Off to reform the Nations HealthCare Insurance system. Well talk about that in a second. Also just a few hours ago, President Trump signed the sanctions bill against russia, north korea, and iran, but while Congress Overwhelmingly approved it, the president calls it flawed. And minutes ago, the president debuted the raise act. This is a proposal to revamp how green cards are given out. R. A. I. S. E. Stands for reforming American Immigration system for economy. The r. A. I. S. E. Act Ends Campaign migration and replaces it with a pointbased system for receiving a green card. This competitive application process will favor applicants who can speak english, financially support themselves and their families, and demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy. The r. A. I. S. E. Act prevents new migrants and immigrants from collecting welfare and protects u. S. Workers from being displaced. So lets go to the white house to our senior White House Correspondent there, jim acosta, ahead of the briefing. Lets go back to this russian sanctions bill the president signed this morning. This vetoproof bill. What took him so long. What is it that he says he doesnt like. Reporter this is something the white house has been saying for weeks now, that they do not want or they did not want a bill. This was really forced down their throats. They did not want a bill that limited the president s ability when it comes to lifting sanctions on russia or really having the ability to do what he wants with sanctions. They see that and really this is not to be unfair to the president , other administrations have felt that that is the purview of the executive branch, and so they were trying to flex those muscles heading into all of this, but obviously, with the russia investigation going on and both parties in congress essentially saying, no, were not going to leave this matter of what to do about russia to the president , given everything weve been talking about over the last six months. They brought a bill to the president that essentially had vetoproof majorities, and so even if he had vetoed this today, the congress would have overridden those vetoes. The president did not sign this in front of the cameras. Hes done other things like this in front of the cameras. He did this behind closed doors and attached a signing statement to it essentially saying this was unconstitutional and added an additional statement on top of that and we can put a clip of that on screen. The president at one point saying that he was doing this all for National Unity but heres what the president says. Still, the bill remains seriously flawed, particularly because it encroaches on the executive branchs authority to negotiate. Congress could not even negotiate a Health Care Bill after seven years of talking. So taking a swipe at congress there and really his own party for not getting a Health Care Bill out of the congress and to him and saying, okay, well you cant do health care but you can get a sanctions bill to me. Well have to take the temperature of Sarah Huckabee sanders in the Briefing Room and see how theyre spinning this. Obviously, this is a humbling moment for the president. He was forced to do this. He did not want to sign this bill, brooke. Begin with your point on how it was a humbling moment for him. See you in the Briefing Room momentarily. As were waiting for Sarah Huckabee sanders, let me bring in Gloria Borger and cnn political analyst abbey phillip who is also a White House Reporter for the washington post. Ladies, welcome. And gloria, couple of points that jim made i thought were great, the fact that there were no cameras. This is a pretty significant signing, and there were no cameras, so no nothing visual there for us to see. And also, how he is calling this flawed. And perhaps to jims point, this is about, you know, the president s powers being held back. Well, thats what he says. What do you think . The president believes he should have ultimate authority except that there are coequal branches of government in this country. One of them happens to be the congress. John mccain just released a statement saying the framers of our constitution made the congress and the president coequal branches. This bill has already proven the wisdom of that choice. And what the bill says is that Congress Gets the final say here, period. Now, there was a vetoproof margin here, so he was backed up against the wall. He had to do it. He didnt like it. He doesnt like it when Congress Gets the final say, but sorry, thats the way the constitution was written, and congress flexed its muscle here and said, sorry, were not going to give you the final say on russia sanctions and i believe you cant separate that from the fact that the president hasnt come out and said that russia hacked the election. I mean, these things are joined, and i dont think the congress trusts him on russia, period, end of sentence. There had been questions about whether he understood the boundaries of the Justice Branch and now legislative. Good point on that. Im coming back to you. Also, were learning today the administration is taking on two big issues today, one on this immigration event we mentioned a second ago where the white house is arguing they want to switch to this skillbased immigration system. There was also reporting out of the New York Times today that the department of justice, speaking of that branch, looking to challenge racebased admission programs at colleges and universities, meaning with the potential aim of protecting white applicants from discrimination. My question to you is, why is he so blatantly playing to his base and might part of this be does he sense trouble looming in this Health Care Loss . Well, trouble is basically already here for him. I mean, you cannot separate the timing of these announcements from the fact that there are, to date, no major legislative accomplishments for this administration. And were getting to the point in the summer here where its do or die. They have to decide are they going to restart the health care debate, which it seems like virtually no one on the hill thinks is doable or wants to do at this point in time, or do they just cut their losses and move on to taxes. And even the tax proposition seems to be facing a fairly uphill battle. So, this administration is dealing with the reality that getting stuff through congress is really going to be quite difficult for them between now and the end of the year, and what these moves are all about is signaling to the base that, yeah, were still interested in the things that you guys voted for that put donald trump into office, and its no its no surprise that they are targeting two kind of absolute pillars of his campaign, one of them being restricting immigration and this idea of benefitting u. S. Workers, and the other being the kind of forgotten american, which many people believed was code for the predominantly white Middle America rust belt part of the country and the concerns that they have around those issues. On the first piece on immigration and shoutout to my writer, tina, for thinking of the statue of liberty, because there is this poem thats forever linked to the statue of liberty, was one part of the pedestal and it reads, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Critics are calling this immigration move today unamerican. I mean, how much support does this have, not just among his base, but among republicans . Well, it may have some support among republicans. I mean, it remains to be seen. Meritbased immigration is not what this country was founded on. I mean, obviously, you dont want to bring criminals into the country, et cetera, but you dont ask people for their College Degrees or their income or anything else when they come into this country. Very often, they come here because theyre looking for Something Better than what they have. And so the question is whether, in fact, the president will have those moderate republicans behind him who didnt want to build the wall, who dont believe in the wall, will this be any more palatable to them . I dont really think so. Abbey, over to you, despite the president s push for republican lawmakers to not give up on the repeal and replace of obamacare, there are now these indications that folks on the hill, the republicans, actually want to work with democrats to figure out fixes. Weve been talking today about the republican senator Lamar Alexander, hes talking about holding bipartisan hearings on actions where congress can take to stabilize health care markets. Do you think this is a trend of whats to come of more and more republicans standing up against the president , and whats the net effect of that when it comes to policy . Yeah, i mean, particularly on health care, this could be a moment where the republicans and democrats do exactly the opposite of what trump wants them to do, which is hold hands with democrats and fix obamacare. They are facing the reality that the marketplace next year could be absolutely disastrous for their constituents and the only way to prevent that from happening is short of passing some kind of repeal and replace that is perhaps better than what they were contemplating before, fixing the marketplace, funding those costsharing subsidies to insurance companies. Thats something the president and this administration has not wanted to do, and if congress chooses to do that, which they very well might, it would be in defiance of the administration, but really, brooke, at this point, it seems like that is really the only option on the table. Leadership has said they do not have the votes to go back to the table on repeal and replace, and its going to be politically unpalatable to go into 2018 without having fixed some of these problems with the marketplace. People would be in very dire straits and the Republican Party, because they are running all blanches ranches of governmt now, is going to be blamed for that. Its not even just on health care. You could add other republican senators who are standing up to him, lisa murkowski, and senator mccain on that powerful speech on the senate floor but what hes saying about the afghanistan, and we know about the quotes from the book by jeff flake. The honey moon is long over. Is this just the beginning of whats to come . I think it is. First of all, these senators dont want the president , who has threatened to break obamacare, who has threatened to end these subsidies, because he knows that it would break obamacare, but that would also hurt millions of people, and thats what the senators dont want to do. I mean, theres another thing on that list. Senator Mitch Mcconnell has said he doesnt want to end the filibuster in the senate, and the president has said he would do that. He has a 36 Approval Rating, a 60 disApproval Rating, so its not like these are all courageous people. They are just looking at the polling right now and theyre saying you know what . Its okay, and what jeff flake is has said is, look, we republicans need to speak out because a lot of this stuff is not anything we agree with, actually. This is not what our party is about, and so you see more republicans coalescing on issues and saying, you know what, were going to have to do things on our own without this white house. Now, that may change with general kelly. I saw that rob portman is at the white house today as you were talking about earlier. Talking about the opioid crisis. There may be more conversation, rather than threats coming out of this white house. Were just going to have to see, but i think were at a Tipping Point right now with republicans in the senate who are saying you know what, we may need to go our own way. Live pictures inside the Briefing Room, off of the themes we discussed will certainly be thrown at Sarah Huckabee sanders momentarily. Ladies, thank you so, so much. Coming up, well take that White House Briefing live. Also ahead, too close for comfort. 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You can see hundreds of flights in the skies all above asia. Cnn pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is with us. Hes got the reporting. Also with us, a cnn aviation an little a analyst and 777 captain. How did this happen . Reporter well, you know, this is a very busy area off the northern coastline of japan, very busy for maritime shipping as well as civil commercial aviation and there was an air France Flight flying. But look, brooke, as you pointed out, it was about seven to nine minutes past the area of the missile impact zone when the missile hit the water. The problem for u. S. And worldwide commercial aviation is that the North Koreans dont notify either mariners or airmen a aviation, if you will, when they conduct these tests and theyve been flying them into these very, very busy commercial areas. Ill be interested to see what les has to say. Aviation experts say its a billion to one chance, really, that it would hit an aircraft, but still, its something that has to be considered, something that has to be looked at, and the Aviation Industry always has to consider all the threats wherever it flies. And in fact, this incident did lead air france to put out a statement. Let me quickly read that to everyone. Air france saying, north koreas missile test zones do not interfere in any way with air France Flight paths. We constantly analyze potentially dangerous flyover zones and adapt our flight plans accordingly. So, you know, while you always see hundreds of flights