Federal deficit despite steep cuts to social programs. One of the motivations was to stop the obama deficit string and now the republicans are doing just as bad. Everybody says congress is spending money like a drunk sailor. Thats not true. A drunk sailor stops when he runs out of money. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Welcome to your new day. Its tuesday, february 13th, 8 00 in the east. The white house insists President Trump supports victims of Domestic Violence. Every Public Statement and tweet from the president has been sympathetic toward the accused, the top aide who was forced to resign. One week into this scandal, the white house still refuses to say if the president believes rob porters exwhooifs, nor will the white house give us any details about exactly when top officials learned about these abuse allegations. Let me just check. My suggestion is the president has stepped into a thicket thats too thorny to avoid. Hes going to have to fix it. Not yet this morning. Another thing he has the to deal with. The president put out a 4. 4 trillion budget and getting a lot of scrutiny within his own party. Conservatives are blasting the deal because its projected to add trillions of dollars to the deficit on top of the trillions of dollars that the tax cuts are going to put on over the next decade. This morning, the president is focusing on immigration. Hes tweeting that this is the last chance to fix daca. So will congress be able to get a deal in three weeks . Thats the question. We have it all covered. Lets begin with Cnns Abby Phillip live at the white house with the stop story. Big morning to be down there, abby. Reporter good morning, chris. Were one week into the scandal over the Domestic Abuse allegations against rob porter and the white house is still mired in controversy. We still havent gotten a clear and consist explanation about who knew what and when about these allegations against porter. The president and the entire administration take Domestic Violence very seriously and believe all allegations need to be investigated thoroughly. Reporter press secretary Sarah Sanders defending President Trump after he expressed sympathy for accused Domestic Abuser rob porter but said nothing about his alleged victims. The president supports victims of Domestic Violence and believes everyone should be treated fairly and with due process. Reporter sanders reading a statement she says was dictated to her by the president , but thats not what mr. Trump publicly said. Obviously a tough time for him. Tfs very sad when we heard about it and certainly hes also very sad. Now, he also, as you probably know, he says hes innocent. And i think you have to remember that. We absolutely wish him well. Reporter sanders addressing this tweet from the president a day later calling for due process for the accused. Hes not taking a side necessarily one way or the other on any specific irk you. Hes talking about mere allegations shouldnt be the determining factor for any individual, that there should be due process. Reporter the conflicting remarks leaving several Party Officials who spoke to cnn confused about mr. Trumps stance. A former Campaign Official telling cnn, i dont understand why the white house is hedging on condemning Domestic Abuse. A member of the central park five wrongly convicted of beating and raping a jogger in 1989 accusing the president of hypocrisy for demanding due process for alleged abuser but calling for the central park five defendants. What were seeing is clearly there are two separate americas, one america for blacks and people of color and another america for whites and people of affluence. Reporter porters exwife criticizing Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Sanders response to the allegations writings in an op ed, while i cannot say im surprised, i expected a woman to do better, specifically citing conways statement she is not concerned about White House Communications director hope hicks who is in a relationship with porter. Im sorry for any suffering this woman has endured. But in the case of hope, ive rairly met somebody so strong with such excellent instincts and loyalty and smarts. Reporter holderness writing that her statement applies those in abusive relationships are not strong. This as the white house continues to insist that senior officials only learned about the, quote, extent of the allegations last tuesday. Cnn reported that White House Counsel Don Mcgahn knew porters exwives could present damaging information on him to the fbi. Chief of staff john kelly learned about the allegations last november as porter struggled to get approval for a full security clearance. President trump, do you have a et having problem. Reporter sanders blaming the fbi for the backlog of dozens of white house staffers continuing to work without permanent clearances. President trump is normally never shy about making his opinions known, were still waiting for him to weigh in on believing Domestic Abuse victims on social media or other forms. He has a couple of meetings today, one with a grew of sheriffs and one on africanamerican history month. It has been suggested the group with the sheriffs would be the Perfect Place to bring it up. Domestic abuse huge in the africanamerican community. We have cnn political analyst David Gregory and chief Political Correspondent dana bash. I want to talk about what Colby Holderness said. She is speaking out it seems because she was so motivated by what Kellyanne Conway told jake tapper. Jake asked if shes worried about hope hicks, now in a romantic relationship with rob porter, if shes worried about hope hicks being abused somehow. Kellyanne conway said no, basically, shes a strong woman. I dont know about her. His first wife writes, her statement implies that those in Domestic Abuse situations are not strong. The abuse can be terrifying, life threatening and almost constant or it can ebb and flow with no violence for long periods. Its often the subtler forms of abuse that inflict serious persistent damage while making it hard for the victim to see the situation clearly. She goes on. For me, living in constant fear of robs anger, being subjected to his degrading tirades for years, im walked away a shell of a person i was when i went into it. It took me a long time to realize the toll his behavior has taken on me. Rob has denied the abuse, but Jennifer Willoughby and i know differe different. Making it about the broader reality of Domestic Violence and the cycle of violence and who it ends up affecting. Maybe some people who are, quote, unquote, weak to follow on the term kellyanne used when she described hope as strong. Its not just that. We all, unfortunately know of people who in their public lives, personas are feminists, strong independent women. Meanwhile behind closed doors they have been in abusive relationships. It happens unfortunately, tragically way too much. In kellyannes defense, what she said publicly about hope is what privately white house officials have been saying to me when i have said, isnt there any motivation here among the white house staff, those who really love and know hope. The president is certainly counted among those and has been for a long time, concerned about hopes wellbeing. In private they say shes strong, to which the conversation quickly turns to what i just said. So theres a defense. At the end of the day, its not about that, its about broader misunderstanding frankly headinthesand point of view that is starting with the president of the United States and the people who speak for him are forced to dance around that kind of figure out a way to explain it which is generally not easy, but with this particular issue, really difficult. Its too big a deal, david. Were not going to stop talking about it. In part because they keep screwing up their cover story. The old expression of the tangled web you weave when you practice to deceive, they are trying to deceive. Theyre misstating when they knew and when they had a chance to act on it and didnt. Its not a couple hesaid, shesaid or how someone acted from one persons perspective. The exwife who wrote this op ed is the one with the black eye. The other one had an order of protection. I think hes going to have to clean it up whether he likes it or not. Does he care . He has to care. It will haunt him. If we dont stop talking about it here is the pernicious part. His followers, trump folk, especially the men are starting with the why are you still on this, it doesnt matter, youre overblowing it, its not that big of deal, what about due process. He is fomenting exactly the wrong instincts. I dont think hes going to be able to keep doing it. It wouldnt be the first time. Clearly theyve moved in stages of what can they get away with, the latest being well have our press secretary go out and say in the hollowest language that its got to be him. Chris, im not disagreeing with you. This is about howe he thinks. Its about what moves him. The right thing is not what moves him. The reality is the white house shouldnt be engaging in this talk of talk with the flippant see. Talking about we know hope, shell be fine. She doesnt know what this guys m. O. Both of these wives say when they were dating, he was fine. One dated him for three years. We got this documentary coming out maybe well ask the boss about having it come out sooner on cnn instead of hln because its so topical. Thats the pattern. Strong women are fundamental to the sur slooifl of the dynamic. If they werent strong, they would be crushed early on. So many endure for years. Theres one other point on this, from the cover story part of this, what we know politicos reporting about the initial instincts, gets get reporters in the room with porter and see what he has to say. They wanted to stand beside this guy. Why . A lot of people liked him. Youre working in the white house President Trump who has been accused of Sexual Misconduct and worse and simply is not sympathetic to victims who bring these sort of accusations. Can i just add one other thing on the question of whether or not the president is going to find a way to end it or not . David, i completely agree, past this prologue he will not. Having said that, we are in 2018. This is a Midterm Election year. Every House Republican is on the ballot, and there is concern, as we have been talking about, that democrats could take control. It is the suburbs, suburban swing districts that could be determinative of whether democrats can take back the house. I was talking to a republican strategist involved in those races this morning who is getting more and more concerned because it is the female vote that really, really matters in those districts, and the concern is, a, the subject matter and, b, thats is going on so long that it is a weeklong news story that doesnt have an end in sight. The question is who congressional candidates, congressional leadership is making a point of saying, hey, if the president is not saying, let us be very clear how awful this is, and how horribly this was handled, as a kind of a way to separate from the president. The president can certainly come out and say, by the way, i think Domestic Violence is wrong, of course. But we know that wasnt his instinct. You know hes sitting there saying, look, i showed we could do the right thing. We got rid of the guy. Then he went out and said what he really thinks. Thats the game they play. Come on, he got rid of the guy. Thats why it was so interesting to hear anita dunn, former Communications Director in the Obama Administration say, if he used this opportunity at the sheriffs meeting that hes having to talk, just even broadly about Domestic Violence you know its bad when democrats are offering the president free advice, really good advice. That might just solve it. Its a nonpartisan issue. One in four women, one in seven men. Its not really a male issue. One in four women are affected by this, its not a hesaid, shesaid. The president s tweet was designed youve covered it so brilliantly. He was dealing with himself and the allegations about him. Some of them are fake, they all have to be vetted. There needs to be due process. Thats totally true in workplace misconduct. Not sexual assault, not Domestic Abuse. He was thinking of himself but missed big here. Here is what i agree with, which is eventually they may see the light to try to get this right because you really cant move past it if you dont. Youve got to take your lumps, that this has been the initial response, questions about, did they tell the truth, were they deceiving each other internally. It was a mess. It still is a mess. But the president is the only one who can kind of get to the place to try to put this together in a way thats solid, even if hell be criticized for how he handled it overall. Moving on quickly to the president s budget, it blows up the deficit. Is it now, dana are we seeing a realignment in terms of identity. Are the republicans no longer claiming the moniker of the fiscally conservative or responsible party . Well, they can try, but its just not believable. It really isnt. It just goes to show, it is so much easier to claim that mantle of cut, cut, cut when you are not in control and you dont have a fellow republican in the white house who doesnt necessarily agree with you on that. To see the twisting and turning of so many republicans who spent years telling us that they would not do anything, would not vote for anything that made the Republican Leadership in congress, made their lives very difficult because they wouldnt vote for anything that exploded the deficit or even made it a little bit worse. Now you see, never mind, the spending bill that they passed which a lot of people said were going to do this because it includes money for the military which is very important, and money for the victims of hurricanes which was very important. This is different. So its that, but the other thing i just want to mention is the fact that the president in this budget proposes cuts to entitlements which he promised up and down during the campaign he would never do, and put him at odds with a lot of his fellow republicans. So that is another kind of eyebrow razor in this budget. The question is, is this the president s party or a party led by hill republicans, grassroots conservatives. When paul ryan tried to reshape medicare during the Obama Administration, i remember being with David Plouffe when i was about to interview him on meet the press because he thought this was an effort to run against republican efforts to hurt medicare and they did so successfully. Republicans were not for reshaping medicare at the time as well. The question is does he have real allies who got tax reform through but wont be on board for a big infrastructure spend or anything else that makes the deficit worse . Strong point. 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