trump claimed that nato was fighting terrorism only after mr. trump's recent complaints. "they made a change," the president said. "now they do fight terrorism." well, secretary general jens stoltenberg responded with a history lesson, remind mr. trump of nato's 16 years fighting al qaeda and the taliban in afghanistan at a cost, the secretary general said, of more than 1,000 lives. there's been something of a cold war inside the white house. it appears the president is putting some distance between himself and his most controversial varies, steve bannon. bannon is the former right wing media executive who has been the author of mr. trump's darkest rhetoric. major garrett is at the white house. >> reporter: the president's chief strategist, steve bannon, took a seat in the front row of mr. trump's news conference today but source close to the president say bannon's role in mr. trump's inner circle is in jeopardy. >> there's a new political order that's being formed out of this. >> reporter: clashes with jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser have, an

in fact, mr. trump was well acquainted with mr. bannon before he became campaign ceo in august. >> thank you for joining us on the initial breitbart news daily show. >> that's such an honor. >> reporter: bannon interviewed candidate trump on breitbart news more than ten times starting in november 2015. >> hi, guys. >> reporter: all this comes amid another high-profile white house controversy. >> you had a, you know, someone as despicable as hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons. >> reporter: today sean spicer tried comparing assad to hitler's actions during the holocaust. >> to make a gaff like this is inexcusable. on a professional level, it's disappointing, i think i've let the president down. >> reporter: the president said today the world is nasty and a mess. he could have been describing turmoil here at the white house. but the president remains confident, declaring by the time he is finished, the world will be a better place. >>> two more police officers have been put on leave after dragging a passenger off a

. >> reporter: despite mr. trump's >> reporter: despite mr. trump's heated rhetoric, at the united nations today secretary of state tillerson said the u.s. is not looking for a fight. >> we much prefer a negotiated solution to this problem. >> reporter: tillerson offered direct negotiations with north korea and outlined the trump administration's plan to force kim jong-un to the table. he proposed choking its economy with more sanctions and asked other countries to cut off diplomatic relations and to no longer hire north koreans as cheap labor. >> the united states also would much prefer countries and people in question to own up to their lapses and correct their behavior themselves. >> reporter: president trump also expressed some empathy for kim jong-un, anthony, saying he appreciates he took over the regime at a young age, likely feels threatened, and is in a difficult spot. >> mason: margaret brennan at the white house. thanks, margaret. today, mr. trump became the first sitting president to address the national rifle association since ron

so the districts, which mr. trump won, will vote again in june. the u.s. and north korea seem headed for a showdown over the north's nuclear program. today both turned up the heat and margaret brennan has this. >> we're reviewing all the status of north korea both in terms of state sponsorship of terrorism as well as all the other ways in which we can bring pressure to bear on the regime in pyongyang. >> reporter: secretary of state rex tillerson said the u.s. wants to force north korean leader kim jong-un to the negotiating table, offering diplomacy as a way to avoid a military clash. a north korean propaganda video surfaced today showing kim at a concert. its centerpiece was a video simulation of a missile strike on the u.s. >> the united states of america will always seek peace. >> reporter: vice president mike pence on a tour of the region vowed overwhelming force if the north provokes the u.s. military. >> but under president trump, the shield stands guards and the sword stands ready. >> reporter: the u.s. has no diplomatic relations with pyongyang, w

i am sure you are not impugning mr. trump's integrity. >> i am asking questions. i think the american people know what is going on. they are paying attention, they know. >> mr. higgins, you get the last word. >> why are the president's tax returns important to this committee? as a committee, we are preparing to undertake a conference of reform for the first time in 30 years. transparency and full disclosure artists -- are essential to this committee and institution. the president loves to boast about his extensive buildings -- business holdings. he says paying no taxes makes him smart. this is despite his self-reported networth of more than $10 billion. the american people have a right to know if the president would personally gain from a proposal he would ask this committee to consider. the american people have a right to know the president's tax returns -- it would offer clarity about business ties to russia, syria, saudi arabia or any other business arrangement that may benefit them or him. this congress and this president have an almost exclusive of session wi

that's what mr trump said. well... today, the president dropped the largest non—nuclear bomb the us has in afghanistan. it's the first time it has been used. let's bring in the bbc‘s jane 0'brien, live from washington, dc. the speaker, all politicians change positions, but in the last seven days, there have been some remarkable turna rounds? days, there have been some remarkable turnarounds? yes it is quite a litany. it is like donald trump has dipped his toe in the pool of foreign policy but has not quite made up his mind which direction to swim in. really, even though he seems to be changing his view and changing his mind, we're still not entirely certain to what. because there hasn't been any clearly articulated policy on any of these issues. take syria, for instance. suddenly, the assad government matters to him, and he orders a strike on an airbase. danny hasn't said what else he's going to do, but we do know that he did want to send a message to russia, whom initially he said he was cosying up to and wa nted

mr. trump said today something should happen. david martin is at the pentagon. >> reporter: with two destroyers armed with cruise missiles poised in the eastern mediterranean, the u.s. appeared on the verge of launching a strike against the syrian military in retaliation for the chemical attack earlier this week. cruise missiles are unmanned aircraft which carry a 1,000-pound warhead and fly close to the ground below enemy air defenses guided to their targets by g.p.s. satellites. preparations for the attack came in the middle of a high-stake summit between president trump and china's president xi, at the florida white house. mr. trump is the second president to be on the brink of military action against the assad regime. >> a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being uniteutilized. >> reporter: and after a sarin gas attack in 2013 killed more than 1400 syrians, then-president obama prepared for air strikes. >> the purpose of this strike would be to deter assad from using chemical

i am interested that mr trump did not refer to russia, which is one of the key allies in syria, and of course it is quite interesting to see how this is playing out, because mr trump has also been very critical of us military engagement in iraq and afghanistan. it remains to be seen whether this attack on tuesday is going to lead to him reversing us policy and becoming more involved. also the famously tweeted when a chemical attack happened on president 0bama's watch, some years ago, don't take military action, when president 0bama talked about crossing the red line, and we didn't know what the reaction in the us would be, trumped the businessmen we re would be, trumped the businessmen were saying don't take action. —— trump the businessmen. while he was addressing the press in the rose garden, we had the security council meeting in which russia said it was not the assad regime. this is the problem. it is this relationship between russia and syria, and whether the trump administration will put pressure on russia in terms of its role. yes, this whole dynamic is an interesting one. w

but mr. trump's rhetoric does not match the business practices that made him millions. many trump-branded products are made overseas. trump eyeglasses made in china. items from the trump home collection is this ma collection, made in china. david letterman asked about his shirts and ties in 2012. >> theie china? ties are made in china. >> reporter: mr. trump's executive order also seeks to limit h-1b visas that allow companies to hire foreign skill the labor. something that undercuts american jobs and high-tech wages. he has for years used a related program to hire workers for his mar-a-lago property. we asked candidate trump about that in february 2016. >> it's impossible to get help. it's very, very hard to get help. >> reporter: impossible to hire americans. >> it's very hard. it's a seasonal job. and american workers don't want to work, they want a full-time job. >> reporter: and even while he has been in office, the trump organization has applied for an h 2 b visa for a foreign national services outside new york city. a club he is expected to visit multiple times i

today mr. trump said that president obama's national security adviser, susan rice, committed a crime, but he cited no evidence. rice has acknowledged that during the transition she asked for the names of trump associates caught up in surveillance of foreign officials. now, surveillance of foreign officials is routine, as are the conversations with members of an incoming administration. when a u.s. citizen is heard on such a call, his or her name is omitted to protect privacy, but rice and others were authorized to learn the names if necessary. today in an interview with "the new york times," mr. trump did not say what law rice had allegedly broken, but he said, "i think it's going to be the biggest story." he would say more, he said, at the right time. it was a month ago that mr. trump said his phones had been tabbed last year on orders of president obama. he promised evidence in the future, which has not yet been forthcoming. ivanka trump recently joined her father's team of advisers, which al

mr. trump won by 77,000 votes. out of 128 million cast. chip reid has the taxing debate over the president's returns.. >> ho-ho ho, donald trump has got to go. >> reporter: this weekend protestors from coast to coast called on president trump to release his tax returns. he says he can't release them because he's under audit but tax experts say that shouldn't matter. this was president-elect trump in january. >> you know, the only one that irkas about my tax returns the reporters, okay, they arehe >> reporter: but in february a cbs news poll found 56% think it's necessary for him to release his tax returns. 43% said it is is not. he's the only president not to release them in more than 40 years. before taking office, mr. trump often criticized president obama for being too secretive. in 2012 he tweeted he is the least transparent president ever. and he ran on transparency. but on friday, the white house said its visiter logs will no longer be made public, a practice begun by president obama. >> donald trump's white house is less transparns-

before taking office, mr. trump often criticized mr. obama of being too secretive. he tweeted he is the least transparent president ever, and he ran on transparency, but on friday, the white house said its visitor logs will no longer be made public. a practice begun by president obama. >> donald trump's white house is less transparent than president obama's. >> reporter: kathleen clark is an expert on government ethics. >> we don't know how much money the president owes and to whom he owes it. >> reporter: white house press secretary sean spicer. >> there are now experts on both sides of the aisle who say this is the least transparent administration in decades, how do you respond? >> i think we've taken several steps to allow people access to the white house, in terms, the press. we release participant lists, give press the opportunity to come into the room, so i would respectfully disagree with that. >> reporter: they are secretive about golf. president trump has visited golf courses 19 times. in most of those cases, the white house has refused to confirm or deny i

mr. trump won will vote again in june. >>> the u.s. and north korea seem headed for a showdown over the north's nuclear program. today both turned up the heat, and margaret brennan has this. >> we're reviewing all the status of north korea, in terms of state sponsorship of terrorism as well as all the other ways in which we can bring pressure to bear on the regime in pyongyang. >> reporter: secretary of state rex tillerson says the u.s. wants to force north korean leader kim jong un to the negotiating table, offering diplomacy as a way to avoid a military clash. a north korean propaganda video surfaced today showing kim at a concert. it was a video simulation of a missile strike on the u.s. >> reporter: vice president mike pips on a tour pence on a tour of the region. >> under president trump, the shield stands guard. and the sword stands ready. >> reporter: the u.s. has no diplomatic relations with pyongyang, which has made no secret of its nuclear ambitions. and u.s. presidents have long pressured china to rein in its neighbor. at th

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

trump, now president trump, had a different opinion. in a tweet, then mr. trump said, quote, president obama, do not attack syria. there is no up side.

chinese reports said mr. trump will visit china later this year. we'll have the full story, later in the program. in sweden, at least four people were killed today when a hijacked beer truck crashed into a department store in stockholm. 15 others were hurt. witnesses said the truck plowed into a crowd of people before smashing into the store. the swedish prime minister called it an act of terror. it was the latest such incident across europe. police said they are looking for the truck driver. more than 50,000 people marched in cities across south africa today to protest government corruption. they carried signs and shouted slogans demanding the removal of president jacob zuma, after he fired the country's anti- corruption finance minister. >> i am marching because i have a four-year-old daughter and i feel if i don't do something about the future of the country, nobody is going to anything. >> i'm here to fight, to show my support for this country, for the beauty and the future that this country has, instead of the uprising of one greedy, corrupt m

today, mr. trump said, "something has to happen." holly williams reports from the syrian border where survivors of the attack are being treated. >> reporter: abdul hameed al-youssef lost his nine-month-old twins in the attack. aya and ahmed. "say gone, my loves," he said. before he buried them along with his wife and several other family members. turkey's government said today that initial findings suggest it was sarin nerve agent. the chief suspect is the syrian regime, in part because the target was in a rebel-controlled area that's been pummeled with air strikes by the regime and its ally, russia. witnesses from the town of khan sheikhoun say the chemicals were dropped on them from the air. the explanation for this atrocity given by russia and the syrian regime is that a conventional regime air strike hit a chemical weapons facility run by rebel forces. but a conventional strike, say experts, would actually destroy these chemicals, not disburse them. and wouldn't produce scenes like this-- people with no visible wounds foaming at

mr. trump's reflex, blaming mr. obama for today's attack, strikes some even in the trump administration as millis guided. here's margaret brennan. >> reporter: the gravity of the images led president trump to issue a statement condemg the chemical attack as reprehensible and heinous. he then shifted to politics blaming president obama's "weakness and irresolution," for not following through on the air strikes he threatened in 2012. >> and a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. >> reporter: when a defiant assad carried out the large-scale chemical attack in 2013, mr. trump warned on twitter against any u.s. action. now that mr. trump is president, he has reversed his position as spokesman sean spicer indicated in an off-camera briefing today. >> america's credibility was at stake, and i think the president wants to point out that there was a red line, and they did cross it. we did talk about-- we did have alternatives to regime change, and they weren't

mr. trump claimed curiel could not be impartial because of his mexican heritage. the lawsuit was ultimately settled. >> curiel, who was chosen randomly, will preside over the case of 23-year-old dreamer juan manuel montes who claims he was protected under daca. montes tried to sneak back into the u.s. on february 19th, and was caught by border patrol agents. his lawyers claim he was improperly deported one day earlier. homeland security officials dispute that, insisting montes left the country without preauthorization and therefore voided his status. >>> u.s. authorities are seeking the arrest of julian assange. cnn has learned the justice department has already prepared charges after investigating the wikileaks founder for years. but how will u.s. prosecutors pursue their case with assange still holed up overseas? here now is cnn justice correspondent pamela brown. >> good morning, alison and dave. u.s. authorities have prepared charges to seek the arrest of wikileaks founder julian assange. the justice department probe of assange and wikileaks dates back to at l

mr trump is talked about it. they were not settled that in this visit, but perhaps the chinese president will offer sweeteners to try to ease the tension is a little bit, like investing injobs and infrastructure in the united states. north korea is a big issue for the americans. they feel that north koreans are poised to get a mess strong enough to buy it nuclear warheads in the next couple of years so warheads in the next couple of years so it is not business as usual there. they want china to put more pressure on north korea, which china is open to but not completely because it does not want the regime to collapse. these are very big economic and security issues but the key thing they are hoping for is that the two men develop a working relationship and this informal setting is supposed to help them do that. we have had president trump rolling back a bit lately, so the environment may be better, the chinese know he is unpredictable, they arbitrary there may still be some corruption, but president trump by no me

president donald trump took office in january and came on mr. trump's 100th day in office. >> south korea's foreign ministry are condemning the launch, warning the north against anymore acts of provocation. u.s. president trump tweeted this, north korea disrespected the wishes of china and its highly respected president when it launched unsuccessfully a missile today, he added, bad. >>> president trump will shortly begin his 100th day. he spent friday touting his success at an event hosted by the national rifle association. he proudly declared he stopped the, quote, eight-year assault on the second amendment, the u.s. right to bear arms. >>> pope francis is celebrating mass in cairo, his visit meant to show solidarity with christians there targeted by isis. the vatican leader says all fact should work towards ending religious violence. >>> the top story, north korea's missile launch. the latest reaction, homeland security secretary john kelly spoke with cnn's jake tapper earlier. >> kelly down played the launch was in response to mr. trump's res

but mr. trump says he'll keep swinging. talks on repealing and replacing obamacare have been going on. he tweeted -- >> we had a great day with the president today and talked about health care reform. i think the sides are getting closer together, and i remain very optimistic we will get obamacare repealed. >> reporter: and president trump faces a big foreign policy test this week when he goes head to head with china's president xi jinping, who will be mr. trump's guest at his mar largo estate. mr. trump said china will either decide to help us with north korea or won't. implying the u.s. may have to act alone. >>> president trump is spending money to nine bay area counties for damage after last month's storms. money is now available for emergency repairs or replacement in 42 counties, including alameda, contra costa, marin, santa cruz, and samona counties, and it covers the damage to the spillway and lake oroville. >>> there are new calls for emergency hearst about that busted dam at oroville. and a call for help answered

quote, after listening for ten minutes, i realized it's not so easy, mr. trump recounted. i felt pretty strongly that they had a tremendous power over north korea, but he said it's not what you would think. the problem, of course, is the number of policy professionals and readers of history who knew that already, like the number of people who knew health care was complicated. we've asked barry mccaffrey to join us again tonight, a retired u.s. army four-star general, whose experience includes military policy on the korean peninsula. barry, most people who reach the office of president, it's no one's fault or to their detriment have a background in government. donald trump is not. he's been involved in other pursuits. how does it strike you to hear that his briefing on the china-north korea relationship came from the president of china? >> yeah. it's sort of unsettling. by the way, brian, my experience with the business community in this country, particularly in new york city they're incredibly well informed. smart people. they pay attention to the world community. if you a

trump who called mr assad and animal statements from mr trump who called mrassad and animaland statements from mr trump who called mr assad and animal and mr spicer who compared assad with hitler with the caveat that hitler never used chemical weapons. how do these uttera nces chemical weapons. how do these utterances facilitate diplomacy and how and when will the rhetoric change? i think the perspective from the united states supported by the facts that we have are conclusive that the recent chemical weapons attack carried out in syria was planned and it was directed and executed by syrian regime forces and we're quite confident of that. this isjust the latest in we're quite confident of that. this is just the latest in a we're quite confident of that. this isjust the latest in a series of use of chemical weapons by the assad regime. notwithstanding their use on more than 50 occasions of chlorine bombs, cluster bombs and other types of weapons that are intended to maim and kill in the most horrific ways. so, ithink and kill in the most horrific ways. so, i think the characterisation is o

trump. we'll hear from mr. mason in a moment. but let's get in another caller, joe from charleston, south carolina, independent caller. thanks for waiting, joe. caller: happy to wait. listen, i'm trying to stay on topic unlike other people. i'm an independent and voted for darryl castle for president and trump's in there and i'm going to try to see what happens and wait it out. as far as his attempt to keep promises and that's what they are, attempts. what can you say? he's trying to get the border wallop. i don't think it will happen. i didn't necessarily agree with that. he's trying to enforce federal law with regard to illegal immigration and trying to penalize sanctuary cities for housing, people who may be, let's face it, whether illegal -- possibly illegal but maybe dig deeper into crime. militarily, he's reached out and within 100 days he said hey, you're not going to mess with us. we're going to bomb you and get into people who kill little babies with sarin gas. we can talk about obamacare. he's made an attempt to have a

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 whether we 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 a

president trump will welcome chinese president xi jinping at his mar-a-lago resort today. mr. trump has criticized the chinese in the past calling them currency manipulators who steal american jobs, but today's focus will probably be on a nuclear-armed north korea. >> reporter: the nuclear test failed, making it only 40 miles before pinwheeling into the sea, but it also exposed gaps in u.s. intelligence. initially thought to be a new, two-stage solid fuel missile like this, it turned out to be an old, single stage missile. just yesterday, general hiden said he's never sure what's coming next from north korea. >> those are very concerning moments. every time they launch, we're not sure if this is a threat missile or not. >>> this missile was not a threat, but coming just days before president trump meets with china's president sxi, it did seem to carry a message. nothing the two presidents do will stop north korea from developing a nuclear ashrsenal. the u.s. responded with a cryptic message of its own. secretary of state tillerson said simply, the united states has spoken enou

mr trump says, it's the german newspaper mr trump said... mrtrump says, it's not obsolete any more as my colleague noted... the general tone will have pleased all nato members, they talked about working together on the disaster in syria, also talked about how mrtrump said disaster in syria, also talked about how mr trump said that we should not be trapped by tired thinking and stoltenberg emphasised that the strong may do good europe he talked about a more dangerous and unpredictable world it is interesting that both men emphasised that. donald trump said, "the world isa that. donald trump said, "the world is a mess, right now it is musty and they can't do it right now" it is it —— the world is nasty. it is the view ofjens stoltenberg and an autumn that the world is west now. donald was asked about what has been happening in moscow, the meetings between the us secretary of state and his counterpart in moscow, he said it was a successful meeting which may have raised some eyebrows giving that nothing agreed and eve ryo ne giving that noth

i think mr trump has made various promises. he has certainly lost out on healthcare so getting tough on china is probably in line with his thinking. there is some risk that it gets verily robust between him and china —— fairly. certainly a initially. maybe push for a deal a little bit later. certainly, it might be on the all arming side. and when the japanese prime minister west they are, the two leaders played golf but this time we are not expecting that? certainly not but lots of talk. there has been talk of conflict of interest. china has been a guess working favourably to the trump organisation. if that likely to have any kind of impact? there has certainly been an effort by the chinese to position themselves into the vacuum but they believe mrjohn to live in, certainly in their asian region. —— mrtrump. that to live in, certainly in their asian region. —— mr trump. that is the risk he is running. it is a risk to his policy to give the ground to china. it is not our view. the chinese are probably going to be in

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

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 two leaders actually did meet in new york last september before mr. trump took office. and mr. trump prays the egyptian leader as, in his words, a fantastic guy. scott lucas is a professor at international politics at the university of birmingham. he's the founder of ea world view and he joins us now. great to talk with you, as always. so let's start with what we're seeing here with president trump hosting egypt's president and what impact this change and approach could have. >> i'll be pragmatic. before the egyptian revolution of 2011, egypt had been a key talks and egypt, of course, has, you know, was in the league and has change and relationships with the number of countries, including syria. attacks on his own people. so there's a pragmatic reason for these talks. i think the wider message here, the trump administration, we don't care about human rights and the recent weeks they have renewed shipments to despite long-standing claims that they had suppressed as it had for a long time. it said just days ago. it excepts the continued stay in power, how problematic, that is. it

on day one of his presidency, mr. trump promised to get economic growth up to 4%. he has his work cut out for him. the government reported today that in the first three months of this year, the economy grew at an annual rate of just .7% air, sharp slowdown from the fourth quarter of last year. john dickerson will be interviewing the president on day 100 tomorrow, and he joins us now from washington. john, in the first 99 days, the president did not get a significant piece of legislation through the republan why? >> well, their big one, of course, was health care, and the president and republican leaders chose to pass that legislation only with republican votes and they can't get the party to agree on a fundamental question how much of the affordable care act do they want to leave in place? every time they made concessions to those who want to take it out all together, they lost republicans who wanted to retain some portions for the insured, like guaranteed coverage of preexisting conditions. so that fundamental problem couldn't be fixed, either through cajoling by

as a candidate, mr. trump made this contract with voters, promising to, among other things, repeal obamacare, end illegal immigration, and pass an affordable childcare act by his 100th day. he's now feeling pressure to show what g.o.p.-controlled executive and legislative branches can deliver. on friday, trump expressed confidence that health care reform is coming after failing to get congress to repeal and replace obamacare last month. >> we'll see what happens, but health care is coming along well. >> reporter: offering no specifics, mr. trump told the associated press a tax reform proposal would be announceed by "wednesday or shortly thwart," saying it would be "bigger, i believe, than any tax cut ever." and on immigration, the president said so-called dreamers fearing deportation should "rest easy." adding, "we are after criminals. that is our policy." today, at walter reed, president trump and the first lady also spent some time with members of the wounded warrior project. president trump also annou

in fact, mr. trump was well acquainted with mr. bannon before he became campaign ceo in august. >> mr. trump, thank you very much for joining us on the initial breitbart news show. >> that's such an honor. >> reporter: he interviewed trump on breitbart news more than ten times starting in november of 2015. all this comes amid another high-profile white house controversy. >> you had a, you know, someone as despicable as hitler, who didn't even sink to the, to using kem cam weapons. >> reporter: today press secretary sean spicer tried to apologize for clumsily comparing assad's use of sarin nerve gas to adolf hitler's actions during the holocaust. >> to make a gaff and a mistake like this is inexcusable and reprehensible. on a professional level, it's disappointing, because i think i've let the president down. >>> the ceo of uf nighted airlines is now changing his tune regarding the passenger who was dragged off an overbooked flight. he's apologizing to the man. kris van cleave reports. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: as united airlines

once again, thank you mr. president. mr. trump: thank you very much. i appreciate it. we will take a few questions. john roberts, please. i hope you will forgive me for asking a three-part question. it has been a while. just in the last few minutes, i believe it was wild -- while you were meeting with the prime minister, there was a shooting in downtown paris, being described as a potential terrorist attack. i wonder if you have anything on that. further than that, two of the difficult spots you are dealing with now, north korea and iran, do you believe that leader of north korea is mentally unstable? is he a man that can be reasoned with? on iran, do you have reason to suspect they are cheating on the jcpoa? prime minister, your controversial into nato is slightly less than 2%, what you commit to ensure beating 2% -- contravening 2% going for? -- contributing to percent going forward? mr. trump: first of all, i love the question you asked the prime minister. i will be asking him the same ink. my condolences to the people of france. a terrible thing. it looks like anot

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

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