A memo written by the democrats on the House Intelligence Committee finally released. It depends the fbis Justice Department investigation about 40 trump adviser carter page. The president slamming the new memo as a total political and legal bust. Well get into that with chuck todd. Plus, students and teachers heading back to Marjory StonemanDouglas High School for reorientation. A week and a half after a shooting killed 17 of this classmates and teachers. All of this as new reports shows several more sheriffs deputies remained outside the school as the gunman was on his deadly rampage. Well be live on the scene in parkland, florida, in just a moment. And later, well make a turn to our sunday sitdown with the oscars one week from today. We spent some time with best actress nominee Saoirse Ronan. Star of the movie lady bird. Born in the bronx and raised in ireland. And nominated for her First Academy award back when he was just 13. Made a name for herself in hollywood, even though its a difficult one to pronounce. It ranges from shesa rownan. Saoirse ronan shelli . Yeah. A one sunday sitdown with Saoirse Ronan later in the show. Lets begin with the release of the memo from democrats and House Republicans making the case that the fbi did not abuse its power when it conducted the surveillance of carter page. President trump speaks out overnight saying the finger should be pointed at president obama. Nbcs White House CorrespondentKelly Odonnell at the white house for us this morning. Kelly, good morning. Reporter good morning, willie, the battle of partisan memos at the white house of the Russian Investigation took an unexpected turn late saturday. The president had used his authority to declassify the democrats memo then he quickly criticized it. But he also went a step further turning his attention to barack obama. President trump made sure the democrats newly unclassified Russian Investigation memo would not soak up all of the media attention. He called fox news late saturday and blamed russian interference on his predecessor. Obama was the president during all of this meddling or whatever you want to call it with russians and others possibly. But obama was the president. Hes the one that was supposed to take care of this. And he didnt. Reporter while President Trump did acknowledge election interference happened, he insisted he did nothing wrong. I had no phone calls. I had no meetings, no nothing. There is no collusion. Reporter his comments came just hours after the democrats rebuttal was made public challenging gop allegations of government abuse. Of the secret foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. Our memo gives more of the complete facts. Reporter the tenpage heavily redacted memo is a direct rebuttal to House Republicans allegations of partisan bias. When the Justice Department asked a fisa court to authorize surveillance on a former Trump Campaign aide carter page. Their trying to put the fbi on trial and indirectly put bob mueller on trial. Reporter democrats contend that the officials accurately told fisa court that Christopher Steele was hired by politically motivated u. S. Persons. And his dossier was intended to discredit trumps campaign. The president pounced. Fbi did not disclose who the clients were. The Clinton Campaign and the dnc. Wow. He denounced the democrats memo as a total political and legal bust, yet repeatedly told fox news this. With all is that being said, we have to come together as a nation. Reporter the president said that coming together idea a few different times in the context of moving past the russia investigation. And weve seen seeo much activi of late from the special counsel, its unclear when the country will be moving past it. But thats the president wants to go. Willie. Kelly odonnell, thanks. It will be another emotional day in parkland, florida, when students return to the school for the First Time Since the horrific mass shooting on valentines day. Learned share rivers deputies apparently remained outside the school while the gunman was shooting inside. Nbcs Maya Rodriguez is in parkland. Good morning. Reporter good morning, willie. Theyre calling it an orientation, trying to put students and parents at ease before classes start up again on wednesday, just two weeks after the shooting. Today, tentative steps towards a familiar routine. Im going to be with my family again. My high school family. Reporter freshman madison mersky, one of the several Stoneman Douglas students preparing to return to school. A little scared and without her best friend. One of 17 killed. Its been really hard for me. I lost my best friend last night. I just take it day by day. Reporter the Broward CountySchool District tried to prepared students and their parents with a sunday orientation. Returning to School Without the pressure of having to go to class. Im not prepared to go back to school on wednesday. I dont know if anyones prepared. Reporter but new questions about the response to the shooting. Law enforcement sources tell nbc news several sheriffs deputies remained outside the freshman building where most of the shooting took place. It is not known why. The Sheriffs Office say police are making that claim and they are investigating. Nbc news clint van dant said previous Mass Shootings have taught hard lawsuits. Standard protocol across the country for Law Enforcement is if theres an active shooter in the school, its your job to go in and stop that person from killing. Reporter after the mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas. Students are hoping its Strong Enough to return. Its been difficult. We all have to grow up a lot in the past week. Reporter there will be counselors on hand today here at the high school. This happening on the same day that the last shooting victim will be laid to rest. Willie. Thats going to be a difficult day. Maya rodriguez in parkland florida. Thanks so much. Chuck todd is nbcs political director and moderator of meet the press. Chuck, great to see you. The topic will be whether or not guns are any different and how this man got access to an ar15. I do want to ask you about Law Enforcement here. There were so many red flags, staggering how many warnings from this 19yearold in the last couple of years. Then the failure on the day by at least one sheriffs deputy go into the school. Its maddening. Its infuriating when you think this could have been prevented and 17 lives could have been saved . No, and i think it shows the gaps in so many of our laws from the Mental Health aspects of how do you deal with somebody who you know has Mental Health problems. What legal requirements do you have, what can you do there. But it also to me exposes the massive gap in the background system. There is no law right now, willie, that requires all of that information that was learned about nikolas cruz, all of the different tips. And none of that information was mandated to be put into the background check system. Right. Right. So, it exposes to me a lot of gaps there. And i think its interesting, the more failures that we find out about Law Enforcement, i think youre going to have people digging their heels on sort of two responses to that aspect. For some, its going to reinforce the need to have the become ground check system reinforced perhaps to lengthen the period of time it takes to get guns. And others that you cant trust Law Enforcement. So, i think in an odd way, its going to reinforce the arguments for folks on both sides of this debate. And background checks are part of the conversation, that youll be talking. Weve seen pressure on businesses like hertz, united, best western hotels have broken ties with the nra, or at least waived their discounts for nra members. These students have been incredibly effective and active and visible throughout this. But it does seem so far that the action is at the state level. Governor rick scott coming out with a list of suggestions, new laws put in place. The truth is, people said after sandy hook nothing changed. Well in the state of connecticut things did change. So is the state level maybe where the action is . Perhaps, although im skeptical that governor scotts reforms can pass the florida legislature. As its currently constructed right now. And the nra is opposed to essentially every one of this ideas he proposed on friday. And theyre actively calling their florida representatives to call their state representatives and senators to oppose governor scotts plan. So, well see what happens there. I can tell you this, i do think the boycotts and the success of them exposed how poorly the nra has handled their politics in all of this. Theyve shown very little empathy here. And i think thats what made it easy for the boycotts to succeed. Chuck, well be watching later this morning. Much more on the gun debate and whether parkland will spark change. On meet the press, republican senator pat toomey of pennsylvania and democrat amy cl klobuchar. And officials saying a blockade would be an active war. President trump posed new sanctions targets the countrys shipping and trading activities. Members of high half 11 delegation attending todays olympic closing ceremony with new reports that the north may be open to talks with the United States. That closing ceremony takes place this morning. It was a dazzling spectacle to win the winter olympics. Events wrapped up on saturday with United States finishing in ninth place on the bobsled. And the shibsibs took to the size again during their bronze with the figure skating gala. See van ka trump as you see there has been there all weekend leading the delegation on team usa. Nbc choke to the pleds daughter exclusively. We have so much as a country we can learn from these incredible athletes. Spirit and unity and tenacity and grit. And sportswomenship. Im going to go with. So, really, they represent the best of american spirit. You can hear much more of nbcs interview with ivanka trump tonight on nightly news. And one final medal count. Norway dominated the winter games ending with 39 medals setting a new olympic record with that number. Germany, 31. Canada, 29. And United States in the top four with 23 medals at these games. And at least four premium have been killed after violent storms rolled through the midsouth this weekend. At least one of those deaths being blamed on a possible tornado in kentucky downed trees and power problems persist this morning. Meanwhile in the south and midwest, nonstop rain has caused severe flooding. Dylan, like me, back from south korea, with more on that wild weather. Good to see you on u. S. Soil. I know, you as well. Well refreshed, too, right . Yes. We did have very strong storms move through yesterday. There was this cold front that moved through parts of like arkansas and kentucky and tennessee. And as these storms moved eastward we did see that a severe line of storms produced four tornadoes and 60 wind reports out of the storm system. So, as we go through the day today, this cold front will dont move eastward. You can see heavy rain extends right down to houston. We also have a wintry mix across central and northern new england. Where we will see perhaps icing in parts of massachusetts. And then New Hampshire and vermont, a few inches of snow. Toads will be dangerous in tha good morning. Im first alert meteorologist krystal klei. Today, well keep the rainy conditions, especially along the i935 Corridor North and west. Pocketed heavy rain possible from 10 00 to 11 00 a. M. They start to pull out of the Lehigh Valley and berks county. By noon, the rain pulls out of philadelphia. Between noon and 2 00, everything cools off on the shore. Isolated showers possible in the afternoon and forecast high temperatures across the region in the mid50s. And thats your latest forecast. Dylan, straight ahead. The highs and lows of the week including a dramatic flagwaving win for the americans hockey game that always seems to stand in the way 6 the gold medal. And the story of an americanborn skier from hungary who achieved herus, reports fro travels in south korea where they designed a giant robot that may soon impact all of our lives. So, are we going to see robots just up and down the sidewalk like this in the future . In a years time, i wouldnt be surprised. Actually id be surprised if they werent here. 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When people ask you where were you when the American Team shocked the curling team shocked the world. I would say, watching on my phone. Thats the truth. Team usa won a thriller over the swee swedes. Let by john shuster. The best part of the dramatic win, mr. T. Called the team before the match and gave the guys a pep talk. Diddy also tweeting his 40. A curling fan, apparently, diddy. The miracurl on ice, get it . Seems like youre not buying it. And more in the form of a wild shootout with the womens hockey team over archrival canada. The canadians had won lt three olympic gold medal, three of them defeating the u. S. And the team of Kikkan Randall and Jesse Higgins stunned the team from norway and sweden by winning the women they collaps after crossing the finish line, diggins said, oh, my gosh, did we jolympics . Yes, did you. I love the stories because theyre not the big names you hear so often. And then they come in with the much gold. It was fun over there. A lot of time. The fascinating mysterious case for the americanborn skier competing for hungary. The fascinating part is that shes not great at skiing. Wee. That is exactly what you or i would do in the olympic halfpipe. Sort of cruising along at a leisurely pace. Her name is elizabeth swany, a 33yearold from california. Its a combination of limitations on the number of athletes other countries can send. Injuries to some other skiers and her strategy of competing at events with low participation so that she earned enough top30 finishes to qualify for the olympics. If goes without saying swany finished the competition in a distant last place at the olympics. I notice you said thats how you and i would do the halfpipe no. I would slide down on my butt. Can you get up on skis . Yes. Then you can do what she did. You could be an olympic athlete. Shes an inspiration. Our next high go the oklahoma girl who deserves a gold medal for her performance on the driveway. Alexis johns simply trying to get the family trash can back up the street on an icy day. As you can see on the security video, alexis big sister has no problem. She cruises right up. But alexis jut couldnst couldn traction. She suffers a mandatory twopoint deduction when she goes down. She event really makes it up the driveway. Were told she was fine. By the way, this happened on her 11th birth day. Help birthday, alexis. I love the big sister. Was there a traction on the sneaker thing happening . Alexis reminds us of another icy driveway icon of this winter. Remember this guy, just trying to get out to the car on a cold morning and going for a ride to the mailbox. He was fine. Our final low goes perhaps to a new low on an airplane. If youve seen a lot on an airplane. Try these tighty whiteys on for size. This is a woman drying a pair of underwear on the overhead air vent. Stunned passengers whipped out their phones as the woman held other damp drawers up to the vent for a whole 20 minute