sticking with peacock in this situation. >> joe: good pitch, strike one. >> john: best slider i've seen him throw since covering the last two series. tight, looks like the fastball coming out of his hand. >> joe: a.j. hinch agreed with you that the slider was not as crisp as it had been for peacock this postseason. that's who he's got. here's the 0-1. strike two. >> john: picked a great time for the best two he has. the crowd response. they stand up, like they have for two strikes all playoff. >> joe: almost caught ethier mapping. good move by peacock. tying run at the plate. two out, seventh inning. down for ball one. 1-2 pitch. chop to the right side. gurriel to the bag. inning over. brad peacock gets around the two-out walk. with that, the dodgers have stranded four, scoring three, they trailed by 2. and now for the introduction of "god bless america" let's join public address announcer bob ford. >> ladies and gentlemen, we kindly ask that you please rise and remove your caps as we welcome former marine and current houston fire department captain mark miller as he leads us in the sin

chase utley takes a strike from the new right-hander joe musgrove. >> john: change of, slider, curve,ccasional cutter. big right-hander. >> joe: utley is 0 for 2 on the night. that's in the air to left, gonzales back. nice running catch to start the bottom of the eighth. a couple things are in play her here. justin verlander will try to rally in the ninth inning to get him off the hook, he's gotten them off the hook plenty of times in the postseason. he can lose while allowing only two hits. the last started to lose a world series game allowing two hits or if you were was of the yankees. in the final game for at dodger stadium, a sweep of that year the dodgers. he also allowed to hits, frank howard head of both of them a single and a home run. that would be a category of a tough luck loser but the two hits one by pederson, one by seager left the park. it's now a 3-2 game as kike hernandez has his first at-bat. >> john: not every homer was on a bad pitch, justin turner had a real good pitch. his third at-bat, he wasn't able to get to and got to that one. that's where we stand. >> joe:

chase utley takes a strike from the new right-hander joe musgrove. >> john: change of, slider, curve,nal cutter. big right-hander. >> joe: utley is 0 for 2 on the night. that's in the air to left, gonzales back. nice running catch to start the bottom of the eighth. a couple things are in play her here. justin verlander will try to rally in the ninth inning to get him off the hook, he's gotten them times in the postseason. he can lose while allowing only two hits. the last started to lose a world series game allowing two hits or if you were was of the yankees. in the final game for at dodger stadium, a sweep of that year the dodgers. he also allowed to hits, frank howard head of both of them a single and a home run. that would be a category of a tough luck loser but the two hits one by pederson, one by seager left the park. it's now a 3-2 game as kike hernandez has his first at-bat. >> john: not every homer was on a bad pitch, justin turner had a real good pitch. his third at-bat, he wasn't able to get to and got to that one. that's where we stand >> joe: the last time a team won a wor

our joe johns is there., talk about the difference in a public health emergency versus a national emergency, and why the white house made this decision? >> right, poppy. the difference really is, the president apparently is going to say he's going to do something about the opioid crisis, as he has promised repeatedly but not exactly thought what we thought he was going to do and not exactly what he said he was going to do. the president could have declared a national emergency

>> joe: forsyth. .286 hitter this postseason. takes a strike. >> johnlowing of her closers especially to close it out. you still got to grind on pitches. >> joe: a ball and a strike on logan forsythe. a matchup of yu darvish and lance mccullers junior friday in houston. two thrilling games here in l.a. to start this world series, now 1-1. strike two. >> john: this is the one pitch you get to play with, try to get him to chase out of the zone. fastball he fouls back, see if they go to the slider with two strikes, ian mccann. >> joe: two out, nobody on, 1-2 pitch. lays off it, 2-2. >> john: great pitch. home runs during the regular season. 2-2 pitch. full count with the game five nlcs hero, tk hernandez on deck. three homers, seven rbi game at wrigley. >> john: whatever you decide you've got to trust it. >> joe: forsythe takes a walk. that didn't look like it missed by much as brent strohm will come out to coming up. >> john: fastball just a little bit down. out of the zone. >> joe: forsythe is a board in case you're wondering as far as bench for dave rob

cnn's joe johns at the white house for us this morning. anything concrete to be learned here, joe? >> nothing concrete at least so far, john, but i have to say, the circumstances of that video that you just saw and the audio, make it even more unusual. the journalists here at the white house in the pool that covers the president closely every day, were all ready to go home, they were under the assumption that the work had been finished for the day when they were hastily summoned and taken into record what appeared to be perhaps impromptu remarks by the president, not clear certainly, ambiguous remarks. just a tad more information about what the president talked to his military leaders about last night. in a read out that came to the white house, it indicated that they talked about north korea, no surprise, they talked about isis, talked about niger where three american green berets were killed. just this week and we're told they talked about iran. of course the big question is whether the president will decertify the iran nuclear agreement, which he's been highly critical of. a lot

joe johns for us at the white house, joe? >> john, the calendar days are flying by up here. the time to get things done is growing short. the congress and the president don't have any big agenda items to crow about. and the midterm elections are about a year away. a bad combination. our poll does show that americans, the respondents to our poll, have a problem with the president and the way he's handling the relationship with congress. let's just look at the graphic. 32% approve of the way the president is handling the relationship, 52% disapprove. important also to say that tension plays well with the trump base. 68% of republicans think that the president is doing the right thing there. what we have seen here over the last day especially with the president is he's trying to play both sides between the warring factions in the republican party. he's playing up his relationship with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell as well as trying to keep the peace with his former chief strategist steve bannon. listen. >> i know how he feels. it depends on who you're talking about. th

and joe was -- john said that joe tied when john was 13. actually joe died when john was 37. a bit of a discrepancy there. now, what happened, the old man take offered to med itch go up to maine and i want to find out. go to the funeral home would joe was buried and asked the funeral director do you 1/2 ledgers in i want to know if john basically had paid for the old man's funeral. now, how die know joe went maine? i know because sarah's granddaughter wrote to eddie mccormack about meeting joe. i almost had to hyperventilate when read the letter a condolence letter. remember middling your grandfather. how could she? he is dead. he came down from maine. well, so went up to calked to the fume recall director, and he said, -- i said, do you have a letter with john -- ledger with john's check in the said, 0, no, the funeral director was loan shark and he had two set's of books when i bought the business, and he burn them beth. so much for that. well, i said, well, where is he bury yesterday? this is catholic. i checked with all the catholic churches. none of them buried joe mccor

let's begin with joe johns, live at the white house. good morning, joe >> reporter: good morning, alyson. the president has been completely up front about the fact that he gets irritated by negative news coverage. he has taken issues with stories, he's taken issue with news organizations. but he has never gone quite as far as he did yesterday, suggesting he's open to punishing a news network for unflattering coverage. >> it's frankly tkus gudisgusti way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. >> reporter: president trump tweeted news companies must be challenging. >> no. the press should speak more honestly. >> reporter: republican senator ben sasse firing back, mr. president, are you recanting the oath you took on january 20th to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> the republicans tend not to be as unified. the democrats stick together like glue. >> reporter: a stalled ledge shraeufrbg agenda and a new article describes the white house in crisis with advisers struggle to go contain a pr

possible chance of turkey at least checking into theory a human rights situation our correspondent joe johns on the story for us tonight from istanbul dorian thank you very much well tonight the mood is tense in kenya ahead of tomorrow's disputed presidential election rerun authorities confirming that the vote will go ahead after the top court threw out a last minute petition to delay the poll the country is deeply divided between rival political camps now only ten years ago post-election violence in kenya cost more than a thousand lives tonight the opposition is already did now seeing the vote that will take place tomorrow. what kenya is a country on edge. here in the third largest city of kisumu an opposition stronghold police and protesters clashed. the demonstrators are determined to ignore thursday's repeat election. acting president looking at a new country toward us but you know if you love stop us you will kill us but you will rise again. there is no there is no election tomorrow and that's not until there will be going to believe they won't bring the ballot boxes here if you're conf

cnn's joe johns is there, and joe, this morning, the feud very much continues. >> we can't hear joe johns. this happens and we'll get him back in a moment. yes, this is news that the fbi is involved in the investigation. we will get more on that and talk about the ongoing feud. joining us is the president and founder of taps, tragedy assistance program for survivors. she worked in the white house for reagan and bush 41, and she was awarded a medal in 2014. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> you are a veteran and your husband was a veteran before he tragically died in a plane crash serving this country in 1992. what do you make of the back and forth? the president hits the congresswoman and then the congress hits back. what do you make of it? >> regardless of how that death occurs, my heart is with the families. as a nation we come together very publicly mourn all who served and died and then for those left to grieve it's a very private matter. >> look, thank goodness that you do what you do, and thank goodness you stand behind these families and honor them. are they being honor

>> joe: here's the 1-1. strike two. >> john: i wish he could tell me how many innings we were going to play. bullpen active for each team. maeda. >> joe: goes to show you, and the open we talked about how different these teams were. the bullpen at the dodgers, runs and homersthsame and here we are sixth, 7-7 with 2 of the best left-handed pitchers on the mound not on their best tonight. but both teams still have a chance. maeda has gotten away with a couple of pitches here with gattis as he backed out of here. he did not get away with the pitch to altuve. that's ball two. and again, no one can understand it until you've gone through. it is difficult to pitch all year in one capacity or another, in this case, for maeda, as a starter, and then go to the pen for condensed opportunities and try to be effective every time you are called upon. it's not easy. maeda was so good in game 3 in a couple of nights later here he is and he entered, yes, up three, facing two on end to out against the guy who is likely going to win the al mvp a

joe johns joins us from the white house with more. these two have not been on the same page, corker and trump. they made up, we heard, in recent days, but corker is not running again, and so being very candid? >> reporter: yeah, very candid, that's for sure. and the problem is you have the president's hand-picked secretary of state and the president of the united states not always on the same page. then the secretary of state goes front and center to try to smooth over some of the differences pledging loyalty to the president, suggesting denying that he was ever part of the way out of the door at the state department. the president tweeting just this morning, in fact, adding to the narrative, and let's just look at the tweet. rex tillerson never threatened to resign. this is fake news put out by nbc, which is the news organizati organization that put out the latest story. important to add that the headline yesterday that caused a stir from nbc news essentially suggested that tillerson had called the president a moron, and when tillers

joe johns is live at the white house with more. what you have learned, joe? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. the white house dealing with a new piece of the puzzle, and the president choosing to turn it around and focusing on how far the clinton campaign would go to get dirt on him. >> don't forget. hillary clinton denies this, she knew nothing, and all of a sudden we found out -- >> attempting to shift the narrative away from the russia investigation and on to hillary clinton, blasting her campaign's involvement in helping to fund the now famous dossier of allegations about trump and russia. >> well, i think it's very sad what they have done with the fake dossier. it was made up. i understand they paid a tremendous amount of money. >> mr. trump insisting that the dossier is fake, despite the fact that parts of it have been corroborated by the intelligence community. a source familiar with the matter tells cnn that clinton was not personally aware of the dossier until buzzfeed published the document earlier this year, adding she was disappointed the researc

joe johns at the white house for us. thanks so much. >>> so does the president fully understand the risks of attacking his own party? this morning there are whispers that if he keeps this up, there could be major consequences, including one that begins with the letter "i." cnn's sarah murray has that story. sarah. >> well, good morning. the conversation that is increasingly playing out among top aides in the white house among republican lawmakers and other influential republicans is concern, people wondering whether this president understands that if republicans lose control of the house in 2018, he could be putting the fate of his presidency in jeopardy. now, they look at a president who has picked a number of fights with major members of his own party. they also look at a president who doesn't have a single major legislative accomplishment under his belt at this point. and they look at the math for 2018, and say this could be a very precarious situation, not just for republicans in the house, not just for the conservat

let's begin with our joe johns at the white house. the president is responding to this, this morning. what is he saying? >> that's right, poppy. given the fact that the president has referred to congresswoman wilson as wacky and a liar after she characterized this condolence call, we did reach out to the white house, asking how they might characterize myeshia johnson, given the fact that she's now done an interview, and the president does seem to have answered that question for himself with a tweet this morning. i'll just read it. it says, "i had a very respectful conversation with the widow of sergeant la david johnson and spoke his name from beginning without hesitation!" so the president with a very different tone in addressing the issues of the widow. nonetheless, denying her version of events. meanwhile, the back and forth continues with the congresswoman. she's asking for an apology. she's also comparing the raid and ambush in niger that killed sergeant johnson and three others, comparing it to the 2012 attack on diplomatic comp

our joe johns is at the white house with the latest. flake says more republicans are going to speak out, not naming any. intriguing. >> definitely intriguing, poppy, and that is the big question. what does it all mean, and where is this all headed. he did say, yes, or thinks a number of other senators will speak out. some senators have already spoken out. john mccain of arizona, which is interesting, like jeff flake along with susan collins of maine, and lindsay graham raisediraise issues. the president scoffing to the idea referring to the meeting with all of the republican senators saying jeff flake with 18% approval rating saying a lot of colleagues have spoken out. really? they just gave me a standing o. it's whether the apple cart could be upset through all of this especially when the president's biggest signature item, the thing he campaigned on the most, a big tax cut in tax reform is coming down the pike on capitol hill. there are concerns it could create a lot more deficit spending. jeff flake, for example, has been a deficit h

our joe johns is there. joe, talk about the difference in a public health emergency versus a national emergency, and why the white house made this decision? >> right, poppy. the difference really is, the president apparently is going to say he's going to do something about the opioid crisis, as he has promised repeatedly but not exactly thought what we thought he was going to do and not exactly what he said he was going to do. the president could have declared a national emergency under the law that provides for fema, the federal emergency management agency, and millions of dollars there potentially, even though we all know fema is quite busy right now dealing with hurricanes and such in a variety of locations. so what the president is going to do, we're told, is declare a public service emergency, or a public health emergency. what that means is that money available through a certain fund can be used to fight the opioid crisis. the problem is, the fund that goes to public health emergencies is pretty much em

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back to you. >> joe johns at the white house, thanks so much. joining us paris denard, susan dell persio and paul rightcraft. paul, i want to start with you. you say this whole situation, what has become a controversy, is bad for everyone. >> yeah. >> so how did we get here? and who got us here? >> well, i think ultimately the commander in chief is responsible for everything we do and fail to do. every president no matter who it is. that's not a partisan statement. if this was george washington we should hold him accountable. we need to focus on what's most important. our troops are watching this, in harm's way, many may feel like their families are not being supported. so the troops in harm's way need to know that all of america, the white house, both parties, the media, everybody is behind them. god forbid they're killed in action they need to know their families will get taken care of, that includes not being dragged into the media and through the political fight. that has to be most important. after that we have to support these gold star fa

first to the white house, joe johns is there with more this morning. so, it's just sort of unbelievable to see this all playing out in public. >> in public is the word. it's very extraordinary, poppy, a prominent senator from the president's own party, the powerful republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, bob corker, just recently announced he will not seek re-election. now appearing to take off the gloves in this very public spat with the president of the united states. a couple other quotes from "the new york times" interview he concerns me, he would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation, and this i know for a fact, that every single day at the white house it's a situation of trying to contain him. you know, the significance of this is that this is a republican senator from trump country, from tennessee, where mr. trump won with 60% of the vote, an individual who has been described as one of the closest senators to the president of the united states, now taking off the gloves, articulating some of the biggest grievan

let's begin with joe johns live for us at the white house. another intense day, joe. >> reporter: that's for sure, alisyn. and, look, here at the white house they are saying it's all good, even with freewheeling criticism of the president by two prominent republican senators. they're free to speak their minds because they're not running for re-election. that free will could affect the senate arithmetic and the president's agenda. >> it is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end. >> reporter: outgoing senator jeff flake fiercely denouncing president trump's policies and behavior as dangerous to democracy and calling on his fellow republicans to do the same. >> when the next generation asks us why didn't you do something, why didn't you speak up, what are we going to say? >> flake railing against the politics of the era of trump, the undermining of democratic ideals, the personal insults, and what he called the flagrant disregard for truth and decency. >> reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become e

joe johns is there. any word? >> reporter: no word at all. nothing of substance, at least, so far from the white house. the white house communications team was in a meeting when the news broke and that meeting has since broke up. we haven't heard anything. i did speak to one white house spokesman and asked if they were waiting to find out what the charges are. and was told, we may not have a response at all. that was later amended to, we don't know exactly when we will have a response. not even sources familiar with the thinking of the president's legal team have been weighing in, but, in the past, those sources familiar with the thinking of the legal team have said that while players like paul manafort, rick gates, and others may have come under scrutiny and may have even g gotten into legal trouble, that has never reached the level of the president himself, the oval office. and there's no reason to think, at least so far, that any of that thinking has changed. back to you. >> all right. joe johns for us at the white house. keep us posted if

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joe johns at the white house. one thing definitively, the dedication of an fbi building in 2015 does not do anything to help the families of fours u.s. servicemen lost in niger. joining us now, cnn military analyst retired lieutenant colonel francona and [ inaudible ] of the national military association. i want to start with you, that was an illustration of what the problem is here. there's a he said/she said that's been going on until a few minutes ago. what good does that do anyone? the most important people here, which again is the families of those four soldiers killed? >> absolutely none, john, and this is a time when we need to step back and ratchet down the rhetoric. general kelly tried do that, obviously, unsuccessfully and looks like the congresswoman also now is trying to lower the temperature of the rhetoric. but she's right, we need to focus on the families and find out what happened and answer the questions. you know, although i really am upset with this back and forth between the white house and the

joe john live at the white house with the status of this ongoing internal republican struggle, joe. >> reporter: that's right. good morning, john. the president using his twitter megaphone to try to diminish the messages from senators flake and corker. because, he has to, quite frankly. making out that this is nothing more than mid-term politics, indicating they dropped out, because they had no chance of being elected. also, diminishing the assertion that this is a tipping point, that other senators will join in. the president also tweeting that his meeting with republican senators was a lovefest, where he got a standing oovation. but there really is no diminishing the fact that these two senators and especially senator jeff flake of arizona just yesterday really with free-wheeling, personal criticism of the president of the united states and it's important to say that these senators, corker and flake, are both senators who are not running for re-election. so, they're free to speak their minds and the question, of course, is whether that's going to translate into something else in the

university delaware, the former vice president made it simple. >> it's not that hard for john and i to get along. >> reporter: joeublican john kasich, the ohio governor who came to talk bipartisan. >> we see the failures in government, the inability to put the good of our society above the good of my reelection. >> the friends from opposite sides of the aisle have common ground. the former vice president critiqued andç directed as president trump. >> what has really happened here is is that we have a president who does not understand governance. >> while the two men talked to students and others in a packed auditorium, word came that something bipartisan had happened. a possible deal on payment that lower health care costs for some low income americans. >> some good news that maybe they reach ed a deal on health care where they can continue the payments. republicans and democrats in the early word is that e he said he thought it was a good start. that's a good start. >> reporter: this stop with the republican governor just one item on what's been a busy schedule for former vice president biden. we caught him hea

>> joe: here's the 1-1. strike two. >> john: i wish he could tell me how many innings we were going to play. bullpen active for each team. >> joe: goes to show you, and the open we talked about how different these teams were. the bullpen at the dodgers, runs and homers everything just about the same and here we are in the sixth, 7-7 with 2 of the best left-handed pitchers on the mound not on their best tonight. but both teams still have a chance. maeda has gotten away with a couple of pitches here with gattis as he backed out of here. he did not get away with the pitch to altuve. that's ball two. and again, no one can understand it until you've gone through. it is difficult to pitch all year in one capacity or another, in this case, for starter, and then go to the pen for condensed opportunities and try to be effective every time you are called upon. it's not easy. maeda was so good in game 3 in a couple of nights later here he is and he entered, yes, up three, facing two on end to out against the guy who is likely going to win

possible chance of turkey at least checking is deteriorating human rights situation our correspondent joe johns on the story for us tonight from istanbul dorian thank you very much. well from political crackdown in one country to an almost political break in another tomorrow people from far and wide came last friday to nairobi's main park to listen to president hu king at his address the event is usually filled with pomp and color the children getting the most out of the entertainment but this year and easiness hangzhou the kenyans including james gerard gay and his family covers all your garden after the supreme court until the election was there's been a lot of tension but we pray to god that we will have an election and to have peace on that day and thereafter. because that is you can use electric commission has faced numerous challenges since the announcement on september third the chairman of the commission has not quite conceded that he's under siege and still insists. the commission can deliver an election on the twenty sixth the main opposition party insists the commission must get its

the a possible chance of turkey at least checking it to a human rights situation our correspondent joe johns on the story for us tonight from istanbul dorian thank you very much i well from political crackdown in one country to an almost political breakdown in another tomorrow voters in kenya will return to the ballot box for a presidential election rerun the supreme court know all the last election results in august amid protests of vote rigging that ended in thirty seven deaths but it doesn't look like a second try will be different from the first even members of the country's electoral commission have said and i'm quoting here a fair and free election cannot be guaranteed. on my day or heroes day kenya celebrates those who fought for independence people from far and wide came last friday to nairobi's main park to listen to president hu hu kenyatta's address the event is usually filled with pomp and color with children getting the most out of the entertainment but this year and easiness hangs over kenyans including james drug and his family. after the supreme court and all the elections th

. >> joe: said, tailing fastball for strike one is in at the knees to the dh, justin turner. >> john: same thing here, an incredible adrenaline rush as he finished the game. i don't think you'll see it 95, 96. >> joe: strike two on turner. here's the line for peacock, 3 2/3, no hits in game three. first in his career. gave the astros a 2-1 series lead. >> joe: the question for peacock, john, has been the slider. >> john: the hardest thing to do when you're trying to get that ball to break and you are used to being in the starting role is you tend to seize the power of the break instead of trusting that you don't have to throw it as hard to create the same kind of tilt and break. that was alex cora on the phone. there is no action for the astros in the bullpen at the moment. but again, as we go through next couple of innings, roberts has his closer. a.j. hinch does not. >> john: confidence wise, he doesn't. >> joe: you're right. he told him before the game you're not close this game, but i think he's going to have to pitch in this game. especially, obviously, if it stays tied for multi

let's begin with cnn's joe johns live at the white house. what is the latest there. >> reporter: president trump and bob corker, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee have kept it quiet over the last 24 hours or so after their very public feud re-erupted if you will, over the weekend. we are told that's not likely to last despite the fact that the administration cannot afford to lose republican votes on capitol hill if that it expect to get any legislation through this year. president trump is not finished with senator corker according to a member of the white house. >> sometimes i feel like he is on a reality show or something, and he's talking about the foreign policy issues. >> yeah. >> you have to realize that, you know, that we could be heading towards world war iii by the comments that he's making. >> former white house steve strategist steve bannon lashing out at corker last night. >> if bob corker has any honor or decency, he should resign immediately. >> signaling he is ramping up to unseat republicans next year. >>

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cnn's joe johns is live at the white house with the latest. hi, joe. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. for the last 24 hours for the white house, we really have had something old and something new. the guilty plea by papadopoulos was certainly something new. here was a former campaign adviser. they didn't really know what he did, at least that's what the white house said. they were scrambling to explain, even minimize his link to the campaign. >> the president expected the indictments of former campaign chairman paul manafort and aide rick gates but was surprised by the revelation that another aide, george papadopoulos pled guilty to lying to the fbi and is cooperating with authorities. mr. trump spent much of the day hunkered down with his legal team in the white house private residence, growing increasingly frustrated after seeing video of manafort arriving at the fbi field office to turn himself in. publicly, the administration attempted to downplay the charges. >> i think the reaction of the administration is let the legal justice system w

joe johns is there. good morning, joe. >> good morning, poppy. i have to say, this off again/on again battle between the president of the united states and bob corker, the chairman of the foreign relations committee, is on again. the latest volley as you said fired by the president this morning on twitter, he writes "the failing "new york times" set up little bob corker by recording his conversation was made to sound like a fool and that's what i'm dealing with." that recording a conversation is a reference to the fact that "the new york times" did an interview with bob corker over the weekend in which he responded to some insults made by the president. corker made sharp comments of his own and also notable that the president referred to bob koeshg as liddle, that, of course, is an insult that the president has used before, last year during the campaign directed at senator marco rubio of florida who ran against the president in the primaries. the significance of all of this is the president going back and forth with members of the united states s

let's go to the white house where we find our joe johns. >> we see the president trying to appeal to the warring factions in the republican party. it's a very difficult job, and in our poll the president does not get very high marks for the way he has been dealing with congress. just to look at the graphic. overall, 32% approve the way the president is handling congress, and 54% disapproves. the poll also shows that 68% of republicans do approve of the way the president is handling the relationship. let's talk a little about how the president is trying to straddle the fence here in washington. we saw it on display at the white house just yesterday, the president on the one hand trying to reach out to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, and on the other hand trying to keep the peace with his former top adviser, steve bannon. listen. >> i know how he feels. depends on who you are talking about. there are republicans, frankly, that should be ashamed of themselves. we have been friends for a long time. we are probably now, despite what we read -- we are probably now, at least as far

joe johns is live at the white house. what is going on there this morning, joe? >> reporter: extremely painful conversation we're involved in right now. the president's calls to the families of the fallen soldiers from niger, and the florida congresswoman said she witnessed the president's words bringing to tears the widow of that soldier. he tweets the democratic congresswoman totally fabricated what i said, and i have proof. so far, no word on what proof the president has. and the congresswoman says she stands by her story. listen. >> this man is a sick man. he's cold-hearted and feels no pity or sympathy for anybody. this is a grieving widow who is six months pregnant. this is a young woman. she's only 24 years old. she weighs maybe 110 pounds. she has two other kids. two years old and six years old. when she hung up the phone, she looked at me and said he didn't even know his name. that's the worst part. >> we have reached out to the white house press office for some clarification on all of this and so far have not heard back from them. we will see the presid

. >>> let's begin with joe johns live at the white house. joe? >> reporter: good morning, chris. president and senate foreign relations committee chair bob corker have remained quiet since the latest dust-up over the weekend in their very public feud. sources have told cnn that is not likely to last, despite the fact that the administration can't afford to lose republican votes on capitol hill if it expects to pass any major legislation this year. president trump is not finished with senator corker, according to a white house official. after the high-ranking member of mr. trump's own party delivered this scathing rebuke of the commander in chief. >> sometimes i feel like he's on a reality show of some kind. and, you know, he doesn't realize that, you know, we could be heading toward world war iii with the kind of comments that he's making. >> former white house chief strategist steve bannon, fired in august, lashing out at corker last night. >> if bob corker has any honor, any decency, he should resign immediately. >> reporter: signaling he is ramping up his efforts to unseat est

joe johns live at the white house with more. joe? >> reporter: chris, good morning. new information in the russia investigation. a return to a familiar pattern here at the white house. the trump administration faced with what appears to be a new piece of the puzzle about how far they would go to get dirt on on hillary clinton. the president focusing on how far the hillary clinton would go to get dirt on him. >> don't forget, hillary clinton totally denied this. she didn't know anything. she knew nothing. all of a sudden i found out. >> reporter: president trump attempting to shift the narrative away from the russian investigation and onto hillary clinton. blasting her campaign's involvement in helping to fund the now famous dossier of allegations of trump and russia. >> i think it's very sad what they have done with this fake dossier. it was made up. and i understand they paid a tremendous amount of money. >> reporter: mr. trump insisting it is fake despite the fact that parts of it have been corroborated by the intelligence community. a source familiar with the matt

john? >> joe's got 50% of it right. i want to get back to your last segment. >> but i want you to respond to this point, though. >> give me ten seconds. just give me ten seconds. joe, when you said his staff isn't doing anything to make him honor these men and women, that's because his staff is completely dominated by neocons that perpetuate these wars. so bringing attention to people dying brings attention to the wars. >> well, it's his staff. he's the one that selected them. >> right. go on. >> we don't -- and he doesn't have a problem firing them. >> the national anthem and the green berets, so why is he obsessed with that and to joe's point what real patriotism is. it's not wrapping yourself in the flag. as a matter of fact, you're not supposed to wrap yourself in the flag. >> if you get to the football players, my family and i were going to redskins game sunday. i want to enjoy the game with my family. my 13-year-old is going. they're not playing during the football game, they're playing football. -- they're not kn

joe johns is live at the white house with us. hi, joe. >> reporter: hi, alisyn. president trump and the family of the fallen soldier intensifying their war of words over the language the president used during the condonelce fall raising the question if the white house had been better off if the president said nothing at all. >> didn't say what the congresswoman said. didn't say it at all. >> reporter: president trump defending his conversation with the widow of u.s. army sergeant la david johnson. >> i had a very nice conversation with the woman -- with the wife, who sounded like a lovely woman. >> reporter: insisting democratic congresswoman frederica wilson fabricated her account what he said and vowed he has proof. >> i did hear him saying i'm sure he knew what he was signing up for, but it still hurts. she was crying. she broke down. and she said he didn't even know his name. >> reporter: wilson standing firm with sergeant johnson's grieving mother backing the story telling the "washington post" that the president disrespected her son. the white house press s

let's start with a report by joe johns live at the white house with more. what's the word, joe? >> reporter: good morning, chris. the white house on edge this morning as the president, like everyone else, sits and waits for the special counsel charges. now, this of course is a president who often teases out details of coming events. now having to wait on the sidelines as robert mueller makes his big reveal. over the weekend, of course, the president on twitter choosing not to talk specifically about special counsel. instead, focusing on hillary clinton, among other things with a tweet talking about collusion which doesn't exist. using this terrible and bad for our country witch-hunt for evil politics. but the r's are now fighting back like never before. there's so much guilt. democrats/clinton. do something in caps. all of this russia talk right when the republicans are making a big press for historic tax cuts and reform. is this coincidental? not! and then the follow-up by his lawyer, ty cobb, contrary to what many suggested, it is unrelated to activities of special counsel wit

let's begin with cnn's joe johns live at the white house. joe? >> reporter: good morning, chris. two prominent republican senators slamming the president with a message, this is not normal, putting the republican war on full display across the united states for everybody to see. senator jeff flake's speech on the floor of the united states senate really captured the imagination of a lot of people and also created big problems for the white house. the arithmetic could be changing at a time the white house could scarcely use it. >> it is time for our complicity and accommodation of the unacceptable to end. >> reporter: outgoing jeff flake fiercely denouncing president trump's policies and calling on his fellow republicans to do the same. >> when the next generation asks us, why didn't you do something? why didn't you speak up? what are we going to say? >> reporter: flake railing against the politics of the era of trump, the undermining of democratic ideals, the personal insults and what he called the flagrant disregard for truth and decency. >> reckless, undignified behavior is exc

. >> joe johns at the white house for us this morning. thank you. we appreciate it. amid all of this the white house is facing a lot of questions. people want answers about what happened to those four u.s. soldiers that died in niger. >> sources tell cnn secretary james mattis is dismayed at the lack of clarity. cnn's barbara starr at the pentagon. barbara, you have been pushing this forward for more than a week now. what do we know and what don't we know? >> it's a mixed picture at this point and it still remains these are the initial reports coming in according to multiple sources we are talking to. secretary mattis, i think, dismayed would be the accurate word from what people are telling us. not rushing things, but would like to see answers. the u.s. now assesses it was isis that attacked this team in niger, and they basically walked into an ambush of about 50 isis fighters armed with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns, and the u.s. team had only rifles. the intelligence they had at the time was clearly inaccurate. the intelligence said it was unlikely th

joe johns live at the white house. >> reporter: chris, there are so many questions bubbling up about that ambush in niger as well the american mission in that congress. congress is set to hold its first hearing this day on the issue while many other questions continue about the president's condolence call that started a controversy last week. >> the call was a very nice call. it was so nice. >> reporter: president trump refusing to back down about the nature of the condolence call with the widow of la david johnson. frederica wilson firing back. i'm sick of him giving people nicknames. he doesn't want me to give him a nicknames. >> reporter: shifting the focus back on the investigation into the ambush in niger that killed johnson and three other soldiers. >> i want people to understand what actually is happening in afri africa. this is going to be trump's benghazi, trump's niger. >> reporter: the congresswoman joined the johnson family in laying sergeant johnson to rest on saturday. in a new interview, president trump describes the chief of staff's reaction to the congresswoman's reb

. >> joe johns at the white house. thank you very much. let's go to our justice correspondent. a member of mueller's team made it clear yesterday that what we have seen so far is a, quote, small part of a large investigation. what is next? >> this story developing on two fronts, poppy. first of all, we will go to the case of paul manafort and rick gates. both men due back in court on thursday. meanwhile the restrictions on them are extensive. both under home confinement in addition to $10 million and $5 million respectively. both men cannot leave their homes and they only are allowed to for medical or religious purposes or when they go to court. as for that bond, they will be forced to pay on it, 10 and $5 million only if they violate the terms of their release. then, of course, there's the george papadopoulos guilty plea. that is packing the most punch here in washington. papadopoulos is called a pro active cooperator with prosecutors meaning he has been assisting them with the wide-ranging russia investigation. papadopoulos has admitted to russian contact after he became a fo

. >> let's go to the white house, and our joe johns is there. anything else from the president or administration responding to this? any evidence of the proof he says he has? >> reporter: that's a good question and reached out to the white house press office, and there's a scheduled 2:00 p.m. news conference, and hopefully we will get more. the president will be with the finance committee, and that will be an opportunity. look, this is a painful conversation about what is appropriate for the president to say and what is not and what is empathetic and what is not when speaking to family members of fallen service members, and it's edged on by the congresswoman you heard there, and she said she was present -- that's important, and she witnessed the widow of sergeant johnson, and being reduced to tears by the president's words, and the president, of course, pushing back this morning on twitter, and essentially calling the congresswoman a liar saying she fabricated that story and saying he has proof. the congresswoman in turn standing by her story on

joe johns is live for us at the white house. give us the latest, joe. >> reporter: good morning, alyson. a tweet from the president before 6:00 a.m. this morning. a very good example of the president of the united states trying to frame the national conversation on an issue at the very start of the day. here's the tweet. the democrats obamacare is imploding. massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. dems should call me to fix! but make no mistake, over the last 24 hours, it is the president who has gone a long way toward putting his imprint on government-regulated health insurance, and he has done it without an act of congress. president trump upending the health care market, scrapping critical subsidy payments to insurers that help nearly 6 million lower income americans pay for health care. the payments, which will cost the federal government about $7 billion this year, set to end immediately. without the subsidies, the congressional budget office estimates exchange premiums will rise 20% next year

let's go to the white house where we find our joe johns. good morning, joe. >> reporter: good morning, poppy. what the picture suggests is it adds to the picture behind the scenes of drama and the white house. it adds to the picture that senator bob corker was eluding to when he talked about the white house as an adult daycare center. there's also some suggestion that the president has become increasingly distraught after seemingly losing the magic touch in trump country alabama by backing the wrong candidate in the senate race there. this reporting from gabriel sherman in "vanity fair" magazine really describes a president that is increasingly isolated. let me say that the white house denies that all of this reporting is true. nonetheless, if it is true, it's fascinating and offers a lot of insight. one of the quotes we have taken out, according to two sources familiar with the conversation, trump vented to his long-time ns,urity chief keith chillar, i but i hate them. at the center of all of this, of course, is the president himself as we