I want to be a billion far so freakaleaken bad billionaires at a snap. Billionaires behind snapchat celebrating after their Company Value soars to record heights. Now each worth more than 5 billion. The secretive ceo with the supermodel girlfriend, is he the new Mark Zuckerberg and facebooks worst nightmare. What you see you what see good morning, america. Happy friday. Boy, is it a happy friday for the snapchat founders. 5 billion each. This morning. Id be pretty happy. Perspective thats more than moguls like Richard Branson and the owner of the patriots, robert kraft. 70 billion to beat bill gates just to put it in perspective. Waking up with 5 theres room for growth and but the way my daughters use snapchat, i think theyre going to get there. Weve got much more on that coming up. First to the firestorm over attorney general Jeff Sessions now recusing himself from any investigation related to the Trump Campaign after reports he met with the Russian Ambassador before the election. Our senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas is starting us off in washington with more on that. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning, amy. Sessions close ties with trump and the controversy surrounding those meetings with the Russian Ambassador prove too much. He will no longer oversee the fbis investigation of russians attack on last years election. Under mounting pressure from capitol hill, attorney general Jeff Sessions stepping aside. Saying he will have nothing to do with any investigations involving the 2016 Campaign Including russias effort to influence the election. I have now decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the united states. The decision to recuse himself coming amid reports that sessions met twice with the Russian Ambassador, during the summer before the election. One of those encounters took place at an event during the Republican National convention where sessions used political funds from his reelection account to pay for his expenses explaining he only met the ambassador in his capacity as a senator. The controversy stemming from this statement during sessions confirmation hearing. I did not have communications with the russians. Reporter last night on fox the attorney general said his testimony had been taken completely out of context. I think it was hyped beyond reason and i think it was unfair. Reporter but also stating thursday he wished he had been more precise. And in retrospect i should have slowed down and said that i did meet one russian official. Reporter he removed himself even though the white house said he didnt have to. He was 100 straight with the committee. Mr. President , should sessions recuse himself from investigations into your campaign and russia . I dont think so at all. Reporter overnight President Trump releasing a statement saying that while sessions could have been more clear in his testimony, the democrats were engaging in a quote witchhunt. This morning some are saying that just recusing himself is not enough. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tweeting, ag sessions sorry attempt to explain away his perjury is totally inadequate. He must resign immediately. Sessions and his staff maintain his meetings with the Russian Ambassador were entirely appropriate and his answer during confirmation hearing was solely ailed at any suggestion he was communicating with the russians about the campaign. Sessions said he recused himself after consulting with career attorneys at the Justice Department who recommended that he step aside, amy. And, pierre, usa today is reporting that two other trump advisers spoke with the russian enjoy at the Republican Convention this summer. Reporter carter page, one of those associates acknowledged meeting with the Russian Ambassador. Another example of contact. This explains why some investigators are so curious about so many encounters especially given russia is an adversary. Thank you very much. More from jon karl at the white house. Dan abrams our chief legal analyst right here. Jon, you got the contacts piling up and you also have this cognitive distance. The white house appearing to disagree with their attorney general on the issue of recusal and agreeing with the russians on the issue of this being a witchhunt the repor. Reporter at some point you get to wondering who didnt meet with the Russian Ambassador on this campaign. Now, these contacts may have been fine. There may have been no problem with them. But the bottom line is we have been asking the question for weeks over and over again, who on the trump team had contacts with the russians and we learn more and more as we go along. This investigation truly is just getting started. Even though theyve had denials about 20, 21 times. Dan abrams, this issue of whether or not the attorney general was straight with the committee during the confirmation, the bar for perjury very high. Lets separate out political from legal. Wrong or inaccurate is not perjury. To get a perjury conviction, you need willful. You need intentional. He has to have done it on purpose and regardless of what you think about why he did it, how he said it, proving that he did it on purpose would be nearly impossible based on what we know right now. So, i think it is beyond unlikely that theres going to be a perjury indictment and, you know, its not that dissimilar to what we talked about in the Hillary Clinton email investigation which is wrong doesnt make it criminal. But the question is, has he done enough by recusing himself so will this put a damper on any other calls for independent investigations. No, i think its actually going to increase it. Why . Now you have another official who is apparently having conversations with the russians and as a result, typically it would be the attorney general who would call for a special counsel. Now youre talking about Deputy Attorney general or an acting Deputy Attorney general who will make the decision about whether to call for a special counsel. Special counsel would then investigate more broadly than just about sessions. Thats going to be the big question in my mind which is will this administration appoint a special counsel to investigate beyond Just Congress and the fbi and the investigation. Jon, indianapolis papers reporting that Vice President mike pence when he was governor of indiana used a private email account for government business. Reporter yeah, just as he was criticizing and the republicans criticizing Hillary Clinton strongly for her use of private email. There are some significant differences here. Pence was using an aol account. Didnt have a private server. Wasnt dealing with classified information. There is no indiana law that says you cannot use a private email as a government official, whereas at the state department there was a policy that suggested that for sensitive information. But it certainly doesnt look very good that at the very time they were hammering Hillary Clinton over private email, the governor was using private email. Jon karl, dan abrams, thanks very much. Now to the rapidly intensifying battle with al qaeda. The pentagon confirming to abc news just moments ago there was another new round of air strikes in yemen overnight following that january raid that killed navy s. E. A. L. Ryan owens. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with that. Good morning. Reporter good morning. For u. S. Navy s. E. A. L. S and the armys delta force this is not what they call go time. Commandos being told to expect much more action against al qaeda in yemen following the 20 new air strikes on thursday and now the new ones overnight. These photos were posted on twitter overnight from yemen described by local residents as a new u. S. Military operation. U. S. Military special operations personnel tell abc news that commandos based in the region have been told to expect a lot more action against suspected terror targets under the Trump Administration. Not deterred, they say, by the loss of a u. S. Navy s. E. A. L. In a raid on this suspected terror compound in yemen in january. And possibly the deaths of many civilians. Local residents showed pictures of a 75 million u. S. Aircraft that was abandoned and purposely destroyed in the operation. But u. S. Officials continue to maintain that what happened here was a success based on documents discovered in computers and phones seized in the raid including officials tell abc news what they are calling a global address book of al qaeda operatives. President trump alluded to it all in his speech before congress after introducing the widow of the dead s. E. A. L. Ryan owens. I just spoke to our great general mattis just now, who reconfirmed that and i quote, ryan was a part of a highly successful raid that generated large amounts of vital intelligence that will lead to many more victories in the future against our enemy. Reporter the Al Qaeda Group in yemen is considered the group most likely to carry out an attack against the u. S. Its master bombmaker has been a top priority but no indication these latest raids or air strikes did anything to take him out, george. Boy, that was really something. They are intensifying. Absolutely. Thanks, brian. Back at Home Health Care battle heating up on capitol hill as gop leaders try to unite around a plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Theyre being hit by democrats and some republicans for keeping their plan secret under lock and key. Our Congressional Correspondent mary bruce tracking the search. Whats going on here and what do we know about the new bill . 20 million americans are waiting to see whats going to happen with their coverage and now theres a new draft to overhaul obamacare and a bit of a new fight to go along with it. House republicans are keeping this new draft under wraps for now as they make revisions but that is not sitting well with democra democrats who are eager to see what theyre up against and republicans who opposed an earlier version. Now, senator rand paul is blasting the secrecy and yesterday he went on a bit of a public hunting expedition going through the basement of the capitol to try to find the document but he said its being held like a National Secret and even leader pelosi offering to help tweeting she would be willing to release the hounds, george. They are going after it and they have to keep it secret because they know the tradeoffs are tough here and once the details get out its going to anger and enrage one faction or for. Reporter absolutely and House Republicans here are simply being extra cautious especially after an earlier version leaked and then was met with some pretty swift opposition so for now just the republicans on this House Committee that are drafting the bill are able to see it. But, george, that could change soon expecting to bring it up for consideration next week. They want to get it done by easter. Lets bring in matt dowd to talk about it. The original Affordable Care act was also drafted in secrecy but how often does this sort of thing happen . This reminds me of the highlight magazine your kids do, find the hidden picture. Its not unusual for them to be drafted confidentially in a way that is not shared. It is unusual that members of your own that want to see it they wont show it to them. President trumps week started off with a high note with the speech. Now we have the sessions situation where he recused himself. How should the Trump Administration be handling this big turn of events . If you took a strategy of how not to handle it theyve done the strategy of how not to handle this. First they have to tell the truth and be honest. Thats the overall arching thing. I looked at this like a traffic light strategy which is green, go ahead and get all of the information out there as quickly as possible and dont let the press drip, drip, drip this. Yellow, caution. Use your words correctly, concisely and dont parse. If youre parsing, youre losing. Stop using the word witchhunt. Last time it was wrong was in salem, massachusetts. So in this case usually in a witchhunt there is a witch around. Seems like on all three the white house going in the opposite direction. Do you think theyre going to be able to hole the line against these other investigations . No, i think this is full scale where theres smoke and where theres a lot of smoke theres fire. When you talk to republicans in the course of this, they know theres a problem here, theyre going to have to figure a way to clear it up as fast as they k the Russian Ambassador, i have to say feels like the forrest gump. Everywhere theres something going around the Russian Ambassador seems to be pictured this morning, though, cleveland, ohio, 77 a week ago waking up. They feel like. Reporter thats 18yearold nicholas dike ma running from police. He crashes into a ditch. And now sheriffs deputies are trying to get into the lead of vehicles. He hits the gas but police drag them out of the side door. This morning his family admits he was on drugs but they feel what happens next is murder. Taken from the vehicle, put him in the road and got on top of him. Reporter you see it clearly. One of the deputies keeps leaning his knee onto their sons neck and then turns him around and does it again. A state autopsy says its one of the reasons he died. Compression of the neck and tore sew. Turn him on his side. Nicolas, wake up. Reporter the family waited too long. Were not getting anywhere. They are suing. It killed him and i got a problem with them. They should be held accountable. Reporter the deputy was fired after being criminally charged. The other three this morning are on regular duty. The family says their son was struggling with addiction and shouldnt have run from police in 2015. But they say that was no reason for him to die. Amy. All right, steve osunsami, thank you. A consumer alert this morning. The cdc sounding the alarm about an e. Coli outbreak across several states and says the likely source is i. M. Healthy soy nut butter products. If you have them it is recommended that you do not eat or serve them. The outbreak has so far affected at least a dozen people and expected to learn today which states are affected. Michael. Amy, turning now a little lighter subject, former president who is back in the spotlight, george w. Bush has been on tour talking about his new book of paintings and stopped by jimmy kimmel and had funny stuff to say. Take a look. When your Vice President dick cheney, when he shot that guy in the face, did it ever seem funny at all to you . Well, every time cheney would come in, a lot of people would yell duck. Were you jealous of the size of the crowds at trumps inauguration . I was there. I know you were. There. I was the guy trying to put the the poncho. Yeah, we noticed that actually. How are your parents doing, by the way. Thank you for asking. Theyre doing great. [ cheers and applause ] you know, when he came out to flip the coin at the super bowl, it was a very joyful moment. I would imagine so. I think it was for the whole country really hes a great guy. I cant help but feel like maybe he was faking it a little just so he didnt have to go to the inauguration. Hes no dummy. He got a real laugh out of the president there. I love to see that natural laugh out of him. Talking about also the first time he went to the white house, the 1969 pulled up in his purple gremlin to take Richard Nixons daughter trisha on a date. What . That was set up by his dad. Oh, yeah. Talk about pressure. The things you learn on kimmel. Okay. Let ago back over to ginger. It could end up in washington, d. C. , the earliest Cherry Blossoms on record. Actual air testers in washington, d. C. 35. Well warm back up, though, the local weather in 30 seconds. First, though, reporter some of those warmer weekend getaways look pretty nice. 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