back to you guys. >> okay, sara murray, thanks very much. some of the biggest names in business urging president trump and congress to continue daca. the ceos of at&t, best buy, and wells fargo joining dozens of business leaders adding their names to a letter defending daca. first released last week, more than 300 business leaders had signed the letter. that number has now climbed above 400. one of the original backers of the letters, tim cook tweeted this. he said 250 of my apple coworkers are dreamers. you look surprised. >> that's a big number. that is a huge number. >> he goes on to say they deserve our respect as equals, and a solution rooted in american values. thousands of people are likely to lose their jobs if trump phases out daca. that's according to a study by the left leaning center for american progress. an average of 30,000 people will be out of work each month, each month if daca is repealed. and that would put significant pressure on employers to fill holes in their workforce. a lot of people don't realize, these undocumente

sara murray with more. >> reporter: good morning.es tell cnn even though the president is expected to end the program, he's going to do it with a six-month delay. a window that allows for congress to come up with a legislative fix to this issue. that news was welcomed by some republicans who say congress is the one who should be mending this issue. they shouldn't be legislating from the white house. others including the head of the hispanic chamber of commerce and democrats panned president trump's expected announcement calling it heartless and saying it defies what he said on the campaign trail. as a candidate, trump took pretty much every side of this issue. he promised to end daca as soon as possible when he came to the white house, but he also said that he would treat the dreamers with heart and be sure to protect them. sources caution that until the president actually makes the announcement, things could always change. we await the words from president trump's mouth. back to you. >> all right. thank you. >>> affixed to daca, jus

our white house correspondent, sara murray, is standing by with the latest. sara, the president officially unveiled the proposal just a little while ago in indiana. >> that's right, wolf. the president is headed back to the white house after touting this tax reform plan in indiana and it comes at a time when this president could use a political victory, coming on the heels of an embarrassing defeat, throwing his weight behind the wrong guy in the alabama senate race. president trump trying to shrug off another defeat today, after putting his political capital on the line for the losing candidate in alabama. >> we have a man who's going to be a great senator. and i -- i'm very happy with that. >> reporter: trump, lavishing praise on roy moore, the winner of the alabama senate primary. even after trump endorsed moore's gop opponent, senator luther strange. >> i have to say, luther came a long way from the time i endorsed him. and he ran a good race, but roy ran a really great race. >> trump's happy talk on wednesday, a far cry from his livid response as election

let's begin with cnn's sara murray at the white house. what is president trump doing about north korea at this hour, sara? >> reporter: the president has spoken with a number of world leaders today, including the south korea president, and on that call the two world leaders agreed that south korea could possess more forceful weaponry. this comes at a time when the white house is making clear all options are still on the table when it comes to north korea. and president trump is still pointing his finger at other countries, saying they need to do more. president trump's bombastic threats -- >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> reporter: -- appear to be ringing hollow with pyongyang as they tested what appeared to be a hydrogen bomb over the weekend. while the president initially complimented kim jong-un for his restraint -- >> kim jong-un, i respect the fact that i believe he is starting to respect us. i respect that fact very much. >> repor

sara murray is out front. sara, this was fascinating, unexpected by the president. a slap in the face. it took republicans by surprise. >> it did, erin. we saw a president who is not ideological generally reach across the aisle and it blind sided mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, members of his own party. sources tell cnn they were shell shocked by the president's decision to do this, to go along with what democrats put on the table, rather than what republicans were hoping to get out of this. the president went into this room in deal cutting mode and obviously he has made clear that he is very frustrated with republicans in leadership positions. he made that even clearer today. >> and by the way, ivanka trump, everybody loves ivanka. can we bring ivanka up? come on. >> and this is yet another vignette in the president's day-to-day. we also heard that ivanka trump caused visible annoyance among some gop leaders. clearly the president went out of way to lavish praise on his daughter and a spokes american for paul ryan's office says it's not true that leaders were annoye

>> all right, sara murray at the white house for us. joining me now is texas attorney general kevin paxton who vowed to sue the trump administration if the daca program was kept in place. attorney general paxton, thank you for joining us. you've now decide to do withdraw this against the trump administration? >> correct. we're glad that he rescinded this and we're glad we're under the president that acted within the scope of his authority. >> president obama just weighed in a statement opposing the action. he writes, quote, what if our kids' science teacher or our friendly neighbor turns out to be a dreamer? where are we supposed to send her, to a country she doesn't know or remember with language she may not even speak, unquote? it is true that according to a survey, the average daca recipient was six and a half when they were brought to this country illegally. they might not know another language or another country. >> well, it's interesting that president obama said that given he's the one that put this in place and he's the one that

sara murray at the white house, thank you, ma'am. i want to bring in cnn aviation and government regulation correspondent rene marsh as well. you've been covering this scandal, renee, over private jets that cost tom price's job. there are other cabinet members being looked at. >> there certainly are. of course we should remember that tom price, this whole scandal, it developed over a matter of days. and tonight even though tom price is out, the inspector general probing his use of private jets says the work will continue as other cabinet secretaries now have to account for their flights on private planes. >> in the end, it was the same type of lavish jet flights that tom price railed about as a common that brought him down. >> i think we've made it halfway where we ought to, and that is cut it from eight to four jets. now we need to cut it from four jets to zero jets. this is just another expect of fiscal irresponsibility run amok in congress right now. >> reporter: as secretary of health and human services, price spent hundreds of t

let's go to cnn's sara murray. she is at the white house.se says the president is finalizing a request for disaster aid. the region of $6 billion? is that the first request? >> reporter: that's right, the president says this $6 billion request is only going to be the first bite at the apple, part of a much broader, much more expensive recovery effort, one we're hoping to get more details on this evening. >> we're working on emergency funding. we're doing everything we can. >> reporter: president trump preparing to ask congress for nearly $6 billion in disaster relief funding. >> the federal government is on the ground bringing in significant resources to bear, and i want to assure these organizations and the others involved that we will continue to coordinate with them and bring all of the relief and the comfort and everything else that we absolutely can to the gulf coast. >> reporter: the initial ask, a down payment on what is expected to be a lengthy and expensive recovery process for areas ravaged by hurricane harvey. the president and fi

sara murray is outfront at the white house. and president trump speaking a short time ago.he is not backing down. very clear. he believes this is the right move to make. >> that's right. even though this is someone who has sort of wrestled over to rescind this program entirely, the president seems to believe he towed that line today, insisting his program still treats the dreamers with heart. >> i have a great heart with the folks we're talking about, a great love for them. they're really young adults. i have a love for these people, and hopefully now congress will be able to help them and do it properly. and long-term it is going to be the right solution. >> now, trump has basically punted this decision to congress. if they want to do anything to stop it. and obviously people are skeptical about whether congress can gets its act together to pass any kind of immigration reform, whether it's a dream act or something broader. in the meantime, administration officials are insisting the dreamers are not the group they are targeting for deportation, but the reality, erin, is we

cnn white house correspondent sara murray is there. what is the latest on this, sara? >> reporter: jim, the president spoke with the south korean leader about the act of aggression in north korea and on the call the two world leaders agreed that south korea should be able to possess more powerful weaponry to respond to threats like this. now, this comes at a time when the white house is still saying all options are on the table when it comes to north korea and president trump is pointing his finger at other countries insisting they step up and do more to curb the provocation. >>> president trump's bomb bass tick threats -- >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> reporter: appear to be ringing hollow with pyongyang. as north korea tested what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb over the weekend. while trump recently complimented north korean leader kim jong-un for his restraint -- >> kim jong-un, i respect the fact that i believe he is starting to respect us. i respect that fact

. >> sara murray from the white house, thanks so much. >> let's listen to what cleveland cavalier lebron james had to say about the president's comments? >> can we sit up here and say we're trying to make a difference because we know this is the greatest on country in the world. it's the land of the free, but we still have problems just like everybody else and when we have those problems we have to figure out a way to come together and be as great as we can be as a people because the people run this country, not one individual and damn sure not him. >> joshua dubois, cnn contributor and senior white house religious director under president obama joins us now and jim lowe, pastor of guiding light church in birmingham, alabama. he co-organized an all lives matter march with glenn beck. thank you so much for joining me. pastor, i'll start with you. the president says this is not about race. do you agree? >> well, i don't know what the president's position is on that, but i think it goes beyond that. i think we have to face the issues that the nation has to deal with here, and it's -- the pr

cnn's sara murray live at the white house with more. what's the take on this? >> reporter: well, chris, a little bit of whiplash as the president revived this controversy talking about violence on the both sides at the tragic event that unfolded in charlottesville and then signing a resolution condemning white supremacy. president trump reviving his assertion that both sides were to blame for the deadly violence between white supreme sifts and th those opposing him in charlottesville. >> you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. >> reporter: while praising his meeting with senator tim scott aboard air force one, he reignited a low point in his presidency. >> i think especially in light of the advent of antifa, if you look at what's going on there, you have some pretty bad dudes on the other side also. a lot of people were saying -- in fact, a lot of people have actually written, gee, trump might have a point. >> reporter: scott fiercely criticized the rhetoric responding, that's who he is. i didn't go in to change who he was. it comes as the

sara murray has our report. >> i'm not happy, okay? i can tell you, i'm not happy. >> reporter: president trump said accepting the resignation of health and human services secretary tom price. the bombshell announcement coming after days of mounting controversy, over price's travel on private jets. at a cost estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> it's not a question of confidence. i was disappointed because i didn't like it, cosmetically or otherwise. i was disappointed. you know, this is an administration that saves hundreds of millions of dollars on renegotiating things. so, i don't like to see somebody that perhaps is the perception that it wasn't right. >> reporter: price agreed to repay a fraction of the overall tab. but sources say the offer only appeared to exacerbate trump's anger. >> well, we have great secretaries. and we have some that actually own their own planes, as you know. that solves that. but we put it in an order, no more planes. >> reporter: this has the humanitarian crisis in puerto rico conti

. >> sara murray is at the white house for us they changed the timeline over friday, so it is tomorrowe should find out. >> reporter: that's right, the announcement is coming tomorrow. you can see why it's a decision they have wrestled with. the president has been on every side of this issue, vowing to end the program, and also vowing to treat the dreamers with heart and protect them. it seems that they have settled on a decision, can the caveat that -- there's still some wiggle room, but sources say the president does plan to end this program and put it on a six-month delay to allow congress to create a legislative fix. that news has been welcomed by some reps who believe congress should be the ones to solve it, but it's been panned by others, including the head of the his stan chamber of commerce, who said he spoke with the white house today. listen to what he said. >> javier, it sounds like if the president ends this program, even with the six-month delay, you may decide to leave that diversity council. is that right? >> that is correct. none of these young people gets government be

. >>> michael sharon, and cnn's sara murray. you heard the admiral saying there could be exercises with south korea and the united states, and japan likely to take part, but we've seen these repeatedly. last week the president has been tweeting that the u.s. has been paying extortion money for 25 years, talking is not the answer. that was the answer a couple days ago. how does this change his dynamic? the policymakers can bring a long list of options, because anything you do. the fear is north korea will then launch an attack on seoul. these options we've known for years are horrible, but what is the president's mind-set when kim jong-un possession him. >> his reaction is to lash out. he was lashing out add china, blaming them for thought having solved the problem for him, and now he seems to be trying to lash out at south korea, trying to lay the blame on them. that's obviously an alliance that we need to be in very good shape to deal with this problem, but over and over, you know, he lashes out on twitter, he lashes out at our

i want to bring in sara murray now. what can we expect tomorrow from this announcement, sara?f the reason the president has taken so long to deal with this is he was on every side as a candidate. he threatened to end it, and on the other hand he said he loved the dreamers, would protect the dreamers, but it is said he does want to end daca but he wants to do it with a six-month delay. he's hoping in that six months congress will come up with some kind of legislative fix. there are mixed reactions to that, and part of what we're hearing from administration officials is, look, this is a president that often changes his mind. thfls t this was the plan as of yesterday, but there's not going to be an announcement until tomorrow and that gives a little bit of wiggle room. >> so what is the reaction, sara? >> republicans welcome this news. they like the idea of congress being able to take this up, even though congress has not come up with a fix to this at this point. but democrats are outraged about it. they see it as heartless that you would punish someone for a decision their paren

let's go to sara murray. i mean, wow. that's a statement. i mean, this is someone who has not weighed in, but in this case, we got this. >> reporter: that's right. and it wasn't a short statement. as you were just reading it, brooke, obviously, a former president obama feels very deeply and passionately about this issue and one of the things that stuck out to me as you were reading it is that he dismisses the notion that this is a legal battle. he says, this is a political decision, that this is a moral decision. obviously, that's not how the white house is casting things today. they basically said they felt like they needed to come out and make some kind of announcement because they were going to face challenges from conservative attorneys general. that's why they said that attorney general jeff sessions was the one who came out and broke the news today. instead of president trump himself, and why they decided to allow this window to punt it to congress. but brooke, the reality is it leaves the fate of nearly 800,000 people who have given t

. >> sara murray, thank you so much. want to talk about this and actually put it in a bigger perspective here. joining us jason miller, political commentator, senior communications officer for the trump campaign and hilary rosen cnn political commentator and democratic strategist. we have the comment about charlottesville from the president yesterday, and we have new statements from the president this morning on immigration saying immigration cannot be allowed to be part of a day, criticizing espn and the media and political correctness in response to the london attack. what he's doing here and correct me if i'm wrong, is he's trying to perhaps tend to his base, send messages out to his core supporters, at a time when he is doing something they do not like, which is reaching across the aisle to nancy pelosi and chuck schumer on the issue of d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> i would disagree. i would say the president is addressing the issues individually across the board. take, for example, the issue of border security. as it ties in as