Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im ann marie green. Well, this morning President Trump faces criticism from his own party on two fronts. The president s Budget Proposal is being shot down by some fellow republicans and gop leaders agree there is no evidence to support the president s claim that his new york sky scraper was wiretapped. Later today the president meets with german chancellor Angela Merkel. Hannah danielles is here in new york with more. Hannah, good morning. Good morning, ann marie. President trump holds his first facetoface meeting with the german chancellor Angela Merkel. Topping the agenda, nato, russia and climate change. The two leaders will also hold a joint press conference where domestic issues like health care, wiretapping, and the president s first Budget Proposal could come up. We look forward to that, that will be a very good visit. Reporter President Trump will seek Common Ground request german chancellor Angela Merkel today, a key u. S. Ally he bashed on the campaign trail for her open border policies. Pamericas Angela Merkel. To be and you know what a disaster this massive immigration has been to germany and the people of germany. Reporter the visit comes as the white house continues to struggle to defend the president s wiretapping clamtz. The president had to quote wiretapping in quotes. He was referring to broad surveillance. Reporter back in 2013 allegations surfaced the Obama Administration tapped chancellor america ps phone. Just yesterday the Bipartisan SenateIntelligence Committee shot down the president s recent charge saying, we see no indications that trump tower was the subject of surveillance. House Speaker Paul Ryan came to the same conclusion. No such wiretap existed. Reporter President Trump is also facing criticism from democratic lawmakers after unveiling the blueprint for his first budget yesterday. President trump has shown that he does not value the future of our children and working families. Reporter the ambitious 1. 15 trillion plan includes big increases for defense and homeland security. But proposes deep cuts to agencies like the epa and state department. The president said specifically hundreds of times, you covered him, i am going to spend less money on people overseas and more money on people back home and thats exactly what were doing with this budget. Reporter the complete budget is expected to be unveiled in may. And the white house also confirmed thus the Trump Administration will appeal the rulings of two federal judges that temporarily blocked the revised version of his travel ban. Ann marie . Hannah daniels here in new york, thank you so much, hannah. Ahead on cbs this morning well talk to dan senor about the president s budget. This morning secretary of state Rex Tillerson visited the heavily armed border that divides north and south korea. Tillerson toured the Demilitarized Zone created after the korean war ended in 1953. Last week north korea launched four missiles earlier in tokyo. Tillerson promised a tougher strategy to confront the norths nuclear threat, saying 20 years of diplomatic and other efforts have failed. And we have learned more about former National Security advisor Michael Flynns ties to russia. Flynn was paid tens of thousands of dollars by russias governmentrun television system. Jeff begay has our report. Yes, thats right, lock her up. Reporter just two months before retired Lieutenant GeneralMichael Flynn began advising the trump campaign, he traveled to moscow to attend a gala where he was seated right next to russian president vladimir putin. The top democrat on the House Oversight committee, Elijah Cummings released checks, emails and invoices that showed flynn was paid almost 34,000 to attend the event by r. T. , a Media Company the cia has said engaged in a kremlindirected campaign to undermine faith in the u. S. Government. It begs the question, why would President Trump allow him to be in his inner circle receiving top secrets of our government. Reporter in a statement, a Spokesman Says flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence agency, notified and briefed the dia before his trip to russia and again upon his return. And that just wasnt acceptable to me. Reporter President Trump fired flynn after just 24 days as National Security advisor when it was revealed flynn lied to vicepresident pence about conversations he had had with the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. And its not just his connections to russia that have raised questions. Just last week flynn retroactively registered with the Justice Department as an agent of a foreign government. He had a 600,000 lobbying contract with a company with ties to the turkish government. In addition, flynn received over 11,000 from a russian Cargo Airline and he was also paid 11,000 from kaspersky labs, a well known Cyber Security company with ties to russian officials. Jeff begay, cbs news, washington. House Republican Leaders and the white house are scrambling to gather support for the Gop Health Care bill. Resistance is growing and there does not appear to be enough votes to pass the measure. The House Budget Committee voted to advance the bill yesterday without the support of three gop conservatives. Some say the measure is doomed. There are not the votes to modify this current bill to make it acceptable to conservatives and moderates alike. The president of the United States is the one who is bringing people together sitting around a table, hashing out our differences so that we can get to a consensus document. Conservatives want deeper cuts to medicaid, moderates want the opposite. And early this morning a house exploded in rockville, maryland. The singlefamily home was destroyed and nearby homes were damaged. It is unclear what happened to the occupants or what caused the explosion. Here in new york city, an emergency medical technician was killed when she was run over by a stolen ambulance. Two emts were responding to a call when they were told a man was riding on the back bumper. They got out of the ambulance and he got into the drivers seat. He put the ambulance into reverse and ran over the driver and injured her partner. That was kind of the most, like, sad part for me because her partner was there just balling, you know, having a fit crying a lot. 44yearold Yadira Arroyo had five children. An off duty officer and several civilians captured the suspect who stole the ambulance. A 5 alarm fire destroyed an Apartment Building under construction in raleigh, north carolina. Flames lit up the night sky in downtown raleigh. The fire spread to other buildings, but no injuries are reported. And theres no indication anyone was inside the building. A construction crane fell over and power was knocked out in the area. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Overseas now, an airstrike on a mosque in northwest syria killed at least 42 people. Thats according to a british human rights group. The mosque is located in one of the main rebelheld areas of syria. The unidentified jets attacked the mosque when it was full of worshippers for evening prayer. According to the syrian observatory for human rights, both u. S. And russia have carried out air strikes in the area. 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