Before rushing through a health care bill. Passing health care has fallen short again. We are making good progress. President trump is making fools of the congress. During the first 100 days, i lay a foundation. I give us an a. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Welcome to new day. Warning of a major conflict with nblg north korea is possible. Despite the words, the president said he hopes a diplomatic effort prevails. Meanwhile, the president unable to deliver on the signature promise to repeal and replace obamacare. House members will not vote on the bill today or anytime soon. The president making a candid admission on the presidency and the life he left behind. Lets start with joe johns live at the white house. Reporter good morning, alisyn. Blunt messages from the president and secretary of state in the much more muscular approach to north korea than in the past. The president suggesting a faceoff is possible. The secretary of state saying direct talks are possible too. Theres a chance we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea. Absolutely. Reporter a sobering message from President Trump warning about the possibility of escalation with north korea in a new interview with reuters. Cautioning the u. S. Would love to solve things diplomatically, but its very difficult. Mr. Trump praising chinas president for putting pressure on pyongyang to stop the nuclear tests. I established a very good personal relationship with president xi and i really feel that he is doing everything in his power to help us with the big situations. Reporter and even offering surprising insight. Almost empathizing with the north korean dictatodictator. His father dies. He took over a regime. Say what you want. Thats not easy. Especially at that age. Im not giving him credit or not giving him credit. Thats a hard thing to do. As to whether or not he is rational . Reporter the remarks come as secretary of state Rex Tillerson indicates a major shift in diplomatic policy. Telling npr the administration is open to direct talks with north korea as long as the agenda is right. Its all scenarios on the table. It really is all up to north korea. Were not looking to pick a fight, but dont give us a reason to have one. Reporter the north korean threat is one challenge the administration is facing as it reaches the 100day milestone tomorrow. Domestically, republicans now conceding they dont have the 216 votes necessary to move forward with the bill to repeal obamacare. You see in the gop haste to pass the bill and trump trying to cram it down in the last 100 days. I think President Trump is making fools of the members of congress of his own party. Reporter democrats threatening to pull support for the mustpass spending bill to avert a shutdown if republicans are moving forward with the health care vote. President trump telling reuters if there is a shutdown, theres a shutdown. This as it sheds light on the reversal of pulling out of nafta. Deciding rather than terminating nafta which would be a big shock to the system, we will renegotiate. Reporter the president telling the post he was all set to terminate the trade deal and looked forward to it until he abruptly changed his mind on wednesday after persuaded by advisers and leaders of canada and mexico. 14 million american jobs depend on the trade deal. President trump reflecting on the presidency and realities of governing. I loved my previous life. I loved my previous life. I had so many things going. I actually this is more work than my previous life. I thought it would be easier. Reporter the president goes back to the road today traveling to atlanta to deliver remarks of the National Rifle association and then tomorrow the 100th day of the administration to pennsylvania for a campaignstyle rally. Alisyn. Joe, thank you very much for that. If you are just waking up, there is a development to tell you about. Rhetoric between the u. S. And north korea. Cnns will ripley is live in pyongyang, north korea. The only western Television Journalist in north korea. Wat is the latest, will . Reporter alisyn, just as President Trump talks about the possibility of a major conflict. We are getting the rhetoric ratcheted up in pyongyang as well. Lets read the comments from kcna. In case a war breaks out on the peninsula, the u. S. Will be held wholly accountable for it no matter who made preemptive atta attack. This is where we see the large scale military exercise with longrange military fire. We saw a chilling new propaganda video showing a simulated attack on the white house and capitol in washington. And we saw the uss carl vinson. You have the officials on the ground speaking defiantly rea reacting to the news from china. China is more willing to work with the United States to rein in kim jong un. Officials are telling us they trade heavily with china and china is a major source of the countrys oil supply, they say if china were to pull the plug, they will still continue to build Nuclear Weapons and missiles and continue to test them. They feel they are entitled to have the weapons to protect national sovereignty. They filed complaints the United Nations security council. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson chairing the big meeting with the security council. North korea will watch it all closely. Chris and alisyn. We appreciate it. You are in the right spot right now. Stay safe. Joining us now is David Gregory and Maggie Haberman and editor at large chris cillizza. Maggie, as we learned back in the days bouncing in the bars, you let the unstable guy talk. I beg your pardon. I remember that life. I knew you then. A couple of places. You let the unstable guy talk. You dont get him worked up. Right. That seems to not be what the white house is doing right now. Do we believe this is a tactic to force triangulation or hot words . I think it is a combination of the two. When he was candidate trump and business target. If this is his target, he overshoots by a half mile. There are a lot of nations you can do this with. North korea is not one of them. Saying Something Like what he said last night can have or yesterday, whenever he said it can have serious consequences. I dont think they were fully prepared for. I think you see mopup of that today. The mopup with a strong win. That was great. We had gordon chang on. He studied north korea and he says the tough talk from President Trump is getting north korea attention. In a good way. It may be effective at including the relationship President Trump seems to be forging with china. That is getting north koreas attention. It may be working. I think there is a combination of and it is totally possible because we see it in other areas where President Trump went too far of major conflict and dial it back. I think he wants to ratchet it up. The administration is working hard to negotiate. You have the two prongs. I think the pressure, to your point, chris, they dealing with a madman. I did not know that was a whole thing. Let the guy at the bar talk. In this case, the pressure is about china. China can solve this and has always been able to solve it. The last thing that china wants is for war to break out or preemptive strike. They dont want refugees. It would be a disaster. So in that way, i think there is a method here and the president is not playing within well recognized lines here. I think what worries me is the cynical aspect of this. Does he see a political upside to the potential of a preemptive strike as the big strong leader to solve a problem nobody else has been able to solve. That is really dangerous. I hope they are into the going there. Cillizza, the basic proposition the president refers to all the time. Is this winning . What is winning with north korea . You have the hot talk. Thats scary. You have tillerson saying china just told north korea if you test another missile, we will sanction you. We have gordon chang saying we will sit on your hands if a targeted strike. Tillerson saying we may negotiate directly with north korea. Which was almost laughed at when senator markey brought it up a couple weeks ago. What is winning here . Beats me. I will tell you i think you are seeing trump in some ways make good on what don trump jr. Outlined when they were trying to recruit Vice President candidates. Donald trump sr. Wants to be the face. He wants to be the public face. He wants to say stuff as maggie pointed out. Say things. He will not do the intricate diplomacy. He will talk tough. Then a Second Channel that operates separate from him. Typically they move no cin conc. Tough talk and tough negotiat n negotiation. Were on day 99. I continue to think we in the political media especially are forever in search of a narrative and story arc and what does this presidency mean . The possibility is the only arc is unpredictability. You have to have a strategic focus. I brought up truman before. The outbreak of war. The discussion of how does this jive of what we are trying to achieve in europe and the rest of the world balancing the interests. I worry there is not enough focus of what korea means for the administrations position vic visavis the rest of the world. I dont know how this works out as a plan. I think you have a president who likes talking to the press. Who wants to say it is not as bad you have said it is for the last 100 days. I did not probably prep for every outcome. That leads me to this, nikki haley with the u. N. Now the state department wants her comments cleared through them before she says something. Is there a feeling that she has somehow after syria gone rogue or she is not best representing the White House Position . I think there is a feeling there needs to be harmony. I dont think it is not she is not best representing the white houses position, but you cant have three voices on the same issue. You saw it around syria. 24hour period with Rex Tillerson saying one thing and nikki haley say one thing and the white house say a third thing. They all need to get together. Cillizza, lets play a little sound of what donald trump revealed about his feelings about the presidency. All right. During the first 100 days, which as you know, i have been saying theres an extreme emphasis placed on the 100 days, joanie. Its not quite as big as theyre saying. We have really laid a foundation. I loved my previous life. I had so many things going. I actually this is more work than my previous life. I thought it would be easier. I thought it was im a details oriented person. I think you would say that. I do miss my old life. I like to work so thats not a problem. This is actually more work. All right. Mr. Editor at large. We have a divided table on what this means. You have good for him. Hes acknowledging what he thought was wrong in the past. Is that maggies position . I think it is possible to have both thoughts at the same time. Seriously. Are you hedging . Im trying to set up a divided table. Im doing a 360. Ill debate. Is this something to be applauded or points out legitimate basis for criticism . Can i take the third way . Bill clinton style . Thank you. Thank you. Im taking it. I just thought it was strange. Its weirdly reflective for him. He is not a tremendously introspective person at least in public life. Its odd to me that you would find the presidency like this job is hard. If i had to name a difficult job in the world, other than political reporter, obviously i would say president. Its a clearly difficult job. I think for whatever he says about the 100 days and it doesnt mean anything. It means something for the things he wants credit for. I think this is a moment in which he is reflective. Maggie is right. He is sitting down with a lot of reporters at the moment. He is thinking about it. To me, the way i heard it was man, i had a good life. Things were great back then. Which is a little strange. Again, i dont necessarily say good or bad. Strange to hear from the president of the United States to say, man, my old life was great. Youre the president. He shredded up our political process. Broke the seal of the presidency and came in. Exacerbated tensions and gave people legitimacy for feelings hostile and negative around the world. Now he says, maybe i was wrong. He didnt say that. With china, he said it was more complicated than he thought. Health care, more complicated than i thought. Nafta. It is not okay to do that and say, wow, i did not realize it is a lot of work. You have to give him credit for being a listener. If you judged him harshly. He is not doing those things because he is listening to people. Two things are true. It is true he is listening to people and making changes. We talked about this in last hour. As chris says, this is unusual. That is where i was trying to go before. It is unusual to hear a sitting president say this. You had president obama make clear he was ready to move on with life. That was after thats what im saying. After he had been in the job for more than a couple hundred days. It is a reminder for the claims he thought he would win and knew he would win. I dont believe donald trump thought he would win and he did not put thought into the presiden presidency. President obama in the first 30 days actually said to a group of reporters. I was in the room. Turns out im pretty good at this job. Arrogance has its difficulties as well. I think these windows into the president is fascinating. The way i hear it is he was a very transactional person. When he wanted something done, he picked up the phone and it got done. I hear him saying is oh, this is different. All of the skills i brought, this is different. Alisyn, i would say, too, remember everything on the campaign trail was its going to be so easy folks. Well get this done. The reality is whoever covered washington or politics knows it is not true. I think he might have thought it was true. Look, ive known donald trump a long time. He is a very savvy guy. He knows what works. What he did and it is worthy of legitimate criticism. He told people who were negative on situations what they needed to hear to really cement that position and get behind him. Now he is saying point after point is that what most politicians do . That is how he distinguished himself from the field. He went deeper and darker in feeding the understandings. It took him to the top. He has to own the reality. If he says i was wrong about these things, everybody wants to applaud. Cillizza makes a good point. Political reporter and Television Journalist. Very hard job. Yes. If we take nothing from the segment. Lettuce take tha let us take that. This is really hard work. This is what you see them do. This is not what voters necessarily want to hear their president say. Thats all. Panel, thank you for the lively discussion today. Very great to talk to all of you. In the next hour, senator Bernie Sanders talks about the north korea comments and we ask him to rate President Trumps first 100 days. All right. Did a top House Democrat break the rules by releasing new documents to spell more legal trouble for Michael Flynn . Republican Congress Member will heard joins us next. Tina well, i have two children, and they keep us really busy, you know, boy scouts, saxophone, gymnastics. Gurvinder we teach our kids that American Values go hand in hand with the sikh values tolerance, religious freedom, gender equality. Having that opportunity available for my daughter to pursue her dreams, is just a beautiful thing tina what better country to practice my faith than america. I am proud to be called a sikh american. [fbi agent] youre a brave man, your testimony will save lives. Mr. Stevens . This is your new name. This is your new house. And a perfectly inconspicuous suv. You must become invisible. [hero] ill take my chances. Honestly i do not understand why the white house is covering up for Michael Flynn. I dont get it. After the president fired him. For lying. They should be bending over backwards to help us. It does not make any sense. Democrat Elijah Cummins saying if they dont give us the information, why should we . We now know the Inspector General is going to look at whether or not the former National Security adviser Michael Flynn broke the law by accepting payments from turkey and russia. The Trump White House in an interesting move is trying to blame the Obama Administration. Saying flynn was their problem. They gave him the security clearance. Joining us is Congress Member will hurd. He is also a former undercover officer. Mr. Hurd, pleasure to have you on the show. First, what Elijah Cummings said and the decision to release documents . Chris, ill be limited on the response on the topic partly because of my role in other investigations. Ill say this. I have Firm Confidence in the Inspector Generals. Having an Inspector General do a review, they will do a thorough and detailed review. All right. Im saying cummings move. What do you think of his move . You have to ask cummings that and the reason for showing the documents. I have not had a chance to sit down and review what elijah said and provided. Again, if the Inspector General is involved in something, that is a good sign. You though it will be thorough and detailed. The idea of who is to blame for knowing about Michael Flynn taking money from russia and turkey and if it was right or wrong. What do you make of the white house saying it is obamas fault . The person to blame is the