which is you go around the country and you see the market is the rates are going up 10, 15, 20, 30% and that is not what they were promised here. and i think he's gotten bipartisan support for this. to work with congress and to take executive action when necessary, to implement a health care system that provides more people health care allows them to keep the doctor and plan they are signing up for and lowers cost and creates more competition. do i think he has a mandate, sure. it is not on this issue. i think that all leaders have a mandate for american people to fix the system and make it better. julie pace. >> i have two important questions. [ inaudible question ] >> on that instance, i know it is still developing and i would refer you back to the department of defense. i know they are currently monitoring this and i would refer you back to them on that. i think the president is clear he will work with any country that shares our interest in g defeating isis on the economic access and spur growth and allow u.s. small businesses and -- >> [ inaudible question ]. >> i think if there is a way we can combat isis whether it is russia or anybody else and we have a shared national interest, we'll take it. >> on saturday he was talking about the u.s. not taking oil during the iraq war and he said that there could be another chance for that. what did he mean by that? >> i think what the president has been very clear about in the foreign policy is too often the united states is going in with a lot of money and man power and using loss of life and we want to make sure that our interests are protected if we are going into a country for a cause, he wants to make sure that americans are getting something out of it for the commitment and the sacrifice that we are making. i think he's been very clear throughout the campaign that he is committed to making sure that america -- the american people, the american taxpayer sees some benefit and ensure that our interest overseas are not just sending blank checks that, we're doing something to either protect america or is in our economic interest. john roberts. >> this week, the executive actions, does the president plan to take action to [ inaudible ] theke stone access pipelines and on tpp, john mccain said it was a serious mistake for the president to do for the america's economy and the asia-pacific, why was tpp was the right thing to do -- to repeal. >> well i think i said it. because i think -- when you enter into those multi-national agreements, you are allowing any country, no matter the size, any one of those 12, including us, to basically have the same stature at the united states in the agreement. so we're basically on par with very small companies getting access to an amazing market, the united states. and in return, we're neglecting at the lowest common denominator and when you look at big multi-lateral agreements they are not always in the best interest of the united states. the beautiful thing about a by lateral agreement is any of the two parties decide they want to get out of the agreement or not being treated fairly, they could renegotiate much easier. in a multi-national agreement, that is not the case. in many cases all of the other countries have to agree to an action or let somebody out and that is not putting the american interest first. >> and the question about key stone -- >> i won't get in front of the president's executive actions but areas like dakota and the keystone pipeline, where we could tap into the energy more, that is something he has been clear about it. he talked about it on the karm but around the thanksgiving period he talked about that being a big priority. that is one of the ones where i think the energy sector and our natural resources are an area where i think the president is very, very keen on making sure that we maximize our use of natural resources to america's benefit. it is good for economic growth, it is good for jobs. and it is good for american energy. jonathan carl. >> great to see you. >> thank you. >> just the question of your nate. is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium and will you pledge never to knowingly say something that is not factual? >> it is. it is an honor to do this. and, yes, i believe that we have to be honest with the american people. i think sometimes we can disagree with the facts. there are certain things that we may not fully understand when we come out. but our intention is never to lie to you, jonathan. our job is to make sure -- you're in the same boat. there are times when you guys tweet something out or write a story and you publish a correction. that doesn't mean that you were intentionally trying to deceive readers and the american people, does it? and i think we should be afforded the same opportunity. there are times when we believe something to be true or we get something from an agency, or we act in haste because the information available wasn't complete, but our desire to communicate with the american people and make sure that you have the most complete story at the time, and so we do it. but again, i think that when you look net-net, we're going to do our best every time we can. i'm going to come out here and tell you the fact as we know them and if we make a mistake, i'll do the best to correct it. but as i mentioned the other day, it is a two-way street. there are many mistakes that the media makes all of the time. they misreport something, they don't report something and they get a fact wrong. i don't think that is to turn around and say you were intentional lying. i think we all try to do our best job and do it with a degree of integrity with respect of industries. >> do you have any corrections that you would like to make or clarifications -- >> ask away, jonathan. >> i don't want to relitigate the whole issue, but the statement about ridership. >> at the time the information provided by the inaugural committee came from an outside agency that we reported on and think knowing what we know now you would tell that the numbers provide numbers that we were provided. it is not like we made them up out of thin air. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> it was the most watched inaugural -- when you look at just the one network alone got 16.9 million people online, another couple of the networks, there were tens of millions of people that watched online. never mind the audience that was here. 31 million people watched it on television and combine that with the tens of millions that watched it online on a device, it is unquestionable. i don't -- i don't see any numbers that dispute that. when you add up attendance, viewership and total audience including tablets and phones on television, i would love to see any information that proves that otherwise. >> and -- >> do you dispute that? >> well i don't want to get into the numbers -- >> i do. >> okay. >> if your asking me a question, about my integrity, i have a right to say if you add up the network streaming numbers, facebook, youtube, all of the various live streams that we have information on so far, i don't think there is any question that it was the largest watched inauguration ever. >> more than ronald reagan in 1981? >> i'm pretty sure that reagan didn't have youtube or facebook. and 40 million -- 41 million watched him. so let's take the neil sen racing and added it to cnn. 6.9 million. that is higher. and you are asking me for numbers. that is two entities together. >> and the approach that you took on saturday, any second thoughts on that. >> jonathan, look, i want this to -- huh? i came out to read a statement and did it. we're here today and i'll stay here as long as you want. so i want to make sure that -- [ laughter ] >> he think you guys might want to leave before i do. but look, i want to make sure that we have a healthy relationship. we saw the other day that -- and i'm not trying to rehash history but you're asking the question so i'm going to answer it. we had a tweet go out about martin luther king. think about how racially charged that is. and someone rushes out and said to the entire press corp that the president of the united states was removed the bust from his office. do you -- think about what this signal -- hold on. >> and he apologized. >> he apprised to, quote, my colleagues, that is the exact quote. okay. that quote, that report got tweeted out around and to report -- where was the apology to the president of the united states? where was the apology to millions of people who read that and thought, how racialry insensitive that was. where was that apology. >> you accepted his apology, tough. >> i'm asking, where was that apology. and so i'm just saying, when things like that happen, when john lup is says that he's never missed an inauguration, and we find out he did -- he skipped george w. bush's, there are points at which we have a right to make sure that we correct the record. we're talking about integrity and you're talking about telling the truth and facts. i don't know that it wasn't malicious, i'm not saying. but there is a point at which we have the right to go out there and correct the record and i think that over and over again there is this attempt to go after this president and say, well that can't be true and that is not right and the numbers weren't there and there is a rush to judgment every time. and it is a two-way street. we want to have a healthy and open dialogue with the press corp and the american people about what he is doing to help this country and unite it but at a time when he's trying to unite and he's talking about uniting this nation and bringing people together and a tweet goes out into a pool report to a few thousand people saying that he removed the bust of martin luther king. how do you think that goes over? >> so did media invent the feud between the president and the intelligence community. >> i think you saw from the response the other day, he walked into the cia, people were hooping and hollering, giving him a five-minute standing ovation, that is -- the were -- >> [ inaudible question ]. >> there is a difference between having relationship with intelligence leaders than the people and the men and women who toil every single day in our intelligence community and it was reflected at the cia. they came there, they were so excited. there was a thousand people that applied for 300 plus seats and we ended up taking in 400 people. that doesn't sound like a huge feud. they were excited and clapping, they were cheering when he walked in. and to see reports that made it sound like there was some fence-mending that needed to happen, it sure didn't look that way when he walked in. i'm going to move on. >> sean, what is the u.s. particular interest in moving the u.s. embassy in tel aviv to jerusalem and also in the chat with president si si was the [ inaudible ]. >> and i just gave you the read out on the call and i think that speaks for itself what was discussed. and then the first part? >> what is the u.s. strategic interest in moving the -- >> as i noted yesterday, through several press inquiries, there is issues, we're at the very early stages of that decision-making process. >> you had a detailed destruction where prime minister [ inaudible ] on friday of what a trade deal might look like, is there a news conference or is donald trump going to get a statement back to the u.k. later in the year. >> we're here on working day one. we're excited that prime minister may is coming on friday. we look forward to it. i'm sure there will be discussion of trade, the degree to which i don't know yet and i'm sure we'll have an opportunity to brief you out. i don't believe we have any plans for a joint press conference but something we'll be working on with prime minister may and we'll keep you updated on that. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> well, again, i think when he talks to prime minister may he will have a great conversation about the potential for greater trade with the u.k. i mentioned earlier, when he met with the manufacturers this morning, that was right up there at the top of the list. how can we get greater market access. what are the specific challenges that the manufacturers are facing getting market access into countries around the globe and that is an important issue. so it is not -- it is not just other countries but within existing trade deals, we can figure out, is there a trade dispute that could be settled with the wto, is there a revision to one of the existing trade treaties that we have now. there is a lot that could be done. there are things that congress can update to make sure that we're importing and exporting more to benefit american businesses. >> does he plan to -- [ inaudible question ] >> has the president had a chat,chat, informal chat before the prime minister comes here. >> there are no plans for that. it is possible. he has had a tremendous number of calls, i think the number is well over 80 that have talked to him and congratulated him and he's met with canada and mexico and he's talked to prime minister netanyahu yesterday and president al ci ci today and there is exciting in the diplomatic level of people that are excited that president trump and this administration want to engage -- there are times when he is talking to folks and he says i haven't heard from anyone in years and there is a united agreement in the area of trade and also in the area of national security. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> needless to say, this is the big one and it is the first. >> [ inaudible ]. >> [ inaudible question >> first, i would argue that by lateral deals is what china has been engaging in and that is something that the president will look at countries to engage with. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> most of the existing trade agreements or a good chunk we have existing trade agreements to begin. this was an expansion of that, whether it was financial services additional market access, but i think that this is -- this is not a deal that was in our country's best interest. the president could have come in to office, a president could have come into office and renegotiated it and sent people back to the drawing board. it hadn't gone to congress because it wasn't finalized. i think this president pulling out of the agreement is not just about this one agreement. what i think it is symbolic of both here and american and around the world is a new era of trade policy, one that will put american workers first and foremost and one that assures the rest of the world that the way that we negotiate bilateral agreements will ensure that we get something out of the deals. as i mentioned to john a minute ago, the problem with multi-lateral agreements it often becomes the lowest common denominator with the u.s. already having low tariff and other service industry benefits for countries, we've got to be able to make sure we're fighting for the american worker. jennifer. >> to be clear -- [ inaudible ]. >> we pulled out of tpp. >> but of the existing -- >> we'll have further updates on trade issues later this week. jennifer. >> does the administration feel like you need an executive order to remove yourself or what is the -- [ inaudible ]. >> that is a great question. i believe there is an action that has to be taken under the provision of nafta where you send notice to the other countries, the other two countries, the exact nature of how that is described, i don't know. but there is a trigger within nafta, one of the sections, that allows the president of the united states to notify them that we intend to do that. >> is that allowed -- >> well will there still be a north american trade block. >> he's spoken to the president of mexico and the prime minister of canada about his desire to renegotiate and i think as he meets with both of these individuals over the next 30 days or so, that will be a topic. now if they come in and express a willingness to do that, you could negotiate it within the current parameters and update it through -- through the existing structure. if they don't, and he decides to pull out, then we would have to go back to the drawing table in the future. [ overlapping speakers ] >> [ inaudible question ]. just to follow up on china, china has a regional partnership [ inaudible ]. does the president see a national security component to these trade deals and is he concerned that now china will write the rules for asia-pacific trade. >> i think he's been very, very clear about china's place in the geopolitical landscape of economically and national security wise. so he understands the need -- that is part of the reason that trade is important. bilateral trade provides a check on a lot of this. but again he's fighting for the interest of the country and the american worker. so how we engage and with whom is going to be decided on whether or not we could get a deal that benefits or country economically and in terms of national security. there are things that we could do economically -- or economically that actually end up also benefiting us from a national security stand point because of the economic relationship that exists between the two countries. >> mara gets a follow-up. no, you earned it. >> thank you. what is the average national unemployment rate? what is the -- >> what is the -- >> what is the over all unemployment rate. >> are you talking about whether or not we include -- >> i think the bureau of statistics puts it out. i think there with ways that you could -- >> [ inaudible question ]. >> right. so there are a reason we put out several versions. the ill lust triv nature of how you count the unemployed and whether they are still seeking a job. and you put out several statics to the economist could view them and at look at different landscapes on how to make economic policy. >> during the campaign he at one point said it was 42%. i want to know where we are starting at. >> but again, part of it is his economic team will look at a multitude of economic statics and his goal is to get as many americans working. that is his ultimate goal. when he see peoples working -- >> and we're coming out of the press briefing now. sean spicer's first official press briefing. and taking questions today. he will stay there as long as the press wants to ask questions. so i'm going to martha rad itch in washington. we did see something at the top and although a little bit of combativeness when we went over the details of saturday but it did seem like a relatively normal white house press briefing it. >> it did, george. that could have been anybody's briefing from any party. he got a little combative there with john carl but i'm sure any press secretary could get combative if they were challenged like john carl challenged him and he tried to clear up what happened on saturday when he came out on the briefing and berated the press and he said they have a different interpretation of the facts. if you recall, he showed pictures that -- what they called was a briefing on saturday, but was really a statement. and they had pictures of the crowd. >> and he tried to explain how they got to the calculation of the biggest inaugural viewership ever. and not a lot of news, but i was struck by the questions about the point russia and united states action in syria and it apeerps that mr. spicer -- appears that he doubled down on the president's statements that perhaps he should have taken movement on iraq in the future and perhaps he will in the future. >> which i don't think he could do. he did double down on that. we'll have to see what is going on there. but clearly the focus of the briefing and the focus of the president right now is trade. spicer has a background in trade. so he was very fluent on that today. but wheel have to see all of this issue now. >> talking about pulling out of international and multi-lateral trade agreements like the trans-pacific partnership and seeking bilateral partnerships and he has the prime minister of britain coming on friday and they will try to negotiate one as well. that is all we have time for today. we'll go off the air right now but tune into world news tonight with david muir. have a good night. the scene in vallejo cleared after an officer-involved shooting and they are investigating what happened at a house party that resulted in a fight between two young men and police fatally shooting one of them. thanks for joining us, i'm kristen zse. we're starting late due to the abc news special report you just saw on president trump's first scheduled press briefing. >> i'm natasha zouves. now on to the top local news. officers got the 911 call and say they arrived within minutes to see two men fighting outside of a home. amy hollyfield is live near the good morning, amy. >> reporter: good morning, natasha, of course there will be an investigation, but as of right now the police department said it appears to be a justified police shooting that the officer felt like he needed to shoot to save a teenager's life. friend and relatives identified the man killed at 1--year-old angel ramos, a vallejo police officer said he was standing over a 16-year-old with a knife. and the officer felt he needed to shoot him to protect the 16-year-old. ramos' family said he was defending his brother in a fight. this all happened at a party that the next door neighbors and those across the street could hear. >> there was a lot of party and they started early, like 9:00 and they were partying. a lot of people talking. >> just a bunch of loud noise and voices. but i don't know what happened or what it was. >> police say they received several calls about a loud rgument around 12:30 this morning at sacramento and nebraska and shortly after they arrived, neighbors heard the gun shots. >> i heard shooting, like shooting. and that is it. >> and he said he was surprised but others say it is a pretty common sound in vallejo. >> it is horrible on my own street but i hear the guns all of the time. it is like -- it is like you get used to it. >> reporter: the officer who shot the man is an eight-year veteran. he is now on administrative leave so they could check his mental health and while they conduct the investigation. live in vallejo, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. dangerous water conditions are hampering the search for a young woman whose car plunged into a creek. the young woman from tracy drove into the creek on saturday where we are joined live at the scene with the latest, alyssa. >> this is why rescue teams can't enter the water today. the creek looks more like a river. they are dealing with class 3 rapids and risk of tree branches or debris causing a deadly has order for divers. we learned this recovery effort to take days, perhaps even all week. rescue crews are staged along the niles canyon road with a mobile response unit searching for the 18-year-old woman from tracy who crashed into the creek on saturday morning. today they hav out drones and they will survey the area from above and they also brought back a witness who saw the car bobbing in the water before it sank. emergency crews from multiple agencies are all out here. they want to bring closure to that woman's family, but must wait until it is safe. >> that section is very challenging. because there is a bridge there and we believe that the creek is much deeper in that location. we cannot at this time put anybody into the water. >> reporter: the creek is 20 feet dreep in some areas and there is a strong current so we don't know where the car is at this point. they are working with the tate water resource agency to reduce the amount of water being released into the creek. it could take hours for that to make a difference and cause the water levels to go down. fli niles canyon road is closed to traffic during the search which could be every day this week. the chp plans those -- to have those closures around rush hour traffic today, the closured starting at 10:00 a.m. and tomorrow we're probably going to see the same thing. live in fremont, abc 7 news. >> and that search is happening as we are still on storm watch right now. training camping some scattered showers today. >> let's get to lisa argen for a check on live doppler 7, lisa. >> good morning, everyone. we're looking at a flood warning in the north bay until tomorrow at 4:00 a.m. and rain has been coming down here around mark west creek. right now it is at 59.9 feet. flood stage is at 55 feet. so there has been flooding there for the past several days. and we're looking at a flash flood watch throughout this evening and for the entire bay area. so on the northay

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