This week. Met the french president s macr macrons wife and said you are in such great shape. Would you flattered or offended if he said that to you . I be taken aback. I wonder if she could say the same of him. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Always good to see you even this early on a sunday morning. Thank you for being with us. New this morning. Republican Health Care Bill on hold yet again. Overnight, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell putting the brakes on this weeks planned vote after word that john mccain is recovering from surgery. He had to have a blood clot removed. That means the senator will not be returning to chill this week a capitol hill this week. The president stalled agenda leading to dropping approval number in this new poll from the Washington Post and abc news. Its down to 36 . 60 now think satisfy disapprove. The president s reathletic campaign paying big money to his sons legal team. Plus from fbi director to author now. James comey writing a boo book about his Public Service and what else will he say about his role until the 2016 election and his oval office interactions with president atrump . Reporter Sarah Westwood and errol louis, good morning to both of you. We want to talk about the poll numbers. The Approval Rating dropped to 36 . It was 42 in april. We are hearing that part of that may be that 48 of the people only see President Trumps leadership in the world weaker since the inauguration and they are seeing an inability to progress some of his policy. That is what is citing some of these low number. Errol, what is your initial reaction to the numbers we are seeing coming out this morning . These are, apparently, are some of the worse numbers in decade so you have to go back to like the ford administration, i think,s to see the level of disapproval quite so high, quite so early in a president s term. So that causes some problems for the white house. My sense of it, though, i got to tell you, i think that some of the the distrust of whether or not the administration is doing the right thing on the world stage ties back to some of this uncertainty about the financial dealings of the trump family, donald trump in particular, the lack of the tax returns. Never quite knowing whether or not its the countrys interest or some private financial interest that is being advanced. Because if you probe into the poll, what it says is that people are not trusting this administration to do the right thing. When it comes to sort of deal making and negotiation internationally. That level of uncertainty, i think, accounts for a lot of those negative number. Sarah, do you expect that President Trump will address these numbers . Nobody likes negative numbers, of course, but you have to wonder if seeing what we are seeing this morning will drive him to act in any way . I think President Trump is famously mistrustful of polls so i dont know that seeing any particular number will have an effect on him because we know from our experience on the campaign that he discarded any number that showed him unfavorably. If you watch the numbers throughout his presidency, it has not really been tied to one incident that washington has labeled as catastrophic. The numbers have sunk more than anything because President Trump has not been able to advance his agenda, either on capitol hill or when he tries to go it alone, the courts have stopped him. You have seen the number drop not sharply after something controversial happens or emerges about the russia controversy but steadily and slowly as his agenda continues to be gummed up on capitol hill and in the courts. That is one of the major reasons why we are seeing the numbers stagnate and its really difficult to see how he gets around that as long as the controversies are still raging. In all fairness, polls werent exactly accurate going into on this election either. So there is a lot of question about the accuracy of them. So lets talk about what you were just talking about when we look ahead to policy and the fact that health care is now put on hold again. Errol, he said its delayed. Help me. They didnt reset it. We are in kind of a waiting game now, arent we . Look. The fact of the matter is if somebody like john mccain if anyone one of the yes votes that the republican majority has, senator mcconnell cant afford to lose even one senator. The pause may turn into a longterm pause because they just dont have any wiggle room here. You have senators paul and colin saying hardto be hardnosed. Youve got the republican senators including sandoval and kasich in ohio and important states saying this is going to harm them and their states and they are urging no votes. So the white house hasnt quite figured out the politics on this and slong that is the case, both the white house and the Republican Leadership are going to decide to sort of keep this on ice until they have got something approaching a decent chance of getting a yes vote. That would be problematic when you look ahead how they want to tackle taxes. Vice president pence talked about that yesterday. Lets listen to what he had to say. We are talking about members of congress and senators every day on our tax cut plan. Discussions will continue. Details will be worked out. But ill make you a promise. With the leadership of president donald trump, we are going to pass historic tax relief and we are going to pass it this year. So, sarah, the problem, as i understand it, is theyive hoping the Health Care Numbers would drive what they do with tax. If they dont have the Health Care Numbers, how do you move forward with tax if health care isnt reconciled . Republicans havent answered that question and why you havent seen any substantive plan emerge so far about what direction they are going to take tax reform. The closed door conversations, these meetings with stake holders and conservative groups and people who are helping to shape the policy have been going on for months now since the early spring. But yet we havent seen anything more than just broad top lines of what that policy might look like emerge because they are waiting on that Health Care Bill. And that is why delaying this Health Care Bill indefinitely is so much more consequential for republicans because the rest of their agenda depends on the health care lechgislation. They were hoping to get a infrastructure package done this year but none of those items can get done as long as health care is consuming all of the oxygen on capitol hill. They are running out of time. The legislative calendar distant have many days left on it for this year. Slong health care is in limbo, its not clear they are going to pass anything else. It makes you wonder how Health Care May become a stop light from any other thing on the agenda until they move forward. Sarah, i know youre staying with us. We want your voice in a couple of other thing coming up here. On state of the union today, mark warner and Susan Collins and jay sekulow will join jake tapper on cnn here at 9 00 a. M. How this new white house attorney will have maybe the toughest job of all controlling the messaging coming out of the white house in response to the russia scandal. The fbi director who was fired by President Trump is writing a book and apparently a lot of publishers are interested in talking to him. And how the president told the first lady of france she is in such good shape. I wonder if she could say the same of him. As moms, we send our kids out into the world, full of hope. And we dont want Something Like meningitis b getting in their way. 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He is actually a former federal prosecutor. Up until taking this job at the white house he was a lawyer at a powerful d. C. Law firm. He is now expected to oversee the white house response to the russia investigation and not only legally but in the press. He is trying to manage a white house response to a story that has created quite a cloud, an impediment almost to the trump guinea. Friends of ty cobb including a cnn analyst say he is a shrewd, smart attorney. Listen. One is they are bringing in ty to replicate what clinton did during his problems which is to create a legal war room in the White House Council office to deal with this on a daytoday base. And you see abby lowell coming in to represent jared kushner. Abby is a wellknown criminal law represented john edward recently in his problems. So you see the shifting in legal representation. Jamie stays in as the ethics person, and abby comes in front and center on the criminal side. So people are becoming more sensitive to the fact that this is a criminal investigation. It is not a hoax. It is not a witch hunt. It is a serious legal matter and they are beginning to take the first steps, steps they should have taken months ago probably to recognize the jeopardy that they are potentially in. In another bit of legal news related to the white house and the trump family. According to an fec Committee Filing to reelect President Trump paid 50,000 to the legal firm that is now representing donald trump jr. About two week before that the New York Times story broke regarding a meeting between donald trump jr. And a russian lawyer in trump talker. Cnn has not been able to confirm whether or not that payment was made specifically for legal representation for donald trump jr. The filing cites it is for legal consulting. Cnn has reached out to the trump family and to that law firm but we have yet to hear back. Back to you. Boris, thank you very much. Our panel is back to discuss this. Errol louis and cnn political comment tator and Sarah Westwood. Errol, as boris said, they could be unrelated the russian probe and donald trump jr. s meeting and this payment. The lack of chronology and who knew what when, could this be preparation for the oncoming controversy . Theres a range of reporting suggesting white official and legal talent that knew weeks ago that was coming. Yeah, this is more in that direction. I think, though, the other question, victor, that comes with this is if they are paying for donald trump jr. Through the Campaign Going forward, for the real act, and then look back at this meeting in june of 2016 when he is there with the campaign chairman, the question is, you know, is he, was he a campaign operative . Was this something that, you know, instead of simply acting as if this was the meddling of a novice who is trying to help his dad out maybe this was official to the campaign and something the campaign has to answer for. If youre going to pay the legal bills of donald trump jr. And have him sit in at the highest levels when the campaign is in full swing, then, you know, his actions, while he may characterize them as a son trying to help his father, maybe they are official Campaign Actions and that trigger an entirely different set of legal and regulatory questions that bwhat is proper. Lets talk about another angle of if the growing legal teams as we heard boris, ty cobb added the to the team to shape the message from the russia probe from the white house. He may have the toughest job on the white house staff. But it may be less about what he can do and this shrewd smart attorney, as his colleague described him, but the president s willingness to imply. The president s discipline as it relates to a message. Is there any evidence that ty cobb will be able to keep the president off twitter . Well, i think that the hiring of ty cobb and bringing him into the white house is sort of an acknowledgment by the trump aide and maybe the president himself who signed off on this decision that is becoming a more serious legal issue and even if they disagree with the basis for this investigation, that it could still yield criminal charges for folks if they dont imply with document request, if they lie to investigators, if they obscure what happened. So this is a recognition that the situation is becoming more and more serious every day. Also i dont know that referring reporters to Mark Kasowitz and trying to brush off questions, Mark Kasowitz who is the current representation outside of the white house has been an effective strategy because it leaves a lot of Unanswered Questions and loose ends in the sense that the white house is not addressing these questions headon. Having a lawyer in the white house able to shape the white houses response to these type of questions could help the west wing appear more transparent and its not clear that Mark Kasowitz ever sought or obtained a security clearance, so its important to have an attorney that is able to access classified information given that this investigation has to do with material that is so sensitive, so bringing someone inhouse who has that capability could also help sharpen the legal defense. Errol, even with a security clearance for ty cobb, the president , even yesterday, called this the probes into the russia collusion a hoax. Is the president on the list of people as attorney eldin said a few moments is aware of how serious this situation is . I dont know that the president can pardon himself and most of his team if everything really goes south, but just as you suggest, theres a really difficult task that ty cobb or anybody else is going to have in trying to create a coherent protective legal strategy for this white house which is that youve got somebody in the form of the president who, on a whim, can sort of throw out a statement on twitter or throw out a statement to the press that upend the entire strategy. Its not just twist, by the way. When donald trump jr. Went on fox news this week and gave a series of less than credible, less than truthful statements less than complete at a minimum statements about what happened in that june meeting, he, too, is sort of creating legal exposure for multiple people within the campaign and now the white house. Ty cobb is going to have his hands full trying to get a coherent legal message and strategy in place as long as the trumps, father and son insist on creating their own strategy and winging it as they go along. Errol louis and Sarah Westwood, stick around for us. We have one more segment with you and we have to talk about some of the other issues that are coming out of washington. We will be right back with you. Christi . Its been past nine years that o. J. Simpson has been behind bar, but expectations are very high that he is going to be released soon. Right now he is getting ready to meet the parole board and that happens this week and our legal experts have a few thing to say about that. Also, kid rocks tweet that run for the senate in apparently, its no joke for democrats. Thinking about tomorrow singing sweet home alabama all summer long a daily struggle, even if youre trying your best. Along with