Week. Im dave briggs. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. First, the president standing firmly behind scott pruitt. The epa administrator this morning. As controversy amounts around the embattled epa administrator. Pruitt is the cabinet appoi appointment most effective of ca carrying out the president s agenda. Returning from the event in West Virginia yesterday, the president was asked if he still has confidence in pruitt. I think that scott has done a fantastic job. I think he is a fantastic person. I just left coal and energy country. They love scott pruitt. They feel strongly about scott pruitt. They love scott pruitt. The president s backing is so strong sources tell cnn he floated replacing attorney general Jeff Sessions with scott pruitt as recently as this week. Sessions is a target of the president ever since he recused himself from the russia investigation. The president endorsed pruitt despite the headlines and allegations he sidelined top aides who pushed back on spending. More from cnns sara ganim in washington. Reporter good morning, rene and dave. Bad headlines continuing for epa administrator scott pruitt. This time reports that he sidelined officials after they pushed back or raised concerns of the pricey travel and overall management of the agency. Two sources with the knowledge of the matter told cnn that career and political appointees who disagreed with pruitt were iced out. A story reported by the new york times. In one case, an official was reassigned when he refused to drive pruitt through town with lights and sirens to avoid heavy washington traffic. Others were raising concerns about his spending and frequent trips home to oklahoma and his International Trips that cost thousands of dollars of the taxpayers. It included a lot of leisure time. This all adds to a list of ethics issues piling up on pruitt in the last few days. Including a sweetheart deal he received a 50 per night apartment in the city. Leading some Top White House officials to grow frustrated with him. The most important official, President Trump, indicated he is still backing pruitt at least for now. Rene and dave. Sara. Thank you. President trump including 100 billion on tariffs for chinese exports which is rattling the markets and sparking a fear of a trade war. The president put this statement out late yesterday. In light of the chinese retaliation, i instructed the trade representative to consider 100 billion of additional tariffs would be appropriate. Earlier this week, the Trump Administration announced 50 billion of chinese exports in tariffs. China retaliated on 106 American Products with tariffs. Thats what the president is calling unfair. He telegraphed the move calling china out for unfair trade practices. Were at a point where we had to do this. Our economy is strong and our jobs are great. We will come out with numbers on friday that hopefully will be fantastic numbers. Companies are doing really well. You have to go after the people that arent treating you right. Potential for more tariffs sent stock futures sinking. They off the lows. Asian markets mostly shrugged off the move. National Retail Federation slamming the threat and some senators criticized the proposed action. Ben sasse calls the move nuts. During the tax reform round table on thursday in West Virginia, the president tossed out his prepared remarks. Literally. Take a look. This was going to be my remarks. It would have taken two minutes. That would have been a little boring. Little boring. Im reading off the first paragraph. This is boring. Come on. We have to say tell it like it is. After going off script after talking about tax reform, he ad libbed on Border Security and anchor babies and voter fraud. We have cnn political director zach wolf joining us from washington this morning. Good to see you, sir. Good morning. The president doing it my way. He is going full sinatra now. That is symbolic for tossing out the script on everything he is doing right now. Instead of tax reform, rape and voter fraud. Listen. Remember my opening remarks at trump tower when i opened. Everybody said, he was so tough and i used the word rape. Yesterday it came out where this journey coming up. Women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before. They dont want to mention that. So we have to change your laws. In many places like california, the same person votes many times. You probably heard about that. They like to say thats a conspiracy theory. Not a conspiracy theory, folks. Millions and millions of people. Zach, feel free to fact check us. Where is the president headed . There is no evidence of people voting multiple times in california. There never has been. Nobody has shown it. He had a commission that was supposed to look into it. They have not come up with the report that found it. I am not sure. We play this and continue to play it and he is saying it and he is the president of the United States. There is no evidence that it happened. It is one of the cunundrums. He said was that mexicans are rapists. People coming across the border. He was vilified by people, even republicans said that, and now he is returning to it saying i was right. They are doing it now to the caravan of people that he doesnt want coming into the United States. Is he saying mexicans are rapists . That is not clear to me or putting up a tough face and saying here i am. I won. Im not going to change. This is trump. I think it is the latter. The delivery mechanism is flawed. Back to the campaign. Really. Yeah. You know, speaking of throwing out the script. He has done that in more ways than one. In cnn reporting, zach, his cabinet is struggling to keep up with him. Pulling out of syria and tariffs and troops going to the border wall and diplomats scraping together plans at last minute for the meeting with kim jong un. What does this is a larger picture about just what is happening in the white house and how effective this president will be in pushing policies forward . The stories of how chaotic it is to work in the white house are nothing new. Go back and look at Reince Priebus statement. Every day is just crazy. It feels like that outside the white house, too. What is an amazing in the list you flashed, two things that caught the government by surprise involve u. S. Troops in syria and moving them down to the border. He is operating on the whim status. Doing it in ways that involve american fire power which is incredible. I think it highlights just john kellys role and how it changed in the white house. Lets circle back to scott pruitt. Normally you look at the pros and consequen for the president. We can show you some of the accomplishments he had in terms of what the president has wanted. On the flip side, zach, the scandal. Rental agreement. Pay raises. Resignatio resignations. Travel and excessive spending on travel. Does the president look at pros and cons or does he listen to his Favorite Network . If that is your standard for ethics, you are the swamp. If your standard for ethics, i like what he does then you are the triple swamp. You are all of the swamp. The triple swamp. Does scott pruitt stay or go . Im not in the prediction game. I left that long ago in the trump era. I think the idea, however, you could simply use him to replace Jeff Sessions is bizarre because you would have to send him through a confirmation hearing. Take a step back and considering that for a moment. It would be incredible to see democrats and republicans pick over scott pruitt in any confirmation hearing. Getting ahead of ourselves is does he stay or go . That is an open question. 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Others say the march is on. What are we seeing . We are in puebla. One bus arrived transporting people from oaxaco to puebla where we are now. Some now having permission from the Mexican Government to be here without fear of deportation. The permit to allow them to be here. Many of them still saying they plan to go to the United States. Others saying they are afraid of the rhetoric coming from the white house. They will stay in mexico over going to the United States. Now, the president of the United States, President Trump, has said the numbers are dwindling. This is a caravan that is breaking up. While this group is seeing the numbers diminish and they are breaking up into smaller groups, that is actually something that is normal. Remember, this is a caravan that has been organized for years. They have been doing this for more than five years. Every year, they start with a big number. This year about 1,200. The groups get smaller and smaller as they make their way to the north. Organizers say the group of 200, they believe, will make it to the u. S. mexico border to seek asylum. I asked people here today what will happen if they encounter National Guard troops given that President Trump says that is the new plan to provide more security on the border. Many of the people here said if they have to wait, they will wait. If they find another way, they will find another way, but they will make it to the United States of america. Dave, rene. Leyla, thank you. We have stunning video to show you. Look at this towering crane being used to build the new Police Headquarters in st. Petersburg, florida. It collapses and sends workers running for their lives. Security video captured the massive crane about ten stories high falling over thursday morning. Just barely missing some of the construction workers on the ground. Thankfully no one was injured. Officials say the falling crane created no Hazardous Conditions and there was minimal damage to the construction site. 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President trump is standing firmly behind scott pruitt this morning after the controversies surround the embattled epa administrator although he has been most effective in carrying out the president s agenda. Returning from the event in West Virginia yesterday, the president was asked if he still has confidence in pruitt. I think that scott has done a fantastic job. I think he is a fantastic person. I just left coal and energy country. They love scott pruitt. They feel strongly about scott pruitt. They love scott pruitt. The president s backing is so strong sources tell cnn he floated replacing attorney general Jeff Sessions with scott pruitt as recently as this week. Sessions is a target of the president ever since he recused himself from the russia investigation. The president endorsed pruitt despite the headlines and allegations he sidelined top aides who pushed back on spending. More from cnns sara ganim in washington. Reporter good morning, rene and dave. Bad headlines continuing for epa administrator scott pruitt. This time reports that he sidelined officials after they pushed back or raised concerns of the pricey travel and overall management of the agency. Two sources with the knowledge of the matter told cnn that career and political appointees who disagreed with pruitt were iced out. A story reported by the new york times. In one case, an official was reassigned when he refused to drive pruitt through town with lights and sirens to avoid heavy washington traffic. Others were raising concerns about his spending and frequent trips home to oklahoma and his International Trips that cost thousands of dollars of the taxpayers. It included a lot of leisure time. This all adds to a list of ethics issues piling up on pruitt in the last few days. Including a sweetheart deal he received a 50 per night apartment in the city. Leading some Top White House officials to grow frustrated with him. The most important official, President Trump, indicated he is still backing pruitt at least for now. Rene and dave. Sara. Thank you. President trump including 100 billion on tariffs for chinese exports which is rattling the markets and sparking a fear of a trade war. The president put this statement out late yesterday. Quote, in light of the chinese retaliation, i instructed the trade representative to consider 100 billion of additional tariffs would be appropriate. Earlier this week, the Trump Administration announced 50 billion of chinese exports in tariffs. China retaliated on 106 American Products with tariffs. Thats what the president is calling unfair. He telegraphed the move calling china out for unfair trade practices. Were at a point where we had to do this. Our economy is strong and our jobs are great. We will come out with numbers on friday that hopefully will be fantastic numbers. Companies are doing really well. You have to go after the people that arent treating you right. Potential for more tariffs sent stock futures sinking. The dow set to fall 200 points at the open. Asian markets mostly shrugged off the move. National Retail Federation slamming the threat and some senators criticized the proposed action. Ben sasse calls the move nuts. During a tax reform round table on thursday in West Virginia, the president tossed out his remarks. Literally. Take a look. This was going to be my remarks. It would have taken two minutes. That would have been a little boring. Little boring. Im reading off the first paragraph. This is boring. Come on. We have to say tell it like it is. After going off script after talking about tax reform, he ad libbed. Including Border Security and anchor babies and voter fraud. Cnn political director zach wolf joins us live now from washington this morning. Good morning, zach. Lets talk about throwing out the script. I mean, the republicans want him to talk about their wins which includes tax reform. Instead, he talked about that for a little bit and switched the subject. Take a listen. Remember my opening remarks at trump tower when i opened. Everybody said, oh, he was so tough. I used the word rape. Yesterday, it came out where the journey coming up, women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before. They dont want to mention that. So we have to change our laws. Many places like california, the same person votes many times, you probably heard about that. They always like to say thats a conspiracy theory. Not a conspiracy theory, folks. Millions and mostillions of peo. Zach, if you will, a quick fact check and bigger picture. Many americans are fearing he could do damage because he is not focusing on tax reform. A quick fact check. No evidence that people in california voted repeed atedlre. He had a commission created although there is no evidence of it. There is no evidence of that. You know, he keeps bringing it up and feeding the conspiracy theory. It is a conspiracy theory. On the other hand, when he used the word rape in the kickoff announcement, he was calling mexicans rapists. Lets not forget that. Or whitewash it. Does he now believe that . Did he ever stop believing it . It is remarkable for him to suddenly bring up and say i was right without any evidence. It is stunning. Thats the Fact Checking of that lets not forget those two things are wrong. The broader issue is he is returning to or becoming this trump who wont be tethered by what people want him to say. Yeah. This is a good example of that. Yes. I said earlier he is going full sinatra or maybe he is going full garcia and hitting ball after ball after ball in the water and leading him out of the tournament that early. But the president won this way on the campaign trail. If he gets his wall, if he gets china to renegotiate on trade f he gets these wins trade, if he gets these wins, does it work . Not if people are distracted by the words that are coming out of his mouth or thinking about scandal laden epa secretary. The wins are only good if you talk about the wins and not the other weather you created around yourself. It will be harder for him to get wins if people are talking about those other things. Quickly, scott pruitt. He is sticking by scott pruitt. He called him a fantastic guy. Listen to what he said yesterday when he was asked if he had con if confidence in pruitt. I think scott has done a fantastic job. I think he is a fantastic person. You know, traditionally that thinking he is a fantastic person has been a kiss of death. Here are a few people the president has called fantastic or good people. Take a listen, zach. Michael flynn is a wonderful man. Reince priebus is a good man sgrchman. We will see what happens with mr. Bannon. Rex is a very good man. So we dont know what will happen with pruitt. As far as trumps base, do they care more about draining the swamp or more about the job that pruitt has been doing as far as deregulation . Im not sure it is an either or proposition. All of the clips you played, that was right before the people were fired. Being a good man is no level of job security in the Trump Administration. Good point. And so, you know, i dont think for trump he doesnt want to be the guy who cowers in the face of bad headlines. He doesnt like to give in to what people say he should do. I think that probably is a good thing for pruitt. On the other hand, this is a lot of bad press. It is, indeed. Wall street journal says if there is a more consequential cabinet official, he is it. The president watches his Favorite Network to determine what he does with cabinet officials. This was said last night on fox. If that is your standard for ethics, then you are the swamp. If your standard for ethics are i like the things he does, then i dont care about the ethics. If that is where you are, you are the triple swamp. You are all of the swamp. If that is your standard for ethics, you are the swamp. Can he survive . It is a very open question. Im out of the prediction business in the donald trump era. I think there are arguments on both sides. Trump will not kowtow. It is unknown how he gets through the mini scandals over and over. If im a betting man, this guy stays. He has gotten it done. Zach wolf, thank you. President trump finally broke his science about the allege silence about the alleged aware with adult film actress stormy daniels. He said aboard air force one he knew nothing about the 130,000 his lawyer made. Do you know about the 130,000 . Why did Michael Cohen make the payment . You have to ask Michael Cohen. He is my attorney. You have to ask michael. Do you know where he got the money for the payment . No. Cohen paid daniels out of his pocket he says to sign a nondisclosure agreement. 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In previous rounds for the titfortat conflict, china sectioned off tariffs for a sector of the u. S. Economy. That has some in the u. S. Calling issues with the agriculture markets. Senator ben sasse was critical of trump. If he is even half serious, this is nuts. He is threatening to light american agriculture on fire. A lot of this may be posturing. As the rhetoric escalates, it makes it hard for beijing and washington to back down putting us more at risk of a real trade war. Rene. And that is something farmers dont want. Lets get a check on cnn money. Fears of a trade war rattling investors again. Stock market futures down. Although they are off the lows. Asian markets shrugging off the move. European markets slightly lower. Some investors betting the threats are just a emplploy tha will not result in a trade war. March jobs report is due this morning and economists predict 185,000 job created. A slow down from february. It would still mark the 90th month of job creation. 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