Confirmed. Telling the Senate Republicans to evoke the dreaded Nuclear Option if democrats dont cooperate. Im miguel marquez. Nice to see you. Im christine romans. It is thursday, february 2nd. Groundhog day. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Breaking overnight. Word of tension between the president and foreign leaders. Things came to a head when the subject of refugees came up. Many from the muslim majority countries listed in the travel ban. The Obama Administration agreed to take refugees now detained by australia which doesnt accept refugees over crime concerns. Trump kept telling the Prime Minister the deal kept reached was a bad deal and what if the refugees were the next boston bomber. The australian leader pressed mr. Trump on the refugee issue, the president told aides he wanted to end the call and he did so. When the president tried to change the subject to fighting isis. A source familiar with the circumstance says the president was fatigued with a long day of conversations with foreign leaders. Overnight, after the story broke, Prime Minister turnbull largely avoided the questions, but the call ended courteously and said such talks are better conducted quote candidly and frankly and privately. We have new information on President Trumps phone call with president nieto. That came last friday after nieto canceled the visit to the white house after the demand for the border wall be paid byexer you have tough hombres in mexico you need help with. We are willing to weapon with that big league. They have to be knocked out and you have not done a good job knocking them out. That differs from earlier reporting from ap and others that President Trump was thinking of a hostile incursion into mexico. Those courreports are based on inaccurate depiction of the call. Some think he will have naive with World Leaders as he responds with a tantrum confronted on policy. The white house is raising stakes with iran. Michael flynn lashing out listening to the warning with tehran after taking a parting shot with the Previous Administration. President trump has severely criticized the agreements reached between iran and the Obama Administration as well as the United Nations as being weak and ineffective. Instead of thankful to the United States and agreements, iran is feeling emboldened. We are officially putting iran on notice. Now irans defense minister confirms the country carried out the missile test, but he says it did not violate International Agreements and warns iran will not allow outsiders to interfere with its military affairs. Lets get the latest from frederik pleitgen. He joins us live. Reporter it may be a larger confrontation with iran and the white house. The iranians are saying they are conducting the missile tests because the missiles they are testing are not capable of nuclear weapons. These are defensive weapons and they have the right to develop them and test them. The white house is saying it is unclear if they Carry Nuclear Weapons in the future. You have the Nuclear Agreement in place, but at this point in time, the future of that seems cloudy considering the tensions you have right now. The interesting thing about this, miguel, i was in tehran about a week ago. I spoke with a lot of Government Official there is about what they think the Trump Administration will bring for them and many have a wait and see approach. They feel the approach of donald trump the candidate may be different when he is in office. It is interesting to see how they react to what they heard from michael flynn. It looks like the relationship could be a lot more combative than it has been over the past couple of years. That calls into question of the administrations. That is a cause of concern for many. Not just in iran, but in the middle east as well. There have been con frn takfron with the u. S. And iran. Both sides shooting at each other in the persian gulf. There was great hope with chatting on the streets with people that the deal would usher in a new era of relations. What is the accepsense of donal trump . Reporter people on the streets are hearing really rhetoric that they did not want to hear. You are right. This Nuclear Agreements did not bring a lot of the hope they hoped would happen. None want to get rid of it. They have direct investment now. They hope ties could improve and they could have a window into the world that they really have not had over the past couple years. No one on the streets really wants to lose the Nuclear Agreement. There are concerns that things could escalate and go back to the time of the bush administrati administration. There is a great deal of concern. There was the wait and see attitude. After the remarks from michael flynn, there will be more worry with many iranians. On the streets in tehran and other places. Interesting times ahead. Fred. Thank you. The white house may be back tracking on aspects of the president s refugee and travel ban. A source tells cnn tweaks to the executive order could be announced in the coming days. Including an easing of restrictions on green card holders. That means legal permanent residents from seven banned countries could have global entry status restored. The white house is working on restrictions from canada for those who carry the passports from seven banned nations. And work to eliminate cve. Counter violent extremism. The idea was to connect Law Enforcement with cooperative muslimamerican groups. The Trump Administration views the program as politically correct and wants a new approach to shift focus to radical isl islamic extremisextremism. The nomination of neil gorsuch in six weeks. President trump is urging the senate to deploy the Nuclear Option if needed. From 60 to a simple majority of votes if needed. If we end up with the same gridlock in washington, eight years or longer, if we end up with that gridlock, if we can, mitch, go nuclear. That would be a shame if a man of this quality was caught up in the web. I would say it is up to mitch. I would say go for it. Democrats divided over how to fight the nomination. Progressives want an all out filibuster he. It is worth noting the first phone call made to gorsuch after the nomination was to merrick garland. He made the call out of respect. Violent protests out in california forcing a far right speaker to cancel a speak at uc berkeley. The universitys response to the angry demonstrations. Overnight, a new protest in uk berkeley flaring into violence. A peaceful demonstration by milo yanninapolus grew into smashing bottles and windows. Now the university is blaming outside agitators for the clash. Cnns kyung lah was among all of it. Reporter among a wave of postelection protests, students here at uc berkeley organized their own with a protest. The protest outside the Student Union was to stop right wing speaker. About 1,500 students gathered with the goal to stop him saying he is not free speech. He is hate speech. So at some point the protest became violent. The barricades were used to smash in the first floor windows of the Student Union. Protesters set fires and faced off with police who had to use tear gas. The University Says about 150 outside agitators of the 1,500 who showed up. Thats who they are blaming for the violence. Six people were injured. It became so violent, they had to cancel the event. The irony here is uc berkeley in the 1960s was the free speech movementment th movement. That was the right to express political opinions. Thank you, kyung lah. Trump nominees to oversee Health Departments are waiting for confirmation for full senate after the measure to advance the nominations against the will of democrats. Finance Committee Rules say one democrat must be in the room for a vote to be held. When every single democrat boycotted, all those empty chairs, the hearing for Steve Mnuchin and tom price, Committee Chairman orrin hatch decided to suspend the rules to move the nominees fortress treasury and for full senate vote with no democrats involved. We took unprecedented actions today due to the unprecedented obstruction on the part of our colleag colleagues. As i noted, the Senate Finance committee has been able to function in the political environment. Changing the rules to approaapprove mnuchin and price is troubling. On wednesday, democrats also boycotted a Committee Vote for epa scott pruitt. It has been rescheduled for later this morning. The nomination of betsy dee voice devos is in certiserious accepj. It could be a 50 50 tie which means mike pence would cast the vote. That puts mcconnell in a tough position. He is indicating he moves the senate vote for devos as early as today before the snoenate vos on Jeff Sessions. This way sessions can vote in favor of devos before the senate loses his vote assuming he is confirmed. Devos is under pressure after a rocky hearing and accusations of pl plagorism. And Rex Tillerson reports this morning and will address employees when he arrives at 9 30 a. M. These texans are ready for the big game. President bush 41 will do a coin flip at super bowl vl. Former First Lady Barbara Bush will be. There bushs in their 90s were released from the hospital. Mrs. Bush with a bout the bronchitis and mr. Bush with treatment for pneumonia. The secretary of defense making first trip overseas. Whats his agenda in seoul . We are live there next. Good morning. Time for money reports. Reports overnight say google and apple and microsoft leaders are drafting a letter denouncing the travel ban. I think what is different here he is they are trying to involve a range of companies. Consumer product goods and manufacturing companies. They dont want to make it just tech versus trump. They want to involve lots of u. S. Companies in this who are all very supportive of immigration and immigration is important to businesses and the core values of the company. You heard that core values of the company. A phrase we heard a lot over the past few days. Corporate america trying to uphold values and avoiding the wrath of the twitter act or regulato regulatory. They have the most to gain, google, apple, facebook have not responded to our request for comment. James mattis landing in south korea as he makes his first trip overseas since assuming the post. He will listen and get current with leaders in japan and seoul. We have alexandyea alexandria f the latest. Reporter that is why you cannot overstate the significance that james mattis has decided to make south korea the first overseas trip as secretary of defense. It speaks to the seriousness with which the u. S. Takes the north Korea Nuclear threat and under scores the longstanding n alliance with south korea. That alliance which is tight and longstanding was thrown into question when President Trump was candidate trump. Erahe raised idea of withdrawin some troops from south korea. Suggesting south korea should pay more to help with defense. That idea seems to have gone off the table. President trump spoke to the acting president of south korea this week saying the alliance is ironclad. You have james mattis on the south korean soil. He says the u. S. Will stand shoulder to shoulder with south korea when it comes to standing against a north caroliuclear th north korea. Thank you, alexandra. The president paying respects to the first navy s. E. A. L. Who diedov overseas. 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Sources telling cnn about a heated phone call between trump animal cod malcolm turnbull. The issue over the refugees in australia and many listed in the travel ban. The Obama Administration agreed to take 1,000 refugees now detained by australia which generally does not accept refugees over crime concerns. Sources say donald trump kept telling the Prime Minister the dealing reached was a bad deal with the Previous Administration and one refugees would turn out to be the next boston bomber. A source says that as the australian leader pressed mr. Trum trump on the issue, aides said he wanted to end the call and did so when the Prime Minister tried to change the subject to fighting isis. A source familiar with the circumstance says the president was fatigued with a long day of conversations with foreign leaders. Overnight, after the story broke, Prime Minister turnbull largely avoided questions, but said the call ended courteously and says such talks are better conducted candidly and privately. We have more with President Trumps conversation with president nieto. That call came after the cancellation of the visit with the white house. That exerpt from the phone call suggests that mr. Trump offered to help with the drug cartel. He said you have bad hombres in mexico. They may need to be knocked out. You have to the done a good job of knocking them out. That is different from the early reporting suggesting trump was thinking of a hostile incursion into mexico to hit the drug cartels. Sources say the reports based on inaccurate description of the call written by aides. One Government Official spoke to cnn described trump as naive to think he will have great relations with all World Leaders. The white house raising stakes with iran over a recent missile test. Listen to flynns warning are tehran after taking a parting shot at the Previous Administration. The various agreement was iran and the Obama Administration as well as United Nations as weak and ineffective. Instead of being thankful, iran is feeling emboldened. We are officially putting iran on notice. Irans defense minister c confirms