trump with frequent, and treacherous, tests. one of mr. trump's early dilemmas? an april 4th sarin gas attack that killed more than 80 syrian civilians in a town held by opponents of president bashar assad. the president's response: on april 7th, 59 tomahawk missiles were fired on a regime air base identified as the chemical attack's launch site. it was the first direct american assault on the syrian government in the country's six-year civil war. >> that's a butcher. so, i felt we had to do something about it. >> warner: mr. trump's campaign hopes for a fresh start with russia, had already dimmed amid investigations into moscow's alleged election meddling. the gas attack by its ally, assad, inflamed matters further, prompting tough words from u.n. ambassador, nikki haley. >> assad has no incentive to stop using chemical weapons as long as russia continues to protect his regime from consequences. >> warner: secretary of state rex tillerson did go to moscow a few days later. but after a two-hour meeting with president vladimir putin, he emerged to say relations we

mr. trump did not say a word about russia. >> he didn't, did he? and depending on what he wants to do as you well know, the u.s. military, if that's the weapon of choice, is involved in several places up to their neck and will soon have additional actions in north korea. so we are seeing literally, without a strategy or a national security policy which i know h.r. mcmaster is working on, we can't go which ever direction mr. trump wants to go on any given day because of an emotional response to chemical weapons. >> mr. ambassador, your knowledge with iraq, how do you see this? >> well, i think there are a number of dimensions here. first of all, you can use military power as a punitive effort or to support some kind of political process. i don't think there's a political process that's been identified and frankly i think our country needs to do a lot better job of explaining what it is we want to see in syria. do we really want the creation of syria? and beyond that, i think the president looks like he's going the route of using military power punit

and mr. trump notioned that we're going to take care of it on our own. i would suggest he's sadly mistaken. >> you told me days ago this train is leaving the station, to the extent that we should switch, along with all the other allied nations in the region, to a defensive posture to concentrating perhaps on how to get these things out of the sky once they're up there. >> yeah. i think -- i pay a lot of attention to what bill perry says. i think he's come to the conclusion that many of us have, they will -- north koreans will never do away with their nuclear weapons. not going to happen. the chinese don't actually have the leverage to force that situation on them. so what do we do. well, we get a coalition. we hem them in. we try and talk to them. we provide them economic aid if they're starving to death. but we better build a defensive system regardless of what the chinese think about being a threat to their capability, we need to put that in place. ten years from now the american people will be in tremendous peril. >> i want to play the back drop durin

while those who voted for mr. trump remain satisfied with his performance. next saturday marks the official 100th day of the administration. and our chief correspondent, john dickerson will be sitting down with the president. >> reporter: you will be interviewing mr. trump on his 100th day. what are you curious about? >> i'm curious about what he's learned in office. >> reporter: john dickerson will be with president trump next weekend as he reaches the 100-day milestone. >> the president can be incredibly blunt. he was during the campaign. so i'd like to have him bring that to his own presidency seen if he can be as blunt about washington and his role in it as he was as a candidate. >> reporter: today the president took his case for a wall along the mexican border to twitter. it will stop drugs and ms-13 gang members, he wrote, and mexico will be paying in some form for the badly-nde border war. next weecongress returns from it break. democrats and republicans are expectig a few days of negotiations before passing a spending bill. paying for the border wall

the race is seen as referendum in mr. trump. polls show the democrat john ossoff leading the field of 18 candidates. and he joins us now. good morning, mr. ossoff. >> thank you for having me. >> what is it like to have president trump using your name to voters in your district there? >> well, i appreciate the president's interest in the race. although, he is misinformed with respect to my priorities. i am focussed on going to washington to get things done for this community, to cut wasteful spending so we can grow the economy. >> but do you see your race as a referendum on mr. trump's popularity? >> this race is about local economic issues here and values that you night people in the community in georgia before it is about the national political circus. everyone is looking for national implications, but all politics is local. >> well, yes, but i think you have to admit. yours has garnered a lot of attention because it is seen as somehow connected to mr. trump. and, in fact, is what mr. trump is doing in washington part of your m

they're not currency manipulators, mr. trump said. literally the exact opposite of what he said repeatedly ad nauseam on the campaign trail. >> china so manipulates their currency. >> they manipulate the hell out of their currency. >> they devalue their currency. >> china cheats. they devalue their currency. >> we are going to label china a currency manipulator. >> "the wall street journal" asked about his complete flip-flop, mr. trump said the reason he's changed his mind on one of his signature campaign promises is that china hasn't been manipulating its currency for months and because taking the step now could jeopardize his talks with china on confronting the threat of north korea. i never miss an early morning market. but with my back pain i couldn't sleep or get up in time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. and now. i'm back! aleve pm for a better am. is to always keep track of your employees.r micromanage them. make sure they're producing. woo! employee

but above all he will try to afford any kind of trade war or high tariffs that mr trump might impose. north korea, which is a big dealfor the north americans, they have been worried about the accelerated missile tests that the north koreans are carried about. they want china to use it economic and political cloud with north korea to squeeze it more and fully implement un sanctions and put pressure on north korea, with the us, to get it to stop its nuclear weapons programme. something that also concerns the chinese, but they haven't done anything dramatic so far. so that's another very contentious issue and hopefully they can discuss it in a constructive manner in this setting, because the tone that's been set in this meeting will probably guide how the men go forward. they aren't going to resolve these issues today, but they will try to set up working relationship, a channel of dialogue, where they can talk about these issues going forward. thank you. turning to europe. eta has revealed the bbc news that it is unilaterally handing over its weapons. although a ceasefire has been in pla

today mr. trump heaped praise on the president of egypt at a white house meeting. he said abdel assisi has done a fantastic job fighting terrorism. president obama never invited sisi to the white house. sisi is a former general who deposed the elected president in a military coup four years ago that left more than a thousand egyptians dead. today the senate judiciary committee approved the nomination of neil gorsuch to the supreme court, but democrats are promising a filibuster to block a vote by the full senate, and they have the vets to do it, unless the majority, republicans, of course, change the rules. here's jan crawford. >> judge gore such is by any measure a superbly qualified nominee. >> reporter: the committee approved the nomination on a straight party-line vote. the democrats said the fight was far from over. >> in my view, this is not a routine nomination. >> reporter: the top democrat, dianne feinstein, said her party had the votes to filibuster the nomination, setting the stage for a showdown on the senate floor. but republicans like south carolina's

mr trump has earlier said the summit "will be a very difficult one". last year, he accused china of "raping the us". and during his election campaign, he said massive trade deficits and job losses could no longer be tolerated. so, can these two deal—makers avert a potential trade war? that is the big question. i have the person with the answer. with me is linda yueh, professor of economics at london business school. great to see you as always. look, boy, how time flies, one minute he accuses china of raping america and the next he says they finally meet and it is the start of a great relationship. i think in many ways we should be relieved! absolutely! because i think there is a very real prospect that the united states will order to deter essentially chinese imports but also they could accept more pressure on american companies to produce more at home, both of these things could be short of a trade war but actually quite damaging the us — china relationships because remember president trump has just announced an executive order that in 90 days he

say what you will about mr. trump, he certainly would bring some change to the white house. see what we've got up there. >> that was 2011. >> yes. we're still waiting to see if we're going to have that change to the white house. i don't rule it out. but what made that so effective, it wasn't just cheap jokes about his hair, which everybody else was making. and seth meyers later made one. it really was cut right through to mr. trump's self-imagine. >> you know, the old gridiron lines, singe but not burn. what humor work? >> self-deprecation always works when it comes to the president's remarks at the dinner. no matter who is president right now, barack obama is a very act to follow. every entertainer we had for those eight years said his timing's impeccable, i can't believe i have to follow him. this is tough. >> one of those moments though might have been in 2005 when george w. bush is taken off the sta stage by his wife. >> there is a city slicker who is driving around lost and he came across this old cowboy. so the city slicker asked the old guy how to get to the nearest t

mr trump is hoping it will intimidate that country's isolated regime into abandoning any further nuclear tests or long—range missile launches. china has warned of the imminent danger of a war being triggered on the korean peninsula, and north korea remains defiant, saying it's ready to respond to any attack with nuclear weapons. meanwhile, in afghanistan, the us has dropped an immense bomb — 11 tonnes of high explosive dropped on an isis tunnel complex in the mountains of eastern afghanistan. the blast was felt 30 miles away. the weapon used is called a moab, a massive ordnance airburst, also known as the mother of all bombs. this was its first time used in combat. this was the right weapon against the right target. we will continue to work shoulder to shoulder with our afghan comrades to eliminate this threat to the afghan people, especially the people of nangarhar, to the people of the entire region and indeed, the people around the world. local villagers confirmed that isis fighters had set up bases in the mountains behind them, and said the bomb had hit its target. but the strike

and it notes that mr trump was, in its words, ‘uncharacteristically silent‘ on the events. and in singapore, the straits times also looks at the same lead story. it looks at the way it says the us and its allies are considering a united international response. it notes that the us and china have been discussing the north korean missile launch at a senior diplomatic level. now what stories are sparking discussions online? yes — it's once again a story about donald trump — although not the president himself. instead, it's these pictures from mexico of mr trump being cast asjudas during easter celebrations. it didn't end well for the satirical creation — it was packed with fireworks, and quite literally blown apart. donald trump's insistence that he will build a wall along america's border with mexico has clearly affected his popularity there. in the aftermath of world war two, widespread devastation of japan brought a desperate need to rebuild communities. out of the rubble, radical new ideas had emerged of reinventing the traditional japanese house. we've been on tour

at the time mr trump was very much in support of that. he didn't want mr obama to intervene. now as president he has a different approach to that. also, not only responding to the syrian chemical weapons attack, but very much rush hour. mr rex tillerson also said the russians we re tillerson also said the russians were either incompetent or a complicit with the syrians‘ use of chemical weapons because they guaranteed that if syria didn‘t give up guaranteed that if syria didn‘t give up the chemical weapons, they would ensure they did. so the administration has been making some very clear criticisms of russia in its role in backing bashar al—assad. president obama offcourse back in 2013 decided not to respond militarily because of that decision to re m ove militarily because of that decision to remove chemical weapons. clearly haven‘t removed the weapons. is there any advice that could be made to make that happen?” there any advice that could be made to make that happen? i can't really say at the moment whether. .. whether there will be a new push by the un 01’ th

of mr. pascrell. the gentleman from patterson has been persistent in his goal and his desire to achieve what i think is just your common sense and that americans have the right to know and sometimes on this committee things can get side is accusing the other of being on a witchhunt and the other appears to be saying no, there is a cover-up. justice who said democracy and freedom is that which leaves you not to sure. in this case, there is more than enough evidence on both sides to leave people not to sure. the american people may need a reshuffle and new deal in order to get to the truth. with that, i yield to mr. crawley. >> for the record, another example as to why we need to see these returns and why, we the committee, should see them and determine whether we should make them public. in 2012, the trump organization signed multiple contracts with azerbaijan to develop to plan a five-star hotel called trump international hotel and capital, a hotel there remains unopened to this day. behind

mr trump is hosting xijinping at his mar—a—lago resort in florida. the meeting today is the very first time they are talking in person. there's lots to discuss. security, are both men in agreement on how to handle north korea? and on. can these dealmakers avert a potential trade war? joining us with some a nswe i’s we trade war? joining us with some answers we hope is our asia business correspondent. lots of big issues. north korea, the south china sea, but focusing on trade. despite all of the tough campaign talk that we heard from president trump, branding china a currency manipulator, slapping it with punitive tariffs, none of this has happened. they still have the rest of the net to get through, let's wait and see what happens. —— rest of the night. at the tone has changed a great deal before the meeting and now when they are meeting face—to—face. just look at the peak is of that historic handshake. everyone waiting to see offcou rse handshake. everyone waiting to see offcourse what kind of camaraderie the two men will build. it is argu

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but it did not disclose the sources of mr. trump's earnings or to whom he owes money. those key details should be included in financial disclosure forms, but the white house is still deciding whether the president will release his next month. spokesman sean spicer. >> when you look at a financial disclosure form, it lists every asset, every debt you owe, where you get your money from, where your income is derived from, it's much more comprehensive. >> reporter: democrats say they will continue to press for financial transparency, but california senator dianne feinstein was jeered at a town hall for not doing enough. her staff is investigating whether mr. trump or his family violated the law that prohibits them from accepting payments from foreign governments. >> that new staff is looking very closely at the emollments clause as well as at can, in fact, deny certain federal payments for business trips of his sons. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the trump organization told cbs news that the company is tracking all profits earned from foreign governments who are either t

they're not currency manipulators, mr. trump said. literally the exact opposite of what he said repeatedly ad nauseam on the campaign trail. >> china so manipulates their currency. >> they manipulate the hell out of their currency. >> they devalue their currency. >> china cheats. they devalue their currency. >> we are going to label china a currency manipulator. >> when "the wall street journal" asked about his complete flip-flop, mr. trump said the reason he's changed his mind on one of his signature campaign promises is that china hasn't been manipulating its currency for months and because taking the step now could jeopardize his talks with china on confronting the threat of north korea. >>> the first presidential tweet of the day, great win in kansas last night for ron estes. easily winning the congressional race against the dems who spent heavily on predicted victory. there is only one thing factually accurate in that tweet. the kansas state treasurer did indeed beat james thompson to fill the seat of mike pompeo, but it was not

mr. trump's senior adviser and strategist. this marks a return to the military community having more control within the security council. you will remember that general by. mcmaster was appointed president trump after general flynn resigned. as a result of that, one of the first hires that national security adviser mcmaster made was deana powell, the former goldman sachs executive who had worked for ivanka trump. the scoop today tells me that mr. been in maintains all have is -- mr. bannon maintains all

mr trump may or may not be like the presidents before him, he says he's not. in a complex situation of great danger, he is the new unknown factor. his attitude to risk and military action is hard to gauge. stephen evans, bbc news, seoul. 0ur correspondentjohn sudworth is in the north korean capital pyongyang, and earlier gave us his assessment of the situation. his movements are being monitored and tightly controlled. in many regards this is business as usualfor north korea. it in many regards this is business as usual for north korea. it has long used when friendship and tension to the anti and when business and economic concessions as it steps back from the brink but with each cycle moving one step closer towards its goal of becoming a fully fledged nuclear power. but it's not what's happening in this capital but in washington of course and it seems the actions of north korea believes it is confident that president trump will like his predecessors before him, eventually conclude that the cost of military action is simply too great. more than a hundred people

has been , mr. trump elected president of the united states. now, we should give him a chance. european from perspective, i think he has also rovoked a very healthy debate on the transatlantic relationship. he has said, you must pay more for your defense. agree with him. and after mr. trump became you have seen what i would call a healthy debate in future bout our transatlantic bond, because we cannot any longer take the relationship for granted. we have to consider how we can invest more in that relationship, both economically, politically. thing. is a positive now, what is the military capability of nato? nato is the world's strongest security alliance, and he world's most successful security appliance. i think nato countries, all in all, represent more than 50% of defense investment. so it's still very much are the alliance in itary the world. after the cold war, we thought the russians were our partners. in 2014, they demonstrated they are not our partners. adversaries. so we have to invest more in our make sure hawe can rotect the principles upon which we have built our fr

monday, mr. trump will host egypt's president at the white house. and later this week, mr. trump hosts china's president at his mar-a-lago resort in florida. they are expected to discuss north korean nuclear threats. >>> thanks, errol. on face the nation, john cornyn said the intelligence community hasn't decided whether to grant immunity to michael flynn, the president's former national security adviser. he asked for immunity late last week and president trump said i supported that request. let's bring in our chief correspondent. it was interesting that the president encouraged flynn to seek immunity. how should we interpret that? >> the president's critics see this as much more smoke, what they hope is the fire that connects the president's team or the president himself with the russian efforts to influence the election. another way to look at this, though, is in a highly partisan environment where there are two congressional investigations and a fbi investigation that mr. flynn may have exposure in some way based on his other business dealings, which we're still learning

president trump: i remember. mr. staub: and hopefully you got a chance to see the "first day" video that we did with the national association of manufacturers. president trump: i did. thank you. i did. great job. and you've done a great job. mr. staub: thank you. president trump: yes. mr. eddy: good morning, mr. president. my name is joe eddy. i'm the president and ceo of a company in northern west virginia called eagle manufacturing. we're 125 years old this year, a family-owned business. we manufacture products out of steel and plastic. we make over a thousand industrial safety and hazardous materials handling products. and i bring from west virginia a major thank-you for the work you've done for coal. president trump: great state. great people. really. we really opened it up. nobody thought it would happen that fast. they thought maybe at the end of the four-year term, maybe i'd sign it -- no. nobody thought we were going to go that fast. and the people appreciate it. julie. ms. copeland: good morning, mr. preside

trump, was there when mr. trump signed his executive order relating to cutting back regulation, and now you have dow's request to set aside the science, the u.s. government has made scientific findings about these organo phosphates and the harms they cause to, set aside that science and relieve regulation. it doesn't smell right. >> sreenivasan: norm eisen, how different is this from the revolving door that people so hate about washington, that people come right out of government, go right into the private sector, and then oftentimes right back in if the administration changes? >> the problem with the trump white house is that they removed the revolving door and just threw it open and it's being flooded with corporate executives who are coming in with lobbyists. they removed the lobbying ban that president obama had in his executive order, and everybody believes that business has to have a seat at the table, has to be on a level table, though. the problem is it appears that the table is tilted to disproportion

mr trump was never afan of with north korea. mr trump was never a fan of the deal in the first place. i would like do you pick up josie, we will turn to the ft, and ze i’o josie, we will turn to the ft, and zero hours contracts. in the news yet again. that is is right, yes. there you go. so this is a story in the ft, it is an interview that they did with matthew taylor who was tony blair's former policy chief, and he was basically given the job by theresa may back in november to look a the changing face of the labour market and specifically the rise of what we call the gig economy, the zero hour contract, people being on working in jobs where they don't know in the morning whether they will be called up morning whether they will be called up and say yes, we need you to come into work, no we don't need you. what he is saying or proposing is that temperature minimum wage is topped up for these kind ofjobs to provide a premium, and the idea is that this would discourage employers from taking advantage of the gig economy workers,

trump's. , mr kushneralso illicit deals and is married to mr trump's. , mr kushner also has the job of reorganising the american government. not a smalljob. he is an extraordinary man. clean cut. there he is in iraq with general dunford. he is very close to president trump. he was the factor chairman of the current campaign and you could say that blood is thicker than water because he is one of the most influential people in the white house. he has a massive portfolio and you hear stories about whether he is upset. he is meant to be a smart 56—year—old, but that is an awful lot. he clearly likes and he is clearly a smart guy. he has his own company. we have seen information the assets that he and ivanka trump have. they were in the papers over the weekend. is he still running the company day—to—day? papers over the weekend. is he still running the company day-to-day? no, he separated himself from his companies as other people in the trumpfamily companies as other people in the trump family have had to do. i was speaking to someone who worked for him. he was owner of the new

mr. trump is set to meet with the president of china at his resort. >> president trump told the financial times in a quoting here, china will either decide to help us with north korea, or they weren't. if they do, they will be very good for china and if they don't, it won't be good for anyone. mr. trump also said "if china is not going to solve north korea, we will". >> earlier, cnn spoke with the washington bureau chief of the financial times presented mr. trump wouldn't be more specific on exactly what unilateral actions the united states would take. listen. >> he didn't want to be throwing at what he would actually do and he made it clear he wasn't going to tell us. there's a range of options during the campaign he talked about sitting down and having hamburger with the dictator at one end of the spectrum. at the other end he'll pre-emptive strike on the nuclear facilities. and then you have a whole range of things you can do in between in terms of sanctions and covert actions and othe

mr. trump does not know what to do. as far as any other time, i don't know what will happen to donald trump. he got in because he lied so much to the people. they believed him. it's just like him. god help us in america. an weekly standard, he said the first hundred days are typically a honeymoon through which the political knives remain sharp. finding time to both attack trump and blame each other for their study loss. republican freedom caucus servers are finding time to backstab their speaker and defy their president. and of the honeymoon is the piece that weekly standard.com. on her website at c-span.org or the program carried live at sirius xm, the potus channel. and if you are listening across a call andive us tell us what you think. we take a look back at the 2016 campaign. the republican line. caller: first of all, president trump is a liar. who cares about his tax returns. he's one of us and not a politician. if you want to know who is the liar, it was president obama. foridn't even change life african and blac

[applause] mrs. trump: hello. so for those who do not know me, i am melania trump. nice to meet you. i have a special book for you. do you knowals" about the book? whilegifford wrote it a back. allke the book because it people are different and that makes us the same. the animals. loosey-goosey was filled with the light, her birthday was coming,, who would she invite? she wanted her party to be simply the best because you had to be careful in choosing each guest. pig, he will the eat all the food and goat is always in such a bad mood. all he doesdog, is growl. owl, ohsk the wise if cat comes all she will do is purr and she had that bad habit of licking her fur. hat about lamb, cried goose, she is more boring than i am. sheep is too dumb, so i would like to ask horse. all he does is graze on green grass. except maybe fox, who just howls at the moon. there must be somebody you would like to come, but sadly, think of no one. -- sadly the goose could think of no one. the turtles are too slow. late to arrive. and the bee is too busy to leave his beehive. that silly old h

mr. trump's stance on russia has done a 180 also. >> i don't know putin. but wouldn't it be nice if we could get along actually? >> reporter: yesterday. >> right now we're not getting along with russia at all. >> reporter: on inauguration day president trump outlined his america first philosophy. >> we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone. >> reporter: but on wednesday mr. trump explained why he launched missile strikes against the syrian regime of bashar al assad. >> that's a butcher. that's a butcher. so i felt we had to do something about it. >> reporter: there have been promises kept, including the confirmation of supreme court justice neil gorsuch. >> and i got it done in the first 100 days. that's even nice. >> the keystone pipeline. >> reporter: and approval of the keystone xl pipeline as well as withdrawing the u.s. from a free trade agreement with asia pacific countries. there's another big campaign promise the president is trying to keep, repealing obamacare. he's tri

mr. trump is spending the weekend at his mar-a-lago resort in palm beach, where his administration is denying rumors of an impending west wing shake-up. here's margaret brennan. >> i think we have made tremendous progress in our relationship with china. >> reporter: president trump's china summit was not the only high-stakes diploamalcy at mar-a-lago. on the sidelines, chief of staff reince priebus brokered a detente between the administration's two warring factions, varies steve bannon and trump son-in-law jared kushner. the populist bannon is the architect of the america first policy and has advocated breaking up america's alliances and institutions. >> we have a team that's just grinding it through on what president trump promised the american people. >> that world view competes for influence with kushner. as mr. trump's most trusted adviser, kushner was invited to join his intimate dinner with china's president. wife ivanka dismissed inn fighting during an interview with gayle king th

thank you for your service, mr. trump. >> i'm charlie rose with norah o'donnell and alex wagner. gayle is off. president trump will have to wait to start his wall on the southern border. senior administration officials tell cnbc news the president is, quote, backing away from a demand to put money for the wall in this year's budget. they want to prevent a government shutdown this saturday. >>> senate republicans need at least eight democrats to pass a budget that will fund the government through september. democrats have agreed in principle to increase funding for border security and surveillance, but they don't want the wall. any government shutdown would happen on president's 100th day in office. by saturday the president will have signed 32 executive orders. that is more than any president in his first 100 days since world war ii. he will sign four of them just this week. >> but non-of the ten pieces of legislation he promised including health care and tax reform are likely to pass this week. treasury secretary steve mnuchin says the white house will unveil a tax it is expecte

mr. trump called tuesday's chemical attack an affront to humanity that changed his attitude toward president assad. he blamed assad for the deaths of at least 86 people, an action he says cannot be tolerated. >> when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies, with a chemical gas that is so lethal that people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line. >> u.s. officials say chlorine gas with traces of the nerve ajen agent sarin was likely used in the attack. >>> ambassador nikki haley warned u.s. would take action. the attack happened about 60 milesen from the border with turkey where some of the victims are now being treated. holly williams is there. >> reporter: the problem for the u.s. is that it doesn't have any good options in syria. it's tried diplomacy, both with the syrian regime and with its ally russia, and that hasn't succeeded in ending this conflict, which has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. n

can mr. trump have a win during the major week? it is day 95 of the presidency. let's begin our coverage with cnn's joe johns live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. five days to go. reality now setting in here at the white house as well as on capitol hill about the slim likelihood of getting a do-over on health care through the house of representatives before the end of the week. the white house and congressional republicans now apparently settling on a strategy to do what it takes to avoid shutting down the government. even though the president's desire to get funding for his border wall seems to be getting in the way of the message. >> the president has been pretty straight forward about his desire and need for a border wall. he'll do the right thing for sure. i will suspect he will be insistent on funding. >> reporter: the white house setting up a showdown with congress five days before a potential government shutdown. demanding a $1.4 billion payment for president trump's border wall included in the must-pass spending bill. >> the democra

that process taken how easy will that be for mr trump? we are already hearing from republicans saying that they do not expect to have any democratic support on this. republicans in order to get this to the congress will have to do have a process of putting a time limit on these courts, in order to get it through with just republican support, and that is just because of the idea that they cannot get it through congress if it will break the deficit after a 10—year period, on the other hand because you have fiscally conservative the publicans they are now saying they are largely in support of the plan, but the devil is in the detail and they do not want the deficit to balloon, either, it will be interesting as the next couple of months go on as they aim to get this through before they aim to get this through before the end of the year they will have com plete the end of the year they will have complete republican support on that and if they come anything away to get this route without any democrats on board. thank you. next we will talk ab

mr trump has previously called it a hoax mr trump has previ.usly called it a hoax —— mr trump has previously called it a hoax. this is washington where crowds have been making their way to the white house to express their concern about climate change and the adminstration‘s plans to roll back measures to curb global to curb global warming. if we don't take care of earth, we don't have anything. we want our next generation to have this planet that has not been reported by corporations. in defence of our environment, for the climate, because we need to do it and we believe that. the president will not be marking his hundred days in washington. he has been downplaying the importance of the marker. this is how donald trump assessed how he has been doing. actually believe the first 100 days of my administration has been just about the most successful in our country's history. the most fundamental change can be found on the relationship between the people and their government. for too long, politicians cared more about special interest tha n politicians cared more about special interest than the

so, for an administration like mr trump's, mr trump has not said one critical word about russia or putin. it is quite a step, yes. buti about russia or putin. it is quite a step, yes. but i think... it seems to me that the dynamic here would be just as much this redline issue. if mrtrump is going just as much this redline issue. if mr trump is going to criticise president obama for setting alone in the sand, or setting a red line that chemical weapons can't be used or he would respond, and then he didn't respond, now president trump can say chemical weapons have been used in that line was crossed, and i responded. that seems to me just as likely an explanation as to why he this attack, and that he was willing to co nfro nt this attack, and that he was willing to confront the russians. point taken, barbara. thank you very much indeed. you were an intelligence operative for many years. you know the region well. what do you make of this news? i think it is good for the middle east and good for syrians and bad for iran and bad for bashar al—assad. it gives people hope. what imean by al—a

tonight, mr. trump has arrived in mar-a-lago for the easter weekend. lester? >> kristen welker at the white house, thanks. >>> president trump today struck a potentially major blow to planned parenthood surrounded by women, he privately signed a bill that allows states to withhold federal funds from planned parenthood and other groups that provide abortion services. it reverses a rule that was finalized just before president obama left office. >>> for the first time, we are hearing about the extent of the injuries suffered by that united airlines passenger who was dragged from his seat on sunday. the video sparked national outrage and a pr crisis for the airline. now, dr. david dao's attorneys announced their intention to file a lawsuit and tonight, we're hearing from his daughter. nbc's tom costello has details. >> reporter: dr. david dao dragged from that united flight on sunday is now out of the hospital. >> my dad is healing right now. >> reporter: but his daughter says his injuries are severe. >> we were horrified and shocked and sickened to learn what ha