A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. Is that the right message to take on trump . Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joins us next. Plus, russia disconnect, as intelligence chiefs issue dire warnings. This threat is not going away. President trump continues to sew seeds of doubt. Were being hindered by the russian hoax, its a hoax. Is the president taking this threat seriously . Well talk to the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee, ed royce in minutes. And house divided . The first lady sides with team lebron after the first daughter breaks with her father on the media. No, i do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people. How will the president handle the public pushback . Hello, im jake tapper where the state of our union is hitting the Campaign Trail after
visiting the site of a special house election in ohio last night. President trump is back at his report in bedminster, new jersey, and also hate tweet
A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. Fuel the future. And both of those approaches are american if you think of it in historical terms but only one of those approaches is patriotic. And i think what we want in our candidates and the candidates that i think are most exciting are the ones that are choosing the more patriotic path, the ones that are using that combustion to fuel the future. And theres a way to do that and there are many, many candidates who are showing it. I went out to visit collin allred, a wonderful young candidate, first time candidate in a Congressional District in north of dallas. He grew up in the district in modest background, went to baylor. Hes a lawyer. Hes working with his neighbors and his community. Hes talking to everybody, people who agree with him and people who dont. His first question is not whether youre a democrat. His first question is about who you are, tell me what you need. Tell me what youre loo
robert mueller and chas tiesing the trump administration and so forth. then we have the first lady tweeting in defense of lebron james. is it i discussed with other people, some people think this is ploy, trump is the tough guy but if you re sort of if you are a college educated woman who wants to be for trump. you know, he s got the show for the base but melania, ivanka, they keep it sane. is it a gimmick or appalled by her husband? i would prefer to believe the latter. i like to believe the best in people. two thoughts. there s two things about this. she may be appalled. this is trump has figured out in an era where we usually say everything is open and you can t really speak to different audiences how to actually do that and bifurcate the audiences. he says crazy stuff on the campaign trail and he tweets all of these things then just as we saw thursday and in the interview you just did, russia
the difference between the haves and havenots, they affect women. i think we should have lebron james out campaigning in ohio. that s a great idea. let s take him out and put him up against trump. speaking of lebron james who president trump took off after chris six from lebron james in a cnn interview, took him on in a tweet. here s a first state from melania trump s spokesperson, it looks like lebron james is working to do good things on behalf of the next generation. and encourages everyone to have a open dialogue about issues facing children s day and open to visiting the i promise school in akron. what do you make of that? i was heartened by that. the women come through again. they have george conway tweeting and commenting in defense of robert mueller and chas tiesing the trump administration and so
it is scary in the end. stay tuned. we ll tell you exactly what s going op. good morning. welcome to early start. i m john berman. i m zoraida sambolin. 5:00 a.m. in the east. coming one a man who says he has been cured of hiv. dr. sanjay gupta talked to him. you ll hear about that later this hour. really remarkable. plus, brett favre couldn t stay retired after all. he s back in football taking a job you might not expect. we ll tell you all about it. stay tuned. you need to watch before he retires again. i think it s kind of exciting, actually. i wanted to ask you about that. we ll chat about it. first the latest presidential poll numbers are out this morning. they reveal president obama s ahead of mitt romney by six points. the brand-new nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows obama at 49% to romney s 43%. that s a three percentage point increase from just last month. cnn s political director mark preston joins us now from washington, d.c. nice to have you with