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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 deliver. >> every day in the oval office he tells reince and i, i committed this to the american people,...

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 today's speech. wasn't 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 today's? >> reporter: the president will sound similar. when i was in that room i was thinking i was back at a campaign rally six months ago, or a year ago. his proposals...

Snoek at cpac. he really speaks publicly and he talked about everything is going just as planned. it's not chaos. it's exactly how we want it. let's listen to a moment of steve bannon. >> there's a new political order being formed out of this, and it's still being formed. i think the center core of what we believe, that we're 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 that's what unites us. i think that's what's going to unite this movement going forward. >> what did you hear from steve...

On the latter. we disparage the fact that there are leakers leaking classified information which is extremely worrisome, not once, not twice. we've 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 he's had both the right and the left angry at him probably means he's doing his job in a dignified way. >> today t...

Reiterating his call for nuclear supremacy. >> if countries are going to have nukes, we're going to be at the top of the pack. >> reporter: the president also comparing his crackdown on undocumented immigrants to a military operation. >> we're getting really bad dudes out of this country. it's 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, repeat no use of military force in immigration operations, none. >> reporter: joe johns, cnn, wash...