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And i need help. >> this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christy polk. >> happy new day to you. breaking this morning the president is firing back after his actions were a threat to national security. >> he responded on twitter a short time ago saying, wow, just learned in a family new york sometimes the corrupt leaders of the fbi almost all fired to leave the agency for very bad reasons opened up an investigation on me for no reason and with no proof after i fired lying james comb ...

Bit. but extrapolate further on exactly what the president is thinking. >> reporter: fred, president trump and the white house are slamming the fbi in the wake of these reports that counterintelligence agents were looking into whether president trump was working on behalf of russia against u.s. interests in the days after he fired former fbi director james comey. as you mentioned, white house press secretary sarah sanders calls this counterintelligence probe absurd. president trump has been voca...

Were pushing forward on the breaking news out of washington this morning. weve learned the fbi opened an inquiry into whether the president of the united states actions were a threat to national security. >> and that counterintelligence probe was prompted by the firing of former fbi director james comey. "the new york times" broke this story last night. the fbi tried to figure out, the "times" says, if the president of the united states was acting on behalf of russia, and if he was putting u.s. ...

Comeys firing to the russia investigation helped spark this counterintelligence probe. here is one of those moments. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story, an excuse by democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. >> the second instance is a draft letter that president intended...

Dont know where i am, and i need help." >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> so glad to have you here with us. its official at midnight, youre now waking up to the longest federal government shutdown in u.s. history. >> yes, but the white house is now fighting another battle as news breaks that the fbi opened an investigation into whether actions by the president of the united states were a threat to national security. first reported by "the new york...

>> chris: that was filed nine months after the fact. it should be done minutes after. >> melissa: if he lied, they didnt think he was lying. >> lisa: hold on just a second -- there are two big points everyone should be concerned about, republican or democrat. the first, sci shouldnt have interviewed him to begin with. the fact that he filed the logan act as the joke. its a 218-year-old law, nobody has ever been prosecuted. that should disturb people that he was interviewed to begin wit with. the...

>> the filing filing is much ral because tweet said comey must have set a record for who lied the most to congress in one day. he said its a rigged fraud headed up by dishonest people who would do anything so that i could not become president. they are now exposed. when he was asked about the president cit saying him on twitter, he said mueller might take notice. >> im a witness. to inially. -- potentially. i dont know how the special counsel thinks about it. but if im a prosecutor and someone s...

Counts laid out in the manafort indictment.t. back in december, "the new york times" published a story saying it was papadopoulos 2016 meeting with an australian diplomat that launched the fbis probe without any help from the clinton finance campaign. the fbi did not talk to the diplomat until the counterintelligence probe was already launched. and there was a code name. cross fire hurricane. >> its suspicious that when he drops this information on me. >> unsolicited! >> they want to figure out ...

Manafort indictment. back in december, "the new york times" published a story saying it was papadopoulos 2016 meeting with an australian diplomat that logic the fbis probe without any help from the clinton finance.ca. the fbi did not talk to the diplomat until the counterintelligence probe was already lots. and there was a code name, . >> its suspicious that when he drops this information on me. >> unsolicited! >> they want to figure out info on this particular topic. it seems like it was some s...