In the lead up to the election. Would president obama have the power to warrant surveillance of a private citizen . Absolutely not. After watergate, after nixon, Congress Passed a law that said whenever the executive branch wants to engage in wiretapping or surveillance of people inside the United States, they have to go to a federal judge and get a specific warrant. And, willie, i have looked at these warrant applications from my time inside the intelligence community. They are voluminous filings that are done by career lawyers and presented to a federal judge and those federal judges are hard graders and they turn the Justice Department around all the time and say, go back and do more homework. Bring me more evidence. Were throwing around the term fisa court, fisa warrant. As you suggested a response to domestic spying. What is a fisa court and how does it work . Its made up of judges from the federal courts who are appointed to serve on this special sppanel and they work wh the Justice Department and the ats a term youre going to likn to t fbi legally meaning enough tow. So, conversations or t o for exampl talking tos i inadvertent collection. Thats different than what the of meet the es trumps speech came in of the joint session of congress, they were glowing. Lets be honest. A lot of us said, lets pump the brakes and see what he does the next few days. Woke up saturday morning and found out what he does. Yep. This is exactly, the russia story in this situation is consuming his presidency early on. Thats pretty clear at this point. They, this white house is not yet ready to embrace the need to figure out a way to better compartmentalize it. He wants to deny, deny,ctio. Its clear what the s dacommiss many republica it more ldends an immeeecause it either way, it de sent out in a very its us, t run it has to be run down. The government has to. So many of these folks on capitol hill because if were ever going to restore trust, weve got to run down these allegations. Yeah. Chuck, lets talk about the president s state of mind on saturday morning when he woke up and made these tweets. Reporting from bob costa at the Washington Post today that suggests donald trump was furious that attorney general sessions came out and recused himself. Didnt think he should have done it. In fact, thought it was a sign of weakness. Look, that is donald trump going all the way back to when he first began his businesses and his empire in new york. Remember, his mentor in many ways was roy cohn an infamous attorney and roy cohn was always one that suggest deny, deny, deny, punch back. Dont ever give an inch and donald trump has lived his business life, his public life and his political life that way and im not surprised that he is furious. I think he thinks now by sessions doing what he did that it opens the door for more problems. And i think thats the way the president sees this and i think thats why he exploded at his staff. He may have opened the door further with his tweets this weekend. Chuck will dig deeper into the russian connection on meet the press and hell be joined by marco rubio. Were talking to former president george w. Bush a bit later this morning about his new book portrait of courage and the trump administration. Id ask president bush what he would say if trump would call asking for advise. I know you dont want to criticize president trump, but if he picked up the phone and called you, what advise would you give him . Id say same advice i gave before. Its a really hard job and i wish you all the best. It depends on what he asked. Of course i would answer his phone call. I want him to succeed. One piece of advice would be you picked some really good people and empower them. Make sure that theyre able to give you their unfedered advice. Tillerson, mattis, mcmaster, these are all people i know and admire aresint bush including his take on immigration tdemanding an apoloo they published mrs. Pe stands byy without bail on terrorism saturday. He faces cha ohe middle east and told police aune the crew flew a plane over t rh a few nfluniversity of at the combine. Nobutes when he broke i would say. Helps. Notice how much everyone is bundled up towards new york city especially in the northeast. Theres a reason for this. That record. Today is the coldest day of the entire season this morning right now 14 degrees. Just take a look at this, boston 15 degrees this morning. The wind chill now at zero. Just an hour or so ago below zero with that wind chill. Wind chill coming in at 3 in philadelphia. Oh, yeah, feels like 5 degrees right now. Heres what were looking for even as we go in towards the afternoon. Just 30s. Keep in mind, this is below average for this time of year, even for us. I think we know by now, been a strange season. Not going to be lasting long already expecting 60 abovs. E good morning. Im meteorologist krystal klei. Forecast highs for today, another cold one, 38 in center city and 39 for somerton. Upper 30s in the pennsylvania suburbs. We are sunny to mostly sunny across the board. Allentown 37, kutztown 38. Well get to 40 in a few spots like trenton, upper 30s in la n the little boys running for tak on the early tak on the early da biggest cmon, caesar. Lets go. How much money matt saved by slyylenol® rapid releas tylenol® because only he brings de clucking noises entrance on your first day on a new job. Confirmed on wednesday as secretary of the interior overseeing americas public land and national parks. On thursday morning secretary zinke commuted to work through the streets of washington on horseback. The new secretary was escorted by mountain United States park police were the ones that offered to help zinke into the office on his first day. How cool is that . If youre a navy s. E. A. L. Commander for 25 years, you get to work however you want to. Takes his job very seriously. Well done. Our next low goes to the feeling when you meet the robot that will soon be your over. Designed by the google team company, his 66 handle put on a terrifying show of skill and power. Displaying agility and speed and picking up and carrying a 100pound crate and showing off a vertical leap of 48 inches, which, by the way, the same of Michael Jordans back in the day and eventually heading outside where he descended stairs and a snowy hill before it rolled through the parking lot presumably stealing up a car and meeting up with the other robots. Should we just surrender now . Completely terrifying. Cool and then creepy. Its like this. Lets put that one away for a while. The next high from the pennsylvania preschool wrestling circuit. A 4yearold boy named isaiah going up against a 5yearold girl and he wanted no part of her. The gladiator shaked hands but as soon as the referee blew the whistle isaiah takes off running in circles away from his opposing opponent. She even pauses here for a second to look over at the grown ups with a, what am i supposed to do here . After one more chase isaiah ran out of gas and the little girl pinned him and got her hardearned victory. Its the first match of his life. Hes like how does this work . I so hope they know each other when theyre older so she can use that as ammo. Our next low is the speed of one recent 60meter dash that well loosely call a sprint but enthuse astically call awesome. Rogers racing down the track against a young whippersnapper, 92yearold dixon hemphill. It happened at the usa track and field masters championship. But in the end, its the 99yearold rogers with a burst of speed winning the race in a photo finish. The margin of victory, 0. 05. If only he had leaned at the finish line, he thinks he would have won. We need to rematch that its a tight race. T at 99, we reddy. Jax if theyht, i dont kno s t no harm totally worth it just ar g next, our sunday stic tribute to the veterans who fought in iraq and afghanistan. And any second thoughts they gave him about decisions he made as commander in chief. Then harry smith on a sports columnist so legendary the statue outside the arena is of him. You can head over im rosemary connors. Its just before 8 30 on this sunday. Its a sll the least. Meteorologist krystal klei is tracking those frigid temperatures. Single digits across the board. Theres been a little improvement. Were now at six in allentown and redding. Only three in trenton and five degrees the current feelslike temperature in philadelphia. These temperatures are so cold because weve got, a, cold air in place, but b, still breezy conditions outside. No rain to track. We will stay dry and sun think today. Temperatures will start to climb into the 20s and 30s by your afternoon. Today investigators will return to the scene of a house fire in philadelphia where crews rescued a 7yearold girl. The child is in critical but stable condition this morning. Firefighters rescued the girl while battling flames in cold, windy weather. She was tracked on the second floor of the home. The childs parents suffered less serious injuries. Medics at the scene also treated the girls grandmother who was evacuated from next door. You are looking at dozens of nurses at Delaware CountyMemorial Hospital in drexel hill. They the hospital says its fully staffed to handle all patients. Im rosemary connors. Krystal and i will be back here krystal and i will be back here at 9 00. H your family. But enjoying today doesnt losi. So while i invest in the now my mortgage, vacations i still invest in the future, like my childrens College Tuition and retirement. I can help you piece together your Financial Journey for today and tomorrow. If you have a question about investing, ask me. Sincerely, amanda etheridge, fellow planner and fellow citizen. Im gonna take mucinex sinusmax. Enough pressure in here for ya . Too late, were about to take off. These dissolve fast. Theyre liquid gels. And youre coming with me. You realize i have gold status . Mucinex sinusmax liquid gels. Dissolves fast to unleash max strength medicine. Lets end this. I wish i could go back to the white house and see mr. Trump. Democrats want me to resign. I just got to prove to everybody that i dont have any ties to the russians whatsoever. This meeting never happened. I wasnt going to remember it anyway. Saturday night live back after a couple weeks off with Kate Mckinnon playing Jeff Sessions and Octavia Spencer hosting. Its been 15 1 2 years since the terrorist attacks of september 11th that defined the presidency of george w. Bush. The United States response to that day has claimed the lives of thousands of american servicemen and iraq and afghanistan and left many more permanently injured in conflicts that continue today. In the eight years since he left office, president bush has committed himself to helping the veterans of those wars. The 43rd president also picked up a pretty good painting habit in his postpresidency. In a new book called portrait of courage he tells his stories. I traveled with him where he was visiting wounded warriors. Where did the painting come from . I was bored. I was pretty busy. I was working on the bush center at the programs we have there. I was exercising a lot, but it wasnt enough. And, so, by chance someone suggested i read Winston Churchills essay painting is a pastime. That old boy can paint, i can paint. I started painting. Hired an instructor. Painted a cube and then a waterdwate watermelon and then painted World Leaders because a good artist said you should try that which really boosted my confidence and then somebody who knew i painted a world leader suggested i paint the faces that nobody knows. So, i decided that this would be a wonderful opportunity to honor those who served and to call attention to programs that work. Portraits of courage is a collection of 66 paintings all by president bush. Each one a tribute to a veteran of the wars he launched after 9 11. So, lets go through some of these paintings, if we could, mr. President. Scott lily. This one is extraordinary because its not just Staff Sergeant lily. I got to know lily as parents first. They were at the white house when i landed on marine one and i took to them immediately and they told me their son was in the hospital. Went over to visit him and he was in a coma and he came to the white house a couple of times. Was gradually getting somewhat better. But i was never really confident that he would be able to live a full life. About five years later, i see his name on the list of people who wanted to play in our Golf Tournament and i said is this the lily that i know . Yeah. So lily came. Much to my surprise. And during that period he said, id like to bring my daughter by to meet you. So, i painted lily and his daughter and lilys got a big scar on his head where they had to go inside his cranium and i was just struck by, you know, near death and then, you know, a beautiful little child. President bush painted fathers, mothers, friends and immigrants. Specialist juan carlos hernandez. Lost his leg. Lost his leg and he has an extraordinary story. He came to america as an undocumented child. Correct. His mom was seeking a better life, brought juan carlos and his brother across the border like a lot of other people had in our state of texas. Decides he wants to pay back to the country that meant a lot to him and loses his leg. But the intrustieresting thing him is he became a sergeant in afghanistan. The vets who are not u. S. Citizens, we should expedite their service. Is he a good example his parents may have broken the law but could stay and contribute to society. I hope americans understand the contributions he made. This is a person who willingly said i want to volunteer. And went into combat all in the defense of the country. Loses his leg. Surely americans would be able to say this is the kind of person we want as a citizen. President bush failed to achieve the comprehensive Immigration Reform he sought while in office. But he Still Believes in it. Including that socalled dreamers. Children like specialist hernandez brought to the United States illegally by their parents should have a legal place in america. More broadly, though, do you think its a good idea for dreamers to be allowed to stay here . I think somebody who has vested time and effort it could make a contribution to our country. Be a really good citizen. Its, obviously, immigration is a very political issue. I tried to reform it. And one of my big regrets is i couldnt get congress to respond. But, and i think the plan i laid out ultimately was the plan that would be accepted. Based on what you know about running the country and running the immigration system, do you think its practical to go in and deport millions and millions of people who are here illegally . I dont see how that would work. And im not sure that is the intention of our government. I think people who, you know, who are charged with doing that, if that is the charge. Im not sure it is. But say its going to be hard to do. Now, the idea of running out rapists and murderers, i think all americans can agree to that. I think its very important for people to know that when i talk about freedom of the press or imgrasi Immigration Reform, i dont do so to criticize anybody. I understand how hard this job is. I do so because i want to share what i learned and what ive seen. President bushs loathe to criticize a sitting president directly, but he does offer reminders about what he thinks america should represent. I want to ask you about some comments you made less than a week after september 11th. You reached out and you said we have to reach out and talk to our muslim brothers and sisters in this country and embrace them. Thats not what islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists dont represent peace. They represent evil and war. Which is quite the opposite of the rhetoric we hear from the white house right now, including the executive order proposed by the president that would ban travel from seven countries that are predominantly m ll lly musl. Why did you feel it was important to speak that way about muslims that day . Freedom of religion is one of our bed rock principles. People should be allowed to worship without the government telling them how they should worship. We should honor people regardless of the religion they choose or honor them if they choose no religion. Were all equal. After 9 11 i read reports where some muslim women were being harassed and i also read reports where american women were walking, women of cover to Grocery Stores and, you know, it affected me because i didnt want us to lose our soul. I didnt want the attacks to cause us to change. Weve got more of my conversation with president bush just ahead, including his answer to my question about regrets he may now have about the wars that put the men and women he painted in harms way. But, first, lets get a look at the weather with indra pet petersons. I cant believe were still talking about storms in the pacific northwest. A very unusual year. Were looking at a mix of rain and snow out towards portland and seattle. Little bit colder as we get in through the day today. Be looking out for that. The rest of you an inch or two. Snowfall, this is a good thing. More snow to the sierra snow pack that is huge. Keep in mind, california, you still do have dughtro good morning. Im first alert meteorologist krystal klei. Forecast highs today, another cold one, 38 in center city and 39 for somerton. Upper 30s as well in the pennsylvania suburbs. Sunny to mostly sunny across the board. Allentown 37, kutztown 38 for a high. Well get to 40 in a few spots like trenton. Along the shore made it to the upper 30s and upper 30s in delaware. Smyrnaality 37 degrees. Stay warm today. And the good news, wi willi we have to end on a high note, right . We are talking about warmer temperatures in the northeast as we start monday. Well take it, indra. Next on sunday today part two of my conversation with president george w. Bush where he shows a wounded vet his portrait for the first time and answers questions about his decision to go into iraq. For great skin, you dont have to go to a spa. Just go to bed. New aveeno®. Positively radiant® overnight facial. 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