Its thursday, march 15th. I am ayman mow hey dean alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis burgdorf. In a leaked recording from a gop fundraising dinner in missouri confirmed by nbc news, trump claimed conor lamb supported his agenda. Quote, the young man last night that ran, he said, oh, im like trump. Second amendment, everything. I love the tax cuts, everything. He ran on that basis. He ran on a campaign that said very nice things about me. I said, is he a republican . He sounds like a republican to me. But lamb called the republican tax bill a give away to the top 1 supported expanded background checks and criticized the attempt to repeal obamacare. Now, republicans and conservative groups spend 13. 3 million on tuesdays special election with outside groups behind the republican candidate vastly outspending the ones that backed lamb with ads that depicted lamb as a liberal. The Republican House members in the rnc said lamb was in step with them the whole way. Mr. Lamb was brilliant. He ran as a republican. So it worked for him. He certainly didnt run as a democrat. Conor lamb ran as a guy who would line himself up with President Trump. The lessons was run away from nancy pelosi and run with donald trump. At the end of the day, he ran as a republican. Conor lamb ran as a republic. So you had a republican in name versus a republican in truth. All right. The speaker of the house is publicly sending a message of calm in the face of a difficult midterm ahead. Democrats now must slip another 23 seats to win control of the house and according to the politico report, there are 118 seats less friendly pennsylvanias district. Now, speaking to his caucus in private, House Speaker paul ryan called tuesdays results a bit of a wakeup call. But when in front of the cameras, he dismissed the significance and praised President Trumps contribution. Watch this. The if it is truly a wakeup call, as we understand you told your members this morning, isnt it also a wakeup call for the role the president should play, in your opinion, in the upcoming midterms . Look, you saw the public polling. The public polling wasnt looking so good and the president came in and helped close this race. Both of these candidates, the republicans and democrats ran as conservatives, rans as pro gun, pro life, antinancy pelosi conservatives and i think thats what we see here. Not sure he quoted the way he wanted. And President Trump will join the speaker today for the president of irelands dinner. Also last might, the president at a gop fundraiser trump said, quote, trudeau came to see me. Hes a good guy, justin. He said, no, no, we have no trade deficit with you. We have none. Donald, please. I said, wrong, justin, you do. I didnt even know. I had no idea. I just said youre wrong. He said nope, we have no trade deaf sigz. I said well, in that case, i feel differently, but i dont believe it. I sent one of their guys out. I said check because i cant believe it. Well, sir, youre actually right. We have no deficit, but that doesnt include energy and timber and when you do, we lose 17 billion a year. Its incredible. But as the Washington Post points out, the office of the United States trade representative says the United States has a trade surplus with candidate. Can we rerooet read that entire take. Now to the latest in the scandal involving stormy daniels. Weve learned that jill a. Martin signed legal papers three weeks ago that were intended to keep the former adult star film star whose real name is Stephanie Clifford quiet about an alleged affair with donald trump. According to cliffords lawyer, its another piece of evidence that proves trump knew about the nondisclosure agreement and the 130,000 hush money from trumps lawyer. Now the Trump Organization released a statement to nbc news saying, quote, the Trump Organization is not representing anyone and with the exception of one of its californiabased attorneys in her individual capacity facilitating the initial filing, the company has had no involvement in the matter. Meanwhile, a july 12th hearing has been set for cliffords lawsuit and in dissolving the nondisclosure agreement. You are now in the line of work of defending women who have had sexual relationships with the president that he would like to keep quiet. Have more women come to you . Yes. How many . Im not going to answer that. Dozens . Not a dozen. More than five . Im not going to answer that. Theres the prospects of massive turnover at the white house in the coming weeks with anonymous white house sources describe to fox news as a, quote, bloodbath that can begin as early as today. Among the first expected to go, National Security adviser hr mcmaster, according to multiple reports and those coming from nbc news. Unnamed sources tell vanity fair that trump was furious mcmaster was speaking with rice. John bolton is seen as the likely replacement. David shu you lkin is reportedly on the chopping block. Rec perry denied an Associated Press report that he is in discussions to replace him. Fox reports that john kelly could soon be leaving his post as chief of staff. As for attorney general Jeff Sessions, two republicans in regular contact with the white house say there are talks of putting epa administrator scott pruitt into his position. And there are reports that the president is adamant about getting Jared Kushner and ivanka trump out of there and back to new york. A friend of the president saying, quote, he thinks theyve been getting hit too hard. So in the wake of Rex Tillersons firing, there could be contentious hearing for mike pompeo. Rand paul has announced his opposition to both nominees while explaining his decision. The senator specifically cited the participation in the cias torture program under former president george w. Bush. Appointing someone to be the head of cia who is actively involved with waterboarding someone and was gleefully sort of, you know, just expressing their joy at his suffering, i think, is the wrong kind of message to send the world. Republican senator john mccain is voicing concern. In a statement he writes in part, ms. Haspel needs to explain the nature and extent of her involvement in the cias Interrogation Program during the nomination process. In the senate, the gop has a very slim margin, we should say. Joining us from washington is daniel lippman. Good to see you this morning. Thanks for joining us. Going with the casual look today. I know its early, daniel, but come on. Really making daniel feel good this morning. We love daniel. Hey, how bumpy, daniel, do you think these confirmation hearings could be for pompeo and haspel considering so far what weve heard on the hill . I dont expect them to be that, you know, bad for pompeo and haspel. I think a lot of democrats and republicans, he they view mike pompeo, even though hes a pretty conservative and kind of a hawk, they view him as a real breath of fresh air compared to Rex Tillerson who everyone thought had done a horrible job as secretary of state. A lot of Foreign Policy operatives, they want pompeo in th there given that they dont want john bolton as secretary of state or National Security adviser and they think pompeo could rebuild the state departments morale which has taken a turn for the worst. Daniel, let me ask you about some of the shakeups that weve been going over. Theres mounting speculation that were going to see a lot more exits from this administration. Even the president himself hinted at it when he said earlier he is very close to having the cabinet he wants. Whats the over under on who is next and who are we going to see on the chopping block . So i think trump is finally realizing that he is president and he can pick who is in his cabinet. Its kind of taken more than a year for him to do that. But i think were expected to see david shu you lkin leave the va. Scott pruitt could be picked for dog. And that would mean that Jeff Sessions would leave. And that would be a very controversial choice because, you know, pruitt would not not seen as a very independent voice at doj. And i cthink trump is trying to get rid of the dead wood. Youve been so many scandals from ben carsons dining room set to private jets. What about john kelly, do you think thats going to happen . If so, who can be his next chief on of staff . So i think Mick Mulvaney would probably take that job. But i dont know if mulvaney would want to be chief of staff. Weve seen people who are well respected, like reince priebus, and john kelly. Once you take that job for a few months, it seems like your reputation goes to taters. It doesnt matter if you are the most qualified person in the world. Thanks for that, daniel lippman. The president floats a shortterm deal for dreamers, but the white house may already be backing away. Plus, thousands of students if from across the country walk out of school over gun violences as lawmakers back new gun safety legislation. Those stories and a check on your weather. [burke] at farmers, weve seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a redhot mascot. [mascot] heyoooo whoop, whoop [crowd 1] hey, youre on fire [mascot] you bet i am [crowd 2] dude, youre on fire [mascot] oh, yeah [crowd 3] no, youre on fire look behind you. [mascot] im cool. Im cool. [burke] thats one way to fire up the crowd. But we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. 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The walk out lasted for 17 minutes, one minute for each victim. Around 31,000 schools participated in the protests, varying in in size with many participants wearing orange, the color representing support for tighter gun laws. In response to yesterdays demonstrations, the nra posted a photo to twitter in a rifle captioned ill control my own gun, thank you. Meanwhile, the house passed a School Safety bill with bipartisan support. It would provide 50 million a year for a new federal Grant Program for schools to conduct training to identify signs of School Violence before it occurs and set up anonymous reporting systems for threats. It woulder authorize an additional 25 million for schools to install new locks, melti metal detectors. And it allows people with concealed carry permits to carry their guns across state lines which could prevent it from passing in the senate. Switching gears for a moment, President Trump may be changing his position on a potential daca deal. White house officials have told key Congressional Republican leaders that trump is open to cut ago deal on daca in exchange for border wall funding. Thats according to four gop officials briefed on those talks. This would be a significant shift for President Trump who just back in january insisted on much broader immigration restrictions in exchange for protecting dreamers. According to one gop official, one idea under consideration would grant the daca program a threeyear extension in exchange for three years of border wall funding. Two republican officials briefed o on the talks said the socalled three for three proposal had been floated in staff discussions in recent days. However, yesterday the white house said that it opposes that type of deal and that congress should include wall funding in the upcoming spending bill, regardless of an agreement on daca. Politico reports that some republicans worry the latest push from the white house on immigration could hurt their work on the omnibus package. The upcoming bill may be trumps last chance to secure border wall funding before the november midterms. Lets get a check on your weather the bill carins. I woke up this morning and i thought, i hope bill karins has more news for us, but there is no sign of spring anywhere to be found. Not in the east. I was walking in a 23 degree windchill this morning and i said, all right, ive had enough. Im done. Windchills 23 in new york. Its 25 in charleston. Atlanta has a windchill of 35. And you know there are kids in march on spring break in florida and they are a windchill of 33 right now in jacksonville, florida. People arent happy about that. We have snow in maine, snow showers in upstate new york. This is going to end during the day. Because of the cold temperatures in the south and because were now into the beginning of our growing season, freeze warnings are up from mississippi through alabama through south carolina. So this is like endless talk of winter. Temperatures as far as the lows will go, 32 tall has issy, 32 at birmingh birmingham. Todays forecast, the difference between the northern half of the country this year, we still get a lot of clouds. High sun angle, you warm up 67 in atlanta and into the 70s in texas. You get into the 80s in texas on friday. The problem is that a cold front comes through and with it were going to have a chance of some Severe Weather. We havent talked a lot about that. Its been a slow start to our Severe Weather soap. No complaints with that. Usually its not warm enough and thats been the case. Very cold friday in the northeast, too. Windy, too. Highs only in the 30s. We should be near 50s this time of year. New orleans northward, this is the area to watch for strong storms. This is friday afternoon and evening. Little rock, memphis, shreveport, jackson, mississippi, everywhere in between, maybe an isolated tornado or two. Doesnt look like a big outbreak. I feel like were being punished for the nice couple of days that we had in february. 70 degrees. I was like, its over. We really rubbed it in, bill. Can we bring louis back up, guys . I have a serious question for him. This could be interesting. Louis, was that really your first thought this morning, i really hope bill karins has yes, it was. You woke up and bill karins is in your head. What was interesting, with when i woke up i was thinking i wonder what louis is thinking about. This is really awkward. Still ahead, march madness kicks off in full swing later today. Hope you have your brackets filled out. And if you need any help, youve come to the right place. Were going to show you who one former president picked to win it all. And if you have Heart Failure, entrusting your heart to entresto may help. 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Mccarron has found a new home agree to go a twoyear deal with the buffalo bills. Meanwhile, the bron cos and vikings finalize a trade for Trevor Siemen and denver will receive a 2019 pick and the Arizona Cardinals are parting ways with matthew after the team was unable to restructure his contract. Matthew expressed no hard feelings, though, thanking the organiz