sean spicer tweeted there is no confirmation. they, sean spicer understood what donald trump had opened the door. there was probably some surveillance and the reason of surveillance is because the federal court had reasons to believe that people around donald trump had contact with russian intelligence or mafia. that is a story that you would want if you were the trump administration to keep as far as possible and donald trump opened the door. as his own story unravels, he's unable to sustain the disappointment. instead, lyndsey graham, is very blandly saying well, lets follow the evidence where it leads. knowing full well the evidence is leading some where bad for donald trump. >> i think you put it very well of the reasonings that you described of upstream or downstream that intelligence can be gathered. somehow, it was somebody mixed up in it would be less bad in your part. >> michael take a listen to adam scheff today. >> the president explained himself. i think we cannot live in a position without either retracking it or expl

and sean spicer tweeting today. reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigation immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling. sounds like the white house is doubling down on what president trump says happened. >> as we should, martha. if this happened, once again, this would be the greatest abuse of power and overreach that has probably ever occurred in the executive branch. >> what about the accusation? you keep saying, if, if, if. the president of the united states said it was a fact. he didn't say, i read a story in breitbart or "the new york times" or wherever else. he said, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower. that's not an if. >> look, i -- i will let the president speak for himself. but in terms of where we are in the white house, our ask -- >> you're his spokesperson. >> and i'm speaking about it right now. >> but you're backing off of it. you're backing off of it. >> how am i backing off of it? while i'm saying that i think this happened -- >> because

sean spicer, this tweet, not a bad way to start day 50 of this administration.ast little bit here, we're hearing from republican leaders selling hard on health care as that story dominates the day again. >> 45 hours of debate and deliberation. this is regular order. this is the committee and our members at work. just what the american people expected from their representatives. >> buckle up on this friday. lots to get to on this hour. we have it all covered at the new york stock exchange. chris jansing at the white house. kelly o'donnell on capitol hill. joining me on set, "wall street journal" white house reporter carol lee and associated press white house reporter vivian salama. let's talk about this idea of whether it's a trump bump or not. my prediction, the president will likely come out taking a little bit of a victory lap on this some time soon. >> well, that's what's so interesting, as you mentioned, sean spicer put that tweet earlier, not a bad way to start the day. the white house economic adviser, the most senior person closest to president trump on a

press secretary sean spicer tweeting someone jumped the bike rack on pennsylvania avenue, but did not make it onto the grounds. the incident come s a week after a man penetrated the fence, roaming white house grounds for 60 minutes. abc news has learned that the alleged suspect was detected hours outside the breach. >>> let's head overseas now to beijing, where secretary of state rex tillerson is wrapping up his first trip to asia, representing the u.s. tillerson arrived in china for face to face talks on north korea's nuclear program and other matters as well. he responded to a question from own our bob woodruff who has this report from there tonight. >> reporter: today, in beijing, secretary of state rex tillerson continued to sound the alarm bell about north korea's nuclear capabilities after raising the possibility of a pre-emptive military strike. exactly where is the red line on this? what would cause this to happen, do you think? >> we share a common view and a sense that tensions on the peninsula are quite high right now, and that things have reached a rather dangerous level.

lease a tweet coming from the white house press secretary sean spicer just tweeting this, individualmped bike rack on pennsylvania avenue not white house fence. great response by secret service. ryan nobles, what's going on here? >> yeah, fredricka, i can confirm what we've learned from an official who is familiar with the situation. essentially what happened here was that an individual attempted to jump over what they call the expanded bike rack, which is basically another barrier between the general public and then the fence that wraps around the white house. this was an additional security measure put in place in the past few more years. this individual jumped over that bike rack and as soon as he jumps over that bike rack, the secret service goes into an elevated security posture so the threat level raised to an orange level, one of the highest levels. as soon as he jumped over two secret service agents immediately tackled the person and put ha person under arrest. as a result, there was some security maneuvering at different parts of the white house. beak the uniformed officers

tom, let's get to this right now and sean spicer's tweets, if we can put them back up, especially in correlation with this statement we had from president obama, saying that reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling and then go on to say president trump requesting that as part of their investigation into russian activity, the intelligence committee's exercised their oversight authority of the executive branch. how much interference is going on here from t white house to any potential open doj or fbi investigation by discussing this so publicly? >> well, i don't see a whole lot of interference here, thomas. i mean, the way i see it, there obviously has been a lot of discussion about the contacts and the alleged contacts between trump campaign officials and the russians. and i think what we're seeing now is an effort by the administration to say, well, wait a minute, as long as we're investigating these contacts, let's also look at the fbi's surveillance activities or the investigations that were going

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but today sean spicer tweeted, great news for american workers. e economy added 235,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped the 4.7%. sean spicer addressed a question about the apparent double standard. >> i talked with the president prior to this. he said to quote them clearly. they may have been phony in the past but it's real now. >> good stuff. it's good news for all of us. a live look at the dow. it's been up and down on the session. traders seem to be confused about things. the stocks are up now on the dow. up about 51 points. oil is in the dumper. it keeps falling. jerry willis is here. tell us about this fantastic jobs report. >> drill down a couple more numbers. you talk about labor force participation. it went up 1/10% to 63%. underemployment. those are folks that maybe want to work full time. 9.2%. the markets rally ed 82 points. they love it. and we're pack on track, talking about interest rates going up again that means the markets sign on with this. >> shepard: that's factored in. interest rates are going up and the fed is okay wit

press secretary sean spicer tweeted this picture of the president signing the document.rder will b respect entry into the u.s. from six predominately with some countries. iraq is no longer on that list. refugees will be treated as other refugees. it takes march 16 and last 90 days. the administrations of the new order was needed to address urgent security threats. is a new twist to president trump's claim that president obama wiretapped him during the presidential campaign. according to "the new york times," fbi director james comey asked the justice department to review the president's claim. the agency has not. now, a white house aide does nothing president trump accepts director comey's assertion that the wiretapping do not happen. in europe, the u.k. chancellor will allocate more than $674 million in new budget to boost innovation an in technology. it will include robotics and artificial intelligence. hammond will also lay out his plan to improve next generation wireless networks. thatcy saysthe you one agenc message wasident his heard. he set it fell short of the ai

that goes to sean spicer's tweet yesterday. m sorry, not sean spicer, jay carney, former obama spokesperson who of sean spicer's claim that the information was above his pay grade says actually his pay grade is the highest possible in the white house, same as the chief of staff, national security, and other senior personnel. jay carney is not buying sean spicer's response. >> i don't believe that the president forgot he has president, but sometimes perhaps he doesn't lose sight of the fact that presidential pronouncements need to have a higher standard, particularly something this provocative where he may have read something online or seen something that was written and then jumped sloppily to a conclusion for which there isn't any evidence that anyone knows of including reportedly the fbi director. again, this is a headache for the white house that i think is distracting from important investigations, one of which at least, the president says is essentially important, and i agree with hemorrhages pertaining to the national secu

sean spicer tweeting out a picture of the signing which was closed to the press. let's bring in the former managing director of the dccc and the founder and ceo of new blue strategies and a gop strategist and former spokes person for president bush. mercedes, first of all, why not signing in front of the press? why behind closed doors with this signing, do you believe? >> i think what was interesting is that it was tillerson, session, kelly, very much front and center in this process, explaining the executive order. you can tell off the bat that having these key leaders in the key positions this time around makes a significant difference. the fact that they got input from the congressional leaders, from the different agencies is more of an ordinarily rollout and the move toward making these changes so that it could be on stronger legal ground this executive order, i think these are all positive steps that the administration has. >> sandra: secretary kelly did go on the record saying he has been talking to members of congress all day about this executive order. let

this secretary sean spicer tweeted the order will call for a thorough examination of every executivetment and agency to see where they can improve service and save money. >>> congress set a deadline today for the justice department to provide some evidence that supports president trump's claim that his predecessor tapped his phone. the deadline comes as mr. trump continues to make the obamacare repeal his top prioritpriority. >> reporter: in just the past few minutes in fact we received those updated numbers, those long awaited numbers from the nonpartisan congressional budget office that gives us our first look at how much this proposed health care plan would cost and how many people would remain uninsured. that number of uninsured higher than many people projected. by the year 2026, some 24 million more people could be without insurance compared to obamacare. we'll get to more of those numbers in a second. meanwhile, the president spent the day pushing th republicans are still refusing to get on board. today at the white house a battle of messages. president trump holding a listeni

another incident, press secretary sean spicer tweeting moments ago that, quote, an individual jumped bike rack on pennsylvania avenue, not white house fence. great response by secret service. cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles joining us live from the white house. so ryan, when we talk about these bike racks, we're talking about the barriers right behind you that are the barrier before you get to the white house fence. so now explain what happened. >> reporter: that's right, fredricka. we can show you the lay of the land with how it works in terms of security. it's a popular tourist spot. people are coming up to see the white house and these expanded bike racks, as they're called, put in place after security breaches where people attempted to hop over the fence on to the north lawn and there's a sign here that says, restricted, do not enter. what we're being told and i talked specifically with an official familiar with the situation is that a suspect hopped over one of these expanded bike racks and as soon as you do that, you can see uniform secret service agents that patrol th

it the white house even before that vote was pulled, that bill was pulled late last week, sean spicer tweeted about plans as the secretary of the treasury was talking about tax reform by august. these guys were moving on before this thing was over. >> peter and kasie, thank you both so much. >>> mark warner, the man at the center of the intelligence committee on the democratic side, the top democrat joining me now. senator, thank you so very much. >> thank you. >> talk about devin nunes, the democrats and even his fellow republicans said wait, he didn't get that briefing in the house. so you must have gone elsewhere. there was suspicion he went to langley. now we know he went to the white house to get that information. what does that tell us about that whole drama last week? >> andrea, you can't make this stuff up. if this was a movie, you would turn it off because you wouldn't believe it's believable. and i and i know both chairman burr in the senate side and democrats, republicans, we don't know what mr. nunes is talking about, what kind of information. we've queried the intel community. i

. >> especially when you consider that sean spicer then tweeted that he didn't say anything about trumpat he was only speaking broadly. i agree with charlie. i think this was a first rate performance. i think the nominee sounded very practiced, and i've seen more charming people in front of the judiciary committee up for the supreme court, and i've seen less charming people, but he was a very able witness. you know, you have something in television called -- i can't even remember that, but it's basically the likability scale. >> q score, i think. >> yes, the q score. i don't know where he felt his q score was, but he did very well as a witness. and god, can you imagine being up there for 11-plus hours? they give you a half an hour for lunch and about every three hours they let you go to the undescribed room that everybody knows you're going to. senator grassley makes very clear that you're going to. it is an endurance test. he'll be back at it tomorrow. i'm not sure it will be as long tomorrow as it was today, but i'm sure it will be at least eight hours. i saw him at one point this eve

sean spicer tweeted out cnn poll numbers.ut, i mean, still, for, you know -- you know. >> for fake news. >> yeah. >> i mean all of a sudden when the polls are good, they love that poll. >> he did so much to shore up, i mean the major victory here i think was shore up his right flank. you're going to see lindsey graham and tonight and john mccain tonight and what are they going to do? be a lot more tempered than they would have been had he not had -- >> that will be one thing to watch for tonight that starts in 35 minutes. a lot more to talk about. a grieving widow brought to tears by president trump's tribute to her husband. we'll talk about how she ended up in the spotlight last night. we'll be right back. ♪ announcer: get on your feet for the nastiest bull in the state of texas. ♪ ♪ (crowd cheers) ♪ so i liked when my doctor told me i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating what's within me with once-weekly trulicity. trulicity is not insulin. it helps activate my body to do what it's supposed to do release its

then sean spicer tweeting not once but twice from his two accounts calling it both great news for american workers and not a bad way to start day 50 of this administration. in fact, take a look. the white house has put out what they consider to be the multipage report on their view of the first 50 days of the administration. at the top jump starting job creation, but praising these numbers is a little bit different than what we heard from candidate trump on the campaign trail. >> don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9% and 5% unemployment. the number's probably 28%, 29%, as high as 35%. the worst jobs report in 6 1/2 years. 38,000 jobs. it's going the wrong way, folks. 5% figure is one of the biggest hoaxes. the end of last week, they came out with an anemic jobs report. terrible jobs report. >> but between this, wall street, the consumer confidence numbers, that sort of trifecta is what the white house is looking at to take attention away from what has been a series of controversies, so much so that we haven't heard from the president this week. we will see if in the pool spr

press secretary sean spicer tweeted this picture of the president signing the document. the order will restrict entry to the u.s. by people from six predominantly muslim countries. iraq is no longer on that list. syrian refugees will be treated the same as other refugees. effect march 16 and last 90 days. the administration says the new order was needed to address urgent security. according to a draft seen by bloomberg news. the communicating will be negotiated. back in july, finance ministers. since then, president trump has the global trade outlook by pledging to prioritize national interest. united nations legal institution reports turkey to the united nations security council because of the failure to release an international judge that was among thousands of people in the aftermath of last year's failed coup. the mechanism for international criminal tribunals game -- gave turkey until february 14 to free the turkish citizens and halt legal proceedings against them saying he is protected by diplomatic immunity. the group said turkey has not complied but it has report

the -- or approving, announcing the approving of the keystone pipeline and separately today sean spicer tweeting out that they're focused on comprehensive tax reform by august. >> let's see if that turns out to be the case through the course of the day. peter, good to see you. thank you so much. joining me now, congressman rodney david, a republican of illinois. sir, thank you for joining us. you are a yes vote at the moment, correct? >> i am. >> and nothing is going to happen obviously to change that for you. what do you think is going to happen, though? are you been talking to those who are no votes? >> absolutely. i'm part of the deputy whip team. many former no votes are now yes votes and the president and the speaker and our leadership team have been working hand in hand together, i've been at the white house twice this week, i've watched president trump in action and he is doing everything he can to fulfill the promises that he made and that we made to fix this broken health care system. >> congressman, as of last night we still had about 30 no votes, which meant about nine more that you g

sean spicer refuses to lip sync what president trump said aut retapping. now it is fast his boss were speaking english as a second language. fixing the math. here's how sean spicer explained the tweet on guantanamo when asked about it today. >> obviously the president meant in totality the number released on the battlefield. from gitmo. >> nice try, the only problem, the president specifically said in his tweet that they were released by the obama administration. that's a fact. check it. meanwhile spicer continued to deflect about the weekend tweet fest in which he accused of the tapping before the election. a radio host named mark levin over and over, repeatedly asked spicer for hard evidence. >> we put our statement on sunday saying that we would have no further comment and we were asking the house and the senate intelligence committee to look into this concern and report back. >> can't he just ask him? >> no. the president has not. >> will the president withdraw the accusation? does he have i -- >> why would he withdraw it until it is adjudicated? >> have you seen any evidence yourself? >> as far as me, no. i am not in a position that would be regularly part of my daily duties.

burdened with right now. >> sandra: congressman the white house response from sean spicer that we just heard to that tweet about the freedom caucus from the president. sean spicer, as you said, the president has a bold and robust agenda. he's going to get votes from wherever he can. he said, i'll let his tweets speak for himself. up next on his agenda is tax reform. what does that look like, congressman? >> well, i don't know at this point in time. everything is in the details. it's consistent with with the old phrase the devil is in the details. with tax reform that is definitely the case. i know with the border adjustment tax, by way of example, i have had toyota come and ask me to vote against it. the agriculture interest in my district have asked me to vote against it. we've had other manufacturers that have foreign home headquarters in particular that asked me to vote against it. i have had general electric, on the other hand, more of an american company, ask me to vote for it. i'm sure there will be a lot of competing interest. but ultimately, what we'll have to do as congress men, cast aside all th

just think we ought to find out. >> this past hour press secretary sean spicer was asked where the president got information for his tweethere's a part of what sean spicer said. >> look, i think he has made it clear there's continued reports that have been out there. i'm not going to continue to -- i think the president made it clear yesterday that he wants -- that he wants congress to go in and look at this. i think there is substantial reporting out there from -- from individuals and from sources. >> let me bring in michael steele, the former rnc chairman, and msnbc political analyst as well as isha moody-wills. thanks to both of you for being here. michael, i have to start with you. you just heard sean spicer, not directly answering the question about where the president got his information. he said there are reports, multiple, substantial reporting out there, from other individuals and sources, were his words. where is this all coming from? as a republican outside the white house, how are you going to deal with this. >> where it's coming from is from conspiracy thinking and theories that exist in a space that we don'

. >>> the white house press secretary sean spicer just tweeted this picture of the president meet wiinge those sailors. the president sporting a red usa hat. fitting the president is visiting the shipyards in newport news, virginia. they'll be very busy if the president gets his wish to increase military spending by $54 billion in this current year and next year alone. on the president's wish list are dozens of new naval ships. here with me, retired admiral fallon. thanks for joining us. >> sure, wolf. >> what do you think about the president's request for billions more in defense spending right now? as you know, the u.s. already spends more on defense than the next six, seven or eight countries combined, including china and russia. >> it's true. we also have a responsibility that we've assumed worldwide that nobody else has. but reality is that the services has been spending a lot of money in recent years on these wars in the middle east and there's been a recapitalization that's long overdue. particularly for the navy, which has not been able to keep up with readiness. so right now th

response this morning from white house spokesman sean spicer in the series of tweets following up that and the russian investigation. here is the first of 4 -- reports concerning potentially, politically motivated investigations ahead of the 2016 election are troubling. president trump is requesting that is part of their investigation into russian activity to congressional committees, exercise their oversight authorities to determine whether executive branch powers are used in 2016. he also says that the white house will not comment any further until the oversight is conducted. morning,lvania, good republican line. welcome. caller: good morning. i was just listening to the 10 breakthrough technologies and i was just caller to start and buy one of the -- i was just disheartened by when one of the callers said, what will you do when the battery is repeated over goes bad after five years? isave a 2003 previous guide 13r 2.5 years old -- that is point five years old and the battery is fine and it has a small battery to in the accessories. that lasted 9.5 years, when i have never had a regu

and the quotes, you could write a master thesis on the way president trump uses the tweets and yesterday sean spicern of air quotes because what matters is the plain reading of the tweets, and i think this is what you are getting at, john, is the president was suggesting and inferring strongly that president obama was playing a hand in spying on him, and whether that means wiretapping or something else, and now it's suggesting they are not confident and even given more time the justice department may not come up with the smoking gun they are looking for, and it's going to force the committees to dig deeper because their credibility is on the line because the white house kicked this to them. >> punctuation is not policy and is not true, and jackie, and matt, thank you very much. >>> an interesting game in washington right now. why did a conservative white house just release video of paul ryan criticizing then-candidate trump. why now and is it connected to the president's chief strategist? rough? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection, or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque ps

sean spicer tweeted that the white house or the president will comment further until oversight is conducted trump had already tweeted a couple times this morning. here is one of the tweets. who was it that secretly said to russian president that after the election i'll have more flexibility? and then this is the other one saying is it true that dnc would not allow the fbi to look at the serve every after learning it was hacked. is that possible. >>> president trump accused president obama of wire tapping during the election. something that president obama firmly denies. >> reporter: an early morning tweet from president trump jolting the world awake. in a bombshell accusation, he accused then president obama of tapping his phones during the election, tweeting, quote, terrible. just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. how low has president obama gone to tap my phones. this is nixon watergate. bad or sick guy. the tweets seem to reference stories from friday that brought up an you can substantiated report that th

sean spicer refuses to lip sync what trump said about wiretapping. fixing his math trying to fix what trump said. here is how sean spicer explained the tweet on gitmo who asked about it today. >> obviously, the president meant in totalitily released since the individuals have been released. >> the president said the prisone prisoners were released -- tweet fest in which he accused president obama of tapping his phone. it was allegation that or nated asked spicer for hard evidence. >> we said on sunday we have no further comment and we're asking the house intelligence committee to look into this concern. >> has the president asked him. >> no he has not. >> will president withdraw it? >> why would you he withdraw it until it's adjudicated. >> is the white house position that the president can make declarative statements about the former president committing a crime and the committee should look into it and prove it. >> it's not a question of prove it, if they have the resources and the staff to investigate this. >> president trump's twitter statement should not be taken at value. >> sure it should be. >> as i mentioned -- >> resources and ti

. >> so, sean spicer just tweeted regarding your comments on trump's attacks on judges, which you said were disheartening and demoralizing and sean spicer just said you were speaking broadly. let's move on. in your 2006 book on the future of assisted suicide, you argue that casey should be read more as a decision based merely on respect for precedent rather than based on the recognition of constitutional protections for personal awe tony and that's in quotes. personal autonomy or for intimate and personal decisions. so, you wrote that in your book, but since that time, well, in fact, before that time, in casey, the court relied on the protection for intimate and personal choices to decide many nonabortion cases such as the -- i always have a hard time pronouncing this -- the -- you know which one i'm talking about. >> i do, senator. >> which recognized the right to marriage equality. has the court's continued application of this right for personal and intimate choices changed your view that the constitution does provide protections for intimate and personal decisions? >> senator, i've

. >> sean spicer tweeted the following.h he responded anyone is anyone as you heard there when specifically asked about president trump. very clear that judge gorsuch has talking about president trump there. >> he certainly was and especially because the question came from richard blumenthal, the connecticut democrat, who first got him privately to criticize the president for questioning the judiciary. could we talk for a second about judge gorsuch who has been overshadowed by russians and the fbi and wiretaps and everything else? i thought yesterday was just a masterfall performance by him. i that you had if ronald reagan had ever had a confirmation hearing, it would have sounded a lot like that. several years ago, everybody talked about how john roberts, who was so remarkable in frond of the judiciary committee. i thought gorsuch just hit it out of the park. that is a guy who hit it out of the park and all of the gosh and golly's may have sounded a little strange to some of us from -- that work in manhattan. but that guy

as you'll remember president trump's accusations came in the form of a tweet earlier. sean spicer explained why the president is sticking to the accusations. >> no. he stands by it, again you're mischaracterizing what happened today. the senate -- no i know. no. >> from their -- >> i saunderstand that. they acknowledge they have not been in contact with the department of justice. >> what isn't clear right now is exactly what happens next. as the white house continues to claim president trump's accusations are true. >>> the president says he's making america first with the budget he unveiled today. the $1.1 trillion plan slashes spending while pumping billions of extra dollars into protecting the country. the budget gives $54 millibilli defense. $1.5 billion is slated for building the wall. this budget brings dramatic cuts. the environmental protection agency, state department and t altricalture department. the arts, would lose a big chunk of their funding. philadelphia's mayor react today the proposed cuts. this budget would be devastating to every single fiphiladelphiae. the mayo

white house press secretary sean spicer says president trump wasn't being literal when he tweeted theation about wiretapping. sean spicer / white house press secretary: "he doesn't really think that president obama went up and tapped his phone personally."sean spicer / white house press secretary: "the president used the term "wiretap" to mean broadly surveillance and other activities during that."(mark) spicer also said that president trump was referring to the obama administration broadly -- and not accusing president obama of personal involvement when he tweeted the accusations. (darya) facebook now explicitly prohibits companies and organizations from using its site for surveillance. the company said it is updating an existing policy, and is prohibiting developers from using data obtained from the site for surveillance. this policy change comes on the heels of investigations from the a-c-l-u. the organization found social media monitoring companies sold their services to law enforcement -- who then targeted people through facebook, twitter and instagram. (mark) two flight attendan

white house press secretary sean spicer says president trump wasn't being literal when he tweeted thean spicer / white house press secretary: "he doesn't really think that president obama went up and tapped his phone personally."sean spicer / white house press secretary: "the president used the term "wiretap" to mean broadly surveillance and other activities during that."( darya ) spicer also said that president trump was referring to the obama administration broadly -- and not accusing president obama of personal involvement when he tweeted the accusations. ( mark ) still to come... police are still looking for the bikers who attacked a driver on a bay area freeway. the man who was attacked talks to kron 4 and tells us about the moments right before the attack. and next... demolition continues on the old eastern span of the bay bridge. hear from some people who are frustrated with how long it is taking. and here's a live look outside... bay bridge. áááábreakáááá ( robin ) no major hot spots. wb 580 is smooth .bay bridge wb 80 is smooth into san francisco ( darya ) the old eastern spa

. >> sean spicer attempt to clarify president trump tweet on wiretapping. >> we begin with breaking news on two massive storm. a little storm and historic winter storm about to slam the east coast. the northeast more than 100 million people are bracing for a storm. some area expecting two feet of snow. widespread power outages. thousands of flights canceled. president trump saying this today. >> the east is under a winter storm warning, let's hope it's not going to be as bad as some are predicting. >> al ro ker has the information. >> it looks like it has potential to be. we are starting to see snow making it's wake into washington, d.c. it's going to transfer energy off the coast, as it -- what defines a blizzard. for three hours sustained winds 35 miles per hour and blowing snow dropping visibility. change over to back and forth between freezing rain and sleet snow mix. new york, snow. strong winds causing problems. by midday new york city and boston, 1 to 3 inches per hour. tuesday evening commute from pennsylvania up to boston we're looking for big problems during the commute. light

white house press secretary sean spicer says president trump wasn't being literal when he tweeted the accusation about wiretapping. spicer also said that president trump was referring to the obama administration broadly -- and not accusing president obama of personal involvement. sean spicer, white house press secretary: "i think he's extremely confident. i think there's significant reporting about surveillance techniques that have existed throughout the 2016 election, i'll leave it to them to issue the report but i think feels very confident that what will ultimately come of this will vindicate him."(anny) the white house pointed to media reports that suggest broadly that surveillance took place during the election... but did not provide any direct evidence the the president was ever under surveillance. (anny) we'll keep monitoring this story and let you you as soon as the fbi director announces his decision. back to you. (mark) president trump is responding to snoop dogg after the rapper filmed a presidential assasination scene in his latest music video. here's part of the video. in

meanwhile the whit white house s secretary sean spicer crying 42 clarify his tweet.did not mean wiretapping literally. watch. >> the president was clear in his tweet. it was wiretapping. that's whole host of surveillance type of options. house and senate intelligence committee will now look into that and provide a report back. there's been numerous reports from a variety of outlets over the last couple of months that seem to indicate there has been different types of surveillance that occurred during the 2016 election. >> it's interesting. there were some of us roaring and wondering if the president meant electronic gathering. wiretapping is specific. it doesn't apply to anything else. if it's understanding, did that give room to come up with evidence. >> what's most fun about this story, there's so much -- you get into the weeds of intel here. what it mean and what agencies could have been listening in and how there could have been a back channel. >> they were listening. >> purpose of listening to the russian ambassador is really to get the people in the trump admin

white house press secretary sean spicer said when the president that tweeted pout, he was speaking inroad terms. today administration is expected to provide evidence to back up the president's claim came in a series of tweets. as of now they haven't. the committee is holding its first public hearing in russia next week where the wiretapping claims are expected to also be brought up. >>> a new salvo today in the back and forth battle over coyote creek flooding. er there was a fiery letter to the water district in response to a public hearing about the flooding last week. the mayor wrote that he is disappointed with the lack of representation pointing pout the lone representative who did attend was not able to provide any answers to the questions or provide any possible solutions moving forward. the mayor will be in washington, d.c. over the next would weeks where he'll be asking for federal assistance. the mayor is just one of the people asking for stance. the people who lived here got little or no warning. damian trujillo. >> reporter: we've reported on it in the past week. more on th

sean spicer on "snl." and sean spicer joked about it in his press briefing today. let's watch this. >> what i understand is that rule was instituted to deal with market fluctuation. i believe that's wrong. i think tweetingto start a friday, here are the actual numbers that you have reported, is a bit -- i mean, don't make me make the podium move. >> is she in his head? >> this is sean humanizing himself. sean spicer, i feel bad for him but i don't. he looks like a before picture of a xanax ad. he has gotten better. he is smiling more. he's been coached. and he's relaxing into his job of lying all the time. >> i look at him, i only can think of melissa mccarthy. that's the problem. there's a whole reel of youtube on his mistakes. the things he cannot say properly. it's funny. but again, i have no sympathy for him, either. >> let's watch this press conference and we'll talk more about it. >> for all of the people who have concerns about this, especially on the right. this is the democrats'. this is us. you can't get any clearer in terms of this is government. this is not. i answered this question yesterday, on camera on your air. just so we're clear. twice i'm not aware. i don't believe, look in a thesaur

white house press secretary sean spicer. >> i think if you look at the president's tweet, he said verylearly "wiretapping" in quotes. >> reporter: that according to spicer could mean any type of surveillance. spicer said the president's tweets spoke for themselves. the first and second did put "wiretapping" in quotes, but the third and fourth did not, and fourth accused mr. obama of a crime similar to watergate, calling him bad and sick. spicer said the president has not directed the justice department to turn over evidence requested by the house intelligence committee. so you're saying the president doesn't have an obligation to provide any -- >> i'm not saying that at all. there is no question that there have been an abundance of reports regarding surveillance and other type of activities that occurred during the 2016 election. >> and that leads us to believe the president's only evidence are these reports. to believe that. >> reporter: white house councilor kellyanne conway also says she has no evidence of wiretapping. >> there are many ways to surveil each other now. unfortunately.

sean's response? >> reporter: i think we're hearing the beginning of a walkback from this administration on that explosive tweet from the saturday before last. we heard sean spicer say new things today, particularly that the president did not personally mean that president wiretapped. that's the first time that sean spicer has said that. he also was talking about surveillance in general, broadly. he said that the president had it in quotation marks, wiretapping. so this to me, brooke, sounded like the beginning of some more explaining. and again, they said they were not going to talk about this at all until the investigation was complete. well, in fact sean spicer has been talking about this a lot. but to me, brooke, it sounded like the beginning of a rationalization or a walk back. i don't know if you could hear me, i tried to ask that question at the end of the briefing, are they walking this back. again, for the second time in as many weeks, or third time i should say, sean spicer did not take cnn's questions during this briefing, which is of course his right to do, he can call on whoever he would like, but that is the question, brooke, are they walking this

>> initially, sean spicer said the tweets will speak for themselves.te house will have no more comment. but yesterday, sitting in that briefing room, you could almost feel the evolution here. and the walk-back of exactly what the president meant in terms of wiretapping. of course, coming at the same time, yesterday, the department of justice was supposed to turn over any evidence, if any existed, to the house intelligence committee. they didn't. they asked for more time. we don't know if they're slow walking this. there simply isn't evidence, wore what, but the house intelligence committee yesterday, the chairman, republican chairman, said that they want to see any evidence if there is any by next monday or they're going to potentially subpoena them. this is still escalating, air quotes or not. >> a key point, this is the republican chairman, devin nunez, who has been a trump supporter. they're frustrating because they're trying to do stuff, whether it's the russian meddling, health care and tax reform, and they keep getting asked about tweets from the

. >> well, that's what's so interesting, as you mentioned, sean spicer put that tweet earlier, not a bad way to start the day. the white house economic adviser, the most senior person closest to president trump on all things economy, already came out saying this number comes out with a boom, reaffirming everything we're trying to do. well, guess what, let's dial it back just a moment. surely we have seen a pret strong economy. when you look at this actual number, this number is really the trail wehave been on for the last eight years. now, that's not to say that gary cohen is wrong. when you to the guy in the markets, i'm here on the floor of the stock exchange, it is the promises of those pro-business trump policies that have people enthugsed. we're seeing a bump in the market today. overall this week, some level of slowing. think about this, you'll focus this hour on this health care reform bill and the contentious fight we've got ahead of us. we're not even talking tax policy yet. we can't even think about infrastructure. a lot of this market mouth has been around promises. the qu

he has no facts to back up the saturday tweet storm because in the white house briefing, sean spicer read a long lead of media reports that back up the president's claims. media reports. sean hannity, heat street, the "new york times," the paper that the president of the united states referred to as failing and fake. >> sean hannity went on and made the following statement. on november 11th days after the election, heat street hospitaled january 19th, the "new york times" reported. >> you know the president has no facts because he was on fox news last night and explained where he got the alleged information that led him to tweet the unsubstantiated allegations against the former president. >> i have been reading about things. i read i think it was january 20th where they were talking about wire tapping. there was an article and they used that exact term. i read other things and i watched your friend brett the day previous where he was talking about certain very complex sets of things happening. and wire tapping. i said wait a minute, there is a lot of wire tapping being talked about.