[Bolduan:] We're counting down right now to a big policy speech from Donald Trump coming up in a couple hours in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. He'll be talking about trade. But we're also waiting to learn more about what appears to be a shift on the major proposal and one of the major controversies of his campaign, a ban on Muslims entering the United States. It's been met with criticism from Democrats and people in his own party, including Paul Ryan. The Trump campaign is now saying they are revising their proposal revising the play having to do with immigration, no longer to focus only on Muslims. Instead, on people coming from terror states. A lot of clarity needs to be offered on that point. We'll go over to CNN's White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, watching more on this. Jim, what are we expecting to hear from Trump today in this speech and also on the Muslim ban?
[Jim Acosta, Cnn Senior White House Correspondent:] Hi, Kate. Yeah, Donald Trump will be returning to some of those things he was testing out over the weekend after the vote in Britain to break in the European Union. You recall after the Brexit vote Trump said he hopes Americans will re-declare their independence this fall. Well, the presumptive GOP nominee will deliver a speech today on trade that has been dubbed, quote, "declaring American economic independence," at a factory outside of Pittsburgh, in a state Trump has put no his target list for the fall. He will go after trade deals like NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He will slam the White House and Hillary Clinton as politicians who betrayed American workers for the sake of globalism. Now the Clinton camp has already offered a rebuttal to much of what Donald Trump will say today. They are accusing the New York businessman of peddling a slew of products over the years that were manufactured overseas, from ties to furniture. Now as for the Muslim ban, Trump has been hinting to this change over weeks saying he would welcome a Muslim into the U.S., if they were coming in from Scotland. Campaign sources tell us that yesterday advisers were putting the finishing touches on a new policy that would no longer propose a temporary ban on Muslims immigrating into the U.S. Instead, as you mentioned, that ban would apply to countries with no terrorist links. Obviously, there's a lot of questions to be asked and we'll see if Donald Trump talks about this today. My sense is he will not during this speech, so we will be watching for policy announcements. The campaign has simply not announced this yet, but I talked to an adviser yesterday who said they were working on this new policy over the weekend as Donald Trump was in Scotland making these remarks that was basically sending reporters in all sorts of different directions trying to figure out where the campaign stands on it at this point. But this adviser I talked to yesterday said the policy change is coming soon Kate?
[Bolduan:] And this is significant as we wait to hear about it, Jim. This is one of the few areas where Donald Trump has very early and been very specific on a proposal that he would like to put in place when becoming president. Jim Acosta on this. Thank you so much. We'll talk more about Trump's new position on the Muslim ban he's proposed. Let's bring Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, from Tennessee. Congresswoman, thank you for joining me.
[Rep. Marsha Blackburn, , Tennessee:] Sure, yes.
[Bolduan:] You have endorsed you have endorsed Donald Trump and support his position. Do you consider it a change what we're hearing coming from the campaign, do you consider this a change from his original position?
[Blackburn:] You know, I'm so pleased to see there be more specificity and it comes more in line on the legislation we are working on in the House and the Senate. Both Senator Sessions and I have legislation, he in the Senate, me in the House, that would dealing with this halting and pausing of the resettlement program until the president can give us a definitive plan. Let us know how people are going to be vetted. Look at the long-temple costs. Look at the annual costs. And then also making sure that DHS can tell us who has come into the country since 2001, and do we have any coming in on the terrorist watch list. So I'm pleased to see this step. I think it is positive. And it is exactly, precisely what I hear from people every day that they want to see happen.
[Bolduan:] You mentioned, just position, the campaign when asked about it yesterday said there's no change in his proposal. But it is a change, yes?
[Blackburn:] I think there is clarification here because you're looking at people that are coming from countries that have a known link to terrorism. And you're asking our government to do their part.
[Bolduan:] So that is a change. Do you think clarification is a change or no?
[Blackburn:] I think clarification brings some more specificity to tell us exactly what you're going to say. And I think realizing, too, Kate, as we are going into the convention and the end of the general election, you're going to see that. Go back to Hillary Clinton last December, who said she would not use the term "radical Islam." Look at what she just recently did last week. She used the term "radical Islam," which I thought that was a positive for her. We have, it seems on the Democratic side of the aisle, a lot of people who are terror deniers. Look at what has transpired as facts have come forward through the Benghazi report. Look at what is happening with the presence of ISIS in the terrorist cells that are now, according to the FBI, in all 50 states. And so I think the more we can say this is how we're going to get behind this, this is how we're going to be more watchful. I talked to constituents very involved with the missions programs and outreach. They want to make certain that people that are coming into the country are who they claim to be. And that they are where
[Bolduan:] So a positive step in clarifying his position, is the clarification banning Muslims or all people coming from terror states?
[Blackburn:] I think that it is going to be a halt. Many of us in Congress have said, let's just pause, let's take a pause, and let's make certain that the administration has a plan for ban on all Muslims That's smart and that's common sense.
[Bolduan:] or on all people coming in?
[Blackburn:] I can only talk to you about what we have done in Congress. I have not spoken with Mr. Trump. But what we have done in Congress is to say, let's take a temporary pause, a time-out, let's get our act together on this. Let's make certain that we know who people are, where they are coming from, what their intentions are, and be certain that we know what the cost is going to be.
[Bolduan:] Do you have a clear idea of what terror states we are talking about here? What is a terror state?
[Blackburn:] I think you're looking at countries that would have link or a sponsorship to terror. And we know that many of those exist in the Middle East. So let's wait and let's let the campaign come forward with their plan. I can't speak for their plan until
[I -- Bolduan:] Right.
[Blackburn:] I can just tell you what we have looked at in Congress as we've looked at the security issues of this country. National security is the top issue in this campaign. And
[Bolduan:] Does it concern you that when they define it as links the way they define terror attacks or attempts launched against the United States and European allies, is how they have described it, that would include the U.K. and France and Belgium.
[Blackburn:] Let's let them move forward with their plan. What we want to make certain is those coming into the country are not going to do us harm. And that is the reason for looking at this. And I've got to tell you, as you at the Office of Refugee Resettlement, there's not a lot of transparency there. As you talk with them trying to get information, their reports are delayed. When you talk with individuals that are handling some of the unaccompanied alien individuals and children, they will tell you don't know if the individuals they are releasing, these unaccompanied alien children, if they are in the country illegally. They don't know the relationship to those children. That is something that is difficult to confirm. I have friends that are very involved in fighting trafficking, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and they are quite concerned gangs, what is going on in some of the links there. So I think that for the security of the nation, let's pause it. Let's get our act together on this. Let's be sure the office of Refugee Resettlement is working appropriately.
[Bolduan:] We'll wait to see how Donald Trump clarifies it.
[Blackburn:] Yes, we will. Yes, we will.
[Bolduan:] Congresswoman Blackburn
[Blackburn:] Thank you.
[Bolduan:] thank you for your time, as always. Appreciate it.
[Blackburn:] Sure. Lots to discuss. Our political panel is here to discuss. Mo Elleithee is back with us; and Jason Osborne, a Trump supporter who worked on the Ben Carson campaign; and Ana Navarro, CNN political commentator, who supported Jeb Bush's campaign. Great to see you guys. Ana, on the issue of Donald Trump, we are waiting for clarity. If it looks like a pivot, sounds like a pivot, is it a pivot and does it make you happy?
[Ana Navarro, Cnn Political Commentator:] I have absolutely no idea what it is because, frankly, it is a moving target. It's very difficult to figure out what the position is. What we saw yesterday was two Warren spokespeople from the same campaign. One said it was a changing, the other one said absolutely no change. Bottom line, he's held more positions now than the Kama Sutra. We just saw that from Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, bless her soul, she had to speak to what Congress is doing because being able to articulate what the Trump campaign is advocating has become an extremely difficult task. If you can do it, good for you. I can't tell you what the current decision is. I can tell you the last thing he said, the last statement from Donald Trump, was that it was an absolute and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. If he has changed, it will be a pivot. That is yet to see. And we will see it if and when it comes out of his mouth.
[Bolduan:] Jason, if it's a pivot, does it make you happy? This is what when you look at the numbers in exit polls, during the primary in South Carolina, 75 percent of Republican primary voters agreed with the all-out complete ban the way Donald Trump originally prescribed it. Super Tuesday, two-thirds of GOP primary voters supported him. This is one of the things, why they supported him. This is one of the things that got him where he is today. And now he's pivoting.
[Jason Osborne, Trump Supporter & Ben Carson Campaign Worker:] No, I wouldn't say it's a policy.
[Bolduan:] What?
[Osborne:] I think you have to look at the broader complex you have to look at what he has been saying all along, which is there's been a deep concern among Americans that state-sponsored terrorism should be restricted those people coming from countries where there is state- sponsored terrorism.