In matter of hours he performed at least three major back flips that formed the bedrock of his campaign. He took the most skeptical position yet on russia even though he left the door open for reconciliation with Vladimir Putin just hours after secretary of state tillerson met with the president. He proclaimed the relevance of nato, a body he claimed was obsolete and the president suddenly full of praise for president xi jinping. Why is rapid change . Reporter sharp change in tone on the subject of russia at the white house with the nato secretary general, he described the relationship between the u. S. And russia at an alltime low and said they may have known about the attack in syria, but the president was not so quick to criticize Vladimir Putin who has been the biggest backer of al assad. It would be wonderful as we were discussing just a little while ago if nato and our country could get along with russia. Right now were not getting along with russia at all, but were going to see what happens. Putin is the leader of russia, russia is a strong country. Were a very, very strong country. Were going to see how that works out. Reporter that was not the only shift in tone, he described nato as not being obsolete. A huge departure from what he talked about during the campaign when he referred to the Nato Alliance as being obsolete and told the wall street journal he no longer considered them to be currency manipulators and i asked and he said change. Echoing state tillersons frosty tones, speaking to reporters after his meeting with Lavrov Tillerson offered this grim assessment. The current state of u. S. Russian relations is at a low point. The worlds two most Nuclear Powers cannot have this kind of relationship. Lets bring in cnns paula newton. Good morning. If this is not a cold war certainly cooling. How is it being characterized there . Reporter dave, it feels rather chilly here, surprised you dont feel it there in the studio. They shook hands, sat down and the foreign minister went right into it that the airstrikes were illegal, that you should have waited for an investigation, we dont know who to call because youre not properly staffed up and we have no idea where you stand on Foreign Policy matters. I think they did realize one way or another we have to Work Together and set up a very long laundry list of where they disagree. Right now first and foremost is syria. Vladimir putin kept them waiting, but when they did bring him in he ditched the u. S. Press pool. No pictures so far. Twohour meeting. They definitely got down to business in that meeting. All of that, dave going on while at the United Nations in new york where you are the russia angrily vetoing a u. S. Backed resolution condemning the chemical attacks, nikki haley the ambassador to the u. N. Wanted to be on the record and she got it. Theres no evidence, no proof, this condemnation comes far too early. Paula, thank you. New overnight. Cnn is learning that u. S. Experts consulted with chemical experts, we are told the u. S. Did not have prior knowledge of the attack and there are no intercepts showing that Russian Military and communicating about the attack. During the campaign then candidate trump called the military alliance quote obsolete. But at a News Conference along side natos secretary general the president said he changed his view after focussing on the fight on terrorism. We had a productive discussion about what more nato can do in the fight against terrorism. I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change and now they do fight terrorism. I said it was obsolete. Its no longer obsolete. The president s allegation that nato just recently began fighting terror is not accurate. They played a vital roll in afghanistan over a decade, called for collective defense. It evoked that article in defense of the United States. After skewering china for months the president now has kind words for president xi. An agreement between the two countries could be in the works. President xi wants to do to right thing. I think so he wants to help us with north korea. We talked trade and a lot of things and i said the way youre going to make a good trade deal is help us with the north korea, otherwise we can go it alone. He said from day one he would hold china to account on these trade issues. Theres 100 days of discussion and says hes going to have better trade deals with china if they help with north korea. Are we witnessing a warming in relations between the u. S. And china . Reporter we are hearing President Trump praise china specifically over one thing and that has to do with north korean coal imports, so in that same conference he said china has deflected a fleet of coal laden ships coming from north korea to china, and thats a policy they have had in place since the middle of february and thats a key source of currency, so that would be the kind of economic leverage that the Trump Administration wants to china to use and the kim jongun regime to stop using its nuclear program, but just this morning we got trade data in the first three months in 2017 despite the ban, it actually went up almost 40 . Thats not what the Trump Administration wants. When they hear those numbers it will be very interesting to hear how the administration acts. However they are still trading lots and lots to north korea to the tune of 1 billion. And keeping north korea on a lifeline, but others would say keeping millions of people off chinas border also. Start on your money. This morning the u. S. Dollar struggling to recover from a sharp plunge. What happened to the dollar . Comments from the president took it down. A comment from the president said the dollar is coming down. This president does things his own way, made the comments caused an immediate drop of seven tenths, it hit its highest level in ten years, the dollar was strong because of positivity about the direction of this economy and this country, but it makes American Goods more expensive and could hurt u. S. Manufacturers kpeetdi manufacturers competing on the global market. He made a reversal with the China Economic something he promised repeatedly to do that during the campaign, but acknowledged china is no longer manipulating its currency, but propping up in order to get wealthy chinese investors to keep their money home. Also when he was talking about China Holding its currency low and using the crudest terms, experts say wait a minute that was like 15 years ago and now manipulating it in a different way. What do you think is behind the financial reversals we saw yesterday . A dramatic world view shaping policy or all la carte . I think the president likes to win and people close to the white house know that and close to the china situation and he needs help on the north korea situation. The import, export bank. Its hard to keep up. Calling for a peaceful resolution for growing tensions on the korean peninsula. Lets bring in cnns will ripley. A dire warning was issues about potential to using chemical weapons what do we know . We know president shinzo abe, theres the threat that north korea could use chemical weapons, there was a strike on syria because of using chemical weapons on their people, but what they will say judging on our previous conversations is this is just another example of propaganda trying to drag north korea through the mud and theyre not interested in developing weapons that violate International Law though theyrethetheyrir tests violate it. Theres a new analysis from 38 north and say its prepped and ready to go. Also images coming out of leader kim jongun being released, its interesting because we saw the leader himself today we got a phone call shortly after 4 00 a. M. And told we had just 20 minutes to get dressed up in suits bring very light technical gear, no cell phones allowed and taken through several hours of security, we new it was a pretty good bet it was where president kim jongun would be, there were tens of thousands of soldiers, people with balloons, he was at the opening of a brand new block of apartment buildings constructed here in pyongyang, hes made growing this citys skyline one of the priorities in addition to the nuclear program. 3,600 of them they say in just and year using a lot of the soldiers as workers, we saw a lot of them marriching in the streets today. He stood there, clapped, cut the ribbon, and just doing that solicited a tremendous response from the crowd as they cheered and he drove off in his black mercedes limousine, whether he will push the button on the nuclear test, we just dont know. All eyes once again on north korea. Thank you. A republican congressman joining calls to oust White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer. Wooiphite house press , theres more fallout from White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer stunning comment about hitler. Publicly calling for spicers removal. Sean spicer made a terrible mistake yesterday. If youre not familiar with what he did i mean, he needs to go. Subtle but no doubt stood out there. Spicer is still apologizing admitted he screwed up and let the president down. A source telling cnn saying the white house believes it was the right approach and they would like to move on. Im sure sean spicer would like to as well. You wonder if he might survive this. One thing about the republican town hall. Sorry im speaking so quickly i cant even get the the words out, to hear the crowd say he should go, it was interesting. If they start showing up, will we see more of that . Steve bannons future at the white house is in his own hands. Sources say the president s chief strategist is trying to keep his head down as he mends fences with soninlaw Jared Kushner so he can maintain his foothold in the white house. He is unhappy implementing bannons agenda and not the other way around, another source says the tepid enforcement was a warning that hes grown tired of other infighting. And were told bannon is getting credit for the pop list kind of blow it up idea, he doesnt want to give bannon all the credit. Describing him as a guy who works to me to the wall street jury room. And the passenger pulled screaming from the united air lines flight will speak publicly this morning for the first time at a News Conference. Attorneys are looking for preserved including a cockpit flight recording. Three aufrss haofficers have no placed on leave. In the meantime United Airlines will refund all flights for all passengers. We speak with the commanding battle a fresh look at Operation Inherent resolve live from iraq. 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Reporter interesting to see how full and affect the plans for the siege of raqqah that affect the capitol of isis caliphate actually are, explained to me they have used syrian rebel ally forces and some of their own forces to surround the city from the northwest and east and the southern currently open. That full assault may be well underway by summer, vague about timing, but i also pushed him too whether they had enough american boots on the ground to complete the task. Right now i think we have the resources we need there to isolate to do the task were doing right now which is complete the isolation of raqqah. After the isolation of raqqah will come the assault, and were still evaluating what resources well need. If i need more, ill go to my leadership, chain of command and tell them what we need to get the job done. Reporter he will be potentially requesting more troupes for the long and arduous fight. U. S. Officials say theres a small risk to u. S. Troops and im paraphrasing would be stupid for the Syrian Regime to pick a fight with the global coalition, he did say albaghdadi the isis leader was keeping a very low profile despite theyre on the back burner, but believe hes still in control of the terror group. Back to you. One of the most wanted man in the world still under operational control. Great reporting. It really is. Campaigning giving way to governing. Pulling back on some key campaign promises, well take you back on some key reversals next. President trump sounding a much different tone on several key issues. Three major shifts in the span of hours, and what it means for his presidency right now. Uturns, flip flops, call it what you want. Some of the things that got him elected totally changed his position on. I was off three days and i feel like we elected an entirely different president. Welcome back, im dave briggs, im christine romans. Leaping away from the stances that formed the bedrock of his campaign he took his most skeptical stance on russia even though he left the door open for reconciliation as Rex Tillerson met with the president. And nato, proclaiming the new relevance standing along side the nato hoping for president xis help with north korea. Lets bring in jim acosta. Reporter a sharp change in tone on the subject of russia at a News Conference, the president described the relationship as an alltime low and say they may have known about it that prompted the president to order strikes against the syrian here is what he said to say during that News Conference. It would be wonderful as we were discussing just a little while ago if nato and our country could get along with russia. Right now were not getting along with russia at all but were going to see what happens. Putin is the leader of russia. Russia is a strong country. Were a very, very strong country, were going to see how that all works out. Reporter thats not the only shift in tone, pretty big reversals at the News Conference describing nato as not being obsolete, a huge departure from during the campaign when he referred to nato as being obsolete and told the wall street journal he no longer considers the chinese currency manipulators and was asked about it and he says circumstances change. He says he is fulfilling his promises, he tweeted this, one by one, we are keeping our promises, big change happening. Law, order and justice being restored. We are truly making America Great again trying to answer the skeptics saying he has totally reversed himself on everything that got him elected. Trying to take back the narrative. And echoing Rex Tillersons frosty tony. Speaking to reporters after his meeting are Lavrov Tillerson offered this grim assessment. I expressed the view of the current status of u. S. Relations is at a low point. The worlds foremost two Nuclear Powers cannot have this kind of relationship. I want to bring in cnns paula newton in moscow, shes been covering the visit for us. I mean, remarkable when you hear about this leader talk about just how low we are in terms of the relationship here with russia. Reporter yeah, if everyone agreed on one thing was that relations were at a low point. Where do we go from here, there was under tone was obvious. Sergey lavrov sat down and basically gave it to Rex Tillerson, the airstrikes were illegal, and look, we dont even know who to talk to at your state department. Your policy is a mystery. Rex tillerson hitting back and saying look, its pretty much decided you interfered if our elections a, b, what are you doing with syria, how far will you back assad and went from that tone, what was pror substantive was that Vladimir Putin give him an audience, they ditched the press pool, you can get they got down to the important issues of syria. You and dave have talked about all the flip flops, likely a good thing, russia was already caught off guard by the fact that donald trump ordered those airstrikes keeping them a little bit you know guessing in terms of what american policy will be. That may actually move negotiations forward and give the United States ever so slightly some leverage where you didnt see anything was at the United Nations in new york, nikki haley putting on the table wanted russia on the record to denounce syria for the chemical attack, as expected russia vetoing that resolution and on it goes at the argument at the u. N. Heated words yesterday. Put on a sweater with the frosty relations right now with russia. Thank you for keeping us posted. Intercepted communications between syrias military and chemical experts discussing preparations for last weeks seren gas attacks, idlibs helped in the deadly role of the bombing, so far there are intercepts showing during the campaign then candidate trump called the military Alliance Obsolete more than once but at a News Conference along side nato secretary general the president said he changed his view after the Alliance Began to focus on fighting terrorism. A change he is taking the credit for. Secretary general and i had a productive discussion about what the more nato can do in the fight against terrorism. I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change. And now they do fight terrorism. I said it was obsolete. Its no longer obsolete. Now to be clear, the president s allegation that nato just recently began fighting terror is not accurate. It has played a central role in afghanistan more than a decade. It came after the u. S. Invoked natos article 5 calling for collective defense after 9 11 attacks. After skewering china for months, now the president has kind words for chinas president xi. And promised to label china as a currency manipulator, lets bring in cnns matt rivers live from beijing. Are we witnessing a warming between u. S. And china . Reporter well, at this point there certainly seems to be some agreement around one specific thing that china is doing when it comes to dealing with north korea and that has to do with coal. China is perhaps the biggest coal importer from north korea. A very big source of income for the north korean reg korean reg february said it was going to stop, it was during that press conference yesterday that President Trump gave with the secretary general of nato that President Trump actually said that china halting those coal imports was a big step in terms of doing what the Trump Administration wants which is to use their economic leverage over pyongyang to get kim jongun to stop producing the nuclear weapons. Its increased its trade with north korea by 43 , so on one hand yes, they stopped it with the coal, but in other ways, not, so interesting to see what the president has to say about that . Thank you. The president making two Economic Policy reversals, first the president tell it is wall street journal it will not label china a currency manipulator. Labelling them would trigger an investigation and allow the United States to seek possible penalties but now the president is acknowledging that china is no longer manipulating the currency. In an effort to get wealthy chinese investors to keep their money at home. No longer persona nongr non gra. Trump said yellen should be ashamed of herself now President Trump says he likes low Interest Rates an didnt rule out asking yellen to stay when her term expires next year. Can you keep up with that . Difficult to do so the financial twists and turns of this administration. And you wonder what it means for the working class voters who voted for him who think china stole the american jobs and that china is winning on the global trade battle feed and now they dont think the president is being so tough on china. And what it means for Steve Bannons role. Growing intentions on the korean peninsula. Lets go live to pyongyang and bring in cnns will ripley. The Prime Minister just issued a dire warning about the potential to use chemical weapons. Reporter thats right. Shinzo abe the Prime Minister of japan says they believe they have the capability of using seren gas capable of hitting a lot of targets like seoul, south korea and tokyo japan, there are tens of thousands of troops in the region, they would say this is more propaganda to make their regime look bad. Theyre Nuclear Test Site is primed and ready for a test at any time, which is what analysts have believed weeks now. The north Korean Leader overseeing a special forces training operation, his commandos jumping out of planes. He was apparently at the watch tower looking at all of it. These images were released, but we did get a glimpse of kim jongun for the first time on the trip, we got a call just after 4 00 a. M. And told to dress up and leave our cell phones behind and go to an area with jim kim jongun was at a area where he put up apartment buildings, it seems hes trying to grow this country as fast his as nuclear capabilities. Thank you. The American General leading the war against isis in iraq and syria. Whats the timeline . Big hurdles . We go live with cnns nick walsh next. President trump is threatening not to reimburse Health Insurance companies for covering the poorest americans in an interview with the wall street journal mr. Trump says he is undecided about cost sharing initiatives that reduce costs for low income patients. Its way to pressure democrats to come to negotiating table on health care reform. Without those payments many insurers are likely to pull out of the obamacare market. This might collapse all of obamacare as we know it. The president s chief strategist is trying to keep his head down as he mends fences with soninlaw Jared Kushner to maintain his foothold in the white house. A source tells cnn president s trump tepid endorsement for bannon is warning that hes grown tired with infighting among his staff. Questions are growing after the body of a new York State Court of appeals judge washed up on a shore a day after she was reported missing. Police say there was no obvious signs of trauma. She was the first black woman and first muslim to sitting the states highest court. The Governor Andrew Cuomo calling her a quote trail blazing jurist. That is trouble and sad. Why elam musk is telling investors if you dont like how i do it go out and by others. Finding time to get things done isnt easy. But weve got the Digital Tools to help. Now with xfinitys my account, you can figure things out easily, so you wont even have to call us. Change your wifi password to something you can actually remember, instantly. Add that premium channel, and watch the show everyones talking about, tonight. And the bill you need to pay . Do it in seconds. Because we should fit into your life, not the other way around. Go to xfinity. Com myaccount cnn getting an exclusive look into the fight against isis flying above the battlefield with lieutenant steven townsend. Our Nick Paton Walsh asks how long the fight for raqqah will last and the concern about chemical weapons. He joins us live with the exclusive reporting. Good morning, a fascinating look inside our effort there. Reporter commands in iraq and syria, change in the past week seeing strikes, knowing they have russian support, hes mildly concerned, a small risk, maybe seren might get used again, im paraphrasing but that they would be hard pressed to pick a fight with the u. S. , around which from the north, west and east, syrian rebel forces are pressing, they are going to move to the southern bottom encircling entirely, how close . By summer at the latest, i asked the question do you have enough boots on the ground to pull this very difficult task off, here is what he said. Right now i think we have the resources we need there to isolate to do the task were going right now which is complete the isolation of raqqah. After the isolation of raqqah will come the assault. And were still evaluating what resources i need. If i need more resources ill go to my leadership, chain of command and tell them what we need to get the job done. Reporter another interesting point is where is albaghdadi and he hiding. He is still thought by Lieutenant General townsend to be in operational control of the group. Still the worlds most wanted man but isis really seeing their closing chapter this year. Back to you. Great reporting. Thank you. 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A series of significant policy shifts coming at a rapid pace from President Trump. Big changes on key issues including russia, nato, china. His new out look and what it means right now. Good morning and thanks for getting an erm staarly start wi im dave briggs. You get many and conditions on the ground mean there are a different set of facts to work with. Im christine romans, its 5 00 a. M. In thes east. Flip flops that formed the k