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Project around some of the busiest freeways in the world. How conservationists are trying to track down a rare Mountain Lion high in the Hollywood Hills. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. This is the longest president ial trip to asia. The main topec of conversation will be north korea and its nuclear weapon. The idea that the dnc can rig a contest is laughable. Donna brazile accuses Hillary Clinton of rigging the primary. She lost anyway. Our grandmothers were right. Cheaters never prosper. House republicans are making changes to the big tax overhaul. This package is pretty awesome. Netflix has cut ties with Actor Kevin Spacey as he faces allegations of Sexual Assault and harassment. Bowe bergdahl will not serve any prison time. President trump blasting the decision as a disgrace. Major security will be in place for the new York City Marathon on sunday. Its our job to stand up and to be unafraid. Winter is coming early to the Sierra Nevada area. Theyve got a nice dusting. That means time to ski. Wake up your thumbs because the cold bear emoji is finally here. Boom can we put that up split screen . Check it out and all that matters. What the hell took us so long to win a world series . A celebration decades in the making hit the streets of houston. Were limousine riding, wheeling dealing, son of a gun, ooh on cbs this morning saturday. How about this for team work at the parade. A woman drop her astros hat and as you can see, the fans pull off the ultimate relay. [ cheering ] theyre still celebrating in houston. As they should be. Welcome to the weekend, everyone. Im Anthony Mason along with alex wagner. We begin with President Trumps trip to asia as he faces mounting pressure here at home. After he arrives in japan today the president hopscotches through five Different Countries in asia where hell push for increased pressure on north korea, meet with chinas president , attend an economic summit and go oneonone with rodrigo duterte, the controversial president of the philippines. But back in washington, President Trump is facing challenges. Questions persist about special counsel Robert Muellers investigation of the Trump Campaign while Congress Takes up a tax reform plan that the president has said will be the largest in the history. Before heading to japan President Trump made a stop in hawaii, his first visit to the state since the election. Jamie yuccas is in honolulu. Good morning. Good morning. On twitter the president thanked hawaii for the beautiful welcome, the oneday stopover did include an arrival ceremony where both the president and first lady received traditional leis and later he made a trip to pearl harbor. Despite the pleasantries, the president will have looming questions over his administration when he leaves hawaii today for asia. President trump laid a wreath at the uss arizona memorial at pearl harbor friday. It was coming after a meeting with the leaders of the u. S. Pacific command which overseas military operations near north korea. A topic on the president s mind as he left on his First Official tour of asia. Well be talking about north korea and well be enlisting the help of a lot of people. Reporter the president s troubles could maunt him on this trip which starts less than a week after an indictment of his former campaign chorm an Paul Manafort, anex aide, rick gates and a guilty plea by George Papadopoulos. According to court papers filed by robert mueller, papadopoulos suggested arranging a meeting between thencandidate trump and Vladimir Putin, and a meeting that the president says was not memorable. I dont remember much about the meeting. I dont remember much about it. Now its being reported another Trump Campaign adviser, carter page met with russian government officials during a 2016 trip to moscow, something he has denied doing. According to the New York Times trump emaileded a Trump Campaign aide about those conversations. The paper reports that email was read aloud before pages testimony before the house intelligence commit. Muellers investigation has tru frustrated the president. Three republican congressman introduced a resolution calling for muellers resignation. The president says hes confident he will be absolved of all wrongdoing. I hope he is looking at everything, and i am truly not involved with any form of collusion with russia, believe me. The president is very likely to be asked about russia on this trip. As a matter of fact, on friday a kremlin spokesperson would not rule out a potential meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin next week at an economic summit in vietnam. Anthony . Jamie yuccas in honolulu, thanks. Some of the president s frustrations lie with Jeff Sessions. Mr. Trump turned up the heat on sessions and on the president s political opponents in a move some say test the boundaries of his office Errol Barnett is in our washington bureau. Yes. While President Trump is away the Ongoing Investigation by special Counsel Robert Mueller continues to churn here in washington. Before he left the commander in chief made clear his views on the department of justices performance and its apparent reluctance to go after his opposition. A lot of people are disappointed in the Justice Department including me. Reporter President Trumps last words before leaving the white house friday made his displeasure with the Justice Department clear. All i can tell you is this. There was no collusion. There was no nothing. Its a disgrace, frankly that they continue. Reporter and as he does repeatedly via twitter, mr. Trump encouraged the Justice Department to investigate democrats. You want to look at Hillary Clinton and you want to look at the new book that was just put out by donna brazile. Reporter fueling the president s argument is the revelation by the once interim chair of the Democratic National committee donna brazile. As long as shes in charge were never going back and thats why im with her. Brazile became the head of the part amid email hacks coordinated by russia last year. At that time, according to her upcoming book, she discovered an existing signed agreement where, quote, an exchange for raising money and investing in the dnc, hillary would control the partys finances, strategy and all of the money raised. She goes on to write this was not a criminal act, but as i saw it, it compromised the partys integrity. We have one area of disagreement with the secretary. The document was signed by the dnc and the Clinton Campaign in august of 2015, early in the election cycle when potential candidates like Vice President joe biden was still dieding whether to get in. Former Bernie Sanders Campaign Manager jeff weaver. What these types of activities do is destroy the faith of people that we have a fair and Democratic Electoral process. The Clinton Campaign said the dnc was in debt and former chair governor howard dean described the agreement as Standard Operating Procedure and as special counsel mueller continue bringing russia, it will continue to exploit divisions between the party. Errol barnett in washington. Thanks, errol. Changes have been made to the sweeping republican tax proposal overhaul. He has released a revised version of the plan that would lower the overall value of the proposal. Brady also says President Trump wants a tax bill to repeal the obamacare individual mandate. The penalty for americans who fail to buy health insurance. Repealing that mandate would save the government about 400 billion, but it would also result in lost insurance for up to 15 million americans. Here to talk about that and everything else, and boy, there is a lot in washington is Shannon Pettypiece White House Correspondent for bloomberg news. Good to see you. Lets first start with the russia piece. We know about Paul Manafort and George Papadopoulos and now were hearing carter page may have had undisclosed meetings with officials. On the surface the white house has playeded a very calm, cool attitude about this. Theres nothing here. Nothing to hide, were fully cooperating. Theres obviously tensions among the staff who are being interviewed continuing into next week and there have been a number of interviews and the white house is hoping those interviews are wrapped up by thanksgiving and that might be Wishful Thinking and there are tensions about whos talking to who and not to mention the huge legal bills theyre starting to face as theyre called in front of mueller and committees. The president s longtime bodyguard Keith Schuller is expected to testify to the House Intelligence Committee next week. About the dossier about the president s trip to moscow in 2013. How concerned should the white house be about that . Well, other than the president s family, no one is closer to him than Keith Schuller. Keith schuller is often the first person he sees in the morning and the last person he sees at night until august until schuller leaves the white house. He is a bodyguard, a body man. A confidant and the friend. He has been with the president step by step through the campaign, through his time in his presidency until he left in august and through his rise in a businessman and reality star. He was in moscow at the Miss Universe pageant and the dossier and next to him on every phone call during the campaign, and he knows a lot and fiercely loyal to the president and dont expect him to sing like a canary any time soon. Shannon, independent of the russia investigation the thing that is taking up a lot of bandwidth in the white house is the fate of tax reform in congress. How likely is this houseannounced plan to fly in the senate . This is going to be a tough battle, and i know the members who have put this bill together are trying to make it sound like it will be done by christmas. I guess who knows . Anything is possible, but when i talk to people on the hill they say if you thought health care was hard wait until tax reform because it is Touching Every inch and sector of the u. S. Economy and theres enormous special interest and Division Within the Republican Party and of course, the democrats are once they got their hands on this bill theyre picking at it and finding weak spots where they can use it to their advantage. Meantime, the democrats appear to be eating their own at this moment in time. What factualexactly what is happening here . This is a party in disarray causing more internal dissension. This often happens to the party that loses the presidency and not to mention control of congress and weave seen turmoil in the Republican Party and its going through a transform tiff moment where theyll have to figure out what they stand for, where theyre going and recruit really great candidates for 2018 if they want to have a chance. Nothing is in the bag for them and theres soulsearching going on right now and for who the heart and soul and the future and fate of the Democratic Party is. We know the president is embarking on an extending trip to asia. Whats the expectation of that, shannon . Foreign policy will be a big focus north korea. The white house is trying to use this as a chance to show unity, something that the entire region is taking seriously. There is also a big economic piece to this. The president pulled out of the transpacific partnership, the trade deal and now he has to make these bilateral, oneonone deals with the countries. He promised hed be able to get us a better deal and the rubber will meet the road on that. In terms of the rubber meeting the road, is there an expectation that the president is going to return with anything when he gets back to washington . There are definitely some deals theyre trying to line up which they do allow these trips to show that theres some sort of progress. It was interesting, was there a question in the press briefing the other day about who will be leading these talks . Of course, we have a u. S. Trade representative and they said the president , he is the one thats the deal maifshg out there which is unusual upon. Usually theres more of a staff and group that works on the deals ahead of time. Hes a handson president and fancies himself as a dealmaker and he wants to do the oneonone and has good relationships with abe and xi. He wrote the book the art of the deal well see what transpires. Thanks, shannon. Security will be tight for tomorrows marathon. The race comes less than a week after the terror attack on a bike path when a truck driver killed eight people. Tony de koppel is in new yorks finish line in new yorks central park. Tony, good morning. Reporter good morning. Shortly after tuesdays deadly terror attack just about four miles from here, new york city officials promised that the race would go on as planned, but there will be changes to race security. The 51,000 runners expected to participate. Well see more blocking vehicles and more sniper teams and more Police Officers both uniformed and plain clothed. Reporter thousands of runners from around the world gathered for the new York City Marathon Opening Ceremony friday night. Ive been apprehensive about running the marathon and i realize i cant let it stop me. Reporter many were excited and uneasy ahead of the big race like new yorker diane malcolm. We just want to make a point to let it be known that tomorrow is not promised to us. Reporter new york city Officials Say there is no credible or specific threats against the marathon or the city. Heres mayor bill de blasio. It is our job to stand up and to be unafraid and ive seen that everywhere. The new York City Police Department Said there would be a Record Number of sand trucks and other blocker vehicles to prevent a vehicle attack on runners or spectators. Chief carlos gomez. We will have hundreds of Counter Terrorism trained officers on the route. There will be a substantial number of explosive detecting k9s on the route and well utilize the Aviation Unit to monitor the crowd and the rooftops from above. On tuesday Sayfullo Saipov used a rented truck to mow down pedestrians and bicyclists along a bike path, killing eight people before crashing into a school bus. This video shows a group of argentine friends riding on the path before the attack of the ten men, five were killed. On friday, four of the five survivors appeared publicly for the First Time Since tuesday. We are still convinced that the way to change the world is the way we learn when we learned as children which is what brought us to this city to celebrate our friendship of 30 years said guillermo. Love conquers hate for our friends, our families, for us, for the whole world. Reporter tomorrow morning the nypd will open the joint Operation Center which will bring together representatives from over 20 state, local and federal agencies. Theyll monitor the race and make sure there are no obstacles to getting to the finish line except the 26. 2 miles. Tony de koppel. Bowe bergdahl is waking up a free man. A judge sentenced him to a dishonorable discharge, reducing his rank and sparing him any jail time. Bergdahl pleaded guilty last month to dissertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Bergdahl walked away from his post in afghanistan in 2009. He was held by the taliban as a prisoner for five years before president obama in gosch yated his release. The sentence drew swift condemnation from President Trump who tweeted the decision on Sergeant Bergdahl as a complete and total disgrace to our country and to our military. Netflix has fire Actor Kevin Spacey from house of cards. Spacey plays the lead character frank underwood. He was dropped following allegations of Sexual Harassment and assault. The company suspended production of the shows sixth and final seas