christine: it would be fantastic . will probably be forever away off your there something endemic and part of the cultural heritage about being discriminated against, excluded, downgraded, undermined. having an international day to challenge that is something that will keep. these discriminations, business practices of undermining, are not about to go. katty: the practice is endemic in women how they see themselves, or in how men see women? christine: in both genders. we internalize too much of those characteristics. i believe that men are afraid of women having too much power. katty: a lot of men might say "why should i share my jobs with women?" christine: there are more jobs in general if there's more growth in general. more education, everyone will benefit. not just women. our findings are very clear about is that bringing women to the table will actually generate more growth. it will create more jobs. it will improve the development of countries that need development. at the micro level it will bring more to the b

. >> i'm christine romans. it is tuesday, march 21st.president trump back in washington this morning after one of his trademark campaign style rallies in kentucky. he talked about health care and tax reform and other topics. did not touch on the extraordinary testimony by the fbi director james comey. this despite tweeting all day long about the capitol hill hearing. a hearing that features fireworks, but not smoking gun connecting russia to the trump campaign. the fbi director confirmed for the first time there is an fbi investigation into whether trump allies colluded with russia with the election meddling. >> comey told senators the investigation started in late july and they had come to the clear conclusion of the russian interference driven by vladimir putin's disdain for hillary clinton. >> they wanted to hurt our democracy. hurt her. help him. putin hated secretary clinton so much, the flip side, he had a clear preference running. as the summer went on and the polls appeared to show secretary clinton was going to win, the russians

christine and dave. >> manu, thank you.he pentagon looking for more authority to improve counterterrorism operations. the goal is to speed up the authorization process by allowing defense officials and field commanders to decide when to launch missions without the blessing of the white house. senior official says this does not mean the president would be left out of the loop. >>> two more of the cabinet picks are up for a vote in the senate today. lawmakers are set to confirm dr. ben carson and secretary of housing and urban development. they will end the debate on former governor rick perry. this comes after ryan zinke was confirmed on wednesday. this leaves the secretaries of agriculture and labor as the remaining vacancies in the trump cabinet. >>> a new p.r. nightmare for uber. right from the ceo's mouth. a billionaire ceo verbally smacking down an uber driver. there's video that's viral. >> someone is always watching. >> this is leadership 101. >> always a camera rolling. sometimes you just know when you hit a home run

. >> i'm christine romans. >> and i'm dave briggs. a tour de force.e're now one day away from what could be the change of health care in this country. president trump bringing his patented brand of hard sale to capitol hill. trying to coax reluctant republicans to vote for the american health care act repealing obamacare. and all hands, closed-door meeting for house republicans, the president said, quote, a loss just isn't acceptable. even called out mark meadows by name. meadows is the chairman of the house freedom caucus. trump predicted meadows and the caucus will get on board. and repeated that at the national congressional dinner. >> the american people voted for historic change. and they also voted for serious action. the american people gave us clear instructions. it's time to get busy, get to work, and to get the job done. these are the conservative solutions we campaigned on. and these are the conservative solutions the american people asked us, as a group, to deliver. >> the house rules committee takes up the health care legislation this mor

christine. >> a bizarre story.cs around the country know who is behind the terrifying threats. thank you for that. oren liebermann in jerusalem. >>> the kremlin is denying claims by ukraine it was behind the shooting death of a former russian lawmakers. denis voronenkov. vladimir putin is calling the fatal shooting a terrorist attack. moscow claims that claim is obje absu absurd. >>> the market is stalled the past few days. uncertainty in washington has stalled investors. futures moving higher. global stocks are higher. stunning statement from ford. it is expecting profit to drop 50% this quarter. ford says it expects sales to decline worldwide. including a drop in the asia pacific region. it also expects brexit to hurt the european operations which swung to a profit last year. it says it will be able to deal with tariffs or taxes slapped on imports from mexico if the trump administration decides. >>> disney's ceo is sticking around until 2019. that will mark 14 years with the company for iger. he looks forward to

dave and christine. >> slow and ugly. thank you, phil. the gop health care plan is revised for the rollback of the obamacare medicaid expansion. that could win over critics, but might doom the bill. several moderate republicans backing the measure would be expected to pull support. this comes after the chief medical officer blasted the republican health care overhaul. dr. andre ovstrovski. despite others, i align with the experts of the academy and family physicians and pediatrics and american medical association in opposition to the american health care act. >> insurers are concerned the bill will leave many low-income americans unable to afford coverage. two groups calling on lawmakers to revise the plan and provide more assistance. they are worried about millions potentially left uninsured once the medicaid ex-papansion is rod back. that is at the heart of the fight with republicans right now. >> this is an interesting debate. do you please the conservatives or moderates? that house freedom caucus is 29 in the house. you have to please

i'm christine romans. this is thursday, march 16th. let's begin with the president vowing to appeal the federal court order that blocked the travel plan. blocked again. a tennessee rally, the president declaring he will go to the supreme court to overturn the hawaii order by judge watson. that issued hours before the travel ban was to take effect. >> the justice department slamming the order. and strongly disagrees with the federal district court ruling which is flawed and reasoning and scope. senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny has the latest. >> reporter: christine and dave, the white house is crafting the legal strategy in the wake of another federal judge putting a restraining order on the travel ban. president trump minced no words wednesday night. he went after that judge. he expressed regret about making changes of the first ban to the second ban. he called it a watering down. >> a judge has just blocked our executive order on travel and refugees coming into our country from certain countries. the order he blocked was a

christine and dave. >> thank you, athena. this is not the first time that trump has launched a controversy to deflect coverage from a news story he doesn't like and can't control. in january, the claim he would have won the popular vote if not for millions of votes illegally cast with no evidence. this new claim over the weekend apparently originated with a rant by mark levine. who cited a web site heat street. that allegation was picked up by breitbart news. within a day, president trump was tweeting this as fact. since then, the president's aides have had a difficult time defending the claim. >> let's look into this. if this happened, if this is accurate, this is the biggest overreach and scandal. >> the president of the united states is accusing the former president of wire tapping her. >> if this happened, martha -- >> if, if, if. why is the president saying it did happen? >> i think he is going off information that led him to believe this is a real potential. >> information he is seeing that led him to believe. trump is

i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. we start with history being made today one way or the other. republicans will take the vote to actually repealing and replacing the affordable care act or we could see a staggering blow against obamacare and perhaps the entire trump agenda. the white house deep in a furious to turn no votes by members of the conservative freedom caucus into yeses. >> one point is ending essential health benefits that obamacare requires in every insurance policy. more on those central benefits in a moment. first, there is still no deal. freedom caucus chairman mark meadows is sounding optimistic. >> i'm optimistic we can get there. there are a lot of details, sean. to say we have a deal that wouldn't be accurate. the president and i came to agreement in principle. i think what we are trying to do now is make sure that our agreement is actually something that can be executed in a way that passes the senate. >> that's the big question. meadows, conservatives changing his tune, moderate republicans are so

i'm christine romans, 4:00 a.m. in the east.very some of his critics say that was the presidential tone they've been waiting for. the president's big speech provides a reset of sorts in the adjustment of a settle of congress. the president casting a more presidential image. spent mostly sticking to the teleprompter, as he ran through his policy goals, he got a lot of answers how to pay for them. the president offered up this challenge to lawmakers. >> the time for small thinking is over. the time for trivial fights is behind us. we just need the courage to share the dreams that fill our hearts. the bravery to express the hopes for our souls and the confidence to turn those hopes and dreams into actions. >> now, there were some polarizing aspects as president trump recapped many of the greatest hits from his campaign. at several times we saw all of the republicans standing and all of the democrats stuck in their seats. cnn jim acosta at the white house with more. >> christine and dave, president trump put the divisive rhetoric of

i'm christine romans. 16% irish. i'm christine romans. it is friday, march 17th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. the white house lashing out defending the unfounded wiretapping allegations. the most combative stance yesterday in the briefing for the ages. this was epic. press secretary sean spicer quoting the leaders who say there is no evidence president obama ordered a wiretap of the trump campaign. >> we have not seen evidence there was a wiretap or fisa court order of somebody in the trump tower. >> ryan backed up by richard burr and ranking democrat mark warner. based on the information available to us, we see no indications the trump tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the united states government before or after election day 2016. cnn's jim acosta was directly in the line of fire at the white house. >> reporter: dave and christine, the white house is digging in trying to explain to donald trump's baseless claim during the 2016 wiretap. sean spicer the president will be vindicated after the committees investigate the matter. >> the president has already sai

i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. >> did you see that?et an espresso machine? >> tom hanks supporting america's journalism. love it. >> they aren't up before 4:30, we are. president trump stepping forward with a forceful defense of attorney general jeff sessions just hours after sessions recused himself from any investigations into mr. trump's presidential campaign. the move comes amid growing calls by democrats for the attorney general to resign over revelations sessions met with the russian ambassador at the same time he was serving as a trump campaign surrogate. then failed to disclose that at his senate hearing. sessions recusing himself at a news conference just two hours after the president said he should not do so, sessions denied any wrongdoing saying that he told senators he never spoke with russian officials about the trump campaign. >> i was taken aback a little bit about this brand-new information, this allegation that surrogates -- and i had been called a surrogate for donald trump -- had been meeting continuously with russia

christine. >> critical.ery important ally to the united states and a region which is the source of concern. thank you so much for that. paula hancocks in seoul. >> so many implications on that story. especially with the united states. the first female president who could be prosecuted and now the entire region up ended. >>> german investigators trying to determine the motive behind a bloody axe attack at a train station in dueseldorf. he is a 37-year-old man now living in germany. authorities believe he may have mental problems. he was trying to flee as several people were hurt. >>> in sports. big 12. massive upset on the hardwood. kansas beaten in the final seconds in the conference quarterfinal. what a day in hoops. andy scholes with the details this morning in the bleacher report next. 's juat i can stay. i'm good. i won't be late hey mom. yeah. no kissing on the first date, alright? life doesn't always stick to a plan, but with our investment expertise we'll help you handle what's next. financial guidanc

i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans.se facing a challenge as friend and foe alike over the tweet storm that president obama had president trump wire tapped. everyone in the position to know has so far denied. now the fbi itself asking the justice department, the fbi asking the justice department to refute the claim from president trump. a rare move. according to two sources. the claim implying the bureau may have broken the law by obeying the president obama order. no comment so far from the justice department. >>> president trump asking congress to investigate the baseless wire tapping claim. and house chairman devin nunes will look into the party inmatt part of the russian campaign accusatio accusations. and we have james clapper telling nbc it is not happened. >> no such wire tap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time or candidate or against his campaign. >> if the fbi, had advice of court order, would that be information you would know? >> yes. >> you would be told? >> i would know that. yes. someth

dave and christine. >>> thank you, phil. a question of when these hearings will end. 4:00 eastern time. they are still making the sausage if you will on capitol hill. the two committees involved in crafting legislation. the ways and means and energy and commerce committee voting on the amendments throughout the night. past midnight. still going at 4:00 this morning. we are still hearing rumors of eye drops and few dunkin' donuts in the room as they craft this and take out amendments. a lot related to taxes. you think being a congress member is glorious? think otherwise. not kpablexactly what you thoug when you ran for congress. this is made and crafted and debated for hours upon hours. christine. >> live pictures there. 16 hours into this. the mark-up marathon. >>> powerful groups are lining up to oppose the gop replacement plan. the folks who deliver the health care that will be in this is a it is not good. doctors and nurses associa out. american medical association, the largest group of doctors. it has the lobbying dollar

professor cumings and christine ahn, welcome to democracy now! christine,e, talk about the significance of the presisident being reremoved. >> it is extraordinary. i would say it is really incredible how come of months of organizing by mass movements to ununseat this presidentnt that s obviously charged for political corruption, but whose policies have really steered south korea into a very dangerous situation that we are in today. i think it is extraordinary what people in mass movements can do and i think it is not just great for south korea and peace on the financial a, but a really great symbol for the rest of the world. amy: what you mean what people in mass movements can do? how is the president of south korea removed? >> first, by parliamentary vote to impeach her and recently, the consnstitutional court affirmed that decision. but it really took months of millions of people taken to the streets, holding candlelight vigils, demanding her ouster, demanding she be impeache i think is a great day for social justice and tomography in south kor

christine. >> heavy ow hello, steve. please please be careful. >> we are telling people to stay off the roads. >> do as we say. >>> philadelphia among the areas under a snow emergency. the city taking a brunt before the storm heads up to new york city. let's get to ryan young live in philadelphia. good morning, ryan. looks like it is hit solid there. >> reporter: good morning. so far we are looking at roads looking pretty good. we have seen a lot of trucks going through the area making sure the roads are clear. about 2,000 vehicles on the road making sure the clearing is done. the bus stop i was next to is on a limited schedule. so far, if you talk to people driving by, this is not so bad yet. you could hear the wind. that ice hits your face and feels like needles at this point. not the accumulation we expected. right on time. another truck going by that is doing the service to clear the streets. so far, so good. schools closed. cancellations at airports. guys. >> be careful. no reason to run around in the streets. this

nobody can hear my screams. >> after a neighbor got christine to hospital should she broken it.ad surgery the next day in which they fuse together some of her vertebrae. she spent close to three months at a rehab facility doing physical and occupational therapy. the big question is will she ever be able to walk again? >> what are the dr. saying? >> nobody says. that was my question to everybody when i first got there. i would say, have you ever seen everybody my condition walk out of here? in my mind i thought after three months i'm going to walk out of here. after a month or two i realized it is not going to happen so quickly. >> christine has had a lot of support. someone remodeled her home so it is wheelchair accessible. she has a gofundme page which has well over $40000. i have the link on my facebook page at chasing ashley johnson. i asked what the biggest challenge to overcome? >> my challenge is to stay positive and realize it is one day at a time. it is a marathon not a sprint. it took me a while to understand that. it took me a while. i need to celebrate every victory.

christine romans calls epic. sean spicer pushing back who all say there is no evidence president obama ordered a wiretap of the campaign. house speaker paul ryan speaking out. >> we have not seen evidence of a wiretap or fisa court order of trump tower. >> that was paul ryan on cnn after the briefing. ryan backed up by chairman richard burr and marc warner. based on the information available to us, we see no indications that trump tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the government before or after election day 2016. our friend jim acosta was in the line of fire at the white house. here is his report. >> reporter: dave and christine, the white house is trying to dig in to talk about the baseless claim of the wiretap in the 2016 campaign. at the briefing, sean spicer predicted the president will be vindicated after the committees on capitol hill investigate the matter. here is what he had to say. >> the president said clearly when he referred to wiretapping, he referred to surveillance. >> it sou

. >> i'm christine romans. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. history will be made today one way or the other. either republicans take their first vote toward repealing and replacing the affordable care act or we could see a staggering blow against obamacare and perhaps to the entire trump agenda. the white house and republican leaders now deep into a furious last-ditch campaign to turn no votes by members of the ultra conservative freedom caucus into yes votes. >> one critical issue at this point is ending essential health benefits that obamacare requires in every insurance policy. more on what those are in a moment. right now, still no deal. house freedom caucus chairman mark meadows is sounding upbeat one will be made soon. >> i'm really optimistic we can get there. there is still a lot of details to work out, sean. to say we have a deal that wouldn't be accurate. the president and i came to agreement in principle. what we are trying to do now is to make sure that our agreement is actually something that can be executed in a way that passes t

christine. dave. >> athena at the white house. kellyanne conway with another explosive allegation offered without any proof. speaking to the record of new jersey. the surveillance of trump tower may have been broader than wiretapping. >> sur available each other now. there was an article this week that talked about surveil someone through their phones and through their television sets. any number of different ways. microwaves that turn into cameras. we know that say fact of modern life. >> conway can place the claims in the wikileaks documents that surfaced last week suggesting the cia is using tech devices to spy. >>> long time donald trump associate roger stone admits having contact with guccifer 2.0. that is the shadowy online persona claiming to hack the dnc. he said he did have a few brief exchange as insist they occurred last suggest after the dnc had been hacked. stone claims the timing proofs he is not collude with the russians. >>> firing of 46 u.s. attorneys. many officials finding out

dave, christine. >> laura, thank you. let's bring in zach wolf, the managing editor of cnn politics digital. good morning to you, zach. >> good morning. >> all right. so broad terms here. is this thing over in the democrats don't have many moves now. >> well, i mean, this is kind of the third aide or, you know, member of the trump administration. we had paul manafort back during the campaign and we had michael flynn, both of whom had to low of. there's no indication that sessions will have to resign or leave but the hits keep on coming, i guess. >> russians officials and the russian ambassador goes to the nominating convention for the gop and, you know, meets with important people? >> yeah. i saw that, too, and thought it was interesting that the russian ambassador was at the republican convention, sort of meeting with people on the sidelines. but, you know, in talking to people, these are ambassadors who are here to -- to forward their country's agenda and they were dealing with an agenda and a platform at the convention

. >> i'm christine romans. a lot of news on this tuesday morning. after years of promises to repeal and replace, the republican plan to dismantle obamacare is at the starting gate. republican leaders face a tough job rallying support on their side. this may be branded as repeal, but this plan keeps several popular components of obamacare. it would bring major changes in two key areas. the insurance mandate and medicaid expanse. allowing insurers to hike premiums for people who allow their insurance to lapse. >> and a tweet with the house introduce the bill to repeal and replace obamacare. time to end this nightmare. nothing from his personal account. today marks an important step toward restoring health care choices and affordability back to the american people. president trump looks forward to repeal and replace obamacare with both chambers. they have their work cut out for them with reservations. our coverage starts with phil mattingly on capitol hill. >> reporter: dave and christine. this is the moment republicans promised would come for years. e

hi there. >> hi there, christine.of this is all the elements for the first foreign cries to face. since taking office. you're seeing a ratcheting up of tensions in the region. china weighing in, the foreign minister saying that both sighs essentially need to pump the brakes as you point out. he's calling for the north koreans to put an end to their missile activity in exchange for, he says, the u.s. and south koreans to stop their annual exercises. these are annual exercises that every year rankle north koreans. but president donald trump spoke to them after the missile launch and the two parties agreed they would carry on with the joint military exercises. at the same time, the missile test from north korea will now be the subject of a u.n. security council meeting later today. they have, of course, strongly condemned this action. they've talked about north korea's zee stabilizing behavior in the region and their flagrant violation of u.n. security council resolutions. all of that will be discussed today. and this wi

i think, christine, you're right.s will give more of an impet impetus for the fed to raise rates. i don't think it will have much of an impact. the question is this is a trump bounce or a trump moon bounce? the country seems to be firing on all cylinders. >> yesterday there was an estimate out higher than the estimate. the actual is higher than the expected. good news period. >> i was expecting closer to 300,000 based on that earlier report. what was the number, christine? >> 235. that's why we wait for the real number. yesterday people were honest. why won't you report this? because it was wrong. do you think this will be the president not question the unemployment rate as to why it's so low? are we going to finally hear that misleading number, it's really like 60% of people who are add because you like to add in retirees to those who aren't work? >> by the way, i've worked with donald trump for about six months. the one thing i learn is you never anticipate what he's going to say. i can't really tell you the answer

i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. the goodwill just lasted less than 24 hours. now some big questions for president trump. here's what is not in question this morning. attorney general jeff sessions met with russian ambassador to the u.s. twice last year. the question is did he in capacity of the donald trump campaign surrogate or as a member of the armed services committee. now facing acquisitions of misleading congress for making a devastating blow to the attorney general. the justice department confirming that twice last year, sessions met with the top russian diplomat in washington. once at the republican convention in july and the second time in september in the sessions' senate office. sessions a surrogate at the time of the meetings for the trump campaign with russian ambassador sergei kislyak. he is considered to be one of russia's top spies and not simply a diplomat. listen to what sessions said when senator al franken asked about the trump campaign and russian officials. >> and if there is any evidence that

tonight -- christine baranski, from, "the last man on earth," actress and comedian kristen schaal, musicrom big thief, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] great to hear. fantastic to hear. in that case, let's get to the news. president trump will meet with the president of china next week to discuss trump's claims about china's unfair trade practices. which means we're about two weeks away from having to call these "freedom cookies." [ light laughter ] president trump will meet with the president of china next week, and if that makes you nervous, wait 'til you hear him try to speak chinese. >> bing bing, bong bong, bing bing bing. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: to be fair, we took that out of context. [ laughter ] that was not him trying to speak chinese. that was him speaking korean. [ laughter ] vice president mike pence today cast a tie-breaking vote to eliminate a rule that blocks states from defund

i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. they called it obamacare. this one, they are calling on twitter #trumpcare. the technical name is american health care act. after years of promises to repeal and replace, the republican plan to dismantle obamacare is finally at the starting gate. just at the starting gate. republican leaders face a tough job rallying support. the headline of the plan, eliminates the individual mandate and employer mandate. replaces with a new set of incentives. including the replacement of obamacare subsidy with refundable tax credits to encourage people to buy insurance on the open market. it also would eliminate the medicaid expansion and states would receive a set amount from the federal government every year. >> the bill might be branded as repeal, it keeps several popular items of obamacare. children can remain on the plan until age 26. it allows people with pre-existing conditions to continue coverage. these were two cornerstones of obamacare. one change is insurers allowed to hike premiums for

. >> i'm christine romans. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. the future to repeal and replace obamacare depends on ho you ask. a lawmaker at the president's meeting with house republican leaders tells cnn his endorsement came with a stern warning. the president said failure to pass legislation after seven years of promises would lead to a, quote, bloodbath in the 2018 elections. mr. trump even channeled president obama's most famous unfulfilled health promise. >> this will be a plan where you can choose your doctor. this will be a plan where you can choose your plan. it's a implicated process but actually it's very simple. it's called good health care. >> president trump's effort to get resistant republicans on board has not done the trick. at least not yet. objections released by rank and file lawmakers, powerful conservative groups and key senators signal threats to the bill's very survival. one aide to a conservative house member tells cnn the bill is dead. too many conservative groups are coming out against it. there's no way they'll have v

think about how narrow this path is, christine. you try to take care of the conservatives and give them stuff they want like work requirements. that alienates folks. as you sweeten the benefits to take care of the people between 50 and 64. then you alienate the conservatives. >> he is also speaking to an audience in kentucky where 1.3 million people are on medicaid. that is almost a third of the population and 400,000 got coverage under obamacare. >> how many times have you said get the government out of my health care, but don't touch my medicaid. >> this is something somebody heard on talk radio. you are talking about my family's health care. people take that seriously. >> the truly fascinating moment in politics came from james comey the head of the fbi, said the president in a sense lied about the wiretapping allegations. refused to say there is evidence suggesting collusion of russia and the trump campaign. here is how sean spicer pushed back on all of this yesterday. >> you look at the acting obama cia director. there is smok

dave and christine. >> thank you, ryan. cnn will have live coverage of the hearing with fbi director james com james comey which begins at 9:00 a.m. >>> on the senate side of the capitol, hearings for the supreme court pick. neil gorsuch. the question hanging over the nomination, what will senate democrats do? gorsuch needs 60 votes to win senate confirmation. eight democrats have to cross the aisle and vote for him. republicans are confident to corral enough, partly on those facing re-election. many democrats are still angry that president obama's supreme court nominee never got a hearing last year. they may look to retaliate and dig in their heels against gorsuch. >> senator richard blumenthal vowing against gorsuch. >> donald trump has established a lit big local stomus test. promising he will nominate someone to overturn roe v. wade. we have to assume he has met the litmus test. >> are you prepared to filibuster? >> not only filibuster, but use every tool that we have if he is in fact out of the mainstream. >> but repub

>> not enough, christine, to be franc frank. he did not talk about how he'd pay for any of this stuff. a lot of gaps. >> selena, we heard from van jones who has been a real critic of the president. he said this is the moment that the president seized the presidency when he was watching that speech, watching that moment with the navy s.e.a.l.'s wife. tell me, do you think he has gotten his critics, did the president reach across the aisle? >> he had a number of point where is he reached across the i will. he called for unity. and point where is they can work together, specifically infratrur. which is not only important to republicans, it's incredibly important for voters. if you look around and see the crumping bridges even the decaying water and sewer systems which impact daily lives. we remember last year with flint, michigan. you know, these are the things that are really important to people. not only do they make their communities better in their communities, but they also create jobs. and i think that's the one really key po

christine and dave. >> ryan, thank you. on the senate side of the capit capitol, questions begin for neil gorsuch. hanging over the nomination is what will senate democrats do? eight democrats would have to cross the aisle to vote for him. republicans say they are confident they can get enough democrats partly leaning on those facing re-election. >> many democrats are angry that the supreme court nominee of president obama never had a hearing last year. could not even get a meeting with senators. they may look to retaliate against gorsuch. republicans are making clear they will do what it takes to get gorsuch on the high court. even if it means changing rules. the hearing is expected to last four days. republican leaders hope for a vote next month. >>> healthcare reform is a top priority for president trump. he meets with house speaker paul ryan and secretary tom price and emanuel. house republicans scrambling to secure the 216 votes they need to pass repeal and replace bill ahead of thursday's vote. more than two dozen rep

i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs.s there ever been so much anticipation? as the white house is advancing the agenda on health care, the spotlight returns to the unfounded wiretapping claims. the house intelligence committee asked the trump justice department to hand over evidence to back up the president's allegation that president obama ordered his phones tapped during the campaign. >> more than a week after president trump tweeted out that claim, the white house has still offered zero evidence to support it. ahead of the deadline, one lawmaker is demanding an explanation. our white house correspondent athena jones has more. >> reporter: the deadline looms today. a letter septembnt last week regarding the explosive wiretapping allegations against his predecessor president obama. no indication that the white house or the department of justice is prepared to offer up any such evidence. this is something that members of congress, not just democrats, but republicans, very much want to see. here is what arizona senator jo

i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans.ill have no impact on my life today. >> i'll text you. >> this morning, president trump vowing to appeal the court order that blocked the 2.0 version of the travel ban. >> a judge has just blocked our executive order on travel and refugees coming into our country from certain countries. the order he blocked was a watered down version of the first order that was also blocked by another judge. it should have never been blocked to start with. >> that order issued by watson houred before the ban was to take effect. the justice department saying it strongly disagree was the federal district court ruling which is flawed in reasoning and scope. >> why did the court's ruling against the travel ban again? in a 43-page ruling, the judge in hawaii cited several examples of trump suggerrogates states i w was a muslim ban. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. >> when he

dave and christine. >> it is nutty. the other day it was a beautiful 70 degree day and crocus up and daffodils up. alison, thank you. philadelphia is under a snow emergency. ryan young is there for us if philadelphia where it looks where it looks wet. you still have hours foto go, i suspect. >> reporter: the guess the good news is the last few snow plows that have gone by, they have not had to put it down. we are dealing with the slushy mess and ice pelt and sleet mix. we expected to see a lot more snow. you look in this direction. areas that have not been plowed. you see the snow that has fallen. this is like a rain event. every time you go back inside the truck, we are wet. we are not dealing with the snow. more and more cars starting to hit the roads. it is very passable right now. the idea of black ice out here with the slush. i have to mention this. the wind is picking up. we talked about in the last half hour, winds gusts expecting to reach 50 miles per hour. that could be dangerous with people. this guy is going

dave and christine? >> thank you. come back to haunt michael flynn? probably but how about donald trump's own words in september at a rally in florida. listen to what the then candidate trump said then. >> took the fifth amendment and ring leaders were given immunity. >> and if you're not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for, right? >>> and he gave us the question, why ask for immunity if you have not committed a crime? >> i can fill the room with sound bites like that. >> you could argue this is a simple legal maneuver to protect your client but when you have said that it's difficult to maneuver. technically the word is not, but ask any attorney and they'll say that's what they were talking about. >>> another bombshell report rocking the trump administration. according to "the new york times" who white house officials gave devin nunes the reports that president trump might backup his claims about being wiretapped. meanwhile the senate intelligence committee opens it's investigation while the house intelligence committee remains crippled.

welcome to early start i'm christine romans. >> aim dave briggs. not wearing yoga pants, i don't own leggings, two top democrats say the time has come for house intelligence committee chairman to recuse himself of the investigations between trump ties with russian officials. he was on the groun

amy: christine schuler deschryver director of v-day , congo.theve ensler, author of vagina monologues." there's a protest this afternoon outside the department of women plan to surround the building demanding an end workplace violence. when we come back, alynda segarra. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: performing at the women's march on washington the day after the inauguration. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we end our international women's day special with the musician and activist alynda segarra, leader of the critically acclaimed band hurray for the riff raff. when she was just alynda left 17, her hohome in the bronx and began hopping freight trains. she eventually landed in new orleans where she learned to play banjo. over the past decade her band , hurray for the riff raff would become one of the most celebrated bands in modern folk music. in 2014, her tune "the body electric" was named song of the year by american songwriter. npr declared the same tune to be the political folk so

christine, two significant arrests made overnight.gs the total number of people currently held to nine in total. the metro police said it would be crucial to the investigation is to find out how the muslim convert became radicalized. who was part of the journey along the way? who did he interact with? those are the questions they will ask. they conducted 16 searches across various addresses. there are still five raids ongoing. they uncovered huge amounts of information. 2,700 items uncovered in the raids. a large portion is computer related data material. that goes to show cyber investigations are so much part of terrorist investigations these days. in the meantime, i want to point out that the number of victims has risen to four in total. a local man from south london. 75 years old passed away in hospital after injuries he sustained overnight. there is also an american citizen. kurt cochran from utah. sadly lost his life when he was celebrating his wedding a anniversary with his wife. she was injured, but not serious enough to lose h

big standout, christine, there's no price tag. the cbo has not marked this yet and we have no idea how much it will cost? >> no, we don't. we have economists looking at this, and this is the starting block for this legislation, the starting block and the president tweeting moments ago that it's under review and up for negotiation. we can kind of glean who will lean to the one side under these changes, and we don't know how many lower income people would be left uninsured. if you have a mandate, how many people will drop off the system. for lower income people who are left uninsured, let's look at this, a 27-year-old making $27,000 a year, and they get $2,000 back with the new plan, and under obamacare they got $3,000 back. and there was subsidies in the obamacare plan that were beneficial to people that did not make a lot of money skprbg younger americans stand to benefit. as you know under obamacare that all depends on younger and healthy americans subsidizing older and sicker people. under obamacare, younger policy holders would

. >> reporter: also in the courtroom, curtis lovelace's third wife, christine, who, like cory, curtis knew from quincy high. they were married in 2013, just months after his divorce from gomez. >> the behavior was so outlandish. the accusations were so outlandish, the fake tears. >> ( crying hysterically ) >> reporter: so you felt that the jury would have zero credibility with her? >> absolutely. >> reporter: on the stand for the prosecution, detective adam gibson, who would have to defend his credibility and explain just how he found an expert to support his belief that cory was murdered. >> yes. >> reporter: remember, dr. jane turner sided with detective gibson. after studying the evidence, turner believed that cory had died the night before police arrived. >> reporter: a logical conclusion, except for the fact that when questioned by quincy police, the lovelace children-- except larson-- said they saw their mother alive on the stairs before going off to school the morning gibson believed cory was already dead. when adam gibson came to speak to you, and he asked you "do you remember

i think -- because it sort of comes out of christine's question. it's one of the other important criteria is whether the nominee is independent. i think the litmus test language it was regularly repeated gives i think the senators an important issue to explore in terms of whether and how the nominee was questioned on his positions, whether he made any commitments and i think that's something that just -- it raises so many questions, particularly after yate's firing and president trump's attacks on judges to ensure that that is another part of the discussion. >> christine, when you -- you seem critical of this notion that people are announcing litmus tests. are you saying that they're surfacing something that should be kept quiet or it's something that didn't exist before. >> i don't know if it existed before because i didn't work on the selection side of it, but my sensibility about the importance of the independence of the court has always supported this view that it isn't something you would brag about and specifically on the campaign trail both

dave and christine. >> wrolong way to go. thank you, phil.enator lisa makowsky of alaska already said she has concerns over her party's replacement plan. list ton her reaction when cnn's manu raju asked her where she stands. >> to get to my constituents, please. >> yes or no on the house bill? >> would you please -- i've been in there for two hours, come on. >> hey, man, long days on capitol hill, add a snowstorm to it, senator murkowski considered a conservative swing vote on reform. a lot of tensions on capitol hill. there's a lot of things they work on on capitol hill. >> that's how i feel after a two-hour hearing, too. if you want questions answered about the health care bill be sure to join us tonight for what promising to be an interesting secretary. dana bash and wolf blitzer with house secretary tom price. join us tonight at 9:00. >> good stuff. hopefully, we can stay up for that one. >>> we could find out within hours whether the fbi is investigating ties between the campaign and russia. shelton whitehouse said james comey promised t

i share with christine some sense of a sadness about that. it has become so political and so contentious. there is an important piece of the interest in understanding better the judicial philosophy of judges and maybe the deferential model is not the perfect one. we have gone too far perhaps in that direction. >> i certainly share the hope that we can have a better world in the senate confirmation process. i wanted to get at a bit of what i think you're getting us. as a supreme court litigator, this is how it think about my judges and justices that i appear before an file briefs in front of. that is the reason why we don't like litmus tests. it is not just because it might be -- i think is probably why people cheer when their candidates talk about using a litmus test, they give you a sense of the way that person's nominee is going to vote on issues that you care about, but the problem with using that for a judge is that we want our judges to be truly independent. we want them again even if this might be a dance, but we certainly want to hold