offer alternative represent testifies to networks who refuse to work with certain spokespeople? >> my understanding is they walked that back. kellyanne is a trusted aide of the president. i think any characterization otherwise is insulting. if they choose not to work with someone that's up to them. we will continue to put out key leaders in this administration including kellyanne that can articulate the president's policies and agenda. katie pavlich. >> president trump planned to ask the senate to expedite the swift firing of bad va employees. >> i think the plan is to make sure we are providing the best care. if there is things that are impeding that best care, he is going the enact policies internally to make sure that people who are not doing their

job, not servicing veterans we can figure out how to expedite that process. but the idea that we are sitting around having a discussion about personnel inibt hadding the care that veterans deserve really does not bode well for the reflection that we want in this country. i mean people who have served this nation, we should be bending over backward to make sure that the benefits and the compare and services that they frankly earned is something that is given the highest preert and something the president remains highly committed to. may mere yam bourjos. >> the president is going to speak later today with the spanish leader. >> yeah. >> and i will like the to know how the president plans the relation with spain. and what are the main issues they are going to discuss in the phone call? >> we'll have a read out after the caught. i imagine they are going to talk about a shared commitment to defeating isis and that they will discuss our bilateral

relationship and reaffirm our commitment to the two countries. i think we will have a read out on that call with spain as we will with all the countries and all the other leaders we talk to. i don't know to get too far ahead of it. i would imagine the current relationship we have with spain and our relationship to isis will be at the forefront of that. maria pena. >> yeah, here. sorry. two part question. can you confirm whether or not the white house has accepted the credentials of new mexican ambassador gutierrez? and also, representative mike rogers i believe this morning says he plans to introduce a bill to impose a 2% tax on all remittances that mexicans send to their country to pay for the wall. would the president rally behind that bill? >> so, first i have to get back to you on the ambassador's credentials. i i don't know. we can check with the department. i don't know that off the top of my head.

we don't put out statements of administration policy until the bill has gone through the process. halle. >> two questions for you. one, following up on health care. the president as you know campaigned for 18 months on replacing the affordable care act. where is his plan. >> he is working with congress. i just answered that question. he is working with speaker ryan -- you are acting. >> does he owe the american people something now? >> i think he has been very clear that he owes the american people a result that's going to lower costs and provide more access. that's what he continues to work with speaker ryan on. i think the speaker was very clear on it, that they are having meetings both legislatively and at the principle level to make sure this gets done. you heard speaker ryan. we continue to be on theist innic getting this thing completed by this year. it is a mammoth bill that they passed. we want to make sure we do this right. we don't want the same results the democrats did. they rushed it through. no one was able to read the

bill. premiums skyrocketed. options and access have gone down. >> on yemen -- i did say two. one of the world's most wanted terrorists is taunting president trump, calling him a fool after that raid. >> right. >> any response from the white house? and do you still stand by your characterization that it was a successful raid. >> the raid was an intelligence gathering raid. it was highly successful. it achieved the purpose it was going to get. save the loss of life that we suffered and the injuries that occurred. >> you are rt reporting he was not the target? >> exactly. the goal of the raid was intelligence gathering. that's what we received, that's what we got. john roberts. >> if the president does not prevail in lifting the temporary restraining order in the ninth circuit court of appeals will he take it to the supreme court. >> let's see where it goss. >> can i just finish. >> yeah, i'm sorry. >> is he concerned if it does go

to the supreme court with the current #-4 makeup that the temporary restraining order may become more personal men. >> remember, tonight is just about a restraining order. i understand but i think it's important to explain this to everyone, john. i know you get it. but tonight is about the restraining order. it has nothing to do with the merits of the case. that's why i think we feel confident. the question, does the restraining order get lifted or not. but regardless of what happens tonight, the merits of the case still need to be discussed. i think the merits of the case as they were in boston are ones that we feel very confident on because the law is crystal clear on this. the president has the authority to do this. it was done so in an interagency process that ensured that all the appropriate people were consulted of we went through that with flying colors. i have zero concern that at the end of the day we will be fine. it's just a question of going flew the process. >> i guess all of that, but as you pointed out. but if he does not prevail at the ninth circuit will he take

this to the supreme court. >> let's see where it goes first. our goal rit now is to get to a point where we can argue it on the merits. we feel confident based on the how court reacted in massachusetts we are going to be good on the matters. jonathan swan. >> does president still plan to immediately terminate president obama agencies? >> with respect to dhaka and dapa? as i said before we will have further updates on that. >> just immediately? >>s as i have said before, the president will have further updates on dapa and daca shortly. we have been clear on immigration what the president's priorities will be. as you heard seth kelly before congress today there is going to be -- right now he is trying to do it in a systematic way in accordance to where we find the biggest problems. he has been clear in the past that those who are in this

country that pose a threat to us or with a criminal record are where highs priorities are going to be first and foremost. and then we'll move through the rest of the people who are in this country illegally. >> ayatollah comain audio said that trump has helped iran reveal the true face of america. he said iran doesn't fear trump and he encouraged people to march in the straight later this week. does a president have a kpons response to those comments and does he plan to take actions against iran if the leaders continue to escalate tensions. >> i think the ayatollah is going to realize there is a new president in office. this president is not going to sit by and letti iran flout its violations or apparent violations to the joint agreement. he will continue to take action as he sees fit. the president has made clear time and time again that he is not going to project what those actions will be and he will not take anything off the table. i think iran is kidding of the self if they don't realize there is a new president in town.

john gizy. >> on thursday, weather permitting, if president is going to meet with airline executives from throughout the country. two complaints from airline executives as well as pilots' association have been one that norwegian airlines got a special advantage, a foreign carrier permit from the obama administration, and also that the airlines of the emirates, the arab emirates are state subsidized. and both cases are violations of the blue skies act between the u.s. and the eu. is this something he is going to address? and is he considering upending president obama's foreign carrier permit? >> engo, that will be something that -- that will be decide when they meet what they will talk about. obviously the president is going to want to talk about economic growth and job creation, how he is enacting orders to make sure the country is safe. in the case of norwegian, my understanding, if i'm correct there is a deal in which they

are having 50% of the crews and pilots are american based. they are flying boeing planes. there is a huge economic interest that america has in that deal right now. i don't want to get ahead of the president on that, but just to be clear we are talking about u.s. jobs both in terms of the people who are serving those planes and the person who is building those planes. that's a big difference. zeke. >> a few minutes ago you said that the president wanted to remind the paper about how prevalent terrorist attacks are and that the earth is a dangerous place. that kind of breaks with the rhetoric we've seen in the bipartisan administrations when it comes to terrorist attacks, encouraging american people to go about their daily lives. >> that's not the point. i think, yeah, his message to the american people is he is fully committed to doing everything he can to keep the country safe. i think there is a big difference fooen between what you are saying and the point he was making yesterday. i think what he is getting at -- he was making a point as to the

exposure that attacks get. i think that's what he was getting at, is that we see these things, and they are becoming too prevalent. i think that's why he wants to become ever vigilant to make sure we don't got lax that we need to be reminded that isis continues to do us harm. and it's job as commander in chief to get ahead of the curve and make this country safe. the poll last weekend, 67% of the american people agreed with his proposition to put further restrictions on people, to make sure we have countries that are sending people to our country, that they are coming here for peaceful urpss. if we can't guarantee those countries have the proper vetting and systems in place when they are quout bound to the united states we need to do what we can, and he will do what he has to as president to make sure that this country is safe. so i think the point that he was making was not to put fear in

anybody but to rather reassure them that as president of the united states he is taking every single step to do what's -- to do what he has to do get ahead of the threats, to get ahead of the concerns so we are not looking in the rearview mirror thinking what should we have done that were preaching lives, the raid in yemen, other actions to make sure that our homes and our people are protected and safe. >> two questions, up with on the tweet and one on health care. the president tweeted if something happens blame the court and the judgment system. did he mean that if a terrorist is committed by someone from these seven countries or any terrorist attack? >> i think the inpo of the -- the tweet is pretty clear. the point is -- it dove tails what i was saying to zeke. he is doing everything he can and he walks into office. their seven cups the obama administration has already identified as not having the

proper systems in place to guarantee our safety. i think his immediate reaction is to do what he has to do to make sure we are not looking back and saying you know we should have made sure we had stricter vetting for those seven countries. he took immediate and decisive action to make sure our people and our country were protected. that's what he is doing making insure we don't have regret that a month or now or two years from now that we had done something protective. he is acting as quick as possible to put the systems in place to protect the marn people. >> my second question, on health care. you just said he will negotiate prices, and that's something he ran on negotiating price force medicare, drug prices. i want you to clarify where he is on that because when he met with big pharma the other day before the etd meeting he said we have no choice, we have to get prices down. after the meeting he said he would oppose anything that makes it harder for these companies to

bring their companies to market including price physicianing by medicare. is he for medicare fixing drug prices or not. >> he is for it. when you look at -- the u.s. government -- frankly the easier way to look at this is look at what other countries have done. there is a huge burden on american seniors who are so much more relight yant on drug prices. in many case you have people living on a picked income. and rising health care costs and prescription drugs continue to be a burden on their ability to live out their lives in a enjoyable manner. his commitment is to make sure that he does what he can and i think rather successfully uses his skills as a businessman to drive them down. margaret. into two i think so this. >> sure. >> secretary kelly, when he was on the hill today said that the administration right n.o.w. is not looking at adding other

countries to this temporary travel ban list. is the white house still giving itself room to add some countries to that list? >> i think what his point was is that right now he's not doing it. you have to look at his testimony in context. i think he went through the pack that we are still in this review process, that he is committed to making sure that we look at all of the countries. but as of this moment that there is no immediate desire to add to that. but he is looking at all of the other countries, the procedures that we have with them. the systems we have in place to check them. so it's -- nothing is final until the end of the review period. >> i had a second question. i'm sorry. >> i'm sorry. >> you said still leaving room to do that. something in a the president continues to say as a phrase, and i'm hoping you can define it for us, is that this is about testing who truly loves america and making sure that those who enter the country are those who truly love america. how do you quantify that? what is the president thinking of? is that a specific test?

what does in a mean? >> i mean, look, i think -- i think the president's -- you know, goal is to make sure that people around coming here to do us harm. that they are going through the proper extreme vetting in cases where we don't have the information required to make a good judgment on them based on what their country is willing to provide, that we are taking the proper necessary steps to protect our people. but he doesn't -- if someone is coming here to do us harm or to espouse things that would give us a good indication that they are not coming here for the right reasons we need to do everything we can to a vet them and b unless we are a hundred% certain keep them out of the cup. >> a background check. >> but it is a not. it's going to be extreme vetting it's not just letting someone in on a quick check f. there is any cause for concern he wants to go to every step possible to make sure that the people entering this country are doing so because they want to come here for the right reasons and for

peaceful reasons. yeah. >> on korea. [ inaudible ] what would be the post important part of his -- inaudible snubl what would what be? >> what is most important part of trump paris policy. >> most important part of the policy. >> thank you. we had a conversation yesterday. obviously the threat of north korea is the prom nep issue facing south korea and our alliance. he wants to reassure the south korean president and the blue house that we want to do what we can to stand with south korea and we will prevent any hostile actions from north korea. i think the safety of our country, of south korea, of the region are going to be clearly the greatest focus of this.

>> john chrisoff, talk media news, when the president bushs his budget is he committed to prig sufficient funding to all american students or the public funding for them to reach an outstanding private school education? >> i think the president talked about education during the primary. whether it is an associate's degree, a bachelor's degree, ph.d. or vo-tech education that we have got to give students these days the options they need for the work force. a vo-tech education in some ce is what's in the interest of students in terms of their success, in giving them the skills to work on cars or become a computer engineer or whatever. but as we head into -- as we look towards the future we have got to make sure that we are preparing our students to have the skill sets that they need. it's also retraining aspect, as people get order and industries

turn the corner because of technology that we are allowing for retraining, give them the skill set they need the re-enter the work force and continue to be productive. look, we will literally swear in the secretary of education hopefully later this evening, which we will let you all know, probably around 6: 5:00 or 6:00, he will have that conversation with secretary devos. something she has made clear -- it's unfortunate we haven't been abe to have this conversation sooner because she was held up for so long. i think that's what secretary devos will be speaking a lot about, the education funding and skill set that we give not just our children but people who are older in life to get back into the work force. >> how about k-12. >> right, i think we will have more opportunities to discuss the budget as he continues the develop it. today we are happy to be able to announce secretary devos will be sworn in. >> sean spicer ending his daily

white house press briefing. we are also monitoring a tornado outbreak in louisiana around new orleans. three tornadoes have touched down there. we are monitoring the damage. right now the damage does seem to be pretty extensive. i'm katie tur, this is 2:00 hour on msnbc. it's 2:19 right now in the afternoon on the east coast. there was a lot to go over in that press briefing from sean spiceras as there always is. he referenced the terror attack and the you video of the white house that the press does not cover terror attack enough. he also talked about the travel ban and where it stands in court right now. the white house saying that they are confident that they will win on the merits of the case, that really just about whether the restraining order against the travel ban stands. he also pushed back pretty forcefully on nbc exclusive reporting that a terror raid in yemen last month was aimed at taking out a top al qaeda

commander, the third most dangerous terrorist in the world and that it failed to do so. now that terrorist is taunting president trump. the white house says that was not the goal of that raid in yemen but rather the goal of the raid was intelligence gathering. so a lot to chew on. as i said. we've got a team of people who are ready here to do that with me. let's bring in msnbc contributor and former dnc chair and former vermont governor howard dean. also joining me former political spokesman for the ted cruz campaign, rick talman. and cal perry as well. and aiman jafrs from cnbc. gentlemen, thank you for joining me. rick tyler, let's go to you. >> sure. >> sean spicer was pushing back press forcefully on the idea that he doesn't -- the president doesn't respect judges.

just the other day he came out with a tweet that said the so-called judge in seattle is the one that is making the country more dangerous because he decided to put a stay on the travel ban, a temporary restraining order on it. the white house has faced a lot of blowback about this because it looks as if trump is trying to undercut the judicial branch. is sean spicer coming out and saying, no, no, no, he does respect juns enough for them to say, no, we do respect the separation of powers in this country? >> well, it's sort of the difference between rhetoric and action. on the one hand retorically no, he doesn't appear to seem to to respect the independence of the judiciary. on the other hand they are -- will be, they are following the process here. they are not trying to override the process. as sean said they are waiting for the decisions. they think they will prevail. i think ultimately he is right, i think the law of the constitution is clearly on the president's side on this, that he is allowed to set immigration policy.

you know, i doesn't -- why not just let the process go through, though? i don't understand what he retorically wants to take on the judiciary. >> we have halle jackson who was in the white house press briefing woman. she is going to join us as well, add a woman to this power panel of people talking about this briefing. halle, you were in there. i know you heard a little bit earlier today that the homeland security secretary said maybe they should have waited a little longer before imposing this ban let it go through congress a little bit more so they could familiarize themselves with it. are we seeing those sort of shades of gray with white house right now? are are they pretty full engines on how they rolled out the ban? >> i would say that sean spicer didn't directly address that question. you did hear secretary kelly in that hearing talk about frankly what you do call a rocky rollout. his wish that congress had been notified. he did call the executive order lawful and constitutional but

also said it seemed definitively that there would not be more countries added to this temporary travel ban. that is what sean spicer was pressed about here. and you heard his spence. spicer seeming to want to keep the door open on that. this is an administration that has not back downed often. this is not something they will back down on either. questions about where this legal battle goes from here. i think everybody is counting down until 6:00 eastern tonight to see how the ruling is going to go. as spicer and pete williams and others pointed out this is not a question on the merits of the immigration executive order. this is a question on what is essentially a temporary restraining order on it. plenty of legal fallout to come on this one. >> your colleague kristen welker earlier today was able to get to president trump and ask him specifically how far he wanted to go with this travel ban, how far was he willing to go, was he willing to take it to the supreme court if necessary. he said he was.

but that he did not want it to go that far because he believed that this was common sense. >> correct. >> and even more so today. let's go to howard dean, our good frept over there from vermont. howard, talk to me about your reaction right now. do you feel like this president is not changing in the way that maybe he had promised he would? and just respecting the process between the separation of powers and the process of how laws get put into place, the process about executive orders are usually vetted, usually made familiar to all of those parties that are going to need to uphold them? >> you are speaking about president bannon, i assume. >> you are going to make him angry if you say that. >> the truth is they didn't know what they were doing and i think general kelly is covering for them. i don't think he knew about it either, let alone congress. second and third thing is president trump is wrong. the fact is, these folks that are coming into the country

under this court order are the most vetted people in the world. they have been vetted for two and a half years, they have been in refugee camps, been interviewed for hours and hours and hours. you know, i think he is wrong on the merits. i think the most interesting thing today was that spicer didn't make news himself. that's the first time he has done that. i don't think melissa mccarthy is going to have as much material as she had last week. but it was mostly political blather as you would expect. >> he didn't mention melissa mccarthy, there is that. let's go to ayman jabbers and talk about betsy devos who was confirmed today in a historic vote, 50/50 in the senate. that meant that vp mike pence had to come down to the chamber and cast the untying vote. sean spicer called that enprecedented obstruction. but he didn't talk about how senatorsmerikowski and senator collins were the ones that

forced it into a tie breaker, who republicans who defected from the gop and said no to betsy devos. my question to you, ayman, is how is capitol hill likely going to react to -- and by capitol hill i mean democrats on capitol hill to the rest of donald trump's cabinet nominees? is there anybody else they are going to try to make a stapp with, rye and potentially take out? >> you heard sean spicer talking about a historic and partisan log jam on the part of the democrats. i think katie you can expect this to continue from the emts did. they have been optimistic at the beginning of this confirmation process that they would be able to peel off one or two of the presidential nominees. they have not been successful. today was as close as they have come. but i think you have to look at andrew pawsner as somebody the democrats might have success in peeling away from the trump cabinet.

his hearing has been postponed several times. they have had difficulty in terms of getting the ethics forms cleared for him. that's one to watch. >> i want to go over to cal perry in the newsroom on the other topic making huge headlines today. that's the white house claiming that the news doesn't cover terror attack. they released a list of 78 attacks between 2014 and 2016 that they say were underconferred by the press, that they deserve spectacular attention. that's because they say terror is a real threat, it's really prevalent and the president of the united states really cares about keeping americans safe and terrorists out of this country. and that is the reason why they wanted to implement this travel ban so forcefully and so quickly. cal perry, do they have the facts behind them when they say that terror is just so previous lieutenant right now? >> yeah, they have got the facts behind them. they just are using the wrong facts. we covered extensively those 78 terror attacks that were put on on a list by white house. but when you talk to people in the middle east and africa and

asia they will say yeah but you are not covering terror as it exists around the world. this is from the institute to have economics and peace. on the list that was provided by the white house, three countries were not mentioned. those three countries were pakistan, syria, right here, and surprisingly, shockingly, iraq. i don't know how you do that. i don't know how you don't mention iraq. this is an idea, a look at the largest number of terror attack. you are talking here in 2015, 3/4 of all deaths from terror attacks took place in those five countries. as we go through this you can see a time line. this was 9/11, this was the iraq invasion, this here is the troop surge. this is syrian civil war, which gave birth to violence and terror all across the middle east. here are by countries, the top countries, iraq, number one, afghanistan, number two, nigeria, number three, syria at number four. haven't received a single

european nation. continent by continent. in 2015. this is by continent. middle east, south asia and subsaharan africa take it. europe and america barely rank. >> cal perry with the facts. thank you very much. halle jackon at the white house, thank you. aman jabbers, thank you. rick tyler, my tall all-star team that was here with me we appreciate it. next we take you to breaking news in southern louisiana. federal officials confirming a series of tornadoes have touched down in the new orleans area. a look at the damage left behind as tornado warnings remain in effect across the big easy. i'm a concrete mason.

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you can see the damage that was down just down this street. long fellow drive right here, heading towards chef. people are coming out to survey the damage. a lot of them can't believe that they are looking at right now. >> that right there, travers mackel from our local affiliate wdsu on a street of one of the hardest hit in the city of new orleans east. three tornadoes were confirmed across the city a shorttime ago. take a look. you can clearly see in this video the damage that was done. trees down. roofs ripped off. power lines down. homes destroyed. ripped off their foundations. to get more on what is going on there in new orleans at the moment, we have the mayor of new orleans, mitch land drew, he

joins me now by phone. mitch -- mayor, excuse me -- you have been mayor of new orleans now since 2010. you have send your fair share of storms. tell me what's going on right now. >> well, first of all, i mean this has been a devastating blow. a tornado when it touches down is like an elephant stomping your house. it comes immediately and you can see from the pictures it will destroy anything in its wake. our first responders are a great job like they always do. they are going lieu the neighborhoods like a grid making sure that loss of life is protected. that's most important thing. then we will goat to the property damage later which as you can see is devastating. right now we have a couple of dozen of people with what we would call minor injuries. we think we have two more serious injuries. but we don't know the extent. and until we get finished working the grid we won't know the full extent of the damage. you can see from the ikts approximate. and we are going to have drones up. it's widespread and a lot of

people lost everything they had. >> mayor, how far are you into the grid? how many people have you been able to check? and how many people are you still hoping to get to. we don't have a report yet. we think that the damage is about two miles long and about -- and about that wide. we are working the neighborhoods just to make sure everybody is as safe as they can. we have a fairly significant power outage. about 10,000 homes are without electricity. as you can imagine all of our first responders, police, fire, ems, all the electrical guys, we have our federal partners with us, they are working as hard as they can making sure they get through the entire neighborhood. they are in the process. that's going to take some time. >> any calls of people that are stranded in their homes? >> not yet. but we have -- you know, of course we keep putting calls out. we think we are in good shape. if and when we get one of those calls we can get there fairly quickly. the guys are working the grid.

we will get through that in short order. >> give me an idea from your experience how sbad this damage in relations to storms you have seep in the past? >> you can remember we have our fair share, we have had it up one side and down the other. every storm is different. tornadoes are impactful if they hit you. they bounce around. they don't clear everything out like a flood but but if it hits you it will destroy everything that you have. this storm is devastating. >> a tornado hit close to the fourth ward, correct, and that's one of the areas that was -- >> well, when we call the ninth ward. out in new orleans east. >> got night custom is on the other side of the industrial canal. and then really for about two miles it just jumped around at its will and zigzagged and plopped down like as i said an elephant stepping on your house

from space to space. we have a good idea of the bredth of the damage and now we have to make sure we don't have any loss of life and make sure we get the injured to the hospital as quickly as possible. >> the ninth ward, which was devastated by ka a, only just starting to rebuild in the last few years, get back on its feet. what does it mean to have another violent storm hit that area? i mean, residents have just got to be feeling like what is going on in my town and what can i do. >> as said before, we had ka treatan, rita, i can, gustave. we've been through our fair share. but the folks are strong and resilient. we are thankful that the american people always reach out to help us. our first respond remembers as well trained as anybody else in the country. they are out here doing a superb job. >> do you think you will be asking for help from the federal government for this storm? >> no question. we have been in touch with the governor. he is on his way down here.

we are going to ask for a federal declaration. one team, one fight. our federal, state and local responders are going to be on the same page. if we are eligible for a federal declaration, i think we are going to need it and we are asking for that assistance as we speak. auto. a sure it will be granted. >> just to repeat, how many injuries have you seen? you only as of now know of two that are serious? >> we have two serious injuries reported. i wouldn't be surprised if that number increased. we have three dozen more minor injuries but we don't want to talk more about that until we absolutely know. >> totally understandable mayor mitch land drew of new orleans thanks so much for joining me. >> thank you. >> let's go to rafael miranda a meteorologist to tell us exactly what is happening on the ground there. are tornado warnings or watching still in effect? >> that's right. still a active severe weather situation. we are tracking additional tornado warning. the warnings are the most extreme types of advisories for tornadoes. right now we are seeing the

potential for a tornado north of new orleans. whenever you see these red boxes that is a tornado warning. that's when you need to seek shelter immediately. we are seeing a good hook on that cell. a hook echo which gives us an indication there to be a tornado on the ground. a new warning popped up southeastern montgomery. now we are seeing severe weather shifting into alabama. this one hasn't been spotted yet and it may be rain wrapped, hard to see and even more dangerous. severe thunderstorms extending it was mobile, alabama and inching into the florida panhandle. this severe threat continues for the next several hours, even into the evening as these storms are march pg east. the tornado watch may be extended even later because the storps are moving slower than anticipated of these are all the storm reports so far today. this cluster of tornado reports in southeastern louisiana does include the one in east new orleans. again, that was 12:25 eastern standard time. again, we are seeing the damage reports coming in. and these are hail reports as

well. this is the area we are most concerned about athe southern gulf coast, mobile alabama into the florida panhandle. that's our enhanced risk. that risk continues heading into evening. on future track you can see this is the evening commute. the storm are matching into florida. panama city, doeten, alabama. after dark the storms can become even more dangerous because you can see them coming. the tornado threat continues around 7:00. gradually the storms start to weaken as we head towards the overnight hours. by tomorrow all of this moves offshore. but the risk continues the next several hours. two active tornado warnings remain in effect in louisiana and now in alabama as well. a very active trend right now ka katy. and we expect it to continue right through the afternoon. >> rafael miranda in your newsrooms. one of the problems with tornadoes and covering them and predicting them is that meteorologists don't know which super cells are going to produce

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look i know he is an unconventional president. we gets frustrated with judges, we get frustrated with juns. but he is respecting the process. i think that's what counts at the ends of the day. >> speaker ryan trying to explain president trump's personal attack on a federal judge who ruled to temporarily suspend his travel ban. what is the president trying to do when he trashes judges? is he standing up for him selves or is there something darker at play. robert brash this is it is the latter saying trump is out for total control. he has a new article titled trump's war on the press and himself. robert brash thank you for joining me all the way will from sunny california. i want to start with the bold statement you made that trump is out for total control. how do you think he is trying to

do that? >> threw intimidation. his tweets are not just public statements of the sort that most presidents make. they are designed to intimidate and put down and demean his opponents. i have heard many times of rests who disagree with court outcomes and disagree with certain judges. but this is the first time in my memory, and i go back a lot of presidents, that a president has actually attacked a judge personally. a so-called judge, he said of the judge in the district court in washington who put a stay on his travel ban. and then went on to say that that judge f there is an incident in the united states, that judge will be blamed as will the courts. well, this is tough stuff. if i were donald trump i would probably be saying to myself well what do i want to do?

why am i doing this? because i want judges around the country to be put on notice that i will go after them personally if they rule against me. >> well, you do have a lot of documentation to back you up when you talk about donald trump going after those who disagree with him. obviously, he went after judge curiel during the campaign. he has gone after the press repeatedly. most recently the "new york times" which he calls failing and says is lying about its reporting. but we talk about the press all the time i want to move that to its side. the other thing that you argue donald trump is trying to undermine is the state of california. explain that for me. >> well, you see n all of these instances, the judiciary and the press and states, particularly big states run by democrats like california, you have pushback. you have independent centers of power that are not bowing and cow towing to donald trump. donald trump doesn't like that. so when it comes to these independent centers of power in our political economic system, again, the judiciary, and the

press, and state governments like big state governments like california, donald trump really unleashes his venom. he doesn't like independent centers of power. he wants control. that's why he has strichb for his entire life. that's what his mentor roykoen taught him about. one of roykoen's messages also, really, from the joe mccarthy days of the communist witch-hunts, is to take no prisoners. that is, you spew venom, you intimidate. >> you use lice, you use whatever you can to undermine opponents. and that is what donald trump is doing as president. president of the united states. >> donald trump has always called himself a counter-puncher. to fill our viewers in on the fight that's now picking with the state of california, it's over sanctuary cities. he wants to get rid of sanctuary cities. california is trying to protect its three sanctuary cities. listen to the exchange he had

with fox news over the weekend. >> california in man ways is out of control as you know. obviously the voters agree. otherwise they wouldn't have voted for me. >> defunding is your weapon of choice. >> well it is a weapon. i don't want to defund a state or a city. >> but you are willing to do it. >> i don't want to detund them. i want to give them the machine they need to properly operated as a city or a state. if they are going to have a sanctuary cities thernl that would be weapon. >> prix president trump is talking about defunding california. california is talking about seceding from the union. the same thing texas was talking about when president obama was elected president. is any of this going to happen? >> no, california to the going to cess eid. i don't think president trump is going to be successful in withholding federal funds. there is more to the sorry of donald trump and california than just sanctuary cities. it's also that donald trump has

been alleging that voter fraud in california was one of the major source of voter fraud that robbed him of the popular vogt that he would like to claim for the 2016 election. so last week when he announced that there would be a presidential-led investigation of alleged voter fraud, now, remember there is no evidence of any voter fraud at all. california was top on his list. californians rejected donald trump three to one, more than any other state by a margin of almost 4 million votes, and trump doesn't like that. that's pushback. that is kind of resistance to trump. >> robert r eerks ich. thank you. enjoy my home state. and go eat in and out burger if you can mimi. >> i will. >> next we take you live to capitol hill where there were no naught burgers, but tammy baldwin of wisconsin joins me to talk about the future of her party. what can they fight with little

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vice president mike pence maid history this afternoon voting to break the tie for the president's education secretary. democrats staged a 24-hour talk-a-thon on the senate floor to try and convince just one more republican to say no. but it did not work. and now that she's confirmed, what now for the democrats who are opposing the president's cabinet? we will find out from wisconsin senator tammy baldwin who was on

the senate committee to question betsy devos. thank you for joining me. you were able to sit down with batsy devos. you spoke out vocally and veemtly against her. she is now the education secretary. my question is, how are you going to work with her? >> well, before i even get to that, i want to give a thanks to the hundreds of thousands of u.s. citizens who spoke out, who weighed in on that. i got an unprecedented number of calls and e-mails from parents, from teachers, from administrators and schools speaking out on this. and i think that what this showed is that if we expose these nominees to the american public, that they will -- they will participate and speak out. so in terms of what's next, we need to, as members of the education panel, certainly hold president trump and this

nominee, soon to be secretary, accountable. but we also need to make this -- take these same steps with several other very controversial nominees that trump has put forward for the senate to consider. we are onto the consideration of senator sessions to be attorney general. tom price to be hhs secretary. we have a number of nominees in store who have some very disturbing ethical entanglements as well as policy positions that are counter to not only some of the things that trump has said but also to some of our core american values. >> let's talk about all these constituents that called your office and the other us thats that called your colleagues both on the democratic and republican side. they were not enough to convince one other republican to vote no for betsy devos. and she was the one that was

essentially in the most peril. so it seems to have shown how powerless the democrats really are right now in congress given fact that they are in the minority. so speaking to your constituents that may not agree with donald trump and those in the country who don't agree with his choices, what is the strategy going forward? >> well, first all, i want to say that the engagement is making a difference. and it may not have resulted in the defeat of betsy devos's nomination, but as you note is a historical precedent that the vice president has to come and break a tie for a presidential nominee. but it has also served in other instances to greatly slow down this effort to repeal the affordable care act without any replacement in sight. people have spoken out, and republicans are beginning to listen. we did get two republican votes to oppose betsy devos. that said, i listened to your

previous interview, and i think there is some truth to the issue that some of my republican colleagues are intimidated by this new president. and the problem is that if they support every one of his nominees without giving appropriate scrutiny to their ethical problems, to their outrageous policy positions in some cases, they are buying into the trump administration, they are aligning themselves with those policies. and i think that as we see some of those results, folks will regret those decisions. >> senator, we are running out of time. but i want to ask you one question about what you just say. you said your republican colleagues are intimidated by this president. what do you mean by that? and what evidence do you have of that? >> well, you have seen very few willing to speak out, separate themselves, each on policies

with which they disagree. they are standing up and buy almost every one of his nominees with only two republican defections so far. and they are choosing alliance with this president over the tens of thousands of constituents who are calling them, visiting their offices, writing them. that's a big choice. and they are making it rye nigh now. and i think they should side with the people who sent them there, sent them to washington to represent them. >> senator tammy baldwin, thank you so much for being here. democrat from wisconsin. appreciate it. >> thank you. and that wraps things up for me this hour. i am a katy tur. you can follow me on facebook but i like twitter better. follow me on twitter. tell me what you think. insult me, implement me, do whatever you want. kate snow picks things up this hour. >> it is a very busy news day

for us. thanks katey. i am kate snow. top stories we are following this hour, severe storms, tornadoes, penguin pong ball sized hail. louisiana was battered this afternoon. we are talking about roofs ripped to of homes. power lines sledded. at least three tornadoes touching down in and around new orleans. the mayor saying at least two people are seriously injured. the emergency crews are surveying the damage as we speak. tornado warnings and watching still in effect at this hour. we will check in there with the latest live just as soon as week. back this the capitol, the battle to confirm betsy devos is over. as of this afternoon she is now the united states secretary of education. vice president mike pence casting the deciding vote there, breaking the tie. now what is next for senate democrats? we are going to be checking in with one of them in this hour and talking about the rest of the confirmation process. leadership has a new plan that they say could launch tonight, thein will of the democrats, that is.