Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead. Seems to be one of the most packed days so far of Donald Trumps presidency. The president today speaking with the nations governors, with Health Insurance executives, with congressional leadership and simultaneously preparing with his team what could be the most Pivotal Moment of his presidency today, his address to a joint session of congress and the American People tomorrow planight. Explaining how hell replace president obamas Health Care Law and what will happen to the millions of americans who only have insurance because of the law the president seeks to repeal. The president also anticipated to explain how he plans to, quote, do more with less in his federal budget while also boosting defense spending by 10 . Cnns sara murray is live at the white house today. Sara, the president s budget director said today, quote, we are taking President Trumps words and turning them into policies and dollars in this budget. What does that mean . Well, the president certainly will be making a lofty request from congress. Remember, this is the beginning of a long process of wrangling between the president and between congress, just because it is what President Trump wants does not mean its what President Trump will get. By his initial top line, what we see is a big increase in defense spending and Big Questions about whats going to be on the chopping block. Reporter donald trump is aiming to ratchet up u. S. Defense spending as he prepares his first president ial budget. This budget will be a Public Safety and National Security budget and it will include a historic increase in defense spending to rebuild the depleted military of the United States of america at a time we most need it. Reporter a budget official telling reporters today that trump will ask for an additional 54 billion in defense spending. Thats a 10 increase. And more than the total Discretionary Spending for the entire state department and Environmental Protection agency combined. But so far, there are few details about how the administration would pay for the sharp increase in military spending. Most federal agencies will see their budgets shrink, a budget official said. Both the epa and foreign aid are expected to face sharp cut backs. Well do more with less and make the government lean and accountable to the people. Reporter trump securityfocused budget sure to be a key topic in his address to congress on tuesday. All eyes are on what trump will say on repealing and replacing obamacare and whether hell finally serve up specifics. Youll hear about that tomorrow night in great detail. Reporter as trump huddled with Mitch Mcconnell and House Speaker paul ryan today, the two gop leaders plan to press him to publicly tout the house gop plan on health care. The president regularly blasts obamacare. People hate it. But now they see that the end is coming and theyre saying, oh, maybe we love it. There is nothing to love. Its a disaster, folks, okay. Reporter but the political risks of the repeal and replace process appear to be weighing on him. Let it implode. Politically i think it would be a great solution. Because as soon as we touch it, if we do the most minute thing, a tiny little change, whats going to happen, theyre going to say its the republicans problem. Reporter he is meeting with gop leaders amidrising concern from republicans on the hill that trump has not embraced the role of salesman in chief for a Health Care Overall which could put plans to repeal obamacare in jeopardy. Obamacare is collapsing under its own weight right now. Reporter after meeting with insurers today he joked, if health care goes awry he wonting shouldering the blame. Reporter many republicans made clear the only way to cut into the nations debt is if you are willing to take on entitlements. This president said he will protect them. It was interesting to see House Speaker paul ryan leaving the meeting. He has been a champion i trying to repeal some of the programs. He says when you repeal the Health Care Law that is an entitlement. White House Press Secretary sean spicer alarmed apparently at the leaks coming from his own building. Called his Communications Team into his office with and the white house counsel, checked their cellphones to make sure they were not using apps such as signal or confide. Jeff zeleny is at the white house. Sean spicer also told his staff not to leak news of his antileaking meeting. So how do you and i know about it . Jake, it leaked. That is an example of journalism 101 or washington journalism 101. Some leaks are sanctioned. Some leaks are not sanctioned. All leaks are not created equally. No one knows that more perhaps than the president himself who has spent a lifetime in new york dealing with tab loit tabloid r and others. I am told he signed off personally on that meeting with sean spicer and his staffers to check their cellphones. It allows you to send messages and then they disappear. I am told it was sanctioned by the president , he knew about this and it was designed to send a signal across the government entirely, not just here in the white house, that they do not want leaks to happen. Sometimes to send the signals, smaller leaks have to happen. Jake, the bottom line is that the president is frustrated by this. And sean spicer, his role, among many, is to enforce what the president wants on these press reports here. So thats why he had the meeting last week. Jeff zeleny at the white house. Thank you. The effort to plug leaks comes at the same time calls are getting louder to investigate whether Trumps Campaign advisers repeated communications with russians last week crossed any ethical lines. It was said he had seen no such evidence of contacts. He focused attention on the leaks coming from the Intelligence Community about the contacts to the press. Cnns manu raju joins me now. Manu, this comes as a Top Republican says a special prosecutor should handle this. Thats right. Darrell issa over the weekend saying there should be a special prosecutor looking into the situation. You are not really hearing much support from other republicans including devin nunez himself who believes it can be done through the house Intelligence Committee. Today he tried to reassure the public that he was moving forward in a deliberative, bipartisan manner. He significantly tried to downplay reports of russian contacts with the Trump Campaign during the elections, even as his committee has just begun to look into the issue. Here is how he described it it to reporters today. Can you say categorically there were no contacts whatsoever between officials affiliated with the russian government and the Trump Campaign . Not that i am aware of. We still have not seen evidence of anyone from the Trump Campaign or any other campaign, for that matter, thats communicated with the russian government. Reporter now, jake, a few hours later adam schiff, the top democrat on the committee, talked to reporters, actually raising concerns about mr. Nunezs comments hoping they could discuss these things together. He disagreed that there is no evidence or nothing really to look into regarding those contacts. Here is what he said. I just want to make something clear and that is the committee has reached no conclusion on whether the Trump Campaign col colluded are russia, russian officials nor contacts. Nor could we. This comes as the white house has actually spoken with both devin nunes and richard burr the chair of the senateta intelligee committee. A lot of criticism from democrats about whether or not this can be an independent investigation going forward. I talked to a republican on the committee, Susan Collins of maine, who told me i think all of us have to be careful to not create a perception that the white house may have a role in this investigation and other some democrats on the committee suggesting that perhaps this suggestion could be compromised if richard burr is discussing these matters or prejudging the outcome of this investigation. So a lot of discussions happening right now. As the investigations are just beginning on capitol hill, jake. Manu raju, thank you so much. 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Before the break we were talking about congressional efforts to investigate possible Trump Campaign ties to individuals in russia known to u. S. Intelligence. Complicating that right now, white house efforts to control what you might be hearing about the story. I am joined by senator mark warner of virginia, the top democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee. Senator, thank you for joining us. Thank you, jake. The white house acknowledged today that it reached out to the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, senator richard burr, to talk to journalists to shoot down the New York Times story about trump Campaign Advisers talking with russians known to u. S. Intelligence. You say its caused you grave concerns about the independence of the Senate Intelligence committee into the matter . How grave . Do you feel senator burr is too compromised to lead the investigation . Even today, jake, we have bipartisan members of our Committee Staff going through intelligence. We have had very good cooperation from the intelligence agencies. I believe the investigation is making appropriate progress. I have also been very pleased to see bipartisan statements from members of the committee, not just democrats but members like Susan Collins and marco rubio, and i think youll see others, saying this investigation should be bipartisan, it shouldnt have political interference, it cant go where the white house wants it to go. It needs to go where the facts lead. And thats the thing thats so remarkable, is, if the white house is correct lets even give them the benefit of the doubt for a moment. By trying to bring in others to interfere with a news investigations, theyre going to color any results that would come out. So i am not going to get into my individual conversations with members of the committee. The committee will a number of us are meeting this afternoon. Well have an open hearing tomorrow. We need to get this resolved, because this is the committee that has the jurisdiction. We have started this investigation. Its been moving forward bipartisan. The American Public deserves answers. And theres a lot to investigate, i can assure you. Senator, your leader, Senate Democratic leader chuck schumer, of new york, told cnn, quote, senator burr is on notice because what he did was wrong and this is not the way to conduct a fair and impartial investigation. It certainly gives the peern appearance if no the reality of lack of impartiality. Do you agree . What does that mean, being on notice . As my statement was on friday night, i agree that this is not the way that we should be moving forward. The validity of this investigation depends upon it being bipartisan. And we have seen i have been very complimentary of the chairman prior to this time, that he had been moving this forward in a bipartisan way, that were going to go after the information, wherever the facts lead us. The best news i have seen since that very disturbing news friday night is to see the overwhelming bipartisan support from other members of the committee, democrats, republicans, the like, who are committed to getting the job done. And ill again remind your listening audience, we have not brought this investigation to a halt. We have got people, professional staff, today reviewing intelligence. This has been ongoing. Were already into this process, getting deeper every day. And my hope is that were going to have a product that, one way or the other, well be able to share with the public and remove some of these clouds, or turn information over to the department of justice. Over the weekend congressman darrell issa. A republican. Trump supporter, said a special prosecutor should be appointed to probe the potential ties between President Trump and his associates with russia. You dont agree . Listen, there would be any kind of special prosecutor you would have to have the attorney general recuse himself because of his relations with the president. That is another route to go. I have said from the outset that i think this committee is the way to go. But if there is any indication that there is an effort to try to stymie or stop us from getting access to information, then weve got to look at other options. Thats the ironic thing here. We have been getting the access to the information we need to do this investigation. And the screwy thing about this white house is, if their version of the facts is true, why would they try to mess this up at this point, because now this puts in doubt any resolution that, in effect, would clear them because it would appear that they tried to have undue political influence. Senator warner, thank you so much. Stick around. I want to get your reaction on the yemen raid and the navy s. E. A. L. Killed in that operation. Stay with us. 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Official, lays out how to rapidly destroy isis in less than ten months. I have also directed the Defense Community to develop a plan to totally obliterate isis. Part of the 30day review, significantly increasing the u. S. Military presence and risk to u. S. Troops inside syria. Options being explored include sending u. S. Artillery units into syria for longrange support for local units moving on the city of raqqa and putting u. S. Troops near the front lines to look for isis targets. Its already happening inside iraq. If we bring out the smoke, they can take it now, move up and try to mark the location. The plan also includes diplomatic and financial options. But the pentagon leaves stepping up the military Campaign SomethingPresident Trump has long advocated. I know more about the isis than the generals do, believe me. I would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. Top u. S. Generals warn, even with more than 50,000 isis operatives killed, the International Reach of the threat is a worry. We estimate probably over 100, 120 countries have provided 45,000 foreign fighters just to syria and iraq alone. Thats one element that makes it a transregional threat. National security adviser Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster breaking with his boss, cautioning the term radical islamic terrorism is not helpful for u. S. Goals. President trump seemingly, with a vote of no confidence so far on the military campaign. Everybody used to say we never lost a war. We never lost a war. You remember. Some of you are right there with me, and you remember, we never lost a war. America never lost. And now we never win a war. We never win. We dont fight to win. The coalition has liberated 60 of isis held territory in iraq and is pushing to get isis out of the stronghold in raqqa, syria. Whatever options President Trump does approve, they will be costly and they will add to the risk for u. S. Troops. Jake. Barbara, i have to ask you about the other story in the news today. We cover gold star families on the show as you know. Bill owens, the father of ryan owens, the navy s. E. A. L. Killed in yemen last month spoke to the miami herald and was critical of the raid and of President Trump. He said, quote, why at this time did there have to be this stupid mission when it wasnt even barely a week into his administration . Why. For two years prior, no boots on the ground in yemen. Everything was missiles and drones because there was not a target worth one american life. Now all of a sudden we had to make this grand display . He is also calling for an investigation. This gold star father is calling for a much deeper investigation than what is currently going on. Right now there is, if you will, a factfinding investigation thats done on the death of every troop who falls on the battlefield. What exactly happened. They are also investigating how it was that one of the aircraft involved went down, and they are investigating civilian casualties in yemen. But none of that really goes to what this gold star dad wants. He would like the answers, what was the white house decisionmaking inside the white house that night about deciding to move ahead with this mission. Let me read you one more thing that mr. Owens said. And he said, dont hide behind my sons death to prevent an investigation. I want an investigation. The government owes my son an investigation. I think its fair to say, when the white house was asked about this today, there was no sense that they are going to meet mr. Owens requests anytime soon, jake. Barbara starr, thanks so much. Let me bring back senator mark warner, the top democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee. Your reaction to what william owens, this gold star father, had to say about the yemen raids. Do you think the Trump Administration rushed this operation . I think we need to get a full briefing. And i understand why this father, who my understanding from the press, wasnt that anxious to meet the president since the president had been so disrespectful to another gold star father, and he deserves the answers, because one of the things that we need to make sure is, there were questions that there was a lot of valuable information gathered from this raid. Beyond the whole question of the safety and the planning, was there really valuable information gathered. We have not had that briefing yet. We expect to get that briefing i believe within the next week. As you know, anytime there is loss of life in a military operation there is an automatic investigation by the pentagon. Is that enough . Or should there be a more robust investigation, and who should be in charge of it . Lets go ahead and look at what the pentagon finds but then also, for the Intelligence Committee, if part of the purpose of this raid was to gather valuable intelligence and there have been reports from the white house that valuable intelligence was gathered, we need to get that report. We need to see how thorough it is. We need to see whether that intelligence, in effect, warranted the kind of risk that this raid appeared to take. Senator mark warner, democrat of virginia, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence committee. Thank you for joining us today. He was the president on 9 11. What george w. Bush has to say about President Trumps travel ban. That story is next. E different. Its nice to remove artificial ingredients. Kind never had to. Weve used real ingredients, whole nuts, and Natural Flavors from the very beginning. Give kind a try. Americas Small Business owners. And heres to the heroes behind the heroes, who use their expertise to keep those businesses covered. 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Est is back try succulent new lobster mix match or see how sweet a lobster lovers dream can be. Theres something for everyone and everyones invited. So come in soon. Welcome back to the lead, im jake tapper. Sticking with politics. The panel, senator Rick Santorum and former michigan governor jennifer granholm. President george w. Bush was on the today show talking about the president s travel ban. A bedrock of our freedom is a right to worship freely. For or against the ban . I am for an immigration policy thats welcoming and upholds the law. Obviously a big division between george w. Bush and donald trump on this issue. Senator. Look, there is a difference between me and george w. Bush on this. He was for immigration reform, that wing of the party that has shrunk dramatically over the past few years. Look, as far as the travel ban is concerned to me its simple. I think the Trump Administration played it out badly. There is absolutely sufficient reason to suggest that, in the countries that they put forward, you cant do proper vetting because there is no nationstate to get the proper vetting done. And that, to hold and suspend immigration from those countries until we have the resources to be able to do proper vet something a very practical approach. Interesting. So these seven states you say cannot provide proper vetting, right, for anybody coming over . I bet you there are a whole bunch of other states that also cannot provide proper vetting. You would suggest he rule ooll n immigration from any state that does not provide proper vetting. Two things. Proper vetting and secondly a place where jihadist activity. Terrorist activity. If you go to a state i dont know. Pick a state maybe in africa, Southern Africa where there might be a problem. If there is not a lot of terrorist activity that threatens the United States, i wouldnt be worried about it. If its north africa. Probably is. That would be a significant expansion of the travel ban if that were the plan. We all know that what these seven states do not provide are people who come to this country and commit terrorist acts or at least thats been the history, and we all know the department of Homeland Security did a whole internal assessment which completely pushed back against the need to have these seven states be the states. So it will be interesting to see i know its supposed to come out this week exactly how i refines it. Stephen miller, his guidance at the white house, basically said the outcome will be the same. If the outcome will be the same hell get the same results in the courts. I think one thing the white house is trying to push back on which is the idea of defining terrorist activity as only meaning somebody who has come from that country and successfully killed somebody. They are looking for a broader expansion, including anytime you try to commit a terrorist. A somali at ohio state tried to mow down with a car, wielded a knife. Didnt kill any people but that would count. The question is what are the guardrails around it . How far out do you go . Is it somebody who has not taken any action but has a tweet or some sort of social Media Presence . Its so hard to know how far out you go and which countries you include. Its a dangerous thing but well see. The court will be very interested in what happens. Tomorrow night well hear from President Trump on what presumably we will, who knows, until it actually happens, on what will replace obamacare after its repealed. One of the white house spokespeople was on some of the sunday shows except for the one they boycott every week and they were not really able to answer the question about can you guarantee that those who now have insurance because of obamacare especially through medicaid expansion, will have it again . That seems to be a thorny issue for the trump people and for the republican congress. Remember, the Republican Party has always been conservatives have always been about making sure people have the opportunity as opposed to making sure that there is a program in place that everybody will be fit into. What we need to say is, yes, everyone will have the opportunity whether through tax credits access. As opposed to everybody will be in the Medicaid Program. A lot of republicans would like to see the Medicaid Program shrink and have more people move into private markets but they wont guarantee everybody will be shoved in there with a mandate or something. Its a hard question but its a difference between opportunity and access as opposed to mandates and costs. Its easier to give an Entitlement Program than to take it away. Whether its obamacare or the bush drug prescription benefit. Right. This is going to be the republican challenge on this. They have put out some principles. Every one of the plans out there will guarantee that people will either Lose Health Care or lose benefits. Can i say one thing, though, jake. They keep saying the president said it again today that obamacare has been a dismal failure. If you look at the rates of increase under obamacare overall premium increase. Presume increase and the presume increases before obamacare, in the five years before obamacare increases went up 32 . In the five years before that, it was 63 . In the private market. Obamacares increases since 2011 have gone up 20 . So its been much better. Medicare medicares increase has gone up 1. 4 . So it begs the question, why dont we consider using a program that works, that people appreciate, its medicare, lower the age of medicare eligibility, and you might in fact get a lot of people happy and cause the premiums to stay flat. I know you want to weigh in. Go ahead. Look, the democratic answer is always put everybody in a Government Program. That Government Programs happens to work. That Government Program works with the private sector, too, by the way. It does work with the private sector. One of the areas that actually that i supported was the medicare prescription drug, which has actually been the most successful. Why dont we expand it to everybody, and cut the investments that hes going to be putting into the military by just, you know, a little bit, and allow for an expansion of a program that only has very narrow band of increases . The answer is what we need to do is we need to push on innovation. Medicare piggybacks off a lot of innovation in the private sector. There is a lot of costshifting with medicare and medicaid that allows them to hold down their costs. Lets just have it continue. It doesnt work unless you have a privatesector system to off load some of these costs. The government fixes the amount of money that can be put into it. The better approach is i am advocating this to the Trump Administration if theyre listening. He watches cable. I think he watches tv enough to know what you guys are reporting because he comments a lot on. Sure does. Look, what we did in the 1996 welfare reform was the most popular things republicans ever did in this town. We took a general principles. Blockgranted the money to the states and said states, innovate. Well cap the money. Well give you enough to cover your folks but cap it and allow innovation. Senator, governor. We didnt cover half of what we thought. Thank you so much for being here. Bomb threats reported at several Jewish Community centers in multiple states. That one governor is calling for an investigation. Lie to the boss and be executed. South korea says north korea reportedly killed five senior officials because they misled kim jong un. Heres to the wildcats til we die. This i gotta try bendy. Spendy weekenders. 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Also across the nation today what is becoming a disturbing trend of violent threats and vandalism targeting jewish communities from coast to coast. Today at least 16 Jewish Community centers and schools in 11 states reported bomb threats according to the antidefamation league. Some had to evacuate buildings and move children to safe zones. This comes after vandals toppled head stones at a Jewish Cemetery in philadelphia. The second act of grave desecration in a week. Allen cossack joins me live in philadelphia. Several jccs and schools in philadelphia were targeted as well, alison . Reporter thats right, jake. At this cemetery authorities are not ready to say this is a hate crime, though you look at whats happened behind me at one of the d desecrated tomb stones. Disturbing to say the least. Detectives tell us the vandalism was limited to this Jewish Cemetery here. There is concern about this troubling trend that seems to be growing across the country of these incidents against jews. You mentioned the dozens of bomb threats against jccs and day schools happening today, not to mention last month as well similar bomb threats at jccs. Then less than a week ago in st. Louis at a Jewish Cemetery there, vandalism similar to what we are seeing here in philadelphia. Jake. Alison, we should point out were seeing the larger communities rallying around these targeted populations. We have seen many muslimamericans helping rebuild the jewish cemeteries. You are exactly right. People from all faiths are coming together to support the Jewish Community. You mentioned the Muslim Community. They are especially coming out. What happened in st. Louis, a Muslim Community activist started a crowdfunding site and raised 130,000 so far to go toward restoring that cemetery in st. Louis. And some of that money is expected to trickle down here in philadelphia. I talked to one muslimamerican today who travelled two hours from new york to philadelphia, not necessarily to lend his money but to lend a hand in the cleanup. Listen to what he had to say. This could be our cemetery. This could be our grandparents who have been attacked, and they are defenseless. We pray that justice is brought here so that the Jewish Community not only here but throughout the country where theyre being attacked everywhere can move on and prosper. Reporter salam told me he and his friends were ready to actually guard the cemetery from more vandalism if it was necessary saying an attack on one faith is an attack on all faiths. Alison kosik. Thank you so much. Youve seen by now the worst mixup in oscar history. That wasnt the only flub. What you didnt know about last nights oscars, next. Youre gonna love birds eye steamfresh vegetables. Wait for it. In about five minutes you get delicious, premium veggies, steamed to perfection. Now ahhhhhhhhhhh. Mmmm heavenly, right . Birds eye steamfresh. So veggie good. In our world lead, new signs that north koreas leader may be continuing to terrorize people within his regime and abroad. For one, kim jong un completed a new round of purging according to south korean officials. He apparently ordered the execution of at least five senior officials in his own government for allegedly making false reports to him. Then of course, there is the murder of his estranged half brother kim jong nam. This morning a south Korea Spy Agency said the hit was ordered from the top, calling the assassination, quote, a statesponsored act of terror by the north. Bringing in matt rivers who joins us live from kuala lumpur, malaysia. Why does south korea believe the north korean government ordered the assassination of kim jongnam . South korean intelligence officials, jake, say it was two different ministries from north korea operating here in malaysia that actually carried out the attack. It would be the ministry of Foreign Affairs and also of state security. And while they didnt provide any evidence backing this up, any independent corroboration that cnn could see, what intelligence Officials Say happened is that both ministries each set up teams of two men. What those two teams did here in malaysia was recruit the two female suspects that are really at the center of this, because as you can see an cctv footage from the airport the two females. One an indonesian and the other a vietnamese were the two people who smeared the vx nerve agent on kim jongnams face that led to his swift and sudden death. The North Koreans denied any role in this. And the Malaysian Police have not gone so far as to say that the North Koreans had any involvement in terms of orchestrating this from a governmental level, but the intelligence officials in south korea do believe that these orders came from kim jong un himself. Matt, as you know, malaysian authorities have said that a nerve agent called vx is what killed kim jongnam. Experts say that even just a drop of vx is lethal. Are malaysian officials certain that there is no more threat to the country from this nerve agent . Reporter what they say they are certain of is that there is no more threat inside terminal 2, the part of the airport where this attack actually took place. They sent in hazmat teams over the weekend. There was no contamination left over. They did not find anything. What they can be less certain of, though, is the threat to the rest of the country. They havent said how the nerve agent got to the airport. Was it manufactured here in malaysia, trafficked in from somewhere else . The fact is, no matter the answer, its certainly not a good thing for malaysians that an internationally banned substance of this level made its way into the country. You can see in the autopsy results, jake, that were released. A Health Minister in malaysia said kim jongnams death was painful and incredibly swift. It shows you just how deadly this chemical can be. And the threat it could pose to order malaysians and also people transiting through a busy international airport. Matt, quickly. His body still in the morgue. Whats next for that . Reporter well, what malaysians the malaysian officials are saying is that they wont release the body until his next of kin provides a dna sample to prove his identity. North korea not playing ball so its not clear how long the body will remain in kuala lumpur. Thank you. We would be remiss not to mention the pop culture lead. May go down as one of the biggest blunders in oscar history. This is not a joke. Moonlight has won best picture. Moonlight, best picture. That, of course, after la la land had been announced as the best picture winner. But the la la land, moonlight mixup over shadowed a different oops moment during the in mem mem oriam. The video showed jan chapman rather than janet patterson. Also worth noting a new record set for the most africanamerican oscar winners in a year. Five taking home awards in four different categories. Moonlight became the first film with an allblack cast to win best picture and its star, Mahershala Ali won best supporting actor. The pakistani president saying the first muslimamerican winning an award. Then she deleted it. B. A. S. Because he identifies with a sect persecuted in pakistan and several other muslim majority countries. In another interesting story iranian director farhadi fon for best Foreign Language film. He boycotted the oscars over President Trumps travel ban. The first astronaut to space accepted on his behalf. And it was tweeted, proud of cast and crew of the salesman. Iranians have represented culture and civilization for millennialia. He did not mention that the iran government regularly films artists in kangaroo courts for crimes against the government. Somehow it didnt make it into the tweet. I guess that 140character limit could be a problem. Thats it for the lead. Im jake tapper. Turning it over to wolf blitzer. Happening now, call to arms on the eve of his first address to congress, President Trump calls for a big increase in defense spending. As the pentagon comes up with a plan to defeat isis in less than a year. Special prosecutor. While a key republican Law Enforcement says a special prosecutor should investigate alleged contacts between the Trump Campaign and russian operatives, the white house is pushing back. Supported by the house Intelligence Committee chairman, who warns against a witch hunt. Plugging the leaks. The white house launches an extraordinary crackdown, including checking staffers cellphones to see if theyre