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6 a.m. here on the east coast. a live look at the capitol where all the action was last night. good morning, everyone. i'm audie cornish. i want to thank you for waking up with me. and we're going to start by talking about the president's address to congress and the nation. so looking out at a government dominated by republicans, his speech was part victory lap, part campaign rally and part roadmap for the next four years. >> we have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years. and we are just getting started. >> as he said, that was just the beginning of what actually turned out to be a marathon speech, which ended up being just under an hour and 40 minutes long. that broke the record for the longest annual address to congress. the president rattled off claims of

slashing wasteful spending. he doubled down on threats to take greenland and defended his tariffs, which have already started a trade war. the reception from democrats less than welcoming. >> get out. >> the chair now directs the sergeant at arms to restore order. remove this gentleman from the chamber. >> congressman al green of texas was removed from the house chamber at the beginning of the speech. other protests included waving signs. there were democrats turning their backs on the president, some walking out, a slight which did not go unnoticed. >> these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. they won't do it no matter what. >> joining me now to discuss sabrina rodriguez, national political reporter for the

washington post. chuck rocha, former senior adviser to bernie sanders presidential campaigns. and kristen soltis anderson, cnn political commentator and republican strategist. so i want to bring to the group chat the the question, first, of what we learned last night. i'm going to start with you, sabrina, because people don't talk about this much, but this is also where a president is supposed to make requests to a congress. please pass this. please pass that for a president who has done so much on his own. what are the kinds of things he wanted? >> i mean, i think one of the things that we saw very clearly is trump was not talking too much to congress here. trump was not focused too much on asking and more. it felt much more like a campaign rally. it felt much more for those of us who spent time reporting on, you know, his campaign last year, it felt much more like that where he was touting all the things he wants to get done, all the things he already feels that he has gotten done. it was very much donald trump. the reality tv veteran. >> maybe taxes was the only thing we heard that was a straight like, please pass this. >> and i would add, i think one of the things that is going to be frustrating and will be a rub

with republicans, was that he talked about how he wants lawmakers to get rid of the bipartisan chips act. that was one of joe biden's biggest victories. >> and an investigation. sorry. investing into semiconductor manufacturing in the u.s. >> to increase u.s. production and increase our competitiveness against china. and again, bipartisan victory. so you can hear in the room, republicans were not cheering as loudly for that. >> i want to talk about the idea of disruption. just kind of get tackle that a little bit. al green being the one to stand up, shaking the cane and walking out, that was really the extent of it. i thought that there was going to be like egg cartons waving around. that's not how it went down. >> remove this gentleman from the chamber. members are engaging in willful and continuing breach of decorum, and the chair is prepared to direct the sergeant at arms to restore order to the joint

session. >> we saw in the inauguration. chuck, there was not some big outpouring. there was no big walking out. what did you make of last night? >> well, i wrote down here on my piece of paper so i wouldn't forget auction paddle resistance. maybe not the best form last night. >> referring to them holding up those little signs. >> yeah. >> it kind of threw off what people were saying, but i get the point. like democrats are desperate right now to see something as a pushback. i think al green, good brother from houston, texas. i'd like to shout out al green from houston, texas, who have been around a long time. but right now democrats are trying to find their footing. and what's wrong with democrats? and sabrina will laugh at me because she's been on the campaign trail with me. is that a lot of times, my resistance looks different than democrats, because democrats are good about sending strongly worded memos when we want activists out there right now really fighting. >> back, not convinced by the paddles they were trying to lean in your direction. >> last night in the speech, it was more what sabrina said. it's just grievance politics. we've seen this before. >> kristen, i want to talk to you because you are a pollster. so, you know, kind of what voters are thinking about. what did you make of what he focused on last night? extended riffs on

social security, extended riffs on tariffs, extended riffs on trans athletes? >> yeah, he was really understanding that these speeches are largely watched by people who like the person who is in power. >> whenever you're not just saying that the ratings bear that out, it's usually people who politically. lean towards the party. >> and that's why whenever we do these polls afterwards, we say people who watch the speech, did you like the speech? they usually do. it's usually people who are inclined to like that president. what i did think was notable, and what surprised me in the speech was he used two words that he even acknowledged haven't been used a long time, and that's balanced budget. think about how difficult it is going to be for congress to keep the government open, much less trying to balance a budget. and this is something where if you're talking about things you're going to ask congress to do, he said, we haven't done this in 24 years. right now, the republican party is made up of fiscal conservatives who would love nothing more than to make deep cuts, even to mandatory spending programs. >> you weren't listening to his speech that was talking about deep cuts, right? no, it was really a speech sort of saying like, we're going after fraud,

we're going after these other things. there was no like, let me level with you, paul ryan era. like, we're going to cut things you like. >> right? and you also have on something like tariffs, this coalition where on the one hand there's new people he's brought to the party that are like yes to tariffs. but if you look at the after polling post speech, there are a lot of people that liked the speech overall, but were a little more wary of the things he had to say on things like tariffs. let me play a. >> clip of that, because he spoke directly to farmers as he referenced tariffs, obviously a nod to the rural states where he's quite popular. >> the tariffs will go on agricultural products coming into america and our our farmers starting on april 2nd. it may be a little bit of an adjustment period. we had that before when i made the deal with china, $50 billion of purchases, and i said, just bear with me. and they did. they did probably have to bear with me again. and this will be even better. >> okay. jump on. little

disturbance. and what does that mean? we've been through this before. >> in the stock market. it meant like 650 points drop. is that the disturbance? and there's one thing that gets his attention because he's surrounded by 13 billionaires and this administration that when you lose that much money in the stock market, it does get his attention. >> i mean, i. >> think for trump, again, we're going back to what the style of the speech was. there was a lot of speculation yesterday about how much was he going to actually defend the tariffs. i don't frankly, think that was a huge defense of tariffs. i think. >> he will ride it out. >> basically he hit at the point and he moved through it. i mean he's not going to admit it. it's something that. >> christians point that people actually care about that. right. like that's where they start to feel like, wait a second, where is this going? >> yeah, this is where, you know, the speech had a number of moments where these are issues that trump thinks he's got 80, 80, 20 on his side. right? 80% of americans are with me, 20% are against me. tariffs isn't one of those things. tariffs is one that actually divides his own coalition more. that's why it's such an interesting. >> from the beginning. talked about from the beginning of his speech. he sort of scene said

talking about the mandate that he believes he has. so right now he's still in that grace period. i mean, we can talk plenty about what the impact of the tariffs are going to be, but it's going to take a little bit before it really hits home for. >> folks, stick around for the group chat. it's nine minutes past the hour, so we're just getting started and we've got a lot to dive into. coming up on cnn this morning, whatever they tariff us, we will tariff them. as president trump, as we talked about, talks about more tariffs today. we're going to have a call. he'll have a call with canada's prime minister, who is also not backing down. plus target customers stepping back. why they plan to boycott the company starting today. and disruption in the chamber. one democrat escorted out while others opted for silent displays of protest. democratic governor matt meyer of delaware will be here to talk with us. >> the democrats came ready to fight back with their little paddles. okay, that is how you

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trump administration. a spokesman saying that the proposal, quote, does not address the reality that gaza is currently uninhabitable. this, as israel threatens to stop all humanitarian aid into gaza following the expiration of phase one of that ceasefire deal with hamas that we've been hearing so much about. now, joining me now is the former spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the united nations. so first, help us understand this plan from arab countries. they're sort of scrambling in the aftermath of trump saying, i want to turn this into, you know, a middle east riviera. um, and what is it that they are trying to do that's different from what trump's proposing? >> sure. well, so what's fascinating is how trump's maximalist performance style back a month ago when he said he wanted to, quote, own gaza and turn it into this riviera, what that has done to shake these arab countries, to figure out a plan of their own, which, by the way. >> previously they were just like, as long as you don't send refugees here, but also the palestinians have to stay there

like they weren't exactly helping move the process along. >> that's right. and not for decades. i mean, for decades, they've had a very hands off approach on this, on this topic, other than to call out support for their brethren in general. but the reason trump's approach shook things for them and forced them to try and be creative and come up with proposals, is because they don't want the permanent displacement of palestinians. and the reason is that they genuinely are concerned for instability. and the reason is because of history. um, in 1970, you had the palestinians and plo in jordan. the plo tried to overthrow the king. they were pushed out. they went to lebanon, which then in 1974 caused a 15 year civil war that was ignited by palestinians. >> idea that if palestinians are displaced and then their their countries, it becomes their own political problem. and then historically, we know palestinians do not want to leave gaza because they fear they won't be able to come back. of course, when you look at both these plans, the u.s. idea and the idea from arab countries, how do they handle the problem of hamas? >> this is the one. well, this is the one that the u.s. is

going to be a stickler about. and israel, by the way, and that's why that's in part. >> why it's a nonstarter to be living side by side with hamas in control of gaza. >> that's right. and you've had hamas apparently imply that maybe they'd see a vision where they wouldn't be controlling gaza, but where their military wing and their weapons are completely non-negotiable for israel. >> they don't want to be demilitarized. >> that's right. okay. that's right. and that's just not going to work. yeah, it didn't work back when they won elections back in 2006. and for israel, that's certainly not going to be that's not going to work. and that's a big part by the way, that's impeding ceasefire talks right now where israel wants to continue and extend the cease fire that you just had for the last six weeks. they want to extend the same situation for the next seven weeks to go through ramadan and passover and to have a continued exchange of hostages for prisoners because they don't want to negotiate. phase two. that was initially proposed by the biden administration that phase two requires the release of all hostages in exchange for a permanent end to the war and withdrawal of israeli troops. they don't want that because.

>> of one last thing. so we've got a cease fire deal in a pause mode. we've got arab countries coming up with their own thing. what are you going to be listening for over the next day or two? >> well, mostly with the talks about the cease fire is to see whether israel and the united states can pressure hamas in and and qatar as well, pressuring hamas into extending the cease fire. that's the only realistic movement i see at the moment. and i see the arabs having to go back to the table, because that's what trump is doing with his negotiating style, is forcing them to come up with a different plan. >> all right, molly, thank you so much for explaining this. really appreciate your time. um. hagar jamali, spokesperson to the u.s. mission in u.s. in the un. straight ahead on cnn this morning, expressing regret. ukraine's president says he's ready to negotiate for peace. but is president trump ready to accept him at the table? plus, how republicans plan to take on sanctuary cities.

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chicago, denver, new york and boston are set to appear before a house committee today. republicans are looking into so-called sanctuary cities as the trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement. and outside of washington, vice president jd vance heads to texas today to visit the southern border. in a social media post, vance said he wants to highlight the administration's progress in securing the border, which has included the deployment of the u.s. military. and look, if president trump has a signature issue, it is immigration. last night, that was a big part of the speech. he touted his administration's efforts so far, for instance, the sweeping immigration raids across the country and also his declaring a national emergency at the southern border. he also acknowledged the family of laken riley, the 22 year old student killed by an undocumented migrant while she was on a run. her mother and her sister were actually guests of the first lady. trump also previewed what he says is to come on

immigration reform, with republicans in charge. >> the cartels are waging war on america, and it's time for america to wage war on the cartels, which we are doing. i have sent congress a detailed funding request, laying out exactly how we will eliminate these threats to protect our homeland and complete the largest deportation operation in american history. >> let's talk more about how president trump addressed this topic with the group. okay. i feel like this is his sweet spot. this is what he cares about. this is what he has. the really full throated support of republicans for. um, what do you make of how they're moving forward, vance, to the border today? >> i think this is an issue that the president wants to talk about as much as possible. one, because public opinion is very much on his side on this issue. they think it's important. and he has the numbers to back him up, not just in the polling, but in terms of reduced encounters at the border. since becoming president, it is true that there has been a change in what has happened along our southern

border. >> so the numbers. go down. >> the other. but even relative to a year ago, i mean, he's able to point to numbers that are in his favor. the other thing that i think republicans in particular really like about the way trump is handling this issue is for a long time, republicans were told that they were mean for wanting to be the ones to be tough on immigration, tough on the border, that it was not. >> an unaccompanied minor thing. >> or yes, that by being tough on immigration, you're somehow not compassionate. and what trump is really trying to do, you see it with him featuring the family of laken riley. et cetera is say no by being tough on immigration. we're actually the compassionate ones. we are the ones who are keeping track of what is the negative effect on those here in the country. >> but here's how this could backfire. i think everybody can agree. i can agree as a democrat, folks who come here, break our laws, hurt people, do horrible things that we talked about last night should be taken away. they should be deported, all the things. but you only have so many of those people. and what you're going to see is the stories that you're starting to see in papers of folks who have just been here undocumented, working for many, many years, law abiding citizens who are getting swept up into this and.

>> shipped away. put this in here, though. we have been seeing that for the last couple of weeks. where is the outcry from the communities that democrats said would feel impact and would be upset? i mean, you campaigned in a lot of these. >> borders, and you see these stories bubbling up. they're not on news programs, but in the social media feeds, in the whatsapp groups and things that sabrina has covered, that i have covered. part of these groups are out there. you see this happening in city by city. but you're right, there's not a mass movement of it. >> okay. he just tagged you. have you been reporting on that? do you actually see a movement? i remember seeing like some groups like venezuelans for trump and stuff being like, oh, we need to change our name. but i haven't seen a groundswell back. >> there has not been a groundswell. yes. and i and i think part of it is, again, democrats struggling to get their footing on the issue. democrats, if we talk about, you know, trump touted his first piece of legislation that he signed into law, the laken riley act. you know, that one, for example, we saw dozens of democrats on the hill end up voting in support of it. i mean,

there is not a united front on this issue right now. a lot of people saw how the american public has moved to the right on immigration. and i think for some democrats, especially more moderate ones, they're just trying to figure out, okay, how much can i support this? because you don't want to come out and criticize him right now when he has had a historic low. it's the lowest. >> level since 2000, surging, as we saw in the response. i want to pause here because we need to turn to something very briefly, which is tariffs. today, president trump and prime minister justin trudeau of canada will actually be on the phone talking about tariffs. now, during trump's address to congress last night, the president actually acknowledged that the tariff war he had just started with basically the u.s .'s largest trading partner could cause some pain. >> tariffs are not just about protecting american jobs. they're about protecting the soul of our country. tariffs are about making america rich again and making america great again. and it's happening. and it will

happen rather quickly. there will be a little disturbance. but we're okay with that. it won't be much. >> okay. it's hard to upset canadians, but the president has the prime minister of canada not mincing words about this trade war. >> no, it's not in my habit to agree with the wall street journal. but, donald, they point out that even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do. >> he is referring to this headline from the wall street journal's editorial board. all right, you guys, we are back about this. yesterday, we were talking a lot about the severe stock market declines. markets aren't, you know, like gospel, but they are, in a way, a temperature reading, a pulse check. chuck, what do you see in the focus on this topic? >> there's there's a whole lot of people that voted for donald trump who don't like donald trump. let me make my point. and this is to this point exactly, is when we were in focus groups and in senate races and house

races around the country, there were a whole lot of what i would call common sense, economic driven republicans who were going to vote for donald trump because they did not like joe biden. they thought he was old and feckless, but they wanted somebody in there who would at least make sure they made money, that the that the corporations had some fair dealings, that regulations was lower, and that we just kept moving things along. working class people wanted because they wanted their prices to be lower. these kind of things make prices higher, make the stock market go down. and it makes those republicans who voted for him very mad. >> the best outcome for donald trump on this is if he doesn't actually have to follow through with tariffs for any long amount of time that he can get some kind of win. >> temporary. >> we're going to shut down fentanyl. et cetera. that's going to be the biggest win for him because it will show. oh i'm strong i was able to use this as a negotiating tactic without having to grapple with the potential. >> let me show you some pennsylvania, pennsylvania voters who watched trump's address and what they had to say specifically on this issue of tariffs. >> i don't. >> think that he understands how

tariffs might be inflationary. and i think that he did not spend nearly enough time talking about what we're experiencing right now. >> we are. >> the breadbasket of the world. they want our products. >> okay. so they're going to they're going to hold us hostage on our agriculture products, but they're going to come back and they're going to buy it. we're going to take a dip in our products, but it's going to come back. >> sabrina, i feel like this sums it up. it's a gamble. people either feel like this seems bad, don't do it, or don't worry about it. it's just a way of x. um, is there like a plan b? like does he administration to be like, okay, well, if it actually goes for a long time, here's what we're going to do. >> i mean, frankly, i'm surprised that donald trump went through with it without having more negotiations with mexico and canada, without potentially pausing it again. i covered trade throughout the first term of the trump administration, and he often threw around trade threats when he was frustrated on different issues. so it's not

new that donald trump would use tariffs as an opportunity. >> i mean, basically, you so you were reporting when those tariffs went through the first time, were they temporary pain? did voters say, well, it wasn't so bad. >> he didn't end up putting in blanket tariffs in the first term. you know, it was more targeted. it was okay. steel and aluminum tariffs which people did feel pain from. or it was specific ones to specific goods from china. i mean it was a much more targeted. >> i remember. >> but this is something that trump has been itching to do since his first term. and here we see him now following through on it. i think one of the things that this really raises for me is sort of the question of donald trump, the dealmaker. he spent a good chunk of his first term negotiating the u.s. mexico-canada agreement, the replacement for what he called the nightmare nafta. at the time, he called it the fairest, most beneficial trade agreement that the united states had ever signed. he talked about how he was going to level the playing field. and here we are. and i think it raises questions. he's talking again about trade deficits with mexico and canada. so the deal he spent all those

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studio. thank you for coming to cnn this morning. i want to ask you about this specific order because do you feel pressure in this environment to show your citizens that you're taking public safety into account? >> i feel a. >> lot of. >> pressure to do the right thing by delawareans and by americans. we are a nation of immigrants who also, as you said, needs to keep our population safe. all sorts of research and data shows that immigrants are a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of our crime problem. in spite of what you might hear from various elected officials. we're doing what we can to target our public safety resources to actually address crime. >> do you worry about punishment or being penalized for that by the federal government for not cooperating? >> you do the right thing. i've made clear that we're eager to work with the trump administration in our state of delaware. i'm a middle school math teacher who was elected to fix our schools and address

health care issues in our state that aren't that different than what communities across our country are addressing. we're eager to work with the trump administration, but it starts for me with governing, with compassion, with intelligence and compassion. and we're going to do that, and no one's going to make us waver in those core principles. >> we've got these city mayors who are going to be talking about their policies. here's what new york mayor eric adams wrote in an op ed recently. he said we must continue to ensure that those who commit violent crimes, no matter. long time residents or new arrivals are held accountable, and that the public is kept safe. >> i agree with that 100% that if someone's and i don't agree with everything mayor adams does, but if, uh, if someone is committing a crime in our community, we've made it clear that our state police are. we're encouraging every police agency in the state to collaborate with immigration and customs enforcement when there's an outstanding felony warrant. when

there are issues of. >> serious finding a way to walk the line, you think you have compassion, but also not draw the ire of the administration. >> it's not about the ire of the administration. it's making sure that an immigrant communities across our state, people feel free to engage with law enforcement. if you're a survivor of domestic violence and want to call the police or call a hotline, we don't want you to pause for a second to be concerned about what documents you have or a family member has. it helps make us all safer if if there's community policing, and that means involving everyone in our. >> one more on this topic. when i think about, um, jd vance is going to the border today for the trump administration, one of the most effective kind of messaging tools, republicans have used the president and also governors is the southern border, right? whether it's sending migrants to northern cities, whether it's just standing there, whether it's saying, kamala harris, why didn't you go? what is the democratic kind of counter message to this?

>> the counter message is comprehensive immigration reform that our immigration. >> policies are ignored by congress in the last than comprehensive. >> immigration, as i think the current president shows us. it's not about congress's response. it's about it's about americans response. and sort of the. >> i think the thing that democrats have been saying forever is trump is not compassionate, right? talking about putting kids in cages, talking about the deterrent effect. it feels like there was a little bit of a rejection of that messaging, even from latino communities. so how do you reorient what is the new way of talking about this? >> well, i think more than anything americans, what americans said last year, last november, i think, is they wanted their prices to go down. they wanted there to be greater job opportunities and increasingly digital. and i work environment. those are the issues that the president is not paying attention to. and that's we heard almost nothing about that last night. as i said, i'm a middle school math teacher. i was elected more than anything to fix our schools in delaware to make sure my wife is an

emergency room doctor. it's a mess. our health care system is an embarrassment for 2025 america. let's fix those things. rather than talking about these issues that are important to small groups of people. but we really need to fix the core of america. having a 25% sales tax effectively on americans already struggling to make ends meet is not the way to do it. >> you know, looking at late night television, i think we saw john colbert kind of, um, a stephen colbert mocking democrats at the address for not really doing anything right, holding, holding up their paddles, et cetera. is the democratic effort to counter trump administration policies. is that going to fall on governors, on cities, on attorney generals? do you think that is where if there is a push, it's going to be? >> i woke up yesterday morning. i got about three, four weeks to write a budget for our state. state budget. i was hoping obviously, there's a lot of uncertainty. there are threats

of dramatically decreasing our medicaid funding. there are threats of dramatically decreasing our education funding. various other sources, agriculture, veterans. i was at milford veterans home a couple weeks ago where people are scared veterans, heroes who were in the vietnam war, who were in iraq, afghanistan are scared that they're going to lose their health care. last night, i was hoping to hear answers for that this morning. i don't have answers. i got to wake up. i got to write a budget. i can't stay in washington and play politics and argue about who's going to the border, who's. i got to find out how to deliver better schools to delawareans in blue areas, red areas, cities, suburbs, rural areas. that's my job. and that's what i'm going to do. like the other democratic governors across the country. and quite frankly, the other republican governors as well. >> all right, governor meyer, thank you so much for being here. appreciate your time. thank you. now it's about 50 minutes past the hour. we want to give you your morning roundup, some of the stories you need to know to get your day going. so first, the irs making plans to cut as much as half of

its workforce. right now, about 90,000 people work there. sources say this will be a mix of layoffs and buyouts and 7000 probationary irs employees have already lost their jobs just in time for tax season. the tait brothers are now the subjects of a criminal investigation in florida. the state's attorney general not specifying the charges, but andrew and tristan tait are under investigation in romania for charges including human trafficking. florida's ag says the brothers have publicly admitted to what appears to be, quote, preying upon women around the world. >> people can spin or defend however they want, but in florida, this type of behavior is viewed as atrocious. >> andrew tate responded on social media, calling florida's announcement absolute communism and saying, quote, this isn't the america i know. the tate brothers have denied all wrongdoing, and a spokesperson for them provided no comment to cnn on tuesday. and a storm that brought dangerous winds, fires,

blizzards, threats and even dust storms is heading east this morning. right now there is a tornado watch for parts of alabama, florida and georgia. you're actually seeing what strong winds did to one neighborhood in louisiana. >> i'm super blessed to be able to, uh, you know, put that many points up in the best league in the world with the best players in the world over my career. so it's pretty special. >> another milestone for the king. lebron james becoming the first nba player to score 50,000 career points. he put up 34 last night against new orleans in the lakers. won 36 to 115 victory. 50,000 steph curry had 50 in a game and i was like stoked. >> that's why they call him the goat. that's why there's an ongoing debate about him and michael jordan. that's true every day. >> and he's coming up. he's coming up. all right. we've got a little more news here. regrets. he's got a few. ukrainian president zelenskyy

acknowledging his oval office meeting with president trump last night did not go according to plan, but that he's ready for an end to the war with russia. >> what happened in the white house instead of our talks is regrettable, but we need to find the strength to move on, to respect each other as we have always respected america, europe and all our partners, and to do everything together to bring peace closer. >> in trump's address to congress last night, he revealed that he received a letter from zelenskyy. >> the letter reads ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. nobody wants peace more than the ukrainians, he said. >> okay, back to the group chat. sabrina, i want to ask you. i was wondering if all this needed to end with some sort of public apology from zelenskyy. and when trump mentioned the letter, he didn't say. the letter said, i apologize, right? so clearly there was something in it to allow all parties to come back

to the table. what's your sense of things? >> i mean, i think zelenskyy was in this difficult position where, you know, he said he wasn't going to apologize. he said he didn't feel that he owed trump an apology, but has been trying to tow this line. and i think him saying, you know, it was regrettable, him really expressing his desire to come back to the table, his desire for peace. i think his repeated comments in the days since about how that was not the way he wanted to go down, i think was sort of enough to satisfy the white house also because they want to get that rare minerals deal done. you know, they had the pens ready to sign. >> everyone said they wanted to sign, they. >> wanted to do it. so this sort of gave that opening. i think trump needed to say, okay. >> i want to bring you guys in with the rebuttal from democratic senator elissa slotkin of michigan. she actually did refer to trump's handling of the ukraine crisis. >> president trump loves to say peace through strength. that's actually a. >> line he stole from ronald reagan. >> but let me tell you, after the. spectacle that just took place in.

>> the oval office. >> last week, reagan must. be rolling in his grave. donald trump's actions suggest that in his heart, he doesn't believe we're an exceptional nation. he clearly doesn't think we should lead the world. >> christiane, i see you giving side eye. >> well, the message that america should lead the world is one that most voters would agree with. but the question is, what does that look like? and there has been a really big shift over the last 40 years within the republican party from a posture of let's be the tough ones that take on the russians to george w. bush administration, let's go be the foot soldiers of democracy around the world to now, donald trump and the real vibe of the republican party these days is nope. we need to focus here at home first. >> to do the whole reagan is spinning. kind of, because i hear that even from some republicans. >> remember the republicans i talked about who didn't like donald trump voted for him because they wanted to see their stocks continue to rise. what they also saw, which is normally not something you recognize, is all the chaos in the oval office. that wasn't normal. it wasn't statesmanlike. folks did

not like that across the country unless you already had. >> a lean into the chaos thing like she mentioned it, but it was not a democratic response. i mean, that was like, look at the craziness. >> it was talking about the response. i'm talking about just how normally in political stuff that i'm working on and races around the country right now and off off years, foreign relations, things that happen. the white house don't normally matter. this was on people's minds. >> it just feels like this is a message that's tailored at that mythical liz cheney, republican that is going to vote for democrats. >> and calling it mythical. >> well. >> no. >> i mean, there are i know these people. >> yeah. >> but i also know how few of them there are. >> sabrina, can you talk to me about the cnn poll on ukraine? nearly two thirds of americans who watched president trump's address felt that his level of support for ukraine was about right now, this, of course, viewership in these polls always skews towards the party that is in power. so in this case, republicans. but does this mean that it is the the project of the trump administration to shift the public view on this issue is working?

>> i mean, i think that there is some shift, but what donald trump was talking about last night is not what we saw on friday, necessarily. that played out in the oval office. i mean, this was a far more moderate message. this was one about his desire to reach peace, his desire to bring both sides to the table. there was not a back and forth. it was not a blow up. it was not, you know, what we saw on friday. and i think that poll looking at how things went friday, would look a little different than what we saw him last night. and that setting talking about ukraine and russia. >> i want to ask you guys about one more thing, which is the economy day one. it was supposed to be fixed. when we get to that part of the speech, what i hear is we're going to drill and also we're going to make some committees and not much else. am i misreading that or being too quippy? >> i don't know that it's a misread, but i think it's an understanding that messaging is not what's going to make people think the economy is working, the economy pass. >> this bill, do this thing. >> the economy was working under joe biden. let me finish. for everybody who's jumping off the

couch at home, what the problem was is that the regular american workers didn't feel that. we talked about how great the stock market was, and we created all these jobs that regular folks were like, i don't feel that well, 30, 60 days into this administration. they still don't feel it. so i think that's the big thing here. >> but what he did say. egg prices, biden. >> joe, joe biden, joe biden ain't the president no more. that's tired of know. just like joe biden was. >> tired and old. can you pull on that? >> people definitely do worry that we don't have a next generation of leadership rising up in this country. i'll say that. >> yeah, but do you think it works to be like, that's not my problem. that's everything that's bad. is the old guy at a certain point, especially when you're making cuts to the federal agencies dealing with this stuff, do you think people will start to connect? at what point does this economy become his? >> i think it's a good question. i think it becomes his the moment that he takes some sort of dramatic action that alters it one way or the other. i think for the moment, people understand that the eggs that are on the shelf in the grocery store probably were laid while he was giving his inaugural address, or shortly thereafter. >> i want to fact check. that

reference. >> immediately. >> daniel dale. >> i'm pretty sure mia love 30 days from the. anyhow. >> and with easter approaching, i don't want to have to have all the kids have plastic eggs. it'd be nice if they had some regulars. we're not going to be able to afford easter. >> no. at a certain point, an economy does become a president's economy, even though if we're being honest, the levers that presidents have to adjust the economy are few. >> but that's the thing. i mean, i spoke last year to hundreds of voters ahead of the election and talking to folks who had made the decision to vote for donald trump before the election and in the wake of the election, how they were feeling, many people were saying they recognized that things weren't going to change overnight. so i think there is that grace period that he's going to have for at least a few months. >> thanks to the group for hashing this out the morning after. thank you for waking up with us. i'm audie cornish, and cnn news central starts right now.