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Seeing what you find out in your investigation. thanks for being here. >> thanks, alisyn. >> david. >> in less than two hours president trump will address the biggest conference of conservative cpac. after chief strategist steve bannon repeatedly attacked the media in his appearance at the conference. cnn senior washington correspondent joe johns has more. >> reporter: in a rare public appearance white house chief strategist steve bannon assuring skeptical conservatives president trump will deli...

And it sounds a little bit different than it has in the past. of the president took the stage today at the conservatives influential conservative cpac he skipped last year when he was candidate. he laid out his governing principles in todays speech. wasnt quite conservative, more nationalist nationalistic if anything else. jeff zeleny joins me now. he is going to address congress next week. will that speech sound similar to todays? >> reporter: the president will sound similar. when i was in tha...

Snoek at cpac. he really speaks publicly and he talked about everything is going just as planned. its not chaos. its exactly how we want it. lets listen to a moment of steve bannon. >> theres a new political order being formed out of this, and its still being formed. i think the center core of what we believe, that were a nation with an economy, not an economy just in some global marketplace with open borders, but a nation with a culture and a reason for being. i think thats what unites us. i th...

On the latter. we disparage the fact that there are leakers leaking classified information which is extremely worrisome, not once, not twice. weve seen it a hand full of times in the last month. we should be concerned about that, not from a political standpoint but a broader american standpoint. >> what if this president fires the fbi director. >> i think he does have confidence in him and i think it would be a flaw to fire him. jim comey i think is a very honorable man. the fact hes had both th...

Reiterating his call for nuclear supremacy. >> if countries are going to have nukes, were going to be at the top of the pack. >> reporter: the president also comparing his crackdown on undocumented immigrants to a military operation. >> were getting really bad dudes out of this country. its a military operation. >> reporter: the white house later attempting to clarify saying trump was speaking metaphorically. in mexico homeland security secretary john kelly trying to tamp down on fears. >> no, r...

Mike pence will go to europe and say we love nato. hell say military operation and deportations. general kelly will come out and say no military forces will be used on deportation. mattis -- practically every cabinet secretary is doing and saying something differently than what donald trump is saying via tweet or cpac or wherever. he is speaking to the base while the rest of them are actually trying to run a very different government. at some point i think its going to lead to a clash because it...