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reporter: in the oval office this morning, president trump declared obamacare is on its last leg. obamacare is virtually dead. reporter: just five days ago, he cut off $7 billion in subsidies that help lower-income americans. people who make too much to qualify for medicaid, but still need help paying for their coverage. americans like nevada retiree marcy shelton. i am not a deadbeat. i pay my bills. i ve worked hard all of my life. this is what i was told, that this was going to be there for me. reporter: 6 million americans benefit from these subsidies, nearly 70% of them live in states that voted for trump. but the president today described the payments as a handout to insurance companies. this is money that goes to the insurance companies to line their pockets, to raise up their stock prices and they ve had a record run. reporter: but just minutes later, he seemed to back a new bipartisan deal to restore those same payments. the solution will be for about a ye ....
and mary, senate republican leader mcconnell promising democrats they will tackle the dreamer issue. more than 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants brought here by their parents. but tonight, house speaker paul ryan making no such pledge with that march deadline approaching? reporter: and david, that s why the pressure is on to act. if no deal is reached by march 5th, those dreamers could face deportation. it s also why this is such a political gamble for democrats. they took a stand here, shutting down the government over dreamers, and it is unclear if they re ultimately going to get what they want. we re told schumer s message tonight to disappointed democrats you have to play the hand you re dealt. it is what it is. david? mary bruce leading us off again tonight. mary, thank you. we do have one more question on this, so, let s get right to our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl with us live tonight. jon, so much attention was paid to that meeting between presi ....
reporter: that reassured wall street, but just hours later, president trump turned up the heat yet again, announcing $100 billion in additional tariffs against china. enter today, the treasury secretary there is the potential of a trade war. and let me just be clear, it is not a trade war. the president wants reciprocal trade. reporter: so, what now? well, just last month, the president himself said the united states had been treated so badly for so long on trade that, quote, trade wars are good and easy to win. does the president think that trade wars are easy to win? is that still his view? i think the president feels like if he is in charge of those negotiations, absolutely. and jon karl joins us from the white house tonight, and jon, the president s top economic adviser calls the tariffs just a proposed idea, but you re not hearing that kind of language from the president himself. reporter: well, tom, it is true that tariffs have not gone into effect yet. the p ....
more than two dozen hurt. rob marciano is standing by. the plane crash into that mountain in alaska. how did everyone survive? the tourists onboard. tonight, our interview right here with a survivor. and the rescue teams who asked, how did the pilot pull this off? and tonight, the new surveillance of george clooney s crash, thrown from that scooter. just how lucky he was and how it all happened. what the other driver is now saying. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on a very busy wednesday night. and we begin with president trump on the attack. the fight beginning at breakfast today, sitting across from america s most trusted allies at the nato summit. at one point today, the president asking, what good is nato? and saying germany is captive to russia. tonight, the president s new demands now from our allies, and you re about to hear that very tense exchange between the head of nato and the president. abc s chief foreign correspondent terry moran leading ....
A roundup of the day s events. reporter: he was a background political operative on the trump campaign, literally right there behind the candidate at the republican national convention. but today, rick gates took the stand in a virginia federal courthouse playing the role of special counsel robert mueller s star witness. coming face-to-face with his former business partner, paul manafort, gates testified that they committed crimes together, including not reporting more than a dozen offshore accounts. the prosecutor asking, were you involved in any criminal activity with mr. manafort? yes, gates answered. did you commit any crimes with mr. manafort? yes, gates answered again. the two men spent years working side-by-side. in february, gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to federal authorities. but today, as a flipped witness cooperating with the special counsel, gates told the court he lied because manafort told him to. and he also admitted he embezzled severa ....