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KNTV Today March 6, 2017

Woman that im friends with, inside of that google drive, was really what sent it home for me. And outbreak alert. 20 Million People facing Severe Weather, including damaging winds, hail and possible tornadoes from arkansas to minnesota, today. Monday, march 6th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its a monday morning. Im salve ya guthrie. And look who is up early. Lester holt. How are you doing . I came back. Asked me to stick around. Everybody works around here. Coming up, our top story, the firestorm sparked by a tweet from President Trump over the weekend, accusing his predecessor, president obama, of tapping his phone at trump tower. In is a claim that the director of the fbi wants the Justice Department to publicly reject as false. Our Political Team is ready to go with complete coverage this morning. And were going to talk to Trumps Deputy press secretary in a moment. Lets talk to Peter Alexander at the white house for us. Hi, peter. Reporter good morning to you. This is an unprecedented accusation. President trump accusing his immediate predecessor, barack obama, 45 accusing 44 of tapping his phones at trump tower. If true, would be one of the most scandalous acts in history. But not only is there no evidence that it happened, the head of the fbi wants the Justice Department to publicly refute it. This morning, the fbi director is looking to set the president straight. A senior u. S. Official tells nbc news, james comey has asked the Justice Department to publicly knock down President Trumps explosive claim that former president obama ordered the wiretapping of mr. Trumps phones during the 2016 election. Comeys argument that the claim is false and needs to be corrected because it implies the fbi broke the law. A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment to h nbc news. Sunday, Kellyanne Conway channeled comey to reveal information he has. Im sure were all willing to hear it. He can issue a statement. And we know hes not shy. Reporter it comes after President Trump unleashed the highlycharged allegation on twitter, accusing the former president of spearheading a mixomi mixon watergate style plot. Saying obama was a bad or sick guy. All of it without evidence. President obamas office, dismissing the claim as false. The Trump White House is doubling down, calling for an investigation, to see if the Obama Administration abused its power. Adding that neither the white house nor the president would come until oversight is conducted. A trump spokesman verifying the claim. This is the greatest overreach and the greatest abuse of power and a huge attack on democracy itself. Reporter the head of the Senate Intelligence committee, richard burr, said in a statement, his committee will follow the evidence where it leads, guided by intelligence and facts. But the former director of intelligence, james clapper, rejected President Trumps claim. There was no wiretap activity mounted against the president elect at the time, or as a candidate or against his campaign. Reporter even some republicans are casting doubt on mr. Trumps allegations. Ive never heard that allegation made before by anybody. Ive never seen anything about that anywhere before. But again, the president put that out there. And now, the white house will have to answer to exactly what he was referring to. Reporter democrats going further, calling the president s twitter tirade a deliberate effort to deflect attention from russian meddling in the election. I think this is a distraction. Is he trying to divert things here . Yes. Reporter the president according to one aide, reading senior staff the riot act. Furious that Jeff Sessions was forced to recuse himself from any investigation involving russian meddling. An animated discussion with top advisers appears to be happening inside the oval office friday. Still, Trump Supporters came out in force in cities across the country this weekend. Standing by hind the president. One of the rallies turned violent, as Trump Supporters were met by protesters near the university of kra c at berkeley. At least ten people were arrested there. Also this morning, there is plenty of speculation of where the president may have gotten his information for the saturday morning tweets. Conservative radio host, mark la vin talked about what he called a, quote, big scandal. Thats by friday morning, breitbart, that steve bannon formally ran, picked up on that article and posted it online. Lets turn to sarah huckabeesanders. She is the Deputy White House press secretary. Good morning, savannah. Great to be here. Can we pick up where peter left off . When i saw the tweets, i thought President Trump must have gotten a briefing that makes him believe that president obama tapped his phone at trump tower. Subsequently we learned from the white house and other sources that this is drawn from media accounts. Before we go further, can you let us know, is that the source of this information, strictly from media reports and not from any other source . The president firmly believes that the Obama Administration may have tapped into the phones at trump tower. Is that based on media reports . This is something we should look into. We would like to know for sure. The media has been extremely dismissive of this reporting and this potential story, while all the while, being very happy to jump on all of the false attacks that have been launched at this president over the last six months. Wait a minute all were asking for is a fair and same look at this potential story and to let the House Intelligence Committee do their job. You deserve that. Just so were clear on this one point is his information, that president obama tapped his phone, based solely on something he read in the media, yes or no . I havent had a chance to have a conversation directly with the president. Hes at a higher classification than i am. He may have access to documents that i dont know about. But i do know that we take this very seriously and we think it should be thoroughly reviewed and investigated. And were asking congress to do their job. Indeed and do just that. Youre entitled to do that. And on meet the press, the former director of National Intelligence, that would have overseen Something Like this. Heres what he told chuck todd. Take a look. If the fbi, for instance, had a court order for surveillance, would that be information you would know or not know . Yes. You would be told this . I would know that. If there was a fisa like this. Absolutely. You cannot confirm or deny whether that exists . I can deny it. There is no court order . Not to my knowledge. Of anything at trump tower. You say the media is mismissive of this. They are trying to find out if its true. Director comey of the fbi also saying it isnt true. Are they lying . All were asking that the House Intelligence Committee is allowed to do their job. Thats what we want them to do. When the fbi said the reports about the president were b. S. , it was ignored. When the New York Times reported it was b. S. , when the House Intelligence Committee said there was no evidence of wrongdoing by the trump campaign, the reports kept coming and kept coming. Theres a doublestandard here. All were asking is that the same level of attention be put to this and let the House Intelligence Committee investigate this and see if theres any truth to it. The American People deserve to know if this happened because if it did, this would be the greatest overreach and the greatest abuse of power that weve ever seen. I think what you say is true. It would be the greatest abuse of power if it happened. But some of the press rofeports that the white house looks at, goes back to november. If its a huge overreach, why not blow the whistle back then . The president says he just found out. Can you reconcile that for us . Its never too late to do the right thing. Thats what were looking for here. Lets do the right thing what you laid out is huge. The greatest overreach. Why wouldnt that have been reacted to back in november when the first reports suggested a fisa warrant had been requested . Our administration was becoming aware of how this could have happened and the potential threat this would cause. And due to that, we want to make sure its thoroughly investigated and thoroughly reviewed and the American People have a right to see if that happened. Sarah, in fairness, thats not what the president tweeted on saturday. He didnt say, if this happened. He stated, as fact, unequivocally, that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower. He also said, he was tapping my phones in october. And he said, how low has president obama gone to tap my phones. Bad or sick guy. He said it happened. I think the president firmly believes it did. And all were asking for at this point, through the administration, is that we get down to the bottom of it and see if it did. Again, the media loves to create this false narrative against the current president but is so quick to dismiss anything of the past administration. If the president walked across the potomac, the media would report he couldnt swim. Were asking that the same standard be applied to this president as the past president. Lets get the details and put them out there. I think were trying to get the details from you right now. And again, were asking for the House Intelligence Committee to do that full investigation so that we would have that information available. Sarah huckabee sanders, thanks for being on this morning. We appreciate it. Lets bring in or ari melber and mark ahalperin. Part of me wonders if there were requests for fisa wiretaps, would that suggest that someone smells smoke . Absolutely. Theres only two reasons you would have that Foreign Court issue a lawful warrant. One is someone in the u. S. Talking to a foreign power, espionage. Or the idea that there was some u. S. Crime committed. Either way, that would be bad for the person under surveillance. The interview we just saw, to be charitable, bizarre. You dont need to ask a separate branch of government, the congress, to go find out what the executive branch obviously knows. And to your point, the premise of your question, savannah, i thought it was revealing. The fbi, the nsa, the 16 intelligence agencies are all warehouses for the very kind of information that that Deputy White House secretary appears to think they cannot get. And the timeline doesnt help the white house. This has nothing to do whether one is sympathetic to the white houses goals or not. There were reports that there may have been a wiretap at some point months ago, as you stated, lester. That is not new. That does not necessarily mean the president was involved in any way. No one has put forth the evidence of that. And here we are, months later, getting these kind of attacks for the first time from the president , the current president. You look at the news reports that the white house cites, none of them stand for the proposition that president obama tapped mr. Trumps phone. A lot of democrat says, hes trying to deflect. But deflect to what . The conversation at large is still about russia, which is not a conversation he wants to be having. He had a successful speech. He doesnt want to talk about this stuff. You want to understand, you look at the history and the practice and psychology of the president. He wants to be shown being aggressive and showing strength from his point of view. After a week that started so well with his speech to congress and the nation. And then, had his attorney general recuse himself from the investigation over russia. A feeling that his staff wasnt defending him enough. So, i think you say its not a great deflection because it keeps the focus on russia. From his point of view, it shows him on offense. But hes destabilized washington and the world again with a series of tweets, with an extraordinary, outrageous allegations that now hes i think they hope go away. I dont think his staff wants to keep up this fight. I think theyre sorry that it happened because it is a distraction. Not just from russia, but from the legislative agenda. Hes there to pass things, not to pick fights. A big week on that. Thank you. Another major story out of the white house today, the Trump Administration preparing to unveil a revised travel ban after his first one, halted by federal courts, was met with controversy, confusion and protests. Nbcs Hallie Jackson with the latest for us. Hallie, good morning. Reporter hey, lester. Good morning to you. A Senior Administration official tells nbc news that details about this revised executive order are expected to be revealed at the department of Homeland Security today. The president himself is not expected to be there. All of it, marking the start of a relaunch on one of the president s most controversial pledges. Today the administration expected to roll out the president s new immigration executive order. This one, among his most controversial. A revised version of his onhold travel ban. Changed to try and keep it from getting tied up in legal battles, like the original. That one, signed january 27th, temporarily barred immigrants from seven mostlymuslim nations. Now, new questions about the new order. Will it allow immigrants from iraq, for example . Or jerefugees from syria, previously banned indefiniteind. The executive action sparking protests across the country. Confusion at some airport. The Trump Administration defending how quickly it moved the first time. If we waited five days, ten days, six months, to begin establishing the first series of controls, we would be leaving the homeland vulnerable. Reporter since then, a noticeable slow down. Despite the president tweeting that the court action putting a hold on his move meant many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. On february 9th, a Circuit Court upheld the hold. The next day, President Trump hinted at the timing of his revised order. Youll see that sometime next week. Reporter that next week, another delay. Were issuing a new executive action, next week, that will comprehensively protect our country. Reporter then, a week after that its not a question of delaying. Its a question of getting it right. Reporter that was february 23rd. Six days later, the president was all set to sign the revised order, according to a Senior Administration official but on the heels of his joint address to congress, the white house postponed it again. A top Administration Official says this new, revised executive order is expected to treat Syrian Refugees the same as refugees from other nations and to remove a blanket ban on iraqi citizens, regardless, savannah and lester, this will certainly face legal challenges. Hallie, thank you. The u. S. State Department Says it strongly condemns north koreas launch of four ballistic missiles. The missiles flew about 600 miles and landed in the east sea, or the sea of japan. U. S. Military Officials Say they did not pose a threat to north america. The launches are seen as a reaction by north korea to an annual joint military exercise between south korea and the u. S. , which got under way on friday. Al is here, now, with a first check of the weather, including the threat of Severe Weather. Thats right. We were watching this. As it fires up, well see this right on into tomorrow. We can see showers and thunderstorms from memphis, lexington, down to atlanta and columbia. As we look, from minneapolis all the way to little racock, 20 Million People under the threat of Severe Weather today. Damaging winds. Tornadoes possible. Not looking for an outbreak. But we have to keep an eye on this. Tomorrow, it moves further east. 9 Million People under that risk for isolated hail and tornados. Here we go. Frontal system, pushing into warmer, moist air. As it does, severe storms for evening and overnight hours. Chicago, Early Morning tomorrow, youll see thunderstorms. 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