Have service. This is all dicey. Any amnesty is controversial with a lot of conservatives. If i was a d. R. E. A. M. Ers, i would only believe it once the ink was dry on a bill. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Good morning. Welcome to your new day. President trump arriving in switzerland to taught his America First policies. The trick comes after a revealing and impromptu q a at the white house. The president took on a number of issues and said hes looking forward to being questioned under oath by special counsel bob mueller if his lawyers agree to it. Cnn has learned muellers team has given the president s lawyers possible topics for him. President trump also commenting on his feud with the fbi. He says he is very disturbed when he was asked if he trusts the fbi. And he added another twist to the immigration debate. He is willing to offer a pathway to citizenship for some of the d. R. E. A. M. Ers but only if he gets billions of dollars for his border wall and Border Security. We have all developments covered for you. Jeff zeleny is live in davos traveling with the president. Hi, jeff. Good morning, alisyn. President trump got a birdseye view of the snowy swiss alps as he arrived in davos a short time ago. He will make his first appearance, indeed the first appearance from a u. S. President in nearly 20 years. But all the president s words here likely to be overshadowed by his words last night at the white house on the russia investigation. President trump touching down in switzerland this morning for the World Economic for numb davos. After a remarkable session with reporters before leaving the white house. The president now saying he will commit to questioning from special counsel Robert Mueller. Im looking forward to it actually. You want to . Heres the story, just so you understand theres has been no collusion whatsoever. No collusion whatsoever. I would like to do that, and id like to do it as soon as. Good luck even. Do you have a date set, mr. President . I dont know, no. I guess theyre talking about two to three weeks. I have to say, subject to my lawyers and all of that. But i would love to do that. To reach a higher standard, you would do it under oath . I would do it under oath, absolutely. White house lawyer ty cobb doing damage control. Hes still in negotiations with mueller about the type of interview the president will agree to. Cobb telling cnn, while mr. Trump was speaking hurriedly before leaving for davos, he remains committed to continued complete cooperation with the office of special counsel and is looking forward to speaking with mr. Mueller. The president also saying his efforts to defend himself have been unfairly portrayed as trying to interfere in the case. Do you think Robert Mueller will be fair in this larger investigation . Were going to find out. Were going to find out. Because heres what well say, is and everybody says no collusion, theres no collusion. Now theyre saying, oh, well, did he fight back . If you fight back, you say okay instruction. If you bite back, john, if you fight back, oh, its obstruction. So heres the thing, i hope so reporter repeatedly saying this when asked if he trusts the fbi. I am very disturbed, as is the general, as is everybody else that is intelligent. Reporter Justice Department official tells cnn a Technical Glitch impacted thousands of fbi phones. Mr. Trump also renewing his criticism of the number two man of the fbi, Andrew Mccabe, but insisting he does not recall asking mccabe who he voted for in the 2016 election, despite the fact that the white house official confirmed the conversation on tuesday. Did you ask mccabe who he voted for . I dont think so. No. Is it possible you did. I dont remember asking the question. I think its also a very unimportant question, but i dont remember asking the question. The president says he supports a pathway to citizenship for some d. R. E. A. M. Ers. If he gets 25 billion for his border wall, an idea he rejected just a week ago. Do you want citizenship for d. R. E. A. M. Ers . We do, were going to morph into it. What does that mean . Over a period of 10 to 12 years, somebody does a great job, theyve worked hard, it gives them incentive. They do terrifically, whether they have a Little Company or whether they work, whatever theyre doing. If they do a great job, you i think it is a nice thing to have the incentive after a period of years to be able to become a citizen. Will you extend the deadline . I might do that. I might do that. Im not guaranteeing it base but i certainly have the right to do that if i want. Reporter that promise of citizenship in 10 or 12 years sparking immediate outrage and backlash from the conservative website breitbart which is suddenly called the president amnesty don, referring to his immigration view. This will all be front and center as republicans and democrats try to gettogether on some type of a deal on d. R. E. A. M. Ers. This is all coming as the president is scheduled to meet in a couple hours with brush Prime Minister theresa may and isis raily Prime Minister benjamin gnat anja hue. This is not necessarily president trumps crowd. It is a crowd of globalists here. He brought a cheering section, if you will, with him. Seven cabinet secretaries is and almost eight or nine senior advisers flying over here. So a lot of Trump Administration presence here at davos as he begins this meeting shortly. Chris and alisyn . All right, jeff, appreciate it. Lets bring in cnn political analyst David Gregory and michael zeleny. He worked with bob mueller. He is an expert in Money Laundering and cases of this nature. Great to have you both here. Michael, let me seize on something that was really instructive for people in this gaggle from the president. He said a couple of things that really shine a light on what might happen if he sits down with the investigators. And i want your take on it. First, he said its not obstruction when youre just fighting back. Okay. Thats one thing, he said. Then he said this about Andrew Mccabe. Lets play it. Did you ask mccabe who he voted for . I dont think so. No. No, i dont think so i did. You dont . I dont think whats the big deal with that, because i would ask you who you who did you vote for . I dont think its a big deal, but i dont remember that. I saw that this morning. I dont remember asking him that question. Is it possible you did . I dont remember asking him the question. I think its always a very unimportant question, but i dont remember asking him the question. Michael, please tell me if im wrong. Boy, this seems like exhibit a why the lawyers are reticent to put him in there. What could happen if he is sitting across from federal agents and says, fighting back is not obstruction. I was just fighting back. And if he gives that answer about Andrew Mccabe and the white house already said he did ask him that question, Andrew Mccabe said he did ask him that question and he follows up by saying it is not an important question, what could that mean to investigators . So theres so much that got compressed into what happened yesterday at that impromptu press conference. Firstly, of course, ty cobb has to be pulling his hair out. This is not the way you want to go into a negotiation with Robert Mueller around the terms of your interview. Second, of course, it is exhibit a about the problems that theyre going to have in controlling the president in ary stricted interview with mueller because he does not tell the truth all the time. Or he has convenient lapses of memory. With respect to the two other things. One, mccabe. Of course it is an inappropriate comment. He is a federal employee and he cant ask another federal employee how he he voted. There are regulations about it. He is acting director of the fbi and just fired former fbi director who said i was asked for loyalty. This is sort of back door loyalty question in and of itself. So the pattern of Inappropriate Communications between the white house and the fbi in an Ongoing Investigation context is manifest in that exchange. Finally, the last thing, chris, is this fighting back thing. The fighting back thing may be the beginnings of what we see as a legal strategy out of the white house, which is to say this. The crime of obstruction of justice is a crime of intent. Did you intend by your action to obstruct justice or attempt to obstruct justice. He could say, y he es, i did that, but my intent was to protect the office of the presiden presidency, to protect my good name, whatever it is is that is of value to me. Thats why mueller wants to sit down in person to make judgment calls about whether or not when the president said i didnt intend to obstruct justice, mueller can credit or discredit it. David, before i let you answer, this is what cnn reporting said that mueller is particularly zeroing in on. These are the topics that mueller has given to president trumps lawyers. Okay. So they want to know and ask him about asking comey to drop the Michael Flynn investigation is, of course. I guess, what the motivation there was. The reaction to jim comeys testimony in front of congress. And then the outreach the president made to intel leaders, and also members of congress, about the russia investigation. To michaels point, there is a lot of run way there where the president , if he is not disciplined and on on message, obviously for the lawyers that would be a headache. Right. There are accusations and a pattern based on his statements, his own statements that the presses made that he was trying to interfere with this russia investigation and wanted it to be shut down. He said that he was tired of how comey was handling this investigation. He said that in an interview and proceeds to fire comey. He says for cause because of how he handled the Hillary Clinton investigation, which nobody believes because of how he was handling the investigation. And lets also remember when hes talking to Andrew Mccabe and said i dont recall asking the question but it is important, there is a reason why the fbi director has a 10year term so that the fbi director can be immune from political pressure, that it should be an independent institution of our government as part of the Justice Department and the president has shown that he doesnt respect that. So youre going to see how that would play out and whether that was actually illegal. Theres Something Else i want to enter line from this impromptu press conference. Every time the president is asked about his confidence in the fbi or confidence in the fairness of this investigation, what does he say, as chris pointed out, i dont know whether he has confidence in the fbi, which is such a horrible thing for the president to say about the fbi without a basis. Two, he says well see. Well find out. In other words, the process is already under way of bashing this investigation, mueller and the fbi, because if they come back with something against him or people close to him, he will seek to delegitimize the entire investigation. He is signaling thats exactly what he will do. Michael zeldin, last night we were talking about what this negotiation could be about between trumps attorneys and the russian interference investigators. It seems to me that topics, theyre not going to have a lot of leeway. Under oath doesnt matter. They will be sitting with a federal agent. Whether or not its in front of the grand jury may come up. It seems like it will be all about duration and that the investigators are going to want a lot of time because they have to know this president filibusters. He spins. He talks for a long time. Theyre going to want to come at him different ways to he get him to say things like he said in this gag order. El with, the timing of the interview and the length of time and the scope of the interview are questions that ty cobb and Robert Muellers team are going to try to negotiate. But having taken a deposition of George Herbert walker bush in our independent counsel investigation, i know we said to them were going to ask our first question and ask our last question. If we need to do it over a twoday period or threeday period, thats just the way it is going to be. You cannot shortcut, if you will, the amount of time or trunk ate the amount of time we get with you. Well take as much time we need. Otherwise, we have to go to the grand jury and do it there without your lawyers present and well do it under terms that we want. And so in the sense, chris, i dont believe he has any, you know, sort of discretion or opportunity to filibuster this because mueller wont tolerate it. He cant tolerate it. I want to switch topics and talk about immigration because there is a big development. We have been asking on our show any lawmaker yeah. Turn that off. Who is trying to call you right now . Its my wife. You should take that call. Shes an expert on these issues. Just let her answer. Shes probably correcting something you said earlier. How about that ringtone. I know, i know. Was that a soap opera sound track or something . Chris will take any opportunity to say you dont have a manly enough ringtone. That is a violation of man law, the ringtone. The thing was i was going to continue talking but i thought it was the Academy Awards music saying get off the set. It is disturbing on several levels. David. Yes. Lets talk about immigration. Because my point was that we have been asking all sorts of lawmakers do you know what the president s position is on the d. R. E. A. M. Ers . And none of them have been able to answer it because its a moving target. So yesterday he said something that was remarkable and that was hes open to a path to citizenship. So not just legalization, a path to citizenship for the d. R. E. A. M. Ers. Who knows where theyll end up. But that was a big deal. It was a big deal. The obvious question is that todays position and will it change. This was the same president who said a couple of weeks ago that he wanted a big comprehensive deal and he would take the heat from conservatives only to see him not take the heat and not follow through when the negotiations broke down as part of the government shutdown. Now were outside of that. He certainly feels he vested democrats on the shutdown. Now he is signaling the basis of what could be a big comprehensive deal. A deal on d. R. E. A. M. Ers to get a path to citizenship in exchange for what he wants, which is more funding for a wall and Border Security. Now, its interesting the figures that are being floated that may not matter in theened. Hes talking 25 billion for a wall, which is the figure that reportedly schumer offered to support the democrats. I think there is a potential for a deal. The big question is whether he really can and will fend off opposition from conservatives and even hardliners within his administration. All right. We have seen the the breitbart headline. They dont like it. Right. They dont like that he said that. Today we will see if he back pedals on that. Its who he wants to please. 80 of americans see this as compassion. Michael zeldin and David Gregory. For the record, i am jealous not just of your intellect but also your personal style. Youre not using my ringtone . No. No, he has standards. My phone rings and it says who is it, who is it. Warning a republican chairman from a memo. A congressman that sees the memo joins us next. Shawn evans its 6 am. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. And at our factory in boston, 1,200 workers are starting their day building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. Today were bringing you americas number one shave at lower prices every day. Putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. As one of those workers, im proud to bring you gillette quality for less, because nobody can beat the men and women of gillette. Gillette the best a man can get. The Justice Department warning devin nunes it would be extraordinarily reckless to release a memo that claims to show surveillance power abuses, especially without showing it to them first. Which nunes is refusing to do. Now democrats are countering with their own memo, saying that the gop has miss leadsing findings. Joining us is the top democrat on the House Judiciary Committee congressman jerry. Good morning, congressman. Good morning. Is this a sad state of affairs. There are committpeting memos. Will it come out . Will we get to judge . It shouldnt come out. I have read it and the underlying source material. Sit profoundly misleadng. You dont have further questions about the fisa process . No. I cant comment actually. Its secret. Too late. Continue. Suffice it to say, the document is, extremely miss leading compared to the underlying documents. It is very dangerous for the republicans to say, oh, we have this document thats terrible but we cant tell you whats behind you. We cant show you the evidence because thats secret. If you only knew what we knew, you would know things are terrible. What do you think about not showing it to the department of justice. The rationale is you dont show the people youre investigating the basis for your investigation. Number one, why are they investigating the department of justice . There is an Inspector General for that. But number two, the department of justice is the agency which got all of these secret documents and information. And you really should you are playing with the National Security of the United States if youre going to on release documents based on classified information without showing and hearing from the department why it is dangerous or what you can release and what you cant. The department of justice is not claiming the right. But they are saying a at least show it to us and let us show you whats dangerous and whats not. Lisa page, a member of the investigation for a while, remember, the fbi. She left the investigation