Selfcongratulations which we havent heard yet. First responders on the ground now. If you dont take this crisis seriously. This is new day with chris cuomo and alyson camerota. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day. It is wednesday, september 27th. 6th here in new york. Here is our starting line. President trump suffers his first election defeat. Former chief Justice Roy Moore decisively winning. Beating his rival Luther Strange backed but the president and mcmcconnell. It could spell trouble in the midterm elections. Also, President Trump defending his response to the hurricane in puerto rico and brushing off claims that he was distracted by his feud with the nfl. The president now says that he will travel to the hardhit island negatives week. After another staying defeat on obamacare, President Trump is hoping to deliver on awe Different Campaign promise, tax reform. The president traveling to indiana to lay out his tax plan. We will ask lawmakers if the plan is truly reform of the tax system or just a tax cut. The irs now sharing information with special counsel bob mueller about Key Trump Campaign Officials as he investigates possible tax and financial crimes. This as we learn muellers team could start interviewing white house staff this week. We have all the news covered. Live in montgomery, alabama. What a big hit down there. It really was. Moore won with a resounding 9. 2 of the vote, a significant blow for the president who took a real gamble backing Luther Strange. The president might have seen this coming at a Campaign Rally a few days for Luther Strange. He almost forecast this saying it might have been a mistake to back strange. It would be a total embarrassment if strange loss. Dealing with a very new world this morning. Lets go again and make america great. Thank you. My god bless you. Former chief Justice Roy Moore claiming victory in the states gop primary, using trumps slogan to rally supporters despite the fact that he didnt get the president s endorsement. Why do you think the president supported your opponent and do you harbor resentme resentment . I have no resentment. I can support him. President trump quickly throwing his support behind moore and congratulating him on the phone and dehe letsing three of his past tweets. The establishment favorite luther swing. Vice president mike pence following suit telling moore we are for you after campaigning for strange less than 24 hours earlier. President trump had openly wondered whether he had chosen the wrong candidate while campaigning for strange last week. I might have made a mistake. If luther doesnt win, i will say we picked up 25 points in a short period of time. Theyre going to say, donald trump, the president of the United States, was unable to pull his candidate across the line. It is a terrible, terrible moment for trump. This is total embarrassment. Reporter moores victory a blow to establishment republicans. Mcmcconnell had funneled millions of dollars to tv ads targeting moore, fearing he will be a headache on the hill and taint fellow republicans with his extremely conservative views. As chief justice, moore was twice removed, including being suspended for going against the Supreme Courts ruling on samesex marriage. Just last week he was accused of racially insensitive remarks, saying we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting. Now steve bannon touting moores win as the start of a revolution. Youre going to see in state after state after state people that follow the model of judge moore. Reporter bannon also wanted to make clear he did not come to alabama to oppose his former boss at a rally for judge roy moore the other night. He said we did not come to defy honor trump but to praise and honor him. Trump is expected to come back to campaign for roy moore against doug jones. It will be very tough for a democrat to win in this election scheduled for december 12th. Alex, thank you very much for all that background. Lets bring in this panel to discuss this. We have gregory and cnn politics reporter and editor at large. David Gregg Gregory what does m for mcmcconnell and trump and beyond . Reporter sometimes when you lead a wave the way donald trump did, a new pop limp in politics and ride that into the white house, it doesnt mean you can control the current after that. And i think thats what donald trump is experiencing now. Trump himself campaigned against the establishment as president , campaigning against fellow republicans, cutting a deal on the budget, a shortterm deal, criticizing republicans for failing to get health care done. I also think its one of the reasons why with this result coming that donald trump i changed my views on this a little bit the rather cynically waded into the culture wars again. That is his bread and butter, trying to allow himself shoulder to shoulder with the roy moores of the country. There will be more of it with steve bannon out there s is toking it up. Roy moore makes donald trump look like a puppy when it comes to, dream views. This man is the real deal in terms of his buyin of farreaching extreme eideologii. I have interviewed him. Things there would make donald trump blush. He didnt but does he mean in our elected bank of senators if he makes it all the way through . Reporter chris, it will create most likely headaches fort Establishment Republican Party both heading into the midterms and just looking beyond to the extent that many of those leaders like paul ryan are interested an approach of bringing women, hispanics, racial minorities in and taking less extreme positions on gay rights or patriotism or any of these things. But for President Trump its a slightly different calculation. How does he play now in republican primary races Going Forward and does he draw closer back to steve bannon . Do these overtures on health care, does he have a rethinking of his more recent instincts on that . Does this snap him back . Tennessee is another state to wat watch. We see with bob corker that he is not going to run again. Why did donald trump support Luther Strange . Roy moore is the outsider, the heir to Donald Trumps wave . Why support the establishment guy . Reporter its very strange. Mmhmm. Ill show myself out. If you go through the profile of these two candidates, much more in line with Donald Trumps views, Donald Trumps view, Donald Trumps tone is roy moore. And its not even close. Why did he do it . Mercurial. At the time he did it he was trying to do nice, do mcmcconnell a favor, do republican senators a favor saying, look, im going to fight with you guys not against you guys. You saw it in his speech in alabama last friday night. He clearly had second thoughts of this. The deleting of the tweets. The internet remembers, of course. But the hedging. If roy moore wins, i will be down here campaigning for him. I think he didnt necessarily know what he was geting into this. Once he did, he did, to his credit, go down and try to help Luther Strange. This is another vote for Donald Trumps agenda. Yes, its a shortterm loss. He was with the guy who didnt win. I guarantee you he will blame this externally or internally on mitch mcconnell. Its a long term gain. He hasnt shown any ability to control the population in congress that roy moore is going to be. Mcconnell hasnt. Neither has donald trump. Those people who are far out there, you know, even the steve kings in the world on the house side, he has shown in ability to control them even though he is spoeft a populist outsider. The voice. But he hasnt. Roy moore is a different animal. Do we have it . He yyes. This is a man who twice got removed as head of their Supreme Court down there. Once because he refused to follow constitutional law when it comes to presentation of the ten commandments. This is a secular society. And he did it again because he refused to accept the supremacy clause. He was head jurist. Heres a little bit of an interview. You are cling to go a definition that you believe is divine. You said it in your letter to the governor. But you know that divine youre incorrect. Im reading it. Youre incorrect. Im reading it right here. Youre incorrect. How so . Do you want to hear my answer . Yes. Its about sexual preference. So you think gay marriage is wrong . Just say it. The United StatesSupreme Court does not have the authority or the federal courts do not have the federal authority to interpret a word. As a jurist he had to recognize the supremacy clause. He refused to do it. It created a huge battle. Where he is on birtherism, on obama being a muslim today, i dont think we have anybody like him in congress, do we . He is certainly going to be out there if theres anybody close. I Vice President gone down all of his views. This can be difficult to control. Its another sign of how difficult it will be for mitch mcconnell, for establishment republicans, for the caucus generally. And if youre President Trump, it goes back to something we have been talking about the past few days. Where trump is a by stander president. He may take the reigns on cultue wars. Republicans cant agree on health care. We have seen that. Maybe there is a compromise to be had with democrats down the road. There is an ultimate test on tax reform. Real problems. Because health care is tough. Taxes should be right with their zone. Thats the problem. You have more of these challenges coming and a caucus that cant agree. Thank you all for the analysis on this. We appreciate it. Big test for the he president. And that point about starting a wave of on pop limp and now not being able to control it. This will be releasing that movement. After tweeting more than two dozen times about the National Anthem and players, the president made this an issue relevant right now even though there is the reality on your screen. Puerto rico is something we would have thought would have demanded full attention. The president is denying he was distracted. He said hes all in to help puerto rico. He said hes going to go there. We will discuss the change and what we hope it means next. Are you done yet . Does it look like im done . 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To me the nfl situation is a very important situation. I have heard that before about was i preoccupied. Not at all. Not at all. I have plenty of final on my hands. All i do is work. To be honest, that is an important function of working. Its called respect for our country. Look, no question he was spending more time tweeting with the nfl than he was about puerto rico. He hasnt said anything about puerto rico since the storm touched down. It had been almost a week. But we have seen a change. After the latest criticism, the tone has changed. Lets bring back gregory and chris solizz a e ra skand erol. He got hit hard for not being out there more about puerto rico. Now he says there is a change. Hes going there. How do you see it . Look, there is a time stamped record of what he did. For him to say i was paying attention to both, we know the time in which the tweets went out and all the subsequent fervor that followed. It is not what he did at any given time of the day or that he was thinking about it. Yes, we know he got the briefings he would get full updates on whats going on. The question is did he mobilize resources of the federal government. Half of all americans dont understand that pure to rherto are american people. I think one thing that has change sd there a changed is that celebrities were tweeting. Geraldo rivero has been front and center. Sonia sotomayor couldnt reach members of her own family. It comes this up to a much higher level. J. Lo, arod, marc anthony, even was talking about it. The president , albeit belatedly, is going there. Does that show he is responsive to criticism . Well, there is no question. This is an area like we discussed yesterday when he was giving good marks. You know, any politician has to understand that your response to a Natural Disaster is your bread and butter as a politician. It is is your core function, governments core function is to protect its people. I remember back to hurricane katrina. There were a lot of factors in that. One of the reasons president bush was criticized so heavily, he was a governor in texas. He knew how to do this. He understand this was a core function. And things got in the way. But it led to criticism. Here too the president allowed himself to be distracted, wanted to be distracted. Wasnt paying attention enough for a number of different reasons. Not to folk the power of the presidency on the plight of Puerto Ricans which continues now and that doesnt make it better. He has the ability to marshal attention. And a difficult road back because of where they are located. Interesting die nam you can. You have Puerto Ricans and others coming up and arguing about it. These are americans. You dont have to be latino to care about it. The lack of focus to this point. Is this just a political issue or a practical one . Do we see any proof that either the preliminary moves or current moves, fema is and all the related agencies was in any way hampered or not as good as it could have been because the president wasnt owning it . I think its difficult because were on still relatively close to it happening. Its not make this go here, make this go here. But saying this matters. I will take my giant spotlight and shine it down. The there. Say he never mentioned anything about the nfl or the speech for Luther Strange or over the weekend. What are we talking about . It is puerto rico. These people dont have water. They dont have elect. In spining the light on something that is not puerto rico, even if he did put all the pieces in motion as he claims to ensure aid was getting down there and the work of reconstruction was beginning, you can still do more than that as president. It is a very unique job in that way. You are able to shine a light and say lets Pay Attention to this. Lets give the celebrities giving money down there. Lets see what he can do down there. He spent the last five days until yesterday afternoon talking about the nfl. But now he is talking about puerto rico, errol and doing it in typical trumpian fashion. Lets hear the president talk about the challenges and why puerto rico is much harder than the other hurricaneravaged blaze. We have gotten a pluses on texas and florida. And we will also on puerto rico. The difference is this is an island in the middle of the ocean. Its a very big ocean. Were doing a really good job. It is a very big ocean. Its a pretty big ocean. The optics are going to look terrible. The substance is going to be terrible. People are dying. Half a million dont have clean water. People in hospitals who need oxygen, dialysis. The president not just tweeting about the nfl. Hes at a political rally playing politics. Fund raiser at la sur in new york city. This is not going to look well as you unfold the disaster unfolding down there. There is something called the jones act which makes all the prices of consumer goods and fuel hard tore get and higher costs in puerto rico. The administration has specifically said they will not suspend the jones act right now in this moment of great need. It shows there is not a real urge seu and f urgency and focus. That is a good point. Why not change the rules to make things less expensive for the people in puerto rico . An interesting point. Thank you very much, panel. Good talking to you. So people seeing the relief that President Trump is tout anything puerto rico. Thats the question. What is the reality on the ground . We have teams there. We will show it to you. We will show you the need with live reports from san juan next. And were taking the pulse of the people. How do trumps voters feel about his response to Hurricane Maria . Thats coming up. Kevin, meet y