But can it stop the flow of drugs coming in from mexico. I went to the busiest border in the world to find out. And diversity in hollywood. Look at the hopefuls ahead of tonights oscars right here in the city of angels. To voice your opinions on our pulse questions today, grab your laptop. Grab your phone. Log on to pulse. You can vote as often as you like throughout todays show. The issue of russia will not go away. The kremlins influence on the u. S. Election and whether anyone on president Trumps Campaign had contact with russian officials continues to take center stage. The former chair said friday a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate these matters. But today on meet the press. Senator tom cotton had this to s say. Well, i think thats way, way getting ahead of ourselves here, chuck. There is no allegations of any crime occurring. There is not even an indication that there is criminal n investigations underway by the fbi. If we get down that road, thats a decision
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Outlets have been breaking new ground about the connections to russia. One of the Washington Post stories calls Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from russiarelated investigations. Trump was reportedly ticked off about this. He didnt think sessions needed to recuse himself. So what happened this weekend . Trump tried to change the story. In fact, he and his allies have created a brand new story line. Castings a purgss on president obama. They havent given any proof, but they have given Trump Supporters a talking point. That trumps problems are obamas fault. They are working overtime to promote this dmartive. Lets take a look at whats going on here and how it start ed. This morning just in time for the sunday morning shows, sean spicer said, quote, reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling. By reports, does he mean trumps own tweets . Because saturday morning trump went on a reckless tweet storm making all
Director that he wasnt under investigation. And these tweets threaten to further erode the relationship between President Trump and the fbi. President trump coming out on the attack and threatening the former fbi director james comey saying he better hope there are no tapes of our conversation before he starts leaking to the press. The differences in those conversations in that dinner meeting they had earlier this year. But of course we know that the fbi director was really well respected at the fbi. I heard it from a few of the fbi agents i spoke with and we heard it from the acting director when he testified yesterday. He said that director james comey was very well respected, very well received and despite the white house saying morale at the fbi is low, we know in fact morale at the fbi was high. Many people respected james comey. So it is unclear at this point why the president is coming out on the attack, especially in light of the fact he was considering the president visiting f
Associates that the president was, quote, outside the realm of normal, even rgs quo, quote cra. The Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein threatened to quit after he was made the fall guy by the white house. Everyone and their mother this morning reporting that director comey had asked for more resources for the russia investigation before he was fired. The department of justice is denying those claims and cnns best reporters picking up word that the president was, quote, white hot, livid or the continued russia probe and comeys public testimony. That is the backdrop for what you will see here live. So much to cover. Lets begin on capitol hill with our manu raju. What are you hearing . Time the Senate Intelligence t committee will be meeting since the stunning firing of james comey. Of course, the members on the committee, including the republican chairman expressing serious concern about the timing and reasoning for james comeys firing that he had been cooperative with this committee