frankly. a lot of them are people you pick up the phone and give a call to, and they said, come on out. we ve never even seen the press come 0 our front door. they all voted for president trump and said that today they still have that hope in the president. that he is going to be able to negotiate that better deal. i said, it s now four and a half months the trade war has been going on. he said perhaps they were a little too confident with what the president was going to be able to actually pull off, but they said in the meanwhile and in this certain situation, there s a $12 billion financial aid plan essentially announced by the administration by the department of agriculture yesterday, which will help a lot of these farmers. pork, corn producers. wheat, cotton farmer but a lot of farmers are left out. individuals like the lobster men you heard from. the fisheries up in the air. what about the bourbon distilleries in kentucky and tennessee? a lot of questions that are going forward th
national security adviser? i have real concerns about his background and experience, what he s said and done in the past and his relationship with the intelligence community and nsc. that is the president s call to whether to continue to rely on a national security adviser who is so compromised by his uneven relation with the truth. what does it tell you that at 4:00 p.m. eastern kellyanne conway says the president has full confidence with flynn. then the press secretary sean spicer says the president is evaluating the situation. no repeat of the words full confidence. and then they put out another statement saying that that is the operative statement, that s what the president wants the public to know, that the situation is being evaluated? this is the first three weeks of a new administration, but it suggests they haven t gotten their sea legs. and there is a keystone aspect
these families that never imagined their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad. reporter: the white house is seeing the president s words a call to, as they re putting it, more passion, urging people to vote their minds and influence leaders. michelle, thanks so much. be sure to tune in tomorrow night as president obama joins anderson cooper for that exclusive live town hall event on guns in america. the president will discuss his executive action on guns and will take live questions from a live studio audience. a town hall on guns in america with president obama moderated by anderson cooper, tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m. here on cnn. okay. so the birther debate coming back to the campaign trail as you heard, this time donald
everywhere. next, 3.35. that s the average price of a gallon of gas. the price has risen eight cents in the past three weeks. and last, 38.5 million. that s how much the navy seal drama lone survivor starring mark walberg pulled in the first weekend. speaking of that, here is an important piece of that story. that s right. it was a decision that would change the rest of their lives. four navy seals tracking down terrorists in the mountains of afghanistan refuse to kill two unarmed enemies who confront them with a child. the way i see it, we got two options. one, let them go, roll the dice. second they run down there. we got 200 armed combats. we can not do that. not a vote. we re going to cut them loose and we re going home. roger that. in the new movie, lone survivor, the man who made that difficult call to, quote, cut them loose was lieutenant michael murphy. he knew the rules. he knew the consequences. that fighting to protect his
applause which was a new record. on top of that, google is hiring. do you think you could get a job there? you re not going to believe the tests they make you take when you apply. can you google that test? can you google the google test? also this morning, if you ve gone to the grocery store any time recently, you ve seen those reusable bags. there s something pretty important that you re going to want to know about those bags. they might not be as good for you as you think. so stick around because we want to tell you what s lurking in those bags. and this one is kind of shocking. one step forward, two steps back. we begin with the state of the union address last night and the president s call to, quote, win the future. president obama used his speech to not only focus on the economy but to urge americans to tap into their creative power. for more now we turn to our jake tapper on capitol hill. good morning, jake. reporter: rob and vinita, president obama came to congre