those are the words from president trump according to a a media outlet. you are looking at pictures of the president arriving after a weekend in florida. . a weekend that included him accusing president obama of wiretapping his phones during the campaign, an allegation president trump provided no evidence to support. his predecessor and former director of national intelligence say it's simply not true. but the white house wants an investigation. press secretary sean spicer saying this morning, quote, reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately awe head of the 2016 election are very troubling. president donald trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into russian activity, the congressional intelligence committee exercise their u authority to determine whether executive branch powers were abused in 2016. neither the white house or president will comment further until such oversight is is conducted. all of this amid-new reports of rising frustration between the president and his staff over the

continued talk about ties to russia. i want to bring in the white house correspondent athena jones. what are you hearing about those conversations between president trump and his team regarding their handling of these russian reports? >> this is interesting. there was an animated discussion in the oval office on friday. this was captured on camera. you could see the chief strategist steve bannon speaking animatedly to several people in the oval office. and we have been reporting since yesterday that according to multiple sources the president was angry on friday, as he prepared to leave the white house and come down here to florida. he was described as showing increasing flashes of anger over his senior staff and that includes his press team and communications team and their handling of these stories about russia ties or trump aids having ties or contacts with russian

officials. particularly angry about the fact that it the stories about attorney general jeff sessions and his contacts, his meetings with russia's ambassador overshadowed what he saw as rave reviews from it his speech to congress on tuesday night. that speech to a joint session that was well reviewed. a lot of people saying he acted presidentially and garnered good headlines. he was mad about nonstop leaks that are undermining his administration. one source speaking of the president on friday said nobody has seen him that upset. just the last few hours, we have new reporting from my colleague white house producer kevin liptack who said the president's angry mood followed him down here. they say that in conversations the president has continued to express his frustrations with his team and his frustrations with their handling of the

russia story. the president didn't direct that anger at any particular aid, but he griped that his staff had failed to contain the russia story. the president also angerly raised the wiretapping issue unprompted in his conversations with friends at the club. he didn't specify what information he was basing his accusations on, but he told those members what you said in the lead in. he told members he expected an investigation to prove him right. so a very frustrated president right now. we are also seeing confirmed reports of staff members facing intense moments. some people leaving meetings in tears. >> and we see here on the other side of the screen from where you are we see leaving with the president as well as steve bannon en route to the white house. thank you so much for your latest reporting there. want to bring in my panel now. kimberly dozer and national security correspondent for "the

daily beast." also with us josh rogan, a columnist nor "the washington post." and brian stelter, host of "reliable sources." great to have you on. brian, you have brand new reporting. what are you hearing? >> following up on what athena was sharing about president trump's mood this weekend. speaking via e-mail with the ceo of news max. it's one of the conservative news outlets that's within covering trump. he was with trump twice on saturday. he's never seen the president this angry. at least not in a long time. he described the president's mood as pissed, so that's backing up the reporting from athena jones about what the president has been saying to his friends and associates this weekend in florida. he said where is the president getting this information about this idea of a wiretap against him. there's no evidence for it at all. so he said he does not know for sure.

but what he was describing lines up exactly with what breitbart pu published on friday. others have said it seems the president's source was the conservative radio host mark levin, and a story about these wiretap ideas and the broader idea of the administration undermine iing him. so here's what trump said. quote, this will be investigated. it will all come out. i will be proven right. so that's what they wrote for newsmax.com. . he was saying trump seemed so confident it was true and seem ed to know the whole trails of the fisa actions and was recounting them to me. the takeaway from it his conversations this weekend was that the president truly does believe that he was the victim of this attempt by the obama administration to tap into his pho phones, that he believes it will come out eventually and he is pissed about what's going on. >> all of this still you have the question of where was he getting his information from to tweet out this accusation and

white house staffers have been asked that. the deputy press secretary was asked about the president making such serious claims without citing any evidence here's what she said. >> as you're always telling us to take the media seriously, we are today. we're taking the reports that places like "the new york times," fox news, brk bc, multiple outlets reported this. we're saying let's take a closer look. if this happened, if this is accurate, this is the biggest overreach and the biggest scandal. >> the president of the united states is accusing the former president of wiretapping him. >> i think this is something that if this happens -- >> if, if, if. >> i agree. >> why is the president saying it did happen? >> i think he's going off of information he's saying that has led him to believe this is a very real potential. and if it is, this is the greatest overreach in the greatest abuse of power that it

i think we have ever seen in a huge attack on democracy itself and the american people have a right to know if this took place. >> josh, we should point out it's not true that "the new york times" and other outlets reported that obama wiretapped trump. . so what do you make of this what you just heard there? >> the president is clearly very upset about the ongoing investigation into his campaign and administration ties with the russians. he's latched on to this report as evidence of the conspiracy between the fbi and the obama administration and he put together a bunch of dots that it have not been supported by any evidence or proof and he's going with that. and now he's created a situation where we all have to sort of figure it out. the first people that are going to figure it out are the house intelligence committee who are investigating the underlying accusations of conclusion and

now have to sort of investigate the investigation. so in one foul swoop, the trump white house has taken these unsourced, anonymous reports, brought them to the forefront and deal with them and muddied the waters because no matter what the investigation comes up with, they will be able to point back to this and say, well, this was some sort of conspiracy between the obama white house and the fbi. again, that's not really based on anything, but it creates doubt. >> confusion benefits people in power. this is a complicated story no matter what. there were news reports from the guardian and bbc that perhaps some of trump's associates were going to be in a fisa order so perhaps their communications or bank records were obtained by the u.s. government. at that time the obama administration. trump is saying that obama was

personally listening to trump's own phone calls. nothing ever reported to indicate that. because there are those reports that sounds are going to ready. ubs understand a gim of telephone where, yes, there has been an investigation going on and the obama administration was looking into this and maybe some of trump's associates were pursued, but it's translated by trump into something that has no evidence whatsoever. >> we should also note that james clapper denied today that there were any warrants and there's also reporting that by some outlets that fbi director comey is asking the justice department to publicly state that what trump is claiming. >> we're trying to get that. we don't have that reporting confirmed here on cnn yet. but i want to read this tweet from ted lou, a democrat from california. he says, mr. president, if there's a wiretap at trump tower

that means a a federal judge found probable cause of crime, which means you are in deep blank. so what the congressman is saying is either the judge thought there was enough evidence to have your phone wiretapped, or the other option, the other alternative would be that trump was wrong in making this accusation against the form er president of the united states. does he have a point? >> it does raise the question as to whether president trump understands how the process works. understands what it takes to get a wiretap on an american citizen. but what this has effectively done is change the scandal from did the trump campaign collude with moscow against a sitting president to did a sitting president repeat the sins of nixon and try to keep trump from taking the white house. and that is going to work with his base and that's going to be something that e we in the media have to chase, deal with and try to smack down and ultimately the

documents that would prove this isn't true are classified or don't exist and it would be up to donald trump to unclassify, declassify them because he has the ultimate declassification authority as the president if there's any sort of resolution to this. >> so clearly, brian, he's not been happy with the russia headlines that followed his state of the union address that was widely praised. but does a tweet like that, or do these tweets accusing the former president of wiretapping his phone, which would have been part of this fbi investigation hypothetically into trump associates, does it keep russia in the headlines essentially, opposite of what the president wa wants. >> you're right. it does keep this issue in the headlines. i think kim is on to something crucial. we can't underestimate the potency of this story that

president trump presented and that mark levin presented on the radio on thursday saying this was a silent kooup. the president himself on saturday. the story line here that it's obama's fault. this is all obama's fault. you should blame the former president for trying to take down trump. that's a very compelling story line. look at the millions of page views for those stories on conservative websites this it weekend. that's incredibly compelling as a story if you are inclined to buy into it. if you want to believe that the former president is is trying to hurt the new guy. so yes, it does keep russia in the news, but it presents a compelling talking point for trump loyalists who believe their candidate, their man is being torn down right now. >> brian stelter, kim, josh, thank you for breaking it down for us. coming up on this sunday, a father and son's tragic story may present the best argument against sanctuary cities. .

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there's plenty to watch out for tomorrow out of the trump white house. we will be closely monitoring jeff sessions as he submits testimony to a civic committee. back in january sessions told that panel under oath he had not met with russians during the campaign even though he had met with the russian ambassador tloes twice. also on the radar, president trump is expected to sign a new executive order that will try again to restrict immigration into the u.s. so let's discuss all of this with the former republican lieutenant governor of south carolina andre bower and cnn commentator mahmoria cardona. . thank you both for coming on. many democrats see sessions amending his testimony as

admission he did not tell the truth. how do you see it? >> well, i don't know that a particular circumstances, u be i don't think he would have lied a about it intentionally. it was an open forum. . there were many people present. . so it wasn't something he was trying to hide a a secret meet ing. this was a public forum in a a government office so there was no reason to. i don't know exact ly what transpired, but it seems like he may have forgotten a about the meeting or didn't think it was actually a meeting on behalf of the campaign. i wasn't there. i don't know. i haven't talked to jeff sessions. >> so maria, a as a democrat, sessions is amending his testimony. he's recused himself from trump campaign-related fbi investigations. is that enough for you? >> i think that the fact that he recused himself and he's amending his testimony is proof that he didn't tell the truth the first time around. let's look simply at what he said under oath to the senate

judiciary committee to the american people. he said that he did not have any conversations with any russians, period. he didn't say whether that was as a surrogate of the trump campaign. he didn't say whether that was as a member of the senate judiciary committee, which by the way no other member of the committee had a meeting with the russian ambassador during the sam time. plus it happened during the time when russia and possible connections between trump and his campaign and russian officials was front and center in the news. in fact, three days after sessions met with the russian ambassador and other purported russian officials at the republican national committee, three days after that, trump called on russia to purport what is an act of war, which is to

hack into a united states citizen's e-mail, hillary clinton, and release her e-mails so this is way too close for comfort. i'm glad that sessions recused himself and he's amending his testimony. i think he should go under oath yet again to the senate judiciary u committee. if the answers are not satisfactory, i think he needs to step down. >> so what do you have to say to those who argue, look, democrats have said they didn't meet with any russians and they had nancy pelosi as one example of that. claire mccaskill said she had and she had based on a tweet she put out. so what do you have to say to that argument? >> so what i would say is, first of all, when they were asked about this, they were not under oath. they were not a part of the process to become a cabinet

official where they are under oath to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. and so what pelosi situation was and i saw the picture of the meeting she had had, she wasn't meeting with the russian ambassador per se. . she was meeting with a bunch of other people with the press present because there's a picture of it. and there was no reason for her to tell a a lie. so the situations -- >> think about that. >> it's completely different here. >> they are not. >> yes, they are. she was not under oath. she was not under oath when she was asked the question. >> this were meeting as a member of the united states senate. it would be different. >> i guess that applies to pelosi too whether she's under oath or not.

>> even if you're not under oath. . >> my point exactly. >> she talked about this during her interview with jake tapper this morning in the state of the union. she was in a huge group of people where the russian ambassador happened to be. it wasn't a one-on-one meeting with him. again, it's completely different. when session was under oath, m pam, the oath goes do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. you can tell us alternative facts if it you want to. that's now how it goes. >> why would a a guy -- >> quickly, because i want to go on to another topic. >> if a guy is under oath in front of his colleagues, being confirmed, there would be no reason to lie for this. he probably just slipped up. it wasn't like he had a special secret meeting. this was a meeting doing his

fiduciary responsibilities. those are customary done all the time. he knew this -- if he thought about this, he knew it would come back up and i can assure you there would be no reason to negate not telling a congressional hearing this. >> being under oath and during the process of being confirmed is one of the biggest processes of your political career. i'm sorry, i don't buy that he wasn't prepared, he didn't understand the question. of course, you prepare for this. you know very well about that. and sgss is much smarter than what you're giving him credit for. >> there would be no reason for him. >> guys, i got to wrap it up. thank you both. we have breaking news to get to. . thank you both for that lively discussion. we have some news come into cnn. another missile test by north korea. the second test in the past four weeks. another foreign crisis for

president trump to deal with. . . more on this, after this break. stay with us.

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breaking news just into cnn. south korea news agencies are quoting the countries military is saying north korea has fired an unidentified projectile into the sea of japan. it's come four weeks after the north tested a ballistic missile. that missile traveled some 300 miles before falling sbo the east sea. you can see the range on this map right here. i want to get right to cnn's paula hancock, joining us on the phone from south korea. what can you tell us, paula?

>> pamela, we have confirmed from the defense ministry officials that this took place just about an hour ago. there was a projectile fired from north pyongyang province, so a land-launched missile, which then went into the sea of japan. now we don't have details at this point on what kind of projectile this was. this is what the defense ministry officials are tieing to figure out now. what we do know is this is very likely to be in response to these joint military drills that the u.s. and south korea are holding roigt now. these are annual drills. they go on for a couple months. every year pyongyang is angered and fires off a number of projectiles to launch a complaint of what they see as a dress rehearsal for an invasion.

the emergency drills are defensive in nature, but we are seeing this response from north korea this morning. >> and just for context, how significant is this? >> well, this is still only the second projectile we have seen launched from north korea since donald trump became u.s. president. there was a relative restraint from north korea just before the u.s. election and shortly afterwards as well. there were no projectiles or missiles and north korea was quite quiet. they were really trying to figure out what the north korean policy or the new u.s. administration was going to be opinion we heard officials saying potentially they wanted a different relationship with president trump potentially a negotiation. but now we see after that missile on february 13th and now today that it's been business as usual. the projectiles are continuing. >> we see video here moments ago of president trump on the lawn there at the white house. just listeneding on marine one. we will have to wait and see how

president trump responds to this lawsuitest news. thank you so much, paula. . e we appreciate it. coming up on this sunday, the chesapeake bay, the great lakes region and another place. what do these three areas have in common. they could be targets for environmental spending cuts. here's to the wildcats 'til we die...

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what's your reaction to that? >> understand that we're all in favor of clean air, clean water, but the epa is a blow to bureaucracy. . you said president trump is delivering on campaign promises and that's exactly what he wanted to do and what he promised to do. he's doing that. he promised that he would increase defense spending, and in order to do that, he's also at the same time cutting the budget of the epa and trying to get them back to what is their core mission. that's very important. instead of them going out and trying to regulate mud. puddles on farms or drainage ditches, they need to be focusing on their core mission. >> but there are other projects beyond when you listed that do improve water, improve air quality. are you concerned a at all that that could suffer as a result of these cuts? >> i am confident the epa can perform and deliver on what their core mission is with less

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and cutting these agencies and getting them to focus on what their original mission was. part of that is to start with the epa. i don't think there's any better place we can start than with the epa. >> i want to change gears and turn to another topic we have been speaking about on the show. the president's unsubstantiated claim that president obama wiretapped his phone during the election. the chair of the house intel committee says this claim will be investigated. what's your reaction to all of this? >> well, certainly the chairman and intelligence committee in the house and i suspect the intelligence committee in the senate, i know they will do their job. i have the utmost confidence this them. we locked into a a number of these things. so it's a committee process in congress. when these things come up, i went to our constituents to look into them. i'm sure that it the intelligence committee as well as the oversight committee will do just that.

>> let me ask you because the former leader james clapper came on one of the morning shows with chuck todd and said there was no fisa warrant on donald trump's phone. if it turns out that this is substantiated, what james. clapper said and the president made these allegations based on right wing media reports, would that give you pause for concern? >> of course, that's to be determined. we can get into speculation about what might be, what might not be. i u don't think the president would have made this statement unless he had reason to believe that it was true. at the same time, yes, we need to get to the bottom of it and understand it and make sure that we do everything we can to vet it to make sure that nothing has happened, but at the same time, before we go into speculating what might be or might not be, let's let the process run its

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welcome back. we have breaking news on trump's unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor wiretapped his phone during the campaign. i want to bring in my colleague. what are you learn iing? >> quite a stunning sort of development here. it seems that over the weekend some time, we don't know exactly when, but the fbi reached out to the department of justice, we're told, by two senior officials and asked the department of justice refute these stories and the allegations made by donald trump that there was any u sort of wiretapping of his phone during the campaign by the obama administration. the fbi is and its director

comey is very mindful of how his organization and fbi is being perceived through all of this. the idea that somehow the fbi working with the obama administration would illegally wiretap his phone concerned him. so over the weekend he went ahead and we don't know if it was him specifically or someone else at the fbi called the department of justice and told them we need to do something about this. we need to refute this. we don't know who in the department of justice, the fbi spoke to. remember sessions, the tendatto general, had to recuse himself from this investigation because of his meeting with the russian ambassador. so we don't know who he spoke to. we don't really know a lot details about the conversation. but keep in mind, this is a pretty big development for the fbi to go against the president

and to ask the department of justice to tell the president basically like we need to knock this down. >> right, so as we know, rarely anything happens in the fbi without director comey's approval. he's not shied away from going solo without the support of the justice department when it came to the hillary clinton e-mail probe. he came out and held that press conference and didn't tell the justice department about that. then he went against the wishes of the justice department in reopening the case. an indication why u the fbi didn't just go ahead and put out its own statement saying that these clims are unsubstantiate ed. have you gotten any sense from your sources on that front? >> no one knows what comey was thinking, at least they are not relating that to us. but i think knowing comey and, as you know from covering this be beat, he likes to keep himself out of sort of investigations. he doesn't like to comment about investigations. he doesn't like to confirm.

he doesn't like to deny investigations. even when he goes through congress. so he's very careful in terms of how he treads in these matters. he's been very careful how he's dealt with the whole russia investigation. certainly with the people around donald trump. so i sort of got the sense from some of the officials that i have talked to that politically speaking, he wanted doj to handle this because they have access to the president. sessions was with the president over the weekend, but he couldn't have commented on this. so it was more politically and i just think it was because doj would have access to the president. >> thank you so much for bringing us the latest reporting. let's discuss all of this with former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. also with us is media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" brian ste stelter. tom, just your reaction. how significant is this that the

fbi asked the justice department to refute this claim? >> i think it's very significant. i have never heard of a situation similar to this ever. actually, 30 years in the fbi and dealing with the fbi in the eight years since retirement have not heard of a similar situation. i think what's interesting here is the nature of the way that director comey sent the request to doj in essence the fbi made a public staumt there's been no wiretap. that's what you now have the result of this whether it was intended or not, that's the main result of it. the fbi saying, wait a minute, there's no wiretap. >> so why don't you think -- i'll pose the same question to you i just asked. why do you think the fbi put out a statement saying that there was no >> well, after the commentary with the fbi statements made back in july in relation to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation where comey

received severe criticism for announcing that his recommendation would be no charges, everybody said that should have gone to doj, including me at the time. we had unique circumstances of the attorney general at the time saying i'll go with whatever recommendation the fbi makes and he made the recommendation. now in essence you have a similar situation. you don't have an attorney general you can deal with on this topic because attorney general session recused himself on matters related to the investigation of trump campaign people being involved with the russians. in essence, who is this request going to go to? you don't have the full staff at the department of justice yet. a good question, who are they going to ask mou? >> brian, how do you think this will play out? there is the fact, i mentioned earlier, director comey was very

forthcoming when it came to hillary clinton probes and actually didn't tell the president he was going to hold the press conference in july or reopening the case. how do you think the way he's handling these two matters is going to play out? >> what our leaders in other countries are thinking, they are hearing about this tonight, they are just hearing reporting you're sharing about north korean missile test. then a few minutes later they hear the head of the fbi was trying to get the justice department in this country to correct the president's misstatement. it must be worrisome to leaders in foreign capitals. we've seen developments tran spire since sean spicer said the white house is going to have no further comment on this matter until congress investigates. essentially the white house is saying we're going to ask congress to find out if what the president said on twitter is true or not. it reminds me in one way president trump's claim about

voter fraud. he claimed 3 to 5 million voted illegally on election day. that claim had absolutely no evidence because it's not true. that bogus claim, the white house then said it would have an investigation and look into the issues. we haven't heard a lot about the investigation since. in this case it's different, leaders in congress are going to investigate what he said on twitter about this issue. they are similar in one way. when president trump makes up claims about voter fraud or wiretapping, it actually affects people inside the government. in this case it affects fbi director, justice department. when he says something about voter fraud, it affects people in charge of enforcing and securing our voting system. so his tweet, his sloppy or random or misleading tweets, they actually have effects, impacts. what we're hearing tom say, he's never seen this in his career is an example of the president's tweets that can be casual. we get on the phone, post a tweet, think nothing of it.

we're seeing the power of his tweets. >> one thing nor sure the fbi would know if there's a fisa warrant, that is for sure. now you have the fbi wanting to knock down what the president tweeted and, you know, have the justice department say it was wrong and you have the former head of d inform i james clapper also say he was unaware of any such wiretapping on the president's phone. we'll have to wait and see how the white house responds to all of this, if they do respond. bri thank you very much. we'll be right back. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back including depreciation. and if you have more than one liberty mutual policy, you qualify for a multi-policy discount, saving you money on your car and home coverage. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™.

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welcome back. the trump stock market rally continues to steamroll with huge gains last week, so how long will it last and what's ahead for this week? cnn's chief business correspondent christine romans has a preview. hi, christine. >> hi, pamela. what a week for the stock market. the big question, can the rally keep going after big gains and high hopes we've seen since the election in november. we're starting to hear some doubts from wall street pros about the recent gains. goldman sachs in a research note citing maximum optimism in the market right here. also the stock market has a big time birthday this week thursday. the bull market in stocks turns eight years old. some perspective march 9th, 2009, lows, dow slipped below 7,000. today it crashed above 21,000, 14 points in eight years, the blue chips have more than tripled in value. the other major event this week

comes on friday with the first full month of jobs data since president trump took office. we've seen steady job gains over the past few months, 227,000 jobs added last month. the white house is taking credit for that, even though it was mostly under president obama. in any event, these new stats will be under president trump. this friday we'll start that uphill battle to create 25 million jobs over the next decade. that's the promise president trump has made. we'll need to see a huge economic boost to get there. pamela. >> all right. christine romans, thank you so much for that. top of the hour now, you are live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm pamela brown in washington. we have a very busy sunday. breaking news. sources tell cnn the fbi asked the justice department to publicly refute president trump's assertion that president obama wiretapped his phone during the election. this as donald trump doubles down on those claims while still

providing zero evidence. the president telling conservative website news max, quote, this will be investigated. it will all come out. i will be proven right. his press secretary officially calling on congress to investigate saying in a statement, quote, reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling. president donald j. trump is requesting as part of their investigation into russian activity, the congressional intelligence committee exercise their oversight committee to determine whether investigative powers were abused in 2016. neither the white house nor the president will comment further until such oversight is conducted. all of this amid reports that the president spent the weekend incredibly frustrated his staff had failed to contain reports about ties to russia. cnn's white house correspondent athena jones is