Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With John Berman And Poppy

Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With John Berman And Poppy Harlow 20170424

Might be his important week yet in the white house with the lows pproval numbers of any president at this point in the modern era by far. That might be a problem. It might indeed. Congress meantime has less than five days to pass a spending bill to avoid a Government Shutdown and the president s n insistence to fund the border wall in the bill is making the threat more ominous. Its a deal breaker for democrats and some republicans are balking. The deadline friday just before the president begins his 100th day in the white house. Joe johns at the white house good morning. Reporter good morning, poppy. Fights over Government Shutdowns are usually i should say often very predictable in washington, d. C. However, this has been a very unpredictable first 100 days, so difficult to say what has happened. What is clear is that the president of the United States has signs as far as hes concerned the administration and the congress should do whatever it takes to avoid a Government Shutdown. Nonetheless, the president s messages hes been sending over his desire to get funding and any spending bill for his border wall seems to be muddling the message just a bit, his Homeland Security secretary talking about that just yesterday on state of the union. I think it goes without saying that the president has been pretty straightforward about his desire and the need for a border wall. So i would suspect hell do the right thing for sure, but i will suspect he will be insistent on the funding. So the president does have an extraordinarily busy week this week, at 9 30 this morning, eastern time, it starts with a telephone call to german chancellor angela merkel, after that, the president is expected to make a very Long Distance call to Peggy Whitson and the International Space station. She of course is setting a record there, having been in space 535 days. From there, we go essentially all the way through the week, a variety of meetings, and travel for the president of the United States, among the highlights certainly the president is expected to roll out his Tax Reform Program as well as give a preview of his tax cuts and that occurs later in the week as well. The president is going to meet with the president of argentina, and then on saturday, of course, very big meeting with a lot of the supporters, people who voted for him in harrisburg, pennsylvania, to mark the end of the first 100 days. John and poppy, back to you. A lot of activity this week, i think probably hoping to send the message that activity equals accomplishment. Progress. Critics may not see it as the case. Joe johns at the white house thanks. The insistence on funding for a border wall could be caught in a democratic pincer and republicans squeamish about a capitol hill shutdown. This is a fight some republicans dont want to get in the middle of. Reporter absolutely right. Congressional democrats are saying theres no way they will support a spending bill that funds the border wall that donald trump has called for, and increasingly were starting to see some republicans on capitol hill send om overt messages to the administration, they are mindful they need democrats to come on board to support this spending bill if it will pass, urging the aadministration, back off this fight and leave this fight for another day for the sake of keeping the government open and functioning. Heres some of the rhetoric over the weekend setting up this big week on capitol hill. I think thats a fight worth having and a conversation debate worth having for 2018. Once the government is up and running and stays up and running, we have to fight this out over the next year. The democrats do not support the wall. The burden to keep it open is on the republicans. The wall is in my view immoral, expensive, unwise. Reporter beyond just the fight over the funding of the border wall there are key disagreements and Sticking Points that exist between the administration and republicans and democrats up here that are holding up this bill, and as you know, congress is back today, they only have four days to get this done before that midnight deadline. Key aides on the Appropriations Committee say they are making progress but most likely the way this is all headed, poppy, is likely according to many aides up here they have to pass some sort of stop gap measure, buying them essentially more time. Buying more time. Sunlen serfaty thanks so much. Joining us David Farenhold and ms. Jane newton small, author of broad influence how women are changing the way america works. Jane, a reporting out of washington from jeff zelany the president has given the directive he would not let the government shut down and reince prix success seemed to tip his hand yet on meet the press. Listen. It will be enough in the negotiation for us to move forward to either the construction or the planning or enough for to us move forward through the end of september to get going on the border wall. And border security. Lets bring selena zito into the conversation. Jay, it seemed like Reince Priebus said maybe it doesnt have to be exactly money for an exactly brick and mortar wall. How far is the white house willing to push this one when it comes to the budget . It seems that donald President Trump has drawn a line in the sand and said the way we want to cap the first 100 days is not by shutting down the government. He seems adamant whatever deal is made on capitol hill will include continued funding for the government and thats the Sticking Point for democrats is whether or not youre going to have this money to build this wall. Well give you dollar for dlafr funding for obamacare and that was a nonstart we are democrats, no, we have the votes and you have to come to us. Its interesting, david, because the white house puts republicans on capitol hill in this position, picking fights that may be unwinnable. Border wall funding might be unwinnable if democrats will stand up against it. What kind of a position does this put the republicans in up there . Well it gives remarkably little leverage especially the house leadership, little leverage in a congress when they control both houses. President trump picked the fights that are always on a fast timetable and because of the fast timetable give a lot of leverage to democrats, particularly in this area they were talking about fighting, trying to trade off a border wall which is not that popular and if they dont get it theyll kill off obamacare subsidies. Not much mop peculiar. Not much leverage on either side. It gives republicans little control over their agenda and the speed at which they do these things. Lets look at some of the new polling out this morning, polling that the president is taking issue with. Calls it fake news polls but here are the polls, abc news the Washington Post poll low Approval Rating 42 for the president right now but if you look, jay, at his supporters, 96 of folks who voted for him said they would vote for him again. What do you make of that . They seem unfazed by the lack of legislative accomplishment outside of getting gorsuch through. Two things to that, poppy. 56 of americans voted against donald trump, and so those that did vote for donald trump are a minority and clearly a passionate minority but what they want to see from him and what he excels at is the idea of disrupting washington. So he is blowing things up, taking on congress, taking on the courts and the more he does that even if he doesnt achieve actual policy, doesnt chief actual laws they perceive him as trying to mix things up in washington, change things and thats what they hunger for. Its interesting, david, because the flipside of that obviously, gets to what you were talking about, ryan, the. The is pressing all these buttons from a weak negotiating point. His approval numbers are very, have he low. Normally historically you wouldnt see a president trying to push things through that may be difficult when your approval numbers sore low. Yet its never been that much better for donald trump. Donald trump won an election with low Approval Rating. So why should he change now . Well, its not in an election now. Thats the most important thing. Hillary clinton is in thechappa. Hes talking about running now. Trump glommed onto it when he was running for office but its artificial. What is going to do in the next 100 days after that. What hes done so far is reduced his leverage with congress especially with democrats in congress who he needs to get some of these things done so it doesnt give you a lot of hope the second hundred or third hyundais are going to have much success if hes burning bridges at this race. The white house and readout of whats coming up this week talk about and this is a quote, they are launching a web page dedicated to the if, 100 day, with pronounced graphics and videos and Digital Content for the president s massive online following to share. Jay . He has had a few victories, confirming a Supreme Court justice and actually signed more executive orders into law than any other president in recent history. Theyre highlighting the 100 days when he called it ridiculous. I guess thats my point. Its this thing where its like donald trump always sort of like this is dumb, but lets find a way to win it anyway. That is his style. And the white house and donald trump tries to frame the National Discussion in a certain way. Saturday nights the white house Correspondents Dinner, if you go im sure youll be winning another award, thats all you do these days but the. Is the not going. Hes going to speak in small town pennsylvania, to the people who helped get him in the white house. Thats a picture this white house is completely comfortable with. Of course. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. It is a weird institution. If the president doesnt want to be part of it thats fine. Is what he does in pennsylvania giving him leverage over congress . Stay tuned to are that. David, jay, great to have you with us. Thanks so much, guys. How far will democrats go to block this border wall funding . Are they, in fact, itching for a shutdown . A key democrat joins us next. Plus an american detained in north korea as tensions continue to build there. What it did he do . How will the u. S. Get this guy out . And down but not out. 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First the border wall congressman the white house wants funding for the wall in there. Will you vote for any deal that has such funding in it . Absolutely not. Colossal waste of time. Waste of money, resources, devastating impact on the environment. Its a bad idea all the way around. So let me just get this clear. No funding at all, not even ten bucks, right, not even symbolic funding, and in that, are you saying that there is no value at all in having a border wall . Absolutely no value at all. Just understand from our perspective, sitting on Lake Michigan here, what theyre talking about in the trump 18 budget is leaving less money to restore the great lakes than it costs to send the president of the United States to south florida five times. With that perspective, theyre taking away money to protect our most vital Natural Resource in this country, to do something that doesnt help us or secure our country whatsoever. One of the things that the president has floated and budget director floated getting additional money to prop up obamacare in exchange for funding for again the border wall here. Is that something youd be willing to discuss . What is your reaction to that offer . Look, in the last six years there have been more republicans in the house than at any time since the hoover administration. When speaker boehner, then speaker ryan came to us with some compromises, there was a comnibus and omni bus several times in which i was willing to compromise but in the end they fully funded the health care law, they fully ended the epa and we were able to exstrakt other things to help us on a local basis about you this isnt compromise when they stake out extreme positions and ask us to meet in the middle ground that is still way out there on the right. So thats a no, right . Thats a no. Okay. Not like a maybe there. Yes. The theme of compromise is there are things in there that you both dont like, but when the president stakes out extreme positions to the right, and then says now come way out here to compromise hes really accomplishing something that isnt a compromise. You sit on the house Intel Committee. We want to get to a few questions on that. Cnn is exclusively reporting the fbi gathered intelligence last summer that suggests that russian operatives tried to use trump advisers, including carter page, tried to infiltrate the Trump Campaign through these folks like carter page who worked at one point as a Foreign Policy adviser to the president when he was candidate. Sitting where you sit on the Intel Committee have you seen any evidence of that . Let me put it this way. In the totality of circumstances, i believe that if i compare to a criminal case theres probable cause to believe there was cooperation between the russians and the Trump Campaign. I dont know that i cant get into the specifics. If the American Public saw what i had seen and listened to what i heard theyd want a full throttle investigation into what took place. Theres no reason to not believe our reporting the russians tried to infiltrate the campaign with people including carter page, correct . I dont want to mention any specific person. The russians successfully hacked into our democratic process and i believe that theres enough evidence to go forward that there was collusion. You mentioned cyprus. Paul manafort has Bank Accounts there. You note it is a key location for russian Money Laundering. Why did you go to cypress . What can you tell us about what you found . I think its important for anybody in the House Select Committee on intelligence to understand how the worldwide Money Laundering process works. It is a process thats used to avoid tax, fund the regime in moscow to avoid sanctions and sanctions are absolutely critical to our policy in north korea, iran and of course in ukraine. So what i learned is, Money Laundering issues matter, and at the same time, there were key subjects of this investigation that were playing in the same pool so to speak in cyprus. Our work has just begun investigating what took place in various parts of the world, including cyprus. Paul manafort one point the Campaign Chair had some banking situations connected to cyprus. Is the idea of possible collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia, was there money that went through cyprus connected to that . Again, thats a specific id be divulging information that im not really supposed to. All i can tell you is the totality of circumstances tells us we need to investigate this, we need more lawyers and accountants and resources and we need to work in several countries to understand fully how the russians successfully attacked our democratic process. Congressman mike quigley from illinois, thanks so much. Fruitful discussion, appreciate your time. Global markets are surging. 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