sinai. in the nile, delta, cairo, and other egypt towns and cities a series of attacks on police and government officials and on christians going back several years. alison? all right. cnn s ben wedeman, thanks very much. keep us posted on details, not just of this first blast but a second blast at a second church. thanks very much. nikki haley s claims are slammed by russia. the defense secretary said last week s chemical attack is russia s fault. plus, violence after thousands of protesters take to the streets in venezuela. why they say the government is violating their human rights. also, alec baldwin is back on snl, skewering the president on jobs, and the economy. do you like that i bomb syria? are you right there?
later, covered in glass. and for the first time in more than a year the united states supreme court has a ninth justice. the nomination of neil gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. republicans using the nuclear option in the senate to get a 54 to 45 simple juvenile court vote to put neil gorsuch on the bench. following through on president trump s promise to replace the late antonin scalia. the president tweeting. this congratulations to an exceptionally qualified and respected judge on his confirmation to the supreme court. gulch will be sworn in on monday. well, before he heads home to china, president x.i. jinping made a pit stop in alaska. china is the leading trade partner. successful meetings in the florida sun with the commander-in-chief focusing on the economy, on jobs, and trade.
don t trust the freedom caucus to come up with anything that could get through the senate. work with democrats. that s what donald trump ought to do if he wants to get something done. why would democrats do that, bill? why would they do something that gives donald trump that win after eigh years of republicans making sure they didn t do anything that gave president obama a win? because they know that obama care is helping 24 million americans. 70 million americans are on medicaid. they know it s not a perfect plan, but it s done a lot of good. it can do even more good. it s just a matter of repair and fixing, with which they re ready to do. they would be willing to work with donald trump on that, on jobs, on an infrastructure, but i m telling you, paul ryan is not going to deliver. donald trump trusted him once. he would be a fool to trust him again. we ll trust nancy pelosi to deliver on a replacement for obama care. that is not going to happen. it s more than paul ryan did. h
a national job but it does raise questions about why the white house didn t get this stuff out and whether the white house lawyers actually knew about these contacts before people like mike flynn. but it also speaks to the fact that the white house has found it absolutely impossible to get out from all of these russia revelations. every day there is a drip, drip, drip of questions and reports and that makes it impossible for the white house and the president to focus on the things that he was sent to washington to do on trade, on jobs, on his quest to dismantle regulations. politically, this is a problem that just will not go away. and these extra revelations about mike flynn, you know, he is not in the administration any more so in some sense not damaging but the constant drip, drip, drip of these revelation makes this a huge problem for the white house. errol, do you see anything to steven s point there than the thickening of smoke does this have any real value that could
blasted the republican s health care plan charging millions will lose their health care. joined by richard trumpka, president of the aflcio and met had president trump yesterday. thanks for being with me. i want to get to health care in a moment but the meeting with the president, did you hear what you wanted to hear from president trump on trade, on jobs, on other things? first of all let me say thanks for having me on, craig and happy international women s day. you know, during the meeting with president trump he invited me over. we talked about a workers agenda and how various policies would affect workers income and benefits, we talked about job creation and infrastructure. we talked about trade very honest, good, frank discussion. you didn t talk about health care. we did talk about health care. what did he say about health care, what did you say about health care?