. president except abraham lincoln. and an open microphone captures two senators ridiculing a fellow lawmaker. we have that audio for you. let's begin on capitol hill. another busy day. >> reporter: >> reporter: senate republicans won an important legislative victory but it underskoend the painful process of trying to unite the gop around one particular plan, a comprehensive plan to repeal and replace obamacare. it was one in a series of amendments and proposals and that fell short. >> suffering its first setback, the senate decisively rejecting the gop's most comprehensive replacement plan, nine republicans voting against the measure. the senate expected to take up today senator rand paul's proposal to repeal obamacare with the delay on the replacement plan for two years, a measure the cbo estimates will leave 32 million more americans uninsured and is also expected to fail. >> this is just the beginning. we're not out here to spike the football. this is just a long way, we'll finish at the end of the week hopefully. >> the senate with a tie-breaking vote with vice president mike pe

are one thing, and feelings are another, and the truth on this, the pure fact is, abraham lincoln and adolf hitler have a lot more in common than robert e. lee and adolf hitler. robert e. lee did not kill civilians. abraham lincoln did. the union arm came into the south and killed over 70,000 southern civilians, men, women, and children, black and white, slave and free. so, yeah, they did that. you can study some history and find that out. it's very easy to look at. as far as comparing robert e. lee -- >> abraham lincoln, anti-slavery, as a result of that, states wanted to secede. i don't think we want to compare adolf hitler and abraham lincoln. bill, thank you so much. thank you. we got to go. historian, i just got to bring you right in. >> well, i mean, i was ready to talk to this gentleman about the pain of eras where people are -- fight for the losing side and the lost cause and the fact that we don't hold every foot soldier responsible for the actions of their commanders, but then he compared abraham lincoln to adolf hitler. >> you can't compare abraham lincoln -- >> let me say.

. and now they are looking at the sculpture of abraham lincoln inside the lincoln memorial. donald and melania trump and their adult children. ivanka. there's jared kushner who will be a top aide at the white house. >> it is kind of remarkable for anybody to sit there and look at the giant gorgeous statue of the 16th president. but to be standing there looking at that thinking, i'm about to be the 45th president. must be absolutely mind blowing. >> it was a -- not an official speech. he seemed to be speaking extemporaneously, president-elect trump. talking about how he was just the messenger speaking to the crowd and then afterwards, a lot of cheers of "usa, usa" from his supporters here at the lincoln memorial extending down to the reflecting pond. >> how about the fireworks. >> spectacular fireworks. >> have you been down here for the fourth of july? >> i have, but those were so much better. >> that was. we talked about maybe sometimes being a little jaded with fireworks. even for the jaded, that was a firework presentation. it was remarkable. >> now we're hearing "don't stop bel

says this. >>> with the exception of the late, great abraham lincoln i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. that i can tell you. >> meanwhile senator john mccain returns to the senate 11 days after brain surgery and says this. >> i hope we can again rely on humility on our need to cooperate, on our dependence on each other, to learn how to trust each other again and by so doing better serve the people who elected us. >> two speeches, two american leaders. which one sounds president tool you? let's get to the presidential historian, kirsten powers and rick santorum of the senior political commentator and matt lewis. tim, you're first. the historian on the panel. here's what president trump said. >> political correctness for me is easy. sometimes they say he doesn't act presidential. and i say hey, look, great schools, smart guy. it's so easy to act presidential. but that's not going to get done. in fact i said it's much easier, by the way, to act presidential than what we're doing here tonight, believe me and i sa said -- and i said with the except

crowd in ohio this. >> with the exception of the late great abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. that i can tell you. >> this is cnn. sorry, i'm don lemon. how presidential is he really. >> reporter: president trump starting his day at the crack of dawn where else? on twitter. targeting? attorney general jeff sessions "ukrainian efforts to sab bo taj trump campaign quietly working to investigate clinton. where is the investigation, ag? then attorney general sessions has taken a weak president on hillary clinton crimes? mr. president, those e-mails and the servers did hillary clinton no favors during the election. she lost in part because of that. you won. we all know that. we've moved on. shouldn't you? then in an interview with the "wall street journal," the president downplayed then senator sessions' valuable early endorse the saying it was really all about the crowd size. here's a quote. "he was a senator. he looks at 40,000 people and he probably says what do i have to lose? and he endorsed me." here's the truth. s

. believe me. and i said with the expectation of the late great abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. >> so, congressman you saw the enthusiasm for him at that rally, they like what they see and what they're get g from this president. his support is not waivered, are they wrong? >> he had six or 7,000 people at the center in youngstown, ohio. i don't think it's unusual for a president to be able to draw that many people in a community center. what the people of ohio are going to be looking for is deliverables, that was a campaign speech no doubt about that. it was similar to a lot of speeches that he made when he was in ohio earlier don, in the last year and a half he promised to expand medicaid, to protect people against preexisting conditions, a billion dollars infrastructure bill, he was going to open the steel mills and the coal mines. none of that has happened. he promised to address the opioid conditions. he reversed the promises. he's gone backwards or stayed neutral and not even offered a job's program for people in youngstown.

, fresher, brighter denture, use polident every day. >>> abraham lincoln would probably not be electable today because of television. he was not a handsome man and he did not smile at all. he would not be considered to be a prime candidate for the presidency. and that's a shame, isn't it? >> was he right? if his use of social media is modern day presidential, what does it say about modern day? could the brilliant guys on mt. rushmore win an election now? and how would lincoln play on twitter? ooh, this is a good thread. with malice toward none, with charity for all. with firmness in the right as god gives us to see the rights. let us strive on the finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have born the battle and for his widow and his orphan. to do all which man achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. in the end, twitter is just a tool, like a blade or a flame, kit be used to harm or heal, to create or destroy. and with all tools, it all comes down to the person holding it. >> with the exception of the

than abraham lincoln. it's what he first said. i can be presidential. that's easy. but that's not going to get it done. what does that mean to you? >> well, to me, i think what it means to millions of people who were kind of like captured by the idea that we would consider electing this first outsider as president, the idea was that it would take an outside voice who was a littlest respectful of the way things are always done in washington, someone ha had a hewn niq unique and aggressive view on how you get your agenda done to take on what he views as the liberal bias in the media, to take on the swamp, as he calls it. the rbureaucracy in washington, d.c. and all of those foes that stand in the way of republican president es. >> i argue with you. i think he's telling us that. but, his public opinion polls might beg to differ. >> i don't know. i mean the one thing we have in this country i was on the presidential campaign in 2,000 which was settled in a that recount in florida. we are incredibly polarized. we've been like that for a very long time. we were like that under obama, tr

the moment before the statue of abraham lincoln, pausing and standing there. trump will take the oath of office with his hand on a lincoln bible. sara is out front live with me tonight. as you watched this, the pause as they got off that -- on that jetway, standing in front of abraham lincoln at the lincoln memorial, does it appear the enormity has sunk in? >> reporter: up with of the things you learn covering donald trump this long is this is not someone who spends a lot of time on self-reflection or on ceremonial events like this. we have not seen things like that this from him throughout the course of the campaign, but there were a number of moments today watching him with his family in front of these historic monuments at arlington national secemetery where it ses like the weight, the gravity of the responsibility he is about to take on began to finally set in. donald trump is leaving his gilded trump plane behind in new york trading it in for an air force jet as he and his family touched down thursday in the nation's capit capital. he arrived in washington to spend the night

. this is a president who likes to quote abraham lincoln, who likes to say we are the party of abraham lincoln but is it not his charge to do what lincoln said in his second innaug recall? and can he do is that. >> i think can he. it's question of whether he chooses to. what bothers me is if you think about how divided this country is, the one thing or one of the few things that really unites us is the idea that nazis are bad. we are the country whose grandparents defeated the nazis so the fact this provides an opportunity for the president to go and say this is the thing that should really unite us together, and it was a missed opportunity. he chose not to dru in a enemy. chose not to say what unifies us as a country. >> it wound up creating a new division because he forced media to take it on. >> not just the media. republicans. >> true. people had to take up the conversation because he failed to to it. gentlemen, thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> so, president trump's finally denouncing the hate groups by name. what did it do? what was the net effect of the statement you see on

you money. call, visit, or go to xfinitymobile.com. >>> abraham lincoln would probably not be electable today because of television. he was not a handsome man and did not smile at all. he would not be considered to be a prime candidate for the presidency. and that's a shame, isn't it? >> was he right? if his use of social media is modern day presidential, what does it say about modern day? could the brilliant guys on mount rushmore win an election now and how would lincoln play on twitter? oh, this is a good thread. with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness and the right as god gives us to see the rights, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have born the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. in the end twitter is just a tool, like a blade or a flame, it can be used to harm or heal, to create or destroy, and with all tools, it all comes down to the person holding it. >> with the exceptio

or abraham lincoln's at that time to you pulled down or vandalized as happened in chicago, those are not bad people. he may not have the communicated all that effectively. he should have people working with him so he gives a speech like he did tonight about afghanistan where it's pretty clear what he means to say. i disagree with those who think what the president is trying to say is there is some good nazis abd some good klansmen, just i don't think he thinks there are good al qaeda or taliban. he needs to be clearer in his communications. i think he lost an opportunity because as paul ryan said on monday, he was very clear. on tuesday when he was impromptu, he left a lot of room for ambiguity. people can interpret as you have and ana has. not as i have. that is unfortunate because he blew an opportunity. >> cliff, if you were going to a rally and let's say you were upset with a statue coming down and you saw people with nazi symbols and saying racist things, would you continue to stay there and support it? do you think very fine people were among the crowds there? >> look, i th

the mantle of being the party of abraham lincoln. i said last night you have to feel these moments and understand what they mean for the history of this country. the history of the republican party is abraham lincoln is the father of our party. we're the party of lincoln. failure to embrace that heritage on a weekend like what we're experiencing right now is a moral failure. we have to have more clear moral leadership. i would recommend the white house communications operation continue to understand what it means to be a republican president, being the party of lincoln and recommend to the republican national committee they make a clear unambiguous statement if someone out there is trading on the president's name and claiming to be part of the republican party, they are not welcome in the party and if they do not speak for the republican party. i think the white house has a role to play. i think the republican national committee has a role to play. i've seen local republican leaders do that. it is vital the republican party get this right. we're the party of lincoln. we are the par

lincoln did it. >> yes, abraham lincoln did it during the civil war which is different from now. >> we're -- >> the idea -- >> almost. >> that a president -- i mean, much credit to donald trump, frankly, for saying see you in court rather than saying i'm ignoring the court. newt gingrich's lunacy is not anything anyone should look up to. >> i'm not advocating this. there is a school of thought up there that you can do this and it has in fact been done by other presidents, notably abraham lincoln. >> there is a note in school the moon is made of cheese -- >> of course. >> isn't there a more main stream argument that we might make that this is the responsibility of the executive branch? i think that would be actually what the trump administration's position would be and that would be a lot of conservatives position and a lot of conservatives are saying of course, the ninth circuit would do this. such a liberal court and they get overturned all the time and this is a power that resides with the president. that's the conservative argue sglmt . >> we got to take a quick break and we'll continu

here tonight, believe me. and i said -- with the exception of the late, great, abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. that i can tell you. >> now, clearly president trump has been taking flak including from members of his party for treatment of jeff sessions. that seemed like a not very veiled riff about what was going on there. as for session' fate, from trump gave no clue. >> joining me, michael bender, "wall street journal" reporter, asked the president about attorney general sessions. attorney general sessions the first sitting senator to endorse the president during the campaign. you had a fascinating exchange with him about sessions and about, loyalty. and about that early endorsement. what did he say? >> well we tried to ask him a couple times about what he was going to do with sessions. he wouldn't take the bait. just kept saying he was disappointed. and then he started talking a little bit about white house personnel and mentioned anthony scaramucci. trump wanted to tell how scaramucci didn't endorse walker. he endorse

other president except abraham lincoln. wednesday the president drops a bomb tweeting that he wants to roll back the clock and ban transgender troops. that night, new communications director, anthony scaramucci implies in a tweet that reince priebus is behind leaks and says he'll contact the fbi and justice department. thursday, republicans warn the president not to fire ag sessions. senator lindsey graham vowing they'll be holy hell to pay. anthony scaramucci's profane on the record attacks on priebus setting off an absolute firestorm. also thursday, cnn reports that national security advisor h.r. mcmaster is at odds with the president. and that brings us to the early morning hours today. susan collins, lisa murkowski and john mccain think the gop repeal bill spins into chaos again as the president accepts the resignation of reince priebus naming john kelly his new chief-of-staff. that was just in a week. back with our panel to discuss. so much to go over here. april, is there anything typical about this week in washington? >> not at all. not at all. i've been doing this for 20 yea

exception of abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president -- >> donald trump is presidential in the same way that kid rock will be senatorial. >> this is "new day" with quchr cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> a shot at one of your favorites, kid rock. >> up first, one step forward, another step back for gop senators. they voted to begin debate over health care. their first vote on the plan to repeal and replace obamacare failed. nine republicans voting against that first major proposal. the senate continues debate today on a repeal with a two-year delay replacement plan. >> president trump is intensifying public attacks over his attorney general jeff sessions. the president started z this and seeded this discussion about whether or not sessions is out and now is say, well, he doesn't know whether or not sessions has to go. he does call the russian investigation and sessions' recusal unfair to the presidency. cnn has everything covered for you. let's begin with cnn's suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning, chris. senate republicans obviously

>>> abraham lincoln would probably not be electable today because of television. he was not a handsome man and did not smile at all. he would not be considered to be a prime candidate for the presidency. and that's a shame, isn't it? >> was he right? if his use of social media is modern day presidential, what does it say about modern day? could the brilliant guys on mount rushmore win an election now and how would lincoln play on twitter? oh, this is a good thread. with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness and the right as god gives us to see the rights, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have born the battle and for his widow and his or fan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. in the end twitter is just a tool, like a blade or a flame, it can be used to harm or heal, to create or destroy, is and with all tools, it all comes down to the person holding it. >> with the exception of the late great abraham lincoln, i can be mor

founding principle of our party, that of a united country. we are the party of abraham lincoln and our founding principle is our commitment to holding the nation together. john danforth, who served three terms in the u.s. senate and is an ordained episcopal priest, joins me now. senator, nice to see you. welcome. >> thanks a lot. >> so tell me why you don't think president trump is a real republican. >> the history of the republican party sholdi ings holding the n together. that was the basic principle at the beginning of our party. we're the party of abraham lincoln, we're the party of the union, and it's been the fundamental mission of the republican party from the beginning. and trump is absolutely the opposite. he is the opposite of what a republican is. he's a divider, he set one group against another, he makes people hate each other, resent each other, treat people as though they're not really part of the country. so he is the opposite of what a republican is. he's the opposite of what the country is all about. and it's very important for republicans to make it clear that donald

night with the exception of abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. this brutalizing, as you put it, coming from the president of the united states, do you, senator, find that presidential? >> well, the president's unique. the president is our president. we wish the president well. but in this instance, i also wish attorney general jeff sessions well. >> let's also -- i want to read you the rest of the president's tweet. trying to pull it up. >> he is talking about andrew mccabe, talking about the $700,000 for his wife's political run. he said this before. let's move on to a new policy from the president directly this morning that he wrote on twitter and that is saying that in no capacity, senator, will transgender individuals be allowed to serve in the u.s. military. this is a complete reversal of an obama administration policy. he is saying this comes from his generals and his military experts. is this a move that you support from a president who vowed to support the lgbt community more than hillary clinton during the campaign? >>

about the history of this memorial, not just abraham lincoln , but everything that has happened here. this is where people come to march, to -- >> to march on washington. we just celebrated martin luther king day. >> precisely. and we saw so many of those images on monday when people were remembering martin luther king. but this is such a platform for people to come here and speak their mind and use the tools of democracy, which is the ability to speak their mind. you know, the fact that john voight can stand there and say what he's saying and all these people can cheer. i know this is going to sound maybe really cheesy, but this is what democracy is all about. and this is what this two-day span is about, is celebrating that democracy. >> sure. and eight years ago when there were stars like beyonce and others performing behind us, celebrating president-elect obama at the time -- >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, it is our honor to present to you the president-elect of the united states, donald j. trump, and his wife mrs. melania trump. [cheering and applauding] ♪ there are so man

lincoln. you know what the late great abraham lincoln did as the civil war closed down? he goffave a second inaugural address where he said with charity for all, with malice towards none, we need to find up the wound of the nation. that's what a president is expected to do. >> so you have a president who sees neo-nazis and those opposing neo-nazis as competing interests. >> equal. there is no sort of moral clarity here. there is no sense that they are not equal and that he may sea somebody was violent. they shouldn't have been. this was a nazi rally. the president didn't really acknowledge that today at all. he talked about, well, on the one hand and on the other hand, what is next to come down? is thomas jefferson's statue next to come down? >> they were innocently, i keep using this phrase, innocently and legally protesting. >> even the mayor of the city said that the protesters, the anti -- the racist protesters didn't even abide by their own permit. they started coming way into the city and the routes that they weren't supposed to. the counterprotesters would not have been there

. we're the republican party, abraham lincoln is the godfather of the republican party. i want to feel that he understands what it means to embrace that mantel and tonight and tomorrow and in the aftermath of charlottesville, i want to see him embrace that. he has brought up lincoln, he's brought him up on the campaign trail. i want to see him channel the spirit of abraham lincoln. he's a republican president, he can do it and i hope comes back and gets its right. >> thank you both for joining me. >> thanks. >>> this is c, nn breaking news. >> i'm ana cabrera in new york. it's the breaking news on cnn,

, abraham lincoln is the godfather of the republican party. i want to feel that he understands what it means to embrace that mantel and tonight and tomorrow and in the aftermath of charlottesville, i want to see him embrace that. he has brought up lincoln, he's brought him up on the campaign trail. i want to see him channel the spirit of abraham lincoln. he's a republican president, he can do it and i hope comes back and gets its right. >> thank you both for joining me. >> thanks. >>> this is c, nn breaking news. >> i'm ana cabrera in new york. it's the breaking news on cnn, terror in virginia. some erlly casualty figures coming in from a day of violence in charlottesville, virginia. one person is dead, at least 19 others hurt after a speeding car plowed into a crowd of people during an already chaotic city wide protest. i have to warn you what you are about to see is very graphic and shows people being very badly hurt, possibly killed. again, the city of charlottesville just releasing that one person who died when this car suddenly plowed into a crowd of people, at least 19 others wer

abraham lincoln meant when he said he prayed more after he became president. so they feel that load no matter who they are. if they're a businessman like donald trump or if they're an experienced, hardened politician like lbj. they're all going to say it's harder than i thought. >> yeah. sally, president trump also told reuters that he loved his previous life, the freedom he used to have. now it looks like pretty much what howard stern -- by the way, we learned a lot from howard stern over the course of the campaign. but howard stern said this just 12 days into this administration. he predicted how president trump would be feeling. listen to this. >> i really was sincere. i said, why would you want to be the president of the united states? it's -- you're not going to be beloved. it's going to be a [ bleep ] nightmare in your life. he stepped into a situation that's really not a win for him, and it's going to be -- he's a 70-year-old guy. he's got a great life. gorgeous wife, all the acute remanhattr reme rementes. now to step into the mess, you know, there are people who are better sui

. the southern states should have accepted the democratic process, the election of abraham lincoln and the reduction and perhaps the elimination by the federal government of the institution of slavery. they refused to do that. they seceded. that is what caused the civil war. if andrew jackson could have stopped that, that would have been wonderful. if he could have stopped the secession of the south, if he could have helped the south to recognize and perhaps accept that slavery might be reduced and eliminated, that would have been great. but there is nothing -- there is no evidence that andrew jackson believed that the union should stay together and slavery should end. andrew jackson was a supporter of slavery. and there is no evidence that he would have supported the staying of the union and the elimination of slavery. >> i just want to read this, selena, and i want to get your response. cnn's editor at large chris cillizza wrote about it in an article. president trump wants to make the case that if jackson had been president the civil war wouldn't have happened in order to make the c

than every president except abraham lincoln. >> abraham lincoln later apologized. >> on wednesday he seemed to surprise the joint chiefs by banning transgender soldiers from the military. on thursday -- well, that was the scaramucci explosion day, and that went public. on friday, obamacare, the repeal and replace failed and reince priebus resigned. i think there was actually more that actually happened that week. that's just a starter course for where we are. >> there really was. two other things, one is that jared kushner came out publicly, put a public face after operating largely behind the scenes and said he didn't collude at all with the russians. the other, of course, the president had to come forward and signal at least with a brief statement he was going to ultimately sign that sanctions legislation. look, this really is a reset week for the president. last week was fairly catastrophic week. i think everyone inside the west wing recognize that, not only an opportunity, but a mandatory opportunity to take back control of the process. >> i want you all to sit back and imagin

public sentiment is everything? abraham lincoln. the public has to know what they are doing to our future. we all agree that we want to have the military that we need to protect the american people. we take an oath to protect and defend our constitution and the american people. but our strength is not only measured in our military might. it is measured in health, education, and wellbeing of the american people. because the people are not only our inventors and our family, people who grow family and community and build our country. they are also our soldiers. so we see, again, a budget is supposed to be a statement of values. what the president is doing is quite outrageous. he is throwing out the window years of compromise in terms of parity, similar amount for defense as for domestic. at the same time, it's important to note that defense is defense, but domestic is also veterans, homeland security, the state department, and all that is involved in our security and soft power as well as weapons sales and the rest of that are in the domestic side of the budget. so honoring our camp david co

history's. >> we certainly haven't been bored. that's for sure. even when abraham lincoln was in the presidency, who was a great debeat at debater. he never liked to speak extemporaneously. he never wanted to be unprepared. he knew words matter. >> the president had an interview with reuters. he said, it's not as easy he thought it would be. it's harder than his old job of i guess being on "the apprentice" and running a real estate empire. he seem wistful for his past life. one predictor is having an occupant who loves the job. >> no question. teddy roosevelt said with every fiber of my being i love being president. that's why i didn't want to give it up. fdr, somebody asked him, why would anyone want this terrible job? he said, why wouldn't everybody want it? it's the best job in the world. there was a wistfulness. the difference is that however busy he was before, however much in the public eye, he could sort of control his agenda. he could decide what he wants to do during the days. events control presidents. they don't have that freedom. they are in a cocoon. they can't drive a c

abraham lincoln. >> so i guess what i'm confused about is how can you say that the hacking had no impact on the election when mr. trump kept invoking wikileaks which was printing, publishing things that the russians had hacked? obviously he thought it was going to have an effect on the election. >> well, having an effect on his debate answer and the clinton campaign because it was quite embarrassing to watch her closest advisers question her judgment and question whether she would ever find her voice and wondering allowed why she was testing 48 slogans to find out who she was and what she had won on. this guy had make america great and never change. that's very embarrassing, them calling chelsea clinton, a spoiled brat. that's very uncomfortable but that's what was hacked. the rnc, apparently there was an attempted hack on the rnc i'm informed but they had an efficient cyber security fire walls in place. cnn's own reporting showed this week that the fbi asked the dnc to have access to its information, to its server i guess and to its information and the dnc refused to turn that ov

, and abraham lincoln, many of our greatest presidents fought with the media and called them out, oftentimes on their lies. >> on their lies. so here's the quote from thomas jefferson. it says, were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, i should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. this is a founding father who of course as we know supported the first amendment, freedom of the press julian, what is your reaction? >> thomas jefferson believed deeply in the free press, the press, to the survival of this republic. he was frustrated as the press became more partisan, but he believed in the media as an institution. i think the comparison of president trump is different. what many feel they are watching is a president who was just questioning the legitimacy of the entire media. not simply as being too partisan, he's arguing they are just putting out fake news, and this is a different kind of attack than we saw with previous presidents. and it's not clear to many people how much he even values the press

that just came out. and she lied. now she's blaming the lion the late, great abraham lincoln. >> so i guess what i'm confused about is how can you say that the hacking had no impact on the election when mr. trump kept invoking wikileaks which was printing, publishing things that the russians had hacked? obviously he thought it was going to have an effect on the election. >> it had an affect on his debate answer and had an effect on the campaign because it was interesting to find out where she was wondering allowed testing 84 slogans to find out who she was. i know that's embarrassing. and then them calling chelsea clinton a spoiled brat. that's very uncomfortable. that's what was hacked. there is an apparent attack on rnc i'm informed but they had sufficient fire walls. reporting showed this wee that the fbi asked the dnc to have access to its information, to its server i guess, and to its information. and the dnc refused to turn that over to the fbi according to cnn's own report. all this amounts to a simple fact, which is that alleged attacks, alleged aspirations to interfere with o

divided against itself. famously quoted by abraham lincoln. we're pus i divibus dividing ou house. if i'm putin, i'm enjoying the show. it also has historic precedent. the other stuff, to me, i don't want to speculate. >> all these sort of paid relationships, occasions where members of the administration, been paid for this or that, that you don't think is an attempt to buy a mole or buy somebody. it's more of just trying to raise the questions in everyone's mind and plant these seeds of hmm? >> yes. and there's probably some naivete in play, particularly with our president who was never really in the realm of international politics and there's things that can happen that way. but i just cannot at this point -- it would be improper for me to go down that path to speculate any more. >> besides dividing the house, is there an ulterior motive here by putin? in other words, there is another grand plan yet to come. >> well, i think it's not a secret that putin, the russians are trying to rebuild what they lost, for the long time never had and sort of had under stalin, which is soviet/russian e

to act presidential. with the exception of the late, great, abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. >> he said that, he really did. with us to share their reporting and their insights, abby phillips of the "washington post." and cnn's dana bash. cabinet members, the old saying goes, serve at the pleasure of the president. except for attorney general jeff sessions, he now serves at the displeasure of the senate. >> i want the attorney general to be much tougher on the leaks from intelligence agencies, which are leaking like rarely have they ever leaked before, at a very important level. these are intelligence agencies, we cannot have that happen. i told you before i'm very disappointed with the attorney general, but we will see what happens, time will tell. time will tell. >> time will tell, the president said there, that was yesterday. earlier today, detaunte appeared to be in the works, for the white house to crack down on leaks, and white house aides appeared -- just an hour ago, the president asked, quote, why didn't a

monuments. abraham lincoln straightly said, be warned of the danger of mob rules and attacking monuments. we've seen in the wake of this thing, it's absolutely the wrong thing to do. >> can you put this debate into some perspective of the final moments that we have here? >> well, i agree of what happened in durham ripping down these statues where these have to go. i think we've hit a turning point. cory booker is onto something and the time to come to get rid of confederate statues out of the u.s. capitol. i'm siting here in austin, texas, the capitol is just right off. it has a plaque, one of the most important laws, the war between the states was not a rebellion nor was it under lining the cause of sustained slavery a plaque right now where slavery is not apart of the civil war. right next to where an african-american state office is. it is a giant memorial in the texas capitol. those things have to go. that same up in 1959. it is the jim crow plaque that put up because the south did not like the brown decision. >> totally writing history. it is called the creed of the childr

the day saying he's more presidential than any other president except abraham lincoln. wednesday the president drops a bomb tweeting that he wants to roll back the clock and ban transgender troops. that night, new communications director thoib anthony scaramucci implies in a tweet that reince priebus is behind leaks and says he'll contact the fbi and justice department. thursday, republicans warn the president not to fire ag sessions. senator lindsey graham vowing there will be, quote, holy hell to pay. ryan lizza posts anthony scaramucci's profane on the record attacks on priebus, setting off an absolute firestorm. also thursday, cnn reports that national security advisor h.r. mcmaster is at odds with the president. and that brings us to the early morning hours today. senator susan collin, lisa murkowski and john mccain sink the gop's obamacare repeal bill, and the white house spins into chaos again as the president accepts the resignation of reince priebus, naming general john kelly his new chief of staff. ooh, that was just in a week. back with our panel to discuss. so much to go

, really, since abraham lincoln, the hope in the greatest presidents have been those who have brought the country together, who have found a way to find some theme, some idea, some policy that somehow brings people together, somehow unites them, somehow transcends issues of race, ethnicity, gender. here you have, really extraordinarily in a country that has become more mixed and multicultural and has all these diversities within it, you have somebody who is really trying to drive those distances forward, really trying to sharpen them. >> that's where he wins. >> steve bannon says, when the left starts talking about identity, i say bring it on. in other words, they want to sharpen those divides. i kind of get it at a political, cynical level, but i don't get it as president. when you're president, you would hope there would be some effort to transcend. by the way, it would also be better politics. you and i have talked about t s this. from the start had donald trump said, i'm going to be a different kind of president, neither left nor right, because i can do that. i'm going to

the biggest fan of. >> abraham lincoln, great president. most people don't know he was a republican, right? does anyone know? >> thanks for watching, fareed saturday kara, gps starts right now. >>> this is global public square. welcome to all of you in the u.s. and around the president. >> how would the u.k. and the world grade 2ru7the president's performance so far? well brexit on the horizon, what is the future with

jackson, martin van buren, franklin roosevelt, abraham lincoln and particularly john f. kennedy have had family members in the white house in the cabinet or highly placed and they depended on them and so should trump. >> all right. guys, moving on, conservative columnist fox news contributor charles krauthammer he said that donald trump jr.'s e-mails are proof of attempted collusion. >> i don't think it's illegal. i don't think anyone is claiming it's illegal, but the one thing that it does, it totally undermines a six month story from the white house to which i was empathetic, that there wasn't any collusion. this was a bungled collusion. this is amateurish collusion, this is keystone kops collusion, but it doesn't change the fact it was attempted collusion. >> he says collusion over and over again. even if there's nothing illegal about what happened here the e-mails they're black and white. do you agree with his assessment that this is now evidence of collusion? >> no. i don't. i think it's silly. former speaker gingrich called this fevered insanity. i think that an apt description

. >> abraham lincoln, great president. most people don't even know he was a republican, right? does anyone know? >> thanks for watching, fareed zakaria "gps" starts right now. >>> this is "gps the global public square." welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from london. today on the show, we've hit the six-month mark of the trump presidency. how would the uk and the world grade his performance so far? >>> what do america's allies make of the president's relationship with vladimir putin? and with brexit on the horizon, what is the future of europe? i gathered a terrific panel here in london to discuss all that and more.

most presidential. >> he could be. >> the second best presidential since the late great abraham lincoln. okay we'll take two on all that bit president from the white house. he was criticized by a speech he delivered to the boy's scout. >> just think of the amazing moments in history you will witness during your life time. you saw one on november 8th right? right? that was a pretty amazing dr that was a pretty amazing moment we have and we're doing a good job, our country is doing so well now. we're building up military, getting great job numbers best in 17 years. >> carolin? >> my response would be the job numbers are part of a trend we saw in 2008 that started under obama administration. but in terms of applying to the crowd, this man has a 36% approval rating the lowest in history and he's if you remembered his audience. >> but you're in front of a group of kids, i mean. >> how do you tell a group of kids about how rich he is. what's the difference. >> he's definitely unconventional. >> never mind. >> okay. >> john thank you very much. >> thanks guys. still to come, marking 64

looking at the consensus of scientific experiments and scientific observations. abraham lincoln, the first republican president, signed into law in 1963 -- a year when he had important things to be thinking about -- he signed into law the national academy of sciences. because he knew that science mattered and should matter in governance. >> and you know we build our cities on the basis of science. when we fall ill, we don't go to the local witch doctor, we go to a doctor even though all of that science is still -- there are advances going to be made, none of it is settled in the sents that -- >> well, you know what is settled? settled science is the science that has come out of large bodies of research that all agree. when you see scientists arguing -- and i said if you think scientists want to always agree with one another, you've never been to a scientific conference because people are duking it out. but what are they fighting over? not the settled science that's been in the books. we're fighting over the bleeding edge of what is not yet known and that is the natural course of scie

of walt whitman and speeches of abraham lincoln. >> as a woman of color, i think it's tease say, oh, we should support american ideals. if every single one of us were asked that question we would all give a different answer. we're all diversity. and the melting pot is not a bad thing. >> people have to be aware that they have to be accepting of everybody. that's why i support donald trump because donald trump really knows american exceptionalism. he knows we put ourselves first. >> i'm saying the economic system is built up to prorceven the world from going to war in a major way. >> and political system with nato. these are very important. >> how does nato stop -- >> we are nato. >> and we are nato. >> yes, we are. >> we pull out -- we pull out of eastern europe and our people will feel -- i'll hope it doesn't happen either. if we were to ever pull out of that, you watch it crumble. >> all agree this is a divided country and just have to go our merry way? >> i think it's very important for us to talk. i would love a chance to talk with republicans about what's happening. what they s

late, great abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. that i can tell you. >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm chris cuomo in for don lemon. no matter where you look tonight you're going to hear the news that president trump is supporting alabama senate candidate roy moore. but it is why he's doing it that should really be the headline. here's the president today addressing the man accused of assaulting two teenagers, one 14 at the time. >> we don't need a liberal person in there, a democrat, jones. i've looked at his record, it's terrible on crime, terrible on the border, terrible in the military. i can tell you for a fact we do not need someone who's going to be bad on crime, bad on the border, bad for the second amendment? >> mr. president, is an accused child molester better than a d.c.? >> look, he denies it. if you look at what is really going on and you look at all things that have really happened over the last 48 hours, he totally denies it. he says it didn't happen. he said 40 years ago this did not happen. >> what we are see

washington was the father of the country. abraham lincoln held it together. ronald reagan saved us from communism. now, donald trump will save us from ourselves, he will build a strong economy. >> he's done excellent as far as i'm concerned. >> reporter: sonny sim summons like everybody here, the good news about donald trump is getting swept under the rug. >> reporter: what do you think hasn't been reported that's been ignored? >> he has sat at that desk no telling how much legislation that never gets mentioned. >> reporter: you made up a good point he said himself he signed more legislation than any president since harry truman. >> he has! >> reporter: here's the thing, though, objective people find out he has signed less than any president since eisenhower. so it's kind of the opposite and the question is, why do you think -- >> who figured that out? >> reporter: it's easy to count them. objective people count them. >> if it weren't for that democratic senate, we'd have some good stuff done. >> reporter: does it concern you when he kind of double shifts a bit, kind of fibs? >> kind of