Ludicrous. They say they launched a report after President Trump fired director, james comey. Bill another report saying the president concealed details from Senior Administration officials. Sandra trump has been firing off tweets all weekend and all morning with response. On the congressional side, lawmakers are reacting. I would like to know who leaked it, because they have an agenda not very friendly to President Trump. I dont trust what i read in the New York Times. Na was a concerning, eve en alarming report. It suggests the Mueller Investigation needs to continue. Sandra doug has the latest from the white house. Good morning. The president has been picking his travels very carefully as the Government Shutdown enters its 24th straight day, the longest on the record. Visits to troopers, a good thing, visits to puerto rico, not such a good thing. The president has tried to encourage their spirits. He tweeted at 7 20 this morning, getting ready to address the Farm Convention today in nashville, tennessee, love our farmers, love tennessee, a great combination. See you in a little while. The trouble is that meeting with the farmers is in new orleans. The president instantaneously deleted that tweet. The he said the onus is on democrats to end the shutdown. Nancy and crying shuck can end the shutdown in 15 minutes. It has become their and the democrats fault. I have been waiting all weekend. Democrats must get to work now. Border must be secured. That, while 30 or more democrats and their families have been meeting in puerto rico on hurricane Recovery Efforts and taking in a performance of the broadway show, hamilton and soaking up some sun. Not the kind of image you want to see in the midst of a Government Shutdown in a very cold and snowy washington, d. C. Sandra doug, the administration is pushing back hard against this latest Washington Post report that President Trump tried to hide his conversations with Vladmir Putin. Reporter that report coming down the pike after friday nights report by the New York Times that the fbi opened a Counter Intelligence investigation of the president of the United States, basically, looking into whether or not he was a russian spy in the aftermath of firing of james comey. Now, the Washington Post is reporting that mr. Trump took a translators notes of his conversation with putin at the 2017 gsummit in germany. It has further entrenched both sides in the broader debate over u elections and beyond. The white house and republicans defending him against what they believe is the fbis rogue leadership. The president said it is the most insulting thing he has ever been asked, thats ever been said about him, which is saying a great deal given everything thats been said and done about him. The other thing is, i have a slightly different view. It confirms what the president has said about some of the rogue actors at the tippytop of the fbi, who are no longer there because they were fired and worse. Some of them were deemed to be leaking and lying, sexting each other. Reporter democrats increasingly convinced that President Trump is acting in concert with president putin. Why is he so chummy with Vladmir Putin, a man who is a former kgb agent, never been a friend of the United States, invaded or our allies and threatens us around the world and tries to undermine our election. Why is this President Trumps best buddy. When he takes the interpreters notes and wants to destroy them so no one can see what was said and written transcript, it raises serious questions about the relationship. Reporter the new house of the intelligence committee, adam schiff, vowing to subpoena the translators notes in advance of the g17 meeting in 2017. Bill lets get some analysis. Byron has been watching it all new york. Lets get some information on the russian report. Judge jeanine asked the president about it on saturday night. Here is how part of that went. I am going to ask you. Are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. President . I think it is the most insulting thing i have ever been asked. I think it is the most insulting article i have ever had written. If you read the article, you would see they found absolutely nothing. Bill what democrats are saying is that he did not say no to the question. You can interpret his response as forcefully as it was. Byron, what is your read on that . Well, i would not be surprised if he does say no at some point in the future. It would have been a very simple answer to say, no. The important thing about this New York Times article is that it does say that no evidence has publicly emerged to show that President Trump was in touch with russian officials secretly or was somehow being directed by them or anything like that. Bill i have the quite right here. No evidence was emerged that President Trump was secretly in contact or took direction from russian officials. Keep going. The republican question is, whats this all about . A number of republicans believe that trump was essentially under investigation by the fbi long before may of 2017 when this report says the fbi was so disturbed by these reports that they opened up an investigation. Basically, the whole trump russia investigation that had existed for more than a year or a year at that point was directed toward President Trump. So a lot of republicans are trying to figure out why this report came out, exactly whats going on behind it. You saw Lindsey Graham who is now the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee where republicans still had the majority wanting answers on this. You have Elijah Cummings in 60 minutes. Here is a little clip about what you can expect very soon. We can look at anything. The fact that we can look at anything is part of the problem. There is so much. The congress doesnt meet but so many days in a year. All im saying is that we have to hit the ground not running but flying. Bill that tells you a lot, doesnt . Well, it does. What congressman cummings said, there is a big problem. The big question for democrats now is the oversight committees normally oversee anything in the United States government. If there is corruption in this program, money wasted in this program, they should investigate that. So should they actually investigate the actual problems in the United States government or should they focus entirely on President Trump. I will say in this coming congress, the holy grail for democratic investigators will be to try to get the president s tax returns. The law does allow the house ways and Means Committee or the joint committee on taxation to get an individuals tax returns. Well see a lot of fighting on that. For democrats, a lot of democrats believe that could be the key to everything they want to investigate. Bill come back to these stories from the times and the post over the weekend. How much do you think that is related to the hearings that begin tomorrow with bill barr, the new a. G. . What we have seen in the past, a big blockbuster news report provides material for questions that senators ask the nominee. So i would not be surprised if you see a lot of questions to bill barr about this. Most of the questions from democrats are going to be some version of, you are not going to disturb the Mueller Investigation, are you . So far, nobody has. The Mueller Investigation is apparent apparently matching towards its conclusion. To our knowledge, it has not been impeded in any way by the trump appointes that run the Justice Department or any other agency. Bill you write a piece and say in the border fight, democrats want a wall that wont keep anybody out. You mean, you can give the drones and all the surveillance but thats not going to stop a caravan. Whats your point, byron . A number of democrats say a real wall would be immoral but a technological or a smart wall, james clyburns words, would be a better idea. It would use cameras, drones, infrared sensors and other technology to detect people crossing the border illegally without putting up an actual physical barrier to stop them. Thats never worked in the past. It is even less relevant now because the nature of the flow of Illegal Immigrants across the border has changed. In the past, it was single adult men that could be apprehended and quickly returned. Now, it is more families and uncompanied children, who by u. S. Law cannot be returned. They are not trying to enter undetected. They want to be caught and then begin the asylum process that can keep them in the United States even if their asylum claim is not valid. Byron, interesting point, thank you. The wall predeuced crime in san diego, tucson and el paso. Bigtime. Bill byron, thank you so much. Alan dershowitz is coming up later this hour about the report and when it means. Peter king, the next hour, is our headliner and former White House Press secretary, sean spicer, has his take on the day of the news. Thats a packed show. Sandra we cant just say a busy monday morning. Every monday morning. We have a fox news alert. President trump is warning turkey not to attack Kurdish Forces in syria once american troops leave. The president tweeted, starting the long overdue pullout while hitting the little remaining isis territorial caliphate hard from many directions. We will attack again if it reforms. We will devastate turkey economically if they hid kurds. Create 20mile safe zone. This comes as secretary of state, mike pompeo, meets with the crown prince in saudi arabia. We have more from the capitol with more. Secretary pompeo elaborated on the president s tweet . Reporter he did this morning, sandra, shortly after his meeting with the saudi crown prince. The secretary says that the president is simply explaining his administrations goals in syria. We want to make sure that the folks that fought with us to take down the caliphate and isis have security. Also, that terrorists acting out of syria arent able to attack turkey. Reporter here in read, secretary pompeo acknowledged that the u. S. And allies have to work out the precise methodology of how they will accomplish that. He says the administration is looking to create buffer zones to protect forces that fought with the u. S. Turkey considers serial Kurdish Forces to be terrorists. The United States considering them reliable partners in the fight against isis. Turkeys foreign minister is commenting on the President Trumps tweets. He says they are never afraid of threats and threatening turkey economically will get you nowhere. Bill about 12 past the hour. This deadly snowstorm continues hitting many. Now, the east coast slammed by the winter fury. Seven are dead in multiple states. Well tell you about what the storm is coming up today. Sandra president obama calling for new blood in the Democratic Party. That undercutting his friend, joe biden, as the democratic field gets bigger and bigger. Bill meanwhile, the suspect in the jayme closs kidnapping is in court. How the community is pulling together to help the 13yearold recover. It is a strong community. You have seen how people have come together the last few months. There is going to be a whole lot of healing that needs to go on in this community from every perspective. 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In the meantime, here is what you are getting, kelsey gaper, congressman john delaney, elizabeth warren, senators Kamala Harris and Kristin Gillibrand and Bernie Sanders and joe biden. Former chief of staff under president h. W. Bush, how are you doing, sir . Are you running, by the way . Im switching parties to run as a dem. Bill they would love to have you. The thing we heard from president obama was new blood. How do you interpret that comment . Look, if i were joe biden, i would tell obama to button his lip and butt out of the process. The president has no business interjecting into every little thing thats happening nowadays. If obama was referring to the quantitatively illiterate millennials who dont know the difference between 1 billion, 1 million, or 1 trillion like Ocasio Cortez or the anticatholics, like ka mel lahair ris, the republicans have thrilled to have him stick his nose where it ought not to be. Bill run, joe, run. I assume he is running . Biden is running, i think the democrats are going to be surprised at the energy he brings to the game. This is going to be a wild and wideopen process. I think bidens experience and long political list of ious will serve him well. I think he is being underestimated by a lot of people. Bill interesting. There is a piece by cnn that talks about why in is happening, because they believe donald trump is beatable. Whats trumps path to reelection . It is paved by the goals and the chaos of the Democratic Party and what will be the irresponsibility of the democratically controlled house. I think you will see over time they will begin to change their minds. Bill what if he doesnt get the wall . Is that the same as no new taxes, read my lip from the early 90s . In an odd way, as long as he makes the fight, if he doesnt get the wall, i think it strengthens his reelection. Bill how so . His base will still want that wall. He brought them out with that message. He will bring them out this time and say, give me a Republican House and senate and well do it. Bill meaning he has an election issue to run on. Go back to the pictures of all the faces on the screen. I know how the rnc was pulling their hair out in 2016 with 17 republicans trying to get the nomination. What does the dnc do with this . They rent Yankee Stadium for debates. Bill how do they handle it . I dont know, i dont know. It is so chaotic. What are they going to do . Draw groups of ten for debates. Lets see how they handle it. It really is 37 to 40 candidates, there is no constructive way to handle it. I am here for as many as 20 debates. Governor, thank you. You can choose to watch as much as you want. Thank you, gov. Sandra we are still awaiting President Trumps departure at the white house. It could be happening at any moment no