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Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. All right. Good morning and welcome to your new day, it is friday, april 5th, 8 00 here in the east. The people at this table cant wait to start talking. They are already talking. Theyre already talking. So i opened the show by discussing the three fs of the apocalypse, flipping, fibbing and fighting. The problem is my typos and the prompter i cant type. I was afraid you were going to insert another f. The fourth is in my head right now. The major headlines this morning the president is not closing the border with mexico, hes not proposing a new Healthcare Plan and his father was not born in germany. So that explains the flipping and the fibbing, as for the fighting, democrats are turning up the pressure on attorney general william barr with House J ....
Trump deserves to be investigated. He is violating every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him the question. Why is he on the phone with a foreign leader trying to intimidate a foreign leader . If thats what happened. Thats a thats what happened. You should be looking at trump. Trumps doing this because he knows ill beat him like a drum. And hes using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me. Everybody looked at this, and everybodys looked at it said theres nothing there. Ask the right questions. Okay, but if youve never spoken to your son depending on what the house finds, he could be impeached. Im not making that judgment now. The house should investigate it. The house should investigate this. This appears to be an overwhelming abuse of power. Get on the phone with a foreign leader who is looking for help from the United States and ask about me and imply things, if th ....
But still, the president is going to be touting that as a success. And as you just played that sound, the president is backing off his threat to close the border. Officials have insisted for days the president was not bluffing on that threat and that he was going to follow through on it unless something dramatic happened and instead of something dramatic happening the white house said mexico is doing more to apprehend the Central American immigrants coming up through mexico from the southern border between the u. S. And mexico. And they say that is why the president is backing off that threat. But brooke, we also know the president has been heeding the warnings of local officials in recent days telling him what essentially it would do if he did close the border and it would devastate the u. S. Economy in the words of business officials and republican lawmakers Like Senate ....