♪ happening now -- the white house looking to rangel the votes it needs to pass the republican health care bill but with just one day before the house vote account president seal the deal? and the president's nominee for the supreme court says he is his own judge, he will not be forced into any ruling by this president normy other. what else did neil gorsuch say during 12 hours. >> 12 hours. >> i'm christine romans. >> and i'm dave briggs.

a tour de force. we're now one day away from what could be the change of health care in this country. president trump bringing his patented brand of hard sale to capitol hill. trying to coax reluctant republicans to vote for the american health care act repealing obamacare. and all hands, closed-door meeting for house republicans, the president said, quote, a loss just isn't acceptable. even called out mark meadows by name. meadows is the chairman of the house freedom caucus. trump predicted meadows and the caucus will get on board. and repeated that at the national congressional dinner. >> the american people voted for historic change. and they also voted for serious action. the american people gave us clear instructions. it's time to get busy, get to work, and to get the job done.

these are the conservative solutions we campaigned on. and these are the conservative solutions the american people asked us, as a group, to deliver. >> the house rules committee takes up the health care legislation this morning at 10:00. the vote is set for tomorrow. house leaders still have some work to do. cnn's onwhoaing w.h.i.p. count currently said 19 republicans have said flat out, no, they'll vote against this bill. seven more say they're likely nos. that is a total of 26 gop lawmakers opposed or leaning against. only 21 can defect without killing this measure. following that on capitol hill, cnn's phil mattingly. >> christine and dave, it's the moment that house republican leaders have been waiting for. the moment white house officials said was going to come. the hard sale from senators saying it's now or never on his

bill or the entire agenda. but the reality remains they're short. they don't have the requisite number of votes to pass this but it's important to note that this vote isn't scheduled for more than 24 hours that means they have time to work. and work is what they're doing. and the 33, the president himself laid out behind closed doors. sources telling me, the president made very clear, if the bill goes down in the house on thursday, if it does not pass, the numbers themselves, their seats are in trouble. not just the singular numbers, but the entire house republican majority, i asked paul ryan. >> president of the united states came to us and said we all made a promise to the american people and we need to keep our promises. everybody running for congress in the house, everybody running for senate, the president himself said that the american people, you give us this chance, this responsibility, this opportunity. with a republican president, with a republican senate and a republican house, we will repeal and replace obamacare. wee keep our promise and the

people are rewarded. if we don't keep our promise, the people are go to be hard to manage this. >> and the question is what can the white house do to close this deal. i can tell you house speaker paul ryan has cleared his schedule to meet with members? you've seen mike penced shuttled up the hill and in small groups over to the white house, as white house officials try to peel them off one by one. when you talk to leadership officials they say they plan and can get there. but i think it's important to note as of now, they are operating with no net. there is no plan "b" or alternative bill or alternative option. the vote is still scheduled for thursday. they plan to put the bill on the floor on thursday. they need 216 votes to get there. as i said, they're not quite there yet, but they think at some point they'll get there. christine and dave. >> if the health bill does pass,

it's said to be go straight there. second-ranking republican leader john cornyn said should the house repeal the bill on thursday, the senate will take it up next week and approve it. he said if they pass it, we will pass it. >> other senate republicans not so sure, lisa murkowski said, wow, pretty progressive. and senators already on record against the bill in its current form are tom cotton, mike lee and rand paul. republicans can afford only two deflections in the senate. a long grueling day on tap for supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. gorsuch faced a ten-hoyer grilling by senators on tuesday, with democrats challenging his ability to maintain independence from president trump. list ton this exchange under richard blumenthal about the

president's frequent criticism of the judiciary. >> when anyone criticizes the honesty or integrity, the motives, of a federal judge, well, i find that disheartening. i find that demoralizing because i know the truth. anyone including the president of the united states. anyone is anyone. because no person is above the law, including the president of the united states. >> that's right, senator. >> that's just one response from judge gorsuch that made headlines. we get more now from cnn's jessica schneider. >> reporter: christine and dave, day three of that confirmation hearing kicks off this morning but in a long day of questioning tuesday, judge gorsuch was steady and steadfast in sticking to his script that he's an impartial and democrat judge. but a jurist who puts big business first, they also pressed him on his legal views

asking if president trump imposed a litmus test before nominating him. that was a line of inquiry that gorsuch shut down. >> have you ever met president trump personally? >> not until my interview. >> in that interview did he ever ask you to overview row v. wade? >> no, senator. >> what would you have done if he had asked? >> senator, i would have knocked out the door. that's not what judges do. they don't at that end of pennsylvania avenue or this end either. >> judge gorsuch said he flatly rejects litmus tests in general and saying it's not something that judges do. the senators will hear from witnesses and a vote is expected april 3rd. dave and christine. cnn has learned an al qaeda affiliate is perfecting techniques for hiding explosives in batteries and battery

compartments of electronic devices. and u.s. officials saying this is what led to the new carry-on restrictions on flights heading to the u.s. and uk from the middle east and north africa. passengers originating from eight countries. the checked devices bigger than a smartphone planted in a laptop aboard a flight from somalia last year. the bomber was killed but the plane with the hole in its fuselage managed to land safely. calling this the widest aviation security measures since the terror attacks of september 11th, 2001. the white house is using the rape of a male high school student on the crackdown of illegal immigration. one of the two students charged with sexually assaulting a classmate at rocksville high school is an 18 undocumented student. listen to white house press secretary sean spicer discussing that case. >> it's hour rend discuss and

disgusting that this young woman in rockville went through. part of the reason that the president has made illegal immigration such a big deal is because of tragedies like this. >> both male students are charged with first degree rape and two counts each of committing a first degree sexual offense. nine minutes past the hour. the white house is calling nerves with nato. after the secretary of state opted out of a key nato meeting. hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec® zyrtec® starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. stick with zyrtec®. muddle no more®. try rhinocort® allergy spray for powerful nasal allergy relief.

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>> new this morning, president trump has just officially added a may 25th nato summit to his schedule. in a statement, the white house said the president will, quote, reaffirm our strong commitment to nato. among the items on the president's agenda for the meeting in brussels, nato's role and the fight against terror and what the white house called allied responsibility sharing. president trump has been relentlessly critical of nato allies for failing to pay their full share of the alliance's costs. >> all of this come as the white

house struggles to find new dates of nato foreign ministers after the secretary of state rex tillerson plans to skip the gathering came to light. tillerson plans to host chinese president xi jinping in washington and then fly to russia the following week. the plans have confused many nato allies. later today, secretary of state rex tillerson will be hosting foreign leaders at the state department. all 68 nations from the global coalition to defeat isis are expected to attend. we now get a preview from cnn's clarissa ward in washington. >> christine and dave, there are 68 members of that coalition of countries that are fighting isis. and this is the first time we've actually seen a meeting of this size since 2014. we know that british foreign minister boris johnston will be attending. also the turkish foreign minister is coming. while isis has taken a real beating in the past year,

they've lost more than 50% of their territory in iraq and syria. and of course, now, they appear to be on the cusp of losing the crown jewel, the city of mosul, the second largest city in iraq. but now the focus is on how to take the city of raqqah. this is, of course, isis' capital. and deep inside. it's complex to coordinate who will take part for the fight of raqqah because there are so many sensitivities. all of these different ministers will also be talking, of course, about the humanitarian situation in iraq and syria. the massive displacement that has already occurred as a result against the fight against isis. all of this clearly a priority for the trump administration, with the president having vowed to defeat isis in 30 days. needless to say that deadline has come and gone. but definitely, there is a desire to show that this is a priority and to get the momentum going, christine and dave.

>> i thank you for that. democrats and republicans are looking for answers from maul manafort. a lawmaker in kiev claims he has a document that manafort tried to hide millions of dollars from i yanukovych. >> i have serious questions about some of the people around the presidential campaign. there are people with close ties to the russians. >> talking about paul manafort? >> talk about mr. manafort. his relations. >> we're going to need to bring him in and have that kind of conversation. because there's such a cloud now that's hanging over this whole administration. we've got to get to the bottom of this that's why i've said at the outset this is probably the most important thing i've ever taken on in my entire life.

>> this latest coming in the wake of white house in which comey confirmed there is an ongoing investigation into the ties to russia. the stock market at a major turning point. unrelenting optimism over president trump's policies colliding with the realities of washington. that has caused fear to creep into the market. look at this, the dow tumbling 238 points. the s&p 500 shedding 1.25%. that marks the first drop of more than 1% in the last 161 days. there hasn't been a drop of more than 1% going all the way back to early october. so really reversing a trend here. the nasdaq was the biggest loser down 1.8%. those losses driven by tech someplace of the hottest names facing losses. facebook down 1%. amazon down 1.6%. netflix, and wall street just a

big dip since the gain and the rally would easy get back on track. and and it's a big prize for investors right now. talking to ceos, i've been talking to, you know, business leaders who have been saying, steve mnuchin promised to have tax reform by the august recess. and any sign that that's not going to happen is going to be a hard thing for the stock market. >> some have questioned the order in which president trump chose to go about his legislation choosing most difficult first. >> it's interesting, too, that the president has chosen the stock market as a barometer of his success. careful. >> another provocation from north korea. a new missile launch offer the coast. but what makes this one different? we're live in beijing. ways wins.

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u.s. bomber flyover in south korean airspace along with japanese and south korean fighter jets. and this came shortly after north korea put out a propaganda video showing them blowing up a u.s. bomber and also eye u.s. aircraft carrier. of course, that is a clear warning to the united states what north korea intends to do if provoked. and this failed launch was certainly a setback in terms of -- you know, it was nats a successful attempt this time. analysts point that north kore n gain a lot of information when at the test this. so, right now, it just seems to be a matter of time for the next launch attempt. we know that north korea intends to launch a lot of missiles during the exercises which always them. an imminent nuclear test and

north korean leader kim jong-un has been threatening an intercontinental ballistic test as well. to be in place for an ibcm bringing that closer to that goal day with a missile capable of reaching the u.s. >> tensions only rising there. will avera will, thank you. president trump proving that he's the dealmaker that he proved to be. can trump find the votes he needs?

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funny, they tried to pin gorsuch down on torture, all the while torturing him for ten hours. welcome back to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> and i'm christine romans. just 29 minutes past the hour. president trump bringing his patented brand of hard sale to capitol hill. he's trying to coax reluctant republicans to vote for the american health care act, repealing obamacare. in an all hands, closed-door meeting for house republicans, the president said a loss just isn't acceptable, he called out mark meadows by name. meadows is the chairman of the ultra conservative house freedom caucus. trump predicted meadows and the caucus will get on board. hours later the president repeated that call for party unity at the national congressional committee dinner. >> the american people voted for historic change. and they also voted for serious action.

the american people gave us clear instructions. it's time to get busy, get to work, and to get the job done. these are the conservative solutions we campaigned on. and these are the conservative solutions the american people asked us, as a group, to deliver. >> the house rules committee takes up the health care legislation this morning at 10:00. though the vote is set for tomorrow. house leaders still have much work to do. cnn's ongoing whip count currently shows 26 gop lawmakers opposed or leaning against only 21 can defect without killing the measure. following the w.h.i.p. count for us on capitol hill cnn's phil mattingly. >> christine and dave, it's the moment that house republican leaders have been waiting for. the moment white house officials said was going to eventually come. the hard sale from the president

basically telling his members that it's now or never on this bill or on the entire agenda. but the reality remains they're short. they don't have the requisite number of votes to pass this but it's important to note that this vote isn't scheduled for more than 24 hours that means they have time to work. and work is exactly what they're doing. but one of the most interesting elements of the course over the last few days is the threat the president himself laid out behind closed doors. sources telling me, the president made very clear, if the bill goes down in the house on thursday, if it does not pass, the numbers themselves, their seats are in trouble. not just the singular numbers, but the entire house republican majority could also be in trouble. i asked paul ryan if he agreed with that assessment. take a listen. >> president of the united states came to us and said we all made a promise to the american people and we need to keep our promises. everybody running for congress in the house, everybody running for senate, the president himself said to the american people, you give us this chance, this responsibility, this opportunity. with a republican president, with a republican senate and a republican house, we will repeal

and replace obamacare. wee keep our promise and the people will reward us. if we don't keep our promise, the people are go to be hard to manage this. >> and the question is what can the white house do to close this deal. i can tell you house speaker paul ryan has cleared his schedule to meet with members. you've seen vice president mike pence shuttled up to the hill. and others in small groups over to the white house, as white house officials try to peel them off one by one. when you talk to leadership officials they say they plan and can get there. but i think it's important to note as of now, they are operating with no net. there is no plan "b," there is no alternative bill or alternative option. the vote is still scheduled for thursday. they plan to put the bill on the floor on thursday. they need 216 votes to get there. as i said, they're not quite there yet, but they think at some point they'll get there. christine and dave. >> all right, phil mattingly, the desperate last hours trying to sell that bill. if the obamacare repeal does

manage to pass the house this week, how will it fare with the senate? it's set to bypass committees and go straight to the floors. predictions by key republican senators' fate there mixed. john cornyn says should the house repeal the bill on thursday the senate will takes it up next week and approve it, he said, if they pass it, we'll pass it. >> other republicans not so sure, lisa murkowski said of the title schedule, wow, pretty progressive. senators already on record against the bill in his urnt form are tom cotton, mike lee and rand paul. republicans can afford to lose just two in the senate. another long grueling day of questioning on tap for supreme court nominee neil gorsuch who faced a ten-hour plus hearing by senators on tuesday with democrats vowing to maintain independence from president trump. list ton this exchange with

senator blumenthal about the president's criticism of the judiciary. >> when anyone criticizes the honesty, integrity, the motives of a federal judge, well, i find that disheartening. i find that demoralizing. because i know the truth. >> anyone including the president of the united states? >> anyone is anyone. because no person is above the law, including the president of the united states. that's right, senator. >> that's just one response from judge gorsuch that made headlines. we get more from cnn's jessica schneider. christine and dave, day three of questioning kicks off tuesday, but judge gorsuch stuck to his script that he's an impartial and democratic judge. but democrats seized on that judge gorsuch is a jurist that puts big business first.

asking if president trump imposed a litmus test before nominating him and that was a line of inquiry judge gorsuch firmly shut down. >> had you ever met president trump personally? >> not until my interview. >> in that interview did he ever ask you to overrule roe v. wade? >> no, senator. >> what would you have done if he had asked? >> senator, i would have walked out the door. it's not what judges do. i don't do it at that end of pennsylvania avenue and shouldn't do it at this end either, respectfully. >> judge gorsuch continued on to say he flatly rejects litmus tests in general. and written about it saying it's not something that judges do. senators will hear more from witnesses and a vote in the judiciary committee is expected april 3rd. democrats and republicans are looking for answers from former campaign manager paul manafort. a lawmaker in kiev claims he has

a document that could prove manafort tried to hide millions of dollars of illegal payment from former pro-russian ukrainian president victor yanukovych. manafort said he does not recognize the document or the signatures on it. senators on both sides of the aisle are clearly not satisfied. >> i have serious questions about some of the people around the presidential campaign. there were people with close ties to the russians. >> talking about paul manafort's. >> talking about paul manafort, his relations. >> we're going to need to bring him in and have that conversation because there's such a cloud now that's hanging over this whole administration, we've got to get to the bottom of this. that's why i said at the outset, this is probably the most important thing i've ever taken on in my public life. >> this comes in the wake of the hearing somewhere james comey confirmed there is an ongoing

investigation into the ties to russia. a main turning point in the stock market. unrelenting optimism over president trump's policies colliding with the realities of washington. that has caused fear to creep back into the market. sent the dow tumbling 238 points. s&p falling more than 1%. the nasdaq was the biggest loser. look at that tech stock slam. what's next? futures are down this morning. it could be a pause or a slump back over that. the meetings behind the stock market is slowly shifting. this is what we call the fear and greed index. you can check it out on "cnn money." right now it's showing modest fear, extreme greed as investors rushed to buy stocks with optimism on tax reform. same from a year ago where the market was charging back to a rough start. a new fund manager from bank of america merrill lynch 34% say

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u.s. officials saying this is what led to the new carry-on restrictions aboard commercial flights heading to the u.s. and now also to the uk from the middle east and north africa. passengers originating from eight countries there must check devices bigger than a smartphone. cnn's samuel burke live for us at london's heathrow airport. good morning, samuel, what are the tech companies saying about this move? >> good morning, christine, i've been speaking with tech and aviation experts who say they're constantly looking at the dangers and threats imposed from lithium batteries, those are in all of the devices we have from smartphones to laptops. and they've been saying for years the faa has been pushing to get those out from the belly of the airplane into the cabin of the airplane. but they worry about a change reaction, god forbid there were an expose or one battery to catch fire. if there are so many batteries around it could pose a huge

domino effect. if that were in the cabin, if something happened to one of the bat eye ares in cabin at least there would be an opportunity for the crew to extinguish that. a lot of people question whether it's safer to have that on the belly of the plane, what can we do given the threats we're hearing from both the u.s. government and the uk government. and a lot of the experts are saying if you look at the lithium bat eye rgs and the threat posed what would be a better step would be to push the amount of times that you make people turn on devices. allied airlines makes all the customers turn on the devices to make sure they're fully functional and that there aren't explosives tucked away there. or sniffing machines with that stick with that cloth what that's doing is checking for explosives. they say that's a sure-fire way of guaranteeing there aren't explosives and guaranteeing our safety. >> samuel burke, certainly a

frightening development in thinks al qaeda is gets closer to having such a bomb. thank you for that. new this morning, president trump has just officially added a may 25th nato summit to his schedule. in a statement, the white house said the president will, quote, reaffirm our strong commitment to nato. president trump has been relentlessly critical of nato allies for failing to pay their fair share of the alliance's costs. >> all of this as they scramble for new dates for a nato meeting of foreign ministers after secretary of state rex tillerson's plans to skip that gathering came to light. tillerson is set to host the chinese president gee zing ping in washington during that meeting then he flies to russia the following week. the plans have confused many nato alliances who question priorities. >> and later secretary of state john kerry will be hosting foreign ministers and senior leaders from arnold the world. all 68 nations from the global

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good morning, will. what do we know? >> well, we know that this missile according to u.s. pacific command exploded just seconds after taking off. a failure, yes, but it does help north korean scientists gain valuable information as they continue these missile launches at a very aggressive pace. they launched four missiles as you mentioned from that very site four weeks ago. and those landed very close to the japanese coast. china is speaking, foreign ministry, expressing concern here in beijing, saying it's extremely tense and reminds all sides to remain calm and cool-headed here. they're thought blaming north korea, interestingly enough, they say united states plays a role in these provocative actions of north korea because the u.s. continues its joint military exercises with south korean forces. in fact, we have confirmed within the last couple of hours that yesterday a u.s. bomber flew with south korean and japanese fighter jets in south

korean airspace, a very short distance from north korean airspace. this is considered a very provocative action by pyongyang. they just put a video simulating if they lieu up a u.s. bomber and aircraft threatening to do just that, if the united states provokes them. this will be a main topic of conversation when chinese president xi jinping travels to the united states to meet with president trump. and we that secretary of state rex tillerson who was here in beijing over the weekend has been briefing the president about this issue. we don't know what they intend to do to respond to further p v provocations. the part her time consultant for the cia who disappeared a decade nag iran is filing a lawsuit against the iranian government. robert levinson travelled to

iran. tehran insists it does not know where he is, nor what happened to him. philadelphia's district attorney has been indicted on bribery and corruption charges. officials say seth williams took part in a corruption spree spanning five years. they say the 50 year accepted tens of thousands of dollars in concealed bribes. he also apparently stole cash meant for a relative's nursing home care. and used the money for personal expenses. williams took office in 2010. lawyers for the-a flew went za teen ethan couch are turning to the texas supreme court seeking his lease. their motion argues the judge did not have the authority to sentence couch because the jurisdiction was over criminal cases. the couch's case started with a civil matter in juvenile court. couch is serving two sentences for killing four people in a drunk driving accident in 2014.

severe storms in the south killed one person in much of the south that may cool things down in the east. meteorologist pedram javaheri has the details. >> dave and christine, it's the time of year, late march, early april, you get the severe weather reports rolling in in atlanta and western tennessee where more than 100 reports related to downed trees and winds, some reporting as large as golf ball or baseball size hail coming down. but the transition to scattered showers coming wednesday afternoon with filtered temperatures coming to the country. we've got clear skies the next couple of days then as we go into the latter portions of the week, just like that we flip the dial back into the mild department. and ahead of that, we could actually see severe weather generally across portions of eastern texas, eastern oklahoma,

friday afternoon could be decent weather. we'll follow that carefully and we'll watch the temperatures today drama off sharply from the mid-80s in atlanta to about 70 grease in new york. down to the mid-30s. but the seven-day forecast has it all for you. getting up to 60 or so degrees on saturday. and then come right back down into the lower 40s early next weekend. >> we need to get to 60 and stay there. these little teases are brutal. >> i know, i'm done with winter. a funny moment in the oval office. it happened as president trump signed a nasa bill when things took a bit of a turn. >> -- ongoing medical monitoring and treatment of heroic astronauts for health conditions that result from their service. a pretty tough job. i don't know, ted, would you like to do it? i don't think i would. march tha martha, would you want to do it?

i'm not sure. >> we could send congress to space? >> that could be. >> turns out congress isn't a big fan of congress. >> it asked nasa to create a plan to send a man to mars. >> if he doesn't get the health care votes he may load congress on a slulgts. let's get to krn money. big losses. dow dropping 238 points on tuesday. investors nervous about the prospects of tax reform. they're realizing how slow washington moves. it puts a lot of weight on the obamacare repeal bill and neil gorsu gorsuch's supreme court nomination. if those go smoothly, the rally could potentially resume and any hiccups. and alexander acost that will face lawmakers. he's currently the dean of florida international university law school. but he's been through three senate confirmation in the past,

for positions serving under president george w. bush. he's president trump's second pick after andrew puzder withdrew his nomination. puzder is out of his job of the company that runs hardese's and carl's junior. apple unwailing new products in efforts to do sales. a new bright red eye phone will be available for a limited time. the models commemorate apple's partnership with red, you can get a new ipad. apple rolling back prices on the new generation tablets. 9.7 inch ipad with a brighter retina display will start at $329. that's the company's lowest price for a new ipad to date. price drop on its products but no price drop on its stock. the stock is up 20% this year and has a market value of $70

million. my colleague paul la monica writing that. >> with the babysitters with respect to wonderful child care, nothing is better. >> they don't listen to you, you know? >> that's the idea. "early start" continues right now. happening now -- the white house looking to wrangle the votes it needs to pass the republican health care bill, just one day before the house vote. can the president seal this deal? and the president's nominee for the supreme court says he's his own judge and won't be forced into any ruling by the president. what else did neil gorsuch say during ten hours of testimony. >> plenty. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> it is wednesday, i'm christine romans, march 22nd, it is 5:00 a.m. in the east.

good morning, everybody, up and at 'em. we're just one vote away from a vote that could change the face of health care in this country. president trump bringsing his patented brand of hard sale to capitol hill, kind of threatening republicans to vote for the reluctant health care act repealing obamacare. in a all hands, closed-door meeting for republicans, the president said a loss just isn't acceptable. he called out mark meadows by name. trump predicted that meadows and the caucus will get on board. hours later, the president repeated that call for party unit at the 93 national congressional committee dinner. >> the american people voted for historic change. and they also voted for serious action. the american people gave us clear instructions. it's time to get