And its been tested on the world stage and as were learning that a series of curtesy call with our allies have now become confrontational. New tension between President Trump and a major u. S. Ally. Sources say the president grew angry during a phone call with australias Prime Minister last saturday. President trump calling the australian refugee agreement a very bad deal. That resettlement deal reached by the Obama Administration will transfer refugees living in Detention Centers on islands off australia to the u. S. Im not going to comment on the conversation. The Prime Minister repeating to President Trump that according to the deal nearly 1300 refugee versus to pass u. S. Screening requirements but sources say mr. Trump kept insisting it was a very bad deal. Remarking one of these refugees will be the next boston bomber. I always stand up to australia in every form. A source says trump president abruptly ended the call. Notably the call showed no sign of a contentious meeting instead saying both leaders emphasized the enduring strength and closeness of the u. S. Australia relationship as news that a contentious call broke on wednesday. Mr. Trump tweeted i will study this dumb deal in the same tweet calling the refugees Illegal Immigrants but the white house secretary confirming the deal will ultimately go through. The president in accordance with the deal to honor what had been agreed upon by the United States government in assuring the vetting will take place in the same manner were doing it now will go forward. More on another diplomatic dust up with tuchlt s. Ally after the mexican president cancelled their in person meeting. Cnn is learning that President Trump offered to help the mexican president with drug cartels in mexico during their friday phone call. According to an excerpt of the transcript provided to cnn, mr. Trump said you have pretty tough hombres in mexico were willing to help with. They have to be knocked out but you have not done a good job knocking them out. Meantime National Security advisor Michael Flynn offering a stark warning to iran after their recent Ballistic Missile test launch. Iran is now feeling embolden. As of today were putting iran on notice. On notice has some lawmakers knowing it will dismantle the deal. I think that will be a great mistake but well have to wait and see what general flynn meant. As others call for a collaboration on policies. The Trump Administration needs to work with congress. Now the president today was scheduled to travel to wisconsin for a trip to talk about the economy and because of protests there the leaders of that company are coming here to the white house but in the next hour the president will be speaking at the National Prayer breakfast here in washington. You can watch that live. Hell be talking to faith leaders from across the country. Very early in his tenure President Trump had to perform one of the most so let me and difficult duties for a president. He had to pay respects to a navy s. E. A. L. Killed in yemen over the weekend. He made a surprise trip to greet the casket of chief petty officers william ryan owens. New details emerge about the deadly fire fight that targeted al qaeda. Ryan brown is live in the pentagon with the latest. What do we know . This raid is what is calling a site exploitation operation. And now this complex operation was in the planning stages for months during the Obama Administration but President Trump was left with the task of green lighting the operation due to requirements that made the Mission Necessary after january 20th. One of those Operational Requirements was the absence of moonlight to help provide cover as the special forces moved in. Unfortunately for them al qaeda was able to protect them coming in even without the moonlight and the fire fight broke out involving small armed fire or grenades. Its believed to have caused a significant number of causalities and a u. S. Aircraft suffered some technical difficulties forcing it to conduct a hard landing and forcing the u. S. Military to destroy it and prevent that Technology Falling into enemy hands. Now the information including hard drives grabbed during the raid actually is already yielding valuable intelligence. Thank you very much. Rex tillerson is now secretary of state but battles still rage over other key cabinet posts. Also preparing for a Battle Royale over his Supreme Court nominee. Cnn is covering all of it for us on capitol hill. Good morning to you. Rex tillerson becoming the 6th official cabinet official in place but theres still many members of Donald Trumps potential cabinet still hanging in the balance up here on capitol hill. Today will likely be another contentious day for them. We have democrats still continuing to dig in and really trying to throw down obstacles at every place they can to delay the process and the white house is really losing patience here labeling these moves by the democrats childish. In an unprecedented move republicans on the Senate Finance committee suspending committee rules. Advancing the nominations of treasury secretary and tom price as health and Human Services secretary. The extraordinary measure coming after democrats demanded Additional Information on the nominees and boycotted when they didnt get it. They chose to cower in the hallway and hold a press conference. I cannot participate in anyway possible with moving someone along who has not allowed a thorough vetting. Theyre doing their constituents in our country a service by resorting to the childish tactics. Tensions front and center with tensions flairing ahead of the confirmation vote for the president s attorney general nominee senator jeff sessions. Senator cruz misrepresented what happened. So id like to take this opportunity to set the record straight. I object to the senator disparaging a fellow member of the committee here in his absence. Lawmakers erupting in a Bitter Exchange over senator ted cruz and al frankens differing opinions. Theres just one problem, cruz wasnt in the room. Senator cruz did the very thing that he is akugz me of doing. In my absence he misrepresented me. He personally talked about my integrity. You didnt object then did you . A fight is brewing over neil gorsuch but they could cut democrats out all together. Requiring 60 votes to confirm g gorsuch to 51 required votes. I would say if you can. The big thing education secretary nominee betsy devos. Her nomination is on shaky ground now that two republicans have come out and said they will not they will vote against her when she reaches the full senate. That means this will be a 50 50 tie with senator sessions casting his vote for her before he is voted on and confirmed as attorney general to all of this boilg down to the fact that its very likely we will see Vice President mike pence headed up here to capitol hill at some point to break the tie, cast his vote for betsy devos in his capacity as president of the senate. That assumes no other republican votes with the democrats against betsy devos. Thank you very much. Lets talk about the chairman of the National Republican senatorial committee. It will be the first time he saw that since like 1925 when the ruling party didnt get the president s choice. A lot of people are trying to make sure that they talk to their republican counter parts trying to get them to break off of mrs. Devos. I dont think that will happen. I think the votes are there to confirm even if its a 50 50 vote with the Vice President coming in for a tie. Do you think Mitch Mcconnell should use the constitutional question procedure if it needs to be done. Let me just say this, one of the brightest legal minds in our country. Our sterling reputation not only on the bench of the tenth Circuit Court where he served but among judges from around the country. I dont think the filibuster or Nuclear Option is something we have to deal with because he is going to get the votes we need to confirm him. He everything is scalia was and more in terms of a conservative model of justice. Do you believe you can make the case to democrats if theyre wrong . If they believe hes such a bad judge today why did 11 of them vote for him ten years ago. He received unanimous approval ten years ago when placed on the tenth Circuit Court and then the u. S. Senator from colorado praised him as impartial judge who could have the right temperament for the court. Again this is somebody that has tremendous support across the aisle and i dont believe this. Its going to be carried out because he is going to have the support he needs. One way or another hes going to become the justice of the Supreme Court. It does serve to know that merit garland got the same support by democrats and republicans. Theres the significance between them. Whether its the biden rule from his time in the senate and what Chuck Schumer laid out in new york. Lets move on to Foreign Policy here. The president has a call with the australian Prime Minister last weekend. The read out from the white house is remarkably different from what we now know took place on that call. It left the australian Prime Minister feeling that he was bullied and feeling that he may need to bully back. Do you see this as a good thing to do to one of your best alabama lice. Australia is a great ally. No doubt about that. Well continue to be great allies going forward. A number of trade communities and Security Operations that we carrie out together so well always have a strong relationship with australia. I only know what i have seen. Australia is a great ally and they will continue to be and we need to work hard to make sure that our allies whether its australia or the United Kingdom or other allies around the globe know the United States is going to stand strong with them and that we have their backs. Howell do they know that if the president of the United States hangs up on them during a phone call. I dont speak for the white house. Youd have to ask the white house but we will continue to strengthen our relationship with australia as we do with allies around the globe unlike the past 8 years where we saw tremendous weakness in u. S. Leadership. I know that i can speak to the white house about it. They just gave us a read out that was different than what happened on the actual call. Were you on the call chris . No, i wasnt. But we have the actual verbatim of the call and those excerpts give a very different picture and reflect very clearly the way that the australian Prime Minister came out of it and his reaction is being reported in australia. So im asking how do you feel about the fact that who youre calling a great ally was just hung up on in the middle of a phone call. You werent on the phone call, i wasnt on the phone call. The fact is australia is a great ally. We will continue to work with them on trade agreements and National Security issues making sure that were matching and meeting the threat of isis throughout the region whether its indonesia or other countries that have the growing threat of isis so the fact is this chris. You have to talk to the white house. I dont speak to the white house about this phone call but im going to continue to work hard to make sure that australia knows how important it is to this country. What you have seen from this administration is saying maybe a refugee policy that doesnt vet clearly enough is important to make sure that we have that vetting in place. This is a different administration. We have to remember that the past 8 years, there was an election. Its over. The past 8 years of leading from behind thats over. Thats what we have to make sure that our alabama lice understand. I dont understand what on notice means. Be treated with respect. Global leaders expect to be treated with respect and thats important. If its important and it didnt happen in the australian Prime Minister. How do you feel about that. Again our leaders, their leaders, leaders around the globe deserve to be treated with respect. I dont treat for the president or the white house and i wasnt on the call and i would expect the president of the United States to treat every leader around the globe with dignity and respect. Senator i appreciate you being on the show. All right. Up next, what democrats are saying about President Trumps diplomatic dust ups. Well find out next. Have conquered highways, mountains, and racetracks. And now much of that same advanced technology is found in the audi a4. With one notable difference. The highly advanced audi a4, with available traffic jam assist. Wont replace the full value of your totaled new car. The guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. No, i picked the wrong insurance company. With Liberty Mutual new car replacement™, you wont have to worry about replacing your car because youll get the full value back including depreciation. 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Trump was elected on saying he was going to crack down on outsideers and make the u. S. Safe. What do you think the upshot of having this argument with the australian Prime Minister would be. Hes not making the United States safe. Just like the muslim ban does not make it safe because its isis material for jihadists and gives other people like in iraq war fighting with him to defeat isis and he puts our soldiers in jeopardy and its against one of the best allies and its not what you should do. I dont think he got elected on that. Refugees are not war prisoners and they certainly can be better and should be better. President obama was vetted and our country vetted everybody thats coming in from syria at least two years with intense vetting, extreme vetting, huge vetting. What is going on . Whats going on with mexico. We understand theres another tense phone call between President Trump and the president of mexico. We, cnn obtained a read out, like a transcript of that phone call so let me just read a portion of it to you. Mr. Trump reportedly told him you have some pretty tough hombres in mexico that you may need help with. We are willing to help with that big league but they have to be knocked out and you have not done a good job of knocking them out. What do you think of that relationship . I like the nuisanced words this administration uses. Big league and hombres and notice. You know, with president bush we knew the axis of evil was north korea and iraq and iran. With president obama we knew we were going after al qaeda and with this group were going after australia, mexico and chicago. The good news is Elementary School students can learn more about geography now and every country say possible enemy. Just depends on the day. Im picking up on your sarcasm but here lets talk about what some people think is the deadly serious interactions with iran. So yesterday general flynn came out and said iran is officially on notice. This morning President Trump has tweeted this. Iran has been formally put on notice for firing a Ballistic Missile. Should have been thank you for the terrible deal the u. S. Made with them. Well, they did violate a u. N. Agreement by firing a missile. Isnt it time for the u. S. To Say Something in no Uncertain Terms to iran. Well it may be but there may be better ways to say it. Saying things directly to iran may be more effective than tweeting or making that announcement. And ways to give notice but not cause people to get to the brink. Im concerned about us going to the brink and im concerned about peace and safety of american servicemen all over