and religious studies of villanova university joins us via skype now from pennsylvania. from philadelphia pennsylvania thanks very much for being with us so let me ask you first of all this this is quite significant isn't it the first time a pope is visiting the arabian peninsula what do you make of that. story is it because. it really represents the kind of message what stresses now it was a. global war all there is much more than it used to be the catholic church is really acting as a messenger of the area for eternity and also facing a significant headwinds not just google or all but also with the only other church were people francis is sometimes in is today a logical to do too much if you manage to go north enough so i would even when i was in the just explaining just explain what what i mean. well if you got a church there he is in the western world especially in north america especially there is this really it around what kind of catholicism the pope should interpret and there is ease efforts in reaching out especially the tourists muslims in muslim countries that are

out of state to new jersey pennsylvania even as far away as ohio virginia and south carolina and until recently america was doing a brisk business selling its crap to china but now even china is leery times of changed awareness of the public is much greater about health issues now than it was when newby began newbie is one of the largest active landfills on the shores of san francisco bay i don't think his voice miss america the city of milpitas filed a lawsuit against san jose over environmental impacts caused by the landfill the bay area air quality management district which has received two thousand new be landfill order complaints has issued new b. island five public nuisance violations related to odor issues according to a district spokesman they're still negotiating the fines. trash is a big business and an unfortunate it's a smelly business too don lynch field is the northern california environmental manager for public services the community itself seems to have some concerns about this site and the owner problem that they're experiencing unfortunately we've been a little

? someone who it's claimed has the answer is punxsutawney phil — the famous groundhog from pennsylvania. so what's his verdict? the bbc‘s tim allman will tell us. for more than 130 years, they have been coming to gobbler‘s knob. the aim is to glean some vital information from a small, furry mammal, who appears to be blessed with an extraordinary gift. this is punxsutawney phil — well, not the original one, of course — the groundhog and pa rt—time meteorologist. ok, look me in the eyes. every year he's asked, can he see his own shadow? if he can, it's said winter will last another six weeks. it's not immediately apparent how he conveys this information. we have a prediction! but convey it, he does. so, is it early spring or a more winter forecast? stop the music. here is my forecast. faithful followers, there is no shadow of me. a beautiful spring it shall be! of course, punxsutawney phil was a relative unknown, until the hollywood blockbuster groundhog day came out in the early 1990s. now, he is a worldwide phenomenon. all hail groundhog supremacy. if i were you, i'd go out an

trying to maximize employment in stabilize inflation around 2%, and it is not care what pennsylvania avenue thinks about that. it is doing its own thing and trying to serve the economy, not serving the president. david: it is important to know that it was not just the two of them, the secretary of the treasury was there, the vice chair there as well. but at this point, from what jay powell has said recently about the fed and where it is, do these men differ in their outlooks? it seems like the chairman has already moved toward the president. >> that is an interesting question. consistently, they have had a very much seen the u.s. economy as a strong one, something that is consistently bringing out solid job numbers, and where we do not see inflation taking off. i would say they have not been in disagreement over the economy itself, but they have been in disagreement over the direction for interest rates. until january the fed has been on a pretty clear path toward higher interest rates. it now looks like they are taking a pause. i think the real question now is whether that pause is

midwest, the hartland, the great lakes states, from pennsylvania to iowa. >> reporter: his wife is often at his side. a liberal newspaper columnist and fierce campaigner who could be a powerful partner in a race. he talks about trump, testing this line with van jones. >> i would say that i will beat trump in ohio where they know me. i'll beat him in my home state and his home state, new york, where they know him the best. i have been working on that. >> reporter: if he jumps into the race, the democratic primary will be a task for a little known senator. >> looking for something different. if my hair looks worse than bernie sanders, it's time for a haircut. i figured that. >> reporter: brown could be competition for bernie sanders, ho is expected to jump into the race, soon. as brown makes up his mind, he will travel to new hampshire, followed by south carolina and nevada, trying to make a decision if he will join the race for the presidency. one democrat must be able to speak to trump country. jeff zeleny, cnn, iowa. >>> breaking news to share from moscow. >> the kremlin reports vladimi

winning the election. she flipped 70,000 votes in wisconsin, minnesota and pennsylvania, she would be president. it's razor thin. and klobuchar going at that electability issue in her speech today. smart consultants in the democratic party believe the upper midwest should be the focus for the democrats come general election time, not the southwest, not the sun belt but the midwest. and she has a track record of success there. so very different than mondale, who lost 49 states and only won minnesota. >> let's move on to elizabeth warren. you saw her blunt warning, that president trump might not even be a free person come 2020. maybe a change in strategy, taking him on so directly. >> yeah. >> what does that tell you? >> the cynical part of me says maybe she's been in a little bit of a tough series of news cycles over the story that has dogged her for a while now about her -- how she has or hasn't used her lack of native american heritage, right? and i thought maybe she was trying to get past that, trying to move -- look, attacking trump or trump attacking you is the best thing that hap

rose to the presidency through pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, ohio. and democrats, if they're going to win have to nominate a candidate who can compete with him in those states. could somebody like elizabeth warren make a credible play across the midwest? >> she believes she can on populism and economics. on jobs. she'd say the president was a fraud. he promised all these things and hasn't delivered. a lot of republicans think if you have medicare for all and the new deal. the republicans say read it. if they implement that agenda your energy taxes are going up, costs are going up, the government will be refitting buildings and it's going to cost a fortune and impact your lives. the president says here's 2020 from the state of the union. wasn't as much a governing speech as it was a campaign speech. >> we are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country. america was founded on liberty and independence and not government coercion, domination and control. tonight we renew our resolve that america will never be a socialist country. >> democrats would say that's way

cardinal theodore mccarrick in the united states and of course that explosive pennsylvania grand jury report which revealed 300 predator priests had abused more than 1,000 children in that state. and christine and boris, as you know in the united states, we have seen multiple law enforcement investigations not just at the state, but local and federal levels. so it is really a reckoning for the church at this time. christine. >> one hopes there are concrete results. long overdue, you're absolutely right. rosa glflores, thank you. >>> smollejussie smollett is fa charges, police say he planned a racially motivated attack on himself. they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again! >>> who the [ bleep ] would make something like this up? >> chicago police say you did. jussie s

wall, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. this state has been rig32 count switched to vote for donald trump. how and why did that happen? >> i'll leave that to the pundits but i'll tell you -- >> if i'm a democratic voter and i want trump gone, i want a better answer than that in the sense of don't you have to know why it happened to know how to fix it? >> no question. not only why it happened but i think the bigger question is, what do the american people want from their leader? that's the question i ask. when i sit down with folks in their living rooms, in a coffee shop, in a town hall, what they're talking about is the need to be able to -- to be able to work hard and pay the bills at the end of the month. >> joining me now to talk about this democratic strategist, maria cardona and ben ferguson. listening to john ask this question and i asked candidates process questions before. that's what this is. it's a process question. they always hate it. they say they only want to talk about the issues. maria, shouldn't she have a better understanding of what blew up the blue wall in 2016?

for maine or nebraska, every state is winner take all. one more vote in pennsylvania you get all the pennsylvania electoral votes. the question is what would the role of an independent be in that election. perot, interestingly, the polls afterwards said -- the conventional wisdom is he beat george bush. 36% would have voted for bush. 36% would have voted for clinton. 24% wouldn't have voted. so the idea that an independent will draw from one or the other of the parties i don't think is really there. >> when you dig into the polling and take him out it was 42-43 bush to clinton. we appreciate you being here. >> absolutely. >> thank you. john? >> senator elizabeth warren dogged again by new revelations about her heritage just days before formally jumping in the 2020 race. why is she apologizing again? next. ♪ introducing le vian links of love, only at jared. visit jared.com for $100 off any le vian purchase. every day, people are fighting type 2 diabetes with food, family and farxiga, the pill that starts with f. farxiga, along with diet and exercise, helps lower a1c in adults with t

building the old post office on pennsylvania avenue that will be a phenomenal hotel. >> isn't -- >> clearly, they weren't using e verify, even though the president said they were. why do you think that is? >> again, this is all politics. the president, right now, we've got over 10 million undocumented people in the united states, and what we need is a pathway to citizen ship so that these 18 people at the trump organization can continue working at their jobs without fear of being fired because if you don't have ten, 11 people working, then you've got even larger problem and so what we need is a pathway to citizen ship, put everyone to work and that will both grow the economy and also be right thing to do. >> the president's inaugural committee has been subpoenaed and looking into allegations of conspiracy against the u.s., false statements, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, inaugural committee disclosures, violations and laws prohibiting contributions by foreign nations and contributions. wow. in the name of contributions in the name of another person. i want to make s

of pennsylvania avenue, i want to go to jim acosta at the white house. what's the reaction been from the white house on the hearing today? >> reporter: well, anderson, so far no reaction from the president yet. we did hear from him yesterday saying that he thought whitaker would do a good job. my understanding from talking to sources over here, i talked to one white house official earlier this evening who said that they thought that the hearing for matt whitaker went about as expected. and the one item that they were really listening for was that exchange over whether or not matt whitaker had briefed the president on the mueller investigation. when whitaker denied that, they felt that pretty much matched up with what the president has said in the past and according to this white house official, who i spoke with earlier this evening, the president and matt whitaker have not had a discussion about the mueller investigation and that's their story over here and they're sticking to it. keep in mind, anderson, matt whitaker, you might say his five minutes are almost up here in washing

, former republican congressman from pennsylvania charlie dent and congressional reporter from "washington post" carin demergen. thank you for being here. and congressman, what did you honestly think about the way whitaker conducted himself in that hearing? >> well, ana, i think there was a lot of theatrics, a lot of drama, not a lot of substance. whitaker is a short timer, as we all know. he will be out of this job probably in a week or two. he is going to be gone. he is probably auditioning for something else. to be fair mueller is not fired. whitaker says he did not interfere with the mueller investigation. i'm assuming he is telling the truth. so i think this is really more just of an opening act. this is just the first round in what will be a very robust democratic effort on oversight of the trump administration. >> the congressman says he is auditioning, an opening act, was whitaker basically testifying for an audience of one, the president? >> i mean potentially. look, we have seen with past people, either on television or in front of congressional committees, when they

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from pennsylvania. thanks for taking the time. >> good to be with you. >> you heard the report. the governor of virginia is asking for time to clear his name. does he deserve the time? >> i think he should step down. it's offensive to tens of millions of americans. also, when you hear from senators tim kaine and warner, both served as governor. they can speak to the question of effectiveness. that's conclusive. >> moving on to the president's speech tonight, we are hearing consistently from advisers that his intended message will be one of unity and possibilities, areas of bipartisan cooperation. in your view, can this president unify the country? >> we'll see. i hope he'll speak to or use language of unity and have an affirmative plan going forward, especially on things like infrastructure. i would like him to focus on a broad agenda for children to finally have something akin to a marshal plan for kids to help everyone in the long run. early learning and helping kids when they are young. he should say no more shutdowns while i'm president and work to make the federal workers whole

publisher kit today! . >>> all right. live pictures there in punxsutawney, pennsylvania, we are about to hear from a famous weather profit, he is the most famous of ground hoggs, you probably heard his name, pennsylvania's punxsutawney phil. every february 2nd he wakes up from hibernation to predict the weather. if he sees his shadow, guess what? six more weeks of winter. >> i'm going out on a limb here saying he is probably the only famous ground hog. >> here's the thing, spring will arrive soon, let's see if that happens. >> a little more than an hour to go before we see him. you see the crowds getting excited. his owners say he is 100% accurate. but the national atmospheric organization says he has no skill for the last few years. we'll wait to see. probably the goofiest prediction we have in america. >>> all right, we are a day away from the biggest u.s. sporting event in america of the year, the super bowl right here on cnn, are the los angeles rams and the new england patriots pairing off. >> they continue throughout the weekend. there is the mercedes benz studio. cnn's cayley hart

a lot like wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania in its voting patterns. and those are the three states that if hillary clinton had won in 2016, combined with the states she had, she would have won the electoral college. >> another big announcement over the weekend, elizabeth warren. there was a time when folks considered elizabeth warren a front-runner. but still the issue of having claimed native american heritage repeatedly. you had a citizen of the cherokee nation telling cnn over the weekend that she still needs to make a clearer public apology here. and i just wonder in the polling, in what you have seen and heard, is this still a major issue for her? and is it one that she can overcome? >> i would say a few things. number one, remember. elizabeth warren announced she was forming an exploratory committee in late december. so you had a whole month of this coverage. we could see where the polls are then versus now. we saw warren did not see much of a spike in her percentage of the vote nationwide that democrats said they were willing to vote for her which is very different fr

thousands of jobs that would be impacted. in the midwest, ohio, spence, -- pennsylvania. texas, north dakota where joe manchin is in west virginia and my home state of kentucky. this would dramatically, fundamentally alter the u.s. economy and would put a lot of people out of work. and i'm not sure the american people are going to be ready for such a fundamental change in the way our economy works, for central planning of the way we build buildings in this country. there was discussion of the idea that we don't need air travel anymore. and this idea that we're going to replace it with high speed trains. they can't even afford to build in california. so if you look at the political implications of this and the key critical states that are going to be important in 2020, it is easy to see why republicans see advantage in this. >> what is your response? >> yeah. well, first i hope that we can start dealing with facts as we talk about the resolution and what i hope to become a bill. scott, you know as well as me, there used to be a time on capitol hill where you could introduce legislation which

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able to potentially appeal to the white working class voters in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, ohio that determine this race in 2016. >> do you hear that at the white house? >> yeah. that is a major line of thinking around the president about some of the demographic mechanics of trump's win. if you talk to people about trump it's not just demographics. i think a person needs to be car asthmatic biden does have that draw. he has been known to be a more person. i think the idea is that donald trump makes the path a little easier for him. it makes it easier to go on out there. >> president trump also watches crowds, electricity and he said several times now he is watching harris. i think largely because he saw her announcement rally a week and a half or so he saw the town hall he did. he watched all of that. that is something people around the president aren't quite as convince that had biden would be the hardest. >> i'm not sure they figured out thousand brand harris. he branded a lot of other people. >> outside of the kinds it strikes me one of the greatest dangers is going too

changed in pennsylvania where very clearly was hired as a white woman and harvard i reached out to i believe at the time 50 different law professors who voted on her appointment, none of them that have recanted their statement at the time, which was this was not an issue within they hired her. in fact, most of them did not, were not aware that she had this claim. so that hasn't changed. but as you point out, i mean there is a new document that came out that right on the heels as she's about to announce her formal bid, the presidency you know is bringing this conversation back to a topic that she definitely does not want to be talking about. >> i don't understand why she's apologizing, if she never use you had it for professional advantage, then who cares how elizabeth warren regarded her heritage? >> reporter: well the apologies have swollen in an unusual way. she initially privately apologized to the chief of the cherokee nation and that apology leaked out in the press. then she sort of made it into a more broad public apology. she is apologizing for the harm caused for calling hers

. the plains states from pennsylvania to iowa. >> jeff joins me now the brown was asked about another 2020 hopeful and didn't have the kindest of words. what happened? >> reporter: one person weighing heavy over all of this race is howard schultz, the ceo of starbucks. a voter was talking about howard schultz. listen to how senator brown answered. >> reporter: an idiot on not. i don't know if you could hear that. clearly a sense of frustration among democrats that they believe mr. schultz could be a spoiler here. the reality is sherrod brown is considering this race, not fully in yet. so interesting as cory booker was jumping in earlier today. there's a sense should there be candidate from the middle of the country, making the case for that here today. >> all right. thanks very much. >> the climate is different now. does it require a different type of approach by a candidate? >> you know, it's a very good question. the question is do people want a more confrontational figure? do they want someone that can knit the country back together? there's a pretty good argument in the fa

the post office on pennsylvania avenue i'm building and will soon be a phenomenal hotel. >> not just that it's a bad look for the organization, given what the president said, you also now have senators like senator menendez who just wrote a letter to ihs to investigate the treatment of some workers there. >> that's right. whether they were exploited or told, don't worry, we will get you false papers, take care of it for you. this is at the very least hypocrisy of the president and his organization employing illegal workers at the time he wants to lead this kind of national crackdown and not using everything at his disposal. these are questions the organization will have to answer for. he kind of fits the profile, right, of an employer in the country who wasn't doing everything possible to stem the flow of illegal workers coming into his country and now saying they're ruining the country and taking jobs from other people. more fundamentally, this makes the case why we need comprehensive immigration reform. workers wouldn't come across the borders forever they couldn't get jobs and com

jobs. as joe pointed not my hometown of harrisburg, pennsylvania, there was a big promise to deliver hundreds of jobs there. none of those have ever materialized. so it's not surprising to see foxconn trying to back out again here. and while the president has tweeted that the deal is back on, or that things seem to be moving forward, and i'm encouraged by that i would note, the company has not made any promises about when it will break ground, when it will start hiring. and it's still unclear, what, if anything, workers, particularly, blue collar workers, would do at the facility in wisconsin. they initially were supposed to be building flat screens that could be used on televisions. the company still seems hesitant to commit to that particular industry. >> so, joseph, let's explore this then. if you're bringing up the skepticism and the inability or refusal for foxconn to make good on the 2013 deal, then why are you so confident that the 2019 statement, that's as much as we got, yeah, they will be both there now, that bring any more blue collar jobs after the phone call or more as y

he really stunned the clinton campaign by winning, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, that is where a joe biden could pick up some ground. it's where an amy klobuchar could pick up some ground. around trump there is a reality that there are tenets who can really block his path. but there are real candidates who can do that. he may take some jabs but that comes from knowing that the vice president would be in such a position. >> this came up during the 2016 campaign after corwin lewandowski was fired. he was fired and people said, stay away from him. trump called him all the time. because of that, this jumps out to me to watch in the days and weeks ahead for potential fireworks. a power storm between trump's campaign and those who watch has already emerged. corey lewandowski and david bossie were not invited in the meeting. lewandowski and bossie have the president's ear. they do not have a seat at the table. when he wants to invite people to the table and talk to them, he uses this. >> the trump and lewandowski team is a mainstay we'll see over and over again, but to point of the pr

looks a lot like wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, those are the three states that hillary clinton had won if 2016, plus the states she did win, she would have defeated him. >> amy klobuchar expected to throw her hat in tomorrow. you talk about why she is a strong candidate what is her biggest weakness? >> number one, she is a moderate candidate. and as howard dean was discussing, the base seems to be moving further and further to the left and she represents a state that is very white and the democratic party is becoming more and more nonwhite. so those are weak knows for her in the primary. if this becomes about electricitiability, she could see her polling numbers could rise as the campaign gets underway. >> senator elizabeth warren. she launched her campaign today. she had her exploratory committee today. she was looking into it new years eve but today she made it official. she's running for president, her vision for america, this against back drop of a controversy over her native-american heritage claims. an issue that has been a frequent target for the president. just a couple

white working-class voters in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, ohio that determine this race in 2016 and i think more than any of the other candidates right now, he has the potential to do that. >> now, also keeping in mind this is the day before chris christie's good friend new jersey cory booker jumped in the race. is he right? do you think the white house should be worried? >> well, when you talk to people privately over there, there are a couple of names that come up and they usually come up together. it's happened to me a couple of times. biden and sherrod brown because sherrod brown of ohio, democrat, popular and just what chris christie said about biden is that he is really a populist who can take on donald trump on the sort of appealing to the middle class and the people who have been left behind, et cetera, et cetera. the problem for joe biden, of course, is his age and the fact that, you know, he makes a lot of mistakes when he's out on the campaign trail as we recall and, you know, there's nothing to say that he wouldn't do that again, but, you know, it's not as if donald

existential threat at 1,600 pennsylvania avenue. >> stupid, extraneous, irrelevant. >> i think there is an important question she didn't ask a couple different times and ways, did she use her claiming to be a native american to her advantage in order to try to benefit from that status? she wouldn't answer those questions. this is the very answer of a culture appreciation, a member of a dominant group is claiming to be a minority group to further their situation and this is her using native americans to climb up the ivy league ladder. >> that is something she has not answered for. she needs to answer for. she had the opportunity to do so and put it to rest. but she continues let this linger. >> she should do it the old fashioned way donald trump was an millionaire at age 8. he must have had a lemonade stand. >> one of the people have with donald trump is his character. what does this say about her family lor, she writes it down if she wasn't doing it for her career, why was she doing it? >> she was doing it for her mother. kids at home think about your mom. if you have a family myth. >>

congresswoman from pennsylvania. we appreciate you taking the time this morning. >> thank you for having me on. >> so first this deal includes less money for a border barrier than the deal negotiated and offered in december before that shutdown. that said, it does include money for a border barrier, some 55 miles of new barrier on the border. you will remember nancy pelosi said not a dollar for a border wall. did the democrats cave on this agreement? >> i don't think anyone caved. i think people came to a negotiated compromise which is what the american people were asking for. >> fair point. sometimes compromise is necessary. you visited the border this weekend. i'm curious what you found. we know many representatives on the border, i spoke to the republican mayor of el paso and your republican colleague on the border area. they will say a wall is not the most central issue here whmpt you are down at the border, did you see area wheres a wall would make a difference because the experience is that it does help in some areas. >> we spent a lot of time with customs and border patrol over the week

annual prediction ceremony for the famous pennsylvania groundhog. >> faithful followers, there is no shadow of me. a beautiful spring it shall be! >> that is some serious wish if his thinking. folklore says if the groundhog casts his shadow on february 2nd, winter continues for another six weeks. so punxsutawney's telling us it's going to be an early spring. >>> all right. triplets separated at birth discovering the most amazing incredible remarkable true story. three identical strangers airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. we've got more straight ahead in the "newsroom." it starts right now. >>> all right, hello, thank you for joining me this saturday. i'm fredricka whitfield. following breaking news. virginia democratic governor has no plans to resign and now he says he believes it was not him in this racist photo in his medical school yearbook according to a democratic source. big flip from last night where he

lakes states, the plains states from pennsylvania to iowa and we'll see how the voters decide that. >> first to the veteran of iowa, the most veteran of iowa. one year from today, you think, that's a long way off. when you've got 10, maybe 15 or 18 candidates running, this is wild. >> the most chatter i hear about is about senator harris, senator booker and beto o'rourke. their 15-year-old granddaughter falls asleep watching beto o'rourke giving speeches. it's going to be a matter of -- >> same. >> can any of these candidates who are on fire right now sustain, remain the front-runner for a full 12 months. how do all these senate candidates, a similar donor base, sustain that. can anyone win iowa with under $20 million? maybe someone riding a crest of excitement right now. but i also heard surprisingly from several democratic activists who i spoke to in the last week or so. amy klobuchar is somebody they're interested in. she's been viewed as almost one of iowa's senators because she spent so much time in iowa and does so much for the democratic base there. experienced, a former pro

short drive up pennsylvania avenue. >> that's right. he'll be looking out at an audience that's more hostile than any audience he's looking at in quite some time. usually he speaks to room full of spoupporters. in his previous address he was looblgi i looking at republican controlled house and senate. he'll be looking a t ing at a h controlled by democrats and sea of democratic senator who is want to take him on. we saw cory booker and other democrats who want to challenge him. >> we see rand paul. we saw mitt romney. a isn't it true senat this will be very, very precise. everything that is done now between now and few minutes after 9:00 p.m. eastern when the president starts speaking, everything is plotted out. >> there's a protocol. we know when the diplomats when start walking, when senators will walk in, when the president's cabinet will walk in. the washington post is reporting and cnn has confirmed that in 1986, she filled out a registration card for the state bar of texas and she put down as her race, american-indian on that registration card. she's not an american-indian. war

get back places like michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania and also go get florida, texas and arizona, which we have not been able to do. >> first you have to win the primary. right now your name recognition is not high. like 60% of people still don't know who you are. how does that make you feel? is that like bad for your sel self-esteem? >> i see that as opportunity. people who know who i am have a favorable impression of me. if i keep doing interviews like this and knock on doors, i'll pick up a lot of momentum. >> you served with biden. what do you think about him? there seems to be a clamoring for him to get in. does that mean people in the party don't want the younger face. they want somebody more established. how do you read the biden fever? >> having been in the administration and seen up close his work, i have tremendous respect for him. i think he's had a fantastic legacy of public service. i get the sense out there that people want a new generation of leadership. i traveled a lot oaf the last few years and especially during the last two years supporting candidates i

than oth >> i spoke to a representative in pennsylvania and he told me that the white house is very upset about this. it really indicates that there are people in the white house who believe it's important for us and the public to know how president trump spends his time. and when it goes to the core of whether trump takes the job seriously as commander in chief and is actually spending a lot of time reading newspaper and watching television and tweeting, that goes to the heart of embarrassing trump. and so, they are going right now, with the white house i.t. office. they're looking at computers and printers. to try to find out who the mole is. and they think it might be a career government employee who is stationed in the white house, not an actual trump appointee. >> why? what's that based on? >> i think it's based on that a lot of people have left the white house who may have leaked in the past who were appointed by trump. remember, cliff simms, there was a story about him how everyone in the white house was angry at him for being disloyal. there's a wide network of people, a big

university of pennsylvania for law school and when she applied to harvard she did not, if you'll pardon this, play that card. i was raised in oklahoma, raised to believe that i was native american. i am very proud of that heritage, but i have never used it for professional advancement. if she'd said that and been more forthcoming from the get go she'd be in a better position. >> all right. michael, thank you so much. always a great conversation with you. >> thank you, brianna. >> we can catch you saturday mornings. check out "smerconish" 9:00 eastern right here on cnn. coming up, the president uses the top of his state of the union speech to slam, quote, ridiculous partisan investigations, warning the economy will tank if they don't stop. i'll get reaction from the democrat on the house judiciary committee. also just moments from now as we look at live pictures, president trump set to nominate a fierce critic of the world bank to be his next, and how it could bring an end. awe man. always look for the grown in idaho seal. reach her health goals! i'm in! but first... shelfie! the great-t

, they're fire. there's a lot of smoke emanating from 1600 pennsylvania avenue right now. yet you decided not to recuse yourself, is that right? >> congressman, the decision to recuse was my decision to make. i looked at all of the information, i consulted with many people that i've discussed today, and i just determined that it was not necessary for me to recuse. >> and donald trump considered the sessions recusal to be a betrayal, is that right? >> congressman, i have no idea as i sit here today what the president believed about general sessions' recusal. >> so let's be clear. the investigation into russia's attack on democracy is not a witch hunt, it's not a fishing expedition, it's not a hoax, it's not a lynch mob, it's a national security imperative. the fact that people suggest otherwise comes dangerously close to providing aid and comfort to the enemy. in your final week, keep your hands off the mueller investigation. i yield back. >> thank the gentleman. i now recognize the gentleman from virginia, mr. klein. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. acting attorney gener

show that. rosemary is in pennsylvania, independent, good morning. caller: good morning. i have a couple of comments and i will hear your ideas about it. earlier you were talking about ms. ocasio-cortez. i think she is trying to make a splash with her ideas. see --s good but i can't do we have enough land for solar panels? what is that effect going to be with our competition? if we go green and other countries like india and china -- china wants to overtake us. i would like to hear your comments about that. host: you said she is trying to make a splash. can you talk about what you mean by that? ofler: with the percentage tax on billionaires. i'm on a fixed income but it's a capitalist country. i don't know how that's going to be possible. i don't think people are going to go for that. host: do you think democrats will go for it or she will have pushed back in her own party on that? caller: i think more left-leaning democrats, absolutely. kamala harris and cory booker, i think they will go for it. but middle-of-the-road democrats, and like you were saying before, with nancy pelosi,

bernie sanders in the primary in key states like ohio, pennsylvania, and elsewhere flipped in the general election. caller: bernie sanders people knew they were not going to vote for hillary. ok. host: we will get a response. thank you, by the way. isst: i guess the question if trump just delivers on 1%, he is going to win. he is not wrong. look at unemployment. it is not a story close. it benefits -- historic lows. hispanics, blacks, women spirit tax cuts, which house speaker pelosi refers to as crumbs. she does not understand that more tax cuts are better than increasing taxes, which is what running theirare platforms on. more taxes, "are some of a lot for the american people, and keep in mind that the trump campaign is already up and going and is collaborating with the rnc, the republican national committee, and they have resources, and we have 20 to 30 democrats that will be , and meantime, president trump is not even going to have any other candidate. there will be no other primary candidate. host: you do not think he will have another primary challenger? guest: not supported

the other end of pennsylvania avenue, some information about vice president mike pence's travel plans. the vice president will visit herhwitz on friday and to -- tour a memorial to jews -- of as part of an era european trip. tour a site in southern poland with the polish president. he will be in poland for a joint conference. the pentagon considers a potential base for u.s. forces in the country. a few minutes left in this segment. it lets talk about the deal reached late last night that would avert a government shutdown. good morning. i am really a democrat but turned independent. to tell you the truth, we will have one world government for the democrats to keep them in here. they will make each one of us dislike each other. we are all one nation under god. we are individual people. and we can all get along. if my son or my daughter did anything to break the law, they would be in jail. this country are going to jail while we let all these illegal immigrants come over. not only are they illegal, many of them have been doing criminals. so should trump take this deal, the $1.75 billion

pennsylvania, democrats line. caller: how are you? i watched the hearings yesterday and i found cohen to be credible. i think he went along with trump for many years and he came to a point that he got sick of it. he hasas the racism, , justover and over time like the coast guard, he did not come out and make a comment for a while but then he made a brief comment. the comment he made about charlottesville, and in that woman who stood up there and said no, he is a friend. amoroso has known him for a long time. she has a different view. i believe cohen. if cohen is such a terrible person, what does that make trump? a lot of the stuff he did was the stuff trump wanted him to do. host: illinois, independently. caller: good morning, pedro. i have found michael cohen to be credible. i have been studying donald trump for the last three years ever since i knew he was going to run for president. he is corrupt. people call and they say things like we knew what he was when we voted for him. well, we can't go by that. only one third of the country voted for him in the first place and he got in there. he

, good night. host: thanks for the call, john. terrence is next in pennsylvania, a parent. caller: i am not getting your question. i have my volume down. host: go ahead with your comment. caller: thanks for your program. i enjoy it every morning. i am currently at the veterans hospital in pittsburgh. what i would like to say is i and sociale civics studies and all of that is something that has gone by the wayside and i blame government for it. our young people in this country -- my daughter included, she learns what she knows from me and it is just the way it is. it is not that i am special, but i don't understand why young people and some people my own age do not know enough about this country's history and what rights and values we should be covering. host: how do you feel about your knowledge of world war i? caller: fair. host: who was president during world war i? this is one of the questions. was it woodrow wilson. caller: woodrow wilson. host: woodrow wilson is the correct answer. thank you so much for calling in. more questions for viewers as we go along and we want to hear your

another john in pennsylvania. good morning. here.: a couple of things usc. 44, line 21 31. of all the gun laws we have in , whocountry, who can buy can sell, who you can sell to. need to look at this. gun laws are out there. it covers everything from mental health, physical abuse, it covers everything. host: if that covers everything, nothing has to change? caller: the one thing that has to change is the federal government has got to start funding the feds to enforce these laws. that is all that has to be done. as far as the background checks like the one lady said, it is like 99% of the people doing these shootings pass the background checks. do you think what we are seeing is contributing only because of a lack of funding? how do you make that connection? caller: for them to enforce the laws. if they are going to enforce the laws, they have to fund departments that enforce the laws. i see them coming out with new universal background checks. the only thing that does to a lot of us law-abiding citizens, that want to buy a gun or sell a us or give a gun, it costs money. it's not going to

of pennsylvania, who is leading an effort in his state. a lot of states really lifted up some of these issues. also, mark holden is here. we have been doing this for direct thing together for a couple of things. so, welcome to the panel. we will have a lot of great discussions. why don't we start with you, actually, governor wealth? mill got taken back to prison for a minor , doingme infraction something on probation, and now you have become an outspoken campaigner on that issue. why did you take this issue on criminal justice reform? >> it is an important issue. the reason for that is, i think itple recognize that basically at bunds folks from our society, for a lifetime, simply because they had made a mistake early on. meek mill was confined to 14 years for a probation infraction for popping a willie, the kind of thing that is just wrong. it is also not very smart. we exclude those folks from our goodmy, from them again jobs in our businesses, paying taxes, helping our revenue. it also causes a lot of money to -- it costs a lot of money to incarcerate them. it has saved us a lo

minutes to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. lamb. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. lamborn: i rise to support veterans in stem careers. first, i would like to thank dr. dunn for his leadership in helping connect veterans to these good jobs. veterans are working today. most americans are working today. the unemployment rate is low. and yet, everywhere i go, i meet business people hotel me that they can't find the right workers for the right jobs at the right time. if we could fix this, we would stop being held back by the shortage of work force that we face and most importantly, our families would not be held back by lower paychecks. but these new jobs in cybersecurity, many medical technology and advanced technology, they are hard jobs and require training and we need to make the training available to people where they live in a cost and time they can afford. we have no time to waste. our businesses are competing on a global stage against countries that will use the full machinery of their government to make sure their work force is r

are everywhere. host: caroline, next up in pennsylvania. i am republican and i have been one since 1980. i voted for ronald reagan. republican i support my president. i am afraid of the socialism, that the democrats have gone too far left. i was wondering on that. host: you say you support the president, what about this idea of the president revealing his tax returns? do you think that should be done? caller: of course not, he should reveal his tax returns, of course. oft: what is the value having the tax returns revealed? caller: all presidents do it. advocat out ofhe baton rouge responding and giving their take to a supreme court decision that took place late yesterday concerning a law that was about to go into effect in louisiana concerning abortion providers. this is the story by elizabeth chris adding the u.s. supreme shutteropped a law to abortion clinics. -- privileges at hospitals is likely far from over. the court ordered admitting privileges law to be put on hold pending a timely filing of petition for the high court to act on the law itself and it would immediately expir