it's president trump who's been flip-flopping on ann coulter. remember before the shutdown in december when ann coulter started going after him, he got very nervous about that. and he was at one point sort of looking to do a real deal with democrats on border security. and it was ann coulter and others certainly on the right and far right, who kind of scared him back into submission. now him coming out -- that's the thing, when he goes to the nicknames as we all know by this point, someone's gotten under his skin and he's just going to that kind of cartoonish behavior. in his mind, it works. but it does show her getting under his skin and him flip-flopping on that. >> patrick healy, mark preston, good to have you on the front lines. >>> the final assault on isis in syria has begun and cnn is the only american tv network there. >>> plus, no survivors of a horrific plane crash claims the lives 6 every passenger and crew member on board. it's the second time in less than six months a brand-new boeing aircraft crashed just minutes into the flight. >

. >> if he's going to try to please ann coulter and sean hannity, he's yelling about ann coulter and insulting her on twitter, how do you get through to the rest of the country? >> shine was not a strategist. he was not someone who knew how to appeal to other sectors of the population. trump already had the fox audience. you can either have ann coulter like you or broaden the tent. >> you can't do both. >> you can't do both. trump keeps going to pleasing ann coulter. shine was not going to be able to see around those corners. no one can do this job. that's the biggest point of the conversation. this is a losing proposition. nobody would want to try to do it. bill shine was not the kind of person to change the game for this president. the biggest thing he was able to do was to do these rose garden -- on the frontline of the white house he would tape interviews with trump. >> wed videos. >> he banned kaitlan collins from a rose garden event. >> he advocated for acosta's press pass to be banned. >> he canceled press briefings. >> 41 days without a white house daily press briefing. under

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>> look, ann coulter has said the president is too squishy on immigration.s too soft on the border. i mean, she is playing out on the far, far fringe. apparently she's gone even too far for donald trump. look, she's an ally of his at times. i suspect she gets a lot of views and clicks and eyeballs when she does these things. she likes being in the middle fortunate controverof the controversy. she's saying donald trump is too soft on the border, and she's about the only person saying that. >> i think her last book was entitled "in trump we trust." so clearly no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. >>> we'll leave it there for now, andrew gillum, charlie dent and douglas brinkley, thank you. >>> still ahead in the newsroom, it's an all-out battle of very serious stuff with isis happening right now, and cnn is the only use network on the front lines. we're live from the battlefield, next. >>> plus a flight carrying more than 150 people crashes, killing everyone on the plane and now we're learning new details about the americans on board. oh oh o♪ ♪ it's

i'm not sure she embodies anything other than herself. >> ann coulter. >> she's not the prime ministerconservative college, though she plays that role on tv sometimes. but it's fascinating to see the smack down and the divide. and donald trump basically saying don't listen to the conserve jensia, listen to me. >> is he right about that? >> he hasn't done anything during his two years in office to try to expand his base. i think this is just personal. but personally, i never thought i'd ever at the same time syme mule tainoussimultaneously agre him when he calls her a nutjob and she's right also. >> it's a party. >> thank you very much. >>> now to this. venezuela crippled by power outages. cnn is going to take you inside a hospital where the blackout has turned into a life or death situation. we have the very latest in a life report for you next. and she's right also. life report for you next. after months of wearing only a tiger costume, we're finally going on the trip i've been promising. because with expedia, i saved when i added a hotel to our flight. ♪ so even when she outgrows her

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grant) and in the same month --- u-c berkeley canceled a campus appearance by conservtive columnist ann coulter. it was supposed to take place on april 27th. the two went back and forth over when and if the event would eventually take place. but neither side came to an agreement. it all culminated in a relatively peaceful protest. while there was some conflict. no real violence. berkeley police did come prepared though dressed in riot gear. two arrests were made. (grant) there was a pause in the protests until august when protesters met again...in berkeley and san francisco. there was also a plan for free speech week at u-c berkeely...planned b te student group "berkeley patriot" that was eventually that was eventually cancelled. but conservative radio host ben shaprio did speak on campus to a sold out audience. the event cost more than 800- thousand dollars to secure. you can follow all these stories at kron-4 dot com... and always stay connected by downloading our free app (ken) the wife of a beloved adult education principal made her first court apperance today.(catherine) prosecutors say sh

conservatives ben shapiro and ann coulter have faced hostile environments when they tried to speak atniversities including berkeley and conservative activist hayden williams didn't exactly feel the robust exchange of ideas when he was attacked at berkeley while trying to recruit conservative students. today williams was at the president's signing ceremony. young republican groups on campus have complained for years that universities can drop conservative speakers by citing concerns like security costs and threats of violence. the hope is there will be consequences for canceling conservatives. shannon: thank you very much. is a real problem on campus or not? let's bring in ethan berman and charlie kirk. welcome to both of you. i want to play a little more of what the president had to say about why he signed this order today. >> under the guise of speech codes, safe space and trigger warnings these universities have tried to restrict free thought, impose total conformity and shutdown the voices of great young americans like those here today, all of that changes starting right now. shann

this weekend we have ann coulter up against stephanie miller, two people who would never be in a room together, but will probably have a spirited debate. a lot of the biggest players in california politics we have had in the past. california is at the heart of the political discussion and we are the only show that will be in the two biggest markets in california. >> when they come on the show they understand. when bernie sanders was on he likes to talk about some of the issues. a lot of them do, whether it is kamala harris or anyone else, they have their points they want to make. when you find them stretching out in the other places who has been your most surprising person? >> what was really interesting was the mayor of los angeles. i surprised him with a piano. he is a great pianist. he just busted out an original composition and i didn't expect it to be as good as it was. it was amazing. >> i think people like to see depth. we have some fun moments that i was watching where we saw a lot of people. corey oliver was dancing. >> she loves to dance, but she insists on leaning because s

start off kind of watching these about the media and it would lead me to ben shapiro speeches, ann coultere different conservatives who, in the past, i wasn't listening to. and tucker carlson who i love now. i wasn't even looking at these videos. but suddenly i was listening for the first time. i was like my god, the conservative point of view makes so much more sense than all of this identity politics, political correctness, divisive, divisive nonsense that i have been going along with in lockstep for so many years. so then it became, this is when i thought to myself oh my gosh i think i'm becoming a conservative or maybe i always was, i don't know. but i reached this point by 2018 where i was willing to say i'm a conservative and as a gay man, i've done the closet before. i've done the hiding my head in shame and denying who i am, i'm not doing a again and i'm not going back for round two. i'm going to wear this proudly and i'm not going to be silent about it, and i see how the trump supporters are being treated. i see how the conservatives are being treated, and i do not want to allow t

you can tell he's still sensitive to those criticisms from people like ann coulter who say he's not living up to his promise to build the wall, because the president was lashing out at her over twitter this weekend. you can expect the white house to lay out its priorities. they're doing something they haven't done in a while, phil, today they're having a briefing. sarah sanders is going to brief reporters on the proposals laid out in this document. >> what a novel idea, speak to the reporters. here now to share their reporting and their insights, rachel bay with the "washington post," cnn's manu raju and politico's roger johnson. i want to note that inslee put out a statement that said, quote, the president's budgannu budget proposal is the first step in the federal budget process and will allow us to consider how his priorities align with the priorities of congress. you're on the hill every day. how do republicans say what's being sent to capitol hill? >> i think when they try to push for the president's money for the wall, they realize he's not going to get $8.6 billion. he couldn't get

is at least some ability to require institutions to not shut down free speech with voices like ann coulterr conservative commentators. we need to be able to freely give our opinion and be respected. charles: what about that, rashad? you know this better than most. you live it. the idea that progressives who preach tolerance don't -- i mean, we see it over and over again when it comes to the institutions designed for free speech, open debate, no free speech, no open debate and if you are wearing a red hat, you could actually be assaulted. how does that make you feel as someone associated with the system? >> well, keep in mind we're not talking about everybody. when you say progressives, that's a generality that doesn't apply to everyone. i'm a guy -- charles: say the targets have been conservatives, though. do you feel badly for conservative targets on college campuses? >> i 100% do. i feel bad any time someone's ability to speak is limited because we are as we are in this country. we are as diverse as we are because we have the ability to say things that other people disagree with. we have

. >> i agree with ann coulter.l clinton put hillary clinton in charge of nationalizing healthcare in 1993 and 1994. it was a bad look for the administration. it's better if you have some distance, but also having said that, and democrats worried about this as well, if you just go after them and after them heavy-handedly, it's going to backfire. a lot of democrats are still operating as though older political model as ply to this administration and they don't. voters don't react the same way, they don't feel the same way. if you go after this president the way republicans went after bill clinton, you're not necessarily going to get the same result. >> what do you make of that, dagen? >> you mentioned the mueller report. why are the democrats not waiting for the mueller report to come out? they don't think anything of note is going to be in it? i'm surprised by the overreach by, say, congressman nadler in going after documents of all of these individuals. they really do send the message as special counsel did with mi

and cancellation of appearances by other conservative speakers, including milo yiannopoulos and ann coulter. bacco. the city council expected to vote tonight. it's been considering the ban for several months. if approved, the ban would include menthol cigarettes as well, as well as candy and fruit-flavored e-cigarettes and the vape pens, too. the city must decide how to enforce that ban. one proposal suggests spending a retailer's business license if they violate the ban three or more times. >> what a difference a day makes. sunshine today, but did you see yesterday? hail, thunder, lightning, and one very terrifying boom. you see that there? the a lightning strike caught by several different cameras. let's bring in nbc bay area's dami damian trujillo with video and the stories people are does buzzing about. damian. >> reporter: raj, a few rattled nerves next to the park in south san jose. things are slowly beginning to get back to normal. that is the transformer in question there. it has been several cameras were rolling as lightning struck a pg&e transformer. we freeze framed one video cli

berkeley saw a - ries of protests after conservative voiceme ntroversial, like milo yiannopoulos, ann coulter ben shapir-- scheduled events. many of the events were either postponed or canceled. that october, u.c. system president janet napolitano told msnbc, free speech is an essential part of its core principles. >> i think that we have to do a much better job of educating our young people about what th first amendment protects, what it means, and how-- once you start restricting speech, you are on a slippery slope. and so, we are educators, and that should be part of our mission. >> nawaz: even some in the president's own cabinet, like education secretary betsy devos, have argued against federal inrvention: >> the way to remedy this threat co intellectual freedom on campuses is not lished with government muscle. a solution w't come from defunding an institution of learning or merely getting the words of a campus policy exactly right. >> nawaz: today, the trump administration says it will be holding universities to that mission. officials say implementation details will be out in the coming

but as long as he listens to fox he isnd ann coulter, going to continue to do these things.e is not trying to expand his base. he is not trying to win over more people. because he does not know how to do that. juan: i want to ask you also about the projections of his budget of 3% growth for the next 10 years in the united states, as if there will -- at least for the next 10 years. we have already had 10 years of solid growth. david: the economy is already slowing down. 10 years into this market, which began under president obama, you would expect at this point to slow down. we only saw 20,000 jobs last month. trump goes around talking about i have the biggest employment in american history -- that is not the measure. job growth is a good measure. job growth has been about 20% lower under trump than obama since the economy turned around. tax revenues in the last 90 day period were 2% lower, which goes to the heart of how this tax cut for the rich is not paying for itself. little-known fact -- donald trump's tax law gave eight-year loans at zero interest to all of the multinat

he's saying, you know, to ann coulter he's saying part of this wall are already being built. i've made good on my promise while he's trying to force through the rest of for a very narrow argument, which is not even about the wall, it's about beware of illegal immigrants coming into our country, they should scare you, that's what his appeal will be in 2020. >> i think 5% in cuts to education, health, environmental protections. will he be personalized for want doing that? there are parts of the base who think those things are important to them? >> he's trying to continue to crease the military, the defense spending budget as well. we're at 716 billion now. he wants to raise that to 750 billion in the next fiscal year. and that is something that he has promised a lot and out toed a ltouted a lot on the campaign trail. it was about a year ago when he looked like he wasn't going to silent spending bill that time over disputes over the wall. republicans were actually able to persuade him to sign it because of that major spending increase for the military. so this really sis a bluep

you know, can we say ann coulter? the president is his own worst enemy and no one can take this job successfully and win for the president. >> scott, on top of this, overall, top jobs in the white house, you've got a turnover rate of 65%. you have people who had top jobs who stuck it out. through some grim moments process. like john kelly. and we now see memos they wrote detailing what they thought were extremely concerning, possibly illegal who knows, right, things that happened. the general counsel. mr. mcgahn. you have john kelly doing this. even the people who left have done this. i mean, this is a big problem for the president, isn't it? >> well it will be a problem if they can't find a group of people to come in and take the jobs and stay through the cycle. he is in cycle right now. the campaign started. the democrats are running he is effectively inserted himself into the campaign. so right now i think i would be focused on getting a group of people that i trusted, that i gave a very defined scope of work to, a

you have people like ann coulter say, maybe we should tax the rich.epublicans acknowledging climate change. that is dangerous. they have tended to have political arguments on their own terms. they're freaking out. >> did you see how she was able toot that on the campaign? she didn't have this level of criticism. how surprised are you at the ease with which she seems to be able to parry with this kind of racism. >> she was clapping back on twitter way back. she was one of the most brilliant clever messaging people. she's just really good at building up the movement around values and progressive ideas. she sticks to her guns and fights. when was the last time you saw the government argue for a tax rate on millionaires. these ideas that were at the heart of the new deal, the heart of the civil rights movement. >> the degree she's been able to clap back. take the story about the campaign and donations this week it was a valiant effort to try to shift that conversation. it hasn't worked. >> right. and i think, you know, her use of social media, as the youn