looking one more time at the possibility of having to deal with the russians on a new front. wolf? >> serious situation in north africa. thanks very much, barbara starr, at the pentagon. that's it for me. thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "erin burnett out front" starts right now. next, one by one, republicans abandoning the gop health care plan that the white house says talk to the speaker. is paul ryan being set up to take a big fall? plus, team trump admitting today no one was spying on the president through the microwave, but trump is extremely confident there is evidence of wiretapping. and kellyanne conway -- is he right? let's go "out front." good evening, i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight, republicans rattled. gop leaders on their heels in the wake of a critical government report on the health care bill. this says tens of millions more

americans would be uninsured if it passed. the party split over its own bill. louisiana senator bill cassidy sating, "that's not what president trump promised." another congress mapp doesn't want to support something dead on arrival in the senate. damning words from your own party. president trump in the meantime, you see him there today holding a lengthy telephone call with senator cruz trying to woo his old rival. his response? >> the most significant concern in the cbo report is its projection that the house plan will not reduce premiums. that's completely unacceptable. >> pretty harsh. the white house spokesman sean spicer spent the majority of an hour-long press conference defending the bill, slamming the congressional budget office as, quote, consistently wrong, labeling obamacare as a failure. when pressed about the lack of legislative details in the republican plan, which would make it harder for the cbo to

score accurately, he repeatedly pointed the finger to speaker ryan. >> that's a great question for speaker ryan. that's an appropriate question for the speaker to answer, not for me. that's a question for speaker ryan. >> not taking responsibility. manu raju is out front on capitol hill. clearly the white house not taking responsibility for this. how worried is gop leadership? paul ryan, about his health care plan? >> reporter: right now, opposition is building from both the conservative wing and the moderate wing of the republican conference. the republican leadership is scrambling to put together a coalition that could narrowly pass the house and the senate. they're trying to make the case to their members that that cbo report showing that millions could lose coverage next year under their legislation is flawed. the question is do republicans believe that. >> the american health care act. >> reporter: the republican promise to repeal obamacare. now at risk of collapsing. new alarm after the nonpartisan

congressional budget office offered a brutal assessment of the republican legislation. 14 million more people uninsured by next year. and 24 million by 2026. >> simple answer of course i'm concerned. 14 million people losing insurance. i'm concerned. that's not what president trump promised. okay? that's not what republicans ran on. >> reporter: while the cbo projects the bill would reduce the deficit by $337 billion, it would do so only after cutting medicaid by nearly $900 billion. that has unnerved some republicans from states that expanded medicaid to provide coverage to low-income americans. >> how concerned are you about the medicaid cuts? $880 billion over ten years. >> i'd like to wait and see what the house comes up with, with their process, but obviously ll state like mine with medicaid expansion, we have deep

concerns. >> reporter: the tension is palpable within the gop. senator lisa murkowski, under pressure to back the house plan, bristled at questions about whether she could report it. >> can you support the house health care -- >> hey, would you give me a minute to get to my constituents, please? >> yes or no. do you support the house health care bill? >> would you please be respectful -- >> i'm being respectful. >> we've been in there for two hours. come on. >> reporter: gop leaders downplayed the cbo analysis and said the bill would be a dramatic improvement from obamacare but senators would likely change the house bill. do you believe this bill needs significant changes in order to be salvaged in the senate? >> it will be ohm to amendment in the senate like all reconciliation bills are. we're anxious to get past the status quo. >> reporter: in the house, paul ryan says the cbo report won't change his plan to push forward changes in the chamber with

votes. >> i'm excited about this analysis. >> reporter: but newly released audio could reopen old wounds where ryan all but abandoned trump in the aftermath of that leaked tape where trump boasts about groping women. >> i am not going to defend donald trump, not now, not in the future. look, you guys know i have real concerns about our nominee. >> reporter: white house officials are downplaying that audio saying it's ancient history and they're on the same page trying to move forward on this health care legislation, holding a conference call earlier today where they talked about this issue of health care. i can tell you, i'm hearing some frustration from some republicans that the president is suggesting he's open to some changes at the same time with the house republican leadership is trying to make the case to their members this is their only chance to repeal obamacare. >> thank you. i want to go to the former chair of the democratic congressional campaign committee, steve israel and former congressman jack

kingston, former adviser to the trump campaign. congressman kingston, you heard sean spicer saying repeatedly today, i refer you to the speaker, to the speaker, question for paul ryan. is the white house setting ryan up to take the fall? >> no, i don't think so. i think what he's doing is saying there's some work in progress and i don't want to get ahead of the speaker. steve knows, and we remember well as republicans watching the democrats pass obamacare, this is part of the process. it's growing pains. you'll have people on the right, the left the in between saying this isn't good for me, my politics or my state. but i think frankly that the white house and the house and the senate are going to get this done but in the meantime, you have to go through this period, but i do believe they'll get there. i think they're unified as well. >> so congressman israel, what do you say? >> well, you know, jack is right. this is a process. people think that passing legislation is like making sausage. in this case it's like molding

jell-o. they have to shape it for moderate republicans in the house. they have to shape it for freedom caucus conservatives in the house. they've got to shape it so that it gets passed in the senate and comes back. here's the bottom line, the number we should be watching. there are 237 republicans in the house. they're going to need 216 votes to pass this in the house. that means they have a margin of about 22 republicans. they can't afford to lose 22 republicans. right now there are enough republicans from moderate districts and enough republicans from freedom caucus districts to bring this thing down if they want. >> congressman kingston, that is the issue, right? that magic number of 22. >> yes. >> you heard senator cassidy saying this bill is not what trump promised. a damning comment. that's in the senate. but he's not the only republican balking. they're doing it publicly. here they are. >> this bill doesn't repeal obamacare. it doesn't unite republicans. it doesn't bring down the cost of premium. >> i don't think this bill is

going to reduce premiums for working americans. i think it's going to cost coverage for many americans as the cbo said yesterday. >> right now i'm a no, a firm no. >> are you worried this bill will fail thanks to republicans? pretty damning they're coming out publicly like that. >> i was on the whip team for several year, and what part is you get one group on board and lose another one. it's a matter of math. you have to get to the ma'amic number of 216 in this case, and you have to find that balance in order to do it. but these members who are going out publicly, they hurt the process, but they also help the process because they identify, okay, there are problems. for example, if ted cruz gets on board, he gives lots of shelter to lots of conservative members because they can say, well, even though the club for growth or other groups have come out against it, the national federation of independent businesses and ted cruz and the chamber, they're on board and so

they get the cover that they need to vote for the bill. >> congressman, speaking of math, i think there's something at least in my view has not been clear in the coverage out there thus far and that is this -- the cbo clarifies something important. we keep hearing people say, especially democrats, that 14 million people are losing insurance next year and that this is -- people are having insurance taken away from them. the cbo says that is not the case. it says most of those people will lose that coverage by choice because the gop bill eliminates the mandate that forces people to buy insurance. isn't that very different than denying coverage to people? would that change the narrative here? >> well, you know, simply choosing not to get insured and losing your health care can be devastating because you end up getting sick in life. that's the problem with this. so the fact of the matter is that 24 million of our fellow citizens will lose their coverage either because they elect not to be insured or for

other reasons. that's a big problem. the other big problem in the cbo report is that premiums spike. the good news republicans say is yes, they'll spike, but in ten years -- >> they come down supposedly. >> if you're 65 years old, that ain't such a good deal, erin. by the way, whoever believed in washington that a temporary price increase doesn't become a price increase? so the republicans have a long way to go. good news is deficit drops, i agree, and if you're a rich insurance company or a rich person you get a tax cut, but nothing in washington is free. this is balanced on the backs of 24 million people who lose insurance and people who will see a spike in their premiums over the next ten years. >> congressman kingston. >> remember, erin, we can't stay where we are. there's five state where is there's only one choice. one third of the counties there's only one choice of insurance carriers. something like 28% of the insurance carriers have gotten out of the market and premiums

absolutely have skyrocketed. so we can't stay where we are, but i think the concept of people having the freedom to buy health care or not in a free society, i think that's one of the parts or privileges of living in america. >> when you do get sick, you do get care, and people who have insurance pay for it so you're a free rider and in some cases you're denied pause you can't afford it. >> part of personal responsibility is when you get in a car, you have a driver's license and you know the rules of the road, and that's part of freedom, is responsibility. so let me say this, we can't get stay where we are, we've got to move. one of the things i would hope the democrats would do, and i know steve israel would do if he were still there, is say here are some solutions, some alternatives. what we heard today from bernie sanders is that thousands of people would die. really? thousands of people are going to die because of health care reform. and then, you know, nancy pelosi says well it's immoral.

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tonight, is the president trying to dismantle washington? an idea champion championed by the president's chief, steve bannon, is completely upending it, including radical changes to how agencies are funded and dramatic slashes in the funding, taking on establishments like the house speaker who today found himself under attack by the website once run by steve bannon. tom foreman is out front. >> i am not going to defend donald trump, not now, not in the future. >> reporter: another shot across the bow of the republican accomplishment. >> i have real concerns with our nomin nominee. >> reporter: the explosive comments by house speaker paul ryan were recorded and reported last october. so why did the ultraconservative website breitbart release the audio now? possibly because it could help drive a wedge between president

trump and establishment republicans. >> good morning, everybody. >> reporter: who are jointly pushing a plan to repeal and replace obamacare. >> i want to thank paul ryan and everybody. >> reporter: it's a plan they like, but many on the far right despise. >> i think they are basically taking the obamacare framework and trying to call it a republican piece of legislation. >> that is not what we promised the american people we were going to do. >> reporter: when president trump's new head of health and human services promised under trump care -- >> i firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially -- >> reporter: -- breitbart hit back fast, suggesting higher premiums and taxes could make that the lie of the year and pushing the idea this is primarily paul ryan's plan, not president trump's anyway. that is just one way the hard right is hammering the republican establishment for not being radical enough in its departure from politics as usual. and with some effect. the president's budget so far promises significant cuts for

many government departments, steps towards what the president's own adviser steve bannon, who came from breitbart, has called -- >> destruction of the administrative state. >> reporter: but that may be hard to come by as long as establishment republicans still hold sway so it appears the right is hoping to reignite the rancor of the campaign and trump called ryan weak and ineffective. after all, this was just one year ago. >> how do you like paul ryan? how to you like him? do you like him? [ boos ] all right. >> reporter: simply put, those on the hard right believe they can fan those flames of discontent in a big way once again and drag the president firmly into their camp. that may finally give him the political muscle to shove aside the democrats and reluctant republicans too. erin? >> thank you, tom. david gergen is here, former presidential a visor to four presidents, mark preston, and

curt bardella, who knows steve bannon. obviously breitbart has been critical of the house speaker, paul ryan, and his health care plan. is bannon really doing this, using breitbart to go after ryan? >> i think so. you're see a continuation of the type of parts you've seen from breitbart and steve bannon for a long time. he characterized speaker ryan as a the enemy. it was his and breitbart's mission to have him removed as speaker and have him out by the spring is what they said. this also means they know this bill is in big trouble and they need to create a bad guy, a fall guy, to point the blame. what they've done with this leak is move to the front a very familiar foe. if you read breitbart and support breitbart and trump, that audience, they speak of speaker ryan as part of the problem, part of the establishment that trump ran to try to destroy, that bannon has said he wants to deconstruct and

get rid of. here you have now a familiar enemy for that platform, that audience, in case this goethe south. >> now you have paul ryan responding to breitbart. he just did in an interview with martha over on fox. she asked about this breitbart situation and here's what the speaker said. >> i've got really thick skin, martha. this is ancient history. that was back when that video came out. look, it's no secret donald and i had our ups and downs, the president and i had our ups and downs but we merged forces at the end of the campaign, i campaigned with mike pence, supported donald trump, merged forces and since then we've been working hand in glove together. i have thick skin. this is ancient history. i'm spriy e surprised it's eve . >> surprised. >> interesting about steve bannon is he brought a woman over by the name of julia hahn to work with him in the white house. julia hahn was basically detailed to criticize paul ryan

back in 2016. one of the stories she wrote, literally quoted from her article, she described as paul ryan and hillary clinton as sharing a progressive globalist world view which is at odds with trump's america-first approach. to what curt is saying there right now, you have to wonder is this continuing. >> that is of course the big question. >> right. we have not a titanic but epic battle going on for power within washington, especially in the white house. steve bannon and steve miller works with him and i think kellyanne conway, we can talk more about that later. but against them are the traditionalists. you know, person is chief of staff, priebus, the adviser from goldman sachs. so far the bannon people have done better than they might. huge fight over trade. it appears the bannon people, trump said at the end, the bannon people are in charge on the trade issue.

they've gotten out this executive order asking the agencies to go through and slash things to get rid of whatever they don't need, attack on the administrative state, and here we have what seems to be above the surface, donald trump is going to embrace paul ryan. below the surface, donald trump is letting his people knife him. >> his people specifically bannon because, curt, we are reporting tonight that the president wants to cut the epa budget by much more than already reported. we knew it was 25%. apparently it could be a lot more. trump wants to cut funding to a lot of other major agencies. here are some breitbart headlines about this issue just in the past few days. over 93% of epa employees considered nonessential, one. two, why u.s. education no longer needs the government. three, stop hud's takeover of local zoning. these are three of the organizations that trump wants to slash the budgets of. how much of the president's budget is steve bannon, curt? >> i think almost all of it.

again, you're seeing a direct correlation between initiatives that bannon cares about are implemented, the held lines are glowing, the stories support the president's agenda. when it's contrary to what steve may want or the approach being employed by the white house to sell it or when congress isn't cooperating the way steve would like, all of a sudden the headlines turn negative and things get personal. things from the past get drawn up. that tells you there's a direct correlation between the agenda that steve has for this president and for this white house and what you'll read any given day on the pages of breitbart. >> very much in communication with them. steve bannon today, mark, came out. he doesn't talk a lot publicly, but he talks to the atlantic, and the article is called kellyanne's alternate universe, which could be an s&l skit. steve bannon credits kellyanne conway with saving trump. in so doing, by the way, implicitly admitting they thought they were going to lose,

which they say they didn't think but they clearly did. bannon says if kellyanne had not been there when the firestorm hit, i don't know if we would have made it. the article says bannon says it was kellyanne's presence that led wavering women and conservative voters to think if she could still support trump, i can too. >> there might be some fuel to that. if you remember back in august when she took the position, she was heralded by many of us and still is, you know, to a certain extent as somebody who kind of understood the establishment, understood politics as usual and not the -- >> came from working with -- >> not chaotic, you know, as donald trump was. also the campaign manager at a time when he was getting hit with these allegations of really having a bad relationship -- quite frankly, back to the ak says hollywood tape, need i say more. >> to which she is referring. >> to have a woman leading the campaign i do think was

important. >> i just respectfully disagree. i think donald trump saves himself. >> how dare you. >> but nonetheless i don't think it's significant whether she saved him or not. what's significant is steve bannon is putting out the word and that's -- >> he's saying nice things about kellyanne conway. >> embracing her and that strengthens the alliance within the white house and the government of the people trying to take on the, quote, administrative state. >> very interesting take on it. maybe it was just to show her that they're allies, now on one team. >> talk about -- reince priebus, after breitbart did a tough story on him a few weeks ago, he criticized breitbart, bannon did, publicly. >> what you do publicly versus privately is the story. thanks very much to all of you. next, the white house admitting tonight that no one was spying on trump through his microwave, but they're extremely confident about his wiretapping claims. where is the evidence this hour? plus, why did secretary of

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tonight, president trump is, quote, extremely confident that there is evidence to back up his claim that president obama ordered a wiretap against him during the campaign. this is according to the white house spokesman sean spicer. the administration though has the not yet provided any evidence. tonight the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee says he expects his committee will hold its first public hearing on this next week. sara murray is "out front" at the white house. >> reporter: the white house insisting evidence will come to light proving president trump was wiretapped during the campaign. >> i think he's extremely confident. i think there is significant reporting about surveillance techniques that have existed throughout the 2016 election. i'll leave it to them to issue their report, but i think he feels very confident that we'll ultimately vindicate him. >> reporter: the white house still refuses to offer any proof of trump's claim that former

president barack obama ordered a wiretap of trump tower prior to the election. the administration now says trump doesn't believe obama personally tapped his phones. exactly how this alleged surveillance may have occurred still an open question. >> the president used the word wiretap in quotes to mean broadly surveillance and other activities. >> reporter: trump adviser kellyanne conway offered up this explanation. >> there was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, through their -- certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways, microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. so we know that is just a fact of modern life. >> reporter: today sean spicer said the president's top concern is not surveillance via microwaves. >> i think there's pretty sound evidence that microwave is not a sound way of surveilling someone and i think that has been cleaned up. it was made in jest so i think we can put that to rest.

>> reporter: as congress looks into trump's wiretapping claims it's ip instructed the department of justice evidence to back up the allegations but the department says it need more time. the house intelligence committee chairman said in a statement the justice department has until next monday to panel up its proof otherwise the panel may subpoena the administration. in the meantime, democrats and republicans are growing impatient, waiting on the administration to provide proof. >> i think frankly the administration probably should come forward with whatever proof they have, because again, leveling a charge like that is a huge deal. >> reporter: even though the justice department missed it first deadline to submit this evidence today, white house press secretary sean spicer says he's still confident some proof will come forward. of course all of this begs the question kwet again why the white house didn't save themselves the hassle and put forward their own evidence when the president first sent the allegation out via twitter. >> thank you.

congressman steny hoyer. sean spicer says president trump is extremely confident that the doj has it, the evidence he was wiret wiretapped. do they? >> president trump is so extremely confident that he has so many things that he knows that aren't true. so i think it's very difficult to believe sean spicer. if they had proof, it seems to me they would have disclosed it to the congress, but more importantly to the american people and president trump would have been happy to do that. the fact is i think his representation was untrue. it's an alternative fact. it's either made um in his own head and there's no evidence to corroborate that. so he may be extremely confident, but we've seen him day after day after day be very confident that things were as they are not. he makings it up as he goes along. >> so when they said they needed -- they asked for that delay, of course as you're well

aware. they want a delay from yesterday for another week which they were granted by the house intelligence committee chairman. does that make you think that they could have some type of evidence? if so, what is it? to your point, you're say you think if they had it they would have put it out there. >> it makes me think they don't have it and they're trying to figure out how to get out of a statement that the president made that's not true and they can't corroborate. i understand spicer's comments may not have been talking specifically about wiretapping. i just think that can't be true or if it is true is a wildly irresponsible statement. wiretap means something specific to every american. every american knows what it is, that you need a court order with probable cause to tap an american citizen's phone or communications. and so some representation we know he meant something else

like somebody stand agent the door of trump tower and see ing who's going in and out just is not believable. >> when sean spicer did say that, that trump was referring broadly to surveillance against his campaign, not to wiretapping specifically -- >> well, that's -- >> do you think there could have been -- >> i don't know what he's talking about, but as i've made an example, there's no doubt that candidates for office watch the other candidate, go to their town meetings, listen to what they have to say. they even put a camera in their face sometimes. i've had that done to me, and ask them a question. but all of that is not anywhere close to alleging that the president of the united states had trump tower or the trump campaign or organization wiretapped. that's a criminal offense if it was not done with probable cause, and if there was probable cause the president says he didn't do it, the direct or of national intelligence under the

obama administration says he didn't do it, they didn't do it, and we believe -- i can't say that he said that, but we believe that mr. comey, the director of the fbi, has given reason to believe that the fbi didn't do it. so i don't think it happened. and i don't think they have proof that it happened. and i think they're now trying to weasel out of a very, very serious and unfortunate allegation the president made off the top of his head as he said so many things. >> so i want to ask you briefly about health care. democrats are united against the gop leadership health care bill. tonight, though, i don't know if you're aware, another moderate gop person has come out against it, the congressman from florida tweet, i plan to vote no on the current bill. as written, it leaves too many from my district uninsured. can you say at this point that this bill defip tifly will fail? >> i can't say that definitively. i'm the whip and if you ask me

how many democrats are going to vote against it, i could say definitively how many would vote against it. but i am the whip on the republican side. obviously the republican side is deeply divided which is not a new phenomenon. it's been deeply divided for four or five years from the past. and that's why john boehner is no longer the speaker and that's why paul ryan has to much trouble unifying his party on a proposition that he puts forward. they're deeply divided. i think there's a real chance that it will fail on the floor. but we'll see. >> before you go, congressman, steve bannon told the public magazine, give an interview this, and he said during the "access hollywood" videotape, of course you know the one when trump talked about sexually assaulting women, kellyanne conway saved trump's campaign, steve bannon's point of view. his quote is if kellyanne had not been there when the firestorm hit, i don't know if we would have made it. she literally became a cult

figure during that time period. steve bannon. is he right? >> i think there's a lot of merit in that argument because i think the women of america were extraordinarily offended and outraged by the statement and the alleged conduct or the conduct that he said he involved himself in. what kellyanne did, a woman came forward, an articulate woman and said, look, he really didn't mean that, that's not the kind of person he is, i know him, and she gave her imprimatur to donald trump, and we know an awful lot of women did in fact vote for donald trump, which i find very, very surprising given what he said and his conduct. so i think there's some merit in what bannon says on that issue, because i think kellyanne conway did, in fact, give him some greater credibility than he

otherwise would have had as a result of that tape. >> all right. congressman, i appreciate your time as always. thank you. >> thank you. "out front" next, secretary of state rex tillerson using the fake name wayne tracker for certain e-mails. why? and breaking news this hour, winter storm, deadly winter storm, slamming, shutting down the northeast, impacting 20 million people at this hour. (vo) this is not a video game. this is not a screensaver. this is the destruction of a cancer cell by the body's own immune system, thanks to medicine that didn't exist until now. and today can save your life. ♪ ♪

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to want we're learning the secretary of state rex tillerson center, mails under a fake name. that name is wayne tracker. new york attorney general is saying that his office discover the alias while investigating exxonmobil and that tillerson used wayne tracker to discuss sensitive issues including climate change. exxonmobil is admitting the account existed. michelle kosinski is "out front." >> reporter: rex tillerson is now known around the world as u.s. secretary of state. before that, it was ceo rex tillerson of exxonmobil and to a select few he was wayne tracker, a separate e-mail identity it

turns out he used within exxonmobil. wayne is his middle name. the company says to communicate better with certain executives because his main e-mail address was generally so full. nothing wrong with that normally, but the new york attorney general's office has a big problem with it. in its investigation into whether exxonmobil misled consumers and investors about climate change and its potential effects the attorney general in a letter to a new york state supreme court judge says exxo exxonmobil has continually delayed and obstructed information from its top executives and no one at the company ever told investigators tillerson also youed the wayne tracker address to communicate about climate change and other important topics saying it appears exxonmobil did not collect all of those e-mails, maybe not have even preserved them. it's raced questions among environmental groups. >> the logical explanation is that because of this campaign of climate denial, discussion of climate change was kept off to

the side and intended to be somewhat hidden. >> reporter: exxonmobil in a statement insists it did turn over relevant e-mails including the wayne tracker ones and that it was clear they belonged to tillerson saying media reports indicating that e-mails to or from this address were exclusively for climate-related topics are false. exxonmobil believes the risk of climate change is clear and warrants action. the state department refers the matter back to exxonmobil, but a spokesperson did tell us this -- >> the secretary of state uses only department of state e-mail address to conduct official businesses and he does comply with all federal recordkeeping requirements. >> reporter: no word directly from the secretary known formerly to a few as wayne tracker. so you have the new york attorney general saying it wasn't made so clear from the beginning that this was a second e-mail address used by tillerson and that in all of the documents turned over, millions of them, there were only about 60 e-mails

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causing massive flooding on the coast, massive waves. gin gin is live in worcester, massachusetts. right now what is the piggest concern where you are as the snow is still falling? >> reporter: well, erin, you said it, ice. that will be a major concern heading into tomorrow morning. right now we're getting a sleet and rain mixture and that's piling on top of about a foot of snow in worcester. i talked to an emergency management official and he told me he would gladly have more snow than this mix of ice and rain on top of the snow but a not only is it harder to plow through but it's a lot more treacherous for drivers, especially when the temperatures drop into the morning hours. i have to say, though, earlier today, whiteout conditions. i just want to show you this clock tower because it's a good reference point for us. this tower earlier today, we could not even see it. we drove here from boston and slipped several times and there

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dealing with tomorrow morning in the city. this is still 30 degrees. we're not frozen yet. but by morning we'll be 20 degrees here. all of this will be one sheet of black ice whether you're walking off the curb, trying to drive here, and i won't even make a youtube moment trying to climb over this pile. but this is between the curb and the street so still more to clean for sure. here's where the snow is right now. upstate new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, and parts of new england or even massachusetts still seeing some snow. the big cities all had the mix. they had the rain, snow, sleet mix. they didn't pile up a lot of snow. about a foot, maybe a little less, even boston mixing in with all that rain. but if you were in damascus, pennsylvania, or anywhere in the southern tier of new york, you're pushing 30 inches of snow right now and that's less than 100 miles from here. the biggest wind gusts, winner or loser, barnstable, mass. a wind gust of 74 miles per hour.

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kellyanne conway's comment rabbit microwave spying. >> reporter: talk about a hot-button issue, ever since kellyanne conway said this about surveillance. >> microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. >> reporter: microwaves have been turning into skwloeks. pizza, popcorn, espionage? one twitter post featured a pole raid microwave. kellyanne's camera phone on the oval office coach was swapped for a microwave cam. and introducing the microwave selfie. [ beeping ] even when kellyanne qualified -- >> i'm not inspector gadget. i don't believe people are using the microwave to spy on the trump campaign. >> reporter: the tinfoil make america great again hats. >> microwaves that turned into

cameras. how do you think we film this show? show them camera three, tim. >> reporter: with all these memes and jokes you never know who you're going to find. in the microwave. former president obama, michelle, barack, and hillary, colbert ready for his close-up. agent kellyanne conway's entire body got stuffed in a microwave. the spinmeister was literally spinning again on a microwave turntable. it's pretty amazing what can be spun into political mockery. take that viral video of a korea expert interrupted by his kids as he did an interview with the bbc. his wife -- >> um, pardon me. >> reporter: -- skitted in to drag them out. >> my apologies. >> most of the time he likes the door. >> reporter: the daily show called that scene a giant metaphor for the trump administration and look who plays the kid.

there's kellyanne. >> it's not a question of delaying but a question of getting it right. >> reporter: if you can't take the heat, get out of the microwave. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. jool maybe bannon's head instead of sean's on that guy. thanks for joining us. anderson is next. good evening. thanks for joining us. breaking news on the question of ties between the trump campaign and russia. it is a question we know both the house intelligent and senate intelligence committees are investigating along with at least three other committees and one sib committee. so is the fbi even though they've not publicly confirmed it. tonight we've learned chris cuomo is about to go on the record -- james comey is about to go on the record. manu raju, what are you learning? >> reporter: i'm told by sheldon whitehouse of long island he was told in a private meeting fbi director james comey would assure him and his