i'm van jones. now look, today was a cry sea day even by trump's crazy standards. okay? we had sean spicer in the briefing in a scene that really just could have been saturday night live. you just take it, tape it, play it on saturday. we had a senate intelligence committee where basically they called the president of the united states a liar over his wiretapping claims, which apparently are totally phony and then we got our first look at the trump budget, which basically just drops a bomb financially and economically on trump's own supporters. so look, tonight you're going to need inspiration and love and so you're going to get it because later tonight, we're going to have on this stage a living legend, kareem abdual jabar will be here later tonight. don't worry, it will be all right. but first, we're going to welcome to the stage one of president trump's top supporters in congress. we got a long list of issues we want to grill him on and this wonderful live audience to help him do the grilling. th

together, we're building a better california. >>> just minutes from now at the top of the hour, van jonesssy truth" town hall. as you can see, the sauns audie getting ready for a lively discussion. trevor noah is van's guest. plenty of news to talk about, including president trump's immigration policies. van recently took a road trip to meet trump voters who were dealing with immigration orders at the border every single day, many of them latinos. here's what he found. >> reporter: this is where the debate over border security starts. the arizona/mexico border. i want to esee it for myself an talk to the people who live this reality every day, like the pa pinole county slough's depuheri deputies. if someone is able to go over, under, or around the border fence, they walk through this desert, aim for the highways, and disappear into the united states. why do you think they're so desperate to come here? not the ones who are coming to bring the drugs, but the other ones who are coming up here? >> it's america. i mean, what better place to come? i don't know what their personal motivation is

i'm van jones. i'm here with my special guest, kareem abdul-jabbar. go to the first question. go right ahead. >> hi, kareem, how are you doing? >> i'm doing well. thank you. >> i have to be nervous, i was prepared but i'm nervous here with you. you're the greatest. >> it will be all right. >> i was a fan on and off the court. your career wasn't easy but you're awesome. you fought during the toughest and most competitive times in basketball history especially when you played the celtics. the competitions and the battles were intense. i myself am the owner of a clothing store and i've lost the clothing store in a fire. and i'm just happy to be here with you. and to take some inspiration from you. and to -- bear with me. and to be in the presence of one of the most respected and intelligent figures in sports. >> give this brother a round of applause. [ applause ] he wants -- i know what he's gone through. his store burnt to the ground just this past week and he wants to get some inspiration from you. how do you get through tough times you've been through

tonight -- jason sudeikis, from "the path", actress michelle monaghan, cnn political commentator van jones, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] fantastic. it's our first show of the news year, and let's get to the news. meryl streep was given the cecil b. demille lifetime achievement award at the golden globes last night, and used her acceptance speech to criticize donald trump. that's right, the all-time queen of american drama was criticized by meryl streep. [ laughter ] [ applause ] senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said yesterday republicans will begin repealing obamacare by the end of the week. but don't worry, he's not taking away your health care, he's just storing it in his cheeks for the winter. [ laughter and applause ] the movie "la la land" won a record seven golden globes last night. the movie tells the story of a struggling jazz musician named sebastian who against all odds is white. [ light

van jones is listening set of making criticism.heard what he was saying and he knows that president trump someone who's actually reaching out and appealing to all americans from some of the things he said specifically when he addressed congress. do not underestimate him. >> juan: some of the bounce back, i saw a piece in "gq," what is going on with van joness jumping on the bandwagon but i heard other things he said about trump in the wake of the address on tuesday. i don't think they were very becoming of president trump. he is remaining liberal but he's very smart in saying you better wake up. i don't think you have a shot at 2020 unless you put someone up close smart, likable. as you know, it's hard. >> kimberly: he's being honest. >> juan: if you are looking and saying lies van jones being so praising of president trump. >> dana: i don't think he's praising him. i think he's talking about reality and the democrats are having to rebuild from the ground up. it's not only the presidency they lost but over the last eight years, the

van jones even praised the speech yesterday.tch mcconnell said i saw myself in a strange position of agreeing with van jones for the first time in my life. [laughter] >> sean: ari, you have been a lot to a lot of these. i thought this was hyper partisanship. >> i do remember what it was like to be a republican when barack obama took office. hope republicans did not want to stand and give the president applause, that is traditional. that brings people up to their feet and the other party has to sit there looking dour and trying not to look too dour. the power of the speech last night was it put wind in donald trump's sales. it allows them to get momentum and to show leadership and competence and strength. that is powerful. that also sends a sign for it to republicans that they need to do things the president is asking them to do. frankly, he needed this point in his presidency and i am glad he got it last night. >> also the morale today, from the people i talked to including the president, it is off the charts. very good momentum

let's remember who van jones was.obama administration, only there for a couple of months and had to resign because he called republicans a holes and it was discovered that he signed a 9/11 truth or petition. now in the media we give guys like van jones these huge platforms to express their views print >> sean: do you have any doubts that cnn and nbc and most of these networks "new york times" have made a decision they're going all in and if it means telling lies about russia, you heard of john solomon earlier tonight on this program. sara carter earlier on this program. there was a fisa warrant and another ward, no evidence to back up all the lies we've been hearing on tv for months. >> follow the money, "the new york times" and "washington post" and msnbc and cnn, their numbers are better because they positioned themselves as opposition, just like steve bannon said. there are networks that are engaging in what they think their audience wants to hear, the supplying red meat. here's the thing, positive news about donal

>> first let me say, find semysf in agreement with van jones first time in political life. for people not committed to donald trump already, he did become presidential tonight. and i think we'll see that reflected in higher approval rating. and also seeing my colleague chuck schumer, he was having a hardtoma cr time critiquing it. change. didn't vote for change in congress, wanted somebody to sign the bills we want to pass. repealing and replacing obamacare, comprehensive tax reform and deregulating america and getting it moving again. inspirational speech, widely applauded as you can imagine on our side but greeted with a lot more applause and respect on the other side than i would have anticipated. >> the president, senator, gave us -- spoke to a few reporters today, including jake and me and said this, quote, the time is right for immigration bill as long as there is compromise on both sides. are you ready for comprehensive immigration reform right now? >> yeah. we're anxious to see what the president wants to do about imgrachlgts we node we need a stronger border and im

period. >> many liberals especially on social media are not -- let's emphasize not pleased with van jones president. >> ankagela wright is one of th. it's good to have you here. >> great to be here. >> van saw that moment as the making of a president. the ladies on the view today thought it was exploitation. listen to this. >> i thought that was so exploitive. i thought he exploited that widow. it was so hurtful to me. because we know that u.s. military officials have said to the press that obama didn't give the green light because he felt the mission would market an escalation in yemen and that president trump without the intel, without the appropriate ground support approved this at dinner while not in the situation room and was tweeting. so when i look at that, i think my god, how do you exploit the woman who is grieving over the loss of her husband, the father of her children when you sent him there without the appropriate ground support? is it possible to separate the politics regardless of who the person is to honor the widow of for the service of her husband for a moment? >> i thin

van jones, angela rye. thank you very much to both of you.t at the penalty gone, we have some news that russia accidentally bombed u.s.-backed forces inside syria. we have details next. >>> just into cnn, the top commander says russia and syrian aircrafts accidentally bombed u.s.-backed forceses. i want to bring in pentagon reporter barbara starr. barbara, tell us what happened. how did this happen? >> well, brianna, this happened in villages in northern syria. they thought they were fighting in areas where isis was. it turns out they had withdrawn and u.s. forces had moved in. when they saw what was happening and they knew that their own backed fighters were in these villages, they got in touch with the russians on a communications line that they used and got it all sorted out and those air kraftd then withdrew. it's perhaps a real signal of how complicated the battlefield is in northern syria, how many different players are there on the ground in the air and how tough a fight that may be coming as some of those fighters begin to move on raq

i'm van jones, now look, today was a crazy day even by trump's crazy standards. okay?d sean spicer in the briefing, in the scene that really just could have just been saturday night live. you just take the tape, play it on saturday night. we had a senate intelligence committee where basically they called the president of the united states a liar. over his wiretapping claims, which apparently are totally phoney. and then we got our first look at the trump budget, which basically just drops a bomb, financially and economically on trump's own supporters. so look, tonight

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i'm van jones. now, here's a messy truth.urns out repeal is easy, but replace is kind of hard. republicans have had seven years to figure this out. four national elections. and they still can't get together on a plan. this week, conservatives from the club for growth, the heritage foundation, tea party patriots have all come out against the republican's bill. so have american medical association, american hospital association, aarp, and group after group after group. they come out with a plan and the roof just falls in. i want to bring in a trump translator to help us figure this whole thing out. and he's the best one that there is. he's the senior economic adviser to the trump campaign. he's also a cnn contributor. bring to the stage stephen moore! an economic mastermind, wizard. glad to have you here. get up here! get up here! appreciate you, my friend. >> how you doing? >> very, very good. >> i've got to say, i've been watching this show for the last 30 minutes. there's not a word i disagree with. maybe there is a little -

you don't want to miss "the messy truth with van jones."tapper starts right now. >> thanks, dana. speaker ryan says republican fights on the hill are growing pains, growing pains. does that count as a preexisting condition? "the lead" starts right now. >>> republicans backing off president obama ticked off, but president trump not tapping out. after he claimed without a shred of proof that the former president tapped his phone. >>> repeal and repeat? conservative critics blasting the plan to replace obamacare as president trump heads out to make his first big sale and warrants of an electoral blood bath if republicans fail. >>> plus, cia secrets leaked, how

van jones, you, sir, are a lawyer.ance of paul manafort agreeing to come speak to the committee. >> it's like agreeing to the sun coming up. he was going to have to speak to the committee. while it's fine for him to volunteer to do that, that train had already left the station. i think the bigger picture for most americans is that you have a situation in which confidence is beginning to sink in the ability of this chairperson to do a fair job. it seems to a lot of people that you've got somebody who got information, maybe it was disturbing, maybe it wasn't, but rather than dealing with it inside of that committee he decides to take it upon himself to run over to president trump who is under investigation by the fbi and spill the beans. that creates a crisis of confidence. and part of the problem you have right now, we aren't even done with the first hundred days, but the termites are all over american confidence. you have so many things that are going on where confidence is going down, down, down, in the basic competen

van jones was just the most striking example to me. this -- it wasn't just the idea that he sounded presidential, but it was also the way that van jones, and i'm sorry for singling him out, but it was just such a clear example, the way that he positioned himself. he sort of said, okay, there are people who want donald trump to continue to be a buffoon and there are people who want him to become president of all americans, as though these are two equal sides. and van jones stands in the middle right next to donald trump, who is in the middle. >> yeah, it is a confounding thing, and i think it's a challenge for the media. i would advise everyone to reread these eight rules that masha gessen has put forward for us, how to deal with an autocratic situation. thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. >>> next, why are the republicans keeping their new health care plan such a super-duper secret? the future of business in new york state is already in motion. companies across the state are growing the economy, with the help of the lo

discuss can van jones, host of "the messy truth." david urban, and brian fallon and jack kingston. eeng aevening to all of y. van, start with you. $150 million, $36 million in taxes. >> if this were leaking to hurt donald trump, i don't think this is the right form to release. for ordinary people going to say, guy says he's rich business dude, made $150 million, and paying taxes. it's weird. because trying to hurt donald trump, this is not devastating thing to release. >> brian, you wanted this information in the campaign. do you think it makes a difference now? nothing in there bad for the president. >> i agree. never predicted coming on the show and throwing cold water on a report about donald trump's tax returns, but i don't think we learned anything at all interesting tonight. two pages from one year. turns out paid $38 million woshlg of taxes. i think owes the public all the tax returns to get to the bottom of the financial holdings and connections to russia. this would be a mistake for democrats to be distracted by. i think pivot right back to talk about the health care repeal

. >> jeanine: that's amazing when rachel maddow and van jones as well. this speech was all about what we needed to hear. what we want, we want security on what we want jobs, we want to make sure that we have health care, but the man has delivered it in a way that made sense. >> harris: you mentioned van jones, he was one of the people who said the president was presidential and he said he became a president last night. again, i think that's extremely calm located for democrats. when you look at the total picture, where are we today, because that's what really matters. >> charlie: was astonishing to me is that they couldn't find an actual elected democrat to deliver the response. >> harris: that's my question, where is the future? a >> charlie: he called himself on republican first and then he started talking about fiscal responsibility and all these things you never hear it chuck schumer or nancy pelosi talk about. >> jeanine: what doesn't make sense to me is that there has to be loads democrats who want to criticize him, so why him? >> meghan: they do h

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let's discuss now, van jones, the host of identify messy truth," david urban and brian fallon, fornl eformer press sec for hillary clinton's campaign and jack king stoston, a senior adviser to the trump campaign. what do you make of the tax returns, made $150 million, paid $38 million. >> if someone is trying to hurt donald trump, i don't think this was the right forum to release. the guy says he's a rich business dude and he's paying 25% taxes. i think romney paid 14%. so it's weird because if they're trying to do something to hurt donald trump, i think this is not the most devastating thing to release. >> brian, you wanted this information during the campaign. do you think it makes a difference now? there's nothing in here that is bad for the president. >> i agree. i never could have predicted i'd be coming on your show tonight, dopp, and throwing cold water on a report about donald trump's tax returns but i don't think we learned anything at all interesting tonight. it two pages from one year. it turns out he paid 38 million worth of taxes. i do think he owes the public the full r

our van jones went there to get "the messy truth," and he joins us next. >>> to night on cnn "the messy truth," town hall with host and commentator van jones who recently traveled to the arizona-mexico border to talk security and, of course, the wall. >> i wanted to see it for myself and talk to the people who live this reality every day, like the bunnell county sheriff's deputies. if someone is able to go under, over or around the border fence, they walk through this desert and across the highway and disappear into the united states. >> haven't joins us now to give us a preview. great to see you. is that you just going under the border there? >> close to the border. that wasn't the actual border. i don't want to get droned. there's so many different barriers that people go through, i came away even more confused about what's going on. i found latinos who are living on the border who are for trum and who say, hey i found people who work for law enforcement who say some of the stuff has to make this stuff worse, not better. once you get down on the ground in reality, it's messy. >> that

i'm van jones. we have a lot to talk about tonight. plus i have the most incredible man in the world to talk about it with. trevor noah is here tonight in the house! this will be amazing. so look, the world is still going crazy. we have the obamacare repeal, the russians, we have crazy tweets and crazier tweets. but for me, things really got crazy last week. here's my messy truth. i need to own my messy truth. i made a lot of y'all really mad last tuesday. i see you. i see you. right after the trump speech, anderson cooper replayed the applause that congress had given a navy s.e.a.l. widow. as she stood up, some people dismissed it as cynical. my dad was in the military. that moment moved me. it moved a lot of people. i said this. >> he became president of the united states in that moment. period. there are a lot of people who have a lot of reason to be frustrated with him and to be fearful of him and to be mad at him. that was one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in american politics. he went back to being coo coo

. >> selena, we heard from van jones who has been a real critic of the president. he said this is the moment that the president seized the presidency when he was watching that speech, watching that moment with the navy s.e.a.l.'s wife. tell me, do you think he has gotten his critics, did the president reach across the aisle? >> he had a number of point where is he reached across the i will. he called for unity. and point where is they can work together, specifically infratrur. which is not only important to republicans, it's incredibly important for voters. if you look around and see the crumping bridges even the decaying water and sewer systems which impact daily lives. we remember last year with flint, michigan. you know, these are the things that are really important to people. not only do they make their communities better in their communities, but they also create jobs. and i think that's the one really key policy that he can bring people together. >> i think you're right. i want to play that sound. and then get greg's thoughts on the other side. if you listen

let's discuss with cnn political commentator host of "the messy truth," van jones and kaley mcen in any. >> thing was overlooked in devin nunes's comments, i don't have proof that trump was wiretapped by president obama. in the course of surveying a foreign diplomat or foreign diplomat overseas, we know according to dna procedures you minimize what you do in those instances, you stop surveilling unless you have proof of a crime. we might have incident surveillance. >> that's not what he said. >> nunez said that was -- >> that's not what the president said. he said that president obama wiretapped him and called him a bad or sick person. there's no proof of any warrants out on him according to republican lawmakers. this seems to be now a desperate catch as catch can. how is it proof of that? >> there's no proof we know of. we do know mike flynn was surveilled, he was wiretapped. >> no, he wasn't. the russian ambassador was. they picked up flynn on a conversation, and we don't know that happened in trump tower. very different. >> at which point they should have minimized their surveillance

you don't want to miss "the messy truth with van jones." "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >> thanks, dana. speaker ryan says republican fights on the hill are growing pains, growing pains. does that count as a preexisting condition? "the lead" starts right now. >>> republicans backing off president obama ticked off, but president trump not tapping out. after he claimed without a shred of proof that the former president tapped his phone. >>> repeal and repeat? conservative critics blasting the plan to replace obamacare as president trump heads out to make his first big sale and warrants of an electoral blood bath if republicans fail. >>> plus, cia secrets leaked, how america's spies can turn our gadgets against us. now that the secret is out, though, how much is u.s. national security at risk? >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we're going to begin with the politics lead. welcome to obama tapped my phone island. population, president trump. the white house saying the president has no regrets ab

van jones, as you noted here, had nothing but anything nice to say.t was a home run. >> a home run. we now talked about last night. yes, we're only 41 days into this presidency. let's talk about 2020. why don't we? openrah winfrey on bloomberg ne was speaking with carl, group founder david ruben stein was asked if she would ever run for president. let's listen. >> never considered the question even a possibility. i just thought, oh, oh. >> right, because it's clear that you don't need government experience to be elected president of the united states. >> i thought, oh, gee, i don't have the experience. i don't know enough. i don't know. now i'm thinking, oh. >> right. >> simone, is this the new face of the democratic party you're looking for? >> look, anything is possible. clearly, if 2016 taught us nothing, it taught us that. before we get to 2020, we, as you know, have to get through midterms, have to get through 2017 and then 2018. yes, oprah could run in 2020, but someone could pop up a year from now and they could be the democratic candidate. we

van jones, known democratic activist said donald trump took control of the presidency that night andmoving forward. today, h in florida. talking about his educational choice plans. people know that it's not russia. the issues they're interested in are jobs, the economy, national security, controlling the borders >> i'm going to jump in. i believe there are a lot of people out there who are still concerned about russia in addition to the other things that you mentioned. we're almost out of time, brad, i want to let you respond to your thoughts on the speech >> i thought it was fantastic that we finally got to see donald trump be able to speak in front of the american people with a teleprompter. he did a really good job with a teleprompter. and his people should probably give him a teleprompterer more often. the number of people who watched was down by about 10 million, they're not watching donald trump. they're turned off by the way he's handled the administration in the first 30 days. guess what? we're a third of the way through his first hundred he's accomplished squat. >> mike lane

gloria borger, jeffrey lord, van jones, town hall tomorrow night, and alan dershowitz on the phone. professor dershowitz, you were referenced by president trump saying even you believe that they will win at the supreme court. is he right? how spried are you by the president's comments about the ninth circuit and going after this judge in particular? >> i think the president makes a mistake going after judges. he quoted me correctly, i do think he'll win many the united states supreme court. it will be an important decision because it will be the first time a court has hand led political statements during the campaign used to strike down a facially constitutional statute. i hope the president doesn't misinterpret my statements to say i support the order. i don't support it. i'm opposed to it. there's a difference between not supporting an order on policy grounds and finding it up constitutional. i do not think it's unconstitution unconstitutional. i think the supreme court will uphold it even if gorsuch is not yet on the supreme court. if he does make it there in time then it will be

even cnn's van jones who has turned into a high-profile political commentator praised the president after his speech. >> he became president of the united states in that moment. >> reporter: it was those ten words that prompted this tweet from colorado girl, she writes wow, meantime if messages and comments continue. you'll see comments really on both sides. but you'll also see a number of messages praising the president for a more unifying speech than what he's given in the past, larry miller, wusa9. >> if you want to join the conversation speech, consider using the hashtag #trumpaddress or hashtag #jointaddress. >>> it's one of the most eagerly awaited birth notices in the area. when will the cherry blossoms arrive? the national park service delivered the news this morning. experts say the famous trees that lined the tidal basin will be at peak bloom from march 14th to the 17th. after our mild winter it could be the earliest period on record. and the start of the date of the cherry blossom festival moves up to instead of march 20th the festival will begin march 15th and run through apri

howie: van jones was talking about that emotional moment with the widow of the fallen navy seal. it was called optimistic, uplifting, called for unity. didn't really change his positions, but rare praise for this president. >> he didn't change his positions. he just made them sound nicer. i wrote a reasonably favorable column about his speech. howie: were you grimacing when you wrote that? >> people expected him, i don't know, to talk about and polled arnol -- totalk about arnold schwarzenegger's bad ratings and he didn't do that. >> he reached out to democrats during the speech. and some of the criticism of the story i wrote is i'm surprised you covered the speech straight. howie: this speech was how the pundits and the media in general want trump to behave, to be reasonable sounding and bipartisan sounding and not engage in all the attacks. they don't like when he's firing thing off on twitter and it's kind of chaotic and attacking the press among others. 24 hours later everyone is talking about jeff sessions. >> it's not just pundits and his foes who want him to behave in a mo

howie: van jones was talking about that emotional moment with the widow of the fallen navy seal.was called optimistic, uplifting, called for unity. didn't really change his positions, but rare praise for this president. >> he didn't change his positions. he just made them sound nicer. i wrote a reasonably favorable column about his speech. howie: were you grimacing when you wrote that? >> people expected him, i don't know, to talk about and polled arnol -- totalk about arnold schwarzenegger's bad ratings and he didn't do that. >> he reached out to democrats during the speech. and some of the criticism of the story i wrote is i'm surprised you covered the speech straight. howie: this speech was how the pundits and the media in general want trump to behave, to be reasonable sounding and bipartisan sounding and not engage in all the attacks. they don't like when he's firing thing off on twitter and it's kind of chaotic and attacking the press among others. 24 hours later everyone is talking about jeff sessions. >> it's not just pundits and his foes who want him to behave in a more p

van jones said he became the president of the united states in that moment period.hat was one of the most extraordinary moments youv may have ever seen in politics. ryan owens father refused to meet with the president saying his son was killed unnecessarily. mike baker, i'll start with you. there is always some utilization of emotion when you have people in the audience. >> my soul hasn't sunk that low that i will attribute nefarious motives to this. a lot of those moments are genuine in a sense. i agree there is a political purpose behind it, but i still like the fact that we highlight important things. if a person is willing to put themselves out there. i would say, there has been a lot of this discussion about ryan's dad and his dad being upset. that's every parent's right. so i think that the problem with president trump's reaction is that he should have just said i made the call, i thought it was important, and we have suffered such a loss and leave it at that. anything else in that situation is always open to be taken the wrong way. that operation, no matter w

speaking out shortly after the signing, van jones tweeted president trump signed a death warrant fore climate protections that were already too week. michael moore taking to twitter with this prediction writing historians in the near future will mark today, march 28, 2017, as the day the extinction of human life on earth began thanks to donald trump. a lot of anger out there. >> the social media reaction to sean spicer's joke. >> hammering him for saying this in response to the media's endless stream of russia related questions. >> i said from the day i got here, there is no connection, you got russia. the president puts resin salad dressing on his salad tonight somehow that is a russian connection. some accused him of making light of a serious situation but others, writing you are all such haters, this country has no sense of humor anymore. later made hilarious little joke and really pledging to give 5 bucks to a crowdfunding campaign dedicated to delivering 10,000 bottles of salad dressing displacer's office. you never know what will come out of these press briefings. >> trying to

. >> van jones called it the moment that he became the president. >> that's right. >> and that was aoment that really resonated with all sides. >> the way he started with condemnation of hate of all kinds. the way he talked about the kansas city attack last week. the way that he honored the widow of mr. owners, all of those things were incredibly moving. >> yeah, right out of the gate, started with the message condemning the hate that we've seen. probably should have come earlier, nonetheless, nice to see last night. >>> president trump willing to go where his predecessor would not, on the terror threat. how is the middle east reacting to the president's call to fight radical islamic terror? the valiant taste times of death, but once!! uh, excuse me, waiter. i ordered the soup... of course, ma'am. my apologies. c'mon, caesar. let's go. caesar on a caesar salad? excuse me, pardon me. what's not surprising? how much money matt saved by switching to geico. could i get my parking validated? fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >>> last night's congressional address was

. >> cnn's van jones wanted to see just who is going to be affected by these cuts.isit christa patton, she's here in new york and depends on meals on wheels. listen. >> think you should try to put yourself in my situation and what would you do? as i indicated, i'm on a fixed income, basically homebound, haven't been out of this apartment in like seven years. how else would i eat? i don't know. >> you saw congressman chris collins there, watching. van had him on the show. is she a typical person who benefits from meals on wheels? >> yes. >> and what are her options. >> many of the clients live on $900 a month of income in san francisco. imagine if we're not providing meals. this is not just value add but the difference, as the client that you just heard, it's difference between life and death and being able to survive. and this is not uncommon. this is true across every community of the country. i think what is really troubling is as you look at first round of cuts and community development block grant, these are targeted predominantly at low income communities and c

liberal analyst van jones said this after the speech. >> he became president of the united states in that moment. period. that was one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in american politics. >> even his worst critics were left to admit that at the very least, he had some of the high notes. >> tucker: thank you. despite the resignation of michael flynn, president trump has signaled he has no plans to move against his attorney general, despite all the newsha today. h just a short time ago, the president released this statement...ll that has not satisfied democrats, of course. a democrat representing the state of rhode island, he serves in the house judiciary. and foreign affairs committee. he tweeted this today... he joins us. now. thank you for coming on. >> thank you, it is good to see. >> tucker: it seems like you are getting a little head of the story if you're already mentioning perjury. >> it is very disturbing, the attorney general of the united states testified before the american people and before a senate committee. he gave false testimony. he said he did n

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liberal analyst van jones said this after the speech. >> he became president of the united states nott. period. that was one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in american politics. >> even his worst critics were left to admit that at the very least, he had some of the high notes. >> tucker: thank you. michael flynn, president trump has signaled he has no plans to move against his attorney general, despite all the news today. it just a short time ago, the president released this statement. jeff sessions is a modest man. he has not done anything wrong. he could've state of more accurately. the democrats are overplaying their hand. they lost the election and now they lost their grip on reality. the real story is all the illegal leaks of classified information. it is a total witch hunt. that is not satisfied democrats of course. a democrat representing the state of rhode island, he serves as both the house were to sherry house judiciary. he tweeted this today... he joins us now. thank you for coming on. thank you, it is good to see. >> good to be on here again. >> tucke

be sure to watch "the messy truth" with van jones, other special town hall tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. eastern featuring chris collins and karim abdul-jabbar. >> and thanks also to the studio audience. "cnn tonight" with don lemon starts right now. >>> wolf, dana. thank you very much. breaking news tonight on three big stories. very bad run for president trump. second defeat for travel ban tonight. federal judge in hawaii blocking it just hours before it was supposed go into effect. health care bill on life support. president's own party with enough votes to block the measure and nobody but president trump defending the infamous ware wiretapping claims as he insists quote interesting items will come out in the next two weeks. trump administration and priorities under assault tonight. president is facing potential loss on health care, almost no support now for wiretapping claims and new tonight, block on the second travel ban. what is the latest? >> i'm here in nashville, tennessee, filled with people an hour or so ago. campaign rally the kind we saw over and over again for donald trum

van jones, cnn contributor, one of the harshest critics of this president said that is the moment when he became president. jackie, how did you see that moment? >> the moment it happened you knew that was going to be what we'd be talking about this morning. it was -- in a speech that really was -- while the tone was different, it was very partisan -- there was a lot of partisan divides. this was something you saw almost everyone in the gallery stand up and applaud because her sacrifice transcends party, creed, everything. you could see that right there in that room last night. >> the type of thing the president should do. the type of thing the country should do honoring those who were lost in service of the nation. our hearts go out to that family for rebecca, jackie. a lot to get to this morning. we have a lot ahead. the president might have pushed to unify the country last night, but the reaction from democrats in the office, a different story. we'll talk to democratic senator edward markey straight ahead. >>> also a major shift on immigration. the president signaling he could give m

van jones at cnn. here's the kicker. now, never trumpers don't have an argument, at least for now. >> dana: why can't you look at it the other way? maybe now they have somebody they can agree with. >> eric: the opposition party of the democrats and then the anti-trumpers and the pro-trump group. now they're saying he is compelling and patriotic. two and a half minute standing ovation. they're going to have a hard time pushing back on him now. it puts the democrats in a box. this morning you saw pelosi and schumer coming out negative on the speech. it almost highlights they are about being obstructionists. not about what's best for america. all they are as anti-trump. >> dana: this will be a good conversation for another day. i wanted to mention something that obama's former speechwriter said. good speech. now comes the policy. onboard. 48 hours, it's not going to last that long if you are a democrat that's upset. you will have plenty of things you can complain about in the next four years. >> kimberly: they have to give

. >> the president's move drove the left so badly that cnn commentator van jones actually charged ontter that mr. trump had signed a "death warrant for planet earth." the president and his aides scoffed, insisting they can protect the environment and create jobs by finding a better balance on some of those epa regulations. martha prior >> martha: thank you, ed. here now, oklahoma senator jim inhofe, senator, good to see you tonight, there is a lot of very strong rhetoric tonight, as you might imagine. let's put up a headline from the post that is also surfaced. the folks at home can take a look at that. here it comes. "trump puts the planet on a dangerous path, children starting his presidency will ask, how could anyone have done this." are they were to be afraid, senator? >> not at all. people lost track of all this is really all about. clean power plant is what obama tried to do. back in paris, he said he was going to do that. he said he specifically was going to reduce co2 emissions by 27% by 2,030. now, martha, even his own epa said it can't be done. one of the directors that he

tonight -- jason sudeikis, from "the path", actress michelle monaghan, cnn political commentator van jonesglobes last night, and used her acceptance speech to criticize donald trump. that's right, the all-time queen of american drama was criticized

to what friends across the room trying to get out of mitch mcconnell in addition to the praise of van jones. instructive of the politics of the moment, wolf asked about the president saying immigration reform that allows the path to legal status. let's see what the president recommends. asked again, see what the president recommends. president pulled a pin and rolled a grenade into capitol hill. most conservatives, especially tea party guys view legal status as amnesty. don't want to touch this right now. they have bigger fish they want to deal with like obamacare and tax reform. mcconnell saying you want us to do this, you put your name on it, go around the country and sell it, don't ask us to do it. >> wasn't in the speech. >> example of what he would like to model after, really surprising. but what he said -- >> conservatives, could argue about whether it is or isn't. conservatives believe to give legal status to people who came in illegally is amnesty period. some even clou the dreamers. for the republicans to deal with these issues when trying to deal with other things is distraction t