Repeal and replace obamacare. Its been very helpful. Were working hand in glove. You get the message there . Hand in glove . More details on that fight in a bit. The first trump budget off the presses. It proposes more money for the military and deep cuts in overseas spend, foreign programs and environmental protection. We are proposing a budget that will shrink the bloated federal bureaucracy, and i mean bloated. While protecting our national security. And the president lashes out after another big court setback. Take two of his travel ban is blocked just as it was about to take effect. Were going to fight this terrible ruin. Were going to take our cases as far as it needs to go, including all the way up to the Supreme Court. Were going to win. Were going to keep our citizens safe. And regardless, were going to keep our citizens safe. With us to share the reporting and insights, margaret of bloomberg politics, harry bacon of 538 and Karen Tumulty of the washington post. The president is up on capitol hill going to an annual tradition, the st. Patricks day luncheon. House Speaker Paul Ryan and other members of the congressional leadership greeting them. There are traditions. That luncheon is about to take place in the raeburn room. The president was told of the travel ban ruling just behavior big political rally last night in nashville. You dont think this was done by a judge for political reasons, do you . No. This ruling makes us look weak. This is a watered down version of the first one. This is a watered down version. And let me tell you something. I think we ought to go back to the first one and go all the way, which is what i wanted to do in the first place. I think the president s lawyers will dissuade him from going back to the first one. By going all the way, the administration did recalibrate this one. They did take into account the prior ruling which the president was harshly critical of the judge and the legal findings in that. They say theyll take this up to the Supreme Court. To lose twice in your first 60 days in court on a Signature Campaign initiative, what does it mean for the travel ban and Homeland Security policy and, b, just for the momentum of a young presidency . In terms of the travel ban if you read the opinion, he keeps focussing on trumps comments during the campaign and comments steve miller made a few weeks ago. Its hard for them to find the travel ban that courts approval because the courts are going back and saying you campaignod the muslim ban so anything you do on this issue, we view as a muslim ban. Im curious how theyll write one viewed as constitutional. Alan dershowitz said this this morning on cnn. If the president stops talk, theres a good chance this will be sustained on appeal. Certainly harder to use his words against him in a court of law. I think the white house was always looking for a Court Challenge on this whether it was the initial one or this one. If you are preparing for a Supreme Court fight, any way you want two things. Something thats more likely to withstand scrutiny in the high court. They think by several modifications, including the provision on protecting christians, attacking the iraqis out of the mix, this could better withstand that challenge. And the timing matterses. They want gorsuch on that court by the time is gets to the high court. How much time and energy do you want to put into this . If you take it up to the Supreme Court, i assume thats a process that takes months, and the administrations argument is that we need this yesterday. They might well prevail if they take it all the way up. The delay on this is an embarrassment. Particularly to have this happen a second time. Its a district judge, a temporary restraining order, not a definitive ruling on the legality of the bir process, but it is a very tough, harsh ruling. As perry said, it uses trumps words and others around trump against them in a way that makes it more difficult for them to claim that this is something other than what the judge claimed it is. Perhaps the lesson here for donald trump is that his words have consequences. Which is something that is not a reality, that he really had to confront on the campaign trail. This is the difference between campaigning and governing. Especially on such issues. The court rule, the administration argued, start the clock on january 20th. Start the clock when the president was inaugurated as president of the United States. You cannot go back to the campaign. The judge disagreed. The government appropriately cautions that in determining purpose, courts should not look into the veiled psyche and secret motives of government decisionmakers. The remarkable facts at issue here require no such impermissible inquiry. Donald trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States. That was the National Muslim ban. The president has said since, this is not a muslim ban, but the problem is, his words, Rudy Giulianis words during the transition. The president called me and said find a legal way to do this. This is an interview with anderson cooper. The Administration Says this isnt fair. This is candidate trump. Courts should only judge President Trump but the judges so far disagree. I think islam hates us. There is a tremendous hatred, and we have to be very vigilant, very careful. We cant allow people coming into this country who have this hatred of the United States. I guess the question is and of people that are not muslim. To karens point, the president cant erase these words. What he needs is someone on his legal team to convince a judge somewhere that that was then, this is now and theyve crafted this policy more carefully. Can they do that . The problem being some of the words since the election have also indicated this is viewed this way, too. Steven miller was referring to earlier. One of the things referred to in the ruling. Maybe another judge might think this is more farrowly drawn. You have a one fewer country. You arent stopping College Students who are here or doctors or people who already had visas. The policy is more narrow. Judges we think as being impartial and not being swayed by politics but you dont have the same intense opposition of people going to airports and so on that you had the first time. Maybe another court might view this in a slightly different context because its not as politically charged. Its not as strong. The ban is a little more narrow. They wrote it more carefully. Well take you up to capitol hill shortly for the st. Patricks day luncheon. Theres a guinness in his hand. The speaker of the house look at that. Happy, public face right there. And theres gambling in the casino. But to this point, theres no indication theyll blink this time. Last time they read the 9th circuit. Instead of fighting this version, lets write another. Theres not a third try. This is it. There are a number of justices on the ninth circuit who indicated they think this could be, well, legal. So depending on the mix of who they get, they might be okay. I mean, its going to have to go through the process. But i think margaret is right. Theyll not rewrite it another time. The process takes months. One of the things taken into account are things the president said during the campaign. Another thing, taken into account by this judge is things said by his own aides after the first ruling. A conservative attacked the judges who issued the first ruling and said, yes, were going to rewrite this but were going to find a way to do it that gets us the same policy. Fundamentally, youre still going to have the same basic policy outcome for the country but youre going to be responsive to a lot of technical issues that were brought up by the court. And those will be addressed. But in terms of protecting the country, those basic policies are still going to be in effect. Did they pay a price yesterday and this is one judge. Well see how this goes. Did they pay a price yesterday for their bravado, for not saying, okay, lets not go out there and say anything provocative and let some gentle, smart lawyers go out and talk not bullheaded policy people . Yes, they wanted it that interview was a mistake. If you dont want to say you defended a ban we think is unconstitutional. That was a mistake by miller and i assume in the future, on the other hand, donald trump is still making remarks not very care ofl this issue and getting donald trump to give very carefully legal remarks may not be the easyiest thing to do. Steven moore can restrain himself but when the president will still go out there right after the, you know, yesterday happens and say, this is watered down. We should have just stuck with the first one. Doesnt really matter what steve miller says. Also margaret brought up a point of political timing here. The confirmation hearings for neil gorsuch begin on monday. This is going to provide a big part of the frame for them. And this, i think, was not the context in which the Trump White House would have wanted this Supreme Court nomination to be discussed. I think the other aspect of this as john indicates, every time there is a rebuff, wherever its coming from, it suggests in one way or another the Administration Still hasnt got its act together. Theyve struggled from day one on a variety of fronts and this is another example. We dont know where this is going to end but its one more nick in their she have a cumulative effect of the competency. We talked specifically about the travel ban, a signature promise of the campaign, which evolved from a muslim ban into seven countries, majority muslim countries. Now well see if they can defend it in the court. Does it affect the broader momentum the president with 60plus days in . Were going to talk about the health care battle. Were going to talk about the president s first budget which is a pretty dramatic statement about priorities. We know that he lost the popular vote but won the election. Hes been in a tough spot from the outset. Does this hurt or help or im sorry, the president of the United States speaking now at the annual st. Patricks day luncheon. Lets listen. [ applause ] thank you very much, speaker ryan. A wonderful toast, although ive heard better jokes. And thank you to all of our friends and distinguished members of congress for joining us here today. Great honor. And a really great honor to be with you, Vice President pence. You have been terrific. [ applause ] and all of our friends welcoming taoiseach. Great guy. And you know, you are something very special. We sat, we talked and were friends now, too, right . And its really an honor. [ applause ] thanks. Appreciate it. Also the delegation members, very, very special, to spend some time together and were going to have a very, very great longterm relationship, as we would with ireland anyway. But this is a very special group. So i very much appreciate it. Were here today to celebrate americas commitment to ireland and the tremendous contributions, and i know it well, the irish immigrants and their descendants have made right here in the United States and throughout the world. The very first st. Patricks day parade. I spent a lot of time at st. Patricks day parades over the years. I will tell you that. Was held in my hometown new york city on march 17th, 1762. With each subsequent year, the irish people marched, passed another accomplishment and celebrated another very hardearned success. And they have had tremendous success all over the world but in this country, they have had tremendous success. Over the years they marched past the beautiful st. Patricks cathedral, now an immortal monument to the faith of Irish Catholics in america. They celebrated their shared success in American Society with the election of john f. Kennedy. [ applause ] they fought for america in war and combat, and their battlefield courage has earned admiration and acclaim throughout the world. They have great courage. The proud tradition that started in 1762 has flourished and is now celebrated by americans of all faiths and backgrounds all across our very beautiful and very special land. As we stand together with our irish friends, im reminded of that proverb, and this is a good one. This is one i like. Heard it for many, many years, and i like it. Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue but never forget to remember those that have stuck by you. We know that, politically speaking. A lot of us know that. We know it well. Its a great phrase. The people of ireland and the people of the United States have stuck together. Through good times and bad times over many centuries we have built a bond that thrives, inspires and endures. And with us its going to be closer than ever before. I can tell you that. As we celebrate our shared history and our enduring friendship, let us commit ourselves to working together as we will to build that bond to the benefit of our citizens for many more generations to come. Thank you. God bless you. And may god always bless our deep and lasting friendship and relationship. We love ireland. And we love the people of ireland. Thank you very much for being here. [ applause ] the president of the United States, donald trump, brief remarks there. The irish Prime Minister to the president s right. The left on the screen there. The annual tradition. Day before st. Patricks day with a traditional lunch on capitol hill. The president , the Prime Minister, congressional leadership as well. Big crowd on hand to celebrate this tradition. Quick break for us. Up next on the travel ban. Hardly the only trump agenda item in trouble. The Gop Health Care plan . Thats off to rewrite, too. Tech at safelite, we know how busy your life can be. Mom oh no. Tech this mom didnt have time to worry about a cracked windshield. So she scheduled at safelite. Com and with safelites exclusive on my way text she knew exactly when id be there, so she didnt miss a single shot. I replaced her windshield giving her more time for what matters most. Tech howd ya do . Player we won tech nice thats another safelite advantage. Mom thank you so much team sing safelite repair, safelite replace. With. Your only worry. Omer first guarantee. 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Were making those improvements and refinements based upon the feedback from our members and the president of the United States is the one mediating this, bringing people together, sitting around a table, hashing out our differences so that we can get to a consensus document. In addition to major policy differences, the speaker is facing a political storm. Many trump loyalists dont like the speakers plan. They are critical of the speaker. The speaker says the relationship that matters most is fine. The president has a connection with individuals in this country. He goes no offense, but he goes around the media and connects with people specifically and individually. This is a power that we havent seen since Ronald Reagan. So what this president is showing is that he knows how to connect drctly with people. That helps us bridge gaps in congress and get republicans unified to deliver on our promises. And that is extremely constructive. Says its extremely constructive today. Last week, he sent his emissaries to the president and said dont negotiate now. Please dont negotiate now. Let me pass my bill as written through the house and negotiate when we get to the senate. What happened . You see what hes doing . Paul ryan is very polite. Hard to see what hes doing. Hes taking this out of his lap and putting it in President Trumps lap. Hes saying you are the one who ryancare just became trumpcare . It certainly did. He had a plan. The president kind of helped blow his plan up, although his plan would have had some problems anyway because there are these existing different factions. And ryan has said, you are the boss, the president. We all want to work together. Youll be the one to lead us out of the forest. Thats a great way to put it. Did the president blow up the house plan or help speaker ryan get to the problem faster in the sense he had a lot of trouble here. The speakers hope was he could fully or just push republicans into voting for the house plan and saying its going to get changed in the senate. The president s argument is, if this thing was not going to pass the house or was such a risk, let me help you. What blew up the speakers plan was the fact the speaker wrote it without talking to his own members. And this argument that the senate is going to change it is actually a scary one for house members. You are essentially saying to them, be on record voting for something you hate that is going to damage you with your base back home, and then the senate will fix it. That is just handing a weapon to your primary opponent. Thats encouraging someone who might want to to be your primary opponent. Its a more Diverse Party right now. Can they pass it any other way . Can they get one big compromise because its very hard to get a Susan Collins in the senate, Lisa Murkowski in the senate to sign off on something youll get the Freedom Caucus to sign off on. Do they have to have everybody go to the white house and negotiate one deal or have a messy process . Some house members are going to cast votes. Senate will strip that part out and say welcome to 2018. The speaker indicated we may be headed for a very long conference between the house and senate but that begs the question of what they have in those individual bills. The members are in a very difficult position, obviously. If they dont pass something, they are going to get creamed by the people who say who sent them there. On the one single big promise were going to repeal obamacare. If they pass anything similar to this, theyre going to get creamed by people who are going to lose their coverage baseod what the cbo report says. Now the administration has fought back against that. The speaker has fought back against that but nobody has yet come up with a credible answer to how you solve the problem in that bill. I think they are just going to go in fits and starts and the idea the speaker has handed this to the president. I suspect the president will find a way to hand it back to him at a critical moment. That may have been the conversation going up the capitol steps. The president reached into the jacket and gave it back to the speaker. The president was on the road last night. You heard the speaker there. He believes this. He knows he need the president to go on the road and go to states where republicans are squishy on this. The speaker needs to the president to go out and prove my members are still with me. Ill back you up if you do. Ill nudge you to get there and back you up after. Listen to the president on the road. Is this what the speaker wanted at this delicate moment . The house has put forward a plan to repeal and replace obamacare baseod the principles i outlined in my joint address but were going to all get together and get something done. I think the speaker loved that up to the first half. The house has put forward a plan that matches what i wanted outlined in my address. But then were going to arbitrate part, that means essentially the door is open. And as long as the negotiating phase is open you have again a very diverse some of this is about politics. A lot of this is about principled policy. The conservatives say the government shouldnt be in the health care business. It should be free market. Other people saying, even if i didnt like obamacare, it created this system and im not going to have the number of People Without Health Insurance double. So as long as the president says were going to arbitrate, how long does this process last . Paul ryan is a very intelligent person. He was trying to write a bill that met the goals of the moderates and conservatives already. Its not theres not some easy tweak here thats going to unify the caucus. Hes worried about the changes. Any change to the right annoys the moderates in any chachbnge opposite way does the same. You change medicaid you might lose ten votes quickly. Hard to figure out how to arbitrate. Theyre trying to get this done quickly. They dont want to turn this into obamacare 2009, spending 13 months on it. The more you say its up for discussion it becomes a long, drawn out process theyre trying to avoid. Then you have senators. Moderates in the senate and Tea Party People in the senate like rand paul out publicly. Settle differences in a family quietly or do this publicly. I think paul ryan is selling him a bill of goods he didnt explain to the president that the grassroots doesnt want what paul ryan is selling. Kumbayah. That sound you hear is a lot of schottenfreud on the part of the democrats. Up next, another test for President Trump. The white house releases its budget blueprint. Cuts for virtually every nondefense agency. So now the battle begins. So nice, so nice. Sweet, sweet st. Thomas nice. So nice, so nice. St. Croix full of pure vibes. So nice, so nice. St. John a real paradise. So nice, so nice. Proud to be from the Virgin Islands. And the whole place nice. To experience your Virgin Islands nice, go to visitusvi. Com. The kind of deep sleepnt. I can only get on my tempurpedic. It adapts to me. My shape, my size, my body. Tempurpedic. This sleep is power. What makesheart healthysalad the becalifornia walnuts. R . The best simple veggie dish ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple dinner ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. Great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. So simple. Get the recipes at walnuts. Org. Welcome back. The president s budget always gets rewritten by the congress. Its important to consider it not as the last word but as a starting point, a statement. What a dramatic statement the first trump budget is. Lets take a look at some of the winners and losers. The big winners, the department of defense, pentagon. A 10 increase. Department of Homeland Security, Border Security is included here, up 7 . The president promised to take care of the veterans. Department of Veterans Affairs up 6 . A lot of losers if the president s budget were enacted as is. Environmental Protection Agency loses almost onethird of its budget. The state department, 29 . Department of labor, 21 . Agriculture, a lot of rural states carried by trump get money. Army corps of engineers down. Health and human services, housing and urban development, transportation, education. Down, down, down. Just about every nonsecurity department in the government loses spending. Democrats say this is cruel. Republicans say well give it a look and see what happens here. The president s budget director says if you followed the campaign, you should not be surprised. A real simple you have an America First candidate, America First president and budget. Were spending more money to defend the country, enforce the rules and more money to take care of our vets of, more money for School Choice and less money for foreign aid. Exactly what the president said he was going to do. Thats what the budget is. Its a starting point. But it is a pretty dramatic statement. Most commentary not since Ronald Reagan have we had a president that comes into washington and says im going to rip some roots out. Im going to rip some roots out. I guess the question is as a statement, whats its shelf life . Im in the theres two questions, right . One is what does it translate into . As a statement, it actually absolutely encompasses what he talked about in the campaign. What his base believes in. To some degree, what republicans believe in. Really interesting split to me is not on the domestic agencies which are obvious but on the state department. Where the rubber meets the road. This is a hard power budget versus soft power budget and that the state department would be gutted. That these global initiatives would be gutted is really where a lot of the decision time is going to come down between the congress and the president could be very interesting. He promised to come and blow up washington essentially as a candidate, and thats what this budget tries to do. I mean, it is reaganesque in the approach in terms of more for defense which reagan did in 1981 and a lot less, therefore othe domestic side. Its difficult to squeeze some of these programs. Theyve been squeezed for a number of years because of the budget caps that have been in place. Its hard to get some of this. And theres builtin resistance to it. In terms of a directional shift, its very dramatic. And what donald trump doesnt have that Ronald Reagan did have is a landslide victory and a Democratic Party that is scared to death of him. Thats a very key point. And even though this Democratic Party is scared to death of ronald rag eagareagan, they had majority in the house. A lot of democrats most scared of him were those were conservative democrats. This is a different environment. If you talk to the swing voters who vote forward trump, they wanted him to bring our jobs back, work on the economy. So far weve had this Health Care Bill and budget which are very ted cruzlike ideas. They are sort of fiscal conservative, sort of republican but in that sort of right wing part of the republican party. I wonder why trump, these moves dont fit in with he was going to blow up washington but his first promise was im going to bring the jobs back and cutting government funding doesnt really fit into that idea. A lot of the voters who had reservations about him said hes going to help me. Hes a businessman who is going to help me. As always, though, its a starting point. Well get to the democrats in a minute. They dont like any of it. Republicans say good for you for proposing to strecten government. Heres marco rubio. The administrations budget isnt going to be the budget. We do the budget here. The administration makes recommendations but congress does budgets. Thats marco rubio quoted in a newspaper called the washington post. Anyone familiar with that newspaper here . Fine newspaper. A fine newspaper. But it say key point, and the question is, and the president s budget director Mick Mulvaney acknowledged this on television this morning. Hes a former member of congress. You fight for your district. If you are a house member you fight for your district. You are senate, you fight for your state. I am the budget director now, i have to do that nationally. Wh whats going to jump out to them . This list of programs being cut. Every one of those has a constituency back home somewhere. The proposal to cut the National Endowments for the arts and humanities, there are symphonies around the country, opera boards around the country. You dont think of those as trump base supporters but theyll weigh in. All of these, there will be mayors complaining, governors worried about what the impact of this is in terms of Cost Shifting and cost passthroughs and unfunded mandates. Every one of those house members will be responsive to their constituents even as theyre trying to pass the president s lets bring the democratic voice in. Short votes in the house. To pass a big budget you need democratic help in the senate. Nancy pelosi saying the republicans are just cruel. The republicans in congress and this white house as we are seeing now just in a few weeks never miss an opportunity to suck up money from the middle class and working class families to the richest people in our country. And you see that in the Health Care Bill. You see that in how they establish their budget priorities. How much sway do the democrats get in this debate is my question . This goes to perrys point. If democrats were somehow able to stay on message and convince voters in ohio, in wisconsin, in indiana, in pennsylvania, in these places where there is a rust belt, working class dynamic that went for trump this time, that these domestic cuts, programatic cut goes directly to their needs that would become problematic. A lot of these same voters believe in small government. They just dont want the programs that help them to be cut. And its a difficult thing to balance. And this is probably more framing for the midterm elections than it is actual hope that they could prevail on the house and senate floor. The other aspect of this is we still havent gotten the tax reform or tax overhaul piece of this. Shes right. In terms of the Health Care Bill, the shift from poorer people to wealthier people, aspects of this budget do the same and presumably, the tax cuts will do the same. By the time you see the entire package, there will be a judgment rendered on what are the priorities in terms of across the spectrum of income scale. What are trumps real priorities as opposed to what he talked about in the campaign . How much that will spway his strongest supporters is an open question. And probably a fair amount of leeway to do it. Until we know the final math any of Health Care Bill or tax reform proposal, this is a document. Its a starting point. But its even the math within it is not the final math. If the if, if, if they get through their other priorities. Everybody sit tight. Up next, President Trump digs in on his wiretap claims. Members of his own party say theyve been told theres no evidence. Z282uz zwtz y282uy ywty you can use whipped topping made. But real joyful moments. 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Leading members of his own party have asked the fbi if theres any evidence of wiretapping and have been told no. The president s close friend and attorney general Jeff Sessions yesterday says, no. When asked if he is the president s source of that information. But the president says, stay tuned. I have been reading about things. I read in, i think it was january 20th, a New York Times article where they were talking about wiretapping. There was an article. I think they used that exact term. I read other things. I watched your friend bret baier the day previous where he was talking about certain very complex sets of things happening and wiretapping. I said theres a lot of wiretapping being talked about, but wiretap covers a lot of different things. I think youll find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. Okay. Lets unpack this. A lot of people read this as the president trying to retreat. The president knows theres no evidence and hes trying to say it could have been about this, that or the other thing and wiretap could be so widely, broadly defined. Is he sticking to his guns or trying to back out . A word salad of sorts. There, i dont think hes sticking to his guns but he doesnt really apologize for things or back away. Certainly not feeling the way he was ten days ago. If hes lost Jeff Sessions, hes lost. Jeff sessions is one of his strongest supporters. Is he going to try to claim because they listen to general flynn in a phone conversation with the Russian Ambassador who is routinely monitored, is the president going to say thats what i meant . Those tweets are pretty specific. Hes not a candidate anymore. Hes the president of the United States who in those tweets was accusing his predecessor of nixonian behavior and potentially law breaking. Predicting where donald trump ends out say fools errand because you do hear the word and then he comes back, youll hear something very interesting. It was very reminiscent of years ago when he claimed to have sent investigators to hawaii to find out the truth about where president obama was born. Still waiting for that. Same investigators maybe. So this has been embarrassing for his fellow republicans. The House Intelligence Committee chairman devin nunes, a republican who has been pretty loyal, came out yesterday and said theres no evidence. Weve asked. Theres no evidence. The house Speaker Paul Ryan trying to navigate a difficult environment. Health care reform, tax reform next. Asked this just today. Do you believe the president . When he says he was wiretapped . When he says president obama ordered wiretaps of no, weve cleared that up. Weve seen no evidence of that. Speaker thinks this is speaker thinks this is cleared up. They are bringing the fbi director up publicly before congress on monday in which he is expected to say publicly, uhuh, didnt happen. So why is the president saying youre going to just wait a couple of weeks. President trump is moving the goal posts. In part because comey is getting ready to testify. The president has his News Conference tomorrow with Angela Merkel. Now a way not to answer that other question which is, would you like to apologize to president obama for accusing him of a crime he didnt commit . Does president obama want to apologize to Angela Merkel for wiretapping her . Might hear that tomorrow. Some of these republicans, i dont think youre seeing them abandon President Trump. Theyre trying to help President Trump to stop having to answer questions about this. Hell maneuver back and forth and in some ways, its a little like him before the Intelligence Report came out in early january definitively saying the conclusion was the russians had hacked and they had done to to help trump and hurt clinton. At that point he sort of finally grudgingly seemed to accept the conclusion. And then a few weeks later at his Infamous Press conference, he seemed to not accept tarks gain. So he could be backing away from this. But once, lets say comey goes up and definitively ends this, he can conceivably come back and still raise the question that something nefarious was done. And we laugh about this sometimes because individual bubbles along the road are funny. Some of them are funny. But the credibility of the president of the United States, whatever his or her name is, is pretty important. If this goes forward, yes, theres some humor, but this is why a lot of these republicans are frustrated. They get asked about it every day. Tucker carlson put the defining question to the president. You wouldnt get in some of these messes if you didnt get up early in the morning and go on twitter. So maybe stop . Do you talk to anyone before you tweet . And is there anyone in the white house who can say, mr. President , please dont tweet that . I dont think i would be here if it werent for twitter because i get such a fake press, such a dishonest press. Im going to stay out of this one. Sometimes the tactics that get you elected are not good in the white house. Hes right about social media and working around the media. Although we cover him a lot as well. Maybe working around the media helped him during the election. Were in a legislative process now. Not sure these help. Paul ryan would tell him that in these calls theyre having every ten seconds. Nikki haley, it puts his own team in a tough position. She said on nbc this morning, i want him to be successful and these tweets come out. And i look at them and go, okay, where did that come from . But i dont pick up the photocopy and sphone and say, what are you doing . Thats who he is. He is tethered to twitter. Every time hes been asked about, should you clean uppior act on twitter or eliminate twitter, he comes back with a version of what he said to tucker carlson. Which is, as he put it last fall. This is a modern form of communication and i know how to use it effectively. Hes going to continue to use it. Hes going to continue to create controversies about it and republicans oar and people around him in the administration are going to have heartburn as a result of that. And i think the president believes because it works for him in the campaign that his voters love this. Even if forget the specifics of any given tweet hes talking in a nonpc way, disrupting washington, giving us fits and giving republicans and depp kmos fits. Up next, one senator accuses another senator of working for Vladimir Putin. Who is who . 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No justification for his objection to having a small nation be part of nato that is under assault from the russians. So i repeat again, the senator from kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin. I think he makes a really, really strong case for term limits. I think maybe hes passed his prime. I think maybe hes gotten a little bit unhinged. The senate is the upper chamber, right, gentlemanly they should take a road trip together and make a playlist together . Maybe they should just take a long drive. Again, we laugh about these things but this lack of civility matters when youre trying to negotiate, right . Legislate . And fascinatingly, President Trump has been talking in recent days about the old washington, where democrats and republicans squabble during the day and went out and had dinner at night and got along and how theres an absence of that and how he wishes that existed. Good luck. John mccain remembers, though, washington where democrats n republicans did socialize. The tea party forces like ron paul, they view mccain and mcconnell as guys as much a part of the problem if not more so in many cases. And john mccain sort of famously a few years back referred to rand paul as being in a group of whacko birds. So were theres a continuum here. Rand paul has a long memory. These guys both ran and won in 2016. They feel a little bit of freedom. If you want to look for the people that take shots at donald trump, rand paul, john mccain also leading lights among republicans in that. I want to say what i want to say and these guys have a lot to say. Is the appropriate response to, he now works for Vladimir Putin to say i think hes a little unhinged . I dont know what response there is. What response is there to that . These are both republicans and you look at whats going on right now. Republicans in charge of both chambers of congress, a republican in the white house. This is, obviously, in theory, a time to kind of circle the wagons and get stuff done. As president obama learned with health care, sometimes you just get one shot. If this is the way your party is coming out of the gate, it puts some drag on that momentum. Im going to be the optimist in the room. When you have some wins, its like a bigger thanksgiving dinner. The more family members at the table, the more interesting it gets. Thanks for joining us. Hope to see you back here tomorrow. Wolf blitzer in the chair after a quick break. Various shouting heigh ho its off to work we go woman on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects are expected to create over 45,000 jobs. And each job created by the Energy Industry supports two others in the community. Altogether, the industry supports over 9 million jobs nationwide. These are jobs that natural gas is helping make happen, all while reducing americas emissions. Energy lives here. Hello. Im wolf blitzer. Its 1 00 p. M. In washington. 5 00 p. M. In dub lynne. 2 00 in tokyo. President trump reveals his budget and the cuts to nonmilitary spending are deep. The budget blueprint calls for a 54 billion increase in defense spending. Take a look at this graphic. On the left you see the departments getting an increase. That would be defense, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs. The Social Security administration. On the left are the agencies also facing cuts. The environmental Protection Agency, the state departme