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This is a fox news alert. president trump says he looks forward to speaking with the special counsel. this happened just a few moments ago at a background briefing at the white house. chief white house correspondent john roberts is in davos switzerland where the president will participate in the world economic summit tomorrow. >> i am in davos and the president walked in on a background briefing. he did say there is no collusion between the trump campaign and russia to try to influence the u.s. ...

>> dana: fox news alert. on a potentially very dangerous development in syria, the trump administration saying the regime may be changing the way theyre using the weapons that they have. olivier knox for yahoo! news. you were in a background briefing today by the administration. what did you learn? >> thank you, dana. two senior administration officials were describing the way assad has continued to use chemical weapons in the after math of that american air strike last april. what these officia...

Laughing at us anymore. and they wont be. i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. >> now, you also heard the president today say, anderson, that he could like to start a new negotiation of a climate agreement. he heard from other ally, germany and france, saying no, thanks, they dont want to subject the earths climate to the art of the deal. there will be no new negotiations and the president says if if they cant make it happen, so be it. >> he had tweeted about the cli...

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>> the attack is the first direct military action by the united states against the regime of bashar al assad. the u.s. launched 59 tomahawk crews missiles at an air field in syria believed to be the base where syria launched this weeks horrific chemical weapons attack. lets go right to the pentagon correspondent barbara starr. were hearing the u.s. military is now looking at new evidence potentially showing russia was complicit. what are you learning? >> wolf, we have just concluded what is know...

Performance. we should note of course him saying that newspapers should not use unnamed sources in their reporting, came just hours after his own staff had given an unnamed background briefing at the white house for reporters to use. so some discrepancy there, but as you noted he did go on to kind of tick through this policy laundry list and that is, you know, aimed at the audience here at cpac. these are people who care very much about the finer details of policy, of conservative ideology. many...

Focus on. another dramatic battle with the press. and the story hes trying to bury. some of the worst news to hit his administration on national security this year. >> we are fighting the fake news. its fake. phony. fake. >> this is an administration that understands how important having enemies is. and if its not the media, its going to be some other group. expect to hear this a lot. >> if i were doing fake news, i would have been fired a long time ago. >> theyre the enemy of the people. >> it ...

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