Hasnt ordered intelligence agencies to hold an investigation. Hes not made any indication that he would stop an investigation of any sort. Lets begin with our breaking news. Jim sciutto and jim acosta with the breaking news for us. Cnn is it learning more about President Trumps meeting with congressional leaders today, where he continues to make false claims about why he lost the popular vote in the 2016 election by almost 3 million. Whats he saying . When you thought the white house had turned the page from alternative facts, donald trump was presenting one when he was talking with congressional leaders at the white house earlier this evening. Its not an alternative fact, just a falsehood. Sources told cnn what was going on inside that reception. The new president said he would have won the popular vote had it not been for the millions of what he calls illegal votes. This is something he had said shortly after the november election. He said it in a tweet. He would have won the popular vote, had it not been for the illegal ballots, which is a swipe at undocumented people in this country, accusing them of voting, which is something they cannot do. Its against the law. Just again, when you thought they were turning the page. They had photo opportunities, showing the president looking president ial, meeting with advisers and with Business Leaders, so on. Theyve gotten themselves back into a controversy here. And not only that, but steny hoyer, a top democrat, who was at the reception, said that donald trump was talking about this inauguration crowd size issue. So, it seems he cant move on from some of these petty grievances he has about the election. Jim sciutto, i want to talk about something also. When he talked with congress, he talked about 3 million to 5 million illegals voting. Thats why he lost the popular vote. Thats just not true. No. Its not true. Its not the only untruth uttered by the administration today, and in the last couple of days. Keep in mind, he went to the cia and went beyond talking about crowd size there. Massively unimportant. He talked about how the media had manufactured the dispute with the intelligence community, when in fact, donald trump in Public Comments that exist out there in tweets and video statements, had undermined the intelligence community. Questioned their loyalty, really. Questioned their lack of bias. That was one. And that was one that sean spicer had a chance, today, to knock down and did not knock down. You have these these lies, really, of import, right . These matter. Whether its about the election and how it worked and these falsified fake voters about his dispute with the intelligence community. And undermining the intelligence community. These matter, these matter and the administration continues to propagate them. Its tough, as i was sitting here getting ready to report this story, its you know, you want to you must respect the office of the presidency, its hard to say that the president is lying. So you say falsehood. When you say things that arent true, theyre just lies. Jim sciutto, what about the people who are around him, the people who are advising him, why cant they just come out and say, mr. President , you should not be saying these things, because theyre flatout lies . The truth is we dont know, its early in the administration. But if we could look at the campaign and the period between the election and the inauguration, you see some patterns here. I think to some degree there is a belief inside the administration, the president , his advisers, that theyre not getting a fair shake, right . And i think you see this in some of the Public Comments of the president himself. The people hes said this in so many words. The media, others, democrats is trying to delegitimize his victory. These issues, whether its russian hacking of the election, election related hacking, or the popular vote, or crowd size at the inauguration they get in that space, what seems to be a sensitive space for trump and the administration. Now, they can make an argument that theyre not getting a fair shake or theres a bias against them. They can make that argument, on the facts they cant argue the facts, right . Whether its the crowd size at the inauguration or theres not substantiation of even a dozen illegal voters, let alone 3 million to 5 million. Those, as journalists, as americans, citizens, members of congress, you cant let those hang out there unchallenged. The weird thing is, is that the media didnt bring up russia, it was the intelligence agency. The media didnt bring up the popular vote, that was donald trump. The media didnt bring up the crowd sizes was all the president s doing. That came out of the president s own mouth. You asked sean spicer about that today, and not getting a fair shake . I did, thats right. It was notable that during this press briefing today, they were really trying to move forward, and move past what was a pretty ugly episode that we saw on saturday, when sean spicer came out into that Briefing Room and went after the news media. During this briefing today, he was much more cool, calm and collected, answered a number of questions from various different reporters. At one point said, to one reporter that he has no intention to lie in that Briefing Room, lie to the press. And then at one point, toward the end of the briefing, i asked sean spicer, why is it that the president is focused on things, doesnt he have bigger fish to fry . Heres what he had to say to that. Isnt that just part of the conversation that happens in washington . No, its not. Being president of the United States and looking at the white house no, ive been doing this a long time, youve been doing this too. Ive never seen it like this, its a little demoralizing. You are sitting there and looking out, youre in awe at how many people are there, you go back and turn on the television, and you see shots of comparing this and that, its frustrating for not just him, but so many of us that are trying to work to get this message out. Jim, he says demoralizing, which is interesting, because this is washington, d. C. This is the highest office in the land. Theres a lot of scrutiny that goes along with it, this is only day four, and this our reporting does not happen in a vacuum. Has he forgotten how donald trump conducted himself on the campaign trail which warranted some tough coverage because of the words that came out of his own mouth . I think thats right, don. There are going to be demoralizing days at this white house. And theyre going to have to deal with much bigger issues than inauguration crowd size. But what sean spicer was trying to do was get to this point that they feel theres this automatic default setting for negative news coverage. And he does garner a lot of negative news coverage, as you said, primarily this is because of things that have come out of Donald Trumps mouth. When you take today, for example, when hes signing these executive orders in the oval office. Meeting with Business Leaders and so on, and he has the opportunity to turn the page, has a fairly successful news briefing, at the very end of the day, when they could just tie a ribbon around the whole thing and go home and crack open a cold one when they go home, he has to go and ignite this controversy that seems to be pulled out of thin air. Millions of people millions of undocumented voters did not cast ballots in this election. Thats a falsehood, full stop. I asked sean spicer, did the president force you to go out there and make these statements . He did not answer those questions. He didnt want to get into private conversations with the president. People were feeling very good after that press briefing. Tomorrows press briefing is going to be dominated by the claims he made tonight. I watched the press briefing today. I thought sean spicer conducted himself with dignity. Much better press briefing than the one he held on the first day. I thought this is a pretty good day. And then at the end of the day, this happens. Jim sciutto, you know, the president and his team are trying to get back on track. You have new reporting for us on u. S. Intelligence investigation into the president S National Security adviser, what can you tell us . Thats exactly right. Law enforcement and intelligence officials toll me and my colleague theres a continuing investigation of phone calls in late december between the National Security adviser and the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. A couple key points about this, one still being investigated and two, its not just that the phone calls themselves took place, apparently some of the content of those phone calls, some things that were said in those phone calls raised potential concerns which has led to this continuing investigation. I should make it clear that there has been no wrongdoing established by Michael Flynn in this investigation so far. I should make it clear these phone calls were monitored as part of the routine Counter Intelligence gathering of u. S. Intelligence agencies targeting not Michael Flynn but foreign officials, particularly those in the u. S. As foreign intelligence agencies would monitor the u. S. Officials operating in those countries. It was in monitoring of those conversations they picked up these conversations with general Michael Flynn. And one final note here, don, the timing of one of those calls is material, because it was december 29th, the same day the Obama Administration was still in charge, was imposing new sanctions on russia, and expelling 35 russian diplomats. So that timing has raised questions as well. Jim and jim, i appreciate it. Thank you so much. When we come back, President Trump delivering on a Major Campaign promise today. Its a great thing for American Workers but also a great thing for china maybe . Audi pilotless vehicles have conquered highways, mountains, and racetracks. And now much of that same advanced technology is found in the audi a4. With one notable difference. The highly advanced audi a4, with available traffic jam assist. My advice for looking get your beauty sleep. And use aveeno® absolutely ageless® night cream with active naturals® blackberry complex. Younger looking skin can start today. Absolutely ageless® from aveeno®. Oh, look weve got fees ew, really . 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He promised to get us out of it, today he withdrew. Its a great thing for the American Worker, and i have to tell both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton opposed tpp. I remember being in a debate, discussing it in flint, as well. What is the bottom line, what does this mean for the American People and the American Worker . Its a very good deal and its a very bad and sad day. 95 of the worlds consumers live outside of america. About half the World Economy at this point. 40 of the World Economy was part of tpp. We already have a pretty open economy. The Trans Pacific partnership did, it opened up the other economies that were signatories, japan, vietnam, you know, countries like that, and huge reductions. American companies, American Workers would have sold more into those countries. Were already open, so the concessions were mostly made by countries like vietnam, japan, for a country that donald trump has been railing against japans closed markets since the 1980s, well, tpp for the first time significantly opened japans markets. So for the American Worker, whatever the rhetoric, this is actually a bad deal. The second point is, from a Strategic Point of view, today is the day that the United States essentially handed over a share on a platter to china, there was a battle for influence in asia, it was essentially around trade, the United States had told all these countries, ally with us and well band together to protect you against china about we backed away, and the chinese have already proposed an alternative, australia, which was part of our grouping initially, has already said its going to join the chinese one now. We would prefer to sign up with america, but if america is walking away, well sign up with china. Mexico is going to do something else. They dont want to be so reliant on imports from from the United States. Are we shrinking instead of expanding . Yes, were building walls while the chinese are going out and doing deals that benefit them. Mexicos part of the tpp as canada. Its countries bordering the pacific. Mexico, because it borders the pacific. Canada also. There are a lot of things that people have wished we could do with nafta, renegotiate nafta. There were some problems in nafta, the tpp actually fixed those problems, it got the mexicans to make concessions on labor standards on environmental issues, that we had always wanted ever since nafta. But theyre gone now, because we walked away from the tpp. Maybe the mexicans will make those same concessions in a bilateral negotiation with trump. They kind of made them in the context of access to 12 countries, 40 of the worlds gdp. Its not clear to me well get them, the irony is, we had them. We already had the concession, we had the renegotiation of nafta that trump is talking about, all he had to do was sign it. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton were opposed as well. Hillary was part of the negotiation of this, called it the Gold Standard of trade agreements. She was right there, in the campaign she flipflopped, she thought she would lose union votes. Dont flipflop on principle, its the wrong thing to do, and you never get those votes anyway. Also on this one, there are Many Campaign promises that happen that people dont keep. Or you evolve or sort of renegotiate, is this one that donald trump should have done that . Should he have done that . I think so. If he had read the details of the if he had been briefed on it, he would have understood mexico makes all those concessions he wants. This is seeding ground to china in a big way. Its the other countries making these concessions, we already have an open market. Tariffs in the United States are about 3 . How would you have advised him . Go to these countries and say to them, guys, i need a couple concessions sao i can go back and say we have a better deal. Get those concessions and say, tpp was bad, i got these three very important changes and guess what, now we can sign it. Were going to sign it so china doesnt dominate the World Economy. And you can sell your goods into japan, and you can sell your goods into vietnam. The White House Press secretary, he talked about chinas claims over islands in the South China Sea, heres what he said about. I think areas in the South China Sea that are part of International Waters and international activities, the u. S. Is going to make sure we protect our interests there. Its a question of, if those islands are in fact in International Waters and not part of china proper, we want to make sure we defend International Territories from being taken over by one country. When he said defend, does that mean military action . Presumably it does. The u. S. Has always said it will protect freedom of navigation around the world. I dont have a problem with that at all. We should be protecting the freedom of navigation as we have done. The issue is, however, in asia, trade is the game. China is not going to be so stupid as to try to go around invading countries. What chinas willing to do is dominate them economically. Look at what china did in latin america. The president of china, while trump is talking about protectionism and tariffs and literally walling ourselves off from our southern neighbors. The president of china went to latin america, promised 250 billion of investment, signed 40 deals in a fiveday trip. What hes saying is, you cant rely on the u. S. , theyre closing down. Theyre turning inward, rely on us, we will be your engine of growth and investment, thats the game. Talking about islands in the South China Sea, fine. You defend them, while chinas dominating the World Economy. Theres russia and a syrian piece i want to get in. 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