we don't need to imagine because there was a conservative tv personality who tweeted, "obama is a racistut his goon to say that nbc should fire donald trump. you know why? because obama was too busy doing president stuff-- killing bin ladens and singing al green. ♪ - ooh. [coughing] captioning sponsored by comedy central ( cheers and applause ) >> jordan: you are the opposition. it's already january 23, and i'm already furious. my opponent tonight is mexico's former president vicente fox. ( cheers and applause ) yes. okay, okay. he'll admit defeat later. ( laughter ) but first, opposers, you know i hate hollywood. this is the place that only gave trump one star on the walk of fame. hey, tinseltown, stop being so self-obsessed and give him the honor he deserves. ( laughter ) but today, i'm faster becoming more furious at hollywood, becaus

"terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped "in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found." that was followed by four more presidential tweetsbama and misspelling "tap." [laughter] - that was nicely done by the news guy. he's just like, "and misspelling 'tap.'" yeah, 'cause really, how are you gonna take on a two-term president if you can't even handle a three-letter word? and, by the way, because trump is the president, that is now officially the way we all have to spell "tap." yeah, "the extra p is for 'pussy.'" [laughter] ♪ so yesterday, alabama republicans went to the polls to choose between two candidates. roy moore, former alabama chief justice, and luther strange, the 6'9" former attorney general. now the reason a republican primary race became national news is the same reason everything becomes national news-- mango unchained got involved. we need each and every one of you to get a friend-- go out, get a family member, get the whole family, and bring them out to vote for big luther. did people call you big luther before you met trump? you know, i brand people. i just saw him-- i said, "he's big luther." and that's co

the president tweeted obama was president up the and beyond the 2016 election. why didn't he do something about russian meddling? we know now that the russian operation to mess with the 2016 election started in 2014. it was halfway through president obama's second term. do you think that president obama should have done more? >> you know, i think in the context of what was happening during this election in 2016, it would have been shocking if president obama would have in a very forceful way said the russians are interfering. you do remember that they did issue a notice to the press. they did have a press conference and said there was russian interference. it happened to be the same day that the hollywood access tape was released. it didn't receive the coverage, the amount of attention it should have. >> thank you so much for joining he. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me on. >>> next, all in the family. the new focus on kushner's finances raising serious questions about trump family conflicts of interests. >>> plus, stunning new details about the high schoo

tweet and sour. president trump attacks former president obama in an extraordinary tweet tirade. democrats and oprah. is the president trying to distract from the special counsel's indictment of 13 russians? russia's spies. we'll take to you a troll farm where there is a disinformation campaign spread through social media. and troubling re lagss. as the florida high school shooter appears in court, we're getting new information about his extensive arsenal and his disturbing behavior while the couple who took him in speaks out. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> the special counsel's investigation reaches president trump's family and their finances. sources say robert mueller is looking beyond son-in-law jared kushner's contacts looking the get foreign funding for his company during transition. the president is still fuming over the indictment of 13 russians accused of meddling in the election. a short while aeg tweeted asking why president obama didn't do something with the russian meddling. that follows a twitter tirade in which the president lashed out in all

obama's. for instance, look at ap tweets for president trump's budget this year.resident trump send congress 4.4 trillion spending plan, that features soaring deficits. steve: right. ainsley: if you look back at 2016 -- steve: the top two. ainsley: they tweet out, obama sends record $4.4 trillion spending plan to combat global warming. 2015, congress send budget plan to congress sending help for the middleç class. >> ap, cnn, abc, alphabet soup from the mainstream media. they cover this president very differently than cover the last president. we're frankly used to it. when you look at this president's budget it, outlines our priorities. it rebuildings the military. gives funding that this president has requested, that secretary mattis and generals have requested to insure our national security. it funds priorities like helping our veterans, the opioid crisis. it make as down payment on our infrastructure plan to rebuild roads, bridges and airports. so it's a great plan but also has serious deficit reduction which the associated press ignores with those tweets. i

trump said in a tweet obama was the president up to and beyond the 2016 election asking why obama didn'tsomething about russian meddling. >> so, it's going to be really warm later, david, but we've got some dense fog in some spots right now. >> yes, we do. storm tracker6 live double scan shows at least we're dry although anywhere you have fog there is some of that moisture on your windshield. as we take a look outside or try to, anyway, there you see penn's landing and of course it's easier to get a shot like this when you have the camera well above the ground but even at the surface there are reports of some dense fog. so you want to be careful through the fog. at this height you can see traffic appears to be getting up and down i-95 with no big problem. 48 degrees is your current temperature, winds west-southwest at 7 miles per hour and obviously not too windy and that is one of the reasons why the fog is settled in. you need some wind to kick it out or the sun to come up and start evaporating the top of it. that will that probably happen by about 9, 10 o'clock this morning. 37 degrees

even now, rather than calling out vladimir putin, the president today is slamming democrats, tweeting, "obamaas president up to and beyond the 2016 election. so why didn't he do something about russian meddling?" in fact, president obama did confront putin and slapped sanctions on russia in december 2016, also expelling 35 russian diplomats. >> all right, so, let's get to jon karl live from the white house. and jon, the president tweeting about russia, as you reported there, all weekend long, and about his own national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster, who said on russia over the weekend that the evidence is now, quote, incontrovertible. the president then responding to him. >> reporter: the president directly criticizing h.r. mcmaster, saying general mcma mcmaster forgot to say the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the russians. so, while you heard a lot from the president on russia, criticizing the democrats, president obama, his own national security adviser, one person the president did not criticize at all, vladimir putin. david? >> jon karl kicking off another

much tougher than president obama, he tweeted about today. ent obama, just look at the facts. total fake news." this of course was parrot bid sarah sanders today at the briefing. the truth is not so much. here is a look at the actions taken by both presidents over the recent years. the scales such as they are come down on the side of the former president. obsessed, if you will, by comparisons. presidential historian doug brinkley joins me now. is it clear to you why the president focuses so much on whether it's obama or even hillary clinton? >> well, trump thinks he scores political points with. he really began his political career saying barack obama wasn't born in the united states. the original sin, the whole birther story. and he got a lot of fuel from that. he was able to differentiate himself in the republican presidential bid by taking tacky kind of hard right on obama and he feels he scores points with his base. i've never seen a president who so routinely has to say i'm better than my predecessor, and we saw it on his first major thin

coming up. >> reporter: the president chootichoo choosing to focus on comments about the obama administration, tweetinginally little adam schiff is now blaming the obama administration for russian meddling in the 2016 election. obama was president, knew of the threat, and did nothing. >> i've said all along i thought the obama administration should have done more. none of that is excuse for this president to sit on his hands, knowing what he knows now, knowing what our intelligence committee knows now in this excruciating detail about the russian effort, it is inexplicable that the president of the united states continues to sit on sanctions that congress passed, that congress wants enforced against russia over this interference. >> for its part, the white house is avoiding specifics. >> can we expect the president to have additional action against this country who clearly doesn't fear or respect us? >> well, i won't get ahead of what the president is prepared to announce, but i wouldn't for one second say that his foreign policy has not been effective. >> reporter: trump also claiming he never said ru

he tweeted, obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election, so why didn't he do something is about the russian meddling? what's this latest outburst all about? >> don, you saw the tweets there on the screen. they barely fit on the screen. 21 tweets in all from palm beach. he has just returned here in the last few hours or so here. the reality is the president was stewing over the weekend. he was sitting at his mar-a-lago resort unable to play golf because of the optics of that. of course, the shooting in parkland, florida just 40 minutes south of mar-a-lago. he did not want to be playing golf as funerals were under way. so he was watching a lot of cable television and was tweeting a lot saturday evening into sunday. white house advisers did not know these were coming. they see these in realtime the way everyone else sees them, but it's clear despite the fact there are two major challenges going on, one, the tampering of a u.s. election, and two, another school shooting, the president again managed to turn this back to himself, asking questions about himself through all of thes

election, donald trump pointing to the last administration as failure to act when it began in 2014 tweeting obama up to and be on the 2016 election. why didn't he do something about russian meddling? this has several secretaries of state and security officials met in washington to discuss the meddling. >> that was a million-dollar month operation. the idea of the resources we are working against. >> the biggest threat seems to be the american public be leaving false stories that were told out there during the last election. >> reporter: they were gathering at a meeting of secretaries of state from the 21 states targeted by russian hackers in 2016 seeking better sharing of federal information about threats to their system, some suggesting the answer could lie in a return to paper ballots. secretary of state brian kemp reminding us that could entail the famous hanging chad. >> the fraud we see in georgia is with paper ballots. i would be careful going back to the old days of the hanging chad. >> reporter: officials acknowledge critical need for health, 32 states getting federal vulnerability suppor

obama made in not countering russian. going after the previous administration, mr. trump tweeted"finally little schiff, the leaking monster of no control, is now blaming the obama administration for russian meddling in the 2016 election. he is finally right about something. obama was president, new up of the threat, and did nothing. thank you adam." when h.r. mcmaster said that robert mueller's indictment of more than a dozen russians accused of meddling is now "beyond dispute." president trump fired up this, "general mcmaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the russians, and that the only collusion was between russia and cricket hillary. the democratic national committee and the dems." they are now telling president trump not to claim that russian indictment vindicates his campaign because it's unclear whether mueller will issue more indictments down the road. conservatives also want to know why when president obama was warned about russian interference in 2014, his administration disregarded it. >> martha: thank you very much.

then at the same time when you tune into the president of the united states, he's tweeting about president obama, he's tweeting about the fbi, he's tweeting about all the other things rather than stepping up, condemning the russias for what they did, making clear that we will hold them responsible and making very clear to the american people and the world that the united states will not stand for russia doing this again. that's the message that the world wants to hear and they're not hearing it. >> it wasn't just, as you correctly point out, general mcmaster, the national security adviser. it was the head of the director of national intelligence, dan coats, the cia director mike pompeo, it was the fbi director christopher wray, all of whom are appointed by president trump himself. he's the only one who doesn't say what his top national security advisers, the intelligence community, they are all saying and it's raising a lot of questions but let me get into another sensitive issue with you, mr. secretary. cnn is reporting that robert mueller's investigation into jared kushner, the president's son

even now, rather than calling out vladimir putin, the president today is slamming democrats, tweeting, "obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election, so why didn't he do something about russian meddling?" in fact, president obama did confront putin and slapped sanctions on russia in december of 2016. also expelling 35 russian diplomats. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >>> more than $1.6 million has been donated to the go fund me page for the victims of the shooting. we have links to abc7news.com if you want to share your support. >>> switching gears now, the cold weather is good news for ski resorts. abc 7 news anchor kristin zee shows us how conditions are surprisingly good considering how little natural snow has fallen this winter. >> it had been looking so-so for ski peek. the snowpack rivals the low of three years ago, the driest winter in recorded history. but what a difference a weekend makes. this past weekend, about a foot of snow fell on the higher elevations of many tahoe resorts. this is new video shot at kirkwood this morning. look at all that fresh powder wait

president trump tweeted, "obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election.hy didn't he do something about russians meddling?" it's a fair question. media were not impressed at all. they could see the find most over a top analogy to express their outrage. "the washington post" merely won with this one. >> you look at the presidents treats this morning and try to imagine if franklin d. roosevelt after pearl harbor had gotten on the radio and said that tokyo was laughing at us, to use a little less crude phrase and he did. that's not what is called upon a president to do right now. >> you know will happen, someone on fox news will take what you just said and say how dare you compare this to pearl harbor. >> it is an attack on our country. it is an attack on our country with use of 21st century means. it is definitely a national security threat. >> tucker: yes, someone on fox news might be a reasonable and subject the analogy to critical analysis. pearl harbor was a sneak attack by the japanese that killed almost 3,000 americans and lead to four years of global

tweeting president obama's remarks from when mr. trump was a presidential candidate, there is no serious person other who would suggest you could rig america's elections. there is no evidence that has happened in the past or that it will happen this time. i would invite mr. trump to stop whining and make his case to get votes. president trump continuing, the he thoughtbama, crooked hillary was going to win and he didn't want to "rock the boat." when i easily won the electoral college, the whole game changed. we will hear from president trump later today. he is holding a medal of valor ceremony at 3:30 p.m. eastern, 45 minutes away honoring a dozen police and first responders. have live coverage on c-span. before the white house briefing begins, we will take a look at the 2016 election and former fbi director james comey's effect on the election. we will show as much of this as we can ahead of the briefing. davis,ing us as lanny the author of the "making of the president 2016." -- he served in the white house. good morning to you. th

obama. just look at the facts. in an earlier post he tweeted, quote, obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election so why didn't he do something about russian meddling, closed quote. in fact, president obama personally warned putin against interfering with the election, posed sanctions on russian individuals and entities, expelled 35 russian diplomats and closed two russian diplomatic compounds here in the united states. on the other hand, trump refuses to condemn russian interference and has not imposed sanctions overwhelmingly approved by the house and the senate. signed into law by the president himself. let's bring in our white house reporter kaitlyn collins. she's over at the white house. kaitlyn, so what's behind the president's latest refusal to call out russia and instead condemn his predecessor, president obama? >> reporter: well, wolf, the president says he's been much tougher on russia than obama never was, but that's just simply not the case here, because for well over a year here that trump has been in office he has repeat

from an administration when russia supposedly began to metal way back in 2014, tweeting "obama was presidenthy did he do something about russian meddling? what about those in charge who are now sure that the russian plot worked. they sounded very different back then." james clapper was a director of national intelligence from 2010 2010-2017, charged with bringing together all of

trump said in a tweet obama was president up and beyond the 2016 election asking why obama didn't dong. obama administration has said repeatedly in the past it was restrained in its response for fears of accusations of interfering in the election outcome. >>> new video shows donald trump jr. arriving in india this morning. the president's eldest son is meeting with wealthy indian who's have brought units in trump branded luxury apartments. president trump has pledged to avoid new foreign business deals during his time in office in order to avoid potential conflicts of interest. trump jr. is promoting projects aimed at before his father was elected. >> r and b singer. video of a concert in manchester england on saturday. the artist noticed a young fan starting to cry so he hopped off the stage and stopped his set to comfort her. khaled later tweeted high to jump down. she was the cutest in the world. the clip already has more than 1 million views. >>> rapper drake dropped his latest video and he was giving fans plenty of reasons to smile. the musician donated the entire million dollar

obama was in office. so, our current president, president trump is asking why didn't he take action? steve: he tweeteds president up to and beyond the 2016 election. so why didn't he do something about russian meddling? well, you know what, mr. president, that's a great point, because we know, historically, that president obama told reporters after the election that he had told putin in september, before the election, i know what you're doing, knock it off. and, yet, when this narrative goes forward about the russians were involved and the obama administration knew about it, the president knew about it when he said this about three weeks before the election. >> there is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even -- you could even rig america's elections. there's no evidence that that has happened in the past. or that there are instances in which that will happen this time. and so, i would invite mr. trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes. brian: turns out he did stop whining, made his case and won. oops, how did that happen? if you look at the pre

are the's day and after spending the morning and early afternoon at his golf club in florida, he tweeted obamaas president up to and beyond the 2016 election, so why didn't he do something about russian meddling? the department of homeland security and national intelligence publicly stated in october of 2016 that the russian government directed cyber attacks in the election, a charge that then candidate trump discounted as politically motivated three days later. >> i notice anytime anything wrong happens, they like to say the russian -- he doesn't know if it's the russians doing the hacking. maybe there is no hacking. but they always blame russia. and the reason they blame russia is they think they're trying to tarnish me about nothing. i know nothing about russia. i know about russia, but i know nothing about tinner workings of russia. >> so after the election, when the obama administration placed sanctions on russia, then candidate trump called the president very smart. trump questioned the intelligence findings in in these clips just after the sanctions were announced. >> what do you think

but he still found time to tweet obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election. so why didn't he do something about russian meddling? we know president obama tried to do something was blocked by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell as former vice president joe biden recounted last month. >> mitch mcconnell want no part of having a bipartisan commitment that we would say essentially russia is doing this, stop. bipartisan. why don't we put out a bipartisan warning to russia. hands off, man, or there is going to be a problem. democrat and republicans, well, they would have no part of it. that to me hanging around that body up there for a longer than any of you around doing it meant to me that the dye had been cast here. this was all about the political play. >> now a year and a half later, after we have learned so much what happened in 2016 after robert mueller released a 37-page indictment laying out the russian conspiracy in detail, at least one small part of it. and after as the intelligence chiefs told congress that russia is already gearing up to interfere in

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overnight, the president lashed out at his predecessor, barack obama, tweeting, quote, obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election so why didn't he do something about russian meddling? here's the thing, he did. in late december 2016, obama issue ed sanctions against russ, expelled nearly 3 dozen russian diplomats and shut down russian compounds. trump's response when it happened, he said it was, quote, time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. but first, we've got some breaking mueller news. i want to bring in ken dilanian. you're back just moments ago, i was chatting with you, and now you have more news for us. >> yes, stephanie, we have new charges by special counsel robert mueller against an individual, alex vanderswan, and he's accused of making false statements to the special counsel's office and the fbi. and apparently, he was an attorney representing a ukrainian ministry. and, you know, we're sort of still sorting through exactly what his role in all this was, but the bottom line i think is don't lie to the fbi or the special counsel, they will come aft

tweeted the obama administration takes some of the blame for russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election. wrote president obama quote new of the threat and did nothing. democratic and republican lawmakers agree, the us will have to tighten security against russian infiltration before this year's mid year election. >> security has been very aggressive working with state and under this administration to be able to work on election security. >> facebook intends to crackdown on people who buy political ads, requires anyone who does, live in the united state. justice department has indicted 13 rushes and three russian companies charged them with creating hundreds of fake media profiles. >> former advisor to the trump and presidential campaign will reportedly testify against former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. will also plead guilty to fraud related charges. both manafort and gate was slapped with conspiracy and other charges by special council robert mueller last year. those charges are related to their work in the ukraine, long before trump's presidential run. manafort ple

here's a tweet from barack obama. young people have helped lead all of our great movements. how inspiring to see it again in so many smart fearless students standing up for their right to be safe. we've been waiting for you and we've got your backs. why can't the president put it that way. >> he's incapable of any empathy. and obama is invoking his own line, you're the people. it didn't happen when he was president, i think he regrets generation's responsibility to push back on that and speak loudly on behalf of these students. one of the things that inspired me about these stuns at parkland, is the newspaper. you go to their website and look at the coverage they're producing when they're in real time dealing what has happened to their friends, classmates, the faculty they knew. if you want to find a glimmer in hope, look at the journalism they're producing right now. >> it's an outstanding student body about 3,300 right now. here's a tweet from barack obama. young people have helped lead all of our great movements. how inspiring to see it again in so many smart fearless stu

is social media doing it. >> obama's tweeting was different than this. >> that's the point. what i'm saying is could we go back to an obama-style president. >> he's not obama. >> what i'm saying -- >> you mean after trump. >> i mean like if the next president says my team is handling twitter, you'll see me -- >> i think there could be twitter fatigue after this president and whoever the president is going to shape the presidency in the way obama did. obama didn't set the tone for donald trump. donald trump set the tone for donald trump. i don't like the idea a that donald trump has forever changed the presidency. it gives him too much power. i think whoever is -- often times you have in politics that the people who comes after is sort of a response and a reaction against or a rejection of the other one. >> let me explain why i say that, it's because people -- after obama, people were looking for a superstar. they were looking for another rock star, either hillary clinton or donald trump. okay. >> didn't they get one? >> excuse me? >> didn't they get one? >> yes. but they also

much tougher than president obama, he tweeted about today.i've been much tougher than president obserama, just l at the facts. the scales, such as they are, come down on the side of the former president. obsessed, if you will, by comparisons, historian doug brinkley joins me now. is it clear to you why the president focuses so much on hillary and president obama? >> saying the former president wasn't born in the united states, he got a lot of fuel on that. he was able to differentiate himself in the republican presidential bid by taking tacky kind of hard right on obama and he feels he scores well with his base. i've never seen a president who so routinely has to say i'm better than my predecessor, and we saw it on the first thing with the inaugural. >> president obama got a lot of criticism early on in his administration when he would talk about the economy and point to what happened under president bush, and people said, look, at a certain point, you own it, stop talking about it. i'm wondering, how common is it for presidents to criticize

senator feinstein tweeted allowing gun dealers to sell ar15's to teenagers when they're not allowed to sell them handguns is a dangerous policy that doesn't make sense. michelle obamaeted i'm in total awe of the extraordinary students in florida. >> an oakland man was reported missing. allen chow did not return home on sunday. search and rescue crews started looking for him yesterday. >> tuesday morning the first thing we did was call yosemite to say did he check out at all. and they said he signed in but he never checked out. mainly that he's injured there, that's the main thing i'm worried about. >> another concern is the weather. it's forecast to be 14 degrees in yosemite tonight. >> one year ago today flood waters inundated parts of san jose forcing thousands from their homes. tonight some residents are still struggling to rebuild. we spoke to one young man who lost his home but gained a lifelong friend. >> reporter: i spoke to a student who suddenly lost his home two years before he was supposed to graduate, he didn't have anyone to turn to or so he thought. >> i'm not a strong believer of like destiny and faith. >> xavier may not believe in destiny but he doe

. >> and former first ladies, michelle obama tweeted the cast congratulating them. she went on to say she loved the movie and inspiring people of all back grounds. >>> you can soon drive like james bond if you have the cash. theastin martin. the money will go to charity. >>> coming up another check of the accuweather forecast. stepping live outside sky 6 hd showing you well, you can make it out there. the beach in cape may. a little fog covers and a little while before the skies clear at the shore but warm temperature as bound. david murphy has the update from accuweather. >>> in sports the philadelphia flyers host the montreal canadienss they picked up a goalie after the injury to motorcycleal elliot. and they required peter -- from the red wings. he has eight wins and seven losses with the red wings. the phillies have their first full squad workout in florida. they invited jason kelce to talk to the team. hear what he has to say coming up well we don't have another half hour. >> take our word for it. >> well you probably already know it's girl scout cookie time an

his weekend tweet storm, president trump went after the iran-nuclear deal tweeting, quote, i never gotten over the fact that obama was able to send $1. billion in cash to iran and

obama administration to acknowledge the russian interference. they were very weary of appearing to be putting your hand on the scale. >> i mentioned a bit of a golf clap. as they tweet that does that. finally, little adam schiff, the leaking must've no control is now blaming the obama administration for regimen within the 2016 election. he's finally right about something. obama was president, knew of the threat and did nothing. thank you adam! the president also added this tweet. one of several before 10 am this morning. i never said russia did not meddle in the election. i said it may be russia or china or another country or group or it may be a 400 pound genius sitting on a bed playing with his computer. the russian hoax he says was the trump campaign colluding with russia, it never did. meanwhile the president is here in the state of florida is imagine, not far from here, not far from where we are. he is over at his estate in mar-a-lago. this of the state of the troubleshooting last week. we are about 40 miles away from parkland where the devastating massacre happened. 17 high school students killed by a former student. there has been strong reaction i should als

now he is going after his predecessor, president obama. tweeting this. een much tougher on russia than obama. just look at the facts. total fake news what is he basing that on? >> first there is this obsession with president obama. there's an obsession with hillary clinton. he ought to get over that. the russia investigation is not investigating barack obama. but number two, i don't know where he gets it from. this is a president who personally warned vladimir putin to stop trying to bless into the election. he imposed sanctions. he closed two of the compounds in the united states. we are still waiting for the president of the united states, the current president, to implement russian sanctions which he has not done, or to even call out vladimir putin maybe in one of his little weekend tweets. maybe he could have said, sorry, vladimir, this was a big mistake. don't try and do this to us. we consider this, perhaps, warfare. which is what bob mueller called it. >> he has all sorts of nicknames and insults for plenty of people. obviously he doesn't like pres

. >> he tweeted that the obama administration should take some of the blame for russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, the president claims predecessor new of the quote and did nothing. us needs to tighten security against russian infiltration specially before this year's midterm election. >> homeland security has been very aggressive working under this administration to work on election security. >> facebook is now promising to crackdown on people who purchased political ads, making it now mandator that i they live in the u.s. justice department has indicted 13 rushes and, and 30 russian companies, for creating hundreds of fake social media profiles. >> today of course is president's day, many businesses and agencies may be closed for the holidays, public schools and libraries are closed today, so are post offices and banks. septa running on modified weekday schedule, patco running on president's day schedule. many businesses may be closed for the holidays. good idea to call ahead if you're not sure. >> still ahead on cbs-3 " eyewitness news" this morning , fire that stret

. >>> also former president barack obama tweeted this billy graham was a humble servant who prayed for so many and who was wisdom and grace gave hope and guidance to generations of americans. >>> that is very latest for now, live from the sat center, natasha brown for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> thanks very much for that. >>> still to come on "eyewitness news" tonight big news about the birds number one receiver. >> just latest twist, in this super bowl winning season, is that right, don. >> yeah, alshon jeffery had major surgery today injury he suffered and when he suffered it, both, will shock you, guys , that is later in sports. >>> also tonight hanging around, all in the name of competenttition, local company that was sticking to an annual tradition and what it is all about, chelsea. >>> and we've brought the mobile weather watcher with us today to temple university, and enjoying this gorgeous wet 's long with the students a live report coming up next, big changes on the >>> testing their knowledge of african-american history. >> today at wyncote elementary school celebrated black

trump stepping up his attacks on president obama following the indictment of 13 russians in three companies for interfering in the 2016 election. trump tweeted today "obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election. if so why didn't he do something about russian meddling." adam schiff actually agreed agreeing they should have done more when they learned of the meddling in 2016. rush limbaugh says there was collusion, but not by trump. >> this is all politics, and it hasn't changed from the get-go. it is about protecting hillary and obama. obama is the primary person being protected because all of this spying and all of his collusion to destroy trump happened with his knowledge and probably encouragement. the reason hillary isn't charged is that that would mean obama would have to be exposed as participating. >> katie: let's debate that with former trump campaign manager cory lewandowski ed attorney scott folden. we will start with the points of agreement. adam schiff agreeing with president trump that obama should have done more. your thoughts on that? >> i never thought i would say it, i agree with adam schiff. he is correct. >> kati

obama, just look at the facts. total fake news." the fake news is the part of that tweet where president trump claims to have been tougher on russia. a claim sarah huckabee sanders echoed in the white house briefing just a few moments ago. but while obama was slapping on sanctions, expelling diplomats and shuttering russian compounds, drup druonald trump this. >> what do you think generally about sanctions against russia? >> i think we ought to get on with our lives. computers have complicated lives very greatly. the whole age of computer made it where nobody knows exactly what's going on. >> it seems like you have a tendency, r looking it from the outside, to doubt american intelligence when it comes to russian hacking. i'm trying to better understand why it seems that way. >> i just want them to be sure because it's a pretty serious charge and i want them to be sure and if you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster, and they were wrong. and so i want them to be sure. i think it's unfair if they don't know and i know a lot about hacking and hacking

. >> maybe it's 2012 nostalgia, tweeting about obama and romney within the same 24 hours. abby phillip, thanks so much. >>> cnn exclusive reporting on the special counsel and jared kushner. cnn's cara skin nell. >> they're asking questions about jared kushner's business dealings during the presidential transition. we're told by final familiar with the investigation that mueller's lawyers are asking about discussions kushner had with potential chinese and qatari investors. this is the first indication that mueller wants to know about contacts the president had with foreigners outside of rush y. it happened outside the building that kushner's company owns. the financing is in debt, behind a billion dollars. we're told the special counsel hasn't asked the kushner companies for information and not asked for interviews with other executives from the curber? companies. a spokesman for the special counsel has declined to comment. we have a statement from kushner's attorney abby lowell said another an none nous source with questionable motives. there has not been a single question

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former first lady michelle obama tweeted congrats to the entire black panther team.ause of you, young people will finally see super heroes that look like them on the big screen. i loved this movie and i know it will inspire people of all backgrounds to dig deep. >>> another moving making them to african american nominees. >> some amc theaters is offering a free showing of the movie. jonathan bloom explores what these two movies mean. >> reporter: it is a coveted ticket that is hard to find. it has die hard comic fans. but it has another appeal. >> usually african-american people are portrayed as addicts and criminals. >> don't freeze. >> i never freeze. >> reporter: big opening comes a year after another film comes with a free encore filming. "get out." some call it a break through and what to make of it depends on who you ask. >> it comes at a point where we got impatient. >> reporter: al state east bay professor says the two films are more than entertainment. >> both are protest films in my opinion. "get out" speaks to police brutality. and how we have to carry our

obama. he tweeted -- on question, if all the russian meddling took place during the obama administration rightp to january 20, why are they the subject of the investigation you go wide and obama do something about the meddling? ask jeff sessions. the president tweeted. >> this reaches the limit of being able to engage with the trumpian tweet. it is a reasonable question, why the obama administration didn't do anything about the interference. we know a little bit about it. there is been pretty decent reporting on it. we know the obama administration believed that hillary was going to win and did not want to put and byger on the scale taking measures against russians, i think, it is entirely possible that they were looking at the material and thinking, it is pretty ridiculous material. we may be seen as overreacting. since she's going to win anyway, why bother? that is a good journalistic story. i don't think there's anything there to investigate. amy: and the latest news of the trump administrationctually applying the sanctions that congress called for under enormous pressure this week? >what k

duty and honor that the job requires and spending the morning and early afternoon in florida he tweeted, obamaas president up to and beyond the 2016 election so why didn't he do something about the russian meddling? >> that actually, not that he should do it on twitter but that's a very legitimate question to ask. i get a far less problems with the president of the united states asking that question than saying obama was crawling around in trump towers and tapping my phones. >> it's still more flailing. >> there's a -- you can really feel them -- >> that's something that you get your press secretary to go out and say. >> that is a question that people think a lot. >> it is a legitimate question. schiff asked the question. what does he call him now? little schiff? >> he's going to be coming overused. >> and this is why i'm glad mitt romney is jumping back in in a little way. >> that's the problem is that when donald trump needs to make a real argument, people don't always listen and what point are we really going to need to listen to the president and people are going to tune him out. >> i thin

obama. he also tweeted, "i have been much tougher on russia than obama. just look at the facts.!" first of all, sir, thank you for labelling your post "total fake news." that's a real time saver. secondly-- secondly-- secondly, i did look at the facts. you've refused to impose any new sanctions on russia. and a ton of people in your campaign lied about and then were caught meeting with russians: donald trump jr., mike flynn, and even one guy in your cabinet who lied about it to congress. can you guess his name? hint: ask jeff session. still-- still-- still-- ( applause ) still, it makes sense that trump would attack obama. it's his go-to move. he says he does everything better than the previous president. in fact-- and this is true-- when giving visiting tours of the white house, trump boasts, "obama never used the oval, but trump is different." ( laughter ) first, what? ( laughter ) ( applause ) second-- second, huh? ( laughter ) third, you are aware of the invention of something called the camera, right? let's play a little game. let's play a little game, all right. can you sp