Than any other u. S. Leader at this point in their presidency. This is one of the first polls taken since mr. Trump fired his National Security adviser, mike flynn and right now the president is scrambling to replace him. So far at least one person has turned him down and were told one of the reasons why, perceived chaos at the white house. Cnn White House Correspondent athena jones is following the president. Whats the vibe in the room . Do people there seem more or less enthused compared to preelection . Its very difficult to hear you. Can you hear the warmup act going on right now. Behind me. As far as enthusiasm it doesnt appear to be any less than it was on the campaign trail. People began lining up outside of this event many hours ago. Our photo journalists arrived at 10 00 a. M. There were already 100 people in line. Some had been in line since 4 30 a. M. When we arrived, the line was several football fields long. This is what the president wants to see. The kind of thing that h
Surprise on health care. Health care is working along very well. We could have a big surprise, with a Great Health Care package. So now theyre happy. Whats the big surprise . A great, great surprise. Hallie jackson joins us from the white house and David Nakamura from the Washington Post is with us. What is he talking about . Reporter optimism, when it heads to health care i guess the big surprise is a surprise to us too. Were working ofinding out more on what that means. But i will tell you that the president has despite what you called political autopsy to a bill that as senator republicans say its not dead yet, just delayed, the president wants to be moving forward here. The real question i think, nicolle, so what hes doing to do about it . Who he is bringing on board on the democrat inside of the aisle, right . Because theres an increasingly loud conversation coming from capitol hill about working with democrats potentially that that may be the only way that republicans can get thi
Someone. Thank you for taking time to intervene on our behalf. There is a lot to get to come you just heard a few of our top stories. It is 4 00 in the morning on the east coast in new york city, the avenue of the americas always shining bright. Good morning to you, you are watching fox and friends first this thursday morning, lets get to our top story, this morning talking about tax reform. Donald from hitting to capitol hill to huddle with gop house leaders, a critical vote today. Their goal passing their sweeping tax bill before thanksgiving. Jenkins live in washington with what they could possibly get done or if they can get this done. Get aboard the tax train is the message as the president will go before the Republican Caucus tweeting yesterday big vote tomorrow in the house, tax cuts are getting close, the vote is the First Step Towards the goal for tax reform, the largest tax cut in history, despite objections by lawmakers in high tax states like new york, new jersey and califo
Then President Trump left the room pretty abruptly, chose to answer no questions this afternoon despite the fact that there was a suggestion that he might, he usually does. Clearly the white house wants to get out the positive message of the asia trip, understandable, but no doubt behind the scenes they are trying to figure out what to do, if they can do anything, about the roy moore situation. Remember, the senate g. O. P. Advantage is two votes. They need to hold that alabama seat in order to push forward the president s agenda. But right now, moore is up by 6 in 1 poll, we will show you another, and it forces are pretty defiant. Has been with him and probably over 100 different readings and in excess of 10,000 different committees in his presence, and not once not one time have i ever seen him act even remotely inappropriate against any woman. Toward any woman. The allegations that have come out, i hope you understand, it takes time to work through this. We dont have a 20 million bu
Yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. We begin with with mike pompeo who appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The nearly threehour hearing included several tense backandforths between pompeo and senators from both sides of the aisle on topics including russia and north korea and generally overall foreign policy. Has the president told you what he and president putin discussed in their twohour closeddoor meeting in helsinki . President s have the choice to attend i just asked a simple question. You cant eat up my seven minutes, mr. Secretary. Did he tell you whether or not what happened in those two hours . Yes. The prepping of your question implied there was something improper about having a oneonone meeting. I just asked a simple he question. Did he tell you what transpired in the meeting . I had a number of conversations with President Trump about what transpired in the meeting. I was present when with he and president putin gave us a sense of what they discussed.