i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. two giant questions this morning on the republican plan to overhaul obamacare, is it effectively trumpcare and is it dead on arrival? two committees will hold so-called markup meetings seeking compromises and concessions. this is where the sausage is made and all signs point to some angry sausage, or at least angry sausage makers. >> all right. those making the sausage still don't know one very important thing, how much is this going to cost? house speaker paul ryan says his party will rally the votes to get it passed. a gut check shows this is far from in the bag. the votes too close to call. this morning a senior administration official tells us, quote, the volume of blowback was a bit of a surprise, they're referring to blowback from federal republicans. the president is adding heat to the rekwags, repeatedly telling house gop members if the repeal fails, they will face a, quote, bloodbath in next year's midterm. sunlen serfaty in washington with no word from the white house. >> ex

good morning, i'm john berman. is there a criminal investigation into president donald trump, the trump campaign, trump associates? you might think we would know the answer or at a minimum that it's an easy question to answer. but with all the microwaves, quotation marks and debate about what is literal and serious, it has been hard to tell, if there is literally an investigation, it would be serious, literally. we could know within hours. finally democratic senator are sheldon whitejoses fbi director james comey led him to believe he would make things clear by this afternoon. republican senator lindsey graham says he's ready to subpoena the fbi if he doesn't get answers. >> congress is going to flex its muscles. the president of the united states asked congress to look into this as to whether or not the trump campaign was surveilled during the 2016 election by the federal government. i'm going to get to the bottom of it. if it needs a subpoena to get there, that's what we'll do. >> shortly president hits the road.

i am john berman. >> i am poppy harlow.tle bit the state department will hold its first briefing since donald trump took office. this resized order includes six instead of seven muslim-majority countries and it excludes iraq. >> and also worth noting, language that showed preferential treatment to christians, that has been removed. but john kelly is leaving the door open to whether more countries could be added to the list. we want to bring in jessica snyder. and the chief said these are countries that don't vet well enough. >> secretary kelly saying this is ensuring proper vetting. right now on the list, syria, sudan, libya, somalia, iran and yemen. travelers from those countries will be blocked from obtaining visas for about 90 days, and iraq, though, notably, no longer on the list. that removial was the result of the highest negotiateings. so the question is, what happens next? homeland security secretary, john kelly, said more countries could soon appear on the list but wouldn't elaborate which ones. >> there's a number

day" anchor: let's get started. >> i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. high drama and high stakes in the wee hours overnight after hours and hours and hours of discussions, the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare passed the first legislative test. there might not be enough hours in the day to convince some wary conservatives. you might say while the plan cleared a hurdle, it is hitting a pretty big wall. >> there's a new republican senator on that wall. tom cotton, a rising star among the conservatives with an open plea to house republicans, pause, start over, get it right. don't get it fast. the president, he doesn't want tom cotton on that wall. he doesn't need tom cotton on that wall. the president is launching a big persuasion push to win conservative support. he might be launching this, just allow obamacare to collapse, he says and then blame the democrats. a lot to cover. we'll begin with suzanne malveaux where there's still action going on. >> reporter: they went through the evening as well. i don't notice it was the house ways an mean

. >>> time for cnn "newsroom" with poppy harlow and john berman. good morning. >> berman doesn't know who beyonce's husband is either. >> i didn't know who her sister was. there was news about solange. i asked michaela at the time, what is a solange? >> this is my every morning. we're going to do it now for two hours. guys, have a great weekend. >> let's get started. >>> good friday morning to you all. i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. thanks so much for being here. we have a flurry of new information this morning about previously undisclosed contacted between associates of then candidate donald trump and the russians. we'll get to that in just a moment. first, just in, president trump's still unreleased revised travel ban may face a new obstacle even before it is released. >> we haven't gotten any indication. it was supposed to be last week, then this week. this challenge is not one from the courts or even from the man that the president once referred to as the so-called judge who blocked the ban initially. this potential hurdle takes root in

i'm john berman. this morning president trump knows what it's like to be a 5-4 point guard during march phdness, everything getting blocked. a fed ram judge in maryland blocked his revised travel plan, the second judge in 24 hours. the problem isn't the new language, it's the old trump. house speaker and the white house forced to admit the health care plan needs changes. on capitol hill senior republicans rejecting claims that president trump was wiretapped by president obama. overnight president trump saying wiretapped doesn't mean what we think it means. it seems less and less likely congress is buying it. finally, just a short time ago, the white house released its proposed budget, huge reductions. dramatic plan to radically restructure government that won't cut the deficit and also won't pass. so it's a special kind of drama. we're covering this from every angle. let's start with the travel ban, cnn justice reporter laura jarrett in washington. explain why this was blocked and what the president i

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. glad you're with us. did the fbi director essentially just call the president a liar? this is one of the unprecedented developments in an extraordinary morning at the white house. sources say fbi director james comey has asked the justice department to reject the claim that president obama ordered the tapping of mr. trump's phones before the election. this has to do with the giant russian cloud over the white house. >> a new poll out this morning show two in three americans want a special prosecutor to launch an investigation into alleged contacts between russian officials and the trump campaign. it comes at a time when the president has a long list of things he should or would like to be dealing with. the next couple hours he could release his revised travel ban. this morning the administration is responding to a new provocation from north korea, launching several new missiles overnight. we're covering this all. let's begin in washington with kn's chief political correspondent dana bash. dana, a remarkab

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. the breaking news this morning, in the london terror attack, isis is climbing responsibility. also new, the man responsible for plowing his car into clouds of people and stabbing a police officer to death, he was british born and apparently already on the radar of law enforcement. >> prime minister theresa may revealing the british-born attacker had been investigated before for ties to violent extremism. nic robertson has more on his ties to isis. >> reporter: the news agency associated with isis says they claim him as one of their soldiers. they did exactly the same with the attacker in nice last year, the two attacks very similar. what isis on this news organization is saying is that this has been done in response to their calls for attacks on the coalition. so this is very much in keeping with what we've seen isis do before, claiming him as one of their soldiers. what we learned from the authorities here, british born, prime minister theresa may saying british intelligence services

. >>> good morning, everyone, john berman here.ur, the house intelligence committee is expected to hold a news conference on its russia investigation. this comes as senator lindsey graham says he has no idea whether the fbi will respond today to a request for more information on russia. let's bring in cnn's senior international correspondent fred pleitgen in russia. fred, everyone dying to know, what's the reaction from the russians? >> reporter: well, you know, so far the russians have been reacting, they've been reacting, the way they've been reacting throughout all of this. they say they had nothing to do with the u.s. election. we've been going around moscow speaking to analysts and to regular folks on the ground. they've been saying basically two things. on the one hand, regular folks we've been speaking to say, we don't believe our government had anything to do with this. but a line we've been getting is a lot of people are astounded by the fact that americans believe that anybody could have interfered in their lelectoral pro

. >> i'm john berman. thanks for joining us. any minute now we're expecting the trump administration to release new details of its travel ban. there is an event being held in 90 minutes but we could get information before then, so stand by. >>> meanwhile, a stunning vote of no confidence from the fbi forward the president of the united states. sources tell cnn the bureau has asked the justice department to publicly reject the president's explosive claim that former president obama ordered the tapping of trump's phones before the election. >> this all has to do with what you could call a giant russian cloud hanging over the white house. a brand-new cnn poll shows some 65% of american now want a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged contact between russian officials and those close to the president. also this morning, the administration is responding to a new provocation from the north korean dictator after that country launched several more missiles overnight. let's begin with the white house with sara murray. good mornin

. >>> time now for cnn "newsroom" with poppy harlow and john berman. >> good morning.d inspired me. >> happy to hear that. >> i hope that man inspired john berman, known to stand and watch. >> you inspire me. you complete me, also. thank you very much. let's get started. >>> good morning everyone. i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. two giant questions this morning on the republican plan to

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm kate bolduan. the performance ends and the political reality begins. president trump's surprising new tone could be setting up epic showdowns on capitol hill with democrats and his own party. he's embracing key parts of obamacare as republicans try to convince their own to jump on board. he's calling for both parties to compromise on immigration now. and he's calling for a massive infrastructure package, something you would normally hear from a democratic president. the question now, is any of this possible in the current political environment?

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. let's take you straight to capitol hill.moment house majority leader kevin mccarthy will, along with other republicans, hold a news conference on their proposed health care reform bill. a health care bill potentially in flux, very much so after the white house overnight is signaling the shift, willing to give a little bit, definitely on the medicaid part of it, willing to embrace conservative calls to roll that back much sooner than is called for in the bill in its current form at least. >> house speaker paul ryan says the time is now. some o in his own caucus say no, not so fast. now after years of vowing to repeal and replace obamacare, there is a fight within the party about just how to do it. what will bring the sides together? joining us right now, a member of the freedom caucus with which until now opposes this measure, republican congressman jim brightenstein from oklahoma. let's be clear, as it stands right now, if the vote were today, would you support this bill? >> i, in fact, would not. i think there's a lot of co

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. win or go home.rump lays down an ultimatum to house republicans, vote today on the health care bill and pass it or lose and go home. in his mind, live with obamacare. >> the political stakes could not be higher, folks. a big test today not only for the gop-controlled congress, but for this president, his first big legislative test, will he deliver? our panel is back with us. mark preston, let me begin with you. you made the point time and time again he's been able to rule by fiat, executive order after executive order. this is not that. can this be the legislative, can this be the president that actually can win through legislation? >> this is the hard work of washington. this is why a lot of americans out there hate washington because they see it as gridlocked. in many ways this is how our government was structured and how it works and allows us not to my point about ruling by fiat, have a king or a queen who decides what we do. that's why we broke away from great britain, the legislative body. cong

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman.starts right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm kate bolduan. the big question right now, where is president trump's new travel ban? it was of course promised days ago, the revised version of it. but radio silence since. and new this morning, a government document could call into question the need for this new ban at all. a spokesperson at the department of homeland security confirming to cnn that a dhs assessment found most foreign born violent extremists do not enter the united states already radicalized, in fact it found they become radicalized after living here several years. our senior correspondent jeff zeleny, this is an assessment from the department of homeland security. what is the white house saying about this? >> reporter: they're being utterly silent this morning about this travel ban. you'll remember the urgency around this, the president saying it was so urgent to get this

i'm john berman in for jake tapper. we're waiting for the top democrat on the housing intelligence committee to emerge from the white house where right now he's viewing classified documents that could be relevant to the committee's russia probe which just got a new wrinkle. the white house is now urging the president's fired national security adviser to testify before congressional investigators, but before he talks general michael flynn wants immunity to be questioned about possible links between trump associates and russia. his former boss says go for it. even though both flynn and the president have previously insisted if somebody requested immunity they are probably guilty of something. what you're looking at right now is actually president trump in the oval office moments ago signing some executive orders on trade. let's listen in. >> great job. >> both the president and general flynn, of course, have said if you ask for immunity, you must be guilty. you can bet their view of that has changed today. cnn senior whit

i'm john berman in for jake today. we start with the politics leading a stunning admission by the chair of the house intelligence committee. republican congressman devin nunes confirmed to jake tap their he was on white house grounds last tuesday. why is that important? that's the day before he rushed to the white house or now i guess we should say rushed back to the white house and announced that president trump's communications may have been incidentally intercepted during surveillance. now, at the time chairman nunes refused to say how he learned this, but today's admission raise the question of whether someone in the white house or at least in the administration was his source. it comes as democrats say the house committee cannot move forward with an impartial investigation, and now senate minority leader chuck schumer just called on the senate floor for speaker ryan to remove chairman nunes as the chair of the intelligence committee. meanwhile, the senate intelligence committee is set to hold its first public hear

good morning, i'm john berman.ation into president donald trump, the trump campaign, trump associates? you might think we would know the answer or at a minimum that it's an easy question to answer. but with all the microwaves, quotation marks and debate about what is literal and serious, it has been hard to

. >> i'm john berman. thanks for joining us. a lot going on this morning. a speech that was abnormal in its normal see. shocking in its unshockingness. a speech so untypically untrumpian, maybe we should have expected it all again. the president spoke of unity, prosperity and a new chapter in american greatness. >> what we are witnessing today is the renewal of the american spirit. think of the marvels we can achieve if we simply set free the dreams of our people, the time for small thinking is over. the time for trivial fights is behind us. i am asking all members of congress to join me in dreaming big and bold and daring things for our country. >> many of the people who watched it last night liked it. in our cnn/orc poll 57% said they had a very positive reaction to the president's address. 69% said they thought the president's policies would indeed move this country in the right direction. it was a republican-leaning audience, but still, those are still pretty solid numbers. so good the white house is planning to hold back a little bit the announcement o

john berman is with me. happy friday. we begin with

john berman joins me. all eyes on capitol hill today. in just two hours the senate intelligence committee begins its first hearing in russian's meddling and the alleged tied to the trump's campaign. committee members are promising to stay above the political fray plaguing the administration. >> this after james comey spoke out about this impact and also this morning a new job for the first daughter. ivanka trump will take on the official title of assistant to the president and it is raising some new ethics questions. we have a lot to cover. let's start with sara murray. >> this administration is certainly sick of talking about russia, but the senate intelligence committee is making it clear they are just getting started and there is a long list of people they want to talk to when it comes to getting to the bottom of this. >> we together with the members of our committee are going to get to the bottom of this. >> holding its first public hearing on russia today as political infighting jeopardizes the house probe. >> the investigation scop

i'm john berman. we're following two big storms this morning. under a blizzard warning. at least five states already declaring a state of emergency. there are sleet balls in new york city. that from our chief meteorologist chad myers just a few minutes ago. then there was a storm on capitol hill. any minute, we will hear from house minority leader nancy pelosi. looking at live pictures on the right. she'll hold a news conference. she's extremely eager to talk about the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare. why so eager? well, the congressional budget office report that now predicts 24 million more americans will be without insurance by 2026 if that republican plan becomes law. we have a team of reporters covering this one. want to begin with senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. the white house out trying to spin this this morning. >> they are. and using your storm analogy, the storm over health care is going to last longer than the snowstorm here in washington, without question. now there's no surprise ne

>>> good morning, i'm john berman, we begin with breaking news what has become an international incident about the claims of wiretapping. not only have both parties said they are not true but now the united kingdom, america's closest ally made a demand, stop it. this after sean spicer provided a dramatic reading of claims from a fox news commentator not a reporter, claiming that president obama used british intelligence to spy on donald trump. >> on fox news on march 14th, judge andrew nepapolitano made e following statement, president obama went outside the chain of command and didn't use the nsa or fbi or department of justice, he use the gchq, what is that? the initials for the british intelligence spying agency, by having two people say to them the president needs transcripts involving the conversations involving donald trump and he's able to get it and no american fingerprints on this. >> all right, well britain has reacted putting it mildly and we just got word that the u.s. has apologized to u.s. officials. the president could face questions on this with he holds first news confer

. >>> time for cnn "newsroom" with poppy harlow and john berman.orning. >> berman doesn't know who beyonce's husband is either. >> i didn't know who her sister was. there was news about solange. i asked michaela at the time, what is a solange? >> this is my every morning. we're going to do it now for two hours. guys, have a great weekend. >> let's get started. >>> good friday morning to you all. i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman. thanks so much for being here. we have a flurry of new information this morning about previously undisclosed contacted between associates of then

i'm john berman in for jake today.the politics leading a stunning admission by the chair of the house intelligence committee. republican congressman devin nunes confirmed to jake tap their he

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good morning, everyone. >>> i am john bermans, and i am poppy haar brloharlow.den a new warrior, moments ago, the president tweeting our wonderful new health care bill is out for review and negotiation. and it reveals two things we did not know before for certain. first, the president is owning this bill

i'm john berman. the greatest discoveries of the century is revealed to the world. could this be the remains of the childhood home of jesus? >> that is entirely possible. >> were these ancient artifacts, the personal belongings of his mother, mary?

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm john berman.ing, in the london terror attack, isis is climbing responsibility. also new, the man responsible for plowing his car into clouds of people and stabbing a police officer to death, he was british born and apparently already on the radar of law enforcement.

i'm john berman.ent trump knows what it's like to be a 5-4 point guard during march phdness, everything getting blocked. a fed ram judge in maryland blocked his revised travel plan, the second judge in 24 hours. the problem isn't the new language, it's

it's time now for cnn newsroom with poppy harlow and john berman.monday. >> good morning. hello to all of you. we have a lot of news. let's get right to it. >> good morning, i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. a major new twist in the senate investigation between russian ties and tru somp associations. >> the "new york times" is reporting that senators want to question jared kushner meetings he ranged with the russian ambassador and one that he reportedly attended with a russian banking official. now we understand the white house is responding. >> the white house is responding. the news is coming in quickly this morning. this originally began with the "new york times" story pointing out that the senate intelligence committee had some questions for jared kushner. this is the person closest to the president to be questioned in regards to his ties to russia and meetings with russian officials. we know

. >> good morning, i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. a major new twist in the senate investigation between russian ties and tru somp associations. >> the "new york times" is reporting that senators want to question jared kushner meetings he ranged with the russian ambassador and one that he reportedly attended with a russian banking official. now we understand the white house is responding. >> the white house is responding. the news is coming in quickly this morning. this originally began with the "new york times" story pointing out that the senate intelligence committee had some questions for jared kushner. this is the person closest to the president to be questioned in regards to his ties to russia and meetings with russian officials. we know from previous reporting that jared kushner met at one point with the russian ambassador. this was during december, the transition. that's the extent of what we knew about his meetings with russian officials. now the white house is confirming there were additional meetings. there was a meeting wit

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. >> i'm john berman. great to see you this morning. senate minority leader chuck schumer holds a news conference to issue frequent attacks on the republican plan to replace and repeal obamacare. but republicans are doing his work for him this morning. tom cotton pleaded with his colleagues to pause and start over. >> meantime, 23 hours and counting. two house committees discussing this plan, debating it through the night. one of them is still going, making it almost a full 24-hour heating, even as this house plan passes its first legislative test, the road ahead appears filled with speed bumps to say the least. let's begin this hour on capitol hill with sunlen serfaty. had an is the sense you're getting in terms of how hard this is going to be for the white house? >> reporter: well, to give you an indication of how long a haul it's been up here on capitol hill, poppy, over the last 24 hours, as you noted, those two house committees are working on marking up the bill. the house ways and means committee approved their portion this mornin

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. so glad you're with us. just breaking this morning, calls to recuse or resign. moments ago senior republicans saying that the republican attorney general should recuse himself from investigations into the trump campaign contacts with russia. senior democrats say he should flat-out resign. house oversight committee chairman, republican jason chaffetz tweeting moments ago, ag sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse himself. so the issue here is the facts. what did jeff sessions do? did he tell the truth under oath about what he did and do the facts about what he did and said compromise his authority as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. >> this morning cnn learned jeff sessions who was a u. slt senator and trump campaign supporter met twice last year with the russian ambassador to russia. why might this matter? because repeated contacts between trump officials and ambassadors and senator sessions under oath said he was not part of it. >> and if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated wit

. >>> good morning, everyone, i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. we're getting word of the president's explosive reaction to president trump's explosive claims. >> i think we're talking about former president barack obama's reaction to president trump's claims that obama personally authored wiretaps on trump tower. >> reporter: john and poppy, we're being told that president obama was irked and exasperated at this whole assertion that he was personally involved in wiretapping the current president. no surprise here that president obama of course has a long history with his successor in office, not always pleasant, to be sure. but this latest round of reports, i am told, takes it to a new level. he stopped short of being furious at him, i'm told, but he's semple exasperated at the fact that this current president is talking about the fact that he authorized, he personally authorized a wiretap which they simply say of course is not a fact, that it did not in fact happen. presidents normally have a sense of decorum and don't talk about their predecess

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i'm john berman.duan" starts right now. >>> john berman, thank you so much. hello, everybody, i'm kate bolduan. put up or shut up. that's john mccain's message to donald trump and the department of justice, to show proof of claims that president obama wiretapped his phones. the house intelligence committee is demanding to see the evidence by today. so far, no evidence, nada, from the white house or the justice department on this, add to go the confusion this morning. counselor to the president kellyanne conway is suggesting the president could have been subject to wider surveillance than even he claims. but now conway is blaming the reporter for taking her out of

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. so glad you're with us.king this morning, calls to recuse or resign. moments ago senior republicans saying that the republican attorney general should recuse himself from investigations into the trump campaign contacts with russia. senior democrats say he should flat-out resign. house oversight committee chairman, republican jason chaffetz tweeting moments ago, ag sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse

i'm john berman in for jake.n you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> happening now, breaking news, senate intelligence leaders say their investigation of ties between trump campaign and russia will be the biggest in years. they want to question at least 20 people and they say they will follow the intelligence wherever it leads, even to the highest level. >>> stalled in the house, amid partisan infighting the house investigation grinds to a the had a. democrats accuse the republican chairman of working with the white house. he refuses to step aside and indicates no public hearings will be held for weeks. i'll speak later with the ranking democrat adam schiff. >>> an easy one. just days after the collapse of the republican obamacare replacement

john berman here.port from the congressional budget office that 24 million more americans would be without insurance under this new republican plan. new reaction coming in including from conservative members of congress who were never sold on the plan in the first place. the president, he was set to woo members of the house freedom caucus tonight. they're coming over for bowling and pizza. will that be enough? how will the congressional budget office report affect them? we're joined by republican member of congress mo brooks. thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. good morning. >> i want to remind people of what you told us last time you orp. just a week ago and you were very critical of the house plan. listen to what you said then. >> i respectfully disagree with the speaker of the house, and there's not a close second for the largest welfare program sponsored by republicans in the history of the republican party. >> so you called this the largest welfare plan ever proposed by the republican party.

i'm john berman. >> and i'm poppy harlow. top of the hour and we begin with breaking news, two big, major breaking stories. just moments ago, we learned the answer to somewhat of an intriguing mystery, the whereabouts of the house intel chair on the day before he went to the white house and told president trump that his communications may have been swept up in surveillance of foreign nationals. turns out, where he was the day before that major announcement, he was on white house grounds. >> all right. then, just last hour, cnn confirmed the senators will question president trump's son-in-law, perhaps his most trusted adviser, jared kushner, about meetings kushner had with russian officials, including "the new york times" reports, a russian banker. first, though, let's go to capitol hill. manu raju is there. devon nunes, the house intelligence chair, on white house grounds the day before that major announcement. >> reporter: that's right. he's now confirming this, telling our colleague, jake tapper, in a phone interview that h

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow. glad you're with us.tor essentially just call the president a liar? this is one of the unprecedented developments in an extraordinary morning at the white house. sources say fbi director james comey has asked the justice department to reject

i'm john berman. "at this hour with kate bolduan" starts right now. >>> john berman, thank you so much. hello, everybody, i'm kate bolduan. put up or shut up. that's john mccain's message to donald trump and the department of justice, to show proof of claims that president obama wiretapped his phones. the house intelligence committee is demanding to see the evidence by today. so far, no evidence, nada, from the white house or the justice department on this, add to go the confusion this morning. counselor to the president kellyanne conway is suggesting the president could have been subject to wider surveillance than even he claims. but now conway is blaming the reporter for taking her out of context. that reporter is joining me in just a second. >>> first let's get to cnn's jessica schneider, tracking the latest on where this wiretap investigation stands. jessica, any word yet from the justice department that they've provided any evidence or anything at all to the house intelligence committee on this?

>>> all right, good morning, everyone, i'm john berman. serious blockage for president trump this this morning, the bill to repeal and replace obamacare very much in jeopardy. the house budget committee gets to vote on this today. if four republicans vote no, it could be blocked today. house speaker paul ryan is set to speak in a few minutes. will he announce what chains he is willing to make to save this bill? >>> also this morning, a judge in maryland blocks the president's new travel ban, the second judge in 24 hours. the message: it's not the order, it's you, mr. president. >>> on capitol hill, senior republicans now rejecting the claim that he was wiretapped by president obama. but last night president trump said "wiretapping" can mean anything. can it? >>> the white house's budget plan has many cuts but won't necessarily be the plan that passes congress. >>> at any moment, nancy pelosi will have a lot to say about wiretaps, but the budget, and much more. cnn's suzanne malveaux is at the capitol. >> reporter: john, nancy pelosi will b

i'm john berman in for jake today.n taking major steps to the approach to fighting climate change. critics would say they are changing the fighting part. the new executive order ends a moratorium on coal mining on federal land and eases restrictions on coal-fired power plants. more now and the white house looks at this really as a job growth opportunity. >> reporter: that's right, they do, john. they say this as president trump making good on a campaign promise to bring back jobs to the hard hit coal industry, but how many jobs and at what cost to the environment? those remain something of an open question. >> my administration is putting an end to the war on coal. >> reporter: president trump taking major steps to strip down obama-owe are a regulations to combat climate change. >> i am taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on american energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations. >> reporter: signing an executive order at the environmental protection agency that undoes the cle

. >> i'm john berman. jobs, lots of them. the breaking news this morning, the new jobs report from february. this reflects the first full month of job growth since donald trump took office. >> right. and the president retweeting some reporting on it, the chief of staff reince priebus tweeting this, "president trump delivers in first job report 235,000 new jobs and unemployment rate down to 4.7%, great news for american workers." but lets remember, this is from a president who didn't believe the job numbers, called the numbers from the bureau of labor statistics bogus. i think he likes these numbers. let's bring in christine romans. >> i think so. if he's going to create 15 million jobs over the next ten years, he needs more months like this. it was a very strong january. and when you look out over the past last year, this number, interestingly, almost exactly what this number was last year, when it wasn't the animal spirits of donald trump fueling business optimism but just an economy starting to roar. unemployment rate ticki

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"ac 360" with john berman starts now. >> john berman in for anderson.st month. tonight the trump administration eliminated 44. u.s. attorneys, the country's most important federal prosecutors, all obama appointees, told the quit. this and of itself is not unusual. these political appointees are often asked to resign during political transition. but tonight some never even had the chance before they found out through media reports. speaking of the media, the administration acted just a day after a prominent right-wing talk show host loudly called for