Capitol hill. We start with john roberts. Jon, good morning to you. Just a few minutes ago, the president called for a noon News Conference. The thing that hes really been going on about this morning is the leaks of intelligence. The enormous megaphone he has on twitter, hes turning the narrative away from questions about what Michael Flynn might have talked to the russians about. Tweeting out this morning the democrats had to come up with a story as to why they lost the election, and so badly, 306, so they made up a story, russia. Fake news the president also going after leakers this morning saying the spotlight has finally been put on the lowlife leakers they will be caught leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a big problem in washington for years. Failing New York Times and others must apologize one of his Deputy Press Secretaries a short time ago on fox news saying theyre going to take every effort they can to try to root out these leaks. Listen here. The people a
Coverage now. I may have to extend to the liberal mag as a result of laura going there. Im ali velshi in for stephanie ruhle. The pick to replace flynn rejects the offer. Flynn says he never discussed sanctions. I said i dont think he did anything wrong. I think he did something right. Democrats one step closer to launching a 9 11 style investigation, a republican set to join that call today. Hopefully this is going to open the door and some republicans will begin to join us on that. Wild ride. Trumps epic News Conference. Fakeness. Quiet, quiet. I inherited a mess. New details this morning that the president did that press conference against the advice of his aides. This is a fine tuned machine. That extraordinary press conference still making waves this morning. We begin with new details and questions in the deepening drama over president Trumps National security adviser. Days after general Michael Flynn abruptly resigned from the post, the man considered the frontrunner is saying no
The press, and defending his first month in office, and a call back to his sparring and freewheeling campaign style. Theres no person better to speak for President Trump than President Trump. And truth and consequences. Top democrats are calling for a 9 11 style commiio to investigate the russian inteeren into the u. S. Eltion, and whether anyone from team trump was involved. At least one republican is getting on board. Will others join in . Reporter yesterday the president said in his press brief nobody knew he was in contact with russian officials. Do you believe him . I have no idea. Good day, im katy tur in for Andrea Mitchell. President trump will tour a boeing facility in South Carolina and deliver remarks. Its his first stop in whats expected to be a pretty busy weekend. The president is leaving behind though a big opening at the white house, after his first choice to replace Michael Flynn as National Security adviser took a pass on the position. This morning, mr. Trump tweeted
Terrible loss that the democrats had under Hillary Clinton. Why was he fired then if it was just the fake media . It could have been a fake firing. Maybe he really wasnt fired. Hillary could have fired him, actually. If i draw the line, hillary fired him. I thought he was strong. Strong. The fake media could never get him. Fake firing. He is blamiMichael Flynns resignation on the news media . No. He didnt to do that. A messed up way of saying good morning, everyone. Its february 16th. He was treated badly . He clearly fired him based on what the spokesperson said he couldnt trust him so therefore its the medias fault. Or he was caught in a lying . Im not sure the lying is actually considered bad. He was caught in a lie. I think being caught in a lie is bad, which is a great message to send to our children, by the way. Let alone how to run a country. Got caught in a lie, right . How be he fired them because they both got caught . They both got caught in a lie. With on the set is Mike Ba
Who is at the rally. Mariana, what does the crowd lock like there . Reporter stephanie, i just want to you look at this street where im standing now this simpson symbolizes the state of the nation in a way. On my right, people protesting donald trump, protesting this Campaign Rally he is holding here. They have been organized by a Facebook Campaign called resist donald trump, President Trump at melbourne airport. There are at least 100 people to my right. Want you to look on this side over here. To my right again, on this side, you see donald trump supporters, thousands of them, streaming in to watch President Trump address these crowds directly. There are thousands of people. The doors opened about half an hour ago. But they are still trickling in, stephanie. For this event, 9,000 tickets were made available and they all completely sould sold out. We spoke to a cop a little while ago. I mean there are dozens of thousands of people at the donald trump even. Many have come from other st