a new cnn poll re1r50e8s what americans think about the findings from robert mueller's russia investigation as president trump turns his focus elsewhere. and the parliament says no to all eight brexit. and a soft ware fix for the 737 max as u.s. law makers demand answers about the plane and two deadly crashes. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. this is cnn newsroom. ♪

well, donald trump is frelgs off what he says is total exoneration by special counsel robert mueller and the u.s. president is now focusing on health care. republicans have been campaigning against balm kay for for over a decade. the administration has no fresh plan of its own. >> president trump is defending his administration's surprise decision to join a lawsuit that would entirely eliminate the affordable care act, commonly referred to as obamacare. >> phase one terminates obamacare. you know that. that's the texas lawsuit. we think it will do very well in the supreme court. >> reporter: but sources say there is no such plan. >> we're going to be the republicans, the great party of health care.

>> reporter: this came after month oz of heated debate by trump's advisors. but sources say it still caught key law makers off guard. >> last year i wrote to attorney general jeff sessions and protested not to bend parts of the law that provides protections to consumers with preexisting conditions. now they're going way beyond that and seeking to invalidate the entire law. this is contrary to the tradition of the justice department. which generally defends laws. >> one key -- >> cnn has learned health and human services bill barr oppose the mover. he worried the administration did not have a plan to replace obamacare and he backed wlauiers who oppose the legal case being

made by the state against obamacare. but nick mule veiny hoping to put the issue back on the agenda for congressional republicans. are chances any greater than zero that this congress could come together on a replacement? >> i doubt it. but what is the republican party for? >> what is the republican party alternative? >> a block grant to take the money out of washington. >> reporter: all this as the debate raises why special counsel robert mueller didn't take a position on obstruction of justice. comey telling an audience in charlotte tuesday the part that's confusing is i can't quite understand what's going on the obstruction stuff. i can't tell from the letter why he didn't decide the questions when the entire rationale is to make sure the politicals aren't

making the key charging decisions. rudy giuliani offering this explanation instead. >> i think his staff was in debate over it. and it's a can question of intrp reitation. >> reporter: and as democrats demand to see the full mueller report, mitch mcconnell again blocked a democratic effort to demand a release. and a new cnn poll show asthma jort of voters say the president and his campaign have not been exonerated by mueller. instead 56% say they believe collusion simply could not proven. as president trump tries to shift the attention to this issue of health care, that's causing some consternation among republicans. this was such a big motivator thirn 2018 election and republicans are not eager to put it back on the table.

the house republican leader, mccarthy, reportedly called president trump to tell him it was a bad idea. but of course president trump seemged convince that republicans can ultimately win on health care. joining me to talk more about this is gescan culeavenson, a professor of law at loyola university in l.a. great to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> let's start with our cnn poll that shows 66% of those surveyed think the mueller report does not exonerate president trump and his campaign of collusion but think collusion could not be proven and 57% say congress should hold hearings. >> at least majority of the american public understood that attorney general barr's letter

said clearly the report does not exonerate the president and despite the fact the president said great news, i'm not exonerated, at least the majority of the american people know that's not true. and with respect oto this issue of collusion and their conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russian government that robert mueller did not find enough evidence in the attorn ageneral's view to show beyond a reasonable doubt that there was conspiracy. that doesn't mean there was no evidence. it means they concluded there wasn't enough evidence. >> and attorney general bill barr has agreed to testify before the house judiciary chairman but wouldn't commit to releasing the full mueller report. why do you think he's refusing to release it evilen as calls grow louder from the democrats,

from the public to do just that? >> because he's been clever about controlling the narrative and the longer the only document we have made public is the letter supposedly the summary of the principal conclusions and the longer the american people hear this was close to an exoneration and it's the attorney general who's able to frame this entire story. i think what the american public will see is exactly what the letter told us. there's a lot of evidence on both sides. but there's a difference between hearing there's evidence on both sides and actually seeing that evidence. i think it's potentially damaging to the president. and what we've seen from the attorney general is he's been protective of the president and his stance. and therefore there's no motivation to release the report. >> and in a surprise move, he

pivoted to health care, announcing a plan to wipeout obamacare and replace it with a plan that hadn't been written yet. why is the president so convinced that terminating people's health care will be a win for him in 2020? particularly when his attorney general and top republicans are warning him against it? >> i think this is a really risky move. i think president trump recognizes this weekend he essentially had the best days of his presidency. he was able to say, even though the report didn't actually say this, i was exonerated. the mueller report really was a witch hunt and i think he wants to take his political capitol out for a spin and he's try to do it piece meal and essentially just a sledge hammer is the affordable care act, is

obamacare, and i think he believes this is important to his base. one off the things we've seen president trump do is ignore the people you just talked about. the many people who have said that's not good idea. this isn't actually popular with the voters. i think it's popular with his base and those are the voters he largely speaks to. >> many americans would rather see improvements made to obamacare than have the entire law overturned. the next question is how likely is it this congress could ever come up with a replacement plan they could all agree upon? >> i think it is more likely we will see the entire barr re -- sorry the entire mueller report unredacted than some sort of bipartisan fix to health care. i think with the democratically

controlled congress, it's very unlikely we will see anything nearing president trump's proposals and if we see anything, frankly, it will be incremental. voters across the aisle are essentially happy with having some level of health care and as you said it's not a perfect law, a lot of problems with the roll out but what we know is a lot of vulnerable people will lose their access to health care. i don't think congressional democrats will let that happen and i don't think there will be a. haea bipartisan solution anywhere near on the horizon. >> we'll be watching that particular part of the story. thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate it. we turn now to the brexit chaos in the united kingdom where law makers took control of

the process and promptly did nothing. they could not agree on any of the eight alternatives put forth, levering the pim's twice rejected deal the most viable option as opposed to crashesing out with no deal and teresa offering to resign her post in the hopes of getting hardlined conservative brex tears behind her plan. >> my question on monday went unanswered. so will the prime minister now say what is her plan b? prime minister? >> as he knows we are continuing to work to insure we can deliver brexit to the british people and continue to deliver brexit. we have a deal that cancels our eu member 147 lee, and our common agriculture and common fishery policy for good. other options would lead to

delay, to uncertainty and risk never delivering brexit. >> well, cnn's international diplomatic editor is live outside 10 downing street. who would have thought british law makers would with have a chance to a dead locked parliament. see what comes next? >> i think perhaps teresa may might have thought that was possible. because she's been trying to coaless support for a plan. what it showed is that there are two ideas there that have some currency. the customs union that was defeated by eight votes and a second referendum on whatever the outcome off an eventual agleemt could be did score the highest number of yeses. so if you like, it is liked by a

number in the house, that's what they've taken away from last night's vote which absolutely did not produce a clear winner. and those same mps would hope on monday they would begin to refine the process. this was indicative. sort of a first vote type system. so monday they would go to preferences. take those two ideas and refine them down further. but where does this leave the prime minister? she said she will quit and not lead to government into the next phase with the european union once this phrase of the exit part of the deal is done. so she isn't, it appears, today, in a position to pass the pre-vote. that would be the vote on the agreement that has failed twice so far and that is because her political allies in ireland

refuse to come on board. there's not enough tin for them and that's the position she's in. so despite sacrificing her leadership on a shorter term basis now and without having a clear way forward if you will, the prime minister is perhaps this morning wondering can she really call for a vote, which there is a good posnlt, a strong possibility could fail >> it's possible and then it might be a no brexit. but what about the fact the speaker has said she can't bring that to a third vote unless there are substantial changes made? and that hasn't been done, has it? >> and he reaffirmed that again last night. yesterday he put it on parliamentary record again that's not something he can count innocence. we don't know how the prime minister may try to get around that. people have talked about

perending the sessionf parliament. that would involve bringing the queen into play for the next session. so unlikely. but what other idea does the prime minister and her team have to convince the speaker to allow another meaningful vote on the basis she had already to go through? and will they dress it up with some of the language? will she stand up and say they had their opportunity? and as you said at the very beginning the prime minister's plan the one that still seems to tick many of the boxes, certainly in her opinion. but i think you're going to their pushback from the opposition benches to say hold on a minute. let's talk about that. that would have been a red line until now. is that way she's going to be norsed to go forward? and still the first phase of

brexit, she would be around to manage that for the country for the government and her party. >> it's fascinating, isn't it? 7:15 in the morning there. we thank you as always. style come u.s. law makers put the focus on aviation safety. and boeing sharp questions about what was compromised in certifying the 737 max 8. and later an exclusive look inside the simulator. what pilots inkurnt when they fly that jet. we're back in a moment.

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in the aftermath of two crashes in five months u.s. law makers grill the federal aviation administration about its relationship with boeing and if that close relationship compromised safety. tom foreman has the details. >> reporter: the soft ware update would make the max 8 rely on two indicators to determine the plane's angle. in theory reducing the likelihood of an automatic

leveling system forcing a dive. and it would prevent that system from repeatedly fighting pilots trying to control the plane and boeing indicates a warning light previously an option sold to airlines will now be standard. for all that, being insists the planes as is pose no dachger to passengers. >> the boeing 737 family is a safe airplane family the 737 max builds on that tremendous level of safety we've seen for the last almost 50 years. >> that may be hard for safety advocates and families of victims believe. only five months apart claimed 346 lives and raise serious questions about mcas as a possible cause. and showed the lion aircraft pitched up and down for nine minutes as they believe the crew

was battling that on-bord computer. they say the ethiopian crash looked suspiciously similar. so from capitol hill tough words about the decision to ground the planes only after almost every other country had. >> if ib had been a passenger on one of those planes and i knew about these incidents, i would have wanted -- >> the united states and canada twhur first countries to ground the aircraft for cause and purpose. >> reporter: still questions persist about changes being now and whether certain safety features should have been add ones. >> these were safety oriented additions, why they were not part of the required templet of measure that should go into an airplane.

>> reporter: boeing says it won't take long to train the pilots eether to deal with them but this is about a lot more than technical issues. it's about safety. and until it they're convinced they're safe, then they stay grounded. >> and for more on all this we turn to cnn aviation analyst, a former inspector general for the u.s. department of transportation and an attorney who represents families of airline crash victims and currently has litigation pending against boeing. so at the hearings wednesday on boeing safety concerns, we heard transportation secretary elaine chou saying based on the information they had on march 10, 11, and 12, there was no

factual basis to ground the boeing 737 max 8. what's your reaction to that? >> your hearing was like being in an alternate universe. there's so much information ticket come out, not to mention the inspector general reporting before the lion air ethiopian crash because there were tremendous difficulties at the faa oversight in a 2015 report. it was really surprising to hear the officials from the department of transportation and the faa really sums are their whole situation and they didn't see a problem. >> because at the hearings the acting head of the faa defended his agency's handling of the boeing 737 max jet and stood behind decisions made but did

acknowledge that they deligated the approval off that antistore system that could be a factor in these two fatal crashes. what could be the consequences of these actions? >> he's really stuck. even the faa has admitted they deligated to boeing and other manufacturers and airlines. and that was by an act of congress in 2005 that allowed them to deligate almost completely and that too has been the subject of an investigation. but the acting faa administrator made astonishing statements. he said faa had full confidence in the 737 max system, the mcas that put the plane in the a dive. he argued whether it was an antistall device. he said they had full confidence

in the angle of the tack indicators and by the way we don't know what caused the crashes but i have full confidence in the system the plane. it was stunning. >> when the whole world takes the decision to ground the boeing 737 max fleet fwlauz is no explanation why two fall out of the sky. how does the united states justify allowing their fleet to continue flying until the president steps in and grounds them? >> they can't. it's a credit -- just an amazing series of astonishing statements and i've heard many americans say thank heavens for the rest of the world keeping us safe. there were a couple other astonishing statements coming out. in the office of inspector general, the inspector general said faa said you could do this

training on a simulator but by the way the faa said none of the simulators in the united states of america are max 8 simulators. so yes, you could do simulator training b training but there aren't any. and coming up cnn gets rare access to a boeing 737 simulator as they show us how to train. and we will look at the options facing the british parliament after rejecting all eight alternatives to teresa may's. ♪

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welcome back everyone. i'm rosemary church and it's time to check those headlines for you. a senior white house official says the trump administration has no fresh plan on health care. one day after it backed a court ruling that completely strikes down obamacare, other sources describe heated debate over exactly what its health care policy should be. the second major blackout in less than a month is in its fourth day in venezuela. he's calling for demonstrators to protest this weekend. embattled pro president meder -- blames u.s. the prime minister has now

offered to resign if fellow conservatives will back the deal she negotiate would the eu. but the speaker of the house said again there will be no third vote on teresa may's deal without changes. good to see you as always. >> thanks, rosemary. >> we want to take a quick listen to a summary of what happened in the uk parliament wednesday. >> the nos have it, so the nos have it. so it the nos have it. so the nos have it. order. order. >> british law makers, they blew

their chance to come up with a solution. does that make a no deal-brexit more likely or will it sway hardlines to get on deal with teresa may's brexit deal given that she's promised to resign. >> it feels like teresa may has sacrificed herself without getting the deal she wants. because the democratic unionest party has so far refused to go along with her deal and that means a lot of conservatives won't either. it could be her deal dies f it even comes to a vote friday. in the meantime parliament will be trying to come up with an idea on monday. as we keep saying the clock is ticking towards a no-deal exit on april 12th. >> that's the concern for many people. and of course this is the third

time teresa may's deal will go to a no vote. and the possibility of no brexit. how possible or viable is that? >> i think -- as we said her prime ministership was coming to an end anyway. if she cannot get her deal passed, then i believe what will happen is parliament will move to try to avoid a no-deal brexit. because that's where the majority is. which may mean oddly enoughf that britain has to vote in european elections in may, three years after it voted in the european union. the problem is brussels is getting fed up with it too. the most likely is a different vote under a different prime minister. >> we were seeing a lot of

maneuvering in the course of this, all trying to out maneuver each other. was the prime minister out maneuvered or the law makers? >> her party has been split forever on europe. david cameron lost his job over europe. john major pretty much lost his job over europe. it's very, very divided and this is inevitably the problem. if you cannot get the 3rd party and you don't have a clear majority in parliament and she doesn't. because she's dependent on the democratic union, then it's very hard to get this complicated deal through and i think she will fail to do it. i think it's much easier if she managed to do it in the end. it doesn't feel like they're either going to ubstain or vote for her deal. which means her sacrifice may be

in vein. >> it's anyone's guess what cmes next, quite honestly. thank you for sharing your analysis. we do appreciate it. >> thank you, rosemary. pilots have said their training on the boeing 737 was a quick, self-administered on-line course and made no mention of the soft software. good to see you, robin. you actually went inside a 737 max simulator and discovered what pilots encounter when they fly that jet. what dud you find? >> reporter: it was the same 737 a max simulator that the pilots would have trained in, inside of

the the aviation academy. the chief pilot took us for a ride in that simulator. here's that story. >> we're strapped in for a flight on board an eethiopian airlines flight simulator. this is the only simulator for the boeing 737 max 8. the aircraft that crashed two weeks ago. the simulator was purchased in january of this year. chief pilot takes us to a pre-flight checklist. within minutes our simulated flight has begun. flight et 302 took off in a

similar way. from bally international airport. it was at this point, six minutes into the flight and still climbing altitude, that flight 302 encountered a major problem. it eventually crashed into a field south. how and why this happened is still under investigation. and it was also at this point, the 13-minute mark that lion air flight, nearly five months before began its tragic and deadly descent as well. our simulated journey continues safely. but on board october lion air flight, the system was trying to force the nose down .

this manual contains everything a pilot needs for a flight or at least it should. source with knowledge of the aircraft says there's no information inside about the mcas system. a pilot could have found all sorts of emergency procedures. but according to our source, nothing on the mcas. inside this simulator, as safe as it is, our flight progresses smoothly. the pilot flies the plane manually, effortlessly. but if it were to encounter a mcas failure -- the pilot pulling up the system, pulling down in a tug of war, one which the aircraft doesn't know to stop fighting.

i should point out this was a very impressive facility and i've heard from numerous experts that it was a world-class facility. andy with were shown another one including from air bus. an airlines official tight lipped, not wanting to say too much because the administrator of transport is handling the investigation along with boeing and other international ones. but the pilots deep down saddened by what happened. trying to look forward to ethiopian airlines. one of the most successful airlines in africa. everyone trying to make the best of what is a sad situation. >> many thanks to you. we'll take short break. still to come the jussie smollett case is closet but now

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chicago police have released a portion of their investigation into jussie smollett after they dropped all charges of. smollett is referred to as an offender and now the focus is on the state's attorney. >> reporter: tonight for the first time the state's attorney speaking out about dropping all charges against actorer, jussie smollett. >> i don't want people to think there's two measures of justice for the privilege and for those without. that's why we're so transparent. once the rhetoric and emotions

are down, we will stand by our recorder. >> reporter: she says sealing the entire case was not supposed to happen. >> i think what happened is the clerk sealed the whole thing. we do not believe the court filing should be sealed. we believe in transparency, even on difficult situations. >> reporter: she says her office should not be making examples of people and the city has more serious crimes to worry about. >> i do want to go after violent crime, use our resources effectbively, i want to make sure our streets are safe. and when there's an alternative involving people without a criminal background, we will do that. >> reporter: she recused herself due to contact with smollett's camp.

former chief of staff to first lady michelle obama emailed saying i wanted to give you a call on behalf of jussie smollett's and family. and fox eventually responded, spoke to the for spr intendant earlier. and the family members responds. "omg. this would be a huge victory." fox responds "i make no guaranteed but i am trying." now they want more. >> we'll be asking for a full investigation into the entire matter. why the charges were dropped the states' attorney's involvement in this case. >> reporter: still smollett's attorney. >> there was no political influence in this case. there were a team of lawyers.

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historic trip to cuba. >> reporter: future king driving his wife to a british vehicle event in style. a cigar to finish off the look. there was a sizeable public turnout for a british royal. they're not exactly high profile, despite the uk references around the capitol. william shakespeare, john lenin. local and international media falling over themselves to capture every moment of this historic official visit, the first by a british royal. british links to the island celebrated as relations deepen between the two countries. a very different approach from the united states, which is pulling back from cuba. >> if you have a dispute with anyone a disagreement with

anyone, you should never stop talking. diplomacy and discussion is part and parcel of how you win people around. >> reporter: the prince and the duchess also enjoying this famous revolutionary start from the 1920s. later a chance for the duchess to indulge in her passion for horses. she wasn't entirely sure about the cuban cuisine, at least that's what she said before coming to cuba. which is why the cameras will brace for her reaction to this taste test. meanwhile her husband was grappling with a sugar cane press. state media have given the couple glowing coverage of their time here.

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