so did chris fisher.f health diagnosed it as a frightening parasitic disease. >> the parasite migrates through the mucus membranes of your mouth and nose and basically eats them away. your nose and lips fall off, and eventually your face becomes a gigantic open sore. >> reporter: over the next few months, about half the expedition came down with the early symptoms and had to undergo the painful treatment. >> that's a good helicopter shot of the overview. >> reporter: steve and bill were spared, and their documentary about their adventure is now in the final edit. doug preston, bucking the criticism, titled his book "the lost city of the monkey god." as for the site, only a fraction has been excavated and questions linger how or if to go back again. >> too dangerous to stay there. it's just too dangerous. just getting in and out is dangerous. >> reporter: it would seem the jungle is still fighting to keep its secrets. and almost impenetrable veil making an accounting of what's there difficult at best. that

chris fin fisher has more. >> reporter: the white house continuing its fight against media today andk to go combat reports that senior staff asked fbi officils and lawmakers to rebut critical news stories linking the trump campaign to are you shaft the alleged ties between his campaign and russia are worth investigating and wants special prosecutor to do it there are a lot of investigations into this. i can't see a special prosecutor being an appointed at this point. there's not lot of evidence there's anything going on. a lot of this really i think is politically motivate the. >> president trump took to twitter to say that quote i will not be attending the white house correspondence association dinner this year. please wish everyone well haven't a great evening. statement reinforces the president's media stance he can coke remarks he made at the cpac on friday. >> a few days ago, i called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are. they are the enemy of the people. because they have no sources. they just make them up when there are none. >> leading democrats took amatine com

christian fisher, thanks. standing by chris stirewal. let me ask you about the new execute you have actions. the first roll out was not exactly smooth. how much pressure is to get it right this time? >> a bunch. they have to make sure number one, that it fulfills, what the first order of business is. what the president wants. it has to be in keeping with his policy line. you can't water it down or mess with it or the boss will not be happy. on the other side of the coin, we know if they had done it the right way the first time, the president p would have been saved a lot of aggravation in the first 32 days in ofls. and having made it 32 days, donald trump surpassed one milestone, he will not be the shortest serving president ever. he is playing with house money. >> shannon: he wore a coat. yes, he made it. and the first public comments coming from the vice-president when he talked about the situation with michael flynn saying he was disappointed. that's the first he talked about it publicly and supported what the president decided to do

kristin fisher live from the white house and chris, i'm guessing the white house is not too concern aboutsaying they're not going to be there. >> probably not, leland. i think that is safe to say. you know as president trump prepares for his first big speech to congress, lawmakers on both sides of the isle are saying that they want to hear a lot less about all of those attack that is we have been hearing on the press and a lot more substance, more detailed policy proposals specially when it comes to health care and tax reform. on tuesday night lawmakers say that they want to hear how president trump plans to repeal obamacare and what he wants to replace it with, they want to know what exactly tax reform plan is and how he intends to pay for it. those are the two big issues that, i think, lawmakers are going to be wanting to hear president trump speak about and those are two issues that impact almost every american but right now the story sucking most of the oxygen out of the room is the announcement that president trump will not attend the white house correspondence dinner, the administra

kristin fisher at the white house where all eyes are on the administration and next move. good morning, chrisizen. >> reporter: good morning, guys, even though president trump has been playing nice with russian president vladimir putin. there have been three major provocations by russia just over the last week. first, as you mentioned, right now there is a russian spy shilpa controlling off the east coast of the united states for the first time during the trump administration u delaware in international waters. it is armed with surface to missiles according to u.s. missiles. for russian jets buzzed a u.s. navy destroyer in the black sea. highly provocative. third, yesterday we learned that back in december, after president trump had won the election, the kremlin secretly deployed a new cruise missile inside russia. apparent violation of arms control treaty signed at the end of the cold war. you add it all up and according to general jack keane russia is clearly trying to test the new president and see what he will do, if anything. >> what they're trying to do, martha, is humiliate and embarra