watergate. >> president trump is very frustrated, and nobody has seen him that upset. >> i am the attorney general of the whole of united states. i got to meet the president and everything. >> this meeting never happened. >> i wouldn't have remembered it anyway. good morning to you on a sunday. i am christi paul. look who else got up for us? >> i am martin savidge in for victor blackwell. and sources tell us, trump's frustration is because of a major letdown within the

administration. now as sessions is to amend his testimony for russian contacts during the campaign, and we have an uproar in the oval office. >> and explosive and unsubstantiated wiretapping claims against president obama, and one republican senator says he wants to know more. >> i don't know if it's true or not, but if it is true illegally it would be the biggest political scandal since watergate. so it's my job, as a united states senator, to get to the bottom of this. >> where is trump's new travel ban? he originally argued it was urgently needed to stop, quote, bad dudes from rushing in, and now we are hearing an updated executive order could be signed as early as tomorrow. >> we have experts stand pwaoeug to break down everything for us,

but let's start with cnn correspondent, ryan nobles in washington. what are you learning about the mood inside the white house? >> yeah, good morning to you. sources telling cnn that the president was frustrated and angry that attorney general jeff sessions was forced to recuse himself from any investigation into the russian interference into the trump election. in the oval office, there was a lot of expletives. we have video from outside the oval office that shows that animated with trump and his aides, and you can see them all in a discussion that appears to get heated at times. we don't know exactly what was being discussed at this particular moment, but we are told the president accused his staff of fumbling the situation with sessions, and after that angry white house meeting the

president left for florida, and it was from his mar-a-lago estate on saturday morning that trump tweeted out the explosive accusation that president obama ordered a tapping of his phone at the trump tower during the campaign. and the administration is not backing down from trump's claim. this morning in a statement to cnn, white house press secretary, sean spicer, confirms that white house council is reviewing what options, if any, are available to us. that could include obtaining records from the justice department that would prove that a warrant was issued to conduct surveillance on trump or his associates. protocol is normally walled the justice department off from such a request. >> thank you for the explanation. let's continue the

conversation with our panelists. tom, to you, before sessions recused himself on thursday, trump stood by him and said that he didn't think sessions should recuse himself, and so is that what is the source of trump's anger here? >> sessions made the right political call here, and even if it's one donald trump did not want. sessions defused this thing. when i was going around the capital on thursday asking senators, members of the armed services committee that served on their with sessions, did they ever meet ma keuz lack, and the answers i was getting were flat nosed, and then they grew into i am not sure, i need to check that. and this goes to the sensitivity there. and sessions defused this.

whether or not trump reizalized what he did, sessions handed him a huge favor. >> the trump relationship there, complicated is the word that comes to mind, and controversial is another that comes to mind. here's just a quick reminder. >> i think that president obama is behind it, because his people are certainly behind it. we are grateful to president obama and first lady, michelle obama, for their gracious aid throughout this transition. i have great respect -- the meeting lasted for almost an hour and a half and it could v. as far as i am concerned, could have gone for longer. there's one line called place of birth. i would like to see what he said. president barack obama was born in the united states, period.

>> there's just a little taste there. trump was a little more diplomatic during the transition than the inauguration. is that all over? >> we did see him moderate his tone after he was elected president. this is one of the first times we have seen him go back after former president obama since obama sort of stepped out of the spotlight. obama, though, has not shied away from criticizing trump, remember, just ten days after inauguration day obama came out with a word critical of trump's travel ban, and trump might be feeling pressure, and seeing that former obama administration has no qualms about criticizing trump trump may feel that graciousness is gone, and now he

can attack on social media. >> looks like that way. and what is the sources of the wiretap? >> president trump is tap into a story line in conservative media. we have seen stories about this for months and it came to a head on thursday on a radio program. he is a conservative radio show host, and i spoke with him over e-mail yesterday and he said the public record is damning of the obama administration with regards to investigations that were happening by obama's government last year before election day. so he talks about that on the radio, and suggests there's a quiet coup being attempted, and that gets to breitbart.com by thursday night.

the bright ba we don't know what prompted trump to tweeted on saturday morning, and we can link this back to breitbart and to the conservative narrative that president obama is out to get trump, and that's a convenient excuse, two or three or four -- whatever years down the line, and they will be able to point back to president obama and say it's all obama's fault, and i wonder if there are bread crumbs being laid to assign blame later on, and that's a theory, my theory. >> proof is what is needed here. the administration officials say the white house council is reviewing what options are available to backup the wiretap

claims. >> they should review the options carefully because the implications are very serious. the entire essence of fisa courts are done in secret by seven-year appointed judges. the idea is the doj conducts surveillance actions and obtains warrants in secret because they are surveilling foreign agents or americans working for foreign agents, and for the white house to interfere in that investigation, especially if it's active, could be very problematic. while theoretically it's possible there was a fisa warrant in operation against people in trump's organization, that is the kind of thing that doesn't normally come to light, and again, that's been a criticism of the fisa court that it operates almost entirely in secret and on a probable cause

standard that is much less than what the regular courts have to deal with. >> what else seems to infuriate the president, and that's leaks. what do you make about sources within the white house leaking information to cnn and other outlets that drives the negative reports about the administration? >> there are two different kinds of leaks we are seeing coming out of the administration. one is like you mention, the west wing chatter about who is up or down, and then there are other leaks about sensitive diplomatic conversation or classified information, and those are the ones that seem to drive trump the most crazy because he thinks that there are former obama appointees or hold over bureaucrats leaking that to undermine him, and he is really talking about the government side leaks that are reflective of some of the internal workings

of the government that he would rather not get out. i don't know if the west wing chatter bothers him nearly as much as those other separate kinds of leaks. >> and when the president tweeted about the wiretapping, there was a few republicans that spoke out among them, ben sass, and he warned of a civilization warping crisis of public trust, and then calling on trump to show evidence to support his claims, but that has to be harder for a president that is known for pedaling his own conspiracy theories. >> it is strange, you know, if we were not talking about donald trump, for instance, if we were talking about bill clinton and george w. bush, for instance, this would be earth shattering. relatively speaking, this may not seem as strange because it is president trump. i think this goes to the question and deeper concerns that you do hear from lawmakers,

which is how far is this going, all right? and, look, at the beginning of the week, at the beginning of last week he delivered an excellent not state of the union, but joint address, and everybody was praising him for that and you saw ae laytion from republicans. by the end of the week, he's back to this. that's where this concern comes from. >> what does the president think his powers are? if he believes a former president was tapping his phones in trump tower, when that's not how fisa courts work, what does trump think his powers are? this is a man who reportedly listened in on peoples' conversations at mar-a-lago, and used to be somebody else in the '80s, and what does he -- i think this raises so many

questions, and i feel for his aides that have no idea how to respond about the tweets, and the president is back tweeting this morning and who knows what he will say about this today? >> the whole credibility of the president is at stake. jake has nancy pelosi and marco rubio on the show today, and that's "state of the union" at 9:00 a.m. eastern time here on cnn. investigators are trying to determine if this is the latest in a rash of anti-semitic crimes in the u.s. >> plus, president trump promised to separate himself from his businesses. next a hotel in canada could create a headache for him. and then "saturday night live," a look at the administration through the lens of a classic movie.

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>> i am martin savidge. and then sessions recused himself from any investigations into possible ties between russian officials and the trump campaign. democrats want to know why jeff sessions didn't reveal -- what he didn't reveal during his confirmation hearing that he met with the russian ambassador two times last year. president trump expected as well -- not only that happening tomorrow, but the president is expected to sign this updated travel ban on certain middle eastern and african countries and could sign it as early as tomorrow, and an official with the trump administration warns cnn, look, things could change. i want to bring back sarah westwood, white house correspondent, and tom, a politics reporter. this is significant, tom, because one of the changes they are talking about is deleting iraq from the list. why is that so important and what would it make any

difference? >> they need to narrow the scope of this thing. you don't want to go back and have the same problems that you had the first time because, remember, when they rolled it out the first time this got in the way of everything else. they are trying to narrow the scope of this thing and trying to learn lessons from the fumbles rollout, and trying to keep moving with their overall agenda here. >> sarah, let's talk about the timing of this. he was supposed to sign it on wednesday, and then they wanted the joint address to congress to breathe a little bit because it was so successful, and they wanted the executive order to have its own moment, and do you think it will happen this week? >> i think the trump administration would welcome a change of conversation now with the scrutiny of the attorney general, jeff sessions. they will try to draw focus on the policy, and the idea behind the policy, not the original execution of it was popular with half of americans, and there are

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"saturday night live" bringing back the classics. the show returned to parody's trump's best week. >> brian stelter has the highlight. they are not taking it easy on the white house, but is there anything that kate mckinnon can't do? >> she does seem to play every character on the up soedz of "snl," and here she reprised the character for jeff sessions, and here's another sketch when the russian president showed up. >> i talk to the russians. you know, i met with a fellow that turned out to be russian on the account of he was the russian ambassador. his name was sir gay kissly abg. i don't remember the any name

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tonight cnn's original series "finding jesus" is back, and it has a look at the roman governor of judia at the time of jesus' death. >> and exploring the ground breaking discoveries that reveal more about the time and life of jesus. here's a preview. >> in the bible, pilot is infamous as the man who tries jesus. >> he's a fascinating character in history, and he does seem tormented about whether or not jesus is guilty and whether or not he should condemn him.

>> he seems deeply concerned with jesus' innocence. >> i have the authority to set you free. >> he's not firm and decisive about what he wants to do. >> the discovery of his name in stone was ground-breaking. >> the significance of the pilot stone is it gives us hard evidence of the central figure from the story of the crucifixion of jesus, so does he really exist and he really lived and he was the prefect of judaism. >> all right. i want to bring in our cnn religion communicator, father beck. have not seen him in a while. it's good to see you again, father. >> you, too. >> i want to know, and i understand you have seen the first episode in full. what is your takeaway, and what do you think people will glean

from it? >> that clip really showed two great takeaways from the first episode. the first is the archeological discoveries that pawn khus pilot really existed. there are archeological discoveries with a stone in an amphitheater that have the words on them. you have a jewish historian writing about him and jesus, and this is an independent authority, so it supplements the gospel accounts for all the believers, and they say, wow, these people did exist and it draws people more into the story, so finding jesus makes a good point about bringing out the historical data for jesus, for a trial, for him being

condemned to the death, and i think it just adds to a believer's perspective. of course we are not going to have facts to believe, but it does kind of help along the belief to know these are historical accounts, >> so when it comes to pontius pilate, are there discussions about his role whether he was a monster who condemned them to death, or if he really struggled with that decision, if it was a burden to him? >> well, this is the other really interesting point. remember, the gospels are written about 90 years, especially the gospel of john, after the death of jesus. the destruction of the temple has occurred. the jewish people, the identity has changed. so now romans are becoming christians. so the gospel writers in some way most believe tempered pontius pilate as being indecisive, not being totally culpable for the death of jesus. he says i find no guilt in the

man, and the high priest of the temple caiaphas, the jewish authorities are pushing pilate to condemn jesus to death so more culpability is given to the jewish authorities in the gospel than pontius pilate even though he condemns jesus to death. so this is coined of a shading historically and people say, well, no, pontius pilate was a pretty bad guy and he probably wasn't indecisive by the gospel writers present him in a way that lets him off the hook a little because they had romans joining the christian community and wanted to balance out perhaps how bad pilate really was. >> so interesting. father beck, so good to have your voice back and see you again. thank you for being here. >> thanks, christi. good seeing you, too. >> tune into the season premiere of "finding jesus" tonight at 9:00 eastern only here on cnn. the world famousite rod

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the office of disease prevention and health promotion recommends that adults get two and a half hours of moderate exercise per week. whether you're standing up or sitting down, you can do some abdominal pulses. so pulling the naval in towards the spine, holding and then releasing. for about 30 seconds and then take a rest. this helps to support your lower back and helps improve posture. next time you're cooking at the stove or warming something up at the microwave do some calf freezes, come up on your tippy toes and lower back down. this helps strengthen andize you're ankle and knee joint as well as give you definition in the lower leg. next time you're about to sit on

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there's ever a place to have snow it would be alaska. but it's where they are missing the snow so normally the start would be today. it would take place from willow, but they are having to move it all the way up to fairbanks because that alaska range region, which is in between the two, is dealing with a lack of snow, and so it's for safety reasons. starting storm when had the restart will begin in fairbanks and they will continue off to the west and end up in nome as normal. it's the alaska range area where they are really lacking it. in anchorage, for example, take a look. 78 inches so far for this. their normal is 57, so it's not necessarily any of the starting points. it's that alaska range region in between. we talk about the safety being a huge concern for a lot of the mushing cruise, so here's the reason why. much of the path that they will take ends up being dirt or gravel-based. when you have that base for a trail, you only need about 6 inches of snow on the ground

in order for conditions to be safe. the problem is then you start to go up through that range, say through places like rainy pass. the problem there is you have a lot of boulders in place that makes it hard to navigate, so for that reason you actually need more snow. you need at least about three feet of snow to make it safe and, unfortunately, given the conditions that they had it just wasn't going to be safe through that pass region. so for that region, that reason, that's why they decided to go ahead and push it back to fairbanks. when you look at the forecast of snow we are actually expect a lot of snow along the new path that will be leading from fair bancks and all the way to nome so at the end of the day, guys, this is actually a better thing. it's a safer thing. probably the biggest controversy is this had the first year cell phones will be allowed. a lot of the mushers not very happy. they feel like it takes away from the ruggedness of the race since you'll have technological help but it's for safety reasons in case anyone gets injured at any point along the trail they

do have a way to contact folks. >> do wonder what we did without them. >> i would use it for gps. >> mush that away. >> we hope you made some great memories today. thanks for being here with us this weekend. >> it was a pleasure. "inside politics" with john king, it starts right now. >> the president of the united states! >> a big night. >> everything that is broken in our country can be fixed. every problem can be solved. >> but a celebration cut short. >> i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> democrats are feisty. >> what are the republicans afraid of? this goes right to the republicans in congress to their doorstep. >> and it's crunch time for big policy fights. >> let me make you a promise. the obamacare nightmare is