators and congressmen who are not ready to jump on to the

trump campaign 2020 re-election bid yet and telling of this president his approval ratings and situation in washington. but trump and romney, in particular, of course, have a very tumultuous relationship and i think we have a clip of their longstanding feud. >> i don't think mitt needs lots of money but i'll certainly do whatever is necessary. we need somebody great as a president. i think he'll be a great president. >> being in donald trump's magnificent hotel and having his endorsement is a delight. >> i have a lot of friends. no, i have a lot of friends. by the way, mitt romney is not one of them! did he choke? >> here is what i know. donald trump is a phony. a fraud. >> the last election should have been won except romney choked like a dog! he choked! he went -- i can't breathe! i can't breathe, he said! >> i've had a wonderful evening

with president-elect trump. the conversations have been enlighti ining and engaging and enjoyed them very much. >> reporter: the two have had a love/hate relationship back and forth. right new in the love phase where president trump endorsed mitt romney for his utah senate bid, despite that endorsement, though, mitt romney, yesterday, not clenching the 60% vote threshold required for him to get the republican nomination in that state outright. he will face a primary challenge in june. a lot of state-based issues there as well but it is notable that the president endorsed him and mitt romney not making the threshold but likely he will meet that threshold in june. >> julian, let me ask you about that. what do you make of the fact that we have an endorsement from the president? i want to read it to you because he sent it out in a tweet and not something he went and rallied for mitt romney but he did it on twitter saying romney announced he is running for the senate from the wonderful state

of utah and he'll make great senator and worthy successor to orrin hatch and has my full support answer endorsement. june 26th, they are going to face off. what was it here, do you think? was it president trump's endorsement that didn't do the job or is there a fracture, a broader issue of a fracture in the republican pear, particularly in utah? >> some of the politics is local and some of this has to do with mitt romney collecting signatures rather than just relying on the nomination process which angered some utah activists. some of this is the baggage that comes with president trump in 2018. mitt romney is the quintessential candidate who has tried to play it from all sides. he was the never trumper who then wanted to be secretary of state for president trump and who is now receiving his

endorsement. so i think he is angered both the moderates in the state and they are numerous for associating himself with the president. he is also angered conservatives because he came out so strongly in parts of the campaign against trump. he tried to have it all ways and so there is a lot of built-up resentment even though he still is very popular in the state. he is paying a political price for the president. >> so let me ask you, siraj. are president trump and mitt romney, are they friends or not friends? at the end of the day, does it matter? >> well, for one, they are, at best, frenemies. they say romney is more known for his demonstrative speech against president trump and called him a phony and a fraud. what is interesting, though,

many republicans, outside of utah and some in utah, believe that romney is more known for that speech in march of 2016 in which he called president trump a fraud and a phony. so what is interesting is will that actually take him over the edge some i think he'll be okay, considering the fact he is so popular there and he has enough name recognition to overcome that type of whatever conservative lapse he kind of rebukes then candidate trump. >> i need to get julian here to a new issue this morning with scott pruitt of the epa. walter schwab tweeted this out trying to make it as concise as possible.

here you go. you couple this with all of the issues he is already dealing with. i think we have a rundown here. d.c. housing arrangements and 24/7 detail and first class travel and office improvements that summit added up to $43,000 for a soundproof booth that the gao says violated federal law. at the end of the day he is doing president trump's job, the job that the president wants him to do. does that alone make him safe, julian? >> well, it doesn't make him safe. i think this kind of story hurts in that it gives credibility to the idea that these weren't simply mistakes what is going on in washington and this is a long pattern of how pruitt lives his political life, right on the border of what is ethically correct and incorrect and

sometimes going beyond it. it is true. what makes him safe isn't that he is working for the president. he is actually moving forward on one of the key issues for the president which is going after all kinds of environmental regulations that have been put into place over the past few decades. it's balancing the scandal and the constant turmoil that pruitt is causing this administration versus the fact that he is a partisan worarrior on some of t issues that the president cares about. >> is there a consequence for president trump if there is not one for pruitt? >> that is the thing. we are seeing the bounds and line drawn with scott pruitt and how it comes to president trump concerning the ethics blurring of the lines. albeit the regulations pruitt was undone in the epa for conservatives he is undermining their cause like kanye west is coming out with a hot fire album

in june and then ming with president trump in december of 2016 and then supporting -- tweeting out his support of candace owens. in many ways he is doing himself a disservice and president trump by not firing him is somewhat of an indictment on his administration and it's not looking good. but, again, we are probably not going to see -- probably not see a resignation any time soon. >> thank you, gentlemen, so much. sorry we ran out of time. >> thank you. breaking news out of tennessee. one person is dead. several others are injured. this is after a shooting at a waffle house in antioch in the nashville area. a naked gunman police say wearing only a green jacket is out there somewhere and believed to be armed with a rifle. we have more details coming in by the minute from our affiliate reporter who is on the scene. we will get to those in a

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he is believed to be armed with an ar-15 semiautomatic rifle. sophie nelson, the reporter, is at the scene with details. >> reporter: jennifer, you can see this waffle house across the street is now a major crime scene. a lot of emergency vehicles and a lot of police around here. as for the gunman he was seen walking away from this waffle house down murfreesboro pike. i learned the s.w.a.t. team and medical helicopter have been called out because they think this man could still be armed. police say the gunman is a white man and that he was naked, only wearing a green jacket, when he walked into a waffle house and started shooting, continuing to shoot people as he left through the parking lot. police confirmed he left an ar-15 inside the waffle house. there was another shooting past that shell gas station at the corner of laverne pike and laverne police are there and

confirm it's related to the shooting. at least one person is in critical condition. several people were rushed to vanderbilt university medical center this morning and we are expecting another update this morning so stay tuned with news channel 5 for the latest on this breaking story. >> that from our reporter there at wtvf. sophie, thank you very much. we are following this developing situation in afghanistan this morning. a suicide bombing on a voting registration center in kabul has now killed 31 people. another 54 have been hurt. but what you're looking at are the pictures that are just coming into cnn. isis said it carried out this attack reason according to "the washington post" the white house is privatelily doubting north korea's plan to stop nuclear testing despite president trump calling the news progress and good news in tweets. >> officials are worried this could be a move to bring the

u.s. to the negotiating table and violate the agreement and believe that because it's happened in the past. paula hancocks is live with us from seoul. do we have any way to truly gauge what the intention is of kim jong-un? >> reporter: well, the only person who knows why kim jong-un is doing this is kim jong-un, himself. i think it is sensible if the white house is, in fact, quite skeptical about what is happening and if they are concerned about what his intentions are. if you consider the nuclear program for kim jong-un is what he staked his reputation on, part of the state ideology and written it into the constitution. what we heard from him on friday was that he was saying it was mission accomplished, that the nuclear missile testing had gone as far as he needed it to go, that he had got to the point he needed to be.

there was no mention whatsoever about giving any of that capability up and we haven't heard that directly from kim jong-un at any point from him. so it's really going to be wait and see what exactly he is willing to give up during that summit next friday, if anything at all. so i think it's a very healthy dose of skepticism for the white house, according to that "the washington post" article. now, of course, we can talk about the summit and talk about the politics and the missiles, the nuclear, but one thing we need to focus on as well is the human aspect of this. millions of families were split apart by the korean war in 1950s. they are now watching the summit very closely because there could be a chance they would see their loved ones for the first time in almost 70 years. we spoke to one man who said that he is skeptical because he has had his hopes dashed in the past.

he collected clothes for his north korean family and threw them away when it turned sour. i was almost 20 when he left home, he says, and now almost 90. no joy of life to me. i'm waiting to die. i don't know why, he says, but the older i become the more i miss my brothers. one person who feels this more acutely than previous leaders is the south korean president who is the son of north korean refuges and part of one of these family reunions with his mother several years ago and meeting his aunt for the first time. he understands the human aspect of this more than others. >> paula hancocks there in seoul, thank you. >> thank you. this is not the usual protocol but the question is the most secretive agency in the united states going on this full-out public relations campaign? we are looking into the special measures the cia is taking to

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>> chris kuhns of delaware said he would vote no on pompeii on which means pompeo most likely will not have the support to get a favorable vote in the senate relation committee tomorrow but assuming he can get the support of a small number of democrats in red states. >> the cia pompeii a will likely be leaving is facing some questions of its own now over whether the agency has crossed a line in supporting pompeo's potential replacement. deputy director gene a haspe-- haspel. look at the tweets here. one nominates her and one clearing her in destruction of waterboarding tapes. is this okay? let's bring in josh campbell.

good morning to you, josh. >> good morning. >> let me read for you what we have read from or heard from a representative of the cia, a spokesman here. he says, this is from ryan treponi. how rare is this? >> it's unusual. let me say tu oat the outset i nothing but the respect for the men and women at the cia. i think they have the hardest mission in the u.s. government. that said i think we need to step back and realize what we are seeing here and take gina's name out of this. we are seeing a government agency aggressively advocating for the confirmation of their own appointee. she is well known within the agency but should not become the

norm and i would argue it's inappropriate for an agency to be doing a full-court press to confirm a political nominee when you think about the support that an agency normally provides a nominee it's usually logistics and getting hem briefed and ready and that kind of thing. rare to see this campaign to really push for that confirmation. the reason why it's concerning not only on its face but look within the ranks of the cia. i talked to some former colleges who think very highly of her but are there the dissenting voices within the cia and why aren't we seeing those? this is one side of the narrative. >> i've gone through several months of the cia account there. i went back to the truncated period. nothing there but only about three or four days. so maybe not fair also. you said geina haspel, they hav said where she was and what she

was doing. is that a safety concern, a danger and when you compare that to what congress wants to know about her time in thailand in the destruction of tapes of interrogation methods and actions, what do you think about that element? >> well, so i think transparency is always good. obviously, in an intelligence agency where you have someone who has lived a life undercover and a lot of details that maybe they can't share i think it's good they are going back and try to determine are there elements of her life that we can then share and put out there because she is going to become a very public person and leading that government agency. that part i think is good. kind of the selective aof certan stories. i tried to determine what is a best practice? should we as a government agency and u.s. intelligence community be above the fray when it comes to politics, when it comes to, you know, propaganda? i think with some of the tweets what is concerning not only do you see the amplification of

certain news story which is interesting but the washington examiner piece was an opinion piece about her that the government is putting out. so i know, you know, any government agency is going to have negative stories out there about them. are they going to be, you know, promoting those as well just to kind of show, you know, both sides of the issue or is this very much a one-sided thing? i think we need to step back. cia mission is too important in this area where so many norms are being destroyed and government agencies pulled into the political muck i think they need to stay above the fray. >> let's talk about what you mention a moment ago the broader politicization of the law enforcement community, the intelligence community. we have covered for sometime now the intragovernment weaponization of information but now we see the agency as a whole, the brain of the cia being used to push a political nominee. is that limited to the single case or is are you seeing this this is now starting to penetrate other parts of the government? >> gosh. i hope it's limited to the single case. obviously, i haven't seen cia

beyond that use their official accounts to kinds of push that kind of narrative. if you look at -- i know the person who used to run that account and i don't know if she is still running it but focused on the agency's history because so much they can't talk about and so it's fascinating. people should follow them because you see that insight into the history of the agency, its culture, a lot of the important work. i hope this is an aberration from the norm where you see them actually using this for more of a campaign but folks are going to be watching it very closely. >> they certainly have been several tweets from the cia account since the announcement of gina haspel for the director of the cia. if it continues, we will see. good to have you, josh campbell. >> thank you. we know that three people are confirmed dead after a shooting at a waffle house in antioch which is outside of nashville. these are the pictures from our affiliate wtvf coming to us now. the shooter is on the run right

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french president emmanuel macron will arrive in the u.s. tomorrow ahead of the first state visit. a dinner of president trump's presidency. >> yeah. during his trip, he is going to address a joint session of congress. this is the next step in what is a rocky relationship between the two political leaders and first lady melania trump is hosting a state dinner this week in honor of macron's visit and this is a dinner a major diplomatic moment for the trump administration and months of hard work and attention to detail by the first

lady personally. with us now cnn white house reporter kate bennett. thank you for being here, kate. first and foremost, how is it that the first lady is preparing for this occasion and doing so we need to point out on her own. she did not hire a planner as it is, obviously, very often done in the past. >> reporter: most first ladies, most white houses have hired event planners for recent state dinners and most of the state dinners have ballooned into hundreds of people and obama's used to tent the back lawn and hang chandeliers and i think gwen stefani even performed. the first lady is into the history and tradition of the white house and felt she could taj building with her social secret who has a background in event planning and the white house staff who stay on through administrations so they have been there. some of them through dozens of state dinners.

certainly she has the support staff to help her with this but she did come up with everything from the flowers to the color scheme. i was told she even picked the chair coverings for tuesday night's dinner. >> this is what is interesting. she is giving, obviously, such precise meticulous detail to this. let's talk about the guest list. there are most congressional democrats on this list. that is unusual. is it is not is? >> reporter: politico reported this. it's typically that state dinners include folks from the other side of the aisle so to speak and that they can be bipartisan guest list. apparently that is not the case with the trump administration. i don't think anyone is really that surprised to hear that in terms of how divisive this political climate has been in washington this past year or so. however, there are most dems as far as we're aware going to the state dinner which makes it a very sort of -- a big break from tradition that is typically

done. there is also no media going. also there is better tradition. uninviting swhe inwhite house r and folks that represent the media that apparently is also not happening. however, i have to mention this state dinner is taking place in the state dining room at the white house which is much smaller. the guest list probably will be i'm hearing between 100 and 150 people. so certainly when you include the french delegation and those related to the diplomacy of the two countries it probably doesn't leave a lot of room but a jaw-dropper nobody from the democratic party as we are hearing. >> it brings to question what is the intention of that. as i understand it, it's been reported, the president had no input on this dinner, is that correct? >> reporter: well, he didn't have any input on the design or anything about sort of the menu and how it was going to look and feel. he certainly was busy with his own schedule. it was something that the first

lady wanted to handle independently. but in terms of the guess list i imagine the west wing had some input. likely the state department did which is typically and protocol of the dictate is. apparently, again, this is a different era and things are being done dimple. >> how is this state dinner. >> reporter: it's extremely important. the first time the trump's are hosting an event on a world stage. you mentioned at the beginning it's months and months of planning. the trump are hosting for a special double date night at mt. vernon the night before so sort of a two-day extravaganza. they are taking a walk around washington the day of the state dinner and pomp and circumstance where the limo pulls out and macron's come out and photographic opportunity on the front steps of the white house,

so it really feels important and the sign the two countries are friendly and a reciprocal move. the trump's last year had dinner in eiffel tower and now trump wants to have his own military parade in washington. certainly this is a payback spo speak so to speak in terms of hospitality. >> thank you, kate benefit. colin kaepernick wins an award for taking a knee during the national anthem. why it's garnering worldwide attention. with hyaluronic acid to plump skin cells so it bounces back. neutrogena® owners always seem so happy? because they've chosen the industry leader.

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he tweeted the following. the sentence and imprisonment destroyed jack johnson's boxing career. he died in 1946. colin kaepernick, the former quarterback for the san francisco 49ers is known for kneeling during the national anthem at nfl games to protest police brutality against black people. he won an award because of his exceptional courage and activism.

>> my love for my people serves as a fuel that motivates me and fortifies me on my mission. is the people's unbroken love for themselves that motivates me even when faced with the humanizing norms of a system that can lead to the loss of one's life over simply being black. in the past this award has gone to nelson mandela, alicia keys and several others. people in puerto rico are waking up for a loss of power for the second time this week after a excavator hit a power line. >> the category four storm hit seven months ago but people are reluctant to go back. >> many seeking shelter moved to florida and moving from hotel-to-hotel to stop from wind up on the streets. ed lavandera has more. >> reporter: this is a pep talk for the soul. following a week of highs and

lows that symbolizes the shaky road to recovery facing thousand dollars of people from puerto rico storm survivors. after hurricane maria thousands left the island and signed up for a program that pays for hotel rooms until families can move back into permanent housing. seven months after the storm, there are nearly 2,700 families still using the motel voucher program like millie and her family. why did you come to florida? she says it was never her intention to stay here this long and she thought she would be able to come here a little while and go back. instead santiago is known of the super eight motel and helps evacuees who end up in a string of motels along highway 192 in ki kissimmee, florida. the families say they were told the motel voucher program would last until may but about 60% of

the families were stunned to learn this week they were no longer eligible and about to get kicked out of their rooms a month early. that set off an intense week of rallies, tears, and calls to political leaders and activists demanding help. then relief as word spread that the fema program would likely survive until mid may. >> woo! >> father jose rodriguez say there is no transition plans to help the families get back on their feet. >> these are people after the accident by a natural disaster. they are not out here on vacation and not here at the pool tanning or at the beach side. >> have a nice day. >> reporter: highway 192 in kissimmee, the marginal and homeless have found refuge in the cheap rooms on this stretch

of highway surrounding the utopia of disney world. >> don't you think we are going too far? >> no. just come on! don't be a loser! >> reporter: after hurricane maria, community activists say about 180 people from puerto rico families moved into these same moltses along highway 192. they say they feel trapped in this motel life because they are working minimum wage jobs and affordable housing is square and federal disaster benefits are not enough. fe fema says this is no longer a disaster problem but a social problem and the agency is doing everything they can to help the families and fema says a program to only available for storm victims on the island and not those who left. this family left because the storm wiped out their day care business and came to florida so her two children could enroll in

school. you want to stay in orlando? i don't have a choice now, she says. diane is working part-time and taking culinary classes and hope she can land a better job in one of all the orlando area theme parks. without the motel room, she worries she would be sleeping in her car. she says i'm incredibly scared and i have no idea where i'm going to go. >> reporter: ramos and the other evacuees living on this motel row and know time is running out. ed lavandera, cnn, kissimmee, florida. breaking news this hour. a manhunt is under way right now for a man who is wearing only a green jacket who allegedly walked into a waffle house in the nashville area and began shooting with something that looks to be similar to an ar-15. >> three people dead and several

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we have talked a lot about the president's tweets this weekend but there is one you probably missed. this one. nancy pelosi is going absolutely crazy about the big tax cuts given to the american people by the republicans. got not one democrat vote. here is a choice. they want to end them and raise your taxes substantially. republicans are working on making them permanent and more cuts slam the president to the tax cut he signed in law before christmas as one of the largest tax cuts in the history and most

sweeping tax form in a generation and in an op-ed published on "usa today" on tax day. what the president did not mention in his get or op-ed is the new government report released days earlier that projects historic deficits in part because of the gop's tax cut. now to be fair, a lot of people overlook this report. it's been a busy couple of weeks. but we think you need to know about it because the news is not good and the government says it is only going to get worse. here it is. it's from the nonpartisan congressional budget office, their annual assessment and looking out to 2028. here is the headline. cbo projects in 2020 the u.s. government will run a trillion dollar deficit and the u.s. will spend a trillian dollars more than than it takes this. that is two yearsway and sooner

than the cbo projected a few months ago. now you might have noticed that i said the u.s. will run trillion dollar deficit again. well, that is because during the financial crisis the annual deficits surpassed a trillion dollars four times and at its peak it hit 1.4 trillion in the last year's first year of obama and the highest ever. >> we have to confront the fact our government spends more than it takes in. that is not sustainable. >> we face a crushing burden of debt. the debt will soon eclipse our entire economy and grow to catastrophic levels in the years ahead. >> reporter: the difference between then and now are huge. then, the economy was falling off a cliff. unemployment was between 7% and 10% and interest rates at historic lows. but now the economy is strong, unemployment is 4.1% and interest rates are climbing. and in this economy the u.s. will build on, as speaker ryan called it, the crushing burden of debt but it's hard to grasp really a trillion dollars,

right? we could all name a few billionaires we have seen on tv, but there has never been a trillionaire so how can we appreciate a trillion dollars? let's try this. that was $100. it took what? ten seconds. consider this. if i were to stand here and toss $100 every ten seconds nonstop until i reached $1 trillion, i would be here for every second of every day for more than 3,000 years! that is just one trillion. i say just one, because the cbo projects trillion dollar deficits in the following years. by 2028 the cbo projects the

united states will spend more a new record in good times. here is the cbo director keith hall. >> nobody knows what is too much debt. what will cause a fiscal crisis. you know? and it really depends upon the country, it depends on the situation. >> president trump says republicans now want to make the individual tax cuts permanent and they were scheduled to conspire at the end of 2025. speaker ryan says the house will vote on that this summer. it's important to say ballooning deficits are not exclusive to a single party or president but, remember, the next time republicans brag about the tax cut or democrats begrudgingly justify huge spending increases, remember, everything comes at a cost. the next hour starts right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news.