. >>> lee voi malveaux is headed back to a montgomery county courtroom. he was part of a duo that terrorized the d.c. area in 2002 with a dead lie fight back. they'll argue his six life sentences are unconstitutional. it mace rec trtroactivretroacti. prosecutors say that ruling does not apply to malveaux who was 17 when he was arrested. the hearing is set for june 15th. >>> we are learning more details this morning about another man who went on a shooting rampage in maryland last year. he is expected to montgomery county. he shot and killed his estranged wife at high point high school before he went on to kill two others in a mall and grocery store. the washington post reports that he is expected to plead two counts of murder. >>> a memorial service is planned for tomorrow to remember specialist jeremy tomlin. he grew nup chapel hill, tennessee. his mother said he always knew he wanted to fly on a blackhawk. >> satisfy said nothing could stop him not even his fear of fighting. 6:07. space ship getting closer to the international space station. this launch

malveaux was 17 when he was arrested. the hearing is set for june 15th. >>> we're learning more details this morning about another man who went on a shooting rampage last year. eulalio toroil went on a shooting spree before he went on to kill two others at a mall and a grocery store. washington post reports that on tuesday toroil is expected to plead guilty to two counts of first degree murder. he faces the same charges in prince george's county. >>> police are looking for the same man in two sexual assault cases. the first kenilworth avenue. a man groaned her, rped her and and did it again. the same happened to a different woman who says the man had a knife. the description of the suspect was similar in both cases. down to a black jacket with green coloring on the sleeves that the man was wearing. >>> it is 4:32 now. memorial service is planned for term at the fort bellemore army base to remember specialist jeremy tomlin. the 22-year-old died in a military helicopter crash in prince charles county. his mother said nothin

suzanne malveaux has more. >> good morning, allison and dave. president trump returns from mar-a-largo where he celebrated easter with his family. his administration responding on fronts of the north korean failed missile launch. they are considering all options to deter the rogue nation from developing a nuclear weapon. general mcmaster speaking from afghanistan said the national security council, the pentagon, state department and u.s. intelligence agencies are working on a wide range of options for trump to use if north korea continues its threatening behavior, including diplomacy, economic incentives, sanctions and military action. but he says the goal is to resolve this short of armed conflict. >> all options are on the table, undergoing refinement as this problem is coming to a head. it is time for us to undertake all actions we can, short of a military option, to try to resolve this peacefully. >> trump tweeting that the u.s. is preparing for more aggressive action if necessary, saying our military is building and is rapidly becoming stro

suzann malveaux from west palm beach traveling with the president this weekend. stay with us.th korea with a failed missile launch hours before vice president mike pence arrives in south korea. we will have much more on this ahead on the cnn newsroom. knowing where you stand has never been easier. except when it comes to retirement. at fidelity, you get a retirement score in just 60 seconds. and we'll help you make decisions for your plan... to keep you on track. it's your retirement. know where you stand. at red lobster's lobsterfestime. any of these 9 lobster dishes could be yours. so don't resist delicious new lobster mix and match or lobsterfest surf and turf because you won't have this chance for long. want to remind you that no one's the same without the game. like @annethefan3, who writes, "my husband recently constructed "a regulation sized field goal post in the front yard. "to say it's an eyesore is an understatement. is he ok?" anne, no. he's not ok without football. mini camps open soon though. until then, help him adjust for the wind. oh and laces out, kind of a b

suzanne malveaux is there. what's the latest from there? >> reporter: well, anna, certainly the pentagon is taking a close look at potentially new information about those new missiles, new weapons that north korea displayed earlier today. i have to say that the white house playing it pretty cool here. really breathing a sigh of relief over the last 12 to 24 hours. there was not another nuclear test. but the white house has been showing that they are prepared to ramp up and ratchet up, if you will, this escalation with north korea. we saw the movement of the "uss carl vinson," the aircraft carrier, that strike group moving into the region. we also heard from president trump over the week saying that, yes, on the one hand, he was confident and willing to trade, if you will, economic type of trade with the leader of china in return for some sort of more action with north korea, or in his tweets, that perhaps the u.s. would be willing to do it alone. but today, what we're seeing is really kind of a quietness from this white house. the last 12 t

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. >>> meanwhile president trump is at the southern white house, in florida, and cnn's suzanne malveaux is live in nearby west palm beach. nice to see you. do you know what president is wo working on? >> martin, it's a very slow weekend. it's quite surprising because the white house was certainly on high alert, all of us were, whether or not the north koreans were going to initiate some sort of military demonstration or provocation. that did not happen. so what we've seen here is that the president has been golfing this afternoon, as he was yesterday. this is very intentionally at kind of a light footprint. white house officials say when it comes to the staff of the president, they wanted to make sure this was the kind of weekend he could enjoy with his family, his wife and children. and give that brek, that opportunity to the top white house staff. but he does have his deputy national security adviser k.t. mcfarland at mar-a-lago to go ahead and give him any briefings. they were watching overnight to see if there was any kind of activity, and that did not happen, so, you know, they are

. >> suzanne malveaux. thank you very much. >> we have been seeing brand inup new pictures. u.s. officials say it is not known yet which it can reach the west coast of the united states. it was part of a parade through po pyongyang. so i want to bring in our cnn's presidential historian and a director of the nixon's library. >> are the current tension is different of what we have been seeing of the last 20 years or so. >> i don't thing tensions are any different than what we have seen since the 1960s. north korean regimes, the kim's family. we had a number of leaders. the kim's family tested the united states and they did it in 1968 when they took to pueblo and shot down american's planes. the real challenge for any american president is to find that sweet spot to reassure south korea, and deter north korea without giving the paranoid leadership of north korea, a reason to do something stupid. when you think about north korea, keep in mind that this is a paranoid leadership which is starving its people and which is so concerned of the possibility of rebellion that it is killing m

>> all right, suzanne malveaux reporting from washington. thanks. >>> let's go now to cnn's chief political correspondent, dana bash, the only network correspondent traveling in north korea with vice president mike pence. he arrived in seoul just hours after that failed launch. dana, how is the president's vice president responding? >> vice president mike pence was on his plane, on air force two, on his way here to south korea when he got word about north korea's failed missile test. it was actually within an hour of taking off after refueling in alaska that he was told. his advisors came back and told those of us reporters on his plane that it failed within four or five seconds of the attempt, and that's why they made clear that they were not going to make a big deal out of it, that the response was going to be very much to down play it. that's certainly what we saw from the vice president himself. his first remarks here on the ground in south korea was in and around having easter dinner with u.s. troops. he talked vaguely about what happen

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that doesn't apply to malveaux who was 17 when he was arrested. >>> learning more details this morning about another man who went on a shooting ram pain in maryland last year. eulalio toroil shot and killed his estranged wife at high point high school before he went on to kill two others at a mall and a grocery store. the washington post reports that on tuesday he is expected to plead guilty to two counts of first degree murder. he faces the same charge in prince george's county. >>> police looking for the it happened on kenilworth avenue. a man groped her, came back and did it again. the second incident happened on 34th street around 6:30 a.m. on april 15th to a different woman who says the man had a knife. the description of a suspect was similar in both cases. a black jacket with green coloring on the sleeves that the man was wearing. >>> a memorial service is planned tomorrow to remember specialist jerry tomlin. the 22-year-old died in a military crash on monday. he grew up in chaplain, tennessee. he knew he always wanted to fly on a blackhawk. nothing could stop him, not even his

we have suzanne malveaux live from capitol hill with more. answer, please. >> reporter: good morning, chris. answers, answers, answers. not many answers here. a lot of suspension. the showdown in full swing here over what could be donald trump's most significant achievement. getting neil gorsuch to the supreme court and on the supreme court. both side jockeying for power as we approach the committee hearing in four hours. this is going to set the stage for three days of debate on the senate floor. how and when that debate ends is critical. democrats are ready for endless debate. republicans need 60 to cut off filibuster. they need eight democrats to join on that. we have heard from senate majority leader who says they are ready for the nuclear option to change the threshold to get the up or down vote for gorsuch. >> neil gorsuch will be confirmed this week. how that happens depends on our democrats. how many are willing to invoke closure. >> after there were doubts about them. it is highly unlikely he will get 60. >> reporter: here is the sta

suzanne malveaux reporting where the president is this evening, very understated response from the u.sident. acknowledging this missile launch failed and really nothing beyond that. no further comment. i want to you bring in my panel, retired army lieutenant general mark hertling, a fellow, jonathan kristol and former state department official jamie me metzel. it was medium range, officials are kind of on edge and they aren't sure where this is going to go next. they're tracking it with reconnaissance capabilities across the peninsula. you saw the release by pacific command immediately saying they tracked it. it was off the launch pad and then exploded thereafter. they will have aircraft and satellite overhead. they will be tracking from radar to ships at sea and will have intelligence sources watching this and the focus is certainly going to be on sinpo where the missiles are launched from. that's their test facility. that's where the nuclear test could occur, where it's occurred in the past. all of those places are being watched. as you know they have the ships across the sea he, all

we have suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill with more. >> reporter: good morning, the sh showdown in full force as this is president trump's most significant achievement yet. could he get neil gorsuch on the supreme court? both sides leaning over the weekend for what will happen in three hours. the committee will start the heart atta hearing. this will set the stage for three days of debate on the full senate floor. now republicans, they need that 60 vote to break the debate. how and when that debate is broken is critical. they have 52 in the majority. they need eight democrats to do that. if it does not happen, we have heard from mitch mcconnell who says the nuclear option is on the table and he will change the threshold from 60 to 51 to make sure gorsuch gets the up or down vote. >> neil gorsuch will be confirmed this week. how that happens depends on the democratic friends. how many are willing to impose cloture. >> he refuses to answer the most rudeme rudementary questions. there was a seismic change in my caucus. it is unlikely he will get 60. >> reporter: here is the state of p

cnn's suzanne malveaux is live on capitol hill with more. what is the state of play?good morning, chris. the state of play is officially revealed later this morning. president trump's tax proposal. it is a far cry from what we heard from the campaign trail when donald trump said wall street was getting away with murder and wall street had to pay through taxes. his team is pushing for tax cuts go to big businesses later. down the road for individuals and families. secondly, the tax cuts paid by higher economic growth. that is something most economists say doesn't work. president trump's ambitious tax proposal expected to slash the top corporate tax rate to 15%. >> i don't want to confirm the numbers. that number is accurate. >> reporter: this reduction is likely to impact major corporations, but also owner-operated companies like small businesses and larger ones like trump's own enterprises. outlets call for the blueprint will cause for the increase in standard deduction you can claim on your tax returns. that could translate for thousands of dollars in savings. econom

let's bring in cnn politics reporter and national correspondent suzanne malveaux. tom first to you.ent has now signed more than 30 of these executive orders but the raw number itself isn't as important as it relates to fulfilling these promises as the doesn't. >> right. you know what's fascinating about this is that this is the contrast to all the promises he made that he's not kept. and the promises he made rely on congress. and this goes to, you know, it almost doesn't matter whether you're obama, george w. bush or trump or whoever the next president is. the numbers are not there in congress to get major legislation through. this stuff is hard. it is really hard to do. even when you nominally have control you have 52 republican senators, you have control of the senate, that number is not enough because we need 60. okay. so what do you have next? you have kind of the second tier option. right? you got your plan b. these are executive orders. he's doing exactly what obama did. when bamako not get climate change through, when he did not have the votes to make that happen he relied on

cnn's suzanne malveaux is live on capitol hill with more. >> reporter: good morning, chris. that announcement will be coming later this morning. it is a far cry from what we heard from donald trump in the campaign trail saying wall street is getting away with murder. now the tax cuts go to businesses, potentially later to families and individuals. secondly, the spending cuts and tax cuts are going to be supported by greater economic growth. that is something that many economists say there is no evidence or support of. president trump's ambitious tax proposal expected to slash the top corporate tax rate to 15%. >> i don't want to confirm the actual numbers. >> reporter: this reduction likely to impact not only major corporations, but also owner operated companies like small businesses and larger ones like trump's own. multiple outlets reporting for a significant increase in the standard deduction you can claim on tax returns which could translate in thousands of tax savings for millions of americans. economists say it means a massive increase in the national deficit. the admi

more on that shortly, suzanne malveaux, matthew chance and jim acosta. suzanne, for president trump, sort of a working, golfing weekend for the president? >> reporter: well, you could call it that, certainly, they say they are ready for anything, they are prepared, chief of staff reince priebus was there but did not accompany him here in florida. so he does not have his top level stop here in florida. that's very intentional, this is supposed to be a light foot print, allowing the president to have time with his wife and children. it is a break in protocol, having covered presidents obama and george w. bush, there's usually the national security advisor, even on vacation with the president, but trump is doing things differently, but he does have some members of his national security staff, junior members, they're keeping an eye on what's happening in north korea, whether there's any kind of provocation. we did see the president playing golf, jim got those exclusive pictures, that would make it his 7th time to be in mar-a-lago since he's been president. >

. >>> meanwhile president trump is at the southern white house, in florida, and cnn's suzanne malveauxest palm beach. nice to see you. do you know what president is wo working on? >> martin, it's a very slow weekend. it's quite surprising because the white house was certainly on high alert, all of us were, whether or not the north koreans were going to initiate some sort of military demonstration or provocation. that did not happen. so what we've seen here is that the president has been golfing this afternoon, as he was yesterday. this is very intentionally at kind of a light

cnn national correspondent suzanne malveaux joining me now. good to see you.close are they to putting together a bill to actually bring to the floor of the house for a vote. >> good to see you, too, fred. the conservatives led by the house freedom caucus blocked the first effort by president trump and republican leadership to replace and repeal obamacare because it really didn't go far enough. last week what happened was they worked with moderate republicans to put out this amendment that they hoped would be acceptable to both sides to bring the plan back and give trump some legislative victory on his first 100 days. it would have given states waivers to provide people with pre-existing conditions coverage like everybody else for the same price. so this attracted some of the moderates but not enough to get those votes necessary to bring it to the house floor. so democrats did get a concession as a condition of passing this temporary spending bill which avoided the shutdown that the federal government would provide subsidying to insurance companies to reduce ou

. >> let's fwli suzanne malveaux.thing we heard from president trump on north korea today came on twitter. >> typical, yes. like george w. bush and obama as administrations, trump is focusing on china's role, north korea's biggest trading partner to curtail the nuclear ambitions. so he suggested that he could reverse the campaign promise to designate china a currency manipulator tweeting this this morning saying why i would call china a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the north korean problem? we will see what happens. now president trump recently held a summit with china's president and he dang smld other carrots in front of him suggesting they could make a sweeter deal with china if they got tougher with north korea. now at the same time, he's also suggesting that if china does not help the u.s. that u.s. will take on north korea on its own. he tweeted that the u.s. is preparing for more aggressive action if necessary saying, "our military is building and rapidly becoming stronger than ever bef

cnn's suzanne malveaux is at mar-a-lago. matthew chance in moscow. jim acosta is at the white house tonight. let's bring in suzanne from florida. so for president trump, sort of a working golfing weekend for the president? >> reporter: you could call it that. they say they are ready for anything, that they are prepared. his chief of staff reince priebus was with him in the motorcade at joint base andrews but did not accompany him here in florida. so he doesn't have his top level staff in florida with him. we are told from a white house official that's very intentional. that this is supposed to be a light foot print allowing the president to have time with his wife and children, allow top advisers do the same. sit a break in protocol, having covered president obama and president bush, there's usually a security adviser even on vacation with the president. but trump is doing things differently. he does have members of his national security staff with him, some junior members. they are keeping an eye on what happens in north korea, whether there's any k