International backlash on a trade deal to changing stances on gun control. And now chief of staff john kelly is facing blowback after he tried to defend how he handled Domestic Abuse scandal. Were also learning the president may be ready to get his daughter and soninlaw out of the west wing. Cnns Boris Sanchez traveling with the president and joins us live now from florida. Good morning, boris. We want to find out the latest on, you know, this john kelly story. It just all seems to be piling up in a very chaotic way. Thats right, martin. Good morning to you and christi. It comes at the end of an already tumultouous week. He spent the week lashing out at staff and saw the departure of some key figures in the administration and now getting this news about john kelly and his exchange with reporters yesterday that started off as an off the camera briefing and portions were later put on the record in which kelly defended his handling of the rob porter controversy, one that the white house would certainly like to leave behind. Kelly essentially made the case that the same day that he found out rob porter was accused of Domestic Violence by two of his exwives, he secured his resignation. Something that contradicts the timeline. Two sources saying theyre puzzled by these comments. One saying, flatly, the chief of staff is not telling the truth. If you recall the day after these revelations came out about rob porter, the white house put a statement defending him. Also indicates that the white house, the chief of staff and the white House Counsel received documents detailing the allegations against rob porter back in november of last year. Despite that, the chief of staff told reporters that, quote, i have absolutely nothing to even consider resigning over. So, the white house is likely going to face a lot more questions about the chief of staff going into this new week. A note about the president s schedule. Hes here in maralago, just for one night. He leaves today to d. C. After a pair of fundraising events at his estate in palm beach. He returns to d. C. To attend something called the gridiron dinner. A roasttype event where cameras are not allowed but journalists have a good nature ribbing at politicians, not a whole lot for this president to be laughing at, though, this week, martin and christi. You got that absolutely right, boris. Thank you very much. So, the Washington Post want to get back to this story where they say porn star because trumps attorneys were late in paying her socalled hush money. Joining us on the phone now francis sellers who helped break this story. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you for having me. So, the political implications here. We are learning ten days after she threatened trumps attorney, she received the payment of 130,000. In essence, does this prove that the payment was about the election and to influps theence election . I dont think we have proof yet, we have evidence of a level leading up to the election and, of course, this does feed into the complaints being made, a couple made by a democratic group, american bridge and also common core and paul ryan from common cores made the statement that the fact that the payment was made immediately before the general election strongly supports the claim that this was to influence the election. Lets think back to that period, the access hollywood and the Stormy Daniels affair is allegedly a consensual relationship, but other women at that moment coming out with allegations against the candidate, against candidate trump. And some of those also are moving an interesting way. A Defamation Case against the president is sitting in a new York State Court waiting for a judges ruling to see whether it could proceed. So, these, these moments in the, you know, the final weeks leading up to the election show a level of tension for the campaign, right before the election. So, francis, stormy has not she hasnt actually admitted to anything publicly at the end of the day. So, what does all of this really mean . So, stormy has recently said she will speak again. But, if we go back, again, this is a complicated story. She had gave this long interview, which was not published when she gave it in may 2011 in which she described a love affair. That has been brushed aside by the president s lawyers, all recycled news. Did surface briefly in october 2011 in a blog, gossip blog called the dirty. Com and aggregated under that site. The hints of something, but it was not until january of this year that the wall street journal broke this story about the alleged hush money. All righty, frances stead sellers, we appreciate you coming in and talking. The gatekeepers, how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency. Chris, thank you so much for being here. Were, obviously, you know, absolutely, thank you. Were obviously talking about what happened with general kelly as he, this week, made this statement about he brought porter back into the mix here. Rob porter. And a lot of people are wondering, why would he even why would he even bring that back under the spotlight . It seemed to be over to some degree. Well, you know, may or may not be punishing john kelly by making him Trumps White House chief of staff. He failed at almost every level as Trumps White House chief. He has been unable to tell donald trump hard truths and at the end of the day he has failed by his own narrow definition of the job which is to be the hone honest broker of information to the president. Stormy daniels changing timelines have been part of that. Look, the reality is i heard somebody say the other day that this white house is guilty of spinning. Spinning is not what this white house does. Lying is what this white house does. And has done from day one. Truth was the First Casualty when sean spicer stepped up to the podium on day one. A story that i tell in the new chapter of my book. And, sadly, john kelly has enabled that. Hes participated in that. And, you know, you make a when you work for this president , you make a bargain and it comes back to haunt you. John kelly of the New York Times reporting he has been asked by the president to deal with ivanka and her husband, jared kushner. You believe that . Well, of course, its always a very delicate proposition when youre white house chief. Often you have to deal with family. James a. Baker iii the quintessential chief under Ronald Reagan had to, obviously, had to deal with nancy reagan, who was the socalled personnel director. He had to deal with mike deeber who was almost a son to reagan. It requires real Political Savvy. I see no evidence that john kelly has any Political Savvy and he demonstrated that when he stepped up to the podium in the White House Briefing room and told untruths about representative wilson. So, this is a tricky proposition for kelly and hes not out of the woods by any means. General michael hayden, who is the former nsa director, said this. He thinks a lot of the problem here is the style of the president and his administration. That this Incoming Administration didnt necessarily respect the norms. Regard the norms of what goes into the political process here. He said there are norms out there. Not because theyre arbitrary, through Lessons Learned through history we understand that if you dont do it that way, you are really increasing the odds things are going to end up unhappy. Heres the thing. Voters didnt want him to pract ths norms. They wanted him to do things differently. Does this serve him somehow . No, i mean, look the most important thing a white house chief of staff can do is walk into the oval office, close the door and tell the president what he does not want to hear. Thats what james a. Baker iii and leon panetta knew how to do. It is clear after a year that donald trump had no idea how to govern. He may not be interested in governing. The only thing that interests donald trump is making donald trump look strong. You know, in the new chapter of my book, i tell the story about how he wanted to impose a 25 tariff on steel. 25 tariff on cars and scrap nafta on his first week. Reince priebus had to sit him down and explain that if you kill nafta, youre going to kill all the farmers in the swing states. Well, donald trump didnt understand that. He still doesnt understand the consequences of his actions. Its the job of the chief of staff to help the president learn how to govern. All righty. Chris whipple author of the gatekeepers. We appreciate your perspective sir, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Compelling pictures from a bomb cyclone that hammered the northeast. Listen. More than a Million People without power. And the worst may not be over. Also, oh, this rescue. That is a man buried in the snow. A snowboarder there. After a powerful avalanche. Were going to tell you more about what happened here. Stay close. Also Jared Kushners business deals are under scrutiny. Has he been using hthe president ial power to his financial advantage . Well look into this. Loved every step of fatherhood. And made old cars good as new. 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Someone on a train that was passing through the north end of campus actually spotted him, according to the university and then called police. He was arrested without incident. His father, hes actually a military veteran. He is a Police Officer. People in his Home Community call him a pillar of the community. His father and his mother, they were actually here on campus from the chicago area to take him home for spring break. It is unclear what exactly might have caused this domestic disturbance that police are calling it. But one thing that we may know, one clue is that Police Actually spoke with davis jr. On thursday evening. He was then taken to hospital for a possible adverse reaction to drugs or drug overdose. Martin . Well, that in itself is horrific news in addition to everything else. We will wait to hear more from that press conference. Scott maclaiclane, thank you. Listen to the strength of that wind, right. A bomb cyclone hammering the northeast. It it toppled trees and damaged homes. It will last for the next 24 to 48 hours. Were talking in some instances hurricaneforce winds. That means more widespread damage, Power Outages and violent winds have torn down several main power lines and more than 1 Million People are without power from virginia to new england. Massachusetts has been seeing the worst of it with nearly 400,000 people without electricity. States of emergency in virginia and maryland and at least five people we know have died as a result of this storm. So, lets get over to cnns ryan young. Hes live in quincy, massachusetts. Thats just south of boston. And have people been able to get back into their homes . Earlier you were saying, ryan, they couldnt even get to them yet. They have already started to walk back towards their homes and taking pictures of some of the damage left behind. Conditions have changed since we first joined you this morning at 6 00 a. M. Well turn around and show you the water that is coming over this line right here. We saw a front loader dumping sand on the other side of this to make sure the barrier is protected. But as the water started to rise, again. We are, once again, getting pounded by that rain and sea mist. To show you some of the damage. Look in the backyard here. You can see what is left behind in terms of all the water and damage and some cars stuck in the middle of the street as people tried to evacuate. Coastal communities in massachusetts pounded by monster waves. High tide sent water rolling down streets and into homes. In quincy, dozens of residents had to be rescued by trucks and scooped up by frontloaders. Christine was one of those getting a ride out of danger. Kind of scary because we were the ones standing up on it and having to hold on. So, but, you know, were lucky. Just things that will get lost. Storm conditions are expected to improve on saturday, but the wind is still a factor, so is coastal flooding near portland, maine, storm surge left this home teetering on the edge of the atlantic ocean. The plan is to lift it and move it back a little bit, i believe. But its a lot of things that have to happen before that happens. So, were just trying to keep it from going anyway. You feel bad for the people, but that comes with having a house on the water. Ocean winds, you lose. Another issue is Power Outages. In watertown, massachusetts, high winds made power lines fall like dominos. We had traffic lights all over town that were out and affected by this grid. But the First Responder he isolated the area and have him shut the circuit off. It was pretty dangerous. Dangerous situation. Reporter one woman in brockton says her son is lucky to be alive. He was sitting in the car when the tree came crashing down. The house shook and we heard a noise. We didnt know what it was. We ran out and my son was still in the car with the tree on top of it. I walked up the street there and was talking to one of the neighbors and they said the water yesterday got up to the second level of some of these homes. Once again, the water is back pounding. People are wondering what this next high tide is going to be like. Interesting to see what happens over the next six hours as people start to assess the damage. Guys, back to you. Ryan, thanks very much. Be careful out there. Take good care there. And as we wait to see what this third round brings, the flood waters across the northeast really took its toll on cars, especially when there were people trapped inside of them. Reporter john etwater show us what some of the dramatic rescues look like. Entire families were plucked from the flood waters. Very grateful. The end of a terrifying attempt to ride out a monster storm. Very scary. Its the worst one ever. National guard troops rescued dozens of people. Their video shows crews in waist deep water. Going door to door to grab families who did not evacuate. This is all clothing. Many basements are full of water and without heat or electricity. Furnace is gone and the basement has a foot of water. Flooding was just one concern for First Responders as high winds sparked fires as power lines snapped and this is just round one. Absolutely horrific. But were okay. Were okay. Thats all that matters. Our thanks to john with our affiliate for reporting on that story for us. There is more coastal flooding expecting, in fact, in the next 45 minutes to an hour as that high tide you saw there starts making its way down into the area. Reporter carrie from our affiliate hgh. She was in this parking lot and i was here, too, yesterday. Cars were parked all over this parking lot and then everyone started to back off because the water started to hit that sea wall and then cascade over and fill this entire area. This is basically whats left. But the big concern is what happened when that next tide comes in. And then you have the wind pushing the water towards those homes. You add the water and the wind, you wonder what damage could be next. And then were also seeing some downed trees. Were seeing Power Outages, beach erosions. But weve seen it all here in sandwich. Our thanks to carrie from our affiliate whgh fdh. We should point out that the storm has been so bad more than 1,000 flights have been canceled or delayed so far. Amtrak was forced to cancel its service, but has begun restoring service in the last couple of hours. We want to share some of the images with you. This is damage from a homeowner and what theyre dealing with here. He says seven trees, seven fell on his house during the height of the storm. Last night just sitting down, the lights went out and all of a sudden we didnt hear anything. We heard somebody coming up to the house. Gee, maybe its one of the neighbors coming over for coffee. 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But the European Union is planning to strike back if the president is planning on following through. On levis jeans and Harley Davidson motorcycles and bourbon whiskey. Here is the president of the european commission. Reporter the European Union will have to take a stand against this plan because we cannot stand aside and watch it be marginalized and tens of thousands of jobs are lost in europe and europe needs to defend itself against this and we will defend ourselves. Meanwhile, President Trump and his commerce secretary, a fellow billionaire both say a trade war is really nothing to fear. Wilbur ross held up a soda can and he did this to make his point. Take a look. For beverage cans, there are only about 3 cents worth of steel or aluminum. In this case, it happens to be aluminum. In it to begin with. If that goes up 10 , youre talking a fraction of a penny. These products sell for over 1 in the store. So, its nonsense to say that theres a great tragedy looming. Well, joining us now to talk more about this is michael who was the u. S. Trade representative in the obama administration. Thank you for being with us. Thanks for having me. Do you buy that argument . I mean, the coke can argument for all i can really call it there. Im not so concerned about a coke can. I might be concerned about, say, an automobile or something very large that takes a lot of steel. Well, thats right. Most Auto Companies will tell you that they make virtually all their money off of trucks and that their small cars are barely profitable. So, if the cost of a small car is going to go up by several hundred dollars because of the taxes on imported steel and aluminum, thats going to make those unprofitable and less competitive and from a consumer perspective, if youre facing the choice between a made in america car that is costing several hundred dollars more and imported car, you might buy the import instead. That would be counterproductive. President trump says he wants to incents have companies in the u. S. To buy from fellow u. S. Companies. Would this encourage that . Well, you know, i think, first of all, we should all stipulate. We want a strong steel and aluminum sector here in the United States and there are unfair trade practices abroad that need to be dealt with. The problem is, those trade practices are emulafrom china. South korea, japan, germany who will bear the cost of this, not actually china. China is not in the top ten in terms of the sources of our imports of steel, for example. So, yes, on one hand we certainly want to drive more production to the United States. But this is a very blunt tool that is not really being directed at the cause of the problem. And to sort of talk about these consequences. The president made it clear that he wants to renegotiate nafta. How does this complicate that kind of conversation . Well, coming as it is in the midst of a round of negotiations, it makes it very difficult for the canadians or the mexicans to compromise on the proposals that the u. S. Has put on the table. Yeah, we have to remember that other countries have politics, too. And they have to be able to justify back home standing up to the United States at a time when the United States is imposing a tax on their exports to the United States. So, i think they just made their task of renegotiating nafta somewhat nor difficult. I think a lot of people are sitting at home thinking at the end of the day how will this affect me. Secretary ross doesnt know specifically what is in this tariff proposal. What he says is going to happen next week. But he said Market Reaction isnt overreaction. Do you expect the markets will stabilize when they open on monday . Still going to be in question . I think what were seeing in the Market Reaction is the concern about the uncertainty and instability that this introduces into the system. There are really three elements of cost here. One is the direct cost. This is a tax on imports. So, anybody who uses an aluminum or steel product and production of a product here in the United States or who consumse s alumin or steel product there is a higher cost. As other countries decide to impose tariffs on our experts, that could hit a wide range of industries. Ing aric ragriculture, motorcyc and workers in thoseaffected. And a third cost that is very, very important. That is this National Security exception is something that we have used very rarely. Once in the last 30 years. And thats because weve always been concerned that other countries would use National Security as an excuse to keep our products when there was no real National Security concern. So so, if we begin doing this, a National Security issue. Lets keep out american Agricultural Products and that could affect a wide range of products across the United States from all sorts of producers. All right, michael, thank you, as always. It is much appreciated. Thanks for having me. Do stay close, we are watching a press conference that is about to begin, we believe, in michigan, regarding the two people who were killed. The parents who were killed. Central Michigan University yesterday. They have overnight caught the suspect. The two people that died, it is their son. Were hopefully going to hear more about exactly what has happened on the campus there. Stay close. What would our Founding Fathers want us to do about this president . Im tom steyer, and when those patriots wrote the constitution here in philadelphia, they created the commander in chief to protect us from enemy attack the Justice Department just indicted 13 russians for an electronic attack on america. So what did this president do . Nothing. 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What makes this, i dont know, worse or better, i guess you have to figure out for yourself is it was really a domestic issue. It was a mother and a father and a son involved in this initial confrontation that ended up with tragically losing two people. And there are a lot of people suffering in that family. But, i tell you what, there are a lot of people, faculty and staff and our students and the mt. Pleasant community and people who are watching on tv or following social media, i was on a plane coming back for this and it was the talk of the plane coming from florida to detroit. I just listened to people speaking and some quite emotionally about what had just happened here. And, so, i know there is a lot of people suffering. And our prayers and thoughts go out to all of those folks. I want to back up a couple of days here and tell you where all this started. Our interaction with james davis jr. Started on thursday, march 1st, at approximately 9 45. And cmu police have a Community Policing officer refer to them and they have an office in our high rise dormitories. Our Residence Halls. The officers assigned to those have been there. That is their regular shift. Thats where they show up and work. They have relationships with the students. They have friendships and they provide a sense of access, as well as safety. And james ran into the office of our Community Policing officer very frightened. He said, someone was out to hurt him. Someone was going to harm him. And the officer comed him down and tried to gain more information what was going on. And mr. Davis was very vague. And he kept talking about somebody had a gun. And the officer said, when did he have a gun . Did you see a gun . Again, everything was extremely vague. We got other officers involved and eventually were able to get a name of someone we thought might be involved in threatening mr. Davis. Mr. Davis talked about riding down the elevator in the high rise with this individual. So, we had officers locate the individual, stop the individual, have conversation. Actually took him to our department to interview him to see if there was a threat that really did exist. In the meantime, were talking with mr. Davis who is really not making a lot of sense. Hes not putting the pieces together for us. He kept talking about the guy who was trying to kill him had a warrant for him for murder. He had already committed a murder and was wanted for a murder and that he knows he had a gun. How did you know he was going tahuto hurt you, if you didnt see a gun . He kept saying, its just a feeling. I just know it. Our investigation, we were not able to see any risk for anyone. This other person that mr. Davis identified did not have any risk, pose any risk to davis or anyone else. We reviewed the video in the elevator which showed mr. Davis riding down the elevator with this other person and they were laughing and appeared certainly to have a good relationship, not one of a threat. The other person had no registered weapon. So, we felt comfortable and we told mr. Davis, you know, with just this amount of information, there is really no crime and nothing more were able to do. What can we do to make you feel safe . He said, im fine. Were going home in the morning. Ill be good. Thanks for your help. So about 1 15, four hours, three or four hours later, our officers are over in the high rise area dealing with a different issue and see mr. Davis in the hallway with a number of suitcases and bags. The officer oss approach him to say, hey, you okay . I thought you were going home tomorrow. Mr. Davis, again, acts in a fashion that isnt reasonable or logical. He wasnt able to make a lot of sense. So the officers saw his cell phone and asked him to call his parents. So, mr. Davis calls his parents. The officer speaks to the parents over the phone. They explain to the mother what weve observed and what the a actions of what mr. Davis have been over the last few hours. The mother also very concerned saying she and her husband will be coming up to central immediately and the officer said that we had some suspicion it might be drugs. Does he have a drug history . The mother said, she, too, is concerned this could be drugs. After speaking with her, the officers tell mr. Davis we need to take him to the hospital to get him checked out because just clearly, mentally and hes not making a lot of sense. And the suspicion and some of the behaviors suggest there may be drugs. For his benefit, we take him to the people who are best qualified to look at those kind of symptoms and to measure those things and manage those if they are, in fact, there. We took mr. Davis to the hospital and explained what our interaction was with the hospital staff where mr. Davis stayed until the following morning where he was picked up by his parents. Once he was picked up by his parents, they came back to Campbell Hall to load the car up to take him home. Actually, about 15 minutes ago our investigator briefed me on where we are in our criminal investigation and there is one witness who stated that mr. Davis was seen coming from the parking lot into the Residence Hall with a gun in his hand. And we had video photos of that, as well, to support that. So, just prior to the actual incident, mr. Davis came into our Residence Hall with a weapon. And went to the fourth floor where we believe he shot and killed his father and his mother. Mr. Davis had left on foot and he went out into the building and on to the Railroad Track and was running north on the Railroad Track and it was, we have, again, a number of video photos that show the progression moving north along that Railroad Track. In the last place we could actually put him from the video is around Cherry Street on the Railroad Track. So, at that point, we have all of these folks coming in to assist us and to set up a perimeter and to take care of our communities. Not only are we looking for the suspect so that no one else is injured, we also are trying to protect those folks who are still on campus and in the mt. Pleasant area and help them to be safe. So, the last thing i wanted to tell you is we did recover a weapon at the scene and we had the Michigan StatePolice Crime Lab spend many hours processing that scene, as well as some other pieces of evidence that we need to take a look at. So, i just want to say that the investigation has many, many more hours and much more in front of it. Were not at all done with this investigation. And, so, as we work with our city partners, the city detective involved in this right from the beginning. The fire detective, the resources from all these agencies and their expertise including the fbi and well continue to move forward in that. What id like to do is introduce you to director paul loria from the city police. When our unified command came together, i think he will provide some information to you in regards to how we proceeded and what we tried to do to keep folks safe. Hello, thanks. On behalf of the city of mt. Pleasant, i appreciate all of you coming and for the information, again, you put out to help us bring this tragic situation to a peaceful end with the apprehension of the suspect. Once the suspect left campus and went into the citys jurisdiction, we had responding officers immediately set up a perimeter. That perimeter was in the neighborhood and area along the Railroad Tracks and milpond park. Once that was completed, the unified command with all the responding agencies and resources was put into place at a command center where we started coming up with a plan on how we were going to go and search for the suspect. At that same time, we got a hold of mt. Pleasant Public Schools and asked them to do a lock down due to the concern of the suspect still being at large. We put out, obviously, social media posts about it, alerting our community. Along with utilizing the code red system that we use in emergency situations. Once all the incoming resources were coordinated, and based on some Video Evidence in the last location where mr. Davis was seen, a methodical, slow and thorough search of Mill Pond Park took place by Emergency Services teams from Isabella County and the Michigan State police. As the incident extended and it got around to the dismissal time of schools, we had to take that into consideration. A plan was talked about with mt. Pleasant superintendent jen verliger which allowed the students or which allowed parents to come pick up with the students with the presence of Police Officer os statis statioe school in the area of the search. As this continue under to td in evening hours. We regrouped. Decided that we were going to no longer hold the perimeter, but put in rotating, rolling patrols in the affected area with the use of or from personnel from the Michigan State police and then shortly after midnight, we received the tip from the train company. On behalf of the city of mt. Pleasant and our community, our condolences go out, again, to the davis family. As the director of public safety, our community is trying to get back to normal. I ask that everybody respect that. We are safe. This threat of this that existed during this incident, the suspect has been apprehended. Right now, ill turn it over to mt. Pleasant city mayor all right, youve been listening to authorities there in mt. Pleasant as they discuss what has happened in this situation at cmu yesterday where the man you see on the screen there, James Eric Davis jr. Allegedly killed his parents in the dorm room that he was staying at. Were going to take you back there, but well continue to listen to this. Do stay close, we have more in a moment. I am totally blind. And non24 can make me show up too early. Or too late. Or make me feel like im not really there. Talk to your doctor, and call 8442342424. The story of an athlete making an impact ahead of next weeks paralympic games. Differencemakers is presented by the new 2018 ford f150. Miketiats was a top snowmobiler racer but a freak accident left him not sure if he would compete again. Now he is determined to help others reclaim their lives in the world of adaptive sports. December 13th, 2008. During competition in northern michigan, i was thrown from my snowmobile and i had a compound fracture of my left knee. 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