He sure did. The big ragu they call him. Good game. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im rene marsh. Im dave briggs. Congrats to villanova fans. It is 4 00 a. M. Breaking news. A classified memo revealing special Counsel Robert Mueller is authorized to pursue collusion charges against the president s former Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort. The documents highlights payments to manafort from the Ukrainian Government which have links to Russian Politicians and operatives. The memo says the link compels them to examine russian efforts of interference in 2016. The payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. Manafort wants the charges dismissed claiming beyond muellers scope because ukraine is unrelated to the campaign. The declassified memo was written in august by Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. It shows rosensteins strong backing for the special counsel despite attacks from the president. The wall street journal reporting that Robert Mueller is expecting former Campaign Adviser roger stones possible ties to wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. He wrote in the 2016 email that he had quote dined with Julian Assange last night. Wikileaks released a trove of information on Hillary Clinton that u. S. Officials say was hacked by russian operatives. Stone said the Exchange Last week he quote never met or spoke with assange ever and the reference to dining was said in jest. He said his passport will prove he never left the u. S. In 2016. President trump on the attack as another push for the immigration bill and the call for reporters where west wing called loopholes to allow immigrants to cross the border illegally. Hoop ho loopholes s s they say must be closed. These are the issues they have been pushing since last fall. The president said the failure of daca is on democrats. The democrats have really left them down. They had the great opportunity. The democrats have really let them down. Its a shame. Now people are taking advantage of daca. Its a shame. It should have never happened. Didnt you kill daca, sir . After signing autographs on the south lawn, he returned to the drum beat on twitter. More on that with cnns Boris Sanchez at the white house. Reporter rene, dave, President Trump picking up where he left off with the tweet storm on immigration, amazon and host of other issues. The president on monday night taking to twitter yet again to bash democrats over immigration policies. Here are the tweets now. The president writes, as ridiculous as it sounds, the laws of our country do not allow us to send those crossing the border back where they came from. A wasted procedure must take place. Mexico and canada have tough immigration laws and ours are an obama joke. Act, congress. The president went on. Must pass tough laws and build the wall. Democrats allow open borders, drugs and crime. We should point out this tweet storm began shortly after a news segment aired on a cable news station on immigration. We should note that the president spent the weekend socializing with immigration hard liners at his estate in maralago in west palm beach. The president spending time with fox hosts as well as a former fox news executive. Sources familiar with the c consideration that the base believes they soft on immigration. The success on the mid terms depend on the ability to tout success and progress on the border wall. The president s frustrations boiling over and winding up on twitter following conversations on those who try to rile him up. Thank you. Dont start a trade war and leave amazon alone. Now trade actions and amazon attacks are rocking wall street. Dow fell 459 points yesterday. Retaliation for trumps duties on foreign steel and aluminum. Nasdaq lost 3 thanks to amazon. Wiping out 36 billion in market value. Trump attacks amazon frequently and that worries investors. The president says amazon doesnt pay taxes. Here is Peter Navarro yesterday. Amazon doesnt pay the sales tax it could. There is over 800,000 independent vendors that account for half of the 136 billion to amazon. Amazon doesnt try to collect that sales tax. That is a huge disadvantage to the brick and mortar stores. It is true. Amazon does not tax thirdparty vendors, but does charge tax in every state it occupies. Amazon pays the post office. They make money off the shipping and post Office Delivery service is booming. Now trumps distaste for amazon is for jeff bezos because he owns the washington post. President trump is targeting his Justice Department claiming it is dragging its feet over documents related to the congressional investigations. He says, quote, so sad the department of justice, end quote, and the fbi are slow walking or not giving the unredacted documents requested by congress. Embarrassment to our country. The timing of the tweet is odd considering fbi director chris wray promised around the clock shifts to speed up document production. The requests seek documents related to the probe of the Hillary Clinton private email server and possible abuses of surveillance warrants targeting former aide carter page. Scott pruitts job could be in jeopardy. Trump is angry over the ethical questions. Another Administration Source says there is nothing the president despises more than getting bad press. After the decision to rent a room at a condo from the wife of the prominent energy lobbyist. He is under scrutiny for bringing a security detail on personal trips. Musical diplomacy rocks the korean peninsula. Following sundays kpop show by second y south korean performers. The show wrapping up a fourday visit by a group of south korean artists. Cnns Paula Hancocks is live in seoul with more. Good morning, paula. Reporter hello, rene. It was remarkable images. Watching kim jong un applauding at a kpop concert in pyongyang. We understand there should be another concert with north and south korean performers together. The interesting thing is staterun media said kim jong un was moved when he saw the peoples reaction to the concert. Bear in mind that north Korean People are punished severely when they are caught watching south korean pop culture smuggled into the country. This is a remarkable turn. It was played on north korean television. Although, as we understand it, the actual songs from the south koreans were not played apart from the last one where they talk about wishing for reunification. A fair bit of censorship. It is remarkable how much has changed and the fact that the north Korean Leader has suggested there should be an autumn concert in seoul. We have to wait and see if this goes beyond music and sports. Thank you so much for that, paula. Speaking of sports. Two of three is not bad. Villanova wildcats National Champions for the second time in three years. They routed michigan. 7962 in the National Title game in san antonio. Villanova was led by Dante Divincenzo who scored 31 off the bench. He was named the outstanding player in the final four. Villanova may have saved its best for last. They were dominant winning all six of the games by double digits. Thats the man they call the big ragu. Their best player, bronson, struggled. Villanova so deadly. Talk of a dynasty is well deserved. Congratulations to all those villanova fans this morning. Ill give you a fist bump. You called it. So balanced with so many weapons. The best program in college basketball. No a oneanddone type of thing. Jay wright may be the best coach. And thousands of teachers in two states walk off the job in protest. Well have more on their demands coming up next. Oklahoma city schools will be closed today as more teachers there and around the country push for better pay and school funding. Thousands of teachers in oklahoma and kentucky walked off the job in protest yesterday taking a cue from the successful strike in west virginia. Here is cnns nick valencia in oklahoma city. Reporter dave and rene, thousands of teachers and students showed up outside the capitol. They showed up because the legislation cut them short on funding. They were asking for a 10,000 raise. The bill gave them 6,100 in a raise. They asked 900 million in revenue. They got less than half that. It is difficult to be an educator in the state in oklahoma which ranks 49th in 50 states. 25 of the work force left the profession in 2017. Some districts are so bad, they have fourday workweeks so teachers can get extra jobs on fridays or because schools cannot keep the lights on. Teachers i spoke to say it is especially difficult and more and more so by the day. It is getting increasingly harder to meet the needs of our students. That is important to us and absolutely tied to the funding. We are asking the secretary devos to come to oklahoma and see how badly funding is needed for the classrooms. We are doing this for the kids. It is not about us. It is about the kids. Adequate textbooks and qualified teachers in the classroom and resources to allow us to do our job more effectively. Reporter teacher organizations say there is another rally planned outside the capitol this morning. Dave. Thank you. Connecticut democrat Elizabeth Esty announced she will not run for reelection in november. It follows reports it took her three months to dismiss her chief of staff after he harassed and threatened a former aide. She said she was not resigning last week, but monday reversed course. Announcing she was ending her time in congress. Too many women harmed by harassment in the workplace. I should have done better. Esty asked the House Ethics Committee to expedite the investigation into the matter. Federal authorities charged a pastor of the texas church with defrauding elderly investors. Prosecutors allege pastor Kirby Caldwell bilked millions of investors in a chinese bond scheme. He and his Business Partner face wire fraud and money laundering. The 64yearold caldwell is a Senior Pastor of Windsor VillageUnited Methodist church in houston and reportedly a former spiritual adviser to george w. Bush and barack obama. A 13yearold boy saved hours after falling into the citys sewer system. More on the rescue straight ahead. Internet providers promise Business Owners a lot. Lets see who delivers more. Comcast business offers fast gigspeeds across our network. At t doesnt. We offer more complete reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g Wireless Network backup. At t, no way. We offer 35 voice features and solutions that grow with your business. At t, not so much. We give you 75 mbps for 59. 95. Thats more speed than at ts comparable bundle, for less. Call today. 4 23 eastern time. Two firefighters killed in a plane crash on indiana airport runway. Authorities say 31yearolds kyle hipp and david windcamper were taking off in the plane and hit the larger tail of the plane that just landed. The five people in the larger aircraft were not hurt. The faa says the area does not have a tower. Ntsb is investigating. A 13yearold boy who was stuck in a sewage pipe for at least 12 hours is recovering this morning. Authorities in los angeles say he was playing on an old shack when boards covering a pipe opening gave way and he plunged 25 feet underground. Cnns nick watt has more. Reporter dave and rene, a horrific story with a happy ending. Jessie hernandez was at Griffith Park with friends and playing and fell into the sewer acknowledge sewage system. He fell 25 feet below. Rescuers, about 100 in all, Police Officers and Fire Department and park rangers searched for him over 12 hours. In the early hours, a sanitation crew found him in the manhole cover between freeways here. He was talking and lucid. They dropped a hose and pulled him out. The first thing he asked for was a cell phone to call his family who were obviously very, very worried. Rescue workers said they had hoped they would get him, but they knew the window was closing. Dave and rene. Back to you. Amazing he survived. Ahead, who could next get the boot from the Trump White House . New cnn reporting points to that gentleman epa boss scott pruitt. Why sources say the president is angry with him. Coming up. Breaking overnight. Special Counsel Robert Mueller cleared by the Justice Department to investigate whether former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort colluded with russia. President trump on attack ripping democrats for not protecting dreamers and slamming the Justice Department and fbi as quota e an embarrassment to r country. And villanova rolls to its Second College basketball title in three years. The hero of the game came off the bench. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im rene march. Breaking overnight. A classified memo revealing special Counsel Robert Mueller is authorized to pursue collusion charges against the president s former Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort. The documents highlights payments to manafort from the Ukrainian Government which have links to Russian Politicians and operatives. The memo says the link compels investigators to examine russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. The payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. Manafort wants the charges dismissed claiming beyond muellers scope because ukraine is unrelated to the campaign. The declassified memo was written in august by Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. It shows rosensteins strong backing for the special counsel despite attacks from the president. And President Trump on the attack as the white house makes a push on the immigration bill. Loopholes allow immigrants to cross the border illegally. Loopholes they said must be closed. Pressed on specifics, officials admitted this was largely the same proposals pushing since last fall. At the white house easter egg roll, the president blamed the failure of daca with dreamers on democrats. The democrats have left them down. They had the great opportunity. The democrats have really let them down. Its a shame. Now people are taking advantage of daca. Its a shame. It should have never happened. Didnt you kill daca, sir . After signing autographs on the south lawn, he returned to the drum beat on twitter. More on that with cnns Boris Sanchez at the white house. Reporter rene, dave, President Trump picking up where he left off with the tweet storm on immigration, amazon and host of other issues. The president on monday night taking to twitter yet again to bash democrats over immigration policies. Here are the tweets now. The president writes, as ridiculous as it sounds, the laws of our country do not allow us to send those crossing the border back where they came from. A wasted procedure must take place. Mexico and canada have tough immigration laws and ours are an obama joke. Act, congress. The president went on. Must pass tough laws and build the wall. Democrats allow open borders, drugs and crime. We should point out this tweet storm began shortly after a news segment aired on a cable news station on immigration. We should note that the president spent the weekend socializing with immigration hard liners at his estate in maralago in west palm beach. The president spending time with fox hosts as well as a former fox news executive. Sources familiar with the conversation told cnn that they told the president he told the base he is being soft on immigration. The success on the mid terms depend on the ability to tout success and progress on the border wall. The president s frustrations boiling over and winding up on twitter following conversations on those who try to rile him up. Dave and rene. Boris, thanks. Trade tensions and attack on amazon rocking wall street. Nasdaq lost 3 yesterday thanks to amazon. Amazon shares fell 5 after donald trump accused the company of not paying taxes and taking advantage of the post office. The dow fell 459 points after china slapped tariffs on u. S. Goods. The worry on wall street is a trade war. White house trade adviser Peter Navarro does not see that happening. Here is what he said about current u. S. Trade relations with china. That just leads to escalation and spirals. What i do know is the president is firmly committed to a course of action which will level the Playing Field with the United States and china. He has the full support of the american people. Yesterday, china slapped tariffs on 128 u. S. Properties. Pork, wine, future and nuts. That is a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars shipped between china and u. S. Each year. Take pork. Pork Producers Council warns this will have an impact on rural americans and top ten pork propducing states. President trump is also targeting his own Justice Department. C