let's discuss this with nick mulvaney, the director of the office and budget. have you. >> good to be here. thank you. >> what's going on, enough from the white house, we're going to take care of it our own way and not let the aca implode? >> i appreciate senator cornyn's comments. he's a good friend of mine, but we are trying to follow through on the promises we made as a party which is to repeal and replace. we're not sure how you can run for seven years saying, if you elect us, we'll repeal and replace obamacare and then the voters give us a chance to do that and we don't do it. we've got that working which we know everyone agrees with. the question is why can't the senate deliver on that. at the same time, as to my job, part of my job is to get the american economy back on track, back to what we call this maga economics concept, make american great again concept. part of that is getting rid of obamaca obamacare. we need folks to go back to work. i appreciate senator cornyn. there's a little tongue-in-cheek in there. always a little institutional infighting

so you have nick mulvaney's budget which throes out block grants for hud.he tax cuts are very vague and add to the deficit. so the president and republican party at large have to decide if they're a party of big spending or a party of cuts. that's where this package is going to wind up in trouble, that's the tax package. >> i remember those debates in the bush years, too. glen thrush at the white house, thank you for that. i'm joined by the director of progress i' p p progros sif programming of siriusxm and the director of american greatness. >> let me start with you and that question that glen raised seems like it's a fiphilosophic one that may come to a head when congress returns in september. you have texas and louisiana that's going to require big federal money and you have the president saying i want tax reform and tax cuts. you have the question of how can you pay for tax cuts especially in light of what's going to be a hefty price tag for the cleanup in texas, does something have to give who are when it comes to republican priorities? >> this is a de

president trump today meeting behind closed doors with director of office and management budget nick mulvaney expectied to be a fierce debate over raising the debt ceiling. also reporting the president is ready to roll out the military ban on transgender individuals. >>> joining us is cnn political analyst maggie haberman, white house correspondent for "the new york times." maggie, isn't the questianswer question of which trump is answered by the president, when he said they don't want me to say. when he's on the teleprompter -- obviously tied to it. lucky if he can move his head from panel to panel, he's reading someone else's words. when he is there in front of people, he's telling you what is in his heart and how he feels. the divisiveness is who he is. >> i think -- look, i think a couple of things. i think he has a formula that he loves doing in front of the crowds. one of the interesting things about his address on afghanistan, it did not take place at an oval office desk, which some aides wanted him to do. instead it took place with hundreds of troops surrounding him. he loves a crowd

president trump today meeting behind closed doors with director of office and management budget nick mulvaney to discuss the debt ceiling rise and the fierce debate that will take place with senate republicans. he's also reportedly preparing to roll out the military ban for transgender individuals. >> suzanne, thank you very much. let's bring in our political panel. we have cnn political analyst john avlon and karoun demirjian and cnn correspondent michael warren. just to cover the whiplash of what president trump has been saying in the past week, lest anybody has missed it, the differing tone, the differing positions. here is a brief montage. >> my original instinct was to pull out, and historically i like following my instincts. but all my life i've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the oval office. >> i'm really doing this more than anything else -- you know where my heart is. i'm really doing this to show you how damn dishonest these people are. >> it's time to heal the wounds that divide us and seek a unity based on the common values that unite us. >

budget director nick mulvaney told reporters kelly has been on the line during his conversations with the president since the chief of staff came on board, wolf. so not john kelly is not just controlling who is coming into the oval office, walking into the oval office, he is controlling who is talk calling and staying on the phone with the president. that is control, wolf. >> certainly is. jim accosta, thank you. now to cnn's new reporting today on the russia investigation and the real-time work of the fbi to track suspected disinformation being spread by moscow on election day. we are joined by cnn justice correspondent pamela brown and our cnn crime and justice reporter. shimon, you are learning some fbi analysts actually spent election day scrolling through facebook. tell our viewers why. >> yeah, that's right, wolf. and the concentration here was on fake news. the counter intelligence analysts and investigators were huddled in a room at fbi headquarters here in washington, d.c. on election day, monitoring social media and what they could see was streams of fake news, negative stor

instead he stood next to pb nick mulvaney. our reporting based on multiple sources is truly people were stunned. i don't know if it's strategy people were trying to distance themselves. i think the initial reaction was what just happened? you have john kelly who spent last week at bedminister trying to institute these processes and institute some structure for an administration to apparently laid down tom plans. immediately the president did instead what he wanted to do in that moment, which was come out and as one person phrased it to me, want to there was another one. it was during your show, nicole. we were listening to you and asking these questions of cone and elaine chow. they want to talk about the agenda but the president's words are fall provides aid and comfort to white supremacists, one of those men who provide aid and help to neonazi zbrrks across the united states of mrk. there is no excuse to stand bay that time of man, no excuse whatsoever unless you were so craving for power, unless you so desperately seek stat

defense spending and non-discretionary defense spending, a target of cuts by the omb director nick mulvaneythat hasn't sat well with either side of the aisle. >> roman, thanks very much. >> thanks very much. >> bitcoin reaching record highs over the weekend and surging another 4% today the cryptocurrency has climbed more than 450% over e thpast year what's behind the run coming up? i put everything into my business. and i had all these points from my chase ink card. so i bought ingredients, utensils, even made custom donut cutters. wow! all with points. that's how i created the ripple: the doughnut in a doughnut in a doughnut. suddenly it's everywhere. i mean, it really took off. what will you create with your points? learn more about the ink business preferred card. >>> the cbs conference call is underway les moonves is talking about sports, among other things julia boorstin, what are you hearing him say? >> well, ceo les moonves kicked off cbs' earnings call with a number of headlines about cbs' growth in the digital space and also commitment to making more money from digital distribution