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See. It is going to be about vote issers. It always has. It always will. We will see what happens up in midterms. The lobbying power of the kids, the strength of their voices resonates so much more strongly. It is so true. People listen to them and understand what theyre lives have been like because of the policies, because of the inaction congress has year after year after year endured. We dont take that anymore. Their right to march and congress has to listen. I hear you. Ted deutch, thank you very much for making the case on new day. All right. Hey, thanks to you, our International Viewers for watching. For you cnn talk is next. Have a great weekend. For our u. S. Viewers, though, we have big headlines. What do you say . Its friday. Lets get after it. Good morning. Were getting after it right now. Welcome to your new day. Alisyn is still on soeupassignm. Erica hill is with me. President trump shaking up his administration. He just named his Third National security adviser in 14 months. The threestar general h. R. Mcmaster is out. And former u. N. Ambassador john bolton is in. Heres the big news. This could mean major changes for how the Trump White House deals with north korea, iran, and russia. There is also a major shakeup in President Trumps legal team. John dowd, top personal attorney, resigning over a disagreement on how to respond to the russia investigation. He insists he still wants to talk to investigate orgs. Breaking overnight, the federal government will not run out of money overtight. Joining us now is cnn political analyst maggie haberman. Always good to have you. Obviously on this, we have to start with the shakeup we are seeing in the white house. We had two yesterday. Is right. I think starting with john bolton, which obviously had been rumored for some time, had been denied by Sarah Sanders as recently as i think sunday may have been the last time. Around then, yeah. And yet we are hearing from john bolton from the announce. That, yes, this had been in the works. Yes, the wheels were turning. Even he was surprised when it came out yesterday afternoon. The president has wanted john bolton for a while is my understanding. Kelly i think playing a more frontal role on that. Kelly wanted mcmaster out for a very long time. Kelly clearly got his wish on mcmaster on the time frame. He said he told people he hoped to stay through the summer. It became untenable after all of these reports that he was on the chopping block. He became in effective with world leaders. That is an understandable position. John bolton is a loss for john kelly. He tried very hard to keep him out. The president is surrounding himself, as we are seeing with larry kudlow, bolton, with a lot of people who are not really inclined to tell him no. What you had with mcmaster, what you had with gary cohn, were people trying to serve as sort of moderating forces against the president s instincts and to try to present him on the other side of the ledger. John bolton had to make very clear coming in that he understands the president is the decider, that he is not going to act like a principle in his own right. We will see how that works. That will be hard for him. He is somebody used to being his own force. He add sraevocated a number of n policy. That is going to be interesting. One stroke of good luck they will have is he doesnt have to go through Senate Confirmation. And that will be good news for mr. Bolton and mr. Trump. Yeah. This man holds a lot of extreme views. I want to give you a taste of a video about bolton. This is him lets just play it. I want you to hear what he says. Thank you for this opportunity to address the russian people on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the russian constitution. This document signaled a new era of freedom for the russian people and created a new force for democracy in the world. Where the Russian National government grant a broader right to bear arms to its people, it would be creating a partnership with its citizens that would better allow for the protection of mothers, children, and families. Good luck on your journey into a new century of freedom. This is john bolton, okay. He is National Security adviser and he believes russia is in a new era of freedom . That is demonstrably false. It is a better way to secure their rights. Thats not true. In our constitutional democracy, which is fairness under law, thank god, he said its a great way to make sure he can always gather. He doesnt have to go through a Senate Confirmation hearing. You would find so many videos, tweets, columns that he has written on all manner of issues. He has been pretty critical of trump in terms of sanctions and the lack of imposing them on russia in the last year. So i think in terms of what he has said more recently, its more in line with what youre seeing the Foreign Policy committee at large. But its true he has taken positions that would come into question, and that would certainly be one of them. Depending how aggressively people go after this and start looking into his background, there will be weeks of this in terms of what he said in the past. Unlike h. R. Mcmaster, he has never served in the military. We keep talking about him as a warmonger and the positions he has taken is a cry toward war or march toward war. He has never implemented anything he has talked about. Interesting too because he said everything that came before all of these positions we can dig up, we can see them in the wall street journal a little less than a month ago. The legal case for striking north korea first is how the piece is titled. Yeah. He has these positions. But he said all of that was in the past. I served for you the president. Im going to do this. But you cant ignore those things, to your point. Especially as we are supposed to have this meeting. The president is supposed to have this meeting scheduled before may with kim jongun. And someone coming in and saying the best way to do this, lets just go to war. As we know, the president has had north korea in the back of his mind. It is one of the things that most alarmed him when he met about president on obama. That remains the case. I think he now has somebody who is going to lets pretend he didnt advocate. He has somebody who might be more receptive to saying go ahead and hold these talks. Whereas almost the entire administration said that was a bad idea and another snap decision where he agreed to this meeting. We will see if it actually happens. But he agreed without any consultation. So and now what do we know . You are what you believe. You get brought in because of your beliefs. Even to have the pedigree that would in any way satisfy the requirements for this job if it were not for the positions that trump hears him echo on fox news all the time. It has to be about whats in his head. Iran deal stands a better chance of being blown up. Fair point. North korea will be dealt with at least as aggressively as it has to this point. Russia remains an open question. He has been hard about sanctions. Well see what happens when he gets in there and pushes a hard line on russia and gets pushed back. That will be the telling moment. Again, we have seen people who pushed back on this president. It is true the president likes seeing people file the. But one of the biggest misconceptions is people in the administration will say he likes having two people lay out their views and he picks one. Thats not true. He likes watching people fight. He knows what he wants and he wants someone who will tell him he can do what he wants. We have not seen anybody steer him on awe different direction on russia. We dont know whether he read the briefing notes that told him not to congratulate putin. But he went ahead and congratulated him anyway. We were told he received an oral briefing he as well. As always, you hear two different well, maybe he d. It wasnt brought up on the pt brought up on the call if it wasnt. But we will see whether bolton will succeed basically where no one else has. If this whole latest tumult shows anything, just because they Say Something is not true, you cant putney stock in it. You cant. In fact, you can put the opposite. The the two things that happened yesterday, dealing with special counsel and dowd, those were two things that the president denied was happening very aggressively. Especially about john dowd, the lawyer. He made a production of this on twitter. And look what happened. It doesnt happen until he says it happens. There we go. Thank you. Two women, two bombshell interviews. 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I want to bring back in cnn political analyst maggie haberman. I think the answer is, yes, the president remains silent here. This is funny for a couple of reasons i think he will remain silent. One, he has been advised do not weigh into this. There is absolutely no up side. I think he recognizes it will create more oxygen. I dont think this is making the first lady particularly happy. If you look at it that way, it is not a surprise. Contrast that with the nine or so women who accused him of assault, harassment, misconduct. Those he has denied. They are something where he felt attacked. One of the most telling things i ever heard about donald trump is there was a famous New York Post first page, the best sex i ever had. Where his second wife marla maples said this to a friend. He loved that front page. Most people would have been embarrassed, ashamed, cringing. It was some kind of a badge of honor. There was a degree to which these two cases are uncomfortable for him and uncomfortable from a legal parameter. I do not think it is the moral spousal parameter that is bothering him. Is this is his morality, what he does in his private life, i would be pushing to talk about Something Else right now. However, the white house, if not the president , has denied these. His counsel has denied whats going on with Stormy Daniels. As a result we have potential legal exposure to a sitting president of the United States. We know why with Stormy Daniels. We have heard a ton of that. We have to see where this case goes and what this interview is about sunday night. But on this one, this the a little bit of a tricky legal situation. Shes telling her story. Shes out there telling it. The idea of suing for the ability to tell the story winds up being moot, as they say. However, the idea, Jeffrey Toobin says i talked to mr. Peckr from ami, the Parent Company of the enquirer who paid Karen Mcdougal. He said, yeah, i paid her off for my friend donald trump. Now we have a potentially legally sufficient claim that i told you i wanted to tell my story and thats why i did this deal. That was my bargain for a change. You said you would give me that. You did it to help trump. And maybe he knew. Now we have a problem on our hands, at least something that will be worth talking about. I think thats right. Thats what we have been talking about for some time in terms of Stormy Daniels. We have had reporting there were other cases involving ami and involving women who were suddenly put on the payroll or received something. That does open him up. There is legal exposure there. Exactly what it looks like and where it goes, we dont know. As we know from the bill Clinton Paula Jones case in whatever year that was, 98, 99, this is the way in. Once you start opening that door, all sorts of things can come out. I agree with you, if this was just about his marriage, personal life, its his business. If it gets into payoffs, intimidation, thirdparty payoffs, we go into a different area of how the president has conducted himself and how he has conducted his business for many, many years. His company was his bedrock for running for president. And there are questions how much of that has been brought with him to the white house and how much is filtering out. We dont hear a lot from the first lady, which is understandable in this. But out of nowhere he tweeting a picture yesterday of the two of them. That obviously getting a lot of reaction. All of these things happening as all of a sudden we have talked about, john dowd is out. That calls into question too. Look at this shiny carrot over here. National security adviser. I havent been told that, to be clear. You look at the timing. You know his penchant for diverting is not surprising at all. This is a theory. Youre heading into spring break. The president is expected to return to washington. I think the first lady will stay for the duration of their sons spring break, at minimum this sets the tone of, look, were together. So when the president travels its not under question of, look, were not together. She is in an unenviable and awful spot. If the president dangled josh bolton as a shiny object, good for him. Im going to attack it luke a striped bass. It is a hell of a lot more important to the American People if the legally sufficient situations are to arise in court. We will see. A long way to go on that. Maggie, nobody knows better than you. Thank you for being with us. Appreciate it. We will talk to Kellyanne Conway. She is spearheading the white house efforts to fight opioids in this country. There are few scourges that are killing us the way that is. H. R. Mcmaster is out. John bolton is in. How will that impact the waugh he deals with adversaries . Well ask general Michael Hayden next. 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He doesnt have the authority to start any wars. But john bolton, being National Security adviser, will push the president and the nation in a more dangerous course when it comes to key interNational Security issues. Hes a hawk on north korea. Hes going to urge the president to rip off the Uranium Nuclear deal. We will not be able to control where they end up. Where does that push us . It pushes us away from diplomacy, away from International Consensus and more on the direction of kinetic options where the only thing left on the table that you have to play is the armed forces of the United States. When john was announced yesterday i had the thought that i could not remember a National Security in a view other than ambassador bolton. He is hawkish, as you point out. Ideological. No one ever accused of of being a consensus builder. Now we have someone close to the president whose instincts are very much is like the president s. To your point there, one of the things we are hearing is he has made clear to john bolton and he has said to these terms that it is the president s words. He will say, yes, youre my adviser, but im not necessarily bringing in h. R. Mcmaster anymore to perhaps offer different viewpoints to give me a better sense of whats out there. We are going with my way or the highway. Isnt that the scary part, erica . The reason you have National Security counsel staff, interagency process is tee up for the president a variety that you can actually influence president ial decision making. But now youve got john, ambassador bolton, next to the president. I think their instincts are near identical when it comes to iran. They both want to be tough on north korea. The only key area of contention between their instinctive views comes on russia. Despite that video that you all showed a few minutes ago, john actually is a bit of a hawk on russia. That will be an interesting dynamic between him and the president. He has called russian interference false flag operation. I want to get your take on this. The lone hacker who gave credit for giving wikileaks the emails from the dnc. But this was an officer of russias military intelligence director. What are you hearing on that front . Yeah. That is just additional detail that confirms the plat line we knew was true all along. What happened after we began to discover what the russians were doing, they tried to cover their tracks, putting out this idea of trying to pivot off a hacker that did hack into american systems, who is now in a romanian jail. What they were trying to do is cover their tracks. But the russians didnt do it. Now we know based upon the daily beast article that this individual was in fact, a gru officer, and it was part of the overall russian operation. Well have to leave it there. Appreciate your insight. Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right. 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The latest information is a super u, like a walmart to some degree. There are varying different reports. We may be dealing with one potential hostage taker and possibly one policeman still inside there. I have to tell you the level of security measures that are being put in the perimeter and response from a cabinet level in france has many concerned. That is one key fact here. A according to bf mtv, isis have claimed responsibility for this particular attack. Obviously, chris, as we have been seeing the past years, what an enormous note of caution here, we simply dont know if isis had anything to do with this. They are a much diminished group. Having lost the caliphate back in the day when bataclan attacks in paris occurred. Even the Truck Driving into pedestrians in nice. But still at this stage a great amount of concern for how many hostages were in there, if any have fled. If any have been injured. The response from the interior minister. A big moment for pause. France, a terrible history of isis attacks randomly against civilians. But a great concern i believe here to at least establish the facts and hope it is smaller than peoples worst fears. Even with the Ongoing Police action and society in favor of security, they still have a big threat. What we know so far from nick paton walsh, whatever is going on, we know they are armed and there is deadly intent. Thank you very much. Keep us informed. Well continue to follow that story out of the south of france. Tomorrow nearly a Million People expected to descend on capitol hill as the march for our lives rally kicks off with students gearing up to make their voices heard. Ice renewing their push for change. Cnns Scott Mcclain has more. Erica, those people are part of a group that no one asked to be a part of. A group that understands the more errors of gun violence in the classroom. From columbine to red lake to sandy hook and plenty of others, these communities are steulg feeling the impact of their School Shooting nightmare and still working to prevent the next one. 19 years ago, 12 students and a teacher were killed inside columbine high school, gunned down by two peers in a place they were supposed to be safe. Tom mouser lost his son daniel that day. I dont know how i got through the first few days and even weeks. Since then Police Protocols have changed. So have state gun laws thanks in part to close the loopholes his son had ironically pointed out weeks earlier. That he was killed with a gun purchased through one of those loopholes. In colorado, background checks are now nearly universal. There is a limit on magazine size. But still no one has found cure to americas School Shooting plague. We have to deal with this terrible illness that we have. Guns are a part of that. Even if you fixed all of the gun loopholes you might not solve the School Shooting problem. No. We have to do a number of things to deal with the gun violence problem. We will have to compromise, sit down and talk this out and not scream at each other. He is still wearing his sons sneakers. I like to think by stepping into his shoes that im doing what he would want me to do. Columbine never asked for its new found notoriety, nor did it seek out this dream catcher, a gift from students in new my meant to ward off bad dreams after a collective nightmare. In march 2005, columbine passed it on to red lake, minnesota after a student killed seven people using stolen policeissued weapons. I saw evil that day. Missy dodds was teaching when a student shot through her floor length window to get in her class. He started shooting and just went down the line. When they got to me, there was nothing left in his gun. But in a culture where hunting is common, the shooting didnt spark much of a discussion about guns. Is this about Mental Health, School Safety . It was shut it down and forget it ever happened. But dodds couldnt forget. She tried to convince them to use shatterproof glass in schools which she thinks would have saved lives. I went straight to where a shooting happened and was literally blown off. The country was content to move on without doing much at all until red lake passed the dream catcher to sandy hook. A lone gunman used an ar15 to kill 26. 20 of them young children. Michelles 7yearold daughter joey was among them. My oldest daughter just couldnt accept it. It just couldnt be. For months afterwards, a group of sandy hook parents unsuccessfully pushed for sweeping gun control legislation. They now push schools to be safer but doesnt push gun control. If we go and start mentioning hotbutton issues or political arguments, we suddenly divide the room in half. When the president says our main teachers is something we should look at, you dont dismiss him . We dont. We should look at everything. We should put everything on the table. We cant ever count on any one thing. There is no single magic wand that will solve School Shootings . I believe if there was we would have found it and waved it by now. After the sandy hook shooting that dream catcher traveled to washington and townville, south carolina. On friday it was presented to students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in parkland, florida. But the students accepted it for 17 seconds and then they gave it back, opting to retire the dream catcher with the hope that no other school will have to relive their experience. Chris. Scott, appreciate it. Thank you for the reporting. The president replacing two people at the white house. We know that. We want to show you the situation ongoing in south wales, france. We know the following. There is a standoff surrounding a local market. The mayor spoke with a local newspaper that at least one person has been killed. We dont know how many gunman are involved. We do know there was firing on police who were at the scene. And we do know that at least one of the people inside has pledged allegiance to isis. We also know that france has had a history of trouble with islamic extremists. And we know what happened there with the bataclan in and around paris. The threat is very real there. We have a team in the area. We will bring you a live report soon. All right. Were also going to have Kellyanne Conway live on the show to discuss the white house efforts to stop the scourge of opioids. Lets take a quick break. We have a lot of news for you. Please stay with cnn. My healthy routine helps me feel my best. So i add activia yogurt to my day. With its billions of live and active probiotics, activia may help support my digestive health, so i can take on my day. Activia. Now in probiotic dailies. This is frank. 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What is enough . A worthy discussion. Kellyanne, thank you for taking the time. Thank you for having me, christopher and for shining a light on what truly is the crisis next door. The president in New Hampshire on monday rolls out his policy plan attacking the drug demand drives on three major fronts. Prevention and education, treatment and recovery, and Law Enforcement and enter diction. The president is tackling all of those simultaneously, not sequentially. He himself said he wants a massive publicfacing ad campaign. We are deploying facts and figures and messages to people, sometimes shocking the conscience and someties warming the heart with stories of recovery. Congress met the president s request to have significant funding, new funding for the opioid crisis. 3 billion this fiscal year. 3 billion next year. A total of over 13 billion is the package they have been mentioning. With the guns we plan to beef up the enter diction and disrupt the supply of illicit drugs coming into our country. 90 comes through our southern border. 8, 9 in 10 say they start through prescription drugs. Opioids starts in your Family Medicine cabinet all to be. And that little bottle bears say the Family Doctor and local pharmacy. Treatment is important. This president is calling for lifting the 40year ban on Mental Health facility. Because now they are being used to treat people with addiction. If you fill that 17th bed you dont get medicaid reimbursem t reimbursement. We have a long list for people waiting for treatment and empty beds. The strides the administration has made are many. He is calling for onethird reduction. We are 5 of the worlds population and we consume 80 of opioids. We want to make is sure all are big into this. People can go online and go to crisisnextdoor. Gov and share their stories. Yesterday we shared a story from mitch in missouri. The president mentioned this on monday. It is a compelling story of a young man who is fighting back from his addiction. Hes talking about how he got started, what the gateways were, how to spot the got sta start. If people dont know what fentanyl is, really educate yourself, this is a synthetic opiod being manufactured outside this country, being brought in through our mail, sitting in our sanctuary cities and its literally killing us. Fentanyl is 50 times the potency of heroin and 50 times more potent than morphine. This is a good thing, the action being taken. Now the debate to have, and the testing to do here is how much and where . You know, especially china being highlighted with the tariffs right now about intellectual property theft, true, they also make a ton of fentanyl, that gets brought into this country, sometimes the right way, sometimes the wrong way. But the push back is going to be this. The president has. If you want to be aggressive about something, thats something that could get all americans behind you. Youre putting money into it, thats good. I know there was a documentary hi highlighting this drug in a way that others arent. We need to put a lot more money than youre putting in here right now. The death ratio is so much more than hiv and aids yet the funding of addressing the problem is nowhere near close, you only have 10 of the population that has access and the ability to fund treatment, if you did that with heart disease, we would have a plague on our hands with death. More money has to get into the local communities, how do you do that . We agree that more money needs to get to the local communities, this is a federal, state and local community effort. The president was a captivati captivatingcaptivatining speaker in virginia. And honestly, putting the fear into some of our youth from not buying that street drug for 10, for not getting hooked in the first place, and yet recognizing so many people in this country are already suffering from this disorder with these drugs and helping them, now i want to Say Something about the money, that is congresss job to appropriate the money. This president declared a Public Health energy. Congress has nixed the president s request, which was a historic request for new funding. No president s had anything close to this. And we know it does take money and it also takes lifting or changing these crazy rules that really prevent people from accessing and remaining in treatment. We also in our opiods cabinet, we have involved the Department Agencies and the cash net sbine , and we have also involved development of labor and hud, why . Because we recognize that when people, if theyre lucky enough to be able to get into treatment and theyre lucky enough to come out, theres still a small percentage of recovery. They come out and the only thing normal to them is the drugs. This president is committed to connecting pe ining people with needs, hud, my colleague over there in terms of housing opportunities. Theres a whole contincontin. People become addicted for a lot of different reasons. But on fentanyl, i want to just say this, because its incredibly important, most outlets are not covering fentanyl, so thank you. The department of justice announced the first two indictments of chinese nationals who were fentanyl traffickers, they have also filed a statement of interest with a civil litigation that the statements have put forward, i went to the congress with jeff sessions. And also you see so of these companies now and so many states really and the Pharmaceutical Company saying we support the first prescription being seven days not 30. Were not talking about chronic pain sufferers, theres still people who need it. Not everybody who takes Pain Medicine is an addict. Theres a lot of stigma that goes on with this. Theres a place for tough talk. And if you want to go after someone, go after the makers of these drugs. If you want to talk about kids, theres tough talk about how addiction happens. You say lets kill the drug kingpins, youre not going to punish your way out of this problem, you know that right . The Death Penalty is barely a deterrent on any level let alone when it comes to addiction. And youre not going to punish your way out of the problem no matter how good that sounds. We have had a kingpin statute on the books for decades. But the president doesnt like it. The attorney general two days ago put out guidance to all the attorneys general, you can pull it up or your viewers can watch it. What the president is saying is, and hes absolutely right, we dont have tough sentences ga s because a lot of these sentences go with the weight of the drug. He said many things, he said tougher sentences. He said kill drug dealers. He said in very specific cases. He said kill drug kingpins. Theres a two page well, good. Not good. I dont think that will get you out of the problem. He didnt say it gets you out of the problem. Hes actually tackling it on these three major fronts and you know it. And the first lady whos take men this issue on. We have 25 babies being born addicted every day in this country. And if anyone wants to volunteer their time in their communities, go for it. Its a great cause. Theres a lot of good thing that need to be done. Its a nonpartisan issue, christopher, this legislation should be passing unanimously. I wish i didnt not know as much about this problem as i do. I get it, i get how real it is, its good what youre doing, more has to be done, and the effort has to be very focused and we have to talk the right talk. Thats why im checking you on this point. Let me ask you this, all of this work that needs to be done here is compromised by the drama thats going on in this place. Y and these women that are coming out, you know me, im not getting into peoples private affairs, however, the way theyre being handled are creating potential legal situations for a sitting president of the United States. How much of a distraction, how difficult is it to get the job done there, with these looming questions surrounding these women, and of course the political intrigue of all the shakeups you have here . The answer you see every day, this is a very active president. Look at everything that happened this week. Hes hardly retreating into a cocoon. Hes spending a lot of time with this. Thats the tweets with joe biden. No, no, sorry, he doesnt spend much time. Like joe biden, and the name we dont say on your network anymore. Why do they keep mentioning him and his voters and his election. He ran for president of the United States and the president brought him up. The president brought up biden. Vice President Biden went after him and talked about violence. Only one. One was president for eight years and lets not talk about what happened for eight years. That man was Vice President for eight years. I respect his public service, i honor his public service. However, if people in that kind of position, a former Vice President , a former secretary of state and twice failed president ial candidate. They have platforms, why arent they using them for more good. Why didnt he call me for help on the drug crisis . Take us down the road. I dont care what shes doing. Shes not in charge of keeping my family safe. You are. Youre in power. Thats why we now have funding for the wall, for the military, for School Safety, for opiods, for so many of the president s priorities. This president was mocking the wall two years ago and now theyre funding it. Thats this president. I dont know where this president was two years ago when these guys made it up. The president just rolled two pages, everybody should read it. A very significant drug policy, then yesterday, he took action against china because the ustr said that we were losing innovation in the future and there ees intellectual propert