inintelligence, multiple officials telling cnn. president-elect donald trump and president barack obama briefed on this associated with the campaign and trump business. according to officials familiar with the matter. pamela brown, what more can you tell us about the breaking news? >> we're learning that high level advisers close to then nominee donald trump were in frequent communication during the campaign with russians known to u.s. intelligence, former and current officials, talking to myself and colleague jim sciutto. and the frequency of the communications and proximity to mr. trump during the campaign raised a red flag with u.s. intelligence and law enforcement according to individuals and communications intercepted in routine intelligence collection targeting russians known to u.s. intelligence. among them trump -- regularly communicating with russians. caught the attention. emphasized that the communications between the campaign staff and representatives of foreign governments are not unusual but these particular communica

officials familiar with the matter.nd both the frequency of the communications and proximity to those close to trump raised a red flag to law intelligence and law enforcement. according to communications were intercepted during collection of information targeted russian officials and other russian nationals known to intelligence. among those regularly communicating with russian nationals was then campaign manager manafort and prashls say representatives communication between foreign governments is not unusual. however, due to the frequency and level of the trump advisers involved. investigators have not reached a judgment on the intent of those communications adding to those were intercepted communications between russian officials before and after the election discussing their belief that they had special access to trump. now, two law enforcement officials tell cnn the russians could have been exaggerating their access. john and alison. >> i think it's moving fast, the few revelations coming after at the white house fa

and according to these officials the communications intercepted targeting officials and other russian nationals known to u.s. intelligence. among several senior trump very fares regularly communities were then campaign manager paul manafort and michael flynn. officials say communications between campaign staff and representatives of foreign governments are not unusual. however, these stood out to investigators due to the frequency and level involveinvestigators have not reached a judgment on the intent of those conversations. but adding to u.s. investigators' concerns were intercepted communications between russian officials before and after the election discussing their belief that they had special access to trump. now, two law enforcement officials tell cnn these officials caution the russians could have been exaggerating their access. john and alison. >> pamela brown in washington. >>> for every twist and turn, moscow has denied again and again that it did anything to influence the u.s. election despite all of the information to the contrary. what does the kremlin have to say now?

officials at the u.s. international trade commission announced their final determination on the case. they say the chinese government subsidizes manufacturing and the products are sold at unfairly low prices in the u.s. the commerce department will impose an anti-dumping duty ofo 372% on the materials. the department may also add a tax of up to 152% to offset the effects of beijing's subsidies. department officials had decided on the rates during the obama administration. >>> turning to the markets, tokyo shares edged higher higher. for detail wet go to our business reporter at the tokyo stock exchange. >> share prices here were choppy throughout the day despite gains on wall l street. investors w were eyeyeing a sum between japan and the u.s. later this week and political uncertainties in europe also kept traders on edge. but positive earnings ultimately pushed stocks higher. let's take a look at the closing levels this wednesday, february 8th. the nikkei 225 gained .5% and closed above the 19,000 mark fo

officials in u.s. and japan are finalizing details on a new economic framework for preparations between their country's leaders. the prime minister and the president will meet friday in washington. the framework would see cabinet ministers from both sides discuss macro economic and trade policy. shinzo abe plans to confirm with donald trump that the two countries will work together for mutually beneficial economic relations, and a stronger alliance. he's eager to show it remains strong. trump earlier said he'd be open to exploring a trade deal with japan. he pulled out of the transpacific partnership deal to pursue biliteral negotiations with countries. he's been critical of japan's auto market, calling it unfair and has suggested the country is trying to weaken the yen. >>> donald trump has once again slammed his country's courts, calling them too political. it comes after the american president's officials argued to judges in favor of his controversial ban on travelers from seven mainly muslim nation

officials. >> did you or anyone in your campaign have any contact with russia leading up to or during the campaign? >> reporter: and as recently as tuesday, white house press secretary, sean spicer, said he had no reason to revise the record. >> now, the trump administration may not be interested in discussing this today, but there are members of congress on the hill, both democrats and republicans, who want answers. the senate intelligence committee was already probing russian cyber hacking attempts, trying to meddle in the u.s. election. now they're expanding that probe, not only to include michael flynn, but also to look into these reports, of contact between donald trump's campaign advisers and suspected russian operatives. erin? >> sara, thank you very much. and tonight there is new information about that contact. the contact between trump's team and russians during the campaign. our chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto, is "outfront." >> reporter: cnn has learned that high-le

men that officials perceive to be. they see themselves as quite different from the average americans, both dem are demographic include and also in their attitudes and opinions. and perhaps oing to this false uniqueness we find that officials strongly believe they should do what they think is best when crafting policy rather than follow the will of the people and this should concerning from a government responsiveness perspective. so here on this table we see the porch officials for each policy area that thinks the government should follow public opinion, give equal consideration to public opinion and what is thinks is best, or simply do what it thinks is best. so with respect to policy that aid the poor, for example, only 12% of officials think they should follow public opinion, and in other areas like social security and welfare, the numbers are 18% and 13%. so clearly the officials in our survey and plumbly the government at large see themselves as trustees rather than delegates. now, interestingly we did find some v

officials say the defense budget will increase by $54 billion. to offset the hike, the trump administration will likely propose spending reductions across various departments and agencies. the u.s. defense budget for the current fiscal year stands at about $550 billion. that includes extra spending for overseas antiterrorism operations. trump will submit the plan to congress next month. >>> japan is considering a range of possibilities for joint economic activities on four russian-held islands claimed by japan. they include tourism and medical services. japan's deputy foreign minister and his russian counterpart will meet in tokyo next month for the first talks for starting the activities envisioned by the country's leaders in december. japanese officials plan to study the viability of aquaculture and seafood processing projects requested by the people living near the area. officials will consider other possibilities such as tourist cruises and online medical care services. japan claims the four islands that are controlled by russia. the japanese

with officials. cnn first reported on those contacts last week. sean spicer objected to the characterization of the white house request to the fbi. he told us we did not try to knock the story down. we asked them, the fbi, to tell the truth. >> another white house official says the request was made only after the fbi indicated to the white house it did not believe the reporting on communications during the campaign was accurate. if that were the case, the white house reaching out to the fbi would violate procedures on communications with the bureau about active investigations. cnn's evan perez was part of the team that brothke the story. he has more from washington. >> reporter: christine and dave, a u.s. official says this all began with fbi andrew mccabe and chief of staff reince priebus on the sidelines of the white house meeting on the day the stories were published. the white house official says mccabe told priebus that the story vastly overstated what the fbi know bs the cs about the co. mccabe

officials say those reports were exaggerated. trt:11/ "all the time" the sheriff didn't have any figures. but did say patrols have been increased, and they managed to catch some people burglarizing. highway 37 is closed this morning between highway 101 and atherton avenue. crews spent the day yesterday building a retaining wall along one side of the road. they hope that wall will keep the flood waters off of the road. crews are also installing larger culverts and train pipes to improve water flow through the area. there is also a plan to raise the road to help keep it out of the water. but work on that part of the project has not yet started. also happening now.... crews are back on highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains where a massive mudslide continue's to frustrate commuters. debris from the mudslide is still blocking the northbound lanes between the silicon valley and santa cruz. crews are building an eight-foot berm along the entire length of the slide. the idea is passing traffic in the southbound lanes will be protected s

and russian officials? >> you know, this is the classic situation where you would have a recusal, where you would have the appointment of a special prosecutor, particularly since the entity and the people being investigated have shown day in and day out with attack on the fbi, with attempts to go to the fbi to get the fbi to spin the truth, they have shown themselves not to be acting in good faith and helping out in this investigation. so, yes, i do think it would be appropriate just as attorney general lynch did subsequent to that meeting with bill clinton in that aircraft, she recused herself from any of the investigations around the e-mail. jeff sessions at this point needs to appoint a special prosecutor. we need to have an outside commission. we need to take this out of the political realm in its entirety and get to the bottom of all of the allegations and problems here. >> there are more questions for you, congressman. i need to you stand by. we'll continue our conversation right after a quick break.

it showed what officials suspect is molten fuel. finding that fuel has been one of their most urgent and challenging tasks. al thursday, they sent a robot into the reactor to measure radiation level and temperature and to send back more images. the robot stopped short of its destination. they decided to give up on the device and severed its remote control cable. they will consider how to survey the facility. they hope to begin removing debris by 2021. >>> dozens of young people from around the world have met in -- >>> japan's nuclear program has another challenge. the operator of a nuclear power plant in the western part of the country says it has found a crack in an offline reactor. the firm says no radiation has leaked. the power company says they analyzed imagery showing the interior of the pressure vessel of the no. 2 reactor. the plant is saying the crack is on a welded joint of a metal cover, roughly 55 centimeters long. the company says the footage was taken by an underwater camera for a mandatory inspection it was the first

multiple officials tell cnn trump aides were regularly in contact with top russian officials throughout the presidential campaign. our pamela brown has all the details for you. >> reporter: high level advisers close to donald trump were in constant communication during the campaign with russians known to u.s. intelligence. multiple current and former intelligence law enforcement and administration officials tell cnn president-elect trump and barack obama were both briefed on details of the extensive communications between suspected russian operatives and people associated with the trump campaign, and the trump business. now according to u.s. officials familiar with the matter, both the frequency of the communications and the proximity to trump of those involved raised a red flag with u.s. intelligence and lfraw enforcement. the communications were interpreted targeting russian officials and other russian nationals known to u.s. intelligence, among several trump advisers communicating with russian nationals, and then campaign manager paul manafort and michael flynn. manafort joined the c

multiple officials told cnn aides were in near constant contact with officials throughout the campaign. here's pamela brown. >> advisers close to donald trump were in constant communication during the campaign with russians known to u.s. intelligence. current and former intelligence law enforcement and administration fortunatelies said president trump and president barack obama were briefed on the details of the communications between operatives and people associated with the trump campaign and the trump business. according to officials pardon me with the matter, both the frequency of the communications raised a red flag with intelligence and law enforcement. the communications were intercepted targeting russian officials and nationals known to u.s. intelligence among several senior trump advisers communicating with russian nationals where the campaign manager and michael flynn. flynn stayed on and resigned as the national security adviser last night. officials in the communications between the campaign staff and representatives are not unusual, but this stood out due to the frequency

then according to a senior official misled vice president and other senior administration officials aboutrsations. that caused a concern he might be susceptible to blackmail. in a resignation released by the white house, flynn wrote in part this, quote, unfortunately because of the fast-paced events i inadvertently briefed the vice president and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls to the russian ambassador. i have sincerely apologized to the president and vice president and they have accepted my apology. a senior official tells nbc news the president and advisers have been, quote, agonizing over what to do about flynn for days. but

officials say they received a document last week from south korea's foreign minister. they say it's undesirable from the viewpoint of international relations and diplomatic protocol. they also call for discussions on relocating the statue. talk should involve different levels of government along with groups. japan's chief cabinet secretary is calling for a 2015 agreement between the countries to be followed. it says south korea will work to resolve the issue of a similar statue in front of japan's embassy in seoul. >> we'll continue to seize every opportunity to call on south korea to fulfill it's obligations in line wit our bilateral agreement. >> in response to the placement of the statue. a court awarded record compensation to residents living near an air base. they're ordered to pay $260 billion to damages suffered from aircraft noise. but there's a ban on overnight flights. >> judges don't understand the feelings of local residents. >> airplanes sometimes fly until around midnight. my kids tell me it'simpossible for them to sleep. the ruling was handed down on thu

officials say some of his aides were having with russian in tell jensen officials? >> the best that i've heard, i think both he and the vice-president say they were not aware that that happened and i don't have any reason to question that. but everybody will be better off when we can get this behind us one way -- with all the facts out there and move forward. >> when iran tested a ballistic missile, michael flynn was then the national security advisor. he went into the briefing room and he said iran is on notice. this week when north korea launched a missile, president trump made a statement, but now russia has launched a missile. there is a russian ship off the coast of connecticut, russian planes are buzzing a u.s. destroyer. why the silence from president trump on what russia is doing to the u.s. right now? >> you know, the president spent the last few days with the prime minister of japan, the prime minister of israel, those meetings both i think have gone well. i'm not in a position to question what he's saying. i think a point you did make we should emphasize

thathird, we are demanding campaign and transition officials be made available to testify in public, under oath, on these issues. paul manafort and general flynn had been reported to have constant contact with russian intelligence officials. they must testify. and anyone else involved in this must be made available to testify, as well. our caucus is united in these three request. ourope andrus -- expect republican colleagues to join in, as well. the gravity and seriousness of this issue cannot be overstated. risk, ourty is at system of checks and balances and rule of law is at risk. this cannot be a time for partisan squabbles. must be a time when both parties come together to protect the rule of law, the systems of checks and balances and the security of the american people. i will take a few questions. >> how can you achieve this result? [indiscernible] it schumer: let me just say, is the right thing to do. the public will see it is the right thing to do. a number of republicans have expressed real concern. if the public sees what is going on they will demand the kind of bipartisan

officials have yet to call for travel restrictions. they say so r, therere is no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission, but they are encouraging countries to step up screening. demonstrators took to the streets in cities across the u.s. to protest against president donald trump on presidents' day. the annual federal holiday marks the birthday of the first u.s. president, george washington. about 500 people gathered in central plaza in washington, d.c., carrying signs that read "not my president." they chanted slogans criticizing trump's immigration policy, cabinet appointments, and attacks on the media. similar rallies were held in many cities, including new york and chicago. >> everybody knows what he's about. he's not normal. >> as immigrants, i feel like we're back in the time where people had to work around with identifications just to prove they're americans. >> february 20th also marked one month since trump was sworn in as president. >>> we're going to switch gears a bit and talk about shogi, or japanese chess. today

but officials at toyota expect good results for the full year to march. >>> officials at toyota say sales in the nine-month period fell 6% from a year earlier to about $178 billion. they say its operating profit was also hit. it dropped 32.5%. officials say that's because the stronger yen hurt exports. they expect thing to improve in the current quarter. recent weakening of the yen made them revise upward forecast for sales and operating profit for fiscal year through march. checking markets tokyo stocks managed to end higher as the financial sector rallied. but a stronger yen kept gains limited. our business reporter phoebe amaroso at the stock exchange. >> tradeing to a positive start tracking strong finish on wall street after u.s. president trump's move for financial deregulation. but optimism fizzled out after the dollar slid against the yen. let's take a look at the closing levels of this monday february 6th. nikkei gained 0.3% to close at 18,976. broader topics added .36%. turning to individual stocks, trump plans for deregulation a rally in the financial center. financials some of

they made charges of forging an official document. investigators allege hospital officials regarding a member. it stated he had a kidney inflammation and was too sick to go to prison. the man's eight year seasons was then put on hold. police say his condition had stabilized enough to allow him to be incars rited. they adoctor admitted to filing the report under the hospital's director. convicted man heads a group associated with japan's largest cri crime. he was at his home tuesday and turned himself into prosecutors. he was immediately sent to prison. ♪ >>> and now more on business news. >> japan's deputy pririme minisr has eagerness of a wide ranging dialogue. it came after the leaders of the two nations. he told reporters that the discussions will cover broad areas including trade and infrastructure investment. we'll start working out the specifics about the framework and agenda as soon as the u.s. side has put together a task force. meanwhile they referred as candidates for cooperation on infrastructure. looking at the near term o

officials during the campaign. >> did anybody from your campaign reach out to russian officials and reach out? >> as far as i know there is no one from our campaign team that spoke to russian officials. >> would it have been inappropriate for you to do? you assumed she was going to win and be the president of the united states. why not speak with officials from the russian government and maybe set the stage for better dialogue? >> it wouldn't be inappropriate to be one contact, a courtesy call, i met and discussed many issues with many ambassadors. i'd meet a single time, maybe a second conversation and that was it. what trump and his officials seem to have done here was have regular contact with him during the course of the campaign. that's what's so unusual. >> when you had these meetings with foreign officials or ambassadors, would it be normal to report to the state department, hey, i had these meetings? >> yeah, you would make sure that the government understood what you were doing so there is no misunderstanding and we made a regular practice of doing that. >> you want a full-

officials say the threat is still not over. at 11:30, governor brown issued an emergency order to deal with the emergency. and at 11:50 last night, the national guard was put on stand-by. 23- thousand soldier are ready to deploy to the area if needed. and to keep up to date with this breaking news story you can download the free kron 4 mobile app.. we'll keep you updated through breaking news push alerts. coming up on the kron 4 morning news... we continue to follow the big breaking news out of oroville where nearly 200-thousand people have been evacuated because of concerns over a damaged spillway at the oroville dam. this is a live look from the dam this morning. you can see the rushing water. after the break we will hear what the red cross is doing to help the people forced from their homes. i will take a look at your morning commute after the break. . no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min

any white house official should know better. you don't interfere when the fbi is investigating. >> right because it's not just about intelligence. it's about the appearance of inappropriate and keeping up a level of distance that assures people that it's not receiving political pressure. that's what they do. even if they leak to reporters that the new york times is wrong and then he goes out on fox news and says oh the intelligence community approved, nothing to see here, even if he didn't mean to skew their views he shouldn't have gone there. and this is deeply worrisome to national security. that probe has to go on. >> it does. and you've heard people like lindsey graham go to europe and talk about this plague from russian meddling in different elections in different countries like france and the worry that they have in terms of whether or not this is going to go on and even saying overseas he believes that russia has tried to meddle in democratic elections. it's a real problem. one of the things you're starting to see too is

these officials tell cnn. you'll recall that cnn and the "new york times" first reported on this just over a week ago. so far the white house has not commented on the record to cnn. >> and evan, this is not a typical request. how did this start? >> anderson, a u.s. law enforcement official said this began with the fbi deputy director andrew mccabe and white house chief of staff reince priebus on the sidelines of a separate white house meeting on the day that these stories were published. a white house official says that mccabe actually told priebus that this "new york times" story vastly overstated what the fbi knows about these russian contacts. but a law enforcement official says that mccabe didn't discuss aspects of the case. we don't know exactly what mccabe told priebus. and a white house official said priebus later reached out again to mccabe and to fbi director james comey asking for the fbi to at least talk to reporters on background to dispute the stories. the fbi refused. and i should add that the fb

now a white house official says mccabe told priebus the u.s. times story vastly over stated what the fbi knows about the russian contacts. but an official tells us that he didn't actually discuss aspects of the case and we don't know what he told priebus. the white house official says priebus reached out to them asking for the fbi to at least talk to reporters on background to dispute these stories. the fbi refused and i should add the fbi declined to comment for this story, anderson. >> jim, white house chief of staff reince priebus denied that story. this is what he said a week ago on fox news sunday. >> "the new york times" last week put out an article with no direct source that said the trump campaign had constant contacts with russian spies. basically, you know, treason-type accusations, we have all kinds of people looking into this. i can assure you and i've been approved to say this, the top levels of the intelligence community have assured me that that story is not only inaccurate but grossly over stated and wrong and there is nothing t

officials say it was caused by flooding.nd recovering at a hospital this morning. the other car was empty when it fell in. you are taking a look at storm tracker four. meteorologist dave spahr is here with what you need to know about today's storm. scattered showers will diminish in coverage through the day with a period of dry weather conditions possible tonight. widespread rainfall set to return to the region on sunday during the day with periods of moderate to heavy rainfall likely sunday night into monday. stronger southerly winds and widespread flooding will be likely as an atmospheric river takes aim somewhere along the central california coast. showers linger monday night into potentially wednesday before dry conditions return late next week. a new study on the san jose police department traffic and pedestrain stops.. the report by the university of texas at el paso says people of colors are more likely to be stopped by officers.. a former police officer led the study and says despite the disperities, there are no app

he's also concerned that campaign officials may have had contact with other officials. >> part of the investigation that i'm talking about. it is not fair for the president to be treated this way. at the bottom line here is that we should have a joint select committee if there is any credit that trump interacted with russia. >> as we hope to hear more about this during the press conference with benjamin netanyahu. that last part that senator graham was talking about. they have intercepted paul manna for. he told me moments ago "i never had any connection to putin or the russian government directly or indirectly before, during, or after the campaign." the definitive denial thereby paul manafort. >> jenna: good to get those facts. we'll be talking more about this a little later on in the program. thank you very much. >> jon: so how is all of this affecting it president trump's approval rating? michael warren, senior writer at the "weekly standard." >> i do think that this investigation into russia's effort to meddle in our election started a while ago. it seems to be broadening and it s

farmer agreement between officials of average americans and officials perceive there tor be. they perceive themselves as quite different than the average american, but demographicallyc but also in attitude and opinions. perhaps to the false uniqueness, we find officials strongly believe they should do with it has been crafting policies rather than follow the will of the people. of course they should be concerning from a government response to ms. perspective. so here on this table we see the percentage of officials for each policy area that think the government should although public opinion, give equal consideration to public opinion and what it thinks is best to simply do what it thinks is best.sp with respect to policies that aid the poor, for example, 12% of officials think they should all a public opinion and in other areas like social security and welfare, the numbers are 18% and 13%. clearly the officials than ours are very imprisoned the government at-large see themselves as clear testesseus rather than delegates. interestingly, we did find variation among the officia

officials say the rejection of the white house request of constant communication with trump official as and russians. cnn first reported on that last week. last night, sean spicer objected to the characterization. he told us we didn't try to knock the story down. we asked them, the fbi, to tell the truth. >> another white house official said that the request was made after the fbi indicated to the white house it did not believe the reporting on communications during the campaign was accurate. even if that were the case, the white house reaching out to the fbi would violate procedures on communications with the bureau about active investigations that go back to 2007. cnn's evan perez broke the story. >> reporter: the u.s. official said this began with deputy director andrew mccabe and reince priebus on the sidelines of the separate white house meeting on the day after the stories published. the white house official says mccabe told priebus that the story vastly overstate what had the fbi knows. the u.s. official says mccabe did not discuss the aspects of the case. the white house offi

was any clinton campaign official in touch with russian officials during the campaign?know of, ever. i want to underscore what's particularly strange here. it's first of all that it was intelligence officials. the reason these conversations were picked up is because the nsa routinely scans people that they know are involved in intelligence efforts and may be a threat to the united states. so that's bizarre. and secondly, the president knew about this, we're now told, and he didn't tell the truth about it. so that's what's special and unique here. we need to keep the focus on that. >> robby, on the very point of russia, we had pretty interesting reporting last month, this is what mike allen wrote in his newsletter. "we have heard from numerous anguished people in clinton-land blaming obama, more than putin, fbi director james comey, or hillary herself." are you hearing that? >> i'm not a national security expert. i wasn't there. i didn't have all the informs. i was very glad that president obama put the sanctions in place against russia. i would certainly hope that presi

officials say the threat is still not over.0, governor brown issued an emergency order to deal with the emergency. and at 11:50 last night, the national guard was put on stand-by. 23- thousand soldier are ready to deploy to the area if needed. and to keep up to date with this breaking news story you can download the free kron 4 mobile app.. we'll keep you updated through breaking news push alerts. coming up on the kron 4 morning news... we continue to follow the big breaking news out of oroville where nearly 200-thousand people have been evacuated because of concerns over a damaged spillway at the oroville dam. this is a live look from the dam this morning. you can see the rushing water. after the break we will hear what the red cross is doing to help the people forced from their homes. your weather forecast is next. i will take a look at your morning commute after the break. . . no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. golden gat bridge dri

officials familiar with the matter. manafort who has business ties with russia and the ukraine told cnn he was not in contact with russian officials during the campaign calling the allegations, quote, boggling. asked about possible contacts between trump advisers and russia, white house spokesman sean spicer gave this somewhat confusing answer on tuesday. >> there's nothing that would conclude me that anything different has changed with respect to that time period. >> reporter: u.s. officials say the timing of the communications was alarming, the calls taking place while russian hackers were targeting u.s. political organizations with cyberattacks meant to undermine the election. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> reporter: paul manafort addressed those concerns in july. >> it's just absurd. i don't know anything about what you said. you may know it. if you do, you ought to expose it. to say you know, i don't even know what you're talking about. it's crazy.

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these contacts between trump officials and russians. do we know what that means besides that those occurred? >> well, we have to stipulate there's a lot we don't know. we don't know the content of the conversations. there's no evidence as you said earlier, of collusion between the trump officials. >> they weren't valentine's, they were something. >> absolutely, and they were coming at key moments throughout the year before the election and after the election. so it suggests that this communication was on ongoing thing. this is what democrats always suspected, and i think story has new momentum. it was sort of i think a bit of a game changer in this story to establish that pattern of contacts? >> we had the stuff over the superstructure of the stories. there you have presidential candidate sort of cheering on intelligence based. can you leak more stuff about the dnc, get some more stuff out about hillary clinton? that's stuff on the surface. so underneath, do we know how much waving on we were getting from the trump people to the russian

officials also have a pair of helicopters .... and dozens of bags filled with material which can help shore up the damaged spillway. meanwhile, crews are trying to release as much water as they can from the dam.. before the next storm. so far, the water level has decreased six- feet since last night. water resource officials say their goail is 50 feet in the next couple days. so, when it comes to what officials are telling us - and the public... kron 4's vicki liviakis is here to show how quickly their statements went from no threat - to evacuate, this is not a drill. here's a timeline of how quickly things moved leading up to where we are right now. on tuesday a massive hole began to form on the spillway of the dam. the hole formed during the heavy rain and it has continued to grow ever since. at around 5 last night...things took a turn for the worse. officials ordered people living downstream to evacuate saying a "hazardous situation is developing" after an emergency spillway severely eroded. last night, the butte county sheriff

officials about his phone call with the russian ambassador. the officials say the interview was part of the fbi's long running investigation into russia's attempt to influence the presidential election including its hacking atacks on the democrats. flynn was not under investigation, the officials say, the russians were. although the white house said flynn was fired for misleading the vice president, two officials said the fbi agents didnot believe flynn lied to them, and do not expect to see any charges come out of that interview. >> good afternoon, everyone. >> reporter: but his days of answering questions are not over. members of congress who have launched their own investigation into russian meddling say they want to hear from him. >> it will be likely he will be asked to talk to the committee about post-election activities and any other activities that he would be aware of. >> reporter: some in congress say the transcripts of flynn's phone call with the russian ambassador should be released. >> given the public was misled about these conve

official is talking to an official from a foreign government they should assume so or nonu.s. just saying, the white house needs to get a handle on internal staffing issues and the federal government at large where this stuff is being leaked out. >> i said this at the top of the show. president trump has promised change and so far he has delivered chaos. what about tax reform? there was a promise by repealing obamacare by march. where is that? >> what worries me most is the ability of the white house to work with congress. congress will work with the administration to get big things done if they believe that the white house is organized and has its act together. if it seems chaotic, congress will be less incentivized to work with the white house. so, there's unbelievable things that can get done over the next year. tax reform, health care reform, supreme court justice confirmed. every possible second. >> and split on how to handle it. >> thank you very much. >> good to be here. >>> mike pompeo met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas a day before israeli prime minister net

in many cases the officials didn't do so well. for example we found that 80% of respondents that the homeownership rate was lower in than is in reality. and we think the fact that officials have these misconceptions about the circumstances of americans is pretty problematic you'd hope that they would align with the real circumstances of america. we also asked officials about the policy preferences of americans and we found that again there were some pretty serious misconceptions so here we see that a lot of the officials in our survey think that the average american holds a very different policy opinion and then they do. and i will talk about more in a moment. you can see here for example that about 72% of officials think the average american holds a different opinion with respect and 67% think the average american holds a different opinion with respect to policies related to the environment. and again as i will talk about soon i will show you that in fact there is a lot more common ground between government officials in the avera

senior administration officials insisting it only asked for the denial after a top fbi official himself volunteered that the "new york times" story on those communications was inaccurate. white house officials who asked not to be named outlined their time line of events saying the conversation happened on february 15th after a 7:30 a.m. meeting led by white house chief of staff reince priebus. fbi deputy director andrew mccabepriebus for five minutes alone and calls a report linking trump campaign advisers to russian intelligence total bs. priebus the white house says asked mccabe, quote, can we do anything about it and whether there is something the fbi can do to, quote, set the record straight. later in separate conversations, mccabe and fbi director james comey tell priebus the fbi cannot comment on the reports. priebus then asks comey if he can cite mccabe and comey as, quote, top intelligence officials in pushing back on the story himself in tv interviews last sunday, which he did. >> i've talked to the top levels of the intelligence community and they have assured me that that new

but he says there was never an official white house document on this topic. follow this breaking story throughout the day. rain all across the bay area this morning. i will have the forecast coming up. a wet morning commute. i will check the roads coming up. no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 in the south bay... northbound lanes on highway-17 in the santa cruz mountains are still closed this morning. crews are working to clear the mudslide that has blocked the northbound lanes off and on for more than a month. rain and dangerous conditions have delayed that work over the past few

and russian officials? >> well, wolf, i'm gravely concerned that the white house is not respecting the boundaries for an investigation. we need to watch closely whether or not the fbi is given the free range to conduct this investigation fully and thoroughly and whether or not the intelligence committees in the senate and the house are facing inappropriate interference from the white house. i remain optimistic that here in the senate, both republicans and democrats on the intelligence committee will follow the evidence where it leads. but this recent episode where the white house chief of staff was pushing republican members of the house and senate to make statements down playing the seriousness of russia's attack on our democracy and the seriousness of allegations of potential collusion, cooperation between senior member of the trump campaign and russian intelligence officials, that is a very troubling development, wolf. >> should you believe these republican chairmen should be replaced? >> the reality is

the officials say one factor is the weakening yen. they also point to rising prices of natural resources such as crude oil and copper. prices of petroleum and coal products rose 22.3%, due to expectations that president trump's plan to build more infrastructure will generate higher demand. the boj officials say producer prices will remain high for the time being. but they add foreign exchange rates are volatile. and they'll continue to carefully monitor price trends. fresh data out of japan shows agricultural exports hit a record high in 2016. but the increase was significantly smaller than for the previous year. officials say japan's exports of farm products rose to $6.6 billion. processed foods such as soy sauce and sake rode a boom in japanese cuisine overseas. exports of beef, vegetables and fruits also grew. but the year to year increase was only 0.7%. much lower than the more than 20% rise for 2015. the officials say smaller hauls of scallops, salmon and other fish were the reason for the slowdown. government officials are aimin

kicking russian officials out of the u.s. the democrats. >> our goal continues to be to send a clear message to russia. art. always knew he was very suspicious of the failure to nversations between flynn and russian ambassador. acting attorney general, sally yates and others wanted to notify the white house. fbi chief james comey was concerned the investigation was at too sensitive a stage and could be compromised. but as trump surrogates repeatedly backed flynn's version of events, yates decided she had to act. warning white house officials they had been misled. she worried flynn was at risk of russian blackmail. sean spicer insisted that then president elect trump never told flynn to discuss the sanctions. >> did the president instruct him to talk about sanctions? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: spicer seemed to blame yates for the delay. >> why did it take so long? i think the first question should be -- where was the department of this. >> reporter: we learned that the fbi interviewed flynn the week at flynn said. to comm

it's not meet with government officials. russian intelligence officials. now i'm sympathetic to what mr. manafort said. maybe he didn't know they were intelligence officials. that needs to be investigated. the fact there's contact with them is significant. and second, it's constant, regular contact. it's not just a one phone call. according to "the new york times," this was regular contact during the presidential campaign. and as your last guest just said, robby just said, this is the same russian intelligence officials that stole data in our election from the democratic party and from mr. podesta, and then published that data in a very obvious way to effect the election. this is huge. how can people be complacent and not think it's important that a foreign government intervened in our election. we don't know that fact but we need to investigate whether there was some sort of coordination. >> we don't know what was said on these phone calls. when the intelligence report came out last month, it concluded the russian government had intervened in the election

he was an experienced intelligence official. he had to know that ambassador kislyak's communications were being monitored by the nsa. that's why acting attorney general, sally yates, came to the white house counsel's office, at the end of january, and advised the trump white house counsel that general flynn may be compromised. he was subject to blackmail. and i think that it was the cover-up, not the crime, that is the problem. >> and timing is curious about this. donald trump an friday, said he didn't know about the flames against michael kelly. but the department of justice last month, brought this issue, and the fear that blackmail could be used against general flynn. how did the president not know? who knew what and did general kelly act alone? did he tell anyone he was going have the conversations? >> those are sensible questions. those are reasonable questions. but this president doesn't put a lot of stock and time and time in intelligence briefings. it is plausible deniability here. it goes into questions against our own

officials said it was because of his contentious management style. he has to work closely with the cia. >> general flynn looks at the cia because it's a civilian agency. he looks at it with a great definitely suspicion. >> reporter: while serving as head of u.s. intelligence, flynn shared information with another agency without permission. he shared secrets with pakistan, flynn said he had permission to share the information. no misconduct was found. he was informally reprimanded but not charged. senior officers who worked with flynn described him to cnn as bitter. he's certainly been less fill erred about his beliefs aboutis ram. >> this is islam and it is a vicious cancer inside the body of 1.7 billion people on this planet and it has to be excised. >> this tweet a year ago, saying quote, fear of islam is rational, another tweet from him with a link to a completely fabricated story of hillary clinton involvement with sex with minors. >> if it he blatantly lied to the vice-president, i think he could be in trouble and his tenure could be short. >> r