republican colleagues. >> the time is now. congresswoman, it's good to see you. mrs. garcia, i promise you, this story is not going to go away for us. >> thank you. >> as long as your situation is the way it is, we'll keep people's attention tonight and hopefully you are seen tonight. our thanks to you, our international viewers. for you, cnn "newsroom" is next. for our u.s. viewers, this is a big day. let's get after it. today this committee voted to put the president's personal interest above the national sbes. >> we wanted to ensure we have the most credible product for the american people to review. >> this is the latest chapter in devin nunes's now nine-month campaign to back up the president's wildest charges. >> i think it will speak for itself and will answer a lot of questions. >> president trump's first state of the union being overshadowed by the escalating campaign against the russia probe. >> it may be a surprise that andrew mccabe left today.

i don't think there's any surprise. this administration had no desire for andrew mccabe to work within it. >> the white house denies that president trump had anything to do with his departure. >> you can think they're shameful and disgusting, but they're working in his favor. >> announcer: this is "new day." >> beautiful the capital looks despite all the chaos within. good morning. welcome to your "new day." we're here in washington because the president is going to deliver his first state of the union address tonight. he's expected to tout tax cuts, the strength of the u.s. economy and calling on lawmakers to strike a deal on immigration and infrastructure. but, in the midst of all of this, there is a political storm consuming this capital. president trump and his allies are escalating their campaign against the russia investigation. >> the house intel committee voting to release that controversial classified memo written by republicans about alleged surveillance abuses at

the fbi. the president is now a showdown with his own justice department over whether to publicly release that memo. meanwhile, andrew mccabe abruptly stepping down after repeated personal attacks by president trump. they hinted it may be connected to an inspector general report about fbi connections. good morning, abby. >> good morning. the president's state of the union as you mentioned already overshadowed by this escalating campaign against the russia investigation by the president and his allies. and also grabbing headlines is that memo written by republicans that alleges surveillance abuses by the fbi. that's now in the white house's hands and the president has five days to determine whether or not it should be released to the public. >> the house intelligence committee voting along party lines to publicly release a secret partisan memo spearheaded by trump ally devin nunes. accusing the nation's top law

enforcement agency of abusing its surveillance authority. committee republicans ignoring the justice department stern warning that releasing the moment moe without agency review could be extraordinarily reckless. criticism that cnn learned enraged president trump. it is based on classified intelligence from the justice department that nunes and the majority of the committee have reportedly not even seen. >> you've seen the memo. >> i have. >> you have not seen the intelligence that its based on. >> we're not permitted to see that. >> doesn't that concern you that something with so heady that is so provocative and you don't get a chance to see where this? >> chris, that's why i said it should be footnoted inside it. that's not the choice the committee made. i do think the memo will speak for itself. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee voting against a democratic memo rebutting the allegations insisting they are following protocol. >> why not release them both at the same time? >> well, the house hasn't had a

chance to look at the minority report, nor have we. we voted to send it to the house and we need to read it as well. >> reporter: the decision prompting scathing criticism from democrats. >> they have crossed from dangerously and recklessly dealing with intelligence to a coverup of an investigation that they don't want the american people see to come to fruition. >> this is a continuation of the effort to protect the president's hide, push out a misleading narrative, selectively declassify information. >> reporter: ranking member adam schiff telling reporters that republicans refused an invitation from the fbi director christopher wray to brief the committee and express his concerns about the memo. the extraordinary move coming hours after the abrupt resignation andrew mccabe. coming after months of criticism from the president and his allies over mccabe's handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and political donations his wife received from a super pac associated with a

clinton ally. >> should mccabe go? >> mccabe got more than $500,000 from essentially hillary clinton and is he investigating hillary clinton? r last week, cnn learned that they pressured to fire mccabe at the president's urging, a charge mr. trump denies. a source tells cnn that wray said he is bringing in his own team that mccabe would not be a part of prompting mccabe to leave ahead of his expected retirement in march. wray suggesting that an upcoming inspector general report played a role. >> the president wasn't part of this decision making process and we would refer you to the fbi. >> well, all of this is happening as the white house has declined to impose sanctions on russia mandated by congress last year. they say instead they are putting russia, quote, on notice. the president in his state of the union address tonight is also not expected to address the

russia investigation that according to a senior administration official. >> appreciate it. let's discuss. we have cnn political analyst david gregory and dana bash. david gregory is going into his big speech tonight the first state of the union, a big unifying message is expected and in the context of the ugliest politics that i think we've seen in a very long time going on with this memo, which is really just a frontal assault on the fbi. >> right. and on this investigation. and it's the president who has been at the tip of the spear in attacking the investigation and the investigators trying to undermine the public's confidence in whatever is found, either by congress or by the special prosecutor. and we should point out that he alone has made this so much worse by his actions, by firing jim comey, by the self destructive way in which he has led this charge. and so now we have this back and forth in a political process

that can't be inspiring confidence in anyone. and i say all of that believing as well that the fbi, the investigation ought to be able to with stand accountability and criticism even mueller in terms of how these things were going about. and the legacy of jim comey has a lot of layers to it and he injected a lot of politics into the 2016 race which was completely inappropriate and the trump folks are using that to their benefit, but there's still a legacy that what he did to politicize all this that his successor is now dealing with as well. >> even in the most political of times, you know this, we covered the congress and the kind of back and forth between congress and the white house for many years, the intelligence committees and the house and the senate have been an oasis of bipartisanship and in many ways not partisanship because they understood the people even if

they were the most sort of conservative and liberal of member, they would walk into that room and they would learn the nation's biggest secrets and understand that their oversight job of the people who have these secrets is of the utmost importance. now it sounds quaint and corny, but it's real. >> times have changed. >> and the fact that that has so dissolved in this committee is really disheartening. and i think that what is most telling isn't just that the republicans voted to release their own memo, it's that they voted down the democrat's ability to get their side of the story out. never mind there are sides of the story, that this isn't being done together, but that to me is the biggest tell of how blatantly partisan this is and all about the year we're in, 2018, and consolidating and keeping the republican base

happy and behind this president. >> i find the memo really fascinating because as you know republicans are so exercised about any perceived bias in the russia investigation. so that's why they are sort of celebrating andrew mccabe's departure, but not bias from devin nunes who is the person who crafted this memo who is clearly a president trump supporter, who went to the white house in a sort of inappropriate way and shared such sensitive information he had to recuse himself but here he is in the heart still of this memo. so this just is confounding. >> well, it's also reckless. the problem with it is that, as i said before, this is the h hysteria and intellectual rigger americans went after with benghazi. what did they find? or al qaeda is coming up through the southern border in 2006 and

2007? it's reckless. and it's -- especially in this era when there is this on going debate about what is truth. it's making it a lot harder. but there is a special prosecutor at work. there is a job that is being done. if this political process of investigating russia breaks down that says something about the failure of our institution of congress. >> exactly right. there is a special counsel whom most republicans say is doing this with integrity. is not political. despite what the president said publicly and privately. but beyond that, let's just look at what this memo is supposed to be which is all of the breakdowns inside the justice department and the fbi of the clinton investigation. there is a process for that, too. that is the inspector general of the department of justice which apparently has completed or is close to completing its report,

which is probably the most equipped to do a real look at the problems that we had because of comey. >> and they have been doing it. >> congress has an oversight role, but not when it's so ridiculously -- >> can i make another point? you want to follow the logic it's contradictory. if the president believes rod rosenstein is a stooge who should be fired. so let's just play this out because he got a bad rap, rosenstein did, for partaking in writing a memo that was the basis of firing comey. but the president thought he was his guy then and he went to him and used him and manipulated him because he had a sterling reputation for independence. but now because he's holding forth against the president in the independence of the justice department, now he's a guy we have to get rid of him. so that's straight up contradiction that people need to keep their eye on, whether you like the press, whether you like trump or don't like trump. you have to keep your eye on that because these institutions

matter. that's why chris wray at the fbi and rosenstein at the fbi, if there's an attempted purge, they're standing in the way. >> look, they have every right to change the leadership up at the top. it's their administration. but you have three big dynamics here. the first is what you were just talking about. the republicans are acting as if they're discovering all these secret. the inspector general has given them everything they know. those texts between the two fbi agents, they all came from the i.g. the missing texts was something that the republicans projected significance on wound up being b.s. that's the first thing. the thing that pops my eyes about that is i was trying to do research on how this is getting released. and i could find almost none. we have not seen congress go around the intelligence community to release intelligence before and you would think if they were going to do it they would be so paranoid and freaked out because they going around the only people who know how to vet it. devin nunes is reported to have not read the classified

information that his own memo is based on. how crazy is that? i asked dave last night, please call nunes and ask if this is true. if it isn't, he should get in front of it. if it is true, i don't know how he has any credibility. >> well, i think that train might have left the station a little while ago when he almost a year ago ran to the white house saying he had new information that it turned out came from the white house. i mean, that's a whole different story. look, i think that that speaks to the biggest tell of what we're talking about. how ridiculously political this is. and the good news is that other members have read it. other republican members have read it. i talked to a few who have. but the fact that the chairman hasn't is very weird. i have to say, you know, when you're looking at all of the characters in this drama, devin nunes is the one that surprises me the most because i remember

like it was yesterday standing outside of then speaker john boehner's office when the government shut down because of ted cruz and obamacare and him going after his fellow republicans for being like lemmings because they were following the conservatives. and he's like a different person. >> nancy pelosi calls him ryan stooge. >> well, i don't know. it could be somewhere in the reversal at this point. i mean, i think paul ryan understands the importance of everything you were talking about, the importance of sources and methods and intelligence. he gets the highest level briefings as the speaker of the house. that's the other thing that's very mind boggling to me is why he is letting devin nunes run wild with this. >> we have a running theme on this show where i say -- you hear that? that's paul ryan speaking up to a situation that needs his attention. once again he's quiet. once again mcconnell quiet.

>> but this is a political process that is messy. if it were impeachment, that's a political process, too, which is incredibly messy. there is an independent counsel of high caliber and reputation who will get to the bottom of it, whatever that is. we know and it's not a new play book that the administration and they're doing it harder than most will seek to invalidate whatever they find by how they did it and what the findings are. but we're being forced into a corner as if this has to be one thing or another. this may be much more complicated and layered than that. the outcome of this investigation. >> thank you for all the insight. >> nice to see you in d.c. >> great to be here. >> i don't know why there's a tease for cnn -- thought it was my show. i don't have a show tonight. cnn's primetime coverage of the state of the union. going to see this here. dana bash there for sure, 5:00 p.m. tonight. >> that promo will allow. >> the russian investigation putting bipartisanship to the

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♪ the white house is reviewing that controversial memo written by republicans that alleges surveillance abuses by the fbi. republican members of the house intelligence committee voting to make that memo public, however, they are blocking the democratic rebuttal from being made public. joining us now to help us understand this is independent senator angus king. thanks for being with us. >> sure. >> the house intel committee won't show it to the senate intel committee. >> that's my understanding. it wasn't forthcoming. >> why won't your house colleagues share whatever is so important to share, why won't they share it with the senate? >> you're asking the wrong guy. you need to ask them. i don't understand it. there's a great contrast in this

situation between the famous torture memo -- it wasn't a memo, it was a report done by the senate intelligence committee five years ago where number one it was first given the lengthy document, 6,000 pages, 500 page summary was given to the c.i.a. in advance so they could respond to it. >> because the information was so sensitive. >> exactly. >> and classified they needed to sign off on it. >> and we wanted to get their point of view on the conclusions. so i remember having meetings with individual c.i.a. -- groups of people with the c.i.a. saying we disagree with this conclusion and here is a fact that's off. so that went through about a six-month period. >> okay. the fact that the house intel committee is not doing that and not showing to the fbi though the fbi asked and not showing to the d.o.j. though they asked, what does that tell you? >> it's not a responsible process. let me finish the story about the other. after we voted to release the report, it went to the white

house where it's another six months to redact it to be sure we weren't compromising national security. here is the problem. you can have something that may look innocent to you and i in a report that's based on intelligence data and our adversaries can reverse engineer that data and figure out how we got it. and that's why the intelligence agencies are so upset about this and that's why the fbi said this would be reckless to release it. it could expose sources, people who may be embedded in another country. >> now it's up to the president to have five days to decide whether he should release it. do you think he should? >> i don't. i don't know what's in it. i don't know the background of it, but my sense is that this should be very, very carefully gone through in terms of how it might compromise national security. it that doesn't mean it ultimately shouldn't be released. the other thing that bothers me,

this is a republican staff report. it's not the entire committee. secondly, my understanding is there's a democratic staff report. >> a rebuttal. >> a rebuttal, clearly that should be released at the same time. >> they're voting not to. >> i don't understand it. >> doesn't this just say that these intel committees, you tell me, have they dissolved into total partisanship where they not effectively? >> our's hasn't. the senate committee is working on a by partisan basis. doesn't mean we won't always be able to maintain that. but i feel and i think the other members feel republican and democratic members feel it's important to maintain the integrity of the process so the ultimate product is understandable and accept to believe the american people. >> i want to ask you about the ultimate product. one of your colleagues, your vice chair says that you all received, quote, extraordinarily important new documents in the investigation. do you know what he's talking

about? >> i do, but i'm going to let him do the talking. >> but do you think that -- can you back this up to say that there are new documents that the senate intel committee received that have changed the course of the investigation? >> i wouldn't go that far. any investigation always ends up going in directions you don't expect when you find new information. and this is something that we have to follow up. i really don't feel comfortable talking about where we're going or what we're finding. >> let's talk about the sanctions. congress passed legislation that believed russia should be sanctioned to the strongest order. the president signed it. >> reluctantly last summer. >> and decided not to implement it. >> it's very disturbing. i've been to 20, 30 hearings at armed services and intelligence over the past three or four years about cyberattacks on our country, including what happened during the 2016 election. and one of the biggest things that's come through is that

right now we are a cheap date in the sense that there are no consequences. there are no results for when you do something to us, we don't do anything back. and this is an example. there's an old joke. a guy burns down your house, kills your family, shoots your dog and you chase him for ten years. at the end you find him and say, you got to cut that stuff out. there have to be -- if the russians aren't paying a price for what they're doing, they're going to keep doing it. by the way, they're doing it right now. you ready for this? >> yeah. >> there's a russian troll farm. there's a group in the united states that tracks what they do. you know what their leading hashtag this week out of the russian troll farm, release the memo. >> yes, yes, yes. we have heard that. and so when the state department says it's already working. we don't need additional sanctions. it's already working. they have gotten the message. >> all they have to do is go to hamilton 68 and see that they're trolling us right today.

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president trump is going to make the case for his immigration policies at tonight's state of the union address. he has set a march 5 deadline for congress to find a permanent solution to protect hundreds of thousands of d.r.e.a.m.ers so will lawmakers get a deal done? joining us now is republican congressman mario diaz vallart of florida working on both parties with an immigration plan. congressman, it's good to have you. any negotiations right now overshadowed by this fire storm that's going on in washington. what is your position on the release of this memo?

>> well, you know, on the release of the memo, i'm always one that believes that transparency is good. i've had the opportunity to read the memo. there's a process that has to be followed. that process is pretty clear and it looks like that's what they're doing. i think that's always positive. you know, transparency is good. >> transparency is good, but not transparency in terms of letting the intelligence community review this or letting people have access to the classified information that its based on or letting the democrat rebuttal come out at the same time, is that transparency? >> chris, again, i think the american people are concerned that whether or not the upper echelons of the fbi are biased, have been biased and if so can they be the ones responsible to investigate themselves. so i think any time you can put -- bring or put the spotlight to these things in the proper way through the legitimate channels, i think that's a positive thing.

i don't have to tell you there's been a lot of speculation and lot of accusations. right now there have been no smoking guns. again, if there's a memo that might shed some light, i think the american people should have the opportunity to see that. and i will tell you what i'm doing, is i'm focussed on getting things done for the american people. the big things that are out there, whether it's funding our troops and our federal government or trying to stop the deportation of about 2 million d.r.e.a.m.ers that's what i'm focussed about and that's what i'm going to continue to focus on. >> i hear you. it matters. we're going to talk about it. this story is so big and has so many implications when you couple it with intense focus on trying to undermine the russia investigation, saying the fbi wasn't doing its job right. but on the same day the president refuses to execute the sanctions that you all voted on in a huge fashion against russia for campaign interference and doesn't even put out any message about one of their fighter jets coming within five feet of a u.s. navy ship. why? why such inaction there?

why such quiet when it comes to russia, do you know? >> chris, i just want to mention something. this is not the administration who did the reset with russia. this is not the administration that went in front of congress on multiple occasion when russia was going crazy everywhere in the world and still defending that russian regime. this is not the administration that failed to send military equipment into the ukraine area. this is an administration who was signed into law sanctions and we'll see how those sanctions are going to be implemented. i support strong sanctions against russia, but i do think that kind of blaming this administration for all the russ russia faux when the previous administration did the reset, couldn't do that right. i think we have to lower the rhetoric. let's look at how the situation is. this administration has been tougher on the russians than the previous administration. i hope it's tougher because i

think the russians -- not the russians, i think mr. putin is a thug, is a gangster. >> why won't you push for the exercise of the sanctions when yesterday the white house blew off your vote in. >> no, no. i'm going to be pushing and will continue to push for not only the sanctions that were passed in congress but even stronger sanctions. i think mr. putin is a thug. >> why would you pass stronger ones if the white house didn't enact the ones you did pass. >> i remind you there wasn't this hoopla, this outrage when the previous administration did the reset after that -- the reset right after the russians had invaded our ally georgia. there was no outrage then. i will continue to push for stronger sanctions and you know i've been very consistent and will continue to be consistent. >> all right. let's talk about immigration. you were in the meeting. so here is you trying to make a deal. on the right, you have president trump who used the s-hole comment about a lot of the country's that we get our

people -- >> allegedly. chris, i don't talk about what's said if private meetings. >> you can't have it both ways, congre congressman. were you there or not? >> here is the issue, you have one person saying he said that. you have others saying he didn't. i don't go there because i don't talk about what's said in private meetings. let's talk about the facts, this president put on the table the most generous deal to not only stop the deportation of the d.r.e.a.m.ers to get all of those d.r.e.a.m.ers, give them legality and make them u.s. citizens and also put as part of that real border and interior security. that is a good place to be. no other president -- well, george w. bush tried to do something that was bigger than this by the way without success. so this is a tough lift. but this president has put on the table, forget about what somebody may or may not say. again, i don't focus on those things. i focus on results. this president put on the table

the legalization of the d.r.e.a.m.ers and couple that with border security. by the way, in that public meeting in the white house where there was democrats and republicans from both chambers, it was agreed to couple those two issues. is this an ideal plan? we have to look at the details. here is what i will tell you, this president put a real proposal on the table the most generous proposal dealing with the d.r.e.a.m.ers i've ever seen. the previous administration never did this. and it's coupled with border security. why do they want to do that? they say and i think there's some logic, what they don't want to do is legalize 2 million people give them citizenship and have another 2 million in six months. is it perfect? we have to look at the details. i'm excited that this president is willing to deal, is willing to negotiate and not get into the finger pointing and the accusations. i'm not going there because i want to solve the issues. i'm looking for solutions. >> just to be fair, you brought

up that it was an alleged comment and didn't want to clear it up because you were in the meeting. sounds like something he would say to me. but that's beside the point. and also talking about the previous administration, be fair. obama had to do that executive action because it's the only thing he could get done. you guys would do nothing and this is the only protection these people could get. so that's where we were. the question where we get to. nancy pelosi says yes, pathway to citizenship is a good thing. security fine. we'll do what the border security people say even though it's $25 billion, we'll do it. but these other things, mario, these other things stopping the lottery, stopping family unification, she calls this making america white again. >> you know, chris, it's ironic that mrs. pelosi is being critical. let's get to the facts. i want to correct you on one

little thing here. i was part of the group that was kept quiet and confidential starting in 2009 when president obama said that in 100 days he would present an immigration reform bill. there was a bipartisan reform bill in the house. the democrats had 60 votes in the senate, huge majority in the house and the president obama said he was going to do that. why did it not get filed, chris? why did it not get filed? president obama and nancy pelosi killed it. it's ironic that nancy pelosi when she had the opportunity and president obama when they had the opportunity after telling the american people they're going to do it in 100 days, not only didn't do it, they killed it. those are the facts of what happened. >> that's not what nancy pelosi says. go ahead. >> i know that but she was speaker when there was a bipartisan bill and that has been -- the press has reported on that when she had the majority there were 60 votes in the senate and they promised to

do it. >> bipartisan bills can mean a lots of different things. what happened when they brought it to the president? doesn't mean it's something that's going to get passed. please continue. >> that's exactly right. you're absolutely right. but for nancy pelosi of all people who was the one who killed a true bipartisan bill, talking about 20 members of the house. this is now obviously been made public after all those years, she killed it. now, she had -- >> that means she can't like that you want to get rid of lottery visas and don't want to allow family unification? >> here is what this administration is saying. this administration is saying they are willing to legalize even with citizenship all of those individuals who were brought here no fault of their own. that is obviously something that is very positive. what they want to do however as part of that is make sure we have a situation where we don't have another 2 million in six months or six years. >> understood. >> but there's also something else, chris, in the public meeting in the white house, democrats and republicans, those

four issues were talked about as putting together as part of this deal. all of a sudden those were there and that was public. that was not he says/i say in public. it was agreed to do those four issues and all of a sudden when the president puts out a proposal may or may not be public, the same people who agreed to those issues are saying we agree with one but not the other three. we have to get this done. we have to get this done. this is the bottom line. the country deserves it. the folks here waiting for it in limbo deserve it and some of us will continue to work despite all the noise to get it done because we have to achieve this result for the american people. >> understood. the deadline is coming up. you're welcome here. when feinstein said no we want a clean bill, the president first agreed with her. you're welcome back here any time to discuss it. thank you, congressman. >> thank you, sir. always a pleasure. an incredible act of selflessness that got an invitation to the state of the

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♪ afghanistan is reeling from four attacks in kabul that have killed at least 130 people in just the last nine days. the taliban claiming responsibility for two of the attacks. isis taking credit for two others. cnn's nick paton walsh just got

to kabul and he has more. thank you for being there. be safe. what do you know? >> chris, it's startling now in the 17th year of this war how america is again bracing itself for increased involvement and thousands more troops on their way. they're going to be on the front lines training afghan soldiers and at the same time, too, donald trump after the recent carnage here in kabul say now is not the time to talk to the f l taliban. the afghan government is saying that the violence here recently means the taliban have, quote, crossed red lines and they must have peace imposed upon them on the battlefield. bit of a reality check here. there was never really an imminent peace talk prospect. the hope was that the taliban can be beaten into some sort of negotiated strategy. we are into a dangerous phase here with the capital never

really seemed quite so insecure and of course the u.s. strategy at times reliant on not that much information getting out. they have recently classified that an afghan request a number of afghan soldiers and police who get killed here, that was a key way of measuring success and there's been some confusion over other bits of information as well. difficult times ahead here. president trump expected perhaps to promote some of his new strategy in afghanistan but a stark change. talks out the window, just more violence ahead. >> thank you for being on the ground in kabul to give us the real facts. thank you for the reporting. here is an inspiring story. we introduced you to new mexico police officer after he went beyond the call of duty. he adopted a baby born to a homeless heroin-addicted mother. tonight he is the guest of the first lady and along with his wife and little baby hope. we caught up with the family and have their story. what a great story.

we remember seeing it here on cnn and i guess the white house saw it as well. >> i joked around with the family, you know what, maybe ellen will see this show and you'll get invited to be on the ellen show. now the family is on their way to the state of the union and they're almost speechless. >> well, we're not going into the white house. we're just going into the executive branch. >> ryan and his family feel like they're walking into the twilight zone. >> we're going to cross here. >> cnn first reported the story of how his family adopted the baby of a homeless woman battling heroin addiction two months ago. since then, life has been a whirlwind. >> what did you see? look, it's a big horse. >> now they enter the biggest stage of their lives, guests of the first family at this state of the union address. >> what's it been like for you? >> it's been amazing to see how our story has touched other people. >> looks like you guys are getting ready to shoot up over here. >> the journey started last

december when an albuquerque police officer encountered this homeless couple shooting up heroin behind a convenience store. >> how far along are you? >> crystal champ was eight months pregnant. >> why are you doing that stuff? it's going to ruin your baby. you're going to kill your baby. >> the moment changed all their lives. the family adopted crystal's baby. baby hope is doing well. and because of the first story, a florida treatment facility offered to help crystal and her partner tom key. that's where they are today. crystal calls the family her guardian angels. >> i don't know where he came from, but i'm really happy. i'm really happy he was here. i prayed for our situation and kind of prayed for this to happen the way it did because, you know, he basically adopted us, too. >> ryan speaks with them daily and says they're taking the first steps to getting sober. >> is there a message you want

people to take away from your story? >> everybody is redeemable. tom and crystal had value. hope had value. and by following that, look where it's led. it's led to wonderful things happening. >> do you feel like you have this moment you want to make the most of it? >> it's actually been a burden for me. you're kind of right. what do you say when you actually have a chance to meet with the president? >> officer says the addicted need more help accessing treatment and that prescription pain meds are far too easy to find. >> do you worry -- do you have any fear that it becomes a photo op where just a passing moment and nothing really changes? >> our responsibility is just to do what we can on our end. it's not our responsibility to do the president's job. >> there's hope. >> there's a new rock star in town and baby hope is about to charm her way through washington, d.c. >> she's almost 4 months. she's already going to her first state of the union. >> you can say first.

>> first state of the union. first trip to the white house. this little girl is having a fun life so far. >> yeah. she's been around a little bit. she's gotten to see a lot of people and everybody loves hope. >> i know how to end a television news story. you end on the baby, man. >> and the message, everybody loves hope. but ed, remember when you first showed us this story, didn't the couple, the birth parents, didn't they refuse to go into treatment? >> right. if you remember a mon ago we did the story and went back and there was that moment where the rehab folks had done an intervention. they were pan handling. they gt them to the airport and crystal and tom just melted down at the airport. it was excruciating to watch. they didn't want to do it. >> i've seen this story 100 times except nobody is ever there for the baby. like this police officer was. and it is amazing what you were able to capture and what you brought to the american people. you taught people so much about

addiction but also goodness and it's nice to see the family -- >> that's what they're trying to figure out. they have this big stage. they're talking to the president. something that the officer and his wife care about deeply. and everyone has been chiming in on what they should say on the stage when they're there in the white house today. they're still trying to figure that out. >> we're going to find out what they do decide to say tomorrow. ed, thank you for the update on that story. >> good job, pal. the officer will be here on "new day" tomorrow to share his story. it's going to be one to watch. the trump administration's war against the russia investigation appears to be heating up. what is the future of the special counsel's probe? senator mike reynolds joins us next.

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there are new questions about the status of the russia investigation this morning after the house intelligence committee voted to make public controversial republican memo about alleged fbi surveillance abuses. that vote came just hours after

embattled fbi deputy director andrew mccabe abruptly resigned ahead of his march retirement. there's a lot to discuss with republican mike rounds of south dakota. thanks for being here. >> appreciate the opportunity. >> have you seen this republican house memo? >> i have not. >> are you interested in this republican house memo? >> when the time is right, if they release it, we'll take a look at it. our focus on the senate is what the senate is working on. we know they're interested in the house on this particular memo. we'll let them do their thing and the senate, we'll do our thing. we've got an intelligence committee, th committee. >> don't you find it bizarre that the house intel committee won't share it with the senate intel committee? >> i do. at the same time, if they want to put this together and discuss it, fine. let them work their processes in the house. we're not going to tell hem how to do their job. in the senate, we've got things we've got to get done. >> am i reading you right that

you don't take the house intel committee's work or conclusions as seriously? >> i think what i have to say is they've got their role to play in the time sequence that they've laid out. at the same time, we've got a lot of things in the senate that we're focused on right now which includes the d.r.e.a.m.ers, immigration reform, includes border security. those are critical for us. we're focusing on those items. the house has decided that they're going to focus on the intel issues, that's their role. we're not going to tell them not to do it. that's not going to influence what we're trying to get done in the senate. >> i want to ask you about sanctions. >> sure. >> so congress wants sanctions on russia for the med nlg the 2016 election as well as the annexation of crimea. that has sat on the president's desk, sort of languished. he's decided not to implement them. what are your thoughts? >> first of all, russia did try

to influence the elections, but they didn't do it necessarily in the way it's sometimes laid out. we've had two reports. one of them is an open and unclassified report. the other is the classified version. in both there is a similarity. the only difference between the two is that the classified gives all of the sources and so forth. the unclassified version makes it very clear, they're doing the same thing now they've done for generations, and that is propaganda being delivered, trying to influence us, trying to give us misinformation. they did a good job in the last election. they refined their skills. >> should they be punished for it? >> absolutely. >> so why is the white house not sanctioning -- >> there's different ways of actually making them pay for it. one way is sanctions, and i have no objections with the sanctions at all, and i can't tell you why the white house hasn't proceeded with it. >> but you want them to.

>> no question about it. >> does it concern you they are not proceeding with the sanctions. what does it tell you? >> what it does tell me is this has become such a politicized issue, it's become a question of who wins. do we talk about the president and go farther into the issue surrounding russia, or do we focus on other things. here is my perspective on it. russia tried to influence our election. part of it is they tried to influence americans' thinking, and they provided lots of misinformation. we're not the only ones they did it to. >> of course. >> that's occurred. now, the question is, if they were successful, they're going to come back and do it again unless we get the american people to recognize there is misinformation being provided by russians through multiple sources. >> don't you think that warrants being punished? >> it does. >> so why not punish them? >> good question. in the senate we've already said they should be punished. >> what the state department

said when the president declined to implement this, they said russia has been put on notice. the legislation is serving as a deterrent. you think bad actors in russia pay attention to u.s. legislation? >> if it impacts them -- remember, there's a group of people over there that get impacted by the sanctions that we imposed. >> forget the sanctions. the state department is saying the legislation that you guys pad, do you think that's affecting russian bad actors? >> it may very well. but it would do more if it was actually enacted and imposed upon them. >> what you're saying is the politics have gotten away of punishing russia. >> i think that's a fair statement. i think it will continue until we get a clear message, republicans and democrats alike, in the senate and the house, sending a message to russia, the game is up, time to change your style. russia is not going to do that as long as they are successful and as long as the penalty to be paid is not so great as to make them want to change.

>> therein lies my question. the midterms are coming up. in fact, cia director mike pompeo says he's quite sure they'll try the same thing in the midterms. what's your message to the white house? >> the same thing we've said before. we created sanctions, we want sanctions imposed. the discussion will continue on. we can do our part which is to lay the sanctions out. by the way, i think there may possibly more sanctions on the way in the future. >> if you don't implement them, what does it matter? >> the executive branch has their ability. we can't make them do something. >> i understand. are you concerned they're not doing anything? >> let's let this play out a little bit. we've laid the sanctions out. as more and more information continues to come out about russia does and their role in cyber security and their role in terms of cyber information that's released and how they do it, when more and more of that comes out, i think there will be more growing demand russia be held kdable. >> senator mike rounds, thanks for being here.

we're following a lot of news this morning. let's get right to it. >> they have crossed from dangerously dealing with intelligence to a coverup. >> when you read the memo, it's going to be clear by democrats didn't want it to come into the public light. >> we had votes today to politicize the intelligence process. >> if they're going to release the memo, they have to release the democratic memo. >> well, the house has the minority vote. >> you have not seen the intelligence it's based on? >> we're not permitted to see that. >> doesn't that concern you? >> the latest turmoil comes as the president is about to deliver his first state of the union address. >> the decision was made by that of the white house. >> to say they had no influence on the part of the deputy director is a little disingenuo disingenuous. the sun is finally up. that's a good sign. good morning. welcome no your