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CNNW New Day January 30, 2018

Its tuesday, january 30th, 8 00 here in washington. Were here because were just hours away from President Trump delivering his first state of the june Union Address. While selling lawmakers and the American People on his immigration and infrastructure plans. A political firestorm is also consuming washington. President trump and allies escalating the campaign against the russia investigation. Tough timing for a message of unity. The House Intel Committee voting to release a classified memo written by republicans alleging surveillance abuses by the fbi. It is now on the president s desk. He has five days to decide whether or not to make it public which would pit him against his own Justice Department. So the fbi Deputy Director, Andrew Mccabe, at the same time this is going on with the memo, we get word that he is abruptly resigning. He is one of the people that oversaw the russia investigation. He has been a target of repeated personal attacks by President Trump. Well talk to white house counselor Kellyanne Conway in just a moment. First, Cnns Abby Phillip has the latest. Reporter the house intelligence Committee Voting along party lines to publicly release a secret partisan memo spearheaded by trump ally devin nunes, accusing the nations Top Law Enforcement Agency of abusing its surveillance authority. Committee republicans ignoring the Justice Department eastern warning that releasing the memo without Agency Review could be extraordinarily reckless, criticism cnn learned enraged President Trump last week. The fourpage memo is based on classified intelligence from the Justice Department that nunes and the committee have not even seen. Youve seen the memo . I have. You have not seen the intelligence its based on. Were not permitted to see that. Doesnt that concern you, that something so heady, so provocative and you dont get a chance to see where thats why i said it should be footnoted and cited. Thats not the choice the committee made. I think the memo will speak for itself. Reporter the house intelligence Committee Voting against releasing a democratic memo insisting theyre following protocol. Why not release them both at the same time . The house hasnt had a chance to look at the minority report, nor have we. We voted to send it to the house and we need to read it as well. Reporter the decision prompting scathing criticism from democrats. They have crossed from dangerously and recklessly dealing with intelligence to a coverup of an investigation that they dont want the American People to see come to fruition. This is a continuation of the effort to protect the president s hide, push out a misleading narrative, selectively declassify information. Reporter Ranking Member adam schiff telling reporters that republicans refused an invitation from fbi director Christopher Wray to brief the committee and express concerns about the memo. The extraordinary move coming hours after the abrupt resignation of fbi director Andrew Mccabe. It comes after months of criticism from the president and allies over mccabes handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and political donations his wife received from a super pac associated with a clinton ally. Should mccabe go . Mccabe got more than 500,000 from essentially Hillary Clinton. Is he investigating Hillary Clinton . Reporter a charge President Trump denies. A source says he recently said hes bringing in his own team that mccabe would not be a part of, prompting him to leave ahead of his expected retirement in march. Wray suggesting at an upcoming Inspector General report played a role in mccabs decision. The president wasnt part of this decisionmaking process. We would refer you to the fbi. All right. Here to discuss it all, counselor to the president , Kellyanne Conway. Good to see you. Great to see you. Welcome to washington. Lets deal with some of the news and you can take us into what were expecting. This memo being voted on to come out now on the president s desk. He has five days. Do you expect him to take the full five days . Is there a chance well hear something today, tomorrow . Thats up to the president. We want it to be a deliberative process and we respect the process, the transparency and accountability. Cant really comment on the substance of the memo. The timing is openended. He has up to five days. You say the transparency. Is there concern about the lack of transparency to the intelligence community, trump appointee stephen boyd saying this could be extremely reckless to release it this way, weve never seen congress go around the intelligence community, using the president and himself instead of the intelligence community. I think there are concerns all the way around. That is one persons opinion. At the same time weve been very concerned to see a yearplus spent on innuendos and insinuations and this lack of any connection of russian collusion. Everybody is yet to produce any evidence of that. Its. Reporter frustrating, chris, frustrating to a lot of america when we cant get enough coverage of 275,000 Companies Giving their employs bonuses and pay raises and investing in the community, its frustrating to the American Voter that put this congress here, put this president off to make us more prosperous, more safe, more transparent and accountable and frankly has done this. As for this, this is all brand new. As you say, the president has five days to review it. We take it all very seriously. For those saying for a year plus transparency, accountability, get to the bottom of it. As you say, go after it, investigate it. I hope the same applies to this particular memo. It seems to be very tit for tat. People concerned the russia investigation hasnt bared the frud. Then this comes out. Are they that connected, we dont like this, so were doing this. Theyre connected insofar as this is a town that sometimes focuses on all the wrong things. Donald trump struck at the heart of not one, but two Party Establishments and promised to be a disrupter and come here and do things differently. He is. Hes a builder by profession. He wants to rebuild infrastructure, rebuild our broken immigration system. Look what hes done in the last couple weeks, Holding Forth for one hour for all the world to see unscripted, unfiltered, uninterrupted, with Democratic Leaders flanking him on both sides to have a conversation on immigratio immigration. He, this president , is doing what other president s failed to do which is to try to resolve the d. R. E. A. M. Ers, the daca recipients, not just the 700,000 or so that are often talked about, but 1. 8 million who qualified under the action that president obama took almost six years ago. This is somebody who made good on a promise that five president s had made. It took donald trump to make good on the promise of five president s to move the American Embassy to jerusalem. Theres a reason they didnt do it. Historic tax cuts and now an ambitious infrastructure plan. Chris, i cant think of many things that are more nonpartisan than infrastructure. I hope the democrats will agree. You have problems on both sides. I hear it. I hear it at home. I got a guy in my own family that talks infrastructure all the time. But one of the problems you have, you say hes flown as a builder. Hes done a lot of demolishing, also. As a result, the chance for unity very slim. Infrastructure, to your example, demands unity, within your own party, a lot of people will say you just did the tax bill, thats going to blow up the deficit. Now you want to blow up the deficit more. No way. You have democrats not incentivized to work with the president because of things like this memo. This has been has really rattled their cage. You really think its the memo, christopher . Ive never seen nancy pelosi the way she was last night, not just because she told me i dont know what im talking about. She and i were the two backtoback speakers at a forum at the washington post. She said tax cuts hangs like a dark cloud over the capitol. Thats such nonsense and so irresponsible. When you have constituents in San Francisco where she is a member of congress and all across this country directly benefiting from that tax cut. Her argument is unequal distribution, that the top tell that to the single mom who just got 2,000. People like me, like you, we got a lot more than that. Why cant she say she represents northern california, why cant she say the fact that apple is going to create 20,000 jobs in this country, repatriate billions of dollars in wealth to the United States of america, how is that not a good thing . There are so blind by their reflexive hate oh, my goodness, obstruct, resist, stop, dont do it. That is not a message. The biggest statement is the color of the clothing, braering black to protest, what, Harvey Weinstein . No. The immigration policy. I think this is a legitimate debate. What hes doing with the d. R. E. A. M. Ers, ill be shocked if he can get it through your own party. Do you give him credit for trying . I do. I think its ambitious. Taking away a blunt instrument from the democrats in the midterms i hope thats not why hes doing it. Of course hes not. Hes doing right by them. Well see if he gets it done. But in exchange for what is he doing . The reason pelosi says make America White again, i know thats inflammatory, wont help the process. Horrible. When you get rid of the lottery visa, when you call something chain migration when its really about family unification, youre messing President Trump didnt invent that term. That term has been around for a very long time. On your side of the aisle to make it look ugly, what these people are doing. Im saying youre change what the country is about. Its okay. You have the right to do it. Youre saying, well, let these people well keep out everybody else like them. You want to put in my chair, im not in charge of cnn booking, ill give up my seat all day long for the guests coming tonight. An incredible lists of gefts invited by the first lady to sit with her in her section. Parents who have buried their daughters killed by ms13 gang members. An issue i work on every day at the white house, the opioid crisis. Youve got youve got the only man who reenlisted after being a doum amputee. So beautiful up lifting stories in this country. This president and this first lady want to shine a light on that tonight. Thats very unifying and up lifting and positive. It is. Youve got people right now im sure attacking my dress and hair because thats what were doing now. We cant take a look at this guy as a double amputee is far more a consequence nobody will have a problem with a down amputee. He is rebuilding the military, including its morale and its respect, christopher. We need to do that as a nation. My goodness, theyre out here every day fighting for our freedoms, for you and i to be able to sit on this set all cozy, exercising our respective first amendments. Thank god they are. We respect them tremendously. There are such Great Stories in that box tonight. Some called out, others will be available to the media any time youd like to speak with them. That is very unifying and positive. Theyre mixed messages. Theres something that the democrats can say this is good for america. They showed it last week when about 80 of them or so voted to reopen the government they had shut down. They saw they were starting to own that. They changed their tune pretty quickly. Talk to their base. They werent happy about it. Its about consistency of message. You say we want to help the military. Yet by most intelligence officials theyll say the biggest mall factor is russia. Congress in a bizarre event of untold unity vote for sanctions because of russian interference in the election, 982 in the senate. When does that ever happen . Five nonvotes, otherwise theyre in it. Come to the white house, you guys dont put them into effect. A russian jet coming within five feet of a navy plane. This president talks about jayz, doesnt talk about that. Why so soft on russia. He talks about plenty. Hes not soft on russia. Doesnt talk about the jet, doesnt talk at sanctions. Why . Overnight im sure you saw the state department came out with its report, the Treasury Department came out with its report. Exact echoes of a forbes list and the entire population of the russian government. Thats not fair to say our state department and Treasury Department didnt do their jobs. The white house didnt do its job. They were supposed to enact these and they didnt. Thats not true. This president has been very tough about flrj, isis, and were trying to Work Together on big issues like a nuclearized north korea which is everybodys business. In exchange for punishment in the election. What did they do in the election . They tried to disrupt our democracy and doing it rye now. Do you think thats why he won and why the person whose name i never mention on tv lost . No, i dont. I think you going there by default explains why theres such resistance. Leave it alone. He won. Punish them for what they did. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I think you talking about this every single day including a day when we have invited people to the capitol dont mix that. Youre mixing it. That cheapens the argument. If youre bringing them here to distract we won, were governing. Now youre talking about russian interference. Its separate. Theyre trying to disrupt our democracy. Theres a troll farm that number one hash tags is release the memo. The white house wont punish them. That was a vote by the Intelligence Committee. I understand. Its about the propaganda they put out there to try to see division. Are we going to talk about propagan propaganda . Ill come back another day. Kellyanne, you havent given me one reasons they didnt put the sanctions into effect . The state department and Treasury Department made their independent determinations. You have to read that and respect it. If the president had wanted it in place, they wouldnt have come to hes been plenty tough of putin give me one example. Do you think its positive, negative or neutral that the president of the United States that President Trump would sit down and hold forth with president putin when the media said its only supposed to be 20 or 30 minutes, theyre still in there. Is that not a positive thing to have the president of russia and the president of the United States sit down and figureout where we can Work Together on big issue, lets be very clear, again, a nuclearized north korea, helping isis continue to be in retreat. Hes willing to call terrorists who they are tell that to the people in kabul. Tell that to the people who didnt vote for the person who lost the election, whose name i never mention on tv. You just brought her up twice. She wouldnt call them radical islamic terrorists. Again you said he met with putin. That shows hes strong. This person talks about respe respecting strength more than any man i met in my life, let alone president. Strength is showing, if you do something to us that is wrong, there will be a price. He says it all the time. They did something to us that is wrong. There is no price. Where is the price . Congress comes together, they pass the sanctions, he doesnt do it. The same day they buzz us with a russian fighter jet, he does nothing. You ever feel the list bit kind of, i dont know, gush back or a little ashamed that weve had person after person on your network and elsewhere for a year literally someone on your payroll, i saw your clip and laughed out loud, its kind of sad, promising russian collusion, impeachment, treason. Never. Coming around the corner. Never. Its over wrought and ridiculous why americans are losing faith in institutions. Nobody is losing faith in american institutions because you have people of good faith people saying things like its a fact . Bob mueller im not talking about bob mueller. Im talking about people on your network and elsewhere. We examine this forensically. You know my background is law. Here comes the treason, here comes impeachment. If we want to criticize what people on Cable Network say not adhering to the facts, wed have a very long conversation. I control what i do. Alisyn controls what she does on this show. We go after these things forensically and facts first. I respect both of you enormously. That investigation matters. Cillizza, hes his own problem. The russia investigation is serious. What they did was real. To conflate it with why the president won is wrong. To ignore what they did the state of the union a strong, safe and should be proud. We should look at these stories tonight, the welder from ohio coming to talk about what the tax cut means to him. You should talk to the people who think nancy pelosi is as out of touch as the deplorable comment was. Excuse me, you are insulting me and my ability to take that 1,000 and the 2,000 and all the job security and invest it in my childrens education or invest it in home repair, put it in a savings account. We had families in the white house, the president spontaneously gave them the microphone and said, why dont you tell us what the tax cut m

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