potential launch out of north korea. i would prefer to see the federal government, the military in charge of missile alerts. how would the state of hawaii ever know except by a phone call whether there were incoming missiles but if you had the military in charge of something like this it s less likely to go wrong. bob baer thanks so much for your take. back to our top stories. how our president s vulgar remarks being received by the americans who voted for him. i would give him overall a seven, seven over ten. we had to the heart of trump country and get voters reaction. you re live in the cnn newsroom. c. wondering, what if? i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it s been prescribed to more than a quarter million people.
the d.r.e.a.m.ers, that has increased border security in it and that has all of the things he talked about that he would accept. we are at the verge and at that door. it s up to the president of the united states not to slam that door in the face of this country, in the face of americans and the face of 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers who are looking for solutions. scott, today the president is tweeted that democrats don t want daca and it s their fault if there s not a deal. let s remember the president himself sort of created this daca crisis. he rescinded the program. he repealed daca that was in place and then of course there was bipartisan deal that was brought to him on thursday which he rejected. can he credibly blame this on democrats? first of all, let s remember how we got daca. we got it from president obama. the president s own justice department decided along with a federal court that it was illegal which caused the president then to put a deadline on this of march. i m going to
about his remarks and as you noted he apparently told his fellow south carolina tim scott that the president did say something like that. he also have others like jeff flake who wasn t actually in that meeting but heard from some people who were shortly after it took place. here s what the arizona senator had to say. all i can say i was in a meeting directly afterwards where those who had presented to the president our proposal spoke about the meeting and they said those words were used before those words went public. so that s all i can tell you is i heard that account before the account even went public. reporter: so we have a disagreement between lawmakers over what the president did or did not say and the backdrop of that is the division between lawmakers over the policy that was even being discussed specifically a legal solution
how damaging it would be to the country if they don t do this and how damaging it would be for the party if they don t do this. you have jeff flake, graham, marco rubio. i think all of those republicans understand and more how important it is. however, you have the president of the united states who says one thing and scott just mentioned it, he said he wanted a bill of love. he said he would sign anything that came to his desk if it was bipartisan. but then what happens? he hears people like ann coulter saying that she will not back the president if he does this. he hears people like steve king who s the most antiimmigrant republican congressman in the house of representatives. he knows that he will be in trouble with his base if he actually accepts this deal, so he goes back on his word. shocker, right? so again, this is up to now the president of the united states, scott, and republicans who will hopefully push him to keep his word and to accept a bipartisan deal that has protection
that s why not everyone is surprised to hear these remarks from the president but they re deeply troubled by it. and you re deeply troubled by it. you write in your op ed for cnn.com, if we start to brush these moments off as trump being trump we will lower the bar so far it will be impossible to ever repair the presidency. so you re actually worried about the long-term impact on the office of the presidency. absolutely. it s something serious to consider. the normalization of some of the rhetoric he s used and some of the actions he s taken is dangerous because it then lowers the bar for the next president and the president after that and this becomes a normalized part of presidential politics. it s not unconventional. it s not out of the realm of what you can do. you can speak this way, you can say these things and this is part of what the u.s. presidency will become and we can t do