but i'm 7. >> we want mexico to be a healthy, strong partner. we want to to help with the problems they've got with drug cartels and crime and grow their economy. >> reporter: you heard that little boy talking about the fact that he didn't want his pbs programming to go away. the man sitting right there in that blue hat just walked over to tell us he's here to talk education. he's worried about the direction of education in this country. we've had so many people walk over and just say they are excited about the opportunity to have their voices be heard. we're right on the edge of main street. this is something that already, with an hour to go, is starting to fill up inside the courthouse. this is a courtroom. and the pews are filling up pretty quickly. >> ryan young, thank you so much, let us know what happens there. the white house late last night reversing obama administration federal guidelines on transgender bathroom use. [ crowd chanting "save our students" ] >> the guidelines from the obama administration let transgender students use whichever bathroom correlated with their gender identity. president trump now saying states and local officials and parents should be making that decision, not the federal government. athena jones is at the white house with more. athena, they're taking away guidance, they didn't write new guidance. but also the division within the president's own cabinet on this one. >> reporter: hi, poppy, that's right. sources tell cnn the education secretary, betsy devos, was not originally on board with this new guidance, you're right, it's a new letter that basically rescinds another "dear colleague" issued by the obama administration last may without ruling on whether they believe the law applies here. so here's the deal. we're told from some sources that the education secretary brought her concerns about this issue to the attorney general jeff sessions. she was concerned that this new guidance runs counter to promises to protect all students. she was summoned to the white house for a meeting with sessions who was an early endorser and supporter of candidate trump. she had a meeting with the president and with sessions and was told to get on board. but she did push for language to keep students protected. it says, "president trump believes policy regarding transgender bathrooms should be decided at the state level. the joint decision by the department of justice and department of education returning power to the states paves the way for an open and inclusive process to take place at the local level with input from parents, students, teachers, and administrators." again, the new "dear colleague" letter put out by the trump administration doesn't make any statement on whether they believe title ix which prevents sex discrimination also applies to transgender students. secretary devos put out a statement, "we have a responsibility to protect every student in america and ensure they have the freedom to learn and thrive in a safe and trusted environment. this is not merely a federal mandate but a moral obligation no individual school, district, or state can abdicate." so this is a big victory who believe that the federal government overstepped their bounds but it comes down to a debate whether this is a states' rights issue or a civil rights issue. of course many on the other side see this as a civil rights issue that should not be left up to states, poppy. >> and of course the high court will decide that in this virginia case. >> reporter: that's right. >> before i let you go, new polling out this morning, what does it tell us? >> reporter: it shows numbers that are not good for the president. this is a new quinnipiac poll. it shows his approval rating at just 38%, disapproval at 55%. that's down four points from just a few weeks ago, early february, february 7th, his approval rating was as 42%, disapproval at 51. so it shows there's a lot of doubts right now about the job that president trump is doing. poppy? >> interesting the divide in those polls, when you ask republicans it's so much more favorable than democrats. it shows the division in the country. athena, thank you so much. alex stewart, former ted cruz communications director. david louter, and bacari sellers. nice to have you all here. alice, let me begin with you. as someone who worked in communications for senator ted cruz, who was so much more outspoken on issues like the transgender school bathroom issue during the campaign, who took a much more clear stance on social issues than the current president, how do you square what the white house has done here, pulling back on this federal guideline, and then what candidate trump said about being a protector of lgbtq individuals on the campaign trail? let's listen. >> as your president, i will do everything in my power to protect our lgbtq citizens from the violence and oppression of the hateful foreign ideology. believe me. and i have to say, as a republican, it is so nice to hear you cheering for what i just said. thank you. >> so how do you square the two, alice? >> i can tell you, poppy, social conservatives applaud the decision by the administration for several reasons, but more than anything, they feel that this helps parents protect their children. and look, since those comments that donald trump said early on in the campaign, he has made it quite clear his view on this is to make it a states' rights issue which is what this decision has become. look, sean spicer has followed that up, not only does he believe it's a states' rights issue, we're talking about title ix, transgender bathrooms is nowhere near listed in title ix, and jeff sessions affirmed that. that is the motivation behind this. not to mention the fact they want this to be decided at the state level and the administration plans to work with school officials to make sure that sexual discrimination does not happen in schools, however with regard to transgender bathrooms it's not a part of it. >> i want you guys to look and listen to some of the folks that rallied outside the white house last night on this. >> we will not be silent. and we will stand with and protect trans youth. no matter what happens, no one, not even the government, can defeat a community so full of life, color, diversity, and most importantly, love. >> bacari, to you, how would the administration be best advised to handle this and questions on it? they're party to this lawsuit that's going from virginia to the supreme court. some would say, look, they had to show their hand and pull this back. at the same time, you've got a number of conservatives to the fact that they might rather have the president and the administration focus on other issues like tax reform, like jobs, like repealing and replacing obamacare, than these social issues. >> let me say first this is not a states' rights issue. this is a civil rights issue. the american government has the duty to protect all citizens no matter their race, color, creed, or sexual orientation. donald trump on the campaign trail said he would be a great friend to the lgbtq community. with friends like this, i guess who needs enemies? as you said, attorney general sessions could have started out talking about immigration reform or terrorism or criminal justice reform. there are so many things in the department of justice he could have spoken out again. but attorney general sessions is who we thought he was. so to pick on a vulnerable class like this, to comment on my good friend alice stewart, since barack obama put this guidance in place, can you name me one instance and there has been a case where a child was put in any type of danger because now they have the ability to go to the restroom that identifies with the gender that they choose? i think what we're seeing throughout this country now is this veil being taken off, and many kids are going to feel unsafe. and many kids are going to go through depression. and, you know, i feel deeply troubled by this move. but again, elections have consequences, and attorney general sessions is exactly who we thought he was. >> quickly, alice, do you want to respond to that? can you name an instance? >> sure. in terms of the schools, no, i can't, i can honestly say i can't, but i certainly don't want to wait for something to happen before we take action. however, i do recall there have been numerous cases with regard to target and their transgender dressing rooms. and that's a concern. we don't need to have any more incidents happen before we take action. it's important to do this. more than anything, children, when they go to school, it's a safe zone. they're supposed to be safe and protected. there are many parents who feel this violated this safety. >> just to be clear here, no incident in any school that you can point to this happening and endangering any child or student. david, to you, on another topic. we have to get to, that is these raucous town halls, all week we've seen them for weeks now, especially in this past week across america. i want you to listen to what the co-founder of indivisible, the movement that says, look, we are the liberal activists who are arg organizing. here is what they said on cnn last night. >> we've seen this playbook before. when the tea party started popping up in 2009, democrats said it's astroturf, they're being funded by the koch brothers, we don't have to listen to them seriously because they're not representative. that did not work out well for them. so if i were a republican member of congress seeing massive concern from my own constituents, i would recommend that they take that seriously. >> is she right, david? >> she may be, poppy. the tea party is the example that liberals would like to cite right now of how a mobilized and excited base of voters can change the complexion of the house in particular. the opposite example is what happened a year after the tea party movement when scott walker won the governor ship in wisconsin, pushed through a bunch of very conservative policies, there was a huge upswell of liberal opposition, union opposition to had a wawha did. they had demonstrations, the state capital was filled day after day with demonstrators. but in the end they couldn't turn out enough votes to defeat governor walker and as we know, he's still the governor and his policies have stood. the question for democrats is going to be can they take this energy of this movement and convert it into actual votes that can win them seats in the 2018 house elections and in elections for state legislatures and governors. if they can do that, they'll be well on their way. but there's a long way to get there. >> a long road, and to what end? can you turn the vocal voices, the loud voices into action. let me get you guys' take on these polls, the quinnipiac poll. the trust that the american people have in the president versus the media, because we know he likes to take on the media, overall, more, 52%, trust the news over the president. but alice, look at these numbers in the partisan divide, it's totally flip-flopped, when you look at republicans versus democrats. isn't that emblematic of a divided america, an america that the president said this week that he is going to unite? >> sure. we do have a divided america. and i firmly believe that president trump is committed to turning things around. but it's going to take some time to do just that. and i'm not too concerned about his approval ratings. donald trump didn't run for class president. he ran for president of the united states. i'm much more focused on policies as opposed to popularity. he is following through on campaign promises which is exactly why we're seeing these town halls pop up across the country very vocally, because he and other congressional republicans campaigned on repealing and replacing obamacare, and that's what they promised. certainly there's some backlash but when he succeeds, those numbers will turn around. >> are they doing exactly what they promised on repealing and replacing on day one? but david, these numbers on how the president is doing on the economy, it's a much rosier picture for the president, 60% say the economy is excellent or good, and then republicans, you've got a much closer look there between republicans and democrats. overall, he's winning on the economy, according to this polling. >> yeah, because contrary to the harsh rhetoric that donald trump puts out about the fact that he inherited a country that was in economic turmoil, he actually inherited a country that has 74 straight months of job growth. and barack obama took office, the stock market was 6,000. when he left, it was teetering on 20,000. yes, he's able to ride those gains. hopefully for the sake of all americans he can sustain those, if not expedite those. one of the things donald trump has against him is this level of uncertainty. the repeal and replace obamacare, his tax reform plan, all of those things that i believe are going to be a detriment are also going to have a harsh effect on our economy and i expect that to be reflected in the polls sooner or later. >> david? >> president trump got elected as a minority president, a minority of the vote. and he has not yet managed to expand his support. that leaves him in a vulnerable position. he's managed to thread the needle in november, and it was a very, very close call. he won. ideally, if you're in his position, you would like to be able to go into the next election with a little bit more cushion. but the key thing, as you noted, he still has the support of his republican base which means republican members of congress will stick with him. >> absolutely, and that's what we're seeing play out. nice to have you all, thank you very much. we've got a lot ahead. still to come, mexico coming out swinging against the trump administration's new immigration policies. this is ahead of a crucial meeting between some of the president's top staffers and the mexican president today. are they going to mend some proverbial fences there? also conservatives gathering at cpac, among those expected to make a show of force, we'll see live on this network reince priebus and steve bannon sitting down at 1:00 p.m. eastern. and reunited at last, a toddler burned in a fire at a refugee camp reunited with his parents weeks after being separated. why his parents are saying thank you. break thand dry ends.ly roots with l'oréal's new extraordinary clay. this hair rebalancing system with 3 refined clays... purifies oily roots... hydrates dry ends. for up to 48 hours of fresh hair. l'oréal's extraordinary clay. from l'oréal hair expert/paris. dearthere's no other way to say this. it's over. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced. our senses awake. our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say...if you love something set it free. see you around, giulia you knmegared omega-3s... but did you know your eyes, your brain, and your joints really love them too? 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>> i think they have a lot of challenges. secretary videgaray from mexico made it very clear this issue is going to be a priority in the conversations. it wasn't part of agenda as of two addition ago. but trying to talk to the mexican government about their plans on migration. i think mexico is rightly being firm in saying we will receive mexican migrants from the united states, it's our responsibility. they have done a lot to try to improve that process. but they're pushing back on the part that would say, but we're also not -- we don't want central americans or other migrants waiting for their final resolution in the united states to be on the mexican side of our border, it's not our responsibility, it creates a lot of security risks and would tax the mexican government and social services at the border. >> the white house is pushing back, maureen, against this narrative that there is even tension between mexico and the united states, despite the fact that the mexican president cancelled his trip to meet with the president and despite the controversial tense phone calls between the two. here is how twhite house press secretary sean spicer put it yesterday. >> i think the relationship with mexico is phenomenal right now. there is a robust dialogue between our two nations. >> is phenomenal how you so he it? >> certainly not. we wouldn't view it as phenomenal, the mexican government wouldn't, and the mexican population who really feel humiliated by the trump administration, during the campaign, the anti-mexican rhetoric, the rhetoric about the wall, and the criticism from the president himself about mexico and their efforts to address security. the feeling from mexico is that the united states isn't recognizing their contributions to the united states, both the cultural ties, the economic importance of having a strong relationship with mexico, and how they cooperate on areas of counterterrorism, combatting drugs, and even issues on migration. >> internally, the politics at play here in mexico, because you've had these really big boycott demonstrations in mexico, these antitrump demonstrations, at the same time as president pena nieto is facing another election and the liberal candidate is polling higher than him. what kind of political pressure is he under to really stand up for mexico and the mexican against the desires of the u.s. government? >> tremendous pressure. the mexican government clearly wants a good relationship with the united states. there has been two decades of building unprecedented coordination on the economy, on security issues. the government of mexico is saying we should not cave to whatever the united states wants, we want to be good neighbors but you can't order us to do things. >> maureen meyer, nice to have you on, thank you. >> thank you. still to come, an entire continent left shrugging its shoulders. what message are they supposed to take, after the vice president says one thing, the president's chief strategist says something entirely different? also thousands of conservatives converging at their unanimousannual cpac cove. reince priebus and steve bannon on the stage today. we'll be right back. people confuse nice and kind but they're different. it's nice to remove artificial ingredients. kind never had to. we've used real ingredients, whole nuts, and natural flavors from the very beginning. give kind a try. we asked people to write down the things they love to do most on these balloons. travel with my daughter. roller derby. ♪ now give up half of 'em. do i have to? 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>> reporter: poppy, you remember mike pence, the vice president in brussels, saying that on behalf of president trump, i'm here to tell you that the u.s. wants to deepen and strengthen u.s. political and economic partnership with the eu. there's been a lot of concern because of president trump's support for the brexit, he even called himself mr. before he re predicted other countries will leave, that the president trump administration was not committed to dealing with the eu has this 27-nation bloc. in fact just a few days before vice president pence made those comments, steve bannon was meeting with the german ambassador and basically said the eu was a flawed organization, the u.s. wanted more relationships bilaterally with individual countries instead of the whole eu. and this is really this kind of citing these populist, nationalist movements that elected president trump and are sweeping through europe, a lot of concern in europe about these mixed messages from the administration. >> the argument could be made, elise, doesn't this play right into russia's playbook? they would like to see a weaker europe. >> reporter: that's true, russia would like to see a weaker europe because europe, europe whole and free as they call it, was supposed to be a bulwark against an expansionist russia. in terms of the trump administration, you've heard similar messages but for a different reason, you've heard this nationalist, populist message that steve bannon, when he was the head of breitbart news, was also saying that was what the future was. and so i'm not sure it's necessarily the same reason. but it still does play into russia's hands. russia very much wants to see a weakened eu. you see elections coming up in the netherlands, germany, france, anti-eu extreme right wing parties are gaining ground there. and the concern in europe is that president trump might support some of those movements. that's why those mixed messages are very concern, poppy. >> elise labott reporting from washington, thank you. cpac kicking off this morning, the nation's top conservatives taking to the podium. white house chief of staff reince priebus and the president's chief strategist steve bannon will take part in a conversation at 1:00 p.m. eastern, we'll carry that live for you on cnn. our phil mattingly is there. we saw kellyanne conway, who else? >> reporter: as you noted, i think the big thing everybody is paying attention to today is reince priebus, the chief of staff, and steve bannon, the chief strategist. there's been a lot of stories behind the scenes, maybe they don't get along. obviously they come from two very different parts of the republican party, reince priebus clearly in the establishment lane, steve bannon very much not in that line. i've spoken to people that have knowledge of what this conversation is supposed to be about, the point is to show a united front, that they're working well together and try to get a sense of calm or assuage some concerns about the direction of the administration. poppy, it's interesting, when you think about cpac and what that conference is all about, two years ago, donald trump came here and everybody mocked him a little bit because he kept touting that he was considering running for president. last year he didn't come at all because there were going to be protests. now this is the trump administration in full force. as you noted, kellyanne conway here earlier, joking that cpac will turn into tpac because of all the trump administration officials here. that's clear what you hear when we talk to conservative activists here, and it's the image that trump administration is trying to pull off at this event today. >> phil, i don't know if you heard the interview, i had matt schlap on earlier, who organized all of this, and the pushback about inviting milo yiannopoulos to cpac only to disinvite him a few days ago, and then to steve bannon, who many see as promoting the alt-right. he said, i think you've got it wrong, steve bannon has nothing to do with the alt-right, how do you see it? 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>> reporter: we heard this from colonel john dorian, the coalition spokesman in baghdad. he told reporters that yes, there have been wounded among the u.s. personnel. some of have had to be medevac'd. they've come under fire several times. not surprising, because like me, like many other journalists, if you go near the front line in the war against isis, they will be shooting at you. however, he did stress that when they come under fire, the u.s. troops go into full combat mode. and given the kind of firepower at their disposal, that's no small thing, poppy. >> ben wedeman live for us in irbil, iraq, thank you, ben, for the reporting. still to come, an unexpected phone call means a wish granted for an iraqi family whose son was in this country separated from his parents to undergo surgery. >> translator: thank god we're all together again. it's really hard to stay away from your child when they're healthy, let alone he was burned. this year, chevy received more j.d. power initial quality awards than any other car brand. i'm very, very impressed. did i mention they received more of them last year too? 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>> they have to walk a careful line. in these meetings which are closed door, we don't know what's said. and everybody is really careful when they come out of it because they don't want to anger the president, they don't want to be on his wrong side, they want to be invited back. it's hard to thread the needle. oftentimes really controversial stuff doesn't really come up in these settings, based on what i'm told after these meetings happen. >> you're so tapped into these ceos. what do you think the number one thing is they want to see from the president for their businesses? >> the number one most c contentious issue is something they're not all on the same page on this, the border adjustment tax. some manufacturers import parts from other countries in order to manufacture their products here. a border adjustment tax would hurt their ability to do that. i know that you know a fairly mid-size manufacturer, cummins, makes industrial parts in the u.s. but a lot of its parts come from elsewhere. it supports jobs here in the u.s., but the materials are coming from overseas. it's a very complicated issue that the president is really going to have to walk through. and the republicans, the gop, are actually in favor of that border adjustment tax. >> a delicate dance, christina. marilyn houston is the head of lockheed, the maker of the f-35 fighter jet, she's one of the women in the room. he's used these ceos to pit against each other to try to get a better deal for the american people. >> reporter: that's right, poppy, he has, he talked about that at some length at that rally down in florida over the weekend about making sure that there's competition. this is interesting, and unusual. i should tell you that we're getting guidance from the white house, from the press pool covering this event, this event is going to be live. the entire event. it could last an hour. that's pretty unusual. usually you have the cameras in there for just a few minutes. >> so we're going to see all of it? >> reporter: that is my understanding. according to the guidance from the white house we're getting now, this -- it was 10:30, but the event, once it starts, can be live. they were originally forecasting it to last more than an hour, now they're saying no more than an hour. i think that will be an interesting window into what kind of conversation takes place. we'll certainly see what the president has to say and then what these participants have to say. it is a very big table set up there in the state dining room, a lot of people. you mentioned some of the people who will be at the meeting. is that really enough time for everyone to get a word in? we'll see. we expect the president to talk about a lot of things he's been talking about in these meetings, bringing back manufacturing jobs, getting rid of regulations. one of his favorite lines is for every new regulation you have to get rid of two existing regulations. we also expecting he could talk about tax reform, certainly corporate tax reform. we've heard treasury secretary steve mnuchin say there could be a bill passed by august, that could be rosy thinking. he's had a lot of these meetings with business leaders. >> but never one we've been able to watch the entire thing. if that's the case, you can bet you'll be watching it right along with us on cnn. christina, this changes the calculus. these executives have to be much more measured in what they say, because people from both parties buy their goods, they cannot ali alienate either side of their customer base. >> that's right, poppy. a lot of these ceos are reluctant to go on camera to begin with, because of how these issues can be politicized. another big thing is, look, there were 17 million americans working in manufacturing jobs back in 2000. there are 5 million less today. the big question is, how do you bring that back without hurting profit margins which will in turn have a negative impact on the economy? 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>> thank you very much. it's a great honor to have everybody. some of the great people in the world of business, many of you i know, many of you i know from reading all of our wonderful magazines and business magazines in particular. so it's an honor to have you with us today. bringing manufacturing back to america, creating high wage jobs, was one of our campaign promises and themes. and it resonated with everybody. it was really something, what happened. states that hadn't been won in many, many years, where they came over to our fold. a lot of it had to do with jobs, and other reasons, but jobs. and i'm delivering on everything that we've said. in fact people are saying they've never seen so much happen in 30 days of a presidency. we've delivered on a lot. i think mark can explain, mark can probably say some of the things we're doing for the auto industry, we're going to doing that for many of the industries. as you know, the united states lost one-third of our manufacturing jobs since nafta. that's an unbelievable number and statistic. and 70,000 factories closed since china joined the wto. 70,000 factories. so when i used to give that statistic, i used to talk about it and i always thought it was a typo. i said, has to be a typo. i tell wilber, wilber, that can't be right. think of it, 70,000 factories. what are we doing? my administration's policies and regulatory reform, tax reform, trade policies, will return significant manufacturing jobs to our country. everything's going to be based on bringing our jobs back, good jobs, the real jobs. they've left, and they're coming back. they have to come back. you've already seen companies such as intel, ford, gm, walmart, amgen, amazon, fiat, they're going to make a tremendous investment in the country. carrier and many others announced significant new investments in the united states. for example, ford is doing 700 million in michigan, creating 700 new jobs as a vote of confidence. it was actually stated, a vote confidence. we have many other companies doing the same thing. carrier, as you know, and i got involved late, two years late, but many of the jobs that were leaving for mexico, they're bringing back, at least 800 jobs, they're bringing it back, and the actually never got to leave. i have no idea what they did with the plant in mexico, but we'll have to ask them, because it was largely built. general motors is investing $1 billion in u.s. plants, adding or keeping 7,000 jobs. it's going to be investing a lot more than that over the next fairly short period. lockheed martin has 18, they've just announced 1800 new jobs. and u.s. plants, we're doing a great job, we started negotiating with them a little bit on the f-35. they cut their price a little bit. thank you very much. she's tough but it worked out well. i think for everybody. and i think i have to say this, marilyn, you've gotten a lot of credit because what you did was the right thing, so we appreciate it. she got her price, over 700 million, by over 700

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