captioning funded by cbs good morning. it is thursday, march 16th, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." a federal court strikes down the latest white house travel ban hours before it was due to take effect. president trump says the ruling makes us look weak and refuses to back down. plus, this morning the president unveils a budget proposal with dramatic cuts to agencies like the state department and epa. it would be the largest reduction of government since the drawdown after world war ii. so why did the national weather service decide not to tell the public its blizzard forecast was overblown. the significance cost cities and businesses when the prediction was wrong.

but we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> we're going to fight this terrible ruling. we're going to take our case as far as it needs to go including all the way up to the supreme court. >> the president's travel ban is blocked again. >> so many statements made by president trump indicate that he continues to display unfortunately a religious animus that is not constitutional. >> he tweeted the former administration -- >> i think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. >> he finished part of his first official visit to asia. >> fighting continues to intensify in the battle to retake mosul. iraqi troops have isis surrounded. millions of people in the northeast are digging out from a

powerful storm. >> mother nature is an unpredictable lady. toijt know what we did to offend her. >> much of the southeast hit with bone-chilling temperatures. >> march did not get the memo. >> an amtrak train travel u tloosh -- >> lesson learned for those passengers. >> all that -- >> spacex launched once again. >> it launched in the wee hour this morning. >> president obama's bracket game is still in full force. >> obama has tar heels taking it all. >> -- and all that matters. >> he made $150 million and paid 25% tax. mine do you understand what this means? seriously, i'm asking. i don't. is it good? >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> after 20 minutes mad dow was ready to show us the tax return. >> we just got it. we'll go through it next. >> what? a cliffhanger?

are you kidding? is this news or a reality show? i don't want to watch "america's got 1040s." >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." president trump is firing back after federal court blocked the new version of higgs controversial travel ban. a federal judge in hawaii yesterday issued a nationwide temporary restraining order. the ruling came just hours before the revised executive order was to take effect. >> the ban would stop visas from being issued to travelers in six muslim majority countries for 90 days while they review the vetting procedures. jan crawford is in washington with the newest setback for the president and his harsh words. jan, good morning. >> good morning. it came just a month after the courts blocked his original

order. the judge said it was likely unconstitutional religious discrimination and last night trump made it clear he isn't backing down. >> this is the opinion of many, an unprecedent judicial overreach. >> at a campaign-style rally in nashville, the president pulled no punches in attacking the judge's decision. >> this ruling makes us look weak. you don't think this was done by a judge for political reasons, do you? no. >> president trump even suggested the white house examine its original travel ban. >> i think we ought to go back to the first one and go all the way, which is what i wanted to do in the first place. >> it sparked protests across the nation. >> let them in, let them in. >> opponents call it a muslim ban and the ninth circuit court of appeals blocked it. the trump administration revised it, exempting visa holders and eliminating language

prioritizing christian immigrants. >> the muslim ban is something that in some form has morphed into an extreme vetting. >> hawaii judge derek wattson who was appointed by president obama blocked the ban citing commentary from mr. trump and his inner circle including the sentiment last month in the new revision. >> fundamentally you're still going to have the same basic outcome for the country. >> and rudy giuliani's comments on fox news. >> when he first announced it, he called it muslim ban. then he called me up and said show me the right way to do it legally. >> it was written these plainly worded statements state executive purpose. the reason the judge gave the ban, that is highly unusual. typically courts give presidents

great deference. this could indicate that they're going to hold president trump to a different standard. gayle? >> jan, thank you very much. the president answered questions for the first time last night about his wiretapping claims. in an interview mr. trump promised proof in the near future to back up tweets he sent weeks ago. he just fold out obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the election victory. but a key republican congressman nunez says the claims are just not true. they hope the fbi director james comey can put the issue to rest next week. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with the president's increasingly lonely fight. nancy, good morning. >> good morning. devin kn devin nunes is the chair. he says the president is simply incorrect, that he was not spied on by his predecessor, but mr. trump won't let it go.

>> every intelligence agency reports to you. why not immediately go to them and gather evidence to support that. >> because i don't want to do anything that's going to violate any strength of an agency. you know, we have enough problems. >> in an interview president trump stuck to his story that he was wiretapped or something like it. >> wiretap covers a lot of different things. i think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. >> democrats say the stalling tactics before nothing new for a president who has a history of making claims he can't back up. do you have any evidence to confirm your fears about mexico 'cross the border? >> we'll be showing you evidence. >> it has gripped congress and the intelligence community. if true, it would be a bombshell. republican devean nunes says it

isn't. >> we don't have any evidence that it took place. in fact, i don't believe the last weak of time in the people we talked the, i don't believe there was an actual tap at trump tower. >> adam schiff said president trump's tweets has forced the white house. >> i don't see it as something other than what you would watch on tv. >> james comey is on high demand where he briefed two top senators behind closed doors on wednesday. >> this briefing was all on sensitive maters and highly classified. >> republican lindsey graham said the fbi should share some of its inform wgs the public. >> the bottom line is a lot of americans are wondering what's going on here. >> cbs news asked comey's boss, attorney general jeff sessionses, whether he ever gave the president to believe he was wiretapped. norah, after some hesitation, he said no. >> nancy, thanks.

president trump released the first draft budget. it proposed some massive cost. 1% less to epa and 29% to the state department. defense department and homeland security could see more money. mick numulvaney is the white hoe adviser. good morning. >> good morning. >> does it also dismanhattan tl? >> a little bit. we rewrote the budget by going through the president's speeches and finding out what his priorities were. we took those word, policies, and turned them into numbers. >> did you consult with anybody? >> the president. >> you didn't consult with agency? >> oh, sure. during the process we talked to all the cabinet secretaries, all the other director and walked

through program by program. we gave them a lot of flexibility. we'll coto do so in how these agencies will get cuts or in the case of defense department, homeland security, how they get increases. >> clearly people say if you want to know the pry yorlts of somebody, look at their budget, period, whether it's family or whether it's the government. the question comes, it's also a political decision. we can talk about all the numbers in the world, but you've got republican senators saying it's dead on arrive. you've got mitch mcconnell saying they can never get those kinds of cuts in the state department. you have the secretary of defense saying if you cut down the state department budget, it's not going to help me do what i have to to. >> sure. a couple of different answers to that. certain members like i used to be represents the district. the president represents every.

his budget is driven by that. with regard to the state department we're absolutely confident there's more than enough money in the budget to allow the state department to maintain their core diplomatic functions. keep in mind a lot of the foreign aid is in the state department budget. a lot of the climate change work in the state department budget. that's one of the reasons you see such a large reduction there. but to a large extent, this is a high-powered budget, there's no question about it. >> you have a lot of opposition from some very key republican players. what do you plan to do, mr. mulvaney, to get them on the same page? >> send a message. what is the message? the president wants more money for defense, more money for border enforcement, in fact, more for law enforcement. he wants more money for veterans and things like school choice and he wants to do that without adding to the deaf set this

year. >> president trump also said on the campaign trail he wants to eliminate all disease. yet in this budget you eliminate 20%, $6 billion. how do you square with that? >> it was a wonderful moment where he addressed congress. he had a woman who suffered from a rare tee cease. orphaned disease where a lot of people don't have it. but for private demand, there wouldn't be research. >> what about infrastructure? >> that's a great question. i keep for getting to talk about that. we're putting it in a larger infrastructure plan. so, yes, if you do see reductions in certain programs, that's not a lack of the infrastructure. we think it's a better way to do

it. >> mick mulvaney, thank you. >> thank you. the white house is working to get more republican support for a plan to replace obamacare. president trump's campaign-style rally yesterday tried to build momentum for his health care proposal. he still faces resistance from some conservative lawmakers. and house speaker paul ryan admits the bill needs changes in order to pass. margaret brennan is at the white house with the next move in the margaret, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, the president went to nashville to use the full weight of his bully pull pet to sell this republican health care plan. but now even its authors are signaling retreat saying it may need to be reworked to pass. >> we are going to repeal and replace horrible disastrous obamacare. >> president trump spent more time attacking obamacare than promoting the house republican plan to replace it. >> at the very core of obamacare was the fatal flaw, the

government forcing people to buy a government approved product. there are very few people, very few people. >> the house bill supported by the president and being shepherded by speaker paul ryan is facing opposition from other conservatives, in part because it's viewed as too similar to obamaca obamacare. >> we want them to give us what they promised us. >> and on capitol hill, the conservative grassroots led fight to kill the bill waraged . senator rand paul of kentucky said it was time to send a clear message. >> tell them you want them to stand firm, you want to bring down the paul ryan plan. >> late wednesday north carolina republican mark meadows said he had enough no votes to sink it. >> i can tell you based on our whip count this evening, there's not enough votes to vote for it.

>> yet mike pence spent a straight day twisting the arms of lawmakers including house speaker paul ryan to win over skeptics and to secure its passage. >> we can incorporate feedback to improve this bill, refine this bill, and those kinds of conversations are occurring between the white house and the senate and members of congress. >> it might win over some republicans still on the fence. it includes changes to medicaid and an early freeze on its expansion. fwail? >> thank you. you look like you're standing in front of a post card, thairng you so much. the u.s. charged four people with cyber attacks yesterday including two russian security officers. the russians are accused of directing two hackers to infiltrate yahoo! accounts from 2014 to 2016. the justice department claims that hackers used stolen usernames and passwords to access the accounts of russian

journalists and u.s. and russian government officials. secretary of state rex timmerson is in japan on his first trip in his role as diplomat. when he leaves japan, he will go to seoul, south korea, and beijing, china. adriana diaz questioned tillerson on his approach to north korea. good morning. >> good morning. he traveleded with one reporter on his plane, one from a conservative website rather than a corps that follows him. he laid out a new strategy, the call for a new strategy on north korea. secretary of state rex tillerson is on a mission to find a way out of the region's most pressing problem, an increasingly aggress everybody and capable north korea. just last week they test fired

missiles that landed in the sea of japan, rattling japan which hosts more than 50,000 u.s. troops. >> in face of this ever escalating threat, it's clear that a different approach is required. >> when asked, he did not specifying what it would be. >> secretary, how will you get china on the same page as the u.s. to diffuse the threat from north korea? >> we do believe they have a very important role to play. china is a major source of economic trade. so we look to china to fulfill its obligations and implement the sanctions called for in the resolutions. tomorrow he travels to south korea which is in political turmoil after the president was impeached over a corruption scandal. the missile plan could be halted by their next leader. china vehemently opposes it.

it's needed for china, u.s., and south korea to teal with the north. >> north korea and its people need not fear the united states or neighbors in its region who seek only to live in peace with north korea. >> china suggested that north korea halt its missile program in exchange for the u.s. and south korea stopping its military exercises. the u.s. deflected that idea. charlie? >> adriana diaz in tokyo. thank you. iraqi force this morn having sur rounded western mosul. military leaders say it's only a matter o time until they crush the last isis fighters there. those that remain are using hundreds of thousands of civilians as human shields. more than 150,000 people have fled when isis took the city

nearly a month ago. a russian spy ship has reappeared near the east coast and it's heading north. this video shows the ship on patrol. the 300-foot trawler has a ports of call in jamaica next month. last month the ship sailed close to navy bases in virginia and connecticut and now our david martin reports that the ship has reappeared about 20 miles south of the u.s. navy submarine base at kings bay in georgia and that is considered international waters. a mission steerous cell phone glitch is clogging the system in dallas.

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cost the good morning, i'm rahel solomon. march madness tips off today at noon time right here on cbs-3. villanova wildcats are in buffalo tuning up for tonight 's round one match up with 16th seed mount st. mary 's, wildcats defending national champions and overall number one seed in the tournament, game starts at noon on cbs-3. nova plays at 7:00 tonight. feels like we have been in buffalo lately lets get over to meteorologist katie fehlinger. it is another cold one. >> it is but less harsh with regard to wind as well as temperature here today, rahel and right now sunnies making its rise over the horizon outside middletown ship high school and every where else. your wind again in the quite as harsh as yesterday currently at this lex at 12 miles an hour, we could see gusting to 30 at some point

today but still will be felt and with the daytime high of 36 we have to bundle up. modest rebound looking to saturday but watch for a few rain or snow shower friday night in the weekend, meisha. >> thank you for that. we are still looking at ice on the roadways, so good morning 95 near betsy ross bridge very slow moving here not traveling at posted speed as you can imagine harder rush now. route 13 chester pike at clifton avenue and we have a had a down pole this morning had about been since cleared but check your mass transit schedules on line, rahel. our next update 7:55. up next, officials want to know if problems in the dallas 911 center contributed to the death of the six month-old baby.

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this is a report from long beach, new york. this did not stop a surfer from taking his surf board out to sea. >> did you get any action? >> a little bit. >> how much action did you get? >> about a mile. >> do you have a news van? >> we do. we have that big news van. >> can you give me a ride back? >> sure. what's your name? >> adam. >> do you always surf the crazy storms? >> no. this is if first time. >> first time. >> will you do it again? >> yes. >> do you do it in the summer? >> no. this is my first time. >> ever. >> on second thought, i don't think we're going to let you in

the van. >> that's funny. >> i could have been killed but it was my first time. all right, adam. he survived. welcome back to "cbs this morning." that was very funny. >> give me a ride. >> along with my surfboard, charlie. the northeast are still cleans up. an amtrak train blasted some unlucky passengers. they're just waiting on the platform. it pulled into the station in new york city. one man reported said many looked like little frosty snowmen. that's why i say back away from the track. take a look at a massive pileup as it happened on a highway in quebec, canada. people jumped out of their cars to try to avoid the mayhem. several people were hurt but everyone survived. "the new york times" says the dutch prime minister fought off a challenge by far right

populous candidate. he finished first. poles had suggested a close race with an anti-islam rival. the election was seen as a test for rising nationalism in europe. voter turnout in the netherlands was the highest in decades. >> a really interesting pole. extremely warm ocean water causes coral to lose the colorful algae it needs to survive. a study found two thirds of the coral died. the author said he didn't expect to see this level of destruction for another 30 years. he said the only way to protect the reef is to take action against climate change. one of the most interesting stories. >> with pictures. >> it's beautiful, beautiful stuff. "the dallas morning news" says it's working with the 911

system. there he is. brendan alex. he died on saturday. his babysitter repeatedly called 911 but she could not reach operators. omar villafranca spoke with the boy's mom who is now demanding answers. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. brandon's babysitter called 911 three times but couldn't get through to the dispatcher here at city hall and now more people are coming forward saying this is more than a technical glitch. it's a matter of life and death. >> do you think 911 responding could have saved brandon's life? >> i do. >> reporter: bridget alex left her son brandon home with the babysitter when the 6-month-old fell and stopped breathing. the babysitter called at 5:51 p.m. and again at 5:57 but was put on hold each time. this screen grab of the final call shows she was on hold with 911 for more than 30 minutes and never got through to the

dispatcher. >> there's really no apology. there's nothing they can say to heal the pain that's in my heart that i have to bury my 6-month-old son on monday. >> but you want an explanation. >> i want one. >> it's not acceptable that that happened, and we've got to make sure that it never happens again. >> reporter: dallas mayor mike recalling said wednesday hundreds of goefts calls have jammed the city's 911 system for months. these so-called ghost calls are made to 911 unintentionally by mobile devices on the t-mobile network and are unknown to callers. the calls then appear on the dispatcher's screen on hang-ups. by law dispatchers have to call those numbers back which bottlenecks the system. t-mobile executive david cari said they started to note the

problem last fall. but on saturday the city said it experienced a spike of more than 400 ghost calls. >> we will stay on this until it is fully resolved. >> i want to hear that it's fixed. >> reporter: david tap ppet called. he said he waited 20 minutes before a 911 operator answered his call. >> i can't believe it's just this week that people are dying as a result of this. >> do you think there's other stories out there? >> yes. >> yesterday t-mobile sent a team of engineers. they said they will be here until that problem is fixed but no timetable has been given. charlie? >> thank you so much, omar. that's the saidest story, a 6-month-old baby. >> no timetable has been given. you would think somebody says we are going to figure this out. >> yeah. but when you call 911, you need immediate help. >> you're exactly right. you're normally calling for a reason.

newly released court papers question the safety of roundup, one of america's most popular weeds killers. documents were unsealed against an ongoing investigation against monsanto that makes roundup. about 200 lawsuits have been filed in the last two years. attorneys claim that the papers show monsanto spent money on research. mireya villarreal is in los angeles with documents. mireya, good morning. >> good morning. the lawsuits involve hundreds of people claiming they developed nonhodgkin's lymphoma after using roundup. monsanto says their main ingredient, glyphosate, us the not cause cancer, but the newly released documents including internal e-mails are raising big concerns. >> now with this new information, with the e-mails coming out, hopefully that will show the world how reckless monsanto has been with people's

health. >> reporter: after aggressive therapy, yolanda men's cancer is in remission. a federal court unsealed documents in a mass litigation lawsuit tuesday raising new questions not only about roundup safety but about monsanto's research practices. this reveals a close relationship between monsanto executives and a former epa worker. he worked with monsanto to suppress studies on the main grenlts glyphosate. it's good to know they're going to actually make the effort. in another e-mail a monsanto executive suggested the company ghostwrite a positive report on fwlie foe sate and get experts to back it up saying they would just edit and sign their names. monsanto issued a statement. these allegations are false. monsanto scientists did not ghost right the paper.

no one in the world considers glyphosate to be a carcinogen. >> our biggest condition is that they control the science. they write articles that are submitted to the epa. they have control of the lab studies that are used for registration of gief sate. >> mendoza's battle with non-hodgkin's stole a year of her life. >> i want them to fight for what they believe is right, just like their mom. >> and we reached out to the epa for comment, neither one have gotten back to them just yet. they expect to file between 1,000 and 2,000 more cases against monsanto in the next several months but with multiple studies coming out and conflicting conclusions about glyphosate. the science is still out about the product safety. norah? >> i know you'll continue to follow it for us, mireya.

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the national weather service denies accusations that its blizzard forecast this week were intentionally misleading. on monday before the storm hit the agency forecasted up to a foot and a half of snow in new york city. only 7.6 inches actually fell. up to 12 inches was projected in boston but only 6.6 fell.

washington was to have gotten up to 6 inches but it only got 3. >> they said they kept the predictions high because it could produce an unwelcome result in less readiness and vigilance. david begnaud is in new york which did get a record amount of snow. davids, good morning. >> reporter: charlie, good thursday morning to you. the snowfall was no joke here. 31 inches, maybe some change. look. this is much of the story across central new york. people here are not shocked by it, right? it happens here. but as you get to the larger population areas, places like new york city, the storm was not what people were expecting because it was not what people were told but that has led people to ask, so what happened with those weather forecasts. >> we've heard reports from the national weather service as much as 2 edges to 4 urges per hour.

>> it's going to snow hard and quickly. >> reporter: armed with predictions from the national weather service. >> snow and rain are expected to begin. >> reporter: government officials sounded the alarm monday. but that day some of the agency's models were already changing. it appeared crippling snow could miss large cities but they didn't downgrade the forecast until early tuesday morning when the storm was already under way. >> no one model nailed this storm. >> reporter: david robinson said it posed a dilemma for weather service. >> i think there's some room for discussion whether they should have been a little more forthright. >> reporter: new york city shut down after a forecast called for as much as 2 feet of snow. the storm dumped only about 8 inches. lost business and productive in the northeast cost $2 billion to $3 billion according to moody's analytics. a spokesman for bill de blasio

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good morning, everyone i'm jim donovan. authorities from philadelphia 's offices of licenses and inspections, will be patrolling center city today because of dangerous falling ice. it is so dangerous for pedestrians near loews hotel on market street that foot traffic is being prohibited. city wants high rise owners and managers to check buildings and issue warnings, when necessary. lets send it over to katie for a look at weather. >> still cold, jim. we are expect to go see temperatures in the 30's at lee to get above freezing here today but also still windy. we are not going to deal with are the snow showers or squall that is reduced visibility yesterday, nice bright sunshine and that clear sky but you can still bundle up. here's how it feels, not very much fun stuck outside on the train platform or waiting for

a bus in these feels like values. very, very chilly day and really doesn't hit seasonal through this seven day. closest we will get is first day of spring up to 50 degrees , meisha. >> we have got sun, katie but man, is it cold? looking outside still a lot of ice causing issues on the roadways. we have a disabled vehicle zoomed in right now, schuylkill westbound at vare avenue head up because that is causing real slow downs. 295 accident that is just been cleared watch out for falling ice on the delaware memorial bridge both directions outside lanes are blocked, jim. thanks, meisha. coming up on cbs this morning most important health test for women for each decade of their life. i'm jim donovan, make it a great

it is thursday, march 16th, 2017. welcome back to "cbs this morning." denis mcdonough, he's in studio 57 for his first tv interview since leaving the white house. but first here's today's "eye opener" at 8:00. the new ruling came just over a month after the courts blocked the original order. president trump made clear he is not backing down. devin nunes says the president was not spied on by his predecessor but mr. trump won't let it go. >> i know you said this budget reflects the president's campaign promises. does it also reflect his desire to dismantle the administrative state?

>> we rewroete the budget by going through the president's speech. >> now even its authors aring is nalling retreat. >> the secretary of state had one scheduled press conference for this five-day trip where he laid out the strategy. >> the snowfall was no joke here. 31 inches, maybe some change. but as you get to the larger population area, places like new york city, the storm was not what people were expecting because it's not what they were told and that has led many people to ask so what happened with those weather forecasts. >> winter storm stella has not been as terrible as everyone seemed to think it would be. this one supposed to be a huge storm, but then rachel maddow talked about it on msnbc for an hour and it turned out to be nothing, so -- >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. a second federal judge this time in maryland has blocked part of president trump's revised travel

ban. that ruling this morning comes hours after a judge in hawaii put the entire executive order on hold. the president's latest ban would stop new visas for travelers from six muslim majority countries for 90 days. iraq was removed from the list. the new order would not apply to current visa holders and it eliminated language giving precedence to christian immigrants. >> the president said the ban is necessary to include vetting from countries identified by the obama administration. he slammed the hawaii federal judge's decision last night. the order he blocked was a watered down version of the first order. i think we ought to go back to the first one and go all the way, which is what i wanted to do in the first place. the danger is clear, the law is clear, the need for my executive order is clear. >> in his ruling the judge said a reasonable observer would find the order was issued with the purpose to disfavor a particular

religion in spite of its stated religiously neutral purpose. the justice didn't called the ruling flawed both in reasoning and in scope. the president is responding to question about about his wiretapping claims for the first time. in an interview he promised to back up his tweets from two weeks ago. he claimed then president obama ordered wiretaps of trump tower during the campaign. the republican and democratic leaders of the house intelligence committee say they have not seen any proof of that. denis mcdonough was white house chief of staff for president barack obama. he joined the administration in 2007. as policy adviser he was named national security adviser in 2010 and then chief of staff in 2013. he's now the senior principal at the merkel foundation.

he is here for his first television interview since leaving the white house. denis mcdonough, welcome. >> thanks, charlie. it's good to be back and nice to see you back too. >> thank you so much. let me ask you. to you have any idea? speculate for us what president trump is talking about when he says i have evidence. he seems to be doubling down. what do you think? >> i simply have no idea. he said the claim he had ordered of wiretap, his spokesman said that's completely false. we had a cardinal rule, charlie, in the white house, which is we would not under any circumstances get involved in any investigations one way or the other. so i don't know what he's referring to and it appears that the republicans and democrats on capitol hill, people like director of national intelligence jim clapper and others have no idea what he's talking about either. >> even republicans say they've seen no evidence. >> the chairman of the house

committee is a republican and i think he calls himself an ally of president trump and he said yesterday that he does not believe this happened. >> but mr. mcdonagh, what do you make of the claim when you first heard it? he called president obama a bad sick guy. >> yeah. >> i think you saw the strength of the statement that the president's spokesman put out. >> i know. but i'm asking you. i'm asking you. you were there and you know this man and you know what went on in the white house. >> i know what went on in the white house and we stand by the work that we did including the work that led to eight years of foreign terrorist organization not carrying out a terrorist attack on this. we take great pride on this. we're greatly proud of that. we should be focused on precisely that rather than speculating about these other charges. >> so, denis, there are multiple tweets by donald trump where he

said president obama has tapped my phones. is it legal for a sitting president to be wiretapping? can the president order a wiretap? >> the president cannot order a wiretap. the president us the not order a wipe tapp. the president did not order a wiretap. >> got it. let me ask you this. the white house is going to hold a hearing on monday. what are some of the questions you want to see answered on the subject about what russia may have done during the election? >> well, i'd sure like to make sure we're taking the next step now. we saw before we left president obama task the intelligence community give us an assessment of precisely what we understood to have happened during the election. he was a victim himself of hacking the 2008 campaign. so clearly we're in a new age of these hacks being an issue in our campaigns. so what i'd like to see is congress beginning now to implement some policies to ensure that this does not happen again. but unfortunately there still

has to be a little bit of accounting in terms of what happened. i still see a little bit too much questioning whether the russians did, in fact, involve themselves in the election. i think it's an open and shut case. >> you think rush was meddling. >> no question about it. >> why do you think he's denying itsome. >> again, i'm not in a position to characterize why he is. i think at dirjts time he's acknowledged. >> among others, he says. >> he's acknowledged the russian role. but, again, the important thing about acknowledging it is it will allow us to take the next step to protect our election so it doesn't happen again. that's what the american people should expect. we're the united states of america. nobody messes in our elections and we've got to make sure that does not happen again. >> the efforts to dismantle obamacare does not seem to be going as smoothly as they had predicted. as you sit and watch this unfold, what are your thoughts?

>> they used to say if you want it bad, you get it bad. they seem to have gotten it bad. they have plan here that will push 24 million people out of health care back into the kind of confused and, you know, insecure state where they don't have the peace of mind that comes from having health insurance and having their kids have health insurance. so we think that's a big mistake. so what i hope is that they go back to square one now and try to address what are some fixable problems in the existing program, not try to throw the baby out with the bakts water. >> you admit there are problems. >> president obama admitted there's some problems. in fact, he wrote a complete article in the journal of one of the -- medical journals laying out precisely the steps that he would take to strengthen the law. we should do that. >> if you had its to do over, what would you do? >> the individual mandate goes to the hearst of the question. there are 118 million people in the country with what are called pre-existing conditions. under the old system insurance

companies could say to you if you're one of those, we're not going to cover you and those pre-existing conditions, charlie, cover the range of questions. in order for us to say you have to cover everybody, you can't say to those 118 million people, you don't get coverage. >> but is the only way to do it is to question it? >> we work very hard at this. poll say measures, republicans, democrats, nonpartisans look at it. it goes to the heart of the cbo score earlier this week. they found that because of many of these changes including the irv unfair tax changes that gives a tax break to the most wealthiest of americans, 24 million are going to lootz their health insurance. if you want it bad, you get it bad. they get it bad. >> do you miss the day to day -- the job you might have considered one of the key political jobs to have. do you miss the political

day-to-day event? >> i don't. i love seeing my wife and kidser day. what i do miss is my friends and colleagues in the white house. that was a team that was a lot of fun to be part of, i miss that. >> and now the markel foundation. you're training people for the new digital economy, right? >> we all experience this. we all have friends, we see what's happening in this economy. when i started at the white house eight years ago, we did not see and experience the kind of technological change we see. we see now we have to make sure our workers are trained for jobs in the age of automation, artificial foundation. i'm really pleased to be ensuring that the 68% of the work force that does not have a college degree has the skills they need to succeed. >> do we know how to do that? >> markel has got some ideas. it involves making sure people get access to a job training coach and good job training so

they get the job they need. >> have you spoken to the president recently? the former president? >> i have not spoken to the president but i have spoken to former president. >> my quick question to you is he's still got his brackets, but as i understand he predicts duke. >> no. north carolina. >> oh. >> he's predicting the tar heels. >> every march -- >> that's why i -- >> makes reggie mad. >> reggie was a former duke player. >> grade would you grade your successor? >> i'm not going to grade my successor. as you said, it's a tough job. he's a good machblt i hope that he's just, you know, doing what a chief of staff needs to do, giving it straight to the president and protect your team and make sure the team gets their shot at these difficult questions. i hope he's doing that. >> hope you come back. it's always nice to talk with you. >> great to see you guys, thank

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in morning rounds every necessary medical checkup a woman should have. screenings can help find problems earlier when they may be easier to treat. our dr. tara narula is here fehr a medical check list for women of all ages. good morning. >> good morning. >> i'm nervous about whether i've checked these or not. >> let's fun out. >> for women in their 20s and 30s overall good health, what should they be looking at? >> this is a time women are not

thinking about going to doctor. but it's tomb to set the found daeg for two things, prevention and pryoration of their health. so while it's controversial whether women should get an annual physical exam, it's good to get a baseline so you can establish a relationship with your doctor, evaluate the risks and talk about family history. important things in 20s and 30s, blood and clesz troll. you should start checking those at age 20. you should screen for stds. some may be sigh lenl and can lead to infertility. >> what about cancer at an early age? >> cervical cancer, the second leading cause of death. two things that are effective in helping fight cervical cancer, the hpvc vaccine starting at age 12 to 26 and pap smeers at age 21. we should get them every three years and at age 30, every five

years along with the test. >> i'm surprised you didn't say melanoma. >> women more likely than men to get it when they're under 40. not something that's routinely talked about in terms of getting screened for but important for women to start takie paying attention. take a look at your body every month. look at areas you might not think about, palms of hands, nails, ears. if you think it's changing, talk to a doctor about that. >> the thing that's interesting is there are some tests people need to ask their doctors about that the doctors don't normally do. >> as we get older things like colon cancer screening, women in their 40s and 50s. >> which is considered middle age. >> i'm middle age then. >> i think 60s and 70s is middle able. >> you're right on that. >> colon cancer screening starting in your 50s unless you have a history. in addition mammograms starting

at age 45 every year and blood sugar tests. in your 40s, overweight, high blood pressure, cholesterol, gestational diabetes, get your blood pressure checked. >> quickly, 60s. >> investigation. you meade to start getting screened for that and bone density. and also mental and emotional well being. not something we focus on. one of the surgeon general's priorities. extremely important to talk to doctors about that and for doctors to screen for that. >> that's a good one. thaeg you. always good to see you. shoppers are looking for alternatives to cows' mill. ahead, peas. and why a dare industry says we should not call it milk. coming up, an owner's iphone explodes right in his hands. talking about safety. we'll be right back. - 83% try to eat healthy. yet up 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone.

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j this guy's smartphone needed more repairs than he thought. while he was explaining the problem the iphone 6 exploded in his hands. surveillance video shows him throwing it across the county. no one was hurt. i guess they'll believe him when he says i've got a problem with my phone. jesse williams defines himts

as an good morning, i'm rahel solomon. some historical sites in philadelphia are closed because of the federal government's hiring freeze. the house where thomas jefferson wrote declaration of the independent and been frank 's print shop are closed in olde city. some bathrooms also closed because of the shortage of workers. independent hall and liberty bell are still opened to visitors. lets check a forecast with the katie fehlinger. just a couple days from spring but does not feel like it. >> it certainly does not. we will remain below average for majority of the forecast, too rahel but for now we have got some snow coverage obviously in the areas that picked up well into about a foot or more in places like bernville here in berks county , 23 degrees. certainly more modest wind flow, still out of the north/ northwest at this point. even though it is more modest

it is still noticeable and certainly want to bundle up adequately here. feels more like teens at this hour. we're in the 20's in most spots so neither of those values. feels all that great to be outside in for very long. sunnies shining. don't worry about snow squals. friday night and saturday we have got rain, snow and sleet that works its way through from the minor disturbance but temperatures, are cold. >> i can tell you right now, katie we are still not accident free because of the conditions. blue route southbound near conshohocken truck involvement they are in the sure it was an accident or disable v slow moving around there. koran fire here new jersey turnpike north bound before route 206, and the right lane is block, and we also have an accident, on city avenue in overbrook near st. joes university, at overbrook avenue and take a look at the schuylkill right behind this how slow moving it is. give yourself extra time a lot of red, meisha. >> yes. >> our next update 8:55. ahead this morning a major theater chain could soon

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carolina uk in sunrise, florida. one woman went completely blind. they were being treated for macular degeneration. an fda spokeswoman said she could not comment on whether an investigation had been conduc d conducted. and t"the wall street journal" talks about chicken being produced from something not chicken. meat could eventually be produced more humanely and efficiently that way. those who sample the product say it tastes like chicken. alternative dare milk have a spike in popularity. u.s. sales made out of plant reached nooerm $2 billion in 2015. dare milk sales have dropped by more than 9% since 2011. the dare industry is now demanding that the industry define and enforce exact hi what milk is. ripple is a newcomer to the

nondairy market made from yellow peas. target, whole food, safeway, wegmans, and shop rite sell ripple. the co-founder is with us. how does it taste? >> it tastes great. >> what does it taste like? >> it doesn't taste anything like chicken. no, actually protein is flavorless. all protein is flavorless. we think of protein-based foods being meaty in a plant based world like soy, but we use pea because they're really high in protein. if you get really high protaen, its has no flavor. ripple tastes a lot more like dairy milk than in others. >> i'm trying to make a connection between pea and milk and that it's a good thing and tastes good. help us, adam. >> the current situation is that most dairy alternatives are really bad alternatives to

dairy. a glass of milk has eight proteins of milk. almond mill czech is the most popular only has one. most think nut milks have proteins because they have nut smas and most think almonds are very good for you. >> almond has only 1 protein. cash you and coconut milk also very pop already, they have one. we made ripple to be dairy-free the way it should be. a great source of protein, a loss less sugar and creamy and delicious the way milk should be. >> what are the other grelktss in there that help make it creamy and delicious and help make it taste like milk? >> the product is vegan, so all of the ingredients come from plant sourcesnd and the fats in the products, there are a couple of different types of sunflower, ail ga oil, gives you omega-3 fattedy acids which gives you the creamy texture. we know the typical nut milk is

watery and thin. these products are creamy. >> i want to read you what the national milk producers federation says which supports the daily pride act. they say labeling it as milk convey as nutrition equivalency as not accurate. why do you need to call it milk? why not call it a different name? >> i think the dare industry is playing defense. no product is alling itself milk without calling it a plant-based milk or soy mullic. in fact, there's case law. >> would you acknowledge there's not nutritional ee kwif lency? >> there is with ripple. on one hand i'm sympathetic to the cause of the dairy industry, you have it out there. you've got one-eighth of the prote

protein. >> it's why a lot of athletes drink milk after working out because protein is so high. >> let's define milk. 36% americans prefir plant-based milk. let's define it in a way that everybodying can enjoy it whether you want it from the udder of the cow or soy-based plants. >> you got the idea for ripple from what? andy r you fed up with milk? lactose-intolerant? ? >> u started ripple to get me out of bed. i started a cleaning product called method before i started this business. i starred republicanle because u wanted to create impacts in a really big way and a lot of mainstream people, not just people lactose intolerant, are trying plant based products now and those products have got to be really delicious if we're going to get the environmental and health benefits that come along with that. >> adam lowry,ing that you so

much. >> thanks for having me. a movie chain wants to get families to return to the movies. synepolus. one attraction stands out. ben tracy is inside the pico rivera, that's outside los angeles with a preview. ben, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this looks like a regular movie that play ground. check this out. they have 55-foot slides and bean bags to watch the means in. all of this is in an effort to bring families back to the big screen. climbing, swinging, and sliding aren't usually what you do at the movie theater, but sin on

lis, the worked's fourth largest theater chain spent $4 million to upgrade two southern california theaters creating a familye caters to kids. they invited some families out before the major opening. >> what was your favorite part? >> the fast slide. >> my favorite part was the sclieming things. >> kids can explore the playground for 20 minutes before the movie starts. >> so please come on down so we can start our film. >> but come showtime the jungle gym is close and monitored by a theater attendant during the entire movie. >> what do you think of that? >> a bit awkward. >> reporter: even though these kids behaved, some parents are skeptical that might not always be the case. >> it's challenge to try to keep them in their seats and happy. it will be interesting to see how kids to when they're told they have to sit down and watch the movie and not play.

>> reporter: it may take more than a slide to get families back to movies. although movie theater revenue is up at nearly $11.3 billion last year, he's in large part ta'u to higher ticket prices. overall the number of tickets sold has declined since 2002. several theater chains have attempted to bring people back with luxury dining and alcohol and luxury seating with moving seats and better effects. they say rising costs and better technology at home are prompting families to stay on the couch. >> now you can have a very high resolution of picture in your living room and you can practically pay for it with a family going to the movies three times. >> reporter: but for special occasions, parents say the pre-theater playground could be much more fun. >> it makes it memorable for kids which makes it more fun for

parents too. >> so the ticket for these theaters is only going to cost about a dollar more. they're only doing it in movies they're showing that are kid-friendly. and i won't get on the slide because as the kids said, that would be awkward. >> oh, darn, ben. >> we should give a shout-out to ben tracy and his new assignment. ben's going to be going to china. so exciting. >> very exciting. i'm not sure if they have movie theater play grounds in north korea and china. >> well, ben, they don't. we're very excited for you. i know you'll be great there. >> thank you. actor jesse williams is not shy with his. s and his new project looks at the former president obama's play with words. we'l

. my family treated me like i'm pretty. they expected nothing from me ever. never pushed me. never thought to. so i had to push myself hard. i didn't even tell them i was taking the mcats until after i aced them. >> that's jesse williams as

avery. he accepted a humanitarian award. he spoke bluntly about the black lives matter movement. >> now, this award, this is not for me. this is for the real organizers all over the country, the activists, civil rights attorneys, struggling parents, families, teachers, students, realize that a system bittet to divide, impoverished can destroy us. >> he's now bringing his voice to the new documentary called the obama years, the power of words. it focuses on obama's most important speefrps before and during his eight years in the white house. >> six speeches might shape his legacy from a brash young state senator. >> there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. there is the united states of america. >> to a president grappling with turbulent time. >> justice growses out of

recognition of ourselves in each other. my liberty depends on you being free too. >> jesse williams joins us now to talk about documentary and other things going on in your lieu. welcome, jesse. >> thank you so much for having me. >> this documentary, i enjoy it so much because you take us behind the scenes of all the key speeches, what the speech writers were thinking and obama was thinking. in eight years he wrote 35 speeches. he knows that words are powerful. he values them and he knew how to match the moment. >> i think that proved to be very true and that's one of the reasons he impacted so many of us. >> what was the essence of the process? >> writing these speeches? >> yeah. >> it has to be born out of an authentic not only interest and passion for the material, but information. you have to have some wisdom and experience and, you know, intellect matters despite popular opinion these days.

you have to have some intellectual heft around these issues or be surrounded by people who do to be both interested and informed on a topic. >> it's interesting. he clearly has a gift as people said as his order in chief. his writing was a way to move people. he tried in a way to make people to understand. >> a teaching element. >> yes, a teaching element. >> yeah. and anybody to some degree can recite words, right? but there's a connectivity to being able to really understand who and what you're talking about and being able to frame it in a way that's relatable that people can use key words and vocabulary that relax people, disarm people, and set a table for them to do it on. >> one of those speeches was on the 50th anniversary of the march of selma. >> yep. >> and that speech has been talked about as one of his greatest speeches of his presidency.

what did you take from that speech? >> that was surrounded by such an -- it was the 50s anniversary. it couldn't be laid up any -- in a stronger way. so i think that the atmosphere was just so -- just so palpable. there was a bit of both tension and nostalgia, both good and bad. i think he just -- what i appreciated was he stepped up to the plate. it was never -- as happens so often with him, he takes a moment and makes it notten him but makes it about you, wrifr you are. >> he does occasionally makes it about himself. one of the speeches i thought he wrote himself he was more authentic than any. >> the race speech. >> which is really a reaction to half of a nation making it about him, saying, you know what? if we're going to talk about u, let's talk about it. if you really want to talk about, let's talk about it. >> it was called the most

critical speech because of critical time. >> that could have gone very badly. it was a rif yk endeavor and it came out very well, i think. >> they say his moment was 204. but jesse williams, you had a moment at the b.e.t. award. for people who didn't know you, they thought, who is this guy. was it it important to speak out at that time when you did about that topic in particular? >> that question is one i'm not always sure to answer because i didn't have a choice. it wasn't something i wrestled with. i tell the truth as far as i know it at the time. i'm a student more than anything. i'm constantly learning. but i was there -- you know, i was there for a humanitarian award. i'm there for work i'm doing with incredible people around the country. so it was appropriate to discuss how i came to be on the stage at this moment. to seize the time, to seize the opportunity at that moment. my brand of communication is to

call things like i see them and not allow ourselves to constantly have to be tugged to the right and create these false equivalencies and false middle on topics where we're not being honest about it. >> we'll say tonight's a big night. you're in every single scene tonight. >> yes. thank you very much. it's a very cool opportunity tonight. we have our own thing. "the obama years: power

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philly international, and, it may it feel no better than teens in mount pocono, it has felt more like sub zero most of the morning. moving forward, right through tomorrow and daylight hours of st. patrick's day and tomorrow night into saturday new system weak one coming in so light mix will link inner to saturday and we will begin to brighten up for more sunshine on sunday. spring begins on monday, meisha. >> we will be welcoming that 50. all right, katie. thanks very much. good morning. just, tuning in right now, well, we are not accident free , 202 southbound at route 401 we have a disable vehicle 95 south at betsy ross bridge, head up, very slow moving around this, by the way we are still dealing with icy conditions both on the shoulder and in the roadways, especially on the side road an inside streets. we have this car fire new jersey turnpike north bound, before route 206, two lanes are blocked there. and we still have an accident on city avenue at overbrook avenue overall, take it slow we are still dealing with icy conditions.

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