The white house they stop the help of the bureau and others investigating the russian matter and there have been no contacts the official said fbi director rejected sources in part because theyre the subject of an on going investigation. Sean spicer told cnn last night we didnt try to knockdown the story. We asked them to tell the truth. The fbi did not comment, allison. So pam larks this is not a typical request so what is the time line here. How did all of this back and forth start. This all began with the fbi director and white house chief of staff on the sidelines of a separate white house meeting on the day after those stories were published by cnn and the New York Times. A white house official said he told them about the contacts made during the election but didnt discuss aspects of the case but the white house official says he later reached out but james comey asking for the fbi to at least talk to reporters on background to dispute the stories the fbi refused. Its worth underlining that this is not a typical back and for forth. For a reason. Because of decade old restrictions. Its a violation of procedures that limit communications with the fbi on pending investigatio investigations. Is this still on going . It is. Several members of the house and intelligence committees tell them congress is still investigating the alleged contacts and theyre starting to collect documents and records. So very much on the way right now. Lets talk about the reporting on the revision now, the president s travel ban. What is that one . So my sources tell me and my colleague jake tapper that the white house made the request to the department of Homeland Security to bolster its case for why the 7 countries listed in the travel ban should remain. It made this request after it was blocked. The department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department are working on an Intelligence Report that will demonstrate that the Security Threat for the 7 countries is substantial and they have all been exporters of terrorism into the United States. The situation has gotten more dangerous in recent years and more broadly the Refugee Program has been a major incubato, are r for terrorism but cnn learned that some current intelligence officials are concerned about this assignment. Why . What are their concerns . So its viewed by some at dhs and other agencies to politicize intelligence to fit a policy rather than the other way around and some officials disagree all together with the Trump White House position on the 7 countries being included in the travel ban. Sources tell us that the department of Homeland Securitys in house intelligence agency, the office of ina as its known has filed a report actually disagreeing with the white house view that blocking immigration is justified. They do not think nationality is the best indicator of potential terrorism. A spokeswoman from the department of Homeland Security press secretary confirmed this report to cnn saying while dhs is asked to draft a comprehensive report on this issue the document youre referencing was commentary from a single intelligence source versus an official robust document with vetting it basically disparaged its own report it is incomplete discussion about intelligence products and whether they have sufficient supporting data from the broader Intelligence Community. Its an sbeg rahal part of the assessment. The new travel ban executive order will be signed next week. Back to you. Thank you for sharing all of that reporting with us this morning. We have a lot to discuss with our panel. Lets bring in cnn political analyst and New York Times analyst and josh rogan. Lets start with what pamela first reported there and that is that cnn and the New York Times has reported there were repeated contacts before President Trump was in the white house between his campaign and russia. The white house now says that the fbi expressed to them publicly state that. If the fbi did say that to the white house is it understandable or even realistic for the white house to expect the fbi to say so publicly . It is crossing a pretty bright line for the white house to go to the fbi and say, hey, talk to some reporters on background to talk to the media for its own policy aims while this is part of the reporting back and forth President Trump is in a strange situation here. Hes talked about leaks hes talked about how officials are on the record. None of the Anonymous Sources to put out the information it seems like theyre saying if you think the story is false go do our bidding on that you also have the justifiable outrange on the part of trump folks about former president clinton walking over to attorney general Loretta Lynch and having a casual conversation while there was an on going fbi investigation of hillary clinton. And the fbi director said this is not going to happen. It goes all the way back to the iraq war remember this criticized throughout the campaign. Not only do you have hypocracy on leaking but the war going on between the Trump White House and the Intelligence Community and then they get in a jam and they say can you help us out of this jam . Many say no and then the white house chief of staff goes on tv and says i have been approved. Intelligence officials told me i can say nothing to see here, its just like sort of shining the light on their whole approach of do as we say, not as we do. So often you come on our program and school us on this is not what the heart land cares about. I just did a panel of Trump Supporters and trump critics. People do care a lot about whether or not russia is somehow infiltrating the u. S. And whether or not this happened and its the best thing to get whatever is going on behind them. But russia is never going to be a popular issue among regular voters its not just about the Trump Administration. In fairness to the white house its complicated. A lot of the reporting doesnt explain the whole issue and its all sort of classified information so i get why theyre frustrated about this. I think they have reason to be frustrated about this but i dont think this is the most effective way to go about dealing with that frustration because it makes it worse. Lets talk about how the white house strieing to put back together the travel ban. So now it sounds as if theyre going to the Intelligence Community or the department of Homeland Security and saying, okay, can you give us some materials . Give us some evidence that we can now hinge our travel ban on. People say that its backwards. This system. The process that theyre using. Right. Youre finding that President Trump is not in a situation where he has to come forward with executive order two and hes trying to get ducks in a row now. And going to say supply me with information to support my policy. Its interesting. I remember interviewing him last summer right before the and the president or the white house put out request for information saying these are our prior gattis and these are our concerns and it would feedback to him and it seemed to be a lack of understanding about what theyre supposed to be doing. Theres challenging Intelligence Community about what they have found and what the conditions are in the world and also trying to points higher lit size it or manipulate it which becomes a big issue. This will be a broader conversation that will continue. Thank you all very much. The news keeps rolling today. Its coming a day after a rare strategist and attack dog. Joe johns is live at the white house this morning with more. Good morning. The president is expected to take a victory lap at cpack today a year ago as a candidate. He was so spurned by many conservatives he didnt bother to show up at the conference. Today he is at the center of attention. In a rare public appearance, showing President Trump will deliver. Every day in the oval office he said i committed this to the American People and i promise this when i ran and im going to deliver on this. Bannon calling the presidency the deconstruction of the Administrative State committed to massive deregulation. They were selected for a reason. Bannons rhetoric full of nationalist and populist ideology. Were a nation with an economy. Were a nation with a culture and a reason for being. Vowing the president s war with the media is going to get worse. If you think theyre going to give you your country back without a fight you are sadly mistaken every day its going to be a fight. If theyre together similar to steve and i it cannot be stopped. Vice president mike pence speaking later in the evening. This is our time. Vowing despite sharp differences among Republicans Health care reform is coming. Obamacare has failed and obamacare must go. President trump reiterating his call for nuclear supremecy. Were going to be at the top of the pack. Comparing his crack down to a military operation. Were getting really bad dudes out of this country. Its a military operation. The white house later attempting because trump and secretary john kelly trying to tap down on fears. No, repeat no use of military force in immigration operations. None. Today the president is expected to sign an executive action on Regulatory Reform around noon eastern time. Also scheduled to meet with the president of peru and a very interesting meeting on the schedule today. He is supposed to meet with Ohio Governor john kasich that was not exactly a trump promoter during the election. Back to you. To be a fly on the wall there. Thank you. So up next what will President Trump say to conservatives when he speaks a few hours from now. Were going to look for clues in his past speeches, next. No matter how the markets change. At t. Rowe price. Our disciplined approach remains. Global markets may be uncertain. But you can feel confident in our investment experience around the world. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. What makesheart healthysalad the becalifornia walnuts. R . The best simple veggie dish ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. 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Our current president came out of nowhere. No record. Nothing to criticize. He didnt go on wars or battles or beat this one or that and. Had enemies all over the place. Nobody knew who he was. Hes now our president. Lets discuss this. So this is when he was using the blame America First theme. Chances are we will not hear from him today and disconcerting in terms of what he may go after but today what youre going to hear is him try to say this is the first 100 days and role out of agenda and its going well. If only the media wasnt causing him trouble. I think from his point of view, one adviser yesterday, from his point of view this is all going quite well. He is focussing on the issues that campaigned on. Particularly the travel ban. Making america safe again. Right. Hes had a complicated relationship with conservatives over the last two years but hes very much going to go in and expect their support for the agenda that hes laying out. I want to talk about the other big headline and that was steve ban nonspeaking yesterday, we havent heard from him. He is this secretive force in the white house. He doesnt like the news media. He runs pretty hot he says but he does have an impact on President Trumps world view and he spoke with pretty highly charged language about this economic world view. This kind of economic nationalism. Lets play a little bit of that. Theres a new political order being formed out of this and still being formed. The center core of what we believe. Were a nation with an economy. Not just some global marketplace with open boarders but were a nation with a culture and a reason for being and i think thats what you nights us and thats what is going to unite this movement going forward. Theres a lot there that we are a nation with a culture and a reason for being. Richard spencer, this outspoken White Nationalist that got expelled because he was so controversial said something similar that hes a deep conservative in that he says he cares about people and defending a culture. Right. What does steve bannon mean . This gets to the core of what does it mean to be an american . One is we are unified by our values, principles, democracy, freedom, free market capitalism and the other is that we have sort of a culture that makes up the people in our country and thats what we should define ourselves as and steve ban i dont know and Richard Spencer happen to believe in that theory. To me they agree on everything. It just means that the way they define america and the frame they use to make policy within that definition is a radical alteration from what we have seen in past presidencies. It explains a lot of what theyre doing and helps us understand why theyre doing it. Why shouldnt people hear that language and say this and fear of the immigrants and fear of the outside. I guess people hear Different Things when they hear people talk. Theres a lot of people, i was there all day yesterday and there was a lot of talking about celebrating the American Culture and celebrating diversity and celebrating what that means and so what does it mean . What does diversity mean . There were people of all shapes, sizes and colors there and, you know, a lot of it goes to the heart of american exceptionalism. That is important to the people that attend it. Were talking about grass root conservatives and people part of the political process and theyre very, you know, proud of all of the sort of accomplishments. There were transgender people there. There were libertarians. Hes talking about the u. S. Being separate from a global order. He didnt say culture. He is saying culture. He is talking about one specific world view that he is focussing in on. And this is from their point of view very much they have hbo and girls and these shows they watch and then theres the rest of america that he feels has been overlooked. A certain push. Look who he has around him. Former Goldman Sachs folks. These guys are not only part of the establishment but they are part of the globally connected. Elitist. A liberal culture and also these are people that are loyal to President Trump. The culture will be as they have defined it. When he says its going to be a fight every day hes right about that. Were not at war but who he is fighting is all of these forces in his own party in congress. He wants to deconstruct the Administrative State. Thats a big project and its not going to be easy but thats what he is trying to do. Now were going to leave it here. This is going to be a debate that keeps going. Thank you very much. Voter anger on display. We have been talking about it all week. 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