i know you have been speaking to elaine chow, i wondered what she said on this. >> reporter: well, elained on what she said yesterday. and she repeated that he's new to the process, i don't have the exact quotes in front of me. but as joe was saying earlier on this program, elaine chow and others who have known him for years and know the president or in the cabinet, do need to speak out. we we heard from susan collins the victim, diane feinstein, we we heard from other senators republican as well as democratic women and men, the gender issue is really concerning and what nicole also said so people raebl on her programing yesterday -- memorably was she does not want her son to grow up with this as a role model. when you don't want the president of the united states as a role model for your son or children, you don't want men in this country to be behaving this way. >> market, no disrespect to elaine chow, that is just so lame to say he is new to the presidency. as i said, this is new to the presidency, it's the kind of person you are, the character. >> it's about humanity and, in fact, thi

i especially want to thank secretary elaine chow. leader kevin mccarthy chairman bill and all the members of congress who have many of them here today for joining us as we prepare to enter a great new era in american aviation. it's about time too. i can tell you. before discussing our plans to modernize air travel, i want to provide update on our efforts to fix and modernize vital services for our veterans. our great veterans. for decades the federal government has struggled to accomplish something that should be very simple. seemlessly transferring the veteran medical records from the defense department to the veterans groups and to the v.a. in recent years, it has taken not just days or weeks but many months for the records to follow the veteran. this has caused massive problems for our veterans. i'm very proud to say that we are finally taking steps to solve the situation once and for all. secretary announced that morning that the v.a. will modernize its medical records to use the same system as the department of defense. no more

that is vice president pence speaking of course with elaine chow. the transportation secretary there as well. as this usually goes, it will be b the vice president we would expect to introduce president trump. we expect to appear in the east room of the white house, sign a letter to congress about the privatization of air traffic control, then make some comments regarding that and probably more broadly, on his infrastructure plans, eamon is in the room i believe

another one we're highlighting today elaine chow, transportation secretary who talks about the fact she a cargo ship from taiwan at age 8. her story, really honest conversation about a lot of things, including never having children. >> i can't wait to watch that and the entire bad-ass series. great to have you here. you can watch the full series. how many times can i say the word? one more. >> jersey girl. >> totally. >> cnn news room with bad-ass pop lpy harlow and john berman picks up after this break. ♪ when heartburn hits fight back fast with new tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum new tums chewy bites. z286oz zwtz y286oy ywty >>> good morning everyone. the message just in from the president. oh, no, i meant it. it counts. moments ago in a statement on twitter he wrote the fake mainstream media is working so hard trying to get me not to use social media. they hate that i can get the honest and unfiltered message out. >> this seems to contradict his own staff. what he calls honest and unfiltered they

is very positive and this is being managed by one of the most competent members of the cabinet, elaine chow, who is the most experienced member because she was former secretary of labor, former head of the peace corp. i think that's positive. a lot of time has been wasted. so i think the kons b tragz now has to be on infrastructure, tax reform, deregulation and they ought to get their act together on the republican side as to what they actually want in the repeal of the obamacare or health care act. you just can't repeal it. you have to have something to put in its place. >> we'll talk more about one of those points later in the program, deregulation with the dodd frank changes in the financial system is front .center for a lot of investors today. thank you very much pore that global conversation. we will get more views on comey's testimony including a former white house official from washington at 11:30 cet. now, we will have live coverage of james comey's testimony from 4:00 p.m. cet on the network. mean time, i want to take you on another unfolding story. now the line from moody's, the r

also opening today is elaine chow.transportation secretary, one of the few who has been nominated and confirmed and is very much at work. he was an immigrant girl, age 8, came here on a cargo ship from taiwan. her family is chinese, and she talks about that and about her vulnerability and being teased as a kid. and then talks about the fact that she never had children and her regrets and her message to children about the need to think about that. those are just two, seven altogether, both sides of the aisle and then one for the military. highest ranking woman ever to graduate from west point. >> can't wait for this. the almost self-titled bad-ass women of washington. that debuts now. please visit sit cnn.com/badass woman. >> if that doesn't get you there, i don't know what will. coming up, james comey will testify, but exactly what will he say about those conversations with the president. up next we are joined by one senator who has called his firing of comey nixonian. what he hopes comey will say when he testifies. wh

i especially want to thank secretary elaine chow, leader kevin mccarthy, chairman bill schuster, and all the members of congress, many of them here today, for joining us as we prepare to enter a great new era in american aviation. [ applause ] it's about time, too, i can tell you. but before discussing our plans to modernize air travel, i want to provide an update on our efforts to fix and modernize vital services for our veterans, our great, great veterans who we all love. for decades the federal government has struggled to accomplish something that should be very, very simple. seemlessly transferring a veterans medical records from the defense department to the veterans groups and to the v.a. in recent years it has taken not just days or weeks, but many months for the records to follow the veteran. this has caused massive problems for our veterans. i'm very proud to say that we are finally taking steps to solve the situation once and for all. the secretary announced this morning that the v.a. will announce and modernize its medical records to use the same system as the department o

. >> i was curious if elaine chow might come out and explain this decision, the president this executive. it's not an executive order. a series of proposals he submitted to congress. we'll see pretty soon whether or not that happens. let me just update our viewers right now on the -- those who have been confirmed as two of the three terrorists who committed this terror attack in london. british police have now named two of the attackers. they're identified as british citizen kareem who was born in pakistan and rasheed who claimed to be of moroccan/libyan nationality. 7 killed, 36 people remain hospitalized. some in serious conditions. all three were shot by police and killed. i take it the u.s. is deeply involved with british law enforcement in trying to understand what happened. >> absolutely. so the fbi in new york, part of the joint terrorism task force oversees london has been assisting london. i know some folks there in new york had to go in to work when this happened on saturday. for sure, the fbi has been monitoring, has been helping, has been offing assistance where they can. and

. >> next, transportation secretary elaine chow testifies on the president's 2018 budget request and other priorities for her department. she faced questions

vice president mike pence standing next to elaine chow, the secretary of transportation.ely they'll be introducing the president. let's listen and see what they have to say. >> to keep the promises that he made to the american people. our president's been putting jobs in this economy first. rolling back excessive regulations, unleashing american energy, ending unfair trade practices and he's been working with congress to repeal and replace obamacare. thanks to president donald trump, america is back. [ applause ] american businesses are growing and investing in america again. more than $600,000 private sector jobs have been created and and unemployment hasn't been this low for 16 years . if you haven't already noticed, the american people elected a builder to be the 45th president of the united states and this week starting today, this president will take historic steps to keep his promise to rebuild america. [ applause ] promising to replace our crumbling infrastructure with new roads, brims, tunnels and airport, the action the president announces will encourage investme

that is vice president pence speaking of course with elaine chow. the transportation secretary there as well. as this usually goes, it will be b the vice president we would expect to introduce president trump. we expect to appear in the east room of the white house, sign a letter to congress about the privatization of air traffic control, then make some comments regarding that and probably more broadly, on his infrastructure plans, eamon is in the room i believe as well. or certainly at the white house for us today. outside i'm told, forgive me. eamon, what are you expectations today? >> that the president is going to talk about an infrastructure proposal here, a piece of a larger agenda they're going to roll out later in the year. we're talking to white house officials before this event as we wait for the president to come in and we're seeing they're going to break this out as a separate piece. the air traffic control privatization piece then later, they're going to introduce a broad infrastructure program and they expect this will be a only piece

. >> next, transportation secretary elaine chow testifies on the president's 2018 budget request and other priorities for her department. she faced questions from house members about the president's plan to privatize the nation's traffic control system and reductions to capital investment and surface transportation projects. this is two hours. >> the subcommittee will come to order. before i begin, i just -- i know that all of our minds are a little bit in many ways elsewhere because of the incidents yesterday at the baseball practice field, and i just wanted to once again mention how all of us are praying for, obviously, the whip, mr. steve scalise, the two brave police officers that were injured, along with a member of the staff and a former member of the staff who were injured. so just we cannot forget them and we wish their full recoveries. >> with that this morning we welcome secretary chow to testify on the fiscal year 2018 budget for the department of transportation. i don't have to tell any of you that secretary chow comes to this position with thank lone o most impressive re