April 3rd, 4 00 a. M. In the east. Looming questions about russias alleged collusion in the campaign. It kicks off a week of diplomatic meetings, nominations and fate of his thats all. The former National Security adviser Michael Flynns quote to tell his story in exchange for immunity. Reporter good morning, weve said this a lot during the Trump Administration, but this could be one of the biggest weeks of donald trump Donald Trumps presidency, he has a lot on the Table Including a whole host of meetings with important foreign leerds thats going to be capped with a summit of president xi ping. He really lays it on the line telling them they need to get in line to deal with the problems in the korean peninsula. Neil gorsuch the nominee for the Supreme Court is expect today get a week sometime this week. Republicans confident theyll be able to get him confirmed. The question is will they do it with the 60 votes customary for a vote like this. All this as a cloud of russia continues to over shadow, adam schiff react toded to the news Michael Flynn is willing to make an immunity deal. We dont want to do anything that may interfere that the Justice Department may bring and decide whether he can add value to our investigation. Whether we need to learn information we cant learn from other sources. Reporter even though russia continues to be a big issue for the Trump Administration the president himself is not backing down tweeting on sunday morning quote the real story turns out to be surveillance and leaking. Find the leakers. All this as the president has a very busy week in front of him starting this morning. Christine and dave. Thank you. Breaking overnight senior trump advisor Jared Kushner has popped up in iraq. A Top Administration official telling cnn the first soninlaw flew to iraq with chairman joint chiefs. Declining to provide details or plans in iraq or when he will return, kushner is expected to have a major role with the chinese president. And President Trump is putting china on notice, warning that the u. S. Will take unilateral action against north korea unless china pushes on the regime. He said china will either decide to help us with korea or they wont, if they do it will be good for chou in a, if they dont it wont be good nor anyone. Here is u. N. Ambassador nikki haley brandishing a equally tough message for china. No longer take the excuses from china that theyre concerned too, they need to show us, the only country that can stop north korea is china. China has to cooperate. This is now down to do we want to continue to see these ballistic attacks from north korea or does china want to do something about it. Lets bring in will ripley. Good mortganing. How much influence do they really have over their nuclear program. Reporter did you notice the difference in messaging with President Trump saying the u. S. Will take action against north korea and nikki haley saying only china can stop north korea. When you talk about sanctions china has to enforce them because they are the only meaningful trading partner. Preemptive military strike very unlikely although secretary tillerson didnt take it off the table when visiting here in asia but would create such a destabilizing scenario north korea would consider it an act of war, not something that the United States would probably do according to most analysts, so what could the unite do without china . The United States could punish businesses that do busy with china, the unilateral sanctions, they have tried to sanction some of these smaller chinese banks that continue to deal with north korea because it was lucrative and profitable for them. And has been able to show they get around it doing business and selling weapons, so perhaps thats what the President Trump was referring to, but the bottom line is the United States needs chinas help on this. He talked last week about the President Trump tweets about trade, which is not major issue. What a pivotal week it is for the president. Something that always strikes me, the chinese central planners plan in think in 100 year increments, in the United States we think in election years. It will be fascinating how do you reconcile. Absolutely. The Supreme Court pick neil gorsuch, the committee expected to vote today. Three days of formal debate begins tuesday with republicans hoping to confirm him by friday. He needs 60 votes, that means all 52 republicans and eight democrats are needed. So far only three democrats are supporting him. Joe donnelly the latest to get on board. Dozens of democrats backing a filibuster. Mitch mcconnell vowing to get gorsuch confirmed even if it means changing the rules of 51 votes needed. Neil gorsuch will be confirmed this week, it depend on how many are willing to kill a Supreme Court nominee, never happened before in history . If republicans are able to get judge gorsuch confirmed by friday we would be able to participate in the final terms of this years today is a big day for neil gorsuch. The committee will vote on his nomination. Hes expected to advance on party lines but also a glimpse of democrats so far on the fence will vote when he reaches the senate. It all comes down to the math. It takes 60 votes to confirm him and more than 30 democrats ledly Chuck Schumer say they plan to filibuster the nomination. Instead of changing the rules which is up to Mitch Mcconnell and the Republican Party why doesnt President Trump democrats and republicans in the senate sit down and try to come up with a mainstream nominee. Theyre furious that merrick gar land never got a vote but say gorsuch is well qualified. If the democrats vote to filibuster, theyll do something historic. They will change the rules of the senate to make it easier for Supreme Court nominees to get through, Mitch Mcconnell has said gorsuch is expected to be confirmed by friday. Christine, dave. Thank you for that. President trump residenurrectin promise the fight for obamacare, now he seems ready to refight the battle. Saying i dont lose, i dont like to lose, they are negotiating as we speak, if we dont get what we want we will make a deal with the democrats and have in my opinion not as good form of health care. He spent the weekend golfing with senator rand paul. He was an outspoken critic of the plan and says he remains hopeful a better bill will be passed. We had a great day with a president today. We did talk about Health Care Reform, i think the sides are getting closer together and i remain very optimistic that we will get obamacare repealed. President trump tweeted that he promised the American PeopleGreat Health Care and one way or the other hes going to deliver. Doesnt look like his team thats 14 outings in ten weeks for the potus. Oh, wow. Interesting about the article talking at health care he was asked about will he get tax reform this year and he pushed it off an said i dont want to talk about when i want to talk about health care. Fascinating, you would think the Financial Times all they want to know is tax reform. Any way, President Trump will host egypts president at the white house today. The fight against isis and iraq and syria expected to be at the top of the agenda, the First Official visit to ab del fa la elsissi. On wednesday he meets with jordans king and thursday he travels to maralago to sit down with the president of china. Employee holdings as they entered the white house, one big discovery, former National Security adviser Michael Flynn did not include thousands of dollars in speaking fees from russian companies, they were absent in february just before he resigned. They were in a second filing. He was asked to speak in russia. Some people consider a propaganda arm by vladimir putin. Flynns lawyer says the first filing was a draft and he has filed extra paperwork since being let go. And ivanka trump owns a large piece of trump hotel. Her stake 5 to 25 million. It earned her up to 5 million in income last year. Lawyers say she will submit her own paperwork since shes a white house employee. And unclear whether she divest her interest in the hotel, but the documents show they are worth an awful a lot of money. 740 million. Do you think she would divest that part of the hotel . That seems like a massive conflict of interest. Jared cukushners surprise visit to iraq, raising eyebrows, why is he there . Well discuss next. President xi jinp Jared Kushners surprise visit to iraq comes amid growing concern about isis. Monitoring from istanbul. Jared kushners trip is really surprising here with someone with little diplomatic experience, no military experience. Why was Jared Kushner in iraq, whats the point of that trip . Well, i think thats the Million Dollars question, it was an unannounced visit came at general joseph dunford. We know hes been charged with defeating isis in iraq. We know the two were traveling together in iraq, what we dont know are some of the key details, any time a senior official visits iraq some of the key details are kept secret. The bigger question is that when there are visits like this and some details kept secret usually we know why the visits took place in the first place, in this case we dont know why Jared Kushner was in iraq, what it does show is the continuing descending of trump family members, we see on the ground is a convergence of all of those three things, primarily military operations, there are decisions being made by american generals every day in terms of how the fighting is going, so how does Jared Kushner fit into that . Thats the question a lot of the people are wanting the answers for. Fighting harder than ever before, it might be Jared Kushner has the ear to have president. Or make sure the chairman view even more directly. That makes more sense because to go to the American Office of innovation to a surprise trip to iraq, its hard to find a commonality there. Whats we biehind the tough talk . Live to moscow next. In just a few hours testimony will be heard about russias interference in the 2016 election. Condemning Coalition Airstrikes that killed scores of iraqi civilians in mosul last month. Matthew, good morning, on friday a kremlin spokesman told abc news that the relationship with russia is worse than the cold war, whats behind that . Reporter i think whats behind it is the fact that there was so much hope and expectation in russia that it was going to come to office and turn around the relationship with moscow, he promised to recognize crimea as part of russia, he promise today work with russia on the issue of International Terrorism to cooperate on the war in syria, but none of that has come pass, instead theres this political situation underway in the United States which they describe as poisonous and toxic, collusion being just one aspect of that. Out of that the latest criticism coming from the Russian Defense ministry about action in iraq and mosul. A few months ago the United States was accusing russia, now russia is doing the same by saying isil in mosul are baiting to attack, if the u. S. Coalition has this information what makes them strike with their smart bombs dooming civilians to a terrible death so theyre answering that u. S. Allegation back. Hardly the that youiwing of u. S. Russia relations. Supreme court covnfirmation vote, and meeting with three World Leaders this week. A critical week for President Trump starts today and the president already putting china on notice to stop north korea or the u. S. Will go it alone. And today a crucial vote in advancing Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch. A fascinating interview in the Financial Times with the president. Well get more on that later on, but first President Trump hoping for a reset after weeks of looming questions about russia in the campaign. Meetings with three World Leaders and fate of Supreme Court nomination. A flip of the script from last weeks story, and Michael Flynns offer to tell his story in exchange for immunity. Lets bring in cnns ryan nobles with the very latest. Reporter good morning, weve said this a lot during the Trump Administration but this could be one of the biggest weeks of Donald Trumps presidency, he has a lot on the Table Including a whole host of meetings with important foreign leaders thats going to be capped with a summit of the president of china shoxi jinping. President trump telling china they need to get involved in dealing with the problems in the north korean peninsula, and neil gorsuch the nominee for the Supreme Court is expect today get a vote sometime this week. The republicans confident theyre going to get him confirmed. The question is will they do it with the 60 votes customary for a vote like this, all this with a cloud of russia continues to shadow the administration. Adam schiff react toded to the that Michael Flynn is willing to take an immunity deal. Schiff said his committee may not be interested. We dont want to do anything that will binterfere that the Justice Department might bring and decide whether he can bring information we cant learn from other sources so its early to even be considering this. Reporter even though russia continues to be a big issue for the Trump Administration the president himself is not backing down tweeting sunday morning quote the real story turns out to be surveillance and leaking. Find the leakers. All this as the president has a very busy week in front of him starting this morning. Christine and dave. Thank you, ryan. Days ahead of the president s meetings with chinese leader xi jinping. The president said quote either china will decide to help us with north korea or they wont. If they do that will be very good for china and if they dont it wont be good for anyone, if china is not going to solve north careekorea, we will. And nikki haley. No longer take the excuses from china that theyre concerned too, they need to show us how concerned that are, they need the put pressure on north korea, china has the cooperate. This is down to do we want to continue to see these Ballistic Missile attacks from north korea or does china want to do something about it. Good morning, will. President trump keeps saying china can stop north Koreas Nuclear pl nuclear fl nuclear bailiff proliferation. Millions of brain washed people pouring over its boarder putting pressure on china. Reporter thats the number one thing that china wants to avoid, a destabilization, they would have a humanitarian crisis if millions of people started flooding across the border and is why they continue to tried. 70 to 90 of trade is with china. They have a higher standard of living than really they ever have with smartphones and other types of technology if it werent for chinese trade. So china really does hold the key to really hurt the north korean regime led by kim jongun. But if they hurt too much that could be destabilizing, ifor th tweet and interview, Public Officials in beijing are indicating theyre not surprised, they are understanding this is just his style. The administration of Foreign Affairs are saying talking about the importance of this meeting, so much less severe rhetoric than what we heard from him on the campaign train, in the end china needs to work with them in regards to north korea, in terms of a military strike would be disastrous, the u. S. Could impose its own sanctions, banks that do business with north korea, but the impact would be minimal without chinas cooperation. The complicated trade. It is. And on the golf course, ive been told the chinese president kind of has a war on golf. He closed hundreds of golf courses in china. Meanwhile a critical week for nomination of neil gorsuch. Three days of formal debate begin tuesday, with republicans hoping to confirm gorsuch by friday. 52 republicans and eight democrats are needed for nomination. Senator joe donnelly the latest to get on board. Dozens of democrats vowing a filibuster. And Mitch Mcconnell vowing to change the votes. Neil gorsuch will be confirmed this week. How that happens really depend on our democratic friends, how much of them are willing to close to kill a Supreme Court nominee . Never before happened in history. He would be able to join the Supreme Court this month in time to participate in the final cases of this years term. We get more. Reporter christine and dave, today is a big day for neil gorsuch. The Senate Judiciary committee will vote on his nomination, hes expect today vote on party lines but also get a glicmpse o the democrats, it all comes down to the math. It takes 60 votes to confirm him and more than 30 democrats led by Chuck Schumer said they plan to filibuster the nomination. It looks like gorsuch will not reach the 60 vote margin, so instead of changing the rules which is up to Mitch Mcconnell and the republican majority, why dont the republicans, democrats sit down and come up with a mainstream nominee. Theyre furious that Merrick Garland never got a vote. Republicans say if the democrats vote to filibuster theyll do something historic. They will change the rules of the senate to make it it easier for Supreme Court nominees to get through, neil gorsuch is expected to be confirmed by friday. The fight to repeal and replace obamacare. Hes been blaming the House Freedom caucus to get Health Care Reform passed, now he seems ready to refight this battle telling the Financial Times i dont lose, i dont like to loose, they are negotiating as we speak, if we dont get what we want we will make a deal with the democrats and we will have in my opinion not as good a form of health care. The president golfing with rand paul, he says he remains hopeful a better bill will be passed. We had a great day with the president today. We did talk about some Health Care Reform. I think the sides are getting closer and closer together and i remain very optimistic we will get an obamacare repeal. The president tweeted he promised American PeopleGreat Health Care an one way or another hes going to deliver. The president will host egypts president. Its the First Official visit by abdelfattah elsissi. The Obama Administration viewed him as a dictator. Its just several of diplomatic encounters, wednesday he meets with king abdulabdulla. Former National Security adviser Michael Flynn did not include thousands of dollars of speaking fees, he did include them in a second filing, he was paid to speak by a state funded russian that intelligence officials consider a prop beg p tool. Goldman sachs gary comb reported 75 million in total his Financial Assets are worth between 252 milli,000,611 mill. Cone is director of the National Economic council and very close advisor to President Trump. For years covering business in government they called it government sachs. When you have all that money the next step is government. And this is the wealthiest cabinet in the history of this country. Whats behind all the tough talk . Well go live to moscow next. A few hours the Senate Intelligence committee will be hearing testimony behind closed doors about russias interference in the 2016 election. Matthew chance is live in moscow. On friday a spokesman told abc news that the relationship with United States is worse than the cold war, whats behind this . Reporter i think its the end of general hopes that the relationship was going to get better. Trump promised better ties, and recognized crimea from the an next from ukraine, and said he would work with them on the issue of International Terrorism and nothing has come to pass mostly because of the investigations of collusion, they call it a witch hunt, and toxic and hasnt been the coordination that many people in the kremlin and the white house had hoped for. The latest crisis or step in that deteriorating relationship is criticism coming from the Defense Ministry in iraq there were scores of civilians killed by usled Coalition Airstrikes in mosul explain by the pentagon that isis is using the buildings and then baiting the u. S. Why is the u. S. Coalition making strikes with smart bombs with civilians dooming them to a terrible death so not the kind of Foreign Relations that both people here or in the United States were expecting. I see. Thank you very much for that from moscow this morning. The russian criticism of the Coalition Airstrikes comes amid growing concerns about civilian casualties and the war on isis. More than that next. So youre having a party . How nice. Ill be right there. And the butchery begins. What am i gonna wear . This party is super fancy. Lets go. Im ready. Are you my uber . [ horn honks ] [ tires screech ] hold on. [ upbeat music ] the biggest week in tv is back. [ doorbell rings ] whos that . Show me watchathon. Xfinity watchathon week now until april 9. Get unlimited access to all of netflix and more, free with xfinity on demand. The russian criticism of the Coalition Airstrikes in mosul comes amid growing concern and abroad about civilian casualties. Meantime closing in on the city of raqqah. Good morning to you mahammad. Much of the focus has been on the civilian casualties, what about the progress of the coalition in mosul . Reporter good morning the progress is on going but of course a very slow battle. Iraqi special courses backed with the United States with intelligence and logistics are taking back the old city of mosul. The old city is close quarter combat, and sometimes the fighting is house to house and one of the Biggest Challenges with that is the acquisition that isis has been using human shields as part of its defense. There was a talk about airstrikes that led to civilian deaths. Whats interesting is that the pentagon tame out during the time of those airstrikes or shortly there after and said theres Video Evidence of isis taking civilians from their homes and forcefully taking them to other locations where theres an isis sniper on the rooftop knowing that the isis sniper would die but also the civilians, theres a push to release that video to show the rest of the world that isis is using these tact tickics, there 400,000 innocent civilians, still trapped inside mosul desperately trying to leave. Thank you. A judge allowing three antitrump protesters okays an assault lawsuit against trump campaign. At one point, there trump can be heard saying get him out of here. The judge says the plaintiffs claim that President Trump incited a riot is possible. And the drivera pickup truck that collided with a church minibus admitted he was texting while driving. 13 seniors died 20yearold Jack Dylan Young the driver of pickup truck is in the hospital. Theres video showing him weaving between the lanes. Reporter the members of the First Baptist church have been struggling to cope for such a loss. Yesterday they were able to come together for the first time. You can see the mangled metal left behind. 13 of the 14 seniors were killed aboard this bus. Cell phone video that surfaced this weekend seems to show the pickup truck involved in the accident moments before it provided with the church bus, it was provided by a Good Samaritan who called in, he eventually came on the scene and pu purportedly he told that he was texting and driving. They are ruling in and out absolutely nothing as they continue to move forward with the investigation. They hope to speak to the 20yearold driver of the pickup truck in the up coming days, a woman aboard that bus thcontinu to recover. Thats some good news that this church in texas so badly needs. That is a horrific loss of life for something we all know is dangerous. Stock futures are ticking higher, three things investors want to see as we start q 2 progress on tax reform, this has really made the trump rally what it is, a economy that keeps humming, a look at gdp later this month. The expectations are high for Companies Making a lot of money in the trump presidency, the Earnings Growth will be the fastest in five years. Applications for the worker s see visas could reach a high cap. 236,000 applications were submitted. Proponents say they need high skilled workers and Companies Say they use this program to abuse, and say if you hire under a h1b that youre not a very good leader. More than 11,000 of the model xsuvs hit the road. Tesla is up 30 . Shareholders have been patiently waiting to see tesla ramp up production. The stock is certainly delivered. Back to your economist wanting to see progress on tax reform, the president was asked about that and said doesnt want to talk about when, doesnt want to talk about timing, hes focused on health care. Probably not what economists wanted to hear this morning. Early morning starts right now. A critical week for President Trump starts today. Today a crucial vote in the senate on advancing Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch. Good morning welcome to early start im christine romans. And im dave briggs. It is april 3rd, 5 00 a. M. In the east. Looming questions about russian interference in the u. S. Campaign. The president meets with three World Leaders this week. Former National Security adviser flynns offer to tell his story in exchange for immunity, lets go to brian nobles. Reporter good morning, we said this a lot, but this could be one of the biggest weeks of President Trumps presidency. He has a whole host of meetings with important leaders, capped with the president of china xi jinping. Donald trump lays it on the line for china telling them they need to get involved to deal with the