Talent agencies diverted its money to a different kind of hollywood gathering. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye owner, your world in 90 seconds. We are fighting the fake news, its phony, its fake. They are the enemy of the people. President trump escalates his attack on the media. Its not just counterpunching, this is not just letting off steam. The president here who is telling big lies. It is impossibly boring. Hes playing the same record so many times. Iraqi forces push into mosul. Isis fighters have unleashed a new weapon from an armed drone. Flooding in peru sent a bus into a raging river forcing passengers to escape through the windows. Heavy snow falling in the midwest friday. Some areas getting up to 2 feet of white. We broke 68 record high temperatures on friday and theres more heat to come. A familiar face made a surprise appearance on fifth avenue. People got a little excited. A man dragged by a car in victorville. The driver had stolen that mans puppy. He reportedly was trying to drag the pitbull out of the car when the driver took off. A centuryold power plant in cleveland is demolished, brought down with 200 pounds of explosives. A wild chairthrowing brawl breaks out at a new york eatery. All that this is baby zaozu from china. And all that matters. That is straight out of the movies. Look at that. Up and over. Huge crash at the end on the final lap. On cbs this morning saturday. The oscars are taking place in hollywood on sunday. A recent poll showed 60 of americans cant name one best picture nominee. So oscarssowhite has become oscarssowhat. Welcome to the weekend, everyone. Im Anthony Mason along with alex wagner. We have a great lineup for you this morning, including the oscar weekend. A conversation with the man behind the film tied for the most nominations ever. La la land director Damien Chazelle is known for being a hollywood obsessive, so we got him to break down his favorite moments if film history. And its the 75th anniversary of casablanca. Well look at the groundbreaking aspects of the production, including a cast made up entirely of almost immigrants. And find out the back story behind some of the movies most famous lines. And we begin with this mornings top stories, President Trump fires a new broadside attack on the news media. Mr. Trump used his address at the annual conservative Political Action congress in maryland friday to intensify his attacks on certain journalists. Specifically for their use of anonymous sources. Hours earlier members of his own staff insisted on briefing reporters only on the condition that their names are not made public. Mr. Trump also lashed out at what he described as fake news, but he did not expand on which organizations he was referring to. The president followed up the attack with a latenight tweet reading, Fake News Media knowingly doesnt tell the truth. A great danger to our country. Errol barnett is in our Washington Bureau with the latest. Errol, good morning. Reporter good morning, yes, President Trump basked in his success at cpac friday ascending to the pinnacle of gop influence after being shunned by the establishment for years. But before he detailed his agenda, he took aim at the press and those in the Intelligence Community leaking classified information to reporters. Ive been with cpac for a long time, all of these years we have been together, and now you finally have a president , finally. Addressing an adoring conference on friday, President Trump redle in returning as a victor to a group that favored other president ial candidates last year. I love this place. Love you people. Reporter but he began his 50minute speech by angrily criticizing the mainstream media. A few days ago i called the fake news the enemy of the people. And they are. They are the enemy of the people. Reporter the president is frustrated by a cnn story claiming the fbi rejected a request by his administration to publicly denounce a New York Times report that the agency is investigating possible coordination between the Trump Campaign and russia during the election. I find this, a lot of this offensive. When you talk about us pushing back on something that doesnt exist. Reporter cnn and other news outlets were denied access to an offcamera briefing on friday. Their white house Spokesman Sean Spicer clarified that chief of staff Reince Priebus stoke to the fbi director Andrew Mccabe and was told the New York Times story is inaccurate. Priebus requested that be said publicly but mccabe declined. What were we supposed to do when presented by information by them . Sit back and do nothing . Reporter the fbi is not commenting, but any communication by the white house to the bureau regarding ongoing investigations would be a violation of the Justice Department procedures. I saw one story recently where they said nine people have confirmed, there are no nine people. Reporter mr. Trump complained on twitter early friday that the fbi is totally unable to stop the National Security leakers, adding it, quote, could have a devastating effect on u. S. , fine, now. They shouldnt be allowed to use sources unless they use somebodys name. Let their name be put out there. Reporter now, despite complaining about fake news, it was President Trump himself who repeated inaccuracies during his cpac address. For example, he complained obamacare covers very few people, even though it extended health care to 22 million additional americans. And he said u. S. Borders are, quote, wide open, anyone can come in, despite the fact that more than 400,000 people are apprehended along the sovereign border, southern border, from 2016 alone. Errol, thank you. The department of Homeland Security is channeling claims made by the white house about citizens from the seven countries affected by the Trump Administrations travel ban. The report concludes citizenship from the countries is unlikely to be a factor in whether a person poses a Terror Threat to the u. S. It also finds that of the 82 people determined to be inspired by a foreign terror group, only 8 were citizens of those countries while more than half were born in the u. S. A Homeland Security spokeswoman says the report is not complete. For more on whats happening in politics, were joined by aaron zitner, National Politics editor for the wall street journal. Aaron, good morning. Good morning. So much to talk about here. Well start first with the relationship between the Trump White House and the Intelligence Community. On one hand, the president has a very combative relationship with the Intelligence Community. On the other hand, were learning this week that the chief of staff Reince Priebus made outreach to the fbi trying to get the agency to rebut certain reports about connections between the Trump Administration and russia. That extended to other intelligence officials reporting to the Washington Post. What is the calculation here . Well, this is really pretty problematic. There are leaks on all kinds of and whats been hanging out there is how official washington will investigate this. The fbi is investigating and congress is investigating. But if the white house tries to clean up leaks, as it seems to be, by asking the fbi and the very lawmakers in congress who are running these investigations to rebut the allegations and talk to the media, that will create pressure for independent prosecutor and what Mitch Mcconnell in the senate has been holding off on, a special committee, perhaps a House Senate Committee to investigate the claims more in the open. Thats the danger here for the white house. What is how much pressure is there at this point for an independent prosecutor . Well, its very heavy coming from democrats. And is there any appetite for it on the republican side . Youre starting to see a little bit. Not enough to be meaningful. And the guy to watch is Mitch Mcconnell, to see whether hell approve it, but the other day darrell issa, wellknown republican, hes in a swing district. Went on tv and said, not only that, he seemed to be saying the special prosecutor law should be invoked, but he said that jeff sessions, the attorney general, should reuse himself from participating in the investigation because he was part of the Trump Campaign. All right, aaron, speaking of adversarial relationships, yesterday certain news Media Outlets including cnn, the l. A. Times and politico were shut out of the White House Briefing known as a gaggle. Again, what is this with the Trump Administration having a combative relationship with the news media . This is problematic. Well see if its a onetime thing or whether its a sign that the white house is trying to shut out news organizations whose reporting it doesnt like. Thats the fear here. Theres a lot of atmospherics working here. Trump did this in the campaign when he tried to influence the moderators in the debates, who was going to be on the stage, i think the moment to look for now is tuesday night. Thats when he addresses a joint session of congress. Its a quasi state of the union address. Thats where the rubber meets the road in washington. All the stuff were talking about with the press and leaks, the real game is two things that the Republican Party wants. They want a tax bill. And they want to deal with obamacare, repeal and replace. Thats what is holding the Party Together right now. A lot of people in the party dont agree with trumps attacks on the media. They dont agree with him on trade. They dont agree with him on immigration, but they are Holding Together because mostly they want the tax bill. And congress is stuck on those two issues. They dont have a path forward. Tuesday night he goes to congress, lets see what he says. Is it trump in Campaign Mode . Or is it trump in governing mode, laying out a plan for how to move forward on the things the party in washington cares about. All right, aaron zitner, thank you for coming in this morning. Thank you for having me. Tomorrow morning on face the nation here on cnbc, john dickersons guest will include former cia director john brennan. And on tuesday, cbs news will bring you President Trumps first address to a joint session of congress. Live coverage begins at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Lots to see there. After suffering huge election losses last november, democrats will vote today in atlanta on a new National Party chair. Well be tasked rebuilding the struggling party. The candidates include minnesota congressman keith ellison, former labor secretary tom perez and peter buttigieg, the mayor of south bend, indiana. The candidates promise an aggressive counter to the Trump Administration. The saturated west is seeing a cold front expected to bring more rain this weekend. Heavy rain and lightning moved through western michigan overnight unleashing peasized hail. Around omaha, nebraska, snow and heavy winds made travel treacherous as cars skidded off highways. And beachfriendly 70degree temperatures in parts of the east are about to plunge. Lets bring in meteorologist ed curran of our chicago station wbbm tv. Ed, tell us the good news or the bad news. Or both. Unfortunately for the east coast, its the bad news as temperatures will plunge after that 70degrees you saw yesterday in new york. This is the system moving off to the northeast that brought all that snow yesterday to areas. Up to two feet of snow continues to move to the east. Futurecast shows you this afternoon we have some pretty heavy storms that set up from this. And we could see some Severe Weather as this cold front continues to push through. So this afternoon, this evening, what were looking at is a slight chance for severe storms in the area thats yellow here. And a marginal chance, a lower chance in the green. The yellow area could see damaging wind, large hail and perhaps an isolated tornado that cant be ruled out. 70 yesterday in new york. 58 today. D. C. Will see 70 degrees today. But tomorrow, they will only see 48. And new york, you will only see 46 tomorrow. Alex . Back to february motivated. Dean reynolds has our report. Two down, one shot in the chest. I have a third with a wound to the hip. Reporter telling Kansas Police wednesday night, a man yelled, get out of my country at two customers before opening fire and fleeing the scene. It looks like a white male with a scarf on his neck and medals on his chest. Reporter five hours later and 70 miles away in missouri, Police Arrested a suspect, 51yearold adam purinton. Purnton disclosed to a bartender he shot two middle eastern men. But they werent middle eastern. They were indian hindus here on work visas for jobs on hightech. The 30yearold was killed and the 32yearold was wounded. A third man of grand view, missouri, was also shot after he tried to intervene. I was just doing what anyone should have done for another human being. Its not its not about where hes from or his ethnicity, were all humans. Reporter the one man will be buried in india where his family directed their anger at donald trump. But sean spicer said any attempt to connect the president s rhetoric on immigrants to the tragedy in kansas would be absurd. For cbs this morning saturday, dean reynolds, olathe, kansas. Seven people have been arrested in connection with a deadly fire that engulfed a Highrise Hotel in eastern china. At least ten people were killed and more than a dozen others injured. About 300 guests fled to safety. Firefighters are searching for people believed to be trapped in the buildings upper floors. And there are new developments this morning in the bizarre story of the murder of kim jongnam in malaysia. He was, of course, the halfbrother of north korean dictator kim jong u. N. The woman was paid 90 to use the nerve agent vx. She was duped into thinking it was a prank. In syria this morning, at least 32 people were reported killed at Government Security offices in the west city of homs. Al qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, some carried out by suicide bombers. The violence comes as u. S. Advisers turned their attention to isis strongholds in syria. David martin is several camps run by u. S. Special forces to train syrian fighters. Part of a force of about 15,000 being assembled to assault raqqah. Many of them are raw recruits who volunteered to fight after their villages were liberated from isis. Others like nazi hassan are prisoners from kobani, the first city liberated from isis with the help of air strikes. Shot ten times and left for dead, she is known as the undead martyr of kobani. After 20 days of training, these recruits will leave with an ak47 rifle and a belt of ammunition and head for the front. General joseph votel says the fighters need to be supplied with more powerful weapons before they can retake raqqah, which has been heavily fortified by isis. We obviously want the people that are fighting here to have, or fighting against isis, to have the equipment they need to be successful. Reporter the weapons would be flown into the dirt airstrip built by a syrian engineer who lost his family to isis. We landed in an ospry aircraft, but soon it will be able to handle planes from the u. S. What is at stake is heading off terrorist attacks already in the works. There are threat streams, there are external operations emanating from raqqah right now. Most of them point quite honestly at europe. Reporter if the pentagons plan to accelerate the campaign against isis is approved by President Trump, this base is likely to get bigger and busier. Anthony . David martin, thanks, david. Time to show you some of this mornings headlines. The courier journal of louisville, kentucky, says the son of the late boxer mohommad ali was detained at a florida airport after arriving from jamaica this month. A family friend says mohommad ali jr. Was pulled aside because of his arabicsounding name. He was questioned for at least two hours and was asked if, quote, he was muslim. Officials with immigrations and Customs Enforcement are not commenting. And the wall street journal says jcpenney is slimming down. The retailers says it will close 140 stores and offer buyouts to at least 6,000 employees by june. The costcutting moves come as customer shopping trends shift away from Traditional Department stores. Sears and macys are also closing stores. And the Dallas Morning News says a High School Wrestlers success is being question in a dallas area tournament because he is transgender. Mack beggs is taking testosterone to transition to becoming a male. This is a banned substance in the league. He would like to be wrestling boys but is competing in girls tournaments who says eligibility is determined by the gender listed on a persons birth certificate. Thousands of trumpbranded products have been droppe